The age-herald., 1899-02-11
~THE PLAY0


WANTED-Boilermake that will make
 boilers that will hold steam that will heat.
 If boilermakers are on a strike a person
 who can give straight tips on warming an
 opera house is desired. If neither are pro
 curabe, weather maker who will bill hot
 stuff all winter can book himself with us
 for entire season. Apply at O'Brien's opera
 house for further information.
 ATTEST-"Rosemary has gone better
 here than anywhere it has yet been pre- sented. Perhaps this is accounted for by
 your desperation to get out of the cold.
 ; I hope to visit Birmingham again
 in the future when your welcome will be
 just as warm and your theater warmer" From curtain talk of Otis Skinner end of
 third act of Rosemary.
 Aside from the cold feet and the numer-
 ous cases of grip that seemed to be float
 ing about in the chilly atmosphere at
 OBrien's last night Otis Skinner gave
 very credtable production of Rosemary
 to fair audience. The players suffered as
 well as the audience, for when the curtain
 would rise a stage breath" bearing plenty
 of ammunition for pneumonia made. the
 people in front shiver. 4+.
 Rosemary is a pretty yet sad story.
 In places 1t Is improbable, and in other
 parts human nature was never more clev-
 erly depicted. The play is laid in 1SSS, the
 coronation year of Queen Victoria. The
 curtain rises on an exterior view of Ingle
 Hall, a splendid opportunity for stage ef-
 fleets, of which the most is made. It is a
 nasty night, and a young couple happen to
 an accident, their vehicle breaking down
 right in front of Ingle Hall, the residence
 of Sir Jasper Thorndyke. Later events
 show that they are eloping to get married. They are invited in to spend the night.
 Not long afterwards a gruff old sailor and
 his wife happen to an accident near Ingle
 Hall and also invited in to spend the
 night They prove to be the parents of the
 runaway girl, Dorothy Cruikshank." These complications furnish the comic part of the play. William Westwood the elop ing lover, who is an extremely jealous hearted individual, an eccentric professor and the old sea dog furnish the fun. To pass over events quickly, Sir Jasper, who is now forty and a man who was once en- gagged to girl who died, falls in love with Dorothy as he sees her coming in from the garden ladened with flowers. William is very jealous, but can say nothing because Sir Jasper Is his host On the morning fol- | lowing the adventure Sir Jasper resorts to strategy and appeases the wrath of the | irate parents. A trip is planned to Lon don, where the wedding will occur. The third act takes place in a coffe-house in London while the coronation of the queen is going on.
 | Sir Jasper is madly in love after riding with Dorothy to London and picking roses for her on the way. As a consequence he monopozes all her time and she and William have words and the jealous lover ri in of Sir JaSper finds Dorothy in tears. She tells him that the quarrel was over leaf in her diary. This page is devoted to the trip to London. She reads it to him and finally tearing it from | the book she gives it to Sir Jasper to keep. Sir Jasper comes to the conclusion as many before him that all is fair in love and war He tells the eccentric Prof. Jogram that William is not worthy of Dorothy. Jogram whisper that honor stands in the way MT. Skinner in the part of Sir Jas | per, here does superb piece of acting in depicting the struggle between love and | honor. He decides with the professor, l places the scrap from the diary in crevice in the wall and declares that he will pur- chase the building as sacred shrine. l The affecting scene is rudely broken, but perhaps the author could find no better | way to break the spell that must be broken. The act was with Sir Jasper ex- pressing his good wishes and drinking the | health of the bride and groom-to-be The l next act is in the same building fifty years | later. Sir Jasper, bent and shriveled under | the weight of 90 years, returns to London | to be present at Her Majesty's Golden | Jubilee. He wanders into the building and | in a reminiscent mood recounts the death | of his old cronies and of Dorothy. He rings the bell for servant and section | of the wall decayed by age falls to the | floor. There he finds the leaf of his young
 sweethart's diary which had been forgot
 ten. He remembers the sprig of Rose
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