The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-30

adornment calls for special attention.
This fact might have been surmised
from the knowledge that Mr. Jacob Lift
is responsible for the production. The
memory of this enterprising gentle
mans revival of Shenandoah" is still
fresh in the minds Of theatre-goers and
il is not difficult To expect something
further i'm the development of the linn
-itiess resources of the drama from sucn
a lavish hand
Sporting Life" is given in five acts
and sixteen different scenes. Plays
there have been with a half dozen
changes of scene. but the ingenuity re-
uuired to shift the picture sixteen times
reflects great credit upon the fertility
of che authors mind and the audacity
of the manager who attempts q pro-
duction entailing the outlay of such
vast sum in scenery In this instance
there are two autbors-Messrs. Cecil
Raleigh and Seymour Hicks-and in
their Sporting Life" The Sporting
Duchess and other plays OF like pre-
tentions. they have shown their uttes
disregard for conventionality sport
ing Life" had it's initial American pro-
ductiJn at the Academy of Music. New
York, last season and is said to have
accomplished the unusual feat or hlling
the big theatre for five solid months.
The critics of New York, noted for
their apathetIc regard for melodrama,
rose up as one man and proclaimed this
the beginning OF new era i'm melo-
drama. an era Of spectacular melo-
drama. With one accord the produce
tion was pronounced far superior to
any ever seen at the Academy of Mu-
sic the home NJ big theatrical under
takings. Even more eNtraVagant
praise was bestowed upon the present
ment by the critics OF Chicago. where
the piece ran for the following three
months To The heaviest patronage in
the knowledge of Windy City theatri-
Gals.
The scenes which perhaps attract the
most particular notice are the commo-
dioustraining stables filled with stamp
ing, champng thoroughbreds: the mas
sive repr0duction of Vhc ancestral home
az the Earl Of Woodstock from the fa-
nous painting. THE Day OF Reckon
ing" the brilliantly illVnfnlted view
Of Earl's Court exhibition by night: the
e. terror OF the National Sporting club,
London. during a spirited boxing con-
test. and two faithful pictures of the
historic EpsOm Downs race course on
Derby day. This elaborate equipment
Is the product OF the combined artistic
skill OF the following famous New York
scenic artists. Homer Emens John ".
Young. Joseph Physioc. Frank Platter.
Gates and MOrange, Hart and Becker
and Ernest Albert.
The play tells a love story OF unflag-
ging interest and has for it's chief
character young member of the Brit
ssh nobility. Lord Woodstock. by name.
lie has INDUCED his passion for race
horses 10 such an extent that at the
beginning OF the pay he finds himself
on The verge II ruin. only his beaut-
f,u mare Lady Love. can save him.
She is entered in the Derby. and N he
can back h properly she Will carry
n fortune to her owner the day she
wins the great race. To do this he has
recourse 10 an old ally Andreade.
money lender. Here he finds disas-
Ter. A note FOR several thousand pounds
fs presented To him for payment. u
f. forgery. but AZ the same time ne
makes this discovery he hnds out that
the foreer is The brother pf the woman
NJ lnNas. gluncr than disgrace the ram
It's of his sweetheart. ne assumes lhe
added burden. aud is compelled 70 sac
rifce not only his estate and ne nome
~ his family but the priceless mare
whose Vicfctv I'm the Derby means ev-
r-.ytblnr for hm. Luckily Andreade
,urus ont to be very diuerenl man
ffnn what money lenders gehcFaliN 1te
nrd hc g. enabled CO. carry out ~"
ef4lce FOR which she Isl running N"
cvii rouIuses Of the pisv arc CIV" ''
~ar retrt and husband ana ln'y wy