The record-union., 1899-07-16

One of the chief scenes in the new
autumn melodrama at Drury Lane,
London (Which is to be produced later
In New York;, will be a reproduction
of the private view day at the Royal
Academy. This will give great op-
portunity to the dressmaker and milli-
ner, and an effort will be made to IN
troduce living portraits of persons
prominent in public and social life. The
management further proposes to excite
the interest or at least the curiosity OF
the aristocratie world by exhibiting the
pictures refused admission to Burning
ton House. This is rather an ingenious
scheme for cheap theatrical decoratlon'
says the New York Post"
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New York Post: Louie Freear, the
English character actress, who came TO
this country to play in 'The Man in the
Moon,'' and who made decided hit IN
that production, severed her connection
with the company on June 18th, owing
to disagreement with Manager George
w. Lederer, who wanted her to appear
on the roof garden as we'll as in the
theater. AS Miss Freear thought her
appearance in a vaudeville entertain
declined to do turn on the roof gar
den, so Mr. Lederer cut her part out of
1.-The Man in the Moon" and she was
not allowed to appear, although she re-
ported for duty. She will go at once
to her home in England, and will rest
until September. when she will appear
in a new play. Before sailing, Miss
Freear said that she had received sew
eral offers to remain here, but was
obliged to decline them. She may not
return to America for some years.
One of the most suggestive articles
ON Bernhardt's Hamlet is in the Lon
don Times" The writer says that
Madame Bernhard makes Hamlet a
pleasant, humorous, very gay prince,
who in happier circumstances would
have been the life and soul of the court
"a merry trifier with old Polonius, the
first to welcome any diversion such as
the travelling players afford, com
panion of Yorick would still have de-
lighted to consort and jest with. Ham
let, as Nine Bernhard reads the part,
is less the moody Dane than full
blooded Latin, full of energy. readily
provoked to tear passion to tatters, to
break out into violent defamation or
denunciation, and really feeling that it
is a cursed spite which sets him to
remedy the out-of joint time" The
same authority asserts that the actress
is at her best in scenes of action, and
continues: 1.-The play scene is most
cleverly contrived, and works up to an
exciting crisis The players act on
stage at the side, not in the center.
The Kings dais is on the other side,
and as the play proceeds Hamlet
stealthily climbs up to it until at last
he confronts his guilty uncle, and, seiz-
ing torch, thrusts it into the wretched
mans pallid face to see the full effect
the play has had upon him. Most eff
fective, too, is the fencing in the last
act. The change of rapiers usually
passes rather tamely. Here it is very
different. Hamlet, wounded in the
hand, discovers that Laertes' point is
bare. With a sudden onslaught he dis
arms him. Laertes stoops to recover
his rapier. but Hamlet, with accusing
eye, stands in the way and offers Laer-
tes his life. He then takes up the
poisoned one and Laertes is wounded
in his turn This gives the incident "a
natural and very impressive turn"
George Alexander will produce "Ru-
pert of Hentzau" next October in Glas-
gov, and has engaged that admirable
actor w. H. Vernon for the part of
Colonel Sapt. The new ST. James
Theater in London is to be opened on
the 10th of January, and Mr.. Alexander
has decided therefore to postpone his
visit to the United States for a year,
until September, 1901.
Charles Frohman has engaged Ell
laine Terriss for three years. She viii
make her first appearance under his
management in the London Criterion
Theater.
Carl Berch and Mabel Verne will
probably go with Lincoln ]. Carter's
Heart of Chicago" (Eastern) next sea-
son. ]. B. Hogan, Mr.. Carriers general
manager, having made them a hand
some offer.
The last issue of the Seattle Ora
matte News Letter. bears upon its
front page a splendid picture of Nina
Jean Cook, a dainty little California
girl who as child displayed marked
dramatic ability and appeared with
great success with nearly every COM
pany of note on this coast. Nina is
quite a girl now, about ID, tall enough
for ingenue and soubrette roles. She
sings beautifully and is graceful
dancer.-S. f. Music and Drama.
July Dist has been appointed as the
date for Charles Wyndham's farewell
performances at the London Criterion
Theater. He can look back upon his
twenty three years of management
with a good deal of satisfaction,
for he took the house when it was in
almost desperate circumstances, and
has maintained it in prosperity ever
since, establishing himself. meanwhile,
in the position of one of the most pop
ular. If not absolutely the most pop
ular, comedian in England.
w. s. Penley has determined to
change the name of the London Nov
city Theater to that of the Century
Theater, when he assumes the direction
of it in the autumn. He will begin his
new managerial career with a revival
of "Charley's Aunt"
Tom Browne, the whistler. has been
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