The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-06
Some Best Things" at
the Play This Week.

The part Of Pozzo. in FL Captain" r.
well Illuminated at Music Hall this week.
Mr.. Moulan. who plays the patient and
long-sufferlng Assistant Viceroy. has a hard
job of 1T. but he comes out capitally. Po.-
70 must needs be a weak person. When
the part was created by little Alfred Klein
he made It suI'erlativeIy SO. Mr.. Moulan has
therefore found II necessary TO be not only
a weak citizen. but to possess n new comic
side. This original fun develops in the
second act. when he Is compelled. in the
face of the army. to assume to be Viceroy.
and. in order to save the Viceroy's life.
make love to his chiefs family. TIE
strange holds which he lays upon the pa
t!ent. Miss Chapman. and the sunslliny
Miss Berri, are SO comic that they set tho
house in a roar. Mr.. Moulan IL a quiet
young man who might be mistaken for a
bank teller, hut he IS a really funny
comedian. such a rare thing In comic opera!
Mr.. Goodwin's appreciation OF the humor
of his authors lines Is the thing. He reads
with an Intelligence that ought 10 work
wonders with Shakespeare. In the second
act OF When We We're Twenty-one' ne
gets long and honest laughs ont of speeches
that are mere illusions. and which. with
other accentinC. would fall fiat, even before
an audience of higher than the average In
telligeuce. Mrs. Goodwin. who il Maxine
Elliott, Is handsomer than ever this year
= ~ hiAihA' . -
colorful woman now acting. Thanks prosa-
bly, to the example set by Mr.. Goodwin's
mobile face. she has improved so much In
expression that IT is good to look at her
fer this alone.
one OF the best things Mt the Imperial
this week Is the garden and balcony scene,
which is much more Of an example OF tho
carpenter and scenic artist craft than one
would imagine from a cursory View. There
Is an amount of detail that My comes out
with study. This Is also true of the full
street scene used later, One of the best
things In the acting Of the play is Miss
La Nerne's nurse. which is excel!ently read
and well characterized. Another good thing
relates 10 the orchestra. a stage manager
isn't often sentimental. but at the first
performance Sunday afternoon when the
last scene had been fully set and every
thing was ready. Manager Gifen noticed
that the curtain didn't go W. ami, rushing
wildly over to MIR. Plat. who was stand
ing in the promrst entrance with a rapt eN-
precision upon his face. he Numbered:
What the dickens is the matter? Why
4 am waiting for the orchestra to finish
that beautiful incidental music. | can't
cut in OH that" And he didn't.
The beauty Of Miss Clara LLpmann and
TIE BaturalnesS Of Mi. Mann are the bet
things at the Century Theater this week.
Air. Mann has a happy way .: being co1'-
tinuously spontaneous. In his CONVERSE
ton with the drug sist. on the subject of
the Roer war, his interest in ire topic and
his honest distress because of interruptions
are quite delightful IA their realism.
The Kunkel concert last night at the Y.
". &. A. Hall WAS attended by a large au-
dienCc. The giving away OF a 500 uprl8ht
grand piano was again a feature. Mrs. L.
y. Beeson of No. 3illA Caroline street won
the piano.
Miss Odell. with a "Trovatore" score I'M
der her arm. SAID last night that she was
a busy woman.
Imagine, If you can she said. the
state OF mind one must be In to work over
Juliet the play, and 'Trovatcre.' tine
opera, in one and the same Week. Folks
seem surprised that 1 should jump from
stock drama to stock opera, but | feel sure
that ] have made no mistake
Maude Lillian Berri says that she IS not
proud of her part in this weeks opera at
Music Hall. 1t puts me in the list of
Among Those Present" she says. and |
don't like it much. but We are all docile and
obedient folk in Colonel Savage's family,
which means that We do everything We can
for the success of the idea"
Miss BeTri Is fifteen pounds heavier this
year. She is singing better, too. From Sau |
Francisco the Drima donna has brought her !
part OF the East. The two will spend the
winter together. |
Many people in the audience at the Grand |
this week do not understand ,
- Lady of Quality" When Ciorinda makes \
her appearance in kniCkcrbockers there /
seems to be a thought that a burlesque of |
some sort is to ensCc. and when she stays l
with the whip handle and hides his
body beneath the couch there is fun going 4
well indeed. and her audiences on Market /
street ought to read up. |