The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-21

draWn, characters, ITO a'unR OF rhhnle
Janau 'ohoA In portraiture Of Mother Mandel-
baum lives In ones memory. Yet II was largely
tho actress doing. a fact plainly brought out
by the performance Of the role without a genius
in II. MIR. Janauschek might have properly
used the phrase. 10 commonly misapplied by
a'tors. and claimed that she "crentcd" ths
rjle. Blanche Walsh, Orrin johnson and
Ka'hNrin" Gro worc others that brought eN-
c%eptonal ability and originate to the adj
venturors tho hero and tho heroine. An even
more striking case Of personality In the play or
taxing the place Of invention b, the author was
In the part acted NJ frat by Annie Yeaman4.
La week II wa taXen by an actress who made
II nothing more than a conventional Irish
woman, unnsce'sarv 70 the plot, and for
gotten Whenever not seen. Mira. ieamnnS
was % flnny IN the little that she had TO do
that In recalling the ANA she l. the most
distinctive figure. executing only Mrs. Janau-
sch"rk. In the revival Ralph stuart pls, ed the
detective, which In one way was a blunder In
"a ting. He Is such an Idol at the American.
and Is 80 Distinctive in looks. that his dlsguises
are too thin 80 deceive the audience. There
fore the element u surprise. 90 valuable at first,
wa, lost In the reproduction. W. II. Thompson
had the part originally, and each " his d.
gIiae' was comrlete and decer tive.
4 new example OF blrleeque was given last
week in what tho PLAY bill described ~ AN
attempt to have a little fun with Arizona "
One way % turning a serious play into ridi-
clle Ia 80 20 pervert it, language As to put abb
surd meanings In the place Of those that have
been soberly impressive. Another Is to imi-
tate its characters In exaggeration so that
they pass from dignity into grCtesque carica-
ture. Both these methods were employed
ia the joyial misuse Of Arizona yet In one
parsonage the original was faithfully repro
duced except In language. Tit bad-mannered
and good-heArted old ranchman, as presented
by Theodore Roberts at tho Herald Square.
was copied with clever fidelity by De Wolf
, Hopper az Weber a FirldS'7. The resemblance
was close In looks. speech and movement,
30 that the effect was as though Mr., Roberts
had got drunk or crazy and was talking nom
sense suggested by a hnzv memory Of his lines.
The different process Of Erotesquery In ap-
y~-trauce along with violent ~travesty In words
was Illustrated by MIR. Weber as the German
girl. upon whom the Villains practice u his
I vile, hero consisted Of teaching her 10 smoke
I cigarettes, and bv MIR. Fields as her
~venssful father Lillian Russell and Fay
Tcmpletou were not compelled TO disfgure
d themselves as the ranchmaLs daughters. nor
20 % or saw anything rude for the sake Of fun.
: Their manner OF buriesaue was neat ard nice.
Z The observer with one eve on theatrical art
/ aud Tire other on its business was CIT totnTk
Of the costiiness Of tfis entertainment 1t
Is probable that three burlesquers were never
! brought together At higher salaries than those
really rnid to MIR HopT er, Miss Temrieton
I and Miss Russell, neither of whom got more
/ time o. opportunity than was given 10 each o.
B five other w~ell-rait members Of the coUTany
] Edgar smith had written the Iiece very brightly
, by contrast with the dulress OF The needing
, QUO Vas lss}" True. il was IKE coirS back
3 ~ LYDIA Thompsou'> days to sprinS,e 1t With
d vuus, and one mon entari'y expected Il II N tako
, To- rhymes In the cd style But its Wit and hui
/ NOR were M 70 within three months o. the end
~ the century. and the points ~ attack on
Arizona were a.ieut. numerous and raIid
| Surely, nothing that can be reCoi,ected Of the
y eishtliue,s Of the "Bi.i.h b,OLd,-' eQUas
the displays Of rretty singers and dancers
al Weber & F.'ds's The march 81 we.i-dri'ied
soldiers, free gated cowboys and l~oureing
grrascrs rot only ideaired the roughr rs' -
n, o~rieirals into object, Of cal t~lyatirs beauty
by means Of comely young women In tastef1!
J costumes, but slso reserved the character
l,ic, Of those three kirds Of Arl7ouans dls-
tiuct'y throughout the acdon And, oh how
soms Of those nimbls creatures can dance
4 very different EXAMPLE i lur!ceqle was
given IN the samo night that tie Weher-Ficlds
! trn rcet, vaS first IerioTn ed. u id not haze
! tie fauonsly beautiful clowns 70 hack w us
( ar..a.. nor the rad am Ii.l,sn Ius.el TO tale a
dgn,aed art in them. But il wa, received
even more enthusiastically tlan To new Arr
,ona' sklt. II maitreated Hamlet and was
acted by club members IN tho rooms Of the
/ Jo,tsl Strollers. On the stroke Of u the curtain
Wa raised. Naudrrlle was given before and
after ia long time after. This rsrt Of tho
show had such professional assistance a. Francis
Z A.l,u uhn .apg and tpLaHr an EevAestnar
Wheeler. Eugene ORourke lee Harrison,
uanen Most n, william West ard JOHNNY PAGE,
Gu. and Max r. gers cracked oh es in broken
/ English, but still TIE amateurs wero more
, lag al n. And what did tues do They
! -lm,!y rugged themselves out in costumes Of
/ familiar Shak eSI care characters and CAyered
A ". 3. CUbCrt's "Eosand anti ara Cui.oeu-
stcr." which had never been produced In this
ccla.r, before,
It may hardly have been performed yet,
MANY Of tho lines were c~istortsl by the
stroliers, an. new references to Eiwarj Soth-
ern's Hdpud AM some PROMISED ores were
introduce a.. incidental music had been added
bv Melville Ellis. The usves'y was In three
scenes at the court OF Denmark. It showed
! Hdmtst as betrothsl TO Opheid AMI Rosep-
eranis "a his rival. f. ward Fales Coward
wa. the melancholy Dane. ana a very funnily
serious person he was. That librett ist OF
many comic operas, j.. Cheever Goolwtn.
ma 9 Eiro Ctdudts a comic opera monarch.
william Duncan Preston was the sentimental
Pcs,rrrour and Louis Fitzlerll. Jr. was
his !ricnI G,DidsusCrr. The other parts
we're playei by less known members Of tho
club. Jennings stockton. Jr, enacted
Courrsr, Pages &c. 1T was n rollickipg
affair. With LITTLE reference 20 Gilbert an less
to shakespeare ant, my! but tie club mem
bera sr1 their guests d. think II was funny.
WIT woul1 have been IL reception in a thea
tire before m unsympathetic audience nobody
thought OF asking.
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