The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-30
PRESS AGENTS ROUND TABLE.


Frank Murray. Who will be recalled by
many washingtoniant as manager OF thu
Frawley company during its engagement
at the Columbia Theatre two seasons
ago. is renewing aequaintances in the
Capital, and incidentally heraId,ils the
coming of his star. Jefferson De Angels.
in his new musical comedy. a ROYAL
Rogue" to the National tomorrow nj bit.
Mr. Murray is prolific In COOL stories,
in which Mr. De Angels figures prcmi-
nently, and vouches for the verify OF this
one
''Mr. and Mrs. De Angels gaze a lawn
party at their residence at Ludlow PARK,
near Yonkers, n. Y. one evening last
month. which was attended b. several
prominent actor-folk and trisnis from
New York 1t was quite as swell an at
fair as Chinese lanterns. fireworks. lunch
and punch and eongenial spirits could
make it. but there was one feature on
the programme that was not carried out.
Mr.. De Angels had decided upon a Joke
he intended to spring upon his gusts
surprise party joke. as 1t were-and
II was this practical joke that was "A
Royal Rogue's'' undoing He was to
quietly disappear from the scene when
the fete was at its height, slip out ths
| back OF the lawn. and get down the Eapk
| behind an old grape arbor. Here be had
secreted complete tramp outfit, which
he was to don, and with Weary walker
| makeup, was to suddenl% appear among
the guests on the lawn. He was to be a
| jolly, devil-may- care tramp. helping him
self to the lunch and the punch. He took
| but one person. W. T. Francis, the COM
| poser. into his confidence in the perpetra-
| tion of his joke. Even his wife and fam
lily were ignorant of the scheme Mr.
Francis was to help him in the carving
out OF 1t, to hold a fake conversation
with him. and finally. with assumed iE-
dignation, to seize him, when the come
| dian was to cast off his disguise. and then
| everybody was supposed to laugh Mr.
| De Angels and Nr. Francis laughed over
| the scheme for days. as they rehearssi
! the scene privately.
| Tom De Angels, the comedians son,
had invited three or four college football
friends to the fete. and they sat around
| small table talking and laughing when
the tramp suddenly appeared upon the
| scene. His makeup was a masterpiece.
1t was the comedians first attempt at the
part, and. with all due professional defer
ence to the memory of old Hoss' Hoey,
| Mr.. De Angels had few ideas as to
how tramp should be played. His ap-
pearance very naturally caused consterna-
| tion among the guests. and Francis, tax
| ing his cue, stepped forward to play his
| part in the shit. But the composer was
slow. and before he could get anywhere
near the comsdian, the three college
men had set upon him and the tramp
! was theirs. They did not wait to hear tho
sound of De Angels voice expostuiating
and explaining. but handled him as IL he
| were a football He was in the air as
| often as he was on the ground and when
the students got tired they took him. up
and threw him over the back fence When
| the comedian recovered consciousness he
was bruised and pounded and kicked al
most to jelly. but he managed to sneak
around to the grape arbor. change his
clothes, and get into the house, where he
sought the arnIca and his room.
What's become of Mr.. De Angels"
some one asked the comedians wife
| little later in the evening.
Mrs. De Angels, who had by this time
become conversant with the situation, re-
| piled: He was seized with severe head
4 ache little while ago and he had to re-
| tire"
| New York editorial reviewer is much
exercised in spirit-beeause of the pub
Hes undisguised fancy for romantic favor
to its dramatic pabuium- He wags his
head dismally and regards this as a sign
of retrocession that will lead back to +.
! the earlier. forms of shadowy and IN
;heatric legend and mystic play.
William A Brady, who manages prize
fighters, theatres, and plays with almost
unprecedented success, and who is in
Washington in the interest of his latest
production, Her Majesty, which. will
have its initial presentation tomorrow
night at the Columbia in discussing the
matter with Times man last night. said:
Il cannot share in this gloomy appre-
! hension. II seems to me that this newly
awakened regard for stage romanticism Is
one of the most comforting and reassur-
ing evidences of healthy public taste
THE romantic drama closely trod upon
the heels of pantomime, which was the
earliest known form of dramatic express
sion. In fact, pantomime itself is fall CT
the subtle. imaginative qualities which
are the basic foundation Of the romantic
play. What could be more pathetic. ap-
pealing or heart-touching than its latter
/ DAY Interpretation in LEnfant ProdiGue!'
There are cycles in plays as in fash
ions About every so often the wheel goes
round and the inevitable ny must be on
top part of the time. One year the pub
lie crave farce comedy, another extrava-
ganza, and then again melodrama- Sa-
tiety inevitably results whenever one par
ticular course of diet is too steadily ad-
hered to- But the people again hunger for
romantic plays and will not soon be salts
fed.
THE playgoers of today, and it is a
gratifying sign. delight in sweet, whole
some. sy;.:;; tiiI1ti5 story plays, that have
vitality. and yirility, and heart-thrills. and
are peopled with noble characters, whose
splendid qualities and dashing achieve
ments are perhaps just a little ideaiiZed
and yet who are swayed by the same SEN
timents and impulses that dominate the
most commonplace Of US
| There is no prosaic Mary Jane of the
kitchen whose pulse does not beat the
quicker when she reads Of the swash-
buckler exploits Of the plumed knight. but
she is no different from her languid mis-
| tress lolling in her luxurious boudoir. HUI
man nature is pretty much the same.
To my fancy the young Queen Will
| helmina CT Holland is just such a fresh
| hearted, elear-brained young woman as
| Honoria who comes straight from convent
seciusion in Her Majesty to assume the
sorrowful responsibilities of sovereignty
| 1t is a story of a mythical kingdom which
| we are TO interpret here, but it is puisating
with fashion and vibrating with human
emotion, and we hope that it will prove as
I convincing and effective in dramatic form
as it did within the bound covers
| Harry Sweatman, the business repre-
| sentative of Morrison's Faust" speaking
of the comparatively few Hebrew actors or
| prominence the other day, in the lobby 0s
| the Lafayette Square Opera House, said;
| 1T is Il conceded fact that il the He
1 hrau- y-ara IN Withdraw rhai-