The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-29
THE NEW PLAY.
'"The Greatest Thing in the World" and |
 its Cast.

| perlOn Jneater fepfuary anu lV, II
 written in four acts and with cas-
 that in truth may be called star.
 Only one play in New York has sucf
 strong support, namely, Naughty Anthony" The cast Is as follows:
 Virginia Bryant widow............
 ....................... Mrs. LeMoyne
 Cecil Bryant, her elder son.. ..........
 .................. Robert Edesor
 Harold Bryant her younger son..
 ...................... Walter Thomas
 David Mcfarland, Harold's guardian
 Charles Abbott Godfrey Townsend ..................
 .............. Frederick DeBelleville
 Helen Mcfarland ...... Katherine Grey
 Sarah Mcfarland ...... Harriet Sterling
 Doctor Chiselhurst ...... Werner Charges
 Madge Chiselhurst ......... Hope Ross | Uncle Cudge .............. Edwin James l Gray ...................... Edwin James Mrs LeMoyne is to be featured as the
 star and surely with such cast che ought to make a lasting name. Few, l indeed, are the actresses of to-day that start on the road with such strength in
 every line, and Lebler & Co. have paid
 a fitting compliment to the talent of | Mrs. Henry c. De Mile and Miss Har-
 riet Ford the authors.
 1 At this time 1t will not be amiss to | give a slight sketch of the actors and l actresses who will make this new piece | the greatest success of the new year. | Frederic DeBelleville has for nineteen | years held his place as the best Heading
 man" in the country. The famous crit | ic of the New York Tribune, William l Winter, once said of him that he is ''an actor who has manliness grace, passion, nobility and presence, rich voice and | finished style, and in whose acting the illusion is alwaye perfectly preserved"
 Such unstinted praise from William Winter are true laurels fairly won. His father was a Belgian officer. Young DeBeleville entered the Belgian army,
 serving as soldier for a short time, and, not liking the life, he went to Lon don and made the stage his profession. His first appearance was in Fair Ros- amond," and then came a stock engage ment. Step by step he climbed the lad der of fame till John. Hollingshead en- gagged him to play at the Gaiety in Much Ado About Nothing" but not until he played Prince Kotchicoff in My Awful Dad" was he great. In Australia he was superb in Sardous Nos Intimes." We next hear of him In San Francisco where he was engaged by Tom Mcguire, and while there 4. M. Palmer saw hi mand at once offered him place in the Union Square, New York
 New Workers first saw him In "Daniel Rochart' "The Two Orphans" and "The Lights O London" His success was remarkable, and while at this the ater he supported Clara Morris. At the termination of his Union Square en- gagement he starred in "The Corsican Brothers" "Monte Cristo," ''The Silver King" and Bartley Campbells "Paqui- ta." Returning to San Francisco, as leading man at the famous California theater he was more than success. De- Belleville was Rose Coghlan's leading man for a season and had loud praise showered on him by the critics of the great cities.
 Later he appeared in Men and Wo- men," as Henry Beauclerc in "Diplo- macy" and Martial Hugon in .Thermi- dor" Then he joined the Coghans, playing Count Orloff as we'll as Beau- tiCI III l|iPioliloty. At IhiS tillic " | H. Crane revived his famous play, "The and DeBelleville played Count Von Strahl It would be unnecessary to follow up all this fine actors work but his work with Mrs. Fisk was of such a fine order that some mention of it will not be amiss. In "Tess'' his audience and in Little Italy" his eav- agery of the lower class Italian was grand as a bit of dramatic art. Mrs. De Mile may feel certain that in his hands her work must be a success.
 Miss Katherine Grey is young act 'ess who more than learns her lines; in act, every movement is studied, and 1ence realism Is imparted to all her work. Miss Grey became famous in Tamee A. Hernes production of "Shore Acres at the Fifth Avenue theater in S93. Then for time she played with .reat success under Henry Miners man. .gement. From him she entered Rich lrd Mansfeld's great company, playing Iarcele in "A Parisian Romance" Az les in "Dr. Jekyl and MT Hyde," Ma { ie Walewska in "Napoleon," Mariana { n "Beau Brummep' and Louka in Arms and the Man." Miss Grey is a { Iative of San Francisco and entered ( he dramatic profession at that once { amous school facing Augustin Dalye |, heater, appearing in Comforts of ( Tome" with some little success, also in ( Jane and Chums" and orlgnat ted the ( art of Kate Fessenden in "The New r outh." AS RoXane to Mansfield | Cyrano de Bergerac" marked Miss 8 frey as a great actress. Her work at 1 he Garden theater will long be pleas c nt memory to New York theater- -goers ( Werner Charges is an actor of not a V tile dramatic reputation and stands e igh in the estimation of metropolitan V rites Coming to the United States y xteen years ago, he has supported S Ome of the most famous stars in the S 1eatrical firmament, namely, Rose V oghlan, Clara Morris, F. S. Willard f [rs James Brown Potter, Robert Man ( all and Mrs. Fisk, who this year has c reated Becky sharp" For a time T larges was member of the Great a -ortham Stock company of Chicago. Il hen to 'dear old Broadway he came l,