The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1900-03-27

Az YOU left the Snickcrbocker Thehre
lsss night YOU were sore distressed IN
n,tnd-at ieasa was. because wanted
10 be literary and intellectual. 80 ~ u
be In keeying with my ncishbors VINO
calculated Beautiful "fn!enfe! anu
superb But Fomehow | couldn't ana
when the curtain was rung down on
'The suukcn Belr' wandered on INTO
the storm and pondcrsd as TO what u
Rad all been about. II reminded you
every now and then Of Hanlnn's "Fan'
tasma." or "Humpty Dumpty." because
Miss Virginia Harmed was constantly
disappearing through trapdoors. and 10
vas Mr.. Rowland Blackstone.
That II was most scholarly ! hnven
the courage to doubt, inasmuch as u
was all verse. blank vcrte. the word
''blank" no, being used AS the equira-
lent to n profane expression. ana for
over three hours an even sixteen persons
ratified It out like the discharge Of a
rap.d-fre gun. Some people may like
three hours ~ verse. IL Is the correct
thing 10 say 70. anyhow. but, with the
fear OF the future before me. confess !
do not. u grows frishtfully tlresome
II r. all right to read II at the seashore.
in relays OF twenty minutes each, but to
have II hurled at you from stage Is
JUST beyond the limit.
s"The sunken Bell' IL said TO he q clss-
sic from the German by Gerhart lIaupt-
IL Ia,
by Charles Henry Meitxrf. There WIRE
no calls for the adapter last night. but
n iong-ha.red gentleman IN Row q said
II was a mastery rendition Some OF 1,
was and some Of II wasn't Miss Harmed
had a klttenish bit to reciie with four
fairies, IadylIke little fairies. In which
she daneed around the stage. and said
things that sounded like that dear old
rhyme OF childhood:
''swing around the mulberry hush-mul-
berry BUSH mulberry bush.
Swing a'onn. the mulberry hush. on a
Sunday morning"
II certainly didn't have any more
sense than j. conveyed In that dltiy.
and Miss Harmed looked positively fool
ish. I thought
But very sweet and wlnsome Young
woman she appeared. and M Solhern
very. and manly. ana ge niue,
oil admit that, whether the drama wis
cntoNable or not. II was splendidly pre-
serted. and Ia many respect. welcome
relief from the bedroom ftenrh farce
and sio,'kins-mode Comedies And that
N hat a uFsa4
venture N the part Of IN. joint stars
u equally certnn.
You must excuse the from trying TO
tell you what II was all about. f0r
don't know myself. IL had moral.
which was that q man who deserts his
wife and children Tor an en- with long
golden hair l. \ wicked person aud vii
nlumatelv gei all ina. j. coming Ga
f'r. Tils II good ard wholes ONE
moral and should BE- worked In wrrsie,;
on Perforated cardboard and hung
above the parior maniel in every we'll
regulated hodssholJ.
inM what the sinken bell mad io do
vth the defer,ioH OF The wife ana OF
sprihg ~ predetermined Probable the
German author knew. but II I. doubtful
n Mr. Meli-er did. The bell sas made
useful In 'he fourth act. when IT rams
cut with me!odramatie effect. and gave
Nr. Sothtfn and Miss Harmed the OPP
00esSsoai Wosk.
The last Get strucx me as very fiai
and tame. or course u was fairy
tale where morfais mixed with sprlie-
ssd n;her people O! mystic woria. but
you got tired OF seeing Miss Harmed do
Ina the disappearing demon ac; down a
well. IN which place she was spending
her honeymoon with another disappear.
Ing dem5n called the N!ckslr,.rn
Tbs gentleman was Mr. Burestonc
and every time h. appeared above the
!, wfa curb he wo;ild calculate something
sbAf sounded Ike the frog chorus from,