The sun., 1900-12-08
DRAMATIC pECULTARITIES.
yUg srRottERs ~ THEH iNN'Ah
pfTfy OP uN Avn w VIZ
rh,l, Performances for charity and "'sf',
81 "Ih. cruise ~ the samm'f ""'
wueh laughter, Too, over the MO
iInnaI AannIe. Of "snld and Inlh Int.'

u,f,re a numerous and brilliant sudi"n'"
the ktfoll,rs produced n now bufI'ih ~ ths
irrye ballroom 81 tho WHldprf.hs'ora llst
,igbt oud vere revardoi generously win
pppl,uso and flowers Tua pee" Wa called
III, Crul.n of tho summer orr ana wa'
written by Louis Fit2serali, Jr 'h'ev"f
Uoodwin supplied the words of the s"nv''
with a Few additional uImhers hy Stafford
vror. and Harry u Sm.th These lyfIr'
vcro set 90 music hy Nlr Waters, N.lville
NM. Richard Horny Warren. A Baldwin
sloane. william + Peters, Aimh fachumo.
victor prigcl and Reginald do Kovcn The
ID Iience was less Interested In what the
W.. ars ard composers had done than In tie
pl,yers who interpreted their work.
The first scene was in n summer hotel and
William n. Delehauty was the clerk who
sang an amusing song about various ways
Il getting money. lIeylyn Dirck BENSON
was lively elevator boy. company Of
actors, on tour with Uncle Toms cabin,
stopped at tho hotel and illustrated with
the aid OF n Cln"metacrap the rescue "i
the melodrama heroine by the hero from
being run over by "A railroad train. After
that the plot of The Cruise OF the summer
Girl" developed and finished Itself. leaving
the rest of th. evening for singing ana cane
ing. yacht party arrived. Including Marie
Maidron and Elizabeth Donaldson ~ llNdI
social queens bl New ! ON anu b'NN'll
MIR Fitzgerald. ~ the boats owner, tell
In love with the summer sirl. Grace hoy
lie took her, the, "Ih,le LON atl0r,, anu
all the guests OF the hotel t. his ya' ht WheIS
they danced. sang and huresQued. Ia the
last act. at the New York Casino they u,d
very much the same thing, only lOr u d'lei-
snt comic opera reason. ,
The four amateurs who impersonated tho
"Uncle Tom" company were er"t',luclI
tragedian. and Robert Nebn u NSM-!tl
comedian. Grace Hornby and Frances
Millet Hoyt were t2ush souorttt.s MS M
Matters about actors in society was par
ticularly good Morris rnderhill was heartily
spplauded for his singing Of a i"srq dltty
with a pretty refrain composed by Mr. fIIls
Grace Hoyt was tho female star IN the as
,imaton oi the spectft2rs as she mas bee, nesh
NAV IRWIN was the only protest. nal in the
uiay. coming from the BLiou In time 90 sing
lett, size was simlly May Irwin. Jolly. So
clahlc and originally entertaining But her
professional talent was hardI, more liked
In The cruise Of the summer Gtrl" than
Tho amateur efforts OF some Of the popular
Stro!lcr-. Since the play was written solely
TO a'russ sucIetv IL can ruthfuly he sud
that it amply fulfilled It's purpose
Sarah Bernhardt decided yesterday not
" revive "Frou-Frou" during the weok OF
Dec. Il az announced. but will use IL later.
She and Constant CoqueNn will act In
Camille" and La Toscl" only that week.
lldIsl I fItlIlldu N'Alt'h N'NitlhdN W pi'-
duce l.. &. Cartons latest comedy. Lady
Huntworth's Experiment." ut Days instead
of the Ivcculu. 1t will he put into rehearsal
immediately and substituted for The Man
0f Forty" Is soon ~ possible. IIlda Spong
aud john B Mason will act the Leading roles.
and the other pHucipHl melnbeES OF MI.
Frohman'- stock company will have parts.
MAY Irwin decided Yesterday t. substitute
MdSSS 2 II tSH 4SI aY ondaI and nd'S coH H
tinue II for the remainder of her New YORK
engagement. She and Ramsay Morris, the
author. went over the mqnuscript OF Msdge
some minor changes.
Eta Butler said In voice Of agony: MY
God, this IL trrrible," She was right She
was the heroine In Sold and Paid For"
al the Herald Square Yesterday afternoon.
Her exclamation would have been eloquently
pertinent as her personal opinion OF the
new drama. The audience chose to construe
II that way. and roared with laughter. Miss
Butler was herself quite a. comic a. any
of the things that the author had written
with serious purpose. She had n face
and voice for intensely emotional expression.
and she used them very violently. 50 that
what might under lustifahle circumstances
have been fearful was as ludicrous. There
was a third reasonable meaning in the words
quoted. Miss Butler may have felt that
Ner own experience WAS tHpukn W
an outcry to her Creator for pity
Terrible in deed must II be for an actress
10 prepare herself for the role OF an agon-
ICED heroine. to pull together everything
she knows of facial and vocal exercises. 10
let IL all 60 at an audience with might and
main and then TO be laughed at We have
been told that the pretenCes of love on the
stage are often douhly false-that the mimic
sweeIhcarts commonly hate each other
really Unless Miss Butler is an angel of
amiability her feeling toward John G. Dixon
wa, that of doyll OF malice lie enacted
her adorer In the play 10 was also it's
author However. ho saved hin sell from
serious resentment beyond the footlights,
and maybe on her side Of them. too. by "a
good-tempcred speech. In which he said that
delays had caused Withdrawals from the
cast, and that four parts were taken 10y
unprepared volunteers Tho last OF these
changes. only an hoIr Of two before the time
for the curtain 20 rise, had compelled him.
fat man, TO enact Ae hcro-a soulful artist
who at the outset said he was famlshed for
food. but looked like gorged eater
But there was no good reason to forgive
Mr.. Dixon. He gave no sign that he had won
booby Prize ia the azarcous gam. 4 dra-
matte authorship, His theme had been tine
salient one # purchase-Hnd-saie wcdlock
between a mddle-aged millionaire and II
fierce f-rvor Il an ambition that burned 49,
hot as dramatic genius in his breast, IeCiGlly
on the heart side His fiery language Was
10 wOrdy that single sentences fteu exhausted
the Speakers breath and made them to stop
to initiate their lungs for fresh starts As
fur rhetorical NigHt~, goodness gracious, but
they scared highland fell Hat when the
audience glgglrd. whi"u II did most Il tho
time that II wasn't lettug itself out IN gl.i,aws
The ridiCui" was not earned 10y the actors
They Werr not "a worthless lot
Some Of them were clever enough to have
lelped good play. But Wien characters
have such abnormal eyes as TO see through
closed doors, vet do not discern envoSdron-
rers IN pialn sight; when their earS are open
70 some voices at a distance. yet smut to others
clos" by. when thpy are a. large iu good
society, vet behave lik" the inmates of p.ui-
tcntiaries and -anltarlums when to sum
them up they are wild oaTlcatuTrS put into
situations too absurd for anyH here save
trnNesty. what can even competent n,tora
do to save them from the euvors? Not
much. SO poor Miss Butler. most unfort-
unutc Of Mr.. Dnou's companions hecause
most deeply involved I'm he fnsco found
a climax Of her trouble In the climax of hiS
play here she was COmTcllcd to be, in
namqtcur rehearsal 4 I he Lady ~ Lyons"
Pauline 10 his tiduds. and heroine 80 en-
tranCed = de-crIptlou # the Inlto of
Como herself nmdlv iutu his arms
IN aC'liI "a. III a. pretended FC, \ l,,-r..s
II passion.
Rer"mh' that Mr niVon was described
a. lat la for further Truth incun-
trov"rt!hle tuut he looked more NJ To- III m,
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