The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-10
AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE OF
1.-THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

The DAILY name WIS on The bills AZ the
Olympic Theatrr last night, hut the spirit
of the man that did great things with other
mems plays was not there. Tlat un.lefin-
able thing called personality 10 in evidence
III this relation. Miss Ada f:chan seemed
Ia act quite ar well as shr has eyer sctr! J..
allowing. of course. for what the wears al
ways do Tor mon and women after a cor
tain time. She had full nf all the
qualities or expression that have long been
Almost hers alone among tn. actresses. He:
extraordinary appreciation of the plays
varying huInorS waS quite as full as We
have ever found it. Her costuming was
In all respects as complete and as gaze
compelling ~ it has ever been. The music
was the same that MIR. DAILY had built for
the piece. The men ana women-all good
TO look at and mtS, Ctpabl.-wcre Garbe.i
and rehearse'l +" the point OF almost COM
plete satisfaction. The prociamme told US
that the arrangement Of IN. play was Mir.
Days. And out i'll front OF the theIt.r.
Keeping solemn company with Mr.. Short.
was that otfrr Irishman. Richard poruey,
whitcned with the years. q piece of the old
DAILY property. Yet, with all of this at
mosphere. the spiri, OF the master was not
there, and folks fell to saying. one to the
other, that it was easy Ia see that some
thing was wrong. In very truth. there was
nothing wrong. The play moved with pre-
ttSlnH- III company, as Il WhOie. was quite
~ g~ood-even 4 little better. l make 50
bold as to say-than it used to be: yet
there seemed 10 be- something missing.
Miss Ada R"han'S voice. sinking 10 Sc
pulchrai sOiernnity, had its own old way of
reminding one of the ghost in Hamlet"
and when she and Sir Peter engaged in con
versation in the famous old episode of the
screen there was nothing lacking save 4
green calcium and a piece of mosquito net
ting. In the front row of the theater sat
one of this seasons Tor any seasons rarcst
dcbu'antes. She was seeing Miss RehaG for
the first time. 80 she told the Young man
at her side. When, at length. she ventUred
an opinion, she said Something like this:
Miss Rehan must have been grand when
she was in her prime" That innocent little
sentence tells a story of its own. Those OF
us who have seen this actress many times
find her familiar mannerisms there to fool
us about what the years have been doing:
but your wonder-eycd dchutante has no
recollection upon which to base her chilling
Judgment.
Mr.. George Clark. who will always he
remembered as one of the fine actors of
the old Daily crowd. was a happy figure as
Uncle Oliver. Two charming young play
erS, Nh. White Whi1tleSey as Joseph and
Mr.. Eugene ornonde as Charles Surface.
We're ornaments 10 the cast. Mr.. Wiifred
Clarke, who WAS frs, husband to Miss Vic
tory Batcman, was a capital Moses. Miss
Katherine Clinton. with a rare profile, a
pretty voice and a mass of raven hair.
was altogether sympathetic as Maria. The
Sir Peter of Mr.. Charles Iiarbury was as
good as anybody's. All of the scenes We're
capItaily rehearsed. That OF the screen
mother of all screen scenes-was most ef-
fectivcly conducted The comedy will he
repeated to-niyht. Tomorrow night and
ut the matinee A You Like II" will be
played. The version devised by the late
Mr.. Daily will he employed.
THE REVIEWER.