The sun., 1901-11-21
THBNBS FROM THE THEATRE.
EygHrs AND DOZENS or COMELY
CHORUS MEN AND WOMEN.
A Feature In the Trivial and Tunefui Plays
on our stase-Actresses Who Roll
Downsta airs When the Author Tells
Them To and One VINO VIII Not.


The Academy Of Music a double quartet
of men and women sing some applauded
songs. but there In no resemblance to Tell
Me, Pretty Maiden.' and It's interpreters
in -Florodora The lack Of similarity
may not seem strange at first, but glance
over a list OF tho plays In town brings 10
mind the strangeness OF any group OF
rnen and women tunefully voicing any
thing but praises Of those at home like
them and winking coyly as they exit. THE
Liberty Bellies Is the only light musical
play In town without something like that.
The Messenger Boy Is also without a
double sextet, although it has not been so
all the while. A week ago an imitation
OF Tell Me. Pretty Maiden was sung by
dozen members Of the chorus at a mntinee,
but by the evening no one around Daly's
would say aught about 1t. Nothing has
been heard OF 1t since, but Il may be done
again when The Messenger Boy goes on
a tour, where -Florodora' is less OF habit.
The copies in @The New Yorkers' and
The Little Duchess are numbers much
liked. At the Herald Square the twelve
men and women are camera fiends and
sing something not very educational but
aet to a pretty tune and there is an excuse
for the wink. On the Casino stage the
successors to the double sextet are only
eight in number. They appear on the
beach at Ostend. the women In rolling
chairs propelled by the men. The song Is
about the women going In bathing. and
the men appear TO be bathing masters
Anyway, they remove the women's shoes
The Little Duchess throughout, and then
carry the women out on their shoulders
piggy-back. holding on to the feminine
ankles, for safety probably. One trembles
AT the possibilities OF an encore, but nothing
worse happens The limitations Of the
and the Broadway wander far from the
the Beast a ditty called sfell Me, Dusky
Maiden rather burlesques than copies.
1t is a good combination OF the familiar
movement and ragtime. The negro team
the tune il by Rosamund johnson. II
Introduces many popular negro songs OF
the day Harry Bulger and Charles Ross
rs the King and Queen lead the fourteen
omen. half Of whom are dressed TO repre-
sent male minstrels. At Weber Fields's
although half wear the evening coats and
high hats of smart chappies. II Is they
who enter first In the Broadway scene OF
Message From Mars and have their
shoes shned to bright chorus by the
bootblscks. Eight girls in beautiful even
ing cloaks next enter and sing excuses for
being late and OF their passion for Holsters
and diamonds. Then they enter Shanleys,
and raising the shades In the big windows
beokon In the lobster-buying Holsters from
the sidewalk holding bills Of fare In their
hands and pointing in understandable sug-
gestion Of the desire OF their appetites.
Henry Arthur Jones's stirring tragedy
Of The Dancing Girl is being creditably
performed by the Donnelly players at the
Murray Hill. II isn't difficult play to act
acceptably. though its possibilities in the
hands OF great actors are enormous. Mr.
Jones's fiction is 20 true and usual as TO
he almost trite. The country maiden who
goes TO a great city and becomes a wicked
enticer Of men. but deceives her father into
the belief that she is still respectable; the
entaglement Of a rich and reckless youth
with a wicked woman. almost resulting
In his suicide: his rescue by a girl who has
silently loved him for years. and the fin al
meeting Of the trusting father and the
erring daughter when he curses her-all
of these are familiar complications in fact
and fiction. But MIR. Jones sets them forth
In sTbe Dancing Girl with such vivid
mess that they hold the listener rapt. The
scene In the hallway OF the Dukes palace
on the night Of his laSt ball is one OF the
great incidents Of modern drama. He has
seen the folly of his why's, Of his entraNa-
gance, while his tenants arc staI wing, and
then the dancing girl. whom he hat sup
ported lavishly, deserts him when his iast
penny is gone. He is decided 20 commit
aiicide. but as a last kick of life he wlll
give "A festive ball inviting rerp.ctabls
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