The Washington times., 1901-10-20

Bertha Galland, after making strenu-
Gus effort to compel metropolitan thea
! tregoers to patronize her performance Of
THE Forest Lovers" side-traclsed the
| dramatization of the Hewitt story last
| week and presented Sydney Grundys
THE Love Match but from the tone of
the Gotham reviews the new play did not
| achieve any more success than its unfor-
tunate predecessor.
! Two almost distinct failures in as many
months is quite record for youthful
| lspirant for stage glory, and up to the
moment Miss Galland holds the medal.
| Concerning The Love Match" he con-
| servatiye Commercial Advertiser said:
"A new play by Sydney Grundy. forced,
amOrphous and duh, had its first per-
formance at the Lyceum. 1t Is reported
that an English production Is to be made
soon, but as the result in New York was
rather congealing, the foreign experiment
may be omitted
Miss Bertha Galland is in hard luck
Grundy's a Love Match, as the Ly-
ceum play is called, is q sudden enough
change-a halting mixture between COM
edy, farce and the play of dramatic situ-
ations. II gives Miss Galland some good
moments and some bad ones, but it has
no star part. This young actress is hope
lessly hammered II comedy, as in The
Pride Of Jennico." and in the first act
OF this new play. coquetry ard baf-
gasp5 merely, n device which also serves
her when emotional tension becomes ex-
treme She has presence and breadth of
manner, and needs mainly TO drop some
tricks which suggest the one-night
stand"
After falling to win success with Rich
ard Lovelace." E. II. Sothern produced
new romantic play. If l Were King" by
Justin Huatley Mccarthy, jr., in New
York, Monday night, and made u substan-
tiai hit
The principal character in IF Were
King IS Villon, the French vagabond-
poet, who was ndde the central figure of
play used some years ago by Otis Skin
ner, and who has more recently been
magaZinGd by DIR. Weir Mitchell. Soth-
errs play brings 20 mind very forcibly
Theodore de Banville's well-known one
act drama, "Grlugoire; or the Ballad Mon
ger which, remodelled someH hat was
seen at a local theatre as u vaudeville
sketch in the hands Of Homer Lind
Louis Hl on one OF his secret expedi-
tons overhears Villon reciting one OF his
latest odes in a tavern, telling what he
would do II he were King. The monarch
thereupon makes him absolute ruler of
Paris for one week. at the expiration Of
which time he IS to be put to death urSess
he can find 4 wife among the noble
women of the court. il IS almost needless
TO state that Nillon makes the best OF his
Duke Of Burgundy. bat wins the heart of
one OF the proudest beauties of the Kings
following.
Joseph Jefferson is headed Washington
ward on brief tour, and VIII soon be at
the National, with his familiar repertoire |
There is no truth in the report that Mr. |
jefferson win produce a new play this |
season. When asked concerning the ru |
NOR he naiyely inquired:
whats the use? Surely. the great |
American public has not tired of :Ripf |
ehR If so. I'll give them Lend Me Five
Shillings.' and IL they don't like that |
why, there's The Rivals Where can
you find dramatization of a novel that
can equal any piece play?"
Edward J. Morgan. now being starred
as John Storm In "The Christian" was
formerly a singer In England and ap-
peared at oratorios and concerts In the
provincial cities. Morgan's first appear
ance on the stage was as supernumer-
airy In the company of Louis James. and
on the same stage, the Walnut Street |