The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-08

Lady Winifred Crosby ...Eleanor Moretu
Dora Woodberry ...............Lottie Alter
Jane, Marchioness OF Betchworth
.................,. Florence Robinson
Countess OF Fairfield Marcia Tredwel
Lady Dovedale ....,......M Marian Gardner
Mrs. DarNflle MAUD iioslofd
Miss Maud st. Trevor Jessie Buslcy
Mrs Martin Bailey ........... Jane Rivers
The Earl Of Burford ..... Francis Carlyle
Rev John Thorold .......Wallace Erskine
Basil Gillespie .,..............S. miller Kent
Leopold Kolditz ........,,..Dore Davidson
Michael VAIN ......,..... sidney HerDert
Mr. Dyson ...-.,............s.sb T.. Aessei
Mr. Arthur Dyson .......Cecil DE Mile
Mr. Jowett ..,s,,,...,.......Tuny MARSHALL
Mrs. Baker ............ Constance Adams
Mrs. Wilson-Trevor ...,.. Florence Lloyd
Miss Betty Wilson-Trevor Ethel RogerS
Miss Peggy Wison-Trevor Janice Neville
Miss Blake Claire McDowen
Miss Dodson .......s..........Rose MOTIFS
Miss Evans ............,.. Isabel Garrison
Miss Montressor Ruby Hayes
Miss FestaVoSins ..,........... Eta Morris
Daisy Minto ............Pauline Won Arold
Horace Davis ........... Joseph A. Weber
Mr.. Freeman ..,...............N. IL. Jelenko
Monsieur journal Carl st. Aubyn
Bicycle Instructor ...,.... Richard Disney
Mr.. Gore .........,...'.....,.Au ,.Auelpeft hnotl
Guide ...,.........r........,.. William King
Musical Director .....,.....nClive Hartt
La Belle Montana .....,, Florence Howard
Jenny ..-......,..,...sssssttsss.A sss.Allcs bOtuon
The revival of the kind OF stage con-
Struction that Is identified by the phrase
English meiodrama reaches what will
doubtless prove 10 be it's climax In the
new Frohmsn production brought from
ha
and produced at the Providence Opera
House last evening entitled Hearts Are
Tyumps"
In sumptuousness OF scenery, I'm rich
mess Of costuming. I'm multiplicity OF
speaking parts, in sggressveness OF
blot. I'm intensity OF situation and ex
tremity incident. IL will be exceedingly
hard to beat this newest work OF the
melodramatic school. IL Is simply the
whole thing with no crumbs left over.
The type of the English melodrama Is
on the whole rather better established
than that of almost any other form of
stasc. construction. The hyphenated dis
uinctfons of opera tend to confusion of
sdea as to just what one Is to expect
when the curtain rises. The tragedy Of
tens borders on the melodrama in the
hands OF the modern tragedlan. We have
10 take the managers word for IL 10 iden-
farce-comedy, or the comedy-drama. But
when we are invited 10 view an English
melodrama we know exactly what sort of
an eye opener We are TO enjoy.
To be sure. Mr.. Frohnan calls Hearts
Are Trumps" an Original Drama OF
Modern Iife" on the bill of the play. But
nobody who secs the glaring posters and
stimulating window sheets will be msed
by this pulscless rlrasing Just why Mr.
Frohman should shy at the good old III
tic, English meiodrama, II would be hard
10 understand. IAN Original Drama OF
Modern Life" is a meaningless. fabby
bunch Of words and sn imgertinence to
sne play Itself Almost any sort OF a
laing might he an Original Drama OF
Modern Life. whereas Hearts Are
Trumps" Is a triumph of melodrama.
Here is scenery-Just count it!-three
scenes I'm act l.: five scenes I'm act .. four
scenes I'm act 3: two scenes In act T. A
PLATA, ordinary, Original Drama of Mod