The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-10
UNCOMMON STAGECRAPT
FINE SIGHTS IN THREE or LAST
WEEKS PRODUCTIONS.
cosd Art softens h Usual Garishness Of
Fairy Extravaganza. Puts Apt Real.
m ism Into q society Comedy and Makes
Moving Picture IN = B%uriesque.

Fairy Fxtravag ANA. Puts Apt Real.
IN tam Into q society Comedy and Makes
Moving Picture In = Burlesque.
The Importation Of a Drury Lane ex-
.-.vagsnza In toto 20 this city was a theat-
.,oaI event OF last week. Nothing nearly
=" GOOD in the way OF fairy spectacle had
h4en put on our stage, Finely elaborate
,.o,ntinss Of plays had become usual.
.nd the annual melodrania brought from
,hs aame London theatre had been scenic
u.ryels, but no sights Of a fantastic or
.l.sorical kind had been equal TO those
~ THE Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
rhs inevitable transformation scenes
.lowed, but did not glare. The landscapes
., the four seasons were admirably painted
,io,nres. and the decorative portions OF
those views were artistic In design and exc
.n,ion. The harmony in colors was not
,roken at any point. The electric illu-
,oination was conducive TO the positive
"a, never obtrusive effects. The animate
portions OF this exhibition consisted Of
women and girls in clothes dyed, painted
and patterned TO serve the changing pur-
noses. A few OF these persons were pretty
and a few were graceful, while many were
uyly and awkward, all In accordance with
London usage In Christmas pantomimes.
One moor creature was a skin-covered skel-
s,on 20 feshlees as to offer a study in
muscles and joints. But there were
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of extreme loveliness.
Miss, SNYDER as the girl who mapped a
century and Miss Gillette asa prince whose
head changed to a beasts for a while were
adorable. and so were the Misses Hengler
--!- la~,.1 TknaA xgaEA NOT
lonesome beauty spots In the masses Of
%femininity, yet the average OF the faces
was not above that which might be found
In any chance gathering. We have become
70 accustomed 20 exceptional beauty on the
t,age that our demands have grown to be
unreasonable.
An amazing sight was that OF the
Grigolati young women, seven of them,
and they we're birds with wings and tails
attached to about as symmetrical bodies
"a any painter ever pictured. Prior aerial
bsllets" had consisted OF sometimes ludi-
crous and never Elusive suspensions OF
dancers by means OF manifest wire and
windlass. But the display OF the Grigo-
latis, besides being a mechanical wonder
in hidden mechanism, was graphic art of
a grade to command critical respect. Their
feet were used only to STAN on. never TO
step with, and they arose and foated with
out a su ygestion OF effort by themselves
or Of support by anything save the air.
Their flights above the heads Of the stage
full Of people we're the perfection of I'M
conscious grace. One of their best elects
was produced when they tossed their leader
from a cloth OF gauze. which she touched
with no more than the tip Of a toe. When
the transparent fabric was drawn tight
she was bounded thirty feet as lightly "a
a feather carried up by a zephyr, Al the
end OF their performance they poised on
and around a big horseshoe in as eerie
a group a. ever decorated the dome Of a
palace. While II is true that The Sleeping
Beauty and the Beast" contains things that
are old in fairy extravaganza, and that
the local New York foolery displacing
the London matter of the same purport Is
a leaving bid for popularity, the spectacular
achievements are the prouder triumph
IN s,agecraft.
Although another OF last weeks new
PLAYS depended on the incidents OF a story
for interest II had much that was meant
for the eve. This was in the four acts
after the first Of The Way Of the World. y
The start was made badly. Clyde Fitch
has never put forward a piece without
some startling unconventionality In II.
and often these oddities are in scenery as
well as words In Lovers Lane he
showed the trees first in the autumn and
then IN the spring The effect was good and
II did not interfere with the dramatic action.
Within the last fortnight Mr. Fitch has had
play- acted for the first time In New York
and London. and both The Way 81 the
World and The last Of the Dandies"
.isrt with peculiar sights that hamper the
unfolding Of the plot. In the drama pro-
duced by Beerbohm Tree the characters
arr revealed rowing on a lake Of real water.
The London reviewers say the movement
Of the boats IL awkward and distracting
tn. Introduction Of Elsie de Wolfe and
s~@ocates on automobiles has less Of
that fAult. aud would be- commsndable
n the pictorial devices made IN illusion
The lack 10 a surprise considering the
h-auty - The four other scenes. The
~characten- are brought la cleysHy and
logically When the curtain r,ses q man
tni he Nfe az" a~utomobiliug in Central
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