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who saw her a gain in the same role last
| night at the Metropolitan must have been
impressed with this advance. And Miss
Coghlan deserves to be congratulated.
| She has youth and she has beauty, IN
usual beauty. So many actresses would
have been content with such generous
natural endowments. 1t is to Miss Cogil-
lan's credit that she has not been so
/ content A year ago she was an exceed
ingly pretty woman who uttered with
charming emphasis the worldly lines
/ Thackeray has put into the mouth OF his
intensely interesting feminine creation.
/ Seldom, however, were those lines con-
! vincingly uttered. Not once, perhaps,
did she approach ones conception of the
character of Vanity Fairs" brainy hero
| lne- Last night, however, she was Becky
| after fashion and a very interesting
/ fashion 1t was, even if one was always
| perfectly sure that it was Thackeray,s
fashion. At least she presented to her
! audience one conception of the character,
| a clear cut, generous sized conception that
I was, always impressive. AS played by
Miss Coghlan, Becky Sharp is a gambler,
a daring but always level headed gamb er,
| who permits herself no regret simply be-
/ cause she is uncapable of regret; who
plays always for high stakes and who,
1 in the end, proves herself a game loser.
It is when the greatest display of heart
lessness is called for that Miss Coghlan
is at her best. Her facial language is as
expressive as her voice and this is not
faint praise. In the scene with Lord
/ Steyne, the only really dramatic scene
j in the play, Miss Coghlan is not entirely
convincing, but even in this scene her
acting is a great improvement over that
of last year The gowns of the period
/ in which Becky Sharp lived serve admir-
ably to show off the lines of the actress
| svelte figure and their colors are won
4 drous1y becoming to her blonde loneliness.
Miss Coghlan is using the same version
of Vanity Fair that she used last year.
The play has some glazing faults, but It
] is a playable play for all that. The play
wright has caught most successfully that
atmosphere of worldliness and sardonic
1 hun1or which both attracts and repels in
/ the book.
The support last night was fairly good.
| One is glad to welcome back the same
| Mrs. Major O'Dowd who was with the
company last year. Miss May Donohue
is the stage name of the actress who
/ plays the part and so excellent is her
Irish brogue and s so convincing her
hearty Irish manner enc is compelled to
regret that she appears SO brief a time
/ on the stage. Charles Bertam was excel
lent as Rawden Crawley. James Cooper
| presented, with unusual skill, the char
actor of the cynical roue Lord Styne.
Edward Locke's make up as Joseph Sed-
| ley was excellent, and his conception of the
role entirely satisfactory. Joseph Fitz-
! patrick as Sir Pitt Crawley; Hammond
! Daley as his son, Pitt; and Malcolm
Duncan as George Osborne are deserving
of special mention The play is well stag
ed and the costumes are historically cor
rect.
Tonight and Wednesday night Miss
CoghIan will play "Colinette.'' Tuesday
night and Wednesday matinee Becky
| Sharp" will be repeated.
J. M. Barries charming dramatization
of 1.-THE Little Minister finds adequate
! treatment at the Grand this week It is
a relief from the hodge podge of inflic-
/ tons of the past, a setting around which
| the glamour of melodrama and the alb
| surdity of tiresome rag time are over
] Swallowed by wholesome merit.
1.-THE Little Minister a charming story
| of simple folk and village gossip, brings
back memories of Maud Adams and those
who shaped its destiny. The company at
the Grand this week, however, does not
| suffer in comparison. 1t is entirely ade-
! quate, it has balance and what is more,
merit.
In this mimic panorama of Scotch life,
| ones first search is for the minister. He
! and the Lady Babbie are the ones around
! whom this quaintest and sweetest of
stories is woven, and in the portrayal of
| both little is found to criticise. AS Gavin
| Dishart, Horace Mitchell is more than
satisfying, while in Miss Frances Stevens,
| the Lady Babbie, of Barrie's own crea-
ton, is most acceptable. AS minister and
man, Mr.. Mitchell Incorporates in both
! the charm of book lore and naturalness
! while in Miss Stevens work there is a
| depth of personality and healthful humor
/ that is charming. She is strong in the
| dramatic, womanly in her weakness and
natural in her love for the little minister
The picturesque characteristics of the
Thrums elders and the kirk of rural
| Scotland is meritoriously and hunlor-
ously delineated by George Conway, ].
| G. Carlyle, Howard Morgan and r. B.
| Graham. The latters work, particularly
| the scene in which duty debates with love
and admiration for the village minister,
1 is most satisfactory Physique and voice
are in perfect sympathy with the char
acter.
/ Cecil livingstone, as Rob Dove, is excel
lent, while in the work of Miss Mary
| B. Henderson there is much to admire.
Her dialect is perfect and her portrayal
/ of the village gossip above criticism. The
remainder of the cast is all that could
1 be desired.
The scenic effects and stage settings
are thoroughly in sympathy with the
home and period of the story.
Phil Sheridan's. City Sports company
| which opened at the Star yesterday, has
several strong features, and three Ct
them won about as Fociferous encores
as have been heard at this amusement
| resort this season. The opening is an
/ oil firr1o far vud1i iS No..
Fadden's Flats only it is not quite SO
yellow. It has a warm finish, however,
/ which effaces the memory Of its tedious
ness. The Speck brothers, two sawed-of
/ comedians, have a boxing match that is
] lively and ludicrous. In the olio, John 3.
Leonard and Susie Fulton have a do
/ nestle sketch in which some good char
acter work is done Jennie Grovini and
Edith Murray have a turn in which they
1 mix up acrobatic stunts with songs and
| dances. None of their feats are wonder
| full but the girls are lively and pretty.
/ so it goes. Walter Ardell, the musical
| director of the company. with Itchy
Craig as an assistant. presents musical
/ turn with some real music, and Craig is
| quite capable comedian. A skit depict
i ing what occurred in thirty minutes
stop of a vaudeville troupe at a country
hotel had some genuine fun in it, chiefly
furnished by Crissie Sheridan, who is
getting to be a little too stout for the
4 Amazon march, but is success as an
impersonator of the popular idea of Mrs.
i Carrie Nation. The basket ball feature
| is retained this season and the girls play
1 for ten minutes as If really in earnest.
The singing and dancing is fairly well
done. f. J. Carroll, In sentimental bal
lads, being one of the best features of
the entertainment.