Evening star., 1901-03-26
Ricketts,, is entitled to large share of
credit for the ensembles which contribute
so much to the entertainment.

THE Only Way is drama of intensity.
Founded on Charles Dickens Tale of TWO
Cities" it follows the thread of the novel
closely and is woven of sfghs and tears and
charged with bitter suffering and heroic
self-sacrifice. 1t Is a terrible picture of the
relentless ravening of the French revolu-
tion, the insane fury of the mob and the
cruelty and injustice of it's tribunal. Its
movement is ever onward, and its grim
fatalism is but slightly relieved by the few
touches of comedy.
The performance as given by the Lafay-
cite Stock Company was well received by
a large audience last night. That 1t Is an
undertaking of considerable magnitude the
players seemed to realize, and an atmos-
phere of anxiety and repression was at
times painfully apparent. The action was
slow when it should have been deliberate
and nervously active to the verge of the
disturbance of the situations when the mob
held sway. The third act, the revolutionary
tribunal, was given with spirit and energy
and was perhaps the best work of the pro-
duction. The mob was of the widest and
most ferocious nature and more than
one occasion almost got beyond the control
of the gendarmes. The disturbance was
largely due to Frederick Sullivan, who, as
the first citizen, was an ideal brawler and
cutthroat. The work of the individual men,
bers OF the cast is for the most part satis-
factory, considering the circumstances and
accidents of first night
Mr. Ormonde's Sidney Carton is a care
1ul performance, but he is even more
SiooiiS anu Sell-uepTecldClVe tndn the novel
demands. John T. Sullivan's Ernest De-
large suffers in the same way. Death and
vengeance are written on his brow and
MS every appearance is the cause of
general shrinking on the part Of any wo-
man who happened to be on the stage at
the time of his entrance. No one would
take him for anything short of most COM
plete and unworthy rascal, although he is
an angel of mercy
Miss Hasw'ell, as Mimi, does admirably,
ana Grayce ScOtts Lucy Manette is sym-
pathetic and dainty. John Daily Murphy,
cite, and James Mahoney, as Count de
rauchet, fully meet the requirements of
their respective characters. Mr. Wyngates
Darnay was somewhat colorless and his
likeness to Carton, which is the keynote of
Ine M story would surely never be noted un-
DER ordinary circumstance; there is no like
ness at all. The performance is one of such
large proportions that deficiencies on a
Hrst night might be easily condoned
CHASE'S NEW GRAND.-"What we
wait, once said a prominent vaudeville
manager, rs a name that will bring the
pitP pJtpie th TO tne theater The merit can rest
ine acme OF this managerial astuteness
seems to be reached this week at
hraSad hnase s. ~, Yesterday two big audiences
see Della Fox. The name is one Of the
most widely known in American stagedom
rolling as sweet1y from the tongue of the
manager IN advance notices as the silver
notes or the immortal Patti Miss Fox cer-
talnIy Justifies the large salary she 20
ceVes ana the big type announcing her
coming for as drawing card she is the
.rha Iemgnt or the vaudeville providers heart
Ihose VINO went to the Grand Yesterday
were all Della's friends It has been q
number of years since she was here. and
every one wanted to see how Mrs. Levy
would look. The audiences were there to
bered from Wang and a host Of other
little operas, and from the very first looked
ionglngly toward the Fox chapter on the
~pIosean: ~ Inc earlier acts suffered for
appreciation In result, for the audience
wanted them finished as soon as nossihIe
flnally the side cards announced that she
was about to appear. A hush, crash of
u u rutnpets, ana she was there, quite radiant
iaqnch .qnch INTO the melodious depths of
Honey, You's Ma Turtle Dove" Two
verses OF the song she rendered amidst a
perfect storm Of applause Then she dis
appeared for few minutes. The nieasan+
suspicious aroused by the placing of a
chair and table near the footIights had
gooo foundation, for when the headliner
next came from the wings she wore tha
natty little flannel suit made famous nv
her with De Wolf Hopper in Wang" As
the orchestra struck the opening chords of
"A summer i, Night the audience again ap-
piauded wildly. Two verses Of this Miss
FOX also sang, in her old sweet way. Then
her part of the bill had been Concluded
purlng the opening "coon' song Miss Fox
naIn;,'1 .ah r.e eloqtlights extinguished and the
calclum flashed upon the scene for a mo-
ment, Just to show she was really tbe w;fa
OF diamond king" The remainder Of
made e e bv was tbp pleasing, the biggest hit being
and Leland. The feats performed by these
one-legsed athletes were startling, clever
ana intensely amusing. TrovoIlo the var
d;a ;aoq@uist, @ although suffering from a cold,
black-face comedian, has good points
Mary Dupont and Charles Lothian In q
comedy sketch aroused considerable laugh
ter. The Sisters OMeers on tho hiah
wire, gave what was the neatest and rnost
dlmcult act of the kind ever seen here
Ihey are imported novelties. Frank Gard.
I ner ana Lottle Vincent appeared In a pot
pourr1 OF nonsense, interviewer with some
cieVer specialt1es. The biograph Concluded
the performance with new views
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-At a recent ,ear-
Ing in Justices court in Yell county Ark
a witness testified that one .StaIkinps,'
Jes kept sloshin' about" After mich
skli1ui nit cross.questioning the Justice finally
1he witness meant by ''sloshin' about"
Said the witness: "Jedge, 1t was like this:
Squire Henshaw has a barbecue IN at his
place and invites all the folks in this neck
OF the woods. Everybody goes, as YOU
knows. There was a barrel of new peach
brandy a-settin' thar with the head knocked
IN, ana bucket of honey, with plenty of
TIN cups to mix and drink. The fightin'
begun be when the brandy was about half
gone. and might have been goin' on Wit if
what was left hadn't got upset in the
scrimmage. Waal, all the old grudges that
has been goin' on for years was brought
up and fit over agin. Tom Larkins and
Berry Meeks clinched and fout and bit and
kicked each other like a pair of wild cats
about a hoss trade they had trouble over
two years ago. Jerry Davis and Reub
Smith got couple of shotguns and pegged
away at each other from behind a couple
of trees bout hog that Smith lowed
Davis stole from him last fall And so on
1t went till thar must a been as many as
fifty couples paired off and a fghtin' all at
once. Well, Stalkings he didn't seem to
have any particular grudge gin ANYBODY
and didn't fight nobody particular, but he
tes' walked around with a big club in his
hand and knocked down every loose man
he come across"
The attitude of stalkings was identical
with that of Mr.. Terry" McGovern, the
lightweight champion, who is playing an
engagement In THE Bowery After Dark"
and who is the main attraction at the Acad-
emy Of Music this week. From the time he
makes his appearance as bootblack in
the first act until he finishes q real three