The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-09-21

AhCdSiS HdNC ouCCCCucu Ill ScCuI
ing Miss Gertrude Coghlan and
her troupe now playing Vanity
Fair at the Tulane Theatre New
Orleans for Monday night 23rd,
inst.
We have no hesitency in saying
that in securing Miss Coghlan
Managers Bell and hurry have Sc
cured first class attraction, very
probably the best, which will be
seen this season.
The reception of Miss Coghlan
on her initial performance in New
Orleans is best, told by the drama
tic critic of the Picayune which we
here reproduce:
Miss Gertrude Coghlan, daughter
of that most finished master of the
art of acting, the late Charles
Coghlan, made her debut before a
New Orleans audience in a stellar
role last night, when she appeared
at the Tulane Theatre, in drama
tization Of Thackeray's great novel
"Vanity Fair" talking the part of
Becky Sharp. The impression she
made was distinctly favorable. In
deed, she scored a success, of
Which may older and more widely
known actresses might well be
proud. Her delineation of the
difficult character was at once
wonderfully delicate and wonder
fully strong. She had won
an enviable place in the hearts
Of her audience before she had
been on the stage five minutes
She was accorded curtain call at
the close of every act, and once
the applause was so inslstent 1t
was at the end of the fourth act,
in which the eyes Of the husband
are opened to Becky S double deal
ing, and to Steyne's perfdy, the
curtain falling on a climax of I'M
usal strength-that the young act
resss was seriously threatened with
the necessity of making a speech.
The curtain had to be rung up
again and again to satisfy the de-
mands of the audience, which only
desisted in it's demonstrations of
approval when the conviction was
brought home to it with gertrude
that no matter how long the APP
plause continued, Miss Coghlan
had made up her mind not to make
a speech. The production, as a
whole, was most complete from
every standpoint. The dramati-
zation was well done, story being
told clearly and Interestingly in a
prologue and five acts. Becky was
shown in Miss Pinkerton's acad-
envy as the rebellious drudge; at
Queens Crawley, as the governess,
with the men Of the house at her
feet; at Brighton, as the scheming
wife of Crawley; at Brussels, i'll
the full flush of power, as the
belle of the military ball, hated by
her sisters and adored by their hus-
bands and brothers; at her Mayfair
residence, with Lord Steyne at
her feet, until the inopportune ar
rival of her husband tears the
scales from his eyes, and they
come to the parting of their ways,
and finally at Tumpernickle, utter
~ fallen, slovenly and poverty
stricken, but with the old dash and
spirit flashing out ever and anon.
No phase of the preversely brilliant
career which England's great
novelist painted with such infinite
skill was sighted by the dramatist,
and Miss Coghlan filled her every
opportunity SO complety that the
fascinating constituencies creation
Of Thackeray's pen seemed almost
to live again in her art.
ear WANTED SEVERAL PERSONS
OF Character and good Reputation in
each state Tone IN this cotntry requir-
ED to represent and advel tise old es
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