The sun., 1902-04-22

rounding up the season amDlUously. Irav-
cling companies gave East Lynne at
with Jeffreys Lewis for It's chief actress.
-Quo Vadis' was at the Metropolis.
The drama that was new at the Star
yesterday afternoon, 'The Pledge Of
Honor was not by James w. Harkins. as
advertised, excepting to the extent that
he had tinkered Il for America. Seemingly
Il had been brought from France by the
way OF England. Not a whit Of interest
do the crowds at this theatre take In au-
thorship or plagiarism. Yet they may
become engrossed In phase Of psychology,
as this same play proved. A girl saw her
brother murdered and the horror Of II so
impaired her mind that she recollected
nothing Of the tragedy or anything else.
A man loved and married her, despite her
condition, and, being a student Of mental
phenomena, sought a knowledge of her
unspoken thoughts. Rather subtle for the
Star audienoef Well, the process was
bluutly asserted, without particulars, and
II was the very obvious effect, not the OBJ
scure cause. that hit 'em hard. The bride
ohanced TO see the murderer on the spot
where he had committed the crime. The
picture OF the tragedy came into her crazed
brain and she screamed at IT in terror, but
did not know what ~ meant
.Show to me-" cried the husband, with
mesmerio hand on his own forehead and
hypnotic finger pointed at the girl, what
| 1t II you seel'
Instantly we all saw 1t in n limelit
tableau representing the assassination.
thought 10 the question how. even
though the scientist had transferred the
scene from her thought to his, he WIS
able to make II visible to US. Wasn't the
actor Thomas T.. Shea. whose powers his
admirers never doubt? Besides, there
was the spectacle, and vivid one, in un-
| deniable sight.
The hero started right of to right the
wrong, and his mission led him through
many perils to far-away Asia But this
| exciting drama of crudity and dexterity
reversed what is usual in some OF it's many
excitements The villain followed the hero
into the depths OF mine and lot OF dypa-
mite cartridges went down on the same
trip. So we all expected an explosion at
the crucial moment. Instead Of that,
| when the good fellow seemed about to be
| shot to death by the bad fellows pals,
he held aloft one Of the explosive bolts and
cried; If you fire on me, this dynamite
will blow your souls to helll' Then he
started the elevator and was lifted safely
from the midst of them.
There were souvenirs last night TO mark
tho seventy-fifth performance Of Foxy
Grandpa" at the Fourteenth Street and
the twenty-second anniversary OF Joseph
Hart's stage debut. The other plays that
held over were @San Toy" at Dalys, The
Importance of Being Earnest" at the En-
pire, Under Two Flags at the Academy oi
Music" Her Lord and Master at the
Manhattan. A Modern Magdalen' at the
Bijou. "Sky Farm" at the Garrick, .The
Toreador" at the knckerbocker The Sleep
NJ -
Dolly Warden" at the Herald Square, The
Diplomat at the Madison Square, Soldier.
of Fortune" at the Savoy and ~Du Barry
at the Criterion.
Mark Antony's oratiou over Casar' s body
as illustrated in new waxwork at the Eder
Musee occupied whole side OF one hall with
fifty figures and was the largest tableaJ
ever exhibited there
Leading Proctor actresses yesterday
were Edna Archer Crawford in The Cherry
Pickers" at the Fifth Avenue, Adelaide
Keim in -Nell Gwynne at the fifty-eighti
Street, Mabel Montgomery in A Contenteo
Woman" AT the Harlem and Sadie Martino
in Fashionable Intelligence at the Newark
There was vaudeville too, at each of thoss
houses, and an all-variety bill at the Twenty
|, | third Street.
Keith's introduced foreign novelty il
the acrobatic feats of the Meers family o
three, and Jess Dandy and Maud Hutt
were among the specialists. Hal Davi'
and Inez Macaulay played THE Unex.
pected
Pastors gave, in the way Of farce. Too
Many Darlings," as performed by Georgis
Gardner and Joseph Madden, and for {
musical speciality had the Colby family o
four experts with various instruments
Specialists who came in sets were Bartlett
and May, Duffy, Sawtele and duffy, th'
Fausts, the Macks and Seeker, Wilkes anC
Seeker.
Hurtig & Seamons leader WAS maud
and among the followers were Favor AM
Sinclair, Al Leech and the ROsebuds, an'
james Richmond Glenroy.
Lafayette's variety show including -Th
Lions Bride" passed into It's final week a
the Casino.
The Beaux and Bellies Octet four pair
Of good-looking singers and dancers, wer
foremost at the Brooklyn Orpheum. wher
the programme was long and diverse.
Hyde 4 Behman's had Edward Esmond
! and his wife in a Soldier Of Propville
: and Clay Clement in THE New Dominion
for dramatic features, the Fadette Orchestr
, Of twenty-five women for a musical novet
! and a full line Of varieties.
| The Jolly Grass Widows gamboled q
the Brooklyn Star music hall
The veuturesome visitors at the Dewe
: were the New York Stars.