The evening world., 1902-11-18
"The Eternal City," Kate Carew
Says, Is a Very Highly Pol
ished Gold Brick, but the Po-
lice Won't Interfere.
THE POPE VS.. LOCOMOTIVE.
What the Big MoguI lie to 1.-THE Nine
ty and Nine" the Pontiff Is to
Viola Aliens RazzIe.Dazzle MeIo-
drama-"Allahs!" for Author.

'NAN AN@N . " a DO oAAu lllIhlg-
gilded theatrical brick vas sold by a
s~oft-spoken little man with rudy beard
n tresses trained Shakespeareanly-
q serious little man. a solemn little
man, as mild a hammered man as ever
won the confidence of a stranger from
the farming districts.
There won't be any trouble about It,.
for. although Hall Gaines look alike to
me, hall gold-brlck operators don't look
alike to Mulberry street. Besides, there
Is no complainant. The audience that
bought Mr.. Gaines brick last night
gloried in its bargain, n so will the
audiences that will buy 1t for many
nights to come. All they demand for
their money is that the gliding be
lavish. n Mr.. Game Is the lavlshest
glider Of literary and dramatic bricks
In this generation.
A RaxKle-DREsle MelodFama.
Peel of the Hall Caine gliding and
'The Eternal City" reveals itself as a
razzle-dazzle melodrama, not half as
exciting. or touching. or amusing as
''The Ninety and Nine" which you can
see from the best seats in Fourteenth
street for a dollar.
M " ult "ItuAh6-WSh bIiS
circumstance that Mr.. Gaines hero
does not call his villain a party"
there's not a speech in THE Eternal
City" that couldn't be bettered from
the rip-roaring sentlmentalities of the
locomotive drama.
What the locomotive is to THE
Ninety and Nine what the pump was
10 Mr.. Vincent Crummles. just that is
the Pope to Mr.. Hall Game. Every
melodrama must have its sensation.
1.-THE Eternal City, has a terribly black
villain, a terribly white hero and a
terribly prosecuted heroine. but that is
not enough. 1t is necessary to be
talked about. Howl AhaI The Pope!
Brilliant thought! For Fourteenth
street, a mogul locomotive in a forest
FIRE; for uptown. the Pope in the
Vatican!
Du Barry TOpseyturveyed.
But what to do with him? Aha.
again! Make him the father Of the. har-
assed hero. There's a "situstion't and
q half! Let Fourteenth street pale with
envy!
1t is Du Barry topseyturveyed The
hunted and wounded revolutionist takes
refuge from his enemies and is put to
bed. Not by Du Barry. but by the su-
preme Pontifr. So original
Nor is that the only reminiscent incl
dent in The Eternal City" Early in
the play Miss Viola Allen performs a
smashing feat that wildly recalls NAL
danado in Iris" She is a sculptor
lady. and has mace a bust OF the fugi-
tive hero. and when the wicked Baron
xwtaa ~ rhotnUranh ~ for tho rnotaet
gallery-biif, ker-smash, and she has 1t
down and out before you could say
"Jack Robinson!"
But II you refrain from peellng the
gliding off the brick you will be greatly
uplifted by the thought that you are
witnessing a profound and world
stirring work by the Sage Of the Isle OF
Man, who is photographed with finger
to brow for every magazine and whose
receptions to American pilgrims are
~deservedly famous.
Only Cold storage Parts.
Moreover. the play is put upon the
stage with every circumstance of ex-
pensive pomp. The scenery, while not
nearly so artistic as hat used by Duse
at the same theatre, probably cost a
great deal more money. and in a crude
way gives a satisfactory glimpse of
modern Rome. And the actors are
high-salaried persons.
Miss Viola Allen heads the list in
very big black type. Miss Allen has a
very important finger in the pie, for
the heroine wa made over into a strict
ly proper young woman because this
popular actress has resolved never.
never again to play any but cold stor-
age parts. In justice to Hall Caine leN
II be recorded that 1t doesn't make the
least difference to his meiodrama
whether the prosecuted lady be spotless
pr not.
A great deal of speechifying falls to
Donna Roma's lot. and Miss Allen per-
forms 1t with the vIgor OF a saleslady
tearing calico, Last night she revived
the ancient custom of having bulky
"Gates Ajar'' and other triumphs of the
florists art handed to her over the foot
lights and smiling over them with
sweet and startled emotion.
HIOrgan's v. NJ. c. A. Personality.
Mr.. Edward Morgan threw his win
some Y. ". c.. A. personality into the
hero's part, and when 1t came to cIrsing
the sadly misunderstood heroine, he
cured FTede FIX care ga B enc iheiil WSs a hand
some villain with a high polish. aud
Henry Harmon did a clever piece OF
quiet acting as q sub-deputy-assistant
villain OF the unpublished variety.
But. best of all was e. NJ. Holland as
Pope Plus X. His appearance strongly
wax OF the present Pope. But, OF
course, that was accidental-ask Mr..
caine Il 4 wasn't. Why. the programme
ton OF the play in the future, hence no
personal reference of any kin is in
tended'-so that Hall Caine has become
q prophet as we'll as a sage.
Mr.. Game took his curtain like a little
man. with his hand on his hip, wh"rr-
upon the audience exclaimed "Allah-l IL
Allahl" or words to that effect, ard
Frustrated itself several times.
KATE CAnEW.
EsMoNp's TMPRupENcE."