The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-16


was new TO u. last week, he gave fully bali
Of the good opportunities to his assistants:
and the general verdict was that more OF
! Daniels would have made MIR. Barnet .
play better diversion. What can the poor
man dor There seems really nothing,
unless he commits high treason against
the union Of comic opera stars and engages
a company In which n member can DC
Individually entertaining for four minutes
Only one OF the subordinate actors at the
Casino Is extensively bad-a distressing
man who busters and roars so that not a
word he speaks is understandable; but none
Of them Is clever enough 10 really hold the
stage. When the farce started out on
Its tour last fall, Harry Woodruff was IN
the cast. Probably he was graceful and
animated. In his place q heavy man LOOKS
foolish when he tries TO be boyishly gay
II is aid that Miss simplicity was success
full on its tour. II has heen Mayed In cities
used to seeing predictions that are worn
and faded after New York run or costumed
cheaply, because they don't expect to reach
New York. The people who 60 to see them
have heard hat in the great metropolis
a double sextet Of smart young men and
women Is all the rage, and has not this piece
a similar gathering OF chorus pairsf In
deed, they figure in four numbers. one time
In real full dress suits and gowns cut
out In the neck The modern meaning
Of smart Is not fully compreliended In
some Of the busy little centres that Miss
Simplicity has visited. but Is taken " mean
city fellers" who wear stor re clothes. Itneeds
something right up to the times and a little
ahead to sweep things before IL al a Bread
way theatre. On Monday. when the come
dams Lad delivered some Of the favorite
joAes OF Painted Post and kankakee, they
paused for laughter. but the FOUNDERS who
made up much Of hat audience didn t re-
spond like their country cousins. but they
snicAered at the serious point where the
king suddenly conceived the idea OF dis
guising himself as q peasant 10 pursue the
beggar girl he had just seen, and she was
q princess in disguise. II seemed 80 ike
the old Casino days, and Kate TART was
standing in her familiar public square.
from where she used 10 LOOK out across
the footlights on the fathers OF the youths
who now follow "tlorodora beckoning
maidens.
Frank Daniels Ii his funny old self, still
one of the three or four men on the Ameri-
can stage n sets an audlence roaring
before he begins TO speak, and then says
something even funnier than his makeup.
La this play he Is a trolley car conductor
who has become a valet. His entrance is
made falling down a mountain. bis master
has been waiting for my man Blossoms
TO bring his luggage, which Is on an auto
mobile. An explosion is heard and a figure
plunges headlong down the hillside. Then
the little comedian runs in complaining
Of a taste of gasolene. Ever after, when
ever he hears an explosive noise. the
same taste comes to his mouth. Another
element Of fun that he carries through the
play is a disagreement with the old town
crier, with whom he has shake dice for a
blouse and breeches. Daniels wins and
is thereafter voicing his claim TO what he
calls his paJamas. Several Of the songs
have humorous ideas, although their word
ing is less amusing, One for Daniels
is about a bothersome little girl who is
always asking questions. When her father
telegraphs home that he has TO work that
night and her mother takes her to the play,
where they see him with a woman, the baby
innocent asks. why will somebody lose
her job?' whats a stenographer forS'
why are you kicking the man In frontf'
and other discoDcerting questions.