The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-11
DEADLY HUMORINNEW COMEDY
~ "4MONG THOSE PRESENT" At
THE GARDEN THEATRE.
n Narrowly Shaved the Lusiicrous
Lemo,ne's Personality snow ri Under
--Nabelle Gilman In "The Mocking
BIRD" shows Wonderful Gowns.

Between gasps AZ the Garden Thest re-
last night. during the first two acts Of "A
-tatirical comedy" entitled Among Those
Present. the various accomplices If the
auth or, Glen Marlborough, spoke in STAG
cato accents smart" lines. These lines
had all The verisimiitude Of real life that
q scrapboos of pasted jests bears to a
Thackeray novel, The breath-catching of
the players communicated itself 10 small,
determined. friendly audience.
At the end Of the first act We all had
palpitation Of the heart nj the fall Of the
second curtain the sympathetic vibrations
had grown in intensity. II the last two
scts had proceeded logically and the syn
copated wit continued few among those
present would have lived to catch their
breaths. But Mr. Marlborough consider
asAly merged his humor into III" tragic
and we felt relieved, happy, and chest :
expanded
The cause Of this fu'tering distress
was simply the firing broadside al the
audience Of one epgram after another, all
labelled for general consumption, all hav-
ing nothing whatever to do with the play.
Tho unhappy 400 was the target OF this
deadly humor. Society in the aggregate
WA slaughtered and jokes H. old as-why,
even Mr. Marshall r. Wilder in the balcony
refused TO applaud several. Nothing more
cleverly inane has been seen At the Garden
Theatre since "Th. New Clown" or 4
Night az the Circus.
There's the rub An amateur circus
shade. Of Westche.tar and Nutloy. Y. j -
L. A., ~. 60, 90, ,,,,,, III,
naPlTnS III ,ne ,e''''' ''' " N''o"s '"uee
fresen' Is there some curious fa'aU'y
this failure IN Ni-IllllZa the -aWIIl.f
ring In the Garden? L. the nightly arena
,art door nm oyershadown hoodoo2 Last
49,. -, - ,h,, .r,;-.l,,,a,
H's' o''''i'i'' o"ffo' Wv ""'
there we're no changes III ,''e en''e piece
A II of society boobies describe to one
another what a "rippinp" bC,od inc they
are having and the various acts" they
are going through and and We refused
10 credit a word they said.
A wealthy soclatv--ioa,hscme abused
word'-woman tries 10 outlo another Of
her class Their port rats ill-uainted. arr
nevertheless recognizable a. are the carlca-
lures OF our dearest friends when they
run in the race for political honor Mrs
t-Tatop gives an amateur circl. whereby
driving Mild with envy Mrs Vcu torlcyrs
Aft.r the announcement that a Rus ian
mice has been cant rued A. a dinner lion
there ia little doubt a. Ia the identity of the
ladies Prominent society historians pres
ent last tight positively ehudd.r.d
Enter tragedy. very unfair fair peni-
tent he theme is thrice familiar crops
IN in the person of French Countess
Her story il known She is shown he door
urged to leave the rawdu-t Sine docs
You have BETRAYED my secret" Tn.
next we see Of her Is as the wife of stock
broker shot by a widow he is sur >ed &c
have led away from the path OF ,,uol re-
Election.
II Is impossible 10 fill in the tundra mat il
gap. The PLAYWRIGHT does 80 hy sandine
in girls who gggle epigram.-as if rea
society," ever INDUCED in slli,erative wit.
and a scene ensties evidently derived from
"a llic sources wherein the widow who
pistolled her betrayer. PUSHES in and Reg,
fer sanctua nv in the marble halls of a foolish
S,oiety matron
Does all this sound coherent? We assure
you that il is fair outline of the audience
mental confusion a. scene after scene un-
rolled and epi9rams dripped There il a
plentiful lack Of construction thr. ughou',
and Mrs: lie Moyne IN silly, Ensympa-
thetic role, what pity! She Is not an
actress Of much technical range and needs
dignified situations with dash of sweet
tnatronly sentiment sup"iadded Instead
she IL hen w,nded sh" Is hurried ben
And 80 sb. failed to carrv her hearer.
with her, To interest them in her doings
TO sin her natura sane tenperamer., into
me snalo"s OF Iussy, niNo'oGs' mlddle-
80 49, La,, ,ha nr,ira a,.a,irn w p'"S"'s
Her suppor, NAV have been or not have
been false: il certainly did not with a faw
exceptions, play al all II would be easy
70 h~ing Iht axe over lne unhappy au-
~ .oms ~ ~. e,,rany,ina,v do;rg" '' wv,
the stage. standing in The male character.
awaited the cue that would let them loose
an epigram.
"a, 80 u'. a; nv '"eu, a.
~ LAT nirs,roi uai Lnn,, -, 90
time-society pct was set walking and
talking before our eyes. He did not in
tefeet' There was IN" arls'ocrallc chnui-
III =" I'm W. HaN nIn,
man sri,ten nv The foolish, taver We,
like those society folk in Henry James
story, The Real Think" he failed 10 81
ience IN oaple cr,ticism
"Ss ~ r,inon, nomeNWrr Tno Nh-
mos, cred;,ahle sum-, ri. re., ~
silence. Without intending to do so. Mr.
Marlborough has boosted Mr.. Clyde Fitch
INFO the fnrro-ehip oi American socie'y
"uc' - 'ne iofce o' '"n''de''
sydney Rosen'eid, VINO used TO write
comic op~retta ihretos IN me DAYS "her
COMO opera meant something ahn "a'
not SIMPLY foollsh ana meaningless fitls
for q still more foolish and meaningless