The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-16
THEMES FROM The THEATRE.
,tTRESSES VINO W AG THEIR FEET
BEHIND THEIR EARS.

Actors Who Make . Tremendous Noise
mat Folks Laugh At-The Three New
Plays at Low.Pricc HOuses--A Point
In which Gunter Preceded Hope.
The psybill at the New Star says that
the Darville sisters are marvellous girls"
and that is the truth about them. They
are tall, slim and rather pretty. but the
streets are full Of girls with these points.
However. il you were 10 see two such SEEM
ingly ordinary girls stop suddenly on Broad
wav. sink 10 the sidewalk till their legs
extended horizontally at their sides, cross
their ankles behind their necks and wag
their feet roguishly behind their ears you
would admit that they We're marvellous.
OF course, YOU expect to see strange things
on the stage, even d. a cit-rate theatre, but
the parylles kimberly and intrcately con-
'urtive song-and-da sisters are IA bar
gain AZ either quarter of a dollar in the
afternoon or half dollar in the evening
The real reason for describing the OAR
vile girls here, however, IL to comment
on what they do not do in The Funny
Page a farce that is new this week at the
star They figure in n brief and first rate
vaudeville show prior to the farce, in which
they act minor roles, or try to. The
Funny Page" is hullabaloo, with Pat
Reilly a. a grotcsque Irishman and J. Ber-
narj Dyllyu a. a Wild cowboy making more
noiN" Tor longer t''1e thah Mould seem
We do not complain of them They make
the star multitude scream with laughter
and that i " hat they are there for What
we do say Is that those Darvie girls
bo,,ll ynt bn ,nada in.r, in IN. far,, ssC,ar
ling tr,rv.IIous in ths vaI,daviIl.
Their splits. fip-naps. high kicks and I'M
man bnwkuot, should be- dramatized into
tho ulay Think what ac, reeses they would
IecoIns if B.lasCo took hold of themp
/, ha, been unusual with the Greenwall
.,,cL corna,v :, br.,k IL, rula -, ror;y-
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"'t IL" WA i''S e'c's WIEN ny P'ouuche
ne" one hu' TINS year the hard-worklng
actors al tho American Theatre are going
in for more Of that sort Of thing. This
- tho first q threa successive we.ks 70
10 J.,.,oI o. ait, .rhs
~ "'Ti W hoSe'''es, ihe LII
M"'h"r' 10y Lawrence Marston, Is the
current experiment. Mr.. Mdrston is the
stage manager at this house, and there
too knows how ,lavs arc nat ,o,athar
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n4' IA l'''s oaHe ~ hau n'ue ina'e'a! 10
l"'h III dramatic FORM, no matter how deft
his technique. just what he lacks DR.
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81 Tifa N. Donnallv s,ooL oomn.,,,,.
'o'Po"!
nv" pay VI nc =" ''h, anu ING cluthslhess
mat mars III" physicians piece would
have been cured by Mr.. Marston's knowl-
.dya 80 If those two mon had io,,.d
Lands they PROBABLY would have written
one >!ee"SHi4I drama instead oil two that,
'.,t ", ,, roiIi =, ,rri H. "io "'' Booo
The Lurln Mother" starts in a noor
household where mother dies. leaving
her two !l'tie boys to the care of their older
1lltr. pu' mere Is stepiather VINO an
hon hv ~ NIX W ~, sJ',e nips IT,,
Nap,, tn marry The eirl 70 get w bar sbouid
come 10 her from the same relation. SO
N" plot shows the stealing of the boys.
their recovery by the sister and their Sec
ohd abdnciion All this happens in the
most chidishly absurd WAYS, common
sense being left out, and no sensational
scenes put in TO popularize it, The stuff
that The Little Mother is made of may
b" Illustrated by one episode. II is in
Madison square. The heroine is running
newsstand TO support herself and her
hrolhers. A tough girl, comic relief, sud-
'"nIy Think she would like TO sell news
papers. The heroine goes away and leaves
lhe stand unguarded. The other girl
innrnurs her ambition aloud. and man
Who happens to he passing sells the out =
m TO her. pocketing the money. 1t Is a
new get -rich-uiiick system this selling
street. u means 4 it a good many per-
sons a day would sell the Waldorf Astoria,
ana me number of tramps who would
part with the fat-iron building at a bar
gam Is appalling TO think Of.
tn. dram, elm, H. r;s,I ,,-
''''' ma, - VA "' .he n'n avenue
'''' Ne'h' M Barnes OF New YORK, Is
reminder OF the fact that The Prisoner
II Icnda" vas not the first Of the modern
pavs in which a bu>iness-like follow ~
rro;oc,cJ ,,.,a ui,,a - ,'''. ~
n. c,., ~" w 'o''ai,r adventures
WI nuii'ei American got into Corsican
F"ndetta years before Mr.. Hopes English
.lnation. Tbo narsnrr,a,oa ~, -,
company ,or,. Of hi. tbrne locsl orss,i E,
lions, that have been greatly siren q, hanec