The sun., 1902-11-06
THEMES AT The THEATRES.
HEREDITI ~ DRAMATIC ART
one INSTANCE or 1T.
Success Of Mrs. Hone. In Her First Night
on the StaEe-Duse's queer" Eyes
Varieties Of German \ccent-Wicke<i.
ness That I.ures-A Popular classic.

Talk about acting a. fine art George
Moore is right after ALI There is Mrs.
Hone, who never smelt the sawdust In her
life. yet she calmly walks on in first night
production and makes hit, palpabie
hit and in New York;"
Ii was the Veteran Actor who spoke dur
ing an entr'acte AT the Garrick last Mon
day night He is the Man Of a Thousand
Disguises his nearest and dearest do not
recognize him when he assumes a new roe.
So he knows whereof he speaks.
1t was George Moore in his essay Mum
mer Worship" who first secuted the notion
"a popular one be il confessed act
ing is Fine Art; that il requires no par
ticular intellectual aptitude; above all that
II needs little preliminary training, Mr..
Moore also pooh poohed the idea Of tech
nlque Of acting, in the sense We speak of a
painters technical mastery, pianist +
command of the keyboard.
And TO top this argument comes the
remark OF the actor. a man OF all others
the best qualified 10 speak on the theme.
He has worked as no man in the profession
and with the charming result that the pub
lic-out side of the connoisseurs-a his
name each time he appears in "A new part
There IL the art Of concealing art with
vengeance.
Doesn't her.d,ty count; lbsen says it does
and some think otherwise. Yet tie lady
PLAYED her zoe in Tie Stuhboruness of
Geraldine" with address. With feeling for
tie "yalues" of tie character and with an
apprecah.c absence of ncrN business. How
did sHe do il?
We know that Mr.. Fitch Is an excellent
stage manager and an indeiatigahle
IL. a LII
ot that there can he no doubt. However.
those who know her in pri ate life easily
rec oGni7"d al rcr Characteristic little gest-
ureS, her " lilng repose and the CLEAN
Of humur in her everyslrterance. Did she
play ler-el:t hid Mr. Fitch study her care
fully before fitting her with a part. a.
Mrs. Osborn does theatrical customer?
Tome, 1t II pretty proposition this. l.
acting Fine Art Go ask Duse,
Tell it not in Ga,h-or Staten Island-that
Duse has queer" eyes Bv queer" l.
Ito opticians would professionally say
rat her vision docs not focus. Fra D'G-
rdU! Can this be the Cau-e of that Neils d,
enlgmatlc poetic glance sOm' Of rs rave
about TenOrs, We ar" told, are "A disease
at least that is what the lat" Hans Won
Pillow declared. Pearls ar" poisonous cX-
cretions in the oyster shell and "a glance
that skaters IN" nerves Of three nations
OF theai regper~ may be- the result of n cur
able DETECTION OF the sight. Fnhl Lot
Ms hope Fleanora of the crlCificd vision
may never consult an OCulis'.
Bv the way there il an assorted collection
Of German pronuncia'i ns at the Garrick
Miss Mannaring will persist in saving
"Frawlein" to her German govnrnoSs
a lady whose accent il excellent Arthur
Byron's German and Hungarian accents
are carefully worked out: but the general
tendency il toward "Frawleir." "Frylein.
with the II tres- on the FRY, would br better
than the crawling, mawling "Fraw.ein"
To show what can b. done in three day.
Manager Frank Mckee and p avwrgh'
Fitch pulled at the new Garr.ck comedy
until like candy Of the malleHb.c sort il
assumed three distinct shapes. Up in New
Haven this kneading process took place
New York enlOved lha result In an oarliri
version Count Rinsey does not angrily IN
t"rrupt his Diet tractors after the ball bur
waits until they leave @ rdiiine and iher
steals toward her with car-lke Maya
tread. This ending il more sentimental.
hut il would not have succeeded with al
audience a. did the final disposition Of
the scene
Not all IN" audience at the GarriCk dur
ing the prem =. knew that Mr. Fitch coul
n
His crutch"s weN awaiting him in IN.
wings.
The American can hardly hold the thronR,
of sensation-loving persons, anxious To-
hear and see A Mans Enemy" which
IL played in that capaCiOu- theatre twice.
every twenty-four hours this week When
Isaac Barnet. a Whitechapel creation" of
Thomas Reynolds appears every one
roars. II" is quantity attired No Hebrew
in Pettcoat Lane of yore ever sported
such startling plaids, ever wore what the
fancy" once called "Newgatc Knockers"
these latter being delightful dab- Of hair
growing well into the eyes and plastered
neatly tn the cheek bones. His taste In
jewelry is not chaste. No wonder Poliu
Hdrrls, in the person Of Laura Almosniuo,
falls IN love with him.
The scene occurs in the gorgeous gamh-
ling establishment OF Sdrdh-a dangerous
adventures whose sentiment j. glacial.
whose selfish ambitions are colossal She Il
Jessaline Rogers in real lie, and Yesterday
Miss Rogers sent ChilS down the spinrs
of the girls in the audience by the h,l.i-h
way in which she smoked a cigarette 1,
was very Cafe Maxim-ish. She lures a
titled thirsty young man To marriage, she
discards an old lover, forcing him to viii Tho
roulette ball and pass a her brother
never mention D'Anuun2io's wicked sub
tlety after that-and she finally falls victim
to her own -. But IL would be- unurof,s-
sional 10 reveal the past Of this terrible dame
A comic Frenchman paul ScotD restores
the humor of an audience plunged into
lachrymose gloom by the doings of thu
unprincipled principals.
Shakespeare for the masses" would
he an appropriate motto for the revival
of As You Like II" al Proctor's Fifth
Avenue. And surprisingly good in every
respect II Is. Twice a day remember this
immortal work il produced and with most
scrupulOus observance at each perform
ancc, Minnie Seligman's RDsdhnd is pict-
uresqle and she Is much favored by her
audiences Paul McAllistcr is also adj
mired and Thomas Ebert never fails TO yet
hand for his tenor songs. In the cast
are such we'll known names as Werner
Clarges, Gus Weinberg, Rose Stuart and
Thomas Coleman, The production is meri-
torious, music and all
There is rumor that Julia Marlowe
newly recovered from her recent ndisposi-
ton, is actively rehearsing her company
in The Cavalier" for immediate production
This afternoon the nineteenth season of
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts
and Empire Theatre Dramatic School
begins al the Empire Theatre. Three pays