The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-26
CURRENT THEATRICAL TOPICS,
WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS on 4
PERSON NAMED HALL GAME.
u II ultra Wires for the Critics to Ply
Their Trade on the Productions OF This
Nanx Statesman: Fad and Folly"
Comes on TO.morrOw-Paris Notes.

Comes on TO.niorrOw-Paris Notes.
Fad and Folly at Mrs. Osborn's Play.
house has been postponed until Thanks
giving evening. No turkeys will be dis
tribu,ed. though the chestnut stuffing may
be.
Mr.. A. |. du Port Coleman was the ad-
mirabe translator Of the Heyse play,
MARY Of Magdala." now filling the Man
haitian Theatre nightly. Mr.. Coleman was
at one time associated with the late Angus
tin DAILY in work of this character.
Dear. dear! This Master Hall Game of
the House of Keys on the little Isle of Man
il getting to be quite critic of critics!
IL II because ne was once newspaper man
that he accuses his critics of envy? II he
writing of his own experience? Certainly,
there are no broken down literary hacks"
on the daily press here whose novels and
plays have failed The solitary critic who
writes PLAYS has enjoyed both popular
and artistic success. In London. among
Mr.. Canes earlier critics, was q. Bernard
Shaw. Was Mr.. Shaw ever jealous Of Mr..
Caire's success? After the publication of
plays Pleasant and Unpleasant" could
Mr.. Game have looked squarely at himself
in the glass and said: This Irishman-
whose hair is also sparse and sandy-is
jealous Of my prose style. envies my mag
nifcent sense of humor. envies my tech
] ical handling of ma,erial-materal dis
Tiled from the heart and brains al passions
Of humanity" Come. Mr.. Caine, could
you really?
When Sir Thomas Upton loses yacht
races In America he does not raise a cry
genuine lover Of sport, begins building a
better boat But the Earl Of Dunravcn
did squeal, and so offensive were his asser-
tions that thew were not only dubbed I'M
truthful. but also caidish. Now, Mr. Caine
has not lost; he is winner. THE Eternal
City" draws big houses at the Victoria: 1t
will make him a much richer man when the
season j. over SO he has not Dunraven's
excuse-he has not lost.
To abuse the critics is a classic remedy.
They are nuisance-we all know that.
but here they are. and. as Mr.. James asks.
what are YOU going 10 do about it," IL
William Archer jealous of Mr.. Gaines
literary fame. Mr. Archer, who has half
dozen standard volumes To his credit. not
TO mention his splendii labors In the cause
Of Ibsen's genius' L. Max Beerbohm
jealous of Mr. Gaines wit because, as a
brother Of Baerbohm Tree. he did not write
the scathing review Of THE Eternal City"
which appe1red In the London Saturday
Rerier' Tut, tut, Dear Hall. You arc
atrablious 4 sea vova &c will tone your
nerves and your hypercritical stomach.
As for the New York critics, they we're not
at all anxious to see your melodrama. But
you raised such po,her about its supreme
literary and dramatic merits that critic
curiosity was aroused. And now you know
what they think. There isn't man among
them that envies YOU your artistic reputa-
tlon--for very simple reason. You know
that reason well.
Every New-Rich fancies himself hated
by the world because Of his money. This
delusion in some cases borders on the pat ha-
logic: when associated with fears of a con-
spracy, of the existence Of certain persons
banded together for the purpose OF vilifica-
tion-whv, then, 1t is time for the alienist
10 step in. He will call 1t the beginnings
of pGranoi1 or perhaps only case Of
"sNclled head"
Mr.. Game is talking loudly TO attract
attention 10 himself and avert il from his
work like the particular kind Of music hat
plays loudly in certain table d. hotes so as
70 make the guests forget the quality Of
the food offered.
AT the Metropolitan Opera House last
Sunday night woman said to her escort,
Il suppose Mr.. Frohman conducts tonight
doesn't he?' Brother Daniel loves music.
but as yet he has not evinced any intent ion
Of being Walter Damrosch's rival.
That most scholarly Of press repre-
sentatives. Mr.. Frank Wistach. has in
vented and patented an apparatus that
will endeir him to the hearts OF dramatis ts
and editors. 1t is an alarm and detective
clock delicate variation Of the sort used
in brewerie-, retineries and large manu-
featuring establishments, where nj eht
watchmon must themselves ba watch ed
Mr. Wiletlch proposes that at the beginning
and end of each act in new play the
dramatic critics shall register their pres
enCc. BY that means whether play be
good or bad critic will be forced to hear
every net before he writes of it,
We should imagine that in some cases
the shorter the stay the briefer the roast
Mr., Game triumphantly asks what hat
mere critic ever done?" Not to give him
celebrated list as long as his arm we fes
imp"lled to answer in Celtic fashion, Dc
you not declare that they have done your
Out-ot-, own reports OF the new Belasco
play, The Darling Of the Gods" take tn,
breath away. Never such a play, never
such production
Henry liadley again demonstrated tho
uselossness of writing incidental music tc
play At the Madison Square Theatre
last Monday night he conducted his owl
music; the orchestra as an enlarged md al
excellent one. Everybody talked as il tn,
Vorirst trash were beng performed in Ina
periuhctory manner 80 common to theat r,
bands. Mir. Hadey'- music is an artist,
tpiiomc oil the pastoral and emotiona
atmosphere of Miss Johnsto tons heroine
As has been already stated in THE SUN
itcontains more OF Audr,ys noes than tn,
play -et 10 one kept q faithful few
stopped talking. When the prelude il
played in IA concert hail it will be heard
but never ia the theatre. Music in ou
theatres is background for conversation
only that aud nothing more.
Here il another story from the Random
"Reminiscences Of Charles II. +. Brook
field. Lady Bancroft had cut her han,
with IA bread knife and was explaining I,
group Of actors that it was lucky for he
that she was not drinker. "A slight wolu,
may lie a very serious thing to any on,
with a quantity Of alcohol ia tho system
oh, yes, observed Odcl from the hac
If tie group. that's a wcll-known fact
lnGced, often cut nv finger, lust TO 70
II I've had enough