The Washington times., 1902-10-12

terial, we'll worked out. The cast in
cludes several popular actors and &C
tresses. and every one worked hard to
make the piece go.
| Henrietta Crosman is at Wallack's in
new swashbuckling drama called
| THE Sword of the King" It is "ro-
mantle" play, and, like all Of its kind.
has overmuch sword play. The popular
star has good part. which gives her
the center of the stage and the cal
ciums at all times. She acts with grace
and charm and has made strong per-
sonal success.
1.-The Two Schools now running at
the Madison Square Theater. is a stupid
farce on the old lines of marital inf
deity. There is not new idea in it
from start to finish: the erring young
husband, gay old father-i -in-law. a
clinging wife, designing adventures
and few disreputable rounders make
up the characters. They are put
through the same old situations. with
different locality. The restaurant
scene of the second act has some anus
ing complications, but the meaning of
1t all is not ''fit to print
The hit of the performance has been
made by Jessie Busley. She is the
adventures, and her impersonation is
as clever as it is nasty. Jameson Lee
Finney, as the erring husband, is ele-
phantine in his efforts to act light
comedy part. NJ A. Kennedy is the
same old salacious, driveling father
n-law which he has shown on our stage
for more than decade. The Two
Schools" does not point moral, and Is
an exhibition degrading to the actor
and the playgoer. 1t won't last.
Blanche Walsh is actively rehearsing
THE Daughter OF Hamilcar, the new
play in which she will star this season.
Mr.. STANCE, the author, is Of the opin-
ion that Maeterlinck must have stolen
his sensational Norma Wanna the
performance of which was stopped in
London, from Flaubert's "Salammbo,
on which his play is founded. He has
retained the locale Of ancient Carthage
with its. barbaric splendors. SO that
Wagenhals G kemper have a pretty
large contract to fill in the way OF
scener- and costumes. The story OF
the play is one Of torrid passion. and
the title part will call for unusually
strong emotional work on the part OF
Miss Walsh.
From now on the local newspapers
will probably be deluged with stories OF
wild animals. for two rival animal
shows are in town. corps OF press
agents. men skilled in letting loose
lions, tigers, etc, has been hired
to work UP stories that will capture
space from the various city editors. A
noted press agent is promoting publicity
with hair-raising animal yarns for the
Hagenbeck outfit at the New York Thea
ter, and three newspaper men are grind
ing out press matter and freak stories
for the Bostock show at the st. Nicho-
las Rink At this writing the. city edi
tors are on the lookout for fakes"
Louis James and Frederick Warde.
in their spectacular revival of The
Tempest" are doing a remarkable busi-
ness in the West: in fact, the theaters
in that section of the country are not
large enough to hold all who wish TO
see these fine actors in one of Shake
speare's most attractive plays. 1t is
that in thirty performance the
net receipts were $4,000 and trifle
over. Who was it that said Shake
speare spelled bankruptcy?
"At the Telephone one-act cur
is on view at the Garrick |
and although it is not so well |
presented as to scenery and accessories
as it was in Paris and London, 1t is a |
dramatic sensation. AS tense, hair |
raising story, nothing like it has been
seen here in years. Edwin Stevens, |