The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06

older than the part he plays. In the open
ing acts he was as he should be, very much
a boy, jealous Of restraint and anxious to
follow his friends to the front, despite his lack
Of y ears; but in the concluding act, when the
crucial test came, he rose to the occasion
admirably, and, as the temporary head of
the house, assumed dignity that was i'm
pressive Where It might easily have become
sludicrous.
The Caroline Milford Of Miss Lily Brans-
tombe was well conceived and executed.
Miss sBranscome, possibly better than the
others. handled the southern dialect, and
made Of Miss Milford delightful little girl,
strong Willed, impulsive and lovable; alto
gether a charming tease, whose popularity
With the army officers by whom she was
surrounded lis not difficult to understand.
Phosa McAllister,s an old favorite in Min
neapolis, was effective Mrs. Varney, and
H. S. Duffield, who is also we'll known here,
did good work as General Randolph. The
other parts were in competent hands.
Altogether the FfaWley company is a we'll
balanced organization, evidently under good
stage management. j. S. Lawrence.
| ashore Acres" Mt the Bijou.
ashore Acres" by many critics considered
! the best American pastoral play ever written
as it certainly has been one of the most sue
cessfu, is this weeks attraction at the Bijou
| The play is by no means new in Minneapolis
and the present company is practically the
! same organization that presented the Herne
| piece at the Metropolitan last year.
Little that is remains to be said of
( ''Shore Acres Since it's first production
| in Boston, several years ago, it has enter
! tanned hundreds Of thousands, and yet re-
T peated visits seem not to lessen its drawing
! power; a fact which, in itself, is a powerful
argument in favor of the plays merit.
| feature that caused considerable COM
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the novel ending of the second act. The
! scene is the kitchen Of Maine farmhouse.
The family retires for the night leaving
Uncle Nat to follow them. The old man sits
in his chair a moment, then slowly rises
and sets about locking up for the night He
kicks length of rug carpet against the
! door to keep out the cold, and wipes a bit
| of the window pane clean of frost to gaze
out into the storm; then he fixes the fire,
locks the doors. and, candle in hand mounts
the stairs to his room, the lights fading out
as he goes, until the curtain finally falls
! upon an empty and darkened stage. Yester-
day afternoon James T. Galloway, Uncle
Nat kept his audience in absolute quiet for
over three minutes in this scene without
! speaking a word; and at the close of the act
was rewarded with an enthusiastic curtain
| call.
Mr.. Galloway played the part at the Met
| ropolitan last year. In appearance he resem-
bles Mr.. Herne closely;@in his acting he gives
a faithful copy of the work Of his famous
! predecessor. The part of Nathaniel Berry
is peculiarly gracious. The character of the
| CID man is most lovabe one, despite his
| business and almost childish simplicity. In
| it even a mediocre actor might well win the
| sympathies of an audience. and Mr. Galloway
| is far from deserving that classification. He
| gives an Intelligent, consistent and most en-
jOyable interpretation, effective throughout
! and admirable alike in the humor Of the sec
ond act and the strenuous action of the light
house scene which follows it.
The Martin Berry of Atkins Lawrence is
also a strong Characterization, Mr.. Lawrence
realizing excellently the moody, taciturn dis
position of the man and his vindictiveness
He was at his best in the last act where
Martin, broken by misfortune and with dis
aster staring him in the face, welcomes bach
to his home the daughter whom he hal
driven from it, and takes in his arms hel
child and the child Of her husband, the maj
whom he had helped to brand thief.
Miss Marion Cullen plays Helen Berry very
will indeed bringing to the part an obviou-
| sincerity that gives it additional charm
Helens suffering under the mistreatmen
heaped upon her by her father, and her deel
regret at being compelled to- leave home
even with the man she loved, were admirabl!
brought out her work, particularly during
the opening acts, amply meriting the ap
proval accorded by the audience.
| The Ann Berry of Belle Theodore, the 10
siah Blake of William H. Burton and tn
| Joel Gates of Charles E. Fisher have al
been seen here before and are all we'll done
Allen Crolius gives an excellent portrayal o
young Nat Berry and Bert Flamsburgh Il
satisfactory as Sam Warren. 81: a.
! -"Fi,t" s-5..-<. II s Lawrence.