The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-14
NEW YORK THEATRES....
BY ALoNzo NEWCOMER.
T Ew YORK, December 13.-David II.7 saA Belasco's "The Darling of the ana
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 & Darling of the Cods-Miss Marlowe's New Play SE

H.? It is laughter breeding, to be sure, and Miss Bates utters it in her best comedy manner; but it kills the tragic at mosphere, so skillfully evoked, kills 1t with a simple verbal inversion. We real ize that it is put in to relax the dramat- ic tension. the scene in which blood has been freely spllt-but why relax it at all. In America we haven't the courage of our emotions; we fear to feel; 1t shames us; hence the burlesque tags that sneaks into our plays, the cheap, cynical self-mock- ings It may be effective, but most cer- tainly 1t is not inartistic.
 Although M Mansf1elds production of Julius Caesar and Belasc's marvellous production, "The Darling of the Gods" is on every tongue, the return of Miss Julia Marlow to Broadway is an event of pos- itive interest. She will appear in a dra- matization of George w. Cables story, "The Cavalier" rearranged for dramatic purposes by George Middleton, a Colum- bia University graduate, who has only recently stepped into public view.
 Those who understand the romance which MT. Cable always manages to in- fuse into his tales of the south and the delicious flavor of simplicity and poetry the people of that locality receive at his hands, and Who also reflect that Miss Marlowe's most charming dramatic cre- ation was the southern heroine in Bar bara Fritchie," will naturally expect an entertainment of rare charm, providing l that the stage edition does no harm to l the novelist's original tale
 l the billet to take a confederate wagon | train through the union lines with the secret purpose of giving it up.
 So she undertakes to save the treasure herself, and by her womans wit, which | leads to exciting episodes, finally suc- ceeds These stirring scenes take place l at the federal headquarters, where a merry dance is going on, and the con- trast of careless enjoyment and impend- ing peril brings about some vivid drama l tic moments.
 To wind it all up. Oliver eventually dies and Charlotte is thus allowed to marry Perry and go about that period of | ecstatic bliss which audiences must al- ways feel sure of when they leave the play to seek their midnight lobster and | ale.
 The fifth week of Mary Mannering in Fitch's 'The Stubborness of Geraldine at the Garrick indicates no lessening in the public appreciation of this entirely pure comedy of bright dialogue. Ethel Barrymore in her third month at the 1 Savoy in Carrots and "A Country Mouse" also shows that she has grasp ed popularity and Is able to hold on to it with a firm grip at least until De- cember 27, when a new Fitch play called "The Girl With the Green Eyes" will exploit Clara Bloodgood ''The Ninety and Nine is having such vogue at the Academy that 1t Is sure to hail the New Year, and Weedon Grossmith, in "The Night of the Party" whom we had ex- pected to join in our Christmas cheer, has concluded to leave at the end of the week, when Aubrey Boucicault will take his place with Heidelberg
 THEATRICAL NOTES.
 Unless there is invented synonym for
 "success' the English vocabulary vii
 hardly supply word for description oi
 the reign of the jolliest old potentate oi
 comic opera encountered in many a veal
 delicious King Dido" From the moment
 one crosses tho threshold of the lobby 0. the theatre he is imbued with the spiri of the occasion. The prosperity attend ing the run of "King Dido" at Daly' , theatre, New York; the StudepaKer Chi . cago and in other cities, is easily ac counted for, it is saad, for from beginniui