The evening world., 1903-03-24
Also a Circus, and incidentally
a New Play In Which Grace
1 George Appeared as Peg Wof-
! fington, Actress.
QUITE A LIVELY AFFAIR.
Mrs. Aymar Mathews's Drama Was
Well Received by an Audience
I That Took q Great Interest In
Evening Entertainment.


grand exhibitions under one roof! All
for a single price OF admission! This
way for your tickets! Step UP, roll up,
tumble up. any way to get your money
UP! The big show Is now going on In
side! The opportunity OF season,
ladies and gentlemen! Nothing ever
like 1t! Remember. good people, three
magnificent. unprecedented exhibitions
all for the one price A single ticket
admits you to ala circus, a play and
o TiotI'
This, literally, is not what William A.
Brady proclaimed as he stood at the
! entrance to the Herald Square Theatre
last night, bgt It is what was probably
In his managerial heart.
Production Caused Sensation.
For all of these diverting features are
embraced in Pretty Peggy" the play
written by Frances Aymar Mathews for
Grace George wife Of Mr.. Brady.
There have been better Wellington
plays that this rather rumbling
"Pretty Peggy" but none that has
melted an audience to riot, and
none that has given US the daring
trapeze performer. the lady with the
the intrepid bareback rider and the
king Of the flying rings.
The riot" act dawned on the
wedding day of Peggy and Davy
Garrick. But Eva Sorrel. French
dancer who Davy had continued
to cultivate as an understudy sweet
heart. came around to the house
and told Peggy that Davy was a SYM
dicate lover. This upset Peggy. With
high words and similar sign, she
showed Davy the door. Then. when he
had gone. she fell on her trousseau
trunk and took on dreadfully.
When the sympathetic audience next
haw her behind the scenes" at Covent
Garden there were dark circles be-
meath her eyes.
The Sorrell lady fixed up a scheme
with Paul Cavendish. fortune-teller
Tor revenue only. to start demonstra-
ton in the audience against Peggy when
she appeared in "As You Like It."
! The theatre-the Herald Square this
hme-was darkened to permit the mimic
spectators to scatter themselves about
the auditorium. When the lights went
np they were everywhere. David Garrick
and his underrtudy sweetheart were In
one of the stage boxes. The first box
on the opposite side of the house was
Allied with danes and bellies in ancient
dress.
Bewigged and bepowdered beaux
khronged the lower moor and the balcony.
The Riot in the Theatre.
A player came before the curtain to
announce that Peggy wasn't feeling well
and to ask the indulgence Of the audi
enSs. He ADDED. ,1o%, however, that tsa ,,s she
Meanwhile. he begged the audience to
content itself with an exhibition by
French dancers
circus s folH Ra'es in another Il H sulse"Was the
signal for revolt.
Bedlam broke loose. Lusty gallants,
led by the. scurvy Cavendish. swarmed
Peggy and the whole show.
The balcony beaux added their shouts
to the tumult Peggy rushed out or the
the disorder. She demanded to know
who had Inspired the outbreak.
.'Cavendish!" shouted the mob.
thai ba bausars foFf1ns aGy teller
woman's sEirf!'' ef!' cried erie z Pegsy nsye 0e"'nd
She then called upon the mob to take
In the Thames.
The terrified wretch was grabbed and
hustled toward Herald Square.
Peggy told naughty Eva, still in the
box with Garrick. that she was no lady.
Eva hung her head in shame.
Peggy then faltered along with the
epilogue. Garrck left his box, and
reaching the stage just as Peggy was
stricken, bent down and took nor low
ingly in hts arms.
Might De Good for PIaywrishts.
The riot" idea is a good one II Il
were practically followed In New York
theatres some OF our too ambitious play
wrights might bo benefited by the
lesson.
And 1t would be such a relief to the
feelings Of an audience