Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-28

ton Of Charles Majors romance. When
knighthood Was In Flower a play In
five acts. The cast.
King Henry VIII ............C +. Gibney
Francis D'Angouleme zee. Richard Sherman
Sir. Thomas Molsey .........C Conrad Cantzen
Duke of Buckingham. Fred J. Grant
Duke of D~eLcngueville Willis Browne
charles Brandon. ....... Waiter r. Seymour
Sir Edwin Caskoden... Frank l.. Sylvester
Master Cavend!sh. .......... William Charles
Sir Adam Judson ......... Richard Sherman
captain Bradhurst. -. Karl Hoffman
Host of Bow and string Tavern. ..
Lord Chamberlain -. Howard Trevette
King Guard ............Thomas l.. Davis
First AdVenturer..-.--..-..C C. l Conrad
Servant ..............T b. Mccormick, Jr.
Mary Tudor Oirst princess Of the realm(
Eme Eiisler
Lady Jane Bollingbroke, maid of honor
to Mary Tudor ...........I Irene Timmons
Mistress Anne BOleyn. maid of honor TO
Mistress lane Seymour, maid Of honor
TO Mary Tudor '.....:..;An Athy
FIRST Lady In Attendance. Julia Stoddard
Second Lady In Attendance. Sadie Travers
Mary Tudor was accorded a reception at
the Boyd theater last night that must have
set even her royal blood moving faster.
The theater has held larger audiences and
audiences more demonstrative, bit It never
held an audience that was better enter
tanned or better satisfied. Eme Ellsler
zane as a most agreeable surprise to those
who attended, and really would have little
difficulty in convincing many of the truth
OF a rumor that gained some currency
among the uniformed to the effect that
the heroine OF the charming book-play is
the daughter OF the woman some Of us
knew and admired in the latter '7Os. She
simply lays aside with her sweet garments
the years that have passed since first she
charmed the American public and comes
on the stage a fuII-blooded, quick witted,
aglle-limbed girl. with a mind OF her own
and a temper that. prior to its passage
through the fire of love, seemed the
quintessence Of all the imperiousness of
all the Tudor tribe, and q little Of the
Plantagenet thrown in for a make-weight
Her voice is the same sweet organ OF the
olden time and under the most perfect con-
troll, so that 1t caresses, charms, pleases,
commands, RACES. storms or ~frightens with
equal facility. Miss Ellsler was trained in
a school that gave Its students the faculty
of reading we'll, a qualification all too rare
In these days, when stars are made while
you wait, and she had another advantage,
that of training to do many parts, and any
part, instead Of having parts written for
her. So, while Miss Ellsler fell a little
short of greatness, she was made what is
in some essential regards even more to be
desired, a finished actress. Her experience
and perception give her a grasp Of details
that might escape a less thoughtful or
we'll equipped person, and she has the fac
ulty Of giving force and weight to each
word, so that each gets its full value and
correct expression. And that this adds
to the delicious humor Of the part she has
must be admitted. -.
Miss Ellsler gets splendid support from
Mr.. Seymour and Miss Timmons. Mr.. Glib
ney makes a good Henry VIII, and Mr..
Cantzen is at home in the robes Of the
bishop chancellor, Wolsey. Mr.. Sylvester
might invest the role of Caskoden with a
little more life and spirit and do no in
Justice to the p~utative author OF the
memoirs on which the play is based. Gen
orally, the company Is excellent, and the
stage settings are most Appropriate and
artistic. 2 i
To Paul Kester must be given some
praise for the excellent taste and discrim-
mating ability he exhibited in preparing
the Majors book for the stage. Out of not
the most promising material he has
brought a play Of decided merit. He has
preserved all the good things Of the story,
omitted no salient point, AID has in many
instances improved on the original. Espe-
cially is this true in the comedy passages
with which the several acts abound. with
out taking any liberties with the flow OF
events as laid down in the book, he has
brought to the surface the bright flashes
OF wit and the splashes Of sometimes broad
and always delicious humor that seemed In
the book hopelGssly lost in a morass of
words. His situations are logical and his
pictures most effective and artistic.
when ~Knighthood Was in Flower" will
be repeated at a matinee and evening per-
Torrance today.
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