New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-15
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Miss Nillson Appears in Loves Pilgrim
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Miss Carlotta Nilsson appeared at Wallacks
Theatre yesterday afternoon for Il single perform
ance in II new four act play by Horace b Fry o.
this city and her work watched by large
audience OF fellow players, managers. piaywrights
authors and many of the familiar Broadway hgures
who are neither actors nor managers nor authors
but who have ambitions that way. once in the hrst
Get and once in the last act Miss Nilsson seized
fitting opportunity 10 create the semblance OF fc
and passion. and played with poignant and thrilling
skill For the rest Of the play she failed because
the play failed. That is the whole story.
II Is indeed hard TO understand why Mr. Fry. who
could write Little Italy" for Mrs. Fske. could so
signally fail in Loves Pilgrimage" even II the
former play but single act in length the
more as the story OF Loves Pilgrimage has
elements Of an interesting If conventional. drama
The performance yesterday was marked by careless
stage management by a painfully slow tempo. by
inadequate settings and poor cast: but even with
due allowance for these things. il Is a failure as a
play coorless in Characterization, lmping in con-
struction seldom interesting IN dialogue and with
out the mystic power-if It is mystic-of holding
the attention a power which even commendable
plays. like commendable actors often lack
In such a play Miss Nillson had little chance to
show whether she has the ability to assume char
acter and carry It through to the end with force
and conviction Moments" the actors say,
were all that she could lay hold on one OF these
moments the first act. when. after securing
the KEYS To the prison which would open her lover
WAY TO liberty she chung sobbing to his breast
CRYING that she could not let him 60. Her other
moment came In the last act, when. after toi-
lowing her lover 20 America and searching for him
in vain for five years az last she stood quite
suddenly and unexpectedly. before him. face to
face and the Joy which sometimes kills snrged
over her Miss Ethel Barrymore. who hung over
the rail- OF an upper box IN her enthusiastic fashion
n Of T4 man ny TINS B oh hese
suggested the manner OF Mrs tiske WIN wh8Ii sGs
poignant effect on her audience. as we'll But Two
moments surely do not make play. and perhaps
Il would be not overwise TO assert that they make
a player
Some eight hundred clergymen OF various de-
nominations witnessed a special performance OF
The Shepherd King" at the knckeroocker
musical comedy. is to come into the knickeroocker
on May ?
last night two OF tho most interested spectators
OF The Secret Of Polichinee." at the Garden
Theatre were Alphonse and Gabriel Chanteau' the
tvin-brother artists from Paris. Seated prom
inently IN one Of the boxes. the French twins. by
their dlstinctvely foreign appearances and extraor-
binary resemblance TO each other. shared with the
actors the attention OF the audience. AAIIthough
brothers appeared TO take great interest IN tho
play due in part 20 re ng "i 1 Pars the part Of
Juvcnel-successfully portrayed here by w. H.
tbeTefore eager TO see his American successor.
Between the acts the artists visited Mr.. Thomp-
TO sit for portrait which the Messrs Chanteau
intend presenting TO NJ. Huguenot on their return
TO Paris next summer
The particular Jean Richepin play. which Otis
Skinner Is 20 produce for the first time in this
country next month has finally been revealed. AS
some Of the shrewd ones have guessed, II IS lie
Chemiueau" The play will have for It's English
title THE Harvester" The first presentation OK
'The Harvester will be at the Davidson Theatre,
| Milwaukee. May 5. and after a brief tour or
the West Mr.. Skinner Will conclude this year q
work and sail at once with his wife and daughter
for a long summers rest the Bavarian Tyrol.
He will begin next season early in october, either
| 10 House. Chicago, at tho
| Lyric Theatre. in New-York. with Tho Har-
1 vester."