The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-21
The Theaters Of New York
Introduced Play.
a Noisy Play. Musical Farces

not been cropped and lock OF il is not
drawn down the middle Of his forehead.
He is rude in manner. careless in toilet
and in no way recognizable as a chap who
would develop into Napoleon the First.
Shaw makes him and tine lady" admire
each other before their conference is over.
In the course Of il the proverb about Gaze
sar's wife being above suspicion is applied
to Josephine and the scandal of her affair
with Barras. At the tag the lady" who
has shown herself 10 be a VentureSOme
creature. says TO the general whose earlier
exploits Cf love in war were very vicious.
81 wonder would Caesars wife" meaning
Mrs. Bonaparte. ''be above suspicion IL she
here together" As they are snugly
close together, and the DESTROYS man re-
plies TO the inviting girl. Il wonder" the
audience is prone to think the worst OF
them.
Arnold DAILY who came suddenly within
the area of stage art and literature by
producing Shaw's Candida" and now
fixes himself firmly there by a bold ana
fine performance in 1.-The Man Of Destiny"
office boy in the F'rohman estnbIish-
ment only a few years ago. Nature had
qualified him to be "A mimic. Frohman
let him try a small role and he rapidly be-
came clever actor OF eccentric characters.
But no one accredited him with the ability
or even the ambition, TO capture the Shaw
cult. 1t was told of him that, getting into
a discussion of the proper reading OF An
tony's Grafton over Caesars body. he took
down the book Of rAntony AMI Cleopatra
TO find the passage in question But plain
him in that way now. nor does his acting
betray any lack OF education. though most
OF its excellence does manifestly come OF
| an intuitive dramatic sense rather than
| slavish study. He is a genius.
1t doesn't seem to me that five minutes
in any play were ever more violent with
| noise and commotion than five that are in
THE Pit" And 1 take into account not
only all the mobs and battles in melodramas,
but also all the thunderstorms. volcanic
| eruptions. earthquakes. upheavals and other
commissions of nature in spectacles. The
scene is in the grain pit Of the Chicago
| Board of Trade at the climax Of an attempt
/ to corner the wheat market, with buyers
! and sellers for the spectators In tumut
| which sounds like an outbreak of lunaticS
| in an asylum and looks Ike an encounter
| of athletes on football field. II has been
| preceded by sounds of the impending strug-
gle. as heard in a brokers' Office near by,
i and Ii ends with the dash Of the boss bull
! into the mass of men. his cries of wild dis
| pair and his assaults Of maniac frenzy
| silencing and quieting the rest of them. He
| is the Curtis Jadwin of Frank Norriss
1 novel, of course, and the impersonator Is
| Wilton Dackaye, strong-lunged and stall
| wart. Yet when Lackaye came before the
curtain, on the opening night. he was SO
| scant of breath and disheveled in dress
| that. If we hadn't seen him in the mimic
| melee we might have mistaken him for
a crazed fellow who had come out to warn
US Of a fire disaster.
|
Mr.. Lackaye told that the play. like
the book, is meant to assert and illustrate
the evil of estrangement that commonly
arises between husbands engrossed in bus
mess affairs and wives who take no heed Of
| them. The author made Jadwin neglect his
home to operate on change and his lonely
| wife goes to the verge of elopement with
| lover III sympathy with her aesthetic
nature. The acting version of the story
| makes the bane of commercial gambling
| the more apprcciable theme. partly be-
l cause the representation OF the panic in the