The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-22
7HE PEARL ANDTHE PUMPKIN.
MEN AND IMMORTALS WOVEN
INTO COLOR SCHEME.

s,,nc,y. Lively Women. Too. in Chorus Of
New broadway spectacie-Airs Of
the Whstling Kind Help Beautiful
Scenes and Costumes TO win FAVOR
Tho crowded house which greeted the
,,.nino performance Of THE Pearl and
,hs pumpkin" at the Broadway Theater
isst evening was only the first OF sue
cession Of crowded houses that Will well
come this latest OF spectacular extrava'
oanzas II the pleasure expressed IN the
ssces the plaudits and the word Of mouth
- lost nights audience may be taken as an
ourury. The production Ia happy tumble
=, fantastic nonsense, but from first 10
lat Of the four acts and ten scenes there
"a no slow moment. Every member OF
,hs company Is thoroughly alive. There
sre rollioking dances, jingiing airs, fresh
o,,ps and burlesques many.
But It u as a spectacle that "The Pearl
and the Pumpkin is notable. ScenicallJ
snd In the costuming Of tho large company
!. ia a round OF very beautiful color har-
monies, It's story Is maze, and not
~orth threading. The mind 10 left In
hsnescent repose, while the eye and ear
continuously OoiA8hS0Ss "'~S
and bewildering fantasies.
n,ogram credits the book, the lyrics to
PPanf Vest and the music to John w. Bratton;
hut 70 the men In whose minds originated
,he color pictures OF the stage settings, and
the costumes Of the chorus groups and
whose skill worked them out, must be
sscrbed much q the merit i ios the Success e
tistio effect and the diverting yivacity,
there is enough Of the imaginative and
rrotesoue to entertain the children, who
nav be expected to swell the matinee audi
snces later on.
a pumpkin famine IN Vermont, Is drawn
beneath the sea to Bermuda, and even TO
Davy Jones's locker: brings mortals and
fairies into strange relationships, and in
PRODUCES old friends and new In It's hodge
podge OF advertisement. PeorI Prtnole,
Joe Miller and sally SimPkins. mortals.
cavort with The Ancient Harinsr, other
SeeEen Of the Flying Dutchman,. Mother
Carey and her chickens. and Midshipman
Easv. out down as immortals. The scenes
include fairy grotto In the forest, Green
Mountain State barn and cornheld, me
Dell of Thousand Eyes Davy Jones's
u treasure ship Of the brave days Of high
poope and quarter galleries; a Bermuda
iiy field and rocky islands, among which
he fantom Hollander sails bv:skly.
And such animals! The Mariner was
q talking duck, and one Of Docy Jonss's
neighbors is whale with wink that might
make Cissy Fitzgerald envious.
Edwin Stevens as the N driner, Ethel John
son as Sally Simpkins. Taylor Granville as
Joe Miller iwho undergoee a most marvel
GUS transformation into Pumpkin Head,
Gertie Carlisle as Pearl Pvingle, Sager
Midgley as Johnny Forum and Katherine
Hutchinson as Mother Carey were the lead
Ing lights bet ween the brilliant choruses.
Of the songs. Jack o. Lantern Joe" will
be whistled ell over town in a week, and 10
probably will "Ldly White" ragtime
air which Polly Premier Ida Hawey) and
q chorus sing In the Bermuda hlyfeld.
Sallvs cong, When the Moon Is In the Sky
land the deep dark shadows frighten),
and two Of the Mariner's songs. "We'll
Hang Together and "Fol-de- iddledy idol
also won great deal Of applause.
II Harry Marlborough as Ike Cdnnem,
q Gamer, had said nothing whatsoever but
0, Lilies!' whichlhe said as though coming
overwhelmingly out Of an ecstasy. be oouldn't
be forgotten by his audience. The girls
Of the chorus are not only active, but good
to look upon. and in some instances the
activity is in proportion to .plumpness-
using In degree with the avoirdupois.