The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-11
NJ zANaWILL Ia sucoEEDs.
Pleasing HumoF and MIld PathoS Abound IN
Jimmy the Carrier"


A large audience showed warm approval
Of actress and play At the Criterion Theatre
last night Whea Annie Russell appeared In
Jimmy the Carrier Israel zangWills
four act comedy Of rural England.
The scene II laid In the Essex village Of
West End jimmy Guards (AilSs Russsll)
lives there alone with her grandfather,
Golfer ouavlsS (FIleT MelllShl. For a osn-
tury the family has had the monopoly Of
the fetching and carrying business between
West End and Long Yeoford, and when the
play opens, Sjust before the bicycle period
Of the Victorian era jimmy IL running the
line nlono. She makes her appearance
driving a white horse 10 q conveyance
resembling q prairie schooner cut In two.
Outside the frog farm occupied by Caleb
and Adrhd Flint (John W. Jennings and
Kate Meek she meets wa Flint Oswald
Yorse), their Maynard son returned un-
expectedly from Canada. There ensues
between them badinAgs, in which Miss
Russell appears blitbe and sparkling. At
tho Close wiz Flint not from any malicious
purpose, declares his intention Of invest
ing his savings 10 . coach line TO trav erse
JiHnVs route
The second act shows the interior Of
the Qusrles cottage, with jimmy and her
aged grandfather. The rival coach line
has begun operation and jimmy sees her
customers departing, She endeavors 10
conceal the rival business from the old
man, but the kind neighboTs naturally
impart tho intelligence. VIII arrives, oon-
fesses that be had not anticipated an I'M
for tunAts result 10 JiRHyS business and
asks hor 10 retire while he talks business
With her father,
wa proposes a partnership, which the old
man gladly accepts, but when JiRHy is In
formed Of 1t she miSconstrues the nature
Of the partnership as matrimonial. Her
wounded pride on discovering that II Is
purely business proposition brings about
a quarrel, at the end Of which the grand
father VOWS that VIII shall never again
cross the threshold unless he comes on his
hands and knees, Wa insists be will never
return until the old man carries him over
the threshold In trunk
The next act shows a Hood in the valley.
In the course OF IL WIZ has lost his horses
and broken his arm. JiHHTs line has
kept running, and she comes In a boat 70
the attic OF the house 10 which the family
have been driven by the freehet. Net
knowing Wife misfortune, she banters
him, but IN the end he proposes marriage
After q clever love scene the engagement
Is as good as made Then viii remembers
bis oath 10 her grandfather. and as jimmy
will not forsake the old man they are again
as far apart a. ever.
In the last act wal ls starting for Canada,
carrying his trunk with the assistance OF
his father. The father colapses near
JinHV'S cottage and goes there with
his troubles. jimmy arranges q subter-
fuRe by which wa Is TO trade his big trunk
for a smaller one Of her own, brings him
to the threshold add. the grandfather re-
turning, persuades him to get into the trunk |
to avoid a scene, She then has her grand |
father drag the trunk across the the thresh-
hold Thus both oaths are fulfilled.
Pleasing humor and mild pathos abound
in the play. In II are these interesting rural
all ably portrayed Joshua Mao |
hood the rat catcher George W. WILSON,; |
Rkjdh SkiRdle veterinary surgeon Grant |
Stewart); Uncle BuRdoek, the postmAn
Charles 8. Abbe) Miss Wdgstdfe, the vile !
lage dress maker Sarah McVicker).