New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-11
THE DRAMA.
THE DRAMATIC WEEK.


The week now closing has in the local theatres
been marked by effort more than by val
liable achievement. The most notable event was
the return of Miss Blanche Bates who came to the
Academy of Music and acted 70 San in The
Daring OF the Gods. giving a personation re-
plete with womaniike charm noble passion ro-
nance beauty, and the impairment of spiritual
lalth Acting of this kind is honorable to the per-
lofer ana beneficial to the public. and 1t could not
100 heartily be commended Good performances
of Prince Kara. the lover and Zakkuri the Min
lster OF war, were given. by Eugene Ormonde and
Aloert Brunnlns. The return of Mr.. Gillette, as
sherlock Holmes should also be mentioned as an
important incident. Mr.. Gillettes spirited per-
formance of the brilliant detective has attracted
crowds to the Empire Theatre and fl has afforded
nuch pleasure. The first appearance here of the
h-hsHsh actress Miss Ellis Jeffreys,-who is playing
at the Amsterdam Theatre. as the young Queen in
The Prince Consort," attracted favorable at
tention Miss Ellis Jeffreys. as an actress belongs
IN the lineage of such players as Mrs. Hoey. Laura
heene, and Mrs. J. H. Anen,-dramatic favorites
ol the past whom old votaries of the theatre have
not forgotten. Beauty, decacy, and a fine man
Hel are attributes OF her acting and she appears in
comedy that is well diversified with sentiment
ihcIaeht serious feeling and mildly playful satire.
mss Je1reys is fortunate in her company. Mr..
W n. thompson has given a droIl performance of
=" HeIhodcal minister of state, all red tape and
routine Mr.. Henry z. Dixey has tmpersonated in
d happy vein of good-natured self-indulgence and
easygoing conformity to irksome ceremonial
Jauhty, FESTIVE, quizzical king, retired from bust
ness and devoted to pleasure; and Miss Kate Phil
ups mas impaired abundant enjoyment by her &C.
centric, humorous assumption of the character of
an elderly coquette. The play of 1.-THE Prince Con-
sort Will be transferred to the Kniekerbocker
Theatre on February 2O.-Miss Ellis Jeffreys and
her associates succeeding Mr. Forbes Robertson at
that house. Miss Amelia Bingham has exhibited at
"a4lacKs Theatre, ponderous medley of trivial
hciuent ana inconseQuent chatter. relative the
experience of a French actress-the natural
Of
man,-who brings retrbution upon her black
guard father, for his betrayal and wicked de-
sertion Of her mother The play of Mile. Marnf'
Is not interesting. and it possess any nov
city or any practical force OF meaning fine per-
iorfnance OF the unworthy father given by Mr..
Frederick De Belleville. Mr.. Ibsen's unciean and
Vacuous treatise entitled When We Dead Awake
was acted at the Knickerbocker Theatre or Tues
day afternoon and reoetitions of 1t are promised
doubtless for the edfcation Of persons with
shlngled roofs. Miss Anna Stannard has begun. at
the Madison Square Theatre,-where the excellent
IarcicaI play OF Mrs. Temples Telegram" continues
10 arruse and cheer all comers.- series of after
noon recitas of selected poems The selections might
have been made with better Judgment. There is
such thing as too much Browning. and nobody
wants to hear the tumid fustian of Oscar Wilde.
The new week will bring a few changes Mr..
FORBES robertson, at the Knickerbocker. WILL
Monday. present Hamlet. He is a good actor, and
he gives thoughtful and careful performance of
that great part. Miss Mary Mannering will ap-
pear at the Criterion Theatre. Wednesday, as
the Scottish coquette Nancy Stair Mr.. Murray
Carson comes to the Princess Theatre on Thurs
day producing a piece called THE Triher" Mr.
Francis Wilson viii close his present engagement at
the Criterion, tonight, in the msy play of Cousin
BLY,, in which ne makes merry as q clownish
pumpkin. from American town. travelling in
Europe. Mr. Frank Keenan, will vary his BILL at
the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre, but he will continue
TO disgrace the stage by showing vulgar insen-
safe, m-faTcical, semi-horribe skit on the fam
tasllc lnArElties Of ptiable lunatics. This vile
thing is an epitome of Poe's DIR. Tarr
and Professor Feather The public, on the
occasion of its first performance February
2, received IT with laughter. and the hi
lar1ty was general and sometimes boisterous
Such exhibitions far from creditable either
receive them Strange to say, this hideous mockery
has found approval to some extent in the public
press The most important of impending dramatic
events is the return of M. Mansfield. This will be
etected on Monday evening. March 90 at the New
Amsterdam Theatre Mr. MansAeld's engagement
will extend four weeks and during the first
three Of these he will act. In succession Beau
BTunlmen, Richard III Ivan the Terrible Dr.
Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde, Shyiock and Baron
ChevriaL His closing week will be devoted TO a
production Of Moliere's comedy Of The Nissan
thrope," in which he VIII impersonate Aleeste
This latter play viii indeed be a dramatic novelty,
for many years have passed since 1t was conspc-
uousy done in this country. The great Rachel pre-
sented it in this city, at the old Metropolitan
(afterward the Winter Garden on Broadway op-
poste the end Of Bend-st.). in the early autumn OF
1855 and acted CeImene. The part of Alceste should
exactly accord with peculiar attributes Mr.. Mans
artistic method W. ".