The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-20
Metropolitan-Jan corcoran Ia "Pretty
Peqqy.n


Peggy"
The audience at the metropolitan last
night without it's consent and entirely
without remuneration was compelled to
impersonate the role of an audience at
the Drury Lane theater in David Garrick s
time. Attic rather stunned by being thus
pressed into the service the audience gave
little evidence Of stage fright. AS it was
not familiar with its lines, certain mem
bers Of the company rushing down the
a1sles made a great outcry and took care
of the speaking parts in the audience.
David Garrick and one Of his flames sat
In one box and the Prince Of Wales In the
opposite one. On the stage John 3R1ch's
company, with Peg Warrington as Rosa
lind was playing AS You Like IT,
This piece Of theatric audacity was the
only novel feature of Pretty Peggy" the
latest one Of the endless series Of plays
dealing with David Garrck and the witty,
If not pretty Peg. Inasmuch as it quite
destroyed all dramatic illusion and sur
prised without in the least impressing the
audience, it utterly failed to redeem q
tiresome and incoherent play. Frances
Aymar Mathews, the author, has endeav-
ored to reproduce with historic correct
ness four different moments in the mete-
ORIG career Of the Wondrous Warrington,
ending with her collapse while speaking
! the epilog of LAS You Like IT, Her love
affair with Garrick is the thread upon
which this is strung, but too close adher-
| ence to history robs the effort of dramatic
interest, and the climax is spoiled by the
! uncertainty in the minds Of those unin-
formed Of her history as to whether she
dies or lives and marries Garrick. t
It is conceivable that Jane :Corcoran
under happier auspices might achieve sue
cess She is a winsome little body re-
Winding one of the wan Maude Adams in
face and method. She has a charming
Irish brogue and a pretty wit. But she
is not equal to the expression of great
emotion, as was demonstrated in he1
painful denunciation of Garrick after the
exposure of his doubleness.+ And she is
weighed down by a role in which it. seems
impossible to enlist sympathy or sustained
| interest. "a a.%s., -. -. &c.
| The company, aside from Andrew Rob.
son, who gives an acceptable imperson.
ton of Garrick, is crude and unfashioned
Most Of it's members have habit oil
shouting their lines as from a mountain
top. Arthur w. Bentley as Sir Charles
Hamburg, was, perhaps, the most stem.
torian Of the crew. Jennie Dunbar played
the French woman who led the inconstan1
David such a merry, dance. She had &
! wonderful French accent which she usec
whenever she happened to think Of it
On the other hand katherine Fisher wtc
played Peggy's sister, was almost with.
out any traces of the brogue Peggy anG
her mother displayed. The last -namet
role was played by Ada Boshell, who il
vain strove to extract some coined,
| from it. ri %.-:&5+S ~ @73 ~. -
The whole production is an example o
m1sdirected energy. The management
! seems to have made an honest effort t,
put 1T on in good style, with a large com
pany. accurate and effective costumin,
and proper scenery. But the play is :
hopeless foundation for the superstruc
ture. @ W b. Chamberlain.