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in generous impulses though occasionally
departing from strict convcnuonality in
itself is an adaptation from Sardou's "A
Scrap Of Paper II is modernzed, with
scenes and persons Of the present time,
and met the full expectations of Miss
Crossmans friends and managers.
Miss Crossman in the character of Miss
Mary (and in the comedy she has no other
nancy is a rich New Yorker who knows
the best people here and abroad. She styles
herself spinster, and fancies she mildly
scorns men, a view placed upon her csti-
mate Of the many suffers who have paid
court to her in vain She Is a guest in a
New England country home of her cousin,
Mrs. Horace Belmore, when at a neighbour
ing house arrives Herbert Danvers, an Eng
lishman, who has spent three years globa
trotting and collecting curiosities Mrs Bel
more, before her marriage, when she was
Helen Merrivale, had a mild Irritation with
Danvers, whose presence now causes her
some uneasiness in the fear of her hus-
bands jealousy Of the former admirer. AS
a solution of all possible difficulty on this
score she plans to interest Mary and Dan
vers in each other. Al the outset she finds
a woman who SCOTS at men and a man
who has persuaded himself that he is a
woman hater. Danvers expresses a perfect
willingness to go away, but not without a
souvenir of his past affair with Mrs. Bel
more. He finds a letter the girl had writ
ten to him, but had not delivered. She plots
for the recovery Of this letter and enlists
the aid OF Mary. This is an adventure to
Mary's liking, and with characteristic i'm
petuosity she takes the leadership in the
conspiracy and, womanlike, resorts to
methods that instead Of mending a trlfing
difficulty involves everybody in series OF
Again J. N. Barrie's propensity to Jest at
the expense Of popular fads and follies was
emphasized this week when Charles Froh-
man put Miss Ethel Barrymore forward in
the Criterion theater-assisted by her
brothers Lionel and Jack-in two new plays,
Alice Sit-by-the-Fi and "Pantaloon."
Both have been successfully given in the
Duke of Yorks theater in London, and the
quaint, sparkling humor Of the author,
faW
Pan" once more has met with the favor of
Gotham theatergoers
In the three-act comedy, Alice. Sit-by-
the-Fire" Miss Barrymore appeared as the
mother of a girl of 10 who suddenly has ac-
quired wrong ideas of life from seeing prob
lem plays The role gave Miss Barrymore
ell the opportunities she required for the
display CT her exceptionally charming ahili-
ties. In "Pantaloon" Lionel Barrymore
PLAYED the title role. This is a fifty-minuto
play, in which certain episodes in the pri-
vate lives of the pantomime people are
utilized for delightfully."- novel treatment. II
precedes the LONGER play In each evening
bill. "Pantaloon" was twice given before
the royal family of England recently, once
in Sandringham and the other time in
Windsor, the repetition performance being
requested on account Of the special enjoy
ment which the king and queen and their
guests experienced at the first performsanoe.
Mr.. Frohman has made handsome perform
In LAS Ye Sow" which was presented
this week at the Garden theater, and is
play of similar sort and with the same dra-
matte merits as ""Way Down East" and
THE Old Homestead" there is much prom
Use. Originally written by the Rev john
Snyder, a st. Louis clergyman, for Sol
Smith Russell, the piece has scored big sue
cesses both in Chicago and Boston. In the
last place it ran three months. This play
promises to be one of the successes of the
season here II the enthusiasm with which 1t
was rendered this week counts for any
thing. Mr.. Joseph r. Grismer is the actor
who Mr.. William A. Brady has secured to
take the principal role and who makes tell
ing it's powerful appeal to the conscience
and moral sentiment Of the average the
ater-goer, none too deeply stirred nowadays
by the average play on Broadway stages.
las Ye Sow" is drama of simple but pic
turesque incident, of heart interest a-plenty
and nlled with homely incidental comedy.
1t has been mounted we'll, both as to seem
cry and the drilling of the numerous groups
of supernumerary actors employed, and II
contains one sensational scenic effect of re-
alistic shipwreck. Prominent In the cast
are Messrs Frank Gilmore, Douglass Fair
banks Franklin Roberts, Miss Charlotte
Walker, Miss Marion Chapman and others
With 40 consecutive Broadway perform,
ances to it's credit, "rhe Prince Chap
closed it's engagement in Joe Weber,s the
alter tonight Saturday. The Prince
Chap is the most successful play OF the
current season, so far since it has rec