Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04

was no ballet So Mr.. Darcy sorrowfully
took train back to Chicago, and here he
ran across AL Hayman Hayman didHt
want to produce anything, but he said that
Jacob Lift had a good stock company up
in st. Paul and he looking for plays.
Forthwith the doughty Darcy took pas
sage for the goal and he read his manu-
script to Mr.. Lit. The stock season was
nearly over. but Mr.. Lift saw the POSSIBLE
tiles of the play and it was put in rehearsal
It's first production occurred on the stage
of the Grand Opera House, st. Paul on the
night of August 4; 1892 with this dlstln-
guished cast: Frank Layson, w. Ii. Ell
wood; Col. Sandusky Doolittle, Louis
James; Horace Holton, Frederick Book;
Edeson Madge Briefly, Marion Gilmore;
Barbara Holton. Julia Arthur; Miss
Alathen Layson, Mrs. Selden Irwin.
Even after its first success in st. Paul
the melodrama lay dormant for a season,
Mr.. Lift finally deciding to give it pro-
duction in September. 1895, the company.
including G. Wolfe, Burt G. Clark, George
w. Deyo. Charles X. French, William Nc
Vey, Bettina Gerard, Edith Adhesion and
Lottie Winnett. 1t was this company
which carried the play through its long
runs in New York and Boston.
A STAGE sTORY.-Mr. ]. Forbes Rob-
ertson, the distinguished English actor who
will be seen at the Columbia next week,
told Hamlet" story at dinner that was
not very long ago.
IT was playing Hamlet in Birmingham
Mr. Robertson said. My support was
good but one of the company, gentleman
who took the part of Guildenstern, had been
drinking too heavily for a week. and, on the
night that l am speaking of, his nervous
ness and queerness amounted to almost an
alteration of the intellect
Il hated to go with him. but in the
beginning of the tragedy, confess, he did
well enough. Then came the pipe scene
1 extended the pipe to Guildenstern, and
said:
VIII you play upon this pipe?
He answered very properly. My lord,
cannot
Il said, I pray YOU
"And then, to. my horror. Guildenstern
| took the pipe from my hand and said
Well my boy, since you insist, l will, but ]
warn you l a poor hand at 1t. And
then he ratified off the chorus of God Save
the King before we could get him off the
stage"
CAPTAIN REDWOOD IN DISGUISE
Seldom is the same purely fctional char
acter used in two different plays by diff
ferent authors. Yet the role of Captain
Bedford acted by E. M. Holland in support
of Kyrle Bellew in that whimsical drama
"Raff1es, the Amateur Cracksman,' which
will be at the National Theater next week
is practically reproduction of the famous
| Captain Redwood. the detective, in 'Jim
! the Penman." Only the pronounced objec-
I lions expressed by the executors of the
| estate of Sir Charles Young. author of the
| popular old melodrama, who insisted that
| 1t would be an infringement n their copy
| right, prevented the sleuth from being
| called Captain Redwood in ''Raff1es." Mr.
| Holland created the part of Redwood in
| this country. and those who saw him In
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| ance of "Raffies'' uniformed, might think
for a moment that they We're witnessing
| another Jim the Penman They would
| see practically the same makeup hear the
| same drawl and see the same mannerisms
! that made Captain Redwood so famous
| during his stage life.