The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-11
The heroine, after the death Of her lover,
describes her forlorn mood as follows:
The lonely woods

The heroine, after the death of her lover,
describes her forloTn mood as follows:
The lonely woods
Seem crowded full Of nothingness.
The hero is an apostle Of the simple life,
who eschews the nerve raching activities
Of civilization among tho Indian tepees
and has gone back, back, back to the woods.
This accomplished redskin, whose date
is 1850, has also, as it seems, read Words
worth, and knows the value Of one impulse
from q vernal wood" as against the wisdom
Of the sages'
In the vast forest / have learned
More Of humanity than man can teach.
His father is a drunken idler, but when
he is dead he has apparently become a good
Indian and the afflicted son NOUNS him
as follows, while he rakes the olods down
upon bis corpse;
o, my father! Lilo you T. the cold, cold earth.
Yourilfe's long battle done at last!
Old Londwdnda deliberates thus over the
fate Of his daughter;
But as my In olination bids you stay.
My better jud gment tells me send you hence.
When the old boy discovers his dead wife's
sin he reproaohes her with having lived
q double life and snapped the slender
thread Of honor" There is also mention Of
bright days regalia" and -the vertigo Of
jealousy But IL the verse in this grand
and lofty play is blank, the prose is banker.
1t would be hard to say which element
predominates, Elizabethan grandiloquence
or modern bathos. Some one in the foyer
remarked that IL one closed his eyes he
would imagine that the stage was all full
Of doublets and hoses. The phrase was
unintentionally apt, for the spirit of Marry
gad-zooks vies throughout with that Of
fire engine melodrama.
1t is charitable to the author to assume
that the introduction Of the band Of real
Sioux was due to Mr.. Brady-though rather
hard on the Hiawatha Of the drama. AS
always happens when chunk realism is in
troduced into a play Of any pretensions.
the effect was utterly to destroy all posi-
bility Of the impression Of actually. In
stature these noble red men were stunted
and in visage low proved and truculent.
The more successfully Mr.. Tyrone Power
and his able company created heroic and
dramatic illusion, in the few scenes where
this was possible, the more fatally Mr..
Brady's real article cast a blight on them.
AS actors they were an unholy JOY, granting
and mugging mechanically and not always
at the proper time, The prevailing ex-
preston on their features was stage fright.
mingled with an aboriginal terror lest they
miss their cues. 1t was only in the death
dance that they got into the game at all
and there they performed with a vim that
threw the acting redskins into the shade.
1t cannot be denied that Mr.. Brady and his
ingenious earnestness have added to the
gayety of the nation. 1t is to be hoped,
however, that he has not done so at the ex-
pense of the possibilities that lie latent in
his young author. AS for the critics, their
candor and good will are sufficiently evil
denced in the fact that six Of them spoke
words which could be twisted into an auguy
of success. If they had forborne to give the
impression hat the occasion was mainly
hilarious they would have failed not only
as critics but as reporters, JOHN CoRBIN.