The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-21
ON THE GOTHAM STAGE.
THE WEEKS REVIEW.

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/ Correspondence Of The Washington Herald
New York, Oct. 20.-Annie Russell to-
night closed her four weeks engagement
as Puck in a Midsummer Nights
Dream in which she opened the new
Aston theater, and goes on tour. She has
an admirable production and the princi-
pal characters are played by competent
actors, notably Bottom by John Bonny.
whose character work in Way Down
East. The Embarrassment Of Riches -
and in the automobile comedy with Kel-
sey and Shannon is well remembered
/ ind I was premature in announcing
the withdrawal Of THE Stolen story -
which has started on its road tour with
The same cast that appeared here. in
GLIDING jameson Lee Finncy-
Thomas Ross also closed tonight in
George N. Cohan's Popularity" Lillian
Russell closed in "BaTbara's Millions, 20
and Blanche Ring in Dolly Dollars"
James Forbes comedy, THE Chorus
Lady after making a hit at the Savoy
with Rose Stahl in the name part, and
being removed 20 the Garrick, where VIII
liam Gillette, in "Clarice." opened his
New York engagement Tuesday evening,
has changed its base for the third time.
and is now on view at the Hackett. on
Forty-second street.
The dramatic attractions that hold on
are THE Lion and the Mouse" at the
Lyceum. The Hypocrites" at the Hud-
son. John Drew in His House in Order
at the Empire. Blanche Bates in The
Girl Of the Golden West" at the Bclasco.
Eleanor Robson in Nurse Marjorie" at
the Liberty, Virginia Harmed in Sardou's
comedy. The Love Letter" at the
Lyric The Prince Of India" at the
Broadway. Margaret Anglin and Henry
Miller in The Great Divide at The
Princess, Nat Goodwin IN THE Genius
at the Bijou. and Grace George in
Clothes" at the Manhattan.
The Red Mill" with Montgomery and
stone. continues its triumphant career
at the Knickerbock5r, and other musical
comedy hits are Hattie Williams in The
Little Cherub" at the Criterion. THE
Tourists" at the Majestic. Lew Fields in
About Town At the Herald Square.
Richard earle in The Spring Chicken"
at Days, and My Ladys Maid at the
Casino
William Gillette came TO the Gurricll
Theater Tuesday evening and gave New
York its first glimpse of his latest play.
"Clarice-" For once the versatile and
prolific playwright-actor has missed the
mark, and the new offering did not please.
One paper calls it a drama Of drugs and
much love" and says 1t begins with a
seidlitz powder and ends with a hypoder-
mic injection. These are not the exact
words. but they viii do to describe the
impression it made
These New York critics are mercilcss in
their morose moments. and apt to use any
old thing that comes to hand to fling AT "a
play that Tevolves about an idea which
is above the comprehension Of a boarding
School miss.
There are drugs in this play and there
is love. The love story Is very pretty
though YOU admit in the next breath that
the mechanism is a little too apparent al
times But love has been pretty much
the same thing ever since our first parents
inhabited the Garden OF Eden and Mr.
Gillette probably took this practical view
Of it and let it go at that
And there are drugs, too, and that's the
disagreeable feature OF il. this grewsomc
glOrificatiOn OF the phaTmacopia In
"ClariCe" 8Ir. Gillette has seemingly
drawn on his imagination rather than on
his feelings: on his "reminiscences. per
haps. rather than given his natural i'm
pulses and emotions free rein to find
spontaneous expression for love.
In it he represents a young doctor who
IS taking the lung cure in South Carolina
He dabbles in drugs and chemicals. uses
headache powders. and tries his luck with
poison, ali over his hopeless love for
ClaTice Marland because he cannot make
her happy with the germ Of consumption
in his system, and finally is rescued from
death by the use of a stomach pump.
1t was Gillette who invented the device
which initiates the clatter Of horses hoofs
behind the scenes; il was IN Held by the
Enemy. That device is now 4 familiar
and overworked attribute of stirring horse
plays. I almost suspect that Mr.. Gillette
is letting the public into another secret.
that of the clinic, and the euterprising
stage people having exhausted the inter
est which used to be inspired bv trim
hammers, saw mills, pIledrivers, and
hydraulic pumps. he is varying the mono
tony Of these respective venerable theat-
ricals by introducing the stomach punp.
So look out FOR a whole crop of lurid
melodramas revolving about the expedi-
ency OF this important instrument as
means of restoring poisoned heroes and
heroines to the bosoms Of their dear ones.
The play has two interesting acts. the
first and last, and Gillette and Marie Doro
We're excellent in the leading roles-he in
that of a middlc-agcd physician who
arouses the young sirl 10 a genuine state
of love. for which she discards a younger
man and she in the title role.
This Marie Doro is a girl well worth
watching. She made something Of a stir
about FIVE years ago with Jerome Sykes
in a musical comedy. because she has a
pair Of eyes that insisted on being com
pared 10 those OF Anna Held she Is as
petite as the Held, and for a while that
was her whole stock in trade But In the
past few years she has asserted her right /
TO be considered seriously by more than
one legitimate claim. She has learned 10
act some las they say or the Times !
square). and she is a successful composer
Of several big song hits. One OF these is /
used by Hattie Williams. in THE Little /
Cherub, and is called The Doggie in /
the Ward