The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-01
STAGE GETS ANOTHER LIFT.
JULIUS HOPP PRESENTS TWO
PLAYS on THE PALISADES.
They Are - virginlan Romance" n
Life q Dream'-Thinks the weather.
However, 10 Too Hot for sociaiistic
Propaganda PiayB Pilots Developed.

However, 10 TOD Hot for Soeiaiistio
Propaganda PiayB-Piots Developed.
The Good, the Beautiful and the True got
another boost toward tina whittier ward yes
terday when Julius Hopp and his Theatre
Of Labor elevated the stage once again
this time up on the a lisades-by giving an
afternoon performance of "A Virginian Ro-
NANCE" and In the evening Life a Dream.
Besides, the heat was terrific.
The first performance was given al fresco
In the shade Of the old apple tree OF Schule's
Beer Garden. Fort Lee, which, according
TO the directions on the tickets, Is In New
Je~rsey.on-the- Hudson. -Life a Dream
ia a Drama Of instruction, by Calderon della
Barca, who was a popular Spanish dramatic
poet long before the days Of open plumbing.
"A Virginian Romance, q very comic opera,
In two acts, Is by H. Loren Clements, the
equally popular music teacher OF Fourteenth
street. Edith 8. Tllatson, address unknown,
il also implicated in the building OF "A
yireinian Romance the programme al
Ieees. Edith wrote the libretto.
As readers of THE Sun know, julius Hopp
is the DR.. Parkhurst Of the elevation o. the
in Fort Lee and New York all go to prove
his theory that the stage is not ntende
70 amuse. Drama for union labor, by the
union and OF the union should be, Junus
contends, the greatest agent for enabling
the Downtrod n Oppressedto ourst from
their environments.
The advance notices for yesterdays up
lifting said that tickets for both afternoon
and evening performances are only 2Soents.
This is in order to bring art within the Iea en-
and sold tick cts before the storm broke.
While waiting for somebody to call Tor q
quarters worth Of aesthetics Mr.. Hopp talked
Of union labor and his art.
For socialistic ProRagandsa a,G plays o sne
ever comma, in the winter time the ambi-
ton Of the Theatre Of Labor is to get once
perhaps, a play equally so grand as The
Jungle is a book.
The Progressive Stage Society under
has gone-the yellow tickets, little one, are
for the chowder party next week and can
not to-day be aocepted-becauee the so
ciety too heterogeneous was in It's Gle
ments. Literary members wanted n
thing and the Pretzel Varnishers' Union
something n,hH .1 9Sitf Se el : 81 81 L sSes. sn now S%I how.
ever, comma, Mr.. Hopp is writing, which
will be- put on. The hero. a Socialist. in
every act gets # good from the trust u.
He is killed in the last act but knowing
full we'll he did right. dies. -.
In the performances given yesterday az
Fort Lee the casts were made up partly OF
amateurs and partly Of persons tina at some
time in their lives had accepted money. Tor
acting but are now at liberty. The amateur
Crane, formerly of Fourteenth street but
now at Ffty-seventh street, and Madame
was the stage director Of the opera. The
drama aLife A Dream however, was pro-
duced without direction.
After the music school girls and boys
IoI pnalo ~ Hka roUnlar aQtOra thew 6aun-
tered out among the audience democrati-
tally. The audience by this time con-
sisted Of eleven long haired men, fourteen
short haired women, a minister from Pater-
son. one jersey COW 9ne BLACK nesn ORR
reporter and a youth sent out BY, a jersey
paper. Nine. Ogden-Crane waited to begin
the opera then, but Mr.. Hopp insisted uPon
preserving the opening chorus TILL his
friend Max Barthmul!er o. the TOOK
Bottlers' Union and Mrs. Barthmuher had
The scene OF act first Of "A 'virginian
Romance" was Col. Haverly's plantation,
Vrginia-Love Meath the B~lossoming Tree.
Col. Haverly, it seems, always has three
aides of his plantation enclosed with red
iableclothe suspended from wires eight, fest
from the ground. Whenever the Colonel
or his people have an ything to say about
romance they come through a flap IN the
rad tablecloths and sing 1t to the labor
Inside the tablecloths and to the right
OF the audience was the orchestra, con-
siaing OF a piano, a piano stool and James
C. Bradford. musical director, HACK Leg
horn busted his feathers while sitting on
the stage setting at left stage, Plymouth
Rock scratched the sod at right stage. and as
the orchestra took his place and began
the overture the Jersey COW wandered into
the ofing.
Dorothea Kent, a cousin from the North
- N1ol~o, ,otaral fhrpnph the fan
accompanied by three Virginia gyals and
sane Of sThe Shades OF the Blossoming
Trees" for some time. or until the audience
grasped the idea hat the opera had cut
loose, Then the lines began. A..
Dorothea-Have you hold, gyals, that
Mistah Jack winthrop, a college ohum OF
Plymouth Observation-Disclosures
Leghorn-Same to you, old man!
Frances. Kent-You don't say SO. dyals,
lint that fine! The news makes me woman
whethahEAhn evan find ma Henry Brown.
Orchestra-Plink -plunk. P~link-plunk.)
Frances
Oh, Alive soiched aroun'
Fob Henry Brown
In every place in dis we're town. DC.
Tn ere follow many other songs, artlessly
led up to, and as Jack Winthrop enters
through the flap and finds Miss Lou Haverly
alone on the stage and the plot !ciuts. Col.
Uaverly, however, objects seriously to a
Eawtheneh making love to q Southan
gyal. All Nawthenehs are black devils, the
Colonel thinks, except the Union soldier
that saved his life during the ,wah; AZ
this point something tells the thoughtful
that the brave Union soldier will prove to
be Jack Winthrop's father. Correct:
After several minutes Miss Lou is also
In the throes Of song. She opines that she
must love him from afar. (Plink-plunk.)
wha' ca Aid 90 ba tlove i'm fra afa-a-a
Wha' ca Aid 90 ba twait tan ope? dc.
After some more singing every one walks
off the stage and the orchestra goes oward
the bar for a short dark, and the rumor
gets around the audience that everybody
lived happily ever after and hat the opera
70 over.
The evening production of Life a Dream
was also to have been given right out on the
United States, although the scenes are !aid
in Spain. When the actors got into their
costumes, however, lightning began to
try to hit the park with such logged earnest.
ness that Julius Hopp thought 1t would
he just as we'll to give the production inside
Schule's Hotel, just of the lar.
Life a Dream was selected by the
Theatre OF Labor because it Is o dramatic
object lesson Of the socialistic dogma that
things as they are amt. The hero, Primes
c.I e., o.,t, i;-k - hoerf IN fhe