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The company Includes Herbert sieath,
George Adams, Charles Mason, Charles
Dowd, Maud Hosford, May Tabor, Louise
CLOSER and Caroline Lee.
THE Social whirl" is the musical con-
eoction which is being served up at the
.S theater Its PRODUCTION, made by
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the score is by Gustave Kerker. The cast
includes a number Of well known players
Coyne, Charles J. Ross, Mabie Fenton,
Ada LOWS, Frederick Bond, Maude Ray
mond and Blanche Doye, together with the
The story-and there really seems TO be
one-deals with the Social Whirl, a sort OF
Town Topics periodical which prints
reporter who receives his tips through his
sweetheart. the proprietress of a mani
concerns a man who is referred to as ~.
~ 2 and as there are three characters in
the piece who possess those Initials, some
has supplied twenty-one musical numbers,
among which are The Girl Nearly
THE Profession Of a Manicure "A Rainy
Day" Rusticate Kate" and she Only
Had Dollar in Her Purse"
Bronson Howard. the veteran of the
theater the dean of American playwrights,
has come forward as the champion Of
BENJAMIN Chaplin and Lincoln" Mr.. How
ard does not hesitate to say that there Is
not in England or America a dramatist
who could have written a play OF equal
merit upon the theme Chaplin has chosen.
have been followed with marvellous ef-
feet said Mr.. Howard, land never have
1 seen audiences respond with more en-
thusi6sm than at the close of the third act,
when Mr.. Chaplin, in the role OF President
Lincoln, reads the news of the victory of
Gettysburg. The points to be adversely
criticized are so slight as to be hardly
worth the mentioning Lincoln is not
series OF disconnected scenes, but re-
markable drama, unlike anything else yet
produced in American dramatic literature.
Mr. Chaplin has a formidable task to
perform when he made the Interpretation
OF Lincoln's character the main issue Of
his drama. In doing this he has not broken
the laws OF any technique, so far as there
are any. Instead he has in a masterful
manner made his plot help to delineate the
great central character. To make Lincoln
predominant and still to keep unbroken any
important law of drama is what Mr.. Chaplin
cannot see how technique, so called, could
be carried further without injury to the
play. A true Interpretation of Lincoln
transcends the playwrights art. And It Is
for this reason that l believe Mr. Chaplin
has performed a task which no experienced
1ramatist in the English speaking world
1T has, therefore been truly said that
he has attempted the impossible and ac-
complished it triumphantly. His impersona-
ion of Lincoln Is not a caricature, but
living study. All OF the beautiful traits
Of Lincoln's character are admirably por-
rayed. His gentleness and tenderness have
weakness, just as they were misunderstood
Turing Lincoln's lifetime. Lincoln mastered
men 1 with that same quiet sternness which
Mr.. Chaplin so faithfully exempihes. This
s well illustrated in the scene when Lin
,oln orders Secretary Stanton to indorse
ist Of officers Mr. Chapin's acting has all
N nj lnng Of Col Gr1afth
Russells. He measures up to the dignity
II Lincoln's character and one comes away
rom the play with his conception of Lin
'oln magnihed, rather than diminished"
It may be news 10 many, but 1t Is nevor-
heless true that Mr.. Chaplin has spent al
most a lifetime and small fortune in re-
earch and the collection of data and docu-
nents relating to the life and death OF
lincoln; he has also spent seven years Of
a6GT upon 1.-The the play itself rewriting It
,eriod of literary reconstruction submitted
for criticism and suggestion to almost
echnique of the drama in the United
states, finally giving to the public the
nished product that now seems destined to
vim for him high distinction as well as
ich emolument.
With one week of his metropolitan season
till In the future Richard Mansfield's
Jew Amsterdam theater engagement al
opular and critical acclaim, the extraor-
mary variety of characters acted and the l
mong the few noteworthy ones that havs
made for the recent history of the New
.ork stage. During the last week Mr.: ;
iansfeld has been appearing in ''Dr Jekyll
nd Mr.. Hyde" Alceste in Moliere's COM
dy, The Misanthrope;" Baron Chevrial in {
A Partisan Romance the Tsar Ivan in
'olstoi's Russian historical tragedy, Ivan
he Terrible;" Don Carlos" Beau Brum-
lel." and shylock. in shakespeare's THE
Ieek Mr.. Mansfield will repeat his Arthur
King Richard Ill" while tonight Mr.
iansfeld is giving one act from each of
is five most popular plays.
.
Almost half a year has. flown by since
FRS. Ftske and her Manhattan company
whose brilliant season last year showed
IS what an art theater might really be,
eft New York. The desire of other cities
7orthy group of associates has kept them
n tour In Leah Kleschna prolonged
eyond first expectations. AS the season
1skes plans for future productions were
lade It seemed unlikely that this city
layers who made it a success, Happily
n arrangement has been made for the
ppearance of Mrs Fiske at the Academy
Music for limited engagement with
ne same cast that acted at the Manhat-
an. This is Mrs. Fiske's first visit to the
sm 10 old playhouse, and the performance
he will give of that play in New York.
he has acted it nearly 500 times. and It
as been the most popular Offering of her
areer. John Mason appears as Sylvaine,
gorge Arliss as Raoul, Frederick de Belle
lille as kleschna and William B. Mack
5 Schrau, while Clause Bogel John EN-
'son, Charles Terry Henry Hudson
ames Morley, Fernando Ellison, Emily
teVens Beble Behn, Mary Madden and
Iartha Roberts also continue in the cast
"Mexicana," one OF the few genuine
oera productions OF the metropolitan sea-
might. After a short tour the play with
big cast including Christie Macdonald
outs Harrison, Edmund Stanley and Jo-
,ph Herbert will go to the Garrick
leater, Chicago. for an extended season.
Mexicana" is duplicating the success of
tantana," the music for both of which
as written by Raymond Hubbell.
Arnold DAILY, the high priest of Bernard
law In America will make an elaborate
vival OF the brilliant Irish dramatist's
eater on April 16. This will be Mr.. Days
st production in the home theater of
e Messrs. Shubert and II will be one Of
q most pretentious he has ever made.
Arms and the Man" was one of the most |
pular comedies in the repertoire OF
chard Mansfield seven years ago, but Il !
IS not seen the light Of the calcium since
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Gossip from StaGeIand.
henrietta Crosman will appear as Chris
IN in dramatization OF Pilgrims Prog
SIS next season. The play has been pre-
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