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soubrette heroine, who comes to hsR fathers door to beg food for her starv- len sister from death by black-eloak- itis. Her father would soften, but | the adventures congeals him with siren gaze, so that he gives bunch Of nine shares to her and nothing put l inedible scorn to his child. Thereup- ! on, the bad one peals single bill on | the most insultingly big green roii ! that ever I saw on the Stage. Here, my girl" she cries, you us- l ed to try to sing. Amuse me and you may have that for your starving mo- ther."
 And how she did sneer.. Amuse her? She would have been harder to enter tain than the Sphinx. or a Broadway | frst-nighter. You may think that the virtuous maiden refused the sim ner's tainted money. but bear In mind | that she was a singing soubrette. all so, and mustn't let a song remain ov- erdue to. the audience So Florence Bindley sang Annie Laurie Tn way | that made the sirens two dollars seem | too low a price. and the audiences quarter and half dollars positive In suits. That was the ballad with which her mother had won her fathers heart | and now the adventures was put 10 her stumps to keep him from falling l to 1t again. But she was wise to the
  ble cross the tender memory kibosn. Those are phrases of criticism which may puzzle you, but would be Full or meaning to that audience.
 Just here the Afric-faced but Adam hearted Lucinda got into action. Do you see that hump?" she asked, puii- | ing up her skirts to show two stock ings, one of which had big lump. Oats ma honest money. an 1t am | youah's, honey, all youah's. To some of us who saw Booths hunchback jester in The Fools Re- | venge," his expression Of malice 10 ms royal employer and love to his cher ished daughter still seems the acme of contrast in a single personation. With | younger folk, very likely Mansfieids | trickv rather than great performance of pr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde stands out as the most vivid depletion of duality in discord. Something like Victor Hugos and Robert Louis Stevensoh
 creatures of Contrariety is attempted
 by stanley Dark in a new play called
 Han and His Angel" inspired py Tennyson's Day Dreams" The poet wrote:
 If there be
 A devil in a man. there is an angel too; And if he did the wrong you charge
 him with.
 His angel broke his heart"
 That is to say, as Beecher was fond of preaching, there Is an upper and lower nature fighting in every man TOT dominance; as set forth In Hugo's play and Stevenson's story; and In poor Beecher's case in real life. we Know how destructive was the conflict Stan- ley Dark illustrates this theme in | Man and His Angel with man who is a uei vIil.ou .,ipIie saiiu a s,i. ~IV A~ an angel of loveliness. The story goes that David Tryne, hideous, has been the servitor and defender since her childhood of Sonia Stephniak. beautlfui She trusts him implicitly, he loves her carnally, and when she would give her.
 self in marriage to fitting suitor. he
 plots like fiend of hell to get pos-
 session of an angel of heaven There you have the scheme of the only purpose
 full new play in New York this week;
 but it's first public performance deVe-
 loped its qualities, and l must ask you
 to wait a week to read further aoou'
 it.
 Lack of space kept me from say
 ing as to "Clothes," last week, that it
 contained several oddities. It begins
 with one of those gatherings or gos-
 sipers that have been familiar in plays
 since The School for Scandal" but
 there is new amusement in the haif
 dozen lapdogs that the women bring and are silly over. A sidelight Is
 thrown comically on the theme of van ity In dress by having the heroine l changing a guy of an old maid Into
 comeIiness by fuffing her har. turning
 in her gown at the. neck. rolling uT
 her sleeves to the elbows, decorating
 her corsagt with flowers and powder
 ing her face.
 1 The showy third act is at ball. and
 here the traduced heroine, being in-
 suited by her drunken viilifer, throws
 him down a flight of stairs in start
 ling manner. Frank Worthing is the
 tumbler, and the stunt equals that oi
 Kyrle Belew in "A Gentleman Of
 France" But the oldest and boldest
 thing Is a final act which lasts but six minutes. The story might have end ed at the ball. There Is nothing left
 but "Will you marry me7' and Yes
 The girl enters her chamber. Her
 wooer appears at the window. She is glad, but cautious, and won't let hin in.
 Remember Romeo and Juliet at the
 balcony" says he.
 , An. but Mrs Grundg hadn't been born yet" says she.
 !, So she opens the dor of her chaper- l ones bedroom. That lets q light shine on the window, across the sill of which l the betrothal Is tersely made. and the curtain is lowered while the lovers are prolonging a kiss.
 l Franklin Fyles.