The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-06
ADLER AS TIE STRANGER
HEBREW ACTOR HERE
Presentation of the Jewish Dramatization of Enoch
 Arden at Hyperion.

Last night marked the eighth or ninth time the New York Yiddish play CTS have booked themselves at the Fly perion this season, their attraction this time being Jacob Gordin's four-act drama, The Stranger" With Jacob P. Adler in the title role, the engage lment should have been a dramatic event of interest to the whole theater- going public in New Haven, but owing to Mir. Adler's unfortunate inability, or, perhaps, unwillingness, to play in any Language but his own, the attendance of those who could understand only English was very small. The usual Large and appreciative Jewish audience Twas, however, present and welcomed the latest play of their favorite dra- Imatist with even more favor than that (which his preceding ones have re- lceived.
 In "The Stranger" MT. Gordin has lattempted to write an Enoch Arden of the Jews, the plot of the piece being | little more than dramatization of lTennyson's poem, adapted to fit anoth- CT people and other countries. The first act is laid In Russia, where, after the two-years absence of her husband, 1 Naptule Herz Levin, Blume is induced l by her parents, Kalme Moshe and Isipe Hannah, to marry Phineas Stara- dov Blume's desire to provide for her children, Benny and Lilly, have quite as much influence in determining her to remarry as do the persuasions of the old people.
 Subsequently the whole family re- moves to America where Phineas sets up as lawyer, and is practicing with lmuch success, when, twenty years aft- CT his disappearance, Naftule Herz lo- cates them, and turns up to claim his wife and children. His announcement of his identity, the passionate insist ence upon his rights, the agonies through which he passes in deciding upon what he should do, and, finally, This great renunciation, ars the theme of the last three acts.
 MT Adler plays, of course, the part of Naftule Herz." "The eminent trage- ldian." he is announced on the pro- gramme. and unlike very many an- Inouncements which appear on the Fly Iperion programme this is not print Iers error, or a press agents introduce tory fanfaronnade. MT. Adler is more than eminent in his own line; he Is pre- leninent His word in the Gordon play Hast night was demonstration of what the man is capable of. He did not ap-
 pear until the second act--in other words, the appeal which the principal character is to make upon the sympa- lthies of the audience was delayed till Ithe play was one-fourth overland even Iwhen he did appeal he spoke hardly fif- lty lines during the course of the whole
 scene. Yet such was the mere physical leffect of the mans presence that from the moment he opened the door of Star ladov's commonplace New York fiat and looked upon the family within, that
 was his family and yet another mans, lthe audience strained forward in a terse stiffness as if his action were pre- lmonitory of an outburst from Lear
 Yet the lines he had to speak were in different enough, as the audience well lkrow from many a previous experience Iwith Mir. Gordin's rhetoric. From that Itime Adler was almost always on the kstage, and he dominated it like a Sal Ivini
 It is a pity that Mir. Adler cannot Ibring himself to performing in Eng Ilisi. He is perhaps the greatest Shy flock that ever held the board in Amer , Iioa: certainly none of our native borr f lstars can approach the effects he ha' lattained in tragedy; and his perform lance of the Merchant of Venice, if hli own part, as well as the others, ha( lbeen rendered in English, would bi P known to every thoughtful follower O. Ithe drama. But MT. Adler will never b. lrated at his true value until he show ] lhis abilitaies in the language which i 5 lcon,mon to all Americans, instead of il
 a dialect which is familiar to only ; Iclass of them.
 The company included many of th' actors whose frequent appearance Il : New Haven has rendered their name
 familiar to all local patrons or th T Yiddish drama. Morris Moskowitz a 4 Katme Moshe was in humorous part | which he played with his usual success a His constant comparisons of Russi land America, in which the former eoun
 try always came off the gainer, wer = form of humor which the audl9nc = much enjoyed. Joseph Kessler as Star Iadov was another favorite, who wa
 1 cordially received, as was also Henr
 Ginsberg in the part of Benny, Sevin' son.
 Rlume, while Mile Frances Adler ap
 peared as Lilly, Sevin's daughter. Tn
 part of the rabbi played by M ;