The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-16
1.-THE LANCERs'
Should Prove to Be q Very Satisfying
 Affair.


 Affair.
 After certain amount of pruning | has been done and the members of the cast have had an opportunity to smooth off the rough edges of the piece, "The Lancers,H which was pre- sented for the first time before large audience at the Hyperion last evening, should prove to be all that 1t claims to be, namely, an evenings entertain- ment, and it should be very satisfac- tory one at that9
 The Lancers," adapted from the German, contains4 many bright lines and some very amusing complications which tend to make it very interest," ing The story of the play deals with the love affair of Marcia Tremaine" Her effort to win the heart of Lieut., 1 Gordon Willoughby and the confusion of all her plans by his belief that she I does not care for him and then happy onding to everything. The part of i Captain Cecil Fitzherbert, conceited officer who imagines that Marcia must fall in love with him, adds to the com plications which are heightened by two other love affairs.
 There are points in which the piece drags in It's present form, particularly in the second act where 1t falls to the old and well known screen "gag" of ordinary sketches but it is to be as sumed that these raw places will be cared for. Primarily "The Lancers' is Miss Cecelia I4oftus and Lawrence D'Orsay with a most satisfactory amount of the former. Miss Loftus in
 addition to portraylng the character of
 the ooquettish "Marca" in a most pleasing fashion, gave a number of excellent limitations. Her portrayal of Sarah Bernhardt in the Divine Sor- row was extremely well done and the second act was apparently worked | around similar efforts on her part which were well haHdled and caught
 the crowd which called for encore after } encore until Miss Loftus had to refuse to give any more.
 !, Lawrence D'0rsay stroked his mus . tache, "awed," murmured rarely" and made laughter as the strutting Captain
 Fitzherbert to the enjoyment of the au-
 dience, but had no great amount of op.
 portunity to make his part stand out with exceptional prominence. Archie Van Buren, a New Haven boy, handled the role of Lieut. Gordon Willoughby
 In most creditable fashion and wal - given rousing ovation on his appear . ance. Mir Fred Tyler made goot U Colonel o'Connor," and the othei U members of the cast did we'll The on,
 jarrinE note was the appearance 0 u two of tho officers, who looked con v stantly as if they wondered what the, l. were to do next.
 ,' There were a number of songs witt 4 good words by Miss Loftus, and som
 tuneful melodies by George SDinlo. Al
 but one were sung by Miss Loftus an
 MT Henry Coote, the latter singing i,
 very good voice. There was wha l. might be termed chorus which seem
 cd very uncertain of the songs an ,e stage work, but they were elaboratel
 sO"Hcu anu luohSQ WelL lllo plcc TX was well staged.
 is For first performance things wen If off in very fair shape, there being onl one or two very marked breaks, whio
 were covered up by the others. With oI little brushing and smoothness, how ls hit. It is to be repeated tonight, an IT it being football day, thereis probahiI ity that Miss Loftus has before her a the work that she will care to handle s. A gray shape came down the narro7 Is pathway.
 F Who are you?" cried Charon, as h T. held the ferryboat against the bank. " T am the army mule that carrie to Secretary Taft over the Luzon noun er tains,' the shape replied.
 le Step right in," cried Charol le There's box stall waiting for yo l- next to old Bucephalus. "-Clevelan
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