Evening journal., 1907-10-04

"The Road to Yesterday" a comedy
of fantasy by Beulah NJ. Dix and Evelyn
G. Sutherland, was presented TO lash
ionable audience at the Grand Opera
House last night. In ten years OF thcaft
attendance it has not been the pie as an
of the writer to be so charmed as by TINS
performance The house was not large,
but those who followed the hero hunting
heroine. Minnie Dupree, through her
search for a Prince Charming,. could set
out again tonight on a similar hunt with
pleasure and profit. Lost in q dream
fantasy this American girl wanders-not
into the future, as dreamers usualiy 40
but back into the past, INTO a hau toi-
gotten yesterday The wish of Mldsum-
mer's Eve became a most lively reality
and turned those Bohemian souls OF
Leveson's studio back to their lives as
they lived them 800 years ago. The COMEDY
therein occasioned IS most entertaining
and the dramatic consequences are IN
nuencng. The plot and its details are, TO
the minds of many who sat through these
scenes. the most unique presenter IN TINS
city for years-perhaps ever. The authors
have given the American stage play OF
lasting proportiors and II ought 10 SET az
rest the harplngs Of the critics against
plays built by the hands and brains OF
women Every player was star last
night There was much security In the
feeling that no entry would shock the
sensibilities and spoil the action OF the
play Miss Dupee charmed her audience
White Whttlesey as Lord Strangevon,
gave a finished piece OF acting. Robert
Demnster. as Jack GreatoreN, afterwards
Reformed Jack, was an !deal hero. Flea
nor Morett GYPSY by birth, handed
the part OF Black M1lena as only a real
Gypsy could Julia Blanc. as Mother Gill
law. deserved the apnlaus she received
for the portrayal Of her difficult part.
Charles Clarey as VIII Leveson, was
capable. The other members OF the cast
deserve credit also. The scenery and the
incidental music which the comedy calls
for gave to the play that fantasy which Is
truly idealisiic. Miss Dupree and the entire
company were called again and again be-
fore the curtain. A play like this IS worth
while and e. Is 10 be hoped that Messrs.
Nixon and Zimmerman will book a return
engagement Of '"rhe Road to Yesterday"
when better house. no doubt WI greet
Miss Dupree and dream Of the things
mystic in the England Of King jamie.
Richard earle will again show himself
az the Grand Opera House to-night in his
three-fold capacity OF actor, composer and
stage manager in "'rhe Spring Chicken"
Clusters Last Fight opened al the
Iyceum last night 10 a good house. Inter-
est In the production was enlivened by
street parade yesterday az ll.3o a. m. and
Il is announced that the parade will re-
peat each day. There Is lots OF good, clean
comedy in Clusters Last Fight"
There Is always more OF less natural
curiosity awakened when the announce
ment comes that Charles Klein has COM
plcted n new play. for Of recent ycdrs his
productions have leen along tho ascending
scale ~ success. Tho latest Offering from
the Klein pen Is called THE Step-Sister''
and Charles Dillingham; will bring Il to
the Grand Opera House on Saturday
evening October 5ih. Mr.. Klein says that
the work Of the actors Is peri Ct. and that
''The Siep-Sister" must stand forth for
q verdict entirely on its fundamental mer-
its as n play.
THE Nirginian." an American romance
given TO the public IN book form by owen
Wistcr, and dramatized by the author
and the late Kirke la Shelle. will be
seen az the Grand Opera House on Mon
day evening. October 1th. Most book plays
are q appointments 20 those who expect
realization Of their ideals formed IN
the course Of reading. But when the novel
ist and dramat 81 are one and the same
person. then there Is hope that the stage
VIII not destroy the impression made by
the book 'The Nirginian" IS a story Of a
struggle between the Puritan East and
the passionate, chivalrous west
That popular star Marion Ballou needs
no introduction to local theatre -goers. No