The Washington times., 1907-02-17
Gossip From the
Great White Way

New York. Feb. IS.
IL mas pecn rather "a busy week on
Broadway with two or three new PLAYS
arriving and several old favorites re-
/ turning II is not the time of year for
. the beginning of notwithstanding runs
but the openings of the week have been
on the whole satisfactory. and are ike
| ly 70 Go EOOd business for the several
weeks for which each is scheduled.
Monday night Ellen Terry changed
her bill at the Empire After two weeks
of Captain Brassbound's Conversion Of
she put In for the final week of hey
engagement a double bill. THE Good
HOPE a new four-act tragedy. and hcr
delicious comedy Nance Oldheld." with
which the public is fairly familiar THE
Good Hope" is "a dreamy sordid story
Of the sea, telling over again with an
indnitudc of narrowing detail the story
of kingsley's Three Fishers
For men must work and women must
And the sooner it's over. the sooner to
And sooda-by to the bar and its moan
ing
The play is a translation 10y Christie
phcr St John of gruesome Dutch
drama by Hoijirmans. Miss Terry plays
the part of Knicrtjc. widow of a Dutch
fisherman who has been lost az sea,
constrained 10y poverty 10 send her two
remaining sons to the fathers fate on
"a rotten, UuscaWorthy old ship that. of
course. goes down. IL is entirely out of
tho line of Miss Terry's usual parts.
br- She plays it with a grim realism that
that is magnificent and narrowing. The
rest of the company are evidently not
ut home in this sort OF play, and rather
Cvgrdo the melOdrama of the occasion.
The Nance Oldfeld" is the same
Nance that Miss Terry has done here
before with such excellent effect. ali
bubbling mischief and deviltry. Miss
Terry's engagement ut the Empire
closes tonight. and on Monday Ethel
BARRYMORE opens there ir a revival of
Captain Jinks' Miss Barrymore has
been giving occasional special matinres
of ''Thc Dolls House. and will prob
ably give at least one performance of
it during her New York euEa cement.
on Monday also at the Bijou. Hen
rietta Crosman opened i'm a rattling live
ly farce comedy entitled "AU-Of-a-Sud-
Gen Peggy by Ernest Denny. II is an
impetuous Irish affair. but agreeable.
breezy and clever Miss Crceman as
Peggy uses a brogue that Is simply de-
licjous. the brOEue Of the irish gentle
man. which is rare behind the footliEhts.
She IS supported by an evenly excellent
company. Ernest ballard plays Lord
CrackeuthOrpe" an elderly peer. inter
ested in spiders. and. rs ne fondly be-
heves. in Peggy. 1t turns out eventual
~. however. that his real interest is in
PeEEvs mother. eXccueutly done in
rather broadly comic fashion by ida
Waterman. His younger brother, jim
ME Keppel n generous good fellow and
wcll-bred man Of the world is played 20
the life hy Frank Gilmore II is not
a particularly serious little play. but
II IS thoroughly amusing, and cOnyIEc-
ngly well played
The production Of "Genesee Of the
Hills" q dramatizatiOn Of one Of the
most delightful Of all American stories
r'Told in the Hills" by Marah Ellis
Ryan. was not received at the Astor
Theater with all the cordially il was
entitled to when the first New York pre-
sentation was made Monday evening
The piece has been very well received
out West. but neither the critics nor the
public have taken kindly to il here. The
company is good one. including Chrys-