The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-15

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 thlngs Of course it has seen MT, Drew
 'or example, but now it may See hin
 on his native heath, so to say, and II
 q new gulsc Mir, Drew even with th' apron Of a waiter beltcd about Wha
 is still his waist True, he is n pflnct lu wllfu disguise. but the game i' worth tho candle--or, rather, the aprot
 for the sport that he has with { precious household of British payenus who treat him for what hc seems, then needs play his game And the mother learn what he really is, and finally must needs play his game And inc mothet and mouthpece of these parvcnu4 falls to Rose Cnghlan, acting the part to the hilt. with an unctinn that in the good old fashion fairly rolls over the foofootlights. This same public may even sec Mir HaclSett again; and there ara whispers that fathers of such fam flies now take their sons to see Lillian Russell and find those youth quite scep- teal when they try to explain her as or lhelI youth, too.
 q season are beginning to be clear whether tho returning public of New York Itself approves or disapproTes them, Whatever be the mind of aud fences in other cities especially n 'ho Middle West, those of New York Ike best to come to the thcater at S:30 and to leave 1t well by eleven. Thoro as in London, the dinner hour drama" has It's agreeable conyeniencns only the musical plays dare 10 be long on the workable theory that you may come to most of them pr 20 from most of them at will and lose little thereby. Even the serious and strenuous plays like Miss Bates arc surprisingly short The spectacular play no less than the long piece, is quite of the mode. Outside tho musi
 cal plays not 3 piece al the better New York theators can boast what the press agents used 10 call scenic mag nlaceu-c. Sometimes a single ,om sut7ces for setting from beginning to end "The Nollusc" passes in a single living room, go does Mir. Mac Eayo's ! Mater, and so does Miss Bates new piece, room or two, with perhaps a garden or terrace, frames many of the other pieces, Gone are the days of chanaofu scenic opnlence.' Sim plicity has come instead. and some times simplicity with good taste and illusiyc detail There arc conceivable, even llvahlo rooms tu be seen heyond tho footliEhts of New York, And the fewer tho characters the h-ttcr. Four suifire for "rhc Mollusc,' five for 'Mater.' nvn for Paid in Null' Jack Straw is thirly rcopled both
 Devils" arc like to it. and in Love Watches the drawing room Is never full II is almost easy to soc in lisi,d the day in which managers will np longer tell tho public what their pro ductions" cost, as though that public cared a ng whether the mounting of apiece cost s3OO or s3O,00o as long a, lt proved interesting or amusing.
 Polite plays, too, aro dietiuctly in thr mode Mir MarKayc's Mater" ' high comedy m thc good sense cf the words ' has hs own view Of poetry. o' f3ntasy of mind, hickirg too and fro in li. but oven hia political boss, who sells elections to the legislature ls delIghtfully well bred and presenta ble. IT the household of Jack straw
 Is not exactly the real thing socially if is tryinr lahoriously to make itself i", Tn Love Watches. tho spectator zoe rhoerfully from French country hoGs. es to Partisan drawing rooms. Even Mir. voorhees Pike of Indianapolis, ant aggroSslvely Middle Western, move' through tho very best Of Italian hotels m The Man From Home" \ com
 try house on the Hudson. and m shack of tho sierras, now shelters Miss Bates And so forth and so on with Mir, Wal ter in Paid in Fulr' and Mir Fitch ir Girls on the outer edge, condescend
 ne with their public to mere flats Even the devil oSthe rival versions has pleasant social connections To g. into low fife is to he ont of the running lag Mir Dulv has discovered with "The Generation. and 10 go into caves and forests is no more fortunate as Mr Fdesou found with "'rhe Gal of thr North" In hs new piece "Tho Offend. CTS" he will cast out "grafters' iron the temple of political purity. Mir
 Wise will do no less In "Thc Gentleman
 from Mississippi" and his temple vii be the senate chamber in washington
 Yet tho shrewd in such things fear tha
 "T'he Lion and the Mouse" and "Th
 Man of the Hour have satcd tho pub lie with tho Davids of drama ati2ed poll tics, 1t seems now to prefer tho draw ing rooms and tho country houses o changers Mrs, Fiske, Mmc. Nazimoya
 Mime Kalich. Miss Adams, even al have their thoughts upon comedies.
 With few exceptions the acting O
 'he new season thus far has not hee' remarkabie Mir Arllss has wrought devil of intellect and finesse. and th misfortune of Mophlstopheles on th stage has usually been an unbecomini ohtuseness and clumslness From tn days of lhe miracle plays, Inc hs ! drought evil there; MT. Arlss make him eXudc temptation and lmpcl other
 to tHir own particular evil doing for
 so to say, the Satanic account. AIls
 Bates proves that acting which stir th" audience tO emotional sympa th, may serve her in a play that is clumsy and creaking machine to set II motion Miss Isabel Irving reappear in Mater" with the old lIghtness O her Ingeuuo days at Dalye mellowe, Into a bright Indian summor charn that becomes her part of 2 wise ve youthful mother of forty, Miss Burk
 is no less pleasant 10 watch in her ney piece than she was last year with NJ, Drew, and Mir. Lawford beside her ha cortrivodt 0 make a character in
 hard French farce almost touching Tn other players on twenty stages ar themselves in new environments Mf Drew's prlncely walter would well b
 welcome in either capacity at the act Or's clubs, and Inc veara--they arc f1f | ty-two now-do not abate his fine dey
 terIty, Il is good to hear Miss Coghls
 roar, Mr. Hacketts notion of roman
 tic acting Is changeless, Mr. Coync ha
 stIil 10 learn that tho ways of hig