New-York tribune., 1910-10-30

,,-itl, an abundance of romance, intrigue
and adventure, and with Proteslaiils
,,a Catholics evenly matched IN re-
so,,rcos Mr., Asche is the big, sWartly'
.,,,aurerinr captain of the Kings body
guard. and handsome MISS braytoh /"
Clotilde. Lady Of Veillac- Each Is la
vorite in London and has received
warm welcome. They have recruited al
excellent company for this interesting
romantic drama, Mr.. Ben Webster ana
Miss Flfrida Clement being among the
players.
At the Kinssway there is a farclcal
comedy, Company for George, by MI
Warren Bell. not constructed with much
deftness. but containing at least one
idea. and providing Mr.. Kenneth Douglas
with a ludicrous character part. lie Is
the academic bOunder from Cambridge
University. who imposes upon the hos
nitaIitv of a eredulous family and baf-
hes the most ingenious attempts for eK-
nediting his departure. When the
changes have been rung upon his Dor
rowing powers and cool impudence there
are love scenes with a nurse and
Quick curtain after the announcement
that he has won a big prize at the lot-
tery. Miss Eva Moore, with her musical
laugh and pretty face, helps TO divert
the audience. At the Queens Theatre
there is a three-act comedy Of military
life. Mrs. Skeffington." by Mr. Cosmo
Hamilton, with bright uniforms and ami
mated incidents, and good acting by Mr..
Arthur Lewis. Mr.. Dawson Milward,
Miss Beryl Faber and Mr.. Arthur
Holmes-G Gore.
Mr.. Cyril Maude's pathetic impersona-
ton in The Toymaker Of Nuremberg
will be witnessed only for a short in
terval at The Playhouse. IL resembles
Mr. Arthur Bourchier's Caleb Plummer,
hut is less senile and has broader effects,
with less dodGering byplay. 1t is
most affecting performance. Mr.. Maude's
daughter acts with him in this piece.
It is preceded by a new One-act play,
Between Soup and SaVory,' by Miss
Gertrude r. Jennings, daughter Of that
CIdtime New York faVorite of Lester
Wallack's time. Madeleine Henriques.
ii Describes humorous bypiay below
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course. above The scullery maid, who
/ has no beau is twitted and despised by
cook and paTlOrmaid. who have follow
ers: and at last from sheer desperation
/ she turns upon them and elestrifies them
! with passages from a series of love let
ters written in superior literary style.
Her rivals are deeply Impressed until the
parlormaid. returning from the dining
room, repeats Miss AnselR's quotations
from her own love letters trom the fut-
ure bridegroom seated beside her The
cook at once cOnvicts the romantic
scullery maid OF purioining and copying
Miss Angela's letters and passing them
off below stairs as her own. 1t is
bright little curtain raiser, with a fine
sense OF humor and stage effect.
Hiss Gertrude Kingst"n's adapter Of
.I.ysistrata" at The Little Theatre is
Mr. Laurence Housman, who has not
succeeded in converting one of the
grossest Of Aristophaness comedies into
a serviceable woman suffrage tract.
The Liars is substituted for Rebel
lious Susan" at the Criterion by Sir
Charles Wy ndham- Mr.. Anstey has pre-
pared new version of Vice Versa" for
the Comedy Theatre. Mr.. Laurence Irv-
ing expects TO rival his brother and his
father as Hamlet The rehearsals of
Mr.. EVGns's version Of Under the
Greenwood Tree are going on satisfac-
torily at Dorchester. under Thomas
Hardy's eyes. /. y. F.