New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-03

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Nndrcas pipelhuoer ..... -... Fred Walton
Dolly. ........ ... Nculta r'ifZhuch
Lucinda Observation-Disclosures orie intropidi
Nj Hosenrof .......... IS illiafn NorSs
Count SclctaI. .-.... ......... GlsfaNc Werner
Herr Won RaSnwftZ. ...... John DAILY Murphy
Ltelga ......-. . ......... Frances Dcmarcst
Iutz Nachtigall. ............... Roy Atwell
Fgus Iimt. -.......... ...........N gel Barrie
Wiedchopf. ............... Bert d. Melville
Baldrian ..-.-... ..-.. .-..-.- Leonard Feincr
Juliette. .........-. ......... Irene Palmer
Marie. .................. . Dorothy Chesmond
by ARTHUR RUIZ.
one OF tho three acts Of The Laughing
Husband" rather elaborate musical
comedy from German sources. produced
at the KnickerbocScr Theatre last oven
ing was good II was iflc middle one
The scene was a shooting box some
where ina the mountains Of Germany.
Snowcapped peaks shonc through the
glass doors at the rear or tho stage and
when twilight fell the lights Of village
and stars twinkled in the distance In
stead of the usual fol-de-rols in the way
Of clothes and powdered arms, there
were brisk hunting clothes and a pleas
ant air OF out-of-doors, even about the
chorus.
In this act. too. there was q screen
scene which, for a musical comedy, had
all unexpected air of real drama And
in this act there were two excellent
songs.
Miss Betty Callish had one. Love Is
Like a Violin" which. if ii had been sung
with a little more 1exibility and lyric fire.
might have stirred the audience as much
as the Beautiful. Lady" song used TO in
The Pink Lady" This. too. had violin
in it, and Miss Catfish played it as well as
sang.
She is Of the tyre of a grand opera
singer-a young and very handsome grand
opera snger-and she was always just on
the point OF doing something very good
which rever quite came off. Her hand
some face would light mp, her dark eyes
sparkle, her very intelligent understand
ing of the dramatic needs Of the moment
would prompt her to do just the right
thing-and then she would sing in a
rather labored, heavy fashion, generally
just a trhe fat. She was beautiful TO
look at-and so disappointing.
Miss Callish did not seem TO have
learned that neat, familiar r. -
way Of doing things which comes TO
those used TO singing close over the foot
lights TO a vaudeville or musical comedy
audience. What she lacked was precisely
what Miss Nenita Fitzhugh possessed.
In the same scene. Miss Fitzhugh sangsa
syncopated jingle with Nigel Barrie,
You're Here and I'm There" just as it
should be sung. And the crowd was cor
respondingly pleased.
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which was also good and might have
been much better It was sung by Mr..
Courtice Pounds. the English comedian,
who played the laughing husband, after
the not particularly novel Introductory
observation that there was nothing like
old friends and old wine" II had some
thing Of the real Niennese favor-Mr.
Maurice Farkoa would have made II very
charming, indeed. Mr.. Pounds was
little too heavy and lacking in anything
like lyric fire. but he did have the good
taste to sing in quiet, ingratiating tone
so that the song remained pleasing
nevertheless.
Then Mr.. Quentin Tod. who used to ne
by way Of being a regular actor in
"Fanny's First Play'-he was the boy
who was thrown On the table-danced
pleasantly with Miss Josephine Hartman.
They danced up over table and down
again without stopping, which Interested
everybody very much. indeed. Even MT |
and Mrs Vernon Castle applauded-Dut
then, maybe, Mr.. Castle taught Mr.. Tod
how.
All this act was good. Nearly all
q no nf
laughing husbands song. "A Husband in
Love with His Wife, was tire
some. and the last act was really quite (
dreadful I was not able to walt TO hear
the last two songs, but there ought TO
be some sort of society 10 prevent
mos, Of what went before it, Mr. Will
lam Norris. whom some consider funhy'
appeared for the first time in this last
scene as a divorce lawyer Everybody
wanted divorce by that time, and the
preceding action had been concerned with
the usual flirtations. the principal one OF
which was that between young count
and the wife Of the laughing husband
played bv Miss Catfish \ number of
ra her we'll known musical comedy peo-
nlc arc in the cast. and the mounting
was elaborate but in general good taste
The general impression left by the piece
was that OF a good deal Of ambitious
preparation. which. except at very occa-
sional intervals, didn't quite arrive.
La Gioc6nda" Translated from tte
Italian OF Gabrielle d'Annunzio by q.
Herelle. The Harris Theatre.
THE CAST.
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Francesca Doni ........ Nine Name Der "a 80
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