The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-28

by THE Shop Girl" and AN Artists
Model" as we'll as the rest OF the various
girls that gave their titles TO the Gaiety
musical comedies. which were very
different from Gaiety burlesques in
their earlier forms.
Probably Edwardes is laying down the
reins at the critical minute London
musical plays seem to be struggling.
"The Merry Widow" or THE Count OF
Luxembourg Is still potent to please.
But there Is no demand for The
Laughing Husband" and there have
been rumors that such pieces as THE
Girl from Utah" THE Pearl Girl and
similar products are living nowadays
with difficulty. All these pieces have to
be stuffed like plum pudding before
they are suited to the New York
market In any case. Often they cannot
be made palatable even by that
process. 1t looks as II London audi
ences were just now delighting in the
reviews. which without their American
actors would be all but impossible. And
even these productions in spite OF their
importation Of American stage man
ayers are not to be compared in speed
and beauty to the shows at the New
Amsterdam and the Winter Garden. 1t
/ certainly seems as II Mr.. Edwardes had
1 retired at the psychological moment.
Boston has been preening itself lately
| because "Under Cover" had long run
! there. II has even been growing remi-
niscential and thinking over the other
! plays which have been acted very fire..
! quently in the town. II happened that
Under Cover" was acted first on Christ
I mas Day and will finish its run on In
! dependence Day. This unusual stay has
set Boston up on its toes. Everybody
/ says that Under Cover" Is a fine detec-
J tive play Or melodrama or something OF
the kind. 1t was at all events good
enough to make within the Law" seem
unimportant and it's stay in Boston was
I brief because the whole town was going
to see "Under Cover" 1t seems that
Boston has had other long runs. One Of
these was 1.-THE Man from Home" which
was played for twenty-seven weeks II
Boston. Then Charles Hoyts "a TEN
perance Town" was played twenty-five
weeks and THE Country Circus" fol
twenty-five. So the city Is quite accus
toned to long runs. Let there he M
, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. On tldt poiht'
When "A Pair OF Skies" tries It's lucl
In London Joseph Coyne is to play tn,
role acted now by Hale Hamilton. Mr.
Coyne is one OF the American actors
who has really won an important plac,
on the London stage. There are no
many Of them. Elsie Janis can probabl,
stay there for years and the absence
from a public which had grown to know
her 90 we'll will undoubtedly prove o
artistic advantage to her. Then 1t viii
give her admirers time to grow anxiou
10 see her again. Ethel Levey Is popula'
there and seems likely TO stay, since sh'
never knew anything like the same sue
cess in her own country that she is en-
toying In London. Usually the actresse
have been willing to return. Julii
Arthur Joined Sir Henry Irving's com
psny and played with him for tw'
years, but came back to this country 70
the last two years before she left tn
stage. Ethel Barrymore was also al
actress in his company. Fay Davi
found greater success In London thai
she ever did in her own country, so he
absence was not so dficult to under
stand There were no signs on he
latest appearance in this city that New