New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-23
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THE CAST
Henn. Baron d'Heurvile. ........ Claude Flemmini
Emile Baron dc soisnsr ......... .Royicn Kstl
Lulu La Grange ...................-Msy Do sgusa
Annette Gw.ndoyn Iegfsj
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comte de Perisord Harold Ward
Clarisse LYDIA Carlisle
The curtain at the Lyric Theatre
had been up thirty minutes last night
before the chorus appeared on the
stage. Furthermore, the said chorus
entered for a plausible reason and not
merely to help out one of the princi-
pals who was singing a song. Still
further, there was a tendency through
out the evening to observe the unities
of time, place and chorus. From all
I Of which you will gather that Two Is
/ Company" is bit of novelty, which
It is. The pity is that it did not go
ahead and be complete one.
On the programme Two Is Com
pany" is announced as a Partisan mu-
/ steal novelty" The authors Paul
Herve, Jean Briquet and Adolf Philip
adele" "The Midnight Girl" and THE
Girl Who Smiles" There is no in
tent to suggest criminality.) The pres
ent piece is pleasing, though in no way
remarkable.
When May de Sousa was seen TO en-
/ ter box, in the midst of the overture,
the audience began to entertain high
/ hopes Into the same box, moment
later, the Baron dHeurville Claude
Flemming) CHANGED to walk, purely by
accident only to be discovered in an
other minute by Georgia Game, his
wife, in the act Of greeting the woman
who was not his wife. Thereupon there
were angry voices, and from the audi
ence there leaped Dubois and Dupre,
rival divorce detectives" and prof
ferred their several professional ser
vices.
So far, so good. The curtain arose,
revealing the country home OF the
baron. and presently husband and wife
/ entered and went right ahead with
their quarrel. Had the authors lived
UP to that promise, flags would be dis
/ PLAYED to-day on all public buildings.
| But thereupOn practically all thought
of novelty departed from their minds,
and they proceeded to write a regular
musical show. At the second act cur
tain there was q suggestion of what
might have been, but it served only to
/ emphasize the disappointment.
/ For the remainder Of the evening one
/ looked at life through musical comedy
/ binoculars. There was the quarrelling
couple, with satirical remarks upon
/ marriage, and there even was the
/ bundle Of discriminating letters that the
I husband had written to the actress.
There were misund orstandings that a
word would have cleared up before
they started, but the word was never
/ spoken. And there was the reconcilia-
ton between husband and wife-which,
/ incidentally, did not take place until
1880 o'clock.
All of which does not mean that
1.-TWO Is Company" is not n pleasant,
placid and distinctly enjoyable enter
tainment 1t is all of that. 1t may
contain some ideas that are old. but
/ they are effectively presented and well
played by a company that is uniformly
excellent
The music is good-every bit Of IT,.
/ The best Of the numbers, Back to
louisiana" occurs in the first act, but
is repeated with sufficient frequency
| during the other two TO acquaint the
audience with its topography. Such
| humor as the piece contains IS vested
| in the rival divorce detectives. One Of
these has in his employ a company OF
Jealousy rousers," while the other has
/ jurisdiction over a band of home
wreckers." The purpose of both is to
secure divorces on short order.
/ For one thing-two. rather-the new
/ piece serves to bring brack TO town
| Georgia Caine and May de Sousa. who,
| for some unfortunate reason. are seen
/ here but infreQuently. Miss Game, as
/ the wife, and Miss de Sousa. as the &C
tress, were pretty both 10 look at and
TO listen to. Claude Flemming was
more than good an Henri, Baron
d'Heurville, and Ralph Nairn and Clar-
ence Harvey were amusing as the d.
vorce experts. Royden Keith was the
necessary "other man"
At the end Of the second act Adolf
| Philip stammered his heartfelt graft
tude. after making several Intellectual
efforts to find which side his heart was
| on.
1.-TWO Is Company" is unhesitatingly
recommended as providing tuneful
and pleasant evening. Ever Oscar Ham
merstein. who sat in a stage box,
laughed. applauded and was never
] bored.