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NEXT THURSDAY, APRIL 8.
The famous monarchs of the fun world . . ,
WARD AND VOKES.
-30 People in a jolly jumble of jokes and jests just to make
you latth 30 people 30. A satire on human events,
' "A Run on the Bank."
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TheJucklins played to good business
on Monday night at the Lansing though
noteogosd aB the play and the com
pany deserved. Both were excellent.
I was glad I had not lead Opie Read's
book from which the play is dramatized.
It is 60 easy to transfer the impreesicnB
the book has made to the dramatization.
In Trilby and The Prisoner of Zcnda.
the two mo6t important book plays that
I have s:n, the plot is not apparent or
intelligible to that part of the audience
which has cot read the bcok. The com
pression of the life stories of some ten
or fifteen people into one evening's ex
prciEion is tco much fortheaverage play
wright, Shakspere'a dramas alway
begin a lifetime or so before the play
begins. It is in this way that the
miracle of time, that wonderful impres
sion of the silent passage of yeare with
their effect on the persons of the play,
works upon an audience. But Shake
pere is the only man that can reproduce
the noiseletB journey of life the soil, the
fatigue, the nausea, the holdups, the
plots of vice and the final triumph of in
nocence and virtue. In spite cf the
lives that have bsen lived the combina
tion is rarely duplicated. It is the same
fifty -two old cards but they do not deal
twice alike. Therefore is every situa
tion in a measure unique. The dramat
ist can not depend on perfect
enunciation and a quiet house
for the unfolding of his plot
It should be made intelligible to the
audience by action rather than by mono
logue or dialogue. It was the end of
"Itielbitdactof "The Jucklins," before
we were quite sure that Guinea Juck
lin was engaged to Chydster Lunds
ford and that Dan Stuart had no claim
upon her, that General Lundsford cent
Guinea to boarding school in order that
she might be a fitting mate for his son,
and the exact relationship of Harry
Harper, the telegraph operator, to the
plot. Such uncerta'nty and mistiness
invariably characterize dramatized
plajs. The playwright unconsciously
presupposes acquaintance with the plot
and persons of the drama, instead of
ruthlessly cutting out and putting in
whatever is not essential to the co
herency and development of the plot. In
spite of which criticism on the class of
playe, to which "The Jucklins', belonge,
it is a very interesting drama and as
good a sermon as "Shore Acre3" There
seems to have been a revulsion from the
suggestive plays of Hot, in which the
interest centers upon the efforts the
bead of the family makes to conceal a
low intrigue from his wife, by means of
prodigious lying, to scenes of domestic
fidelity aud happiness in humble sur
roundings. To be 6ure, such an en
vironment does not please school g'rls,
clerks and work a-day people who make
up the average audimce. We want to
see ladies of the court, or gen
tlemen in real yachting suits who
own a steam yacht or handsome fabul
ously wealth clubmen who light a
cigar and throw it away with the
abandon only known in dreams.
What do we care for people who save
car fare and repair their own dresses?
We pay our money to be admitted for
an hour or two into the luxurious
society which splashes us with mud and
orders us from across the counter in the
day lime. Nevertheless, the "Old Home
stead playes are in vojue and the stage
pictures are made up of clay etained
trousers tucked into cow hide boots,
gingham shirt', calico dresses, wheel
barrows, pumps, board fences, ana red
barns, and we sales-ladies are forced to
pretend we really like it. Lemuel Juck
lin's, passion is fighting game roosters,
not in the pit and with tho vu'gar ac
companiment of oaths and bets from
sports, but in his ovn barn yard
and he never lets them fight to a
finish for if Sam and Bob Hod
out which can lick, his sport is
gone. Then Lemuel has wallered every
man worth wallerin' in the country. Yet
in spite of his love of fighting ho is
loved by everybody. Magnanimous,
gentle, unselfish, pious, his love of
'wallerin'" puts him into sympathetic
relations with tho unman beings who
watch him.
Uncle Nat" in "Shore
Acres' is too magnanimous, too good.
He has no weakness which puts him.
oralevol even with the best ever and
such perfection, is resented by the aver
age theatre goer.
The company was weak in the grace
and beauty which is feminine. Guinea
Jucklin should have the fragrance
and fragility of a wild ilower, but she
orates with the air of a Bowery queen
that Mi6tah Lundsford shall kneel
WARD AND WOKES.
at her fett before she is through with
him. Her weeping, laughing and skip
ping i? perfunctory, she lacks fragrance.
Mr. Newton Chisnell as the sheriff
was the pol'tician the same, yesterday
today and forever. His was a most
delicate piece of character acting. Mr.
Benjamin Howard as Alf. Jucklin was
as attractive a lad as I ever saw on the
stags. He had the plougbboy's plod,
ding walk with the chivalry and gentle
ness of what the north supposes is
character'stic of the south.
Stuart Robson as Lemuel Jucklin,
with his lisp, his stutter, and the break
in his voica is a delight. I hats to have
him leave the stage. The character
Lemuel Jucklin fits his own. His
quaintnes s and dryness tastes a iittle
like the Sol Smith Russell variety but it
is more pungent and lasting.
One of the most beneficial effects of
travel Is the acquirement of the knowl
edge that there is more than one way
of looking at and doing the same thing.
If we improve our opportunities, how
ever, we can learn that at home. In last
Sunday's Journal, two writers who were
a short time ago Identified with the
Courier discussed Olga Nethersole. Mr.
W. Morton Smith says:
Olga Nethersole is giving her celebra
ted exhibition of animalism in the dra
matic version of "Carmen" at the Gar
den theater. This theater is just a lit
tle outside of the tenderloin, and it is
not probable that Captain Chapman
has seen the play. He might, after wit-
