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"The Earl of Pawtucket," now playing' at New York, is pronounced one of the best as well as the cleanest come
dies seen in this country for many years. Its author is Augustus Thomas, the famous playwright, who recently
whipped an editor. Elizabeth Tyree has the leading lady role in the play, while D'Orsay has the title role.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. The re-opening
of Mrs. Osborne's plnyhouse under the
management of Frank Lea Short was
perhaps the most important work of the
past week, although the critics gave
sparse support to the first production.
"Romeo and Juliet" "exactly as in the
days of Shakespeare" was the attrac
tion. The stage has been remodeled
Into a production of the Swan Theater,
at which many of Shakespeare's plays.
were originally presented. Every detail
of the curious customs of the playhouse
of the seventeenth century was followed,
even to the seating of gallants upon the
stage. The proposition is to vary the
bill weekly, using probably some of the
fifteenth century morality and mystery
plays. New York should certainly have
room for such an oddity.
Annie Russell appears to have a play
excellently suited to her temperament
and talents in "Mice and Men," Mrs.
Madeline Lucette Ryley's latest effort.
The period of the play Is the eighteenth
century. Its story concerns the unsuc
cessful efforts of Mark Embury, a
scholar, scientist and study that Mrs.
Burnett has yet given us withal it be
not too sad.
Its story of the bitter experiences of
little Sara Crewe In the hypocritical Miss
Minchin's boarding-school, appeals more
directly to grown people than .to child
ren, although the leading characters are
children.
But the actors are not all child actors,
although many of them are. Miss Millie
James, who Impersonates the little hero
ine and exactly suggests a child of about
twelve years. Is really a woman well
along in the twenties. In her particu
lar branch of stage art she has no equal
In this country, as was shown two sea
sons ago when she appeared as Simplic
ity, the tomboy In "Lovers Lane," at
the Manhattan.
She Is short In stature, but in private
life, when she avails herself of the pro
cess of high-heeled shoes and lofty head
gear, she does not seem to be less In
height than many other women. Child
acting to her is a natural accomplish
ment rather than acquired art.
T believe it comes with the clothes,"
she said, "When I put on a child's cos
tume and join the real children in the
play it is easy to take on their deport
ment and general manner. Of course
It Is acting purely acting but to me
it presents none of the difficulties of the
stage business of many grown-up parts."
"Mr. Blue Beard" has settled down for
a long run at the Knickerbocker. As I
have said before nothing so immense
from a spectacular point of view has
ever been seen here or, for the matter
of that, elsewhere.
The story is a combination of nursery
tales, but with modern innovations. Blue
Beard has his peace of mind disturbed
-by a Chicago bride, who attempts to
control his household, Sellm, of course,
rescues Fa'tlma, and the inquisitive wife
is unable to resist that awful peep into
Blue Beard's chamber of horrors. There
are specialties, topical songs and dances,
but the big ensembles are the main fea
tures of.the show.
"The Sultan of'Sulu" with its cheeky
comedy and up-to-dateness. Is holding
the public at Wallack's just as it did in
the, main cities on its triumphal tour to
New York.
At Daly's Jerome Sykes Is crowding
the house nightly with the Gargantuan
humor of his "Billionaire" which seems
so well adapted to the moment when the
multi-millionaire and his doings are the
central point of everyone's ideas. We
have already said all that could be said
in endorsement of this brilliant Klaw
and philanthropists to win a wife.
Jilted in early youth and accustomed
since then to avoid and distrust all
women, Embury, .feeling the need of
companionship in his later years, under
takes to select an orphan and train her
up in the way he thinks a wife should
be trained.
He chooses from u foundling hospital
"Little Britain. '-' otherwise called Peggy,
who Is taken to his house to be educated
for. the position she, is destined to fill.
Embury has a nephew, Capt. George
Lovc-U, who is much carried away by
the rfmple fascinations of Peggy. The
old fellow's plans are imperilled, for
Peggy promptly falls in love with the
Captain, for she is not aware of her
guardian's intentions.
After the girl has been Embury's ward
for a couple of years -he finds, that his
sentiments have undergone a radical
change. He had originally intended to
marry Peggy for the mere sake of com
panionship, but now he wants to marry
her because she has completely won his
heart. It is too late, however. Peggy
loves the young suitor, and In the end
the self-sacrificing Embury bends to the
loss of the woman he loves, stands aside
and gives her, with his blessing, to his
young nephew.
"The Little Princess" which is now a
matinee attraction at the Criterion thea
ter is one of the most piquant little
touches of child character Erlanger pro
duction. Blanche Bates In "The Darling of the
Gods" is booked for a run extending Into
the fall, when Mr. Belasco will produce
Franklin Fyle's version of Tolstoi's "Res
urrection," but however. In all probabil
ity under that name.
Julia Marlowe continues at the Crite
rion for one week longer. Miss Marlowe
has developed a great deal of that re
serve power so lacking in some of our
modern actresses and certainly leaves
the metropolitan field once more with
added honors.
"The Earl of Pawtucket" succeeds
"Gretna Green" at the Madison Square
theater. It is said to be something ex
ceeding original and striking American.
"The Silver Slipper" at the Broadway
and "Florodora," on a more magnificent
scale than ever, at the Academy are both
plays that cannot be passed.
De Wolf Hopper continues to make a
big success as "Mr. Pickwick" and is
giving as an excellent presentation of
the life of Dlcken's day.
At the Princess Mr. Mann continues to
make headway with "The Consul," which
will be succeeded by Ibsen's "Ghosts"
which the Shubert Bros, will present
with Mary Shaw.
There is no let up to the enthusiasm
which greeted the first night's perform
ance of "Mary of Magdala" by Mrs.
Minnie Maddern Fiske who has un
doubtedly achieved in this, her great-'
est attempt, the crowning success for
which she has been struggling for years.
The audiences at the Manhattan are a
reflex of the high character and per
formance of the actress.
At the Empire, "The Unforsaken" con
tinues attracting the usual audiences
who find that the stock company pre
sents what to them are the highest ideals
of dramatic art.
"The Girl With the Green Eyes" at
the Savoy Theater has proved the
souvenir mark reached with a fiftieth
performance and shows no sign of abat
ing her tendency.
One of the finest theaters in the me
tropolis has recently been opened at the
Circle and Fifty-ninth street. It is
named the Majestic and promises to be
come one of the headquarters of amuse
ment in the metropolis. "The Wizard of
Oz" is the first production and has been
enthusiastically received.
At Keiths' Union Square theater, the
bill this week is an exceptional one,
which is scarcely praise enough, for the
king of vaudeville entertainers presents
such a surfeit of novelties that one has
to be careful not to err in damning by
faint praise.
At the American theater, an extremely
strong list of plays has been selected to
run the balance of the season, and with
Its .excellent stock company, the public
may well expect some genuine treats in
the weeks to come.
Briggs Well, the next thing J. Pier
pont Morgan will own the solar system.
Griggs Why, he already controls the
Sun. Life.
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herited the vast wealth and properties of the late John W. Mackay. She
is' noted for her rare beauty.
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