Life, 1891-09-10 · page 11 of 14
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# Life Magazine Page 137: "The Dancing Girl" This page reviews a theatrical production called "The Dancing Girl," which the reviewer describes as a "wicked" but worthwhile play that had been tested in London before coming to American production. The main photograph shows two women seated outdoors beneath trees, apparently a scene from the play. The review discusses the cast's performances, praising actors like Mr. Sothern and critiquing Miss Virginia Harned as the "bad young woman." The page includes humorous quoted dialogue from the play and a small cartoon at bottom right showing a soldier performing a somersault, captioned "Cholly Turns a Somersault." The content reflects early 20th-century theater criticism and entertainment journalism, focusing on moral character assessments of characters and conventional dramatic conventions of the era.
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137 Mr. Sothern is the bad young man, and it's a more serious part than he has under= taken hitherto. Although overweighted in three or four places his performance asa whole is very satisfactory and confirms Lire’s prophecy that Mr. Sothern will be a very good actor indeed. Miss. Ving’ Harned was the bad young woman, was extremely bad from the moral point of view, thereby making a decided suc from the artistic point of view nie Dunbar was the bad you good angel—an angel on crutches, be sure, but a blunt-spoken, eamest, charming angel who did the bad young mana heap of good, ‘The other people in the cast did their work well, notably Messrs, Morton, Selten and Augustus Cooke, who portray a swell of the Dun- dreary type and the stern parient of stage tradition. The piece was given at Mr. Frohman’s Lyceum Theatre, which is equivalent saying that it was well mounted and that the details were carefully looked after +The Dancing Girl” is a success and is most enjoyable after a steady diet of sum- mer trash. Metcalfe. * ISS HYART is realistic even to her stockings.” “ What do you mean ? “ The clocks upon them are strik- ing. a HAT is the symbol for milk 2" “HAO.” That's water.” “So's milk—in New York.” THE SCORE SO FAR 18 LOVE TWO,” “THE DANCING GIRL.” ASTER having been tried on a dog for several hundred nights in London, Mr. Henr Jones's play has been given an American production. The play is a bit wicked, but v cans are growing more accustomed to wickedness in our literature and drama, so the wicked not so noticeable as it woukd hav= been a little while ago. It is rather a strong play, depending for its est on some of the elementary tendencies of humanity to vice and virtue, which always form good dramatic material. A bad young man with some good in him, a good young man with some bad in him, a bad young woman with no good in her and a good young woman with no bad in her, makeup the principal combination. About these are thrown some other fluffy characters who make side of the piece. CHOLLY TURNS A SOMERSAULT. comicbooks.com