Life — December 16, 1897 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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At Daly’s. LTHOUGH adapted by the editor of London Punch, there is considerable fun left in the play, from the German of Blumenthal and Kadelburg, presented here under the title of Number Nine, or The Lady of Ostend.” The fun is almost en- tirely in the plot and the situations, so Mr. Burnand must not be blamed for it. If it became noised about that he had conceived or written anything really funny he would probably lose his job, Therefore we b to assure the British public that the editor of Punch is not responsible for the laughter which greeted the first performance of the farcical play to which his name is on Mr, Daly's programme, The merriment arises from the complic tions caused by pictures of the kinetose variety, in which some of the cha ppen to be caught in compromising sit- tions, Outside of the uovelty of the ain motive, the piece is on familiar lines. We recognize the good old farce ch —the innocent young wife goaded on by her experienced mother, and the young husband who bas been imprudent and who receives aid and comfort from his giddy old father-in-law, To these are added a brace of young lovers of the customary light kind, terrible and vengeful prize-tighter, also of the comedy brand, sten nnexed AcLers ers. comedy and a but it is with the smoothness and finish not to be found in America out- side of Mr, Daly's th His g are so quickly snapped up by outside managers that we miss the perfect ensemble work which characterized his comp: when he was able to keep his people to- ether for any length of time, But, handi- capped by fresh recruits every season, he produces results which make even so slen- der a medium as“) furnish a highly agreeable evening's entertainment. There are three newcomers to Mr. Daly's ny—Miss Irene Perry, Miss Lettice Fairfax and Mr. Joseph Herbert. Miss Perry and Mr, Herbert showed in this piece that they are timber for Mr. Da nd. Miss Perry was the injured young wife, and played the part with a vivacity and earnestness which promise much for the time when she shall be cast in a part which gives room for more orig- inal effects, Mr, Herbert's was the broadly humorous part of the cockney prize-fighter. The play is the veriest trith amusing, and is dor atre. tes nies comp; excellent “A SOCIAL LION." His dialect on his first appearance threadbare in a good many places, but this might be accounted for on the ground of nervousness, Mr. Herbert is the candidate for the late James Lewis's line of parts, and it is well that Mr, Daly has secured so good a comedian and that Mr. Herbert has Jan instructor, Miss Fairfax is an finportation from London, and in the small part assigned to her had little oppor- tunity to show anything but a graceful and attractive personality. Mr. Richman, a a young Irish gentleman, equipped with « brogue and other national characteristics, attractive novelty, Mrs, Gilbert was her same charming old sel{—that is, if Mrs, Gilbert can ever really be old—in the congenial part of the light comedy mother- in-law, The bulk of the work fell on Mr. Cyril Scott, who isa graceful young man, and rapidly improving in his actin “Number Nine” is only a thi was secured 80 go was an ot far ~ \s \¢ ' ¢ ’ MISS LATTICE PAIRFAX. but horse- ce of the refined sort, free from and both amusing and fnoffen- sive. « . . HE latest move of the Theatrical Trust is to boycott one of the dramatic weeklies which has the courage to tell the truth about the unchristian organization That journal's advertisers have been bull- dozed, actors in the employ of the Trust have been ordered not to purchase it, and ers who also sell theatre tickets have been told that they can tickets if they continue to expose the paper for s: s like this have some- ppearance crime called newsde: no more ofa is that some well-known the who have heretofore abjectly obeyed the Trust's commands, are beginning to pluck up a little courage and talk about throwing off the shackles which bind them, When they shall have shown a little spirit, they will laugh to remember how beautifully and ridiculously they have been bluffed Ui a gang of speculators using the drawing power of these same actors as almost their sole capital. Metcalfe. Tackle. we Dame he cried, and threw himself at her feet. The haughty damsel shivered, as in apprehension. “That low Princeton tackl muttered, striving to be calm. she