Life — March 2, 1899 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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By XACTLY tow true a picture of t An Importation and an A Exportation. e sayings fast society Mr. Carton in “Lord and Lady Alyy sare cony gs of Lone as given t few America toto say, bee cause very few Americans have ever mixed understindingly lu its inner circles, We pictures some very all of us know the queer of our own plas wri; font to the provinces Ww New York life as tt s skeptical of the dra fidelity as ry p morals, unt dence. In Mr, Carton’s cise nished by the fact that the play without question English life given in novels of th Phillips set Nevertheless, one gags a bit at the freeand-casy way in which Mr. Carton lets the members of his nobility drop tn ‘on the formal entertainments of persons of the tradesman noblemen of really aatist’s anners and corroborative evt- isseems to he fure pudton public takes the and by sinilar pictures of Moo! Imagination and lass, Here we have three ne family appearing ata fancy dress hall given by a hone-botler, with whom only oue of them has any previous ac quaintance; of the three, one comes without an invt. tation, one to steal the wife * LUE * of the host, and the third drunk and accompanied hy his Jockey, The women of their set come tn 1 Mr, ain a Most much the same informal way hus held the mirror up to edifying glimpse of th e ex and the clever and anus: ot be taken so tinch stress is laid on hdelity of the mit lured tuto tak Ld be warned that this ts a © isa comedy — ing comedy refore must too sertonsly the absolute tails the «pec: tator may as faithful, comedy, tnd that ite such works trath may allow- ably be sacrificed to fan, and exaggeration 1 begin just when and where the author p To make this state because the patre the whole picture rent scems the moreadvisable, of the Emptre Theatre c that class of our mes almost entirely from Jewish f their ideas proper way l and playe pw-eltize of th and citizenesses Who gain proper tings to do and the them from Mr. Frohman’s plays Lady Atgy are an incompatible young ly in tove with hey cane Lard any hustand and wife who are ch other, and who tive apart be hot agree on Jugal existence, naimport i tou becanse Lord Alqu loses his all by backing the wrong horse, Lady Alay simultaneously nine the nd pounds by more in picking t This she turns over to her hisha . with a sate and luxurious existence in London thus assured to them, they began life anew and together, The fun in the play comes from side incidents, in which the brother of Lord Atgy and the wife of the bone-boiler play an important part, Mr. Favershain’s wo} wins owit winner. Han se sense as Lord Alon was a genuine pleasure to witness, and a sur. prise to those who have hitherto found him only wooden in bis methods. The stolldity of the slangy and horsey English youn: nt of his former per- tunken scene was a son were remini: formances, but hits finished ple ous, and not tn th Miliwurd was thorough sporty and sportive wif ency to declamation, show method Ltr ly commended, Mr. Standing as Lord J elder and hypocritical brother, and Mr. Wheelock as the imperturbatle jockey, were both capt- tal. Miss May Robson was introduced to display a make-up intended to be funny, but which was in fact patntul. “ Lord and Lady Algy,”’ from the point of and, bara tend- I the same good has pre’ igy's a | LAWN SSPUL Eig i ——S view of both art and entertain. ment, ts considenthly above the avenige of the usual produc- tions at the Empire, It is werth seeing. HICAGOtsabout to become the target of another civilizing infu- ence from the etfete East. The Opera Company, which furnishes reasonable prices, fs about to divic between the new Sti on Michigan Avenue and the American here. The experiment was first successfully tried in eritical Rosten, and then with ¢ profit tn inditferent New York. ays claim to a superior brind of culture in the musteal line, and we are us to learn Just what impression the Castle Square peopl will make on Colonel Dooley and other leading citizens of The Metropolis of the West, Meteatfe. OVE is the only religion in which there have been no heretics. Why? Because women are at once its object and its priesthood. “TT ROTH,” said Hogan, as he noticed ap abnormally large man riding by, ‘it’s an ugly shame fur such a big brute U be squattin’ on top av that little Sure,” he went on, the loikes av him wants U go horseback he'd bitter git an ilephant.” mare.