Life — March 9, 1899 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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ments of the play, and Miss Katherine Flor- ence as Gabrielle, @Artagnan's divinity, shows more positive qualities of a good sort than she has hitherto seemed to possess. The bulk of the work falls on Miss Edith Crane, Who Impersonates the very devilish Comtesse de Winter of the book, — She Is not so cat-like in her deviltry—bar a feline propensity for coming to life after she ts dead—as the female villain of Dumas, but she brings to the part a magnificent physique nd much personal beauty. She ts a tad lady all right, and acts well. With proper truining and cast for the right Ine of parts, ‘Miss Crane should have a future. STAGE version of “The Three Mus- keteers” can, of course, only dip here and there into the YR story, and naturally must take liberties with It, This one chooses the episodes well, and makes no pretense to probabll- ity, or even to probable sequence of events, It does not go in for dialogue, and tts story 1g Jast sumictently connected to present tt many thrilling situations, Of these, the en- counter in Clarice’s chamber, and her death in the convent, with the musketeers acting as Judges, Jary and executioners, are the most powerful, and quite calculated to give @ nervous spectator a sleepless night. The “stage picture” theory of dramatic production Is here given fall swing, and al- though the successive tableaux are valuable for advertising purposes on the bill-boards, they do not make the play's extreme unreal- ity any more real. “The King’s Musketeer” may be rodo- montade, but tt 1s surely more wholesome than the sexual problem rottenness which, bapplly, is disappearing from the stage. Metcalf. “UP 1D WERE A 1 NEVER WOULD Cane TO MARRY.” LIFE 18 CREDIBLY INFORMED THAT SECRETARY “IP YOU WERE A MAN, I NEVER WOULD WANT TO MARRY, EITHER.” ALOER IS ANNOYED BY THE CANNED BEEP MATTER. comichooks