Life — February 28, 1901 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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*LLFE : An Importation from Boston. TE 8 tring caricatured or otherwise brought into hero is contempt on the stage the courts will pro’ him ¢ to the extent of issuing a permanent injunction. But the Jaw has built no barbed wire fence around the heroes ction to shicld them from the attacks of alleged brettists. We, who have lived, loved and fought with D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and who cherish them as friends of long standing, must in horror from the Ak- Those, Pork~ House and rah-Miss in Me Darnet's extravaganza, “My ‘These three chara humorous reproductions of the the humor attributed to them m laughable distortions of their names as shown above. who personate these three creations of Mr. worthy of their job, and a sadder trinity difficult to discover. rises slight! fers are supposed to be nd the quality of y be ganged by the de ves of Dumas, pus and ‘The actors arnet’s brain are quite nedians it wo book above the level thus indicated, but in the main itis pretty poor brain work. In the east Mr, Charles Ross, of Weber-and- impersonates Richeliew, gains some applause, and Miss Li Green, the D'Artagnan, is pretty, and sings accey these orus of young women who could pass high in a civil service examination for shapeliness and good looks, there is no one to be congratulated on anything. plae My Lady" is said to have been suc is a strange city. In a few plad The score is common- sfulin Boston, Loston e . . O no woman is it a is not her fault but a some ihstances, she has been artificial aids. Nor is ita woman's fault that she cannot act. But why women who are neither beautiful nor actresses are put before the public on the stage is one of those mysteries of the managerial mind which the layman tries in vain to solve, ‘These xage reflections are called up by the cast of “On the Quiet,” 4 fairly clever and arusing little comedy by Mr. Augustus Thomas, now playing at the Madison Square Theatre. ‘The picce is not so strong that it can afford to let pass any aids to its success. Broadway is largely populated with pretty and more or less capable actresses who are out of work. Why, with that the case, the man- agement of ‘On the Quiet" has picked out for its female charac- reproach that she is not beautiful, It yrtune which, in wn to try to overcome by ters women who are so plain—so very plain—it is impossible to imagine. Pretty women in these parts would add fifty per cent, to the attractiveness of the piece, and, perhaps, give it just the quired stimulus to make it good for a long run, The men in the play are quite up to its requirements. Mr. Willie Collier monopo- lizes the center of the stage as though by right, so he is presumably star, although his acting possesses no overwhelmingly brilliant He plays the part of a young man who is for a few student at Yale, pleasantly and easily, Mr, Saville is an acceptable family lawyer and father of the hero, Mr. Doyle a itured tough, and Mr. Douglas a decent sort of with whose British inability to appreciate a joke nt kinds of fun, Quiet" is not a megathe: 8 of life at Yal n to brighten up the distinction. utes » accomplishment, and Mr. slighily distorted, but with a st the Tittle comedy should ings amusement. ° e Rt. RICHARD MANS- > ( M FIELD'S imagination LP Was been fired by the tremen- dous sums of money said to be passing into Mr, Andrew Car- negic’s coffers as a result of the consolidation of certain steel indus- tries. Mr. Mansfield sympathizes with’ Mr. Carnegie in the burden that the latter is about to bear, and suggests to the unhappy million- aire n Most efficacious way to J lighten it. He would have Mr. Car- ZL. negie go into the theatrical business. ME) Mr. Mansficld could have suggested no more radical cure for the woes that are ing to Mr. Carnegie. Judging by the experience of other theatrical" ungels ” —as generous capi- talists are called by the profession—Mr. Carnegie might, after a. brief carcer under Mr, Mansfield’s ad’ be in a ion to return to the daily toil and happiness-bringing industry f iron and stecl producing. And more than that, Mr. Carnegie ould be sure that, so long as he was associated in business with Mr. Mansfield, he would never suffer from ennui, Metcalfe. ‘Thomas's i few pretty furnish ° LIFE'S CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE TO THE Broadway.—“ Vienna Life.” ‘ Strauss music and good chorus. Republic.“ In the Palace of the King,” with Viola Allen as the heroine. Moderately interesting. Garden.— “Under Two Flags. pretty well acted. Worth seeing. Jyceum.—* The Lash of the Whip." Notice next week. Daly's. —"*Lady Muntworth's Experiment.” An excellent comedy well presented. Empire— “Mra. Vrane's Defence” by the stock company. Clever, but rather ligh-favored for immature palates. Carrick.—" Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines.” A clever bit of non- sense Very well worth seeing. BYou.—“ The Climbers," Soctety comedy well mounted and acted. Knickerbocker —Mr. Nat C. Goodwin and good support tn clever * When We Were Twenty-one. Weber ant Fields the trafic will bear, Victoria.—Extravaganza, “My Lady.” See above. Criterion.— * When Knighthood Wasin Flower" dramatized, with Julla Marlowe a8 Mary Tudor. Worth seeing. Academy of Music.— "Barbara Frietchlo” as a spectacte, Woaituer’s * Barba: Herald Square—“'The Girl From Up There * dermic of new talent. She needed it. THEATRES. Melodrama, elaborately staged and —Burlesque, with cost of admission based on all Not exactly has Leen given a bypo- comicbooks.com