Life — December 17, 1903 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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The Theatrical Kaleidoscope. 7 VIL communications corrup! =I. Corinthians, re, od manners. From this text, dear brethren, Mr. Henry Arthur-Jones pr three-act sermon entitled, Julia.” It scenery and graphic ent heads of the sul different actors, ches a most agreeable, * Whitewashing mi of a play with nd the difler- ct are expounded by ihe sullering vietim, Julia presented by Fay The awful examples are the small- se ide th iborbood The indefinite is in the ction Wrenn, is charming! Davis minded px with Jai irown respectability who inhabit a 1 in which she comes to live. secret of her past, whieh is not revealed during the play, she seals in an envelope and g who, notwithsts s into the bands of the gentleman, ding the gossip. asks herto She tells him to open it, if he cares to, but her bluif goes through and hi throws it into. th unopened, ‘Th g man of this century—and the y is now—would more likely marry hin fire canny you time of the pl. have put it away in his strong box to be used as a hostage for the lady's future good Mr. Guy Standing is this angel in trowsers, and it is to be said that Me. Standing has advanced materially conduet. n his Jones's are in the ma played, especially so the Samways of Mr. W. H. Crompton art. The other exponents of Mr sermon “Whitewashing Julia” is not a bad play —although some of its English is b asa sermon it is considerably 1 esting than those to be heard in chure WV HEN one seeks adjectives deseribe the methods Miss Marie Tempest one has to go abroad to find them, “Pert” and as near as the English langua, they are not at all satisfy do nc and personality of auew” come allows, but g, because they nelude the ever-present sense of fan which seems the foundation of all she does. Hers is a sort of ;Gall which defies description in make temperament a word. It her more nearly the finished come- dian than any one of her sex we A little more heart—not th: “The Marria appr an recall tit is needed in cof Kitty "—and she would h perfection for light comedy réles. In this adapted play she has ample sco for her powers, even introducing a little song, which shows that she is a musician of no mean ability and brings back the daysof her success as a prima donna in comic -LIFE - Her support is excellent, and in ve another of tors who make us wonder lacking in actly immoral, the dangerous. opera. Mr. Leonard Boyne we I those imported why the native article is so h. The pl but it verges Howe that there is little temptation to go back of the lines. The Marriage of Kitty’ pest’s impersonation of spoil the pessimism of think that there is no ld tistic in existence. ° ° * y is not © t points on 1, one is so absorbed in its absurdity and Miss Tem- e heroine go to nose inclined to ger anything ar- Y this time Mr. Leo Ditrichstein must have found out ‘ What's the Matter with Susan.” The public did the first time it y OF KITTY.” 1. The types were too hackneyed for New York's sophisticated audiences, the situations were too absurd, and the wh thing was on too low a planeof humor. even Alice Fischer's tremendous ene’ could vivify the pi She did her best— which is much—but “Susan's” infirmities were too many. . . F magnificent produe- ~ tions” there is no end, and the fact that J) it falls into this category is about all that * Mother Goose"? at the New Anister- dam, has to recommend it. Oneexplanation of the perplexing servant-girl problem is furnished by the large number of able- bodied y arch about the ¢ in elaborate lack of costume. The employment to a larg number of the ugliest children ever gathered on one stage. It is doubtless a charity to their parents to give employment to these most unattractive youngsters, but it is to be supposed that there are parents of pretty children who are equally in need of the dole. The fun allotted to Messrs. Cawthorne A Bulger, agreeably remembered from The Skeping Beauty and the Beast,” is not atall up to the standard of the latter, and in all its long progress“ Mother * contains few laughs, ‘The imported scenery, costumes, groupings and marehings are good of their kind, but not superlatively e tires of the constant appeal to g women who 1 spectacle also give “Mother Goose" only differs in details from a number of similar productions, and in these it is for the most part inferior. Metcalfe. LIFE'S CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE THEATRE TO THE Belasco. Beltatrs.” Bijou.—Alice Fischer in “ What's the Matter with Susan? See above. Broadiay.—“ Babette,” Victor Herbert's good. muste and Fritzl SchetPs good singing and acting, Criterion. —Willtam Faversham in © Miss Ellza- beth’s Prisoner.” Extremely light-weight Revo- lutionary drama, Daly's.— “A Japanese Nightingale” Imitation of other Japanese plays, Garden.—" Three Little Matds.”” of the musical comedies. Garrick.—Fay Davis in“ Whitewasbing Julia, See above. Herald Square —* The Girl from Kay's." Funny and musical. Hudeon.—Marie Tempest in“ The Marriage of Kitty.” See above. Knickerbocker Annas Held tn Napoleon.” Lyceum.—* The Admirable Crichton. Lyric.—" Red Feather." and well sung comic opera. Madison Square —* A Girl trom Dixte,”* Majestic. —“ Baves in Toyland.” Diverting musical spectacle. Manhattan. —Chanles Richman in * Captain Barrington,” Revolutionary melodrama. In teresting. Vero. Amsterdam, above, Princess.—“ RaMes, the Amateur Cracksman.” Worth seeing. Saroy—Maxine Elliott in “ Her Own Way." A falr evening's entertatnment, Waltack’s.—George Ade's “The County Chair. man.” The funntest play in town. Weber and Filds's.—Amosing, but not worth what {t costs in money and discomfort. Henrietta Crosman in “Sweet Kitty Weak The dainttest © Mam'selle Good, Handsomely-staged “Mother Goose." See comicbooks.com