Life — May 5, 1904 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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OPEN-HEARTED Susceptible Youth (to himself) TOSITIVELY DIVINE. BY Jove! histrionic note, but Margaret Anglin will be remembered, perhaps, as the moistest Camille known to greater or less fame. Her tear- valves evidently work on ball bearings and let loose a briny flood at the slightest touch. en in her most joyful moments she exhales an atmosphere of melancholy, and it is difficult to imagine that a lady with such a gloom." distributing temperament could have been popular in the gay circle wherein she is said to have lived her life, The Gallic nature is commonly supposed to be joyous in itself and 1 NEVER SAW THREE SUCH BRAUTIFUL GIRLS. I=! DO BELIEVE THIS 1S LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. THEY ARE rather to shun the lack of it in others. Tuber- culosis does not inspire lightness of heart in France any more than elsewhere, but even before it gave its first warning cough in the present case, Marguerite Gauthier seemed to be anticipating ber fate and rather revelling in it in an unhappy way, To the part Miss Anglin brings ber sympathetic voice and agreeable enunciation. Her readings are in- telligent, but her performance as a whole was gray in tone and unimpressive in any of its features 437 Of course every Marguerite Gauthier has to have an Armand Duval, This time Nr. Henry Miller attempted to fit himself into Armands clothes, and it must be admitted that they pinched in some places and bagged at others. A less romantic or less French Armand it would be difficult to imagine. The particular kind of refined sentiment which is Armand’s principal stock in trade is not for the actor of Mr. Miller’s temperament. Asa good commonplace American or middle- class Briton Mr. Miller is at home, but he is not deluding as the impassioned Frenchman of the middle of the last century. This does. not mean that Mr. Miller's was a bad per- formance; it wassimply not a good one. The character is entirely outside of Mr. Miller's limitations, The supporting company does nothing to lift the performance out of the commonplace, and the senior Duta’ seemed more like an eminently respectable grocer come to take the family orders than an elo quent parent pleading for the happiness of his child. The stage settings, although not at all in the period of the play, were excellent ia themselves and extremely novel in design. * Camille” will doubtless continue to be played as long as there are actresses on earth, And many unfortunate audiences and critics will have to witness many unhappy perform- ances of the unhappy play. Metcalfe, Theiss Academy of Music —* Two Little Sailors."” Belasco.—Henrietta Crosman in “Sweet Kitt Bellairs.” Pretty love story well staged and acted. Broadway.—"The Yankee Consul.” opera, with catchy music and funny lines. Casino.— Pifi, Paff, Poul.” Amusing musical comedy Criterion.—William Collier in * The Dictator.” Laughable American comedy by R. H. Davis. Daly's.—James K. Hackett in “The Crown Prince.” Empire —J Was in Flower. the novel. jarrick.—Last week of ** Merel Miss Eleanor Robson's delicious sentimental slavey. Herald Sguare,—“The Girl from Kay's.” English musical comedy. Really funny Hudson.—Margaret Anglin and Henry Miller in “Camille.” See above. Knickerbocker.—" A Venetian Romance.” Lyceum.—Avgustus Thomas's clever American comedy, * The Other Girl.” Lyric.—The “ Wang" of other days in new clothes. A good comic opera Amsterdam, — Revival of ans,"" with excellent cast oy.-Miss Elizabeth Tyree in “Tit for Tat."" See opposite, Watlack's.—* The County Chairman.” Laugh: able and wellacted sketch of American rural politics. Comic Marlowe in“ Whea Knighthood imposing dramatization of Mary Ann.” fepiction of the “The Two “ E went into the Arizona wilder- ness to get close to the heart of nature,"” “Did he succeed ?"”" ** Ob, yes—he ended up inside a bear." comicbooks.com