Life — December 8, 1910 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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“1 AIN’T GOIN’ TO SCHOOL, FELLERS. “cee! you're Lucky.” HE gentleman who had just’ been — discharged from the delirium tre- mens. ward and by chance dropped in at a performance of “The Speckled Band” diately returned to the imme- hospital with the remark y z] } . &i. that he didn’t think that he was entirely cured and that he preferred the snakes he was familiar with to making the acquaintance of-strange ones. In not exactly the same way we rather prefer the snake in Dr. Deyle’s story to the same property in his play, Like Mr. Austey, this author seems to fare better when he is not his own dramatist. Mr. Gillette as the dra- matic interpreter of the Sherlock Holmes myth seems more successful than Holmes’s literary creato “The Speckled Band” is sheer melo- drama and far from coherent. It is the- atric rather than dramatic and the author never for a moment lets us fancy that we are in view of anything approaching real life, In this he is ably seconded by the 1 GOT TO GO TO THE DENTIST.” company. It would have taken no Sher- lock Holmes-to discover at a glance that Dr. Rylott, as elaborately and carefully portrayed by Mr. Edwin Stevens, was a dangerous lunatic. Even the invariably stupid Dr. Watson must have noticed it, if he had not been a doctor. And Mr. Millward's Sherlock Holmes, crudely as he was depicted, would have given him in charge to the nearest policeman for examination as to his sanity, unless he perhaps had a sneaking hope that he might possibly do away with the unnat- ural young person, Enid Stonor, as she was portrayed by Irene Fenwick. Even Mr. John. Findlay, as Rodgers, the butler, caught the prevailing mood and “elaborated his usual detail into pretty near tiresomeness. It must be said for the snake himself that he did not over- act in the slightest degree. The delight of Dr. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was their plausibility. The defect of Dr. Doyle's play of Sher- lock Holmes, as it is acted at the Gar- rick, is its utter lack of plausibility. It is a pretty fair thriller—no more—but it does give the spectator a sort of hanker- 1065 ing for a really potent melodrama art- fully acted. It may be that spectacular melodrama will be the next theatrical craze. Metcalfe. ONFIDENTIAL & w= GUIDE Astor—“ The Aviator,” with Mr. Wallace Eddinger. Notice late Belasco—* The Concert.” Laughable sa- tirical comedy unusually well acted and well staged. Biyou-Miss Zelda Sears in “The Nest Egg.” See above. Broadway—Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in “ Macbeth otice later. Casino—" Ile “Came from Milwaukee.” Musical show of the usual Casino stamp, with Mr. Sam Bernard as the comedian. Circlo—" Mother.” An wnusually interest: ing domestic drama, with the good acting of Emma Dunn in the title part Comedy—Mr. William Collier in Hanged * See rbov Criterion: ? amusing comedy of suburban_life Daly's—" Baby Very and well presented f Empire—Mr,_ William r success, “ Sherlock Gaicty—" Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. national desire for speedy riches made funny in terms of the Tenderloin Speckled “TN Be Slangy but laughable Holmes.” | Garrich—" The above. and." See Mbert Chevalier in * later. Herald Square — Lulu Glaser in Girl and the Kaiser." See above. Hippodrome—The same big show Hudson — Blanche Bates Widow.” i Fred Terr nickerbock Julia Neilson in King Henry of “The Im Daddy “The Nobody's nd Miss arre.”* ice later. Lycenm—Oscar Wilde's of Being . with Mr, A. as the star. Fair presentation of ly witty comedy rtance atthews rilliant- “Two Women,” by Rupe es. Notice later. ajestic—Macteriinck’s * The Blue Bird.” Poetic allegory from the New Theatre, Im. i staged. 3 Ethott's The Gamblers." Pow- erful and well acted play of up-to-date busi- ness methods. ‘Nazimora——“* Madame Troubadour.” Op eretta with charming music. Nethersole Farm,” Girl life in a > refresh: ingly and humorously d Taliaferro in Charlotte Th version of the celebrated storie: Polish.” songs in the us Weber's—" Alma, The large and beautiful Kittie inary farce-with catchy music. Live?” jordon in an