The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1902, Page 7

a COUNTRY GIRL.” mss Le uN Se ll “IRIS.!—This Pinero play, for the Criterion Tuesday night, ts built \ around a woman with a fairly wel kept past but a rather “mussy’ present. She will not marry a poor man whom she loves because she has no desire to share his humble lot. Being a widow, she knows that « Jove in a cottage on a diet of bread ‘ and cheese im’t all that it's cracked up to be. She goes to live in a tat furnished by a milllonaire, While established there her poor but true { Jover returns from a ranch in British Columbia. “A A musical p' from Da- COUNTRY }y's Theatre in London, GIRL,” wit! have its American { troduction at Daly's Thi} atre Monday evening, It has I '| running in London since Janu last. The book is by James P. Tan- ivy “mer, the score by Lionel Monckton Evie Green, a girl who made a suc- eer in London, will play her original Fole of Nan, the Country Girl, MARES MRS, CAMPBELL WARM. 1D Hew Didn't you find yourself un- able to repress a simile as Mrs. Campbell thus gave vent to her sultry feelings after that torrid sofa scone in “Aunt Jeannie?’ Most peole did. Mrs. (ampbell is unconsciously amusing in this, As she goes panting across the @tage after that scorching salute from John Blair she seems to say: “That was a pretty warm moment for Pour Aunt Jeannie Then when she smoothes her rumpled feathers she slides to the piano stool and turns on a little cooling music. Mean while Mr, Blalr gaes outside and lets the wind blow on him, Blatr's flerce assault upon the English actress's iis is such a startling surprise ry in the otherwise decorous tea-cup-and ®@aucer play that you feel like encoring it. It's like a simoon sweeping a dreary desert. Seriously, it 1s the most audacious, no to say unspeakable, thing the New Yori| 7 Stage has witnessed In years. Olwe.—No, Mr.E, F. Benson will % not dramatize “The Story of Mary MacLane.” It is understood he is now at work on “The Edison Phono- gra DAISY’S PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. It was extremely considerate of Mr. Benson to save innocent tittle Daisy Hanbury from the searing experience of magnanimous Aunt Jeannie, If that blasting kiss were to fall to’aDisy's lot ‘we sbould shudder at the consequences, Ghe must needs shrivel up and—presto: change to a white, powdery, little puft- wall, It was much better she should have been the eister of dead Diana than the abject of Mr. Blair's seething passion, That kind of cultivation 1g bad for Daisies, “Aunt Jeannie” epigram (Patent * applied for) I shouldn't like to be an optimist. An optimist can never have agreeable surprises--and agree~ able surprises are so agreeable, BLAIR MAY BECOME A MATINEE IDOL— ‘That kias may work wonders for John Blair, as well as turn thousands of dole Jars into the box-office. It's sure to hgve a fascination for women. Did you motice how the fair oneé perked up in ‘their seats and took @ good long squint at Mr,’Blair through their gtasses. after the organ-grinder man Humming Bird fellow? ’ answered her companion, with a hatpih In her mouth. complained the disappointed “Pshaw! calelum. through the door leading he closed it behind him, thus springin the lock, When he turned to go back he found that's very well for a man rather undersized and a bit round-shouldered!"” They talked about him in the theatre, and they're sure to talk about him out so there's every indication that Jeannie'—tiresome and though it may be—wil! exercise a potent power over the matinee girl until the Blair kiss palls on the feminine ti Sample of “Aunt Jeannie” wit (Kindly take it home with youn— “He told me the best thing I could Therefore, being the best thing, Pll heep it till the Volces of the chorus dr nolse he made by hammering at door. Finally growing des} r realization that ‘his cue must be close at hand he made a hast of the front of the theatre in Ir into Fourteenth street of it; place and thenc to the stage door, The muycum across just letting out and thronged the sidewalk guze¢ at the strangely garbed figure mak hastily for cover, A. pollc but the fugitive cluded him fared, panting and per- fturbed, upon the Academy stage, ‘And ‘for the first. timesin his life he made his entrance from the wrong side. SOME NEW ATTRACTIONS “(MADE IN ENGLAND." ‘There are two new offeriags for next week. One fy the latest Pinero p in which Miss Virginia Harned “A Country Girl,” in pursuit, do was to die, and finally ap) “ARMS AND THE MAN.” In this case the arms belong to Lillian the man—well, markable for his fect. It's not mentloned in the way of dls- covery that Mias Russell has arms. But have you noticed—you who have strug- gled to crowd $3 on the ticket-seller at Weber & Fields's—that the Lilllan's arms are beginning to show. One of the things they show !s that is more than seven. and a trifle tronic which have embraced eo many oppor- tunitles—and husbands—should at jate“day betray a secret so ekilfully ind successfully guarded since the days They deserve to be slapped for their ingratitude, Now for the feet! You'll find them on John Erskine—the rl of Rosglyn—in the ‘Slippery’ show at the Garrick. —when they're not ono else's way. but—s-s-hh!—they perhaps the that ever trod a cased in footman's alippers, they come As you study ‘ou can't keep your eyes off ¥ call to mind those uncanny signs on watch are printed “Iris,” 8 to star; the other @ musical piece from London. New York has had various kinds of “girls of English origin, but it sull to meet “A Countty Girl,” to make her curtsey at Dal) Monday evening. “A Country has been enter January last, and mu tary comment has pre: ing, E. F, Steyne, wh stage at” Daly's ‘In London musical piece ran, ‘will act in a similar capacity here.’ 1 written by James P. Tanner lyrics | by Adrian Ross and Perey G the score by Lionel Monckton. ditional numbers»; An English girl, who made herseif quite the talk of don town as “Nan, the Country G will be seen in the part hei that those arms the only are they large, w York stage, The Baron (opening closet)—Ah, ha! At last I have your fugitive! The Countess (pertlike) — Baron, only your cloak and jat! tonver.” WOM EY BLOODTHIRSTY. Wihen it was all over with “Tie Mum- my and the Humming Bird" at the Em- pire Theatre Saturday afternoon, a dis- hacpotntes, woman still stuck to her . Warfield greater this SCEster Har/Ren Revelle (N ACT 3 OF ‘MADAM DU BARRY. uess not H.W. Tredenich standing in the wings of the Casino Thirsday night and espying Reginald De Koven ia a box)—“I want to hear Reggy’s next opera. I'll bet it'll be full of ‘A Chinese Honeymoon.’” BARNABEE WAS A BAD BOY, l- That incorrigible youngster » Henry Clay Barnabee gave his family, Bostonians, a few anxious moments ‘Wednesday night by remaining out after the Academy of Music's had rung. The second act of “Robin Hood” on and Master Barnavce had cha from the Sheriff of Nottingham’: drous costume to the piebelan d the tinker. Having a few minutes Spare he decided to take a peep from Dehind the curtains of one of th foxes st the waterfall of Sherwood forest, a set he had never eration with the changing 1i | When the curious ciilld passed ‘om the stig wus locked out, Worse stil, wned all exit b a! Marvin, in emi) a ALS going to kill the KATE CAREW DESCRIBES “IRIS.” Sensational and Daring. And then the flat—Maldanado's flat, you know—and Iris in pink negligee Bird-in-gilded-cage sort of effect. | hard, and Maldanado's She revengea her- to widowhood for “light housekeping”’ and warmed-over dinners. And yet—oh, how she Joves him! She must have him! New York say to be pre- sented at the Criterion Thea- had been too money too inviting. self on him by leading him a terrible Ife. Bhe never lets him forget that her snother was a lady; also that she stilt mt hero boy. worships her, and vows that he wonld give his fortune for a aparit of affection from her. The hero-boy ‘There's no alternative but a aecluded cottage on Lake Como and a honeymoon without the formality of a wedding, And so it falls out, , you have been Introduced to the real personage of the play—Mal- danado, a driltant Anancier of Orlentar ‘blood and imagination, courted by soct- e some offense to an influential curfew bell | fection of the community, and this feel- ng was apparent in the audience when loves her a +I visited the playhouse one evening last October, Strange to say, those who felt racial affinity with splen- Wise of comes back, bent marrying his ilttle Iris Bho confesses| tearfully who pays the rent of the flat, | and seems to think that he will take her But, “Tam very sorry and watts himself through the| affronted were in Mr. Pinero, who wrote the play, and Mr. Asche, who played the part In dispute; with Mr, Frohman, who has brought ris’ to America. madly in love with en in op-| $ of th wher. news comes that the trustee of Iris's fortune {s a defaulter and sho a pauper he feels well enough to eit up The hero is starting oft for the Western States of America to break bronchos, cook his own bacon and bulld up a fortune, and he wants Iris to go with him. Again she'd ike to, but no! she couldn't face She'd sooner stay at home and be a hos- plial nurse or a typewriter But when he has bullt that for- tune she'll] be glad to see him back—ta And the poor youth goes, Malanado urges her to accept his blank check for emergency expenses. Aignantly refwes. Maldanado has overheard the conver- Her treachery is the last straw. Ie comes forth, and in a scene of Ten- derloinish violence turns her out Into the When she has gone he vitera a shriek of rage and smashas th: into kindling wood. ‘Then, as the curtain falls, he keels over im what looks lke a conmiption Mt, Pleasant story But the real and take notlc nothing {f not eensational coeda ‘Phe Gay Lord Quex. to be a study of a weak woman. a young and popular widow, band has left her a large fortune on condition that she remain a widow; and would give her eyes to in chilly night. in his how play, tables and chairs she, poor soul, | marry the youth whoze name I forget, | but whom I will call the hero. ° hasn't a penny to his name! grlot she confesses that she 1% too weak, too cowardly, to exchange her luxurious sation of the produc- tion was the colorful performance of Mr. Osoar Asche, who has been brought over from London to repeat his powerful 1m- personation of Maldanado. KATE CARBW. Geo, W Muslcal AMERICAN mide oman star He leaves it on the She !s about to tear it up—and yet—and yet—who knows? Curtain! its the cast are Minnie Ashle: Dleasant “San Toy" memory; Freeman, Melville Stewart, Hallyn Mostyn and hers of prove ntertain= ing qualitie “Dolly arden, the tuneful preitily staged Stange & Jodwnr, comic opera, with Lulu Glaser again in the title role, will doubtiess receive cordial welcome wh n it opens two weeks’ en. ement at Ha mano stein's Victoria heatre M¢ ning, Mias Glaser took the town captive during the at the Herald Square from January to June last, a run Lnberebted only by the indisvosition of the dainty little star, Substantially the same cas! be_seen in the fortheom ie produ David ‘Warfeld, who pis laying his first engagement as a star Boston, will open the Harlem Oper: House Monday evening in “The Auc- His lifelike characterization of the wecond-hand dealer han a quaint, appealing charm, with Its curious mix- ture of the comic and the patnetic, J success should be ‘even son than ft was Inet ietla play. une: chirety: irish taty in A fish Iady, an H ieaniield Heid R lead the Alte of sho re AND SOME OLD PED. part from He abin Hood," made ready for the * since the ad- Interest will be felt in Mrs, performance. at ot Music a question of er & Plolds's Casino kn HERALD - Square Ta EF 30. on that not only will Same One of, the best es in yaudevil “skinny's Finish, ‘ams and Tucker, me Toon “Twirly-Whir en materially , near Broadway y open its doors time on Mor ins at 9 o'clo at Hurtig & Monday morn- Jrawing crowds to the Knicker. JOHN DREW |" GARRIC. who is “King Highvalj" will again be BILLS CURRENT A} het e New York Theatre who feels she vst ecored a unt Jeannie,” will ¢ capers at the Gtegison Square. 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