The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1902, Page 5

WACOHLA” POWERFUL PLA Mrs. Fiske’s Portrayal of the Biblical Character Will Rank with Best She Has Ever Done, Says Kate Carew. Work of the Dramatict and the Stage Manager Is Well Done, and Atl Previous Magdalere Left Far Behind. Arve were In fens before J connais Imitation the te We had surf Modern dalens, dalens to Magda Ma Taaqueray M Iris 1s, ard mn Pinesy, Sudermans & Co tt the da ail the wel s Manhatian Tasaire last Wone of Ue moat veautlful, brainy. 0 tlons e the Galen. drama of and New tistie produc- kK guve 2 Bibi on with the great s condemned to g. costly er seen Y 18 only w 48- godmoth*: that swishes her apeckled skirts across the stage A Powerfal Pinay, A good, gray poet of Hevyse. has taken some Incidents of the N s mixed them with othe-s h own well-trained Imagin pounded a powerful pla Fiske, after two years of logical research and preparatio: placed upon the stage with every think- able circumstance of grandeur and solemnity, ‘When you consider that such familiar Diblical characters #4 Calaphas, Judas and Mary Magdalen are important per- sonages In the play, and that the great- eat figure In the world’s religious history fa felt to be vo near at hand that you momentarily trayed In person—-when you consider this, it is something to say for the Grama and its producers and actors that there is not a jarring moment in the performance, nor a loophole for irreverence, nor a single instan: when the sheer human interest of the drama, apart from religion, loses its grip on you, Does Not Produce Yawns, The Sudermann - Pinero ; Nethersole- Campbell Magdalens have preached at us till we have yawned; the Heyse- Fiske Magdalen hasn't a yawn-produc- ing moment. Which !s another argu- ment in favor of the plaintive advertis- ing merchant who entreats you to “Be- ware of Imitations!”* To those who hunger for biblical “at- mosphere” this F’ se production will be a boon and a blessing. Here ts anctont Verusalem, its life, Its sunlight, its cos- tumes and characters, its interiors and exteriors, reproduced as faithfully as learning and money and the stuge man- | ager could accomplish it, The result 1s wonderfully interesting, There are four stage sets: A rpom tn Mary Magdalen’s house, Orienta\, vari- | eolored and mysterious; a room In the house of Aulus Flavius, Roman effects green marble pillars, open on two sides to a sunlit Mower garden; a s in Jeruealem, perfect Illusion of wile 4 architecture in an Oriental ef ravine near Jerusalem, a weird triumph of acene carpentry and painting, Pleturesqnely Contamed. scenes aré peopled, apart from the (ng actors, with ‘crowds ple- turesquely and accurately costumed, and, better yet, perfectly drilled in the crowding art. It js terribly easy to be one of a crowd in real life, but to be one of @ crowd on the stage is a triumph of humble ski'l. ‘The greatest moment for this accom- plished crowd, and to my mind the most moving. though {t 1s not the most im- portant incident In the play, was when {t pursued Magdalen Into the young Ro- man's house, clamoring for her blood until checked by old Simon, who burled at them the words quoted from Him who was dramatiicall® guppowed to be in the adjoining garden, “He that Is without sin among you, let him cast the first atone!” To the rebuke strike home to each member of that Jerusalem mob, and to fee them slink away, each with his or her private consclence-stab, was a pret- ty lesson in stage management, although the audience tried to spot! the scene by hastening to applaud the familiar quo- tatioin—how audiences do dote In famil- far quotations! Will Rank with Her Best. _ Mrs. Fisk's Mary of Magdala will rank with the best work she has ever done. With rything against her physically whe conquered by sheer braing and tem- perament, In appearance she may not our picture, or mine, of of dublous reputation who wins every male creature within reach, but Mrs, Fiske rises superior to appearances, and you believed the male Creature, when they raved over her. Byen words 4re not necessary to Mrs. Fiske, In the street scene she stands humbly motionless near the wings, while @ long and violent scene is enacted in the centre of the stage, holding In her hands the alabaster box of ointment. Motionless, mind you, and without chaugo of expression, and with no felandly calclum shaft to single her out ‘w-=ind yet that allent, obscure fgure holds a steady heart-to-neart talk with you that gives you an acute attack of Nowy complaint so dear to the ‘Th Cololum Man Anunthilated. ‘All this, In spite of the fact that Mrs. Finke's locomotion partakes of the na- ture of a matronly trot, as staccato a8 ‘nér gpeech, and that she has a bouse- op with _guorous luxury. of the Magdalen were a ‘nothing compared with the Importance ‘of dusting the bent ohina, And you can’t ‘me that the gifted Mra, Mane rt fs ty; al MR mislig and business-lke In some of her roenes, Having ventured to say whict should make haste to hurl @ bouquet at her forthe total extincition and annihilation of the absurd calcium man, Whole scenes*played in dimness, jand even darknets, when d'mness and |darkness ageiramati of it! No ‘potlte i 1 of a carkened stage, With one subiine siarsiatp | iu mined with MattcAiny and paastly . but sure-cnough 2 oO enjoy in real expect to see Him por-| Porers Jaga. Chief among theopher nerforn Tyrone Power. who, vastly improved in his acting, made a stunning impression by his portrayal of Judas, Of a wid and gloomy grandeur in appearance, he looked as if he had stepped from the lly desired—think * THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1902. S, FISKE AND TWO SCENES FROM “MARY OF MAGDALA,” PRESENTED HERE = Sg eae FOR a 089o4 °92980@ eee made Its mark deep even without the traditional hotror that ellngs to the | name of Judas. i His thunderstorm scene tn the “@St act Is too long, Stage Ightning and tea-tray thunder pall quickly, Lust night's audience wondered if ‘Ht would never clear up agi Henry Woodruff plays an tmporian part-that of a ng Roman—w at spirit and f still boyish pi however It ts said that the Bib! than It once was reason whe the dramatized it should drive the d w Tew ™ tized novel back to the she.ver. 2 TE CAR FLEE TO STREET | ~IN THEIR "NIGHTIES, ] Woman Suddenly Becomes In- sane in Working Girls’ Home and Throws Inmates in Panic. | Mary Manning, an ton Mary Home for Working Girls, at No, 43 West Fourteenth street, excited the linmates during the night by saricking | that had been called to God, by try- ling to Jump from a second-f window and fighting the police for half an hour before she could be ¢ Hevue. “five you The, Manning woman sudlenly arose as if the lan-, from bed and ran up and down the! hrieking: “Lam called to go to God.” She ran this way and that and then spied a window. it was two siories to the street but # at mother seized h Morar asily manage a He geveral Bellevue. | GERMANY WANTS REDRESS. 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