The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1903, Page 9

THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1903. ' JEWEL OF ASI COMES 10 TOWN Latest Lederer Production Is \ Notable for the Host of Really | Pretty Girls Who Infest Its S) Sates Adnendins Urienaieenaietaanaaacanaee TARS IN THE TWO NEW PRODUCTIONS TAKEN BY FLASHLIGHT AT OPENING PERFORMANCES LA‘ Rae ATT eee Tee et inmate nets raeceraemer oreo enneencee nireers Pere ert ee eta T NIGHT. NORMA MUNRO T0 Her $25,000 Loss in a Theat- Orborn's business ablitty, Raper of Mim Osborne thet price Mrs, Munro haa exp’ js oppored to her daughter partnerships gone abroad with n. It is emphatically not true that she contemplates any more theatri- ‘ At least, ot A uo play| bes some what| ¢ont, WRITE A fall fweting: indeed, 1 velleve ¥) ng; inde eve well defined ideas in that C3 tons, writes following letter, Osborn hopes will be read by every man and an in America: rical Venture with Mrs. Os- born Doesn’t Discourage the ‘DIE MEISTERSINGER’ FRIDAY Opera Management Announces a Change of Programme. In view of the wide interest felt in tho performance of the ‘‘Meistersing- er,’ which but for the indisposition of Mr, Anthes would have been given Inst night, the management of the Metro- politan Opera-Houre has di cided to jeat, give that most Ayer of all er's | ey in- Been an- fe ee Splendor. Young Heiress. sing DR, DAVID KENNEDY'S ITE REMEDY, urged me to BLANCHE RING FELL DOWN. THEY SAIL FOR EUROPE. {That Is, Metaphorically, but Jimmie Powers Was Very Funny, and « Friendly Audience Evinced Its Joy Over the Event, When it became known th-day that Miss Norma Munro, the young heiress, and her partner in the dresemaking and theatre buathess, Mrs, Seber weto on their way to Hurope, Frank Goodspeed, one of the fexeculere cof the. Monte eat tate, denied that tho trip of tho two cot women had any buathess significance Miss Munro and Mra. Osborn , long heoh clone friends \and Barinere. Miss Munro lost $25,000 in. Mra. Oeborn’ ppenees Noewithatanding, this fact, Sees ‘unro ett! has great confidence in Mra. ‘While “The Jewel of Asia” isnt ex- Getly a “shine,” it must be confessed it's a few carats shy. Hier Bue cast wil | Dru also fincas hn Pytly Ager Diep care Tesh tha | a att ah It's chief charm is that it's set with @horus girls who closely approach fem- tmine gems. Theréare among them com- paratively few rhinestones. A peep into the Criterion Theatre last night was sufficient to convince even the @uperficial observer that the Lederer @ye was in good working order when jt picked out the beauty part of the splen- @iferous show. ‘This “Jewel of Asia’ chorus was well worth going through a snowstorm to @ee. It embraced feiching figures, dach @nd spirit, und withat pretty faces. Bapecially ts this true of the captivat- fing contingent which In the second act Qppeared in gowns and sable and ermine, accomplishing a dlack-ands white effect which was little less than stunning. They quite outshone every- thing else in the “Jewel.” Wonderfal Bunch, of Beanty. Even, the “Jew herself — pretty Blanche Ring—wes placed in the shadow. In fact, Miss Ring—try though he did—could scarcely be described as ecintillating. She was not nearly so Brilliant as when she appeared on the ‘Mrs. Osborn horizon of the theatrical firmament. To tell the truth, Miss Ring ‘was a bit out of her orbit. She plunged with shrugging shoulders and vailant @wagger along the Milky Way of the GiJuted ‘musical comedy,” but she was e only in a New Yorky number oncerned ‘*The Same Old Even in this she was not so Crowd.” Bappy as when ghe was ‘The Belle of Avenue A." And she fell to earth flatly ‘and hopelessly when she essayed a sen- timental, duet with Cilfton Crawford, who wang through his teeth, and who, Uke others of the principals, was uncer- tain in hig lines, « \ Pritat Scheff Present. Frits! Scheff, the grand-opera song- bird,’ Féleased for the nonce from her | Gy iitan Opera-House cage and sit- Qing in. @ box, appeared to admire the refreshing spirits of Miss Ring, but it was noticed that she did not split her gloves over the yocal achievements of e Ring.or any other of the warbiers, were really no singers, nor much ef anything to sing. Most of Mr, ing- Yahder's music was tuneless, and what fwels tuneful was decidedly reminiscen:. ‘The “Tinkers' Chorus" of ‘Robin Hood’ ywas vividly called to ming by a men's Wuaiber in the firet act, and there were suggestions of ‘Said Pasha’ in the musical coloring of later scenes. The lyrics by Frederio Ranken were sromcosient in most instances, and witle Herry B, Smith contributed more ome clever quip, there were enough ber bind to warfant the build- @ wing to “The Old Jokes’ ome gf Mr. Smith's supposedly comic devices,” duction of a mecnanical dali,” were of @ day on which the sun has ‘get. _,.Simmie Powers Amusing. SJimmie’, Powers—he of the expan- sive and ety pedir speech— ‘worked fie a Trojen and wi using, but he somehow. Being tted in hie Turkish t however, belonged th r the seeming success wi ch the ore, enjoyed at the bande of a charac: Peristisal friendly frst-olght ‘aatence, ‘Aside from Miss meagre ce WAS Wendored "by Dy the other ae Tisaps "and edmlretion are due the horus eres Gnd praise ie merited for me ostu aie th to blame for painful Pa ous movement of the plece, and @he need of further rehearsals is elo- quently ‘evidenced, — MADE CHARMING JULIET. Miap Fernanda Pilsen the Bright ‘ Spot in’ Bilzabet Pliny. Yo Bhakespearian drama in “Romeo ‘nd Juliet’ as produced In ye ancient Gay-@ ye guide Queen Bilssbeth and ye guide friend of ye guide Queen—ye ‘was revived at ye. play house ) @f Mistress Osborn ye night just past. Blope through the intervening cen- turiés and we have ‘Romeo and Juliet’ nm the boards, The stage manager had | ( provided boards, There he stopped. Quyeog Lis didn't require him to go any furthér, Bigns did the rest. ‘This Is a street,” “ This is a ho: “Tate grave yard," and such placards in- the actors as they recited the fings of the immortal bard. was one in the cast, Miss ¥er- Siem, who did more than re- ‘The best that could be @ few words is that she Fa fied feat hn aes wetting eat oat 8 thls f wonderful voice t! ; Onn best zee, — 2 rn Nogetier “wi bay her rough ageed a liane * there ugh at—weil, fever ising ‘aio Little Princess” found a new home at the Bavoy,—-Mabelle in “The Meshing Bird," began “19drle Cah Cf AP. Produced in pretentious style by the Stock company at ihe American.—"A Desperate Chance,” the Biddle Brothers’ melodrama, was again seen at the Grand Opera House.—Chauncey Olcott, in ‘Old LAmerick Town.” was a drawing card at the Metropolls—‘In Old Ken- tucky"” found a new welcome at the ‘ar——''The Village Postmaster” did 900d business at the West End.— “East Lynne,” with Rebecca Warren, as both Lady Isabel and Mme. Vine, caused tears to flow at the Third Ave- nue.——Sam Devere'n Burlesquers start- ed in the week at the Dewey. VAUDEVILLE BILLS, Keith's bill wae led by Busene O'Rourke and company in “Parlor A” —Hickey and Nelson in an acrobatic turn called “Tangled and Twisted” were features at Pastor’s—Proctor's the- atres: Clyde Fitch's ‘The Way of the World” was excellently presented at the Fifth Ayenue; Florence Buri Persecuted American Girl’ was clal attraction at the Twen' y-third street house; “The District-Attorney” ax the play at the Harlem house; oaedale” was the attraction at the Fifty-elghth street theatre; the Rossow Midgets wete the headiiners In Newark —Charles Ross and Mabel Fenton in «travesty on ‘Cleopatra’ led the: bill at the Circle Robert Hilliard” and compa “The Littlest Girl” formed a pr aowarthy part of Hurtlg & Bea- mon's bill—De Koita, the Wizard, continued at the Wden’ Musee—kKita- mura's troupe of Japanese acrobats Were. the chief attraction at Mubera “Museum, , |RUNNING ATTRACTIONS, Continuing at Broadway theatres were “The Silver Slipper,” Broadway; De ‘Wolf Hopper in “Mr, Pickwick,"" Herald Square; Amelia Bingham In “The Fris- ky Mrs, Johnaon,” Princess; “A Chinese oon," Carino; "The Unfore- Empire; Annie Russell in “Mice and Men,” Garrick; Clara Bloodgood in “The Girl With the Green Byes,” Sa- yoy; Lawrence D'Orsay and Elizabeth Tyree in “The Warl of Pawtucket," Mad- ison Sq “Mr. Blue Beard,” Knick- erbook: “Florodora."” Academy of Mu. "The, Wiaard of Oz,” Majestic alen,” Belaaco's ‘Theatre, Att “The Bold Soger Boy," Street Theatre; Jerome Sykes “The Billionaire," Daly's; “Twirly- Ne bicals re one ae Stickiness of Gelatine,” Webe Fields's: “The Suitan of Bula. Waanox’e: BI, Bo ern in “If 1 Were King,” Garden, drew Mack in Poecernn, in IN BROOKLYN THEATRES, Julla Marlowe in ‘The Cavalier” be- gan a week's engagement at the Mon- tauk—Bitta Procter Otis appeared a Nancy Sykes dn'‘Oliver Twist” at the ‘olumbia, {BIG WELCOME FOR HER. “NANCY BROWN HERE 10 STAY. Marie Cahill as a Star Is a Com- pelling Force and Will Carry Her Musical Comedy to Full Success. “Nancy Brown" needn't worry any. She can stay out the rest of the season at the Bijou sf she wants to, Bhe traps- ed demurely onto the stage of that house last night in a pink crepe de chine gown and a pink bag bearing the bucolic initials N. B. without so much as the blare of a horn or the squeak of a fiddle to herald her oncoming. There she stood all alone with her un- handsome, simple baby face all smiles 4¢ the roar of weloome that greeted her from @ house full of friends. She was Just @ plain girl, 60 free from aire and graces, so natural that she seemed not to know ghe was on the wtage her open- ing night as @ star in her own produc- ton. Cahill, and in truth it Js hardly necee- sary to way It in New York. The two are one. The programme stated last night that] o} of M 1 George H. Broadhurst and Frederic Ranken wrote the book of "Nancy Brown,” and Henry K. Hadley the ‘\lyrios. They did well, especially as to the Iyrics and the «music, but they should ‘kow-tow to Miss Cahill night! and morning and thank a good Provi- dence that she is on earth to do thelr genius justice. They gave her several songs, two of them ooo songs of the sentimental rather than the rag-time sort, and when she had sung them there were split gloves In the parquet and red palms in the gallery. One of them, “The Congo Love Song,” was especially taking, and the gallery whistled it before the last chorus encor® with @ spirit that bespeaks for it the same popularity as “Under the Bamboo Tree.” “You Can't Love All the People All the Time” was another darky mel- ody with catchy words, and ‘The Glow- worm and the Moth s, half caught, in the head of many an enthusiast as they all hustled out into the snowstorm after the evening's pleasure. As to the piece Itself, It deals with the Bey of Ballyhoo, whoever he may be, a ‘sort of cu fomary musical comedy “ous” who wears odd cloth odder things for the purpose of ples persons Who buy seats to soe Him, bere form. Nancy Brown blows into the presence of the Bey with an aggregation of rich American heirésses, whom she as t- rimonial_ promoter’ has landerteken 0 marry off. ‘rhe Bey wants his son and deughter married and has advertised for would. be husbands and to turn up and show thelr fine part y and her Wafted in, as she herself declared later in the piece, on the light air of a simple little song. So she was all even- ing. She made you feel that she would not get excited if the roof caved in or the house caught fire—a@ distinct, pleas- ing, untheatrical type—an original per- son, If you please, with @ style all her own. Her personality was the thing which made ‘Nancy Brown,” as it was her singing of the simple little gong which made {t possible to name the plece! therefor, Without her it would have been as many another two-act musical comedy—bearable; with her it was positive pleasure, The Two Are One, One almost forgets in writing to say that ‘Nancy Brown’ was Miss Marte ¢) petticoated aggregation arrive simultan- eously with a bunch of international noblemen and then the complications begin ‘to the detriment of the plot, but the increase of merriment. Droliery Added Zest. There are many Steve Mnes in the of quite naturally lot of ‘flee Cahill, whose quaint drollery adds to their seat. Hdwin Stevens, back from straight comedy, made 4 most amusing cuss of himself as the Bey, and ia doubtless lad to know it. George Behan an the rench count was also, very clever. m0 he women In the company are Judith Berolde and Jean Newcombe, the latter a ,mupero-looking woran. was good and the gentler The cho hait of it well comumed and pleasing 10 the eye. One of the male chorus. who did not have the honor to get his name on the programme. sang with such surprising merit t forced 10 re will be known How Alcohol in Disguised Form the manufacture of a well- known patent preparation, 250 barrels of aleoho! are used weekly. The bottles hold less than a pint. 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