The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1903, Page 9

L : , MODEST GENIUS IN “VORDERVEEL.” Cleverest acting of the week was in what the patrone of Proctors denominate “vorderveel.” No, not in the Molineux “play” (ghastly recollection!), but hid- Gen away in the patchwork of entertainment that followed it. His name is Baggesven, I suppose, because he ts one of a team billed as) “The Great Baggessens, Original Comedy Juggiers.” He may be a juggier,; Dat be mercifully refrains from juggling. He just acts. The juggler we have always with us, but the real actor is a rare bird. Bence this paean to Baggessen. Baggessen can act standing still. Without moving a muscle of his own he ean set all yours shaking with laughter. And the best authorities will tefl you that to communicate mirth or melancholy without the ald of motion , BF speech is the last and greatest manifestation of the actor's art. ‘The other Great Baggessen duesn't act; she juggles. Her greatness is wisible to the eye and could be expressed in cwt., avoirdupois—I should say @bout 3 owt. The male Baggessen's greatness is of a less ponderous but mot less palpable kind. Outwardly he {s small and bony. There is nothing alarming about the female Baggessen’s juggling. With placidity she can keep an orange, a plate and a fork rotating from _J Be plump hand to the other in front of her plump face, and that’s about all> ' It’s the male Baggessen that counts. * o * wo o o H comes wandering in while the other Baggessen is performing her first childish “stunt.” You behold a shambling, red-nosed man in an impossible music-hall disguise of shabby gentility. You expect him to engage in “funny business,” but he doesn't, In a ‘ery quiet way he Is conscious of the audience, and resolved hazily to pre- @erve a nice, respectable appearance. He is furtively anxious about the white eotton gloves that dangle on his hands. With feeble alacrity he steers fespecttuly clear of the large juggling lady, and after one or two experi- i ‘ments strikes a modest, demure pose, with eyes timidly fixed on the gallery. And, although there's not a trace of the grotesque or exaggerated in that pose, the house explodes with glee. Why? It’s character. Character sticks out all over the Great Baggessen. Wou behold @ feeble-minded wreck whose clouded consciousness is wrapped Mp in the small vanity of doing the proper thing and not earning the dis- mpleescre of his wife. And all this he conveys to you in an irresistibly ludicrous way without movement or a grimace. Baggessen does much more as the act progresses, but he never smiles or i ee or loses a particle of the original quiet simplicity of his crea- + He gets into trouble with fly-paper and is deeply ashamed before the ‘eyes of the audience as he plucks it furtively from one hand, only to nd tt 4.8 moment later sticking to the other. In that and other hopeless difficulties he brings laughter to a climax by the Sudden resolution with which he ambles off the stage to get rid of his roubles, The fun becomes! more active and. complicated toward the end, and the » tage is strewn with a forest of broken crockery, but not a word is spoken. In one of his extremities the solemn Baggessen proves to be a bit of a gontortionist. But you don’t want him to contort—you just want him to get, because it isn’t often in a lifetime that you see such acting as his, ad a a os a rd We. reminds me of the important fact that Mr. Herbert Kelcey has become an actor, Honest—he has! After all these years on the stage, he has joined the profession! It’s a little late in life, to be sure, but he deserves encouragement, and Betually shows indications of success, |» As that impossible hero of preposterous melodrama, Sherlock Holmes, ar. Kelcey plays his part instead of playing Mr. Kelcey, if “He has sacrificed not only his mustache, but many other personal char- Acteristics that he never parted with before. If I hadn't seen his name on ‘the Dill,’ it’s a positive tact that I shouldn't have recognized him, His make-up betrayed skill, and his acting was not devold of the rudl- “ments of thought. ° ~~ And Miss Shannon, having bravely corrected a tendency toward em- " bonpotnt, giimmers forth more fair, more in-Effle-ble—I1 mean ineffable— more of the Blessed Damozel than ever before. *And oh, the riotous joy of Eighth avenue! It warms one’s heart to ‘this blameless domestic pair at length on the high road to fortune— ‘Por “Sherlock Holmes” has all the ear-marks of “a winner for fair.” KATE CAREW, = _ OH | New life will be infused into theatrical next week. “On Monday night at the Madison bre Theatre Miss Elsie De Wolfe ‘@ppear in @ new play, “Cynthia, meritten by Hubert Henry Davies. It ts ‘@omedy of London society life, the gharacters of which are a young sive her much more if phe will remain off the stage, and the comedy ends with fortune restored. In Miss De Wolfe's support will be Charles Cherry, Arnold Daly, Max Freeman, G, Harrl- son Hunter, Kate Pattigon Belten, Laure Clements and Carita Vidal, fled couple, the wife an American, husband the son of a wealthy hou n both extravagant and the least idea of the value of Tongs ay night wil pine another must- ‘omedy, "Tho Prince of Pilsen,” ion js to take wp its home tn the Broadway Theatre, Frank Pixley and Gustay Luders, who wrote ‘King Dodo," “re the authors of this plese, and the production is made by Henry W. Bav- Age, who has already introduced “King Dodo” and ‘Phe Sultan of Sulu" to New York, ‘The piece has been playéd for sight months, but haa not been scen cutelde of Chicago and Boston, A Ger- man brewer of Cincinnat! goes with nis pretty daughter on a vislt to Nice and {s there mistaken for the Prince of Pil- fen, The fun comes from the hvnore thrust upon him. Meanwhile the real Prince, who’ is content to remain in- cognite, falls in love with the brewer's n the father tells them they must expenses they evolve funny ¢ inte of economy, and the your finally gets into the tolls of a money-iender, A friend of the Hy, a man of unlimited means, helps @ out of her difficulties. Complica- i and suspicions arise, but the hus- Decomes satisfied that his *ife @one nothing worse than borrow ne '@t & por cent. Poverty finally f overtake the couple. The wife ts | neon ed dancer, and the money- yd & chance of getting his offers her @ music-hall en- C4 So Sherman walte, Lilian Coleman, Jean- ette Bageard and Anna Lichter. se 8 George Sidney, who formerly played Hebrew characterizations in Ward and Vokes's Company, will be Introluced as @ star at Proctor’s Fifty-eighth street theatre Monday night, when that place of amusement begins !ts career/as a combination house. Sidney will be seen in a musical comedy called “Busy Izzy." Virginia Harned will appear in “Iris” at the Harlem Opera-House, “The Fatal Wedding,” with little Cora Quentin and Gertrude Haynes's Choir Celestial, will return to the Grand Opera-House. Dion Bouclcault's “The Shaughraun,”* when I spoke to hur, with Robert MoWage, 3p a8" Conn, will Th iin cenaeg atten Denelo aes company at the Mupryy’ Hil ‘Theatre. “In the Palace ofsthg) King,” the play made known by Viola Allen, will have Its first presentation by @ stock com- pany at the American Theatre Monday night, Joo Welch in “The Peddler" at the Btar, Amelia Bingham's special company, headed ‘by Kowelle Knott and W. J. Ferguson, will play “A Modern Mag- culen" at the Metropolis, “Way Down East," the popular pas- toral play, with the original company, headed by Phoebe Davis and Archie Boyd, will be the ettraction at the End Theatre. in Convict Stripes’ is the name of a prison play which will serve @ week's term at the Third Avenue. ‘The Imperial Burlesquers will be the attraction at the Dewey. LAST WEEK OF OPERA, Monday night will see the opening of the seventeenth and last week of grand opera under the mandgement of the Maurige Grau Opera Company at the Metropolitan Opera-House. It will be marked by what promises to be @ brilliant revival of Donlzetil's charming opera “Don Pasquale,” eung will be AT THE CIRCLE: and ra‘ses the devi!. by Mme. Sembrich, Messrs. Scotti, Gill- bert, Dani and nl, under the musical direction of Mr. Flon. On the same evening Maacagni's opera "Cavallert Rusticana” will for the only time thi. season be gi with Mme, Gadaeki a: and Miss. Bauermelater as Luci, De Marchi aa Tusiddu end Mr. Campa- nar! an Alfio, “Lohengrin,” with Mme. Nordica as Elsa, Mme, Schumann-Heink as Ortrud, Mr. Anthes ag Lohengrin, Mr. Bispham ag Friedrich von Telramund and Mr. do Messke as Heinrich der | Nordi will be the bill gn Wednesday | Messrs. Salignac and Journet, and a entire chorus George in wh Darlin ot Vre Gees” ' THE MAN WHO MADE LONDON LAUGH: | “My wife was a telephone girl, Now she reverses it,”” “That Flatiron Building raises the wind, raises the skirts If it was in the Tendértoin it would be arrested for disorderly conduct,” rT Mr. at Huber's Museum. | Arliss a LAD) ied agement promises a double bill, tnclud- ing “La Fille du Regiment,” with the admirable cast already heard several times this season, and Miss Ethel M. Smyth's interesting music-drama, “Der | will be Blanche Walsh in ‘“Resurrec-| Wald” (The Forest.) again sung by| tion.’ Victoria;’ B. H. Sothern in last Mmes. Gadski and Reuss-Belce; Messrs, | weck of “If I Were King,” Garden; Anthes, Bispham, Blass, Muhlmann, | Lianche Bates in “The Darling of the Dufriche and Maestri. God's," Belasco's Theatre; Mary Shaw “Faust” 1s announced for the last matinee on Saturday, with Mme. Nor- VAUDEVILLE ADVICE T0 WIVES: dica as Marguerite, Miss Carrie Bride- well as Siebel, Mr, Alvarez as Fa Mr. Scott! as Valentine and Mtr, ouard de Reszke as Mephjstopheles, @. while for the last night of the season concerts as usual. ESTABLISHED ATTRACTIONS. Continuing runs at leading theatres “Always have nice, good-looking servant girls, should be encouraged to come home as often as possib!e,"* =WORLD'S = HOME = M Be © : - ces a[AAd company In "Ghosts," Mrs, Os- perenne ivan et: papules) prisae) © |S rag Playhouse, last week; De Wolf cemedy OTe ataletoretn with Mme,/2Hopper in “Mr. Pickwick,” Herald| Square, last week; “The Wizard of) 102," Majestic: Jerome Sykes In “The Billionaire,” Daly's; Marie Cahill tn . “Nancy Brown," Bijou; W. H. 'Thomp- She used to say ‘Hello!’ son ine "The Bishop's Move," Manhat- tan; "Florodora,” Academy of Music,| omer canes ener Wober & Flelds's; The Frisiy Mrs. Big Little Princess, Amelia Bingham in Johnson," Princess: A Chinese Honey- moon,” Casino; “The Unforeseen,” Em- pire; Annle Russell in ‘Mice and Men,” Garrick; Clara Bloodgood in “The Girl with the Green Eyes," Savoy; James T. Powers in ‘The Jewel of Asin,” Cri- “Mr. Blue Beard,’ Knicker- terion; A man “The Sulten of Sulu," Wal- lack's; Willams and Walker in “In Dahomey," New Yor MoFudden's Row of Flats,’ Fourteenth Street Thea- tre. IN BROOKLYN THEATRES, Robert Edeson will be seen at tho Montauk In sof Fortune.” At the Coly Marie Wainwright will appoar In choo for Scandal.” bocker; last woek; “Twirly-Whirly" and “The Gadsk! as Eva, Mme, Schumann-Heink 4s Magdalene, Mr, Anthes aa Walther! LETTERS, - von Stolzing, Mr, Van Rooy as Hans Sachs and Mr. Bispham as Beckmesser. QUESTIONS, On Monday, March 2%, the company: r i eee ce ANSWERS. extend over @ period of four weeks, On the evening of April 7 a farewell per Friday. formance will be given at the Metro- pollten, in which the leading singers of the company will take part. VAUDEVILLE OFFERINGS, Mme, Eugenie Mantell, the grand- opera prima donna, will be the high- Class headiner at Keith's, Mr. and Mrs, Gene Hughes in “A Matrimonial Substitute’ will lead the bill at Pastor's, The Great Lafayette in “The Corona- tlon of King Edward" and imitations of celebrated bandmasters will be the atar at the Circle, Proctor's theatres: successful melodrama, will be seen at the “Under Two Flags,” Oulda’s novel, will be presented at the Harlem house, Arthur and Jeanie Dunn in jo Messenger Hoy’ will lead the vaudeville bill at the ‘'wenty-third street theatre, At the Newark house Florence Burns will be the headliner. Charles Edwards and company, in the 18857 is the heat Joseph Arthur’ “Blue Jean: Fitth Avenue @ dramatization of rural one-act comedy “Cloverdale,” be the principal feature at Hurtle &| Seamon's. ' De Kolta, the Wizard, wil! ive his iltuslons at the n Musee. | dr, Jekyll and Mr, Hyde" will be performed by J. B. Burke and company ntinue to to womer beautifyi iw scalp ani ti , SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS, At the last of the popular Sunday night concerts Lo be given at the Metro politan Opera-House, the Requiem Mase of Verdi will be sune by Mme. and Mme. Sehumann-Helnk, {rough and { in baths offensive ulcerative Apollo, To the Editor of The What was the name af the mytholog- | pation, headache, tecthing and stom- teal God of Art? The Dated Side tn the Head. To the Kaitor of The Evening World Which side of a United States coin To the Editor of The Evening World What day of the week was Oct. 3, M. H. Evening World 0, B. G.” CHARLES GOLETSTHIN. 10.05 Square Miles. 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