The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1903, Page 7

A POST-HISTORIC CRITICISM. AE +An Archaeologist of the Future Tells All He Doesn't Know - About.‘ Pretty Peggy,’’ Lectures on the Curious Tribe of **Nyorkese’”’ and Explains the Custom “To Play Stahr’’ on “The Broad Way.” ‘UST as Prot. Owen could from a fost] bone buf up an extinct thingumy- eaurus, so the theatrical savant of the future will be able from @ single |, speech to reconstruct a Broadway play of the dramatic dark age of 1908, @uppose, for instance, thet our learned archaeologist of anno domint "steenty- -eixty whould excavate a mildewed fragment: of prompt-book, and in Geciphering this small passage: ‘Peg Woffington,' there ts that in your witching presence which would make forget their thrones!” You can imagine the savant saying to the fragment, ‘That will be about all youl" and subsequently lecturing his class somewhat in thie strain: “This interesting antiquity, while it does not throw a new light on the sub- Ject, goes far to confirm whet we already know of the primitive diversions of the t Americans, Richerd Harding Devis's new comedy, “The Taming of Helen,” will be next yeek's novelty. It will be seen for the first thne in New York at the Bavoy ‘Theatre on Monday night. Henry Mil- der bas the principal part, that of a Drtna De Wolfe wil appear as a society edventuress. Other members of the George and her leadin Comedian, Pigeon-toe! Indiana girl in “ils Hop “Fiddle-Dee-Dee” will be the attrac- thon at Prootor’s Fitty-cighth street theatre, the new east side combination house. \ “Ak Gembier’e Daughter” is on the | cards for the Third Avenue Theatre. ‘The Tiger Lflies Burlesque Company wil play a return engagement at the Square VAUDEVILLE BILLS. Kathryn Osterman, in « one-act comedy #ketch, “The Haltor,” will head & Dill of attractive features at Keith's. McCabe, Gabine and Vera, in "The Arrival of Kitty MoCarthy,” will lead @ long and excellent lst of entertainers at Pastor's, CHANCES OF LIFE. ;|Rervous, fidgety, discontented member ¥ ot tne! fami); Wattinal Yon (Annie Wht Titer) OUTDOOR EXERCISE. edge thet she would be in better health | and spirits If she went out more, says the Boston Journal, But many of them will Invent more xcuses for staying in the house than there are tucks and ruffles on the gar ments the fashioning of which has kept ™many @ women within doors, to the detriment of berwelf and family; for I'm sure you will agree with me that one will eet them all by the a “little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” FRECKLES | LIVER SPOTS Sve SON HAS R-R- ROBBED ME! ... MY GAWD) HE MUST BE A \ THIEF! *JLH Gilmour the‘ Heamy Father of Fourteeth Streef. MADISON SQUARE GARDE! pa A ne eile &B G@ 1€ tg 11 SOAP | |MEDICINAL| | TOILE | | KIN TORTURES, eczemas, S itchings, irritations and chafings stantly relieved by warm bathe ‘vik Curicura Soar and gentle anoint tae with Curicura Omrrment, the great sk! — “It was unearthed in the subterranean ruins of Nyork, or Neyork (pometimes A DOG THAT HU6KS CORN, cure and purest of rola, f be fol erroneously confounded with the neighboring but smaller viliage of Newark). “The inhabitants of Nyork at the period to which the manusoript belongs not \enty cooked their food and wore clothing, but even achieved considerable dex- \terity jn mechanical pursuits, and knew something of the rudiments of electricity. \4n other respects, however, they were plunged in barbariem. ; “Preyed upon by rapacious monsters called Terust (or Trulst), and tnsatiadly jaddicted to trading and the accumulation of wealth, they sought relaxation et theatres, of which they supported a surprisingly large number—most of them situated on the main thoroughfare, or ‘Broad Way;’ but instead of noble and \moving tragedy, or elegant and witty comedy, their favorite form of entertain- ment, while masquerading under the name of drama, bore no real relation to ‘that immortal ert, nor even remotely approached the facts of life or the opera- tions of the mind.” a a a a a ERD let us #kip a few pages, wherein the Professor elaborates tris ideas on the drama, and return to Pretty Pegsy." “Among the attractive young females of the race," be continues, ‘there een competition for the curious privilege of exhtbiting themselves in the tres on the ‘Broad Way,’ in the oharaoter of ‘Stahr’—a term of which the ‘meaning has not been handed down to us. he nay star that 8 ame we be tno, and about the time of the First impire, under Plerpontius Morgon L, the reaction reached euch an acute stage t ‘to play Stabs’ was made a misdembanor, involving a penalty which this rious people eeem to have feared worse than death—vis.: the omission of the Iprit’d name from all the printed sheets which were in those days the sole of maidens and youths in the Empire who ‘Were slogied out for great publa honors, and were en- o tendency to be tah’ (or ‘to Btahr’, “Innocent as a Ak the Criterion Theatre on Monday | Lamb,” « roaring comedy, once piayed tight Charles Hawtrey, the well-kmown|by Roland Reed, will be prewented FO Peggy—There’s only one difference between the donkey and me. He has a tongue and can’t use it, while 1 have a tongue and —“Pretty Peggy.” nnn nnn nnn nnn) Dnetish actor, wi begin an engagement lf hie success of two seasons, A Mes- sage from Mere.” The popularity of the clever cometly was proven lest esa- son et the Gatick Theatre, where it fan Cor over two hundred nights. ° ee ‘Wveryman,” the fifteenth century morality play which Charles Frohmen ‘again be seen m the title role, Aig that “The Jewel of Aste” wilt move to Daly's. James T. Powers wit have « thew song, "He Wes a Married Man,” and Blanche Ring will revive the song ehe gang et Mrs, Osborn's Playhouso, “There's « Bixange Pescination About the Stage.” Ls . 0 ‘he West Dnd Theatre will have the est. attraction sinoe its opening—“Be- elde the Bonnie Brier Bush,” the dram- ativation of lan Maclaren’s chanming @tory, The play will be presented by that @terling old actor J. H. Stoddart and the original suporting company. ‘The Billionaire,’ with Jerome Sykes, Gy, Peggy (to George Anne Bellamy)—You may make you Ou do you will exit in clothes they wore in the Garden that of own, but if len.—"Pretty | eggy.” | Will leave Daly's and go to the Harlem Opera-House for a week's engagement. ‘Lovers’ Lane,” by Clyde Fitch, will be ‘the offering of the Donnelly stock company at the Murray Hill Theatre. Mabellc Gilman, in the tuneful musi- bal comedy “The Giocking Bird,” will be the attraction at the Grand Opeta- Wilson “Phe @an of the Cross,” will be played the Gar Theatre, Rone dea will be agen at the can’t help using it. : A cornhusking dog is the latest novel- et the Fifth Avenue Theatre. John/ hand. wn L. Sullivan, in monologue, will be} corn and th 4n interesting feature pf the vaudeville bil at the Twenty-third stréet house. The One Hundred ant Twenty-fitth street house will depart from its cum ‘tom and instead of the stock company wil have a vaudeville bil, headed by Florence Burns, ‘the Brooklyn heroine," Roland 'B. Molineux's sketch, “Was It a Dream?” will be sepn at the Newark house. ‘The Empire Bhow, in which Jemes J. Corbett fe a prominent factor, will gro- vide the bill ac Hurtig & Seamon's, Lid ela pthianghobvdis alga taaal panthers ‘will remain the featur at Huber’s Museum, ESTABLIGHED ATTRACTIONS, Comtinuing at leading theatres will be Blanche Walsh in “Resurrection,” Vic- toria; “The Unforween,” Empire; Annie RuseeN in “Mice and Men," Garrick; Bisie de ‘Wolfe in “Cynthia,” Bfadison Square; “Mr. Blue Beard,” Knicker Docker; ‘The Gultan of @uiu,” Wel- tack's; ‘The Wiserd of 2," Majestic “pwirly-Whirly"” and “The Big Little Princess," Weber & Fields's; the Royal ‘Liliputians, Fourteenth Gtrest Theatre; r entrance in Marie Catt in “Nenoy Brown,” Bijou; Geuce George In “Pretty Pegay," Herald Square; A Chinese Honeymoon,” sino; “The Prince of Pilsen," Broadway “The Suburban,” Academy of Music; Williame and Wether, New York: “The Beri of Pawtucket,” Manhattan Blanche Bates in “The Desting of tho Gods," Belasco's, Theatre; Amelia nghem tn Dhe Byieky Qire, Jébneon,'’ Princess, IN BROOKLYN THEATRES. “A Country Girl," tne vawrming Bng- Meh musical comedy which enjoyed a long run at Daly's, will be at the iter corn from careful e Dut ttenbeugh his HH Ha eo for @ motor-oar ye wervedly tabooed by to-date term used for & horse: loss carriage. and constipated Allen 8, 01 ebioy, Ns Yo, And brings again the birds, a i, RT Shy eT: my Her taco, my flower of bilss; Ob, who could find the winter jong ‘With euch « love as this! 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