The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1903, Page 12

fhe Starbucks,” a Story of | Tennessee Mountaineers, Is! / Witnessed by Ex-Senator Ma-, of the footlights at Daly’s last | ‘the stage was the rude Tennes-| atmosphere of ‘‘The Starbucks."'| in the lobby there lingered the long-| ARaired author, Opie Read, his silver-| | ptpeaked thatch surmounted by a slouch! ) hat, and the greater portion of his tall, | figure enveloped in an historic} Albert.”’ “In an upper box sat Col. Jack Craw- Berd, ‘the poet-scout,” who had gal-| #5 Yoped from the plains to see his play- : t pal attempt to “round up” padway. The Colonel's luxuriant locks " out in an fron-gray mane over ‘collar of his coat, while the free tt of the West flicked from the ends his long mustache and dripped from @ashing ‘‘goatee."’ 4th the breezy Crawford were ¢x- tor “Billy Mason and other citl- ims of the commonwealth of Illinois. “were enthusiastic, even to the de- “@tee of exuberance. Mason was espe- ‘elatly appreciative. When anything in @ play struck him as good he let the t of the people in the house know it by drawing a deep sigh of satisfac*ion | ' and then getting busy with his palms @ manner to shame the mos cal- Some of the things Feached him a little late, but with him _Pecognition was better late than never. At the end of the second act the loyal THEODORE kOBE® } statesman mysteriously disappeared, (The Moonshiner) > Bever to return. — A Daly's never had quite such a night | * Mt was as though a wild Western wave | T ad ewept into the place and told the red Ghirts of the effete Bast to 60 | @hase themselves. And the Bolled . ts and White Lace Dresses looked | i] /Mip at the interesting box party and en- ed immensely the novelty of genuine! i Ba ned spirits. | 2c + Read's Humor Enjoyed. ! aa Yorkers also enjoyed the quaint mer of Read. As a play, however, | ’ i ME e parhucks” doesn't bmount to | Mrs. Burnett’s Famous Clas auch. The comedy is more of a char- j j ' os sketch than a play. It is filled a at the ae with 1 “atmosphere” and crude epigrams which have burrs of wit sticking to - arming Little Girl in y them. But the trouble is Mr. Read has Title Role. i i the inaction of his Tennessee Bi! balaal set the pace for dramatic ent. _ Most of the time the piot Is standing | SHE IS MISS VIVIAN MA gtill,and when it does move its galt a, 2% } + oy Mn’t dast enough co make up for lost etigala «| “How many candies have yoo } ‘Jasper Starbuck made wildcat whis-| asked the little girl witi the pink y for family use. Lije Peters, a low-| in her hatr. mn sort, failing in his attempts to| ‘Ten,’ answered tho litt® girt Jasper’s daughter and to blackmai|the blue bow fastened ‘? hat , old man out of a thousand dollars,|curis. “How many have you? ‘ an appointment as Deput “Eight.” United States Marsha! and brings about; ‘You have eaten to more i. ¢he drrest of the simple-minded ‘‘moon-| “Yes, I know," sight! ‘8 pin! ; er.’ Starbuck, who has served inj penitent, ‘‘but you pied more the pope army, wins his release by | did” n@ 5 OA ng to th triotic sympathies Lots rls wit apa Federal judge, Iikewise « Pelarear ored or altee algal vows, — - Some of the speeches are knee-deep f ‘ante fond “sentiment. of the popular-pricea| #4 laughed over “I/\''¢ atten tnd and the ‘‘moonshiner’s” daughter | A Charming Little Lord —— md the judge's sister, who is a divorcee,; They felt so sorry £0" “Dearest ice mountain preacher, she pined over paring with the ie ‘i Some Droll Characters. and lovable little ior in the Srat al droll characters are intro-; for Chry nade a a pem! among them a backwoods prod- |}, Coevea) Herne i ul and » @ey who borrows a meal bag and, after BIB ve,. "yOUlh / ping it a year, brings it back ofly io| Mother. ow it again. Incidentally, he treats} And no mother ever had @& Way to a novelty in the way of a| charming child than beautiful Wi P WE re Roberts {ves a rough, virile] Martin made Mrs, Burnett of Starbuck, along the lines of/ten hero, She play’d the part Col. Canby in ‘Arizona’ and his! ; , dy Southerner in “Jim Bludsoe,” and proudly. : “Wxcellent characterizations are also| It was really too sad to thie bi eS BpaLTEcea by Thomas Coleman as Lije|a mother and child being parted. fe bs , » Louise Rial as Mrs. Star-| One tender-heartud matinee ek, William Visscher as the negro Bintchin, William | Dills at Laz Spencer| pletely used up two kerchd iliam Evarts as Mose Blake . countess Of * Despite the excellence of the character | rth ane LUGRRE by: * ° house, 7 Graring. however The Starbucks” {s|fU! maids all over tne Pie \ eer cking in strong. sequent in-| nothing of suspiciously-actif eh i 8 therefore not likely to take| there will be an alarming Ine y deep root In Broadway. size of laundry bills ducing tp ae OPENINGS ELSEWHERE. | 9f she duvenile hesst- cua ne na ‘/“Alphonse and Gaston,” a new must: | Caen Se though — ay ake farce, created siderab \ eye OP ip # wal % considerable laughter) ing jts grt periormancé Tet @t the Fourteenth Street Theatre.——Ine | j1:t}e reason for apprehension, Ayr sige and enthusiasm of the audience Aat|,, nearly all the charaetére we the Grand Opera House warranted the! goog hands. J. H. Sradbuny «i ets tne that droil Stuart Robson 48) pronphs, the grocer brows) pape: je the Lamb, and Bronson Howard's! , yankee dialect thet was Lsoe@dted Jent play, “The Henrietta,” Ne iy , ’ a 4," Wil) uine James E. Wilton made the ¢ ow old.—Sounds of revelry from} act yind of an ol! Karke bat eve told of the merry effect of thie | crustiness could no: witaskaagaytne and Fields happy family at the/ ing effect of Miss Mirtin & n nd Theatre, where the music hall} vot biked. are playing a week's engagement! Adventuress ari a restarting onthe road.—Elita Proc-| Emily Wakeman > 1\"* oy oon for Otis and the Donneliy Stock Com-| thusiastically anphee smote was B appeared in “A Wife's Peril,” a| hands Dorothy Re hited’ fo : play, at the Murray Hill Theatre. | “Just too horrid fos bsg ts <= . --Primrose and West's Big American| defiantly drawn portray yt oe ¥ Minwtrels gave a g00d show at the Har-| Vventuress, a characters dem Opera House.——"'The Christian" was! Which seems nomen gt, tt team “Fevived by the stock company at the! # enilaren &. py en. ,! : can Theatre.---Thomas E. Shea, jn nnn is AP reasor wor i u ine Price of Honor,” was the attrac-| Fauntleroy’ is not £0 tare ‘Bon at the Star.——-Charles MeVarthy, in boys and girls is Lite Pris : #One of the Bravest,’ was cheered at |*'*8° *t°°: oe ees Third Avenue.——‘‘Heppy Hooil ve the igan LLSs. Ay made patrons of the Metropolis torget VAUDEVILLE iy isi ~s S orodora troubles.—The Brigadier Bur-| The Floroc coon th week @ th yy é a odded into its # y eaptured the Dewey, nodded I: Kt eee ae ste —— ttraction at ABLISHED ATTRACTIONS, | was ed vy Halley ppa Magi The maining at leading theatres were;|tesque eccentrich Prince of Pilsen,” Broadway; crores of Roya! Japanese si | Bultan of Sulu," Walleck's; Grace| were the Dis typers fm 4 eor, in “Pretty Peggy.” Herald! Circle ——Proctor's & seatres: t iauere; “A Chinese Honeymoon," Ca-|in the Moonlight.f The fom 0; Blancho Walsh in “Resurrection,” |in which Robert Mantell {4 J ; “The Wizard of Oz," Majestic; peared, was presented at the “Buburban,” Academy of Music;|nue Theatre The rigtoub J 1 of FAW LCet, Manhattan: | mma Ray. in « ROW Hkete asco Theatre; Mak 1 4 the Fireman made Une own,"’ Bijou: Amelia Bing- | the twenty-third Breas, The Frisky Mrs. ie | 88 heap Ailes gy " a "The U Dreseon.’ een Cherry piokers wer Russell in ''Mice ane Men,” Gar. teresting mé a Re + us : ash Wirey In “A Message | Harlem nousé, v at : i Hele Henry Miller th Old Kentucks," wae ney voy; Miss the witty ols th tg ki bocker, | Newark Use WV 4 hey * ¥ ry ° 4 band in Clover