The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1904, Page 4

tare: ROUSING CHEERS; Who at Eighty-three Be- —omes a Star in “Granny ; Meets with Affectionate Re-f _ Caption on snc Tour. | io ¢ \% \¢ @ star, but the greeting wel $ Gilbert in “Granny” at the Lyceum! $ Jast night must have made the) @ worth while, We doubt if Mrs. ® AN $ HERSELF ANEW IN\WELL-SUITED ROLEY ys the Part of an Abused Old, Lady in Capital Style, andy 3. Wins So Many Curtain Calls She Has to Sit Down to. Th | Sixty years 1s @ long time to wait/to " thas the noise of % aj! out of h q (gare by now. If she had been @ Prest- | dential candidate she covida't have been | |peceived more enthusiastically. In Fat, | the ringing cheers at the close of re performance made the affair pa _\mhockingly ke @ political meeting. ) Mrs, Gilbert was nearly swept off her by the gale of applause whic her first entrance. But she had one to blame but herself. She had recklessly on making the public her these count! years, and she simply paying the penalty of nial popularity. It is to be hoped wen't follow the example of so young stars by allowing her head be turned. wns She Appeared In, “Beautiful gowns'’—with the feminine mation point!—didn't assist in the ie out of this dramatic debutante. programme didn't even meation by | they were made, and if Mrs. Os was in - audience we didn't see » There black cashmere nese gowns are worth desc’ ribing- a fer black silk, and a royal purple as a of reminder that Granny's lite waun’’ to be one long funeral, Un hed the purple stage—and the won-) fre she wasn't purple with rage} before—Granny had rather a hard ow to hoe, Because sho objected to her in-law forsaking the memory of her daughter for the comforting reality of a healthy 4 ee, whose clothes would raise a scandal in any New Ene- Jand villege, Granny was not only driven| from home. but was hell responatble for her grandson being driven to the Philippines because he wouldn't say *“T'mgindtomeetyou"” to the departed mother’s understudy when she was! psked to a jolly little Blue-laws dinner | Farty which began and ended tn a painfully realistic family row. But sh+ opened up a sort of Cupid's Schoo! of correspondence between the Foldier bov and the divorced ladly"s @aughter, and conducted It so success (Sully that tn the end she was magnani- fmously forgiven by ‘the generous Younger generation who sat in judg- Ment upon her—sat upon der very hard, | S Andeed—and was finally kissed by every- body in the cast Play Is New Fngland, Tt was diMcult to understand how Clyde Fitch could be “indebted to the French of George Mitchell’ for his ' play, for “Granny” is merclicssly Maas- Qchusetia and righteously New Eng Te multe Mrw. Gilhert, however, her luw-heeled @hoes to c many of the lines having Ferwest application that the audience took the worda out of Granny's tn Its affectionate recognition of Gilbert. | Oddly enough, the youngest member @f the cast shared the honors with the eldest member, Pretty, girlish Marie Deore quite won the hearts of all by “het charming portrayal of Dora, who earns to love by mall Mra, Gilbert's Night. But, after ali, it was Mrs, Glidert's| night, solely and completely, and by her admirable playing of Granny she emieared herself more than ever to heatregoers. In beginning her fare- ‘well tour at the age of elghty-three thin| » fine old actress gave splendid proof of ber wonderfully preserved powers, At the end of every act she got so) ™ \ Many curtain calls she had to sit down to them, and at the conclusion of her epilogue, rich in reminiscence and ten- @er in remembrance of “dear friends im front,” she found support by throw- ing an arm about the neck of the favored Fitch. cD ‘and Mary Richfeld ¢ EH EMMET C. KING, 554-05-66-2264863460000% ASE COGHLAN IN NEW SKETCH Mounted on Palm-Eating Horse, She Starts on “Lady Clive- brook’s Mission” at Proctor’s Fifty-eighth Street Theatre. Mounted on a horse which displayed & Voracious appetite for artificial palms, Rose Coghlan rode on the «tage at Prector’s Mifty-elahth Stieet Theatre yesterday aftarnoon aa the star of un excellent vaudeville hill and the heroine of “Lady Clivebrook Mission, “ ~~ by J. Hartley J ra a young shman now playing in Henry M os company at the Garrick, Miss Cobian was a fetoting figure ir Nght riding habit» tw three attempts, she succeeded tn re ing so that it revealed her bs art y fetching boots ed hora, and inter fire Jaddreased to a corporal with an vast aide dlulest, “Pick up vour paim The horse seemed to think the Philip Pines should be devoured tnatead of ay nexed ‘The little play fx so patrtotle In sent! ment that it might haw by an American on a and Lady Clivebrook capitulates to an American officer, played by Lynn Pratt, in even leas than the regulation vau- deville twenty minutes. It fan't 90 much what Miss Coghtan| that Miss gays, but the way she says it, makes the playlet preeting. Coghian's votce and faultless 4 are a trest worth going further Fifty-e'ghth street to hear. Miss Nor ton ard Povl Nicholson in and the Pugilixt.”” were others on the | bill, whilo Hayes and Healy, in “The Hol!boy and the Welter,” created much | merriment ii At Protor's Fifth Avenue Theatre| the stock company, headed by Ed win Anien, gave an excellent per formance of “Ths Maistér of Wood. * Jerome K. Jerome's charm staged with special sce Grant, with his ok as one of several good vaudeville features. The bill at Proctor’s Twenty,third Street Theatre included Mabel MeKin- |} ley, the well-known singer and oom- and company ua J y sket poser; Weight Huntin in “A Btolen Kise. hy PPD RG) PDDHDD-DG ‘The Lady | ver |} Ryan § MRS, GILBERT’S EPILOGUE, (Spoken at the end of “Granny” by the Venerable Actress.) Dear friends in front—the curtain must not fail Unull @ grateful woman says good-by to all I'd like to be the “Granny” of the lot of you! ‘i Just think of all the kindness that I've got of you Old age to bear becomes a happy load When love and friendatiip line the lengt And as I've lived long years in this dear I've never lacked the pressure of your } Nor missed your smile the times I tried to Jest Nor wanted for a tear when tears were best 80 when the curtain's down, the footlights out, Once and for all for mo, I'll turn aby And In my memorles live again ay Your hands and hearts mede giad for ma my wey, When with Augustin Daly 19 And Jimmy Lewis, bless him! p And Ada Rehan, mea n her bt the dear er: And John Drew, cheeky wa le wy he rs ; And charming Annie Russell and more than I can name Bot I'll keep them in my memory, every one the enme! Dear Days! so many, too, redt-lettered ones, and ‘The curtain falls on all of them—I'm eighty-three years old! Good-by, olf frionds, new friends, my children every one of you! Listen! for it’s true, I love each mother’s son of you! F Wealth, for fame, my goodness! I don't care a filbert! miy in your hearts you'll keep old Mra, Gilbert! ru ort “THE WORLD: TURSDAY bal OCTOBER 5, 1907. MSG gip gran $| i yeeum —— / 3 THEATRE: 3 ; ? 3 : cegblar i: PROCTORS . 58. ST. THEATRE. Pe ee “Miko Hagge ahite 4 many other capltal The Co wad vady" gave 9 ij ert y Ww stock com bee a Pr Hundred and Pwenty-ffih 8 with Witt tam Ingeraoll tn Gootwin's former role, Carson and W " In an amusing nan specia and Loves Grimm the ehild tor, wer Among the va atures. nis Vie Herr Adami ! 1 and am Girls, | well Richie Due the magician, remains at 1 Opera He A week Eden Mu “At the mas KE, ss00 Gra ‘rida Sho day matines he ¥ Fidna May tn 1 “Min arlem Opera-Ho ¢ French comp B.: or sonous a DANGERS TO CHILDREN Mothers she and whooping cough dangerous. Father Job cnren and makes flesh and strengt ‘dor the little one at the same time, are | rhea rlesniers the t y ish wil made nt a that croup always n's Medicine ACTRESS AND KING MADE A GREAT SUCCESS, D Fe veel CUGHLAN WON A PPACTOR AUDIENCE ve Se a hea : ow ; ut the Alta and t ru um GADSKI SAILS FOR TOUR HERE ser Withelin Prima Donna on Ko I, with Other Notables Lloyd stean K Withelm Th, whieh led from Hremben for New York to-day, had am r ven cers Mine, Gudski and husband Hane Tauscher, who goes to the United Ptates on buasl t t wun works At Lusse f He i mar Mey HERO SELLS FIREWATER. Stormy with ady the ‘ xgfully ac a drawl whe piece a w Hamilton ast ‘ ed in mak and t ng the mi vt r showed lack PUBLIC. ‘SCHOOLS IN GUAM, CHICAGO, ¢ mmander Luby, charge of the Chicago naval recrult- vifice, has received a letter trom ( Guam. or aun “su Gold -_— KEEPING UP WARMTH. is the The mat upon for e TE UINGALEE” DISAPPOINTING Eye, but Offers Noth! in Wit or Novelty. Is {t possihle that brat: eet to music; that the sheen and the tricks of the ca ne to the we rand novel wh. had ite New York pre’ last night, Is no worse an | many that ts | phawizes anew the sad trend wf musi kostion of a change of scene. uct was parti cularly dull and stupid. in the As) 4 in ma audience was over- 1 he recom the Faulty to the End. he second act Was much brighter; It h much more &’e und much A fault—lack There was a to make one 1 was a wise pro- eateh all the words, ‘ anity of in Toy- ] The first A Surprise That Will Startle the Country + IN THE NOVEMBER ISSUE OF The New York. 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