9.3. Der
uene Kakadu
Eeene
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Notes of Interest
FHE thought uppermost in the minds
of the audience that witnessed
Hauptmann's"Hannele“ last night
jatthe Lyceum Theatre was one of grati¬
Itude to Mrs. Fiske for producing the play,
not unmixed with a feeling of wonderment
Ithat the woman who is so potent in subtle.
and sophisticated roles, like Becky Sharp,
Tess and Hedda Gabler, should be so tri¬
umphant in expressing the simplieity and
beauty of childhoodas she did last night
In Hauptmann’s pathetle little dream play.
Hannele“ baffles description and may
be called Gothic. It is a bit of naive
mediaevalism set in a modern German vil¬
lage. Poor little Hannele, motherless and
Ill treated by a drunken father, is rescued
from drowning by the kind hearted school¬
master, who carries her out of the bitter
winter night into the uncertaln comfort of
an almshouse. Here, as she is dying,
visions come to her. Her mother in a
dream brings her a primrose—a symbol of
the key pf heaven. The cnly kindly influ¬
ence in her life is the schoolmaster, and in
her delirlum she sees him as the Christ
spirit, and, arrayed as a bride of heaven,
Ishe Is led by him on a golden stairway
thre ah fluttering angel wings into celes¬
Itial ourts.
Hauptmann’s insight into the child spirit
lis revealed in his wonderful depiction of
Hannele’s dream, wherein the most ether¬
eal fancies play in and out with homely
little bits of raalism. Mrs. Fiske's reallza¬
####of the Character is worthy of all
praire and her production of the play
shows great and most careful preparation.
It is perhaps to be regretted that her
langels are not more ethereal and her
scanic effects less suggestive of the prop¬
erty room. But Hannele is an extremely
difficult play to stage adequately, and it is
only just to say that the production is
more than adequate. Holbrook Blinn as
the Schoolmaster, Alice John as the Dea¬
coness and Fuller Mellish as the drunken
father were prominent in the cast.
The play was prededed by. The Green
Cockatoo,“ another production from the
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0
S
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HRS FISHE as HANNFLP
st ine Iveron
German, widely different from the dream
play. Arthur Schnitzler’s bit of grim real¬
ism has been seen here at the German
Theatre. The present production is ad¬
Imirable in very way, and the group of
mummers, arlstocrats and cannaille who
jmeet at the Green Cockatoo on the night
iwhe., the Bastile fell, were admirably pre¬
sented by the able actors of Mrs. Fiske's
wwell balanced company.
RTER EMERSON BROWNE'S new
play The Spendthrift,“ with Ed¬
I mund Breese and Miss Thals Ma¬
Ggrane in the leading roles, had its initial
uene Kakadu
Eeene
box 15/3
Notes of Interest
FHE thought uppermost in the minds
of the audience that witnessed
Hauptmann's"Hannele“ last night
jatthe Lyceum Theatre was one of grati¬
Itude to Mrs. Fiske for producing the play,
not unmixed with a feeling of wonderment
Ithat the woman who is so potent in subtle.
and sophisticated roles, like Becky Sharp,
Tess and Hedda Gabler, should be so tri¬
umphant in expressing the simplieity and
beauty of childhoodas she did last night
In Hauptmann’s pathetle little dream play.
Hannele“ baffles description and may
be called Gothic. It is a bit of naive
mediaevalism set in a modern German vil¬
lage. Poor little Hannele, motherless and
Ill treated by a drunken father, is rescued
from drowning by the kind hearted school¬
master, who carries her out of the bitter
winter night into the uncertaln comfort of
an almshouse. Here, as she is dying,
visions come to her. Her mother in a
dream brings her a primrose—a symbol of
the key pf heaven. The cnly kindly influ¬
ence in her life is the schoolmaster, and in
her delirlum she sees him as the Christ
spirit, and, arrayed as a bride of heaven,
Ishe Is led by him on a golden stairway
thre ah fluttering angel wings into celes¬
Itial ourts.
Hauptmann’s insight into the child spirit
lis revealed in his wonderful depiction of
Hannele’s dream, wherein the most ether¬
eal fancies play in and out with homely
little bits of raalism. Mrs. Fiske's reallza¬
####of the Character is worthy of all
praire and her production of the play
shows great and most careful preparation.
It is perhaps to be regretted that her
langels are not more ethereal and her
scanic effects less suggestive of the prop¬
erty room. But Hannele is an extremely
difficult play to stage adequately, and it is
only just to say that the production is
more than adequate. Holbrook Blinn as
the Schoolmaster, Alice John as the Dea¬
coness and Fuller Mellish as the drunken
father were prominent in the cast.
The play was prededed by. The Green
Cockatoo,“ another production from the
100
*
——
0
S
—
*
HRS FISHE as HANNFLP
st ine Iveron
German, widely different from the dream
play. Arthur Schnitzler’s bit of grim real¬
ism has been seen here at the German
Theatre. The present production is ad¬
Imirable in very way, and the group of
mummers, arlstocrats and cannaille who
jmeet at the Green Cockatoo on the night
iwhe., the Bastile fell, were admirably pre¬
sented by the able actors of Mrs. Fiske's
wwell balanced company.
RTER EMERSON BROWNE'S new
play The Spendthrift,“ with Ed¬
I mund Breese and Miss Thals Ma¬
Ggrane in the leading roles, had its initial