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sayit in an interesting Tachion.
Tho play takes the unusual form of four
short scenes. It began in the kitchen of a doss¬
heuse, which Jim Harris managed for bis
mother. Thither came Liz Higgins, forlorn
and penniless, to be subsequently pursued by
her drunken and foul-mouthed husband Bill.
Bill was a boon companion of Jim Harris, but
Jim proposed to hide the wife and pack the
Thusband off. Wewere neverquite at home with
Jim. From tho first ho seemed a kind of hero
whom you would not find managing just any
dosshouse. He was attracted by the woman 8
pretty helplessness and annoyed by Bill, so
hen ahe wan diesovered he hustled her out of
the house and kept the fuming Bill behind
long enough for her to escape.
BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.
In the next scene, midnight having fallen
upon the dosshouse, Liz Higgins crept back.
Sue was quite resoureeless, Jim liked her more
and more, gave her sixpence for a night's
lodging, and proposed te meet her in the morn¬
#ing and set up house with her. She was not
exbilarated bythe prospect or his kisses. After
Fall, ehe was her Bill's lawful wife; she was
Tborn respectable, and in some fashion orrother
Ishe still loved the brutish rascal. So the third
scene took her buck to him.
There was no doubt about Mre. Higgins.
FShe was a real human ereature in all her vacil¬
iations and ber helplessneen. Perhaps we did
Hot feel much kinduess for ber. She was by
nature so futile, such a blind waif in the
world. But there is notuble work in the
Scharacter, observation, and knnwledge austerely
Tree trom the temptations of sentiment. When
her Bill found her home again hewas rendy
to be moderately penitent. Unfortunately he
would talk abnnt Jim Harris and breathe
suspicions threats. In vain Liz prutested that
Jim was not, had not been, and never wonld
be anything to her. Bill growied still of
revenge, and when sbe protested raged at her,
Isc again she ran away.
Between twc stools, the poor greature fell
to the ground. Jim might perhaps have for¬
givon her stealing back to Bill, might have for¬
given her pathetie plending that she was
respestable. and did not know how to be any¬
thing eise. He cuuld Lot forgive a lie, und
she had told Bill that Jim and she had noth.ug
between them. Jim was disgusted at that,
and did not want her any more. A nice point
in male humar nature this. hut quite credible.
What was to become of her? Jim hud hi
solution. He began to langh in a queer way,
he asked her to kiss him. and be stabbed her.
Was he mad? We hau heurd something, but 5
nothing conclusive, of his queerness. Was be“
resolved, like some other peopie in literature,
to preserve the lady spotless for another world?
Was he merely determined, by the balance of
probaLility, that the most comfortable thing
Ifor her was death? After all, it ie in some sort
a compliment to the play that it should leave b.
us thinking its conclusion worth epoculation.
It was finelyacted. Mr. Norman MoKinnel,
is ho did not g. beyond the author in making
Jim wholly comprehensible, gave us a wonderful
suggestion of rongh strength, and in the last
scene wus quite eerie. Miss May Blavney
played che hapless Liz with a most pathetig
#, and made her pitiful puzzles wholly
#man. Mr. Edmond Breon ##t a good deal
of power into bis sketch of ##scally, passion¬
ate husband, and there##ch clover work
in emaller parte.
The last half of rening was filled by
Schnitzler’s stran
The Green Cocka¬
. It has, o##purse, already been seen in
ndon, and we need now onlv record again its
oldity and its power of excitement. In that
last quality you will not ### find ite equal.
Mere stagecraft it may be, urst and last, but
there is no doubt abomt its thrill. There was
plenty of good individual work in the perform¬
ance, and the general effect was a splendid
piece of bizarrerie. We can but record thef
names of Mr. A. G. Poulton, Mr. Norman
MeKinnel, Mr. Malcolm Cherry, Mr. Leslie
Carter, and Miss Sarah Brooke. For both
pieces there was great applause. It is worth
while to be in time for the first element of this
diverse programme, the“ dramatic songs!' of!
Fraulein Gertrude Rollfs and Herr Anton
Dressler.
er
9. 3 neetenetee
box 15/3
rre
sayit in an interesting Tachion.
Tho play takes the unusual form of four
short scenes. It began in the kitchen of a doss¬
heuse, which Jim Harris managed for bis
mother. Thither came Liz Higgins, forlorn
and penniless, to be subsequently pursued by
her drunken and foul-mouthed husband Bill.
Bill was a boon companion of Jim Harris, but
Jim proposed to hide the wife and pack the
Thusband off. Wewere neverquite at home with
Jim. From tho first ho seemed a kind of hero
whom you would not find managing just any
dosshouse. He was attracted by the woman 8
pretty helplessness and annoyed by Bill, so
hen ahe wan diesovered he hustled her out of
the house and kept the fuming Bill behind
long enough for her to escape.
BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.
In the next scene, midnight having fallen
upon the dosshouse, Liz Higgins crept back.
Sue was quite resoureeless, Jim liked her more
and more, gave her sixpence for a night's
lodging, and proposed te meet her in the morn¬
#ing and set up house with her. She was not
exbilarated bythe prospect or his kisses. After
Fall, ehe was her Bill's lawful wife; she was
Tborn respectable, and in some fashion orrother
Ishe still loved the brutish rascal. So the third
scene took her buck to him.
There was no doubt about Mre. Higgins.
FShe was a real human ereature in all her vacil¬
iations and ber helplessneen. Perhaps we did
Hot feel much kinduess for ber. She was by
nature so futile, such a blind waif in the
world. But there is notuble work in the
Scharacter, observation, and knnwledge austerely
Tree trom the temptations of sentiment. When
her Bill found her home again hewas rendy
to be moderately penitent. Unfortunately he
would talk abnnt Jim Harris and breathe
suspicions threats. In vain Liz prutested that
Jim was not, had not been, and never wonld
be anything to her. Bill growied still of
revenge, and when sbe protested raged at her,
Isc again she ran away.
Between twc stools, the poor greature fell
to the ground. Jim might perhaps have for¬
givon her stealing back to Bill, might have for¬
given her pathetie plending that she was
respestable. and did not know how to be any¬
thing eise. He cuuld Lot forgive a lie, und
she had told Bill that Jim and she had noth.ug
between them. Jim was disgusted at that,
and did not want her any more. A nice point
in male humar nature this. hut quite credible.
What was to become of her? Jim hud hi
solution. He began to langh in a queer way,
he asked her to kiss him. and be stabbed her.
Was he mad? We hau heurd something, but 5
nothing conclusive, of his queerness. Was be“
resolved, like some other peopie in literature,
to preserve the lady spotless for another world?
Was he merely determined, by the balance of
probaLility, that the most comfortable thing
Ifor her was death? After all, it ie in some sort
a compliment to the play that it should leave b.
us thinking its conclusion worth epoculation.
It was finelyacted. Mr. Norman MoKinnel,
is ho did not g. beyond the author in making
Jim wholly comprehensible, gave us a wonderful
suggestion of rongh strength, and in the last
scene wus quite eerie. Miss May Blavney
played che hapless Liz with a most pathetig
#, and made her pitiful puzzles wholly
#man. Mr. Edmond Breon ##t a good deal
of power into bis sketch of ##scally, passion¬
ate husband, and there##ch clover work
in emaller parte.
The last half of rening was filled by
Schnitzler’s stran
The Green Cocka¬
. It has, o##purse, already been seen in
ndon, and we need now onlv record again its
oldity and its power of excitement. In that
last quality you will not ### find ite equal.
Mere stagecraft it may be, urst and last, but
there is no doubt abomt its thrill. There was
plenty of good individual work in the perform¬
ance, and the general effect was a splendid
piece of bizarrerie. We can but record thef
names of Mr. A. G. Poulton, Mr. Norman
MeKinnel, Mr. Malcolm Cherry, Mr. Leslie
Carter, and Miss Sarah Brooke. For both
pieces there was great applause. It is worth
while to be in time for the first element of this
diverse programme, the“ dramatic songs!' of!
Fraulein Gertrude Rollfs and Herr Anton
Dressler.