“THE RIVALS” IIP TO DATE.
A Splendid Revival of Sheridan’s
Masterpiece.
Jefferson to Head the Cast—Mrs. Drew,
Julia Marlowe-Taber and Other Fa
vorites to Appear—Past Pro
ductions Compared.
[COPYRIGHT, 189*).]
Richard Brinsley Sheridan himself
never dreamed of such a east and such
a production of “The Rivals” as will be
piven in Springfield, Mass., on the 4th
of May next, and thereafter for 26 days
in the chief towns of the country.
Suppose, for instance, Sheridan should
compare the original cast of the piece
• l!f ITTnil li imlMIlfUiniHiv -
JCLIA MARLOW lt-TABER.
as it was brought out at Covent gar
den, fresh from the author’s pen, with
the all-star cast of 1896, this is what he
would see:
|-~ Covent Garden, Springfield,
Character Jan. 17, 1776. May 4.
Sir A. Absolute.Mr. Shuter.Mr. Crone
. ant. Absolute. Mr. Wood ward. Mr. Taber
Falkland .Mr. Lewis..Mr. J. Holland
Bob Acres.Mr. Quick...Mr. Jefferson
O'Trigger .Mr. Lee.Mr. Goodwin
Fog. Mr. Lewes.Mr. E. Holland
David.Mr. Dunstal.. Mr. Wilson
Mrs Mala prop .Mrs. Green. Mrs. J. Drew
Lydia Languish. Miss Barsanti.Mrs. Taber
There were clever artists in the cast
that created “The Rivals,” but it can
hardly be said that any of them left
one of the great names of the English
stage as one or two of the 1896 east are
pretty sure to do, we moderns think.
Indeed, the Coven t garden production
was a failure, chiefly owing to Mr. Lee’s
bad acting, but when Mr. Clinch was
substituted and the acting version was
;cut down the play became very popu
lar. A month later it was being per
formed in Hath, before the most fash
ionable audiences of the day, with an
FRANCIS WILSON.
entirely new cast in which, however,
we still fail to recognize any of the
great names of dramatic history.
It is curious to note that in Sheri
dan's cast the part of Acres canoe half
way down the list of the male actors.
The genius of Jefferson has, in the
minds of American audiences at least,
placed dear old Bob at the top of the
i company.
The actors who first produced Sheri
dan's play had to travel from point to
point by stage coach. When the rude
conveyance stuck in the mud, the men
must get out, beruffled as they were,
and walk beside it or even help the
laboring wheels out of the mire. The
1806 cast will travel through Haxt
ford. Xew Haven, New York and Brook
lyn. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Cincinnati,
pt Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, In
dianapolis, Grand Rapids, Toledo, De
troit, Columbus, Cleveland, Buffalo,
I Rochester, Syracuse, Utdca, Albany,
Boston, Worcester and Providence--a
NAT 0. GOODWIN.
Nruey incredible to Sheridan through
r'vns whose names, even, he never
PW—in a luxurious special train of
^|aco ears with ever; eenvenience for
?mSf on board. And they will carry
times and scenery, devised by Mr.
Jefferson, which will make the spook
of the last, century actor-manager groan
with envy.
Sheridan ought to be. a favorite in the
United States, if there’s gratitude in re
publics. “The Rivals” was produced
lust before the outbreak of the revolu
tion, at about the time when he was
composing a defense of the American
colonists against Dr. Johnson’s ponder
ous “Taxation no Tyranny.” The re
ply did no good, as it was never pub
lished, but we can afford by this time to
take the will for the deed. It was just
after Clinch’s service in saving “The
Rivals” that. Sheridan wrote, out of
gratitude to that actor, the farce of
“St.. Patrick’s Day,” for which the com
ing war furnished such “gags” as this:
“Oh, barbarous! To want a husband
that may wed you to-day and be sent
the Lord knows where before night;
then in a twelvemonth, perhaps, to have
him come like a. Colossus, with one leg
at New York and the other at Chelsea
hospital.”
The Liberty boys of Golden Hill had
already taught the Britons one name in
American geography.
The costuming of the forthcoming of
“The Rivals” will be a pretty faithful
reproduction of that in 1775. Costum
ing proper was in those days an art al
most unknown. Garrick, who played
Hamlet in a bob wig and broad-tailed
coat, was a- contemporary of Sheridan.
But. as “The Rivals” was practically a
play of the period, the dress worn was
that, of the fine ladies and gentlemen
63t the day, perhaps a trifle exaggerated
equally brave and urging’ in deeds of
courtesy. Sheridan borrowed nothing
but the name, unless, indeed, his com
edy was coneei ved as a sort of parody or
mimic turn of the earlier play. At any
rate, it is far superior as a vehicle for
the exhibition of such a. cast as that
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WILLIAM H. CRANK.
headed by Jefferson and Mrs. John
Drew to Davenant’s stilted work.
J. A. Quick.
TAMED A BUTTERFLY.
French Lady Had One That Arched It»
Hack When She Stroked It.
There have been tame fleas, per- !
forming- ants, acrobatic gnats, trained
mosquitoes, and other winged insects,
nij, * /jj
JOSEPH JEFFERSON
for comic effect. What it was, and
what, it will be in the Jefferson revival,
is indicated by quotations from Sheri
dan’s own writing. Mrs. Malaprop’s
coiffure will be:
Then, behind, all my hair la done up In a
plat
And, so like a cornet's, lucked urder my
hat,
and the men's bravery as fine as jvhen
beaux dead and gone paraded in
The Campius Martins of St. James street.
Where the beau’s cavalry pace to and fro
Before they take the field In Rotten Row.
There being nothing new under the
sun, ‘ The Rivals” is of course more
than 121 years old. Under that name
was enacted by “the duke of Yorke’s
^servants” more than 200 years ago,
a comedy adopted by Sir William
Davenant or D’avenant or D’Avenant,
from an earlier play, “Two Koble Kins
men,” incorrectly attributed to Shake
speare and Fletcher, which was in tura
taken from Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale,"
the parent stock also of Dryden’s“Pala
mon and Areyte." Where Chaucer got
it doesn’t matter.
The 1G62 production of Davenant’s
“The Rivals" was historically more in
teresting than the Covent Garden play
of Sheridan. For one thing, Betterton
appeared in it. So did Mary Davis, who
but the first instance of a tame butter
fly is given by a French huh’ as fol
lows:
“I found in my garden a magnificent
butterfly, quite numb with cold. Talc
n W'
MBS. JOHN DREW.
mg’ It into the house and putting it into
a box for two hours revived the little
thing. Then I dipped its antennae in
T—T
um )/ w‘ v
RICHARD BIUNSI.EY SHERIDAN
player! “Celia of Celania," singing sev
eral wild aiu! mail songs, “My lodging is
on the cold ground, etc.” She performed
that so charmingly, that not long after
it raised her from her bed on the cold
ground to a royal bed.
Mrs. Moll Davis did in fact become
one of King Charles’ favorites in Nell
Gwynn’s time, and their semi-royal
daughter Mary, taking the name Tu
dor, became Lady Mary Tudor, coun
tess of Derwentwater. Thus early did
the stage furnish beautiful countesses.
In the earlier version of “The I’ivals”
the combatants are represented as,
«
a solution of sirup and sugar, and con
tinued this treatment for three days.'
On the fourth day the creature flut
tered on my hand and sucked the liquor
of its own accord, and after this it be
came perfectly tame. I put flowers into
iuy room, and it fed on them, and was
perfectly happy. When it sat on the
table 1 could pass my finger down its
back without the slightest fear the but
terfly might take to the wing. In fact,
it arched its back as does a cat when
pleased. After three weeksJbf perfect
tameness its color faded, its wings
shriveled up and it died.”
EYEBROWS AND EYtLASHES.
They Should Fie One of the Altrartlit
Feature* of a Woman'* Fare.
It is really wonderful to see how very
little attention is bestowed, ns a rule,
on the eyebrows and the lashes. A
woman, will worry herself thin and
make the lives of her household unen
durable if her hair is falling- off, or she
has a pimple on her chin, but she j>ays
less than no regard to the state of any
other portion of her face. As long as
there are enough lashes to protect the
eyes and the eyebrows are thick enough
to make their presence known, she rests
content—unaware, perhaps, that, much
of the attractiveness of her face entire
ly depends on these minor points that
she seems to despise.
Not everyone# possesses that delicate,
high-arched curve that is the height of
perfection in an eyebrow, or the long,
curling lashes without which no heroine
of fiction ever yet was complete. As a
rule, scantiness of hair characterizes
the one and short stubbiness the other.
A great deal of this unloveliness is
owing to the lack of care which nurses
and mothers take of their children’s
appearance and the stupid habits they
let a child get into regarding them.
Eyebrows, to be perfect, should be
slightly arched, and the hair of the same
length and softness. It should not be
too bushy, or it makes us look unduly
fierce and masculine; or too scanty, so
that we look characterless and insipid.
The color should be a shade darker thar
the hair. *
The brows must never be rubbed or
brushed except from the roots to the
ends. Some people contract.a bad habit
in childhood of rubbing them the other
way, and the effect, is both grotesque
and painful to behold. The hairs will
never lie as flat as they ought, to do,
and bristle in unexpected places. A
tiny comb and brush should be used
daily on them to keep them soft and
smooth. They should be most carefully
washed every day, and the same care
must be taken about the direction they
are rubbed in. They should have vase
line gently smoothed over them once
or twice a week. This will keep them
inperfeethealthand serve to strengthen
them. Where they are very scanty
and coming out very much there is
nothing better to use than a few drops
of castor oil in a little paraffine.
They are apt sometimes to be a little
scurfy. When this is the ease vaseline
must be put on the spot, and it must be
bathed with hot water and a little
Vinolia soap till it is cured. On no ac
count must it be rubbed.
Eyelashes should be Ion" and curl ■
ing, and when they are like this they
are most attractive and bewitching. A
child’s lashes may be slightly clipped
now and then at the extreme points,
and will be. longer and better in conse
quence. But this should never be done
when a person grows older, as the only
effect it has then is to make them coarse
and stubby.
Vaseline rubbed on every few nights
keeps the lashes in good order and will
prevent them sticking together on wak
ing.
All “make-up” near the eyes is very
dangerous to the sight, so no cosmetics,
darkening pomades, etc., must be al
lowed to touch the lashes.—X. Y. Sun.
DID NOT KNOW A WIG.
Astute Lawyer Who Disposed of a Dan
gerous Witness hy a Trick.
There resides iu Washington a law
yer who a few days ago retired from
the profession in which his name was a
power. In his early days the lawyer los:
his hair, the resull of a long spell of
sickness, and from those days to the
present time his head has been adorned
| with wigs, veritable works of art, from
the hands of a celebrated maker in
New York. As the time rolled on he
changed the glossy black shock of art;
ficial hair to an iron gray, which is the
color he affects now. The wig looks so
natural that only his intimate friends
recognize them as such. One day he
was defending a man accused of trying
to steal a pair of trousers from a hook
in front of a second-hand store while
the proprietor was inside. The shop
keeper was placed on the stand and
identified the prisoner as the man who
attempted to snatch the goods, mention
ing at the time that the thief wore a
wig.
‘‘Do you know a wig when you see
one on somebody’s head?” asked tie
attorney.
The witness smiled, and replied in
the affirmative.
‘‘Does his honor wear a wig?”
“No.”
“Does any of the jury wear them?”
“No.”
“Do I wear one?”
The shopkeeper laughed outright at
the idea of a man' with such a mag
nificent suit of iron-gray hair wearing
a wig, and lie replied emphatically that
he did not.
“I knew 3'ou didn’t know a wig when
you saw one,” retorted the lawyer, cool
ly, at the same time yanking off the
gra3' locks, and exposing a pate as
smooth as a baby’s face.
The courtroom was convulsed and the
defendant acquitted.
InflutnM.
Our Individual thoughts ami acts are
Imperishable. Every (teed we perform
as an outward and inward ottiee. The
moment we influence others we our
selves are influenced. Conduct has its
bound and rebound. A good deed is
eternal, anil no power can blot out the
influence of an evil deed.—Rev. S. G.
Nelson, Baptist, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Malice and hatred are very fretting, and
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Plunges are rarely successful.—Brains.
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