. The Argonaut . ary,and showed also that Miss Roberts has artisticenthusiasm. She inspired her entire supportwith the same feeling, and was thus enabledto surround the presentation of the play withsome degree of the histrionic dignity andmerit appropriate to a piece of its literarystanding. What Miss Roberts, and many an ambitiousplayer who heads a company needs, is theleisure to investigate the countless plays,whether old or of recent date, that wouldsimultaneously appeal to public interest andoffer fresh opportunities to proved ability. Camille, Frou Frou. East , are played out. T
. The Argonaut . ary,and showed also that Miss Roberts has artisticenthusiasm. She inspired her entire supportwith the same feeling, and was thus enabledto surround the presentation of the play withsome degree of the histrionic dignity andmerit appropriate to a piece of its literarystanding. What Miss Roberts, and many an ambitiousplayer who heads a company needs, is theleisure to investigate the countless plays,whether old or of recent date, that wouldsimultaneously appeal to public interest andoffer fresh opportunities to proved ability. Camille, Frou Frou. East , are played out. They appeal onlyto the interest of the young and inexperiencedauditors, who wish a vague floating idea tobecome an actual impression. The newerplays, such as Zaza. La Tosca, and Sapho have been worked to death. Tessof the DUrbervilles and Marta, bothstriking, dramatic, and of unusual merit, willdoubtless serve for another season. It is really lamentable, when one comes tothink of it, how comparatively brief is the. Juliet Crosby as Kohamma San in The Heart of a Geisha/ to beproduced at the Alcazar Theatre on Monday evening. pleasant alleviation of the threatened timeof nothing doing : the busy little Alcazaralways has something good in promise, whichthis time is The Heart of a Geisha; theOrpheum is adding up one good thing toanother, and the Tivoli, with an expert likeMax Freeman to engineer k. is making extrapreparations for the production of RobRoy. In spite of all this activity, how-ever, the Columbia and California Theatreswill make acknowledgment of the summerseason dullness by temporarily closing theirdoors. The Yiddish players will hardly drawpeople from their summer retreats. It causesregret to miss them, but it takes genius tomake one overlook the first pangs of non-comprehension, when one hears good playsand players in an alien tongue. In my mem-ory of the elder Salvinis Othello, he isalways acting it in English, yet, if I recallmy first impressions of Bernhardt. Coque
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