dene Kakadu
Der
9. 3 K. . ehe
box 15/3
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7
APRIL 12, 1910
is very lovely in death, sees Gottwold take
two violets from his prayer book (she had
glven them to him), and hears him say
that they are like the eyes of his little Han¬
nele. It is a very different world when one
is dead.
Of a sudden the vision changes, and the
atrocions Mattern appears, drunk and
vengeful. But a Stranger comes and
Schides him. The Lord Christ would be like
Uthis Stranger, and would talk like him.
He has Gottwold’s face, but is dressed as
LVCEUM THEETRE
the Lord would dress, as she has seen the
pietures and images of Him in the church,
Harrison Grey Fiske Presents
Tha äffrighted Mattern rushes out to hang
Hannele' and The Green
himself. The Stranger takes Hannele’s
hand—she has heard such angelic cho¬
Cockatoo.“
ruses!—and she rises from he. coffin know¬
Mrs. Fiske continues to put the American
Ing now that it is the Lord Christ who¬
stage In her debt by producing plays of
bids her rise. She kneels at his feet. He¬##
serious Import and internationally recog¬
lifts her, takes her in his aums, and tó¬
inlzed merit. Her company appeared at the
gether they ascend to glory up a golden
Lyceum Theatre last night In two pieces of
stair.
German parentage—Gerhardt Hauetmann’s
And we ln the world are left in the dark##
Hannele’s Himmelfahrt“ (called in English
ness of the world. Slowly our formes
"Hannele*) and Arthur Schnitzler's The
lignt returns to us, our light of earth an
Green Cockatoa.“
Schnitzler’s one-net
then again we see the sordld room in t#
"grotesquerie“ served as a curtain raiser,
shabby almshouse, the Doctor bending ovs
and Hauptmann’s beautiful and ethereallzed
the child’s bed, and Sister Martha wate
allegory ended the evening’s record of solld
Ing anxiously with a candle in her hand##
achievement. A word later of the Vienna
Is she dead?“ asks the Sister.
dramatist’s littie picture of the contrasts
She is dead,“ the Doctor answers.
in Parle life on the eve of the fall of tho
And this is the play that a Mayor
Bastlle.“Hannele,“ beingymore important,
sundry other worthy citizens denoun
Is entltled to prlor consideration. To turn a
as impious,“ “saerlleglous“ and so foll
venture in the pure upper alr poetry like lIing, sixteen years ago.
Hauptmann’s play into another language
Mrs. Fiske took the part of Hannele, a#
Invites many misjudgments. The dietion
without oversimulating childishness mad
must suffer and Hauptmann’s lyrics, and
the figure natural. It is a passive rolen
even bome of his prose passages, Seemed
and nearly every other part is simplielty
last night to have lost a good deal in the
itsslf. Mr. Blini deserves a special word
translation. Poctry is volatile in essence,
for his acting as tlie schoolmaster, and the
and style resists the most conscientlous ef¬
Stranger and the Dark Angel öf Mr. Buck¬
forts at translation. A competent perform-land was highly impressive. Thepfull cast
ance of Hannele,“ such as was given last
of Hannele“ was:
winter at the uptown German Theatre,
Hannele##r Fiake
must therefore always be more satisfactory
GottwaldHolbrock Blinn
1.8
as a whole than the best intentloned Eng¬
ster Martha Allen John
Tulpe Florine Arnosd
lish production. Yet Hauptmann's“dream
Hedwig Mabel Reed
poem“ is exceedingly simple in strücture
Pleschke Eheldon Lewin
HankoR. W. Tucker
and puts no severe test on a company of
Seldel Eeward Mackay
actörs. The maln thing is to preservesthe
Berger Paul Seardon
Schmidt
extraordinarlly direct and almost childlike
Heffron
Dr. Wachler Henry Stephenson
spirit of the original, and in that the per¬
In her delirium Hannele Imagines che sees:
formance of Mrs. Fiske’s company deserves
Mattern Fuller Mg
generous commendation. In details it could
A woman's figure. Virginla
be made more literal, more Sileslan and
tall, dark angel........ Wilfred Bu
First angel. Merle
more Hauptmannesque. But the dramatie
Second angelVeda M
idea Is conveyed adequately and with a
Third angel. Helena Vas
Sister Martha
good deal of its native power and sincer¬
The village tallor R. Owen
Itx. The entire fitness of the play for pres¬
Gottwald Mr.
entation, absurdly misjudged sixteen years
Pleschke Mr
Hanke Mr. Tüc
ago, was happily vindlcated and public
Seidel Mr. Macka
reparation was thus -made by the Haw
A stranger Mr. Blinn
Four white-robed youths—Misses Mercer.
York stage to d much misused author.
strand, Droste and West.
Hannele“ has been called Haupt- Mourners—By Misses Arnold, Mary Maddern,
Fulton and Reed, and Mesers. Meech, Arun¬
mann’s masterpiece,“ a grandiloquent way
del. Harrison and others.
of expressing the opinion that this“dream
The Green Cockatoo,“ which was, or let
poem“ Is the best of the celebrated Ger¬
supposed to have been, the name of a
hardt’s works. It is not unknown to New.
York playgoers who can remember what
drinking place in the Paris of 1789, and
occurred sixteen yeurs ago. It made some
near the Bastlle. Bastile, 1789. You smell:
Revolution as soon as you glance at the
stir here in 1894, quite as much stir out¬
Programme. And when you rend that the
side the theatre as within. Mr. Gerry and
action takes place on the evening of July 14
others oblected because a girl of fifteen
you can guess what will happen.
vears had been selected for the part of
The keeper of the cabaret is onc Pros¬
Hannele. The objectors thought the pres¬
pere, a theatrical manager gone to seed.
entation of the play would be an“impious
He brings to The Grcen Cockktoo“ the
performance,“ and that the health and
patronage of gallants and arlstocrats of
morals of the child actress would suffer
the town, who are attracted by the per¬
Injury. Mayor Gilroy, at a public hearing
formances of a troupe of shabby actors
in Aprll, 1894, daclared the piece “saerl¬
who impersonate the most viclous erim¬
legious“ and forbade the appearance of
inals and perform plays of erime—not at
Miss Allce Pierce, the child above referred
all of the Jimmy Valentine,“ Arsene
10. But, except for glving the play a
Lupin“ or“ Raffles“ order. An actor named
great gratuitous advertisement which mus
Heurl has some nôtorletyffor improvising
have plegsed the promoters of the produc¬
little pleces with murder in them. Now
tion, the opposition was withont effect.
he acts a little story he has Just heard
The play was produced at the Fifth Ave¬
told. It is to be his last appearance, for
nue Theatre on the ist of May, and an
having taken unto himself a wife he will
actress whose years did not call for the
leave the stage to-night and go to the
Interference of societies forthe protection
country to live. But he learns that the
of minors, Miss Ada Blanche, appeared an
story which has Just been told him is the
the child, Hannele. Miss Maude Banks
story of his own wife's faithleseness with
was the Deaconess and the Apparition of
a ducal lover. And so he enacts a scene
Hannele’s Mother; Miss Allce Butler was
of wild revenge, in which he kills an
the Sister Martha and Mr. Charles Rich¬
Imaginary duke. Never has he acted witit
man waz Gottwold the Schoolmaster and
such passion. And at its height a crowd
The Stranger whom Mayor Gilroy and
Troars into the cabaret, gelling: “Tho Bas¬
others persisted in calling Christ.
tle has fullen!“ And, behold, in comes
Mr. Gerhardt Hauptmann, who was in
his grace the duke, upon whom Henrl falls
New York at the time for the purpose of
HProns1
Der
9. 3 K. . ehe
box 15/3
C
7
APRIL 12, 1910
is very lovely in death, sees Gottwold take
two violets from his prayer book (she had
glven them to him), and hears him say
that they are like the eyes of his little Han¬
nele. It is a very different world when one
is dead.
Of a sudden the vision changes, and the
atrocions Mattern appears, drunk and
vengeful. But a Stranger comes and
Schides him. The Lord Christ would be like
Uthis Stranger, and would talk like him.
He has Gottwold’s face, but is dressed as
LVCEUM THEETRE
the Lord would dress, as she has seen the
pietures and images of Him in the church,
Harrison Grey Fiske Presents
Tha äffrighted Mattern rushes out to hang
Hannele' and The Green
himself. The Stranger takes Hannele’s
hand—she has heard such angelic cho¬
Cockatoo.“
ruses!—and she rises from he. coffin know¬
Mrs. Fiske continues to put the American
Ing now that it is the Lord Christ who¬
stage In her debt by producing plays of
bids her rise. She kneels at his feet. He¬##
serious Import and internationally recog¬
lifts her, takes her in his aums, and tó¬
inlzed merit. Her company appeared at the
gether they ascend to glory up a golden
Lyceum Theatre last night In two pieces of
stair.
German parentage—Gerhardt Hauetmann’s
And we ln the world are left in the dark##
Hannele’s Himmelfahrt“ (called in English
ness of the world. Slowly our formes
"Hannele*) and Arthur Schnitzler's The
lignt returns to us, our light of earth an
Green Cockatoa.“
Schnitzler’s one-net
then again we see the sordld room in t#
"grotesquerie“ served as a curtain raiser,
shabby almshouse, the Doctor bending ovs
and Hauptmann’s beautiful and ethereallzed
the child’s bed, and Sister Martha wate
allegory ended the evening’s record of solld
Ing anxiously with a candle in her hand##
achievement. A word later of the Vienna
Is she dead?“ asks the Sister.
dramatist’s littie picture of the contrasts
She is dead,“ the Doctor answers.
in Parle life on the eve of the fall of tho
And this is the play that a Mayor
Bastlle.“Hannele,“ beingymore important,
sundry other worthy citizens denoun
Is entltled to prlor consideration. To turn a
as impious,“ “saerlleglous“ and so foll
venture in the pure upper alr poetry like lIing, sixteen years ago.
Hauptmann’s play into another language
Mrs. Fiske took the part of Hannele, a#
Invites many misjudgments. The dietion
without oversimulating childishness mad
must suffer and Hauptmann’s lyrics, and
the figure natural. It is a passive rolen
even bome of his prose passages, Seemed
and nearly every other part is simplielty
last night to have lost a good deal in the
itsslf. Mr. Blini deserves a special word
translation. Poctry is volatile in essence,
for his acting as tlie schoolmaster, and the
and style resists the most conscientlous ef¬
Stranger and the Dark Angel öf Mr. Buck¬
forts at translation. A competent perform-land was highly impressive. Thepfull cast
ance of Hannele,“ such as was given last
of Hannele“ was:
winter at the uptown German Theatre,
Hannele##r Fiake
must therefore always be more satisfactory
GottwaldHolbrock Blinn
1.8
as a whole than the best intentloned Eng¬
ster Martha Allen John
Tulpe Florine Arnosd
lish production. Yet Hauptmann's“dream
Hedwig Mabel Reed
poem“ is exceedingly simple in strücture
Pleschke Eheldon Lewin
HankoR. W. Tucker
and puts no severe test on a company of
Seldel Eeward Mackay
actörs. The maln thing is to preservesthe
Berger Paul Seardon
Schmidt
extraordinarlly direct and almost childlike
Heffron
Dr. Wachler Henry Stephenson
spirit of the original, and in that the per¬
In her delirium Hannele Imagines che sees:
formance of Mrs. Fiske’s company deserves
Mattern Fuller Mg
generous commendation. In details it could
A woman's figure. Virginla
be made more literal, more Sileslan and
tall, dark angel........ Wilfred Bu
First angel. Merle
more Hauptmannesque. But the dramatie
Second angelVeda M
idea Is conveyed adequately and with a
Third angel. Helena Vas
Sister Martha
good deal of its native power and sincer¬
The village tallor R. Owen
Itx. The entire fitness of the play for pres¬
Gottwald Mr.
entation, absurdly misjudged sixteen years
Pleschke Mr
Hanke Mr. Tüc
ago, was happily vindlcated and public
Seidel Mr. Macka
reparation was thus -made by the Haw
A stranger Mr. Blinn
Four white-robed youths—Misses Mercer.
York stage to d much misused author.
strand, Droste and West.
Hannele“ has been called Haupt- Mourners—By Misses Arnold, Mary Maddern,
Fulton and Reed, and Mesers. Meech, Arun¬
mann’s masterpiece,“ a grandiloquent way
del. Harrison and others.
of expressing the opinion that this“dream
The Green Cockatoo,“ which was, or let
poem“ Is the best of the celebrated Ger¬
supposed to have been, the name of a
hardt’s works. It is not unknown to New.
York playgoers who can remember what
drinking place in the Paris of 1789, and
occurred sixteen yeurs ago. It made some
near the Bastlle. Bastile, 1789. You smell:
Revolution as soon as you glance at the
stir here in 1894, quite as much stir out¬
Programme. And when you rend that the
side the theatre as within. Mr. Gerry and
action takes place on the evening of July 14
others oblected because a girl of fifteen
you can guess what will happen.
vears had been selected for the part of
The keeper of the cabaret is onc Pros¬
Hannele. The objectors thought the pres¬
pere, a theatrical manager gone to seed.
entation of the play would be an“impious
He brings to The Grcen Cockktoo“ the
performance,“ and that the health and
patronage of gallants and arlstocrats of
morals of the child actress would suffer
the town, who are attracted by the per¬
Injury. Mayor Gilroy, at a public hearing
formances of a troupe of shabby actors
in Aprll, 1894, daclared the piece “saerl¬
who impersonate the most viclous erim¬
legious“ and forbade the appearance of
inals and perform plays of erime—not at
Miss Allce Pierce, the child above referred
all of the Jimmy Valentine,“ Arsene
10. But, except for glving the play a
Lupin“ or“ Raffles“ order. An actor named
great gratuitous advertisement which mus
Heurl has some nôtorletyffor improvising
have plegsed the promoters of the produc¬
little pleces with murder in them. Now
tion, the opposition was withont effect.
he acts a little story he has Just heard
The play was produced at the Fifth Ave¬
told. It is to be his last appearance, for
nue Theatre on the ist of May, and an
having taken unto himself a wife he will
actress whose years did not call for the
leave the stage to-night and go to the
Interference of societies forthe protection
country to live. But he learns that the
of minors, Miss Ada Blanche, appeared an
story which has Just been told him is the
the child, Hannele. Miss Maude Banks
story of his own wife's faithleseness with
was the Deaconess and the Apparition of
a ducal lover. And so he enacts a scene
Hannele’s Mother; Miss Allce Butler was
of wild revenge, in which he kills an
the Sister Martha and Mr. Charles Rich¬
Imaginary duke. Never has he acted witit
man waz Gottwold the Schoolmaster and
such passion. And at its height a crowd
The Stranger whom Mayor Gilroy and
Troars into the cabaret, gelling: “Tho Bas¬
others persisted in calling Christ.
tle has fullen!“ And, behold, in comes
Mr. Gerhardt Hauptmann, who was in
his grace the duke, upon whom Henrl falls
New York at the time for the purpose of
HProns1