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Liebelei
5. LieseIeI box 11/2
BERKELET WTOEUN TREATRE
h St. pposite Sher# n and Delmenico’s.
To-Nigat and Every Eveninr at 8.30.
A REAL SUCCFSS
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ERECKONING
Matinses Thursday and Saturday, 2 30.
THE GLOBE AND COMMFRCIAL ADVERTISER. NEW YORK. WEDNESDIIY. FEBRUAR



—HE performance of The Reckoning“] Deau and Robert Conness as Fritz and
Theodore do work which is distinetly
1 at the Berkeley Lyceum last night
cre itable. Serah MeVickar as Mrs. Bin¬
wag in a way ofe of the mos tinteresling
der is very gooo, too, in a very small
stage present#ciors of the season, while
part.
And there you#re. The players dis¬
in austher wayfurnished as pecullar
tinguish themselves in the telling of an
an evening's entertalument as has been
mteresting story. Interesting stories are
offered in the celebratd homn of freak“ 10t necessarlly good plays and The!
drama, or anywhere else this winter. The FReckoning“ is no exception to the general!
interesting partthe performance was rule.
the playing. It could hardly have been
bettered. The peculiar thing was the play
itself.
Drama is generally considered in par¬
lance theatrical as a vonsequence of action
—as a resultant of conflict. Gauged by
tbe play standards with which we and
familiar The Relkoning“ is as unlike the
ordinary drama as a trip on a Twenty¬
eighth street cros town car is unlike a
ride in an air ship. Itris a visualized
short stery of the sort geuerally found in
an up to date, modern school monttly#
magazine. A person equipper wich a very
vivid imagination readirg auch a plece of
fletien w###ten by a master of the art of
short story writing might have much th
same sensations which wera experiepced
last nich by the 1 ople who sat in the
ny Forty-fourth street theatre. As pre¬
ted on he stage no imagination was
ed by the spectators. That is a #rbute
rn herien er enen
story and seeing the play.
agine morbidiy Interesting tale
#littie real dramatie „Orce, divided
KATHERINE GREY.
She has the leading röle in The Reckon¬
ing“ at the Berkeley Lyoeum Theatre.