, 1880-04-04
" Sharps and Flats" as Exem-
p1ited by Robson and
Crane.
Tom Keene's Program for Next
Season as a:*;;rragic Star.
Chicago Theatrical Attractions
Going and Coming.
The strolling Players Their Location
,. for the Ensuing Week.
A NEW PLAY.

engagement i'll this city-then 1.-The Comedy
OF Errors" was given for the third time in
Chicago-they promised us o new piece
when they again appeared. On Monday
evening that piece will be seen at Hoo1ey's.
Its titlei is *'Sharps and Flats" The authors,
Clay N. Green and Slason Thompson, who,
according to what we hear, have succeeded
III writing a comedy the central figures Of
which admirably contrast the delicate wit Of
Robson and the broadswora humor of Crane.
In this city, where the glue brothers have
so many admirers, their appearance in a new
play is of more than passing interest, and
we will give the reader some idea Of what he
or she may expect to see next week. Here
is the cast:
miist mIstonn FIT yE%af6 H n3psno Gpano
Capt. leslie Ovcrton, e. S. A.. Frazer Coulter
Mr: John Pemberton n.'.......A; r. 8: !ipmta1n man
Tic M Rev; Percy Gosiine:. .::...:.:R: : i: haEbeek
Marfan Penberton Pnxs Aanes Prootor
Mrs Lydia Lowndes. ..... Miss Alicia Robson
Mrs Dulstone Flat...- Mrs. Mary Myers
Nellie Flat. Miss Nellie Boyd
A correspondent tells us tf1nt ''* *Sharps and
Flats is in four acts,-Temptation Ednca-
and Speculation, and Realization,- and is a
broad and lively satire upon tile American
spirit OF speculation. Its central idea is pro-
claimed in its title, for it deals with the two
classes which make speculation possible
the sharps, who, like Robson in this piece,
roam the wide world over In search OF flats
to supply them with rich pickings, and the
flats, who, like Crane, the speculative parson,
start up at every corner to be taken in and
done for.' The piece opens with philo-
sophie lecture On instinct, the heroine being
fmbued with the'queer notion that she is
somebody's child other than the person
who claims the relationship Of father. In
'Sharps and Flats it turns out that the hero
inc was right, and Cutler Sharp i'll the end is
proved to, be the young lady's papa,
although in one of the acts he is
made to propose marriage to her in
his character Of a sharp after a Flats
fortune. But she wasn't that kind
Of a fiat, having military chap on the string.
Crane impersonates self-opinionated old
parson, who, without any worldly eS-
perience, but with well~deyeloped lust for
AIanlmon, is completely infatuated with the
gloats over the figures which promise to
make him wealthy, aud all attempts to
question which way his figures may turn-up
VI o"u-Alele4S pioFoho ILLS e.aleei a41u eol1-
tempt. Sharp has told him Of the wealth to
be made by turns III stocks, and lie is bent
oh ~ 'i.',Ag su4n g r,: 60. ue'' ~,
ISL pleasure III nlaklng ftut lAau1se III al
sorts of quasi Immoral practices as viewed
from that ex-clergyman's stand point: He
makes him learn to s1noke, and. with the
neat grace and the deyiltry Of q thorough
enjoyer Of the weed, gloats over the
natural qualms which threaten to end Flats
first smoking lesson with the exhalation Of
his soul. Tile fun Of the first two acts" our
correspondent goes on to tell us. "consists Of
the various methods Sharp tlkes to force