New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-14

and doubtless it win attract full houses throughout the
rest OF the present season.
Next Saturday evening at the Star Theatre,
Mr. Irving will Matthias in 1.-THE bes"-perhars MS
characteristic performance certainly great piece
OF acting Planches brilliant little comedy OF Inc zap
tain Of the Watch" wifi precede the mecdranS-
The ever-popular Silver King" comes back
to this week. and may he seen at the Grand opera
House, where it will be spendidy mounted aud played
with great cast
Mr. Charles II. Hoyt, author of the farce OF
"A Bunch of Keys" has written "A play called" Rag
Baby" whioh will be produced this week ~ Tony tds
tors Theatre, by n company under the management OF
Mr.. Eugene Tompkins, OF Boston
Mr.. Waacl's company, starting on its tour,
this week with LADY Glare and "Moths,' will visit
Philadelphia Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago ST. Paul Mime
apolis Omaha. Cheyenne, Denver, salt Lake aud san
Francisco Mr.. Goatchers fine scenery Is TO be CARRIE"
The new people in the cast of May Bios
som" at the Madison square Theatre. are Messrs'
Wheelock Maginey Long and Franksu. They have been
drawn from the Madison Square Theatres reserve force
which numerous. Mr.. Loag made hit as tho negro
A souvenir book, containing n portrait
Of Miss Helen Barry, and various material OF thcc"
record will be distributed to the audience al INC uhon
Square Theatre. tonight. when Miss Barry appears
in The Fatal Letter." new piece by MI A. H.
Cazauran.
Mr.. Irving has offered his services on Actors
Fund Day April IT, and he will appear Nibo's Garde
He has also sent check for 500 for box at Nolos
features will be offered at the principal theatres o
the actors matinee performance and the emor, VIII
ticket issued at either Of the theatres Is good or eheF
the entertainments
Next Thursday is Actors Fund Day, and
benefit performances will on that day. in the after
noon at the Casino, the New Park. Days, Wallacks
the Fifth Avenue Comedy the Fourteenth Street tho
Grand Opera House, the Peoples the Comiqne Niblos
the Union Square. Miners Eighth Avenue and Hayery
Brooklyn Theatre.
Mr. Irving and Miss Terry have been
30 brilliantly successful IN Much Ado About Nothing"
and the presentation OF this fine comedy has proved so
attractive that change OF bill will be made at the star
Theatre for the present Hamlet may perhaps be
presented next week. slgnaze the close of the engage
inent. At the matinee Saturday the receipts were
$9l1 and in the evening SIS $40 90; the total receipts
for the week were Sl5,GS3 30.
NMiss Ada Cavendish has new play, entitled
"a Wfe's Victory" in which she appears at the Novelty
Theater London. The author is Mr.. Frank Harvey The
Prince and Princess of Wales recently attended perform
the London Novelty Theatre 10 see Miss Ada Cav
endsh IN The New Magdaen,' and at the END OF act
third The actress personally congratulated by her
royal visitors her excellent representation OF Mercy
Mcrrick
For Actors Fund day, the Biiou Opera
House management have made unusual prepa-
rations. The performance will begin at 1. The
PFcsram%' tIs Is f 5%S act Of Rso Sfe .d S
specalties songs and comicalites by Harry Pepper,
6Hhnie hice MJ[io noShel n Iin,rno~, EUtert,n
mCnf y the second act of "Orpheus, with the original
company: the finale second act Of La Vie" by the
principals and choruses of the combined companies.
prominent incident close at hand is
the benefit to MI Abbey at the Metropolitan
Opera House, the 21st of April. Tho list
OF volunteers IA long one and II Includes
some of the most distinguished persons associated with
the lyric and dra matte stage Mr. Irving and Miss Terry
will appear in the trial scene 10 the Merchant OF Venice
This is the first benefit that the distinguished manager
has over taken in Newfork HIS courageous esierpls-
have hm hosts OF friends aud there can he no doubt
that the benshtsustaaed as it's ny the leading artists
of she day-wil result In a great success
The Council of the Chelsea Hospital for
Women announces Shakespearean Stow. to Do held
in the Albert Han, London. during the last three days
May OF Shakespeares plays are TO bo Illus
ed with scenic effects each with prOscCninm OF six
teen feet frontage form the stalls. at which every
variety OF article will he sOd and the characters of the
play in appropriate costume, will be represented by
many ladies. The General Council of tho Show
includes Mr.. Henry Irving Sir Arthur sulll-
van. Sir Ngernon Borthwck. Mr.. Bancroft, Mr.. i. j.
Furnival, Wilson Barrett, Mr.. Warren De La Rue,
Mr. Ernest eye Sir Wifred Brett, Sir Julius Benedict
volume STYLED the "Shakcspoarean show-Book."
Among others who will contribute TO it, contents are
Constance Howard. lewis Eingfeld Prank Marshall, W
r YeaInes r. A., Phil Morris a r. A. Thomas F T X
\. r. A. Randolph Caldecott, George CruckShank
Frrniss Alfred Darbyshirc j. u. Watson. A. Blccani
'Thomns SImnsOn John Dinsdale and A. III. Davis. Mr..
Fred IL. Cowen will contribute an original song.
Mr.. Frank Lee Benedict, the well-knOwn
novelist has lately written play. entitled "Ardmore'
and a evening, at the Academy OF Fine Arts IN
Philadelphia Mr. Benedict gave reading Of this piece
His audience was small critical and appreciave and it
listened with attention and responded with generous
pause "ArdmOre is in five acts. The Phttddeip'i ia
Bulletin remarks that II contains excess Of words. but
that its descriptions original its characters welde
fined and its dramatic points effective. Mr.. Benedcts
recital IL cordially praised The Press gives the plot OF
the piece as ollOws 1.-THE story II that Of HrOid ard
more whose boy hood robbed OF is sunshine and his
manhood Of its hope by Php 4Ttmore, his steirfather
and dead fathers brother. bitter quarrel between
the TWO on HaroiFS twentieth birthday results In the
Iattcrs banshmen from the ancestral estate, TO which
he IS unconsc0usly the rghu heir, aud he goes out IL
company with LUciHe, member of rowing party OF
actors whose geueness and beauty have conquered his
heart = lin ArdDOrc himself cnanorcd or Lucis, fol-
California, ne finds H1rOid AN actor
theatre. By Wecrrng III charges ~ cr nc against
HITod citcs mob TO threaten tho lattcTS life, and
thep and aTtldec. he purrays BdTOdS dan
Lc whe, in the abundance Vt her devotion, con
to abandon her his
flies with Thp. Feur later, in New-NOIk. H0rOid
meets PhiiiD and LciLe whose for him remains
faded a ball where lie Is called upon for recitation,
and in respapse, gives passage from unfinished
play whereas he pOrtrays his own life, his hclcs Nany
his hearts perdy. The Viyncss O the recital
prostrateS PD sudden Illness OF which he short
ly expires; HdrOfd becomes dellrauS DDece aud IL
sane hut until lucid interval reveals 10 him sense
Luc love for him aud the sacrifice she made OF her
life { his"