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.The Bostonians," in English opera,
will be the New Years attraction at the
Grand, with the following repertory:
Monday and Thursday evenings and
Saturday. matinee, 'Pygmalion and
Gelatea:'' Tuesday matinee, "Fati-
nitza;:" Tuesday and Friday, Dorothy"
Wednesday, "Mignon;" Thursday,
''Don PasQuale." The company is said
to be larger and better than ever.
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There will be three changes of bill at
the Pence this week, and an extra mat
inee on Christmas day. Tonight Ian
caShire Lass" will be produced, with
Frederick Book as "A Party by the
name of Johnson" and Jessaline
Rogers as Ruth King. the Lass O. Lam
cashire. The same play is the bill for
the extra Christmas matinee, and for
the benefit performance Monday night,
rendered to the Carpenters Mutual Aid
assembly. For Tuesday night, Wednes-
day matinee and Wednesday night, the
Western comedy. During the latter
half of the week the house will be occu-
pied by the Western Comedy club, pro-
ducing 1.-The Drummer Boy of Gettys-
burg" military drama, of which Tom
Hampton, stage manager of the Pence,
is the author.
The Forty Thieves" a grand melo-
drama spectacle, is to be put on at the
Peoples theater this evening for a
weeks run. Without doubt this is the
most ambitious production ever at
tempted by a stock company in any
Western city. There are to be upwards
of 100 people in the presentation. There
will be novelty in the way of corps
de ballet, composed entirely of Mime
apoliS young ladies. The management
have had any amount of amusement and
plenty of veXation in securing the
twenty pretty and vOluptuOuS Flour
City maidens who will dance nimbly
in dazzling costumes. The management
Inserted advertisements in the want col
umns Of the daily papers Saturday and
Sunday, announcing that twenty ladies
were wanted to make up the ballet i'll
''Ihe Forty Thieves" Since the mo-
ment the house was opened, Monday
morning, life has been anything but de-
sirable to Stage Manager Harrison. The
theater has been beSieged by women of
all ages and of every condition in life.
Mr.. Harrison was several times forced
to lock himself in a dressing-room above
the stage. leaving the stage carpenter to
explain to the string of females who
called, 'that no more ladies were needed
for the ballet"
The pretty young women have been
drilled by Prof. Lester, local dancing
master. The premieres will be Alice
Kemp and Mary Clifford, of the Peoples
company. There will be large and
eXcellently drilled chorus. The scenic
and mechanical effects will be simply
dazzling. Scenic Artist HURT visited
New York expressly to secure ideas and
material for the production. j. W. Bur
ton, j. b. Brown, j. G. Callahan, Wall
ace Shaw, Edwin Ferry, }. E. Nelson,
James Harrison, Harry Fernandez and
Harry Bronridge will appear in leading
male robes. Miss Wellesley will be the
Fairy Queen; Carrie Strong, the Cogia
Boba; Miss Clifford, the Zodia: Miss
Alice Kemp, the Norgiana, with song
and tamborine dance in Turkish cos
tunes; Dell Douglass will be the Zelie;
Fanny Bingham, the Gossmar; Mollie
Clark, the Fiuvia, and Lucy Pratt, the
Lurline. The costumes are Oriental in
design, and are magnificent. They
were made in New York expressly for
this production.