The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-29

in honor of the guests, will be the old
battle flag of the regiment.
SWEET LAVENDER"
To New York audience the story of
Sweet Lavender" is q twice told tale.
But familiar as it is to New Workers it
will be presented here for the first time at
the Academy tomorrow evening. 1t is a
delicious morsel from the pen of A. w.
Pinero. The several productions of this
playwright have justly earned him dis
tinction, and Lavender" has but added
to his renown.
The play is simplicity itself, and the
story round which it is built could be told
in few words-it is the treatment of the
story, with its delightful elaboration and
telling incidents that bring forth the
master strokes of the author There is a
charm about the whole work, the charac
tiers are clean cut and brought into sharp
relief, and moreover they are human; the
dialogue is clean; in fact, the production
as q whole is polished. The following is
the cast of characters
Horace Bream, young American. Geo. ackus
Godfrey Wedderburn, of Wedderburn,
Green g. Hoskett, bankers, Barnchester,
r. +. Cotton
Clement Hale, his adopted son, studying
for the BAR. .Cyr1l Scott
Dick Phenyl a barrister ...........A P. Burbank
Dr. Delaney, fashionable physician
John Findlay
Mr. Bulger hairdresser and wigmaker..
Foster Platt
Mr.. Nav, solicitor. John S. Hale
Minnie Gilfillian. niece of Mr. Wedd S n
Ruth Rolt housekeeper and ''laundress''
at No. 8 Brain Court, Temple. Miss Kate Lester
Lavender, her daughter Miss Ethelyn Friend
Mrs. Gilhllian, a widow, Wedderburn's
sister, mother of Minnie. 49,. Miss Dollie Pike
An exact copy of the original scenery
and effects, the same as was used during
the run at the Lyceum in New York, will
be seen in the production here.
HELD BY THE ENEMY"
Crowded houses have been the rule at
Ill. X. Jacobs Hoboken Theatre for the
last three nights, and a large audience
should greet that deservedly popular
play, Held by the Enemy" at each of
the last performances today Sunday 1t
is not too much to say that HELD by the
Enemy is dramatically one OF the strong
est and most intensely interesting plays
before the public The scene is laid in a
southern city during the war for the
Union, and the flavor of war incidents
and romance render it thrillingly excit-
ing.
The author has been fortunate in so
constructing his play that it does not APP
peal TO sectional prejudice, blu is as popu-
lar with the veteran who wore the gray
as the one who wore the blue. The
necessary love story is well told and
tittingly developed, and the element of
comedy, so essential to the success of
SNSi uAohlsI CAbSIs ldIStly lHtO IT'S COlH-
position. Few modern plays have been
so well adapted to the popular idea as
this work of Mr.. Gilllette's. The COM
pany is good without exception, aud the
piece is given most artistic representa-
tion.
NOTES OF THE DRAMA.
''An Arrant Knave,n Stuart Robson's
new comedy, will be produced for the
first time at the Chicago Opera House to-
morrow.
The following letter recently appeared
in the London Era
To the Editor of tha Era
SIR.--As Mrs Potter's business partner may
ask you to contradict in your next issue the re-
port published in the London and Paris editions
Of the New York Herald Of Sunday, September
s, OF her possible retirement from the
Green Room Club, Bedford street, Covent
Garden.
The insertion is falling out of "The
Stuffed Dog,p in spite of John A. Mac
kay's hard and clever work to keep it on
it's legs
neck has become so painful that his
friends are advising him to cancel his
dates and submit to q surgical operation.
Sadie Martinez is under engagement to
James C. Daft, and will play under his
MANAGEMENT during the coming season.
Charles X. Thorne, the veteran man
ager, now eighty years old, arrived IN
New York last week on a visit from San
Francisco.
Mary Anderson is not to play for year.
She is in Scotland.
blanche Marsden is convalescinS. bu
still unable to sing.
A new historical American me.odrama,
written by William II. Young, entitled