The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-29
TEE WORLD OF MIMICRY
Plays and Players That
Hold the Pub1iC's At
tention Today.
A WORD ABOUT TOO LONG RUNS.
Coming Attractions at the Acad-
envy and in the Hoboken
Theatre.

There are many people who would go
to the theatre anywhere from one to
three times a week in satisfactory cir
cumstances, and yet cannot bring them
selves to see any show twice. However
satisfactory may be the first impression,
they rarely try the second and never the
third. These are they to whom long runs
at favorite places of amusement are q
bore se
own to being one of that class. re-
gard it as public misfortune when a
play or a comic opera wins too great a
success-when it runs for two or three
hundred performances, and crowds the
new plays off the boards. One of the
most delightful playsI ever saw failed at
the end of the first week, although it was
excellently presented at popular place
of amusement. and was praised by every
competent critic lin the city. But my
sorrow at its failure was tempered with
joy at the thought that we should have
something new, for had seen ''The Rec
tor'-that was. the PLAYS name-and all
its good points were stored away Ia my
recollection where I could look at them
my legs in the space allotted to the specta-
tor in the average play house.
10 the yietimfof the craving Tor novelty
two courses are open:-He may force HIM
self to attend the same show nlght AFTER
night and thus struggle to acquire taste
for the familiar, or he may move to some
place like Jersey City. little out of the
metropolis, where the enterprislng man
ayers change the bills every week no mat
ter how good the show may be. Ihere S
no use in kicking ats long. runs. The
Casino, the Broadway, the Madison
Square or the Lyeenm VIII ge! i IN 5 an az,
traction now and again that will draw
great deal longer than any man wants 70
see it unless he is financially interested.
Take the "Oolah" or the Drum Major.
for instance, or that Sweet Lavender"
which is coming here tomorrow, over
here, however, we have no reason TO com
plain. The Academy never wear1es It's
patrons, even with such success as
HFountleroy,' for instance, and Jacobs
Theatre in Hoboken changes its bills
twice week. Il own to being glad OF this,
and to a great enjoyment of the rapidly
changing spectacle Variety is the spice
of real life, but it is laid on with very
sparing hand for most of us. In the
mimic lfenf the stage we therefore crave
it all the more
The steady growth in the attendance at
the Casino indicates increasing popularity
in The Drum Major The receipts for
the second week were far in excess of
those for the first, and the many changes
made since the beginning have trans
formed the operatta into thoroughly en-
joyable one; no more hearty laughter or
applause has ever been heard in. this
house The Introduction OF new nnale
to the second act, and q trio in the first
act, has met with considerable favor
Mr.. Rudolph Aronson has arranged a
series of military nights" when the
members of several of the State regiments
will visit the Casino. The first ON the
list is Company D, Ninth Regiment under
command of Captain ]. d. Walton; they
viii witness the performance in fun uni
form tomorrow (Monday) evening.
Among the decorations in theauditorium,