The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-22
BUSY THEATRES.
Winter Audiences Are on
Hand, and the Box
office Is Lively.
SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY,

1He week s ATTRACTIONS al the Acad-
envy and JacObs'-Well Known
People on the Boards Their
Dresses and Doings.
Shadows Of Great City," one Of the
most successful of all melodramas, will
be produced at the Academy of Music to-
morrow evening and for the week. 1t
has been presented in all the leading
theatres throughout this country and in
Australia, and has also been enormously
successful in London.
The play Is under the management of
Charles b. and Thomas jefferson (sons of
Joseph Jefferson) and will be given with
q cast exceedingly well adapted to the
requirements of the characters of the
drama. The admirable scenic effects,
especially constructed for this play, are
striking and impressive. All the scenery
and properties necessary for its prOduc-
ton are carried by the company.
shadows of Great City" has never
failed of an ovation wherever it has been
produced. 1t is thoroughly original in
its plot, its situations and clearly defined
characters. Its scenic surroundings are
elaborate and beautiful, and some
of the more prominent effects are realistic
TO q degree rarely seen on the stage. The
story is compactly and gracefully told in
the dialogue, and the action is brisk. The
incidents follow one another naturally
and effectively. The full cast is rs fol-
lows -
"a LEGAL WRECK"
Mr.. William Gillette, the author of
Held by the Enemy" has made another
contribution to stage literature, which
no
Hoboken tomorrow evening. "a Legal
Wreck "a comedy arranged in four
counts" is an entertaining affair, full of
life and movement, and presenting several
well drawn and individualized characters
The piece goes with spirit from first to
last.
The drunken son of retired skipper is
in love with the shippers ward Her
paternity is involved in mystery, but she
is conceded to be lady born, and de-
clines to meet her lovers advances. A
handsome young stranger comes to her
help when an attempt is made to abduct
her, and she forthwith falls in love with
him.
Tom Cooper. John Marshall
George Benson. Charles Kdder
Jim Farren. .....-............ George r. Edeson
Abe Nathans ......-.........W William Cullington
Hammond. John d. Walsh
crouch. IL. w. Browning
Bggs- r. Stanfield
simon Abes.... Nv G. Wells
Joe Downey .:.,....--......... ....W. B. Conlon
Helen StanSish .....,........ Miss Rose Tiffany
Bddy Roman. ..... Miss Annie Ward Tiffany
MRS. Higgins: .....-...-.......M Miss Annie Morton
Nellie, child. Little Mable
The stranger, who is equally suscepti-
Bile. goes yachting in the vicinity of Gap
Harbor, on the New England coast, and
is wrecked. The girls first lover pro-
poses to let the interloper drown before
her eyes, and only consents to save him
on condition of being promised the hand
of the heroine. At the same time he
saves also a young lawyer who is making
his way to these parts for the purpose of
solving the mystery of the heroine's be-
lodgings, and he also succumbs to her
charms. Then he proceeds to get the two
other lovers out Of his way. The original
lovers fall foul of each other on the edge
of high cliff-the scene of this part of
the action, by the way, is very effective
fne d tbe acu Taan gSSing senS
lawyer runs the yaehtsman into jail
on a merely suggestions murder, and
then, having rescued the villain, per-
suadeS him that he has stabbed his an
tagonist and had better keep in hiding.
This ingenious young person then makes
an effort to fill all the vacancies in the
cast which he has created, brings the
heroine face to face with her mother and
sister, strives to lure the yachtsman back
to an old sweetheart'S favor, and is guilty
OF sundry receptions and impertinences
in the course of these reprehensible pro-
ceedings. But he comes to grief In the
end, and the curtain falls on true love
triumphant, as it should be.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ON THE BOARDS.
A London cabling says that Loie Fuller
has taken the London Globe until Deem
Der (the unexpired lease of Richard Mans
field), and will produce Caprice" there
this month.
cault) is to return to the stage Daniel
Frohman made the proposition to her, and
now that she has accepted it, will give
her the leading female comedy part in
"Our Flat" which will be produced at
the Lyceum Theatre, New York city,
October %.
On September 8, at the Palace Baths.
took a header from q twenty-five foot
high platform into eight feet of water. He
struck bottom, and his head was badly
cut. Fortunately his injuries are not
serious, although it was thought for a
time that he would be compelled to can
eel his engagements for the season.
Jacobs Theatre, Hoboken, held 2,7S3
delighted people at the Saturday matinee
to witness the performance of "Out in
the Streets" The usual matinee and
evening performance today.
Robert l.. Downing is doing we'll with
his new play founded on Marie Correlli's
novel, Vendetta" The sombre charac-
ter of the play may be inferred from the
fact that the two principal scenes are in
the tomb of the Ravennas. Downing, as
Count Claudio (thc title role), won much
praise, and Eugene Blair, III the leading
female role, has also made q success. Mr..
Bowling has also brought out the white
Pilgrim, " q beautiful romantic idyl from
the pen of Herman Meriyale.
Ella Wilson, who is said to be not vet
out of her teens, is starring in play of
which she is the authoress. 1t is called
1.-TWO to One, or Penalty Under the Law"
and is said to be not at all bad
Another New England comedy called
"Old Homespun," which sounds suspi-
ciously like the "Old Homestead,n has
been written for George ODER by Adelaide
ODER. 1t was started in the West with
some success.
Mrs. Langtry is playing in Esther
Sandraz" and AFTER the Rehearsal on
her English tour.
1.-THE Drum Maior' is growing in
favor at the Casino. Pauline Hall is
winning fresh laurels, and Jimmy Pow
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