New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-02
WHAT THE PLAYERS WILL DO.
THIS WEEK AT THE THEATRES NEARLY
THE SAME AS LAST.


week will afford chahce to compare this piece WIN
ono of Mr. Days former Shakespearean reVlVais' Do
"The Tanning of the shrew" Will be gwen on lueS
day, which is the last but one OF the suosoiipuon
nights .As You Like 1t. has yet some weeks 10 rum
but its time is growing short, and the remaining op
portunities to see 1t should not be lost
IL WAS thought when William H. Crane came to the
Star Theatre that he would probably produce Two OF
three plays in the of his eight weeks stay Dut
this prospect has faded nearly out OF sight AS
long as disappointed people leave The door OF the the
atre every night they get neither seats nor
good standing ROOM it would seem unfair to many
who want to see The Senator" II Mr.. Crane were 10
substitute any other piece.
The first performance Of the season OF " Die Goet
terdaemerung" will be given at the Metropolitan opera
House on Friday evening. Tomorrow evening Inc
Trumpeter of Sackingen' will be repeated, and on
Wednesday "Tannhaeuser." Ada VIII DC sung az
the Saturday matinee.
AUNT Jack" and "A Man of the World" have now
been PLAYED a hundred times at the Madison Square
Theatre Their is sikey to be long one yet'
and it not even certain what play will be next at this
house
The souvenirs given on the 150th night of shenan-
doah at Proctor's Twenty third Street Theatre rev
weeks ago much admired but 1t is said that
those for the 2oOth performance, which is now not far
distant will surpass them in elegance OF design ana III
trinsic value. II will be hard work for snows'orm
to keep this company of the stage for two weeks as IL
has done with the one in the West.
Palmer's Theatre will be closed tomorrow and Tues
day evenings, and Wednesday Richard Mansheid
will produce Master and Man" MIR. Crawford Is IN
charge of the arrangements, having come from Eng
land for the purpose last week.
The Fifth Avenue Theatre had such good houses
last week that AS You Like 1t" Will be kept on inc
stage for at least one week longer. Miss Juna Mar
loves pleasing personality and the curiosity I'd SEQ
her as Rosand, have beer enough to I'LL the ueatro
at nearly every epyformance thus far.
Nothing stands in the way of "The Charity Ball."
which still rolls on steadily and smoothly as ever ae
the Lyceum Theatre. This house usually has only one
play for the greater part OF each season, ana Jhs
season seems to be following the rule as strictly as
possible
The Standard Theatre has other changes lately
besides that in its management One Of them is the
change in the houses which have been much larger
for the last ewek than they have been before ID "A
long time "The Seven Ages" has only a little while
longer to stay. The 15oth performance Is approach
ing and handsome souvenirs are promised
MANY children and many more older people nave
been interested in Elsie Leses acting in Tho Prince
and the Pauper," at the Broadway Theatre. Inc
manees are the best attended OF all the performances
but the evening houses have grown larger OF late'
and there is prospect Of excellent business ior tno
rest of the run.
Fragoletto in The Brgands" at the Casino tomorrow
night The next opera to be produced will be The
Grand Duchess" and rehearsas are going on daily
but the time is not yet set and The brisands" Is
not yet at the end of its career.
Mr. Amberg announces this week the farewell APP
pesrances of Ernst Possart at his theatre before the
actors departure for Europe. The programme is as
follows: Monday, Possart as Mephistophees, Id
"Faustn; Tuesday, Nine Claar-Deia in "Ahare
Clemenceau" Qast tme); Wednesday, by request
Possart in Merchant of Venice; Thursday Possart
for the first time in Elm Fallssement'; Friday
Possart, in "Faust'; Saturday, Possart In Hans
Joerge" and Konigs Befehl."
Some novel effects are promised in Mr.. Barnes
of New-York at the Grand Opera House this week,
one Of them being scene on railway tram IN
notion with stops at stations. The cast VIII In
clude Miss Emily Rigl, Miss Emma Field, Miss Enc
Germon, Miss Annie H. Blancke, Miss Laura Palmer
Sheridan Block Benjam Hendricks, Robert Hilard,
Horace Lewis ]. A. Washburne and II. n. Baruch.
The New Park Theatre has shared the increase Of
business that has fallen most of the theatres within
the last week or two and "The Gondoiers' has
found more listeners Of late An additional interest is
given to the performance by the sight Of Doyy Carte
about the house in charge of its affairs.
The company playing Bluebeard, Jr.," at Nfblo's
Garden will be increased tomorrow night by the
addition of six skirt dancers. As special element Of
novelty 1t is announced that the dancers Amer
leans.
The magic number of three stage presentations OF
rural New England life will be broken after this week
a Midnight Bell" lHcu Gnu lto stay
Theatre and to make the breaking of the rustic spell
the more marked, it will be followed by The City
Directory
But the other two sketches, in Fourteenth-st..
will hold their places just before. The County
Fair" is still filing the Union Square Theatre every
night and when the time approaches for the race
scene in the last act, all the attaches of the theatre
that are not actually too busy wander in to it,
and the small boys in the street watch the door
anxously in the hope that it may be opened and give
them chance peep.
The Academy of Music is not to be forgotten. II
is not easy to forget piece that never stops like
"The Old Homestead" 1t is expected back in town
in the autumn, for another season, but in the
time it will have visited England. The for
tho London production will be by American artists.
One of the few changes of bill this week will be
at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, where W. j. seaman
Will play Shane Lawn" He will sing several
song, usual, and they will include The Low
Backed Car" Peggy O'MoreS Gathering the Myrtle
with Mary" "Tlle Rose song and new one called
Give Paddy Chance"
Professor Cromwens Of Illustrated lectures
at the Fifth Avenue Theatre is proving an extremely
interesting one TO many people, who lind that they
afford not only pleasant but a profitable way Of
spending Sunday evenings The lecture this evening
Nalan Frankie and his orchestra OF fifty musicians
ing. julius Perott Will sing two selections, and John
Cheshire will give harp solo.
A beneht for Mrs James G. Blaine III, VINO mas
at the Broadway Theatre the afternoon Of February
Is. Among the wellknown amateur actors who Will
appear Miss Eliza Proctor Otis and Edward Fales
coward. and among the professionals are Mrs Kendall
Elsie Leslie, Richard Mansfield and E. H. VANDERBILT.
Miss Rose Coghlan makes her first appearance In
this city for the present February "a, at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre where she Will be In
special and handsome production of Jocyn," and as
Peg Wellington in Masks and Faces"
An unusually large number OF orders has been
ceved for seats for the two of illustrated ect
ures by Mr. stoddard, to be given 20 Days Theatre
The courses will be exactly the same and the first
lectures will be given February 81 and rs. The
lectures said to have been particularly we'll re-
ceved In other cities where they have been delivered
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Kendall viii come to Palmer's
Theatre February IT, for two weeks, and 1t is
proposed present repertoire Of plays. consists
Of Impulse" and "fhe Ironniaster" by j. c.
stephenson The White Le;' by Sidney Grumpy:
and the new comedy, The Weaker Sex by A. W.
PiDero.