The record-union., 1891-10-10

companies. j. IL. OttOmeyer was one or
the principal successes in the original
cast of Jim the Penman," and noted for
being one of the best stage managers in
the country. Earle Brown, Californian,
Louis Mason and Edgar Allen constitute
the balance of the organization.
The story of "Incog." is that of young
man, Tom Stanhope, who, being driven
from the hotel where they are stopping
by his father for refusing to marry his
ward, and persisting in his determina-
ton to marry his wards companion, de
terrnines to return 'incog.," SO as to be
near the object of his affections. To this
end he disguises himself after photo
graph which he has picked up. The pho
tograph is that of Dick Winters, one of a
pair of twin brothers, who cannot be dis
tinguished from one another by their
most intimate friends. Dick has been
confined for some time in a private sani-
tarium, in order to cure him of a slight
affection of the brain, which prevents him
from recognizing anyone, not even his
own wife and children, who are residents
of the same hotel in which the action
takes place.
Dick has just been discharged cured
from the sanitarium, and is on his way
to join his family. By singular coinci-
dence the other brother, Harry, is en-
gagged TO young lady, also guest of the
hotel, and having just returned from
trip abroad, is on his way to see her.
Tom arrives first under the alias of Jack
Darling, and concocts scheme with his
father, who does not suspect his identity,
to win the hand of the companion, Kate
Armitage, and thus checkmate Tom.
just as he is getting on famously, and
has revealed his identity to Kate, Mrs.
Winters enters and claims him as her
husband, while the children cling to him
atfectlonately, and hail him as papa
This, to the intense amusement Of Kate,
who understands the situation, but the
CONSERVATION of the father, old General
Stanhope; and the rage of the General
may be imagined when Miss Sonlers
claims him as her intended, and Mrs.
Winters as her husband.
The two women have regular set-tO.
Next comes Dick, whom Kate mistakes
for Tom and proceeds to embrace vio-
lently, when enter Mrs. Winters and
Miss Somers and a triangular fight is
waged over the unfortunate man. Harry
comes last and is also made the victim of
similar mistakes, and from that time on
ensue series Of amusing situations. AS
will readily be seen by the foregoing,
Mrs. Pacheco has evolved play on the
plan of 1.-The Private Secretary" "All
the Comforts Of Home," "Mr. Wilkin-
sons Widows" and the other great COM
edy successes of the day, and this is the
style Of play which creates fun without
horse-play and is likely to become quite
popular.
''Incog" will be preceded by curtain
raiser, one-act comedietta from the
French, entitled "Book Ill, Chapter l."
in which Messrs. Dickson and Edeson
and Miss Burg will appear. 1t is said TO
be delicious morsel, and doubly inter-
esting from the fact that it requires the
highest and most delicate order of COM
edy acting, in contradistinction to In
cog" which calls for much broader
style.
Much interest is being manifested here
regarding ''Incog," and it is practically
certain that Mr.. Dickson viii find his
San Francisco experience, where they
were obliged to put the orchestra in the
wings, repeated.
''A MIDNIGHT BELL"
The highest compliment that can be
paid to Charles A Hoyt as a playwright
is, that he has created a dramatic gem in
his sweet sympathetic and absorbing dra-
matte play, "a Midnight Bell" 1t is in
finitely beyond the farce comedy crea-
tions which he has heretofore offered the
public. 1t breatheS a purer and more
exalting influence, giving. as it does,
Bell" is not only the very essence of
comedy, but teens with homely phil
osophy. The characters are almost with
out exception faithfully drawn, and in
the realism Of the life picture is the great
strength of the production. The play
was seen here last season, and if large
audiences and hearty applause is any cri-
terion, "a Midnight Bell" was pro-
nounced hit. 1t returns to the Metropol-
itan next Thursday evening for two
nights engagement, October 18th and
10th. Many have seen it before, but any
thing which will make people think or
recall tender memories, or arouse their
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their risibles, can be heard again and
again with profitable pleasure. The vii
lain of the play is not made disgustingly
conspicuous, while the good people are
unaffectedly so.
"a Midnight BelI'' offers several
studies in human nature, notably Dea-
con Tidd, the clergyman and the old
maid. They are so refreshingly original
that the audience instinctively concludes
that they are real characters, for they
have known persons just like them.
Then the plot and its development are
thoroughly consistent with probability,
and there is no burlesque in the incidents
or situation, but delightful, but har-
monious humor
STAGE NOTES.
William Terriss and Jessie Milward are
arranging an Australian tour.
w. w. Randalrs new High Roller'' is
Stuart Robson played to over $4,000 at
the Brooklyn Park Theater last week.
Fanny Rice and "a Jolly SURPRISE
did not make a hit at Philadelphia last
week.
George BarrettS new play. Another
Mans Shoes" has made a pretty bad
failure.
Pearl Eytinge closed disastrous tour
in "Nivien' at Meadville, Pa, Septem-
ber 10th.
Salvini will begin an extended engage
ment in New York during the latter part
Of February.
Gilbert and Sullivan have buried the
hatchet and are again collaborating on a
new comic opera.
''The President" is said not to have had
very jolly time swinging around the
California circuit.
Gilbert and Golfers much talked of
opera to be produced in London has been
named The Clockwork Man."
Dame rumor has it that Carrie Perkins,
once the Merry Mountain Maid in
"Adonis," will soon take a husband.
"Yvette," wordless play, produced in
London last week, was such disastrous
failure that it was at once withdrawn.
Mrs. d. p. Bowers returns to the stage
soon and will appear as Queen Cynopia
in Martin Hayden's drama by that name
Marie Jansen's rumored engagementto
young Bass, the English ale man, is said
to be a joke and has no foundation in
fact.
The mysterious Edmund Gerson is
talking about tremendous attraction
which he will bring direct from Russia
before the end of the year.
Pretty Miss Minnie Laurence continues
to be one of the most attractive features
in "A Hole in the Ground" She plays