The Critic and record., 1891-04-22
ADJUSTMENTS.
summer Opera at Albaugh's.


mcr opera at Albaughs. The company
secured-the Carleton Opera Company
is good one, and great many pleasant
summer evenings may be anticipated.
The first week Of the engagement will be
taken up with an elaborate production ol
THE Merry War opeoi Johann Strauss
best attempts. This opera has been sung
before i'm this city and was always well
coined, if sung by capable company.
MIR Cartoons chorus this summer will
be especially strong musically and nut
mcrically. The costumes will be elegant
and in keeping with the reputation Of
this well. organized company The sale
of seats begins tomorrow.
New National Theatre.
"The Still Alarm, am American COM
cdy Drama by Joseph Arthur, which is
TO be produced at the New National
Theatre next week is without doubt one
of the most successful American plays
ever produced in this country. For going
ON six years II has played to crowded
houses all oyer the country, and has also
been produced in England, where It made
great sensation, and after long run at
the Princess Theatre It had a prosperous
tour through the provinces. It is said to
have the most realistic scene ever put on
the stage, i'm the way of q real steam fire
engine and real horses.
The play has FOR its motif the fortunes
and misfurtunes Of a New York fireman,
and the audience Is worked up to a high
pitch of excitement over a scene in the
Central fire station in New York, in which
a very realistic showing is given of the
departure of an engine 10 q fire, In this
scene the lircmen slide down the poles
from their beds in an upper story two
horses rush out to the waiting engine
harnesses are dropped on their backs as
if by magic, and the steamer is off, sput-
tering sparks and smoke as the high
mettled steeds at a terrific gallop whirl IL
out of the station. Mr.. Harry Lacy, an
actor of excellent reputation, enacts the
role of the hero fireman, Jack Mdniey and
is supported by an admirably.balanced
company The box sheet will open to-
morrow morning.
"struck Gas" at Harris.
One of the most humorous and excru-
ciatingly funny farce comedies entitled
"struck Gas, will hold the boards of
Harris Bijou Theatre all next week, and
1t promises to be veritable treat Tor all
lovers of pure and wholesome comedy. 1t
is piece constructed on purely laughing
principles and consists, in part, of an
abundance of refreshing songs, dances,
music, and speCialties of the brightest and
cleancst order. A company of merry
players, each an artist in his or her par
ticular line of work, infuse deal of UNI
adulterated and merry fun into the piece,
and "Struck Gas can well be called the
king Of farce comedies.
LILLIAN Harper is the bright particular
star of the company and with her sweet
singing and graceful dancing generally
manages TO captivate and charm an audi
ence from beginning TO end. Among the
array of popular comedians are the kings
Of comedy, Messrs. William Hugh Mack,
Ed. Banker, Il. II. Sullivan, Charles Ed
wards and a host of Others equally as
popular, including q, be.yy of charming
and pretty girls. Taking all in all,
"Struck Gas ought to play profitable
weeks engagement, and laughter should
preside during this attractions stay.
Billy Testers Big Show at Kernan's.
The champion female wrestlers, Alice
Williams of Vermont and May Morgan of
Ohio, with Billy Lesters Big Show, will
he the sensation at Kernan's theatre next
week. They will contest for a purse.
Billy Lester, formerly of Lester and AL.
len, will appear in his latest and most
successful abSurdity. Professor Seeman
is acknowledged the worlds greatest illu-
sonist and will present his celebrated
mystery entitled Electra" Frank H.
White. late of Frank and Lillian White,
is an old favorite. Among others are An.
ME Hart, Davenport Brothers, the High
ley's, Sophie Thorn, Joe Hart, Mile. AL.
bertina, the great Hilton, Adolph, Mile
Marie and John j. Sheehan. The show
is the largest and best with which Mr.
Lester has been identified. Seats now OF
sale.
TeXarkanas, the dancing wonder, with
the Henry Burlesque Company, the at
traction this week, has proved the hit o
the season. The company includes many
bright artists. Lillian Larkelli De Wiz
Sisters, Courtlandt Sisters, George II
Wood, Will West and Herbert Crowley
Ladies matinee tomorrow.
Cleveland's COlored Ministries at til,
Academy.
The greatest undertaking in the hstor,
of minstrelsy is that of w. S. Cleveland
the most successful of minstrel managers
who has drawn from far and near seec
minstrel products to the number of 2SO
and formed them into four large com
panies. One of these very choice comb
nations, "Cleveland's Colossal Colore
Carnival Minstrels,N will visit this cit.
shortly, and give one of their rare enter
tainments. This company, numbering
over half a hundred 'tip-toppers, " viii
present a neat black performance that 70
refinement and impressive originality ha
never been equaled. The "heavy weights
are Tom Mcintosh, James Bland Bill,
Farrell, viii Elridge, George 1ichnei
Harry Eaton, Palmer and McClain
Grant and Williams, and the Fou
Brewer Brothers, and were obtaine
only by the Large purse, held II
for them by their clear rheade
and far-seeing manager. A splendid corr
of vocal artists, dancers, speciality pei
formers and superb band and orchestra
every one of whom is highly preicien
in their work, complete the ensemble
They will inaugurate a new era in pre-
gressive minstrelsy, and make this wiz
some style of entertainment more fasc
mating than ever. Costumes and stag
settings are furnished on the regardless
ofeXpense pian while every detail {
Stage craft will be used in this Crowuin
achievement. The programme is arrange
on the too'many-ringed.c circus plan. FL
teen and twenty artists in their dillicu
acts, appear simuitaneousii iiy-anoth(
pleasing innovation. At the Academy {
Music (Lincoln Music HalD Friday an
Saturday, April 2l and 2j.
The Adam Forepaugh Show.
The Adam Forepaugh Show has ncy'
been partnership concern. II has ney,
formed any 'entangling alliances
Adam Forepaugh was its sole owner frol
its organization until the day of his deaf
and now his fellow tOwnsman, j.
Cooper, is monarch of all he surveys,
so far as the Adam Forepaugh Shows a
concerned. This great exhibition has q
connection with any other no persO
except j. T. Cooper owns a penny
worth i'm the Adam Forepaugh Show
An English syndicate offered 81, 1000.
for the exhibition, but its present oWnc
of course, "went one better and to-ds
is the sole possessor Of more yaluab
show property than any individual c
earth With unlimited means, the 50
proprietor Of the largest and grandc
tented exhibition in the world, wit
nearly forty years experience in the ci
Gus business, truly we can say of him;
No pont.up Utica contracts your powers
But tho whole boundless continent Il your
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Thursday, April 20 and 80.