The morning call., 1892-06-12
Plenty Of Irish Comedy and More
to Come.
RULE OF THE MERRY MONARCH. +"
Dan Mccarthy Comes TO The Bush with The
CruisksHH LaWl"-Wlel Pat Rooney
and Frank Daniels Locked H0TlS-CaT-
TsrS wild and W00llY West Show.
Sells CiTGIS-"Tle Fairies Wei" at The
AIodET- Foreign and Domestic Notes.

Presidential year is held by show people
to be a crippling one for their business but
it does not seem to seriously affect the run
Of amusements ia this city. Francis Will
son, for example, is drawing well in The
Merry Monarch" at tie Baldwin, and Frank
Daniels in the Little Puck" extravaganza at
the New California. The same remark may
be applied to the other local places OF
amusement Wilson, by the way. will de-
vote the third week of his engagement, COM
mencing tomorrow evening, to "The Mon
arch" and those who have not yet seen this
pretty cOnceit had better take our advice
and enjoy the pleasure before it is with
drawn from the stage. 1t is bright and
piQuant IN all its phases: the finish in every
part shows that much time was devoted to
lis construction. There is no sloachiness
anywhere. Every line Of text and every
note of the music appear to have been long
and carefully weighed and intelligently dis
cussed before being submitted TO the public
One relishes the business with a keenly
fTeh feeling seldom experienced under simi-
lar circumstances. Here clever actors and
fareeurs do justice TO the clever authors
THE LIoN-TAMER."
Mr.. Wilson's next comic opera production
The Lion-Tamer," bis latest opera, which
has never yet been seen anywhere outside
Of New York City, and which win be his
sole attraction en- tour in the East next sea-
son. 1t is described as very different from
The Merry Monarch" in the dramatic
methods employed, and 10 the matter Of
stage mounting it is said to be the most
elaborate and complicated in scenery and
affnnre IF II in
this country. The libretto is by Charles
Goodwin, the author Of The Merry Mon
arch" though many 0t the scenes and incl
dents have been drawn from French work
by Jules Prevail and Albert Saint-Al0in.
The music was composed for Mr. Wilson by
Mr. Richard Stahl the composer of several
successful operas. and the orchestrati0n is
the work of John Philip S0usa, the director
of the United States Marine Band al Wash
ingtOn, who has just accepted the leader
snip Of the great military band which a
syndicate CT Chicago enthusiasts in musical
matters intend he shall organize for the
Worlds Fair city.
The Lost Paradise"
Tie midsummer attraction at the Bald
win Theater will be Charles Frohman's
celebrated stock company from New York
in The Lost Paradise" by Henry c. de
Mile from the German of Ludwig Fulda,
the latest and which is said to be the most
satisfactory production Of AIr de Mile.
At any rate it has aroused the interest of
theateT-g0eTs in the East to an unusual
pitch and must therefore insure to the
Baldwin one OF its most memorable en-
gagements Of the present season, both ar
tisticaIly and financially. That both play
and players viii make strorg impression
may be prophesied from the brilliant record
which they achieved in New York, Chicago
and Boston. Il is practically the same or
ganization that presented Men and
Women" last year. and their individual and
collective hits in The Lost Paradise" have
been numerous. One peculiarly Of this
play is that the minor characters, though
mere sketches, are so CleYeTly drawn by
both author and actor that they stand out
quite as sharply as the major ones. The
part of the hero Reuben Warner, is William
Morris own. He is perfect therein. In the
company are also Odette Tyler Cyril Scott,
Annie Adams and her daughter Maud, y he,
BIZ the way, does delightful bit of work as
Neil, the factory girl. Poor, pale, shadOwy,
miserable little cripple, her face rinched
with suffering, yet Illuminated by her sweet
love, fairly bsunts one afterward. The din
Of the revolving machinery, which the au-
dieDce IS allowed a glimpse Of in the second
act, is realistic in the extreme AS the cur
tain falls yOu feel that Paradise Regaped"
would be a better title than The Lost
Paradise"