The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-01
"The stowaway" at the Gaiety.


A characteristic Monday night audience,
which crowded the Gaiety Opera House
from pit TO gallery, applauded the hero
and hissed the william last evening when
that popular English melodrama THE
Stowaway" began a weeks engagement
at that theatre. For play that COM
prises soul-stirring situation, plenty of
mirth and hair-raising cllmaxes The
Stowaway' Is the peer OF anything that
has been seen in the city this season.
Charles Etherington, the villain OF the
play, conspires TO get possession OF his
uncle's property. His cousin Tom lngliss,
who has wandered from the straight
and narrow path and is mourned
as dead by the father, comes into the
scene and proves the hero of the play.
Althea Dale, whose guardian is Ingliss'
father, turns out to be Toms guardian
angel and to her he promises to mend his
his ways. Etherington will stop at moth
ing TO gain his end. He conspires To
marry Althea by force that he may get
her property, and with this end in view
murders his wife that she may not stand
in the way. and then plots against the life
of the hero. Dicky Dals, waif, and a
former servant of Toms father, meets him
accidentally, returns to him papers
which will prove his identity, and
thereafter keeps a watchful eye over his
young master Finally all is righted, the
son is restored to his father aud the
! trial for murder, amid storm of Kisses
| from the gallery. There are some inter
esting situations, the most realistic of
| which is the safe blowing in the second
act by spike" Hennessey and Kid
| Mccoy the reformed burglars. The
scenery is good especially the scene on
board the yacht Success" in the fourth
| act when the hero is lashed TO the mast by
the villain and his accomplices and is about
| to murdered but for the timely interference
/ = Il.
| Edwards as Tom Ingliss fills the role TO
| perfection, while Mark Lynch as Charles
| Etherlington is assured that he is playing
| the part of the william well by the mani
| fest disgust in which the gallery gods
hold him aud rent their dissapproval of
! his methods by frequent Kisses. Harry
| Barker as Dicky Dials the Stoway has a
unique part TO play and does it well and
! Miss Lulu Llein as Althea Dale is an
actress of more than ordinary ability.
| Jerome kingsbury as Percy Evert, a dude,
Miss IIenora Bradley rs Florence Ether
London newsboy, are also worthy of
mention.
Lothrop's Providence Museum.
Two appreciative audiences, Transcribed
only by the limited capacity of the
theatre, visited Lothrop's Providence
| Museum yesterday afternoon and last
evening, to witness the excellent presen-
tation of John Thompson's celebrated
sensational comedy entitled "On Hand"
as given by Miss Kate Glassiord and Jere
Grady, supported by the full strength of
Lothrop's stock company. The story is
logically told, and contains numerous
strong and sensational features. The
scenes depicted are in and around the
great city of New York and several realis-
tic stage pictures OF life in that great me-
tropolis are fully delineated. As, for in
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street with its gilded gambling palaces
and typical concert hall in full opera
ton; the proverbial tenement house in the
slums wherein is introduced the celebrat-
ed fire scene; and Niagara Falls by moon
light Miss Kate Glassford appeared TO
excellent advantage in the role of Lucy
Harrison, the deserted wife of the villain
Gus rascal, Jabrison (J. Gordon Edwards),
whose sole ambition appeared TO be TO
make someone miserable and get
in trouble. Jere Grady had the
principal part Of the piece and the sue
cess which he achieved in the portrayal of
the respective characters of u Chinaman,
jew, Italian, German. lrishwonan, half
witted boy a Bowry tough, portend a
brilliant future for this rising young actor
i'm the profession which he has chosen. In
addition to the presentation OF the drama,
the members of Lothrop's comedy com
many enacted one of their funny farce
comedies which rs usual evoked rounds OF
hearty laughter j. Francis hirke, Joseph
n. Fannin, and Miss Elsie Gladys present
ed Barney Williams celebrated one act
drama entitled Temptation, or the Irish
Emigrant," and Emile Mueller, the man
with hundred faces, amused and in
structed his audience 10y the clever por-
trayals of numerous prominent persons of
the day The same bill VIII be given
every afternoon and evening during the
week. On March II, next Friday, ii
Percy Meldon. the popular general stage
director OF LothrOp's amusement enter
prises. will be rendered complimentary
benefit on which occasion he will appear
as Eliot Gray, in the beautiful romance,
"Rosedal."
The Westminster,
a thrilling tale Of Western frontier life.