The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-04
THE THEATRES IN AUGUST.
TARIE1T SHOWS ARE sTRONG At PRES
ENT AND 10 COME.

When Tony Pastor starts tho ball a-rolling
the new vaudeville season may safely he re-
Eardcd as having boon naugurated. In these
days. too. when the American public has laid
itself open to suspicion az hoinG variety
nad"-to quote an old observer OF our the
atricals-Mr. PASTORS movements are natu-
rally looked upon with great interest An ex-
perience OF quarter Of century. fortified By
annual inspection OF tho foreign music halls.
has served to mako him an export in tho So
lection Of novelties. and so all his yearly I'M
portations command careful attention.as posi-
bly, denoting tho tendency OF tho popular taste.
Undoubtedly this Ia TO DO big year Tor tho
variety pooplo and for the thcatres-rapidly
increasing in numbers aud intluence-at which
they will play. There will also DO moro farce
comedies" than ever on tho circuits. and that.
OF course. mcans larger visitation OF thinly
diagviaed variety shows. At tho same time.
the out-and-out vaudeville houses will DO
notably increased in nearly all the big cities.
and indeed, 1t seems as IL tho music hall per-
formers brightest days arc at hand. lie will
certainly rot bigger wages as one result OF
this change. Already the roof gardens pay
tho vnuievillcrs who appear there almost
double the money thcy have earned in tn o
Bowery and In tho provincial variety theatres.
Mr.. Pastor has started tho season Of frvoity
with minEling of success and failure in his
selections OF new performers. He has brought
forward to mako their bows in America an
excellent "team" OF athletes In tho Detroit
brothers. and an amazingly disappointing
serio-comic in Birdie BriEhtlinG. All tho trio
are English and havo Won u certain kind OF
fame In tho London halls. 1t is likely that
Pastor nays them handsomely. for when c.
foreign vaudevillcris besOuGht to visit America
his wages Immediately double themselves.
Miss BrightlnS may not remain lon. with us.
1t was evident to thu most generous spectator
that Mr.. Pastor had erred in importing her.
With Bessie Bonchill. Jenny Hill. and Peggy
Pryde as predecessors. Miss Brightling suf-
fered severely by comparison. She is slight
and rather pretty brunette Of medium height.
awkward in her stage presence. and hnnd-
capped severely bY bad tas.o in costumins.
All the English women who como TO our
derful dressers, denny Hill and Peggy rryde
in spite OF the protests Of their man gers they
insisted upon wearing tho Hitting costumes
our own serio-comics and character Perform.
ers are almost invariably handsomely gowned.
Mss BGhsnG wh9 Is not Rhnm fol
an error committed by Jenny Hill. Her first
selection y, WAS an Alpine. song. with
suitable costume, Miss BrightinE's voice is not
manages It rather artfuily and at no time is it
dispensing. Her first encore introduced her
the yeriest amateur on that Instrument. while
her third and final appearance was as II dancer.
sIeSutihhG few steps Of what might be called
clog. This dance she executed in ordinary
walking shoes. without the mid Of ling es" OF
render n, the dance eem%SnPiaes: our Sna own N
!!sEIns turn t5an Ms TrisItiins." Nsysr ;
the corday and She msS
thank her lucky stars that her debut was not
R M %0s nd less
the other hand. have made genuine and val
Hable hit. and will surely become widely liked.
They are a pair OF medium sized. pleasant
all their povements and In most of them are
turing and hand balancing than has ever he
fore been seen in this country. while their
DARING addtion. mEc5 Of their sv WORK en is
pay to vaudeville act They were ere Wildly iHs ap.
plnuded by Pastors supporters. and their
future in America Is sale.
The entertainments at that remarkable insti-
tuition. the Theatre .ibrc. in Paris. continue to
to the descriptions furnished by a recent Visit
tor. The eighth aud last representation OF
d,Amour." a one-act piece. La Mere Jeanne. an
old Brittany woman. has son called tr6dW.
mas his that
aaugh ht., iro ant is with child !, by him.
s1 1Gd yHe his IS rstsss
oonfusingly called a comedy" working girl.
voman with live, starving children has muir
After ponderng over this sad state OF affairs.
Mdhe decides very dramatically to resort to
the streets, and the curtain falls as she passes
through the door her to the
All tho towns theatres have experienced
Is ' as favor rF aRs sS eh IN is
s n1 On asssssa dnd Ss
yill be something beyond all record or expec.
ssa Ha in pon ns n Is
tormance Is delightfully."- brisk and smooth.
Ga n nGh e ee ss Gs nS
",The Mascot" at Palmer,s failed to exert its
olden charm. now that ,theatreg9ing is com;
Eda ons IN the cast
an agreeable and sprightly, actress aud good
It stays in town. The root gardens 81 and tho
sSs ny Ss roo
an s ta ssS Of sss
Her Derformances up r21,, several musicale
oa aaaS skq a ""h sss
Julian reappeared with Rose Julian In their
placed, the Tipaldl mnndoIinists. Otherwise
the bill was unchanged; The Casino. roof gar
nevertheless it has boon constantly crowded.
Eldorado and tho Coney Island pyrotechnic
spoctacles are still visited by delighted
throngs;,, Franeioli's new Gavotte in tho third
act Of" Egypt Through Centuries" Is another
triumph for that amazing dancer.
It 10 evident that the vaudeville fever in
American theatricals will be stronger than ever
next season New York viii surely have two
new music halls after tho London pattern, with
ft lcast q fair prospect Of two others. In Dos.
ton theatre which has hitherto confined itself
TO- dramas will henceforth minGe variety acts
Elth Its SERIOUS plays. while in Philadelphia.
CINCINNATI. Baltimore. 81. Louis. Washington,
and half dozen other Zig cities thore Will be
AZ increase in tho number OF variety stages.
All these changes are not without u moral. 1t
must be true-if facts ana IL. ltrs toll tho story
that the era Of friynlty in our amusoments
has but lust begun. Shakespeare hayin. virtu-
ALLY departed from our STAG perhaps forever.
the hamfattar" and the SKIRT dancer viii reign
viii 10. lho metamorphusis Of tho Casino
has started in earnest, and the work which