The record-union., 1893-01-21
MUSIC And TEE DRAMA.
How Metropolitan Theater-GOe
Are Being Amused.
Plays That are Money Winners and
Others that are Played Out-Thomas
w. Keene and the stage-General
Stage Notes.

A. P. Dunolp, writing from New York
under date of January 18th, says:
mo new play was produced in New
Y York on Monday, but several not yet
seen in the metropolis were brought in
for Endorsement. The most important OF
these was Captain Herne, L. s. A. at
the Union Square Theater, with Il. j..
Henley as the star. II is war drama
with stirring incidents, and is sure to be
money winner.
Nellie McHenry also brought her sue
cessful new comedy A Night at the Cir
cus,' to the Grand Opera-house, and as
Americas greatest comedienne Is de-
servedly popular, she and her jolly fun
makers had rousing reception. AT the
Windsor Iheater J. p. Sullivan. a Dub
lin comedian, appeared in his new Irish
play, Leaves OF Shamrock which is un-
doubtedly an east-side success. His sing
ing was warmly applauded. At Ham
mersteln's, in Harlem, Chauncey Olcott
was seen for the first time in Scanlan's
part III 'MaVourneen.' He made a hit and
IS much better singer than was Scanlan.
AT the Carnival is another new play
seen for the first time in Gotham at the
geople'S. 1t was not success and,
although Messrs. Weitzel and Frederick
lsham, two Detroit newspaper men, have
done some creditable work for Eva
Mounttord and Elmer Grandin, it failed
TO create favorable impression.
"AJ Herrmann's the Aianola- Mason
Company have been seen in Caste and
better all-around performance of this
comedy has seldom been seen in this city.
Miss Manola made winsome Esther,
Jack Mason gave admirable shading to
George D DAlroy, while Robert New ade
was excellent as Eccles. In fact the en-
tire cast was good and the revival mas
proven d very great success.
AT the Star Theater Minna X. Gale
Haynes revived Romeo and Juliet on
Monday. Mrs. Haynes was weak and
unsatisfactory in the great part and has
not the slightest gliInmer of genius.
Eben Plympton was the Romeo and a
fairly competent company made the per-
tormance even and inoIfensive.
ION Monday Proctor's opened as an all
day house OF vaudeville and the queer
new scheme seems successful at the start,
although 1t is not likely 10 continue. At
half-past II a continued vaudeville per-
tOrmance is begun that lasts until IL
O'Clock at night and the curtain does not
drop once. The prOgromme, of course, is
long one, but between the turns an
abridged performance of The Mascot
is given a couple OF times. In it's present
shape the show is good one and has at
tracted the feminine shopping world and
people who drift around the great
This is the last week but one of the
Isle OF Champagne which has made a
great deal of money during its New York
engagement. When it leaves the Man
haitian Hammerstein's new venture in
English opera will be tried.
deception and Baroness Blanc re-
main at the New York Fifth Avenue
until January 23d.
The New South which has made a
success at the New York Broadway The
ater, will remain until January 30th, after
which it will be followed by William
Gillette's Ninety Days.
The Mulhgan Guards BALI at Har-
rigan's New \ ork Theater is doing an
extraordinary large business.
The business OF The Fencing Master
Is falling off at the Casino and it does not
look as if it would run two or three
years. as its friends thought.
Lillian Russell has also been doing
badly this week with La Cigale,' and the
Garden Theater has been papered as no
other house in New York has been this
season.
'Aristocracy' will end its prosperous
New Nork run on February I1th, when
the Palmer Stock Company returns to
Palmer's.
The farewell performances of the
Masked BalP takes place at the Standard
Theater January 2lst.
The enormous business done bv the
Black Crook has also come to a sudden
end"
KEENE AND THE STAGE.
Thomas w. Keene in an interview not
long ago confirms this view as to the rest
OF the country. 1t is the respectable mid
die class, not the fashionable, not the lit
erary, that is the support of the Shake
spearian actor on the road. That large
class of the people which disapproves OF
the theater IN general, and which first
timidly entered its doors with the feeling
that it might be the first step on the
downward road, attends only the best
class of plays. 1t began with Shak espeare,
1t wept over Mrs. Haller in "The
Stranger" The plays of Sheridan
knowles had enough literary prestige to
be considered educational. Even young
girls were taken to these, not as an
amusement, but to see something which
1t was well they should know about
That they might see Objectionable things
in such plays was considered much in
the same light as the chance of running
across passages difficult to explain in
reading the Bible. Even to-day the the
ater in the country is not regarded more
as an amusement than as a means of ac.
quaintance with social life and custom
and the matters talked about in the worlC
OF cities. Mr.. keene has taken the place
formerly held by Edwin Forrest and Ed
win Booth, and his tour this season ha.
been triumph.
STAGE NOTES.
Lotta is coming to California for he
health.
Louise Pomeroy died in New Yorl
January 9TH.
Jean de Reszki is well again and sans
in Paris last week.
Won Bulow is sick in Berlin with hi
old nervous malady.
Harry Davenport and Marie Osborn,
are engaged to be married.
Eleanor Duse has decided to make he
American debut as Camille.
Kellar has closed the Egyptian Hall il
Philadelphia and taken to the road
1.-The Lost Paradise'' is playing to ar
average of 81, 200 nightly in London.
"titznoOdle" is to be produced a
Palmer's New ork Theater January 3Ist
Sir Arthur Sullivan has returned t,
London from Monte Carlo and has shu
himself up with his opera 'Ivanhoe,
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