Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-01
entertainments.

English playwrights, George R. Sims and
Cecil Raleigh, will be presented this even
ing by one eff Charles Frohmans best
companies. The company is headed by
Miss Johnstone Bennett, the famous
"Jane" of the past three seasons. 1t is
claimed for Fanny" that its comedy is
drawn upon entirely new lines of action
quite novel to the period.
The first 40. of Fanny" will skow an
elaborate Getting of the ruins of Kenil-
worth Castle. The second and third acts
will be interior and exterior views re-
spectively.
The story of Fanny" In brief, relates
the endeavors of the young wife of an Inn
pecunious lawyers clerk to pose as a mar
ried sister, who is alternately believed to
be both dead and alive by the other char
scters In the play. 1t is to the advantage
of a certain few that the sister should be
thought permanently under the sod, and
vice versa to the remaining few. AS one
of the features of the story the young wife
finds herself at O late period in the action
in the unwelcome predicament of being
thought alec a third mans wife. She had
been unwittiDgly led into the impersons-
ton Of her sister through the Vaccinations
of her impoverished husband. Her devo-
ton to him makes her his willing ally In
the continued deception, but In the end
the husband proves to have also been I'M
Willingly on the right track, and all conse-
quently ends we'll.
The case will include Mr.. W. ]. Fer
guson, long identified with Mr.. Richard
Mansfeld's company; Mr.. Robert Cotton,
Mics Elaine Ellison, Miss Lizstte LIE Baron
and Mr.. Seymour Hess of the original
''Jsne" company; Mr.. Edward Coleman,
Mr.. Max Figman, Mr.. Frank Burbeck,
George Allison and other special character
players. Sale of seats now open.
Primrose & West minstrels come on Mon
day evening next. The sale of eeats now
open.
The present engagement of Efie Ellslsl
on Tuesday and Wednesday next week will
occasion more than customary interest, in
asmuch as 1t will be her first appearance
in the city as Doris, in Robert Drouet'l
play of that name. 1t Is described as be
ing delightful drama, full of living in
terest and worked out with due regard &c
consistency and artistic symmetry. Sale
of seats opens to morrow.
Kellar, the wonder worker, comes OF
4uufSQhy next
Hoyt's "a Temperance Town" will pre-
sent on Friday and Saturday evenings, Sep
TENDER and 8.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
A new play written by Edwin Barbour
entitled, "Ths District Fair" was present
ed last evening before large audience. II
is play that will be enjoyed by both old
and young, for 1t overfows with romance
pathos and fun. 1t tells an interesting
love story. The scenery and mechanical
effects fully merit the modern demand fol
realism. A running race between two
thoroughbreds, introduced in the last act
ia exciting and thrilling. The plot of the
play is as follows:
Arthur, the son of John Graylock, an
honest blacksmith, plays the races and
losing, as a matter of course, FORCES his
father name. The forged check is held
over his head by Jacob Rentzlaw, the own
or of the rsos horse Sunbeam and the
necessary villain of the play. The black
smiths brother, Philip Graylock, a sol
whose only trsce.of manhood lies in his
love for his daughter, Roxy, steals bis
brothers money, fixing the crime on Ar
thur. Spotty Regain, young Irish Jockey,
who rides Sunbeam, and "pulls" him to
lose, thinking to benefit his benefac
tor Arthur, abandons the turf and takes
up the idle hammers in Graylock's smithy
to work out the loss incurred by his mis-
take. Arthur files to Australia with Phillip
and they return with a steeplechaser
named Tempest, which they induce Spotty
to ride against Sunbeam. He of course
wins after neck and neck race in sight OF
the audience over hurdle, and wins the
homestead back.
Of the individual members of the cast II
is we'll to speak of Dan Hanchett, Neil
Scully, William Borelli, George Rose, Mrs.
T. W. Matters and Gertie Liddy. The play
will be produced this evening and to-mor-
row afternoon and evening.
The attraction for Labor day will be
Madame and Augustus Melville in their
new play, "The Power of Woman" There
will be a special holiday matinee oommenc-
ing at 2 p. m.
On Tuesday and Wednesday next week
s'The Danger Signar will be given. There
will be q matinee on Wednesday.
The Fred Solomon Comic Opera COM
pany, headed by the clever comedian, Fred
Solomon, from the Casino, N. Y, Will ap-
pear the last three days next week On
Thursday evening poor Jonathan will
be presented; Friday evening, 'tNadjy,n
and Saturday matinee and evening, "The
Bhgands."