The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-03
AMUsEMENTs.
The ProdIgaI Daughter at the

The ErOQl2al MteH - "No
academy.
"The Prodigal Daughter" Walter San
ford's great, big, racing production
moves from New York to Jersey CITY
next week and will be seen at the New
Academy of Music, where every stitch OIL
I the original scenery will he exhibited,
every member Of the New York Cast
presented and every detail OF the great
Aintree National ~Steeplechase reproduced
as faithfully as when this play ran It's
year of consecutive performances at the
Drury Lane in london and its 24 nights
at the American Theatre, New YORK
City. The piece is the peer of all So
called racing dramas. h sporting
flavor seems to pervade the entire play,
and its great scene, that of the hotly con-
tested race, is not an adjunct, put an
| essential part of the production. Zen
valuable t~horoughbredS run over a mimic
course and pass and repas the spectator,
each one eagerly lighting his way 70
the winning wire, but that point OF want,
age is left for Roquefort, that grand oia
veteran of the English turf who led his
field of fleet footed horses at A1ntree
in 1885, when he captured the Grand Ma
tional Steeplechase, the richest prize for
gentlemen Siders in the world.
The scenic embellishments of this
drama are unique. They form a pleas
ing series of stage pictures, from the
DOuQOiT TO the DduNlOcAt IlObi thC hho.tt
sion to the stable, from the park to the
race course.
Mr.. sanford's company has won great
credit in New York City for it's faithful
Interpretation of the story. It's tout en-.
semble surpasses that of any other OF
Mr.. Sanford's popular companies. An
excellent performance is expected AT
their hands.
Features at tlle Bon Ton.
* Business at the Bon Ton continues to in
crease every week. Merit has IT'S own
reward" and the management offers a
meritorious performance at prices WITHIN
the reach of all. The feature on Monday
night will be the election returns read
will be authentic, as they will come di-
rect from the political headquarters. A
strong show is advertised for next week.
Among the actors engaged are the fol-
list and dialectician, VIM. F. Carroll, in
Producing his original character, "Ine
Color Bearer; the marvellous mono,
pedes, Conway and Leland. Amidst all
the fun they create they do many things
that clever men with a normal apportion-
ment of neither limbs could not do.
Ward, the original Bowe,y Boy; the stars,
Ryan and Ritchfield, In their original
Irish comedy creations, introducing songs
and dances; special engagement of the
eccentric comedian, Barry Maxwell, the
tramp ~balladist; first appearance OF the
three Leotards, in their wonderful bro
Their act; the star midget, souorette and
musician, the German Rose, in her anus
ing speciality; the two Irish landlords,
Healy and Teed, k~nockabouts, comedians,
~vocalists and dancers, introducing bur
comic Kitty Clements, character change
artist and skipping rope dancer; the
funny duo, Meeker and Mack, comedians,
acrobats and dancers, in their own speci-
atty entitled 1.-The Wedding" introducing
wonderful buck and wing dancing; the en-
tertainer, Arthur Wlhitelaw, talking and
singing comedian; the high-class artists
O'Brien & Collins,in their original sketch
entitled, "a Country Boy and His
Little Sweetheart the champion ban
joists of the world, Mays & Hunter, and
Daily, in laughable situations, songs and
dances.