The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-05

CharIes Frohman,s Three Hits


The Empire Theatre, New York, where
Charles Frohman's stock company makes its
home. has SYDNEY Grundy'S powerful and
beautiful drama, "Sowing the Wind" on its
boards. Nothing since the days of the 1.-Two
Orphans has caught the popular fancy as
Mr.. Grundy's play. Its story is that OF a
father opposing the marriage of his own
daughter, whom he does not know as such,
to his adopted son. There is a stain on the
girls name-she is a child of chance-and
She has to battle single handed against
strong influences for the sake of her love. IL
is truly a fight of 'sex against sex" But
the brave girl wins in the end, and there is
love and happiness in plenty before the final
curtain descends. Henry Miller and Viola
Allen give magnificent interpretations OF the
leading roles. and the performances call out
the greatest enthusiasm. Dramatically and
pictorially, Sowing the Wind" is a beauti-
full play.
best people of New York crowding Palmer's
Theatre every night. In this play Mr..
Drew in the role of the penniless gentleman,
Frederick Ossian, who rescueS a pretty girl
from drowning and falls desperately in love
with her, has a part that fits him even more
admirably than did the hero Of 1.-The Masked
Ball." He is gay and airy all through it,
but he also makes love in q most delicious
way, and this seems to be the portion OF his
work over which the fair sex, which throngs
Palmer's, seems to enthuse. When Mr..
Drew began his starring season in New York
last season, after leaving Days Theatre,
where he had been leading man for twelve
years, he was given a grand greeting. This
year he has had a series of ovations.
sCharley's Aunt celebrates its two hun
dredth night, March %, at the Standard
Theatre, New York, and still maintains its
great popularity. 1t plays every night to
the capacity of the house, The present
''Charley's Aunt" is a second edition. New
fun has been introduced, and the old lady
from Brazil, "where the nuts come FROM"
now sings and dances in addition to all her
other drolleries. The new version preserves
all the good points of the original and pro-
vides lots more.
Blue Jeans" to be seen here at the
Academy this week, boasts of two thousand
performances throughout the country, four
hundred of which occurred at one theatre IN
New York, one hundred and eight at Nc
Vicker's Theatre in Chicago, and seventy
three at the exclusive Hollis street playhouse
in Boston. The play presents a people and
section of our country never before repro
duced OIL the stage: The lives, loves and
politics of the residents of the backwoods
settlement of Rising Sun, Ind, are portrayed
to the life, the concession being a general
one among the knowing that its types are to
be met along the green lanes of the blue
jeans country any fair day. The people
presented have the hue of the turbid
Wabash and Ohio and the strong flavor of
the wild persimmon. Classified as a comedy
drama by its author, it is rather a homespun
melodrama, bringing into frank action with
all the charm of an entirely new series of
pictures, the ignorance, prejudice, political
bigotry and uncouth honesty OF lndlana's
yoemanry.
AT the Opera House the first three days
of the week the attraction will be the
Pat Rooney Comedy Company in
the musical farce, Lord Rooney" with
Katie, Matte and Josie Rooney as the
stars. The comedy is entirely new, and is
composed of artists of recognized merit
artists who nave won both fame n praise
on the comedy stage. The careful manner
in which Manager Daniel Shelby selected
the different members of the organization
has resulted in one of the most complete and
the finest companies that have appeared In
farce comedy in years.
Davis Big 3 Car Uncle Toms Cabin Com
pany at the Hoboken Theatre this week,
every night, with a matinee Wednesday and
Saturday, is actually a $4,000 production
of this grand old historical playa magnih-
cent scenic production. 1t requires a whole
train of three sixty-foot palace cars to trans
port this mammoth spectacle, forty people,
twenty ponies, donkeys and burros, eight
original Jubilee singers, a pack of seven man
eating Siberian and Cuban blood hounds,
Eva's golden chariot, "a thing of beauty"
cost over So, ZOO, two big bands of music,
Uncle Tom and his typical Southern OK
cart.