The evening world., 1894-06-21
GIRLS IN "N|MDl.'
Manager Duff Introduces a Fed
ture in the Comic Opera.
Sardou Said to BE at Work ON I
Play for Clara Morris.

W. 8. Gilbert is in London. ana rid
well that the billowy wet separates himI
from Manager Dun at the Fifth Avenuo
Theatre. For into his pet opera, ''rhel
Mikado," which Gilbert prizes aa1
Shakespeare must have priced ''Romeo|
and Juliet" imperial dancing girls from
Japan were introduced last night. Gill
bert was not consulted; the Introduction
was made for purely box-oflce reasonsN
The lobby of the theatre, fronting upor<
Twenty-eighth street, vas fitted up with
Chinese lanterns and a few satin screens1
from the Fourteenth street stores. In.
fact, the decorations were most elaboN
rate. They must have cost at least IS. 98<
The dancers appeared in the second act
Of the opera, and did what the vaude-
Vile performers call a good turn
The girls, according to managerial statet
ment, ranged in ages from sixteen I'd
eighteen years. but Japanese maiden@
never look conspicuously young, and
would be great acquisitions to Kiralfy
ballets. The dances executed were thd|
shi-yo-kee-mi, or ancient court dance l.
the kappa re, or peasant dance: the shin
ki-mo-yama, or lowers Of the four seaNI
sons, and the sangra, or religious danceJ
The IN public may possibly like them. butt
The Mikado" does not need any suchl
aid. We may soon expect to see Pima
fore. revived with living pictures on the
It Will be remembered, produced "TheI
Mikado" at the Standard Theatre duringn
the original performance in this city al
company. Gilbert must love him.
Sardou, whose name is so frequently
play for Clara Morris, and he is not hereI
to deny 1t. Poor Sardou must be a very5
busy man just now-writing with BOTH
h aetress at w she sane bs time net So far; the % SIlSl
dramatic fodder is Patti Rosa. 1t ii
surprising how few of these Sardou'
plays are ever produced. |
forward next week in Washington BY
the Edgar S~trakosch Comic Opera Com
pany. Philander Johnson, a journals
OF that city. has written the iibretto
Emory Shaw. "Marken: or, The Legend
Of Vuur Bril-" Is the title of the work
Its hero is a swell New Yorker. Wild
a%nglomania. 1t is to be hoped hat 81
few living pictures will be introduced
Otherwise nothing seems likely to suc1
coed. just at present.
burlesque company next season-and ~
will be her own, too. She ends her end
gagement at the Casino Saturday mighty
She will then go to Paris. Later on
she has secured there. At any rate. waI
must hope for the worst.
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The agile young comedian. by name|
2. A .GjnseraiiaS VIC ex%t Playsa the az cat A g
Manager Henderson for Aladdin, Jr.,
in c6 II g tEs dtInS dia nG! s sedl wi yest sa:)
day. BY the bye, there is some sort OF
threat that Aladdin. IT," will be PRE-
house becomes the Herald Square Tho!
atre.
Harry Lacy, on a lovely white sheet Of
paper. with black and gold letters. N
the uDef West" dramatized from a book en-:
titled From the Chaparral to Wall
Street" will be produced about Sept: 3:
I have carefully studied the public
taste" So have a good many men, just
as wise as Mr.. Lacy. and they have not
been able to arrive at definite results.
They do say that Leonard Boyne win
never return to this country, Sister
Mary" may be produced without him.
MIR. Boyne told a friend before sailing
to recommend itself to Americans. Mi:
Boyne vas a success in The Prodigai
Daughter in New York. Out of 1t both
Boyne and the play were failures. 1t is
said that the play lost money during tho
entire out-of-town. season. with the ex-
ception of one week.
There were FIN de steele" pictures on
the Casino roof last night. and rather
in the Night "The G~reenroom,"
Neptune and the Summer Girl" and
Before. During and After the Ballet"
were a few Of the tableauX presented.