The evening world., 1894-08-25
OUR THEATRES NEXT WEEK
Fannie Rice in Her New Play
at the Bijou.
Sothern at the Lyceum-A New
Melodrama.

The Bljou Theatre starts upon its new
season tonight with Miss Fanny Rice, In
comedy-farce new to this city, enti.
tied Miss Innocence Abroad" The
piece Is an adaptation from the French.
ana was very well received In the West.
Miss Rlce's company will include George
II. Edeson. Charles Coote, Frank Jones
Melville Stewart. William Henderson,
Rose Beaudet, Carrie Birkle. Emily Wake
man, Beckie Haight, Gladys Greene and
Nellie Jordan. Miss Innocence Abroad
will give Miss Rice opportunities to sing
dance and introduce her various special.
ties.
f.. III. Sothern, a young actor of whom
New lorkers are very fond, will begin
his eighth annual season at the Lyceum
Theatre Monday night. lie Will present
a brand-new play. written expressly for
him by Paul NJ Potter, and entitled The
Victoria Cross" All the members of his
carefully selected company will appear In
the cast. The scenes OF THE Victoria
Cross" are laid in India, where Mr.. Pot.
ter spent several years, and many of the
events with which 1t deals are said to
have actually occurred.
A very sensational melodrama called
The Crossroads of Life opens the star
Theatre Monday night. II deals with
scenes and incidents In New York life
and Its scenery will show pictures of the
life-saving station near Sandy Hook; q
section. OF the Harlem tunnel on the
New York Central Railroad; the in
terror of fashionable New York club
and the steamship City of Rome at sea
Iier will play the leading roles. The
engagement at the Star is for two
| weeks.
c; E. Callahan's comedy drama. "Coor
Hollow Will have its first metropoll.
tan production at the Fourteenth Stree,
Theatre Monday night. The play was
first produced in Illinois, May 10. 1t IL
said that some of the scenic effects
be c. IL. Dudley. Roydon Erlynne, l.. f
Morrison, George f. Hall, Lester Loner.
gan, George w. Nichols, William Brad
ley. Lewis Henry. Marie Hensell, Louis,
Louise Hamilton and others.
| Days Theatre opens with the reviva
OF a wen,liked farce Monday night i
Is "A Night on" which has always beer
The cast will include James Lewis, Mrs
Gilbert, Herbert Gresham. Percy Has
well. Frances Carlyle. Laura Hansen
Henry E. Dixey. MIR. Dixey viii pla!
the part of Snap. This will be his frs
appearance with Days company. Their,
will be matinees Wednesday and Satur
day.
Miss Della Fox will twinkle forth as I
new vaudeville operetta called "Th
E Eranc, Tb y Ssr aaapted fl fTo W tn
Furst. Miss Fox has secured an excel
lent company, including Paul Arthur
Jefferson De Angels, Charles j. Camp
bell. All Wheelan, Charles DUNCAN. 4,
Marie Celeste, Hattie Williams ant
| Violet Aubrey. The production ID un
DEL, the direction of Richard Barker.
H W Be has Frank new E B BsS next %ssf
seen at the Columbus Theatre. Tn
play first saw the light in Philadelphia
parry will be headed by Frank Lose,
the well-known melodramatic actor
and others in the cast will be Mario
Elmore, Jessie West, Mrs, w. J. lone.
Silke, J. e. Gilbert and Ben ID. Deane.
The Empire Theatre begins It's seas SC
given with the original New York cast
Including Etienna Girardot, who inmper
sonates that skittish old lady; w; J
and Nanette Comstock. The farce Wi
stay at the Empire for two weeks only
1t has just closed a sixteen weeks en-
gagement In Chicago.
Bronson Towards .'Shenandoah" vii
be revived at the Academy of Music mex
| Thursday night in a very realistic way
| The spectacular features will be empha
sized. and Mr. Howard has PERSONALLY
supervised the rehearsals. In the cas-
will be J. II. Johnson. e. j. Ratcliffe
Bruce McRea, Odette Tyler, Margare
Robinson, Harrison j. Wolfe. Loui
Hendricks, Alice Haslam, Henry Her
man and Theodore Ho1gins.
THE Prodigal Father" will be the pla
at II. r. Jacobs Theatre next week.
Is roaring farce that was original
presented at the Broadway Theatre.
the company will he William Jerome
the parodist, proud author Of He Dldn
Split the Wood and He Never Cam
| Back" Fred Bowers. Harry Cottrel
Nellie Sennett, Marjorie Fair, Jeann
| Graves and Laura Thorne.
1892 resumes its race at the Garde
Theatre tonight. Its forces having re
covered from the fatigue resulting froI
their arduous work. There will be som
new people In the extravaganza, plent
of novel specialties and some new Twin
pictures introduced by Herr Kllany
Walter Jones' Theresa Vaughn. Richar
Harlow and the other favorites will ar
pear in their original roles. %.
With the coming week the perform
ances at the Madison Square Roo
Garden will come to an end. These las