The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-17
AMUsEMENTS.
Ed Harrigan N His Famous Conn
pany at the Academy.

| Ed H%arrigan and His Famous Conn
pany at the Academy.
On Monday evening next the popular
author actor, Mr.. Edward Harrigan, will
appear at the Academy of Music, assist
| ed by his New York company. REILLY
and the 400 is probably the most genuine
success (of character comedy SCHOOL,
ever known; it ran over 800 nights at
| the Harrigan Theatre, New York, and
| the cast which made this extraordinary
record has remained almost intact to the
present time, the principals are Edward
George Merritt, Charles F; MCCARTHY;
| Harry Wright, Charles Coffey, Edward
Harrigan. Jra Dave Braham; Jr., Dan
Burke, I'd. German Mienae, Me- Aear neIs
Yeamans, Miss Hattie Moore, Emma
Pollock, Marjory Teal, Lillian Stuart,
and the popular director and composer,
| Dave Braham-ten others sustaining
Manager Mart Hanley brings all the
scenery. and properties direct from the
perfect. Reilly excites a genuine in
terest, an honest mirth, and apprecia-
tive applause. The play has a simple but
pleasing little story to hold together the
character, and in none of Mr.. Harrigan's
plays are these more carefully. studied or
more skillfully and dangerously present
ed. His W impersonatfon is really a
triumph of character drawing, not merely
in its physical details, but in its subtle
portrayal of mental characteristics, and
the play is full of delicious little bits of
contrasted types, while, the negro fun is
| as genuine and expressive and geod-hum-
| ored as anything of the kind could be.
| Maggie Murphy, the tough girl" Sir
German sausage-maker and a half dozen
other striking characters place this COM
edy, in the estimation of many people,
written as an Illustration of lower life in
New York. 1t is humorous, musical,
witty, and wonderfully realistic, and sus-
During the week MIR. Harrigan will
| present "Old Lavender and 'Cordelia's
Aspirations"
Next Weeks Attractions at the Bon
Ton.
Business at the Bon Ton seems to
be in access of the most sanguine ex-
pectations of the management. The
house is packed daily, and several nights
in the week crowds are turned away,
being unable to obtain even standing
room. This result is caused by giving
a first-class show at popular prices,
which the Bon Ton is certainly doing.
Among the attractions engaged for next
week are:-The great comedy success,
1.-THE Powers Family" james Andrew
and William, assisted by Miss Tessie
Powers, in their original acrobatic com
edy bicycle act; the two American Japs,
| Hines and Colby, as the Italian organ
| grinder and the monkey; the queen of
the air, Vera, the artistic miracle of
the age, in a series of extraordinary
acrobatic %evolutions executed at a dizzy
height; a refined sketch duo, Moreland
and Thompson, in their latest songs.
dances, duets, etc. The fashion plates!
out OUT on s a lark The laugh provokers,
Sheridan and Forest, the comedy sketch
team, always up-to-date; Sydney Worth,
the dashing serio-comic; the grotesque
comedians, Higgins and Leslie, with a
laughable burlesque trapeze act; first
| appearance here of the peerless baritone,
Charles D. Sherman, in the latest bal
lads: the clever duo, Deveux and Tay-
Ior, musical comedy, up-to-date; Amer
ica's representative dancer, Chris. Allen,
Irish comedian, vocalist and bone solo
ist; Messrs. DeForrest, Hughes & DeFor
| rest and Misses Clifton, Worth & How
ard in the uproariously funny comedy,
entitled 1.-The Black Statue" and others.
ssPrfnce Ananias'' at the Broadway.
An important event in New York
| amusements will be the production of
| new comic opera, prince Ananias,' at
| the Broadway Theatre, Tuesday evening,
| November 20. Mr.. Herbert is the we'll
known leader of Gilmore's band, and, be-
sides being a thorough leader in every
| sense of the word. he is the author of
| numerous meritorious band and orches-
trail compositions. Mr.. Nelson is a
Young newspaper man of experience,
| and it is said that he has gotten away
| from the conventional comic opera story
in his libretto. 1t is not necessary to
indulge in .-extravagant praise in behalf
| of the BostonianS-this organization has
long stood for hat which is best in the
| field of legitimate light opera enterprise.
elaborate production of "Prince Ananias,"
as the term is used in its spectacular
sense, than they have given to their
previous operas. The opera is in two
| acts, and the story is raid in France
In the sixteenth century, a period fertile
in romance and prolific in its sugges-
lions to an author. At the rise of the
| displayed. On the left of the stage is
| the facade of an inn in the architectural
lines of the sixteenth century. AT the
right is a picturesque barn crowded with
| These two buildings are in a setting of
woods and ~shrubbery, and the artist has
| sndeavored to preserve the rich tints of
autumnal coloring. The cast includes
Boniface, King of T Navarro, George
rockingham; Cerdic due de Anjers, VIM.
| Castleman; Killjoy, Chamberlain to the
| ger of a troupe of strolling players, H.
| g.. Barnabee or Jerome Sykes; Eugene,
his assistant, Joseph Sheenan; Louis
Biron, a~svagabond poet ana ad%yenturer,
| W. H. Mcdonald: George LIE Grabbe, a
noted outlaw, Eugene Cowles; Idalia
La Fontaine's leading lady, Jessie Bart
lett Davis Ninette; q sillage belle,
| Feiicie, Countess of Pyrerees, Josephine
Bartlett; Mirabel. daughter to Killjoy,
Mena Cleary.
Cranes Great Success.
f'The Pacific Mali is nearing the end
of its run in New York, at the Star
Theatre, and on December !, Mr.. Crane
and his. company will pack up their be-
longfngs and go on the ROAD. The plays
measure of success has been so pro-
i t,n1ipood that the QnnpGian is sorry thu
he cannot prolong his stay, for he feels
that it would run the season out in the
/ Metropolis with much profit. On three
occasions last week the play taxed the
~-eapacity of the theatre which, is some-
thing of which to boast. the house be-
ing one of the largest in New York
and having a seating capacity of nearly
two thousand. The secret of the plays
success is said to lie In the fact that its
story is perfectly clean and wholesome,
and that it is intensely funny. The pub
lie is always anxious to laugh, and "The
Pacific Maf' furnishes it with many OPP
~poftunities-