Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-14

| of startling events in the lives of men and women. Of the school of realism in which foreign writers and artists delight to study there can be but one opinion. They afford pictures of intellectual study and they offer l lessons for moral advancement.
 In the play of "Ghosts" the two princi. pal characters are Mrs. Alving and her son Oswald. Mrs. Alving, widow of Captain Alving, late chamberlain to the king, is a noble character, carrying secretly into her wldowhood the ghosts which were created by her husband who died in his sins. Os-
 wald, her son, inherited the legacy of de- ment that "the sins of the fathers shall be
 visited upon the children" The charac- tors necessary to fill the play with action are Pastor Mandsrs, once admired and loved by Mrs. Alving; Regina Engstrand, daughter to Captain Alving, and whose mother had been a servant in the Alving household, and Jacob Engstane, a lame carpenter.
 The plot csnters on the return of sos wald" from his studies in the art schools of Paris and the beginning of love passages between the son and "Regina Engstrand." In the development of his disease, which | fancies that marriage with the beautiful Regina" will arrest the terrible issue which had been foretold by physician in Paris. "Mrs. Alving," the mother, was thus forced to tell her son that a marriage
 could not be thought of-that Regina"
 was his own fathers daughter. This pre- cipitates the final crisis of the disease,
 and "Oswsld" reveals to his mother
 all that the noted physician had told bim-that softening. of the brain | had already commenced. The play closes with an awful scene between mother and | son. Oswald forces his mother to promise l him that she will poison him when his mind is gone and he becomes a hopeless imbecile. The curtain fslls while the
 mother, standing erect with the poison In
 her hand. seems determined by @ heroic re-
 solve not to administer the poison to her
 hopeless insane and now prostrate son.
 The play is strongly cast. Sale of seats | now open.
 Professor Dahl's fine lecture on Ibsen
 Saturday night has added much to the in-
 terest prevailing over the presentation of
 Ibsen's strong play "Ghosts" tonight. GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
 Frank Cushman and his famous Broad.
 way minstrels will begin @ three nights
 engagement tonight, with a special ladies
 matinee Wednesday. MT. Cushman ii
 probably the most popular and widely
 known burnt cork comedian in Americs
 and has surrounded himself with a com
 pany comprising some of the best minstre
 talent In the country, among them Georg'
 Graham, George Reynolds, Will Mack
 Alex. Cameron, Fred Bowers, the grea
 Ktssell, Blskely and Williamson, Short ant
 Edwards, the famous Broadway quarte and others. The program is made up of strength of the company, and con cludes with bowling travssty on tn Coxey army. Interspersed throughout an olio of specialties, the whole being de signed with view to presenting genuip old fashioned minstrel entertainment, with 5 out the modern so-called spectacular feat : ures, where gaudy and fesrfully construc. 3 ed costumes and inconsistent scenic sccee Z | sories supplant the genuine comedy festur so essential to a minstrel performance The organization is accompanied by 1t own band and orchestra, and will parad , the principal thoroughfares Monday noon The company has re csived hstteriDg notice ] from the press of New York Brooklyn an
 | elsewhere.
 Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening I "Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa" will be pre T scented. There will be the usual matine n Saturday.
 PoLI's WONDERLAND EHEATER. t Ethel Brougham, the dancing Quaker s ess," who will be remembered ss havin u appeared at Proctor's theater for severi weeks last season, will be one of the attra, [, tions at Poli'a Wonderland to-day. In at 't dition are @ number of first class artist '' several of whom are we'll known. Bill
 Garter, the banjoist, will amuse with b
 witty sayings aud good music on the Air - can harp. The McNulty Sisters will dan, 2 in their clogs on the high psdestals, Ere It Roberts will sing comic songs, and tt
 Sharplies will amuse with their oddities l. music. The Fills with their wooden fl r. ures will endeavor to drive dull care ava, , and Rowe and Rentz will surely eau many laugh with their burlesque tral B. ezs. The bill announced for this week le fully up to the standard of this popul, V house and an excellent performance Is 8 y ! aure6