The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-01
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Comstock's Revival of Good Old
Time Style Minstrelsy.
A English Wits Remark Concern
ing Hope Booths Failure.

New Workers are again supplied with
mnstrelsy. Alexander Comstock's min
strels took possession Of ST. James Hall
Saturday night, and intend to restore
form of entertainment that the craze
for novelty drove out of the metropolis.
The new organization IL an excellent
one, and there Is no reason why II
should not thrive. The performance
opened with n good old-fashoned first
part, in which such minstrel kings as
Raymond Shaw, Bart Haverly, Sweat
nam, Moreland. McWade and Andrada
took part. MIR. Shaw sang she Loved
Not Wisely" Emil Bauer, Down Deep
Within the Cellar" MIR. Andrada. III
the Girl You Love, Loves YOU, and
Mr. McWade, THE Lost Chord" Be-
tween the songs the Ministries chatted,
Joked, laughed and made generally
merry They were In the very best
humor, and were interchangeable In their
effort to make successful appeal to
their audience. In the second part there
was a burlesque of living plctures-an
admirable subject for a burlesque. by
the bye. This feature will go DETER
when 1t has had frequent exhibition.
and 1t should prove very popular.
Messrs Symonds, Hughes and Kastus
contributed some admirable dancing.
and the entertainment ended with a
parody of the Lexow Committee In
yestigation-a parody that Will not cause
any indignation. Mr. Sweatnam ap-
peared a. Mr. Cuff, Mr.. Andrada as Or.
harkhurst' and Mr.: Shaw nsto as sen Mior
strels are promising, and the public Will
undoubtedly welcome back style oil
entertainment that is at any rate clean
and wholesome.
An English wit, speaking OF Miss Hope
Booths remarkable run OF one consecu-
tive night at the Royalty Theatre, Lon
don, remarks that hope Is always Meet
ing and n booth is but temporary
erection, here to-day and gone to-mor-
row. That's not so bad, Ell?
The name of the soulful-eyed Rich
ard Harlow has been mentioned ndo n! With With
Sdae e Hf IttIe chrs'opher coSmbSs
should be classified as comic opera, or
was made to trace a line Of SIMILARITY
between the two, by reason OF the fact
that each has a female character imper-
sonated b., mantle Daisy Queen IN
ously referred to AS "a fat young per.
con" and the other prima donna"
These legal luminaries are so dread
fully disrespectful.
That astonishing young woman, May
Yohe, Is stll holding her own in Lon
don, and she's not acting. She attends
holds charming little receptions In her
private box. The papers chronicle, her
dolngs with great persistence, ana her
ished. Lillian Russell, with her $50, 700
production, and her years of operate
experience can never hope to eclipse
Yohe.
.Kilanvis Living Pictures are rather
glaringly suggested by an organization
In the West. Miss Roher land her
players who are doing the xreat lar
ducement "Kilini's Living Pictures"
The only and original Kilanyi however.
$ not disturbed. Imitation is generally
conceded to be fiattery.
Austin Melford, who has been a mem
her Of Wilson Barrett's company for
40 many seasons, will not return to
AmsrGa "a with ss old fhef hsfoTs IS
only refused Barretts offer, but also
one that was made him by Mr.. and
Mrs. Willie II. Kendall. Ponder upon
that.
The Irving Place Theatre threw open
its doors for the season Saturday night,
r red selected elect Il Heinrich i.aubes play,
Die Karlsschueler." for the initial per-
formance, and the German audience
classic in Germany Frederick Schiller
is enc of the characters In die
Karlsschueler," and though 1t Is not
estlng to watch Laubes idea of the
ilmstrious Individual, Mr.. Conried's
company is an admirable one, The cast
as Schiller: Anna Braga. Adolf Link,
Herr Eggeling and Frau Habelmann-
Teller, who was seen for the first time.
Tonight Die Andere" will be given.
1.-The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" is about
to be published in book form, an honor
that has fallen to the lot of several of
pinero's plays. 1t will be edited by
Malcolm Salaman, who will also write
an introduction.
According to Theatrical Tidngs. the
afrable little sheet edited by Frederic
Edward Mckay, Miss Loie Fuller has
in New York that she will not retire
from the stage next season, as has been
rumored, but will come to this country
next Autumn; She has has instructed ms her her
principal cities, and VIII A. Mcconnell
Is mapping out route for her.
In the new play adapted by George
II. Sims from the. French "Gigolette,"
and secured for this country by Charles
Frohman, the features" are fight
with knives by two highly respecta-
BILE lydes," and the death OF child
by fall over precpice In the sight
Of its mother, who promptly becomes
insane from grief. But those features"
would not be enough. and there are con-
sequently others.
Little Gladys Wallis is to star In
Blanche Marsden's play that was to
have been used by poor Patti Rosa. and
John w Dunno, who was Patti Rosa +
husband, is TO manage the tour Miss
Wallis is the pretty little lady who was
for four seasons member of William
II. Cranes company. Her tour will
probably open at McVicker's Theatre.
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