The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-13
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New Academy of Music.

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There was a fair-sized audience last night
at the New Academy of Music in spite of
the storm. Walter Sanford's plays always
draw, and this one, THE Struggle of Life"
is one of the best of the number. The stage
setting is elaborate. representing familiar
scenes in and around New York, and the
play itself has a strangely interesting story.
country home of her old father by John
Lorley, betrayed, deserted and kept in a
low sailors dive on Water street. Saltaire,
coming to New York, devotes his life to a
search for his lost one. He is saved from an
attack by footpads on Battery Park by Ed
ward Brockton, returned from s'foreign
parts, F." to clear his name and marry the girl
of his heart, Nellie Duncan, an heiress. In
spite of the plots of Lorley, who is assisted
by a gang of wharf rats and East Side
thugs, Madge is restored to her father, and
Nellie Duncan rescued from his matrimonial
designs and welded to the hero.
The cast was a good one, Rosa Stahl tax
Florence the part of the heiress. May
Thompson played Molly McCue, an old
nurse. Mr.. Stafford played the hero; Lin
coin A.. Wagenhals, the hero; Frederick
Saville, an amusing Irish boy; Donald Har-
old and w. H. Sadler, East side toughs;
David Murdoch, the sorrowing father;
Arthur Marion, a wreck, called Whisky
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a dive; Willis, a '%'bouncer; p Walter Loyde,
a servant; and s. L.. George, a policeman.
The opera House.
The jolly German dialect comedian. J. E.
Toole and his own company, last night pro-
duced KILLARNEY and the Rhine,n at the
Opera House. The play was much appre-
ciated by a fair sized audience. As indi-
Gated by the title, the play is one that ap-
peals especially to both German and Irish
hearts.
The principal villain is an English Colonel.
His peridy is offset by the gallant conduct
of an inferior officer, a captain, while a no
less contemplate villain than the British
colonel, in fact the Colonels catspaw, is an
ex-member of a band of Irish smugglers.
Over the Vaccinations of the villains, how
ever, the gallant English captain, the lofty
last, but by no means least, the blunt honesty
of Conrad, a Dutch Knight Errant in Ire
land, triumph.
They succeed in uniting Reginald Carey
a young Fenian already under ban of Eng
lish persecution, and subsequently accused
of the crime of murder committed by the
English colonel to the lady of his choice,
whose father was the victim. The two prin-
cipal drawing cards of the play, however,
are Conrad, the German knight-errant, and
Ely O'Neill, of the household of the De-
laney's. who has an eye on Conrad. As
Conrad, Mr.. j.. E.. Toole reminds one very
forcibly of the late J. K. Emmett. He is
shaped like him, makes up like him, sings
like him, dances like him, and in every pos
sible trait exhibits the fact that Emmett was
his model. Miss Minnie Jarboe as Ely
O'Neill was quite piquant as a typical Irish
woman, and she possesses an unusually rich
and powerful soprano voice that stirred the
audience during her singing of several very
pretty songs composed by Mr.. O'Toole.
The play is in four acts,
and the synopsis of the play as
given on the programme together with the
facts above mentioned give an adequate
idea of the character OF. the play.
A feature of the performance was the
dancing of little Master Tenny, as "Schnei-
DER who received several encores. All the
players sustained their parts well.