The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-17

Miss Hattie Morris has rejoined 10th
rop's forces after four weeks absence in
Brooklyn.
Rice a. Barton's comedians will present
the farce entitled "Razzle Dazzle" in the
Westminster Theater for a week, begin
ming Monday, Feb. rs.
Manager Morrow has booked the
Camille D'Arville Opera Company in
Venus " for q return date at the Provi-
dence Opera House the week OF March 8.
The Boston Cadets have figured up the
profits of this years theatricals and the
amount Is placed at s17, $50. This sum is
about g, 500 less than the amount realized
from the initial production OF 1892" two
years ago.
The original methods which Mr.. Keith
has employed in utilizing his mammoth
electric lighting plant will prove to be
among the most pleasing features of his
unusually attractive new theater in Bos-
ton.
Miss Katherine Rober and Lothrop's
stock company will appear in the popular
Irish play, "Kathleen Mavourneen" at
Lothrop's Grand Opera House, Pawtucket,
next week. Kathleen is one of Miss
ROBBERS strongest parts.
The old Russian drama of "Siberia,"
which has lost none of its interest by its
II years of age, will be seen at Keith's
Opera House during the week of Feb. 26.
This is considered the best play the late
Bartley Campbell ever wrote.
Providence Lodge Theatrical Mechanics
Association, will celebrate it's sixth ami
versary by supper and social. in the
Falstaff Club rooms, at 1880 o'clock to-
morrow evening. This annual gathering
of men who make the theater stage at
tractive is always pleasant.
Steele Mackaye, the playwright, is
seriously sick. The chief trouble is the
inability of his stomach to retain nour-
ishment and his condition is described as
starving to death. The Santa Fe Railroad
has rendered to Mrs. Mackaye special
car to convey Mr.. Mackaye to California,
where his physicians think he can re-
cover.
A large party of building inspectors,
comprising the National Convention,
held in Boston last week, in body visited
Keith's new theatre, spending two hours
in tour over every part of the building.
Though they had officially inspected
hundreds of theatres in all parts of
the country, they expressed them
selves as astonished at the thoroughness
of construction, the completeness in
which every detail had been carried out,
and the elaborateness of decoration and
ornamentation which met their eye at
every turn. Chief Inspector Damrell and
his deputies, under whose supervision the
house was built, escorted the party.
There is astorm scene that is the acme
OF realism. A ship is seen sailing away
from the land. A storm bursts upon
her. In few minutes the sky is over
cast, lightning flashes out of the Egypt
like blackness, a hurricane of wind
blows great guns, the sails OF the
boat are stripped from the masts and
flung to the angry waves which roll
and toss under and along the ship,
the spars dip into the restless foam.
Along the slippery deck are seen two
struggling men locked in each others
arms, and each trying to kill the other.
Meanwhile the pilot is swept away by the
breath of the tempest, and the ship drifts
helplessly along at the mercy OF the salt
sea tide. Then the hero breaks away from
the grasp of the william and takes the
wheel and finally "bouts" the ship. This
scene of thrilling adventure is one of the
features of the play Of Patent Applied
For" which will be seen at the Providence
Opera House, Monday, Feb. 20.