The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-19
AMUSEM ENTS.
Thaalre.

If a remarkable large advance sale is any
criterion, the seating capacity of the Hobo
ken Theatre will % put to its test tonight,
when Hoyts "a Trip to Chinatown" which
enjoyed a run in New York of more than
700 nights, will be presented The plot of
the piece centers on the character of Mrs.
Guyer. a beautiful widow, with whom Ben
Gay, a giddy bachelor, is in love, He is the
guardian of several beautiful young ladies,
and they play a joke on him in order that he
may not interfere with their plans for at
tending a masquerade ball. He receives a
note supposedly from the widow asking him
to meet her at q cafe. He keeps the tryst,
but no widow shows up, and Uncle Gay is
consequently very mad. The action Of the
piece is laid in San Francisco, and several
~well-known places of that city are repre-
scented in the play. Mr.. Hoyt will bring a
Geraldine Mccain, the original widow;
Caryolin Bollen, Lottie Mortimer, George
Sinclair, Ben f.. Singer, Edward See, John
Braun, Madge Deane, Cora Linnie and
Frank Lane.
The Bon Ton.
The management of the Bon Ton have ar
ranged with a prominent firm of perfumers,
and will, commencing today, present to
every lady in the audience a souvenir bottle
of a celebrated extract. The theatre will
also be sprayed with this perfume.
The bill for next week promises to
be equally as good If not better
than anything ever presented at this
cosy playhouse. The following artists have
been engaged: Stinson & Merton, who made
a remarkable hit here soma few weeks ago,
will return and do a new act: the marvellous
contortionists, Rexo and Reno from the
Cirque Cissnelli, st. Petersburg the wonder
full child dancer, Liska, late of the Black
Crook Company; Max PettingiH and
bis dog; The Dolons, Roger and
UoTlo ~ J,1.orotro ooroadu ckofob.
Marba and Daley. eccentric comedians, in an
amusing sketch entitled "A Night at the
Circus;' Master Frank Egan, the boy drum
major, champion of the world; the Barcliff
Bros, musical comedy act; Flora, queen Of
the slack wire; Earl and Ward, black faced
comedians; Dolly Howe, a premier changing
artist; the Alicoates, comedy sketch; the
Tooleys, Larry & May in a laughable act
entitled Wanted a Boy Mable Stanley in
pleasing songs, and others. The house con-
tinues to do a land office business. 1t only
goes to show that Jersey City is a good show
town after all and only desires proper kind
of management to make a house popular
with the people.
Tomorrow,s Concert at Eldorado.
The throDgs of people at Eldorado last
Sunday afternoon and evening gave unmis-
taxable evidence that they fully enjoyed the
many changes which have been made by the
new management for their welfare and con-
venience, while the concert by Gilmore's
famous Twenty-second Regiment Band,
under the able direction of Victor Herbert,
came in for an unusually large share Of APP
plause. Tomorrow there will be two con-
certs, one in the afternoon from four to six
O'Clock, the other in the evening from seven
until nine. Mr.. Herbert has arranged an
unusually varied and interesting programme
for both concerts. The first number being
the overture from the merry Wives Of
Windsor, I, to be followed from Bizet's Gar
men, Maseagnis "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
an Aria from ''Pagliacci," a Russian Ma
zurka la Czarina, "Suppe's Light Cavalry
march, Cassidy's Furioso "Harum Scarum,"
and Herbert's popular little gem, "Badin-
age'' and his new "Eldorado 1892 march,
which created such a furore last Sunday that
it was repeated several times. Tho soloists
will be Victor Clordio, the well-known tenor.
who sang for several seasons with Gilmore's
band, and Mime. Zippora Monteith, the
famous soprano of the Boston Handel IL
Hayden Society. Mr.. H. L. Reid has already
commenced painting the scenery for 'Bena-
mela, A Summer Nights Dream, " which will
be produced on Saturday evening, June 8.
These scenes which are laid in the City Of
Cairo, Egypt, and suburbs, will consist Of
four artistic gems, novel in design and bril-
liant IN coloring. There will be q ballet Of
two hundred and fifty, including three pre-