The evening world., 1894-05-04
MR.COGHLAN'S "CHECKB00K"
Story of the Play His Sister Rose
Will Produce Monday Night.
Vesta Tilley at Tony PASTORS Is the
Vaudeville Sensation.

Miss Rose Coghlan begins her Spring
and Summer season on Tuesday evening
next. presenting Charles Coghlan's far
cical comedy. The Check Book In
which his sister Rose will appear, and
which tells this story: Tom Pringle Is "a
dashing young fellow who has married a
PARKWAY cousin because she has money,
imagining hat he can get any amount
he wishes; he ind himself placed upon
an allowance, his wife, Lottie, paying
him that allowance regularly by means
Of a check, from which episode the play
takes it's name. Col. n Mrs. Simcox,
both Americans and friends of the Prin-
giles. are living in the same hotel. Mrs.
SimrJx has married the Colonel because
he has money and she finds herself in the
same predicament as Tom Pringle.
Through this association a p~latonic at
tachment arises between Tom Pringle
and Mrs. Simcox, and the main and most
amusing complications In the play arise
in the hopeless entanglements Into which
this attachment leads the principal char
acters OF the comedy. One OF the most
l%aughable situations Is at the end OF the
covers that her husband has bought a
handsome dress for Mrs. Simcox, a dress
that Mrs. Pringle had expected herself
Vesta Tilley Is the vaudeville sensa-
tion ' ", N now TorS She ea has made Hs a w tremen =.
the cleanest AND cleverest ever seen on
the variety stage. And she Is not only
artistic; she is exceedingly good-natured,
singing six or seven songs, every night,
and with eac., making a change of cos
tune. The new descriptive ballet, Half
Past Nine" is very pretty. She is not
Guides many female specially perform
ers who are after Miss Tilley's ''busi-
ness" but she has achieved the
a anmgG AFTER Of her. hay Ths 2 e %e% Tiiisy hal
Is a sailor" with wide silk band and
silk trimming On ho the edges; c. II Is v 2 re,
wears in one of her Autographs.
Miss Virginia Stuart, the young Phila.
%delphian, who makes her professional
debut on the stage May II at a special
matinee ito to be given at Palmer's Thea a;
the Quaker City: and has appeared in
tsa;" WsTss!lhe ,4, "Esmsrslda;',
a number Of other plays, In The Lady
Palmer's Theatre, Miss Stuart will be
isen as as rau Claude sup &slnct,e BY k EsGsT!
Wheatcroft as Col. Dumas, RicharG
Ganthony; Joseph W. Shannon; alfred
and Carmen Lange.
Albert Bruning, who is to play 9
prominent character part in Charley
Uncle" at the Bijou Theatre, was Ed
l win Booths leading man during his en-
E win be Mr.. Bruning's first a~F5earanc,
In farce-comedy.
The scene. II It ever existed. OF givin,
the Passion Play at Ell Dorado, tn,
summer resort in Jersey, has been aban
4 doned, and instead a spectacle and bal
e Nights Dream" Will be presented earl!
r in Jun
Boston's love OF the antique Is exem
ing to see Uncle Toms C bin. "Arrah
( na-Pogue," Hands Across the Sea" an,
Three Black Cloaks:" and "Pinafore'
and "oliver Twist" are underlined.
Ada Rehan celebrated her birthday Il
u London last Saturday. She was born Il
n England. but the year is not recorded.
n Jenny Dickerson, the well-known con
T. tralto, who formerly sang In "Robil
Hood" playing the title role. is to max
= her debut on the continuous perform
! f Ksish's s'G uEnlon ne Square MoH Tssatr S. She !
to do n character turn. something OF
: the order OF Harriet Vernon's speciality
" The worlds New Uptown Once
THE Worlds Uptown omce ha
moved into Its new quarters at the junC
ton OF Broadway end Sixth avenue, q
Thirty-second street. There are eigf
J. entrances. two on Broadway. two o
y Sixth avenue and four on Thirty-secon
street