The evening world., 1894-06-04
THE ROOF. IS NOW THE Thine
Opening Of the Madison Squares
skyey Garden Tonight
Other Roofs VIII Blaze Too-Mans-
field After q New R~epertorire.

neld After q new teDertOr1re.
Extensive alterations and improve
ments have been made on the Madison
Square Roof Garden. which opens this
evening with ar unusually strong array
of vaudeville artists. The most impor-
tant change Is the construction Of thlr-
ty-two private boxes on a steel frame
work twenty feet above the roof and
over 100 feet above the street, from
which can be seen Central Park on the
north and the Brooklyn Bridge and
Statue of Liberty on the south. n
gives the effect OF being really suspend
ed in the air. This part OF the roof will
undoubtedly become one of the popular
resorts of the Summer. The chairs,
flower-pots. stage and everything apper-
tanning to the Garden have been repaint-
ed and renovated, giving them a brand
new appearance, and a great number of
electric lights have been added, In addi-
ton to 800 incandescent lamps, In
cased in japanese lanterns, which sur
round the %veranda. a list of artists
such as Lottie ellison, the great juggler,
Fielding; the musical clowns, Deltorelli
brothers: the -well-known German come
ton, the great Tortajada troupe. the eel
ebrated Dare brothers, Messrs. Seeley
and West. the Empire CITY. Quartet.
4 Hams M; Gbarroil' Miss sadie Cnshman ana ma
der the leadership of Mr.. Gustave
D'Aquin guarantees a most enjoyable
evening for patrons of this garden.
also will open tonight; Roster & Pials
and the Casino roofs began to do bust
ness last week.
There will be great goings on at the
S Siisss ee Thsates it's te-a s5Sth local @he per h,fss
ance with brass bands, decorations.
s~even-pound souvenir clocks, new living
pictures and other things that will go to
Rice Is in his element upon an occasion
of this kind. He has beguiled a number
of well known citizens into going on
In the Madison Square scene.
Lady Gladys" with Miss Minnie Sc
ligman-Cutting in the title role, remains
at the Madison Square Theatre this
week, and perhaps longer. The play
and star have drawn large houses:
Lady Gladys, will be the principal
season.
Two big Charles Frohman successes
are now the theatrical sensations Of CHI
cago. one of them Is the farce Char
ley's Aunt" which has been crowding
Hooley's Theatre for -four weeks, aver
aging over So, 900 a week in receipts, with
larity will endure all Summer; the other
Sydney Grundy's beautiful Sowing the
Wind" which got the most enthusiasts
tic reception and Endorsement at the Co.
lumbia Theatre, last Monday night, that
was ever accorded a play, in Chicago.
The Empire Theatre stock companyss
admirable Interpretation of the play had
Henry Miller and Viola Allen got seven
curtain calls after the stirring sex
against sex" scene on the opening night,
and the vast fashionable audience walt
I'd after the performance was over to
applaud until the curtain was sent up
three different times, and the entire
company was brought forward as often:
Every rnss e nisht since. "a The G first we eeRTsi rei
ceipts Will exceed 81, 900. The two per-
formances last Wednesday drew over
5000.
Comedian Thomas Q. seabrooke has
just been made a present of a hand
some yacht called The Tabasco., A
warm admlrer and friend In Philadelphia
is the giyer. In a characteristic letter ac-
companying the present; this gentleman
writes, among other things. to Mr.. Sea-
brooke: Tommy, there is one request
cident should occur. hold fast to your
boat; don't attempt to swim ashore, no
matter how close 1t may be, as that is In
yahriably the way people are dro owned;
" "io oiiip ~ -
drowned. Bear this in mind" This Is
rather funny advice to give to O'Grady.
the only man alive who ever saw Nc
Ginty at the bottom of the sea.
While the plaudits for vesta Tilley,
whose farewell night IT was. were still
ringing. through Tony PASTORS Theatre
last Friday night, Manager Harry San
derson sent for his advertising man and
said: ''Thi is a great night, Eddie. but
we must not forget business. The King
is dead; long live the King!' Get out
some Of those three-sheets of Bessie
Bonehill and put them on the boards in
goes out" And Harry smiled. When
the audience filed out the Bessie Bone
hill t~hree-sheets were there.
Richard Mansfield sneaked off to Lon
don the other day and Is now there,
looking for new plays. Mr.. Mansfield, 1t
in any of his old plays. He made this
determination before he left. Just what
dramatic material he has his eye on we
can't see, but he must have something
good in sight when he shelves his whole
repertoire SO summarily.
Ida Mule, the petite prima donna, has
been engaged for Summer opera at At
lantic City.
1.-The Amazons" season at the Lyceum
Theatre will end on Saturday night. The
mpa will have Its first vacation In
two years. this being the year 1t does
not go to the Pacific coast, which terri
the Empire stock, the Lyceum going
thence a year from now. Daniel Froh-
man, Miss Frohman and f; IL. Sothern.
go to England on June 8. Ferdinand
n Alice Cayvan, Rowland Blackstone,
Vincent Sternroyd and Herbert Kelley