The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-23
GRAND OPERA HOUSE,

The twelfth season of Mr. Bunnell's management of this house was opened last evening to one of the largest audiences seen at the house in num- sber of years. All were hearty in their praise of the great improvement in the s}main entrance. It makes a decided s.change in the appearance of the en- $trance, The piece which was offered < was the laughable three-act farcical < comedy. "'The New Boy," with Bert Coote in the title role. "The New Boy does not scream. Instead it is a X farce so near to comedy that it is Ma aptly termed a comedy. ''The New N Boy" is not boy at all, but sedate and serious minded married man, who x Is forced into knickerbockers again by pis ample and dominating wife, and who going to school once more against his will, finds himself in the hands of a lot of fun making Phillistines, who bully and cuff him and make his K Nwretchedness ridiculous. A schoolmas-
 ter who has managed to put by for
 une Is going to dispose of it in sin gular way. He has a cousin with whom sle quarrelled because she went off and got married.
 # Not until the cousin is a widow does Sale become reconciled to her. Then he spromises that she shall have all his
 Fortune if she goes through life sin fgle woman, or at any rate does not < harry anybody but himself In the x face of the good luck that awaits her Ssshe married a second time. Her hus- band is young enough to be her son; his figure and face are youthful too, put his mind is serious, his manners
 imposing and his language anything Bout that of a grammar school.
 g Husband and wife pay a visit to the schoolmaster, and the wife persuades her husband for the sake of the for x tune to assume knickerbockers and pre- Bend to be her son.
 The situations which arise during his short time at school and the final straightening out of all in the last act < are highly amusing and during the en- N@ire piece the funny situations kept
 he audience in roar of laughter. MT. s roote is deserving of great credit for sA1is most excellent portrayal of "The New Boy,' and that he will make a Success of the part is assured. MT. Y %Truesdel1 and MT. Granville sustained a4heir several parts to the entire satis- tfaction of the audience. Miss Louise esDouglas as the wife and mother acted the parts with much credit. Miss yi,,cy md Mice hNt Ia
 serving of special mention. Others in s9s tthe cast that call for words of praise sare Homer Granville, Emile Le Croix 1yI. B. Harris and w. R. Maxwell. Dur llgFtng the second act Mr. Coote was pre- sented with two beautiful floral tokens < The pieces will be repeated this and Tomorrow evenings and tomorrow af- ternoon. The executive staff for MT #aaBunnell this season includes w. H. Van \ Buren, general manager; B. w. Starr, associate manager; D. George Morton < press agent; John H. Hendricks, treas. Airer; Louis Felsburg, leader of the or chestra; Waller Blakeslee and Rene x SsThonnas, stage manager and carpenter and ". F. Fisher, adver- Missing agent. The improvements dur.
 ng the summer were made under the
 direction of General Manager Van K Buren and they reflect great credit or
 his ability to have made so artistic and
 beautiful entrances.
 # The Elliott family now appearing al Atlantic City will be one of the specia,
 attractions at Bunnells Grand Opera
 house next week. The Elliotts are
 
 delightful entertainment, and exceed
 ngly versatile in character. Added tc ssE his will be the complete series o1
 Kilanyi's living pictures.