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The Great New york success.

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The Great New York success.
Melodrama has New York in its spell
now. 1.-THE Fata Card" which Is a play
| of modern life, full of all the pulsing is
sues and flesh and blood of the big world
around US, has now been running at Pal
| mer's Theatre for three weeks to fashion
able audiences, and is one of the three
| successes now holding the attention of
| Metropolitan theatre goers, the other two
being The Masoueraders" at the Empire
Theatre. and William Gillett's new farce.
Theatre. Singularly enough, too, these
three great successes all belong to Chas.
Frohman.
9TH Fatal Card'' belongs to the
| melodrama. 1t is stirring and full of
| thrills, like all plays tina sharply on
trast vice and virtue, and whose mission
it is to strongly picture the punishment
which follows vice and the reward
which awaits the virtuous and upright,
but its fascinating story is told in a now
| acted play was ever put before the New
York public. This company is the finest
ever seen in melodrama. Manager A. M.
Palmer, who produced The Two Or
says it surpasses any of the great casts
of olden days, and the public has been
most enthusiastic In endorsing all the
loudest praise that has been written and
spoke about the performances.
Four of the greatest character actors
of the day, W. H. Thompson, w. j. Fer
guson, ]. H. Stoddard and J. o. Barrows,
! are in the cast, while May Robson, Agnes
Miller of the Empire Theatre Stock Com
oany have agreetble roles, and E. ].
Radcliffe, late hero of "Shendoah." has
romantic prominence as the lover whose
| life is saved at a horrible and critical
| moment by the father of his sweetheart.
All the exciting action revolves around
and then centres itself in this loves story.
4 n QfnIIffaL a wac the frirPS Mfqfhar'G life
from lynchers in the Rocky Mountains,
n the father gives him one-half of the
ace Of clubs for future Identification. A
band of robbers afterwards kills Rat
clitfe's father. and the son, having
| tracked and discovered them, is himself
caught IN their rendezvous, and sentenced
or two to live when his executioner
| finds the half of the ace of clubs. Rat
cliffe was released, and the chief rob-
| Der, his sweetheart's father, perishes in
his stead. All this story is told in seven
realistic and thrilling scenes. Amy Bus
by, who was Richard Mansfield's leading
lady, plays the sweetheart.
THE MaSCueraderS" is another mag
nificent production. 1t cost Manager Froh-
man $4,000 to put it ON the Empire stage.
There are fifty beautiful imported dress
stock ompan gives a polished and brill
| liant performance of the play, and Mr..
Henry Miller and Miss Viola Allen, the
I leading man and woman, of the organi-
rNNN oSNAA ~ OSISSi ooF I'LL
| age histrionically. There is a great gam
Bile scene. in which Miller stakes 81, oOo,-
900 on the turn of a card. against the
wife and child of his successful rival,
and wins.
ssToo Much Johnson is William Gil
lette's new farce, in which Mr.. Gillette
appears as an exquisite liar from Yon-
kers. and the most artful mother-in-law
banabosler that the funny men Eve yet
produced This hero is almost caught in
| an Interesting Irritation, and carts his
l hOllSnhnIH- off fn CI1hn Uharn hn hnrr0Uyc
a strangers plantation and fools every
body in the friskiest and most cold
blooaed way Imaginable. "Too Much
| "Charley's Aunt was last season. Fash
ionable audiences fill the the Standard
Theatre at every performance, and hum
dreds who come late are turned away.
sREcFaddenss Eiopement" at the
Academy of Music.
Davis and Keogh, the foremost theatre
by halves. It is. to be inferred there
realm Of farce-comedy, entitled NC
Fadden's Elopement." is as superior q
! + nm shoW" as are The Hustler n
Of MeFadden's Efopement1 to the
Academy Of Music Will excite the interest
| farce-comedy was written by Frank Du
; aseT mel sr who i Is i At the hsad and trent trent
- ~ lifC u H. III IL d. II
him are such proficient comedians and
SPECIALITY. performers as Dan Waldron,
Phil. Peters. George F. Hall. Emmonds
end Emmerson. Seymour Rice, -Nettie
| Peters, Julia Emmonds, Emily Vivian,
| Clara Knott. Lille Barnum and others.
Genuine Artists at the hon Ton
Theatre.
The Bon Ton next week promises to
eclipse itself in the way of a vaudeville
performance. The bill is a gigantic one
with n people who will do their best to
tamuse you the. entire week. They are as
foilows:-An original Arabian circus.
Shefk Hajd's thIoupe of genuine Moorish
and Bedouin Arabs in their native sports
country, a slater feature of Buffalo Bills
Wild West Show at Ambrose Park.
Brooklyn. their only appearance here this
season, Sheik Hajd. ,Tahar, Manager; to-
McAvoy and Rogers; the .phenomenai
boy comedian. Tiddlewinks, six years old,
| a pocket edition If Pat Rooney; ngage-
ment extraordinary of the European
marvels. La Clede Brothers. aerial ar
lists In their. sensational and death-de-
the mirth provoking monarch of music,
| Memphis Kennedy, Musical idiosyncreas-
| les: the vocal comedian, Andy Lewis, in
hisi atest paradies; the high class duet
successes; the ladies' favdrite. Pearl
Raymond. in her clever N and dances
| AZ the club, Murphy and Andrews; a re-
Turn OF the favorite, Joe Fields, Dutch
comedian: first appearance, here OF Wal
ter P. Keene, the man with the talking
fhe man from ireland, w. c. Davieg,,
author, comedian and vocalist; the CON-
ling man, who7 billy Barlow, the, comic