The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-17
Providence Opera House.
THE FOUNDING.

Sir Nicholas Pennell ...,... George Sehaifer
Jack phantom ..'...'...'+...' x Soldlne foWell
Sophie Cotton. .......... stella XanOi
Mrs Cotton. Cara Baker kust
Miss Ussher. er...................M Maggie Holloway
Totto o........,..,............ dane Stetson
"THE MAN UP-sTAIRs." "
Mr.. Ruggles .................E. +. Soldine Powell
Mr.. Frisbee. e...,..................Ch Charles Butler
Mrs hnggles. s..-.s.................,J Jane Stetson
Mrs. frlsoec, .....,....,. stella Ianoi
Mary Nolan. 4.....s.-, '--,.... Maggie rieldlng
= Cissy Fitzgerald didn't wink her eye in
the Providence Opera House last evening.
She wasn't in town. This was the Sec
ond time she failed TO show up. Per-
haps she doesn't like the city. III did not
make much difference, only to those who
wished to see young woman who had
winked and kicked herself into favor in
New York, from London, you know.
Manager Charles Frohman had providedv
q good company TO interpret "The
Founding, I" however, and the large au-
dience enjoyed the farce new to Provi-
dence this season.
= II was extremely funny and at the same
time broadly suggestive and frequently
risky. Its dialogue was capable of not
very nice double construction and the
hits were broad and quickly understood
by the laughing house.
The farce is ingeniously constructed,
depending mainly upon its dialogue TO
keep the audience in the best of humor.
Many of the situations, too, are delight
fully ludicrous, not TO say ridiculous and
they were worked up and illustrated by
clever players who, IL one or two did
slip up here and there, knew their busi-
ness thoroughly. 1.-THE Founding"
kept "Charlie's Aunt in mind to a
large extent, as II was OF the same order
of entertainment. Its main theme was
the absence of parents for young man
who suddenly found himself bereft of
those necessary trimmings of polite So
ciety, ana whose efforts to secure a
mother, at least, TO retain the position he
possessed In the good opinion of the pa
rents OF his sweetheart, set events at cross
purposes and put spinster and the
mother OF his betrothed in a peculiar po
sition. The young man thought one of
the twain was his mother and the two
women suspected each other of early in
discretion. In the consequent mix-up
all interested got entangled in the inn
piications, making broadly humorous
situations and double entendre dialogue.
In this breezy atmosphere Cissy Fitz-
gerald was forgotten. There was fun
enough without her and she was not
missed
Thomas Burns, an old time actor, who
used TO be constant visitor here years
ago, when he was low comedian Of the |
Boston Theater Stock Comany. gave an
excellent impersonation of the hem
pecked major and brought TO his playing
the product of years OF experience. :.
Miller Kent's portrayal OF Dick, the
Founding, was graceful, finished and
peculiarly enjoyable. He had natural
endowments for the part. Mr.. Buffers
Timothy was likewise we'll performed.
Miss Rust played the majors wife vigo-
rously and capably and Jane Stetson
filled the niche in the cast Cissy was ex-
pected to, without being too obtrusive.
Ii was well balanced ensemble.
Augustus Thomas new single-act COM
edy, entitled "The Man Upstairs, 4" made
charming prelude TO the evenings en-
tertainment. The same bill will be pre-
sented all the week, including Wednes-
day and SATURDAY. matinees