The record-union., 1896-03-07
THE Stage And PLAY.
Local NOtGS-O Opera-HOuSe and Metro
pOlitan TheateT.
q Coming Quartet-An Analysis OF
the Character of Lady
Macbeth.

At the Clunie Opera house this after
noon at 2 tonight at and tomorrow
night for the last times Milton Nooles
enduring, old-time and always popular
play, 1.-THE Phoenix"
At the Metropolitan Theater Tuesday
evening next Jolly Nellie McHenry' IN
the latest satire on 'the new woman,
entitled aThe Bicycle Girl" Seats are
now on sale at the box office OF the the-
ater. :,
There are few condolences so well
known and as thoroughly well liked as
..Jollv Nellie McHenry." She has been
an the stage since childhood and has
played in every principal city in Amer
lea and the Dominion of Canada, ana IS
conceded to be one of the most versa
tile and vivacious artists on the Amerl-
can stage. A prominent Boston critic
speaking of her says: "She IS by 1ar anu
away the most delightful soubrette thal
has visited our city. She IS SO trlnly
English in her figure, so perIectly
American in her face, and so delclously
French in her manners that to justly
describe her would need composite
word made up from the three languages
combined. Touch ones affections ana
they are forever yours; appeal to one
appreciation of brilliancy and 1t IS
forced approval you get. Miss Nellie
McHenry possesses that certain lnde-
Unable magnetism which at once puts
the audience and herself on the most
intimate and pleasant relations
Wurtemburg's King almost got into
He like the X al
ser. is an Indifferent whip, and while
entering the StuItgas Schlos the King
nearly drove over a young American
lady. She, of the West, caught the
horses heads and pushing them back,
told the King in pretty strong Anglo
Saxon and German intermlxed Whae
she thought of him. His majesty, VINO
was entirely at fault, jumped down ana
rendered his most profuse apologies.
The young lady was unaware that she
had had the qualification OF pulIylns
the King until she received the folloW-
ing day a letter from one of his maj
esty's chamberlains begging her accept
ance of the royal photograph as souV-
enir, he said, of his clumslness, ana
her escape The woman was Jolly
Nellie McHenry."
Milton Mobiles next week at the Clunie
Opera-house will produce what many
think his best work, a dramatizatton OF
the story of Bertha, the Sewing Ma
chine Girl" and which he has entitled
"a Man of the People" The plot Is
deeply interesting and the story IN
tensely impressive. 1t deals with the
hard lines of the life Of the class known
as slaves of the sewing machine ana
the tyranny of many of their en-
ployes. It is not a sermon, not labor
problem essay, but a picture OF the
phase of life unknown to a majority
Of the people, and introduces the spec
tator to scenes and incidents entertain
ing. amusing and pathetic. In this play
Mobiles has fine opportunity for specially
work, first as a drunken rounder IA
miliar with prison life, but withal OF
tender heart and good impulses, the
result of the evolution of orphanage and
street life. This character cherishes
devoted love for his sister. By her in
fuence and that of her sewing COM
panions radical changes in his life are
effected This bowery rough, reformed
by the touch of a girls hand, strikes
out for Texas, achieves reputable sue
cess, befriends a tramp who proves to
be the accomplice of his sisters mis-
creant husband, and whose mission it
is to secure the marriage certificate,
that being the only existing evidence
of their union. This attempted rob-
berry is the sensational feature of the
play and constitutes one of the most
thrilling climaxes introduced in a
modern drama. Of course, all things
are eventually set right and everything
results happily for the good and un-
happily for the vicious. There is not
a dull line or moment in the piece; it
goes with snap and vim from start to
finish. There is no weak character
drawing in the play; each one is human
and natural and interesting. The
scenery for the play will be largely
new and noticeably attractive.
The Chicago Lady Quartet with Miss
Jackson, the inimitable humorist reader
and character personator, appears here
Monday night at the Congregational
Church. Tt is one of the best organiza-
tions of it's order and guarantees an
enjoyable evening of music and mfrth
Monday night the programme will be:
Awake, Pretty Kate" (Macy); Money
Musk" reading by Nettie Jackson;
solo, selected, Grace L. Dickie; quartet
I'm Old Madrid" (Thatcher); waltz
song (Denza), Pearl Hodson; What g
Little Boy Thinks About Things" Net
tie Jackson; Scotch songs, quartet;
''Lieti Signor'' (Meyerbeer), Elizabeth
Ludwig; Ben Bolt" CKneass): "The
Last Watch (Pinsuti), Alice Merrill
Raymond; But Them reading. Nettfe
Jackson; quartet. Good Night
(Pinsuti).
Nellie McHenry and her company i:
soon to appear here in her new play
'.The Bicycle Girl
Business has not been flush at the
Clunie Opera-house for the last ter
days. 1nelement weather and man,
counter attractions are the cause.
though. Mr.. Mobiles and the Hallets
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