The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-12
To.NIGHr AT THE ACAI,eMy.
Roland Keed In "Lend Mo Your Wife,
Othor Attractions.


Othor Attractions.
Roland Reed returns. presenting hia
great success, Lend Me Your Wife,
one OF the greatest laughing hiss VI o
popular comedian has ever had, ss :he
Academy Of Music tonight, Feb
ruary 10. The play is OF French origin,
but Ills admirably adapted and the
humor Is not only spontaneous but
American. Mr.. Reed has part exactly
suited to the quaint, dry, droll fun, Of
which he Is showing himself q master,
that OF Maine sea captain, with
pretty daughter aud handsome
nephew. who are in love with each other.
But Captain Tarbox ships his nephew
OIL to New York with an allowance and
an order to marry somebody else.
DICK, the nephew, writes his uncle
that he has married, not expecting the
captain ever to visit New York, but the
unexpected happens and Dick is COM
PEELED to borrow the wife and baby of
his friend, Tom Bunting. to avoid de-
lection. Scarcely Is the arrangement
made whom Captain Tarbox and his
daughter, Kitty. arrive at Bunting's
house. believing It to be the nephew's.
Then the trouble begins. The burden
OF the fun-making, as matter OF
course, devolves upon Mr. Reed, the hrst
ana second acts being productive Of
perfect Cyclone OF laughter. The young
star, by makeup that Is singularly
Rrotesque, not touching in any way upon !
the grotesque, and facial expression
that in itself tells part OF the story,
manages to extract good deal OF
amusement for the audience out Of the
old entanRlements with which the play
begins and the completing SITUATIONS
which he manages to make ell the more
complex.
The Egyptian Love Queen.
No drama before the public has ore
ated the sensation, or enjoys the repu-
tation which is attached to the Lewis
Cleopatra PRODUCT n which will he pre-
sented at the Academy to morrow night.
The barefoot ballet which has created
such = sensation will be positively seen
In the third act and the prices will not
be advanced. Thsre ia no theatre pa
tron In Roanoke who can afford to miss
seeing cleopatra, land it is not probable
that any will. So much is already
known-by excellent report-of tho sue
cess and eminenoe OF Miss Lillian Lewis
and her production OF "Cleopatra," that
unusual interest is taken by the public
IN general to see this new CLEOPATRA,
about whom 80 much has been written,
read and said. CLEOPATRA" presented
as 1t Is by Miss Lewis, with o capable
cast, a marc Antony" whom every
woman will forgive CLEOPATRA" for low
ing. Miss Lewis has youth and beauty.
which, combined with true dramatic
talent fine artistic temperament and
originality of method, gives distinct
i've interest to her performance. The
gowns worn by Miss Lewis cam bine the
volupsuousness OF the orient, with the
modesty OF our ethics, and are certainly
royal In their gorReousness. OF the epeo.
tscular features there Is such wealth
that 1t Is difficult to point out the most
interesting and possible TO enumee-
ate all; but the two tableauX vlvants:
the first OF "Cleopatra" as the Goddess
Isis in her royal barge, and the second
Of "Hymen Sacrum" in the temple are
exceedingly beautiful and conceded to
be artistic and refined. The regular
house prices will not be advanced, and
this will DO the first presentation Of
CLEOPATRA" st regular prices.
"Big Black Crook" Coming.
Next Friday evening, February II, at
the Academy of Music, Manager Hooper
will treat the amusement loving public
OF this city to q gcand rovival OF that
famous spectacular drama, 1.-The Black
Crook" This is the Same production
that appeared at the Academy of Music.
New York, where the play ran sn entire
year, and crowded houses greeted 1t at
each performance. The strong features
OF "Tne B ack Crook" are the grand
ballots aud the celebrated Folly
Dancers. Among host of European
novelties are Rexo and Reno. from the
Circus Cisinelli, st. Petersburg, Russia.
The splendors in the transformation
scene are marvellous; also the cream of
metropolitan vaudeville artists who will
participate.
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