The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-31
EMBELLISHMENTS.


Thomas Q. Seabrooke and an excel
lent company Of players presented
''The Spectator" to fair-sized, appre-
ciatiVe audience at the Hyperion last
night.
The play Is a mixture of love and
speculation, which results In mutual
happiness in the former and a compro-
mise in the latter. 1t is a comedy
drama in three acts by Mr.. George IL.
Broadhurst, author Of 1.-THE Wrong Mr..
Wright" and is under the management
of Duncan B. Harrison.
The piece throughout is full of mirth
and startling climaXes. The second act
is the most interesting one and shows
the offices of the two rival spectators,
John Fullerton and Henry Duncan,
these roles being taken by Mr.. Sea-
brooke and Mr.. A. II. Stuart, respec-
lively. In the story they are both
members of the Chicago board of trade
and have been fighting each other Tor
years for supremacy. Duncan gets the
high hand for q few moments only
when it is learned that war is being
waged in Europe. Fullerton first learns
this and pushes the price Of wheat up
and ruins his enemy. 1t is a stlrrlhS
scene, bringing the audience up to
high pitch of enthusiasm. Love plays
a part in the above speculation. Ful-
lerton's son, Robert, who is his partner,
is in love with Duncan's daughter, and
1t is Fullerton's ambition to have them
marry There is six months lapse De-
tween the second and third acts, IN
which time the lovers have seen moth
ing of each other. Miss Duncan comes
to Fullertons home to plead for her
father, who finds her there in company
with young Fullerton. He becomes an
CRY and threatens, but is intercepted
by his lawyer, who hands him papers
which have been given him by Fuller
ton. These put him in good humor and
the happiness of his daughter and
young Fullerton is assured.
The cast includes Horace Mitchell. as
Robert Fullerton; Roy Fairchild. as
Charlie Florence, Fullerton's nepheW'
Fred w. Peters. as Count De Varneau;
c. w. Mcdonald, as Sir FREDERICK
T,eichester: Miss Lorraine DreuX, as
Kate Duncan; Florence Bingham, as
Mrs. Florence. Fullerton's sister; Miss
Laura Almosnino, as Lillian Fullerton,
Fullerton's daughter; and Jeanette
T,owrie. as Marion Fullerton, another
daughter.
T.. w
and his support was excellent.
..rhoroughbred. another one of
Charles Frohman's comedy successes,
will be the bill at the Hyperion to-
night The play comes with a record
of $50 nights in New York, and the
original cast has been retained. The
principal comedy role is in the hands
of the popular comedian, Henry b.
Dixey, who made one of the biggest
hits Of his life in it during the New
York run.
Two of the principal characters are
two young men Of wealth and leisure,
one an American and the other an
Enelishman. Though the scenes OF the
play are all in England, and the play
is by an Englishman, the contrast IN
these two young men Is very strongly
in favor of the one "from the States. ="
The company includes Edgar L. DaVen-
mort, Isabelle Evesson, Maggie Hollo-
way Fisher. H. M. Pitt, Maud White
Lucille Mum, William Norris and
Charles w. Butler. Sale of seats now
open.
A NEW YEARS ATTRACTION.
Cissy Fitzgerald and her famous
winks have been counted. She winks
lust 367 of them at every performance
of "The Founding" which comes to
the Hyperion New Years day, matinee
and evening. Her winks, blinks and
high jinks We're all the rage of last
winters theatrical season in New York.
She appears here with the original New
York company. The comedy ran for
nearly 200 nights at Hoyt's theater, New
York. Manager Charles Frohman send
an excellent comedy organization here
"Chums," a one act farce, will precede
t'The Founding" as a curtain raiser.
Sale Of seats now open.
kTSMET
The Carroll Kerker Opera company, a
superb organization of sixty voices,
will present "Kismet" at the Hyperion
Saturday night. Messrs. Lee and Block
have secured Camille D'Arville and
Richard r. Carroll to head the cast,
which also includes the following we'll
known people: William Hatch, Henri
Leoni, Gerald Gerame, Rose Leighton,
Belle Bucklin; Nellie Parker and Lii
ian Cooley. The chorus of fifty in
cludes some remarkably pretty young
women and the company comes provid-
ed with it's own special orchestra. "Kis-
met" will be presented at Wallack' S
theater, New York, next week, in which
city 1t has already had long and sue
cessful run at the Herald Square thea
ter. The Hyperion Will be an attrac-
tive point next Saturday night.