The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-03

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| Des Moines News once said: Mrs.
Lease speaks with the earnestness of
| an apostle. She is the Joan of Arc of
the American masses" The Omaha
| World-Herald notices the same pecu-
liaraty and says: Mrs. Leases tri-
| umpn was not alone oratorical. II
| was psychological. Her earnestness
/ and her passion iiffused itself like some
| impercePti5le and intoxicating ether"
Mrs. Lease has donated her services
| for this occasion and the proceeds of
| the lecture will go for benevolent pur-
| poses Tickets on sale at Mos5acher's
Monday morning.
"HENDRICK HUDSON, JR
| Tomorrow. matinee and night the
| Kimball Opera Comique organization
/ viii present the big operate extrava-
! ganza, ''Hendrick Hudson, Jr" or The
| Discovery of Columbus" at the Craw-
/ ford Grand
! The company is headed by that uni
I verSal favorite, C0rinne. and il is the
I premier appearance in this city OF a
+ charming prima donna Corrinnes
/ talents as singer and commedienne
3 haveb en- made the moss OF by her moth
/ er. Mrs. Jesse KimbaH, who spent mon
/ ey with a free hand in Corrinne's eC1u-
I II. q
rial way resulted in the accumula ton
of a comfortable fortune. Mrs. KIM
ball is noted for the sumptuous manner
/ in which the exoravaganzas that have
! served as a vehicle for Corinne have
/ been mounted, and in "Hendrick Hud-
: son, Jr." she is said 10 have eclipSed
( all her former productions. ''Hendrick
! Hudson. Jr." is a pictorial ola pordda
/ of brilliant stage settings and cOStun-
l ing, enhvened by sixty comedians. dan
/ GERS, vocalists and unique specialists.
! Moreover Hudson has a plot-a bree-
", humorous cOnceit OF a plot, light as
( thistlefown. William Gill, who wrote
/ the famous "Adonis' for Henry Dixey
! and Robert Frazer. who elaborated
/ in Frank Daniels Little Puck taken
! from Austey's Vice Versa" are the au-
I thors of "Hendrick Hudson, Jr.''
! MesEs. Frazer and Gill introduced US
! TO Hudson during that Dutch naviga-
/ tors second voyage to New Amsterdam
/ in 1909, and also his sail in search Of
! Christopher Columbus. when ne is driv-
/ en- on the Florida coast. Corinne plays
I the title part. She dresses Hudson in
Z display Of silks and frills and blaze
Of jewelry, such as the doughty Dutch
/ man never wore, but delighted TO look
4 upon. CoriTlne and her associates also
1 present a lengthy program of special
/ ties during The misadventures of Hud-
/ son. Perhaps the feature of these spe-
/ cialties are the mandolin solos of CO.
rhine. She Is an expert on the Man
/ dOlin, being a pupil of the famous Span
ish nandoliSt, Signor Pietrapmtrosa,
/ who was her instructor during her stay
in Paris last summer. CoTinne's Span
/ iSh dancing is also a feature. Ben
! Grinnefl, the comedian and singer; Nj
/ chols Sisters, in the plantation songs
I and sketches; Lillian Knott, with bal
/ lads; Charles Cameron; Charles Fos-
/ tello, Woman of the Future" Harry
! Dickinson and J. Henry Mack, songs
] and dances; Lindsay Morrison, vocal
: isl. The artist model dance excen-
/ trique and the 'Trilby' quadrille are
/ included in the specialties. Some of
! the scenic effects are the Everglades of
! Florida, New Amsterdam in 1909, the
/ Falls Of Niagara, the Santa Maria, and
/ a real steam launch.
TRILBY AT KANSAS CITY.
! Mr.. Planners TriIby company, with
! some changes. opened a return engage
merit at the Coates last evening. The
performance is an excellent one. ait least
two parts being more satisfactorily pre-
/ scented than in the original performance
eS q t this theatre. These parts are the
/ Taffy, as done by Mr.. Garfield, who
/ was the Laird before, and Little Billee
/ played by Mr. Walter Thomas. remem-
{ bered from his association with the
first Kemper stock company. Little
/ Billee has never been played by anyone
TO the satisfaction of the readers of the
+ book. but that is due to the fact that
/ this is the one part TO which Mr.. Pot
n n <.TI1I itrzr
/ wrote his play.
MISS Cranes wonderfully effeotive
performance of Trilby grows in i'm
preSsiveness as it extends in acquain-
/ tance She has a firm grasp of a very
/ definite conception. She makes one
/ understand her, no matter what faults
/ may be found. There can be no doubt
! about this TTdlby, and few having
/ seen and studied it will hope for a more
satisfactory realization of De MaurierS
/ heroine.
The new Svengali-Mr. Harry G..
/ Carlton, makes clear the claim uhat it
/ would be impossible for a good charac-
1 ter actor &c fail in this role. If Mr..
! Carlton had been the first Svengai he
would have been accounted great. but
| he would not have been great. He is
well suited physically, and has an eff
ance is we'll thought and well expressed,
I though 1t lacks commanding individu-
atty Mr.. J. P. Keefe, the Mr. Bag
OF; Mrs. Sara Stevens. the Mrs. Bagot;
! both new, are satisfactory, and Mr.
/ George Mcintyre, the new Laird, is only
50 so. Mr.. Morrison sail gives his ad-
mirable performance Of Gecko, and
Miss Reifferth her unctious delineation
OF MmS Wizard Mr.. Trader is all right
as Zou Zou.-Kansas City Journal.
The same company appears at the
Crawford Grand tonight and il is not
often a company of such uniform ex-
cellence and prominence is obtained for
a Wichita date.
THE FAST MAIL.
''The Fast Mali which appears at the
Crawford Grand next Monday evening,
Is said to be the most successful rail-
mad and scenic melodrau1a on the road
this season Mr.. L. ]. Carter, the au-
I thor and manager, has contrived 10
weave into q consistent story nearly all
the good points Of SslSa tio1al drama
The climax Of each act is strong enough
10 sustain a whole play. yet 50 Wei
graded are the features Of the piece that
one views with increasing interest thrO'
the five acts, the murder and the clever
troick with the Grandfather's clock IN
the first act: the Mississippi river stea-
mer. its engine room showing a practi-
cal furnace and the explosion with
complete change OF steam behind a
curtain OF rising smoke" behind which
- seen the wreck, as the curtain falls
on the second act; the "ife-SizeT freight
train. with rs realistic engine and SIX
teen box-cars, with Their familiar let
tering. followed. a. the close OF the
third act. by the Fast Mali the dazo
dive OF the fourth act, and the thrilling