The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-29
MANAGER aoopER,s BENZ FIT.
rhe Largest Audience OF tho Season WIN
Grace tho Occasion.

Grace tho Occasion.
~ For Marsger
(aE.~S Hooper's beneHs
{5SSSl next Monday night
q Ast March 3. the mu-
MI steal farce comedy,
"Our Flat" will be
INK ~ the biggest and
M"A IN best of it's kind
EX(T1I1CNSES(NsAe ever produced, in
( aIi >klhj:EE{{tAHY this city.
IHSl1lSSAA; ssSS'U II reliance is to be
2RsGSSESSs saSs3 placed on reports
V,EG@6kTS} that cume fnom
XSNyyPEWYs/ New York and
5HIIS<\I KFETA other places, re.
M(T(\\N<M garding the bright.
EkML,hWb W ness and sstrac-
%s.aS1 StfSiAASl tiveness Of Emily
N"s-sscSsS.aN Bancker and her
Roanoke public will witness rare treat
In the comedy line.
Inc play stood $50 consecutive nights
a. the Strand Thestre, London, Eng.
land, and had one of the longest runs
ever known on the boards of New York.
Inc story is about two young people
VINO fall In love and marry each other
witnons the consens Of the girl's father,
who OF course, refuses his blessing. like.
wise his pooket-book; nevertheless
they commence house keeping In very
good style on the top floor of a fiat
house. but get into horrihls debt in trv.
ing to keep up appearances. The hus-
pand. q writer Of tragedies, finds it inn
possible to get play accepted. when
the young wife attempts something in
the plsy-writing line herself, but very
wisely sticks to comedy. She writes q
play which Ia accepted and produced at
leading theater by most successful
manager. The manager is expected to
call at the fat in regard to the play,
when the furniture people, who have
NOS received their payments, suddenly
appear and remove everything. Not
being daunted, the wife improvises some
very handsome furniture out of empty
boxes and kitchen utensils with the aid
OF few remaining draperies and our-
talns, and has her home the picture of
prosperity when the great man Is an
nounced. The situations are grotesque
and amusing TO the last degree, It is q
great race Of fun from beginning TO
end.
Inc company which appears in the
play Is admitted by all to be one of the
strongest comedy organizations ever
formed in the country. There Is not an
individual In the cast who has not been
warmly praised by metropolitan critics,
guished succeEs, notably the jolly COM
edienne. Emily Banckner, who Is quite
q favorite In this city, having appeared
here before as the bright star OF the
original "GlorianA" company. She ia
not alone one of the most beautiful
women on the stage, but On artist that
has charming personality and nets
with finished grscs. Well known in the
cast are Will Vaudeville, Philip II.
Ryley, George w. Parsons, D. Ii. James,
and others of distinguished merit. The
pretty fcenery, elegant costuming,
catchy musical speoialties, all combine
to make "Our Flat" the superior OF
which 1t would be difficult to imagine.
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JULY 4, 1896, falls on Saturday, and
in order to ami low rho grand and olor;ouo