The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-08
Providence Opera House.

Of all the spectacular, musical, farci-
cal entertainments imported from Lon.
don. that which has found the quickest,
heartiest acceptance in this country is
'.The Shop Girl" which will be seen lat
The Providence Opera House Monday,
Tuesday, N Wednesday nights, and
Wed esday matinee. IL will be presented
here by George Edwardes' Gaiety Theater
Company, which appeared in it through
out Its run Of almost two years in Lon
don. This company and the complete
equipment were brought TO America by
AL. nayman and Charles Frohman. The
first ACT Of 1.-THE Shop Grip IL laid at the
Royal stores, London, and the second
act at u fancy bszaar at Kensington. An
idea OF the characters OF the piece and
the personality OF the company may be
had ffeHf the following list of the special
parts and their players.
MIR. Hooley, y proprietor OF the Royal
stores; W. IL Rawlins; "Charles Apple
by" a medical student, Harry Grattan,
s'Bertie Boyd. - one of the boys, George
GrossmiIh, Jr. John Brown, ia million
ARE, NJ. Uwyer; ''sir Gearge Appleby,"
solicitor. Walter McEwen; "Col. Single
ton, = retired, George Honey; 'Count st.
Vaurien, y secretary to MIR. brown. George
C. pearce; "Mr. Tweets,n financial sec
rotary 70 Lady Appleby, Alfred Ashlier;
"Mr. Miggles, shopwalker at the Royal
Stores. BERTHE Wright; Bessie Brent" "
the shop girl, Miss Violet Lloyd; LADY
Dodo singleton, - hailie's cousin, Miss
Annie Albu; "Miss Robinson" filter AT
the Royal Stores, Miss Madge Greet LADY
Appleby, Charles mother, wife of Sir
George, Miss Leslie Greenwood: ada
smith, an apprentice at the Royal
Stores, Miss Connie Eoiss. Other young
women In the cast are Minnie Sadler,
May Beaugarde. Minnie lose. Adelaide
Astor, Violet Dene, Ida Wallace. Hylda
walton, Nellie Huxley, Nellie Langton,
lara DE l'Orme. Violet Durkin, Annie
Vivian and Dorothy Douglass, the dancer.
The piece is a musical farce OF uncom-
mon magnitude, written by II. J.. Dam,
with music by Ivan Caryll, Adrian Rose
and Lionel Monckton. The story is OF
the search for a founding who Is so far
traced that IL Is known she is a shcn
girl IN the Royal Stores. The wrong shop
girl II a. first supposed to have been the
foundling. for whom four million are
waiting. The proprietor OF the shop cuts
out the fioofwalker and marries the sun
posed milionairess, but IL turns out that
the real ex-foundling l. another shop
girl, whom a medical student has chosen
Tor his wife at the peril of being disiu-
herited by his very swell mamma. On this
story are strung the musical ana terpsi-
chorean features which helped to make
'Ihe hop Girl' 80 successful, such as
"louisana Lou. sung by Miss LLOYD.
The japanese dance executed Nv Nlr.
wright ana one OF be young ladies; he
fetching song and cuoru8, "Goodnoss.
wasn't IL Cold'; and the famous 81 eau.
tiful Bountiful Bertie." The dances are
particularly anus NJ, because II tie
KIND 81 characters p~articii ating In them.
lima Fite a high sicking dance and chorus
by such specimens 81 ar a n r spcctabil.
Ny asa bland be-whisserc1 shops ecpor.
= poroncI a retired colonel and a French
count, such are ihs comicalities sdueeS
by using che ra' p ges OF con m~n
place efsfyday life as characters in an