Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-10
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MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

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Kansas City theatergoers again showed
their great attachment TO Sol Smith Rus
sell in the engagement that closed at the
Coates last night. Big audiences witnessed
every performance and last night and the
night before the orchestra had to be re-
moved to make room for the people, and
some stood through the performance.
The value of popular prices in attract
ing the public was forcib!y shown in the
Rhea matinee at the Auditorium yester-
day afternoon, when this charming actress
played Josephine to almost tho capacity
of this immense theater. 1t had been an
nouuc4d that a reception would he given IN
the tea room, but so many wanted to meet
the actress that the reception was he'd on
the stage The engagement closed last
night with a repetition Of Nell Gwynne." /"
The last performance of THE Widow
Jones' will be given at the Grand this aft
ernoon. Tonight May Irwin and her clever
company will be seen in McNally's new
comedy, "Courted Into Court" which had
a public rehearsal in Omaha a few nights
ago and made a most favorable impress
sion. Miss Irwin will be seen in the role
of an actress who marrles into one of the
first families" Mr.. McNally is here to
personally superintend the production,
which will be watched with special inter-
est because of its experimental character.
The cast will be as follows:
Dottie Dimple, an actress......May Irwin
Worthington Best. Jr.. in love with
Worthington Best, Sr........... ..........
...... 80. ..........Raymond Hitchcock
Mrs. Worthngton Best Sr.. Clara Palmer
Helen Best. her daughter.
.......... 49,. Hattie Williams
Mile Nocodi. eccentric German dancer
-. .......... ..................Ada Lewis
General Baron Vladimir Vladistoff, in
love with Nocodi. George W. Barnum
Judge jeremiah Googhan............ -.
Pop Dooley, stage doorkeeper. uncle of
Dottie...... ...... ......Jacques Kruger
Sylvia Rosebud, Dottie's maid. Sally Cohen
Mortimer Morton, actor-Sharp Lawyer
...... ............ ......... Roland Carter
Gertie, Mrs. Worthington's maid......-.
800. ............ Eta Gilroy
Hal Ford, janitor-court officer..........
..... ............ ..........Charles Church
Clerk of court. John Frees
Ladies of the Dottie Dimple Company
Mollie Mavourn...... ........Margery Teal
Della Carte. Mabel Powers
Stella ArSent........ ...--..'..-.Belle steele
Eunice Colbee.... Maud Gray
The temperance of Frederick Warde
at the Coates the first half of next week
should attract considerable attention, mas
much as this tragedian has not been seen
on the local stage for a number of sea-
sons, and because he will give two imper-
sonations entirely new to this city. His
greatest success this season has been
King Lear" which he has staged with
sufficient elaboration to satisfy those who
like their plays sCenically adorned. This
will be the bill Monday and Wednesday
nights and Wednesday afternoon. Henry
w. with Mr. Warde as Falstaff, Will be
the bill Tuesday night. Few actors have
attempted such great contrasts as Falstaff
and Lear since the days of the old stock
system, but Mr. Warde seems 10 have
encompassed the extraordinary demands
with great credit. The sale of seats will
open this morning.
The Auditorium will be dark the first
half of the coming week, hut Thursday
night Nat Goodwin. supported by Maxine
Elliott, will be seen in his new play. IAN
American Citizen He will also appear as
Bob Acres in The Rivals during the en-
gagement.
Eddie Foy in his spectacular travesty,
"Of the Earth" will be at the Grand the
coming week. opening with the Sunday
matinee. Foy is said to have an excellent
company this season. and is meeting with
great success. Among his people are Adele
Harrington. well remembered for her clever
work in Little Robinson Crusoe:" Miss
Louise Archer, of this city, prOtege of
Jessie Bartlett Davis who has been sing
ing herself in particular favor in this COM
pany; Mary Marble, Miss Adlyn Estee,
Miss Josie Winters. Miss Gertrude Saye.
Miss Sadie Miner. Miss Rho1a Rivers, Miss
Edith Shaw Miss Mildred Carroll, Miss
Marie La Geig, Miss Rose Brown. Mr..
James +. Sullivan. Mr.. Arthur X. Deacon.
Mr.. Oscar Hall. Mr.. II. Stewart Putnam.
Mr.. Bernard Allen, Mr.. Thomas Clifford
and Master Mason.
The real thing in the line of sensational
melodrama is promised in Saved From
the Sea" which will follow Gus Hill's Now
elites at the Ninth Street opera house.
The play is by Arthur Shirley and Ben
Landeck, two English playwrishts, and is
credited with a great London success, and
OF a very dramatic story.
Paris. Dec. 9.-There were go people pres
ent at the banquet given at the Grand
hotel this afternoon to Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt by her admirers They included the
leading artistic, literary and society people
Of the capital. The great French actress,
who wore cream satin dress and a green
plush opera cloak arrived at the hotel
soon after noon. accompanied by Sardou,
the dramatist, and entered amid the rap
turous cheers of the crowd about the
t1l!ding.