The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-20
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
MONDAY NIGHT.

John Dillon at the Crawford To-
morrow night the season opens at the
Crawford and from the rise OF the cur
tain to its fall the audience IS convuis-
ed with laughter. The play, Wanted,
The Earth" is a comic farce or a farcial
comedy. Its amusing situations fit the
comedian Hike kid glove. from his
first entrance until the gentle widow
rests upon his bosom at the close OF the
last act. The play is one in which the
audience itself becomes part OF the
company. and the house and the stage
enjoy alike the fun and the frolic as
the plot is developed and the exquisite
" cmmical situations are reached II
one Is incEned to indulge in a full grown
laugh, then the Crawford Grand Mon
cay night is the place to visit. Above
everything, 1t is a clean play, there be-
ing no word uttered and no situation IN
any scene calculated TO offend the most
fastidious Tuesday night a Model
Husband viii be given
LYCEUM ENTERTAINMENTS
The Wichita Lyceum association has
succeeded in booking one Of the strong
est courses Of entertainments that has
ever been brought to our city. Any
one who contemplates spending $500 for
entertainments and instruction during
the winter cannot do better than to pur-
chase season ticket, and those who
feel that they cannot afford II Will find
they will never regret cutting down
elsewhere and enjoying the concert and
lecture course. The opening entertain
ment will be given Oct. 81, at the opera
house by the Ariel Ladies Sextette (the
famous Smith Sisters, and one a'ttrac-
ton each succeeding month with two
in january will be given. They are as
follows:
DIR. A. A. Willis. Philadelphia Lee
ture, Sunshine, or How 10 Enjoy Lire.
Ellen Beach Yaw with her superb con-
| cert company.
! lecture Harp Of the Senses, or the Sc
| cret OF Character Building"
Harvard Male Quartette of Boston
with Miss Grace Eldridge as reader.
An Evening with the Kings of Poetry
| and Humor. Fred Emerson Brooks and
]. william Macy.
The Royal English Hand Bell Ringers
and Imperial Carilloneurs from Lon
don. Eng.
o. A Boyle, the secretary. is sparing
no pains to make this the most popula
course in Southern Kansas and should
receive a liberal patronage.
| GARFIELD RELIEF CORPS.
Garfield Relief corps No. 40 viii give
| a splendid entertainment next Wednes-
| day night at Garfield hall. Lieutenant
| Kornecke of the Kansas National guard
| Is putting the young ladies. who repre-
sent business firms. through some very
difficult military and fancy drills, and
among the many pleasing and unique
numbers on the program will be singing
by the "Orpheus Quartette."
| DAINTY LITTLE BLOSSOM.
| At the Auditorium all next week will
appear the Dainty Little Blossom" com
pany and her Jolly Pathfinders."
The exchange comments are of the
very highest, of which the following Is
one of the many:
'sThe largest audience that has gath
cred at the Baldwin theater within the
last year and a half to witness a the
atrical performance assembled there las
evening when Dainty Little Blossom
| and her Jolly PathfinderS presented
| that greatest of all English comedies
| Jane The standing room only sigr
was displayed before the curtain rose
| on the first act, every box and every
| chair in the entire parquette, dress CIR
Gle and balcony being sold and occupied
by DOnlnde purchaser never Wa
there a more delightful treat given ar
audience, never was the play better
rendered by any company and neve'
was an audience better pleased with {
performance. Not only was the entir'
play a perfect succession OF screams
of laughter, but as the audience filed on
OF the words of praise and commenda
ton both OF the performance and TIT
performers attested the full pleasure
and satisfaction they had experienced
The present engagement is the most sue
cesSful, both artistically and financially
of any week stand company that ha
ever played in our city. Little Bison
and her cmpanoy own the town. The.
could not have packed any more PEG
pie in last night. but all those OF our peo
pie who failed to attend are missing tn
treat OF a lifetime II is needless I
dwell on the particulars of the play, 70
after the performance last night tn
details are fresh in the minds OF every
body"
On Monday night ladies will be ad
mitted free with one paid ticket
Seats now on sale at Biting Bros.