New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-09
ROOF GARDEN BILLS.

ALL ARE DOING A FAIR BUSINESS. BUT
THERE ARE SIGNS OF AN AWAKEN
ING AMONG THE THEATRES.
Az vet the New-York public still have to look to
the roof gardens and to continuous vaudeville io'
their entertainment. The season Is commonly
Gong fair business and some OF them have good
sized audiences every evening.
At Hammerstein's Olympia there will be only
two weeks more OF Frego, the Italian who has
been entertaining good houses at that resort since
May H. He goes to the Park Theatre BOSTON,
August 81. This week new feature at inc o' ''
pia Roof Garden will be Lizzie Ramsden cha Tse
rest of The nrogramme will include Knoll ana NC
Neil. Pablo Daz Jessie Bradbury Johnson pan
EXPORT and Iorclla May Howard. Senorl'a iar
70 the Rixfords and The Gotham CITY Quat,eiI
Rehearsals on Mr.. Hammerstein ne" io
comic opera" have already begun
Al Proctor.s Twenty-third Street Theatre inns
week Miss Leoa Mitchell the Living Don,
heads the list of entertainers. Lillian heineuy
James kennedy Il Adams S SHf fa May
ii5e ;;bn Enrlish costermonger singer and char
acter change artist. and Dripn'"o' '"'
clown are among the performers
ro- tho week beginning Monday August 49, inc
hill Fl Proctor's Pleasure Palace undersoes an
other complete change. Cycling on inc rooi sun
tains its hold Joe Flynn heads the list oil enter
tanners and others on the bill are Mile oce"n"'
VIII II Sloane late Of Rice's 1892, assisted %
william CurIey; Wills and Halpin; the FABIAN
Sisters Norman. the human frog the ed WhS'
Mile VaIeska, Short and Edwards. musical enter
tainer Lucille Sturges ana others lo-u"! a., I'm Dn
2:3O to II p m, concert VIII he given 1T ''''
sort.
On the big and breezy Grand Central Palace Roof
Garden this week the particularly prominent leat-
IRE IS Pianka the female animal trainer and her
lions The four cubs born on the roof garden last
Tuesday 10 Mrs Bowser." Nine. Piankas pet per-
forming lioness will be exhibited nightly they
are healthy. froicsome little fellows. and me mar
agement Will admit children free 10 see the CUBS
and performance when accompanied by their par
ents Other features on me o inGIu Ssers Ben
Ross. Bella Lee, Shayne and Worden, Euiaie' tne
dancing soubrette; Meyer Cohen and kiraIy S oai-
let.
At the Eden Musee the waxworks groups have
been rearranged and many changes made IN cos
tune and position. New groups are oeihs con-
stantly added The evening concerts are well
patronized by the general public. The orchestra
has added new selections TO its list ana al each
% dbe aa for S Se coming Week will be Faust
In addition there will he many selections OF CLASS
zeal and popular music. Electric lahs minister u
the comfort of patrons
The Madison Square Roof Garden is one OF the
learned last week Another attractive programme
is offered for this week 1t includes Press Ell
bridge Bentley and Cameron the Four Gardners
Homestead Quartet Fields and Lewis. o Brien and
Wright Marie Leslie Bennetto and Reto and LII
Ian Perry
This is the last week OF the roof garden season
at Roster g. Bials. Jean Clermont and his
trained animals will continue to disport themselves
for the public amusement and the manase ria
purse The rest Of the programme WI De i ,a,
nished by the Newsboys Quintet the ManhaiIa tan
Ely the Weston Sisters Catherine Bartho, Nellie
Seymour and the vitascope
At Terrace Garden this week the programme is
sufficiently varied. on MonIay evening Will be
sung THE Beggar Student" on Tuesday evening,
Der Oborsteiger" CThe Master Miner; on Wednes-
day evening "Boccaccio." and for the last half
of the week ''The Chimes OF Normandy" On
August Il Louis Roth's new operetta Der Pollen
oonen-air garden this week the orchestra will be
augmented for the promenade concerts the regu,
lar Sunday evening concert VIII DC "aldmes'er'
Continuous vaudeville still draws good houses az
Tony Pastors Theatre in spite Of the rot weather
The bill for this week is as follows: Maud Nugent.
the Gilmore Sisters Frederick Clarer ze the Boot
Hack Quartet. Gallagher and West the silvers
Baldwin and Daly Thomas f. Glynn Sadie Con Con
Louise Valentine.
But. although the roof gardens and vaudeville
are signs of awakening among the legitimate
houses.
The Lyceum Theatre will be re-opened on Monday,
August 81, when f. H. sothern will begin his tenth
annual season under Daniel Frohman's management.
The piece selected for the opening is X y. Sepsenss
romantic drama entitled IAN Enemy to the King
The Fourteenth Street Theatre will begin its
on August 81 with an English melodramG called
while London Sleeps" by Charles Darrell. Later
on Joseph Arthur's play, The Cherry Pckers' will
be seen at THIS mouse.
The Grand Opera House will be opened August
g. when a melodrama called The Cotton Spinner"
written by Scott Marble, will be given It's first pro-
duction
John Drew and his company have returned the
city and tomorrow morning will begin rehearsals in
the play Rosemary" which opens the Empire The
atre season on Monday. August 81 This is the be-
ginning Of Mr.. Drew's fifth season as star under
includes nearly all the players who have been with
Mr. Drew since ne began his career as star, and
Ethel N Barrymorc Frank Lamb Annie Adams, Lewis
Baker and Dan Harkins
A revival Of Thoroughbred" opens the Garrick
Theatre on August Il.
The comic opera Half King" with Francis VIII
son and his company, Will hold the stage OF the
Knickerbocker Theatre when 1t opens under that
name on September H.
August 81 will be the date on which the American
Theatre viii he reopened. The Great Northwest"
will be the play.
The Biiou Theatre also reopens on August 81 with
Edward Harrigan's new play called Marty Malone"
The coming opera The Caph." Will reopen the
broadway Theatre September g. jefferson De An
CELLS will then make his first appearance as a comic
opera star
The Standard Theatre will open with vaudeville on
August g. The bill will include Ioie Fuller Zelma
Rawlsion, Tim Murphy and Jennie Yeamans
g.
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TO the Editor Of The Tribune