The morning times., 1896-04-05
SLOW FOR THE MANAGERS
Holy Week Brought Stiffness in
G0tham'S Theatrical Circles.
SOME HOUSES WERE CLOSED
There Was Not New Play, Not a
Single Change of Bill, in Town.

New York, April 4.-IIeTe we are plunged
In the mi Isl OF HOLY Week and the managers
OF the closed theaters are making the
money. That is not The paradox. Saving
Is making, and they are saving, and the
managers with open doors are not making
anything
Easter viii be hailed with grateful re-
lief Not Tor any expectancy OF new or
good plays, but siupIy as release from
Tie depression OF the peniIentiai season.
IL seems, IN spite OF the IaCI IHaJ the world
is Supposed 10 be Oh its way 10 the
denim, IOu UoW-WOws Jncge are slIll enough
people leTJ who adhere TO religious disci-
piIne 10 have made JuIs LanI u wiiueruesS
within a wilderness, Tor sucn The season has
been financially.
There WASH a new play this week; nota
single change, excepJaJ the A Cademy, where
Humanity AM its aii-Star cast or
fox hounds and horses took the place
OF Wagner anu his Aeayen-sniung drums
and double baSSeS.
L CouId OcscriDe number OF pretty
dresses Worn in the current plays, espe-
cially Rose CoghIan's-but, no, / shan't.
Men don't care about woInen's clothes, and
no woman cares for what another woman
wears before Easter.
Walter Jones made his entrance into
He succeeds Charles Dandy as The shcr-
if and plays the part as an IrishInan.
1t is a blessed change from the sense-
less CoCkney, which may be appreciated
on the Strand but don't 20 on Broadway.
Virginia Earle has been out OF the cast
for some days with a spell of sickness.
Aside from the Lenten liberation Easter
does not bring a great deal. Your Wash
lngtOn critics have keyed expectancy ln
A w
Garden Theater Monday evening.
Word comes TO Us ttlat you like the play
immensely. and predictmetropolitan success
for it. ] hope ii will take, for we New
Workers are Just as fond OF having Fred
Bond. Isabelle Coe, Katharine Grey. ana
Aunt Louisa with US as you are. There is
talk OF legal complications over pTuprie-
tary rights. They'll smooth over.
The only other novelty opening will be
1.-The Law of the Land which is 10 be
produced at the American for tie first
time. The story is laid m Louisiana and
an attractive cast includes Jeifries Lewis,
Amy Busby. Frank Losee, Henry Mainhall,
and Anna Barclay.
Down at the Fourteenth Street Thcater
Clara Morris will weep Camille tears and
die n Camille death next week. Lillian
Russell changes her bill from The God
dess of Truth 10 The Little Duke"
though one paper did let it slip into print
that Liliian's embonpoint was to be COM
pressed into the Liiliputian proportions oil
Deua's Little Trooper
The Circus is at the Garden 1t doesn't
seem to have lost one whit OF its old-time
potency. The clowns cracking their
cracked jokes with the same Old assurance
and the riders in spangleS and tumblers in
tights are as vivacious and concerned as
IL the whole affair were absolutely new
and special diSpensatiou. The great and
ouly remains but three weeks ami then
goes marching over the bridge, thence
into the broad land TO tue North, West
and South.
There isn't much gossip except some
yarns brought in by the press agen nts. The
best is about Canary & Lederer's string
Oh Lillian Russell whom they manage mex
year. They say they have a contract
by which she is to forfeit $4,000 if she
marries. As the tickle Lilly is at present
the legal wife of Perugini il ought to bt
easy for her to keep her contract. Blu
Lillian Will be Russell, YOU know.
Stuart Robson says he viii never play il
New York gain. so does Cora CrqiilartPOt
ter The eannOuucementsare as regretabie as
The facts. Ukases like these mean nothing
but pique. On the other hand, both thcs'
pcoplc are admirable artists, and will b'
missed Charley jefferson Oldest son o
RID cres jefferson. going into vaudeville
He isn't going to do an act. but he vii
seudabigC company nyontheroad. with SandoW v
as the stellar attraction.
You will read this on the wedding da.
of your and our Congressman Henry G
Miner and pretty Anne 0'Ncil. late leadini
lady of W. II. Crane. They go abroad fo
the summer. and Mr.. Miner leaves his bus
ness affairs in such q shape as To permi
of his extending his honeymoon trip aroun'
fine world If they feel inclined.
NANCY SYKES.