The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-15
THIS WEEK ON OUR STAGE.
TWO OF THE PLAYS IN BROAD
WAY THEhTRES NEW.

lInuEiCN BAETymVEo - " A@hAVE SAe
Pr,neip.i Actor OF "RoaripE Dick aud
Company" at Paimer'sI"Ah Innocent
siuper" ut the star-An che Theatrical
Buis in Drama and Vaudeville Houses.
Only one Of tho upper Broadway theatres will
have q new play ready 10 offer tomorrow night.
.'Roaring Dick and Company" is tho novelty
fortunate to be without competition. The au-
thor is Maurice Barrymore, and he Is understood
to have drawn upon several books for material,
besides taking an inspiration from Captain
Rwift." a piece in which he Is thought by many
TO have done his best acting. He has undertR-
ken to provide for himself a role calculated to
further his ambition rs q star This central
parsonage In the play 10 an educated man who.
having been driven from his home by a miserly
father. becomes a rowing adventurer and law
breaker, the Roaring Dick " ofthe title, whilca
still more desperate cotnrade is the Company
The hero returns with n scheme to get by trick
and device the heritage which he believes to DO
his by right, but he encounters softening and
reformatory influences. and at length he is
transformed into a model man. II is likelier
than not that Mr.. Barrymore has taken the
measure of his own abilities shrewdly. The
production is one of William A. Brady's. and
therefore much is expected OF 1t, The company
includes w. j. Lemoyne. edith Crane, and
others with names that stand for good acting.
A week of performances in Washington should
have worked them into harmonious facility. A
lawn party. with as many children as the scene
will hold, is an episode.
The Star has q new drama to ofer, instead OF
devoting the week to one OF the familiar pieces
on tour. The novelty is An Innocent Sinner
The characters are Tennesseeans, and they figure
In rural scenes which are said to contain neither
eensationaiism nor mechanical STARTERS. The
authors are Lillian Lewis and Lawrence Mar
atom, who have acted in it elsewhere. but have
now resigned their roles to others. The Black
Patti Troubadours will give a miscellaneous
concert at the star tonight.
After the season of opera is over at the Acad-
envy of Music, one week hence. there will come
Charles Frohman's annual production of melo-
drama at that big theatre. Tho piece this time
Is to be THE Two Little VRgrants.' a transla-
tlon OF a play which has been running more than
n year at the Ambigu in Paris. 1t is now being
played in Boston by the same company and with
the same abundant scenery which will be used
ut the Academy.
The next play in the series of new German
works at the Irving Place will be Countess
FIRTH" a comedy by Oscar Blumenthal. 1t will
have its first American performance on Thurs
day night and be repeated twice on Saturday.
The current piece, Papa Nitsche," will be con-
tinued during the first half Of the week. and
william Tell the Schiller drama. will be re-
yived at low prices on Friday, following the
weekly custom at this house.
Gertrude Waldemer will court attention as n
dramatic a~plrant at tho Garden Theatre next
Iue.day hfternooni when she WI act IN 9orti9hs
IS . pupil of F.. F. Mackay.-
The weeks play ut the Harlem Opera House
Ia Under the Polar Star" which so recently
ended a iouE term at a downtown theatre that
nobody can have forgotten its character. The
constitutes the successful element in the rep
resentation, is not yet old enough to have lie;
come at all worn. The company is unchanged
IN any important respect, and 1t Is easily capa-
bic OF n good performance:
The new Murray Hill offers an entertainment
with no uncertainty about It owing to its very
recent term IN a Broadway theatre. 1t. consists
90 S6r rs,er r. 81 f'a',ey Eso ST III and G q 9apSa ioaIe33 ' r.
the top with vaudeville; In this piece Mr..
Dai!ey's role is that of a voluble Hnd ,audecions
euciionecr. and he also appears incidentaily as
anegro woman. in which Euise he sings a lot CT
unCtuoUs songs.
That turbulent melodrama, The Fatal
Cn-L." reaches the Bowery at last. and should
rurelv meet with aporeCiative .andiences at tho
Peoples, where it is to be performed BY a COM
petcnt travelling company. Its ful!-tayored
Western American. prologue. and its later
Scenes OF crime and punishment in, EnElsnd;
maze mp a strongly exciting play, with a tateful
bomb TO eZ a!cdc ut the climax. 1t is really IL
clever work Of its particular kind.
irish fun and sentiment wili prevail at the
Columbus, with AnGrrw Mack and MILES
a rich brogle on his tongue and a merry twinkle
IN his eyes. lie possesses the necessary mag
netisn with which TO win over TO his support
play contains tho Clements usually put into an
Irish piece. and they are presented in an &C
On" OF the Western melodramas that have
lasted .cveral years in popular favor Is shaft
week ~ the Grand Opera House. 1t is what its
name inUiteS. n play Of a mine. and OF course an
explosion Is lis lrndest and strongest appeal to
auditors. LIS story is about a murderous plot
against the hero, who Is an inventor. and whose
perils ot love and business are depicted at least
forcibly. THE Power Of The Press is being
rehearsed for Teviva! at the Grand next week.
There Is news to note in the weeks continual
tlon of plays already familiar. Amendments
have been made in The Mandarin" at the
Herald Square. Mr.. Smith with the words and
Mr.. De koven with the music nave gone over
their work thoroughly. with a view to mending
the faults pointed out by the newspaper critics
and to make their l,lay worthy of the handsome
production which IL enjoys. Several songs, new
in verses and tunes. have been added and some
superauities have been subtracted.
Changes are frequent IN The Broken Mel
ody" at the American. go far as Auguste Van
Biene's cello music is concerned. He never
omits Home. Sweet Home because the play
ing of that air Is a point in the story, and, of
course, the broken melody mentioned in the
title is essential. but the selections are drawn
from a repertory.
Until the end OF the year. now not q long way
of, Brian Boru" will be performed at the
broadway Dy the w nltney company Manager
Mccormick says that last weeks receipts were
the largest since the outset, and, measuring the
success by that practical standard, he promul-
gates a triumphant announcement that the
opera has fully satisfied the best expectation. 1t
Is a decided nov city in being an Irish light
opera and romantic.
Three months of Rosemary" at the Empire
will expire on Saturday night. There was no
doubt at the start that the conjunction of so
popular n pair as John Drew and Maud Adams
with so positively merltorlous u play meant a
long spell Of prosperity, hut 1t was not expected
that it would last until the end of the year. The
latest and last extension OF the time covers
Christmas week. Theil Charles Frohman's
stock company will return.
Edward III. Sothern has reached the last week
of his season at. the LyCeum, and by means of
three matinees he will enact the hero Of An
Enemy to the King" nine times more before his
departure. Daniel Frohman's stock company
will take the Lyceum's stage q week from to:
Isppie." "a new piece by Henry V. Isnond, a