The morning times., 1896-10-04
As SEEN BY sAAs-GEhE
Lilliputians Return to Amer
ica as merry TrampS."
"EVANGELINE" AGAIN
New York Productions Tor
Monday Night Include
Secret Service.
"EVANGELlNE" ALA

my mendinS- -,.,.,.,. ,,,o crit.
icaI coiert,, last Monday night through
the nrocrpinm arch oil the Gcantfiul star
The,ter These nttlc people are as WISE
as they are artistic. For several seasons
they d,.lichted us with the exquisite uaiiill-
ness of their miniature humors, but even
as the best OF things they finally bega, "
nall upon the public, just as too ineell liulii
nuddinc is as bad as not enough crackers
and cheese. SO the little people spread tiielr
sails and returned to FatheTiand anu E;iNe M
ms an interim of forgetfulnes>- Ill maue lieif
return ali the more welcome.
The medium Ut return tuthe locfil sldsc
was "A sDectacular burlcsque, by some
one or other with music by someone eisc'
called Merry Tramps.' On Ihc strensth
or the approval received MoEday eVehihS'
the LillipuIians may remain tof iohs sed
son They are finished artists, every one
of these little people. Few companies
of big pla yers can point TO trio OF Coihc
dions euual ia finished hunor TO link, EpefI
and Ludwig Merkel -.
Several attractive bailets We're iil'iu
duced Two of particular orltihahVy anu
splendor were the dance OF lhc lamps .nu
lace ballet. But the harvest teSliNai III INC
first act. in which the dancers each repre-
cut n rrpju ar fIoyyer from the Held, was
eouauy attractive. Everything suggests
the utilization of old German fairy tales
deliciously magical and rcireshnGlE laF
fetched. The critics are ali advising the
fnII-prnyyu comedians to go down To the
Star and study the ellis
EyANGELINE REVIVED.
To remember ''Evangeline would ne
distinct confession of age. i do l.st re-
member IL. / have heard that al some eiIhe
in the remote pas. 1t was Cd the stage anu
achieved historic fame i'll thcatricdl an
nails but IL was before my time. when
/ went over To the Garden on Ihursday J
a,,enint, IL WAS to see Il performance en-
tiral,. new to me- | liked it. 1t is beau
tifuI to the ear. the eye and the senses
generally for 1 imagined there was ira
grant odor about it, and The pretty gils
Looked like candy models 1t wouid Dc
pleasant to taste. ,
An elderly person next To Ele toiu me dii
about its production years age, ana now
the present production compares WIN ~.
He was very enthusiastic ana pointed ouI
that whil,, much of 1t was 10 memory dear
the sCeni,, artist, cOstuHIer. music maker,
and Joke machine were all OF the latest
tyne and the result was, as couiu wen
appreciate myself, that "ENangeline' Is
better than it could ever have POSSIBLY been
before ..,,,,., X-,.,,,.,
he Gucrrc. q celebrated harp soinist, from
raris. who appears as Eyangeline's SIS
ter and incidentally introduces her SOLOS,
Tbercsa Vaughan, tie sweet singer OF
.l4e2" has been cast for the tue rcie.
Cheridah Simpson plays Gabriel ana MA
Baker, Feliclar. The Interesting charac-
,er of the Lone Fisherman IS intrGS'ed 10
Henry E DiNey. Charles y. Bigelow mas
been specially engaged for Capt. Dletrlch
and Fred solomon plays lie Blanc. Others
If the cast are Charles seagraNeS, tlc
King: Thomas Kierns, Hans wagner; Ed
Nhantnap. IyaSil; Sherman Wade, the po-
iiceman. -, ,,.
mana ge,ucnt Of Charles Frohman. who al>c
controls the Empire, Hoyt : ana ihe oai-
rick.
Albert Cheval.er folds ms crimson haHE'
ings at the Garrick tonight aud quetly
steals away to the provinces He WI
lie succeeded on Monday evening by VIII
IAN Gillette IN his new play, secret Ser
vice" This play is not OF the order OF
Too Much johnson" 1t is war drama
of military intrigue and spectacular effect
Gillette Will play one of the characters MN
self. 1t was produced in Philadelphia las
vesr with some success, but i'll the mean
time the author has rewritten IL, ana mon
days play is practically new
ON the same evening little farther
down the street, at ralmcr's Miss Georgia
Cayyan will make her stellar DEBUT III q
new play Miss Cayvan served long tern
as leading lady and principal factor in al
tue Lyceum Theater stock succcsses sA'
played The principal part IN Inc VIII nn
'SWeet Lavender The Charity BAN
"old Heads and Young Hearts. 'squlre
Kate aud others. The medium OF hel
debut is a play which London has seen
It has the delightful meaning tit!e Mar!
Pennington, Spinster" Lionel Barrymore
a sou of Maurice Barrymore, and a graha
sou of Mrs John Drew, makes ms inetro
poIitap debut with Miss CayVan. ne II
a tail, 1.-THE young man about twenty year
old.
On Tuesday evening il Will be our priv
lere to pass on DuSouchet's comedy, m!
Friend from India" which comes into IN
Biiou / believe you have seen 1t II
Washington. Bond. AbeieS. Marion Girou'
and the original cast. as you saw 1t, ar
with the company as We shall see It, In
opening WIS postponed until Tuesday eveI
ing, SO that the critics might attend.
HUsTLING WOMAN.
Arnerca's premiere woman manager
Elizabeth Marbury. Miss Marbury is
play-broker but this year she VIII ais
manage peerbohm Trees American tou
She returned a few days ago from abroad
where she met her old cronies. bernhard
and Sardou. She has Il lot To tell.
Some of the unbosomings came rs rcvela
tiuns a cay or two ola ifrIn ti't laps
Miss Marbury, such as the news tEat BerI
hardt is t. chisel u lust of Sardou for Il
coming Paris exposition.
But as a sure evidence of good faith an
the magnetic attraction that tie Marhur
persopaljty had eXerted over the Frenc
actress. Miss Marbury showed with an a
Of fine triumph complete copy of Beri
hartt's duchess Catherine" the first n
tempt of the divine one at dramatic author
ship.
..Bernhardt read it to me- said Miss MAJ
bury proudly. Its female role is magnii
cent. Itis full ofpowerful situations. Abov
all, it is wonderfully characteristic &
the Bernhardt genius. Size intends to al
pear in II at the OGeon about tie first L
October. WHY does She not bring il out
her own Thater de la Renaissance? 3
cause the French aw does not allow dram;
tic authors 20 produce rev pieces fro
their own pens in theaters where the
have a proprietary interest. 1t is n
other Instance Of the interest that Il
French lawmakers take in their natiN
drama"
Further than Duchess Catherine" Mi
Marbury brings back the rights for a ne
play by Sardou, which has not been bal
tized. De CourcelIes and Armand Arto
have made a sparkling comedy from Pa
Bourgeois Tragic Idyl'' 1t Will be see
at the Paris Gymnase next onth. and Mi
Marbury expects to get it on in New Yoi
not long afterward. "Eoys Together M
also fallen To her repertoire. II is an Ella
crate melodrarna by Haddoa Chambers III
Comyns Carr, now on at the Londo
Adelphi. Another is blind Maria sc
which is now absorbing all London wit
its clever episodes.
HEARD ON THE RIALTo.
Marie Jansen is engaged TO play the lea'
fnG role in "A Florida EncIantment,
which is the girl who is changed into ho