The evening times., 1896-11-28
COMING TO THE THEATERS.

The engagement OF the Empire Theater
Stock Company at the Lafayette Square
Opera House all Of next week rs bound 10
attract widespread attention among our
theatergocrS. The company stands at the
head oI all American dramatic urganiZa-
tiuns. In its ranks are always found the
: best grade OF actors, and its repertoire al
ways contains the cream Of the drarnatists'
products.
On Monday and Tuestia evenings and al
the "Wednesday matinee Will be seen X {.
1ar,nn $ IsIientI&i ulana, Lliei,y Han;
Wednesday evening Will be given the only
performance uI bydc f1tch's .Soneniia.
The balance of the week and Saturday
night Will be deovtcd to Sowing the
" inu. AT tDe last performance bI aIuOn
Thumas' comedy. Marriage" will be the
bill.
In the company are william Faversham.
Viola A lien, Elsie de Wolfe, Agnes Mier,
Anne Irish, Ida Conquest, May RUbcson,
Mrs. Thomas Whifien Gladvs Wallis, ANY
Busby. j 81 Gilmore, j. f, Dodson. Rot ert
Edeson, Fritz William, w. II. CrUmpton,
Ferdinand Gottschalk and others.
"Pudd,nliead Wilson, which comes to
the National next week. is founded on Mark
Twaln's story, which was written for the
Century.
Frank Mayo recognized the dramatic
merits OF the story, dramatiZedit, and Dave
Wilson, queer, quaint, witty, wise, philo-
sophical country lawyer, who mas "A hobby
OF personal identification by the markings
found on the ball of the thumb, and who
goes around taking impressions OF the
thumbs OF hls seighbors on bits of glass,
which bits of glass at last prove his
wisdom to his neighbors, who for twenty
five years have called him a pudd'nhead,
has become real person, who has proven
the most interesting and popular of stage
heroes, and no less popular favor has fol-
lowed all Of these interesting Missouri peo-
pie.
In the cast are all the original members
save the late Mr.. Mayo, and his part is now
piayedby Theodore Hamilton. Otherspromi-
nent are Elenor Moretu, Frank Campau,
Arnold DAILY, and Frank Aikens. The com
pany includes twenty people.
Morrison's version OF Faust will be
presented at Herman and Rife's Opera
house on Monday. The drama has been
toned III every part. until 1t is scarcely
recognizable The scenic effects which
have been added with unstii.tcd liberality
aud detailed care are the least noteworthy
OF The changes which have been effected
lhe entire drama, the story, the eXecu-
tioi. both scenic and histrionic, has been
elevated until the lofty poetry Of this great
epIc is made TO dominate the sta re and cast
into its due secondary significance the
spectacular which formerly appeared uI-
POLITICALLY prominent. The revels ON the
Brocken, wherein the spectacular is dealt,
has been raised from the absurd to Jne I'M
pressive.
The entire performance has become se-
riOus and exalted. The company is an
excellent one, each of whom aid in bring
lag the suDlnely beautiful sentiment, the
plOlOuliu pIllDsDDHy. lIt the
moral Teaching, and the lofty conception OF
the great Germans mind into a round, full,
and splendid production.
No melodrama of New York life of recent
years has Degun to make the mt with the
public that "A Bowery Girl did last sea-
son. Everywhere, East, West and South,
1t crowded the tiieaters and in New York
city three consecutive engagements were
played.
TINS year Manager Harry Williams pre- sents
the play With new dress OF scenery and
an entirely new and more expensive COM
puny. headed by the captivating cumed-
enne, Florrie West, in the title rode.
All the specialties Will be new, intro
duced by such clever speciality artists as
Florrie West, Carrie Ezier and John R.
Cumpson. who are well-known as leading
eXponents in their line. "A Bowery Girl"
comes t, the Academy for Il week begin
ning Monday next The enga cement Will
undoubtedly prove highly successful.
"A Florida Enchsntment." Archibald G.
Gunter's dramatiZation of his book of the
same name. which will be presented at the
Columbia Theater the week beginning Mon
day night, Will have a very handsome pro-
duction. 1t comes direct from its eight
e. successful run at hoyt New lork
Theater.
The company includes among others
Marie Jansen, Dan Collyer. May Haines,
EffIe Germon, and Clarence Heritage.
Matinees will be given on Thursday and
Saturday.
Almost everyone who ever attended a
theater has heard of Agnes Wallace villa,
and on the popular circuits here is name
to conjure with. For years she has been
playing the same piece, and yet with The
" ofi,t a g;tiiSu Her All ire gIne. sre mas
made money and name She comes to the
Bilou next week.
The play is In five acts all of which are
arranged in the English melodramic style.
to secure change of scene and picturesque
contrast, and every acts ends with a proper
crisis or situation.
The points of special interest to the
audience are the scene OF the meeting or
husband and wife, when the husba nd comes
to take away the child; the attempted
abduction Of the child on the highway by
the husbands agents. and the rescue by a
kindly Snowman and his wife; the scenes
in the London garret and in the coiners' cell
lar, are also realistic. graphic and intense
The attraction at Kernan's Lyceum The
ater all next week will be Reilly and
Woods Big Vaudeville Show. Since the
la st visit of TINS company to this city sew
added which are boundto attra ct. and amuse
theatergoers. Principal among them are
the 0lifans. three-h eaded and three
legged monde cripts, Tom, Dick and
light even the most stolid, and cause rippics
of laughter
Fat Reilly the we'll known charcoal sketch
artist, is at the head Of the organization.
Others are Petrie and Elise. in their sketch
entitled Fun at the Old Tollgate;'' the
three Lane sisters, pretty girls who are
good singers, clever dancers and acrobats;
Paulo and Dika, Partisan chansOnnettes;
Smith and Cook who style themselves mil
liouaires; and those clever Chinese i'm
Robetta and Doreto, in a
clever act, showing the effects of opium
in which the y introduce a veryfunny laundry
scene, together with Kelly, Mcbride and
Walton, who wind up the performance with
farcical laughing piece, entitled "Mul-
doon's Gymnasium" which makes a fit
ting conclusion to the bright program.