The evening times., 1896-10-21
COMING To THE THEATERS.

Manager Albaugh announces Thomas "
keene, the eminent tragedian, in varied
! repertoire. at the LafI lPtue Square Opera
| House next week. More than ordinary
| interest is manifested in the engagement,
| owing To the fact that Charles b. Hanrord
| the popular young tragedIan OF this city,
| is associated with Mr. Keene as leading
| support and manager.
| Mr.. keenc has one Of the largest and most
| complete organizations Of the kind travel
ing, ana all the pla ys III his varied repertoire
are carefully staged and efficiently acted
| He has arranged to appear IN ali the plays
of his repertoire for the first time this
season. Louis XI'' will bc presented Mon
day evening: "Richelicu,'' Tuesday; lingo
mar" Wednesday matinee. Mr.. Hanford
VIII impersonate the barbarian, and will
be assisted by Mr.. Keene's complete com
pany. Hamlet VIII be given "Wednesday
night; - Jul ius Caesar, Thursday" "Othello,
Friday; The Merchant OF Venice Satur-
day matinee, and Richard ILL.," Saturday
night This varied list Of plays should ar
ford abundant amusement to the NUMEROUS
friends of Mr. keene and MIR. Hanford, as
well all those who appreciate classic
productions Mr.. keenc's season SO far has
been satisfactory from a business stand.
point. He has played to uniformly large
audiences. Mr.. Hanford has proved valua
BILE and efficient assistant to Mr.. Kcenc.
arrange with Mr. Keene and Mr.. Hanford
to appear in Iago Friday evening. Ne
gotiatIOns are now going on, and 1T VIII be
definitely known within Il few days wheth-
er or not lie VIII impersonatc tins character.
Mr.. Albaugh last appeared as lago, with
Modjeska, "a few years 20, and, ofcoursc. he
achieved a great trump i'll the role.
OF all the bright comedies written by
Harry and Edward Paulton, none have
achieved greater easure OF success than
their bright operatic comedy, 'Dorcas,"
which was toured very successfully, both
in financial and artistic sense, last season
II will be presented here next Monday.
October &c, for one week, at the New Ma
tional Theatcr, by az aggregation of oper-
ratio and light comedy celebrities such
is rarely assembled for the presentation Of
even the most pretentious entertainments
Of this class
y glance ut the program Will interest even
the most blase theater- goer and Will awak-
en- a thrill Or remembrance in the breast OF
every lover of Ii ght and refined musical per
formanCes. When il is said that among
the principals are included Eva Davenport,
Marie MilIard, Drew Donaldson, Charles
RaSSett, William Frederick, Fred. Frear,
Minnie Jarboe, Arthur K. Scaton, Marie
Davenport, Charles Meyers, etc, and idea
Of the i'm portauce OF the production is con-
be beautiful iii the extreme and the cos
tuning is simply superb.
Gus Hills New Novelty Company, which
VIII begin 4 weeks engagement at the
Lyccum Theater, commencing next Mon
day, October 26. is considered to he be
yond doubt one of the strongest aggre-
cations OF vaudeville talent ever gathered
together in one organization. Mr.. Hill
has been To a great deal of expense in or
ganizing this company, and can say, with
out ecutIsm. that he has one Of the strong
est entertainments Uf the kind now travel
ing.
Among the members may he entioned the
two American Macks, who have few, if
any, equals in their line; Speck brothers.
two diminutive dwarfs. who give an eX-
hibition of the manly art of sclf-defcnse
which is eXcruciatingly funny; Bingham.
tie great ventriloquist. who is certainly
past master in the art Of ventrilOquiSm;
Montgomery and Stone, black face song
and dance artists and La,iell and Aivers
the little comedy duo. and Rice and Elmer.
comedy bar performers; Leonard and Bern
ard who are beyond doubt far ahead OF
any other c Competitors in a comedy talking
act,
Annie Whitney. the peerless queen Of
song, will appear at every performance
in selection Of choice airs. Frank Latona,
the Hindoo musician, is also u featdre.
So many entertainments of n poor order, |
preceded by the most flatterng notices have |
been offered TO theatcrgoers of the country |
that a manager must have truly merito-
rious company, a program replete with |
novelties OF the most attractive kind IL he |
would prove the worth of his entertainment |
through a first-night's audience and by it |
reap universal approval as well as Pc /
cuniary reward the present season.
The offering at the Academy of Music, |
week of October &c, is John W. Isham's |
"Oriental America" which. if all reports |
it are true. is proving itself an
and entertaining novelty of the
first order Mr.. Isham is known as the
successful manager of last seasons .'Octo-
room" Company, whose success was phe-
and which, on the same route as il
toured last year, is playing to overcrowded
houses.
His "Oriental America" is n company of
sixty-five people. of such talent only as has
been recognized as first-dass by able
critics. 1t presents a program of high
class comedy. spectacular, electrical and
Dperatic combination.
The attraction atthe B jou Family Theater
,extweek will be AL G. Fields new venture,
Darkest America,' n combination of
genuine colored performers, which is made
IN Of DoD,llar features and features that !