The morning times., 1896-05-31
Sans Genes Letter.
Gossip of Plays and Players From
New York.

Kew York May 2S.-This is freak week.
] do not lefer to Tire Centlcmaniy skeleton
or the armeSS lady who paints with Ter
toes or any GtEerS OF the legitimate freaks
IN the museums on the side avenues, fer
they belong 10 the union and tend TO busi-
ness, though tie photograph market fluc-
tuatcS Just Ike tie mercury aud the light
ming change artist and all other things
human. What ] refer To are the rival
Rivals - 1t used TO be the fashion for
the theatrical spring To lnecr in the lap
OF summer with spectacle over On Jersey
Heights ar fireworks down on Coney Island
or an al ircsco As you Like IT. but now
''Thc Rivals has changed all that.
Tonigh, we have the original freak COM
pauy. 1 can't tell you about ii and don't
need 10 for you've had IL. Sounds as II
IL were Il case of the measles. doesn't il?
But yoG want 10 know about the other
freak east of Thursday. the rival Rivals
1t was more of an event than the other
cast.
Inerc was Marie Drew pressIer as Mrs.
Malaprop. Marie says She is deScendent
of Sheridan. and though she always had
a good opinion OF his soldering. she never
knew before what good dramatist was
TnCic Ph;l. Ada Lewis. the tough girl.
was the Lydia and did surprisingly well.
Mollic Fuller was Lucy. While jefferson
Collier was the Bob Acres.
The best legitimate acting of the men
was done by Henry Crane Dnnnelly as Sir
Anthony and Andrew Goodwin Mack as Sir
Iucius ana. believe it, they were as good
AS tie other legitimate freaks. The real
hit uf the show was Dan Daily, as Falk-
land. They dill the play in all seriousness,
which WAS hundred times funner Than
any Durle>que could possibly have been.
Two thoIsand six hundred dollars was
realized for the charity ice fund.
The .fllN ID her BgVp!tg lf tifta week WAS
the third annual Casino review, called "fn
Gay New York Suppase we shall have
To- accept il as a init. There is Il minimum
OF sense and a maximum OF shapely wo-
men. initiative com edians, trayesties, dances,
aud SnRE The piece is played baUn on anu
off the stage.
Every once in while a performer
hobs np frnin q new part "f the house, first
from the .rChcstra. then from a box,
then from tie gallery. The scenery Is
struck IN fun view OF The audience. This
is a hat idea; it is suicidal for a man
anger TO disillusiunize his audience even
as joke.
There rs a foreigner with a troop OF
trained cats up at Olympia They do an
interesting act But what worries me is
that if each OF those cats have nine
lives 20 be maintained, and the mana ger
attempts 10 furnish food for each OF the
nine lives OF Cach uf his thirty cats, what
a iremeudous board bill he must have on
his hands
Tonigil is roof garden night There are
20 be fur openings and The weather sug-
gests u" puSlpoDefncnt of the fun.
ProctuT's Pleasure Palace Garden opens
for the fist time, and if the roof enter
taiument is as good and well attended
as the indoor entertainment of all last
winter, very surely both public and mana ger
Will be happy. The Casino. the American,
and the Madison Square Roof Gardens
are The others 10 open.
There WAS 10 spintualist in The Village
Postmaster TO make the ghost walk, 81
the company did the rest. They are resting.
Several of the actresses came back from
Boston without heir trunks. Meantime the
run OF The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley
has been extended, which proves that art
hasn't anything TO do with happiness in
the Fourteenth street box office.
TrOIa j. on top again. Her new songs
are, wei. here are the titles: Would You
DO H?" "Whaf?'r wait a Minute :" a II
The Papers Had Il in the Morning, She
Never Did a Thing Like That Before
Meantime temperance has become the fad.
The vaudeville artists are giving up the
flowing bowl and fluent bottle. Only a
few days ago James Thornton, who has
written and sang many tributes to the
Marys and Maggies and Annies and MollieS
of Poverty Row, announced himself rs a
blue Ribbon advocate. John Kernel has
embarked in the same line of business
James believes in the gold cure John talks
power OF tEe viii" Others are on the
same 12Ck ana the unholy habit is losing
hold
Thomas Q. Scabrolke has replaced Dixey
in Thoroughbred, which stin holds lie
GarrIck Stage IN spite OF the people VINO
don't li.l.. IL. Chevaler leaves the sta age
OF Roster X Riars tonight and Will not
sing again tin autumn. He will not go
home. but VIII explore the Adirondack
Bobby tiayiOr and Jennie YeamauS, boti
came hack tOVaudeyille Monday night last
Yog know tIlt Tim Murphy is doing turn
in Boston.
Edward Connolly, who played Joel Gates
in shore Acres all season. had Il harrow
ing cXT/ricEce on the road. Ii seems
thai n. Connolly in the THANKSGIVING
diI>er scene OF Herne's play had TO eat
Sdrkey every night. The other actors III
the scene could evade eating the natioHd
bird when they liked, but the business O
his part required that Mr.. Connolly should
aluIa!lg cat turkey at every performance
The hcIrUs Of thirty days diet of broiled
quail fade into insiEnifiCanuc WREN com
pared with 4 six months continuous turke!
snap, ana tEC actor gre " TO lOaJh and deSpiSf
the holiday fowl Recently ln Little Rock
ARK. Tic company laid Off for night and
Mi Connolly went TO see CleVeland'S s min
strciS After the performance he accom-
panied Cieyclund TO a restaurant, and. not
being very hungry. lie determined to eat Il
sand wigh Whether his brain had been
duilcd 10y tie seasons diet, or whether IT
was hypnot!zcd for the morGlt, Mr.. Con
nelly does not know, but hc did actually
onicra jufkC Y sandwich. WhCnitw as placed
before the actor his horror of the dainty
struggled with his appreciation OF the situa
lion But he ate the sandwich lust the same
sANS-GENE E.