The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-28
ADJUSTMENTS.

The management or the Academy of
Music will this afternoon and evening
present Charles +. Blaney's funny farce
comedy, "A Baggage Check" The piece
is ON a theme never touched upon by
playwrights before. except by a writer
who tried to build a melodrama. The
play is not guilty of any deep dyed
wool" plot, but the story running
through it is that of a very funny man
who came into control OF q laundry by
finding a Baggage Check" and who
knows about as much of the business
methods as the average comedian
knows about horse shoeing. The cast
is headed by the following wellknown
clever comedians: Grapewin & Evans.
the most original in their line of busi
ness and who, for the past two seasons,
have been the leading artists with "a
Railroad Ticket" and Frank Daniels
Comedy Company"
All who enjoy good, hearty laugh
at good, clean comedy should attend
the performances of "A Baby'S Red
Stocking" at the Davis theater Mon-
day, Tuesday and Wednesday next.
The piece was written for laughing
purposes only, and the author, George
Hoey, certainly accomplished his aim.
There is nothing in "A Baby'S Red
Stocking" that borders on suggestive
ness, but everything said or done is
pure and clean. The plot of the piece
hinges on the finding of small for
tune in Il baby's red stocking, and
the complications this fortune gets is
posseSsOr into are very laughable. The
company presenting it Is headed by
that sweet and clever little soubrette.
Miss Alice Hanson. who is supported
by Bryant and Richmond, Dan Wal
dron, Mable Darville and the original
When, Why and Where" company.
From advance comments upon THE
Princess of Bagdad," which will serve
to bring Miss Margaret Fuller before
Il Scranton audience at the Frothing-
ham for the second time next Tues
day evening. play gOerS are to witness
an unusually interesting piece of stage
work. 1t is peculiar also, in these days
of plays based upon the Vagaries of
the new woman, the woman with a past
and the erring and unfaithful wife,
i'm this, that it Is clean and wholesome.
The peculiar triumph of the author
of this play. is that there is not dull
moment in the whole time of enact
ment. With strength of situation and
novelty of plot, it turns upon the strug
giles and fortunes of a young girl. pure,
SN ttl, Io!Jlc Ill anu HIGH Ill
aim.
That great comic-opera success. FL
Captain" with elongated DeWUlf Hop
per and his splendid organization. in
GLIDING pretty little Edna Wallace
statucsQue Nella Bergen, the new and
handsome soprano of the company.
clever Alice Hosmer, Edmund Stanley,
the popular tenor: Alfred Klein. the
diminutive comedian. and many Others
equally well known, will be the at
tractive magnet at the rockingham
on Wednesday evening. The score Of
this charmingly picturesque and de
lightfully molodic colnic-Opera, is from
the pen of that eminent composer and
musician, John Philip Sousa, whose
inspiring marches have made his name
a household word, and which at the
present time are heard in every city
and town in this country and Europe.
All Scranton remembers the Sages,
whose hypnotsm created such Il furore
here last season. They will be at tho
Academy of Music all next week. A
recent issue of the Reading Herald
says of them: "'rhe reputation of the
Sages preceded them and their appear
ance at the Academy of Music. last
evening, was an ovation. From start
to finish they gave jolly and rollick-
ing performance and the stage was
filled with youthful aspirants i'm the
realm of hyDnOtism. One of the acts
that called forth shouts of applause
was the placing of a young man under
hypnotic influence and then inviting
three physicians to step upon the stage
Drs. $. l.. KurtZ, Charles w. Rach-.
man and j. Y. Hoffman We're selected
by the audience. One held the right
pulse one the left and one watched
the heart action. The first time they
all beat normally. the pulse being So
Then DR.. Kurtz took the right pulse
DR.. Hoffman the left and Dr. Bachman
the heart. After the minute had ex-
pired DR.. Bachman shid the heart was
still beating normally. DR.. Kurtz had
registered 12S. but DR.. Hoffman had
only counted 72 beats for the left pulse