Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-01-30
PARK THEATRE.
"NIOBE" FRIDAY JAN. 81.

'NIOBE FRIDAY JAN. O4.
Miss Minerva DOrr, the charming come
dienne who so successfully played the title
role IN Mr.. Frohman's Jane company last
season, will be seen in the fantastic comedy
success "Niobe" by Harry and Edward
Paulton, authors of that most popular
comic opera, "Erminie." Miss norr will
be supported by Mr.. Frank Noroross, for
many years connected with the Frohman
and A. NJ. Palmer stock companies.
In 'Niobe. the ancient and modern
are grotesquely blended 1t will be re-
mem bered th.t Niche was the Queen of
the Thebes, who dared to compare herself
with La ona and was transformed, through
the wrath of that goddess into marble
fIom which tears constantly flowed. The
authors have made very unique use OF
this NEUROLOGICAL story. The plot of their
play is briefly as follows:
Peter Amos Dunn, manager of the Un-
iveTSal Insurance company, has insured for
a friend named Tompkins, an art crank, a
certain valuable statue Of Niobe. For
safety he elects to send it to his own home
which is under the dominion of his wife's
family 1.-TWO sisters and a brOther) who
live with him. Dunn is not sentimental
ist, he is decent, good-hearted ignoramus
without too great regard for the truth
ana WIFI NbGN lew lubdc BcJ Uuu lDt Olt
suggested in his catch phrase-"there is
70 money in It He is having the eiec-
tric put into his house and the workmen
intrusted with the insulation wrapped the
wire Ground the feet of the statue Niobe.
When the electric current is turUed on, it
viYifes the statue which promptly strOlls
down the stage and holds a conversation with
Dunn in vein of repartee which is exceed
ingly clever and amusing. Dunn's family
have gone TO the theatre to see ''Fygms-
lion ard Galatea" and ere they return, he
induces the fair Niobe to change her flow
ing robes for the modern costume OF gov
erness, who has sent her portmanteau on
before her and has not herself arrived, and
in this guise, she is introduced to the fam
lily. Complications Of the drollest kind,
humorous il IDEAS and execution, heart
burnings and iealousies ensue, but in the
end, all is made pleasant and the elderly
proprietor of the statue makes her his wife,
for she does not, like Geiatea, go back to
marble. "Niohe comes to the Park
Theatre, Friday Jan. 81, with capable
company of comedians.
FORGIVEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.
The old time Butler faYorite. 'For-
given, will be given in the Park Theatre,
Wednesday, February 5, by an unusually
erong company.
SINBAD is COMING Thursday, FEBRUARY 6,
After great deal OF correspondence,
both by mail and telegraph, Manager
Burckhalter, of the Park Theatre, has
secured the famous D. Henderson's Ameri-
can Extravaganza Co., which will produce
Sinbad, the Sailor, at the Park on Thurs
day, February 6. To secure this great at
traction Manager Burckhalter had to guar
antee the company 5000, the highest price
yet paid to bring theatrical attraction to
Butler. Sinbad comes with oil the original
cast of the American Extravaganza Com
pany, which played at the Chicago And
itorium during the Worlds Far, and has
appeared in Pittsburg on several occasions,
when many Butler people attended the
production. The scenery used by this
company is gorgeous and wonderfully fine,
and Butler people will no doubt turn out
in large numbers to see this splendid at
traction.