The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-26
DIVERSIONS OF THE STAGE.
HINGs TO LAUGH At IN TWO OF
THE EXIRAYhGANZiS.

ne Vow Theatr'cal season Awake Arter the
sinrnhro"a nmmer-Srventee Houses Open
This Week. aud fINs Wore or Them Ready
Tor Use Next Week. - The Current Hills.
Tho theatrical season Of ls0T.9s Ia under way.
eVcnteen houses viii he opened by Saturday
hpht' ana Eve more will come Into use next
week. II Is true that the current diversions OF
he stage are noarly all trivial and comic, and
hat no serious new drama OF prime Importance
ins yet beenofforod. but we shall get such wrishty
matter very soon. In the meanwhile, there
3 an abundance Of that which ~ blithcsomc.
Music and dancing are mixed with farciCal fun
ut Days In THE Circus Girl" at the Knickcr-
booker In "One Round OF Pleasure at tho
Olympia In Very Little Faust and ut the
Casino in "The Whirl Of tho Town" Tho
Empire Is devoted for a single week to "Nevcr
Again. Tho Garrick has Just begun a term
|of The Good Mr.. Best" The Academy OF Mu.
Isle Is ready with Mature for tonight. Tho
Harlem Opera House will start on Saturday
with Bincroft, the magician, and the Murray
Hill with "a Bachelors Baby"
Four of tho theatres that nrc away from the
upper broadway centre, and that appeal each
to its own distinctive public, are already In
regular operation, and oil with melodrama.
1.-THE Grind Opera House interests It's audiences
this wok with "A Fight for Honor" tho Star
with ''he Privateor.'' tho Columbu with "The
White Slave" and The Peoples with side.
lTrackot"
Maintain Beach Is In next to the final week
of Its summer season. Tho Bostonians are
there NV with their familiar, but not yet worn
out corc opera, robin Hood Tho Pain
show oifireworks Is supplemented by exhibits
of warfre. feats Of physical daring, and in
terjcOtios of fun. Sousa's concerts are a must.
cal delist daily and on Friday the Manuscript
Society VII spend the afternoon with him, pro.
ducing 1w compositions and raising 800
The Nilsson Square Garden is still in must.
cal ,~posseion of the Metropolitan Permanent
Orchestra which makes daily changes in the
programme OF Its concerts, and appeals to q
wide ran9of good taste.
Naudero 10 still various in its housing.
Afoat it olds to the steamboat Grand Re
pubs Use current specialists are Bonnie
the seymos, Williams aud Walker. and the
chief enter,ners arc the Painters, De Resell,
and oiBr.e fha.t hpeMel; and atop the Casino.
The c%onttous shows arc housed rs in win
f%ectively in,,oling the air artlfcially.. varia-
are Rally bund the Flag n twenty minute
war play; %trayesty upon ',Ingomar,r and
W S19staP and IL I L. s'fRn Royce arc arc I speei@ii.t s' Sere'
At Pastor'sn Cook and Sonora, o.. X. Sato,
and the SidIns.
A very rtablc thing in "Ono Round Of
Pleasure nm tho outset Of that evoluting
extravaganzaas been the Shakcspcarcan bur
lesque. The ~tention to hit off the present dis
regard Of shespcarc on the stage through the
introduction a lot of tragic actors demanding
that their r0l be written up TO date. was not
trresistably fly at first, but It has been ex-
perimcnted w and elaborated in each suc-
4 ,-N~.t-A a Il. -stt- ~
= an hour with preciable humor. The entirely
now element Ut now is an Irish gravedigger
Of the Paddy ooney pattern. lie has n dia-
loghe with a ldc Hamlet, and is n comic
: chap altogether Mr.. Jones Is an industrious
comedian, with e drollery Of Francis Wilson
y and the ~activitSf Jefferson De Angels. He
would not be wh q cent n week as an inter
prefer OF q charler In u drama, but as ono Of
the entertainers such n piece as "One ltound
Of Pleasure horns all OF the large salary
which probably paid to, him, Hardly any,
o thing that no doeails TO be amusing. One OF
the exceptions iss too rough and ready hnn-
, ding Of the actfs5 associated with him In aero
\ battle foolery. 1t lot pleasant to see a man dis.
2 respectful to q wnn. and Mr.. Jones sometimes
. lesson from Nr: rle or the Messrs. Rogers in
| upon to tab hid Of actresses, and does il
i with n vim tat free OF offence. The Rogers
team UTILIZED With considoTabIc dramatie
: purpose asid,frm merely dong their turn
g They happeR n the piece at the knicker-
: become impolnt contributors to It's success.
I And what u opposite it is! The ready wit Of
J., Greene, But ,eral OF the songs, and that very
. 19 Sms. !TTSS0 oTsf The seven n0 AE'S,, are BY
eSiiSd Pat" !Hnt" tooine, 'p "a by " f.icha sTlih c ai'lty
: Quito enough Eerial for a dozen cxtravagan.
l zas has been Gccntrated in this one.
y Richard F. TROLLS book of VERY Little
Faust and Mu Marguerite" ia true to it's
NAME. but theirs no chance for Harry Luck
2 stone, who IS th7aust, to feel sighted by the
& title. His part n full one, he has solos and
d figures In ducttsnd trios. yet there is little Of
y him In comparisdo Marguerite, for there are
seventeen Of he .Mephisto has tho rejuven.
ated Faust In c9c. and Is seeking the maid
who moved hinwhen he was deep In al
chemics, only in Is distortion OF the Goethe
legend Faust " at first q kindergarten
y teacher. Tho sto of maids with hair in two
long braids down cir backs is large, and there
n would surely hav,een a corner in tow-colorcd
d wigs but that SOL Of these MarDueritcs arc
q permitted red andack braids. They come in
tours and dance IT, ~prettlost for the searchcr,
1t but failing TO pleahrc dismissed with all tho
gold they require. AS they have shown a
y very modern appretion OF Klondike products,
It is ensily believtthat as they skit away
they are heading l vans. freight cars, and
other capacious rece,clos., But the real Mar.
0ucrite Is even moErasping. She's a music
's hall vocalist and daIr, and In her experience
5, in the 'alls has pickup one or two practical
mr. points. She enters n carriage drawn by q
pony no bigger THAI st. Bernard dog, tho
NJ vehicle being a bowot grecps and blossoms
n lit by electric lampsIIer alighting, her sing
Or ing. and her. gcneraIehayior are many re.
:. moves from demuritNlthough the hair that
VI hangs down her ba Is black. Sho votes
er Faust an easy ma and secures him
ID promptly, Talentine quite ma nhsurdiy
or travestied, as played y Mr.. Carroll, Ills
" gct-up Is. grotesque. 4 no speaks with tho
o. accent OF u vaudevii caricaturist OF Ger.
lp mans. His helmet. br4 plato and words arc
y. tin. and when his sw6eart would lay her
IS head on his breast, he1lds her OF until hc
90 can spread a, bandannaandkerchief over His
e 'e ermof; 5essITaians; WvHSx Ssc me. my prcad pan
rs through az no turns aside accent n pinch of
ty snuff from Mephisto. 1 the dying man is
r. very deliberate, and revcrs several times
TT from his mortal within to sing stanzas of
n. ridiculous doggerel. Asa gasps bis lust a
to horselcss carriage rolls DIN toward him, and
n. to avoid being run Valentine wrigglcs
ur toward the footlights. Bthe time he finally
OF becomes sill the curtain 4 fallen, and discov.
in ering this, tie comedian jdps up and trots of
nt | tI,a utnua In thp Inut nah.