The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-23
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Donneliy and Cirard I'm THE
Geczerss MT the Academy.

DOuuefly n GtraFu In
Geexer.s Mt the Academy.
A bevy of pretty girls and graceful
dancers, and those princes of comedians,
Harry Donnelly and Ed Girard, assisted
by some clever actors, gave an audience
which filled almost every seat and all the
standing room in the Academy OF Music
last evening. o most enjoyable entertain
ment. They appeared in what the bib
called "the spectacular operetta, The
Geezsr, +" which is a long way after The
GeIsha." 1t opens in China with Nellie
Fly on a trip around the world trying to
set an interview with Ii Hung Chang. q
most distinguished looking. Chinaman
with the broth OF a Milesian brogue.
Kantaker. a wandering japanese minstrel,
falls in love with Q lie Mosa Sam. the
prima donna of the tea house, kept by
Two HI. Ii Hung Chang wants to marry
the prlma donna himself, and orders the
wandering Jap to be boiled in hot oil or
something equally as horrible, on the
burlesque stage. Lord Dunraving APP
pears on. the scene, n in some unex-
planned manner gets them all started Tor
America, where they arrive IN the Sec
ond act.
L Hung gets a great reception in Doy-
ers street, and puts up ar the tea mouse
Of Two Hi. Oil Mosa Sam is there, too,
and so is Kantaker, and everybody else
who was in China. Lii Hung is looking
for an American heiress to wed the EN-
DGIOT L AllI1 1T IGltClltSL ttAC AAiNR
Golfers, riied by the victorious Japs, and
Nellie Fly, who has been commissioned Dy
her paper to get an, interview VITA inc
Emperor here, sees her chance She gets
introduced to Lii, and then all hands start
back to China.
Lii Hung makes up his mind to degose
and Nellie Fly himself, and capture their
millions. He gets the son of heaven ana
brother of the moon beastly intoxicated
on the wedding lay and rep camss 70 % ta axe
rescue of the fair maidens. He discovers
that Weary Watkins of Waukesha, Wis,
a e~osnopelite. who slipped INTO the Play
in the second act, greatly resembles the
Emperor, and Dunraying easily p~ersuades
him to tax the Emperor's place. Every
one is deceived by, the resemblance. L
Hung is stripped of his yellow Jacket, and
winter coming on. too," Nellie Fly goes to
Dunraving, and Kantaker gets o LIE Mosa
Sam, and the play ends with a grand
hoorah.
Such is the skeleton of a plot on which
one of the funniest plays of the season is
built. Donnelly as Lii Hung Chang and
before the week is over they, Will nave
half the city trying to decide whether
'sMaloney hit Mccarthy wild his fist or wild
a brick" Mark Sullivan is one of the
best tramps on the stage, and fully main
tanned his reputation by his work last
night. The pathetic manner In which he
placed confidence, the hen, that tried to
hatch a china door knob, was a hit.
Charles H. Price, who admirably filled the
part of Lord Dunraving, sings and dances
an and "a sweet singer. was Q lie Mosa
Sam. She made an excellent impression,
only at times she seemed to forget that
there is such a thing as being too coy and
kittenish.
sDey was no flies on Nellie Fly, de
%noospaper girl" as portrayed by Miss
the gallery. She was thoroughly up to
date in her dress, manner and speech
without being coarse or vulgar, and fairly
won all the applause she got.
Miss Nettie Black. a tall shapely brun-
cite, made the Johnnies in the front row
hold their breaths in subdued excitement
when she burst upon them in scant attire
of the japanese minstrel. Miss Black
filled the part of the disconsolate lover
with ability n discretion. She acted
well. sang well and danced better.
Misses Annie Black, Madeline Marshall
and Kitty Nelson. were most graceful in
their dancing, and showed themselves ar
lists of the first grade in that line but
their s~inging-well, the mantle is broad
enough even for that.
There were others! Four pretty dam
efis of Hemeie Of Fl the feeE va nRy Play and 'a a w Phoie
garden of Chinese birds, who, with the
kind assistance of four stout lunged gen
tlemen rejoicing in the appellations of A,
B, c and D Roosevelt made up the chorus
and by their good singing and graceful
dancing added much to the evenings en-
tertainment.
IhG oOCAC Will NC 6Af0At CftA fSA-
ing this week with the usual Wednesday
and Saturday matinees, and an extra
matinee on Thanksgiving Day.
Bon Ton Theatre.
"vanity Fair for a curtain raiser, and
s'That Man from Ireland" to close the
show, were part of the entertainment at
the Bon Ton last night. Both of the bur-
lesques were well received and sand
WICKED in between them was a very
good olio. The Weston Sisters were
greeted with long and loud applause.
They are something out of the ordinary
and are worth seeing. Newell and
Shevett. a pair of comedy gymnasts, were
by long odds the stars of the evening.
Such tricks as they performed on the
horizontal bars were a revelation to the
Jersey City public. Their equal has
never been seen in this city or in New
York either, for that matter. Mar
ion is a song writer and a very good
comedian; but his partner, Miss Fanny
Vedder, is simply a wonder as a dancer.
For fully five minutes she danced on one
leg and never lost a beat in the time.
The rest of the performers were all good.
They were:-The Mahr Sisters. Hanley
and Jarvis, Mitchell and Jess, old Jersey
City favorites, and Rita Durand.