The sun., 1897-08-22

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DIy company will not come until November;
, The hundredthi performance OF " The Whirl Of
| INC Iown Will bc given on Thursday night.
Every person in hc audience will get a souvenir
| 1ook ABOUT the play, its actors ami the theatre.
clever as any OF the Casino reviews" and
more successful than either of its predecessors
IL money way. 1t will be retained nearly
/ One OF the dramatic thrillers, Side Tracked. ="
Is the weeks mclodrama at the Peoples. The
play 's American in theme and manner, and
therefore makes more direct appeal to Bowery
audience than any foreign work OF the same class
and equal merit can hope to- II presents some
sensational railway scenes, in which mechanical
Ss eon sssS'S Sv e1diIg earS The
changing the bill everv Monday night, and aim
ing at east side popularity. Mr., Sheldon was
/ he knows what 1t likes.
! The weekly changes OF performers in tho
! vaudeville houses are. usual, almost coin.
plete. Except the biograph and last weeks ex.
pertinent in condensed war drama. to.morrow's
features at Keiths will he newly placed. Hayes
and Lytton, n pair well known as players Of
short travesties, will have new ding at In
gomar." Florrie West Is chief vocalist and
among the others are Ray l.. Royce, the ALI
son sisters. Beatrice Norman, Marie Leslie. Nc.
| Bride and Goodrich. Silvo, Nola and Ross, r. J.
Mack Burt Jordan. and Stanley and jackson.
The latest vocalist to win favor at Pastors Is
! w. r. Williams and he begins a second week
there tomorrow. Other singers here Wag-
ner and Won Arnini. Gertio ellison. and Maud
Nugent. Sketch players are tho Sidmans,
Genaro and Bailey, and Van and Nobriga, and
OF other specialists there are Cook and Sonora,
Lawson and Ward. the korns. the Darling sis.
ters, the McAVoys. DE Witt and kerwin, Cor
man and Leonard and o X Sato.
new pairing OF farce players huds Francesca
Reddins and Harold Hartsell at Proctor,s They
ire in new shetch by W. L. IngersoLl. The
thR tnita tah nrtn hal 1tt,,,,
Nat Way bun, and the Blondes are some of the
others To-day's vaudeville concert is eight
Open air vaudeville puts forward entertainers
OF good standing and in abundant supply;
Haysi, Emma Francis. Josie Harvey, Conroy
| and NJ Donald. the Bland sisters. the Painters,
and Reno and Rich.rts., Tho two spccialties
cont nued from last week are those OF Arras
and Alice and OF De BessGll.
Last weeks conspicuous performers at the
Olympia roof continue their stay. Williams
and Walker, Joe Gotz and the Seymours are
newcomers, and the others are the Marblesaues
hice ana Elmer. ouinto, Wormwood's dogs, and
Ada Melrose, Bettna and Richard Pitrot are
some OF the specialists on the Casino.
The Pleasure Palace starts in - the one resort
Of its class as il last ycar-that is it is the
only music hall here to have two performances
daily. The first Sunday pair OF hem COM, this
afternoon and evening. many or the vocalsts
being drawn from the weekday roster:
Sunday evening smoking concerts. are given at
the st. Nicholas and the specialists are a d.
verting lot Refreshments, liquid and solid. are
On board the Grand Republic every night are
enough passengers to I'LL the two decks on which
variety shows are given. Concerts from a hand
OF thirty musicians constitute another item tnat
makes the boats sail down the bay especially
attractive. Barney Reynolds and Maud Harvey
are two of the stage entertainers.
Over score OF new cinematographic views
will be shown at the Eden Musee in the course
OF the week, some OF them to-day. and two new
compositions OF the resorts bandmaster are in
ciuded in the concert programmes
AT HuberS Museum cDntOrtiODist who
ties himself in knots that busy him in undoing
unit! his next inning, circus Of dogs and cats.
sure-shot rfeman and armless woman who
plays the piano. The theatres variety folk are
styled the 'klondike Vaudeville Company and
from this organization come the vocalists OF to-
day concerto.
The latest coon" song that Eugene Stratton
has sung in London has a title page which illus
trates the English idea OF q negro melody. Mr..
Strattou. in his customary trock coat OF white
duck and his high hat is approaching a cottage
that is surrounded by picket fence. over which
! leans girl in a cotton gown and a sunbonnet.
! She is presumably awaiting his approach with
sentimental impatience. There would be moth
ing peculiar in this tabeau il tho girl were not
whits. She Is the heroine OF the ballad.
which fs q typical English music hall negro
love song. All those qualifying adjectives
are necessary to describe this unique species of
composition. In this example the singer ex-
presses his incurable passion for the girl who
waits for him at the gate, with her sunbonnet
shading her white face which, as 1t is not black.
should at least be crimson. Mr.. Stratton mo-
nopoliLes the music hall negro completely
in London that there is no possibility of
success for the representative of any other
type. He is an American who went to Eng.
land a minstrel years ago, and pros
pered SO well that he is to-day among the
most popular of London entertainers. He was
Roster 81 Bial's and then Nav
YORK audiences had no patience with his unreal
portraiture OF the negro. He had ideaized tho
type until we could see nothing natural in IL.
There was dash or ChGvaLer about his pro-
nunclatlon that made him ridiculous. But every
doiineator OF negro character that goes to the
London music halls has to be nleasureu Jy Mr..
away from 1t the surer they are TO fail.
Williams and Walker. the genuine article.
we're , not tolerated for minute. The
the revelation or genuine negro humor. 1t
was admitted in New York that there was a
Quality almost poetic IN some OF the lines oil Mr..
StrattOns songs, that his dancing was neat and
graceful, and that his whole performance was
refined. Not exactly the same characteristics
are claimed tor our American stage negroes.
1t Is easy to understand, SAID an American
manager returned from London. why the
American delineators OF negro character shoum
fail in London while such men asStratton are
from experience OF the real character OF the
negro. We laugh most at the actors who
are amusing and at the same time true to their
veal to US something OF the genuine negro.
Englishmen see only the picturesqneness and
qualntness the pathos OF his songs, and the
grace or The dancing: They never care a rap
about naturalntss. So long as the work IA neat
and finished, they are satisfied. That Williams
and Walker were actually negroes made no DIFF
ference. Actors who go from any other country
to London and do something local are not
likely TO be successful unless their work is very
artistic. When smith IS realistic and Jones Is
more polished the foreign country will accept
Jones, no matter what his own people think OF
his talents. American performers who stay in
Europe soon modify their work in such way as
TO remove most of strongly national character.
have seen women tn re who had sung negro
songs for years in the Continental theatres, and
they were all dressed in the high hat and short
skirt OF the typical French chdMeuse. Albert
Chevalier 3 coster was welcomed here because
he was very idealized creation"
IL Is significant OF the negros place on the
English stage that the old butler In Secret Ser
vice had 10 be changed considerably before he
appeared In the bosom or the pdraeV family.
He was not permitted to be seen in his dress
clothes and servant garb as Re had appeared
here. He wore buffers livery with brass but
tons.
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