The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-25
mi WEEK ON OUR STAGE.
ONE NOVELTY IN a MUSICAL TRAY
EST At MANHATTAN BEACH.

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ONE NOVELTY IN 4 MUSICAL TRAY
STE AT MdNHATTAN BEAOH.
the Parry Company Begins uta suuanaer season
with ''very Little Faust ',-ComIc Opern,
RstravaEnnra ana Vaudeville Hold out
Very well Against the wnrna weather.
A musical travesty, assuming the manner and
proportions OF q comic opera, will DO performed
In the theatre at Manhattan Beach tomorrow
night. 1t lie entitled Every Little Faust" and
Is practically an English version of Helevy's
~operetta, LA Petit Faust" Tho music OF the
original French work is retained. but the word
ing will no doubt DO found colloquial and I'M
10 date. A new organization, tho Parry Comic
Opera Company, will mako It's first APP
pearahLe in this piece. Among the more i'm.
portant members are Dorothy Morton, Richard
Carroll. Truly Shattuck, Alfred Wholan, Della
Stacey. Harry Luckstone. and Elaine Crater.
There is no reason to doubt that the promise of
4 good performance and q generally adequate
production will be kept. Manager Parry's OK
perience in the practical control of the stage at
the Metropolitan Opera House warrants the OK
pectation Of artistic excellence in the present
enterprise.
The round Of amuscments at Manhattan
Beach still includes the Sousa concerts, where
the auditors invariably demand and get the old
and new Sousa marches from the composers
own band. under his own baton. and the Pain
fireworks. which include Tho
War" and new pyrotechnical achievements.
Equally well established in popular favor are
the nightly concerts of tho Metropolitan Per-
manent Orchestra upon the roof Of Madison
Square Garden. and its employment here is
reasonably sure to outlast tho summers hot
weather. Concerts are given Sunday evenings
40 we'll al weekday nights.
The Casino Is tho only city tn eatre In use,
aside from tho vaudeville houses. 1t will be de-
voted to "The whirl Of tho Town throughout
the summer and probably well into the autumn.
us the extravaganza Is under sufficient popular
Roadway to carry 1t beyond the time at first al
loted to II.
Vaudeville diversion continues In liberal sup
ply, and o new source of 1t IL the st. Nicholas
Music Hall. which is again In use, but under
different control from that which made a trial
here early in the summer. An orchestra Of
women furnishes Its music, and among its
specialists are Press Eldridge and Annie Hart,
the former blacked up and comically vociferous
in telling Of his woes and joys, the other even
louder in her singing. which VIII mako the
buildings iron arches shaky II anything will.
Prices here are not moro than half Of those on
Broad way.
For its summer season of evening trips down
the bay the steamboat Grand Republic was pro-
vided with stages on two decks. and so its enter
tanners are held for double duty. A comical
monologist, an eccentric dancer, and several
representatives of tho gladstone and short
skirted v~ocalists arc numbered in its roster.
Eeven-day weeks are tho rule with this floating
vaudeville resort.
At Roster & Bial's roof last weeks leaders
among the entertainers are held over. SO there
are 10 be more rousinE ballads from Troja and
from May Howard and further comicalities from
the Rogers brothers. De Bessell adds an odd
inning Of moulding heads from sculptor's clay,
and Annie Lloyd. Marie De Rossett, the Beau
mont sisters, Montague and West, and other
specialists contribute the remainder of the pro-
Eramme. which is preceded and followed by con-
certs from Hungarian musicians.
This IL announced as the last week Of Kara's
employment on the roof of tho Olympia, and he
promises new feats Of juggling to make his
leave-taking remembered. Alburtus and Bar
tram are newcomers. and among the others arc
James Thornton. the Couture brothers, the Dun
bar sisters. and the Gerhues. The glass roof
hero assures q top-story performance oven II the
Yorke and Adams are again tho chief fun
Murray brothers, will be heard In this evenings
concert A new burle~:ue is in. preparation
here. and its first showing 10 set for one week
The weeks continuous programmes are prom.
Using, both as to quality and quantity. Though
abound in specialists OF the top rank. Paired in
Helene Lowell, and Edward NJ. Favor and Edith
Sinclair. Among the others are Adelina Roat-
Jessie couthui. a ! yceum reader: Joe cswthorne.
Willis p. Sweatnam,. Trovolo. Joseph Nstus, the
Whallen. Dolly Brookes. Flora, DeltorelIi, and
Glissando and Valescs.
Proctor's Theatre. and the Ave women first seen
here on q roof show who style themselves the
NUMBERS A%saiss are b rssponded 9 to- by IN John t5S it onigi Ssno q
boy vocalist; Eagle and Lyons. Zazelle. Bernard,
b hfaiRt Fred srsdH vS S9l.a " 6upre D and a0f Hsy MeesH and
Sullivan and Weber. Jennie ieamans sings
Pastors chief musician is Ben Harvey, whose
speciality consists in playing the piano in rag"
time and in singing in close imitation OF a husky
and eccentric negro. He has as an assistant a
negro who sings from the gallery. and a~ftcrward
does some remarkably nimble dancing. Acrobat.
les here fall TO Cook and sonora and TO George i,
Austin. the last named performing his share on
o slack wire. The roster also includes John II.
sic; Dick German. Abacco and Page. Curtis and
Gordon. the Elinor sisters. and Terry and Elmer
Visitors to the Eden Musee make a crowd
up the body Of William Geld sensnppe. This il
the last addition to the Chamber Of Horrors.
Besides A Southern Romance" the dramati
Hation Of "In Gods Country" with which the
Fifth Avenue 10 to reopen. there will be
Southern plays next season entitled "a South
ern Girl" and "a Southern Gentleman" the
latter by Clay Clements. A play by Edmund f
Price called New Mexico was tried by a sum
mer stock company at st. Johns n few days ago
A stage version of Weyman's Tho Man In
Black will DO used by Walker White
side. The scenes OF THE Idols Eye" the
Smith and Herbert comic opera in which Frank
Daniels will appear at the Broadway, are laid In
India at the present day. The title OF a new
farce, announced as by II. A. Du Souchet. is
my Wife's Step.Husband. and 1t Is under
stood to DO an adaptation from the French
"Bimbo from Bombay is O new musical farce
by Edgar Smith.
Both the Harlem theatres are to be managed
next season by George A. Blumenthal. hitherto
of the Opera House only. who has acquired
the Columbus. and Is having 1t thoroughly over
hauled. These houses, each in Its own field, art
prosperous through the visits Of the best play
and companies extant.
Anna Held obtained the Attention Of some peo