The times., 1897-05-02

Coiumba-Bronislaw Huberman at AIS
and C. A. c. Minstrels at on Monday;
Calve, at 2: l5 on Wednesday.
Grand-"Fabio Romani"
Bijou-The Cherry Sisters and Dan Nc
Carthy liz Dear Irish Home
Herman s-"The White Crook"
These are the transition days The thea
ters are drawing themselves out OF their
winter skins by degrees and donning the
bright pluruage OF spring time and coniiug
summer, Already the Lafayette is a fort
night old in the solution of the summer
question And they find the answer is
pleasant TO read Opera on the square las
been success for two weeks. But thereis
no moral certainty that the breezes that
fan soft and low viii always be So Every
body hopes SO, and the prognosticators
think so; but there is feature OF blisSful
uncertainty about what the glowing sum-
mer sun may do To the fine line or com
petition which this summer presents
The National this week is dark But
the end is not yet. Manager Rapley has
Yet 10 play two of the strongest cards Of
lis snason S hand. Next week Stuart Rob
son with THE Jueklins,' dran,atized from
Opie Reid's story, viii be the attraction.
and following the quaint little comedian
comes Julia Mariowe, in her New York
success, For Bonnie Prince Charlie" Rob
err Taber will come along; but, though he
is none theless good actor than heretofore,
be is relegatcd To second place in adver-
tising, for Ids prominence reflects on the
eInnence OF the pretty Julia Profession
ally she is no longer Mrs. Taber; domesti-
c3tlly, yes. She is again our sweet and in
genuous Julia Marlowe; PLAZA, simple, and
beautiful. and we're not To believe that she
shares her smiles with any other than
with Us who applaud her.
The National has summer plans. So has
the Grand opera House. Here Manager
BuckleT will again preside.
The Columbia is not entirely dark this
week. but its winter season is dead and
buried. Tomorrow young Bronislaw Huber
mann returns TO give matinee The best
advertisement Of this wonderful young
artist are the raptures Of his audience one
week ago tonight. He was at once con-
ceded q place with the greatest musicians
of the century. On Wednesday afternoon
there will be another great musical event
In the only appearance here this season OF
Mime EmIna Calve. This great singer has
prepared an elaborate program. 1t in
aludes opera as well as concert. With her
Are J II Mckinley, Signor Campanan and
The Boston Festival Orchestra of fifty
musicians under Mollenhauer. Tomorrow
night the Columbia Athletic Club give their
MINISTRIES. This win be an event of local
Importance which will appeal 10 a large
following. The balance of the week at
she Col iumtda viii be given up TO commence
ment exercises and conventions. Next
week the Columbia viii again be devoted
to miscellaneous entertainments and on the
18th the season of comedy begins for the
summer, OF which more below.
The Grand Opera House is this week
given to nelodrama which has seen long
service, "Fabio Romani." As soon as the
winter season closes at this house George
Buckler will bring ON his stock company
which will make an effort TO weather the
summer.
The Academy of Music is this week
silent to any dramatic echoes 1t is the
sign Of the end of the winter season at
this house Next week enter summer
stock. The company secured is the Cum
nlings Stock Company, from Macauley's
Theater Louisville. Ky. This company
was organized a year ago this time by
hODtlt ScdSOn
In Montreal. 1t remained there sixteen
weeks. Then it moved into the Bijou, OF
Louisville. thence by necessity of larger
quarters into the Masonic Temple, and
finally, with a raise of prices, into Ma
cauleys, which is the pride of Louisville
There they finished the season, and, ao-
cordiing 10 reports, the winter was entirely
successful. The Cumming company vau
palfnar and ErcilyocD n nj We rrl,i
have been most successful in their roper
toire In Louisville.
Tie Bijou is this week decidedly in the
running Manager whitesell is VEN
turesome fellow, and he occasionally
plunges on big things. This week, in ad-
diuon to THE Dear Irish Home" be will
have the Cherry sisters. How's that? 1t
ought TO pack the Bijou, and doubtless
will These choice rus tics, from their
farm in '.Ioway," were the novelty in
New York for weeks and weeks, and the
stories told of their actin and singiu' rival
the plain tales Of James Owen o'Conner,
the man behind the nets But there will
be no net between the Cherry Sisters and
the cheerful possibilities of the gallery
gods They said they did not care new
pumpkin when told of the pro xiinity OF the
market
The bill at Kernan's is this week 1.-THE |
White Crook" bright and new, but so fa- |
miliar as to make introduction to Ly- |
ceum patrons unnecessary.
All this Huberman, Calve, Faust" |
Cherry Sisters, Pablo" vaudeville-and |
the circusl a ye, this is circus week, gIori- |
GUS day in the youthful as well as the senile |
calendar We're all brats on circus day, |
paipitatiDg with youthful JOY in the pres |
.snce of the festive elephant, the bibuious !
bears. the artistic Johanna, the quarter |
back canine, the lady" clown, the dar-
ing equestrienne, the lemonade man. etc, |
etc. ad lib, through the whole catalogue |
and category of sawdust delights. The |
circus is national institution, and it
prospers on our great national trait of
idohtry OF bigness. Size is a great god
with US. It's the tremendous iinmensity
of circus that proves its fascination
And 1t is prodigious how. day after day,
the white city rises over night like a
mushroom. displays It's countless glories,
and folds In the darkness trails away In |