The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-20


War" unquestionably the largest and
best "blacr and white" organization ever
seen m this city, and which everywhere
Al has appeared this season has night after
night turned away hundreds who could
not gain admittance.
A musical event Of more than ordinary
local interest will be the production at the
Columbia Theatre on Monday, tuesday
and Wednesday evenings anti Wednesday
afternoon, April ., 6and z, OF Gilbert ana
Sulliyan's "Mikado,n by the Providence
opera Club. under the direction of Mr..
ircd Gardner Tickets arc now on salei
and there will be no smoking at any OF
the four performances
The ever popular Tim Murphy, whose
clever impersonation OF Maverick Brander
| i'm Hoyt's "A Texas Steer, Is still iresh
| i'm memory and who insists upon being
advertised ms plain Tim Murphy, 20 the
rich and the poor ana as the late DION
| Buucicault would say, AN artist put
gentleman egad, viii present two plays
! at each performance, old Innocence,
| and Sir Henry Hypnotized' &C keith's
Opera House. the week of March ~.
The nckicst manager is Charles Froh-
man. Aftor him in fortune come Angus
| tus Pltotl. Daniel Frohman, Hoyt & Mckee
| Klaw q Erlnnger HARRY Miner, keluh'
| Pastor, Bial, Lederer, Conried and McCor-
| X.
| OF reasonable fortune. HIS brother ln-law,
| James @. Duff, appears 20 be unlucky, for
| EVEN whom he has good bill, like Phlle-
| mon and Baucis," or La Faloto, either
the critics or tho public is arrayed against
| It,
The failure Of "La Falote'' closes th o
| Casino for "A week, after which Lost
! Strayed on stolen" will go there for two
weeks, and by that time The Wedding
| ~, fnf ite
That is the piece in which Lillian
Russell. Della Fox and jefferson
D'Angelis are TO appear. The preparations
orc well advanced Forty-two pcrfor-
mancos will be given mt the Casino and
then the company Will dispcrse for the
summer.
''Ncver Again il being laughed at
immodcrately at the Garrick Iheateri
New York The comic material of this
French farce is handled 80 well by the
notably able company that every Jot OF IL
counts for fun. There will be nothing
else at the Garrick this season, that Is
sure Tho acceptance of the piece here
has already led TO an arrangemcnt for It's
production in London at the same theater
where The Gay Parisians, Frohlnan
expectation, is now running.
"The Mayhowcr' Is the best plny in
trinsically that the Lyceum Theatcr,
New York has had this season, and
doubtless will prove the most successful
I'm business way. IL Is valuable adj
dition To the repertory OF the. Daniel
! Frohman stock company, which Is tc
make tour of the Pacific coast next
summer Mr. Parker author of The
Mayfowcr, has returned to London,
where he will supcrntond tho pruduc'
tion af his play in that city
ON April 10 and every afternoon and
, evening of that week, "Pnaforc' Will b'
revived at the Columbia Theatre by a very
strong company, under the direction o
Mime Baratta Morgan, assisted by Mr.. Is
W. Reeves. This will call to mind pleas
ant memories Of the famous Park GardcI
production with which their names are
associated; and 10 Is promised that TIT
coming revival of the most popular llgh'
opera ever written shall far surpass any
presentation of it yet seen here, with !
we'll trained chorus of fifty fresh voices, M
, cnlargetk orchestra under Mr.. Reeves Ill
rectioh and Mime. Morgan herself in th'
, role of Josephine mt not less than two o
the twelve performances. R1hearsals are
now in progress and the cast VIII be u yer,
strong one.
"The Machaggis, - new London fnrcc
| of which Jerome X. Jerome is part author
has proved highly successful, and one q
the penalties of this has been the discovery
| that the play resembles very closely al
earlier work by j. Madison Morton, Mhicl
was known as "A Humping Legacy,
and acted more than IA half century ago
The not unusual discovery that the origi
, nal idea of both plays had been used in al
, earlier French drama was aftcrwart
, made. Something of the same kind hap
pened in the case of Victorien Sardou'
play. "Ia Crocodile, which was one o
, THAT authors failures He was accused
/, of having taken the play from Tom lay
| ts1 n,.I hn re
origin of both plays was later revealed.
The difference i'm the taste of variou:
parts of the country has come to bo fac
tor which managers have to consider care
fully. Plays Of English or French origin