The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-25
ENTERTLINMENTS.
Hyperion.


Mr.. Damrosch will personally conduct
the performance of Die Melstersinger"
tonight at the Hyperion, The New
York Symphony orchestra is doing
most excellent work this season and
will be a revelation to the musical peo-
pie of New Haven. large and bril-
liant audience will fill the Hyperion to-
night and undoubtedly the Damrosch
engagement win be a success. The fol-
lowing telegram was received by Mr..
Bunnell yesterday: Mr. Damrosch will
positively conduct the performance
Thursday night, C. l., Graft.
ADA REHAN.
1t is a delight to have an American
again the foremost American actress OF
comedy role. Miss Rehan is a consum-
mate artist. She can finger delicately and
tremendously every key in the gamut
of comedy from the exuberant farce to
the tender and lovely Shakesperean
idyls, She is easily without peer as
a versatile portrayer. Miss Rehan APP
pears Tuesday evening, March so, at
the Hyperion as Mrs. Poskett in Pine
ro's comedy THE Magistrate" sup
ported by Mr.. Days company. Sale of
seats opens Saturday
SANS GENE.
The English version of Sardou's Ma
poleonic comedy Madame Sans Gene"
will be presented for the first time in
this city at the Hyperion theater Fri
day and Saturday evenings, and judg-
ing from the already large advance sale
of seats unusual interest is taken in
Sardou's play. Through all the glitter
of the court of the great French emper
or there shines the spark of truth and
honesty and purity as embodied in the
character of the laundry girl, Nine.
Sans Gene. To Kathryn Kidders
charming personality and conscientious
impersonaton is owing much of the en-
thusiasm with which these characters
tics in Sardou's heroine are greeted,
The play will be presented with the
original cast and all the tapestries,
bric-a-b rac costumes, and historic fur"
niture that We're used during it's run al
the Broadway theater, New York, last
season. The stage settings are magni-
ficent and the production in every re-
spect is as elaborate as 1t is possible to
make it, The cast is a large one and
contains forty-tWo speaking characters.
Mr.. James Cook is the Napoleon. Aside
from Napoleon the chief figure is Cath
crime Hubscher, the laundry girl, who
no ia1 faI,x In
shared with Lefebvre the honors which
Napoleon heaped upon him for valiant
services in the army. The plot of the
play as it has been outlined shows that
a delightfully."- interested group of situa-
tons is represented from Madame Sans
Genes first meeting. which was in her
laundry, with Napoleon. then a youth
in humble circumstances, to the time
when they meet again when Napoleon
is in the zenith of his power surround
ed by a brilliant court and all that
wealth can supply. Her rapid rise in
the favor of the emperor and the gay
court scenes in which she figures lead
well UP to the rest Of the plot, which
deals with an alleged intrigue between
Napoleon's second wife, Marie Louise
and young Austrian officer. De Neip-
perg. This is handled in regular fash
ion, and is intensely interesting and at
times thrilling
The cast is a very excellent one. COM
prisng most of the original players seen
in New York, Boston. Chicago and re-
Gently in San Francisco, where it
achieved the most brilliant dramatic
triumph known in years
The prices for this magnificent pro-
duction are as follows: The whole Of
the lower floor and four first rows in
the balcony, 81; balance of balcony, rs
cents; admission, so cents: gallery, 25
and 30 cents; box seats, 81 so Sale of
seats now open.
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