The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-16
. ADJUSTMENTS.
ashore Acrcss at the Academy of
Music.

ashore Acresv at The Academy of
Music.
Mr.. James A. Herne, assisted by his
excellent company, opened a weeks en-
| gagement last night at the Academy of
Music, in his own great American play,
Shore Acres" This play has only one
rival, "The Old Homestead" and 1T would
be hard to say which enjoys the greater
popularity, so dear are both to the ma
tive heart. Like its predecessor, shore
Acres is essentially domestic in tone and
it's pathos and humor are of the quiet or
der. There are no scenes of wild emotion,
but the feelings of the audience are never
theless stirred to their utmost depths:
The scenes depict life on a New Eng
land farm, all the plain everyday IN
cidents are faithfully drawn. The poetic
touch is given by the self-sacrifice OF the
chief figure, Nathaniel Berry. Round this
character centres the interest of The play,
and Mr.. Herne displays with consunamale
art the elements of which it is composed.
Simplicity and shrewdness are strangely
mingled and above all this there appears
a quiet heroism that IS ready TO give
sup every personal wish at the call OF
duty. Mr.. Herne was particularly sue
cessful in the first act, where he details
the incidents surrounding his fathers
DEATH, and he again scored a~ftriun1ph IN
the third act in his encounter with ms
self-seeking brother.
The THANKSGIVING feast in the second
act was as well received as ever, and the
TURKEY mace IL q0glu6u Qlt. Liz CItatQiS1l
played their parts with the abandon char
acteristic of their age, and We're loudly
a~pplauded, little Edith Taliaferro and
Gladys Crolus coming in for a big share
of the honorS.
The other characters of the play and
their portrayerS we're
Martin Berry, owner of Shore Acres n
keeper of the lighthouse, Robert Fischer;
Joel Gates, grass widower, James I. Gal
loway; Josiah Blake. postmaster and
storekeeper, Franklin Garland; Sam War
rem, a young physician, Herbert Flans-
burgh; Captain Ben Hatehins, skipper of
the Liddy Ann, Phineas Leach; DR.. Leon
Charles Z. Fisher; Tim Hayes. Harry
NewmaTs Young Nat Berry, Master Al
bert r. Clark; Ike Richards, Lem Conan
and Gabe Fitzpatrick, kinder work
around" Fred Johnson, William Metcalf
and Lawton Graves; Steve Bailey, Bill
Hodgekins and Abe Higgins, fishermen,
crew of the Liddy Ann, il II. Haley; Law
renee Wilson and James Duffy; Bob Ber-
ry, Master Allen Croiius; mail driver. G.
C. Blanchard; Ann Berry, Martins wife,
Grace Gaylor Clark; Helen Berry, Mar
tins daughter, Marion Cullen; Mary
Berry, Hazel Kirk Clark Liddy Ann Nye,
Myra Clark; Mrs. Andrews, Lucille Al
len Walker; Mrs. Leonard, Matte 81.
John; Perley, Mrs. Berry's hired girl,
Julie A. Herne.
AS usual, the stage effects were excel
lent, especially in the lighthouse scene
and in the last act, the audience, which
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ton in unmistakable terms.
The play will be repeated every evening
this week, and the usual matinees will be
given.
An Excellent Bill at the Bon Ton
Theatre.
The patrons of the Bon Ton Theatre,
who, by the way, were very much in evl-
dence last night, were given a rare treat
in the presentation of an operate bur
lesaue. entitled Madam Mays First
Night which for gorgeous spectacle and
magnificent costumes should satisfy the
most exacting lovers of this sort of per-
formanee. A large company of beautiful
women crowded the stage and delighted
the audience with some excellent sing
ing. Most notably was the singing OF
Miss Fannie Everett, who possesses a
charming voice and manner.
Vaudeville, interspersed with artistic
living pictures. followed the curtain-rais-
er. These pictures are really works of art
and not a vulgar display, such as is so
often seen in these days. In the "olio'
appeared Miss Anna Lonnberg, a very
clever descriptive vocalist; Conroy and
Mcfarland, a funny Irish team; Lew Pal
mer. a rather throaty tenor; Bert Les
lie and Carrie Fulton, Dick and Kitty
Ixumins. and last, and by far the best
ne~formers of the whole company, Harry
Baker and Gladys St. John Mr.. Bake IS
a very clever comedian. There will be an
entire change of bill at the Thursday mat
inee and during the balance of the week.
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