The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-15

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first roster Of tho season includes Bon Harvey
and Strap Hill, stlmson and Merton, the
Olympia Quartet, Manning and Weston, Lydia
Barry. the Leigh Sisters. Conway and Gilbert,
and the Farnam Brothers.
A new feature OF continuous vaudeville will
be tried tomorrow at Keith's in q twenty
minute war drama. entitled " Rally Round the
Flag Farcicality has dominated most Of the
short plays sandwlched in between specialties,
and much of the seriousness that has been put
into them has been misplaced, but this expert
ment is to be tried carefully. and thrills and
realism are promised for IL. John Ellsler, Edwin
Mordaunt, and Mary Ryan arc its players.
Bcrte Coote Is conspicuous here In a short
farce, and the speciality folk are the Manhattan
Four, Deets and Don. Fields and Lewis, Emma
Carus, the Clement Sisters, A. L. Steele, Hayes
Merton. Dan Mason. Carletta, and the Lamonts.
John w, Ransone is put Mt the top Of the list
since his ~essaying a take-off Of Richard Croker.
The other contri5utors are DAILY and De vsre1
Darrell. Dolan and Lenharr. Maud Nugent.
Boyle and Graham, the Gleesons, Lewis and
Whit MtIiisn Joe sn %e Mny NMs eSsso4th. DALI tine nv: 3:
graphe pictures make another item.
AT Proctor's Theatre, Charles Bowser heads q
drama fails to Waite brakes leadership. vari-
ETY. folk are Bonnie Lottis. Russell and Frank
the Helston sisters, Campbell and Cawfeld, and
AL Reeves. Last weeks and this weeks rosters
Three roof shows remain. At Roster s. Balls
the use OF the music hall on rainy nights makes
The Franchouettis, Leona Lewis, the Krone
mans. johnson and Dean, Arras and Alice, the
E Cor TRssdy Quartet Tacianu' Emma co'rely. and
Though counting as a roof show. the olympia's
pseHs IL, s,a as not P Fbfs IS Is the ssld i0 3, f0 Cox e roof an q
SONORA, stuart. Rice and Elmer. Lancaster and
Collins, sig HsG 9 3 anS Clifford .ifs, la anf fon HUH the
Enlisted as specialists for the Casino roof are
Mabel MscElyn: Hyatt and Pearl, Gladys Van.
the steamboat Grand Republic in it's summer
eort. rs all its variety entertainers are heard
on each of its two stages. With a large band of
musicians, and with GOODNESS assured, an efrec-
tive bid is made for passengers. It's Sunday
evening trips are particularly we'll favored.
Horrors at the Eden Musee copies in wax a
painting of Gerome's, and shows the manner
cinematographe pictures supplement the wal
show.
known in public life as the human pincushion;a
realistic reproduction OF an opium joint, q
hypnotic horse, and a pianist who plays with
out hands. Farce and variety show are given
in alternate installments in the theatre.
The list of mystifying stage magicisns is made
one less by the recent death in Chicago of Gui-
bal, who WAS first seen in this country at the
Eden Musee five years ago. The part Of his
inning that was filled with sleight Of hand was
not remarkable, either for the nature OF his
tricks or for the manner of their performance.
One or two of his deceits were quickly copied by
other performers. but the chief portion of his
speciality mystifed his fellow craftsmen, for q
time at least. II they ever discovered his code
OF signals. very few IL any OF them have adopted
it. 1t was essential to what was a variation Of
the Heller "mind-reading" trick. and necessi-
fatnd an assistant though aDpaaraOceS in
dicated that upon Guibal fell the ma
jor part of the work. His companion. q
handsome young woman. was blindfolded on
the stage. and sat in plain sight while he went
among his watchers for commissions that she
should perform. After securing anywhere from
ten to twenty. he would escort her up and
directed. abstaining the while FROM speaking to
or touching her. She would tear a certain ad-
vertisement from a programme, take an opera
glass and look through It at some specified OBJ
ject. change one mans eyeglasses to another per
sons nose. and rapidly rush through a long list
the elbows of those who preferred the requests,
compelling itNout not the Slightest indication
was given as to how he communicated with his
folding there were mesmeri passes, and in her
progress through the audience the woman kept
manner Was contrastinsly intenss. and there
was plainly no. ~pretense about it.. Precipitation
nervousiy. and was at censiderabIe strain in &C.
complishing his share. When ali was done the
enema GUa%H Then Sent he We Would afd r go sns the isef list ao of commits nMas.
s!ons as fast as his tongue could fly. showing that
b Rsm Ssaasid0all was ov wii6 hl%' q fnia ffGseF' a Yet re-.
from xos . his hold rapidly sl,,e repeated s e r lissli and .pe. I
plain. too, that he forced" many Of the re,
the handling OF opera and eyeglasses and the
tearing OF programmes became stock tricks. He
dozen involved matters that were not requested
by any one, merely prearranged between himself
have been the wiser. as a poll OF the audience
would have been necessary to detect the trick.
seemed poorly adapted to large auditoriums.
where but a very small percentage of watchers
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do with the lack OF imitators than did the
thorough concealment OF his code OF signals, but
where a personal test could be made OF it 1t was
astonishing.
The actors arc complaining this year that
salaries are lower than they have been for sew
eral seasons, and there has been some corrobora-
ton Of this grumbling from the other side of the
combination. The managers and the agents
have been willing to admit that there are cases
this year in which the salaries paid are smaller
than they were last year. but they claim that
there are to-day more actors assured Of employ
ment during the approaching season than there
were this time one year ago.
IT'S not the actor that the managers pay for
now" said an actor. on Friday, who is waiting
for an offer of the amount he wants, "but the
part. When 1t comes TO the question of en-
gaging a man or woman TO act in an important
production now the manager does not say, i
will engage this or that man or woman. or the
best substitutes for them, to play this or that role.
That brings in the question OF the salary that
these actors are in the habit OF getting. and this
is a point which the managers do not take into
consideration. The question with them is moi
how much the actors services are worth
but how much the part Is worth. They
say, for instance. the part OF the young lover
ought not to cost more than $50 a week.
They will distribute the rest OF the cast in pro
portion. Then they wait until actors can b
found who will accept those terms. As this ii
the rule followed In the majority OF the impor
tant productions, IL naturally follows that actor
are Compelled TO acCept the lower terms rather