The record-union., 1897-08-29

the house. presenting a reproduction OF
Augustus Thomas delightful domestic
comedy drama, The Hoosier Doctor,
in which Mr. Bell scored such a pro-
nounced and individual hit last season,
playing an extended engagement of six
weeks to magnificent business
Preparations for the coming seasons
theatrical campaign are well under
way. Charles Frohman has returned
from foreign shores laden with almost
everything in sight of dramatic value on
the other side, and the activity concern
Ing plays by native authorship promises
to be no less marked. Martha Morton
and Miss Merrington will again appeal
to the public with new plays but among
the women dramatists or perhaps
among those of either sex no one in this
country commands more attention just
now than Madeline Lucette Ryley. The
close of last season was conspicuously
marked by the production Of the "Mys-
teriosu Mr.. Bugle" at the Lyceum The
alter From one point of view this was
a very remarkable achievement, for the
play proved to be an out and out rollck-
ing farce. brimful of merriment, which
put those writer's in a rather poor light
who had repeatedly insisted that the
sense of humor was lacking among the
feminine literary cult. Perhaps Mrs.
RyIey is the exception that proves the
rule.
In Cay New York viii begin its sea-
son August Both at the New Metropolis
Theater. Borough of Bronx, New York
City. being the ops ming attraction Of this
new PLAYHOUSE. Klaw & Erlanger VIII
Their. send this company with its seven
ty-five members through the West to
the Pacific. Coast. 1t will play four
weeks at the Baldwin Theater, San
Francisco. will visit Sacramento and
crossing the Yuma desert will arrive at
New Orleans New Years week The
trip will be made in special train and IS
one of the longest journeys ever under
taken by an organization of like magnl-
tude. Eddie Foy, Lee Harrison, VIM.
e. Richie, Gilbert Gregory, Arthur Glib
son. E. s. Tarr James G. Pealxes, VIM.
Sellery. Peter Curley, James A. Furey,
Jeanette Bageard, Gertrude leila, La
Iiska. the dancer, and Alice Veazie are
among the principal names in the cast
Auguste Van Biene, the cello player
who played a brief engagement in this
country last season in The Lost Mel
.ody." has been engaged by Klaw & En-
LANCER for their production OF Inc
Wandering Minstrel, written by Clay
NJ Greene. This firm will produce also
a new rolaventil- d a Wafd OF FIR ne,
the work of Franklin Fyles and Eugene
Presbrey.. These. together with In
Cav New York" "One Round of Pleas
ure. Jack and the Beanstalk,' The
Whirl of the Town" and THE Brown
les" constitute only partial list of the
attractions they send out
I'm Gay New York has been accepted
unanimously as the best Of the New
York Casinos reviews. Its bright and
snappy burlesque pictures of life in the
CAV metropolis caught the public fancy
while its tuneful music and pointed
lyrics We're sung and whistled by thou
sands. The theme was a fruitful one,
on which to base an entertainment OF
this class. and it's authors, Gustave
Kerker and Hugh Morton caught the in
spiration to the full limit.
Tt Will be pleasing intelligence to a
vast number of theater-gOers to know
that William H Crane, one of the best
and most artistic actors in this country,
is to make a Western trip with his COM
pany this season, opening at the Met
ropohtan Theater in Sacramento about
the LIST of October. Those who remember
the Hooley Stock Company when in
Sacramento many years ago, Will think
of Mr.. Crane as an unctuous comedian
of refined methods and much or ginal.ty.
Ambitious to become a leading light in
his profession he worked hard and in
defatigably and the claim is now made
that he is the most successful of all Of
the male stars claiming public atten-
ton In this connection it is TO be re-
marked that while Mr.. jefferson makes
more money than does Mr.. Crane for a
given length Of time yet Mr.. Jefferson's
tours are comparatively short, they no
longer covering q period of more than
twelve weeks. IN eight years Mr.. Crane
has never had New York enga cement
that was for less than ten weeks and he
has on several occasions remained in
that city with profit to himself for seven
months.
Tomorrow night Spicketts' big COM
edy company begins a weeks engage
ment at the Metropolitan Theater in
this city at popular prices. The Spick-
EFT company is represented to be 3
leading popular price attraction of the
West. 1t is composed of twenty-five
people we'll known to theater- goers.
The organization carries its own band
which Will give a street parade daily
and a concert in front of the theater
each evening. The troupe carries its
own orchestra. composed Of we'll known
soloists. 1t has also special scenery
and costumes, and is represented as the
best equipped company of its class.
The plays TO be produced during the
engagement are farce comedies
and We are assured they viii be pro-
duced with strict attention TO every de-
tail. The prices are to be 10. 20 and
30 cents. The people Of Sacramento
who enjoy farce comedy and character
acting Will doubtless show their appre-
citation Of Manager Halls enterprise in
presenting pretentious attractions for
small prices Monday night the COM
pany presents the laughing farce COM
edy success "A Soap Bubble, which
We are told is series of laughs from
the rise to the fall of the curtain. and
is filed with witty dialogues, H.
dicroUs situations, and up-to-date spe-
cialtes. Every night a different play
IS to be presented. Reserved seats are
now on sale at the Metropolitan Thea
ter box Office.
New York Times: A stroke of very
good fortune has befallen one of the
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