New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-23
4 GREAT NIGHT FOR MUSIC HALLS.
THREE BURLEsQUEs AND AN ANNi'EH-
SARY COME ALL AT ONCE.

| THREE BURLESQUES AND AN ANNl'hn-
sARY COME ALI. AT ONCE.
| The music halls displayed remarkable amount
| OF life last night Three Of them had ne" our
lesques and big houses. Whether tonight proves as
| satisfactory 10 the managers as last night must
have been Is another question. The new ouriesque
| at Roster & Balls was entitled "Gayest Manhat-
| tan: or, Around New-York In Ninety Minutes. me
cast previously announced. contained the names OF
several popular actors. such Henry r. Dixey' n.
| A. Roberts, Miss Flora Irwin and Miss Netue Ly-
| ford so the audience listened 10 the beginning or
the performance with high hopes. There were more
| people In the house at the beginning that there
were at the end. and that was unfortunate. be-
cause what there that good In the whole
affair was In the last twenty minutes IL the
buresaue had been played backward the effect
would have been better and good many woun
have stayed longer The best thing Of all TO do with
II would be TO put little OF the first and second
scenes the third and let the go The istep-
ers welcomed the actors whom they had heard be-
fore and liked with a good deal Of warmth but In
a little while they began 10 get unhappy and they
got more and more till the Saharet Quadril!e
came. in the middle OF the last scene. That was
lively II nothing more. After that there were some
other speciaties and the audience did its best 10
enjoy them and really succeeded in cheering up 70
b beS enyh9dy else and Mr. Dxey came
next. The strongest thought prompted by the March
OF the Newspapers" was that the idea was worth
working out 10 good deal better effect.
After Professor woodward's trained seals had
performed. Van Biene had drawn from his cello
several melodies. and the three Avalos had per-
formed at Olympia last night, the curtain rose on
the frequently postponed much-dscussed bur-
lesque, Mrs. Radey Bartons Ball In Greater
New-York" The time taken to prepare this piece
should have been productive Of better burlesque
than the one given. There were times when the
piece dragged and the fines were positively ludi-
and inane. At other times pretty stage pct
ures inspiring music and odd ideas revived inter-
est. Mr. Hammersteins prediction for the unique
cropped out in several places. The notion OF seat
ing number Of persons in the front row with wigs
TO make them appear bald was odd, and the Ell
feet was intensified when these actor-chapples
passed notes 10 the actresses on the stage ny at
taching them 10 balloons and floating them up.
Another odd feature alteration between
plump damse on the stage attired in cherry tights
and woman seated in a box The result of the
of words that the woman In the box VINO
had said that she could sing better than the woman
on the stage leaped over the footlghts. She sang
particularly unnelligibe song. Win HedNy
dance and grotesque switching OF skirts in pa,
thcticay bad voice. The audience was relieved
when she cambered back into the box me
marguerite The idea OF bands of marcners
dressed TO represent the police letter-carrlers hre
men and the street-ceaners was bright and catchy;
\ band on the stage composed of women dressed
in handsome costumes. added TO The beauty an, ana
spirit of the marches. George W. Monroe as MIS-;
Radley Barton. made the best OF a part that could
be made much of. Taken as "nole the en-
tcrtainment afforded interesting, and doubt-
less after good deal of pruning and revision VII!
be much better.
The most prominent feature Of the performances
az the Pleasure Palace yesterday was the buresque
Tess of the Vaudevnes" in which Miss Marie
Dresser had the tide part The title Is happy one
and the sketch contains some distant limitations or
incidents in Tess Of The D'Urberyiues, but for the
most part il serves the purpose OK Keeping Mss
Drasser the stage while she sings some OF me
songs for which she j. admired. The clnematograpA
j. giving comic exhibition this week ~ pres lths
some of It's moving pictures backward Inc effect
IL stdrtngly unlifelike and highly lUdlcrOus. ne
remainder of the enterta nment consists Of ba.iari
the bard MarZelO and Millay. the Rogers brothers
Clifford and HUH Bowers and Dixon, Maude Ray
mond, and Fisher and Carroll.
A new series OF cinematograph views was shown
at the Eden Musee .ast evening, and gave satls-
faction. The Musee orchestra gave a concert OF
Classical and popular music At the afternoon and
evening concerts Of the week the music Will be made
up almost entirely OF selections from light operas