The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-09
ENTERTdINM " MIS-.


New Haven enjoyed last night and is
to enjoy again tonight thoroughly
first rate production, presented in en-
tire accordance with metropolitan STAN
<dards. The Empire Stock company pre-
scented Under the Red Robe which
ran through the whole season in New
York last winter and was one of the
years successes. 1t goes without say
ing that it was meritorious perform
anec and that the opportunity offered
local theater lovers is one not to be
neglected. The audience last evening
was large in numbers and conspicuously
fashionable and well dressed. The adj
vance sale bespeaks an equally numer-
Gus attendance this evening. Mr. Froh-
man watched the play from box.
"Under the Red Robe is a dramatiza-
ton of Mr.. Stanley Weyman's success
full novel of the same name and the
work of adapting the work for stage
purposes was entrusted to the skillful
hands of Edward Rose, who proved his
abilities in this line in THE Prisoner of
Zenda" The novel is one of the sue
cessful romances of the new school and
the played closely copies the original
both in situation and general atmos-
| phere.
The Empire company understand
| themselves thoroughly and they fill
their roles as satisfactorily as could be
wished. Mr.. Faversham, Miss Allen
and Mr.. Dodson had the principal roles
and conscientious rendition of ordinary
stock parts. Both were repeatedly re-
| called.
rTA>7rc>r pDnTurpc, ucTTDLpp ~
The Hanlons are masters of stage
| mechanism; when it comes to trick
scenery they are easily without rivals,
and what is more, they are continually
! inventing and staging new and novel
| effects. The new "Superba," which
| opens at the Hyperion for two nights
| Friday, is their very latest effort in
this line and is one of the finest things
| of the sort ever seen here. The fairy
farm yard in the first act, for example
| presents collection of animals such as
is seldom brought together in one aggra-
| cation before. From the COW, which
| yields ~ milk punch or a rib roast with
| equal facility to the lively hog and the
mammoth egg lying duck the fun runs
riot with their amusing escapades. The
] baronial hall in the second act with
it's vanishing chamber, the enchanted
| studio in the third act, with it's live
| characters from which are taken legs,
| arms, heads and bodies at will and
| which leads up to the climax where the
| lively skeleton keeps the living occu-
pants in rapid motion, are tricks and
| illusions worked cleanly, neatly and
| without a hitch from beginning to end.
| Added to these really wonderful stage
| effects is a ballet of pretty girls and
| beautiful transformation scenes and a
| number of amusing specialties. Special
! popular matinee Saturday. Sale of
seatsnow open. Evening, regular prices.
| The best balcony seats reserved for so
| cents Matinee, 25c, SOC, 10, no higher.
| FRANCIS WINSON IN HALF A
| KING"
| Francis Wilson and his comic opera
| company will appear at the Hyperion
| on Monday night, December 10, in
Half a King" Mr.. Wilson's character
| in Half a King is Tireschappe, a
| mountebank, who comes to Paris with
his daughter, Pierette, and his donkey.
| There is a handsome young man, Ho-
more, the son Of the Due de Chateau
Margaux, who happens to be in a gar
den on the banks of the Siene and is as
| sailed by robbers. Pierette saves him.
and he falls in love with her. But Ho-
| more is intended to another All sorts
of humorous complications arise, and
| the opera proceeds in the true Wilson
| way-the mOuntebank assuming the
| airs of a dixie and the roal 1,1lvo a., Z
! all the aristocrats are puzzled. There