The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-29
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
THE DITERSION THAT MAY BE
FOUND ON THE NEW FORK
STAGE THIS WEEK.


Theatrical amusement is scant this week in
New York. We are In the dullest month Of tho
dramatic year. But there is no lack Of open re-
sorts to moet the midsummer demand. The
Casino is open with 1.-THE Whirl Of the Town"
Down ut Manhattan Beach Very Little Faust"
is being performed by the Parry company, while
tho sousa band is making music and the Pain
pyrotechnists are setting of fireworks. The
Metropolitan Permanent Orchestra Is playing at
Madison Square Garden. Vaudeville pro-
Rrammes range from ten hours In length at tho
continuous theatres to two hours and a half In
open-air resorts, and can DO enjoyed indoors, on
roof gardens, or on the decks Of q steamboat.
Performers who are we'll placed In the all-day
show at Keith's are Edward NJ. Favor, Joe Cav
thorne, w. p. Swoatnam. and Jessie Couthut.
Doing double service daily at Pastors are Cook
and Sonora, Ben Harvey. and George E. Austin.
Ed Leslie, Lew Hawkins, and Harry Crandall
are entertaining the steamboat Grand Republics
passengers. The st. Nicholas Is tho only music
hall now in usc, and hore are Annie Hart, Press
Eldridge, and other specialists. At the roof
shows are the Beaumont sisters, Do Bessel. the
Rogers brothers. and May Howard for Roster &
Balls; James Thornton. the Dunbar sisters, and
Kara for tho Olympia, and Bartho and Yorke
and Adams for the Casinos upper story.
"very Little Faust" is now to BIO seen and
heard In tho theatre at Manhattan Beach. and
William Parry Is the impresario who has put
this old French burlesoue before New York au-
| diences-or Manhattan Beach audiences-so
many years after it's first production at the
| Eldorado in Paris. Mr.. Parry, during tho win
ter months, 10 connected with tho Metropol-
tan Opera House, and for that reason 1t 10 easy
to understand his confidence In Faust Ideal
' casts, as he knows them. are not possible hero
now, and he took the best available substitute.
" ~o,ld ,oar,olv hava dOne hettar for thfa old
~operetta OF Herv6's Is unknown here In English.
Early In the eighties one Of Maurice Grau's COM
panies with Victor Capoul, Angelo and Paola
Marie, sang tho work here several tlmes. But
the Faust 4" cult was not 90 vigorous then In
New York as to-day and the operetta was heard
by small but appreciative audiences.
After awhile VERY Little Faust" will DO o
moro agreeable performance than It was on
Monday. and It will make an admirable summer
entertainment. Tho travesty Of the Faust"
story il very well done by tho original hbret-
fist, and the omission Of some Of tho English
lines will bring added quickness and spirit to
the version used. The Marguerite Of very
Little Faust" 10 o frivolous and worldly young
woman. who is left in Faust 8 kindergarten when
her brother yqlentine goes to the wars; Sur,
and summons Mspkistopheles, TO aid him
leaves the school, becomes q music hall singer.
and shows in every possible way how different
she can be to the young woman In the opera who
sIs Sanl{ 70 the the rs s1s * he 'e ehaFaet asF in P sse stoty,
and their doings would never be possible on inc
sST 1sSi1 S Of t siye MsI1neP 3SraaRho sas they are very
nY It You'd Shd have been impossihlc. of course, 70.
.. Esou PSd5rys s to Re sf1ss such MF RsF'' ca t. .e' So 'R he
engaged Dorothy Morton, Truly Shattpck. and
Richard Carroll in addition to q half hundred
capabiy. Miss Morton was sufficiently frivolous
and s~priEhtly to show that she could never DO q
: y as we'll, wasa fne figure OF a {Msph5siophsSs
IN tho role Of ralen.fne hat everybody won
; sIsG'7 M 91s 3 ps 81 T Stacy hs sa22 h hiisas csa 70
: the supply OF, women. There were handsom,
3 ss osmsnss 9 moved good Sit scenery s y4;iS Sna the ~S Rsf
: win DO greater when several yards Of tn,
Iittie Faust" viii not need to rely on the vosu'
: Of the digniied original for popularity. It con
: Ioopin sha Momes, W @nsis' ought hGhet e h insure en It f EoUo
Q anywhere. MT. Perry ought to be Gongratu
3 f lsssS fG in F moist se sas Sas o ss though w It had 5 Ses "a
Especially written" for his company. Tn,
: ssSS% o Rop{ o %9se 90 veil ' ss sssash IL hp psFf Ssen q.
/ ganized for q permanent city season.
7 An acrobatic speciality of a novel sort at Keith
Z has for one of. Its participators employment tina
Q recalls tho vacant-faced lad Of the Crogg famil
I who was forever whirling head over heels. II
: Is ono OF the 1.-TWO Great Judges" but 10 not 8
d very great, and, in view Of his daily exercises
II no should grow to full size 1t would stand a
o triumph for natures persistence. Paired wit
IS this boyish chap Is o veteran Of O lank figure
3 poorly adapted to filing heshlings. but with
2 smile and hand wave that are chock-up wit
youthfulnesa. His share of tho speciality is I
supply motive power for the youngster, and h
lies on his back with his feet up. his joyous loo
diffusing roofward and shaming the sprin
70 foliage on tho drops above. Tho youngster
- tho teetotum. and after seating himself on tn
70 Others upturned soles he 10 set and kept a.whir
Ing tom until dnai,y cast . on II a. e 1,t s99s sa ,ba h5,.n 7
feet, and after no has spun i about for q MI
ID ment the boy mounts it. and then. by a twist {
o. Sysr the Others .os saRpoFtlng feet, With WI.
n axle, this trick is modified. the boy standing o
er his head on one wheel. the man bracinE bis 70,
from his perch It is tho intention TO have h
it s ssnss'f but and ID t eass IL i Ssiqis1Iy t The t GR
is not tried again, and something moro sin
ments, too. the consequence OF having his fac
On bent impress tho man so seriously, as to subdu
'S on orS his %i back. wi ihei his sp hsad pointed ssiO toward sns az FEoMn'
tecnth street, and for a full minute he is appa
n. entity deyitalized, while the mar throws him u
az and catches him In various ways. In his longe
" falls he invariably lands on, his chest, u partia
IN tty for the wishbone over the spine that shouI
or BIO noted by persons contemplating falling fro
Il. roofs or boarding cable cars.
The st. Nicholas Rink has been opened aga
y. as a music hall. 1t has boon reduced to half 1
ns size for this attempt by means of q scroe
which brings the stage nearer to the majori
ou of the spectators than 1t was before. There a
" fewer seats and more tables-the tables pr
Mt dominate in fact to a degree seen in few mus
m halls. Another noticeable feature of tho ha
ne was the comparatively large extent
which the spectators were acquainted wi
one another in the audience on Satu
day night. There were many who we
evidently on terms Of such familiarity tn
nd they could address one another by their Chr
tlan names, and they did 1t. But for an inform
ay summer music hall this quality is probably n