The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-23
GOOD ATTRACTIONS
AT PLAYHOUSES
Spooner Comedy Company Opens a
Weeks Engagement at rockingham.
PLAYERS WERE WELL RECEIVED
Comedy, Delighted Those who Saw
II at the Academy OF Music--Thc
President Holds the Boards al
DAVIS Thcatre--Somc of the Com
ing Attractions That Are Billed for
the Academy Of Music.

The Spooner Comedy company began
weeks engagement at the Frothing-
nam yesterday afternoon by producing
the comedy drama, The Judges Wife"
1t is probably the best repertoire COM
pany that has played in this city at
popular prices and highly pleased the
audiences that saw it yesterday after
noon and evening. In the afternoon it
was almost impossible to get standing
room and the same condition of af-
fairs existed at night when the Mexi-
can romance "Inez" was produced.
Cecil and Enda May Spooner are the
Joint stars of the company and they
are supported by a very clever COM
pany. Among those who gave good
account of themselves at the perform
ances yesterday were Chester De
Nonde, Charles RummelL Truman
Johnson, B. S. Spooner, Gus Phillips,
Olive Grove and Molle Spooner.
During the afternoon performance IL
lustrated songs Were introduced by
Edna May and jerry y. Flynn and
Cecil Spooner gave her Kaleidoscope
dance. At the night performance Edna
and Cecil Spooner gave the Spanish
gavotte dance and Cecil afterwards APP
peared in character and Kaleidoscope
songs. This afternoon the company
will produce the melodrama. "A Wo-
mans Devotion, Or Convict 4GS," and
tonight Becky Bliss
A most amusing comedy is "Other
Peoples Money" which was seen at the
Academy of Music yesterday afternoon
and evening. 1t is a comedy of the
legitimate school and all of the situa-
tions are brought about naturally.
There is an entire absence of horse
play and from start to finish the com
edy is decidedly entertaining. The hu
NOR of the piece turns on the effort of
rich Chicago board of trade operator
to assist his clerk to marry girl whose
father is worth a million. The girl
is his own daughter but he is not
aware of that fact until after the
young people have eloped
The role OF the father who inviting
~ assists his daughter to elope is as
sured by Hennessy Leroyle, a come
dian who can be funny without resort
ing to many Of the artifices of the
average comedian, Percy *. Bowles,
Charles Il. Del Necchio, Miss Lottia
Wade, Miss Georgia Wells and Miss
Helen De Estere are very clever men,
bers of the company. The comedy will
be repeated tonight at the Academy.
The long looked for and anXiously
awaited engagement of Elihu +. Spen-
Ger, the young American tragedian,
will omen at the Academy of Music
tomorrow evening. The advance sale
of seats and boxes has been very large,
and every indication points to crowd
ed house. The character of Shylock in
Shakespeares Merchant of Venice"
in which Mr.. Spencer appears tomor-
row night, is considered by many as
his greatest impersonation, and the
thcater- gOers of this city will be able
to see the production placed on the
stage in exactly the same lavish and
complete manner as in New York, Bos-
ton, Washington and Philadelphia the
cast for tomorrow nights performance
includes Mr.. Spencer as Shylock; Frank
jIenrig as GratianC and Miss Isabel
Pengra as Portia.
Nimble dancing is not only a health
| full exercise, but a diVerting amuse-
ment No more enlivening spectacle
can be produced upon the stage than
! that of a large number of deXterous
G.. Fields Big White Minstrels is a
dancing festival entitled "1Nle Frolics
of the Blackics," fashioned somewhat
| after Palmer CoXs "Brownes." In
this act more STYLES of nimble dane
| ing are introduced than we ever re-
member of seeing before. The scenery
used during this act is very beautiful,
! and the calcium lights add greatly to
| the effectiveness of the scene. The
| ''Frolics of the BlaCkies' is one of the
big hits on the programme of the AL
G. Fields Minstrels, which will be seen
at the Academy of Music on Friday
evening.
Sam de Icons company performed
"The President" at Davis theatar yes