The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-22
THINGS AT THE THEATRE.
THE ENTERTAINMENT THAT ARE
AVAILABLE NOW IN TOWN.
Tho Drama Is Loft out or Our Current Amuse

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Tho Drama IL Loft Out or Our Current Amuse-
~ments-Comic Opera and Extravaganza Arc
Represented and Vaudeville IL Abundant
A Condensed Form OF Farce at keith's.
Not an atom Of legitimate drama 10 now on tho
New York stage. Considerable entertainment
is available, however. and 1t is all of a light and
trivial nature suitable TO tho summer season.
In the way Of comic opera We havo Captain
Cook " at the Madison Square Garden and "El
Captain " at Manhattan Beach. Extravaganza
Is Mt the Casino in Tho Whirl OF the Town"
Excellent concerts arc being given by Ncucn-
dorff's musicians on the roof OF tho Madison
Square Garden and Sousa's at Manhattan
Beach, where the Pain fireworks arc another at
~tractivo thing.
Vaudeville is abundant, all OF the indoor shows
being of the continuous order. At Kcith's arc
George Thatcher and Edward Marble. two vet.
Grams OF negro minstrclsy; Lizzie Evans and
Phyllis Rankin, and an interesting new view Of
shooting the chutcs Ia afforded by tho biograph.
Pastors puts forward the Reeds. Maud Nugent,
and McNish and Cain. The open.air variety
shows nre four. Passengers who entertain on
Cronin, Low Hawkins, and I'D leslie, and tho
passengers who arc entertained are crowds. At
he olympia roof Kara; James Thornton. and
brothers, and Troia are conspicuous atop Roster
q BiaIs. and the Murray brothers and VIII f..
DOhhJ w b co Ol IL IaSluO . Top bJOTy.
Lizzie Evans uses for her debut in continuous
vaudeville a farcical sketch that lasts twenty
minutes and that employs almost as many Of
tho farce players devices as would a thrce.act
hodge.podge of such nonsense. Herbert Hall
Wfnslow Is given as Its author, but tho indica-
tons are that his most recent work upon 1t was
In the way of condcnsing. Harry Mills is Miss
Evans's only assistant. and the two are actively
comical from beginning to end. She voices an
introduction and leaves the stage, and he then
crnwls out from a hiding place beneath a sofa,
tho statement that he has been there four hours
being all the presentation that no needs. In q
few moments he is again in hiding under a
table, and mewing like a cat to excuse a noise
made accidentally. He eats n plato of meat left
beside the table for the cat and ticks tho dish.
Then he is disclosed to the rooms tenant and
gives her a bicycle lesson. she riding about
among the furniture and reluctantly kissing
him to make him give over keeping tho vehicle
ing about tho dance of the night before while
Rapes interrupt their utterance. 1t develops
that tho meat set out for the cat was intended
to poison a rat, and then the man Confesses fear
fuIy that he ate It. Frenzied resort is had to a
book that tells what to do in case of poisoning.
woman breaks on his forehead. Finally a box OF
poison il discovered unopened, and the curtain
falls on an enthusiastic bout OF huRging. Access.
series OF siam-bang farce for which the processes
of~cutting left few words are an ottoman whose
cover ~rollapses and let's tho man into IL, and the
figure OF an Indian fastened to a stick with
springs so that it flies back and strikes who.
ever disturhs 1t. Not a word Is said about this
singular furnishing for a studio-for the partici
pants IN the farce are both w!clders OF the brush
but one line that comes when the sketch Is
half over puts the time as three hours later than
the entrance from under the sofa, so the wooden
shortening has resulted In an entirely accept
able sketch for the variety shows.