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Justin Huntly Mccarthy. When my friend
Mr.. Courtney's Kit NARROW was produced
at the Shaftesbury one morning in aid OF
the NARROW memorial played Kit NARROW,
and about this time, too, 1 played Brigard
kn a morning performance for a charity Of
Frou Frou.' / played again at a morning
performance in the following year, when
Miss Eastlake produced "A Yorkshire Lass.
and again in the spring of 1892 in Lady
Violet Greville's Nadia. I think the wise
thing for a young actor is to play as many
parts as he has the opportunity of playing
In this spirit / made occasional excursions
to Miss Thorne's theater, where / have
played Benedick, Hamlet, Romeo, Claude
Melnotte and Petruchio. In the autumn Of
1890 / went on tour with Miss Fortescue,
but was recalled by an offer from Mr.
Wyndham to play Charles Courtly in the
revival of London Assurance at the Cri-
terion. l also appeared in the Criterion re-
vival of The School for Scandal in which
l played Joseph Surface"
OF his American experience Mr.. Bourchier
speaks with unaffected delight. 1t is, he
declares. a liberal education for any young
actor to be taken in hand by Mr.. DAILY, the
most exigeant and indefatigable of stage
managers.
The Bostonians-An audience that filled
the house completely greeted the Boston
ianS in Prince AnaniaS" at the National
Theater last night. The opera was given
here last year, and so needs no introduction
a work. A feature that added some-
what to the interest of the performance
was the fact that Mr.. Victor Herbert, the
author of the opera, played first cello in
the orchestra. on account of the Illness of
the musician who generally plays hat in
strument. Mr. Herbert Is in the city re-
hearsing a new opera with the Bostonians,
and, although he generally receives pretty
high figure for one number on his beautiful
instrument, played the entire score through.
The comedy of the opera was well carried
out by Henry Clay Barnabee. George Froth-
ingham and Harry Dale, and the work OF
Il III rIa-,, fr, = - L.,
king may be said to have been his best
effort here w. II. Mcdonald as the
mountebank was up to his usual standard
of efficiency, while Eugene Cowles acted
and sang the part of the outlaw in his own
splendid manner. Jessie Bartlett Davis and
Alice Nelson carriel off the honors among
the ladies of the company. although Jose
phine Bartlett and Leonore Quito were
good in their pactc. robin Hood was
given this afternoon, and will be the bill
for the farewell performance tonight.
Yesterday afternoon Miss Quive sang
Airline III the Bohemian Girl IN an excel
lent manner, and -sceive1 much applause
for her work. Mrs. Davis AMI Mr.. Cowles
were the queen and count, respectively,
and were fully up to their high standard.
The other parts were well sustained, and
the chorus and orchestra were, as always,
thoroughly efficient.
Lafayette Square Opera House-Bret
Harte's play, "Sue," one of the recent big
hits of the present New York season. will
ater for one week, beginning Monday even
ing. Manager Charles Frohman, under
whose direction the play is presented, ex-
poets to have another theater shortly, so
that Sue" can return to New York and
continue its successful career. The cast of
the play includes Joseph Haworth, Annie
Russell, Horace Lewis. ]. G. Saville, Guy
Standing, Theodore Roberts, James Kear-
ney, Samuel Reed and Anita Roth. Sue"
is highly probable picture of a western
mining camp, lively in action, not lacking
in healthful, sparkling humor and held to-
gether by the strength of genuine human
nature. AEnie Russell. We are told, has not
lost any of the freshness, naivete and sin
cerity which made her Esmera1da and her
Elaine characters that will always live in
memories of those that saw her enact
them. 1t is not surprising, therefore, that
in Sue she has repeated her former sue
cess.
The Columbia Theater.-Royalty has aid
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bourchier in be-
coming popular players. The Prince of
Wales. the Duke of York, the Duke of Teck
and family, the Duke of Cambridge and
suite, and the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha
having been repeatedly to Mr.. Bourchiers
Royalty Theater to see and laugh over his
genteel comedy, The Chilli Widow which
Will be the first attraction of the engage
ment of these two players at the new CO.
lumbia Theater next week. On Friday and
Saturday THE Queens Proctor" will be
produced. The leading characters Sir Vic
course, played by Mr.. Bourchier and his
talented wife, both of whom are said to be
pre-eminently suited with congenial parts.
The role of Lady Crofton, played by Miss
Violet Nanbrugh, Is complex and many
sided one. Alternately capricious, petulant,
contrite and indignant, she is said to bring
her work to a standard of perfection that
many an actress of far longer experience
might envy. AS Sir Victor Mr.. Bourchier
is said to play with zest and genuine
sense of the character of the affectionate,
good-natured fellow. The play in question
has been termed one of the most genuinely
humorous of. modern times, the main plot
being so interviewer with counterplots and
clever complications that only skillful
handling renders it enjoyable from begin
ming to end
National Theater.-Hoyt's great success
"A Milk White Flag will be presented at
BILE stage settings and excellent acting that
characterize Hoyts production. This at
traction has been seen in Washington be-
fore, but many changes and improvements
have been made In the specialties, music
and cast. The comedy is satire the
citizen soldiery, but combines all the -
sentials of a complete dramatic perform
ance. The scenery and costumes all
new. and it is predicted that the perform
ances next week will be wholly enjoyable.
Harry Gilfoil, Belle Archer, George Schiller
and Mat Snyder are some of the we'll
known names that will be on the program.
Academy OF ne second engage
ment of that great melodramatic success,
When London Sleeps begins next Monday
evening at the Academy, and there is every
prospect Of Its duplicating it's former big
business at this popular house. The piece
was brought over to this country by Mr..
James H. Wallick, who has secured all
American rights for Its production, and
which has been a success beyond expecta-
tions. 1t Is by Charles Darrell, noted En-
glish author, who has written a number
of successful melodramas. The strong sit
uations-and there are several-completely
carry the audience by storm, and when
the final episode is reache1-the attempted
sacrifice of Queenie Carruthers on the altar
of the Hindoo god-they are something akin
to awestruck by it's awful realism.
Grand Opera House.-"Brother for
Brother an English melodrama, by Frank
Harvey, author of Wages of SIM Fallen
Among Thieves" etc, will be the attrac-
ton at the Grand Opera House next week.
Judging from the press notices, 1t Is a
n elodrama of unusual merit. There is a
great deal of humor in the piece, but there
is far more seriousness, and the climaxes
follow another in rapid succession
each one stronger than its predecessor, un-
til they culminate in the great fire scene
at the foundry, where the hero has been
lured by his enemies into cellar, and
escape seems impossible; fire surrounds him