The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-29
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
BILLS THAT RENDER THE YEARS.
LAST WEEK ATTRACTIVE.

Efnnl Performances OF Beme successful PlnJs
asa Returns or Continuhpces OF Many
Others-Scw ThipEs In tho Vaudeville shows.
The last week OF the year is also the last
week OF several OF the successful current plays.
John Drew will appear for tho final timo at tho
Empire on Saturday night in "a Marriage.of
Convenience" and n. C.. Goodwin at tho Knick.
erbocker In IAN American Citizen" Tho fine
cast OF "a Ward of France is intact, through
the recovery Of Maurice Barrymore. for tho
closing nights at wallack's, and The comedians
OF "a Stranger in New York" arc rounding up
the run OF that farce at Hoyt's.
The plays brought TO town for tIe week only
provide the usual range Of quality. "A Hot
Old Time at the Grand Opera House is a bois-
terously funny farce, In which extreme carica-
ture and violent action arc participated In by
tho Rays, q grotcsoue actor and a buxom act
ress. "Never Again at the Harlem Opera
House is the same neat and humorous transfer
from the French that IL was at the Garrick.
and the players are nearly oil the same, with
Il. NJ. Holland and Fritz.williams at the front.
''Tho Heart Of the Klondike,' at the Columbus,
Is the now well.known molodrama of Alaskan
gold seeking, and IL Is acted by one of Keogh &
Davis's companies. Miss Philadelphia" at
the Star, is a slightly altered version of Miss
Manhattan which was seen further up Broad
way last winter. and the leading actors in 1t
now arc Joseph Cawthornc, n comic comedian,
and Elvia CroX Seabrooke, the singer. THE
Model" Mt the Irving Place, is a German light
opera, with Julie Kopacsy in it. THE Queens
Lace Handkerchief" at tho American, is the
first In the series OF operas to he revived in n
weekly succession by the Castle Sqnare com
pany, which has made an excellent start in
New York favor.
rhs plays that viii - run along INDEFINITELY into into
;!sn,isma Adams = With at andrew shs a MSsh. at I thu F lp1sh
..-.sI ...xI .lTt 0,rol NItua Ett,xrDl1 ~ with
May irwin. at tho Bijoa; ""fhe Royal Box
with, With & SRGrle Ho cG : A. a. e. t as.d bga5R q AS Mnsie;
Fronch Maid" at the Herald square. The Bal.
let let G HI R at the Ma nj 4. Tys sna "rh Tba PT MesS's
rev pieces ARE! are The TsGlsPhsone n Girl tGs c at tss
In seasons past the time between Christmas
and New Years has been one of the best of tho
year with the continuous shows. and the cur
rent week is not an exception. The bills are OF
unusually good quality. At proctor's one pair
that, according to variety show usage, might be
styled Rankin and O'Neil has a quite different
significance with McKe preixod to ons and
Nance to the other. 'Cellist Won Biene and Ar
thur Dunn are others here. At Keith's, where
the doors are opened before noon. Joseph Hart
10 the t%opsawyer, others listed being Hayes and
Lytton, tho Northerns, the Kingsley sisters.
Press Eldridge, and Thorne and Carleton. John
stone Bennett. Gus Williams, and Irene Frank
lin are named at Pastors.
At the Pleasure Palace are q half dozen inn
ings by vaudeville notabilities., Helene Mora,
Gautier, Charles 4. Sweet, and Mc1ntyre and
Anna Held. whose last week 1t is, as chief spe-
%cialist., and other conspicuous contributors arc
Charmion and Bruiser Mccoy. John Z. Drew
Innings preface "Pousse Cafe" at Weber &
From II in the morning until late in the even.
ing there is SO close o succession OF band music,
s s5nsi%sso ,ss ihS E GsSStarsSi; as sad th %sr tSe shem Rah Is
not longer than !. will take a visitor tn to look look
scope views Of tho Cerbett; Fitzsimmons prize
fight are in their last week. Doris's Winter
Circus is good diversion of its sort, and It's at.
ternoon performances are q delight to small
folk.
Seventeen innings are down on the current
bill at Doris's Winter Circus, and such is the
programme writer's vocabulary that tho least
OF these is described as great" Such com.
mon features as celebrated" and "world.re-
nowncd' performers are galore. exclamation
marks dot the page thickly, and one contributor
10 the last half Of the performance challenges
the world to produce his equal and promises
$4,000 to IA superior. The riders name Is
Rooney, which doesn't indicate that he is ro.
mancing. It would be we'll worth the money.
too, for most men to attemIt duplicates Of his
sOmersaults while his horse is going SO fast that
he strikes the wooden side of the ring at every
stride. But an item with a newer look falls to
Isabella and her horse Splash" He takes his
rider around the ring In u conventional series
Of jumps over obstacles and then is halted in the
centre. While his mistress poises a rifle n
flock e Of pigeons 0an1 Is r released Q AS hd IRON ~ ne h green ENRON room
They serve only as ornamental dressing and
nre pndisturbed by the shot she fires, but !, 9
and snspT this 't the horse t.I promptly tg' retrievcs., At The
The III inning which, Follows this has a clown
cloth. With which he trots about in imitation
Of Of the .n f9hGeEo thst horse e sr tjrs%lnifn rgm and cbi iGe shon ats
S or usaK to pu ana a chronic hs 1Ea"s fnis saDn opsia at pea ace
with even circus clowns. Immediately fol
,1s es, g. the SoR mon %Eish eh riTsis him toG n Is int G 9 sSn
Three hounds with images of monkeys strapped
TO their backs as Jockeys contest In a miniature
and rather indifferent to the outcome of the
race, but the other is ambitious. and 80 long u.
ground to their one. He Is trained to pass an
other on the outside, which makes his course
the longer, and Is further handicapped By
half the circumference OF the ring, but at the end
Of three circuits Is invariably in the lead
tail wagging eXultantly.
The appearance of Joseph Hart in continuous
vaudeville is interesting because it displays
for the nrst time on any stage the latest ex
ample of tho Joseph Hart drama. Some Wis
iJors to Reith's this week may see this divert
ing vocalist and joker and not realize that they
have seen him in n drama, yet that is what III
is playing, for he himself has said go. He ever
gave to it a title Of q sort fashionable with fare,
writer's, and that should settle it IL nothing els
does. That title was "The Quiet Mr.. Gay" buI
1t gives a very little insight into the real ma
ture of the Hart tJoseph) drama. First Car
RE lie Mar appears, talks long enough TO-
watchers to realize that she wears a hand
some dress. then sings II negro song while
stalwart negro parades tho stage with cake
walk prancing, carrying a 1.-Two chicken or a pail
of huge dice. according TO the words being sung
On finishing this ditty. this form OF dramati,
literature demands that the vocalist surrender
the centre Of the stage to her companion, which
is done in this instance. ana without eXplana
tion, for tho formula is SO old that none &
needed; The other half Of what would be
team" were not this "a drama, then appears
and with M moro words than enOuKh Ia indi