The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-12
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
THIS IS rHE LAST or rnE TERrDULL
SUMNER WEEKS

rive Charnetes, Played ~ one Aeter
In TwsntJ SlInutes-Nssss &c the PiaJerA
This Is the last week Of the doldrums In thsat-
ricai amusements- Three OF the houses now
closed viii go into use next Monday night. and
each will begin the new season with the play
that was being acted at the end OF tho old season.
Never Again" viii be thus revived BY its Fruh-
man company at the Garrick for Q single week
prior to its expectation to London. THE Cir
Gus Girl will have at Daly's nearly the same
cast that It had In the spring. and 50 will The
Girl from Paris" at the Herald Square. A dozen
OF our theatres will be open by the end Of Au-
gust, and all the rest by the middle OF septem-
Der. at least half OF them with new plays. In
the mean time there il a continuance OF The
Whirl OF the Town" at the Casino and OF Very
Little Faust" at Manhattan Beach, where the
other entertainments sill are Sousa's concerts
pent Orchestra continues its popular concerts at
Madison square Garden
The first reopening IL. vaudeville Is that Of the
Pleasure Palace, which IS set for a week from
next Saturday night. Weber & Fieldss will
Sniis viii teke in nv roof shows, and then the
vaudeville season will be under way. The pres-
emit mainstays Of the continuous shows are GU,
Walker, who are at Keith's; and Tony Pastor.
Maud Nugent, and the Nawns. who are at Pas
RicsmonnnSi Gienroy. Lew OHH Hawkins. and Ga Leslie
for the steamboat Grand Republics; Zout ouinto,
at the olympia the PantSers, De Bssseif and
Tacianu for Roster s Bials, and forke and
and the watson sisters are in the bill Of the Sc.
Nicholas, the only music hall now OPEN Huoers
Museum puts forward a human ptncushion, an
armless piano player, and an educated horse.
For his debut In continuous vaudeville. which
he made at Proctor's on Monday. Reuben Fax
prepared the medium. II was q musical sketch
IN which he had two assistants, and was mar ked
- 4, .,-,. t.,k - ,haasuA,, 81 $1,000
ableness that usually characterixe the variety
ahow sketch. In it three ~ex-prize fighters. in
whose names Sluggers Sullivan. Fitzsimmons,
and Corbett were plainly indicated. were in Car.
son City, retired from ring service and working
as laborers. Their tasks were performed with q
grand degree Of realism. Mr.. Fax dumped a
hod OF bricks on the stage and Immediately be-
gan loading them into q wheelbarrov 70 be car
ried OF again. One of his companions, on q
staging near the top Of . painted canvas
brick wall. put mortar on real bricks
gingerlJ. and continued the wall. piling
his bricks one atop the other. and carefully
shstaintng from letting. one brick overlap
another; Meanwhile, the third counterfeit
saw All three sang for all that was in them.
and before they were rwo-thirds through with
the p asSs .s't DiSlos Snss t SaeS Sas that IN p's afor risS
pnany references TO prtze-ring history. AID the
author several times with swats In the pit OF his
stomach. Then there Was moro sinqinG. sonrs
p sao1 hsr 81 le essin nsG q P ns% le,s s1 81 i fa1or sav on ssS 81
them, q ditty about an honest workingman. did
more than all the rest of the sketch toward
making the inning acceptable. It was that. and
the three men looked like everyday workingmen
until they began 10 work.
Kenneth Lee with n short buriesque OF melo-
drama that in the same programme put Pearl
has been a prolific ~supptier OF sketches foractors
Of ths legitimate stage who heard the vaude-
successfully divertine. This sketch was chocf
full of hits upon crude melodrama, but the pair
e Ssssss Z. IN bs il , made hI 1ass out !, q fu i. IL. II had a ,s for
he aged parent, the .tyiilAinous sutton, the
sompanion Prepared for bis entrance before be
posely made himself heard in urging her TO keep
on talking until he was ready. But this device
setsrs be was dressed Tor both. On his right SIDE
were n wig and mustache, . black frock coat
deep aes 4 seiaffss On : ms ss 1sdsF a ssfi sr TnsSi asit a sas
and . hght-colored trousers leg. With
. IN: Fl soe S sis' I e the Side. ;sdis ssssh sss . sna.
turning about. his left side yehemently
rsdnse he e 7tl fa i sid suito aea entered wiaf rom At ses sns
left That made him come In back and
me fun Of the eoIsep5ion didn't get beyond The
trick gracefully. and he learned it from long
DSEA6 Ei3nLA nboCA GULL
Hany. where he was known as the tenor with
the hot-Scotch voice"
Daniel Frohman has selected q repertoire for
his theatre this season which Ia made I'D almost
wholly Of English plays They are among the
most promising Of those the English dramatists
have recently put out, and in the fact that two
are the work OF Arthur Pinero there Is ground
for generalization Mr.. Frohman Is . cour
ageous man to continue his product ion OF the
Ptnero plays The last to meet with any nnan,
c al success was "The Amazons,' and tina
never repeated its New York success in any
other city. The Benefit Of the Doubt" wa.
quite ignored. "The Princess and the Butter
hy" win be as severe q test as any of Pfnero'.
plays could well have been 1t Is entirely
English in tone, and It's construction
Ia OF . kind that has never been popu
lar here. But the work Is brilliant In dia
logue in some of its scenes, and anything thai
comes from Pfnero's pen is certain to be inter
esting. Not long ago Mr.. Frohman asked the
English drarnatist II he ever felt as though be
would write another play like Sweet Laven
der" which was the most profitable work thai
Pinero ever sent to the United States. The ques
ton came from Mr.. Frohman during a discus
sion As 20 the taste Of our audiences, which
Pinero said he could not fathom. The SecouG
Mrs Tanqueray" and THE Benefit of tn,
Doubt" and The Notorious Mrs. Ebb
smith had not been received enthusi
Astlcally here, and Mr.. Ptnero was wondering
what sort Of . play he could write that would
prosper here. You would not object to writ
ing a play of q certain kind merely for the SAX
OF having 1t prove a financial success. would
you r. asked Mr.. Frobman- The dramatisi
replied that he would not consider that ar
objection TO one Of his plays. We'll, then
write another comedy Like Sweet Lavender
was Mr.. Frohman's advice. The play vii
shortly be completed, and since he first started
70 write the piece The Princess and the But
tGr1y' has been UrOduced-
Jones for the Lyceum as well as for a Londor
theatre. rhe author has continued his obserga
lions OF society. and in this respect the plaI
bears some resemblance to certain phases o.
'The Masqueraters. r c, Cartons new
drama The Tree OF Knowledge" returus, il
reports OF The character OF the piece are reliA
DE- 10 the woman With a past. but she does no
appear in her most emphaaized state. Loul
=: ParksE,s "A Happy Life" Is IN the idyI!t
Tein which this writer showed In The May
flower" and Rosemary In his colIabo
.oti9ns with Murray Carson. it Il ea.!
the result OF their joint efforts. Chang,