The times., 1897-06-06
NEW PLAY BILLS.

A very happy and pretty opera is The
Little Tycoon" that the popular Castle
Square Opera Company VIII present at
the Lafayette this week. II is a spark
| ling reiuvenating and exhilarating com
bination OF pretty and popular music. hand
some stage pictures and rich acceSsioDs.
| Everybody is fond of the music, and it is
almost certain to prove one of the most
popular attractions the Castle Square Com
pany has given this season. There are
I many bright and clever thiugsin the opera,
and it has an amusing and fascinating
originality. The familiar characters OF
the work Will find a merry and hearty
welcome. The Castle Square Company and
the management or the Lafayette merit
more than passing commeudation for tie
splendid performances they are giving
here
Nj. only are the operas is arule selected
with good taste and excellent judgment.
hut the manner of presentation is unde-
niably the best vet seen here during the
hot season. The house Is always cool and
comfortable in spite OF the big audiences
each night, The rose natinees on We'd
ncsdays have become very popular, and
tire bicycle check-rUorii, where all wheels
are cared foI free. has proven a great
convenience Popular prices prevail and
viii remain fixed In the cast of The Lit
tie Tycoon viii be Raymond Hitchcock.
the talented and clever comedian. who viii
appear as Gen. KnickerbOcker- Joseph
Shcohan. the handsome young tenor OF the
Castle Square Company win remain with
the company here next week. playing Alvin
Barry Grace Golden viii be Violet, and
Eta Bartlett, Miss Hurricane
During his recent trip abroad in search
OF new plays to follow up his successful
Girl From Paris" E. E Rice saw His
Little Dodge at the London Royalty
Theater and at once boughtit for America.
BY special arrangement with Mr. Rice the
management of the Columbia Stock Com
pany have secured the right TO produce the
play here this week, the first time in
America
The story concerns one Sir Hercules
Little who has married widow of very
jealous disposition Her first husband was
u roue, and she has conceived the idea
that "all men are deceivers ever" Con-
sequently it is not unnatural that her un-
just suspicious drive Sir Hercules TO
accusing him Of, for every man uncon-
sciously tries TO live up TO his reputation.
Moreover. Sir Hercules is endowed with
hypnotic powers, which he finds of especial
benefit in quieting his wife By simply
holding her and fixing uron her his glitter
ing eye, he cab throw her into a hypnotic
trance, from which she can only he awak-
ened 10y blowing upon her forenhead. He
&c oil
like going out for an evening, and his wife
is totally unconscious even of the fact
that she has been asleep. But the game
is too good to keep, and Sir Hercules tells
it to his best friend, Hon -Mandeville Hobb.
The latter has long been an admirer Of
Lady Little, so when Sir Hercules goes out
he calls upon the lady and awakes her from
her trance. Mean while, Sir Hercules has
been trying his hypnotic powers on the
charming wife of a neighbor, MI. Pollaby
Fetlow. Interrupted by the arrival of
Mr.. Petlow, Sir Hercules returns home.
leaving the lady in a tlanoe, from which
her husband tries in vain to arouse her.
To avert suspicion from herself, Lady.
Little feigns slumber, and oyerhears the
irate Petlow when he comes TO upbr1id
Sir Hercules. She is about to leave the
house, when Sir Hercules again exercises
his hypnotic power, and puts her to sleep.
On awakening she finds him and Mr.. uohb
engaged in a game Of cards, and they try
TO convince her that she has been dreaming.
But Mr.. Petlow again appears, and from
this on the complications become fast
and hilarious.
The cast of the play complete is as fol-
lows:
Sir Hercules Little. .........A. S. Lipman
Hon. Vaudeville Hobb. >. James Q. Barrows
Mr. Pollaby Petiow ........ William Boag
Gflce, butler. .Geoffrey Stein
Lady Miranda Little. Miss Katherine Grey
Candy, her maid. d........... Miss Carrie Berg
''One Touch of Nature will precede the
play as curtain raiser
The Grand will this week have an entire
iynew vaudeville, headeiby Marion Manola
and John Mason in "a Matter of Money!"
Montgomery Irving, the peer of Sandow it
is claimed, Mile. Flora, the tough girl on
the wire; Mr.. and Mrs. Robyns, and Luni-
ere's cinenatograptie, which remained at
Keith S nearly all ofIast winter Those IA
miliar with the Olympia and Keiths vau-
dcville bills will recogaize that each Of these
acts has been successful at these New York