The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-17
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
THF NEW SEASON STARTS SOONEST AT
LoH-PRICED HOUSES.

erly aud the Representation Dis.
played in Some Of the PIays-Arr. sotherr
and Miss Bennett Try New Pieces
The three New York theatres that have be.
run their new season this week. and another
that will do 90 on Saturday night, are amonr
those that appeal with low prices and popular
plays. The Academy OF Music has begun with
an excellent revival OF THE Old Homestead
The Star has q new vaudeville farce In AT
Atlantic City" and the Peoples a new melo-
drama in The Midnight Flood" The Column
bus will start with Caste" This is the last
week OF Tho HlEhwayman" at Manhattan
Beach. where Pains fireworks and Herbert's
concerts are continued. The music of the
fstropoi!tan Permanent Orchestra is the
entertainment on the roof OF the Madison
Bouare Garden. while the naval exhibi-
ton occupies the lower space. The Casino
presents Yankee Doodle Dandy" Vaudeville
diversion is to be had At any hour Of the after
noon or evening at the continuous houses, and
Of evenings at the open-air resorts. Perform
srs called on for only two innings a day at Proc
tors Theatre are Tom Browne. George Evans
and the Drews, the latter appearing in a como
dietta. Similarly favored at the Pleasure Palace
are Frank Bush. Felix and Barry. and No
Tntyre and Heath. Keith's has n stump speech
from Laura Burt. singing from Raymon Moore
. and a sketch for Jacques Kruger and Claire
Palmer. Gilbert sarony and Genaro and
Bailey are ut the fore at Tony Pas
tors. In the case Of the one hoater
Of the outdoor shows. the Grand Republic. the
= boat ride Is in a sense q competitor OF the
specialists; but Sam Ryan and and the a Soldssn o. are
diversions. AZ Roster 4 Bials roof Cole and
johnson, with 2 stage fpll Hf ot ae,d negroes; sss
Sasipo rooi. and La Petite Adelaide and CharIeS
B. Ward lead above the American. The Eden
band music and moving pictures Of war incl
dents.
Has everybody forgotten J. 81. Haverly. who
rose and fell in the theatrical business years
aRop He went up to namboyant afluence and
down to hopeless bankruptcy. after which he
disappeared from stageland. Now he has come
back, and a few nights ago he started out fresh
and hopeful with aneRro minstrel company.
giving the first performance In Plainfeld. N. J.
The street parade had all the Sld-time HaysSrlyg
the late Eugene Field wrote:
Jack HAverly. Jack HaverlyiI y wonder where you are;
Are your fortunes cast with Sirius or meath some
How happens It we never rec your wOndrOuS min
All The oScn HeETegaaonS that Afaict these mOdorn
Are equally unworthy of our prose and of our
And ! 1VaiHiy pine and banker for the Joys that used
with the dumpetS ump-ta4a-rA ana the big bass
drum.
How erand you looked. Jack HArerly. a-marchins
diamond on your bosom. patent feathers on your
Your sturdy. curly muStache, of Awnrm. aggressive
Seemed to advertise the circumStAnco that there
First came the band. and then you came. and next
And LAST Of al. we youngsters. with . wild, hilarious
For i SSgidn't bs expected that We yOunEkits
In The rapture Of those trumpOta and that big bass
drum.
Surely, no negro minstrel manager could
agent" than the genial Mr.. Field incidentally
turned himself into: but Mr.; Haverly, not
position. as follows:
Dear Eugene Field. brnye. gentle soul.
e Heaven you survey the Whole
Memory viii in your old friends heart
Keep yours as green, Altho' we part.
Unto the day when nevermore, -.
with trumpefs ump.ta:ra-ra and the big bass drum.
se . g u ,s5Cf9! MAKING things hum
And milsing you greatly along o the band.
There Is an old adage which counsels the
wisdom OF letting well enough alone.
Charles Hoyt is himself directing the re-
hearsale OF his "A Day and a Night" at the
Garrick. Augustus Thomas is back from
Europe and at work with Tho Meddler." his
play. in which Stuart Robson will appear at
Wallack's. John Philip ,Sousa has come to
town to SEQ to his music In THE Charlatan."
which IL in preparation by De Wolf Hopper at
the Knickerbocker. Victor Herbert is busy
with his compositions for The Fortune
Teller" the vehicle for Alice Nelson at Wal
lacks.
Edward Il. Sothern brought out in Philadel-
-, - IHN-lN- -I-LA &c A oLfnI--s ut - II
by Abby Sage Richardson and Grace L. Fur
ness. 1t is described as pretty rather than
f~orceful. but 1t provides a romantic part for
Mr.. Sothern and a graceful one for Miss Harmed.
sS S9Ih1st1199e ,o Bennett fbs sPPs32 me IS on Monday sm At
B ERTinGasl9b a ao iar 1ss BY gt Charles q@s E u Blahey teT Il is
not q war play. The kind Of drummer that Miss |
tombstone represents in It Ia q travelling sales
Rose ,GGoghlan will be accompanied in her
used Is the work Of James Clarence Harvey.
III In the forthcoming pTeytuf mel9drapa attic
p rSfsoS n he ssr1 FSsn nRSer ca5v iIsiaH o1,cd the x lSIaP 6S
represented as sinking slowly into the sea and
the prisoner as being rescued in the nick OF
The, memorable Johnstown disaster was
caused by a %scoundrel. according to The MID
broke the dam in order to drown the Witnesses
rd The f f5st PsT aFTnE nc ! in p Paris ri Ct Hotel
aid Square. was peculiar. Two actors en-
Rlloyed in the current piece fell III suddenly.
The manager, instead OF Diminishing the au-
farce.
Mrs. Craigte. the John Oliver Hobbs OF Hc-
ton writing. is an American by birth and
drama current In London. a low comedy ele-
ment. consisting Of the social antics of some
very vulgar Americans supposed TO be, fairly
representative OF our manners II is said that
this matter would be deemed so false and Of
fensive here that IL will be eliminated in casa /
the piece IL brought over.
Audiences at our vaudeville theatres are not
when the name Guile is put out as
that OF the next specialist. and they are not
isyora6ly predisposed when 9 short. thick. un-
sung a dozen notes before, he gains, rapt atten-
e%onantly, TO high @ there Is enthusiasm, This
fuilis used TO sing in concerts with Adsllna
from distinction In grand opera.
a change OF paper had 70 be made, for the
because the audiences got into Q habit OF
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