Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-09
THE PASSING SHOW.
Kate Rober Succeeds Margaret
Mather At the Theatre.
Lothrop's Has Its Most Notable Engage
ment of the Year-The Bograph at
the Bijou- Items.

The Worcester Theatre, for the fourth
time this season, offers seats to its pat
rons at one-half the regular rates. Kath-
crime Rober, with a company of local
favorites, win appear in repertoire the
entire week.
At Lothrops the manager is felicitat-
ing himself ON the engagement of Ed
ward Harrigan in his best and most
highly praised drama of New York life,
"Old Lavender"
The Bijou will have it's usual list of
variety stars, and. in addition, an
nounces the first week of the great
American biograph. "the only perfect
animated picture machine"
KATHERINE ROBBR.
This great Worcester favorite returns
this season under more favorable aus
pices and with a more elaborate outfit
than ever before. Not only is she pro-
vided with a treasurer, an advance and
press agent and all the other business
staff necessary to well-conducted
dramatic production, but she boasts a
novelty in the shape of a female adver-
Using agent-a plump and pleasing per-
decidedly well-developed bumps of ac-
tivity and energy, who is capable of
taking an unresponsive victim up bodi-
ly and dumping him down in front of
the box Office There are % people in
the Rober company, and their repertoire
consists almost entirely of copyrighted
plays which Miss Rober has never given
in this city. In the company is Grace
Hamilton of this city, who plays duch-
for which her natural gifts peculiarly
fit her; also Belle Gaffney, Kitty Bing-
ham, Franklin Richie, Leonard Rowe,
Morris McHugh and others.
The repertoire for the week COM
prises: On Monday evening, Moths of
Society" new dramatization of
Ouida's powerful novel, Moths The
character of Vera Herbert fits Miss Ro-
Der as perfectly as do the beautiful
gowns she wears during the play. On
Tuesday will be given Robert Druet's
emotional drama, Doris" in which Eff
fie Ellsler starred for one or two sea-
sons, and which combines strong dra-
matte interest with terse, witty dia-
logue. On Wednesday night, the bill is
Duncan Harrison's best known play,
The Paymaster," acknowledged by ev-
cry one as a capital melodrama Thurs
day brings ''The Clemenceau Case" in
which the management have brave6
public displeasure and the risk of a
small house by cutting out the studio
scene and the sensational pose which
made the play notorious and successful
in New York. Fridays bill is "A Hero
inc in Rags which Miss Rober owns
by purchase from the author BARLEY
Campbell, and the engagement closes
Saturday night with that jolly though
naughty French farce, pink DoIni-
noes" which has not been given in this
city since the visit of the beautiful Alice
Dunning Lingard, is years ago.
The matinee bills are: Tuesday, Fan
chon;" Wednesday, "Camille;" Thurs
day "a Girl from the Circus" Friday,
Doris" and Saturday, Miss Dixie" a
new comedy with hypnotism for its
theme
The company carries its own scenery,
and the plays will all be sumptuously
staged and costumed. Miss Rober
wears several Paris gowns, and the hat
she wears in 1.-THE Clemeneeau Case is
one of three imported into this country
for Lillian Russell, Marie Jansen and
herself The stars numerous clientele
in this city, where she has had the dis
tinction of playing more times than any
other performer ever did, will insure her
a profitable engagement. The prices
are Is to so cents for evening perform
ances, and the 10-2O-30 scale for the mat