The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-05
THIS WEEK ON OUR STAGE.
DTTBRsE TREITRIoAJ AMUSEMENTs
- IN TIE SUMM Err SEASON.

Ellis by the DrauaAtic ana NIusicaI stock
Companies - Some Novelties IN Vaudeville
Tho production OF the week at tho American
Theatre will be THE bohemian Girl" Judi.
cious selection from tho several Castle Square
companies seems to have provided an efficient
east. Grace Golden is the choice for the stolen
girl, Lizzie Macniohol the gypsy queen. Joseph
Y. Shoehan the Polish exile. William Broderlck
the sorrowing count, Arthur woolley the fop-
pish nephew, and Douglas Flint tho gypsy chief.
Thras new sets of scenery will be shown. and
extra picturesqueness 10 promised for the on
eampment and the fair. "The Bohemian Girl"
will be the last Of tho grand operas at the Amer
lean this season. Light and comic pieces will
make suitable summer entertainment.
SLrauss's particularly melodious operetta,
"Die Fledermaus. is q perennial favorite with
our German residents. and its airs are familiar
generally, but not within q dozen years has an
English version been performed in this city.
The steindorfr stock company will now devote
a week to It at the Harlem Opera House. This
organization has made q ~hrst-rato start It's
performances thus far have been such as to
omman artistic respect while yielding pop
ular amusement.
The Lenox Lyceum, at Madison avenue and
Ffty.ninth street, 10 open as n summer resort
for music under Rudolph Aronson's manage
mont. The Banda Rosa gives concerts in the
NbANA h1o SOh eSSS
rated, and around 1t a promenade has been ar
ranged, while the central portion has tables and
chairs for those who desire to sit, and perhaps
drink, as they listen. The palm garden has
been made attractive, too. The admission price
10 q quarter of q dollar. Tho first programme is
made up Of music of a high grade. with some
concessions to popularity.
The first Of the suburban resorts to open itself
to the public with theatrical entertainment is
perpan Ranch A musical eXtrnva0hnHn entl-
tied Tho Cash Cir" is played in the Casino.
It has scenes in a department store and In o
concert hall, and itR performers make up . com
plement of comedians, soubrettes. and chorus.
A separate vaudeville show Is given on the pier
by assorted specialists. A band of music plays
in the palm garden. A company Of divers and
swimmers disports in the water. These things
are planned to popularize Bergen Beach this
season, and the management declares that 1t
shall DO made respectable. too.
The Mordaunt-Block stock company will
bring cut Captain Swift" in its weekly sue
cession Of old dramas at the Columbus. II will
be recalled as ono of the later productions of the
Palmer time at the Madison Square. Its hero
has been an Australian bandit, but in the action
Of the play no figures as a gentleman in Lon
don until his character Is exposed, whereupon
he kills himself. This role has been allotted to
Edwin Arden. Recruits will be disclosed in
Werner Charges and Mabel Bort. Others in the
cast are Mr.. Ables, Mr.. Massen, Mrs. Rial, and
Miss Wheeler.
The play at the Herald Square will be
Diplomacy" with much the same cast that It
had there two weeks ago. Miss Walsh, Mr..
Davenport, Mr.. Mordaunt, and Mr.. Boucicault
will have their former roles, while Una Abell
will enact the daughter and Annie Clarke the
marquise. The previous performances by the
Mordaunt-Blook company were excellent. in
anna PaanACta brilliant and bAarinp without
detriment those severe tests of comparison with
Wallack casts which people with sharp memo
ries are ever ready to impose. This Sardou
comedy ages without any impairment Of inter.
est. As much cannot DO said of all tho pieces
that are being revived.
A change of play by Minnie Maddern Fiske
serves to prolong her term at the Fifth Avenue,
and at the same time to shift her services from
serious German matter to that which 10 friskily
French. Mrs. Fisko's earlier years on tho stage
were devoted to comedy, and now in "Divor-
cons there will be an opportunity to laugh at
her again. She is not new in the part Of sar-
recaptured husband.
A week remains to Maude Adams and The
Little Minister" at the Garrick, and one night
after that at the Empire. as 1t has been decided
10 give the 3OOth performance at the sam
The occasion promises TO be unusual. There
will be souvenirs so fine. SO the management
ba1Bt LuhL luLuEo NCutuICb Ia tulS IL Will
have to be rash and reckless. to come anywhere
near then" + it were not for hot weather, no
Scotch comedy 300 more times;
The expectation Is declared at the Lyeenm
until a hundredth performance. That would
extend its run half way through the summer.
mont for a play without music or pictorial aids
to enable II to Withstand hot weather. Mr.; KEEL
f fsgs AND %i Mis M shG FiPSS,s haze pisc hit ap pG0n NO good Soab tO f.
will serve for their tour all next season.
E Thi' d Il the %snSsttsn. w'f Ths 81 isot MT psr R I
ance on June 10 win have souvenirs. Mr.. Sea
mon. who OnHcts tho incidental constable and
with a wooiien string" was taken III the Other
night. and Manager Brady played the part; but
dramatically rs PhG5e Davies. but diVortInE in
his hit of characterization.
at the. Academy of Music, where its episode oil
representation Of the retreat and rally OF Union
soldiers in 2 REALISTIC fashion: The space bach
permit the use Of many horses and much artil
leEy to represent a desperate battle. ry,
son. Henry E. Dixey, Pauline Hall and Lull
CHASER in the cast. will last at the Casino two
tiSe q ' sm sstra Aessr eRf Sy Norton No amn% and R Rsfk.i
will DO made. This theatre Is exceptional y
and the style Of entertainment is always breez!
and ,gauzy. To foster and satisfy this vogue
fresh play is brought out at a time of the yea
The bargain to he offered this week at tn
Star Will consist of "The Mascot" the lightnes
and 5Tlghtness OF which should make II &C
d. Hall will play the Rood-luck girl. and tn
other chsrScters Of imp9rt%nce will be takel
Mr.. bradley. Mr.. Sturges. Mr.. Dickerson, an,
Mr.. Vogel. There Is no intimation that tn
season OF the comic opera company here will
not last during the summer.
The vaudeville theatres present a good pre-
portion of fresh matter. An unusual must
hall number will be new at Roster & Bial's Il
morrow night. 1t Is a musical extravaganza
tho words by Joseph Herbert and tho music b
Max Gabriel, entitled Cooks Tour" Thre
elaborate sets of new scenery have been provit
y cd for 1t, and an unusually expensive lot of ii
terpreters have 1t in hand. Georgia Game. j
Bephine Hall. Ada Lewis. Chrissie Carlyle, JIG
OFT. Eddie Girard. jacques Kruger, John Sli
win. and uarrY Kelly AFRO some OF them.