The Worcester spy., 1898-10-02


Tuesday evening, James O'Neill in
Monte CristoS'
Wednesday evening. "McFadden's
Row of Flats"
Thursday evening, "The Geisha.'
Saturday, matinee and evening,
"What Happened to Jones'"
LoTHRoP's OPERA HOUSE.
All the week with matinees on Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday. "On Lard
and Sea-"
MANAGER RoCKhasbookeda another
week at the Worcester Theatre and the
bill he has provided should satisfy all
tastes. On Monday evening James
O'Neill will present his new play,
when Greek Meets Greek" from the
novel by Joseph Hatton. Mr.. O'Neill
has strong company this year, his
leading woman being Minnie Radcliffe.
Among the others in his company are
Kate Fletcher, Hugh Cameron, w. ].
Dixon, Louise Collins, Ed l.. Breese,
Mark Ellsworth. Aubrey Beattie, JOS
eph Hawk, T.. C. Lingham, Elizabeth
Breese, Frederick Hartley and others.
Mr.. O'Neill has strong piece in his
new play, and one that should prove
a winner If people Ns1 take him as
he is and not be Of the Union that he
can do nothing other nan Monte
Cristo.p O'Neill has done other good
work. notably in 'Vlrginius," and in
when Greek Meets Greek" he has a
play that should prove winner.
THE STORY Of the play is as follows:
The two Greeks in this case are two
half brothers. One, Henri du Fourn-
ier, is a young French nobleman, we'd
ded by birth and inclination to the tra-
ditions of an empire aristocracy. The
other, Grebauval, occupies the impor-
tant position of deputy of the revolu-
tionary tribunal, during tine reign of
Robespierre.a The two men therefore,
although half brothers, are as unlike
in every respect as an aristocrat and
an anarchist might be presumed to be.
On only one point do their feelings con-
centrate, namely gaining the heart
and hand of Mathilde de Louvet,
young and beautiful woman of distin-
guished parentage, and who is in love
with Henri. Monsieur Cfrcbauyal did
not lose much time i'll having both
Henri and Mathilde incarcerated be-
hind stout prison walls. Henri, MAX
ing his escape, meets che deputy in his
own office, dispatches him quickly, as
sumes his coat, air and lnein and pro-
ceeds to dispense the sacred functions
of the deputy's office without any one
being the wiser. Through these means
he Is able to save Mathilde, aid thus
s-cut the gordian knot of complications.
ON TUESDAY evening Mr.. O'NeiL
will present his weiI-known romantic
drama, Monte Cristo,p work Of
which the American theatre-going pub
lie never seems to tire. In O'Neills s
hands, it has become a classic. He
should have large audience each
night.
THE ATTRACTION on Wednesday
evening will be "McFaddens Row Of
Flats" The piece is E. w Town
sends dramatizatiop of R. F. ,out-
cault's funny characters, and though
it has little plot, there is lots of fun
in it. Among the members of the
company are Joseph ]. Sullivan, Sadie
c, Connolly, Harry Crandau, Carrie
Webber, Charles Morgan, Speck Bros,
Harry r. Watson, Ida More
land, Maude Mcdonald, May Hamil-
ton, Charles T. Newton and Kittie
Gordon.
"THE GEISHA" will return to the
Worcester Theatre on Thursday even
ing, and the pretty musical comedy
should attract large audience. The
story Of the play should be familiar
but it will bear repeating. The piece
is in two acts, the first being the "Tea
House Of Ten Thousand joys; the Sec
ond a "Chrysanthemum Fete in the
Palace Gardens" The time is the pres
ent and the action of the play takes
place in Japan, outside the treaty
limits. A party of English naval Off
GERS discover the geisha, who afford
ed them much amusement. Then a
party of English ladies appear on the
scene The chief of the geisha at
tracts the governor of the province,
who wishes to marry her; and when he
hears her singing to an Englishman,
he deprives the proprietor of the tea
house of his license and sells at pub
lie auction all his goods and chattels,
including the singing and dancing
girls The governor desires to buy one
and the one he intends to buy is
bought by an English lady, who out
bids him. One of the foreigners, by
Disgusting herself as a geisha, is ac-
tually sold to the governor instead.
This considerably mixes matters, but
eventually there is a general disentan-
clement, and of course everything ends
satisfactorily.
ON SATURDAY afternoon and even
ing, What Happened to JONES'" one of
the funniest farces on the road, will be
the bill. Jones is drummer for hymn
books and playing cards. Among the
personages associated with him are a
circumspect ofsssor, with an exact
ing wife, two confiding daughters and
a young ward who Is not so confiding;
the professors brother, a bishop; a
spinster, in love with the bishop; a
friend Of Jones, in love with one of the
confiding daughters demented fellow
who thinks he is an Indian; a police
man, in pursuit Of JONES' and a Swedish
servant girl who may be intrusted with
family secrets If she Is well paid. The
scenes are laid in the professors house,
where Jones Is made acquaintance at
a prize fight that ended In a row, in
which both Jones and the professor
were participants, and Jones is neces-
sary to account for the professor s
black eye The pursuit of the police
makes it expedient for Jones to disguise
himself, and he dons the dress of the
bishop, who is due to arrive from Aus
tralia. but who has had suit ordered
in advance. Jones takes the place of the
bishop brother the bishop-uncle, the
op-sweetheart, and even main
tains his incogrito after the real bishop
arrives, who, in turn, is mistaken for
the man who thinks he is an Indian.
The company includes: Bert C. Thayer,
u. Soldene Powell, Bernard McDon-
ough, Frank Hope, Philip Calvert,
Chas Greene, Adelaide Thurston
Blanche Johnson, Eleanor Broadhay
Helen Harcourt, Kate Weston, Francis
Lois Clarke.
At Lothrop's this week Davis &
Keoghs meiodrama, "On Land and
Sea- win be performed for the first
time in this city 1t is a new piece and