The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-02
DIVERSION ON THE STAGE.
FIRST TIMES AND REPETITioNs OF
ITTRhCTIVE PLAYS.


Chaunccy olcott has come back to the Four
tecnth street Theatre with Sweet Inniscarrn,"
and that Irish drama by Augustus Pitou is
given with new costumes and scenery, with the
company rather better than before and with
the former lot of tuneful Irish ballads added TO.
Cumberland 81" has been brought to the
Grand Opera House with the same remarkable
cast that won success for 1t during a long term
nj another house, except that the heroine Is
now played by Marie Shotwell, a brilliant and
emotional actress, and May G~alloway.is charm
ingly piquant as the ingenious girl. 'The
Gcisha'' is at the Harlem Opera House again
with Nancy Mcintosh, Virginia Earle and
others from the DAILY forccs. Paul Jones' 10
the weeks revival at tho American, with the
fayorltes of tho Castle Square company taking
the principal characters. The Silver King"
Is at the star, and an equally well-known melo-
drama, The sporting duchess, is at the Co.
lurlhus.
William II. Crane has commanded the atten-
ton Of the theatrical public with Eugene w.
Ircsbrcy's ingenious new-old comedy at the
Knlckcrbockcr. Fanny Davenport has shown
n pictorial treatment of tho Maid of Orleans'
In Frances .lymar Matthews Joan at tho
Fifth Avenue, where she will give way TO
Modjeska at the end Of tho week. Charles
Coghlan and 'The Royal Box will at the same
time Yield to Henry Miller and THE Master
at the Garden, Robert billiard and "A New
Yorker to 20, susannahl" at Hoyt,s, Julie
Cir" 10 Way Down East" at the Manhattan.
GsaiiiO. . n.Aryil9 has taken the ,,Ip r1h% Ina, Gonna
and not alone in that part. but,in all the scenes
In wh'Gh ,x she he i aBsTse. much !aTS. iF% oTsoSens atri Il
had souvenirs at the Casino last night. Tho
smoothly continued plays include ''The Con.
agerors' At the Empire ,, The fi,, Tre H; 81 kn9T VI
s sSs' e a. snG i'ySS1rTh% e White ihe hi HestS @,H''. az the he
Academy OF Mu.ss tS Tine GIL from Paris at
Employed in ySadsssille at the continuous "
, mo bo STs Maurice at p sapEyrH0FTfb e nSa,nq hili aRa
Burkhart, Lydia Yeamans Titus and Al Leech,
a. the Pleasure Palace; the C%oulters. Alice
song sheet, at Keitn's, and Bobby Gaylor and
tie Countess Xon Hstzteldt, for past9E'si
Music hall diversion t his is; at w weber tMo & h FieldsSi;
SP n no%s c ca E%@r'e AZ Roster fnS% On" Z B a%H i It IS al ii
speclSltics, ,Lottie Collins and Romenyi being
the Harlem. Burlettas and specialties make
up the two daily programmes at Sam T. Jacks,
Whero Jennie anna Is conspicuous.
A new iiom an hour long in the offerings of
the Eden MnsGe is the series OF passion Play"
views from the cinematographe, over a score
and vocal and instrumental music. sIn the
basement of this resort a new wax group adds
huOIDcr HlClIlOu IL t1CCutlOu W nus dLrchuy
shown here.
The matinees given by LVe have caused
hoarticr laughter than that comic weekly ever
melted Intentionally. It's experience In the
show business may be pitiful to itself. but is
amusing to others, though these do not include
al tho people who were fooled at the Astoria.
Lies intention was not knavish. 1t merely
meant to boost itself and q fresh air fund jointly.
A hundred Of our fashionable and wealthy ma
irons were induced to lend their names as pa
tronesses' Of four stage shows and breakfasts
at $l4 for the lot. These sponsors were SO
potent that about a thousand tickets for the
series were sold. Tho promise was made that
eminent actors.would give the performances.
But it happens that Life publishes each week q
page about the drama. 1t is signed by James
B. Motcalfe and consists in the main Of stun
birds Of prey fly in the space between Journal
lam, and the stage, alighting with downy gen.
, sscfinr on Raf Sf'f st t hsns t ihss % Rsti n them fh ess
creatures have Of late been sticking their bills
into some Of our worthiest actors and mana
characterized by yirulent assaults on the direc-
tors of our best theatres. Therefore. when Life
had from any Of the companies controlled by
The victims OF Metcalfe's maltreatment. Actors
az the head Of their own companies. too, like
Davenport, all of whom have been handily In
town. declined to give their services. The
kind of sins against. stage art and honesty.
DO the matinees fell Off from q weak first one
TO q worse seconu and q ridiculous third, while
the fourth, IN which recourse was had In des-
peration to the inleceneies OF the music halls.
was such an insult as society" had never be-
tised. but, when she learned that she would be
the only seemly performer, she refused to keep the
sngngEem ne H., Of course. the audience was Dis
aid Anna Held and Clara Lipman deliver their
irdecorous but witty songs. as promised. But
OF tho wanton widow and accompanied it with
q shameful dance; but neither song nor dance
were Kissed; Then she gave q still moro vile
Thing from her nesty repertory. and It was then
that an exodus of women took place. Some of
last, but others quit the hotel, seemingly too
hfauseatGd to eat until they had breathed some
Lies pitiful experience in the show business.
and they, show how Mr.. Mitchell, the neat edi.
s .Tfi asd frao M Miller, the clean publisher have
their little nest.
Clyde Fitch calls his play for Effe Shannon
anu Herbert Kelley 'Reaping the Whirlwind."
The principal scene is taken from his -one.act
play, Harvest" which, with its bold and
strong episode Of an interrupted wedding. was
The only striking production Of the Theatre of
Arts and Letters two years ago. The arrange.
ment OF Thackeray's Henry Esmond," which
"len McDonough and Louis Shipman had
made for Edward sothern. is named 1.-The Head
~ uhe HOUSE II will be acted next month.
DnG5tless the authors, in view of the changes
when they have made from the novel, such as
Ihs'marrlage Of Redtrir and Esmond, preferred
ny 10 cal attention TO the source OF their work.
NIIlon LaCkayc will act next in a play made
from Levers Charles O'Malley." He will not
,nfypnotihe the audiences in tho ''continuous''
iTea,reS with his condensed ..'rrilby." After
T.. A. Du SOuchct produced "My Friend from
the sane success, My Wifo's Step. Husband"
was temporarily given up, but II viii he acted
h i%T G Ss Whom D.a lie Marry and the mat.
liSTns's now play, The Rev. GriHth Dayen.
port proves to be taken from a novel, AN
holNclal PATRIOT" j.. II. Stoddart is to be
lumber Of Ian. Maclaren's stories. A melo.
nFana called THE Victoria Cross is announc-
Ma MI . tpr production here. This cannot be the
p"| OF the same name by Paul NJ. Potter.
mo entrances to the Grand as at present
arranged are like an army camp, and close
INSPECTION Of the wide corridors that run from
f'"'1h avenue and .Twenty-third street bears
OUT Tie suggestion. Even after the ticket
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