The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-05
AMUSEM ENTS.


The ~uopular actress, Kate Claxton,
opened a weeks engagement last nlgnt
az the Academy of Music in that peren-
Mai favorite. .sThe Two Orphans
When a play has been presented over I'VE
thousand times, it is certainly unnecs-
sary to give it's plot in detail. Everybody
is familiar with the story of the W
Young girls who. arriving in. Paris, are
so cruelty separated and treated 70 suen'
trials and tribulations a. NJ them ioi
the front rank of Christian martyls:
Everybody knows the unInitigated villalny
of the two F~rochards who absolutely ue-
cline to show even a ray OF nunlaH hliiu-
their atrocious conduct extracts from the
enthusiastic gallery gods 4he pay 70
one in which the agony IS piled up SO N
du~striously thar om4y lhs a fo rn;sbt IN the
last act makes it possible for the au-
dience to endure it. 800
Miss Claxton.. Of course; appeaTea n ht irS
girl. Ii is superfiuous to say Sne mace
the most of the part and brought out an
it's narrowing possibilities, Her sulelo
ing in the snowstorm made the audience
feel cold. and so great was the applause
when Pierre tried to cover her ~akeane
with his own ragged coat lhat u Wa
clear every man in the house was aching
10 offer her his. In all the scenes sne'
was pathetic. but in the last act she rose
to Intensity and tragedy. Perhaps, now,
ever. the most surprising
was in the fifth act. which shows Henriet-
les chamber on the sixth story OF an
apartment house. The elevation Is
proved by the remark of a gentleman VINO
* fhreafened with a too rapid descent
tbraiieh the window by another gentle
man. Almost Immediately after the
blind girls voice is nearo ano a ie" I'M
dow. How she accomplished this feat
was left unexplained.
Miss Ethel Brandon played Henriette,
~Dba tn oUaFThn6E'S Sails
faction and was applauded at each stage
of the performance. Virtue and us
trinmpfls created wild enthusiasm last
night. Her lover. Chevalier de Vaudry,
was ably portrayed by Brandon Hurst;
who caused evil doors to tremble and
-ciiaInpioned the weak and lowly.
Pierre. the cripple, was well treated at
the hands of ". ]. Ashley. and Thomas
Doyle made Jacques Frochard as f1endish
as the greatest lover of the horrible could
desire.
who depicted La Frochard. and Henry
Stockbrfdge. who played Picard. the valet.
deserve especial mention. They were
of ranting. Picard. however. would hard
" have survived the evening in Herr
elites room. His familiarity with his
master would have received It's merlted re-
ward.
Tho other parts were:ZCountess de
LINERS. Maggie Harold; Marianne, an
outcast Dorothy Hqrnbsrt; Sister Gene g;sv
a. T. Ah ~ K 49, -
o'connor: Julie, witt song. Dorothy Hum
bert: Fiorette, Fanny Yantic; Cora, Miss
Franci; Count de LINERS, George Becks;
Marquis de Presles, Frank A. Connor;
Doctor of Hospital st. Louis and st. Sal
petriere. G. A. Auburn; NJ. de Maillley,
Philip Eveson; Martin. a citizen OF Paris,
Stephen Prince; Antoine. Arthur Sprague.
officer of the guard, Spencer H. Cone.
"The Two Orphans will be at the
Academy all the week with the usual
mat;nees.
May Hoxardss Extravaganza Co.
The sprightly members ofMay Towards
Extravaganza Co. made their bow at the
Bon Ton last evening to a full house. and
that Mays Company is far superior to
her husbands show Of last week goes
without saying. The entertainment was
of the usual character; that Is, opening
and closing with a buriesque with an olio
sandwiched in In the olio the
work Of Udell and Pearce was far ahead
of the merry makers, their singing was
fine and their comedy work of the first
order.
Minnie Henshaw proved herself a COM
medicine Of no mean order. Some of
the alleged tough girls could take les
sons from Minnie. Fannie De Coster also
deserves special mention; she possesses a
rich full contralto voice, and, what is