The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-19

80 - se9ar0ed - III erse4est living e.
ponent OF ybsen's characters upen fhs
stage She 10 supported by carefully
selected company. including Frederick
Montague, Miss Lettte Allen, J. r. Ryan.
Ao6xt Folsom and others
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MANAGER HOWE IL making ssrsn-
80 uoua efforts TO secure the famous
6oatcnlAns for season In this city. The
company is At present playing in San
FRANCISCO 10 enormous bus.ness. ard -
more highly spoken o. than ever by the
press throughout the country. The man
axenent Of tae company would like to
Play m engagement In Seattle. and prob
ably will II suitable railway rates can BE-
This . the only thing standing In the way
OF an engagement By this favcrite comic
opera organization.
THE CALIFORNIAN society has secured Mr..
= Alexander Mckenzie, Mss Sadie Mar
Tn, Mss Loretta Grace and the Queen
city Dramatic Club to present "fngumar
At RaEke hall next Tuesday evening. II
viii be remembered that ~ingomar" was
very successfully given in January by this
casf. Mr.. Alexander Mckenzie II an ac-
tor Of wide experience and has appeared
successfully with such eminent actors as
the late Bennett Matlock. George G. Milne
Ard Robert Downing. For three years he
WAS leading man for r. -. Mclean and
Marie Prescott Miss Sadie Martin is a
Seattle lady and is well known here as
dramatic reader.
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Mo season In theatricais is complete
~ without It's annual presentation Of
spectacular burlesque. At the Third Ave
nue. tonight s'the Spider and Fly will
supply the deficiency after having been
absent several seasons.
Leavitt's big and gorgeous production
readily ranks with the best creations OF
the scenic artists brush, and has con-
tinued In popular favor probably longer
than all others. Like all spectacular
plays there In no pretense In this one at
q story Of any kind. and the only action
IS an ever-varying series OF pictures. In
which shapeiy girls dance or march on the
stage, sing. pose, speak an Irrelevant SEN
teuee or two and melt away again into
the wings. to give place to something else.
A number OF clever specsaities are intro
duced at different times. where they win
do the most good regardless OF what has
gone before or - to follow. There are
choruses and soios, an Amazon march, In
which the costumes are stunning. and the
lights effectively handled; brass band OF
girls In natty costumes. led by = blonde
drum major, who explains their use in
adding to the gayety of nations In song.
there il q queen OF the mermaids and an
evil spirit, each with her satellites and
attendants there is Razxle Dazzle. an
English lord, who takes the principals out
on his yacht az long as the scene is on
the earth. and who appears with his party
intact--with the exception that his blue
tights have changed to yellow-when the
scene changes To the inermaids coral
srotto. the yacht having been providen-
tally wrecked for the purpose
Thirty musical numbers are included. OF
up-to-date brand. and numerous new
dances are promised 1.-The Spider and
Fly" will run all week at the Third Ave-
nue.. and already the sale and demand for
seats has been the largest of the present
season. One matinee only viii be given,
on Saturday.
THE San Francisco Music and Drama
has this to say Of Janet Waldorf.
who plays an engagement at the Third
Avenue next week:
THE introduction or Janet Waldorf to
San Francisco was a happy one and in
every way satisfactory TO the public, who
given In manner that has set the critics
and lovers of legitimate drama thinking.
Miss Waldorf has proved herself to be
versatile in the truest sense of that over
worked word, and has made good all the
advance notices that have iavfshed praise
upon her S.ie easily takes a position
among noted American actresses. and Ii
Is very evident that she vii. soon hold
her own among the best of them"