The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-11
KeIth's New Theatre.

Probably there are no greater favor
ties among comedians who are well
known here than John G. Rice and
Sally Cohen, who are the "headliners"
OF the Keith program for the coming
week. They were last seen at keith's
old house in "Courted Into Court" one
OF the greatest successes OF last year.
and scored perhaps the biggest hit they
ever made in Providence. In vaude-
Vile they have fully equaled the favor
won i'm legitimate comedy. and are to-
day considered as in the very front
rank of popular attractions at the high
est-class vaudeville houses. Al Keith
they VIII present a farce In one act by
Herbert Hall Winslow, entitled our
Honeymoon" which is said TO be one
OF the most hilariously iaughaDle skits
OF the kind yet seen on the vaudeville
stage, peculiarly adapted TO the effect
utilization OF the abilities OF Mr.. Rice
and MISS Cohen. the story deals with
the billing and cooling period OF new
ly-married couple, each OF whom has
become a trifle restiVe and desires some
variation from the monotony of the
honeymoon but neither OF whom dares
TO express such a desire ~ the other.
His preference is for a prize fight and
hers for n dance. In order To accom-
plish his purpose, he pretends To be go
ing TO a camp -meetin, and as the prize
tight he really attends is interrupted
by the police in great confusion, he re-
turns in very battered and wrecked
condition. out OF this situation and
the fact that the wife oVerhears him
describing his experiences, some highly
amusing complications result, includ-
ing the husbands becoming imbued
with the idea that his wife has attended
the same fight and his solemn reproof
TO her for doing so. Miss Cohen has an
opportunity for song and dance ana
Mr.. Rice is afforded ample chance ID
display his versatility and his clever
ness as a comedian of the higher order.
Wood and Shepard. long famous as
musical comedians, but who have been
in Europe for long time, have return
cd home with an entirely new act, which
is said TO be in every respect an i'm
proVement over the one familiar 10
theatres goers in the past: and they are
placed high in the bill with the expecta-
tion that they viii repeat the hit they
have made i'm the other theatres Of the
Keith circuit.
The new series OF notion pictures to
he shown by the Biograph will be rem
dered notable from the fact that the
management has decided to yield to the
persistent demand FOR the return OF the
faVorite picture OF the First Rhode ISL
and Regiment. or Providence Pets,
on parade This is undoubtedly the
most popular of all the hundreds of pie
lures shown by the Biograph here. and
may be expected To have an additional
interest at this time because of the
prospective return OF the regiment to
this state. Among the other views are
the following: Facial expression OF a
boy receiving a shock from an electric
battery; military exercises at Alder
shot; Neapolitan dance i'm the ruins OF
Pompeii interrupted - soldiers on duty
quelling bread riots; perilous situation
of man caught on a single-track rail-
road trestle and narrow escape from an
approaching train, hanging over the
girders: the American Line Steamer St.
Paul after being converted from a
United Ctates cruiser; an intoxicated