The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-06
OF THEATRICAL INTEREST.
ROSTER e. BT4L'S TO RETtRN TO
THEIR ORIGINAL POLICr.

CLOSES bntil l.ute IN August
When Alfred f. Aarons's term OF manage
mcnt Of Roster 4 Balls cnmo to an end last
week. Roster Bial 4 Co. announced that the
music hall would not he run on exactly the
same lines rs have prevailed there for the last
few seasons 1t is their intention to revive the
class OF show that was given when the Thirty
| fourth street house was first opened. That Is
, 10 say. solely vaudeville. There will be no
more ballets. burlcsqucs or even one act SIX etch
| es there. The management says also that they
are done with coon" acts KostcrG Balls was
the pioneer music hall in America. In fact. 1t is
the only one that this city has ever had with
the exception Of Olympia az it was when liam
merstein first opened It, His Victoria. the New
York and Weber Il Fieldss are In reality bur
lesque theatres. There Is the artistic in vaude-
| Vile as well as in drama. That Is what Roster
| Balls supplied New York with until few
seasons oEo Cissie LOTUS made her Amer
| lean debut there. SO did Albert Chevalier and
| Eugene Stratton. Such performers as IOic
Fuller Yvette Gulbort and Alice Atherton.
who are rightfully termed artists. have np-
reared there. Sandow. Paul Cinquevall Jules
Levy Marie Lloyd the Hawthorne sisters.
| Anna Held. Gautcr. Otaro and Josephine
Sabel are only II few OF the we-known names
that have appeared on their programmes fire.
| quently in the past Later the music hall
! ceased to give strictly vaudeville bill A bal
| let was brought over from London. with little
| success series OF witlcss burlesluos were
| played by clever people. who were. however.
unable to mako them amusing Then the
| fined class OF New York thcatregoers. who have
from the first frequentcd Roster 4 Balls Thir-
| ty-fourth street house. were insultcd with
gross pantomme. AN Affair Of Honor" had
not even the artistic excuse that some other
! stage indecencies have boosted Of. CisSe I.Of-
tus, who had come to this country to appear
there. had to break her contract in order to re-
tain her self respect. Roster. Bial & Co promise
that all that shall be changed now. Also. they
will require every performer to give a full re-
hearsa in costume before they will be permit
ted to appear on the stage of the music hall.
Anything that is in the slightest offensive to
decency will DO cut out American and foreign
performers will be treated the same in this re-
spect. This leads to the mention Of another
statement stat, made by the management . They
gage only European actors Nationality will be
LETT entirely out OF the question in the future.
| 1t il their desire to give the best and most
artistic in vaudeville to tho public, no matter
whether the actor comes from Paris or Hack
| ensack.
Every roof garden in the city has at least one
troupe Of trained animals this summer. The
lack Of new tricks that can be taught to beasts
usually makes this form Of entertainment dull
Some monkeys OF the roof OF IIammersten's
Victoria do an act, and long one. too made UP
entirely of new stunts" one Of the funniest
Of these is n bicycle race The simians mount
their wheels and ride around in small circle
two or three times for practice. Gallett. the
trainer. announces that the contest will consist
Of making three laps Of the ring and the win
ncr to receive an apple. At this ono OF the
monkeys removes his coat and trousers in de-
cded manner. as much as to say, Il may lose.
but not without struggle" He reveals him
| splf Of biOvpla guit
The word Is given to start. and they go rather
slowly. but watching each others progress in
tently. When they have gone around three
times they stop. and Gallett asks an assistant
who is standing near by. which he thinks is
the winner An argument ensues in which
the trainer says that the big, monkey won aud
the assistant claims that the little one did
his rival The, victor and fights him on the plat
form. Another amusing sketch done by the
srSer s i G 6e IL
one OF the monkeys and to the, other, is given a
G3% 81 that The
question Jumps w and pulls off the towel. He
il assured that no harm will come to him. and
barber goes at him with, cup and and a
lathering brush t H., Again ga! the tow" is grabbed
paws go up in a challenge, to do battle. boxing
gloves are brought, and what started in a
'm mo- S on
they are equally matched and neither wllliag
|
beasts go through this act is truly amusing
1t has been decided to bring tho run Of " His
Excellency the Governor" to an end next Sat
urday night. The excellent business which
has been done by this comedy. despite the un-
favorable weather, had made it seem likely
that the Empire would be kept open through
out July. but now it is thought advisable to
close Owing to its really solid success. Mr.
Marshall's play will be the opening bill OF the
season. starting on Aug. %.
II is said that Mrs. 7. Benton Letter. the Chi
cago society woman who played for one week
at the Pleasure Palace In onc-act play. will
give up acting as bad job and once more be-
come a social butterfly. What about the hard
luck story about an invalid husband whom she
had to support
The drama with Robespierre as the central
season. is being written for him by Charles
Vivian .Clcrise OF the Clerise sisters an
nonnces that she was married three weeks ago
to Karl WeiXe!baum.
raG"ment At the CoLumbla ,Th"a!re; ,WashiHs;
2q GGEHnnSS nfESs 4SnHa arc o E
plays. That is certainly repertory to gladden.
th S h@nFf Of a% IS to- have dramntznon
MIHSSr %"E f. TRs q f TSo ti r% "as$
Hst WIN LONDON BY Mar fS H HS ca'''
The vaudeville company known as Al Leech
|
farce for the continuous shows. II is hy George
NJ. Cohen. and is called What tho Doctor
Ordered"
Bert Coote will star next season in Tho
New Boy" which was something Of a frost
when played in New York at tho Standard a
few years ago.
When Mildred Holland goes ont with Two
Little Nagrants' next winter she viii alternntr
the part Of one OF the boys and the principal
female character.
Augustus Thumas's play "Ari2ona." which
was produced In Chicago this spring. will prob
ably be seen at Wallacks about Christmas
time.
Eddie Foy Is to star throughout tho country
in Hotel Topsy Turvy next season. playing
the same part that he did here at tho Herald
square. -
A meodrama called The Queen Of the
Lcffrcys Lewis in the principal part.
The report that Frank Daniels will produce
his new opera. The Amer Mt Manhattan
Beach this summer is unfounded. He is said
to be writing lihrctto himself TO follow this
work hv Victor Herbert.
The cast Of The Maid in the Moon" tho
one hour burleslu" hy Richard earle and
Ernlnr ri Solomon which IL ba for ba