The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
Worcester Theatre
Offers Three New
Attractions.
THE MARION CLARK CASE STAGED
Old and New Favorites Are
Engaged for the Week
At the Park.

Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday the
Marion Clark case will occupy the at
tention of the patrons of the Worcester
theater, where Howard Halls new
feur-act play, Kidnapped in New
York vii! hold the boards for the three
evenings and Wednesday matinee. The
play is I sensational melodrama, bring
ing in the most dramatic incidents Of
the case to the best advantage. Nat
urally the central figure is u child
Gorgeous scenery is to be used, and
vivid lite-like pictures Of the celeb: ated
kidnapping case are promised. A large
company of competent players will in
terpret the various characters, with.
Barney Gilmore, the character actor
and comedian, formerly of the team Of
Gilmore and Leonard as the star in the
role of Mr. Dooley, the detective
On Thursday. Sporting Life" VIII be
seen for the first time in Worcester.
The play which is English in plot, Is
by Cecil Raleigh and Seymour Hicks
authors of the Sporting Duchess" 1t
is said to be replete with strong dram
attic situations and thrilling climaxes,
and the scenic Establishment is de-
claged to surpass in magnitude and
beauty any similar presentation ever
given in America. The most attractive
of the Is mammoth scenes are the big
training stables in the first act, Wood
stock hall in act two the Earrs court
exhibition and Hotel Cecil in the third
act; Covenant Garden and the
Nationai Sporting club in ac- four,
and two views of the EPSON Downs
race course in the fifth act The hero
OF the play is a spendthrift English
lord. who squanders his fortune with
reckless profigacy. but saves his hon
or. The story is described as absorb
lngly interesting, and deals in an in.
telhgent way with the manly sporting
life of an English gentleman. TIE ac-
ton is rapid and the interest sustained
to the emo, when the hero wirs tine
great Derby and regains his fortune.
together with the girl he loves. The
cast is excellent, and among the 200 or
more people employed, are found the
names OF many of the most capable
American actors
Charles H. Yale's THE Evil Eve" is
the play for Friday and Saturday. with
Saturday matinee. 1t runs the entire
gamut of stage creation, from grand
opera and grand ballet to farce and
song and dance; from mystifying
scenes of enchantment in a castle far
above the Rhine, to a village in the
lowlands of Holland from the grave to
gay; from one thing to another, in such
swift progress that the enhanced mind
Of the spectators remembers naught
else Of ordinary life than to give natur-
al expression to his approval is CHARTS
III. Yale's latest and greatest creation,
1.-The Evil Eye, or the Many Merry Mis-
hapS Of Md and the Weird. Wollderful
Wapderings of Nod a
The production is full of mystifying
mechanical effects, such as were made
dear to the heart by the old-time
Humpty- Dumpty." but as far ahead Of
sHumpty- Dumpty'' as the electric light
is ahead OF the tallow dip. The story,
most briefly told,@is about Mid and Nod
twin mutes, who save their sister from
falling into the deadly clutches Of a
horrible villain, who is a jettatori or a
man with an evil eye, whose very
glance 10 whitening to all who fall un-
der it. The interest in the story is