The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-24
EMBELLISHMENTS.

BURTON HOLMES LECTURE.

| BURTON HOLMES LECTURE.
The first of the Burton Holmes lee
lures was delivered in the Hyperion last
night before a small but appreciative
audience The subject was THE Ha-
| waiian Islands" 1t was descriptive OF
a summer visit to our new possessions
in the Pacific. Mr. Holmes is a splen-
did lecturer and is aptly styled the
successor of Stoddard. He should have
been greeted by a crowded house in
stead of mere handful of people. The
lecturer possesses a magnificent voice
of good carrying power, and he speaks
with a precision that is very seldom
found among lecturers of the present
day. His descriptive powers are re-
markable and he causes his hearers to
think that they are actually taking a
trip through the regions he describes.
The lecture was illustrated with colored
pictures and many of the views shown
were taken by Mr.. Holmes during re-
cent trip to Hawaii. He took his hear
ers on an imaginary tour from Califor-
MIA through the principal points of in
terest in the islands, describing all the
places as he went. The lecture was
followed by a number of motion pic
lures projected on the screen by the
acknowledgement. The next lecture
will be given on March 6, the subject
being "Fez, the Metropolis of the
Moor"
MRS. FISKE TONIGHT AT THE
HYPERION.
Mrs Fiske will present the following
plays at the Hyperion: Tonight, Love
Finds the Way" Saturday matinee
"Magda;" Saturday night "Tess of the
D'Urbervilles." While '"Tess of the
Urbervilles" marches with a terrible
directness to it's fatal conclusion, as
that conclusion relates to it's chief char
acters, there are in few tragedies so
much of incidental matter that foils the
prevailing note of sadness as it found in
this unusual play. The contrasting hap
piness and carelessness of many of the
characters may serve to bring out all
the clearer the fatality that pursues
Tess yet the lighter threads in the
dramatic fabric are very effective in
adding to the dramatic interest and
qualifying the strain that would devel-
OPP distress IN an duQlenCe II the climax
of the murder were led up to without
the incidental comedy Mrs. Fiske Won
derfully assists the happiness in the
play in the second act, where, after the
wedding she romps with the children
and encourages the lighter moods of
the milkmaids. In these scenes she
gives token of her power as a come
dienne, although her transition to the
deepest wretchedness after her confess
sion to her husband follows quickly af-
ter There has been a good sale of
seats for all the performances Prices
75c 81 and $1.50.
WILBUR OPERA COMPANY.
The celebrated and popular Wilbur
Opera company, which appears at the
Hyperion for one week only, commence
ing with the matinee next Monday.
February n, is now on it's eighteenth
annual tour Of the United States, and
comes better and stronger equipped
than ever A complete carload of cos
tunes, and another carload of para
phernalia for the proper production of
the famous Wilbur high art living pic
lures, are carried, and Manager Wilbur
that no $3.50 company mounts (
It's productions any finer. During the |
seventeen years OF the company's ex-