The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-15
NOTABLE ENGAGEMENT.
Lydia Yeamans Titus TO Appear at
Keith's Next Week.
She viii Sing Coon Songs and Ballads and
Give ImpeTsoaatiOnS.

The management OF keith's new
theatre announces for next week a
special engagement that promises u
be quite as notable in It's way as that
of Cissie LOTUS. which proved the
| most successful ever played I'm Provi-
dence theatre.
IL is that of Lydia Yeamans Titus.
America $ peerless lyric artistic and
comedienne. who has never been con-
sidered to have a rival in her peculiar
line. Miss Titus has never been seen
IN Providence: but probably there is no
living American actress who has trav-
eied so extensively ana whose name Is
known so well and who has achieved
such marked artisIIc trlumphs in al
most every quarter OF the globe. Dur
ing the past few years Miss Titus has
passed most of ner time i'm London.
Mhere sne nolds place in popular
iaNor never attained by any other
american artiste. ane. she has but lust
returned To this country expressly 10
MI limited engagement on the Keith
circuit, after which she will return 10
England. her engagement In Proyi-
ueh9e e being limited 10 positively one
week only.
Years ago Miss Titus was known as
tnv greatest Topsy. in Uncle Toms
Cabln, that the American stage had
produced, and since then her abilities
as mimic and impersonator, to-
sethef with her rare vocal gifts and
her wonderful magnetism have gained
FOR her a place in which she stands
alone. She has been termed the great
est singer ana the possessor OF the
sweetest and most pleasing voice OF any
surety vaudeville artistic .-ther i'm this
country or in Europe; and she Is known
10 many as sally in Our Alley" from
.he lact that her rendering of the fa-
nous old song was SO successful that
she was compelled 70 include IL i'm
every performance until she had sung
IL over 1000 times
Miss Titus viii be assisted by MIR.
= federick j. Titus, an exceptionally |
hne accompanied. and Will present 4
What she terms half hour of broken |
melodies and limitations, among which |
lattef her imperSonation. OF "A child OF \
loour years delivering her first recita-
non IN public is regarded as one of the |
greatest character creations known TO |
me stage. Coon songs, ballads. recita-
IONS, impersOnations and limitations of
lIin0st every conceivable character are |
u the repertoire Of this wonderfully |
versatile artistic. ana she points with |
,ilde TO the fact that in all her career |
me mas never received one unfayorable |
'rlticism Of her stage work, fact that
'roDably cannot be asserted by any
'ther actress in either branch of the |
'IOiession. MISS Titus also enjoys the |
Ilsunction OF being one of the only two |
'oihen VINO were ever made Elks. the |
tner being Rose Coghlan, and OF !
eng the only woman member OF the |
heatrical Mechanics association.
Another important engagement for
ext week ~ that OF Bert Coote, the
lNoflte comedian, whose success al
'eiths during the early part OF the
b1hhs l,n season OF c.ptinuous vaudeville
MI be wen remembered Mr.. Coote
tnks as one of the best character
Jmedians on the stage today, and |
robaDiy has no equal in the part oS
foppish cad. He will be assisted by |
.lss Adelaide tftzalen. very clever
lmedienne, and VIA her will present
supper for Two" the dainty and high
iudlcipus comedietta. in which MIR |
9ote was previously seen here.