The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-13
THEATRICAL NOTES.

Owing TO the elaborate nature OF the
sothern- Harmed production OF Hamlet
at the Providence opera house next Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr.. Soth-
ern requests the audience 10 be seated
by 7:45 evenings and o'clock at the
Wednesday matinee.
y. III. sothern and Virginia Harmed
have a new costume comedy by Law
renee Irving. dealing with the career or
Lovelace. the poet. Young Irving was
invited over 10 play the king I'm Hamlet.
and al the end of the season would have
staged his own piece. 20 be ready for
run next season. but the engagement
with his father interfered.
The character OF Ophclia In Hamlet
that Virginia Harmed will essay next
Monday night at the Providence opera
house was originally acted 800 years ago
by man, as were all female characters
IN those days.
Hamlet" furnishes the finest example
of duellng seen In drama, and I'm this,
Mr.. sothern is probably unequaied al
the present day. Mr.. Sothern's prompt
book of Hamlet" is almost identical
with the version that was presented by
Mr.. Macready at the old Drury Lane
theatre. London, in 1929, and later by
Mr.. Macready in New York. September
27th, 1S43. The latest revival OF Ham
let i'm London was made by FORBES
Robertson at Sir Henry Irving's Lyceum
theatre last year. with Mrs. Patrick
Campbell as the Ophelia
The elaborate production OF the new
comic opera "The Viceroy" by the famous
Bostonians will be one of the features of
the early musical season at the Provi-
dence Opera House. The company will
shortly appear here i'm this work with an
unusually competent cast including such
we'll known artists as Henry Clay Barna-
bee w H. Macdonald, Hilda Clark, Al
bert Parr. John Dunsmure. George Froth-
ingham Josephine Bartlett, Belle Ere
mont w. IA. Fitzgerald. Vernon stiles,
Claudia Petit and others. The opera Will
be given with the same care for detail
and with all the accessories that charac-
terized its presentation at the hnicker-
booker Theatre, New York.
The engagement is for three nights and
Saturday matinee, Oct. 25, %, q.
over $50 people will be employed In the
production OF the comic opera The Vice
roy i'm which The Bostonians' Will be
heard at the Providence Opera House
shortly This work IL will be remembered
created a sensation at the Knickerbocker
Theatre last spring and comes here with
all the old favorites happily fitted In
prominent roles,
Among noteworthy bookings for the
Keith circuit are those of Henri
French. Wayne and Caldwell. Sisters De-
we're, Davis and Macauley. Winton, the
Four Juggling Johnsons, Bert Howard
and Leona Bland, Max Cincinnati. Terry
and Elmer Bert Coote. McAXoY and
May, Johnson and Dean. Louise Cunning.
Tom and Hattie Nawn, Maxwell and
Simpson, Tom Brown, Papinta, Mile.
Emmys dogs, the Macagnos, Fields and
Ward and Carroll Johnson.
Joseph Hart has been having some
rather trying times with the two chanti-
cleers which play so important part in
his "A Close CALI but the comedian
SAYS he fancies he has actually gotten
as much fun out OF his experiences as
theatre-goers have derived from his
sketch, though he doubts If he resorts
TO the barnyard for realism i'm any future
sketches he may write.
The banjos used by the two Carmen
banjo fad among New York young la
dies. are said to be the most costly ever
made I'm this country; and their musical
qualities as developed by these remark
able players are said to be worthy of the
expenditure.
Smith aud Campbell, FAR and away the
best of all the talking comedians" have
been winning their laurels all over again
i'm New York. for their new act is pro-
nounced much the best they have ever
offered.
Ameta. the spectacular and fire dancer
who is said TO be the only rival Of Papin-
IA. will make her New York debut late
in the present month: and great things
are promised i'm the way Of elaborate and
novel effects that are wholly new to this
country.
Tom Brown, the real colored" mono-
logue comedian who made himself such
a strong local favorite here more than a
year ago is to return with a new act
I'm December.
Tom and Hattie Nawn, whose style Of
Irish comedy is unique and the former
OF whom is undoubtedly the best stage
Irishman OF the tad" type. have a new
sketch. i'm which II is said that they are
making success beyond anything they
have previously achieved
Henry Lee is probably the most pro-
gressive and enterprising OF all the imi-
tators Of other actors. His vaudeville
act, i'm which he not only impersonates
oTner srage Srars WIFI VIE HHu mHKeup
but adds to the effect by brief recitals OF
passages from their best-known plays,
Is constantly kept up to date by the ad-
dition OF new representations or those at
the time most prominently In the public
eve.