The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-08
THEATRICAL NOTES.

The latest and most successful of w. A..
Bradys melodramatic productions.
Woman and Wine" will have its
first presentment at the Providence Opera
House Sept. II. Woman and Wine" is
| the work OF Arthur Shirley and Benja-
min Landeck, well known English play
4 wrignts, and. according to all accounts
| is the most thrilling melodramatic pro-
duction OF the period. The conviction of
| an innocent man OH the charge OF muir
| der is the theme, and the changes are
| rung on the cruel possibilities of circum-
| stantial evidence. The hero is profit
| gate who lets his fondness for bad
woman and good wine carry him TO the
| steps of the guillotine. The scenes are in
! London and Paris, and In some of them
| the stage Is thronged with people The
opening scene is at an English watering
| place, and a little later comes a transit
| ton to a London money lenders office.
| From there. the action is transferred TO
Paris. The French scenes depicted in
clude the race-course at Longchamps; the
interior and exterior OF the Grand Hotel;
Cafe D'Afrique In Montmartre; a Japan
ese restaurant; and Paris Flower Mar
ket at sunrise.
1t Is here in the Flower Market, at the
close of the third act. that the authors
have prepared their most thrilling climax
"a uuel To the death between two des-
perate women, who fight with knives.
Next in order Is the Court of Assizes
where an innocent man is convicted of
murder upon .circumstantial evidence and
saved from the guillotine at the last mo-
ment by the confession of the murderess.
The cast has Sylvia Lynden, Zelda Pal
di Sears, Jane Copley. Milie James, Mar
ion Winchester, Howard Kyle, John II.
Burke, Edward Gillespie. Hudson Iiston,
sive and complicated
Umbrellas to Loan" That Is not the
sign that will be exhibited TO the view
OF Providence Opera House patrons next
week, but IL serves to suggest a new
wrinkle which has Just been adopted
there. Col. Wendelschaefer. appreciating
the position OF people who are so unfort-
unate as TO be caught without umbrellas
in a shower. has added to the properties
OF the theatre a large assortment OF nice
umbrellas, which his patrons can borrow
by depositng a small amount as a guar
anty OF return. SO that folks who learn
In the middle OF a performance that a
hard rain has come up need not fret over
the prospect OF a soaking; and IL might
be said. a man who gets half way TO the
theatre and discovers that the skies are,
beclouded and his umbrella Is In the
stand at home, can keep on. confident
that the want can be supplied from Col.
wendelschaefer's stock.
While Cissie LOTUS is back home" IN
England the American field Is "unprotect-
cd" Another bright girl has come over
from England almost unheralded and un-
known. and I'm n single week seems TO
have jumped at n bound into the place
formerly held only by the clever Cissie
I'm the hearts or New Workers At Roster
a Bials during the past week Alice
Pierce. who ls described as "a slip OF a
girl scarcely out OF her teens. simple
sweet, fascinatingly unaffected and won
derfully clever" has astonished theatre
goers with a series of character imlta-
tions which are said in many important
respects TO surpass those Of Cissie Lotus
The Keith program for the week Of
sept. IL will include Edwin Milton Royle
and Sciena Fettcr RoyIc. clarice Vance.
prclle's talking dogs. Howard Thurston
Fillmore sisters, John v. Harry. Pierce and
EEberi Alrnont aud Dunfont. Lew SuIly,
J. W. Harrington and others