New-York tribune., 1900-07-10
THE VARIETY THEATRES.


Primrose and Dockstader's NIinstreIs, headed by
George Primrose and Lew Dockstader. last night
began an engagement of two weeks at the Man
haitian Beach Theatre. Among the features of the
performance were Bogert and OBrien. the musical
mokes and the club juggling Five Johnsons. Ihe
company includes Lew SuIly. Larry Dooley, James
Tenbrook, Charles Kent Manuel Romaine, George
Travelling Charles Wilson George Robinson, Sam
Merritt Lionel Riccardo and Henry Sylvester.
Special attention has been given costumes, scenic
establishment and spectacular effect. The entire
entertainment is given in black face" Concerts
will be given on Sunday afternoons. July 10 and z
nrisfnp songs ballads marches and widely known
numbers of popular and catchy music will be rem,
Dockstaders Minstrels, assisted by Fanciulns list
Regiment Band.
The bill of last week again presented at
the Venetian Terrace Roof Garden This includes
Zeno. Carl and Zeno, Venezuelan acrobats; the De
Forests, whirwind dancers; the two Bonnellis, in
hoop and barrel feats; Efie Fay and Mile Chanton
and Charley Ross the twenty-stX-inch midget OF
repertory of songs Fifteen acts in all are given
and the performance lasts until midnight
Wilfred Clarke the well known comedian. made
his debut in vaudeville at Proctor's Twenty-thrd
Street Theatre last night appearing in Oscars
Birthday" supported by Theo Carew Minnie
Monks Mabel Roebuck and Clement Hopkins
Mr.. Clarke is Of the late John Sleeper Clarke
and nephew of the late Edwin Booth. Adolf link
lions 6tber nepformers are George Wilson the
minstrel comedian; I Rixford brothers. European
caIists Furber and Davis, Ingram and Jacklin
song illustrators, and the Simon brothers, musical
clowns. ssg Dg
A new feattrs AT Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre
this week is the debut of Sheridan Block and
pany. MI Block presents the travesty Little Miss
Sherlock Holmes" Others are Ida Fuller the
spectacular dancer: Wartenberg brothers, novel
Fanny Fields, the little Dutch girl, the Moss fam
ny acF91ats the CrwIoao Law ssoTIs IN SO song ana
and Wren, rural sketch.
The second week of Roster & Balls Roof of All
Nations began last night. II is known German
week, and a number of distinctively Teutonc acts
are presented in addition to the regular bill which
includes the Fenz brothers. German singers; the
Brunelles in their Miniature Theatre; Elsie Rail
o. K Sato, comic juggler; Lowe and Edwards
brothers. Attic spencer, IN some new songs; Al
Waltz CZarina. and ST. Clair and Celeste. Charac-
ter change artists
A new group has been added the wax coIlec-
tion of the Eden Musee. II is entitled Homeless
A young girl and her still younger brother have
been left without home. Although she is ragged
hungry and shivering. her only thought is of the
little brother she clasps in her arms Suffering is
pictured in her face, cOntentment in that of the
sleeping brother New moving pictures of the war
in South Africa and the Paris Exposition are
shown afternoons and evenings Moving pictures
from Hong Kong, showing the massing of the
Chinese life, are expected within week or two.
The Casino Roof Garden this week offers Lottie
Gibson Sam Weston and his two daughters. in a
musical comedy act; the three Lane sisters, aero
bats; Carlotta Demar trick cycist; Burke broth
ers and their cOmical star donkey, Wise Nike the
Gardner trio of brothers. musical comedians and
baton manipulators, and Octayie Barbe.
In the theatre part The @ Founders" continues,
Herbert. Madge Lessing and Dave Lewis.
The bill at the Cherry Blossom Grove, New-York
Theatre Roof Garden, this week presents, among
other acts the four COliusi, whiriwnd dancers. y
Baldwin Sloane, in My Rainbow Coon" Farnham
and Seymour comedy jumpers; Bruno and Russell,
soloist: MontreiL Marguerite Corniile Eyerhardt
| IN his hoop act; sam, Cara and hitte Norton
Polk and Rollins.
At Proctors Palace this week the programme in
cludes the farce "A Surprise Party" by Grace
Belasco. Blanche Homans, Lon Stevens and
Leonard Walker the Bachelor club. comedians;
songs and dances; the brothers Bright. eymnasts;
Smith Doty ana Gpe muSlSaL 3 ~ tri9 Wrothe ana
in a musical act
Bettina Gerard heads the bill at the Lion Palace
Roof Garden this week The Rio brothers, the
Countess Won Hatzfeldt, McWatters and Tyson.
DAILY and Vokes Nellie Sylvester, the Crags Al
Waltz the Munroe sisters and De witt and Burns
are also in the programme. In case OF rain the
performance is carried on In the music hall down.
stairs.
The bill at Keith's for this week includes Wright
Huntington and company, in The Stolen Kiss;
Narzellas birds Juan CaicedO. king of the bound
ing wire; Barnes and Sisson, in The Marriage
Broker. M,dgelv and Carlisle, in After school,:
Moreand Thompson and Roberts in
edy by Edmund Day, called Two Black Sheep;
Flood brothers, comedy acrobats; Walz and Ar
dele comedy sketch and eccentric piano playing;
the Harbecks, Contortion and wire act; Pat and
Matte Rooney, dancing; Nolkyra, equilbrist Fox
nd ard face
lilah heavy weight balancing, and Rossley and
Rostele. Irish team. The biograph shows moving
pictures OF the shipping fire. the ruins at Hoboken
and the big blaze at the Standard Oil works at
Constable Hook.
The programme at Tony Pastors this week pre-
sents Monroe and Mack, In Just Two Darkeys'';
Post and Clinton in comedy grotesque sketch;
Miss Frances Curran, the singing comsdienne.
Mile. Olive juggler; George c. Davis The Man
Behind the Gun; Frank +. Mortimer and Jewell
Darrell I'm a bit of travesty. John j. and Lillian
Hoover In the Vaudeville: Murphy and Nolan
THE Mcks with the All Burnt Hair: MorreU and
Evans, Frank and Don, in "On the Spur of the
Moment; Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Keaton. The Ec-
centric Tad and the Soubrette' Mile La Tosca
contortonist; German and Leonard Human
Nature and the American vitagraph