The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-23
Summer Entertainment,

Tho weeks bill at CLrig's Cave is 'Giron--
Giroha. vita Mss Van s,uddford IN the double
title part. The company at the Gave is improy-
ing the escnness Of its performances. a
quality that has been lacking because Of tas
inexp.rience Of two Of the important principala
Only with seasoned repertoire performers 10 &c
possible FOR a company to present hish-c.ass
work in weekly changes Of bill
Straight vaudeville Is the form, Of Amusement
offered at the suburban Garden this week Soma
o: TIE Ministries have been retained, but there
il no first part. Willis T. Sweatnanl made hfs
nrst appearance yesterday and succeeded IL
pleasing two large audiences. His act Is a
musical mUnoogue- The songs were fresh and
the JOKES ST. 1.ouisa:7s. Sam Morris VIII,
has done good work at tire Delmar Garder,
this season. appeared in a sketch called Jack .
ThanssgiEinS- The piece gives Morris n chancs
for excellent comedy work. and may be reek-
ored a whole success as . laugh provoker. Webb
and Hassou. who have been seen in 81.
Louis for some time. entertained with acrobatia
feats and very difficult head balancing
The Leonar1s have a good skit concludes
with clever exhibition OF bag punching by thu
young woman. Carroll Johnson continues to-
please with songs OF the Southland. AL BIaa-
chard heads a quartet that does fair work.
The bill which is being offered a, Forest Par:
Highlands this week found favor immed ately
before large audience in the afternoon and az
night The Girl With the Auburn Hair again
carried of the hOnorS. but she was closely fol-
lowed by Window and his quartet. who sing a
captivating new song. My Ragtime BABY" AID
railroad tieS.r .ptiEe song. Tom Lewis nm
ular minstrel. and sam j, Ryan engaged
in place Of the MeTIiIis who could not reach
here from California They have one OF tho best
comedy sketches on the boards Amin and was-
nsr. in their act. Opera in the Kitchen" IN
tiOGuce number Of cperatic airs. which they
have csverly strung together and surrounded
with comic setting Annie Kenwick. tho
brette. this time In long and nicely-manaesi
skirts, and DeiSoe. the wonderful upsiie-down
man. other good cards the weeks pill.
Quite 10 the liking OF young and old are pro-
Mart ms train
tOnIsllnS tricks
II has been several years since .'iia..' was seen
in this city. yet It's presentation yesterday by thu
= Z. Ric. company at Delmar Garden proved
that interest has net been lost IN the Worlds
Fair Extravaganza h A. Barnet, and Carl
ifleuser buit a musical ahsurdity for worlds
Fair presentation. without dreaming that now.
when another Worlds Fair IS almost assured a
decade from that time, the merry absurdtty
would draw fully as well 1t did when it was
IN its first season The company at the Deinlar
Is already established in public favor and one
expects Just such good work from Messrs Alex
ander Clark. VIII III. Sloan. Ed BegIey and their
associates as they are doing Mr.. Clark likes
he plays them WELL DR. Sloan as Ferdinand and
afterwards the hobo did really fine work.
Mr.. Wilke. Mr.. Begley. Miss White. Miss Blow
and their associates were all we'll placed Ons
o. the strong features of 1872 Is the Incidental
speciality work IN the second act In this Mr.
sloan. Mr. Eegley. Mr. ". f. Browning Mr.
"se-r ".4o. " tAs way. was welcomed
back to the company. and Miss White all have
vaudeville acts. The staging and the work Of
the orchestra were uniform with the standard
Manager Gumpertz has set former pro;iuc-
ticns. There big crowd at peIrnar yester-
Day. and the Midway Flaisance and steeplechase
did a thriving business. The novelties on the
Midway are deep-sea diving exhibition and a
full-fedced Street Of Cairo.
Mr.. Maurice Freeman. whose excellent work at
Mr.. Gumpertzs Tenth and Pine streets thea,er
is well remembered. Is conducting a stock COM
pany of his own at Koerner's Garden Ths
plaG ~ week II 'F'anchon."