The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-14

The past week was a puey one IN local
dramatic circles, all OF the time a!
Sweeney & Coombe theater being -oc
cuped and yet there were no events OF
importance during the entire seven days.
The week was begun on Monday by oliver
SCOTS negro Ministries, who gave salts
factory performance, everything consd-
cred This organization was followed on
Tuesday night by Lincoln J. Carriers
'runder the Dome about the worst thiog
of its kind that ever happened Wcdnes-
day afternoon aud night the Baldwin
Melville company appeared at popular
prices, and after giving UP Thursday night
to the WHO is who company, filled out
the remainder of the week with pleas
ing repertoire Of well known players
who is Who" pleased the large house
which saw It. II is n farce of no par
tieular merit, but some clever people APP
pear in the cast and some entertaining |
work Is done. Eva Tanguay, the most |
energetic soubrette in the business. scored
in the part Of the typewriter girl IL
Miss TanguBy ever leaves the stage she |
win ind no difficulty in securing an en-
gagement with some scientist who Is
searching for perpetual motion. With a
little training she would fill tho bill most
H. ,,..., aa,,.
tinn Of Faust Mabel Howard In Belas
co.'s "Zazs and Creston Clarke and AIDE
lsidn Prince in "A Son OF France to-
gether with the Baldwin Melville company
~ ,o"sr,.u p ~ ,,., r'ous
doubt be quite an event The plsy itself
IS we'll known and Miss Howard and her
company are spoken OF very fayorably.
Mr. Clarke's new romantic play, - Son
The Christmas number Of the New York
t,c' >S<e1ts,, II the finest thing Of it,,
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pages OF handsomely printed ntVg'r' lu-
Guiding pictures OF the leading players Of
the wear scenes from Ben HUI" Bar
hara Frietchie, The Liars" The Girl
in the Barracks" 'The Only way"
Make Way for the Ladies' "Cyrano de
Bergerao ana other successes Q, the sea,
~ sotten r,n,, 80 which 10 sood and sev-
eral articles by we'll known writer's on
various subjects OF interest 20 the Ora
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Lewis Morrison's production OF Faust
with TIubert rahadle in tha rolo NJ Men
80. IA,
nis'o' WIZ DC 'he "'1r"e'loh at sweeney
Coombs' theater tomorrow night. one per
torrance only. All OF the scenery an
accessories which have been used s
advantageonsly by Mr.. Morrison IN th
past VIII be utillzed and every one VIII
mas seen the production knows that tre5
IS to be expected In that line. The famou
Bracken scene the transformation
FAUST the apotheosls and all of III
others viii be shown in their entirety, q
VIII all OF the startling electrical effects.
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e"e"' anu 1911 fnis re"son sohe WI
Know or have heard, OF the Nth OF Fren'
plays may carry the prejudice engender,
n tba axtert ., danv,rg thamas,vos .z,v
when 4, 10 nrassntsd IN this city ;, 60
John Henry Marin MIR Charles FroI
mans representative. who was here Ia
week preparing for a presentation
'zaza on Tuesday evening, January
,ha atrss,s wSo so 49, y, ,r Jua,1
the atmosphere OF a variety theate
where manners and morals were n
adhered TO as in more polite circles II
girl is impulsive, passionate aud willft
her whims and her wishes are her on
laws, hence in the earlier scenes OF i
play zaza says things and does thln
which are at least not conventional b
!. in neither word nor act does she overst
the proprieties to an extent to cause OF
hsrrassment to the most circumspect. Al
as the story develops zaza, through pa
sion and pain, becomes refined gold
the retort Of suffering through which S
passes, showing a sacrifice of SELF tn
is one of the most pathetic pictures cy
drawn on the stage. zaza's life teach