The St. Louis Republic., 1900-04-22

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Aida" Friday and Saturday evenings
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Ii1nfs -.-. ..-.......... Frank II - l"r
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This week ana next will clo-e the season
at I!opk;n-'s Th71t'r. For presentation this
wcck Manager ';Ump"rtZ has selected a
comedy drama that has not br.n seen in
s.. Louis since Minnie. MAddcrn Fi~kc pro-
durcd it h.r. about eight ycars ago. Ca
price will b" remembered an IL dainty love
story. with good comedy element running
through it 1t is written in four acts and
tolls a story ot Young girls capricioJS
changes nf heart and the iinll solution "t
her rnmauces. Miss Victory Etteman played
III "tIpric'' tlre. years ago with much sue
cess. Manager GumrertZ. who has just re
engaged her rs leading lady. procured the
book Of th" play from M. Fi<k., Mr..
M'rri. " freeman will play the leading male
part. md tn" rest Gf the company VIII We
suitably cast. This weeks vaudeville feat
uice VIII tc more elaborate then ustai.
Among them are Lillian Leslie. the singer.
Lavender and Thomson, comedy sketch ar
ti:''>: Ii" cochran "h ldren. mental wondc-s.
and i'arvIta. with new vi"w$. "tncl" Tom.
Cabin is booked To close the season at
li"pkins's.
Clyd" Fitch. who wrote barbara
tr'ctchic" FOR Julia Marowe. spent his hoy
hood in Maryland. and especially in Hace~s
town. where several ot the scenes in the
play are lai William seymour. who staged
tiis play. lived in the South during the on
tire war. and William Furst who wrote tho
Incidental music, born i'm Frederick.
ii rIrrlS hC,
that led Stonewal ..ackson's brigade.
The h"nsfi; season at Hopkins hecirs this
uc"k. Tr-morrow nigh; Treasurer Willie
s;'ii.'.fs" takes his benefit On Friday aft
"rnnon ara evening Maurice Freeman and
Naf!iu" Winston will have. 4 dnub. benefit.
Mcl'iay. April 30. Nj Arthur Mackfey
comes in for II shar" of the receipts. and
Manager Sam ,iumprrtz's testimonial oc-
ctirs tho following day. At each Of these
benefits abundant vaudeville features will!
he introduced.
The feature OF the show at the Columbia
this week will be Mcinttre and Heath the
eccentric hl;ck-face comedians. Wherever
there il ~ vaudeville thcatcr these perforIn-
ers ar" known ana liked. Their sketch of
III" tWr Georgia dariics who leit GOO! Jobs
I" =" tn" rold with II minstrel show
anf then bad tp walk back has long been
considered one of the classics OF the va
rictr business. II is Trfioubtedlv the hest
Trim. they ever Gi ard is deemed good
enough tr repeat this week. Another good
team is MartIuetti and Sutherland. singers.
cancers and a'-ohatic comedians. Miss
Sutherland VII he reno mhered as Maryn
pNeIl!'s former partner. George H. Wool
'tiv'--iscs his act "voci, bluff and Il
nUmh'r uf ink.s .; III" vintage of 40"
lHwr"rcc ana Harrington arc the original
Bo"cry hoy an tnash girl They Were
teatur" OF Dannciy and ,iirards Natural
Gas company many years ago. and nearly
all tic later EowCry characters have copied
them. khcTns and Cole. German dialect
comedians will he seen in a act. Wal
tor Stanton. an English comedian. has 9,
rOve! sketch entitled The Hypnotized
cocka;uo." Mi:iIm Ainsworth appears in
quick changes an character i,npersona-
tons. Linton and Mcintyre are down on
Ih. bills for II skit called ~ Doctors Pa
ticncc." others on the programme are Lew
Wells. Tina ana Nal Corri. Evans and
White, the Brazil Brothers ara tie kino-
afomc.
With the matinee to-day the Grand Opera
House Will have one of the latest of the
musical comedies. My Innocent Boy" from
the pen OF George :. Simms The play will
be seen her. for the first time. though it
has 4. its crcdi; Il long and successful Lon
don season. ]; is said TO abound in special
ties. wh:cA are Introduced in the natural
course ot the action. The cast is large and
the Iia:'S distributed as follows
Naert'r" firscn victim Of cir UNI
ronn o.iore Green. Lis father. Wit, a
Feii> Smart the onirsins friend -
@iiiy Iil.. :, n,i-.ion,ry t. HfriCa iC '"'''''
Sammy syrapfa the cannodorys ''; valet. ',''S'
A. wisei:rs the iara.l, larb.r... Jos f:msrson