The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-03
ENTERTAINME ENTs.
Hyperion Thenter.

"Lady Huntworth's Experiment. R. c. Cartons comedy which met with great favor in London and New York, will be given at the Hyperion tonight by Daniel Frohmans Stock company from Daly's theater. The play is ting cd with sarcasm, novel in it's main theme and affording more than one per son chance for able character work. The action takes place in day and half. The scenes are all laid at the English vicarage of the Rev. Audley Pillenger, where lady Huntworth Is masuuerading as the cook. The reason for this freak on her part is that she has just submitted to being divorced from her drunken and dissolute hus- band after five years of welded unhap- piness. Though innocent, she does not defend the suit, preferring to be under the ban of society and free of her hus- band to clearing herself and blocking his suit. The disreputable ex-husband, who has learned that she has inherited a new fortune, in the second act seeks her out and demands that she marry him again. In this act the cook also receives visit from one Captain Dor vaston. guest in the vicar's house. hold. and who is secretly in love with the cook In the last act Lady Hunt worth learns of her inheritance and leaves the vicar's kitchen How the many complications are delightfully."- worked out by the admirable cast pro- vided by Daniel Frohman, will be seen tonight It is headed by Hilda Spong who plays the cook; Arthur Forrest, as Captain Dorvaston; Jameson Lee Fin ney as the dissipated eX-husband; Grant Stewart, the vicar; Mrs, Thomas Whiffen, the vicar's spinster sister; Beatrice Morgan, the vicar's niece; Nevada Hefron, a kitchen slave, and William Owen a butler. The comedy was one of the most popular in New York last winter. Seats now on sale. Prices S150, S1, 75c.
 WILLIAM FAvERSHAM IN "A ROY AL RIVAL"
 William Faversham at the Hyperion theater tomorrow night will make his first appearance here as star under the direction of Charles Frohman, in a new romantic play by Gerald DuMau- rier, entitled "A Royal RivaP' in which he recently appeared for an engage ment of our 100 nights at the Criterion theater, New York. There is no young actor on the American stage to-day, who enjoys a greater personal popu- larity than MT. Faversham. His first appearance here as q star is an aus- picious event He has won this dis tinctive position through long years of splendid service as leading man of Charles Frohman's Empire Theater company, and the New York public has already emphatically endorsed the con- fidence and honor conferred on him by his manager. In romantic roles he is without a peer His success as Gil de Berault in Under the Red Robe," be- ing one of the most conspicuous suc- cesses of this kind ever won by an ac- tor MT Frohman has given the pro- duction very beautiful setting and a very strong company. In the cast are Miss Julie Opp, a gifted and beautiful actress who has come over from Lon don for this special engagement; Ed
 win Stevens, of the Empire theater company, Prince Lloyd, Snitz Edwards, James Kearney, N. l.. Jelenko, Joseph Weber, Miss Maggie Holloway Fisher, Miss Claire Mcdowell, and others. Seats now on sale. Prices $1.5O, $1, 75c