Evening star., 1901-09-21

musical numbers is rendered. the airs for
which were composed expressly for this
production by such well-known writers Of
music as Aime Lachaune, A. Baldwin
Sloane, Ludwig Englander, Clifton Craw-
ford, l.. G. Gottschalk, II. II. MacConnell,
Alfred E. Aarons and William Accooe.
In the first act the students of Mrs
Sprowrs seminary. under the leadership of
the ringieaders of all their pranks, Margery
Lee and Dorothy Grey Miss Butler and
Miss Milliken), enjoy clandestine mid
night supper in the absence of their teach
ers, who are attending a convention.
In the second act the Liberty Bellies are
endeavoring to earn their living by running
a cooking school In the third act an ex-
pedition to Florida is organized to recover
some kidnapers. This translates the story
and characters to fashionable hotel in an
orange grove. where the complications IN
crease after the manner of farces, until Il
rather novel denouement brings the piece
to a close.
The story is so constructed as to give
Miss Butler and Mr.. Gilfoil opportunity
to present several very interesting imita-
tions klaw & Erlanger have given this
production an unusually elaborate stage
mounting, both in scenery and costumes.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-Another i'm
provement has been added to the many in
augurated at the Academy of Music this
season. 1t is the placing of forty addi-
tional electric lights over. the orchestra
circle. With this increase in illumination,
by means of delicate frosted globes, the
Academy is now, it is claimed, by far the
best-lignted popular-price theater in the
country. The light is soft, yet powerful,
and. is equally distributed throughout the
theater, so that program may be read in
any part of the house with as much ease
as If the time were daylight. 1t is notice
able. too, that the patronage of the Acad-
emy this season is of better class than
ever before. and the utmost decorum and
good order prevails in all parts of the
house. Even the gallery has responded to
hn rQCf iyaiy trnfn and nf or
watchful management. with the result that
it has been transformed into well-behaved
aSSembiage. In every way the theater
seems now to bear out the claim made for
it that 1t is the best-conducted popular
price family theater in the east
Through the Breakers one of the best
known and best-liked of the popular melo-
dramas, comes to the Academy next week.
This play has a long record of success, and
is presented in the same creditable man.
ner as when here before. The cast has
been kept up to the standard, and the
strong climaXeS and unconventional Situa-
tions have lost none of their strength or
effectiveness. 1t carries this season a
complete electrical plant to use during the
sea scene. This effect is one of the fea-
lures of the performance, and is said to be
the best wa .er scene ever shown. The
scene at the end of the second act accounts
for the remarkable financial record that
this play has made, and to that, even more
than to its scenery and mechanical effects,
should be laid it's great drawing power.
The third act also is new and striking in
ideas. This shows a Smugglers cave, with
the sea beyond and the waves daShing up
against the floor of the cave and rising
and falling during the entire act. Storms at
sea, wrecks of vessels, murder, rescue and
love are the foundation of the plot of the
play. Very few plays of native American
authorship can boast of a greater success.
CHASES NEW GRAND.-The deferred
Inauguration Of the new season of polite
a Sa'S iq
for next Monday afternoon. Analysis of
the bill prepared in celebration of the re-
newal of the form of entertainment which
has been pOpulariZed at ChaSe's reveals
much that may be anticipated with pleas
ure. Established favorites are combined
with novelties. AT the head of the bill will
come the English pony ballet. These young
women, 1T requires but d short memory to
recall were one of the most entertaining
features Of George w. Lederer's Casino
Girl" Their work cannot better be de-
scribed than to use the language of a
writer who declared it to be "a swish Of
acrobatic gyrations, swirl of graceful
dancing and sway Of tuneful melody" A
twenty-minute dose of the laugh cure will
be administered by Nat NJ. Willis. the
happy tramp" 1t is asserted that Mr..
Willis present monologue is the smartest
he has yet offered. Another Offering from
the headline class will be Charles e.
Grapewin, who, with Anna Chance and
company. will be seen in above the
Limit, little play which they are said
to interpret with the snap and go of true
comedy. In pursuance Of the policy of in
Guiding (when the right kind is obtainab,e)
more than one sketch in each bill. Nina
Gleason and company will present THE
Late Major" The chief novelty will be
Mile. Chester and her statue dog. "Billy''
is a handsome pure white setter: He has
been trained to go through series of Iiv-
ing pictures. in which he and his mistress
illustrate hunting scenes. Billy Is said to
maintain the poses so steadily that he ap-
pears to be carved in marble. The bill will
also include the following entertainers:
Flood brothers, pantomime acrobats: the
three Brooklyns musical drolls. and George
German and Frances Keppler, comedian
and danseuse. An additional feature
(Which will be permanently will be concerts
before each performance by the augmented
orchestra under the leadership Of AL
Strauss
second gallery of Chase's would be fitted
up as comfortably as the lower floors has
been redeemed. All the seats have been
couponed and rigid inspection will be exer-
leading to this balcony has been closed, and
ingress Is now through the main door on
the avenue.
BIJOU THEATER.-The Bijou Theater
Burlesque Stock Company will commence
its season at the Bijou Monday afternoon,
and If the expectations Of the management
are realized the company will remain al this
atrtcal year. Stage Director John Grieves
has prepared a program for the stock COM
pany that should display the abilities of the
different members to the utmost advantage.
There will be a rather pretentious burlesque
on the prevailing metropolitan musical
comedy success, "F'lorodora, which will in
the present instance be entitled ''For-Her-
Dough-Ra," and in the Interpretation of
the offering there will be engaged some
forty-five persons, exclusive Of the enter
tainers who Will contribute to the olio por-
ton of the program. The list of the Biiou
company principals includes several actors
and actress whose past work should be
pretty fair guarantee Of the quality Of per-
formances they will give during their local
appearances Miss Emile Beaupre the prin-
cipal boy" is we'll known in the thea trtcal
world by reason of her important engage
ments with some of the leading companies
of the country. Her last local appearances
was in Chris and the Wonderful Lamp"
the big Klaw & Erlanger production. In
which Miss Beaupre played opposite to
Edna Wallace Hopper. Last season she
played the Firef1y in when We Were
Twenty-one." May Audubon was formerly
a member of the Francis Wilson and JEFF
ferson DeAngelis companies, while Nellie
V. Nichols, the leading soubrette and Liz
zie Frellgh are both graduates of last sea-
sons Weber & Fields company in New
York RaSSia ic