New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
THEATRICAL INCIDENTS AND NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. Lanetrz Sotzem, THE Sultan Of Suu The Ba'ona"e
and Ferdinand Bonn 14H To Be Seen. This Week-IEro
Hamkts at Time

listened to Tomorrow with healthy interest There
are still theatregoers find it easy to laugh
at good joke at bad who. IN their secret
hearts prefer satire 20 silk stockings Even
George Lederer not long ago said that he wouio
rather produce comic opera written py nlan
of established literary reputation than the work or
the professional Lbrettist. He stands confessor
to the wish IL not the deed. When Ade wrote OF
the man who took a barth IN the bath room or
the preacher who gave the people what they
thought they wanted. over and above the slang or
his fables he displayed satiric touch; he justified
for the booi, 1.-The Sultan of Sulu its claim to
ar Intelligent first hearing.
When the Sultan is given American tall
hat il place Of his crown. he IS informed that "a
governor is the nobest work of the campaign
committee and as then introduced to the Amerl-
can cocktail Of the chief blessings that fol-
low the fag. He soon calls for another Of those
things that follow the fag,' and he keeps well Up
with the colors for the rest of the night The next
morning he sings the following parody on the
Wellesley cheer:
The cocktail is pleasant drink:
It's mild and harmless. don't think
When you have you call Tor two,
Last night i hoisted twenty-three
OF these arrangemeSnts sresd into me- with Drid..
RStI was pifslfalM REiMooR P65TRs9s e? 'SS'.@
I IIts tsinE Trfii that tnl semeWheTe IN the game
] wept and told my real name me;
At Al sought my whirling bed
II &c no time for nirth and laughter
The cold gray dawn of the morning after. 80
Before long the Sultan redeems himself by MS
retort to one his eight wives, VINO op1ects 10 MS
proposing TO a possible NO. 3
.-C,alula" he says. according to 1he Laoles
1Ioroe Io,zrra;' It is not good form for wife to
hang around while her husband is proposing 10
another woman 49,.
H0rrifed. the possible NO inquiries 10 ~
your wife," 800
no Won SUPPOSE" says the Sultan 'tl]at would
he so impolitc 10 a woman who was not my wlfe!
A man who cries out that he is nero Is toio
that he will now have be investigated, and glli
who admits that she Is engaged in sort OF way
is Informed that she means she is engaged ou'
,s NOT sure that it will take. There is. of course
the inevitable coon song called MY Suiu Lliu
roo" But the fact that Ade has INTRODUCED tli9
eorg as a specimen of American musical taste loF
tbe benefit of the assimilated Suius connrIns con
fession he recently made in private conversation
that sometimes does things because he has
10. .,.oS -
The music OF the piece is the work Oh Allreo u
WathaIl. The cast includes;
Colonel Jefferson Bu@d Of the vSqnsesTs ,,an6evus
1ssu,enant William Hardy. of the Regulars. Co..
,,asu Tsntong. the Sultan. private secretary z-..
RaRefu NJ and salesman KifhSsep ans.q
SsTsss9 sisns5giPs 5S5 . u ea,oas. s daughter f''
Pamela Frances Judge advocate ,,,.,,,o,
wifi L.
t:aiTIa faithful one)- f'hs'ioi'
Tomorrow night also there will be shown az
r,alv,s a new musical piece by Harry B. Smith and
C.ustave Kerker called The Bilonaire in which
Jerome Sykes plays the star part. that Of John
Dough who owns the earth and has a hard ufne
.n.ndinr his income. He is supported by Nellie
FoIiis who will remembered as one OF the re-
dssninr features of The Chaperone. The piece
- Controlled by Klaw Erlanger. SO announce
ments of elaborate settings and costumes are me
nrdar The first act shows street scene IN the
carnival season at Nice: the second a. NeW-fork
theatre with ticket spectators and buresques on
artsin we'll known first nighters OF this city ana
tba last act the racetrack at Longchamps Inere
are numerous people In the cast, and a large fe-
male chorus.
Richard Mansfield has become victim OF one
NJ the legion of Shakespeare controversies. and.
with a good natured desire TO please as many peo-
nle as possible has adopted two methods Of spell
ing the poets name. On the programmes and
advertising posters prepared for the production Of
..JuIius Cesar" MIR. Mansfield caused the name TO
be spelled Shakespeare" in accordance with what
he was convinced was the best authority. But
since the play began he has been pesteFed with
letters arguing for less than thirteen different
combinations OF letters The other day the Shake