The age-herald., 1902-04-06
Mansfield Carried Away
 the Most Money

l there waiting. The Irish farce was a new one and to use slang expression, was there with the goods.''
 An Old Friend Comes.
 An old-time friend was next "The Bur gomaster' with its several striking scenes. good music and number of more than ordinarily good looking girls, had enough friends to give it a warm well come.
 "A Poor Relation" did a fairly good business as the first performance in Oc- tober The color of the performers changed after "A Poor Relation" Black Patti with q company of the same color occupied the stage for two performances and did a good business.
 The first of the pastoral plays was the old timer Alvin Joslin.'' It did a fair business only In the words of a theatrical man. which means the house had plenty of empty seats.
 Lady Huntworth's Experiment" banned out fairly well. It drew a good audience which voted it a splendid performance and only regretted there were not two performances.
 Adelaide Thurston, in Sweet Clover was a success This pastoral play show ed there was something to it. for a re- turn engagement was played near the close of the season and the audience was almost twice the size of that the first time.
 East Lynne" was handled by a very poor company the matinee and night of october 16. "A Stranger in a Strange Land" was almost as bad a week later Andrew Robson, in "Richard Carvel" was not very popular. The company was not up to the standard required for hand | ling such play, and the good business done was hardly warranted The "Sor- rows of Satan" was the fourth of the se- ries of bad plays, or bad companies.
 Standard Plays Fall Flat.
 Frederick Warde played two old standbys-"The Mountebank' and Julius Caesar'-to only fair-sized audiences He was followed by Creston Clarke in Ham, let and David Garrick," who did even worse business.
 Shannon deserved better support than they received. The company was strong in Her Lord and Master" and put up splendid performances to only fair-sized audiences The Little Minis ter was badly staged and the houses small as the opening play for November.
 The least said about '"The Girl from Maxims" the better. It was very un- satisfactory. Modjeska and James in Shakespearenn plays should have played to packed houses, but such was not the case. Joseph Hart and Carrie De Mar in Foxy Grandpa" did we'll
 "Other Peoples Money did not do much. It seemed to loose the wonderful power 1t som mes seems to possess, for many a seat stared vacantly at the per- formers.
 The company which produced "The Pride of Jennico" on December 15 and Is lacked several things. among others good audiences and the ability to draw them.
 Way Down East" was a good drawing card. The play is one of the best of the pastoral variety. Big and enthusiastic audiences greeted "Florodora" which con sisted of two features on1y-the song, Tell Me. Pretty Maiden" and the fla nous sextette
 It was only fair at "A Day and a Night" Not the weather, but the audi ences and the performers. Howard Kyle In Nathan Hale" played to packed houses and presented good performances. The Belle of New York did the same. although different class of company. A good business was the way Rich ard and Pringle's minstrels were report