The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-25
ENTERTAINAE ENTs.
Hyperion Theater.

Paderewski and Sousa both enjoy the same birthday, November 6, and are both the most successful of living musi- clans in their respective lines, Both, also are simultaneously seeking new distinctions on new lines. The Polish pianist has composed grand opera,
 which will have a production at the Metropolitan opera house, New York city, this season, while Sousa has writ
 ten his first novel, "The Fifth String" a musical story, just issued from the press of the Bowen Merrill Co. Sousa's
 efforts in the field of romance will be watched with interest In the mean
 time the March King" is now engaged upon the twentieth semi-annual tour of
 his great band. His engagement this year includes visit to nearly every leading town in the United States. a brief tour of Canada a summer season
 at Atlantic City and his usual fall eX- position. No American musician has ever approached tn esuccess achieved
 by Sousa in Europe, where his popular ity fully equals that he enjoys at home.
 In Great Britain last fall the Sousa
 band eclipsed all known concert rec
 ords both in London and in the prov
 inces. Sousa's concert before the king
 of England and his decoration with the Victorian order set the final and defi- mite seal of approval upon the Ameri-
 can conductor and composer In Eng land. The Sousa band will be heard
 here in single popular concert to- night at the Hyperion. Maud Reese Davies, soprano; Dorothy Hoyle, violin iste and Arthur Pryor, trombone, will
 be the soloists. Seats now selling,
 Prices $1. 75c. soc.
 One of the scenes of the pastoral
 drama 'The Volunteer Organist," Is
 the rescue of a child in a snow storm
 by pair of canines. To make this
 situation intensely realistic Manager
 Harry Martell has imported two gen.
 uine St. Bernard's from Switzerland,
 which have done service in the Alps.
 One of them Monarch" is the hero of score of rescues. These dogs were formerly the property of the monks, who with reluctance permitted them to depart from the monastery. The two are considered the finest specimens of the St Bernard ever brought to Amer ica. A few days ago Jacob Ruppert, the proprietor of the Ruppert kennels, when he saw Monarch" offered MT. Martell $2,500 for him. Martell refused the offer and said that twice that sum could not purchase him. The public will have an opportunity of seeing these wonderful dogs, as the drama is booked to appear at the Hyperion on Monday night, January 27, Seats now selling. Prices, ST. 75c, 50c.
 When We Were Twenty One" will be given at the Hyperion Tuesday | night, January 2S, by MT. Goodwin and Miss Maxine Elliott, who have Just re- turned from London where this beauti- full creation of Henry V. Esmond's had | successful run of 105 nights and | where MT Goodwins genius and Miss l Eliott's talent received the highest | encomiums from the most able critics | in the British isles. Seats now selling. | Prices $2, s1.50, $l.
 Up York State" a play about which | so much has been said, will be present. ed at the Hyperion on Wednesday night January %, with David Higgins and Georgia Waldron in the leading roles.
 Paderewski will give his first recital in America this season at the Hyperion on Tuesday night, February 4.