The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-28

best weeks OF the year.
Eleanor Robson has added something
to the fine regard in which she was already
held by New Workers. when she came to the
Madison Square Theatre with Audrey
The play and the player are pleasing many
auditors.
There Is net room for more In the Weber
Fields Theatre these days. Joyful
audiences are greeting the old favorites Of
THIS company In "Twirly-Whirly' and The
sickness OF Gelatine.
E. &. Willard leaves the Garden Th,a,rc
this week and goes to the Harlem Opera
House, here he will play -The Miidleman
on Monday night. David Garrick" on
Tuesday, dThe Professors Love Story"
on "Wednesday night and at the New Years
matinee. The CARDINAL on New Years
night, AN for Her" on Friday night and
Saturday afternoon and tom Pinch" on
Saturday night
William Faversham will remain over
the holiday and for one week besides at
the Empire Theatre. Then he will take
'Imprudcnce" away after period OF unsur-
passed triImt IL, and the EmIi ire stock com
pany will begin its regular winter season in
Robert Marshall comedy. The Unfore-
SEEN"
Next Saturday will -ee the fiftieth per-
formance Of MARY Of Magdala" by Mrs.
Fiske at tho Manhattan. 1t IL attracting SO
much attention and Patronage that there
viii surely h. other hfties and perhaps
hundrcd.' to record before its day Is done.
Mr. Shubayt announces special matinee
of "Hciielbers. at the Princess Theatre
tomorrow afternoon for the especial enter
tainment Of Mr.. Aubrey Bou 'icault's friends
in his own profession. SO much beauty
and tolent will no. soon meet again, "iIeid.l-
berg l. processing happily at all the regu
lar afternoon and evening performances in
this theatre.
\ month has come and gone since " G
Goocwiu and Maxine Elliott first appeared
at the knir'erbocker Theatre in "The
Altar of Fricn,,s ship" and IN, end is not
anywhere near in sight They are king
personal triumph an their play is of he
best.
s1is Eleanor Kent, Sho succeeded Mai de
Villiers ~ the Queen OF Venus In THE Silver
Slipper" has maze hit with the audiences
at. the Broadway. The Silver Slipper
has passed its tenth week there and is likely
to remain TO close the season. sam Bernard
ana Edna Wallace Hopper give 1t plenty OF
life and sparkle.
Mabelle Gilman will be seen for two
weeks more at the Biiou in -The Mocking
Bird" Tlen shs goes fort h to let the rest of
the United States observe that she. too
has become q star.
Lulu Chaser will spend the week Mt the
Grand Opera House. playing Dolly Var
dem" which New York already knows and
admres.
Other cities are asking Mr.. Shubert ito
send A Chinese Honeymoon" to them. but
II has been so unqualified a success at the
Casino th1t he is not yet ready to give il up
The Tuesday night performance will be- q
theatre party. the audience being made up
of agents of the New York Life Insurance
Company.
Novelty and spirit combine to make the
war time comic opera, when Johnny
Comes Marching Home" attractive. II
has got well under way at the New York
Theatre and is in for good run.
Ferdinand Bonn, the celebrnted German
actor, will begin his engagement at the
Irving Place Theatre on New Years night
In Hamlet" repeating it on Fri ay. On
Merchant of Venice" -Sein Trick" will
lie the bill at this theatre for Monday and
Tuesday nights, and Lodwiz Fuldas -Ju-
genndfreunde" on "Wednesday night, There
will be. a children's matinee of MAX und
Moritz' every day this week.
All the Proctor theatres promise good
things for the holiday week. Franklin
Fyles's war drama. Cumberland. '8l"
will be revived at the Fifth Avenue by the
stock company. which is headed by Minnie
Seligman and William Bramweil. A. o.
Duncan, the vcn,.iloauist, leads the vaude-
Vile list
Valerie Bergere, who used to play
Madame Butterfly" will he the feature
at the Twenty-third Street, pres -nting
a short piece called "Billie's First Love"
johnson, Davenport and Isorella, in THE
Football Players and the Farmer will be
an additional attraction
The stock company at the Fifty-eish,ih
Street Theatre will revive the good oil
comedy drama, The Sidewalks Of New
York" Between the acts the entertainers
will be Corbly and Burke, Irish comedians,
and Rennier and Gambler. singers and
At the i25th Street they are going to drop
the more serious drama and give up the
a, week to -Garret OMagh," Chauncey
The leading feature at Proctor's Newark
house will be Dirkens's The Holly Ire,
Inn" as dramatized by Augustus Thomas
Al Leech and the Three Rosebuds will give
Examination Day Mt School" Proves,
and Provost. in Fun in Turkish Bath,
will be among the other attractive offerings,
Sunday concerts, as usual AT all the Proc
tor theatres.
Mr.. Keith introduces the leading
novelty at the Union Square Theatre this
week Nine. konorah, a lightning calculator
and mind reader. The six Glnserettis.
European acrobats. will perform at this
house. and 40 will Sager Midgely and Gertie
Carlisle In taking a Tonic" Keno. WEIGH
and Melrose. comic acrobats; Sidney Grant
In monologue. and numerous other vaude-
Vile artists.
Tony Pastor puts at the top OF his bill the
Carter De Haven trio, who will be seen In
singing and dancing sketch. Lew Hawkins.
the minstrel, comes next, and the n Harding
and An Sid, the clown and the hnaman;
LaMaf and Gabriel, comedians; Roberts,
Hayes and Roberts. In THE Infant" John
Mayor aud company in -The Man Next
DIOR" Mile. Olive, the jugglcr; the Ramsey
sisters and several more good features.
One Of the Hoyt comedies a Midnight
Bell will he revived at the MURRAY Hill,
with Henry V. Donney as Deacon 7idd.