The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-20

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The Rogers Brothers I'm Washington
are spending their second week I'm Provi-
dence. They opened at the Providence
Opera house last evening to fiattering
business. The show has been reviewed
and favorably In this column. Indeed,
this column was one of the first to recog-
nize the value of the Rogers brothers as
a medium for hearty entertainment at
time when the kind OF entertainment they
were able TO offer was more or noVeily
than It Is now and the many or tne re.
viewing columns were either IN uouDt
about approving IL or sternly critical OF
the sort OF stage nonsense they purVeyed:
After all, TO appreciate the rogers
show IL ought to be seen az least TWICE.
n goes so fast. After one evening with
n YOU feel much as you do when you
have seen an automobile eat up a mile
IN less than a minute-you wish TX could
be done over again so that you could
The production is one of the three or
four biggest i'm respect 10 numbers and
wealth OF stage outfit that has been seen
this season. We don't know but what
II really is the very biggest The show
carries almost as many people and a lmost
as much property as a good sized circus.
1t Is a tremendous aggregation, In ma
terial way.
any class. IL is particularly good in its
own class Some uf IL is beautiful \
whole lot OF IL is whistle-able. Mr.. Levi
and Mr., Smith have made a record viii with
even I'm these days of an unexampled ac-
emulation OF tuneful writing.
The show has superb finish. The same
people have been saying the same things
and singing the same songs for 50 long
that IL goes automatically. Automatic
as II is. though, the springy leadership OF
the orchestra and the strenuous manage
ment of the stage keeps IL on the hop,
skip and jump, possessed OF all the fresh
ness OF a virgin performance. along with
its polish Of many hundred performances.
And the jokes and the fun and the gags
are genuinely funny and they lose nothing
OF their original spontaneity. They ex,
pode like Fourth OF July crackers. Ana
they are so many and they come so fast
that, even though some OF them must
have been in use since the first perform
ance, YOU can't begin to RENE mber any
considerable number of them and they
seem almost like n fresh lot. no matter
how many times you have heard them.
Brothers other i'm in washinston" '' was first set
on the stage. The opening scene
faithful reproduction of a room I'm the fa-
nous Democratic club In New YORK Win
q portrait OF Croker over the mantel, re-
minds us that times political have
changed wonderfully since that portrait
was something 20 coniure by. The beau
tiful spectacle OF the Pan-American ex-
position, that Is the scene OF the last
act, is the most perfect and sumptuols
reminder OF the great Buffalo show that
exists today. No picture Of IL can match
It. and now that the original Is razed
-totAe ground II Is a delightful reminis-
cence to view this handsome scene.
Only the scene showing the capitol at
Washington remains 10 remind US that
the Rogers brothers never change among
ordinary human enterprises. They are
with us yet, as solid as the capitol itself,
IN deservedly popular favor. The little
Dutchmen were I'm high spirits last even
Ing. and with Hattie Williams had to