The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-24
THE TO- IN GOTHAM.
New York. April %


There were two more or less interest
ing events at the theaters Monday night.
At the Victoria the French Opera Com
pany appeared in a revival of The Grand
Duchess a comic opera which was first
heard in this country twenty five years
ago at the Fourteenth Street Theater-
then the Theater Francois. Toste, IA
nous French opera bouTe prima donna.
was the star. and within one day she be-
came the talk Of the town The opera
was also a huge success. and fer weeks
and months the theater was crowded to
overlooking at every performance
At Manager Ham1erstein's handsome
playhouse the old opera boufTe is ac-
CeDtably presented. ard while there is
nothing remarkable about the perform
anCe it makes all the recent comic operas
look like 80 cents There IS a sparkle
about The Grand Duchess which is not
found in any comic opera Of recent years.
There vas a double event at the Four
teenth Street Thzater Monday night, when
Foxy Grandpa reached its seventy-fifth
performance It was also the twenty
second anniversary of Joe Harris appear
ance on the stage For souvenirs The
management distributed handsome six
Foxy Grandpa cushion slips
After the performance Mr. Hart enter
tanned the members OF his company and
few friends at supper on the stage
| The exercises included music and dan
cing-and few other things.
It IS too bad, is this news from London
abou. Ben Hur.' Some OF the newspa-
peTs think. to read them, that the piece
has scored one of the worst fascos ever
known in the English Metropolis. and
some OF the wiseacres are actually read
/ ing Klaw & ETlGngeT sermons on the sub
! tect-te1liug them that they should have
/ known better than to take General Wal
/ lace's story TO England
/ In the West. particularly, there is a sort
/ Of biographical air over all that is be-
| ing said and done in connection with
Pen Hur"
Meanwhile the play is breaking all rec
ords for receipts at the DTury Lane
Theater, where it Is drawing nightly up
ward of s.. coo. and the advance sale COW
| eTing the next two months approximates
! S100 600
On behalf of Klaw & ErIanger I ex-
| tend thanks and gratitude to the jour
nalists ali over the country who are so
| generously rendering TO them their kind
synpathies- It's so American, you know
| II is as good as settled that the Shu-
berts VIII take peaceabIe possession OF
: the Casino on May | The house will be
/ closed few days for repairs and renova-
| tioa, reopening about May -, with the
! first performance in this country of "a
I Chinese Honeymoon, now in its second
! year in London
! Tho --ffT bn cyiv-av, Nth
/ commonly good cast. which includes the
! names OF Thomas @. SeabTooke, Edwin
/ Stevens, Van Rensselaer, Wheeler. Will
( liam Pruett Charles KirIlc, Adele Richie
! Mrs Annie Yeamans Amelia Stone, and
/ Toby Claude. GustaTe herker, who was
4 the director of music during Rudolph
/ AronsOn' , management OF the Casino. is
| expected back from Europe in time to
/ conduct the orchestra Tor the opening
/ performance.
! The revival Of The Importance of Be
/ ing Earnest" at the Empire. is a capital
/ entertainment for The jaded theatergoer
It IS a merry play and fairly gIistens with
! epigTam-
/ The piece was first produced in this
I city seven years ago with success. and
although oscar Wilde has gone dishonored
/ 10 his grave it is just as brilliant as
ever The players or the present cast
who do the best work are Margaret Dale
and William CoUrtenay, Miss Dale's act
/ ing places her IN the front rank OF in
gePues, and Mr. Courtenay shows inteIIi-
gence and distinction. Charles Richman
and Margaret ABglin are an Improvement
on Henry Miller and Viola Allen, who
were IN the original cast
The Importance OF Being Earnest
| comes at q time when book plays have
! become tiTesome, and viii easily run the
season out
Last fall I announced that Mrs Minnie
/ Madden Fiske had secured Paul Heyses
play Mary Magaalene" and would be seen
IL the title role when it was produced.
| This was vigorously denied at the time
by Mrs Fiske and her manager. but was
absolutely true, as stated
Tie most important male character in
the piece is Judas Iscariot, and this will
be acted by Frederick de BelIevilIe, when
the drama is made known al the Manhat-
tan Theater-
New ycrkers who are obliged to remain
In town during the heated term VIII find