The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-18
ENTERTAINMENTS.
HyperiOn Tfleater.
THE SILVER SLIPPER"


 "The Silver Slipper" the latest work of Owen Hall and Leslie Stuart will be presented for the first time in America at the Hyperion Theater Tuesday night. The engagement of this American edi- ten of the latest London musical suc- cess will be for three nights only and Q matinee Wednesday, and the production will be the most stupendous and elabo- rate ever seen in New Haven.
 The American and Canadian rights to ''The Silver Slipper" are owned exclu- sively by MT. John c. Fisher, through whose lavishness in costuming, scenic effects and cast, tuneful merry "Floro- dOra' became the most successful and widely known musical play in theatrical history. It will be the same with "The Silver Slipper" Preparations for the production of this latest Hall-Stuart work have been going onafor several months past, and no expense has been spared by MT. Fisher to make the American production of "The Silver Slipper" the superior in every particu- lar to the English production which played to crowded houses at the Lyric Theater. London, for upwards of eigh- teen months The costumes were all imported from France at enormous eX- pense, the scenery is the work of the best known scenic artists in the coun- try, and it will require special train of eight cars to bring the company that will appear in "The Silver Slipper from New York to New Haven. This train, on which there will be two hun dred and fifty persons in all. will arrive about noon Sunday.
 In costuming "The Silver Slipper" and in scenic effects no detail, no matter how small, has been overlooked by MT Fisher All the costumes were import ed at an enormous expense and the gowns that will be worn in the ball room scene are all>the latest creations of the leading iParisian nlodistes. An idea of their cost may be gathered from the fact that the six gowns worn by the young women of the seXette cost five hundred dollars each, and are worn but few minutes. %
 "The Silver Slipper" is a musical comedy i'll two acts and five scenes, and though called the Successor of "Floro- dora,' all who see it will be convinced that it is more than the successor to that most tuneful of musical plays. It is really a musical extravaganza" The music of Leslie Stuart runs ram pant throughout the entire play. There are twenty-five musical numbers on the programme. If the Shade of the Palms" and the sextette song were the hits of "Florodora, there will be found more delightful solos, luetts and sex tette songs in the new play. There IS sextette song in '"rhe Silver Slipper entitled Come Little Girl and Tell me Truly" It is similar to the Pretty Maiden" sextette song in only one re- spect; 1t is performed by six young Wo- men and six young men. The music IS different and the dance far different 10 the other The steps in this sextette song closely resemble those of the minu- ct. There is a tenor solo, Two Eyes Of Bdue," that will be sung by Mackenzie Gordon There will be several songs by Mile. Mai de Villiers. French operatic singer, who came to this country for the first time to appear in the part Of The Queen of Venus in this production. The songs of Edna Wallace Hopper are bound to become popular One, "The Baby With the Dimple and the Smile will be whistled after the performance and another"Four and Twenty Little Men," in which the tiny actress sings to twenty-four men seated on the stage, will become as popular as did Pretty Maidens." Cyril Scott plays the part of a military man and sings march cong, "The Detrimental Man." that will be found to be even more snappy and catchy than was his Military Man" song in "Florodora."
 The music of Leslie Stuart does not monopolize the entire performance, There is plot, a story and considera- ble comedy in 'The Silver Slipper" Though the book of Owen Hall has been rearranged for the American stage by Clay M. Greene the story of the play as originally written by Hall has been practically unchanged. It deals with an inquisitive young miss on the planet Venus, who, when caught in the act of displaying too great an interest in things mundane, petulantly kicks her slipper, a silver one, from her planet to the earth. The slipper falls into the gardens of an eccentric astronomer named Sir Victor Shallamar, who has founded college for the study of his pet science. For this act of indiscre- ton. Stella, that being the name of the inquisitive young miss is banished to earth until she discovers the slipper. She is accompanied in her exile by six of her sisters and the queen. Before they arrive on earth the students of Shallamar college, who take no interest
 in studying the stars but prefer having a good time, are enjoying themselves while Sir Victor is entertaining show man and card sharp named Henry Bis