The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08
ENTkRT4fN N ENIS.
Hyperion rhenter,
JAMES K. HACKETT APPEARS TO-

JAMES K. HACKETT APPEARS TO-
 NIGHT.
 James K. Hackett one of America S
 representative actor managers, has
 scored the romantic comedy success of
 his career in Don Caesars Return"
 which he presents at the Hyperion this
 evening. It ran nearly three months in
 New York at Wallack's theater. Play
 goers who remember his magnetic im-
 personation of Mercutio in Romeo and
 Juliet can easily imagine MT. Hackett
 as the dashing, daredevil Don Caesar
 de Bazan, who laughs and makes love
 in the very shadow of the galloWs, and
 eventually wins his sweetheart in spite
 of king and courtiers. Mr. Hackett has
 been declared by no less authority than
 William Winter to be the best Don
 Caesar since SalYini." The character is
 generally conceded to suit him better than any other actor of the day. His physique, personality and temperament seem strangely synonymous with it. This is MT Hackett's fourth year as a star, and his first under his own direc- ton. During the three previous years, while under the management of Daniel Frohman, he starred in The Prisoner of Zenda." Rupert of Hentzau" and "The Pride of Jennico.' MT Hackett's leading lady is Jane ~Oaker, a young and promising actress, who first went on the stage in Mime. Modjeska's company and later played Hernia with Louis James and Katherine Kidder in Mid summer Nights Dream Mir. Hackett selected her for his leading woman be- cause of her natural adaptability to the role of the pretty gypsy Mariana. Seats now on sale. Prices $1,50, $1 and 75 cents.
 Foxy Grandpa" three-act musical farce comedy was greeted by a crowd ed house at the Hyperion last night. It was a delighted audience that left that well known playhouse at the close of the show. because they had enjoyed one of the best productions of it's char acter which has ever been seen in this city The piece is given with snap and go and interpreted with an excep- ] tionally capable company, who are all 1 good singers and whose work last nj Int in the many popular airs of the day was very pleasing. The company is headed | by those well known vaudeville artists, | Joseph Hart and Carrie DeMar who | have abundant opportunity for display | ing their talents, and they do so in | splendid style. Foxy Grandpa and his grandsons, Chup and Blunt, furnished | all kinds of amusement for the audi ence. The company was a well bal anced and capable one throughout.
 Hermann, the Great, appears at the Hyperion next Tuesday night and will offer to the theater-goers of this city what the management announces as the most startling black art entertainment aver seen here. Hermann the past summer made a short tour of Europe md during his peregrinations on the other side called upon his aunt, the wid- ,w of Carl Herman, who was the orig nal of the name, in Vienna, Austria. From her he received many of the won lerful tricks which gave Carl fame and which made the name of Hermann re- lowned in the early forties. These ex- )eriments have never before been seen II this country and possess the double 'irtue of being al once novel and mys- flying. Seats now on sale. Prices $l, 5 cents, 50 cents, 35 cents and 25 cents. We were given ample proof of the of Quincy Adams Sawyer" which was presented here recently. It $ an exceedingly interesting play, clean n tone and thought, homely in sur oundings and motive, and in it's mech . nical features-in it's staeing-very z laborate and realistic. So substantial las the success of this play here that ! 1. E. Bunnell has secured it for re- i urn engagement al the Hyperion next I friday night.