The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-01
ENTERTAIN NM E WIS.
Hyperion 'Eheater.
MAUDE ADAMS IN EQUALITY
 STREET"

streets the big Hyperion theater was
 packed in every part last evening and
 a fine representative New Haven au- I dience greeted the delightful and fav l Quality Street." in which she has won
 additional favor with an appreciative
 public. The huge and rapid advance
 sale of seats for all three performances
 here betokened the enthusiastic greet ings which she received upon her ap- pearanCe last night before the foot | lights and subsequently during the per formance. The same success greets Miss Adams everywhere on her tours. Her natural talent for the stage is con- spicuously evident, and there is a del
 icate touch of beauty in what she does
 and says that Is hardly definable, but
 which wins at once for her the favor of
 her audience Quality Street. is es-
 pecially adapted to win favor as Miss
 Adams is the bright particular star that all want to see and in this play the au-
 dience hardly loses sight of her during it's entire presentation, and there I loIN CNCl J ppdJ tlSlltNl anu QtIiSllL- | ed.
 The play is very interesting one, though hardly equal to the story from
 which it is taken, owing to the few
 characters presented in the dramatiza- tion Miss Adams, who takes the part | of Miss Phoebe Throssel, Helen Lowell
 as Miss Susan Throssel and Sydney
 Brough as Valentine Brown doing prac- | tieally all the work, while the share that falls to Miss Adams, as ntima ted
 above, is almost unremitting. Miss 1 Adams beautifully interpreted the many delicate shades of sentiment and
 emotion that fell to her part, and the
 others named above were charming
 in their work and support. Spontaneous | outbursts of applause greeted Miss | Adams and the curtain calls for her were frequent and insistent. Her sup port is excellent, and altogether "Qual- | ity Street" with Miss Adams to inter-
 pret it, Is delight. Briefly the tale is of Miss Phoebe Throssell, who lives with her very ladylike old maid sister on Quality street Miss Phoebe fell in | love with one Valentine Brown, who she believed loved her. But he didn't. | He bade her goodbye with a boyish | laugh, took the shilling and marched away to the Napoeonic wars. Then the Misses Throssel having lost their | little fortune, opened a select school" They taught that school for nine years, during which Miss Phoebe wore plain little cap acquired a tired look in her eyes and party with her beauty Then Brown came home heroic one- armed captain in the. hussars or horse artill ery--it is difficulty to say which, since the programme didn't state, and British uniforms have changed bit since Wa terloo Brown was shocked at the change in Miss Phoebe and Miss Phoebe was naturally shocked at the shocking of Brown. In fit of girlish piaue she discarded the cap, shook out her curls donned an ancient ball gown, became again girl and went to the of ficers' ball as her own niece, Miss Lib bic Throssell. All the officers fell in love with her-all but Brown. To him she was a fragrant memory of her aunt the girl he left nine years before.
 He fell in love with the tired eyed Miss Phoebe. whom he believed sitting quiet ly at home. He told Miss Libbie so The climax of the play was really reached here, but the action was continued for another act, during which Miss Phoebe exhibited much ladylike contrition for her deception, punished herself with peas in her shoes and determination not to marry Captain Brown, but Of course in the end capitulated, calling down the final curtain on fearful smiles, embraces and bars of a certain dreamy incidental music which was used effec- lively all through the performance. Equality Street. will be repeated this afternoon and evening.
 Since there is but one company of Klaw and Erlangers troubadours play ing "The Liberty Belles,' the original cast will be seen here at the Hyperion next Monday night, even to Pauline Chase, the original pink pajama girl, who still wears the original pink paja- mas Even the musical comedy as whole is said to be decidedly original, and to the embodiment of many orig inal ideas heretofore untr1ed in this field of entertainment. In fact the en- tertainment on the whole is said to be utterly unlike any other musical come dy organization that ever grew into successful existence It has no chorus, no ensemble numbers, no marches, no prima donnas, no tenors. Still it is musical comedy Among other things it has a cast of twenty-two young wo- men who have achieved some reputa- ton as ingenues with singing voices. They are said to represent, the pick of the younger stage beauties. Each of them has lines to speak and songs to sing. There are no thinking parts in "The Liberty Bellies" And there is real plot. which runs something like this: A revolt in young women's sem inary results in the establishment of a cooking school by the young women who are expelled. One of them has been secretly married to a cadet at An napois, who has a rich uncle. The rich uncle pays the honeymoon expenses to Florida, and the entire membership of the school is invited to join the wedding party. The dormitory scene in the first act shows the young women in night ies;" the second act shows them hard at work in a cooking school, and the third allows them to gambol on the lawn of fashionable summer hotel. | All this time specialties are worked in. | since the cast contains many players | of individual reputation as entertainers 1 like Harry Gilfoil, the mimic; Etta But | Ter. the fmpersonator; Augusta Close, | the "parIor entertainers" John Slavin, | Harry Davenport, J. w. Marlowe, Cris- l sic Carlysle, Marie Murphy, Helen Lu- | cas, Nellie and Lizzie Mccoy, Sandol |