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Viola Allen, who has achieved an
enormous success in Lorimer Stoddard
and r Marion Crawford's great roIaentie
love s'cly, In the Palace of the King"
IS 60 &p3ear at the Metropolitan tonight.
Inc story, In the Halace of the King
Is iald IN Span duriAg the era of Philip
ii. and that of Don John of Austria, is
haH trother The play opens with ~the
expected return of Don John from the
conquest OF Granada. Tt is disclosed in
the first scene that DonnaDolores de Men
doza, daughter of the captain of the
household guard, is the sweetheart of Don
John; but that Philip opposes the match;
that ne secretly loves Dolores and, owing
I'd Don john S dangerous popularity with
the pubic, would marry him to Mary,
Queen of Scots, and thus get him out of
the country. Philip enters into plot
with his mistress, the wicked but beaut1-
full Princess Of EEoli, to surprise Dolores
Miss Allen) in the company of the
cardinal, and poison Don Johns mind
with Jealousy. In the second scene Don
John return from Granada and appears
before the king and court to receive royal
congratulate on. Dolores throws Don John
white rose as he passes under the bal
cony where she is sitting watching the
royal ceremonies. Her father sees this,
and being an unyielding adherent of
Philip, upraids his daughter and demands
that she go to her room and stay there
till he sees her. She starts to go; old
Capt. Mendoza leaves the apartment
when Don John appears and meets
Dolores, the first time for two years.
A pretty love scene follows, when Capt.
Mendoza Unexpectedly returns and Donna
Dolores escapes to her room, Don John
having first promised to meet her there
with her sister Inez that very evening.
In the next scene, that in Capt. Mendoza 5
apartments, Dolores anu her father have
stormy scene regarding Don John. The
daughter refuses to give up her lover,
and the father threatens to send Dolores
to the convent of Las HuegIas, to remain
prisoner for the remainder of her life.
The Princess of Eboli. by a ruse, gets
capt. MendoZa's consent that she should
have the keeping of her daughter over
night Dolores, aided by her sister Inez,
Tricks the princess, and escapes from the
locked and barred apartment going at
once to Don Johns boudoir in the palace
of the king, The next scene, the fourth,
is Don johns apartm Mt, where me lovers
again meet. Philip sends for his brother.
The princess of Eboli, enraged by the
trick played upon her, seeks Dolores, who
is now in hiding. Don John is accused
Of fermentiES a rebellion and of being in
love with woman who is the mistress of
the cardinal Dolores and the cardinal
had secre- ed themselves in the apartment
but hearing this unjust accusation the
cardinal appears and denOunceS the king
in unmeasured terms. Don John is equal
ly vehement in his protestations, when
Philip, intending to stab Don John, ac-
cidentally lays low the cardinal. Philip,
fearing the pope's displeasure, compels
Don John to assume the guilt, when
Dolores appears, knowing all that has oc-
CURED, and makes protest
In the next scene Don John acknoWl-
eGg5s the CRIME, when Dolores mounts the
throne and relates to the courtieTs what
has occurred, revealing, however, only a.
portion of the truth. In the last scene
Dolores confr onts the king and compels
MN to sign Don Johns release. The
cardinal IS discovered alive, when the
lovers are nnally united, and 80 king
anu the Princess of EboH overcome. The
production is very magnificent the most
peautlIuF seen on the stage for many
years. In all there are six acts, and the
dresses, depicting the glorious era OF
Phllp H., are very magnificent Miss
Alien gowns are copied from costumes
to be seen in the museum at Madrid.
IN The Price of Jennico Daniel Froh-
man secured play which has been pro
nounced ut to rank alongside of all the
best known dramas of the romantic
school which have seen the light in the
past decade. The play is original in treat
I1lent ana plot and, although it is founded
upon and takes it's title from a novel. it
is merely the chief incident in the novel
which serves as the theme New charac-
terS are introduced and the play owes all
IT'S success to the treatment it has re-
celved at the dramatists' hands, The
present company now touring the coun-
try Is by special arrangement with Mr.
Frohman and under the management Of
Munro and Sage, who also control 1.-THE
PRISONER OF Zenda" 1t will be given for
TOUR nights and Wednesday matinee, be-
ginning Sunday evening, at the Metro
pOntan, with a fine company and car
Ioad OF scenery and accessories.
A benefit concert will be rendered the
Misses Margaret and Anna Mich at the
Metropolitan opera house Sunday after
noon by the Metropolitan opera house or
chestra, under the direction of D. Much
Ienbruch. These children are the daugh-
ters Of the late Louis Mich, formerly a.
member Of the Metropolitan forces and
are exceptionally clever and PROMISING.
musicians. They are now at the age
when they require the best of tutelaen
and the local musicians have combined
IN an effort to raise funds to enable the
little girls to continue their studies The
Misses Anna and Margaret will give a.
orchestra, which win be augmented by
twenty-five men for this occasion Popu-
lar prices will prevail and popular pro-
gramme will be rendered.
Two big audiences gathered at the
Grand yesterday afternoon and evening
to witness the performance of vaudeville
which is being presented at that play
house this week. Every number of the
programme makes distinct hit and it
is plain that the patrons of the theater
like this sort of amusement One notice
able feature of this show is it's variety
There is Vermette and Dionne horizontal
bar experts, who are conceded to be The
best in their line; Grard and Gardner. in
their side-sphtting sketch, 1.-The Soubrette
and the Cop" George H Woods. the
somewhat different comedian: the Ro-
limos, who use billiard table to perform
acrobatic feats in a manner that is com
zeal and yet startling: La Favre's dogs
cats and monkeys. marvels of the trained
animal world, who do tricks that are
wonderful and Mr.. and Mrs Alfred KEEL
cey, in their delightful farce, Uncle Phi
meas"
''Ftddle-Dee-Dee,' which comes to the
Grand opera house next week, is the show
that had run Of more than 200 consecu-
tive performances at Shea's theater dur
ing the last summer. Not. only did thou
SANDS upon thousands of strangers visit
the theater to see the show but Buffalo,
mans came time and time again and en-
joyed it more each time. "FiddIe-Dee-
w he