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"The Wizard of or" will close a sue
cessful week at the Metropolitan opera
mousse with two performances today
the matinee beginning at o'clock
sharp and thei farewell performance at
p. m. The show has scored
phenomenal hit, and crowded houses
gagement. The "Wizard" made good
from thee start, and the week, from
both artistic and financial standpoints,
has been one of the most satisfactory
IN the history Of the Metropolitan
opera house.
"Florodora," as tuneful and beauti-
ful as When it scored such a pronounce
ed hit in New York, will be the at
traction at the metropolitan on Sunday
evening. 1t will continue for the en-
tire week with the customary matinees
on Wednesday and Saturday.
Sousa's special solosists on the pres
ent sixth transcontinental tour and
tWenty-ffrst semi-annual are said to
be exceptional young artists, and are
making an emphatic impression on the
tour thus far. Miss Estelle Liebling is
soprano of unusual qualities OF
voice, according to the reviewers. Miss
Grace Courtney Jenkins is the violin
1ste, who has been equally as success
full In number of Metropolitan ap-
pearances. They will both be heard at
the Sousa concerts Wednesday, Oct
l. Also Mr.. Emil Kennecke, cornet
at the matinee, and Arthur Pryor
trombone, at the evening concert.
Matinee and evening performances
today will conclude the engagement at
the Grand of '"The Night Before
Christmas" Hal Reid's pretty pas
toral play, which has been entertaining
large audiences at that playhouse at
each performance. No pastoral comedy
drama produced here in recent years
has been so well received as this
charming story Of rural life in the
Buckeye state. Managers Burt and
N1colai have given the piece a splen-
did scenic equipment, and the COM
pany which interprets the various
quaint characters Is one Of uniform
excellence. The matinee performance
this afternoon at 2:30 will afford the
ladies and children their final oppor-
tunity of witnessing this popular play.
Musical comedy will hold sway at
the Grand opera house the coming
week, and an attraction of sterling
merit in this line will be the Offering.
Dan and Charles A. Mason will make
their initial bow before a st. Paul au-
dience as joint stars in Charles New
mans clever comedy, Rudolph and
Adolph," at this playhouse tomorrow
evening. The piece was written espe-
cially for Mason and Mason, and is
said to be one of the most laughable
and at the same time entirely clean
and wholesome comedies that has
ever been presented in this city. Their
assisting company, it is said, is a large
and capable one, including chorus
of pretty young ladies who are pos
sessed Of splendid voices. Rudolph
and Adolph" promises to be one of
the most enjoyable treats of the sea-
son at the Grand.
The last two performances of a
successful week by the Al Reeves bur-
lesque artists will be given this after
noon and evening at the Star theater.
Beginning with the matinee tomorrow
Fred Twins MajesticS will play a
week at this theater.
Charles B. Dillingham;, Julia Mar
loves manager, has purchased from
Frances Aylmar Matthews a play with
Peg Wellington as the chief figure.
THE Queen Flametta," which Miss
MarloWe now is rehearsing, will be
the principal medium of her appear
ance on the stage this season, but she
liked the idea of Miss Matthews play
so well she bought 1t for future pro
duction.
Miss Marie Corelli's novel Of "Tem-
poral Power has been turned into a
play, produced at Morecombe, Eng
land, by Mr. Greet. In this drama a
king, disguised, joins a conspiracy
against his own crown, and is chosen
to assassinate himself Lord Byron,
in letter, speaks of a play that was
offered at Drury Lane, in which an
Irish king was chained, by the leg,
to pillar, during the whole five acts,
and ended by sticking a knife into his
own gtzzard. Miss Corelli is, perhaps,
acquainted with this work of genius.
After two years with "Florodora, !"
Edna Wallace Hopper and Cyril Scott
made their last appearance in the
tuneful opera in Boston Saturday
night, and returned to New York city
yesterday They will begin rehearsals
for John Fishers forthcoming produce
ton Of 1.-THE Silver Slipper"
Isabel Irving's starring tour in 'HThe
Crisis" ended last Saturday evening in
Philadelphia, and the company organ
lied for her support has been trans
ferred to James K. Hackett, and for his
season in the same play, beginning to-
morrow night in New York, Mr.Hackett
announces, however that he will send
Miss Irving out again with a new COM
pany about Nov l, and that he has
arranged Withta we'll known actor and
actress to head the cast of "The Bish-
ops Move" which he hopes to pro-
duce early in3 December. The latter
play he bought in London for Miss
Irving's house!
A memorial stone, commemorative Of
Shakespeare's granddaughter, Eliza
beth Bernard, wife of Sir John Bar
nard, has just been placed in the
church at Abingdon, Northampton
shire, where she was buried. She was
the last direct descendant of the poet,
Her death occurred in 1863 The me-
mortal was given by Mr.. Stanley Coop
er.
H. e. Hamilton, manager for William
Gillette, returned from England last
week. He says five Sherlock Holmes"
companies are now playing in England
alone, and the play is being presented
in five languages on the Continent. Mr..
Gillette will start his own season in
Springfield, Mass, in October.
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