The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

invention and fiawless strength or dramatic accentuation. There are stir ing scenes in it and an abundance Of rich and enlivening comedy. The play is in good hands with Wilton Lackaye Francis Carlyle and Maude Holman m the principal roles, and John w. All baugh, Jd., J. M. Colville Horace Lew is, Violet Rand, Jean NeWcompe, Rose Cooke, Christine Blessing, Henry dall' Louis Eagan, Frank DonoVan HerpeFt Pollard, Frank Kemble, Clement hlfpy, Hearn Collins, William T. simpson Lawrence Sheehan, Francis Conlan Morris Frank, Harry Gibson baVld Higgins, Thomas Lambson, Wiillam l. James in the other parts. Seats now selling. Prices $1, 75c, soc.
 Sousa with the additional dignity or royal favor and royal decoratleh' Wlth the prestige of British success that surpasses the triumphs of any other visiting conductor and with the knoWl- edge that his music is in the flood tide of popularity at home and abroad IS back again on his native heath, en- eaged upon another concert tour with his great band, just as though playing before crowned heads was an ofalhafy incident in his career. Sousa and the Sousa band are such distinctlVely American institutions that such tflp- ute as the following from the pen or the critic of the conservative St James Gazette adds new lustre: we may say at once that such playing py band consisting of wood wind and brass alone has without doubt, never been heard in this country before MT. Sousa is evidently a musician or rare refinement and instinct, with an appre- citation for and gift of rhythm Whlch fairly amounts to genius. Much or the music performed was of the llghtest description, yet we cannot pay MT. Sousa a higher compliment than to say that ones purely critical musical fac ulty was entirely carried away by the l extraordinary entrain and verye of the l interpretations. There was on the part of the players an absolutely spontane- ous response to the conductors slight est movement or gesture, while the auditors themselves seemed to be lnflu- enced in no less degreee from an emo- tonal point of view. The quality ana balance of tone of the band was well nigh perfect while in the accompani- ments of the vocal and violin solos one quite failed to realize that the funda- mental strings of the ordinary orches- tra were replaced by the harsher and more assertive wood-wind group of in struments. In MT. Sousa and his band we seem to have the musical epitome of all that is bright and sparkling in the characteristic personality Of our American cousins across the water
 Sousa will give concert at the Fly peron Saturday night, January 25' The soloists will be Maude Reese-Davies soprano Dorothy Hoyle, violiniste, and Arthur Pryor, trombone, all of whom were with the band in England. Seats now selling Prices $t, 75c, soc.
 In the last act of "rhe Volunteer Or ganist," which will be seen at the Fly peron next Monday night, some beau tiful full blooded St. Bernard dogs are introduced It is the business of these noble animals to rescue from the storm a little child who had strayed from home The dogs were especially iinporde from Switzerland by Mir Mar tell for this production, and their value would call for a check of four figures. Seats on sale Friday Prices $l, Toe, soc. 35c 25c
 N. c. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott will be seen in When We Were Twenty one" at the Hyperion on Tuesday night, January S2. Seats on sale Saturday. Prices $2, S150, S1 75c