The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-18
.:t .:s theatres


''The Mocking Bird" will be one OF the
musical treats of the season here. The
big attraction opens with a matinee next
Monday afternoon aat the Providence OPP
era House for three nights and regular
matinee Wednesday. Miss Gilman has
long been a New York favorite, having
created the leading roles In many of the
big musical comedies that have been pro-
duced In that city In the past five years.
Among these are The Geisha," The Ca
sno Girl" THE Runaway Girl, and
THE Hall OF Fame" This Is her initial
starring tour and under the management
of the successful Sire Brothers, her tour
IL bound TO be success. THE Mocking
Bird" has been written by that able COM
edy writer, Sydney Rosenfeld.' while the
music by the composition OF A. Bald
Sloane, the well-known composer OF
Jack and the Beanstalk," '"rhe Hall Of
Fame" and other successful works. II
is not a musical comedy, however, but a
romantic comic opera that is said TO give
Miss Gilman a wide field for her talents.
She possesses a refinement of personality
that Ia rerely found among the actresses
OF today. so many of them are apt to
yield to the demands for horseplay on the
stage. The Sires have spared no expense
In mounting "The Mocking Bird" so the
costumes and scenery are promised to be
on a lavish scale. The company is a large
one. embracing about eighty people, with
a chorus of forty trained voices Seats go
on sale tomorrow morning.
Probably no attraction booked here this
season will give more genuine delight
than the quaint. homely picturesque
drama of life on New Hampshire farm.
than THE Old Homestead" which has
become so firmly intrenched In the hearts
OF theatregoers.
Ii is a play without any pretentions to
a strong or intricate plot, and yet this
does not lesseen the interest for II is q
succession OF scenes In which country life
In New England and city life In the me-
tropois are contrasted. 1t Is pastoral
and homely and relates the story OF two
young men, cast adrift by their own folly
and intemperance and restored to home
and honor by well directed moral persua-
sion. The lesson thus taught Is worth a
hundred sermons.
The play this season is superbly mount
ed, and the company is entirety satisfac-
tory The singing OF the double quartet.
as usual. is one OF the effective features
OF the performance. The "Old Homes
stead comes 10 the Providence Opera
House the last three nights OF next week
with matinee Saturday. Seats go on sale
Monday evening.
"The Climbers" by Mr.. Clyde Fitch
which ran for 200 nights at the Bijou
theatre, New York, and gained recog-
milton for Miss Amelia Bingham as
Americas only actress manager. is maxi
ing as great a success at the Imperial
theatre this week as at the opera house
last season. Mr.. Fitchs play treats Of
contemporaneous New York life, but its
themes and situations are easily under
standable; they are native 10 any city In
| the country. A coterie OF members OF a
| fashionable set I'm New York society fur
| nish by their amusing tactics much d.
vertng and original comedy. There are
| twenty-one speaking parts in Mr.. Fitch's
| brilliant play and they have been as
signed to actors whose names stand for
tried ability, and Miss Bingham has given
| u tasteful and lavish mounting OF the
| comedy. The new departure OF 25-cent
| matinees is already an immense success
| at the Imperial.
Next week at the Imperial Messrs. r.
| Il. Forester and Mittenthal Bros will
| present for the first time I'm this city
| a Desperate Chance" from the pen OF
| Theodore Kremer "A Desperate Chance
| deals with the life Of the famous Biddle
Bros and Is filled with thrilling situa-
| tions. There Is much comedy and sew
| eral interesting spccialties. The scenic
! production Is a complete one. and the
| cast Is one which guarantees n per-
| formance Of unusual merit. Little Clara
| probably the greatest child actress now
| before the public. Is OF great interest
I TO tho children and after each matinee
: me Stage entrance Is crowded with little
ones anxious To get a glance at theii
4 little friend. rhe old horse and sleigh
I with which the Blddles and Mrs. Soffe
| attempted to make their escape will bt
used al each performances. All seats nj
matir.ees are iold at uniform price o
| rs cents.
Next Sunday nights concert at the I'm
| perial by the Banda Napoll promises q
/ he n real musical treat. The programme
itself is OF such exceptional merit. almos
/, every selection being new here: and Will
! such soloists "a Alfred n. Cassidy, tn
famous Boston cornetist Addie Ioli