The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

summer to pass and COR the amuse ment
season of the fall to make connection with
the place. There has been little to amuse
during the summer, even the local talent
having gone into hiding during The hot
days
The only attraction during the week
was the Oxford Orphan singing ella 5.
which gave a delightful entertainment at
the monumental Theatre on Friday night.
This reminds us that the Monumental Is
TO be in the field again this season, and
that there will be a number of splendid
attractions which will be on the boards
there. Last season there were number
of most meritorious performances and
things were conducted in good shape.
Liebler & Company, in their bulletin,
under the title "A Summer Tour" thus
MARBLES anent the actor:
The mimic war draws on apace,
The Summers nearly DER;
The tourist homeward turns his face,
The seaside bluff takes heart of grace
And talent" sets its serious face
For the Seasons near once more.
Now Claude again adorns Broadway
His cheek a foreign tan;
His garments cut the London way
While pensive smile and spirits gay
And eye alight with far away,
Bespeak the travelled man.
He raved of life in London town,
Drank wine in gay aParee,'
Fearless he climbed the Matterhorn
And tramped the continent up and down,
Wearied of coronet and crown,
And died of ennuyee.'
He shook the hand of Emperor Bill,
Saw Danny Maher ride,
Talked stocks with Morgan schwab and
Hill.
Discussed the dreadful tariff bill
With bold Chamberlain, and still
Came home dissatisfied.
Alas! The scenes that Claudio saw
Were visions in his hat.
. For his Summer cruise was made with Ma,
And his Summer grub was bought by Pa,
While he lodged the minions of the law
Up in a Harlem fat
Edwin Grasse, a young American violin
list, who has won notable distinction in
Berlin, Vienna, Leipsig, Munich and Lon
don, will make his first concert tour
in this country this season under the
management of London G. Charlton. Since
young Grasse graduated with highest hon
ors from the Royal Conservatory at Brus-
sells where he was under the personal
guidance of Cesar Thomson, he has made
brilliant appearances with the great Euro
pean orchestras, and in recital, and he
brings very fiattering encomiums of his
gifts and his art from the exaeting Ger
man critics.
The indications are that companies of
merit are to make the Southern tour
this year, and Raleigh should certainly
have its share. 1t is given out that the
Rekan-Skinner Combination is to come
South and will be in Richmond about the
22nd of October. This will give the South
the first taste of this apple, which will
be a large and luscious one, and really
as choice fruit as the coming season will
have to offer, no matter from whence the
offering comes, for Ada Rehan and Otis
Skinner In a repertoire of two of the
greatest of all the Shakespearean plays.
1.-The Tanning of the Shrew' and THE
Merchant of Venice, combined with Sher-
idan's School for Scandal" should afford
a feast worthy of any and all who possess
sufficient intelligence to appreciate tho
sublime utterances of the great bard. The
organization will be under the direction
of Liebler & Co, who will give TO the
great stars an environment worthy o.
their fame and their talent. They mus
come to Raleigh
Will II. Bray, one of Edward Har
rington's veterans, who take his plac
under the flags of his old commander agai