New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-10

to-day a testimonial will be given for r. E. John
ston. manager of Dusss Venice. The plan origi-
mated in the orchestra, and at taken up
by others at the Garden among Mr.. Johnston's
friends. A large bill is now III preparation.
S. F. Nixon who has been in Nauheim Ger
many. for time. arrived here the Cedric
yesterday. He went to Pittsburg to his new
theatre. He is to revive "Erminie' at the Casino
and Margaret sylvia He VII follow the REVIVAL ,,
Texas"
Sam 5. shubert will have recruiting offices in
number of cities where he enlist chorus girls
for his several companies He wants regiment
of them Mr.. Shubert contends that by this
nnd more ne refined class Of girls than By depending
on the local article that happens to come into
Broadway exchanges season after season.
Not only have the transactions of the Tammany
Dock Board furnished topics for editorial comment
in the newspapers but they have been appropriated
laugh producers by the ltbrettlsts, who are
ever ready to incorporate into their plays anything
which is of current interest and which will pro-
woke a smile from the audience. One or the best
bits in the comic opera "Otoyo" now running on
the Madison Square Roof Garden is converse
ton between Ten Yen, the Lord Mayor of Toxic,
played by James F. Macdonald. and San Kee, his
lord chamberlain, played by Edward Adams. The
scene is in which the residents of Toxic are
laying their complaints before the Lord Mayor and
an unnamed subject presents himself, the con-
versaton
San Kee-Ths good and faithful subject OF Japan
tells me he was robbed of ten thousand yen by q
New-York. iO' e's-' anu ''"'''eO
Ten Yen-was the job done quietly and politely
Ten Yen-Did he abstract his entire ronP
san kee-lt has been so reported, your Elk
Ten Yen (asde)--Then find the man who did it.
the Dock Board 'OO
70 MN Er-{A
Scheel as conductor of their symphony concerts
the guarantors and managers of the San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra have succeeded in making an
part Of his time to their orchestra ithout in anS
way interfering with his duties conductor of
the San Franciscans have had to change their sea
TSa i69m winter tie to summer Herr sehee has left
Golden Gate city in August and September return
for the regular season in that city which viii open
this new sT29ndn is hnteG In connection With
Schee conduct its concerts in the future the man
agement of the San Francisco orchestra will make
a permanent change in its season and give two
months, OF concerts IN the spring and two months
Miss Isabel Irving. under the management of
James X Hackett. begins her season on September
% in Winston Churchilrs play, 1.-The Crisis" Miss
lrvings season will extend to next July, a period
OF forty-two weeks covering the entire continent
Of c s" Ha s sn When The a eo run
sented IL with two of his companies precludes the
in the Season In fac her new piece % may may
be held over until September 1904
The new play written by J. NJ. Barrie is to be
called Little Mary and it will be produced in
London before it is given in New-York. 1t is this
play in which Mr.. Frohman will present John
Hare under his management to a London audience
ca NJ IedIng parts are TO be played by Mr. Hare
ana NINA BoqcicaEt The London production takes
AS she has obtained a permanent engagement as
the prtma donna of the La Sale Theatre, Chicago
this coming winter, Miss Bettina Gerard has IN
formed the management of "Otoyo" on the Madi-
son Square Roof. that she will leave the cast of
tnat opera on SATURDAY, This summer Miss Ger
ard In the title role of the opera has played one
OF the most successful engagements of her career
A NJ Palmer has accepted a proposition made to
him by Charles Frohman, by which he becomes
business manager of the Herald Souare Theatre
for the coming season.
For Proctors Twenty-third Street Theatre this
week varied bill has been selected. Miss Lillian
Burkhart will present her newest sketch called
"A Strenuous Daisy" Sherman and De Forest
Will offer their 'Shermans Ride, or the Battle of
San Dago." Others on the long bill will be the
Two Roses. in a musical novelty: Gardner and
Leonard singing and dancing comedians the Twin
Angler German comedians; LYDIA Hail. coon
Proctors Fifth AvenGe Theatre oip ana Bstsv a!
a comedy in three acts, by F. C. Burnand will be
vaImores dancing artists; Dorothy Kenton ban
Joste, and German and West, in "A Special Meet
ing. AT the Harlem house a comedy in three
acts. entitled Captain Racket" VIII be the at
traction. The vaudeville will include Matthews
and Ashley. Hebrew comedians, and others. Proc
tors Fiftyeighth Street Theatre will open its reg
ular fall season next week with Slaves of the
Mine" The leading scene is in the base Of a coal
shaft, the characters using a real cage" or ee-
vator and actual coal cars. This scene also shows
the destruction of the mine from explosion of
fire damp.
Minstrel managers say there is nothing for luck
like starting the season In Hoboken If they sue
coed in the German city across the Hudson they
afterward announce their bills. Returning from
our success abroad" Hoboken audiences are pro-
verbally patient and long suffering. Many a new
play In the winter is tried first on a Hoboken
audience, and if 1t does not there 1t is never
heard of afterward.
Last evening Soulier's Lyric Theatre, in Hoboken
opened its doors for the first time after thorough
ting and redecorating. There seventeen
hundred seats in the house. TWenty-eight hundred
persons crowded in there to HaVerly's min
trels last night, and ii good show. It took
two policemen and bouncer to keep the gallery
gods from either crowding another the rail
the occupants OF the orchestra chairs below OF
pushing their heads through the ceiling, which
comes, unfortunately, too the top of gal
lery benches They took off their coats, as they
usually do, and kept themselves from smothering.
Vests MINISTRIES appear at the Lyric next Sun
day evening.