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NEW YORK THEATERS
HAVE MANY new
NOVELTIES
Runs Are Pre- dlcted
at the Manhattan, Broadway
and Casino, With Present At
fractions - Varied Assert
ments of Unique Effects in
the Vaudeville Houses.
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NEW YORK, June 20.-Miss Blanche
Ring, after having made three appear
ances in musical productions in this
city within the last twelve months.
made her debut as a star at the Knick--
erbocker theater on Monday night,
George w. Lederer then placed her at
the head of his annual summer pro-
duction. This season it takes the shape
OF new musical farce written by Har-
ry B. Smith and composed by Gustave
Kerker. 1t is called THE Blonde in
Black The action takes place in
Paris and Miss Ring impersonates an
American girl, the title part, originally
a vaudeville singer but whose mission
in the French capital is to instruct it's
inhabitants, who have become infatu-
ated with the cake walk, in the in
tr1casies of that essentially American
accomplishment. There is furthermore
involved in the plot the episode of a
noted Parisienne who has brought suit
against an artist who has painted her
as a masked Venus. 1t is this. in ia y.
that gives the title to the piece AMI
that furnishes the basis of most of the
complications. 1t may be added that
whereas Miss Ring, as "F'lossie Feath-
en-, in dividing her time between in
structiSg and posing, her hope is to
play Camille" and this makes it pos
sible for the actress to introduce those
satires on emotional acting which
found favor in other presentations in
which she has been casts
The authors have scheTned to devise
a farce comedy which has "a thread of
interest running traight.spthrough it
and in which the fun springs legiti-
mately from the situations and the at
titude of it's characters toward each
other. The two scenes are a dress
making establishment and a. studio,
and efforts have been made to pervade
them with atmosphere suggestive of
France. The opening act represents
the fashionable modistes establishment
in Paris. A}--I-ss
f Sultan of SuIu" Closing.
The long run of George AIDES 1.-THE
Sultan of Sulu" will end at Wallack's
theater on June 18th and on Saturday
June 9th the complete production will
be transferred to Manhattan Beach,
where 1t will open the summer season
and remain for two weeks. 1.-The Sui
tan Of Sulu," despite the fact that it
has been there about six months al
ready, could easily have run through
the summer at Wallack's. The theater
management contemplate such. extern
sive alterations in the house that it had
to be turned over to the contractors
not later than June Is.
The one hundredth performance of
1.-The Prince of Pilsen" at the Broadway
theater was celebrated on Monday,
June g.. A most appropriate souvenir
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the inscription Here's to the heart that
beats for me- was distributed. And
now the question is how an equally
appropriate souvenir can be found for
the 200th anniversary performance.
Opera, comic and serious, is becoming
an important element in summer
amusements at Terrace Garden. Man
ayers Suesskind and Renfeldt have
started their season so auSpiciOuSly at
their pretty Fifty-eighth street resort
that they will devote their attention to
the production of grand opera as we'll
as those. of the lighter order, in a man
ner to please the most faStidious. I'll
Trovatore" was the bill for the past
week. The garden, with it's flowery
bowers, never looked SO delightful and
refreshing, and surely no levelier haven
of rest and diversion cam be found by
amusement seekers during the warm ,
nights OF June. NOT only does one get
opera for the mere cost of admission,
but the open air concert toward the
end of which is given a very excellent
vaudeville turn, which makes the
nightly affair three shows inTene. I'M
pressario Montegriffo declared with
positiveness that his presentation Of
III Trovatore" would be ia good one
and superior to any given outside of
the Metropolitan opera house, and he
kept his word.
For the second Sunday night concert,