The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-28
ENTERTAINMENTS S.
Grand 0pera House.

The popularity of s"The Fatal We'd ding" which was established with New Haven audiences at the Grand Opera house last year has evidently increased in the interim, as the audience which 1 filled that popular playhouse last night was one of the largest ever there The play is one of the strongest of it's kind ever written and presented by conn pany which is par excellence. ,
 'The Fatal Wedding" opened a three nights engagement last night and the piece will be repeated tonight and to- morrow night with matinee tomorrow. The scenes in the play are original, founded on actual incidents in the noise and hubbub Of the great metropolis, which ser'e as a splendid vehicle for the introduction of characters and situ- ations which appeal to the inn1ost na- ture of all. Abundant food for refiec- ton is furnished, and, with the more intense and dramatic incidents, there is a vein of 'hurnor furnished by French man and an Irish servant girl, who ere the instig~ 'ors of much innocent nerri- ment. A. <T%%
 One oi la strongest features in the play is tn, character work done by an eight-year-old girl, and little Madelin Clark has been secured for this part. She was most effective in the work and won many encores from the audience. She is a pleasing little actress and wins the admiration of all, from the minute of, her appearance on the stage.
 ''The Fatal Wedding" lis elaborately staged and the scenic effects are mag nif1cent. They Include the interior of the famous Grace church at night, where wedding ceremony is in prog ress, but rudely interrupted, and also the Palisades on the Jersey shore of the Hudson river during terrific snow storm. -'% @'.--.'~,-
 "The Fatal Wedding" will certainly be witnessed by large audiences on the occasion of the performances tonight and tomorrow night and at the mati- nee tomorrow.
 The attraction at the Grand Opera house next Monday, Tuesday and We'd nesday will be "Alphonse and Gaston," one of the most clever and successful musical comedies of the season. It will be presented by a large and competent, company of fun-nlakers which includes Will and Andrew Powers, Harry Mont gomery, Harry B. Watson, Tony Pearl, Lawrence Cover, Jennie Lamont and Adelaide and Gretchen Beardsley. <,
 "Alphonse and Gaston' is stage realization of F. Oppers celebrated po- lite Frenchmen, so long cartoon feat ure in the New York Journal. In it's stage form 1t is a delightful medley of wit and humor, made brilliant and talk ing by setting of beautiful and novel scenery, catching and tuneful musical numbers, host of pretty show girls, and. the latest and most up-to-date spe- cialties. The musical farce comedy has been written in three acts, and there is not a dull moment from the rise of the curtain until it's final fall. "Alphonse and Gaston" is an attraction calculated to please the ptrons of the Grand Opera house. There will be a matinee We'd nesday A,-s
 "The Factory Girl" a new comedy drama success. with a company of thir- ty people and two carloads of magnifi- cent scenery, will be the attraction at the Grand Opera house next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with matinee Sat- urday.