The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-31
now FOR THE SUMMER SHOWS.
MUSICAL COMEDY, FARCE AND
=. 'IAUDEIILLE REIGN.
ROOF Gardens Begin Their season To.
ihorrOw--Coniic Opera by = stock
COnipany-The Combination Houses
Brooklyn Bilis-COncy Island Notes

COmpany--1he combination Houses
brooklyn B,ll%-COney Island Notes.
New Workers. begin to find themselves
dependent for their theatrical amusements
mainly upon the tn ngs that are suited for
hot weather entertainment and that pur-
pose, with public approval, 10 remain
open throughout the summer. Music and
musical comedy natural y predominant The
more serious pieces have gone into retire
Inent. Two Of the roof gardens open the
season tomorrow night and stock COM
pany starts In for a period Of comic opera
at moderate prices.
The Geisha" has been chosen az the first
Offering OF the William G. Stewart Opera
Company, which will present a series of
musical comedies at the Grand Opera House.
Among the sixty.five members Of the troupe
are Francis Miller Adine Bouver, Mabel
Rollins Jeane Palmer. Dorothy maynard.
Madison smith, Thomas Whiffin, Thomas
Hadaway, Arthur Earnest, j. +. Rogers,
II. Stanley Forde and William f. Phulp.
Mabelle Gilman's return to the Bi jou
in The Mocking Bird" has been ACCOM-
plished with a great deal of satisfaction
to everybody concerned. Walter Shannon
Is now playing Eugene de Lorme
The Sudan Si-Rdm. of Sulu holds as, full
a court rs ever at Wallaoks. He will
continue at this theatre for two weeks
longer. .-...
Handsomely decorated s.eins will Ire
distributed at the Broadway Theatre when
"The Prince of Pilsen" reaches the century
mark. That will happen in few day..
This will be the twentieth week of "Tlie
Wizard Of OzS' prosperous career at the
Ma jestic Theatre.
The Runaways" at the Casino has
achieved, among other distinctions. repu-
tation az beauty show. 1t is handsomely
and gayly staged
Blanche Ring and her associates in THE
Blonde in Black will be rehearsing all the
week at the knickerbocker. where the piece
is 10 be produced on Monday. June 8.
Farce comedy OF high order will be
represented in town this summer by THE
Earl of Pawtucket," which is approaching
it's l5Hh performance ~ the Manhattan
beth Tyree's place in the company, will be
remembered a. Mrs Smith in why Smith
Left Home and as the leading woman in
MY Friend From India"
Henry L. Diyev, coming to the Garrick
late in the season with Facing til" Music"
and a Welsh Rarebt.- has scored dis
tinct success and is reaping his appropriate
reward.
Dan Days John Henry is attracting a
great many folks TO the Herald Square.
Mr., Hnmmerstein announces the opening
Of the Paradise Garden, on the combined
roofs Of the Victoria and Beiasco theatres,
for tomorrow night. 1t has been redec-
GRATED and in many ways remodelled. Be
sides a programme OF vaudeville entertain
ment Mr.. Hammerstnn offers an extrava-
CANA entitled punch and Judy 4 Co.,
with Josephine Isabel and other favorte
young women in ITS leading parts
The St. Nicholas Summer Garden begins
its season Tomorrow night with Loie Fuller
as the star of its programme She will
introduce series of the dances with which
she caplivated Paris, including the Dance
Of the Grottos, the Tempest. the Archangel
and the PhOaphoreScent. Entertainments
will be given every night, including Sunday.
The Lion Palace Roof Garden will open
NEXT Satur lay night under the management
OF James Ii. Phpps.
Henry V. Donnely and the other MEM
bers of the Murray Hill stock company
will appear this week in the comedy Of
Our Boys and onc-act fare" called
a Moment of Terror"
This will be the final week Of the Four
Ia &,
Theatre. Running for Office" which
they are acting has pleased the public
immensely.
Kate Claxton will play The Two Orphans
this week at the West End
The meodrama called "The Cattle King
ia billed at the New Star with John J.
Farrell in the title role.
A Working Girls Wrongs" having
me, with marked success in two downtown
theatres, goes to the Metropolis this week.
Mr. Proctor will revive Days comedy
.4The Lottery of Love" at his Fifth Avenue
Theatre this week, Among the folks TAX
ing part in the vaudeville end OF the show
will b, Mile. Flora, cometlienne of the silver
wire, and the Martin brothers, 1ylophon-
lists
In the leading place at Proctors Twenty
third Street Theatre will be Walter Turner
and Lila Blow in a sketch called AT the
Turf Inn" Nine. Redan and her company
will present a spectacular illusion. Frank
OBrien and Dorothy Walters, the whistler,
are other good attractions.
-Who L. Brown" the new English comedy.
s announced at Proctnr's l25th Street
Theatre. Dorothy Nevills's monologue is
part OF the vaudeville entertainment.
Claiming Polock's melodrama "A Game
of Hearts will be played at Proctor's
Fifty-eghth Street Theatre
Emmett de Noy and company, in new
comic sketch: Reed and Shaw. ring come
dams, and the Yalto Duo, Russian singers
and dancers, are features of a long pro-
granme at Proctor's Newark Theatre.
Sunday concerts will be given at all the
Proctor theatres in New York
Lillian Burkhart, one of the most popu-
lar young women on the vaudeville stage,
will appear at keith's this week in her
new sketch, A Strenuous Daisy" Press
Rldridge will be there with his delightful
nonsense Besides these, Mr.. Keith
promises the Yankee Four, singers and
comedians, in "A RUDE Hotel; the Brothers
Deonze. trick Barrel jumpers; Kitty Wolfe.
the singing ,eometienne; Morris and Blair,
in blackface: Edward Estus the VEN
triloquist, and Carolyn Young, the Girl in