The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-24
PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE.

Julia Marlowe as beautiful widow,
will he the magnet that will undoubtedly
draw immense audiences TO the Provi-
dence Opera House the last half OF this
week beginning tonight where she will
appear under the management or c. b.
Dillingham; in the new modern comedy by
n. ". Esmond, entitled Fools OF Ma
ture." II will be Miss Marlowe's first ap-
pearance in a play OF this kind and IL
will be the first time that she has ever
played the part of a fashionable society
woman She is a splendid womanly type
gracious sincere tender, high-minded-
and is the centre OF an intensely interest
ing love episode. The play Is In four acts
and the movement Is concentrated witnin
a period Of forty-eight hours. IL all occurs
In the home OF wealthy English ba-onet
at whose house at Henley on the Thames
a party OF guests have gathered for the
enjoyment OF the races during regatta
week The story Is treated with rare skill
and ingenuity. and the interest from the
rising OF the curtain never flags for an In
slant II is play that pleases and yet
makes people think.
Miss Marie Cshill has scored unmis-
takabl hit as the star of"Nancy Brown
utation OF having missed fewer perform
ances because OF illness. than any other
woman on the stage.
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From present indications there is every
reason to believe that Miss Marie Cahill
In Nancy Brown" will set a new record
for receipts In the box offices OF theatres
throughout the country.
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Mr.. George Beban, who is playing the
Count Fromage de Brie in Nancy
Brown" has a remarkable fad. He al
ways carries with him. in a tiny box,
four reaches which he has trained 10 do
all manner OF amusing tricks. few
nights ago the reaches escaped and sew
eral OF the female members OF the COM
pany threatened TO leave troupe unless
Mr.. Beban kept his bughouse securely
locked in the future.
The scene OF the last act of THE Bill
lionairc" the spectacular musical
comedy. which Klaw & Erlanger produce
at the Providence Opera house the last
three nights of next week will represent
the Longchamps race track In Paris on
the day Of the Grand Prix. Jerome Sykes,
as John Doe. the American spendthrift.
has put into the races a number OF horses
whom he knows will lose ana whom he
backs heavily. Pansy, played by Nellie
Follis. who IN a Western girl sent TO
Paris to be educated as singer. and
who has run out Of money, takes ad-
vantage OF her knowledge OF horseman-
ship gained on the Western plains. dis
guises herself as Jockey and rides the
race saving Doe from ruth. who. un-
known 20 himself. has lost large sums
OF money through the Vaccinations OF
Mr. Peppercorn. an American Wall street
operator. sojourning in Europe with his
family. The race track scene is made
remarkably realistic by the presence of
automobiles. dog carts. tally-ho coaches
and other conveyances usually seen az
such n place on race days. No feature
that will I'm any way tend to the com
pleteness OF this production has been
omitted by Klaw & Erlanger, who have
given n the most lavish staging ever seen
I'm the world I'm q musical comedy pro-
duction. "The Blliionaire" ran for four
months at Daly's theatre. New York.
last season.
The sale OF seats opens Monday morn
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