New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
THEATRICAL INCIDENTS AND NEWS NOTES.
A FIRST NIGHT WITH JACOB GORDLN-THE DRAM
ATIST FOR WHOM EVERY SHE Is h PROBLEM"

RI SHE Is Il PROBLEM. >
him; The old grasPs his hand tenderly and
nc was my, philosopher, he SAYS men lti9 .
his coat to q go to to he iieS opera
i s ssSI rsagea man crosses t l., fS dean of the
Jewish ournasl s 's Moment later his Identity is
but he escaped This is tie Gordin world.
musingIy - tell you. my own little boy came TO
me and asked 10 so What could / say? 1t is the
1t is O'Clock and the crowd begins to break. One
by one the actors bid Mr.. Gordin good night
Finally he ends the evening;
Yeas more and am gO9g Ing, to a TTts 9 9be
Jewish man. and the story is reversed
BILLS FOR THE WEEK.
This IS the last week or the last fortnight Of
several attractions Broadway. Her own
Way" goes from the Savoy next Saturday. and the
following week Miss Mile James will be seen there
in Fitchs new comedy, Glad Of It The "Ihree
Little Maids company leave the Garden Saturday
also. and Miss Robson, in ZangwiTs comedy
Merely Mary Ann. comes in. Favershaln stays
only a week at the Criterion. being followed on
Girl" BY Augustus Thomas. "A japanese Night
ingale' MARBLES only another week at DAYS too
mn su@ eomedy called TaGy Loly featuring
weeks more at the Empire. and the same time is
allotted TO the French company at the NauoeFlL'e
and 10 Miss Fay Davis at the GarTick
At the West End Theatre tomorrow Mr.. savage's
English Grand Opera Company begins Ave weeks
engagement. This facts are noted in the musical
department Of this paper
Charles Warner in Drink" comes to the Muir
ray Hill Theatre this week.
lover Niagara Falls" is the thrilling title Of the
melodrama to be exhibited the Third Avenue
Theatre this week There should be water enough
in this play to please even Carrie Nation
At the Harlem Opera House for Christmas at
traction will be exhibited the melancholy play
"The Light That Failed with Forbes Robertson
and Miss Gertrude Elliott
Miss Fay Templeton and The Runaways" will
be seen at the Grand Opera House this week
There will be matinees OF Candida" by Arnold
DAILY and his excellent company at the Madison
Square Theatre tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
There will be no Wednesday matinee Of THE
Marriage OF Kitty this week, but on Christmas
Day the afternoon, performance common 10 most
OF the theatres will be given.
The cry for novelty in vaudeville will again be
answered by Mr.. Keith this week, when at the
Union Square Theatre there will be for the first
time in this country produced the spectacular cleo
trical novelty. z. Rousby's I'm Paris" 1t is IN
four tabeaus, and the magnitude of the act can he
gathered from the fact that it can be produced
stage it. BY it is depicted the most interesting
phases of Partisan life in the great exposition Of
1900. Two French women do the character work,
making three lightning changes. These. with the
electrical effects furnish interesting pictures An
other top liner will be Frank Keenan, and his COM
pany, in Edward Elsner's original comedy sketch,
The Actor and the Count" Shean and Warren
Wsdis IS 1psie Down The Kamura troupe Of Jug
Cling Japs and the Quaker City Quartet. in its
Fer the Children there Will be De Witt, Burns and
Terrence. in THE Awakening of Toys. Fields and
yard eccentric IaIHiIg Iii-tIiin g 5sbiIi
Be Dl SSliesI entlev and more for the Children
pirate 70 the season. There viii he full perform
ance Christmas morning
Ned wayburn's Minstrel Misses will hold forth
the Circle Theatre this week the principal at
traction. These young women need no introduction
TO theatregoers in Manhattan. as they appeared
with success last summer. As the extra feature
MI. Williams puts forward Cole ar Johnson, in
latest compositions the balance of the bill con
tains such names as Joseph Maxwell and his com
children; Press Eidridge. Harding and All SID the
dienne: Newen and Nbio musical novelties; Mile
Olive: the dainty manipulation, and the yitagraph:
is announced for this evening.
special programme. arranged for the children
in Christmas and New Tears weeks. at the Eden
Music includes Kaufman, the clever master OF
magic; the Hill sisters and the child Patti. to-
gether with the German Christmas musical festi-
val arranged BY Professor Otto Kruger, leader of
the Lcipsic Orchestra This is something that has
illustrates the celebration by the children OF the
Christmas festival showing their mirth around the
Christmas tree. their games III the open air. with
the snow falling and at the nreSlde. me whole
entertainment is arranged as a musical festival.
For Christmas week Tony Pastor has his bill
the Orphous Comedy Four in fifteen minutes of
mirthfuI riot: The Reed Birds, in their latest
comedy skit entitled "Dodging the Dodges'; Gus
Williams. In song. story and recitation; La Belle
Blanche, mimic: Gillian and Murray, singing and
dancing comedians Pongo ana Leo. IN comedy
gymnastic specially; Dephiro and Gilmora, musi-
cal artists; The Gagnous double juggers and bal
ancers, and others
One Of the many features OF the bill Proctors
Twenty-third Street will be the Eight Calling
Guards something in the military line. and
never before attempted upon the vaudeville stage
The act consists of about seventeen men. and an
up TO date United States army Calling gun. They
go through a series OF military manruvres fire the
Calling CUR, and unlimber and set # up again in
remarkably quick time. The act occupies about
fifteen minutes.
stock company viii present Augustine Thomass
Southern drama, Alabama "
Percy -. Williams production. Deserted at the
Altar which wiz be AT Proctor's Fifty-eighth
Streer Theatre this week, VIII show scenes typical
Up in Harlem at Proctor's One-hundred-and-
made Of Alexander Dumas's play, Monte Cristo"
The cast will include Miss Jessie Bonstelle and :
Paul McAllister.
PLAYS THAT REMAIN
EMPIRE-Nfss Maude Adams In The Pretty Sister of