The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-18
EGTERTAISMENIS S.
Iiyperioa Iheater.


George ". Lederer's latest musical
revel. The Wild Rose" and which was
seen in this city earlier in the season,
returns to the Hyperion next Friday
and Saturday for the first time at popu-
lar prices This entertainment has the
record OF the longest New York run of
any play of the current season, and
also the prestige of having been chosen
by one of the leaders of the most ex-
elusive society to grace the most nota-
Bile fashionable event of the season at
Newport. This ''gaiety" is said to have
created a standard for itself, not alone
in its cleverness of story, smart lines.
witty repartee and delightful music.
but also as a beauty show, for there
The Wild Rose is monster bouquet
of American beauties and wild roses,
1t is a typical cluster of Lederer stage
charmers that form the Kaleidoscope
background of lingerie, shapeliness, CO.
quetry and voluptuousness. to the
grace and sweetness of Addie Sharpe,
the Wild Rose, and to the broad humor
of genial Frank DeShon. These gaily
attired nymphs of the footlights wear
their gypsy, jockey, Partisan and mill
tary costumes with all the inviting lure
of that soubreite aristocracy known as
The Casino Girls" The same big cast
as seen during its presentation here be-
fore, including Albert Hart, Frank
Deshon. Addie Sharpe, Emma Carus,
William Wallace Black, Lizzie McCaull,
Louis Kelso, Francis Jones, c. Bentley
and others, will help to make the pro-
ductiOn a go. The production is ka-
leidoscopic minglng of pretty women,
pretty costumes and bright, catchy,
frothy music, which ranges from the
rag time song to the enticing rhythm
of Vienna dancers, the whole seasoned
by burlesque situations and by special
ties in quick succession. Seat sale to-
day, prices evening $, 75c, SOC; bargain
matinee prices Csc, SOC.
The Whitney opera company. in the
new spectacular military opera. when
Johnny Comes Marching Home" has
been drawing immense audiences to the
New York theater. This piece is an in
novation in amusement enterprise, and
a great novelty. 1t tells a most inter-
esting story of the civil war in lyrics
and bright melody, and may perhaps
be most fitting described as a "Shen-
andoah" or Held By the Enemy" pre-
scented as an opera. The book is by
Stanislaus STANCE, and the music by
Julian Edwards, the author of Dolly
Warden" 1t is presented in three acts,
bo Inc he hoo
tiers of General Allen, of the Union
army, during a dance given the federal
officers by the Confederate bellies, a
plantation on the Mississippi and an
advance post of the Union army at the
time of the declaration of peace be-
tween the north and the south. The
cast represents large selection of the
best known lyrical artists on the Amer
lean stage. The music is the best score
that Julian Edwards has ever written
While original in the main, the COM
poser has very deftly interviewer into
his own efforts all the martial music so
popular during the time of the civil
war, together with darkey melodies and
the battle songs of the blue and the
gray, Mr.. Edwards compositions are
always musical. but in this score he
fairly surpasses himself. From the
standpoint of scenery and costumes, the
production is very quaint and beauti-
full the dresses correctly representing
those worn during the war period from
1861 to 1865, including the now ludicrous
massive hoop skirts which were preva-
lent in those days. Tuesday and We'd
nesday, matinee and night, February
"a and rs, the opera will be presented
at the Hyperion theater. Seats on sale
Friday. nrices 81 90 81 Tic