The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-02
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 One of the prettiest sage pictures
 that has been evolved tli season ac- comoanied the proceeding; in the sec
 ond act os When .Sonnny Comes
 Marching Home thdnew patriotic comic opera that comesto the Hyperion to-day, matinee and mint The delica- i cy and refinement of si mic art Is beau tifully illustrated in he back drop, representing a river trl Fersing the lush bottom lands of the M ,sissippi, and in the foreground, occup a. by weather worn mansion, familiaE on the big cot ton plantations of the ,outh before the war, a bit of the negri servants quar- ters. clambering rose bushes and wide spreading trees. It isla moonlit scene, and the lightning is managed so well that the shimmerint effect of the moons beams on the liver is reproduc- ed in away that is said to create t charming Illusion.
 The care taken by the management to beautify this scene and to make it as captivating and alluring as possible goes still farther. The period of the action at this time is the springtime of the year. when the voices of nature make music in the silent watches of the night.
 Seat sale now open. Prices: Night( $1.50, $1, 75c; matinee, 25c, soc, 75c, s1. One of the most characteristic and at the same time enjoyable of American entertainments is the military band concert as it is gvien by John Philip Sousa. It has all the American spirit of dash and variety and appeals to all with potent force. It is not necessary to possess technical musical education to enjoy Sousa; his music speaks for it. self In no uncertain voice that finds an immediate echo in the audience. Fur ther than this the Sousa band is the most perfect instrument in the world for the interpretation of such music as properly falls within it's scope. During his limited spring tour MT. Sousa will make special feature of grand se- lection from the much discussed Wag- ner sacred music drama "Parsifal," [" which has been the sensation of the musical year in this country. Mir. Sou sa, has been playing excerpts from this work at his concerts for the past ten years, but on his present tour he will offer his audience a selection of the most notable numbers of "Parsifal''
 The Sousa concert will be given here at the Hyperion on Monday night, April 4, and the great band will be as- sisted by Estelle Liebling, soprano; Jessie Straus. violinist. and Herbert L. Clarke, cornetist, as slooists.
 Seat sale now open. Prices soc, T5c, $t One of the most interesting engage ments of the current theatrical season will be the appearance here on Tuesday r. next April 5, at the Hyperion theater of Miss Nance O'Neil, the young trage- dienne, who has scored such an em. phatic success at the Fremont theatel | in Boston, where for the past clever
 weeks she has been giving a series o afternoon performances of elastic anC standard plays. Miss O'Neil's Bostor engagement has been the sensation O.
 the dramatic season; the theater has
 been packed to the doors at every rep. resentation. and the audiences have
 constituted the literary, artistic and SO
 cial side Of the Hub city's smart set
 Miss O'Neil's repertoire embraces tht
 heroines of Shakespeare, Ibsen, Suder. mann, and Maeterlinck. She has select
 ed Sudefinan's masterpiece, Mazda, for presentation here, for the reason tha tshe has achieved in this character one of her most notable successes. Sht