Evening journal., 1904-12-23
Theatrical Notes

Il HGdLT1CdI NOICS
Comedies such as Who is Who. which
opened an engagement at the Lyceum
yesterday to run until Saturday. are sell
dom seen In this city. The piece is under
the direction OF Crosby and Gordon, who
have left nothing undone to make the
play an instantaneous hit such as was
made at the Lyceum yesterday and have
surrounded Charles A. Pusey and Miss
Ines Foreman with a cast Of laugh pro-
ducers who never fan in their purpose.
there is a laugh for every second and the
performance in whole Is a scream from
curtain to curtain. The scenic embellish-
ments are very good, there being some
very funny situations. The numbers in
troduced are very catchy and the cos
TUNES gorgeous and there is intermingled
IN the comedy a number OF blight special
ties by such woll-known artists as James
E. Nichols md Pearl Reveare which was
very well acknowledged at the hands OF
the auditors. Blanche Hyde. Harriet
stringor and several others. Too much
cannot be said OF the work of Charles
Pusey as Jack Hartland partner Of
Memo always iaughable IN the ex-
treme. hts comedy Is Of the kind always
appreciated, dry and unassumng. Misc
Foreman makes good Mable Won
Baumhach and Mat Rossi as Peter Won
Baumbach, Vernon sommers. as Artie
Barclays Bessie Davis as Mrs. sackett.
Ethel Hunt makes charming Helen
Hunt This attraction is at the Lyceum
for the balance Of the week.
The third act of "A womuns Struggle"
which viii be seen here nc the Lyceum.
December 26. "a and 2S shows the Polo
Grounds in Now York, with a base ball
game IN progress This IS one Of the big
gest and most sensational scenes ever put
on the stage. a.
From the pen OF that prolific and grap-
hic playwright, William L. Roberts,
comes the iatest ana greatest success OF
the age in the dramatic line. "On the
Bridge mt Midnight at the Lyceum.
january p 3 and 4 The piece. derives IT'S
name from one scene alone which rep
rosents the highest art Of stage craft. A.
jack knife bridge. which spans the river,
and opens 10 allow the passage Of IA large
steamer in full view Of the audience, in
word it Is one of the most beautiful
pieces of artistic Workmanship ever
most powerful one ahounding In most In
terestlng climaxes, filled With refined hu-
NOR.
AT Risk Of His Life" comes to tho
Lyceum December -, 30 and 81. Matinee
daily.
tom Sawyer and "Huckleberry
Finn" so Golfers for December "a
tells US, "have been removed from the
free shelves of a certain public library,
and are now given out to those per-
sons only on whom, In the librarians
opinion, the effects win not be dele
terious. II would be a pleasure to
know personally that librarian. or to
see him at his work, casting his pene-
trating eye upon successive urchins.
deciding whether or not they shall per-
use the greatest boys stories yet writ
ten In America. In our own variegated
youth a clerical uncle took us out Of
the house behind some bushes and
cautioned us against the insldious ef-
fects OF reading Mark Twain, but the
warning fell on barren soil. We wish
ed to be good. but not at the price OF
losing Tom and Hucl. Mr. Clemens
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and he is much too big for some Of the
librarians to understand. His laugh
Is kind and most entirely virtuous
when they imagine II is destructive Of
= society," Honesty says he. is the best
policy. / know, for have tried both
} There are people in the world who are
grleved by n jest like that Heaven
rest their souls. Mark Twain is open
to criticism. for he is one Of the most
uneven OF our writers, as well as the
; greatest OF them. Sometimes when he
swings his good right arm at the evils
or the mysteries. the supersttions or
conventions of this universe, he Is as
mistaken as poor Don Quixote. His
attacks. for instance, on the greatest
period OF art, because they do not
speak the language OF today, failed to
lessen our admiration of the Italian
masters. and reacted. something like a
windmill. upon the critic. But TO show
timidity about the influence Of such
; masterpieces as Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn is to give to the
langels one OF their too frequent op-
portunities 10 weep" ..t..---
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