The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-11
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Providence opera house tonight and fer
the balance OF the week. and we are all
very well pleased to know IT, on Sat
urday afternoon bargain matinee will
be given. The best seats will be only 30
cents. The talented young fellow calls
here every year and we heard early in
the season that he would miss US this
year, but we have him booked and we
are going 10 see him and his new play.
''The Bold Soger Boy" military com
edy drama. which comes from the tai
ented young author. Theo. Burt Sayre,
who has at last given TO the public new
PffS foilors !. eVfry pc.meSS Clair young irish
man by birth and breeding. quarrels with
his father and comes TO America IN
search OF adventures. His wanderings
emily Kills a man who had cheated him
with marked cards. Believing himself
TO be a murderer. Clair becomes a fugi-
tive and enlists In the army taking the
name OF Gerald Adair. After honorable
service during the Spanish American war
he reaches the rank OF lieutenant In the
artillery and becomes stationed at Fort
Wadsworth. Staten Island, where the
scenes OF the play are laid.
Next week. mstinees wednesday and
Saturday. Charles Frohman will present
Virginia Harmed In new play ywnnsn.a entitled
This play was written for Miss Harmed
by her husband r. ~. Sothen. and Is
charming comedy, with an interesting
story, set of by elaborate scenery. The
heroine Is beautiful girl. who. 10 pre-
vent a man falling In love with another
girl causes him 10 fall In love with Fr-
self. As means TO this end she has a
rehearsal Of shakespeare's LAS You Like
IT," Miss Harmed takes the part of Lady
Lorna Lelnster.
The annual concert by Giulio f. Ca
pone's Banda Napoli will be given at the
Imperial next Sunday evening, and
promises TO be one OF the real musical
treats OF the season. The excellence OF
the band ttself and the high class OF
programs always presented by It's mag
netic leader have long ago made the or
ganization one OF the best OF Its kind
and its concerts events TO be looked for
ward 10 with eager expectancy by all
lovers Of good music intelligently rem
dered. The band will be heard with Its
full strength OF As musicians. and will
be assisted by fine array OF soloists.
Seats are now on sale at Steinerts
sss
Herman the Great. will appear at the
Imperial next week Herman is original.
and always presents something new 20
mystify and entertain his audiences His
great speciality Is sleight OF hand, and for
his engagement In this city many new ex-
periments in ledgerdemaln are furnished.
while new feats I'm levitation Will be In
troduced and a wonderful illusion The
Bride Elect" which is at present the
great sensation OF Paris and London, but
has not as vet been seen in America.
To round off n program, teeming with
novelties. Mr.. Hermann has secured the
Iaskys. the brilliant exponents OF mill
tary music.
Following Miss Eugene Blair at the
Empire theatre will come another par
ticularly strong attraction, the first APP
pearance In Providence OF Tess OF the
DUrbervilles. in which Mrs. Fiske has
been starring The play Is an adaptation
by the late Lorr1mer Stoddard OF Thomas
Hardy's novel, OF the same name and was
considered particularly strong one which
Mrs Fiske, who is barred from Provi-
dence by the theatrical trust, was play
ing a. Her place has been taken by
Miss Rebecca Warren, who was for seven
years leading woman with f. s. Sothern,
who recently appeared In Providence with
The Proud Prince" and who is we'll
known as a particularly competent act
ress This will be one OF the distinct
events OF the Empire season. for Tess
~ the D'Urbervilles" is play not TO be
missed.
Edward Mcwade's stirring story Of the
Civil war. Winchester" now being given
In the Park. Is the most notable pro-
ductIon of the season at the Park The
play ls a strong one, the scenes laid In
the Shenandoah Valley in 1859 The story
tells OF the loves OF Major Kesrney. a
wounded Union officer. who is nursed
back TO health by Virginia Randolph,
Southern girl and OF how. after having
used the knowledge she has gained for
him for the benefit of the southern cause,
she finds that love makes her helpless and
rides through the night and facing death,
to bring him the feprieve from the death
sentence her action has imposed upon him.
A thrilling scene r. this ride for life. one
10 make the blood tingle and 20 make
the spectators sit up Miss Mayo comes
from a family of warriors. her ancestors
having served In the Revolution her
father and her mother In the Civil war
with Grant her mother as a nurse The
play is we'll staged and the company is a