The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-22
ENTERTAINMENT
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 "A Chinese Honeymoon will be the holiday attraction at the Hyperion to- day, matinee and night. The story of the play is in two acts, laid in a Chi nese town, the first starting with the return to the Emperor's court of an ad- miral, who had been sent to sea to find a bride to love the monarch for him. self alone. The envoy had been ordered to say that the suitor was a bill poster and to show his majesty's photograph. In every case, that settled it and the admiral failed in his task. Throughout the play he complicates everything by still trying to find an imperial wife. Another ship from over the sea brings a bride and bridegroom from London, with eight bridesmaids, explained by the need of the bride of assistance to keep her husband out of mischief They serve, of course, for the purpose of be- ing show girls, because a Casino show must have show girls. Among the European arrivals is an official mother-in-law. Whenever the story
 
 whereupon a third party reminds the kissers that, according to an ancient law of Ylang- Ylang, they are betrothed. Finally they stop kissing and an anus ing entanglement ensues. The score is full of bright things, which this city is sure to enjoy-among them being s'Roly Poly" "A Paper Fan,' "I'm Your Sweetheart Forever MT. Doo- ley,' T Want be a Lidy," My Little Hong Kong Baby and many others. Managers Sam. s. Shubert, Nixon & Zimmerman are sending an excellent company here, to wit-Katie Barry, May De Sousa, Mabelle Baker, Julia Sanderson, Marie Louise Gribben, Eve lyn Dunmore, Geno Luneska, Fred w. Mace, William Pruette, Ben. Howard, George Frederick, Joe Miller, eight stunning bridesmaids and chorus and ballet of one hundred.
 Seat sale now open. Prices, night $150, $1, 75c; mtainee dress circle Soc, 75c S1.
 The verdict of the organ of the swell 1 set, Town Topics, regarding Lawrence D'Orsay and .'The Earl of Pawtucket'' is so emphatic and withal so apparent ly disinterested that it is worth quot { ing. Think of it!" says Town Topics critic, Here's an American light com 1 edy, bright, fragrant and wholesome, that tickles your disabilities constantly and at which even the most staid and punctilious grandmother need not be ashamed to laugh! This piece discloses that Augustus Thomas has an 1 instinct for comic complications almost French in its adroitness. The laugha- ble tangle of events which he weaves about his English hero are handled with | a delft touch and a skill so unusual ir an American farcical writer that they have surprised even the most ardent Of the admirers of Alabama Arizona and his other earlier works
 MT. DOrsay and the other players 1 who appeared with him during the all year run of 'sThe Earl of Pawtucket' in New York are to present this play at the Hyperion next Wednesday night Seats are now on sale.
 Hermann the Great" the mos wonderful of all modern necromancers will appear at the Hyperion nex IThursday night. Hermann stands alone in the world of magic to-day. H. is master of all mysteries by right O birth and tradition. Born of family of musicians. he represents the olt school of legerdemain, and the lates advances in scientific illusions. In thi' way he is able to present an entirel, new entertainment each season, in ad dition to his feats of sleight-of-han which are inexhaustible and var, nightly. This season, as result of hi travels, he has secured some of tn,
 most great sensations of London anc Paris, which he introduces for the frs time to the American public. There il a bewildering and beautiful illusion which he has christened .'The Brid Elect" pretty young girl exquisitel. ogwned in one of Redfern's latest ere ations, steps on the stage which is bar excepting large ordinary mirror whicl stands in the center. The Bride Elec walks towards the mirror, pauses ma ment to admire the reflection of he wedding finery, and give a few las touches to her toilet. While doing SC Hermann places light screen be tween the audience and the charming tableau. This he removes in less thai ten seconds, and To! the bride has van ished as completely as Alice througl the looking glass. There is @ crema tion effect startling in it's realism wher the subject vanishes in a wreath o smoke and flame in full view of tn audience. Then there are wonderful feats in levitation, bodies f1oatin, through the air and seemingly defyin, all laws of gravitation. and there ar a number. Of new tricks compoundet of the mysterious and the humorous il equal parts which leave the spectato in a state of bewilderment and laugh ter. To round out a programme uniqu in it's way, Hermann has secured 9Th Laskys,'' the celebrated interpreters O military music.
 Seat sale Tuesday. Prices 25c, 50c 75c, $1.
 When Frank L. Perley who pilotet the destinies of Alice Nelson in tn, two biggest comic opera successes .o this decade, ''The Singing Girl and tn, Fortune Teller" and gave these opera stage settings that had never beer teuualled before or since. has lived III