The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-15
ENTERTAINMENTS
Hyperion Fheassr.

tfypertoh Anenter-
 Robert Edeson in 'Ranson's Folly" the new comedy of American army life by Richard Harding Davis. promises to attract to the Hyperion tonight an au- dience notable in point of social bril- liancy. Last season in Soldiers of For tune'' he established himself as a pro nouneed favorite His manager, Henry B. Harris, feels confident that in Ran sons Folly his star will find an even better medium for the display of those qualities in his acting and personality that won him a welcome rarely accord ed a star on his first visit to this city. The play is a title of significant aptness in its description of the story related by Mir. Davis. for to the folly of the fun-loving lieutenant, bored by the dull routine of life at an army post in the far west, is due the complications that come perilously near a tragic conciu- sion. Lieutenant Ranson, the son of wealthy senator, after campaigning in Cuba and Manila in a volunteer regi- ment, becomes so infatuated with the adventure and excitement of army life that he enlists in the regulars. No sooner has he thus enrolled himself than to his intense annoyance he is dis patched to a small post fifteen miles from railway station,'' where the only excitement in two years has been the ordering out of the troops in pursuit of the Red Rider the nerviest road agent since Jesse James.
 Seat sale now open. Prices S15O, $1 and 75 cents. Virginia Harmed will present "The Light That Lies in Woman's Eyes" at the Hyperion next Tuesday and We'd nesday nights. From the tear-stained, weak-willed. broken hearted Iris of Ar thur Wing Pinero to the role of an im- petuous, vivacious Irish gentlewoman, with a delicious brogue and red hair. is step that most actresses would rather hesitate to take. But Miss Harmed takes this step, and with great success, in her new play, ''The Light That Lies in Woman's Eyes" and the author is her famous husband, D. H. lsSouthern. The play is brilliant com edy and abounds in romantic and his torical episodes.
 The scene is laid at Stratford-on- Avon, and a Shakespearean atmosphere permeates the entire performance. The first scene is most complete reproduc- tion of Anne Hathaway's cottage. The second scene is laid in the Forest of Arden, where an amateur dramatic company is holding a full-dress rellear- sal of AS You Like it.'' In this scene Miss Harmed, in the doublet and hose of Shakespeare's Rosalind, is a perfect picture of grace and beauty. The last scene is an exact counterpart of the Shakespeare Memorial church at Strat- ford.
 l Charles Frohman has surrounded Miss Harmed with a most excellent company of artists, the play requiring thirty speaking parts, prominent among whom are William Courtnay, Henry Jewett, Stanley Dark, J. Hartley Man ners, Theodore Marston, Laurence Ed dinger, Sidney Rice, Margaret Gordon, Fanny Addison Pitt, Ethel Winthrop, Mabel Snider Eleanor Sandford, Eliz- abeth Goodall and Annie Meers. The l incidental music and choruses of "As You Like it. will be rendered ill the Forest of Arden scene, and altogether the production is the most complete that. has been seen throughout the country the present season. Seat sale opens tomorrow. Prices $1.50, $1 and 75 cents.
 The ballroom scene in the second act of q Lord ord and Lady Algy,' which will be presented by Charles Frohman at the Hyperion on Saturday, January 2S, with William Faversham as Lord Algy, has new state settings, costumes and elaborate lighting effects, which are introduced in such manner as to render this celebrated scene much more effective than when the play was last seen in this city. Seat sale opens next
 Thursday. Prices $1.5O, s1 and 75scents. Grand Opera fiouse.
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