The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-09-05

NauIldy anu MdGk > ldEeSt acquisition,
An English Daisy" direct from its
three months triumph at the Casino,
New York, is said to be a pleasing as
sortment Of mirth, melody, beautiful
and massive scenery, gorgeous gowns,
and pretty, shapely and talented girl
chorus numbering forty in all.
The engagement of this famous or
ganizatfon is announced for next
Wednesday at the Hyperion theater.
Seats on sale at the box office.
New Haven has always been a fa-
vorite place for Mr.. Edward e. Rice
to try his new productions, and in his
whole career he has never yet put on
a piece in New Haven for its first pro-
duetion that it has not scored a ire
mendous hit when 1t reached New York.
'Evangeline,' The Girl from Paris, Z
''1492," Pearl Of Pekin," and a half
dozen others are examples of this fact.
and anyone VINO is at all superstitious
takes 1t as a very encouraging omen
that New Haven was selected as the
opening place for Mr.. Rice's new pro-
duction, Mr.. Wix Of Wickhan,'' the
greatest musical comedy success which
London has seen in the past few years,
and Of which Mr.. Rice owns the Amer
lean rights.
The costumes and scenery are all en-
tirely new, being made especially for
this production from models sent Mr..
Rice from London, and are sumptuous
in the extreme, while the chorus is COM
posed of those pretty, vivacious girls,
with good voices as WELL which Mr..
Rice seems always to be able to con-
jure up for his productions, no matter
how much other managers may say
that 1t is impossible nowadays to get
pretty, clever chorus girls who can sing.
Mr.. Wix OF Wickham' Mr.. Rice ex-
poets to make the GROWING success of
his long career, notwithstanding the
fact that his record embraces such not
able productions as "EvangeIine,
't149s," 1.-THE Girl from Paris, THE
Pearl Of Pekin, and a half dozen 9TH
ers, which in their time have set the
whole country talking.
BLANCHE WALSH IN RESURREC-
TON.
Next Saturday, matinee and evening,
lat the Hyperion theater, Blanche
Walsh will appear in Wagenha1s and
Kemper's production Of Resurrection
as seen during Its four months run at
the Victoria theater, New York. The
play will be presented here with a great
cast, and the entire massive scenic pro-
duction. Local interest In the event, as
was to be expected, is very keen, appli-
cations for seats through the mails
have already been sufficiently numerous
to guarantee crowded house.
Technically speaking, Resurrection"
is melodrama, but not a melodrama
in the generally accepted sense. There
is not note that rings false, no gall
lery heroics, no maudlin sentiment. The
play is more powerful in the moral les
son it teaches than anything which has
preceded 1t, and offers an almost un-
answerable argument to those who
would belittle the theater as an insti-
tuition, that it can be made as great an
influence for good even as the church
itself. Playgoers here and elsewhere
who seek more than trivial amusement,
something that makes the heart throb
and the brain think, something which
will yield new flights to the imagina-
ton, will flock in crowds to see this tre-
mendous drama. Seats on sale Thurs
day. 50