The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25
LAST WEEK AT TWO THEATERS
TIE KNICKERROCkER AND TIE
HIPPODROME TO CLOSE.
Change Of Bill at the Aerial Roof-Last
Month OF 1.-The Heir TO the Hoorah'
Manhattan Beach Shows Under Way
Novelties Mt the Coney Island Parks.

Month or Tho Heir 10 tne noOT"
Manhattan Beach Shows Under way
Novelties nj the COney Island Parks.
The theatrical novelty Of the week will
he a partial change of bill at the Aerial
Theater on the New Amsterdam Roof.
On Monday night the Gilbert and Sulli-
van Review, which has preceded Lift
ing the Lid" will give way to new
musical skit by John j. McNally. called
THE Whole Damn Family new
company has been engaged for the
piece, headed by Stella Mayhem, who will
be Mrs Golfer Damn. Maude Lambert.
d. l.. Don, Catherine Hayes and Wilfred
Gerdes are others Of the newcomers. Lift
ing the Lid" will have some novelties for
Monday night also. Virginia Earl's song,
Miss M aloney,' has made hit.
This is to be the last week Of Frank
Daniels and Sergeant Brlle' at the Knicker-
booker Theater for a month or more. The
company will close on Saturday night.
and star and supporters will have vaca-
ton until Aug. T, when they will reopen at
the same theater. No important changes
In the cast are to be expected.
The Heir to the Hoorah' will start the
last month Of its long and prosperous run
at the hudson Theatcr tomorrow night.
Paul Armstrong; amusing comedy has
proved the biggest kind Of a hot weather
success.
No new numbers have been added to
'Tantana" at the Lyric Theater, for the
continued popularity Of the piece renders
changes in it unnecessary. The house Is
kept cool by a special system Of ventila-
ton as we'll as by the fact that there are
doors both on Forty street and on
Forty-thi.d street. A special matinee
is announced for Tuesday, July 4, and the
ecoth performance for Wednesday evening,
July s.
Sam Bernard and The Rolicing Girl
are in the third month of prosperity at the
Herald Square Theater. Bernard, Hattie
Williams, Joe Coyne and Aimee Angeles
are quartet Of funmakers that leaves little
to he desired. and the show Is full Of catchy
musical bits, not the least of ich are the
chorus numbers and the sensational swing
song.
This is the last week Of the Hippodrome
for time, thompson l. Dundy have
decided to shut the big house on Saturday
next. They will reopen 1t In the late sum
mer or early fall, reviving at first "A Yankee
Circus in Mars" and The Raiders, and then
producing a big spectacle, which they
promise shall outdo their previous efforts.
The Wistara Grove on the New York
Roof is proving popular place these warm
summer nights. When We Are Forty
one" with Elsie Janis. Harry Bulger,
Dorothy Morton and others, is furnishing
vaudeville bill which p1eoedes it is con-
>stantly being changed. A novelty prom
ised for next week is Pied Piper with
hundred or more trained rats.
At Hsmmerstein's Paradise Roof Garden
there will be another change Of bill for the
ensuing week. Anna Ftzhugh, lately the
prina donna Of 'The Baroness Nddlesticks.
will be heard in number Of songs. Egh-
teen Imperial Japanese Guards will pre-
sent battle drill. Ernest Hogan and his
twenty Memphis Students in darby
and si0 Bailey Prof. Ailisne and lis trained
monkeys, Peter the Great. Klein, OFT
Brothers and Nickerson, Wilton Brothers,
and the Six Ratzenhinders. foreign Anna
5en act. win viii appear ". rhie Didai the tank
sician, will bA seen for the last time
The Octoroon.' by Dion Boucie ault, with
F. j. Radcliffe as Jacob MeCiosky; Tully
Marshall as Wah-no-tee the 1ndian Chief;
laura Wall as Zee and the same company
that appeared recently 1T the Fourteenth
Street Theater, is scheduled for the Me-
tropolis Theater this week
The Crust of Society will be offered
at Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater this
week. The Proctor stock company will
be siren gthened by the addition OF Miss
Elita Proctor Otis and Mr.. John II. Gill;
mour. In other roles will appear Miss Mary
Hampton, Miss Grayce Scott Mr. II. Dudley
Hawley, MIR. Harold Hartseu and other
good players. New scenery he's been pro-
vided for the revival.
It Proctor's ,Ffty-Eiehth Street this
week f. E. Kidder's comedy. "A Poor
Kest will lie presented. 1t WIS with
This that the late Sol Smith Russo II
MIR. Durlin. The cast will include Grace
Reals. Agnes Scott. William Norton, Robert
Rogers. Louise MaclsiL tcsh. Paul Scott,
Charles Arthur, George Howell and other
favorites.
The western mining drama, .Tennessee's
Partner" will re presented at the 125th
Street Theater, with is mes E. Wilson as
Caleb Dunn; Mary Ryen as Tennessee Kent;
Beatrice Morgan as Nettie Bricc; Geofrey
Spike The CGroner.
James j. Corbett. fighter and actor. ia the
topliner at the Twenty-third street house.
Other featured attractions are McMahon's
Watermelon Girls and Louise Cunning.
To round out the program are Edward
Blondel and company, Pat Rooney and
Marion Bent, NJ. and Mrs. Mark Murphy
and others.
The usual Sunday coz certs viii be given
a. tha Proctor houses.
BY arrangement with kelar, Paul Vala-
don. the French necromanoer, will make
his first appearance in vaudeville at Keiths
this week presenting a series Of mysteries
including The Drum That Can't Be
Beaten" Other new recruits to vaude-
lille are Ned Nye, late star Of The Belle
of New York, and his whirlwind girls;
Susie r sher, the female berytone, and
White and Simmons minstrel comedians.
Standard vaudeville acts are contributed
by Lew Bloom and Jane Cooper in "A Pic
ture. From Life. Mosher, Houghton and
Mosher, acrobatic and comedy cyclists
Dave Nowlin, the Zarnes. Taylor Holmes,
Henry end Francis and host OF others.
Tony Pastor has arranged an excellent
hot weather bill for next week Tho Capitol