The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26

"Humpty Dumpty- most gorgeous OF
Christmas pantomimes. has reached lts
last lap at the New Amsterdam. II has
STAYED there sixteen weeks. Ellis Jeffreys
in The Prince Consort Is booked there Tor
next Monday.
While George Bernard Shaw Is getting
himself still more talked about in London
for his strong anti-Russien views, his play,
you Never Can Tell is making lot OF
money at tho Garrick The theatre ~
crowded nightly. seats are hard to get eH-
cept very far in advance and Arnold Dnly
hasn't thought much yet about his next
Shaw sensation
Mr. Du Souchet's WHO Goes There?' at
the Princess Theatre is merry. swift and
noisy farce and is making lot of friends
The people who enjoy good laugh without
disscctng the sort Of humor that proVldes
II find the new farce splendid.
At Days 1.-THE Duchess OF Dantzlc' is
proving ono Of the most substantial tn
umphs in musical comedy this season.
THE Forbes Robertson production OF
Henry Y Esmond's drama Love and tho
Man" at the Enickerhocker. has become
the subject Of widespread discussion II
is strong play and MIR. Robertson part
In 1t IS enlncntly suited TO nm
! One OF the most picturesque plays In
town just now Is The Shepherd King, in
which Wright Lorimer begins his second
week az the New York Theatre tomorrow
1t attracted a great deal Of attention when
MIR. Lorimer produced it here last season,
and ~ exceedingly successful now.
4 81 ,,t~ r,io
ia the Herbert MacDonough musical com
cdv 1t Happened in Nordland. now in
its second edition at the Lew Fields Theatre
! Julian Mitchell is constantly adding new
features TO this production. Inc latest
addition is an Indian song by Mr.: Herbert
/ not by any means the least attractive among
tho many in the play.
Tuesday matnees under a now era Of low
prices are the feature just now Of the per-
4 fornances at the Weber Music Hail. They
I are crowded every weak by women who
like such fun as Higgledy-Pggledy' and
The College Nidower presents. To-
night the company gives a ball at Terrace
/ Garden in honor Of Max Weber and Robert
I +. stone.
Childrens matinees on Fridays are a
fea ture OF Buster Brown at the Majestic
/ A second edition Of this popular medley
including new Scotch FNlsieers' drill, is
in preparation.
This is the last week Of Sweet Kitty
Belairs" at the Academy Of Music. To-
morrow Henrietta Crosman plays Kitty for
the 350th time in New York. Blanche
Bates in The Darling Of the Gods sue
ceeds her
'Du Barry is to haze an elaborate re-
vival at the Yorkvlle Theatre tomorrow.
Tho stock company has put in its best ticks
in preparing this picturesque Belasco drama.
and fine scenery and great crowd Of extra
helpers have been secured There are
matinees daily except on Mondays.
The rural melodrama. Confessions Of a
Wife played with much success further
! downtown a few weeks ago is the attrac-
ton at the American Theatre this week
1t teens with OK citing scenes and mas n
| competent cast.
Charles E Blaney's stirring drama.
Across the Pacific" is the weeks play at
the Fourteenth Street Theatre. It shows
scenes in Chinatown San Francisco and
in the Philippines.
The County Chairman one Of the most
I nullLhl CIV HAEtfS5lQl VI NtNI ~ Aut :
/ comedies. is coming 10 the Grand Opera
House tomorrow for a weeks stay It
will be perhaps the last appearance of the
Z play here for long time.
The genial laughter loving May Irwin
will be at the Harlem Opera House all week
! in George '. Hobart's farce, Mrs. Black
/ is Back. She has now collection Of coon
( songs and the same company that shared
I..t- four he rim 1T fha
I At the West End Theatre are Edward
Blondel and his company in Weber 4
Rushs last musical production The Lost
Boy. II j. elaborately equipped as to
! scenery and in the company are several
/ We'll known comedians.
The Royal Lilliputians. with 'snbad." a
musical piece with fine collection Of melo-
/ dious ditties is at the Murray Hill Theatre
| for tho week.
At the New Star Theatre 'Cohen's Luck "
/ Is to be played Arthur Lee. who wrote
/ it, knows the lower East Side thoroughly
, and has sense Of Patio, and huuor which
/ made Of old ABE Cohen, The leading chHsac-
ter a warm hearted and loyable figure.
I II Is a character emlnently suited to Joseph
/ Welch, who plays the part.
by Right Of Sword with Ralph Stuart
in the star part will he presented at the
/ Metropolis Theatre tomorrow for a week
The play at the Third Avenue is On the
! Suwanee River a play full of the charm
! Of the South with chunks of local color.
! plantation scenes and plantation songs
! At the top Of a crowded programm. at
! Proctors Twenty-third Street Theatre IS
| the Obersteirer troupe OF twelve Tyrolean
/ warblers Tho Cinserettis. a troupe Of
! skilful acrobats. come next and then there
I is n miscellaneous programme OF song.
! dance and fun in which Archer's Filipino
/ Girls. Watsons Barnyard Circus Al Fields
| with a good monologuc Bailey and Fletcher.
| blackface comedians, and the Bates Musical
| Trio are only few OF the we'll known per
/ formers.
sGlittering Gloria with Edwin Arden.
/ Dorothy Morton Especially engaged and
many other capable performers in the cast
! is 20 be revived by the Fifth Avenue stock
/ company this weak. Between the acts
| Knox Wilson. the comedian Matthews and
| Ashley and others will entertain
/ The stirring war drama Shenandoah" is
| 10 be tho weeks play at Proctor's Fifty
/ eighth Street Theatre. In the entr acte
vaudeville specialtes are acts by Wolfe
/ and Milton and Pete Baker. the old time
! German comedian.