The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08

tasty and assiduousy paying his addresses
to charming widow. Mr.. Wilson IS anu, amy
assisted by Edward Aheles. May Robson
and other rib tickling players
'The College widower' at the Weber
Music Hall has caught the town. lts fun
is genuine and spontaneous, and Marie
Dresser in football attire is whole show
in herself, while Joe Weber once more has
a chance to be really amusing. "Hlggledy-
Piggledy, which is picturesque ana larry
amusing also, precedeS The new hurlesque,
but fails TO equal its humor.
At the Garden Theatre the real thing,
"Thc College widow needs no burlesaue
to enhance it's drawing power. II IL still
one OF the most popular comedies in town
Ethel Barrymore charm in Sunday, at
the Hudson Theatre. shows no sign OF
diminishing. She has now been present
ing this picturesque play to crowded houses
for nearly three months and IA in as great
demand as ever. Her triumph has lasted
so well that the management has not yet
been able to assign a date for the termlna-
ton of her stay at the Hudson. Meantime
AZ many requests have been received by
| Charles Fruhman for her temperance in
Cousin Kate that he has decided TO pre-
sent Miss Barrymore in the Hubert Henry
Davies comedy st special matrices.
Lillian Russell begins the third OF her ak
weeks engagement IN Lady Teazle' at the
Casino tomorrow. She is said TO be drawing
lthe largest audiences she has ever had In
! New York and the largest at the Casino
since the opening weeks of "A Chinese
Honeymoon.
"The Shotgun" IL about TO leave Wal
lacks There will be only two weeks more
and then Raymond Hitchcock in "The
Yankee Consul" viii begin spring engage
ment at the theatre.
The popularity OF 'Humpty Dumpty'
still continues. though Christmas has gone
and the pantom,n season drifts toward
| Lent. The children are delighted with the
| gorgeousness of this production and II is
! calculated TO open the eyes OF grownups al
we'll.
ain Newport" the Klaw Il Erlanger
musical production at the Liberty. has been
reconstructed to include Gilbert-Sullivan
review to be presented tomorrow evening.
II will embrace The Mihadoa -1olanthe.
The Pirates Of Penzance, Patience" and
-Pinaiore" Peter Daley viii play the
! Hikado. Fay Templeton Litle Bnhercpp
Virginia Earle Josephine. and Joe Coyne
| BunthorHe.
At the New York Home Folks. at popu-
lar prices, Is drawing large audiences. 1t
is described as appealing particularly to the
religious.
or musical comedy people are not yet
! tired. as is shown by the success of 1t Hap
pened in Nordland' at the Lew Fields
| Theatre The newcomers in the organiza-
ton have proved TO be be popnar iav9 9t
and the play is expected to continue till
| late in the spring.
FRITZ Schef in aFatinitza' at the Broad
way provides another instance OF the popd-
! larity of musical productions. THIS pl,
is only to run short time longer, but other
! pieces Of SIMILAR character will follow it.
David Warfed. with the coming OF Mrs.
Leslie Carter. has moved to the Bjou Thea
| tire with the Music Master, but his success
has gone with him.
once Upon a Time. the Spanish drama
by Geneveve Haines, in which Robert T.
Haines Is appearing at the Berkeley Lyoeum
Theatre. is doing good business.
The birds in Woodland continue to use
their me odious voices and display their
J
ire. The forest fantasy has proved a now
city in comic opera and is receiving large
patronage. Such Broadway favorites as
Harry Bulger, Frank Doane, Emma Carus,
Cheridah Simpson and Helen Hale have
added to their popularity.
Richard Golden has settled down for
run at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in
Common Sense Bracket, the new play Of
the -Old Homestead type. II tells an in
teresting story of life in a lit New Eng
land village and is capitally acted.
Babes in Toyland' at the Majestic is
being received with all the old favor. It's
tunefu score and pleasant songs please Just
rs well az ever.
To the American Theatre this week comes
popular country melodrams called AT
the Old Cross Roads" 1t tells Of the mar
rage Of an unscrupulous Northerner TO n
supposed octoroon and the complications
which cnsue till il is proved that the sup
posed negress Is as white as anybody else
Siberia opens it's second week in the
Academy Of Music with great SUCCESS. The
revival Of the old melodrama with an up
TO date scene of the kishnef massacre
seems 10 supply n want unsatisfied by the
new style Of plays.
Another revival OF the week is that Of the |
Murray Hill Theatre. Everybody in that |
region seems glad to see the old playhouse |
with It's doors open again. The attraction
Is Dan McAvoy in His Honor the Mayor |
Of the Bowery.
The vaudeville houses, which attract as
many patrons IA the theatres devoted to
legitimate acting. so called are all lively !
this week All Of the four Proctor theatres /,
have good bills At the Twenty third |
Street Theatre are Rose Stahl and her com
pany In +The Chorus Lady; Herzogs |
Horses, Melville ard Stetson. condolences:
Mr.. and Mrs Gardner Crane the Yaldares. |
sensational cyclists and many others
The Fifth Avenue has an elaborate pro- |
duction Of Jim the Penman.- with 1sa-
belle Evesson and Edwin Arden leading
the cast, end good vaudeville bin in the |
bargain.
At the l25th Street Theatre 'D'Arcy Of |
the Guards l.. Z. Shipman's play, in which |
Henry Miller won triumph several sea- |
sons ago is being produced by the stock /
company, which includes many Harlem |
favorites.
The Fifty-eighth Street Theatre also has |
now acquired a stock company Its lead |