Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1906-01-31

DTew's bill at the Grand Opera House
on Fridy night, he has one OF the must
ehec tive roles of his career.
r---- Ezra Kendall, the
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anrFH "lauRh launcher, ''in
a revival Of his for
~ mer success, "lhe
Vinegar Buyer" at
49, the Grand OpsTa
"A, ~ "a House en- Saturday
| ~ ~ night, has wen the
Ia 81 approval of large
uAzzAAAA2A1AASlA audiences, and hie
return is reasonably
sure 20 witness return of the pleasant
conditions he then enjoyed The central
character, as will be remembered, was
suggested by Joe Miller" OF James
Withoomb Riley's poem. The title
role IS one fitted to Mr. Kendall's rel
sonality and his droll comedy and his
dry, humorous way Of telling a story,
with which The Vinegar Buyer"
abounds, usually xeeps audiences in
continuous roafs Of laughter. Not
only IS handsome new scenic produo-
ton promised, but a company COM
posed OF actors and actresses excelling
IN sheir respective lines OF dramatic
work.
without question, Magician Kellar,
who comes TO the Grand Opera House
on Monday night, 10 the peer of any
necromancer or exponent of pure
aleight-of-h who has lived within
the past century. lie has made his
art careful study. He ~ a highly
educated, thoroughly well-read man,
and as a mathematician has few il any
equals in the world. He has labored
20 give his experiments in magic with
that freedom from subtarfuge so mp
parent with most performers, and has
so far perfected il that he has appar-
emily but to command the most un-
heard OF things to happen, and they
tranapire. He uses the smallest pos
sible amount OF apparatus. Yet his
results are at times astounding. Sp irit-
ualists have claimed times without
numbsr that he is medium of I'M
usual power, but Kellar only smiles
at these claims and says that he is a
triokster, nothing more nor less.
Adele Rowland, one Of the stage
beauties Of the New York stage, and
one Of Richard Carries leading ladies
in 1.-The Mayor OF Toxic, " coming to
the Grand Opera House February 18th,
10 the sluoky possessor OF one of the
largest sapphiFea in the world. 1t is a
family sheirloom and having passed
from generation to generation finally
became her property by the will Of
closely with that of King Edward VII
of England.
Lincoln j. Carter's great western
border drama, 1.-The Flaming Arrow, 4"
will be seen at the Lyceum Theatre on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A
large cast numbering some 40 people, is
with the attraction, including the gov
eminent Indian brass band, cowboys,
ex- United States soldiers, scouts, sew
eral Indian ponies and burros. This
play, now in it's sixth season, is oue of
the novelties IN the theatrical world.
A band concert will be given by the
Indian Band IN front of the theatre
Immediately before each performance.
The scenery is said to be- much above
the average, many of the scenes being
taken from real life.
One Of the pest and strongest char
acters OF the present season will be
Secret Service Sam, - the man with
40 faces, who is the hero in the clay
of the same name, to be presented at
the Lyceum February 9th, 9th and 18th.
with usual matinees Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. This play, which has
been an enormous success this season
wherever presented, is produced by A.
h. Woods, who has engaged Charles
y. Alrioh to play the part Of Secret
Service Sam.
The six PERI Sisters in = bit of
character dancing, are pleasing feat
ure Of the bill at the Garriok this
week. The girls are pretty and we'll
dressed, and show a proficiency in the
Chinese and other dances which ia
very commendable. This is the first
appearance of the act at the house.
The Peril Sisters are originally from
AustrBlia and have met with much
success during their tour of America.
Large audiences greeted both perform
ances at the Garrick yesterday.
Arthur Earl, the tramp comedian OF
the Amerious Comedy -Four, which ia
one Of the features at the Garrick
Theatre this week, had quite an ex-
perience a number of years ago when
the quar- tet was travelling with a
repertoire company that was touring
the south. Mr.. Earl is Fort Wayne
boy and left that city when ne was
very young, TO JOIN the Comedy -Four
who since then have become famous
In vaudeville circles. It seems that
the company with which they we're
travelling featured the play called
The Vendetta, as an opening bill
j. 0. Ogden, the manager Of the com
pany, and Earl we're very ohummy,
and as business had been bad be owed
the quartet si00 In back salary. The
two were standing in front Of the
theatre In a small town in the south
on a Monday evening where they were