Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-27

The
Theatres
KEITH AND PROCTOR'S.
Union Square.

zai Troupe, Z~azell4Vernon Company.
and Estelle Wordette & Company
are included in n program. They
are all there, however, next week at
the Union Square. The diminutive
Wilder has his best batch of stories,
auips, ~parodies, anecdotes with a
touch of pathos to leaven it all nice
Iy. The Exposition Four are admit
tedly the funniest quartet on the
vaudeville boards and their antics
and comicalities are splendidly inter-
woven and blended with some partic-
ularly good singing. The Kita Ban
zai Troupe of warriors from Nippon
show what the Japanese can do in
the way of agility, strength, grace
and daring. Zazell & Vernon offer
q ludicrous pantomime, entitled,
THE Elopment," which is a hilarious
knockabout act. Estelle Wordette
and Jules Kusel are seen in a dainty
c~omedietta, "a Honeymoon in the
Catskills," and others are: Camp
bell & Johnson, comic cyclists; Dix
on & Anger, the German comedians;
Bean & Hamilton, high jumpers;
Wallace Trueman, tramp juggler;
Malverne & Thomas, dancers; Ander-
SOH az dOlIlNpg OlOI0A ShbCa
and the moving pictures.
Twenty-third Street.
Virginia Earl, the comic opera
star, will head the program with her
"iohnnies." 1t is a SNOWY melodious
song and dance spectacle, familiar in
many operas, in which Miss Earl
has appeared. Barney Pagan and
Helen Byron have a skit which shows
Pagan at his best in skillful step
dancing and Miss Byron in many
changes of costume. Perkins ID.
Fisher and Mrs. Fisher still cling to
the rural romance so reminiscent of
"The Old Homestead entitled, THE
Halfway House" Others are: Mar
ion Carson, a beautiful young So
pfano; Cook & Madison, eccentric
acrobats; Delmore & Onedio, equili-
brists; Howard & Howard, %parodists
and ~farceurs; Farrell Taylor Trio,
blackfaced music comedy; Delmore
& Darrell, a comedy pair who sing
and dance, and incidentally make up
in blackface before the audience.
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
A strongly sensational play with
no end of exciting climaXes and a
plentiful supply of activity in dia-
logue and stage business, is descrip-
tive of THE Bells" which will be
produced next week at Keith & Proc
tors One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street theatre. This will be its first
performance by the popular Harlem
stock company and uptown playgoers
are particularly interested in its pre-
sentation by Messrs. McAllister. Nor
ton, Hill, Cummings, Howell and
Misses Scott, Jewel and the other
f~avorites. 1.-THE Bells was always
held in the late Henry Irving's. rep
ertory as one of his surest successes.
This great actor gave to the part of
Matthias a most powerful character
ization and it was accepted as one OF
his finest portraitures. After Ma
thias' arrest for the murder of the
Jew pack pedler, and in the famous
trial scene, wherein the prisoner is
put under the mesmerist's power,
comes the most remarkable scene of
the play: the enactment of the MUIR
der by Matthias while under a hypno-
tic spell. This permits of the most
dramatic of climaxes, and Irving rose
to unapproachable heights in this
scene. 1t is this part, the star part,
HAUL al. VI IL pay lhat l. oui AhS
Allister will interpret and the de-
mands will call for all the histrionic
resources at this popular young ac-
tors command. His friends and adj
mirers doubt not that he will add to
his triumphs in a mastery imper-
sonation of Matthias.
Jersey City.
Among the improvements is an es-
pecially noticeable one, involving the
demolition of the old Bijou theatre
on Newark avenue and the erection
in its place of the palatial new struc-
ture of Keith & P%roctor's theatre,
which will be opened to the public
with high-class vaudeville of the
most refined type on Labor Day, Sep
tember 3. AS the building stands to-
day, it is only a memory of the old
Bijou. The walls alone are the sole
reminders of the old house, and
everything else from %sub-cellar foun-
dation to the c%apsheaf on the roof,
yes, to the top of the new water
tanks above the roof will be new,
every vestige of it. The front will
be one-third higher than in the old
house, built of iron and marble with
the main entrance supported by
green marble pilasters. On either
side of the upper part of the facade
will be placed cartouche figures of
heroic size and the illumination of
the front will be the most dazzling
affair Jersey City has ever seen. The
interior decorations will surpass any
thing in the way of theatrical adorn-
men in the state. There will be a
lavish, yet artistic use of gold leaf in
conjunction with soft warm tints
that will make the auditorium a
beautiful CHEEKY interior. To height
en- the artistic effect a series of muir
al paintings will adorn the walls and
ceiling. sounding board and walls of
the theatre as well as the walls and
ceiling of the main lobby and en-
trance. For the outer vestibules and
foyer and entrances to balcony and
gallery, white marble and brass with
cherry trim will be conspicuously
utilized. There will be an entrance
for the gallery patrons apart from the
rest of the house at the extreme left
of the main lobby. All the stairways
will be of extra width and to carry
out the owners intention to max the
Theatre absolutely fire proof, three
lextra tanks will be built on the roof
TO supply the sprinkler system. This