The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-13
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Hxperion Theater.

I1dS It ever QCCuII6u LO yOu Wldl tt visit to the New Hampshire hills would mean? A visit to childhood days away back wonder. There are no doubt many in this city who would be pleased to make the trip back among the hills of that staid old Puritanical state, to sat isfy their own curiosity as to the ma tives, their mode of living and their pe- culiar ways, but business or other ob stacles prevent their going, They need not live in doubt as to the ways and means of Yankeedom, however, for visit to the Hyperion tomorrow even- ing, where that beautiful idyl 'Way Down East begins an engagement of three nights, will more than repay them.
 Manager William IA. Brady once again brings the grand old play here with the original cast and an entire new pro- duction. It is doubtful if there is a play before the American public to-day that has stood the test of time that "Way Down East has. Now in it's tenth season, the public demand for the play is just as great as it was five years ago, and in many cities the box office returns are greater. It is little wonder for there is everything in this play to attract all classes and many managers assert that during an engagement many new faces, strangers in the theater are seen. Tn fact one manager said Way Down East" was the greatest advertis- ! ing medium he had ever known for his house, as the play brought people to the theater that had never been inside ! the walls before.
 The play abounds in sweetness and pathos that delights all, and aside from the main theme of the play-love and i it's power to subdue enemies and tear away barriers-there is plenty of lively comedy to lift up the level of the story
 The chore boy, Hi Holler, is a host in himself and Seth Holcombe, Martha Perkins, the constable, the professor and Kate make a quintet of delightful companions for any time.
 All of the bucolic adjuncts seen heretofore are still well represented in the production, and the cast includes such favorites as Phoebe Davies. as Anna Moore, Robert Fischer as Squire Bartlett Ella Hugh Wood as Martha Pekins, Uric B. C1lins as David Bart lett, Mary Davenport as Mrs. Bartlett. Charlie Craig as Prof. Sterling, Mabel Strickland as Kate Brewster, Senator Frank Bell as Constable Whipple, James T. Galloway as Seth Holcombe, John E. Brennan as Hi Holler, Burt Flansburg as Lennox Sanderson and the famous Village Choir
 DE WOLFE HOPPER's BEGINNING.
 DeWolfe Hopper, who appears soon at the Hyperion, was born in New York on March 30, 1858. He was christened William DeWolf Hopper. The name DeWolf given him in haptism was his mothers maiden name, and she was of the family of DeWolf whose daughters and nieces have become Belmonts, Tiff fany, Perrys, Lawrences and Aspin- walls. The old homestead of the De- | Wolf's at Bristol R. l.. is one of the quaintest among the ancient mansions in the country There is wide hall way running through the center of the | house, ana III q COuSpICuOuS pletNS upoI the wall hangs the DeWolf genealogy, beginning in eleven hundred and some thing with "Olaf, the Sharp eyed" Mir Hoppers father was a lawyer and he 1 came of Quaker stock so it will be seen | that Hopper's drift towards the theater was by no means an inherited tendency 1 As a matter of fact it wassplanned that | he should follow in his fathers foot steps and take up the law, and he stud 1 jed for six months with that purpose in view. Then he acted in a little anna teur play called "Conscience" at the Fourteenth street theater, and imme- diately it was all over with Blackstone. New Haven Thenfre.
 There was large audience at the
 New Haven theater last night to see
 Charles E. Blaney's latest success, ''Old l Isaacs from the Bowery," which is comedy drama in four acts and ten | scenes. MT. Blaney has certainly held i close to realism in handling the epi-
 sode that poor Old Isaacs went through