The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-09
ENTERTAINM MENTS
Hyperion Theater.

Hyperion Theater.
 After all is said and done it is left for the genial Lew Dockstader to say the last word on the subject of minstrelsy and this last word is embodied in the show which he is to present at the Fly perion this afternoon and evening. Here we have a clear case of the sur vival of the fttest, with all the features retained that in theatrical parlance. have made good" and all doubtful and negative propositions eliminated Big houses will doubtless greet Dockstader and company.
 Something absolutely fresh to the public will be the travel lecture to be given at the Hyperion on Monday evening by MT. R. c. Knowles. Other lecturers there have been, but none who saw things fro mthe same view point as MT. Knowles; for he being gifted with the delightful sense of hu- nor has seen the interesting and strange things of this world from their humorous side, while the ordinary traveller was content to view them in a cold and scholastic manner. MT. Knowles is one of the very, very few American entertainers who have achieved great success in London, where for years he was the established fayorite, receiving a greater salary than Albert Chevaller, Yvette Guilbert, Dan Leno, or any other of the popular idols.
 About two years ago, MT, Knowles felt that he was outgrowing the music halls. and his ambition led him to take a lease of St. Georges hall, London, where he began a series of humorous, Illustrated lectures that achieved such remarkable success that all London sat up and took notice.
 Night after night this fashionable place was packed with applauding au- diences, drawn from the very best of the big toWn-and Mir Knowles came into his own both from an artistic and financial standpoint. He then transfer red his efforts to South Africa and Australia, which he had previously visited as music hall artist, and re- peated his London success.
 In Johannesburg, His Majesty's thea ter was nightly packed with the elite of South Africa's metropolis, and its principal newspaper, "hTe Daily Mail" in it's review said, No more brilliant audience ever assembled within any four walls of this city, No more bril- liant entertainer ever appeared in any city on earth, and no better satisfied audience ever left any place of amuse- ment.'
 The programme follows:
 A visit to South Africa commences with the preparatory stage in the dressing room-Lights up, the journey commences.
 First Stop.
 Ireland, with it's wit. its beautiful scenery and glimpse at their majes- ties, the king and queen.
 England, snap shots of a beautiful country.
 Southampton-Th departure.
 Fellow passengers, withtheir eccen- tricities.
 Madeira, with it's beauties and beg gars and the famous mountain tobog- gan.
 Sports on board, introducing the con- cert and the embarrassed chairman.
 Arrival at Capetown-Strange scenes in a new land.
 Kimberley city where the dia- monds come from.
 The Matopos, WI tn a trip to the ''Worlds View and the tomb of Cecil Rhodes.
 The Leopard Hunt-The spois of the chase and the captured cub.
 Zimbabwe ruins-The only evidence of an ancient civilization in South Af- rica.
 Victoria Falls--Double the width and almost three times the height of Mag ara.
 The zambezi-The river that feels the falls.
 Beira, with its peculiar street car system.
 Johannesburg The Golden city, curi- ous, cussed and cosmopolitan.
 Mafeking- Made famous by it's seige
 Pretoria-The capital and the home