The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29
THE EASTER LULL IS At BAND
WILLIAMS AND WALKER CELE-
BRATE TUESDAY.

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Together Sixteen ~Yeart-GOethe Celebra.
ton at German Notwithstanding
About the New MERRY widow" on
Third Avenue at nlrteeAth street.
The lull that preoedss Easter has settled
down on Broadway and this week will see
no changes Of consequence in the theatres.
The Garrick, In fact, will be closed, Tod
dies having failed 10 interest the public.
Tuesday night at the Majestic, however,
Williams and Walker will celebrate the
sixteenth anniversary Of their partnership
bya gala performance Of 'Bandanna Land,
introducing songs from some Of their former
plays. including the comic Jonah Man
Williams and Walker first appeared to-
gether with a minstrel show which travelled
out Of San Francisco in 1892. At the first
performance IL was found that the pro-
gramme would have TO be Enlightened.
and accordingly a sketch was arranged
and Williams and Walker assigned to pre-
sent IL. This proved to be the initial team
work Of these comedians. For several years
following they appeared in vaudeville in
various parts Of the country and eventually
secured IN engagement with Canary a
Lederer's production Of "The Gold Bug,
which wa presented at the Casino Theatre
in 1895. A few weeks later. owing TO the
failure Of The Gold Bug they we're en-
gagged TO appear with Peter F, Daley in
A Good Thing with which they remained
three weeks. The late Will Mcconnell then
took over the management Of the team and
presented them during the following season
in The Senegambian Carnival after
which they appeared suoceesively in a
Lucky Coon THE Policy Players, Sons
Of Ham. In Da homey," 'Abyssinia and
in their present successful Offering, Ban
danna Land
At the German Theatre tomorrow and
Tuesday evenings the attraction will be
that delightful comedy Alt Heidelberg.
This will be followed on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Saturday evenings by Fritz Reu-
ter's play, Inspector Braesig,' The title
part will be sustained by Ernst Sauermann.
-Goetz Won Berlichingen' will be again seen
on Friday evening and at the Saturday
matinee. Full prices will be charged on
Friday and the work will be presented
as a Goethe festival performance. A
hundred years have passed since Faust
the most wonderful Of Goethe's works
was written. Had the mechanical equip
ment Of the German Theatre permitted
Faust would have been revived here in
4 - w.. .at,va ill 10 -
OF the most notable events OF neyt season
at the new German Theatre, which will be
opened during the autumn. The saturday
afternoon performance OF 'GOetz Won
Ber%lichingen' will be Rivenat popular prices.
Ernst Sauermann will appear at both the
Goethe performances for the first time as
Goett and Adolf Winds as SsIbi..
Mr.. Sothern will give his last performances
Of Lord Dundreary' and IF | We're King
at the Lyric Theatre during this week.
If | Were King will be the bill Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday night, Lord
Dundreary" Thursday, Friday, Saturday
nights and Saturday matinee. Mr.. Sothern
is engaged in daily rehearsals OF Paul Kes-
ter's new comedy, Don Quixote,' which
will be shown for the first time on any
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night, April q. On the opening performance
ofrDon Quixote' the curtain will be raised
at 74S O'Clock promptly.
At the Lincoln Square Theatre tomorrow
afternoon Miss Spooner and her company
will present a comedy, A Bachelors Honey
moon" John Stapleton's play, which Is
lighter in mood than anything this stock
oop,nanv haa an far offered.
The merry performance OF Die Lustige
Witwe" at the 0rpheum Concert Garden,
Third avenue at Thirteenth street, is At.
tracing not only Germans but many
others. There is ginger, s%taccato zip
10 this performance, small though the
orchestra is and tiny the stage, that makes
the music bite. II is well worth seeing and
hearing.
The Stanhope-Whestcroft dramatic
school will give a students' matinee at the
Hackett Theatre on Tuesday afternoon.
Six one act plays will be presented.
Mis-. Hardin Burnley, a reader from
Richmond. will give a recital at the Plaza
Thursday evening.
Clyde Fitch's farce, Girls, Is 80 bright,
90 crisp. so full Of keen and fresh obseTa-
ton aud kindly feeling that II is packing
Days Theatre. II is a real and deserved
success.
The melodramatic thrills Of Marta Of the
Lowlands." furnished by Bertha kalich
with prodigal fire, may be secured at the
Garden Theatre. Those who care for
stirring melodrama- who doesnt?-
ought to see this play.
SThe Servant in the House beautifully
acted. 10 visible at the Savoy
James T. Powers in THE Blue Moon
will be at the Grand Opera House this
week.
William H. Crane in AIDES merry farce
Father and the Boys continues at the
Empire
Otis SINNERS fine and picturesque per-
Torrance Of The Honor Of the Family is
filling the Hudson
The Thief has passed the 2ooth mark
Miss Hook OF Holland continues popular
at the Criterion,
Faversham in The Squav Man enters
on his third week tomorrow at the Acad-
envy Of Music.
David Warfeld continues to play The
Music Master at the Stuyvesant, with
Saturday night performances Of "A Grand
Army Man = There will be- matinee Thurs
day.