The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-26
DIZZY IN PAPA LEBONNARD
THE COMEDIAN CONES 10 THE
BIJOU TUESDAT.
A New stunt At the HlppOdrOme Miss
spOOner Win Produce a brand New
Play-FOur Last Nights al the German
Theatre On irving Place This week.

Monday night Eugene Walters melo.
drama THE Wolf which has been playing
for q week al the Bijou. will move up u
the Lyric. and on Tuesday night at the
Bijou Henry r.. Dizzy will DO seen In an
English version OF Papa Lebonnard,' q
play originally written in French by Jear
Aicard for Coquelin, who, however, never
played It. In an Italian version 1t was
first played In New York a year ago by
Noveli with conspicuous success, Mr..
Dizzy, who now assumes the title part OF
the old clockmaker, has not been seen
on Broadway since The Man on the Box. .
This week will SEQ a number OF novelties
at the HippOdrome. Onaip. the Hindu
mystery, whose appearance last week
was made impossible by an accident, will
appear on Monday, 0naip seats himself
at a piano and after he starts TO play the
instrument rises, sWays TO and fro and
finally r~evolves at a rapid rate, carrying
the player without any signs Of support.
The circus will have strong added features
in the Ledgetts, bareback riders In ring
feats; and WormWood's trained monkeys
will also be added TO the bill. With these
there are ten other imported acts. The
big bill at the H~ippodroms includes 'The
Battle Of Port Arthur. with its two pictures
Of modern warfare, Olashing troops and
charging cavalry, followed by Lady Gays
Garden Party and concluding with the
ballots Of the four seasons, the winter
carnival and the drowning dancers.
Monday, May I, will DO Grand Army OF
the Republic night at the H~ippodrome,
when hundreds Of veterans Of the civil
war will witness The Battle Of Port Arthur, y
Edna May Spooner and her company
at the Lincoln Square Theltre will produce
a brand new play this week called The
Governor and the Boss The authors are
Guy F. Bragdon and William Postance.
The play in theme does not appear to be
vastly unlike The Man Of the Hour OF
course a love interest gets merrily tangled
up with the political web, Will somebody
please write 4 play about politics, about
politics.
The last four performances to he given
at the German Theatre in Irving place
under the management Of DR.. Baumfeld
will take place this coming week. To-
morrow evening the popular three act
comedy, known in the German version as
Madame Bonivard,' and familiar in the
English version Of the original French
work as THE Lottery Of Love, will be the
attraction. The performance will be for
the benefit OF Nine. Neuendorh. There
will be no change in the bill for Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings. On Thursday.
for the last performance Of his first season
In America, DR.. Baumfeld announces lb-
sens Ghosts
During his seven months tenancy Of the
Irving place house DIR. Baumfeld has pro-
duced thirty-Beven plays Of varied char
aoter. Twenty OF these works were novel
ties here. Every variety Of play was in
terpreted from farce TO tragedy. The
most successful production counting by
the number Of performanOes) was Her
Zogin Crevette' CThe Duchess dee Folies-
Bergere'), which was played twenty-six
times. GOethe's 1Goetz Won Berlichingen'
had eighteen performances. Rlda's com
edy Der Dummk OPT ("The ~Blockhead')
had thirteen, and the three Schnitzler one
act plays, including THE Last Masks
AT the Sign OF the Green Parrot and
Literature 10. AS You Like It and
THE Fifth Commandment" were heard
eleven times, while The Great Community
ran for ten nights. 'Florette and Patapon'
and 'The Wedding Of Hertha' had eight
performances each. Other plays pro-
duoed were Ibsen's Ghosts and -Hedda
Hebbel's Maria Magdalena' and Lessing's
"Minna Won Barnhelm.'
The little theatre on East Third street,
where Orlenof had his Russian players,
has been leased and will open Saturday
afternoon with The Village Mail Carrier
played in English. A stock company will
play 1t and other English dramas with
weekly changes, Thirty-lve cents will be
the maximum charge for a seat,
At the big benefit this Sunday evening
at the Garden Theatre for the Brookside
Farms Home. for the destitute wives and
children Of prisoners in New York jails,
Miss Louise Randolph and Charles Lane
will introduce for the first time In this
country THE Pass word" a one act drama
which Lewis Waller played in London.
This is David Warheld's final week & in New
York before he sails for London, He will
play 'The Music Master for the last times
here till Saturday night, when the last per-
Torrance Of A Grand Army Man" will DO
given. The Warrens Of Virginia will
on the following Monday move over to the
beautiful Stuyvesant Theatre to finish out
the season.
The German merry Widow at the
0rpheum Concert Garden, Third avenue
and thirteenth street. will reach it's Tooth
performance this week. Appropriate recoH- !
milton Of the occasion will be made on Thurs
day night at the oosey little music hall. The
temperance OF Fraulein Thury, who
created the part Of the Prince in this German
version, il assured. She has been out Of
the cast during the last few weeks because
Of a Sprained ankle. A special entertain
msnt for the guests and a supper and dance
for the company and attaches Of the music
hall will follow the regular performance Of
the operatta.
Anna Held In The Partisan Model will
to the Grand Opera House Tor a week
tomorrow.
FRITZ Scheh Is doing very nicely at the
Academy In mile. Modesto thank you.
In fact the first week Of her months engage
ment there saw crowded houses every
night,
THE Servant In the House has had Ave
weeks Of success at the Savoy Theatre, !
with every prospect Of continuing in such
favor until we'll into the summer Seats =,
are now being sold 10 June l. Tomorrow
night Scottish Rite Masons have taken tho
boxes, the main floor and the balcony. The
house will be appropriately decorated. I,
This will be the second time within a month
that The Servant in the House has been
ofioially indorsed by Masonic bodies. Thu