The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29

time honored emotional play East Lynne,
Following The Smart Set at the Amer
lean Theatre Wine, Woman and Song
will be presented at that theatre for a
limited run commencing April 8.
William B. Gray's drama Of New England
life entitled The Volunteer Orgsnist' will
he the attraction at the West End Theatre
this week,
The attraction at the New Star Theatre
this week, "The Outlaws Christmas is
one In which there is plenty OF gunplay.
The piece deals with the adventures OF a
young New Yorker who IL forced 10 flee in
the face OF a false accusation Of murder.
The College Widow will be shown at
the Adelphi Theatre, London, on April 20,
with a cast picked by Mr.. Savage from the
players who have presented the AIDE comedy
here.
Tonight will be California night at the
Circle Theatre.
The Eden Musee shows this week the story
Of THE Old Veteran on the cinsmato-
graph. Celebrated Irish ballads are sung
by Johnny Mcguire, together with the
World In Wax" and high class concerts
by Kapossy's Hungarian band.
aarlemites await the appearance OF
Alice Lloyd, who will appear al Percy q.
Williams's Alhambra this week in a COL
lection Of songs. Capt. George Anger,
assisted by a company Of Liliputians, will
present his one act sketch Of Jack, the
Giant Killer As the Captain Ia over seven
feet seven inches in height he Ia rather
alarming. Ida Fuller will introduce some
new dances. James Callahan and Jennie
81, George have an old fashioned sketch In
The Old Neighborhood. James Thornton
has a monologue. The McNanghtons are
pitter patter comedians. WEIGH, Mealy
and Montrose are a trio. Hal Merritt is a
monologist. Great Scott lives up to his
name.
Harry Won Tilzer is the headliner at the
Colonial Theatre this week. Benjamin
Chaplin impersonates Abraham Lincoln.
Al shean and Charles Warren in their bur
lesque Upon QUO Vadis' will please. We
Colonial Septette in their scenic musical
offering, An 0lde Tyne Halloween y have
an act, Edward +, Reynard has a ven
~triloquial act in which he is assisted by
mechanical figures. Emma Francis and
her Arabian Whirlwinds are singers, dancers
and acrobats. Howard and North are con-
vocational individuals. The Meredith Sis
tiers and the Marno Trio complete the bill.
At Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre Of
Varieties this week the programme will be
headed by Houdini, the handcuf king and
jailbreaker, who will introduce his new
sensational mystery, escaping from an air
tight galvanized iron can shaped like a milk
can and filled with water, in which Hou-
DIM clad in a bathing suit and a pair Of
handouts crouches. Then the iron can is
locked with six padlooks and it is up 70 the
audience, who are invited on the stage, 10
solve the mystery Of how he escapes. The
remainder OF the programme will include
Mile. Eugene Fougere; Harry Tate's
Motoring; Rosie Lloyd. English come
dienne. sister Of Alice and Marie Lloyd;
Arthur Dunn and Marie Glazier in their
one act musical comedy skit entitled The
Messenger Boy; Fred Niblo, the American
humorist; Willard Simms a Co, presenting
his comedy skt entitled Flinders Fur
nished Flat; Leona Thurber and her black
birds. singers and dancers; Elverton, the
spinning marvel. assisted by Miss Mabel
Irwin, and new vltagraph views.
The Colonial Bellies. a company made
up Of show girls and comedians, is the at
traction booked for the week at the Gotham
Theatre.
The N~ightingales Company, better known
as the Beauty Show" will be housed for
the week al the Dewey Theatre. Two
burlettas will be presented, Out for a
Lark and Americans Abroad Both are
built for laughing purposes only. Amateur
nights here are both Thursday and Friday,
Al Pastors will be Cushing, Merrill and
Davis in a comedy playlet, a Diamond
Ring; Emerson and Baldwin, comedy
Juggling and club act; Mcintyre and
McIvoy in blackface; Deltorelli and ellis
in their clown musical act; Quigg and
Mack, Sperry and Ray, Montague's Cockatoo,
Circus, with six birds dancing the Merry
Widow waltz; Lewis and Lesangton,
Jeanre and Ellsworth, Goyt THO, Hobeon
and MacNichol, Fred Burkels Camera Gems.
and the American vitagraph with life mo-
ton pictures.
Sam Scribner's big show will be housed
for one week at the Murray Hi Theatre.
commencing Monday matinee. The bill
includes two burieTtss and a doE5a Govel
specialties.
J. NJ. Moore's New Orleans Minstrels
have been secured as a special feature for
Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum for this
week. La Belle Rosa's Oriental troupe Of
dancers, seven in number, forty-hve min
utes OF Fdison's life motion pictures, the
April Family and others will also be seen,
Pursuing the policy Of always keeping
the circus up to date and replete with new
acts, the Hippodrome Ia making changes
10 this part Of its big entertainment
nearly every week. Beginning Mon
day night two strong acts will be pre-
One Of these will he the famous
Heras family Of men and women. Another
act will be the Okahe troupeof Japanese
In thrilling and difRcult feats peculiar TO
Rymnasts Of the Flowery Kingdom, The
Of the big circus bill remains, and one,
that has proven the test is the novel comedyN
feature OF the Merry Widow Waltz, danced
by Satan and Diamond, two Of the Hagen
beck elephants. The Hippodrome bill be-
gins with the big spectacle Of THE Battleof
Port Arthur" Then follows musical comedy
and dancing, the circus and the Ballots
OF the Four Seasons. Exciting Cossack
Is a feature Of the Port Arthur scene
and another Imported event is the Aerial
Ballet. The Hippodrome is giving the
bill In its history,
A ~. Eye.k A,,anua Thaatra this waal