The sun., 1909-12-26

nftteth performance was given on iast
Wednesday evening" This laughing play
is sure Of an all winter run. and there are
some who think IL will be with US next
sumner.
Klaw a ErIanger's production. -The
Silver Star" with Adeline Genee and
Bickel and Watson. enters the last two
weeks Of it's engagement at the New Am
sterdam Theatre tomorrow night. The
Barrier a play by Eugene W. Presbrey.
founded on Rex Beach's novel. opens at
the New Amsterdam on january 10 with
Theodore Roberts in the role Of John
Gale.
the Man Who Owns broadway Is
at the New York Theatre. Hitchcock
continues to win favor and make new
friends in this hurry-up Cohan musical
comedy. He gets able support from the
cast. which Includes Flora ZabeIle. STAN
ley Forde. bora Lieb. Scott WEIGH. Fran
cee Gordon and Mark Sullivan.
New Years week finds the Hippodrome
spectacles and circus in the mid-season
OF their success. Holiday crowds. and
especially the visitors from out Of town.
regard a visit to New York's largest play
house as part of the festivities attendant
upon holiday time inasmuch as the Hip
podrome show appeals to both the little
folk and grownups. Seventeen scenes
follow one another, the tribe Of fighting
Maoris still perform their dances and
the new circus adds to the fun and va
riety Of the entertainment.
Miss Cecilia LOTUS makes her farewell
vaudeville appearance in New York this
season at the Plaza this week. She has
added several new impersonations to
her repertoire, including Sarah Bern
hardt and Yvette Guilbert. Ed Blondell
and company in The Lost Boy have
a lively sketch. Sidney Grant is a mono
logist with original methods. who offers
charecterizations OF society types. Rice
and Provost will be seen in their aero
batio pantomime. -Bumpty Bumps" and
Ed Laten Ia a musical mistrel monologist.
The jackson family. trick cyclists OF skill.
lay Holland. q singer, and Burk's dogs
complete the programme.
At the Colonial a bill with plenty of
comedy features is offered. Sam Chip and
Mary Marble will be seen in their little
Dutch playlet -In Old Edam.' Clayton
White and Marie Stuart will offer their
skit -Cherie. and the Partisan chanteuse,
Camille Ober. will entertain with number
of songs. Ralph G. Herr will be seen in
his various character studies and Gus
Edwards's. Blonde Typewriters assisted
and dancing number. The Top O. the
World Dancers and the Collie Ballet will
give a Christmas time extravaganza
staged by William Rock and called kris
Kringle's Dream
At the American Music Hall the head
liner will be George EASTWOOD. -London's
Modern, Beau Brummel,' whose songs.
personality and clothes have made him
popular. Another strong feature viii be
Henry Lieb and Company in a one act
playlet by Joseph Medin Paterson. Felix
and Caire will be seen in a new sketch
entitled The Runaway Kids Wilfred
Clarke and Company have hilarious
Offering in what viii Happen Next3'
Edith Fink. an English girl. will sing some
new songs. The Three Constantine Sis
,ters, acrobatic dancers: Lawson and June.
boomerang throwers, the Sander Trio.
European gymnasts. and Stuart Collins
and his Banjo Girls are others who will
appear. Fs.
The holiday bill at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre is thoroughly in keeping with the
spirit of the times The dual headliners
will be w. II. Murphy. Blanche Nichols
and company in their new military bur-
Iesoue on stage life. THE School OF Act
ing and Grigolati's aerial ballet. Fol-
lowing them will come the Exposition
Four. Smith and Campbell. the rapid
fire takers in Camping Out; Lillian
shaw, the character singing oomedienne;
Eleanor Gordon and company in the rae
ing oomedietta. LIPS on Tap: Donald
and Carson, the Scotch entertainers, and
Harry De Coe. -the man with the tables
and chairs who performs feats OF bal
ancing.'
At Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre
the bill this week will be headed by Char
mion. -the perfect woman and will in
clude Mile. Eugenis Fougere, the French
chanteuse. who returns after an absence
of two years W. G. Fields. the eccentric
juggier. also makes his appearance for
the first time this season. Waterbury
Bros. and Tenny will give their musical