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PLAYS PRESENT
AND PROMISED
Attractions Tluat Are -Crowding the The=
alters _ Now and Others We Will
Have a Chance to See,
The Bostonians deserved all the warmth
that was thrown into their welcome last
Tuesday evening at the Columbia Theater.
. Puch a company of iijjht opera artists is
rarely met with, and when it is should be
made much of.
In these days of quick results, with
artists turned out at factory prices, so to
speak-, it is not the rule to waste much
serious study for the field of operetta. A
good stage presence, a music-hall style of
chortling tuneful ditties and considerable
dash in acting are considered excellent
equipments for shining as the stars in
the light opera firmament. Even in
musical centers and in the higher
walks of opera one is frequently
pained to hear the factory-made vocalist
wrestling laboriously with music which is
far beyond his half developed powers.
The Bostonians modestly call themselves
a light opera organization, but they sing
<-ivial music with such fine, well-trained
jices, such art and such ease, that they
elevate the performance of merely pretty
music, such as that in "Robin Hood," into
ft rare musical treat. Every one who loves
einging must feel inclined to civ "bravo!"
to them, for this is true vocal art — to sing
within one's powers and do a thing as well
es it- can be done. ''Annie Rooney" ren
dered well is more artistic than the "Casta
Diva" sung indifferently.
Lackaye is giving such a splendid per
VEENONA JAKBJEATJ, WITH "THE PASSING SHOW."
THE WRIT WAS GRANTED
Merced's Superior Court Has
No Jurisdiction in the
Bank Case.
Further Proceedings In the Lltiga
-1 tlon Stopped by the State
Supreme Court.
Bank Commisßioners Kilbarn, Fuller
and McGee, who have been cited to appear
before Judge Law of Merced on the 15th
inst., and show cause why they should not
be deprived of their office for alleged
neglect of duty, will now escape that try
ing ordeal, or foT a time at least, through
one of the many technicalities of the law.
Through their attorney, A. B. Carpenter,
a petition and brief citing authorities were
presented to the Supreme Court yesterday,
asking that an alternative writ of prohibi
tion, requiring Judge Law of Merced to
discontinue proceedings in the case up to
November 3, and on that day to appear
and show cause why he should not be
absolutely restrained from further pro
ceeding in the case. After a brief delibera
tion the court granted the writ, which
takes effect immediately, and on November
3 the legal questions involved in the case
v.-ill be reviewed by the Supreme Court
and a decision rendered accordingly.
"The granting of the writ was not a mat
ter of right, or, of course," said Attorney
Carpenter, speaking about the matter yes
terday, "but on a prima facie showing it
ni ust be granted to entitle the parties mak
ing the petition to a fair hearing in the
case against them.
"The only allegation contained in the
complaint of the plaintiff is that the Com
missioners had a knowledge of the un
sound or insolvent condition of the Merced
Bank, and the complaint does not state
hew, when or where they acquired such
knowledge, or how or when they were
guilty of not notifying the Attorney-Gen
eral of such insolvency in writing. Upon
the accusation, Judge A. K. Law of Merced
made an order citing the Commissioners
to appear before him on the 15th inst. and
answer to the charges of W. N. Sherman,
v.lio appears as the piaintiff in the case,
accusing the Commissioners of willful
t of duty.
"The rhar-e'against the Commissioners,* 1
continued Mr. Carpenter, 'is a criminal
one, and, as they allege, it comes under
a 772, chapter 2, of the Penal Code of
ate.
Hhe gist of that code is: 'When an
accusation in writing, verified by the oath
of any person, is brought against a public
official for refusing or neglecting to per
form the official duties pertaining to his
otiice and he is found guilty he can be
removed from oflice and a tine of $500 can
Ue imposed in favor of the informer.'
'•I contend," said Mr. Carpenter, "that
section 772, chapter 2, of the Penal Code is
Jirruted by section 708 of the same chapter
as to thtj class of officers against which
formance of Svengali at the Baldwin that
more in sorrow than in carping criticism
one notices a few minor details in his
work that jar on the eye and the ear.
His German pronunciation is faulty at
times. For instance, he alludes to Schu
bert as a fellow-countryman, and in the
same breath he drops the final "t" in pro
nouncing the name of that divine song
writer. Svengali— Du Maurier's one of
that ilk— would have known better. A few
well-meaning but untraveled Americans
lop off the "t" that all Germans give to
Schubert, because they think it elegant to
be "foreign" when they discuss musicians,
no matter whether the accent they adopt
be French, German or Low Dutch, but if
some years spent in the Latin quarter has
made the German Svengali adopt such a
Gallicism he must have been imitating
Mark Twain's friend, who, after visiting
i Paris, forgot his mother tongue to the ex
tent of alluding to a man named "Herbert"
as "Monsieur 'Erber'."
Lackaye's neglect to make up his hands is
another trivial detail, but it mutilates the
realism of his death scene, and the
utter callousness of the bystanders,
when he falls with his head lolling
over the edge of the table, recalls
the deaths which men die in opera and
melodrama. In both those walks of the
drama, it is an unwritten law that as soon
as an inspiring actor has no more lines, he
' is as far beyond resuscitating as an Egyp
these accusations could be brought, and as
the Bank Commissioners are State officers
they are not amenable to the provisions of
section 772, but are governed by the Bank
Commissioners act of March 1, 1872.
"If on November '6 the Supreme Court
decides that Judge Law of Merced has no
jurisdiction he will be perpetually
restrained from further proceeding in the
case, and if that takes place it will be
difficult to say at present what other
manner of proceeding will be taken in the
case."
Creditors Take Action.
Creditors have petitioned the Superior Court
to force A. M. Thomas into insolvency. Thomas
owes $89(5. Wheaton, Breon & Co. and the
■\\illiam Cluff Company are the principal
creditors.
Napoleon ate with his knife.
Look at This!
A\ riting Paper 5c to 25c per quire,
V\ riting Tablets 5c to 35c each,
Paueteries 10c to 75c per box, Play-
ing Cards 10c to 75c per pack, Lead
Pencils 10c to 75c per dozen, Blank
Books 15c to $1 per 100 pages, En-
velopes $1 to $2 50 per 1000. -
Tissue Paper 5c to 30c uer roll,
Tooth Brushes 5c to 40c each,
Combe 10c to 60c each, Clothes
Brushes 25c to $2 50 each, Hair
Brushes 25c to $4 25 each, Hat
Brushes 40c to $1 each, Cabinet
Frames 10c to $5 each, Hand
Glasses 2.5c to $5 each. Ladies'
Purses 25c to $15 each, Gentlemen's
Purses 5c to $2 75 each, Banquet
Lamps ?1 75 to $24 each, Piano
Lamps and Onyx Tables from $4 50
to $20 each, Gla3S Panel Pictures
15c to ?1 each, Stanly Fountain
Pens $1 each, Crown Fountain Pens
$2 to $5 each.
The best House Paint 25c per can,
Wood Stains and Varnish 20c per
can, Best Floor Paint 50c per can,
Bath Enamel 75c per can, Bicjcle
Enamel, any color, 25c per can.
LEATHER GOODS
Our new Leather Goods for fall
trade have just arrived. They in-
clude Ladie3' Purses in giraffe,
seal, grained calf, etc., in all the
fashionable colors, either plain or
silver mounted. Cardcases, ' Biil-
books, Visiting Lists, Picture
Frames, Lap Tablets and Traveling
Cases. In addition to the Sterling
Silver Novelties which came in
during August we have just re-
ceived hundreds of Quadruple-
plated Silver Novelties for desk and
table ornaments which every one
will be pleased to see if not wish-
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tian mummy. But "Trilby" is not a melo
drama, and, though it is very effective for
Svengali to lie prostrate till the curtain
falls, the realism of the scene would not be
detracted from if some of the bystanders
Lucy Daly, With the Passing Show
managed to convey the impression that
they considered Svengalrs prostrate form
as a thing needing humane attention-, in
stead of turning unanimously away before
the life was well out of it.
"Bertha, the Sewing-machine Girl," was
hardly up to the level of the other plays
which Milton Nobles has presented at the
Grand. As in the others the actor-author
was the axis round which the whole plot
revolved, and he always enters so thor
oughly into the part he represents that the
audience, as a rule, could not get too much
of him. But it is easy to have too
much of a drunken man and that
was the painful role which Milton Nobles
enacted very realistically in "Bertha."
Leslie had a good part and made the most
of it, and the Judge carried all before him.
Very stirring were the midnight acts
that took place in the Texas shanty. In
the midst of such intense excitement it
was perhaps hardly to be wondered at that
Miss Hall should go to bed and leave the
slip of paper — the only proof of her mar
riage — lying on the supper table, within
reach of the old man who was to receive
$2000 for stealing it.
As usual at the Grand, the scenery was
realistic, and every detail of the staging
was carefully worked out.
It seems a pity that the Tivoli perform
ances of crand opera are drawing to a close,
for thousands of people have heard them
with perennial pleasure. "La Traviata"
last week was the best representation that
has yet been given. Miss Valerga and Mr.
Eaffael especially distinguished them
selves.
The Orpheum was crowded as usual all
last week. The Brothers Schrode proved
to be clever pantomimists, as well as won
derful acrobat 3, and Miss Lottie Murphy's
"Foot ball Song" created a furor.
"My Son-in-Law" kept things lively all
week at Grover's Alcazar.
At the Macdonough Theater in Oakland
on to-morrow evening Henry E. Dixey will
give his famous imitations of Sir Henry
Irving, Professor Herrmann, Paderewski,
Svengali, etc., together with the "Seven
Ages of Man" and the celebrated barber
shop scene from "Adonis." He will be as
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noon at 2 P. M.—
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No larger, more
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stock of Jewelry,
Watches, Dia-
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sisted by Miss Laura Millard and a clever
company.
Baldwin Theater.
"Trilby" is still filling the Baldwin
Theater, and will probably continue to
do so for the rest of the week. It has
been decided to give an extra perform
ance of the play on Wednesday afternoon.
On Monday, the 21st, comes that aggrega
tion of star performers, Canary & Leder
er's New York Casino Company, in "The
Passing Show," which had such a run in
New York and Chicago. The piece is de
scribed as a bit of music, a sprinkling of
burlesque, specialties and travesties on
popular plays, among them being "The
Bauble Shop," "The Crust of Society,"
"Sowing the Wind," "Shores Acres,"
"Trilby"," "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,"
etc. Besides all this, it is a melange of
nearly everything dramatic and musical,
from tragedy and grand opera to farce and
I music-hall ditties.
At the benefit to be tendered the Actors'
Fund of America at the Baldwin Theater
on Friday afternoon the programme will
number among its many features the sec
ond act of "Trilby"; members of the Tivoli
Opera company, in the sextet from "Lu
cia"; Milton Nobles, in a monologue;
Leonard Grover's Alcazar company, in the
screaming farce "Joe's Girls." Wilton
Lackaye will appear after presenting the
character of Svengali in the second act of
'•Trilby" and give a recitation without his
makeup on. From the Orpheum will be
Gilbert and Goldie, Haines and Pettingill,
the Gotham City quartet and the four
Schrodes.
Columbia Theater.
The tuneful "Robin Hood" has proved
such an attraction at the Columbia Thea
ter that it has been decided to play the
work for another week.
On Monday, October 21, "Prince Ana
nias," by Victor Herbert, director of Gil
more'a Band, will be produced. The
libretto of this work tells a story of the six
teenth century. The romantic side of the
opera is supplied by a vagabond poet and
adventurer, who falls in love with the lead
ing lady of a band of strolling players.
The comedy s.jde is furnished by the
Helen Bertram, Soprano of the Bos
tonians.
gloomy King of Navarre, a monarch who
has never smiHd during the whole course
of his life, and the efforts of the strolling
players are to provide an entertainment
for him which will make him laugh.
During their engagement at the Colum
bia Theater the Bostonians- will produce
"A War-time Wedding" for the tirst time
on any stage.
Grand Opera-House.
To-morrow night Milton Nobles opens
his fourth and final week at the Grand in
the title role of his play, "The Phoenix."
This drama has been seen in San Fran
cisco on more than one occasion, but the
fact that twenty years have elapsed since
Nobles wrote it, and that he has been
playing continuously ever since, is a
proof of its drawing powers.
The story of "The Phoenix" is sensa
tional to a certain extent, but the villain is
not of too deep a dye and the incidents
are not extravagantly lurid, except the
lire scene, and the artists are laboring to
make that as realistic as possible. Nobles
has played the title role so long that it fits
him like a glove. He will be supported by
TO-MORROW (MONDAY), OCTOBER 14
fvfjj;. Begins the
LAST WEEK. LAST WEEK. LAST WEEK.
ONLY 6 MORE NIGHTS
and 2 matinees.
Matinee on Wednesday.
Matinee on Saturday.
TRILBY
Seats sellinc for all remaining performances.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 18,
Grand Benefit Actors' Fund of America.
See special announcement in this column.
EXTRA, EXTRA. EXTRA.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21.
TWO WEEKS ONLY.
"It's a Good Thing; Push It Along." .
Canary & Lederer's N. Y, Casino
• Production Intact.
THE
PASSING
SHOW
With its 110 people, including John E. Henshaw,
vernona Jarbean, George A. Schiller, Lucy Daly
John D. Gilbert, Cheridah Simpson, Seymour Hess,
Madge Lesß'UK, Gus Pixley, May Ten Broeck, E.
S. Tarr. the Leigh Sisters '
Canary and Lederer's Original New York Casino
Pickaninnies and the beautiful "L'Enfant Prodi-
-1 gue" Ballet.
Seats Ready Thursday, October 17.
ORPHEUM.
O'Farrell Street. Between Stockton and PowsH.
Matinee to-day (Sunday), oct. 13.
Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, any seat, 10c:
Children, any part, 10c.
SUPERB NEW ATTRACTIONS!
An Entire Change of Bill!
THE FOUR SCHRODE BROS.!
HAINES AND PETTINGILL,
JOHN HIGGINS,
AND A MAGNIFICENT COMPANY.
RUNNING <a&i£l&» RUNNING
RACES! ;jgpl%i£g^ RAGES
CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES,
FALL MEETING!
BAY DISTRICT TRACK.
Races Monday, Tuesday, 'Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and ; Saturday—
■;■: Rain or Shins. *._, ;
Five or more races each day. Baces start at 2 : 03
p. m. sharp. McAllister and Ueary street cars pasj
the 4,'uta, ... ■ ; .■■;;; ■ \ : - v ,. v - r .:.
a large cast, which includes almost the en
tire company of the Grand.
Grover's Alcazar.
To-morrow night will see the first per
formance by Grover's company of the
humorous comedy "Confusion," which
has always proved a source of laughter
whenever it has been produced. New
scenery is being prepared and the cast will
include: Leonard Grover Jr., Messrs.
Hoyte, Lothian, Powers and Gamble, Miss
Jennie Kennark, Miss Gracie Piaisted and
Mrs. Fanny Young.
The story is fairly familiar to most
theater-goers. Rose Mumpleford desires a
pet and commissions her uncle to secure
for her a pug dog. James and Marie,* the
servants of the family, have been secretly
married and their child has been placed
out at nurse. Circumstances oblige the
sending of the baby to its mother and it
arrives by the train which carries the pug
dog. The dog and baby are mixed up and
the most ridiculous situations occur
through the mistakes. The supposed in
sanity of Mumpleford leads to additional
complications.
Tivoli Opera-House.
The season of grand Italian opera at the
Tivoli is rapidly drawing to a close.
Verdi's favorite opera, '"II Trovatore,"
will be sung this week, with every atten
tion to detail in the way of production.
Ida Valerga, Laura Millard, Mabella
Baker, Alice Carle— who will reappear
after an absence of four weeks in " the
East— Martin Pache, Arthur Messmer,
John J. Raffael, George H. Broderick,
Edward Torpi, G. Napoleoni and Irene
Mull will all appear in the various roles
during the week. "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
Mascagni's celebrated one-act opera, ■ore
ceded by Offenbach's "Marriage by Lan
terns," will iollow.
At the Orpheum.
Five new people are billed for the
Orpheum this week. They are the Gotham
City quartet and Memphis Kennedy. The
quartet is composed of H. E. Fairbanks,
Edward A. Lang, George R. Brenner and
T. H. Humphreys. Their business is said
to be of a novel character, possessing
humorous, as well as artistic characteris
tics. They sing quartets and solos, warble
and eive imitations of various artificial
sounds. These people have high recom
mendations from the East and come direct
to the Orpheum from Madison-square Gar
den, New York City.
Memphis Kennedy is a well-known
musical comedian, whose reputation for
originality and musical ability stands high
among the single-turn artists".
The Schrode brothers, John Higgins.
Fialkowski, Haines and I'ettingill and
others are retained.
People's Theater.
Manager George L. Clayton of the
People's Theater on Howard street, near
Third, has engaged a company of capable
actors, including such well-known people
as James M. Ward, W. L. Gleason, Darrell
Vinton, W. C. Belasco and Miss Margaret
Reid. He states that he will give only the
best of melodramas. In addition to 'this,
he has engaged vaudeville stars to fill in
the time between acts, and will thus give
two shows in the time usually occupied
W. H. Macdonald, "With the Bostonians.
MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE.
WALTER MOBOSCO T *°*^°™ t *T!^T.^™™*: S o!e Lessee and Manager
■ ' ■- "-.:\ :.■; .
TO-MORROW EVENING.... «-... MONDAY, OCTOBER 14,
• >' FAREWELL WEEK OF THE FAMOUS PLAYER AND PLAYWRIGHT,
WHO WILL APPEAR IN HIS GREAT AMERICAN DRAM
THE PHOENIX.
A CONTINUOUS SUCCESS FOR TWENTY YEARS.
" And the Villain Still Pursues Her."
THE MOST POPULAR PLAY OF MODERN TIMES.
MECHANICS' PAVILION.
&j&.1?XJXH3^.'T5r........... octobeh I©, e :e». 3vc.
FAREWELL PERFORMANCE OF
SPECIAL WAGNER AND POPULAR CONCERT.
100 ARTISTS.
ADMISSION TO ALL, PARTS OF THE HOUSE PIPTY OIE2I>S"TS
TICKETS FOR SALK AT ALL MUSIC STORES.
BALDWIN THEATER.
SPECIATi.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, October 18,
Grand Composite Entertainment,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA.
A Host of Volunteers
AND A
VERITABLE MONSTER PROGRAMME.
A. M. PALMER'S CO. I
in the famous second act of : ::::::::;•
"TKiiißi'." : ::::::::::
MR. MILTON NOBLES,
in monologue. DRAMA,
TIVOLI OPERA CO.,
with full chorus and orchestra FARCE,
Recitations by
Mb. Wilton Lackayb, Miss OPERA,
Alice Cable, Mr. H.
Coultkb Bbinkkb. COMEDY,
The Celebrities: MUSIC,
Gotham City Quartet,
Gilbkbt & Goldik. VAUDEVILLE,
Thk Fodb Schbodks,
IJaines <fc Pittingill. RECITATIONS,
Leonard Grover's
ALCAZAR THEATER CO., SPECIALTIES,
in "Joe's Girls."
MOROSCO'S GRAND ALL
OPERA-HOCSE COMPANY
IN
Miss Ehth White, accom-
panied by Leo Summers' ONE.
Hungarian Gypsy Band, will
sing -'Ben Bolt."
Augmented Orchestra, etc.
Reserved Seats Only 81. Gallery 50c.
Seats now selling at box-office.
SCENE FEOM "THE PBCENIX," AT THE GEAND OPEBA-HOT7SB.
by one, with a charge of only 20 cents for
the best seats in the house.
The theater opened last night with Dion
Boucicault's melo irama, "After Dark," of
which notice will be found in another
column. The same bill will be given
throughout tne week.
Debutants at the Columbia.
The School of Dramatic Arts gives its
first public performance at the Columbia
Theater to-night. There are already over
fifty students in the school, which was
established last August, and several have
already made their debut on'the profes
sional stage.
The plays to be performed are: Mer
sham Rae's "A Fair Encounter," "The
Setting of the Sun." by Charles Hannan,
and "False Pretensions, 5 ' a comedy adapted
from the French by Horace W. Fuller.
At the California.
"The War of Wealth," which follows
"Charley's Aunt" at the California, was
only produced last season, and is said to
be a successful sample of American dra
matic work.
Drury Lane Theater.
There was every indication, on the open
ing night of the autumn season at the
National Theater, that the new drama by
Sir Augustus Harris and his two colleagues,
Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton, would
be numbered among the great successes of
the present theatrical year. It was almost
a foregone conclusion that it would be
received with great approval when it was
made known that it would appeal directly
to the patriotic sentiments of the public,
and would be mounted on a scale of mag
nificence unusual even at Drury Lane,
where no expense and no pains are ever
spared to secure effect. But a storm of ap
plause and enthusiasm broke over the new
play on its production that could never
have been anticipated. Sir Augustus Har
ris and his collaborators have set forth not
only an interesting story, but they have
also struck a chord that will appeal to
every Englishman's heart. Told in detail,
the -'tory, from which the authors of the
new play have evolved strikingly effective
incidents, may not sound particularly
novel; but if it is not so, it is thoroughly
dramatic, and has been told in a most thril
ling and attractive manner. "Cheer, Boys,
Cheer is professedly a society story, where
in company-promoting and patriotism are
utilized to give it deeper color. To the
brave and chivalrous but elderly Marquis
of Chepstow has been affianced Lady Hil
yard's young ward, Blanche Lindsay, who
evidently does not believe the age of love
to be middle age, and therefore gives her
heart to young George Hilyard, although
she remains the fiancee of the marquis.
TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE
Mas. Ebxestink Khklixo I'ropriei.or •>» Manasu
SEASON OF GRASDTTALIAS OPERA!
EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK,
Verdi's Celebrated Lyric Drama, -
TRAVIATA^
-NEXT WEEK — —
is IL TROVATOREI"
REAPPEARANCE OF
~— ALICE CARLE- —
_ Seats Now on Sale.
Popular Prices— 2sc and sOc.
MACDONOUGH THEATER
(OAKLAND).
To-Morrow (MONDAY)— One Night Only.
An Evening With HENRY E. DIXET.
An original monologue, introducing all ;of his
famous specialties and imitations. Supported by a
clever company. Popular prices. .Box-office
open to-day. - ■'- ' ' ...
OAKLAND THEATER.
J. J. Collins ....... Lessee and Manages.
- Commencing MONDAY Oct. 14.
MAY NANNARY AND COMPANY.
WHITE SLAVE.
>■■".'■'■- With new special scenery.
Prices 10c, 30c, 25c and 30c.
Meantime Blanche has managed to get
her financial affairs into a muddle, and in
order, as she hopes, to retrieve her for
tunes she avails herself of the help'of the
villain of the piece, Reginald FitzDavis,
who, with Wolff Meikstein, floats a com
pany for the working of a supposed South
African mine. It being to the interest of
Lady Ughtred Kesteven, Lord Chepstow's
sister, that he should die without
heirs she plots with FitzDavis to com
promise Blanche so that the marquis may
break off his engagement, and it is when
scandal is thus made to hurtle round
Blanche's innocent head, and the hollow
ness of society is forced upon Lady Hil
yard by the treatment to which she and
her ward are subjected through the plot of
FitzDavis and Lady Ughtree, tnat the two
ladies go to South Africa. Here, of course,
for various reasons come all the other
characters. FitzDavis and the Jew are
after the mine, Lord Chepstow has volun
teered to fight against the Matabeles, and
George Hilyard, having previously chas
tised FitzDavis coram populo in Hyde
Park, has found it convenient to leave for
South Africa. To the scene where the
blacks open attack on the littie company,
led by Lord Chepstow, everything most
skillfully leads; and then occurs the great
incident of .the play, the presentation, in
fact, upon the stage of the memorabie Wil
son episode. It is all splendidly dra matic,
and when the gallant Englishmen stand
hand-in-hand to sing the national an
them, as the shots of the blacks rain
thickiy on them, it is not only from pit
and gallery, but equally from stalls and
private boxes, that the outbursts of genuine
enthusiasm ring through the house. We
can certainly ill afford to sneer at melo
drama when it depicts for us the heroism
I and devotion to duty of Englishmen in so
vivid and impressive a manner a3 this, and
i perhaps it is not too much to say that such
I a play as that now to be seen at Drury
Lane is of positive vaiue, as setting at
tractively before the British youth the high,
standard of duty and courage which Eng
land expects of her sons. But there is
something more than gunpowder and
glory in this new drama; it is, in fact, one
of tne most varied of the long and excel
lent series of autumn plays presented by
Sir Augustus Harris, for it forcibly
illustrates in necessarily high colors
some phases of city life, and de
picts in equally vivid tones so
ciety'y little ways. The Hurlingharn
scene, wherein real polo ponies are intro
duced, is admirable, but "even more faith
fully copied is the picture of the Row dur
ing the height of the London season. One
may almost fancy one hears the roar of
the traffic at Hyde Park corner, and as to
the reality of the beautiful toilets worn by
the supposed promenaders in the park
there is no doubt whatever.
An unusually powerful company lends
additional attractiveness to this fine pro
duction. — London Queen.
rRICDLttIOLSWOTTLDD ft o>- Lt»u aid nUMO»-- • ;
ENORMOUS CROWDED
SUCCESS. NIGHTLY.
| THE BOSTONIANS |
iN"ROBIN"HOOb.
Only One Week More of this Ever - Popular
Opera Comlque.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21,
First production here of Victor Herbert's pictur-
esque Opera,
- PRINCE ANANIAS.
Special seat sale for this opera begins to-morrow
(Monday) morning, at 9 o'clock. .
COLUMBIA THEATER.
FiiiKOLANDEii, GoxTiOß & Co., Lesseeditllauager
— -TO-3»IGHT
•At 8 o'clock.
First Public Performance by the Students of the
COLUMBIA THEATER SCHOOL
OF DRAMATIC ARTS.
Reserved Seats, 15c, 25c and 50c.
GROVER'S ALCAZAR.
MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY) AT 2 P. M.
;. 4 Prices— loc, 15c and 25c.
"MY SOft-LAW "
With All the Great Cast.
Last performance of "MY SON-IN-LAW" to-night.
TO-MORROW— MONDAY,
' The London and New York Laughing Craze,
" ooNpnsiowr ! "
THAT DOG. THAT BABY.
Superbly Mounted. An Ideal Cast.
Matinees Wednesday — Wednesday Pop.
SATURDAY and SUNDAY.
Night Prices— loc, 15c, 25c, 35c and 50c.
Seats secured without extra charge. '
PEOPLE'S THEATER.
. Howard street, near Third,
Geo. F. Clayton Lessee and Manager.
GRAND OPENING GRAND OPENING
To-night and All This Week,
With Dion Boucicault's Masterpiece,
AFTER DARK.
Star Vaudeville Performers will flu in the time
between the acts of the arama
- with Specialties.
EVERYTHING NEW!
EVERYTHING FIRST-CLASS
Popular Prices— loc, 15c and 20c.
.MATINEE ON SUNDAY.
iLWT* Bssr Ostmm* Or OEWEY & COll
820 Market St., a. „ 0*4.. j
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