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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1901. 16 match The headquarters of the gypsy Evelyn Greenleaf Suthcrlnnrf in x- -i- Will V. I .11 1 I) ill ii i ni ij i ji queen qucru jb icpicacuicu a 11 luu m-l. ill xew OrR at thf. TV nj ii u.

r1 lue UflitmU' r. oeorge nuiuanaj, eaneu vy ins troiicge me acirews ioithcoming enj? friends "Samson of Yale," ha been lured the Theater Republic. Mrs x91 i "(-," imee amotiu wall in the lodge of the gypsy queen and, makers by her splendid "reau P'3' with Carina, is in danger of meeting a hor- ltkhard Mansfield. caa' I. I rible death by fire, when, by his superior Anna Held in "The Little broke the New York Casino's w' record on October l'Jth last with cash receipts for a sine! strength, he breaks his bonds just in time to save himself and his sweetheart.

During the' fourth act Carina discovers her true father, learns that she is no gypsy, but The Casino's former cast of "Mrs. Dane's Defense" printed below. Here is a company headed by actors who are at least as fit to be stars as most of the younger generation cow starring and made up of better actors than most stars are able to secure for their support. It should draw better houses than any ordinary star can command. "Mrs.

Dane's Defense," the play in which the company will appear here, is by Henry Arthur Jones, one of the foremost" of modern English dramatists, author of "The Middleman" recently presented here by E. S. Willard and of other successful dramas. Good critics have declared that of all this author's work nothing is better than this. The story told is of one Mrs.

Dane, aged about 27 and presumably a widow, who tukes up her residence ia an exclusive English neighborhood of rampant respectability, and, as nothing is known of her history, becomes a subject of gossip. 6 TO-MORROW NIGHT, a young woman of good birth, and finds happiness in a union with "An American "Princess Nicotine," November "Florodora," WemL It will be a Gentleman." The play is handsomely staged and presented by a capable Anna Ilcld's figures are superseded. IRWIN -me nonoiuiu gallery cr. MAT The cast and synopsis are: even more obstreperous than his 1j in continental American theaters i'1''' course of rfvion. wi George Mr.

Hathaway Mr. Barker Barbara Frietchie" th8'- Dennis t3 FUN MAKER AND SONG SINGER EXTRAORDINARY Zeppo "William Bonelll Osborne C. O'Nell J. Carmody Santley Bille Carroll II. It.

Atherton Clara KemleU Stella Mills Hynes Mae Hall company on November 10th last of the Pacific Commercial Advert marks more in sorrow than in Now on her Farewell Tour and her Company in her Greatest Success 1 1 Carlos Mr. Meredith Mrs. Hathaway Miss Carlton grandeur, worthy almost of Lear, anu xae nnllir nf his remorse, in all its many It while a certain amount of boorish, be allowed to the gallery Mother Zarra I'oily and Carina, the Golden Gypsy into the dress circle with programmr1 fll flnrturiwA elimit.l .1. ra 'J Rose Stahl "The Widow jfones" It Played Nine Crowded Months at the Bijou Theater, New York HEAR ALL THE GREAT SONG HITS: vx: Mie is engaged to be married to Lionel Carteret, adopted son of Sir Daniel Carteret and is more or less "received by the county." She is, in reality, a certain Miss Felecia Ilindmarsh with a shady place in her past, which she is trying to live down. Her secret is discovered by one of the gossips, a Mrs.

Bulson-Porter, but she makes a good fight and succeeds in discrediting her enemy's story. Sir Daniel Carteret, who is a lawyer, offers to act as her counsel in proceedings to clear her name and It is noticeable that Mansfield rs" play "Beaucaire," while the title of rT Tarkington's story, from which it is "Monsieur BenncHiro" -n i ,.,1 --OTif Vrtn "To 1 trniuf "Tim Vdw Ttnllv "TTio Frnff t-A I SYNOPSIS. Act I. The Hathaway villa on the Hudson. Act II.

A glen near Gypsy camp. Act HI. A deserted hut. Act IV. Reception room, Hathaway villa.

Joseph Murphy is the Joseph Jefferson of Irish drama. Irish plays and Irish character actors come and go but they do not disturb Joseph Murphy, "The Ker the explanation lies in Mansfiel.r of the public's ability to cope, with vZ' Song." "When Shakespeare Comes to Town," "The Song of the Naphtha Launch," and ninny others. Kannifippnt S.T.?W New Scenery moods, was irresistible. The old man and artist won perhaps the crowning triumph of his career, now stirring his audience to enthusiastic applause, now melting them to tears. Such acting, 60 victal, true and powerful, in these days of hollow and glittering pretense, is indeed rare.

Lnst night it teemed to be almost a revelation." Mr. Stoddart's supporting company has been greatly praised, not only ns one composed of capable actors, but as one so judiciously selected and expertly rehearsed that every part contributes in its degree to a harmonious ensemble. The production is said to be admirable, the scene painter and costumer having taken the greatest pains to reproduce the Drumtochty atmosphere. Specially composed music accompanies tho play and everything that punish her slanderers. This leads to the play's strong third The scene is in Sir Daniel library.

Mrs. Dane has furnished iccis certain could pronounce "Monsieur," so he the issue by clipping that word off tht In this connection, a remark of yrf Lackaye's is recalled. He Was h't forth rather scathingly" on the eabji ry Gow" and "Shaun Rhue in the place they hold in the affections of tens of thousands of American, theater-goers. Jo him with a stcry of her Jife that is wholly satisfactory to him as a lawyer. She has Next Wednesday Evening, December 4 witnesses and documents to support her statements.

Iter vindication is comnlete. u.lu nau nfr written a play Jjijj, But, believing her thoroughly, Sir Daniel asks her a few casual Questions nf nn im Kirk La Shelle's Elaborate Scenic Production, Introducing J. H. STODDART i nave, no rennet: "i Dave 'Les but I have 7' seph Murphy is a trained actor of the old school. To thorough knowledge of the histronic art he adds personal magnetism.

He can at his will move au audience to tears or convluse it with laughter. His piays are full of the spirit of old Ireland, his humor, his pathos, his wit, his belligerency. But it is waste of words to elabor portance and in answering one of them she slips and discloses a possible flaw in her iio cuuiu pronounce it- Iii the course of his address at ft. n. I case, the lawyer points this out to her and again she stumbles.

His suspicions are aroused and he subjects her to a search vary Baptist Church oy Sunday etJif November 24, 1101, the Rev. lr Wy 64 ing cross-examination. Her storv is broken IB --iiiiiui, u. Toucntng on tile oim-saloon question and suggestim a 1 down step bv sten. until fmnllv cm.

ately introduce to Rochester theater-goers Joseph Murphy and his repertoire. During this engagement Mx. Murphy will present ''Shaun Rhue" Thursday and Friday and "The Kerry Gow" on Satur could help to complete the production has been supplied by the manager, Kirke La Shelle. The play entitled "The Bonnie Brier Bush" is not a dramatization of any one of Ian Maclaren's stories, but rather a dramatization of Drumtochty life as it is revealed ia Ian Maclaren's stories. The story entitled "The Transformation of Lnchlan.

Campbell" furnishes the main dramatic theme but other stories "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," "In the Days of Auld Lang Syne," "Kate Carnegie," etc. contribute atmosphere, char forced to confess the truth and bez for for the saloon, spoke as follows: "I informed thnt "Cith'a tlmt luvara hi BOSJB one of the purest places of mercy. This climacteric scene of the play is said to bo one of the strongest in modern drama and to bo wonderfully acted by day. ei? Btsslb the country; no. objectionable 4-1, Wl i The Lyceum's offerings for tlie Tveek are: Monday evening: May Invln la "The Widow Jones." WediH'sdny evening: J.

n. Stoddart in "The ll.mnie Brier Bush." Thursday evening: Empire Theater company presenting "Mrs. Dane's Defense." There are oa the American stage many Angun and Mr. Kichman. After his An act that has been highly praised in discovery of the truth Sir Daniel feU it other cities, the Gainsborough Octette, will his duty to make it public, but he is in love The Comedy Success of New York's Season be the chief attraction in the bill of vari Lucre piTiiiiueu ori uie Stage; everjowj-gaged to perform -therein is notified thr any suggestive or 'racy matter ialj her part must be eliminated or ti must not be given at all.

And should attempt anything of a natcs, entirely respectable they will n0M with Lastney, a good "worldling eties offered this week at the Cook Opera who stands up for Felicia and detests Mrs. Bulson-Porter. She weans Sir Daniel "You really earn it afford to Miss Seelnir this" Alan Dale In Tf.Y. Journal 'Transcends ni.yt liinjr its class that th present ay has known" YVm. YViiiterlii tin- X.Y.

Teilmne. tSE6TS READY TO-SSORROW MORNING. clever and capable actresses, but there is only one May Irwin. She is unique, "s-ui generis," inimitable, -unapproachable. She is a hole show all by herself.

She doesn't need any play. All the audience asks of her House. It is a picture act, based on th? story of the famous stolen Gainsborough painting, and is presented by four young women and four young men, said to be goexl singers and dancers. The stage is gaged agaia. This is true of Mr.

KhIV theaters in other ciies as well as ia from his notions of justice and has the satisfaction of compelling Mrs. Bulson-Porter to sign an abject apology. The story is not made public and Lionel is still anxious to marry Mrs. Dane, but she refuses to allow set to represent a se-ction of an art gal him to sacrifice himself and renounces him ton. unis is me Kr.iet we want, whers may bring our wives and sisters and feel the blush of shame." In the vaudeville world Mr.

E. F. Ke is known ns "the father of the in the theatrical Tror'dV "Mrs. Dane's Defense" was originallv produced October 9, BM0, at Wyndham's lery. with several large picture frames in view of the audience.

The lights go down and the theft of the canvas is performed in pantomime. With the returning lights all the canvases have disappeared and in the flames are seen four young ladies, all wearing Gainsborough hats, all costumeHl Next Thursday, DECEMBER 5, One Night Only TWELFTH ANNUAL. AUTUMN TOUR CHARLES FROHMAN'S Empire Theatre Company uieater, ixindon, where it ran until May 11, 11101. known as one of the most successful it nan its hrst American pro 1. TS 1 duction by the Empire company at he Empire theater, New York, when the com agers in the Lnited State; in tceksisife world he is known as a shrewd, pruepwii in the fashion of the period, including powdered hair, and each attended by pany opened it home season last year on December .11.

190O, and it ran there to ousmess man. uatsiae of jJostoa, I. home citj-, little is ever heard of beau. The figures step out of their March K)Ul. It was the onlv erosity.

There he is known ns a freeJ acters, sub-plot and episodes. This was inevitable because the Drumtochty stories are all so interlocked that it would be impossible, even if it were desirable, to dramatize one of them without dramatizing many of them. The Drumtochty folks beside Laehlan Campbell and l'lora Campbell, who are shown in the play, are William Maclure, the great hearted, unselfish country docror of the old school; Archibald McKittriek. the mail carrier, best remembered ns "Posty;" John Carmichael, the young minister; young Lord Hay; sweet Kate Carnegie; Margaret Howe; Sandy Mcl'herson; Tamnias, the shepard; Annie, the bvrc lassie, and a couple of romping bairns. "The Bonnie Brier Bush" has had a long and eventful history and a weary strule to win the which this season has been so liberally accorded to probably the gnatisl aud certainly the most genuine New York success of the year.

It. was nearly four years ago, on March 2S. that "Beside the Bonnie Brier. Bush' with .1. II.

Stoddart heading the eat Hvlaeh included K. A. Roberts, Augustus Cook, CuyU-r Hastings, Walter Craven, I'unnct Coritgan, Marie Burroughs, Carrie I.e Stoyie, Marian Chapman, etc.) had its first production on any stage at the Lafayette Square, Washington. James McArthur and Tom Hall made the dramatization and Frank L. I'erley and Fr-ed M.

Kanketi "produced'' it. The experiment was not a success. Mr. Stod the company found it necessary to produce DIRECT FROM THE EMPIRE THEATER, NEW YORK CHARLES RICHM AN MARGARET ANGLIN W. H.CROMPTON GEORGE COOPER LILLIAN THURGATE E.

Y. BACKUS ETHEL HORNICK GEORGE SYLVESTER STANLEY DARK MARGARET DALE FRANK BROWNLEE to all deserving His TiOO in number, have frequent frame's and mingle in the stately paces of a minuet; they also sing; and the attempt to obtain a double quartette of good singers ns weli as good dancers is said to have been reasonably successful. This act may lasi poason, and has been as successful to appreciate his kindness. Uis throngh its autumn tour as it was in New ness is tue presentation to each andet- iork. he and New York casts GEORGE OSBORNE, JR.

MRS. CHAS. W. BROOKE were: have Ix-en seen by some Rochesteriaus. It employee of his several theaters 1 1.

nilicent turkey for the Thanksrivin! Presenting Henry ft 9 ionion i nst. Characters. Xew York Cast ini ji im tier. This includes everyone: Scrub vuaric njinnam Charles Beduian Defence wanes itii liuuiel arteret. Arthnr Jones' Greatest Play en, cleaners, porters, scene shifters, cik jiureu ivenuricK Joseph Wheelock, Jr.

messengers, ofQcers. footmen, pi. iione.1 arte. vt. ticket sellers, clerks, booking agents, se -aurco.

uisnop w. ii. Crompton Canon Boiisey. taries. superintendents, assistant A Seen All Last Season at the Empire Theatre, N.

Y. SEATS REAOY IM EXT TU ESOAY. oarjen y. Backus ran for sixteen weeks at Hammerstein's Paradise roof gaiden, New York city. Its road tour, howeter, has been confined almost to the larger chics.

The St. Iouis Democrat says of this act: "The Gainsborough Octette is new. Its dances are new. Everything about it is new except the style-s of the costumes; and tbee are of so ancient a elate as to be new. The girls are veritable Gaiusber-ouglrs, patterned after the picture that Pat Sheedy.

restored to the world and some- body is reported to have sold to J. I'itr- i and managers. All have cause for tki- Jir. isuisoui I'orter. varies inurshy standing giving, -and Mr.

lveith gilt lor tae 3K iocs liiesnr. Stanley Trlngle George Oshourne, Jr. Fen dick. tion of these sereral palates cost aims than 1,000. COMING, DECEM3ER 17-18-19, THE ELKS' CARNIVAL.

j.egumirt alter Frank Brownlee is that she shall take the center of the stage, talk about matters and things ia general and occasionally sing a group of coon songs. Nobody cares what character she is impersonating or what she is called oa the programme. To her audiences fehe is always May Irwin and, the more entirely and undk5uisedly she is May Irwin, that is the stage May Irwin they know, the better they like it. She doesn't need any company except to dress the stage mid keep the audience from getting tK impatient during the minutes the must be out of view to change her costume or cat-h her breath. Her personality is so strong an element in her work that many of her r.d-mirers find it hard to credit her with any histrionic ability nt all.

They make a very great mistake. May Irwin is au aelivi to the tips of her nails ubout the most perfect comedienne on the American stage, although her audiences will allow her to act only one part, that of the stage May Irwin, who is probably a very different woman from the real May Irwiu of private life. Hers is the art that conceals art. She is one of those rare actresses who can so act that the audience not only forgets that they are acting, but can't be tnaile to believe that they are merely acting. Long may she wave! She has probably added more to the jrablic stock of harmless pleasure than any other woman now on the American stage.

She is talking of retiring, they spy. If she is, and means it, congress ought to pass at its next session a law making it a capital offense for any light-haimi comedienne who is just as tall lying down ns she is standing up, and sings coon sougs inimitably, to retire from the stage, without the consent of the public in writing. Miss Irwin will appear thia time ia "The "Widow Jones," the first of her starring vehicles, a farce by John. J. Mc-Nally, now old enough to new agaia and said to be the best she ever had for her purpose.

Of course she will sing the usual allowance of coon songs, including "15e Good, He flood," "I Want You Ma Honey," "The Frog Song," "The New Hully," "When Shakespeare Comes to Town," IJoo.e" and "The Song of the Naphtha Launch." The cast and synopsis of "The Widow Jones" are: HeatrJce, the Widow Miss May Trwin It was inferred from the remaiU i Auaius. Judge Lawreuee, of the New -'erne George YV ilson. Iena Ashwell Marsrarpi cerurt, at the hearing before lam rM plication of David Belasco to prevent the production, by Hni dart impersonation was admirable, but the play itself ns clumsily made, episodic and weak. After a three weeks' engagement at MeVicker's, Chicago, it closed its Grey Fiske and Mrs. Fiske, of the Ifc- ra r-3 13 4 t.i Mrs.

Dane. Marie IUhigton Kthel Hornlck Mrs. Bulsoui-l'orttr. Beatrice Irwin Margaret Dale Janet Cohpiohouti. Mary Moore Jessie Millward Lady Kastney.

The rrpent cast is: hattan theater, of Mrs. Burton Harris: new play, "The Unwelcome Mr Hss, urst season on April j.es. A vear that the motion would be denied. So was the presumption of this that 1 Beiasco's lawyer, the day after tie LT- ment, asked consent to have afterward it was revived at Pole's theuter, Waterbury, Connecticut, and again, si.ite of tinkering, it was found that there was something wrong with the play. Then Kirke La Shelle took hold of the enterprise ia earnest and the play was intrusted to an expert playwright, Augustus Thom an injunction withdrawn.

This wi'H Charles Uichman George Cooper W. II. Crompton K. y. Backus tstauley Dark Gcorg Oslxiorne.

Jr. Frauk George Svlvesfer Sir Daniel J.lone! Carteret Cauou Mr. BuNuni I'orter. James Kig-by Feudick Wilson Mrs. Dane fused, as it was desirable to haveiiri OPERA ruling in the matter.

Mr. Be'ascos1 as, for thorough, revision and revoastruc- yer subsequently applied to Jnstice reneo for permissioa to withdraw, Ktc Arigiin tion. Mr. Thomas, it is said, did his work fo well that "The Boiini BrhT Bush" was at last, crystallized into a real rdav. Week Starting judge also declines! to entertain tii HOUSE Leading Amusement House of Rochester pent Morgan for In fact the very theft of the famous painting is reproduced ia pantomime.

It is an act from start to finish that is a credit to the originator aud the Cedumbia theater." The 6tace settings and costumes are said to' bo among the richest and most costly ver shown ia vaudeville. A little Italian vio-linisto, Rita Mario by name, is expected to do in Rochester what she has done elsewhere, win the approbation of the critical, the admiration of music lovers and the plaudits of the average vaudeville audience. Miss Mario is not yet seventeen, years of age, but she has already been referred to as a probable second Camilla Urso. Her selections are chiefly from MasAtgui's "Cavalleria Rnsticana the "Miserere" from Verdi's "II Trovatore," etc. The praise bestowed upon ithis young player so far during her American tour in vaudeville has not been of the perfunctory sort, but has the ring of true sin-cerity and about it, as the following t'xerpt from a Western, newspaper will serve to illustrate: "Miss Mario is an Italian girl and she plays the violin with ull tho beauty or expression, finish of touch and perfection of technique that one weuild look for in a virtuoso of twice her years and double hen modest claims.

Her reading of the one classic number in her epiest. Judge Lawrence', after eiisc3 the morning papers, formally dexeJJ- Janet V.I.iuohouu Margaret Dale Lady Eastuey Kthel Hornlck The Baker theater's programme for the week is: Dec. application for an injunction, ad to' down this memorandum: "As I stated the arL'uioent. everv fact upon Concert by the This (Sunday) evening: Grand Amateur Orchestra ilaintiff claims a riuht to an injuncca so fullv answered and in tie i Like a Gleam of Sunshine. davits read on the part of the defeato- Monday, Tuesday and W'cdnesdnv evenings with the matinees: Willluu and Kuse Stahl in "An American Girl." 'IhursUay, Fri.lay and evenings, with the customary matinees: Joseph Murphy in repertoire.

that it is the duty of the court, principles, to deny this moU After carefully reading all the affile Ned Wayburn's GAINSBOROUGH liiike, Th in thf. to the views expres- most notable feature of to-night's" The present company, -xecpt for three or four recently made minor changes, was carefully selected ami "The Bonnie Brier Bush" began its successful career at Saratoga, on August last. A triumphant engageiiifut at the Tremout theater, Boston, began three days later, and uu September "jrd the play Ugau ils first New York engagement utthe Ii public on September 'Slvd, where -it, instantly won success. It played to crowded and deligliLetl audiences for eight weol.s and then, after another New York week, at the Harh-iu opera house, started ou its tour ou. November Hth last.

Tho cast and synopsis are: Karl of Kilspiudle Mr. Charles Macdonald j-ord Donald Hay Marcus i Bey. John Carmichael. George S. l'robert William Maclure Mr.

John Jennings l.aihlau Campbell Mr. J. 11. Flora Campbell Miss Intia TuU'icrre '1 nomas Mitchell Mr. Augustine Duncan Annie Miss Bessie Baldwin Arctilhald McKittriek Mr.

KcuImmi Fax Sandy Mr. Cliar.es Milt.io at the conclusion of the argument; Hotic denied, with costs." In "Th. Cn welcome. VrS. Hatch" Mi OCTETTE 4 Men and 4 Women.

Special Scenery. Original Music. Elaborate Costume. Fiske has a play that will prove to be mo" HTt Thayer Jiioipies Kroger Florenee I teed Bruno Reynolds Roland Carter Mabel Florence Charles Church Kirkt I.oids Foley Unssell T.ennoii M. Johnston Mahel Kussell Grace VumkIiuu Louise Ilolllster llelene Dunlap Kdlth Blair programme is remsrkably perfee't, while Joliii James Jones Felicity Joues Senor Ilomero Canovas, Murcifl Meiidelsoam.

Mike McCarthy Cassle Cartee A. T. pTemlmu Clifford I'rout 1'erehance l'edro Hetherliigton UIonell. Osbaldiston Daye Pansy Weed Marie Daisy Davis Nandy Noir I'lossie Zttziu concert, the third of the Grand Amateur OrehcKtra's popular series, will be the appearance as soloist, with the orchestra, of Matie Fultoni, an American prima elontia ttiprunu of reputation and experience. Much is promised for Miss Fultoni.

and if all the claims made on her be-haif. are well founded the will create a furore. It was Miss Fultoni whose singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America" nt the last Democratic national convention roused the delegates to a display of enthusiasm such as is rarely witnessed even popular than any other ia vca -ever appeared, while in thel'E8V. acter of Mrs. Harrison's drasi sbeW' the best role of her career, in respect -natural, powerful and eff-vtive acW From its 16 Weeks' Run at Kammerstein's Paradise Roof Garden, New York City.

A Sinking" Novelty, Founded on the Theft of the Famous Gainsborough Picture. she plays the more popular music with a sweet simplicity of expression that wins immediate recognition. Miss Mario's presence in vaudeville is evidence that this class of entertainment is reaching out continually after the best talent that may appear in all the fields of amusement and "Mrs. Hatch" Mrs. Fiske is amaKW Gi art." Willard Sims, the popular comedi Boiiiiisim l.ililli ro Mi Jcuuuie Margaret Howe Kale Car -trie an, will be fouud well toward 'the top of llatiie 1 ihunl Kuowlloii she portrays that great emotion, low, ns it seldom has been illustn -the stage.

The new play affcri'L Fiske. in the third act. scope for.tt dramatic force, and she rises to the tion magnificently. In the last acts with such a power of pathos the list. s-ims promises a brand new sketch; and in that promise the audience at au American po.it.eal convention.

Last summer Miss Fultoni heaid at the Paii-Abie't-iean, as soloist, at the concerts by the Chicago Marine Band. This evening Mr. A. L. de Robert will play a violin solo and Miss and Master Murphy will be heard in a violin duet.

The may find reasonable exiR-ctatiou of much Willard Sims and Catherine Linyard, In "FLANDERS FURNISHED FLAT." A Rouilni Conedf 8 Edgar Smltt KVXOl'SIS. Act I. Fxterior of Laehlan Cniitpbell's Druiutoeluy. A Scotch uiurrlage. Act II.

Living room, Lachluu's cottage. IIin bitter shame. Act 111. The Beeches, Drumtochty. The transformation of Laehlan Campbell.

hearty laughter. Hacker and lister, acrobats, will perform the difficult feat of head and women in her audience wee? mon. Her death scene is regarded as- to head balancing while riding on a wheel ami tlie-y offer a tea thousand challenge for their equal ia that line. Monroe, Mack Synopsis. At I.

McCarthy's summer boarding house at Marauaeook, Me. Aet II. 1'aiU. Act III. Home of Beatrice, Thousand Islands.

J. II. Ktoddart is almost the last survivor of the famous Wallack's theater company which ia the estimation of theater-goers of the elder generation has never yet had worthy successor. He ranked beside John Gilbert, Mrs. Vernon and Madam as one of the most valuable members of that group of great actors, and when he withdrew from it to join the new, rival company, A.

M. Palmer's, at the Union Square theater, it was felt that Wallack's had sustained a very serious loss. Laehlaa Campbell in "The Bonnie Brier Bush" is Mr. Stoddart's first s.tar most effective seen on the stage uj tt- io, nKofilnffir ouiet aM U-J 3 "33 led up 'to" by any of tlie'eerayentiona. and LuwreiKV wiil make merry in a sketch rn PC called "How to Get Rid of a Mother-iu fices of the theater.

The auu.eu uicoesiiu win commune many pleasing and popular numbers. The programme (a) Chicken I'ickin's Allen (b) "Coon! Coon: Kugel Orchestra. Waltz Song "Speak" Ardltt Miss Fultoni. (a) "Lalla Overture" Stratton (b) "La Cimpiautaihe" (fur strings onlyi Gabriel-Marie Orchestra. ci same as Act 11.

The Empire Theater Compnuy, whose manager is Charles Froliman and whose home is the Empire theater, New York, is among the foremost permanent theatrical organizations, or "stock jeoinpanies" of the country. Indeed there tire but two other organizations of the kind that can be compared with it, Mrs. Fiske's Manhattan Urn US even see her face, yet tin- effect is Nothing in Mrs. Fiske's fams "Ti" can be Law" a title that declares the nature of th act without further elaboration, 'itiere will be fancy club juggling by the "Yale Duo," Hiiwley aud Gautrau; musical coiu- Monroe, Mack and Lawrence, IN 'How to Get Rid of Your Mother-in-law." Toe Biffgedt Laugh of All. with her achieemeat ti htew- resent me resent edy by the three Brooklyn, who play on uiaum mui in i York citv.

In a review oi i-- i -j York a in the Press. Hillary iu the event as "a great rn rn ed "Mrs. Fiske is to be ral y' a variety of queer instruments; a singing and dancing turn by Forrester and Floyd, in which Mr. Forrester will sing coster songs and Miss Floyd will dance; and solo dances by Fred II. Caldwell, known as the "darning nurvel." This bill will be given twice daily this week nf the Cook Opera House.

et.rt 4TenfT UJ Urn on ne new piny. lence of its perfertnance wn.iu Urn art. 3BROOKLYNS3 The Latest European Novelty Musical Comedy Act lit I nil good in the Commercial auo menting ou tiie.noenv plav iu an environment ol defy, said: "Mrs. Fiske prove- could interpret this nation as brilliantly ns she ha others." The s.i. THE YALE DUO, EXPERT JUGGLERS.

Do You Like to Laugh Real Fun Always. ri.bVs i a character of sunpV', tion and she handles it with rare is tenderly symthccica Edward F. Rush's burlesque and vaudeville aggregation, known as "The French Maids." will be at the Empire theater for a week beginning to-morrow afternoon, giving two performance's daily. The company presents- the tisual sandwich of an olio between twe burlesques. The opening extravaganza in this case iss entitled "American Minstrels" and the closing one, "French Maids ea Route." In the olio will appear Dr.velen and Leslie, comedians; Mitchell and Love, Irish impersonators; Greve and Green, musical comedy artists; Gussie Vivian, who sings coon songs, and the Wood sisters.

Handsome scenery, brilliant light effects, rich costumes, are promised as tisual. fective. Mie 's Mollnti duct No. 2ti AVichtel Miss Callow and Master Murphy. Simple A ven Thome Miss Florence Callow.

Grand Scene and Aria "Fors Verdi Miss Fultoni. (a) "It's Just Because 1 Love You So" De Witt (b) "Jolly Yachtsmen" Gieseuianu Orchestra. Romance, Op. 2i. Svendseu Mr.

A. L. De Robert. The Rounders Waltzes Eugljinder Orchestra. (a) "The Last Rose of Summer" (b) "Sing, Smile.

Slumber" Gounod Miss Fultoni. (a) Mnrehe les Knfauts (by request) I'rvor (b) "King Over Scouten Orchestra. William Bonelli and Rose Stahl became favorites with Rochester theater-goers during their connection with local stock companies, and are sure of a hearty welcome whenever they re-visit this city. For two seasons they have be-en jointly starring, very successfully, in "Au American Gentleman." The play, which was ween hee early in its career, is an unusually coherent and interetiting melodrama, furnishing excellent opportunities for both stars, and particularly suitable for Mr. Bonelli's use because it enables him to dramatically utilize his exceptional physical development and athletic prowess.

The acting of the drama opena at the summer home of the Hathaways, on the Hudson river. The first act passes in a wooden glen, wherein rival suitors for the hand of Carina, a beautiful SJ'psy, engage in a spirited wrestling Theater Company and Daniel Frohmau's Lyceum Theater Company. It has been in existence a number of years, has scored many successes and has included in its membership many of the best known actors in the country. At present it is headed by Charles Itiehman, nu excellent young actor, prominent in the Augustin Daly company until that splendid organization was disbanded by Mr. Daly's lamented death.

He will be remembered by many Rochester theater-goers for his work in "Number Nine" with the Daly company and as Miss Annie Btisst-ll's leading man in "Miss Hobbs." The leading woman is Margaret Angliu who as lloxane in ltiehard Mansfield's production of "Cyrano do Bergerac" leaped into prominence at a bound ou the night of "Cyrano's" first New York production ami has since justified her prominence in the leading roles of several important productions. Mr. liichman and Miss Anglin are not new in their present important position. Both played their present roles in "Mrs, Dane's Defense" on its first American production and throughout its original New York run. Others in the company are Ethel Hornick, formerly of the Daly company; pretty and capable Margaret Dale, who so greatly pleased Rochester theater-goers, especially in "Heartsease," when she was Henry Miller's leading woman, Mrs.

Charles W. Brooke, George Cooper and other capable actors whose names appear in the present part, but for years he held a position in his profession and ia the of the best class of New- York theater-goers that many a star might envy. Mr. Stoddart is no "tailor-made star." Ha won, his stellar honors by nigh fifty years of artistic endeavor and success. He was a famous actor and a fine one when most of the "stars" of to-day were in their cradles.

With all his powers Tipened by experience and unimpaired by age it should be a privilege to see him in a part that siu'ts him, that not only fits his strongly marked personality, birr gives him ecoxe for the display of his abilities, both as a character creator and a master of natural pathos. A New York critic, one of the few of them who still writes criticisms and not mere notices, has written of Mr. Stoddart's performance as Lachlaa Campbell: "To pretend that he has overcome his strong mannerisms, accentuated by the habits of a lifetime, would bo absurd; but in this case they harmonize closely with the natural traits of the assumed character, and help to give it yet stronger individuality. His performance is admirable ia every way, in its suggestion of genuine, if misguided piety, in its natural dignity, its blind and stormy passion, its slow reversion to an exquisite and pathetic tenderness. In the scene where he expels his daughter from, his home, the whirlwind of his passioo had in it a touch, of tragic EVERY of tne lacurj i.i.-.

to' performance. The death sc. DAILY in-lv beautiful-not a jj. CONVENIENCE 'i ii t't- MATINEES FOR OUR PATRONS stratiou. It was a lH nalwere'' the emotional au.

the in teUe; ml mirably balanced." The rff i said: "Mrs. IVke stingmd an emotional way fli an pRIOCSs Ladies' Writing Room. Ladies' Waiting Room. 10-15-20-j Hit alT since she appeared iu 1 was in every sense a atfne of dramatic art at its bt hicli she threw nt the chm real that it barely eca -tnS ffJi On its lighter side Mrs. ofS received a Bkjcfes and Parcels 25c.

Dramatic Notes. Charles Frohmau announces "Quality Street" as the "opening play" of Miss Adams's brief ight weeks' engagement at the Knickerbocker. Little Minister" ran a season in New York. "Joan tho Slmals," the new play written for Miss Henrietta Crosman, by Stored Free. She equally delightful tion.