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a Supplement. The Brooklyn Daily Times. Supplement. BROOKLYN, APRIL 11, 1903. men at the Theatres MAE PHELPS -FOLLY CAMORE SISTERS, HYDE Edeson and many members of their companies, at the new playhouse.

George Schiller was engaged yesterday to play the part of Montague Fish in "Peggy From Paris," the George Ade opera now running in Chicago, under the direction of W. Savage. Mr. Schiller was associated for many years with William Warren in the old Boston Museum Stock Company and played many roles in Hoyt farces. "Peggy From Paris' will begin a New York engagement in September at Wallack's.

Rehearsals for Miss Cecil Spooner's production of "My Lady Peggy Goes to in which she will be seen on Broadway early in May, will commence Sunday, April 19. The stage will be under the direction of Eugene W. Presbrey, who has gone over the play since it was done at the Amphion in December last, sandpapering off the rough places. The opening performance will be in Newark, on Monday, April 27, at the Newark Theatre. There will be an interesting event at Mrs.

Osborn's Playhouse next Tuesday evening, April 14, when Edith Ellis Baker makes her debut as a star, presenting a new society comedy-drama entitled "The Point of View," of which she is the author. Mrs. Baker is not a novice, for she has had experience in the companies supporting prominent stars, and also as manager of the Criterion Theatre in Brooklyn, where for two years she headed the Stock Company. The Empire Theatre Company begins the last week of its present season at the Empire Theatre in Robert Marshall's play, "The Unforeseen," next Monday night. The next attraction will be John Drew in "'The Mummy and the Humming Bird." Mr.

Frohman intended to keep Mr. Drew at the Empire for some weeks, but has found it necessary to change these plans on account of the demands of the architects, who have been engaged for the reconstruction of the Empire. A special extra performance of Blanche Bates in "The Darling of the Gods" will be given at the Belasco Theatre next Thursday afternoon. This is for the benefit of Mr. Belasco's suburban patrons who have been urging him through the season to inaugurate midweek matinees.

In spite of the fact that "'The Darling of the Gods" has been packing the theatre since the beginning of the engagement, the play is such a tax on company that Mr. Belasco was unwilling to ask for midweek performances. Weber and Fields, with their stock company from the Music Hall, in Manhattan, will play four performances of "TwirlyWhirly" and the burlesque, "'The Big Little Princess," at the Academy of Music, beginning Thursday evening April 30 and including a matinee Saturday, May 2. The company, which includes Lillian Russell, William Collier, Fay Templeton, Peter F. Dailey, Louise Allen, John T.

Kelly, Charles A. Bigelow, Weber and Fields and the famous WeberField chorus, is about to start on its annual spring tour of the prominent cities of the country, a special train of six cars having been chartered to carry the 125 persons and the scenery and general stage equipment. The dual entertainment will be presented at the Academy exactly as in the home theatre, no details being omitted. The original orchestra, under the direction of William T. Francis will be augumented for the occasion.

What will undoubtedly prove a notable engagement is the announced coming of the original company presenting "A Chinese Honeymoon," at the Amphion Theatre, during the week of April 27. This will be the only appearance in Brooklyn this season of this piece, and It will therefore be the only opportunity given to Brooklyn theatre-goers to pass judgment upon what has proven one of the most popular and successful musical comedies seen for many years. The cast includes Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Katie Barry and the entire company, which has made such a pronounced hit at the Casino during the past year.

Edward Harrigan, the veteran actor, play- WM. C. HOLDEN, -PHILLIPS' LYCEUM- wright, manager and stage director, is to pass Liebler Co. management. A contract was signed yesterday to that effect, one of the principal incentives to this action being a newly completed play that Mr.

Harrigan has written, in his old vein. Harrigan's contract with Liebler Co. is. for a series of years. The play is four -act comedy, located on the East Side, the locale of all the most successful of the Harrigan plays of yore, and la redolent with that atmosphere.

Negotiations are already under way for securing as many as possible of the more famous of the old Harrigan comedians, and the music has been written by Dave and George Braham. The organization will be a large one, and the production will be on an unusual scale. The i play will be staged by Mr. Harrigan, and all rehearsals will be conducted by him. WILHELMA, FRANCIS.

MARRIAGE I diplomatic and blood-curdling, suburban realism, farce comedy, patriotio tragedy, Hiberian knocka'bout, and Irish melody; Shakespeare and burlesque, to say nothing of the vaudeville, will be the various courses of the Easter week amusement menu. At the Amphion the rural drama, "'Way Down East," will be seen. At the Montauk, Viola Allen will appear in Hall Caine's "'The Eternal City." The Novelty is to have "Her Marriage Vow," a thrilling drama, and the Folly will 1 be 00- cupied by "McFadden's Row of Flats." There are to be varied offerings at the stock houses. Corse Payton is to play "Miles Aroon" at his Eastern District theatre, while his wife is Juliet in a Shakespearian revival of "Romeo and Juliet," at her Fulton street house. The old Hoyt farce, "A Bunch of Keys," is to be seen at the Bijou and Howard Kyle in "Nathan Hale," will follow Miss.

Wainwright at the Columbia. "Lost in the Desert" is to be the attraction at the Lyceum, and "Blue Jeans" at the Gotham. The Gayety will have burlesque and the Orpheum and Hyde and Behman'8 strong vaudeville bills. Amphion Theatre. Down East" will be the attraction at the Amphion Theatre next week.

That is really about all it is necessary to say. This rural play seems to be started on road which has been successfully traveled for many years by "'The Old Homestead," and its freshness grows perennially brighter. It no doubt will continue to be of interest to theatre-goers for many years more. Down East" is an every-day play. Its characters are possible folks, and they do possible things.

If some of the funnier people of the tale are a bit. remarkable, it is a good thing, and much to be commended in the interest of humor. The company to be seen at the Amphion is the same one which has been playing across the river, and may be depended upon to show the gentle, human, appealing pathos and pleasantries of this remarkably entertaining play in their best and fullest senses. If Lottie Blair Parker had never written anything else theatrical, this play would have made her known to posterity. The Amphion is able to greet the end of Lent with assur- ance.

Montauk Theatre. Miss Viola Allen, as Donna Roma, in "The Eternal City" of Hall Caine, will be the attraction of new and remarkable Interest at the Montauk Theatre, and in this borough next week. This Caine play, a cultured and polite form of melodrama, met with an agreeable reception in Manhattan. Its players are notable in their abilities and in their fitness for their parts. Miss Allen rises to high dramatic intensity in her role, and is sweetly convincing as usual.

Frederick de Belleville, for many years Mrs. Fiske's leading man, is the conspiring Baron, and plays with grace and subtlety. E. M. Holland has received much commendation for his powerful work as the Pope, and Edward Morgan, as the heroic young labor leader, has opportunity for a display of fine powers.

The staging and scenic fittings have been commented upon as being opulent and correct in detail, the studio scene being described as typical of a Roman house, and very beautiful to the eye. Mascagni's musical interludes and accompaniments are held by to furnish one of the features of the piece. Folly Theatre. "McFadden's Row of Flats," bedecked in much that is new and entertaining, and again presenting all the novelties that have earned for it such popular success in the past, will move over to the Eastern trict next week, appearing at the Folly. A carefully selected cast of comedians, dancers and singers present the many funny features of this entertaining farce comedy, principal among whom will be noted Harry Crandall, who enacts the role of Bumgartner; Arthur Whitelaw, who 'plays Tim MsFadden; Bobby Ralston and Jerry Sullivan, A8 Alec and George; W.

H. Mack, in the character of the comedy tramp; Mae Donohue, as Mrs. Murphy, and Mae Phelps, in the role of Mary Ellen, the soubrette. The famous "Yellow Kids," educated goat, baby pig and miniature mechanical fire engine will be seen, while a large and handsomely gowned chorus of pretty girls will add to the numerous stage pictures and musical ensembles. There will probably be much interest shown.

in "McFadden's Row of Flats" in the Eastern District, because of the talk a about green whiskers and the sorrows of the Irish. Having played for one week already in town, with no unpleasant criticism, the Incident may now be considered closed, and the certainty that Mr. McFadden is a proper and dignified gentleman Armly established. Novelty Theatre. "Her Marriage Vow," which it is claimed, la somewhat of an innovation in the sen- VIOLA ALLEN CITY THE -MONTAUK- sational comedy line, will be the offering at the Novelty Theatre next week.

The play is said to have every element of sensation and many exciting situations. It has many realistic railroad scenes. The plot is laid In a quiet little hamlet near Boston. John Carlton, son of a railroad superintendent, attempts wreck two express trains coming from opposite directions, by turning a switch, which will cause a head-on collision. He dis frustrated in this by Ned Benton, who, after a desperate struggle with the villain, rights the switch just as two trains are rushing by.

Falling in this, Carlton then schemes to have Kate, his wife, incarcerated in an insane asylum, but "Datfy" leads him gang into trap, after a hand-to-nand struggle, Dana ends all by throwing Carlton over a rocky cliff to his death. Among the members of the presenting company, which is said to be An exceptionally clever one, are the Misses Willie E. Francis, Elizabeth Rathburn, Annie Ashley and the Messrs. W. A.

Whitecar, Henry Buckley, James Marcus, George H. Nichols, Louis Frohoff, and Edward C. Gillespie. IN THE STOCK HOUSES. Payton's Lee Avenue Theatre.

"Myles Aroon," the Irish comedy drama written by George H. Jessop and Horace Townsend for William J. Scanlan, will be presented this week at Corse Payton's Lee Avenue Theatre. Mr. Payton will appear as Miles Aroon, a quick-witted, lovable, blarneying Irishman, who is wrongfully accused of a committed by a man far above him socially.

His attempts to disprove the circumstantial evidence which weaves itself around him, and his wholehearted wooing of sweet Maggie Farrell (Miss Barnett) from the plot of this charming play. Several pretty Irish ballads will be sung by Mr. Payton during the action of the drama. The others in this week's cast are: Kirk Brown, Joseph W. Girard, Peter M.

Lang, Barton Williams, Johnny Hoey, Frank Payton, Ethel Clifton, Grace FOx, Florence Lang, Clara Austin, Josie Antoinette and little Irma Day. Bijou Theatre. One of the early and most successful musical farces of the late Charles Hoyt, "A Bunch of Keys," and one that has been played pretty continually since its first appearance, will open the post-Lenten season of the Spooner Stock Company with a rustle and a dash which will no doubt keep the theatre full of laughter for the week. Hoyt travesties some particular institution in each of his plays. This one is directed at the inconsistencies of a country hotel.

What plot there is is largely wrapped about the three daughters of old Key, Teddy, Rose and May. Miss Cecll will, of course, play the wild and sprightly Teddy. Miss McAllister and Miss Morlan will be the other two girl. Keys. There will be plenty of music, as is proper in Hoyt farce, and Thardo will sing between the acts.

Here's a week of merriment. Columbia Theatre. The new stock star at the Columbia Theatre next week will be Howard Kyle, who will present Clyde Fitch's great American play of "Nathan Hale," which he has shown in other parts of the country for the past three years, and in which he has had considerable success, "Nathan Hale" is an honest type of the patriotic American drama and its hero, who regretted that he had but one life to give for his country, is a historical verity of particular interest to Long Islanders. Florence Smyth will be seen as Alice Adams in this play. She has been appearing in that role for the past two years and is credited with being one of the beautiful women on the stage, as well as an accomplished actress.

The remainder of the cast will be filled by the members of the Columbia Theatre stock company. Gotham Thatre. Easter week at the Gotham will be ushered In with "Blue Jeans," undoubtedly the strongest attraction that could be selected for that week. "Blue Jeans" will never wear out. It stood -many successful seasons of road travel, and now that it has become available stock, it is one of the best drawing cards.

In the production at the Gotham, the Rising Sun Roarer's Band, led by the original Drum Major, John Molloy, will be used, and, the sextet, one of, the original features of the play, will also appear. The scenery will be an exact production of the original. The sawmill scene is furnished complete by the author, and will show a huge circular saw in -operation, and the thrilling rescue of the hero from the table that is slowly carrying him to death. The cast will be composed of PHOEBE DAVIS, in "WAY DOWN EAST -AMPHION JOHNNIE. HOEY at PAYTON'S LEE AVE.

THEATRE members of the Elite Stock Company, several additional players have been Phillips' Lyceum. The offering at Phillips' Lyceum next week will be the Gus Hill production of "Lost in the Desert." Those who saw the play at the combination houses will see here a complete road in every respect. The entire scenic embellishments will be used the Lyceum, horses, camels and the troupe of Arabs. The management will place this big spectacular production before its patrons in the matter of detail complete, with a powerful casting of the characters, each and every one placed in good hands. There isn't a bad part in the play.

The comedy element is particularly good, and the sensational features strong. Miss Bell will have a charming part in that of Helen Bradford, a part strictly in keeping with her work, Mr. Holden will be seen as the Arab Sailor Bikur. This will be a departure for this player, as it is a character part of pronounced quality. Payton's Fulton Street Theatre.

"Romeo and Juliet" will be the next thing of Importance at Payton's Fulton Street Theatre, Mrs. Payton appearing as the beautiful and disappointed maid of Verona. She will be supported by the full strength of the stock companies, and will have a carefully seleoted cast. Walter Wilson, Joseph Girard, Richard Crollus, George Hoey, Charles, Barringer, Mrs. and Saidee Payton has Radoliffe a week will of exceptional opportunity before her.

She will be given a correct and elaborate production, scenically, and in the way of costumes. This popular version of the immortal romance be edifying and enjoyable to many hundreds who would not approach it in more pretentious form. VAUDEVILLE AND BURLESQUE. Gayety Theatre. Fred Irwin's show will be the drawing card at the Gayety Theatre next week.

For the present season the big show numbers nearly fifty people, headed by Fiore Foster and Madeline Franks, operatic burlesquers; Blossom Seeley, singing comedienne; Lester and Curtin, novel acrobats; the Bison City Quartet, one of the leading musical organizations in vaudeville; the Salvaggis, Eurodancers; the three Ronays, a musical pean importation, and that unique character bit, "The Pipe Hitter," by J. C. Hart and company. The performance begins with "The Knelppe Cure," 'a farcical burletta, introducing a chorus of thirty pretty girls in picturesque ensembles. The closing number 1s a pretentious musical burlesque, "An Operatic Rehearsal," in which fun and music run a neck-and-neck race.

The Orpheum. Adelaide Herrmann, rightly called "Queen of Magic," heads the Orpheum bill next week in an act said to be full of new Illusions. Another name on the bill that will be welcomed is that of Will M. Cressy, who with Blanche Dayne presents his latest sketch "BIll Biffin's Baby." James J. Morton makes his first appearance in Brooklyn this season with a new monologue.

The Mozart Symphony Club, newcomers to vaudeville, will make their debut here. The Girl With the Auburn Hair is held over. An European juggling act is that of the Onri family ot five. Crawford Stanley, the Hobo piano player and the dancing dude; the Twin Nices, singers and dancers; George W. Day, the minstrel; Hal Merritt, in his Poster Girl monologue, and Gulliver's Travels on the vitagraph are also among the entertainers.

CECIL -BiJou- SPOONER BLOSSOM SEELEY, rue GATES at where Miss Marie Cahill is appearing in "Nancy Brown." There no longer any doubt but that this play will run until the end of the season. Friday night, May 1, has been selected by members of the Order of the Mystic Shrine as "Shrine Night" at the Broadway Theatre. Members of the order will attend the performance of "The Prince of Pilsen" on that night in a body. "The Sultan of Sulu," George Ade's musical satire, that has enjoyed fifteen weeks of prosperity at Wallack's, will appear in new Easter garb next week. Many of the costumes will be new and much of the scenery has been repainted.

It has been definitely decided, by Liebler that the play in which Kyrle Bellew will appear next season will be a play written by E. W. Hornung, of London, the author of "The Amateur Cracksman," and of "Raffles," and Eugene A pleasant revival will be that of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's clever child play "Little Lord Fauntleroy," at the Casino Theatre, commencing Monday, April 13. The play is to be almost exclusively for children, matinees only being given.

Two hundred representatives of the Equitable Life Assurance Company, who are tending a general convention in New York, formed a large and enthusiastic theatre party at the Belasco, Tuesday evening, where they saw "The Darling of the Tuesday evening next, will be "Royal Arcanum Night" at Hyde and Behman's Theatre. Members of the order have secured over 1,000 seats for that evening, and Manager Ellis will make special endeavor to please the brethren. There will be several big theatre parties at this theatre during the next few weeks. Miss Paula Edwardes has been added to the list of 'stars who will be under the management of the Shubert brothers next season, and for several seasons to follow. As the first vehicle in which to star her "Winsome Winnie," the book of which was specially written for Miss Edwardes, by Edward Paulton, has been chosen.

All reports from Buffalo, Utica and other cities up-State where "There and Back" has been presented this week, agree that the Messrs. Shubert have a success. During the engagement of "There and Back" at the Princess, which begins Monday, April 20, Aubrey Boucicault will appear in a sentimental creation, a twenty-minute curtain raiser entitled "The Man Who Stole the Castle." Eugene Sandow, the champion strong man of the world, has been booked for Hyde and Behman's Theatre in the near future. This will be Sandow's only Brooklyn appearance this season, and his last in the metropolitan district, before he starts on his Australian tour, as a preliminary to a trip around the world. This modern Hercules is said to nave added many feats to his remarkable programme.

Annie Russell begins on Monday night the last three weeks of her prosperous engagement at the Garrick in Madeline Lucette Ryley's play, "Mice and Men." The business is such that Miss Russell' could continue for many weeks; but on the advice of her physician, Mr. Frohman insists that she shall close on May 2 and spend the balance of the time in resting before she again takes up her work next season. The new Hudson Theatre on Forty-fourth street, between Broadway and Sixth avenue, the property of the Henry B. Harris Company, was formally "christened" Monday morning at 9 o'clock. 'At that hour Mr.

Harris, accompanied by his business staff, the architect of the theatre, Ronald M. Macdonald, met Miss Alice Fischer, Mr. Robert BROOKLYN INSTITUTE NOTES. Three men who have received frequent mention of late are among those who are to appear before the Brooklyn Institute next week. These are Glenn Brown, of Washington, D.

who has come into promin-: ence through his connection with the commission for beautifying that city and restorIng it, in accordance with the original who will tell of Restoration of Washington," on Monday evening; Frederick W. Stokes. of Manhattan, the artist, who accompanied the Peary Expedition, who will describe "Landscape Painting in the Arctic Regions," on Tuesday evening, and Dr. MacDougall, of the New York Botanical Garden, who has just returned from an ex-' pedition, sent out by the Carnegie Institute, to Inspect the region west of the Pecos River, along the Mexican boundary, for the purpose of locating 'a laboratory for the study of desert vegetation, who will speak on Wednesday evening, for which time the ticket announces Corneulus Van Brunt, of Manhattan. But since that was issued, Mr, Van Brunt has been taken seriously ill with grip, and the Institute considers Itself fortunate to have secured Dr.

MacDougall. Thursday evening, Donalde McLean Somers, of Brooklyn, "Heart of Colorado, the Gem of the Rockies." All these lectures are to be given at the Art Gallery, and all will be illustrated. "The Story of the Creation; God's Joy In Creation; the Birth of Jesus; the Story of Ruth," will be read by the Rev. James Townsend Russell, A. rector of St.

Thomas' Church, in the third and last of his series of dramatic readings from the Bible, at Association Hall, on Wednesday afternoon, at o'clock. For the vocal selections, Mr. Russell will sing the "Creation," by Peccia, and "An Old Sacred Lullaby," D. Corner, written in 1640. The department of photography will open Its thirteenth annual exhibition of prints and lantern slides, at the Art Gallery, on Saturday evening, the pictures to remain on view for the week following.

The public will be admitted free of charge, except when lectures are in progress, but for the opening night admission will be by ticket only. The committee in charge is composed William B. Colson, Chairman; Henry L. Underhill, Arthur H. Flint, James W.

Kent and Archibald C. Scrimgeur. the and added. ADELAIDE HERRMANN. -ORPHEUM- Hyde Behman's.

Patrons of Hyde and Behman's Adams Street Theatre will be glad to hear that the services of Robert Hilliard have been secured for a headline attraction next week. Mr. Hilliard's work needs no introduction to local playgoers, for it was in this borough that he received his start. Mr. Hilliard will again be seen in his one-act sketch, "The Littlest Girl," a dramatization of one of Richard Harding Davis' stories.

As a special attraction, the Elinore Sisters are billed. Their descriptive line 011 the programme is "laugh promoters." Their act has been refurnished with new songs and lines since last it was seen hereabouts. In support ot these "big types are Eva Mudge, the Brooklyn girl, who is billed as "'The Military Maid." Dolan and Lenharr, who will offer "Two in a Boat;" Miss Clarice who calls herself "The Singer of Southern Melodies;" Midgeley and Carlisle, Sammy and Sarah, in their skit, "After School;" the two Lamonts, in an acrobatic act; Armeta, who has some some novel effects to offer in the line of fire and color dancing, and Brown and Nevarro, with "The Wedding of the Chinee and the Coon." Eden Musee. De Kolta with his wonderful scientific illusions continues to draw large audiences at the evening performances at the Eden Musee. The last two weeks of his long engagement have been announced.

After the close of his successful engagement here, he will make a tour of the country going right through the States to California. De Kolta has kept some of the best scientific problems for the last. On the cinematograph some pictures of the new Shamrock III. are presented. They show the British challenger in various positions and Sir Thomas Lipton is a prominent feature of the pictures.

New groups are being added every week to the world in wax. Signor Briglio and Signor Sciaretti will appear at the Sunday evening concerts with the Neapolitan Quartet. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE. Miss Amelia Bingham was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Pleiades Club on Sunday evening, April 5. "The Toll Gate Inn," a Revolutionary drama, will be the attraction for the week of April 20, at Bijou Theatre.

"When Her Soul Speaks" is a modern play in four acts by Elmer Grandin which will be seen on Broadway the coming season. Grace" George's engagement in "Pretty Peggy" at the Herald Square Theatre, New York, continues successful. The mob is 8 wonder. "Foxy Grandpa," in the person of Joseph Hart, assisted by Carrie DeMar, will be the offering at the Folly Theatre, following Row of "Mr. Blue Beard" begins its fourth at the Knickerbocker Theatre Monday eve ning, steadily increasing its phenomenal record of, attendance, which, during the past week, was increased to approximately 140,000 people.

Albert Hart has been engaged by George W. Lederer to originate one of the principal comedy roles in the musical company to support Miss Blanche Ring at the Knickerbocker Theatre the beginning of the summer. Holy Week did not materially lessen the business at the Bijou Theatre, Manhattan, A CITY OF EXTREMES. In Butte Milionaires Rub Elbows With Ragged Hobos. Surely no city ever knew such extremes, such contrasts of life, as Butte.

Here are millionaires democratically rubbing elbows with out-at-heels hobos; for here opportunity, a gambling chance for wealth, has attracted both success and failure. Here are college graduates, foreign noblemen. Chinamen, Italians, Welshmen and a dozen other nationalities, with a miserable remnant. of the aboriginal Indians, all gathering and fraternizing. In this little Isolated city The chief of police has a check list of six, hundred ex-convicts who are residents of the city; but that fact alone is highly misleading.

It does Injustice to the active better element, for here are no fewer than twenty-eight church organizations, with numerous fine church edifices, the services well supported and well attended, Here are crowding saloons, it is true, but here are also some of the best equipped of schools, housed in unusually fine buildings, a really notable library, a college. of mines set on the bleakest of bleak hills without an inch of lawn or a tree anywhere near it. You will hear of the activities of the Wonan's Club and the doings of the Theosophical Society, and there are social gatherings which differ not at all in the proprieties or in resplendence from those of the favored Fast. On the other hand, you will hear, in the same breath, related with no more surprise, as though it were the most commonplace of incidents, such a story as this, some of the details of which under my personal observation: Two prominent younk society men having differed over a baseball game, one challenged the other to personal combat. They drove out to a road house, chose seconds, stripped to the waist in the presence of a considerable company, among which was the father of one of the young men, and fought out their differences with bare fists.

Nothing ever seems unexpected in Butte; whatever happens is 80 much added to the public Not in His Class. "This is our said the manufacturer, proudly. "Good work, Isn't it "Not bad," replied the visitorf, "but you can't hold a candle to the goods make." "Oh, are you in this line, too?" "No. We make Press..