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26 BROOKLYN LIFE. sketch; McKenzie and Ash, in illustrated songs; Burton and Brooks, Ward and Curran, and Sullivan and Pasquelena. MONDAY'S change of bill at the Gayety will bring forward Reilley and Ward's Big Show. IN MANHATTAN. MADELEINE LUCETTE RYLEY'S four-act play, "An American Invasion," which had its first metropolitan production at the Bijou last Monday night, is neither the best nor the worst of this successful author's comedies.

Of the two it is nearer the first in its power to provide amusement of the most wholesome sort. The rather involved plot has to do with the experiences of John Brainard, an American engineer, and Lucie Penruddock, an English widow. During the first three acts the two meet, fall in love with each other and separate because of trouble over the supposed theft of some important blue-prints belonging to Brainard. All this takes place in Calcutta. In the last act the scene shifts to England, where Mrs.

Penruddock, now a hospital nurse, is found-gowned in gray, with the latest style of full puff sleeves by Brainard, who loses no time in securing her promise to become his wife. J. E. Dodson has been seen to much better advantage than as John Brainard, but as usual his acting is excellent. Annie Irish, as Mrs.

Penruddock, does not reach her husband's level that could not be expected but she is very pleasing in a role to which her abilities are only fairly well suited. Fred Tyler, R. Peyton Carter, Henry Hare, Margaret Fuller, Brandon Douglas and Mabel Taliaferro whose voice is sadly out of tune are also in the cast; in the main a very good one. The four scenes are particularly well set, the Calcutta exterior of the first act and the interior of Brainard's bungalow being picturesque to a degree. THE revival of "The Only Way" at the Herald Square last Monday night would have been well worth while if only for the reason that this dramatization of Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" is far and away better than the majority of book plays.

As the means of bringing Martin Harvey back to the American stage there was an equally good reason for the revival, since it was with Mr. Wills's play that this actor established his English reputation all acquired since he first came to New York as an obscure member of the London Lyceum Theater Company. While the English players did not succeed in dispelling the very agreeable memories of the original production of "The Only Way" at the Herald Square three years ago when Henry Miller, E. J. Morgan, J.

H. Stoddard, Margaret Anglin and Margaret Dale were in the cast their performance is on the whole a very commendable one. Mr. Harvey is an exceedingly capable actor, and his personal success is unquestioned. Of his associates, William Haviland, as the two Defarges; Frederick Wright, as Dr.

Manette, and Patrick Alexander, as Mr. Lorry, do especially good work. Miss De Silva (Mrs. Harvey in private life) AflNIE RUSSELL, Who will appear as Winifred Stanton, in "The Girl and the Judge," at the Montauk next week. displays only a fair amount of ability.

The tribunal scene is admirably done, and in general the play is mounted with a great deal of care. MONDAY night's other revival "His Excellency the Governor," at the Garrick is for a fortnight only. This is a pity, for none of the new plays of the season is so amusing as this somewhat fantastic comedy of Robert Marshall's the scene of which is laid on an imaginary island in the Pacific. As was the case upon the original production of the play, the merriest feature is the Stella de Gex of Jessie Millward. W.

H. Thompson's Sir Henry Carlton is hardly less notable. Edwin Stevens, as "His Leo Ditrichstein, as John Baverstock; James Erskine, as Captain Carew; Maggie Holloway Fisher, as Mrs. Bolingbroke, and Beatrice Irwin, as Ethel Carlton, are the other leading players in a most delightful performance of a most delightful play. MENTION of Sudermann's "Es Lebe das Leben," which was to be brought out at the Garden on Thursday night in an English version by Edith Wharton, must necessarily be deferred until next week.

With Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Beata, the neglected wife of Count Michael von Kellinghausen, who ended her earthly career by drinking the toast "Es Lebe das Leben" in a poisoned beverage; J. H. Gilmour as the Count, and Vaughan Glaser as Baron Richard von Volker-lingk, the production promised to be uncommonly interesting. TWO novelties are announced for next Monday night.

"The Silver Slipper," a new musical comedy by the authors of "Florodora," will be put on at the Broadway, with Cyril Scott and Edna Wallace Hopper in the leading roles. At the Fourteenth Street, the latest Augustus Pitou play, "Old Limerick Town," will be seen with Chauncey Olcott. BY far the most important of November theatrical events will be the reappearance of Eleanora Duse at the Victoria, week after next. The brief season, consisting of only ten performances, will be devoted to three plays by Gabriele d'Annunzio. "La Gioconda" will be the bill on the fourth, fifth and sixth, "La Citta Morte" on the seventh and eighth (matinee) and "Francesca da Rimini" on the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth (matinee).

Seats on the lower floor will cost three dollars and a half. ON account of its continued success, the Fadettes Woman's Orchestra of Boston will hold over another week at Keith's. The Ten Ichi troupe of Japanese magicians, now established favorites, will return with their beautiful fountain trick; Will Cressey and Blanche Dayne will appear in "Bill Biffin's Baby," and the other acts will include Carroll Johnson, Sam Elton, Frances Pipem, the Flood Brothers, Wood and Wood, Edwards and Ronney, Elizabeth Knight, John Healy and the biograph. On the Aisle. 4 i 1 ETHEL BARRYMORE, Who Is appearing in the title r81e of Carrots and as Angela Muir in "A Country Mouse," at the Savoy..