Show Theatre A very large audience aeeembled at the Theatre on Monday night to witness wit-ness the performance of Alf Wjmans specialty play of Yakie and it i is sale to say tuat ninetenths of tbe large audience were disagreeably disagree-ably disappointed I was not that Mr Ali Wymau was not good for he is i a good Dutch iharao ter actor has a sweet tenor voice and the music of he piece is of the mot charming and taking kind i was not that Mrs Wyman was not good for the is at once one of the neatest and liveliest little actresses wo leave keen and though suffering with a very torero cold EO much so that she WM almost rendered unfit for performing she was still the life oi tbe piece it was not that the com pany support was poor for it was equal i not superior t the general run ol traveling stock companies butt but-t was that Jy akin tbe piece was the thinnest thing of the kind ever presented on the boards Tbe plot ia a transparent al mud the action as lively as a snail the situations as etching et-ching as a yawn and the dialogue a brilliant as a beer hal repartee I the playgo called was written for anything any-thing i was that the dog might be brought on in the first act and give an exhibition of its remarkable train log I this be a specimen of the work of 0 B Lewis the funny man heaven forbid that he should livelong live-long enough to perpetrate a second effort of the kind I It i surprising that an actor of Mr Wymans ability should be willing foe to risk his reputation on such I piece It give neither him nor anybody any-body else A chance for acting and would spoil the best comedian itr existence ex-istence And still the audience was kept in a perpetual state of laughter and the gallery deities were in an Elysium Tbe manner in which Mr Wyman would say big line the personal per-sonal hits the misconstructIon Of sentences and many other things tbe result of tbo actor intellect were all that saved the performance they made Mr Wymani ability appear ap-pear greater because of the load he bad to carry in Yakie Tonight Black Di mondwrit en by McFrlane of ObicaRo will be presente This piece has an excellent excel-lent reputation and Mr Wyman appears pear in it at a negro being this time given an opportunity to do something He will appear in his negro specialties in which he is particularly par-ticularly at home and in which he is lure to make an immense amount ol fun snce ba was able to do eo last night In addition to thin they mil lo give the favorite farce of Mr and Mr Wyman I called Carl and Gretchen in which they will appear in their Dutch specialties thus giving all that was worth seeing last night and a new piece beside Mr C H Norris who is I good careful actor will give a I recittion and Mr B H Speck will perform on the zylaphono which I i afforded such pleasure last night In I tbe performance tonight alto theo the-o mpany mil be given an opportunity I oppor-tunity to display ability and all will go again in the wish to ice Mr Wy man in a play in which he Can act |