Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC The Closing up of the Conference Confer-ence Seasons MRS JAMES BROWN POTTER Last Night Pei forinonces Conf union Koyce tanging Our Gen eve Again If it were not a spectacle they were nccustotired to the Home Dramatic Club would havo been bewildered at the throng which poured into the Theatre last evening to see the last performance of the bhaughraun Every seat in the house was occupied from the top to the bottom of the house and standing room waseverywhere in demand The piece went with all the smoothness in the world and the benefits of one representation were very evident Excelltnt ao the rendition was on the opening night there was everywhere improvement and not The Bankers Daughter Diplomacy or Confusion ever went with more ease and effect Mr Wells carried the house by storm and the action at times had literally to be given over to allow the applause to boil itself away Mr Spencers Harvey Duff was an excellent character creation and ills closing scene was very effectively worked up Mr Whites Oaptain Moli neux is one of the best things ue I has ever done and to Mr White by the way falls much of th credit of the w 1101e representation his experience with the piece making him au fait with all the business Mr Young was stately pathetic and anctiously humorous as priest and Mr Taylor gave a careful rendition of Kincheia the villain of the piece Mr Clawson too evinced improvement and the management of ihe2up r the wake 8c ne etc wereof the first class The lames were all excellent Edith Clawson being tender and pathetic Birdie Cummings bright and winning Lottie Olaridge a whole host as Cons mother and Ivy Clawson and Mabel Young equally good in their parts The whole was an immense go and the audience fairly appeared to revel in it from beginning to end The Home Club wind up their season I and step down from the boards for which wJl probably be a longlong rest tomorrow night with Confusion Everyone knows the fame of this elegant ele-gant comedy who knows the fame of the elegant Dixey He played for a whole season at the Fifth Avenue Theatre The-atre in the part of Christopher Blizzard and Mr J T White being in the company com-pany all that time got the whole thing at his fingeri ends so that when the Home Club secured the play on a royalty he was ena led to give them some excellent instruction It is easily the most polished and highly finished of all the Some Club comedy achiev ments and will from a notable close to what has been a notable season The cast will be found in another column It is expected thata party from Fort Douglas comprising all the officers will come down itomorrotv night to see Confusion Con-fusion The fine old drama the Willow Copse was played at the Walker Opera House again last eveuicgj by th Maigattj Evans combination and to a considerably consider-ably larger house than on its first presentation pres-entation There ° was a marked and decided improvement in every particular It If 4 The very charming lace of Mrs James Brown Potter beams from every fence dead wall and show window in the city It is as calmly smiling and ingenuous as that of a girl of 17 and as confident of conquering the world as that of Cleopatra herself Three or four vears ago Mrs Potter was only the wife of a millionaire and the leading lady in a swell Brooklyn amateur club Her talents attracted so much attention that she was invited to Washington as the guest of ssme cabinet officers wife where she bounded up to the pinnacle of local fame by reading the risky Ostler Joe before blueblooded blueteaed bluestockinged Washington society Since then her star has kept in the ascendant and her late appearance in London and New York where the seats auctioned off at the highest premium ever known are matters fresh in every ones memory Mrs Potter appears here Wednesday and Thursday in Loyal Love and The Lady of Lyonsat advanced ad-vanced prices The fascinating Jiyrle Bellew the loved of New York ladies supports her and whether her abilities as an actress equal her beauty of face and form we shall bobetterable to state on Thursday morning e 0 Some one has sent us a copy of the New York Amusement Gazette which contains a very pretty picture of Genevieve Gene-vieve Lytton our Geneva Price with avery a-very flattering sketch of her career that is since 1883 Since the sketch was written Miss Lytton has appeared in A Possible Case and the critics have had their complimentary whack at her as follows Num Crinkle Miss Genevieve Lyttsn although accepted on the first night in the farcical comedy scenes by the audience audi-ence probably on account of her personal per-sonal appearancewas not really S3 good in those scenes as she was in the bits cf sentiment with Lawrence Gould If this woman should pay Galatea she i would realize Gilberts ideal In farce she is incapable of the speiglcric that alone makes farce enjoyable Her sumptuous beauty andher magnificent dresses helped very much to overcome the difficulties of a part that makes a i woman marry three men and then try to be serious over her own predicament The Giddy Gusher the MirrorThe lossible Case will live In my memory as the sprint opening of fine clothes for 1883 as pictorially an artistic triumph as introducing me to pocket edition of the firmament I cant forget and as presenting evidence of what can be don Yith a very little I am not alluding to the play entirely In that sentence I look at Genevieve Lytton and then go and get a piece of smoked glass and view her creator For about three years a young lady has sat in theatres attracting no at tentiun I met her and knew her asa as-a pleasant wholesomelooking young woman not overburdened with animation ani-mation in no way afflicted by the fatal gift of beautv tSj her side was usually I didn t found a contemplative man know what he was contemplating 1 do since I have seen Miss Lytton She was KB cocoon That Sundayschool j sort of a young woman was carted ont to Buffalo and sprung as a fullfledged I beauty on the public Judicious management man-agement of her good points the attributes attri-butes of dress and skillful makeup joined with a newspaper management that simply usurps the province of a creator have brought forth Miss Lytton and made her a professional beauty Alas nothing short of a miracle will ever make her an actress She does not seem to understand the part she plays She never has a momentary lapse from herself and her Psyche Knob For the Possible Case she will do well enough The whole cast rayes about her charms of person Its lucky no one has to say anything of Violet Men dozas power to portray emotion of her intelligence or her clevernessshe wouldnt fill the bill She looked superb and dressed gorgeously but she wants to get a bit of lace under the arm holes of her swellest dress in which she portrays por-trays emotion by some calisthenics that were of a very harrowing character char-acter The fall on the sofa at the end of the act demands a little more lace across the front of the corsage to give he audience coofidenc Saturday evoninqwe shall have some thing different from the regular routine of entfrtainments The Royce Lans inf Musical Comedy Company andSwiss Bell Ringers who have just closed a three months tour of the coast where rails and theatres have been found utterly inadequate for the accomoda tion of the people eager to gain admission admis-sion This is accounted for by their strict adherence of presenting a strictly refined entertainment composed of the best artists and the best vocal and instrumental in-strumental music They remain hore but one night Note THE new Madison Square play artners is a great success ALLKH QOATERMAIN has been drama tized under the title of the Twin Queens MB AUGUSTINE DALY is the only manager in America that pays his company com-pany full salariesfiftytwo weeks in the year LITTLE Josef Hofmann the prodigy pianist sailed for Berlin on Wednesday where he will complete his musical education KATIE PUTNAM KMEEY is at present in Jacksonville Fla where she proposes to remain for a few weeks to get rid of a severe throat trouble SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is at work on a new libretto of a comic opera which W S Gilbert recently sent him to Monte Carlo where he is gone for his health The book is a satire on society RUMOR has it < that Fanny Davenports contracts for next season are all signed by herself and not by her husband Mr Efl Price as before Miss Davenport and La Tasca will probably bring the blushes to Salt Lakers erelong ere-long Miss ELLEN TERRY and Mr Henry Irving sailed for England early Wednesday Wednes-day morning Miss Terry goes to Heidelberg to visit her son at the university uni-versity and Mr Irving to London During their sojourn in New York Miss Terry was a guest at The Buckingham Bucking-ham while Mr Irving lived at the Hotel Brunswick SYDNEY ROSENFELDS comedy a Possible Possi-ble Case in which Henry Lee and Our Geneve are cast was produced at the Brooklyn Amphipn Academy a week ago Monday evening It was cleverly acted throughout superbly set and made a success Mr Rosenfeld is avery a-very clever but decidedly cantankerous young man who has given a great deal of his ability to comic opera overreaching overreach-ing all his rivals in what is known as topical songs A Possible Case is however how-ever his first success it legitimate comedy His play is founded on the anomalies of our divorce laws and the theme is distinctively American It is i amusing throughout and Mr J M Hill may be congratulated in having in it amoney success equal to The Henri etta THE biggest thing in New York just now is Charles Alfred Byrnes Pearl of Fekin at the Bijou Opera House Th receipts were considerably over G03 last week and on Wednesday night the audience was the largest that has been known in the theatre since Mr Dixey played hisfirst Adonis engagement It is very gratifying to know that Messrs Rice and Dixevd pluck in risking 20 000 on the work of an American is to be so munificently rewarded They did not follow the usual custom of waiting till something came from England or France and by reason of it their profits are proportionately greater It is confidently con-fidently anticipated that the receipts on Easter week will reach 10000 for it must be remembered that the big success suc-cess already achieved has been in the face of the fact that it was Passion week one of the very worst theatrically theatri-cally in the whole season Mr Rice is now making his arrangements to keep the opera on the boards for eight months at any rate and probably for a year |