Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC H r Jo J k Glimpses of Some Well Known Dramatic Faces I F RYAN STEPHENS LATEST MOVE t The WlfeBwcet Lavender Tho Harqulse Etejbeas Deserts the Class Field < Amusement Notes tt Daniel Frohmans Fx matchless Lyceum i Theatre company will mako their reappearance c re-appearance in this city after a years r absence at the theatre thea-tre for threo nights f and Saturday matinee mati-nee commencing t h evening even-ing They will present pre-sent besides The Wife their other 1 two great successes k and the repertoire Herbert Ktlcey has been arranged as follows Thursday evening Belasco and Do Willis American play The Wife Friday evening and Saturday matinee Pineros Sweet Lavender and Saturday night one of Victoria Sardous greatest efforts to The Marquise Mar-quise Tho company with a few added players play-ers is exactly tho same as was seen hero last year and is composed of Herbert Kelcoy Henry Miller Nelson Wheatcroft Charles Walcot Charles Dick son Walter Bellows Fred Tibbitts W J LeMoyne Georgia Cay Tan Grace Henderson Louise Dillon Olive IHnry 31 filer Brooks Mrs Charles Walcot and Mrs Thomas Whiffen The Wife which will inaugurate the engagement is remembered re-membered with y pleasure by those who witnessed it ° last year As given by this perfect organization or-ganization it is one 5 1 of the prettiest plays ever presented pre-sented There Is a serious interest for thoso who incline in t t that direction comedy com-edy for tuose whoa who-a like fun and sadness 1 sad-ness for those who iraleoa fJ Ocrofi suffer disappointed loveSwoct Lavender which will be given Friday evening and Saturday matinee is a pew play to us It was the Lyceums opening piece of the winter of 1889 Pinero tho renowned r f Js re-nowned English playwright R play-wright is the father fit f-it and it ran 400 nights a at Terry theatre London Lon-don Sweet Lavender Laven-der made hit at the Lyceum theatre only d second to that of Tho Wife It was played SfiO nights It serves Charles Walcot to introduoo the company com-pany in an entirely different light than The Wife It is said to be one of thoso delicious tales of love andhone < tfeel ing which might belong be-long to any period i or any place The i single scene of the i bachelor chambers rM in the inns of the court London in which the three acts of tho play take place might so far as the story is concerned con-cerned be in Paris Berlin or San Francisco Fran-cisco When was Charles ZHctson produced in New York it was considered a witty retort to those disciples who think a play cannot can-not healthy without with-out being insipid William Winter the celebrated New York critic in commenting com-menting upon its ° first production pronounced the playas play-as brilliant as a a 1 flash of light while 1 its characters were good women and honest men He also laid Thepuro sentiment which Walter Zfrltoir brings tears to our eyes is well spiced with refined wit quaint and even grotesque humor in which nothing noth-ing has been sacrificed to create a laugh But j we do laugh merrily i and heartily whilst wiping our eyes and f t we are ashamed of neither for this outward I IV rn out-ward show of diverse e feelings is only a just i tributo to the author I who has written one of 1 the best plays we have n J LcJfojnt seen for great while Tho Marquise which will be presented also for the first time on Saturday night was written by Sardou and I is entirely unlike either m The Wife or Sweet n1 Lavender It is said to sho tJf remarkable oJ versatility of the company compllca pany me fJi tions of the play arise = p r out of the fact that ana < rr r a-na officer on a certain i j i 1 night is a witness of a murder of which an in hnocent man is accused Georgia Cayvan For the officer to state which is the murderer mur-derer would be to compromise himself To say why he was at the Mj ttii sceno of tho murder tr would be to involve in j a scandal the namo of womanheloves This a woman is the wife of j the president of tho court where the trial is taking place No actual ac-tual guilt is involved though the appearances ij appear-ances are decidedly against the involved Grace Hendtrson parties Mr Daniel FroLman IJ having tIrmly established the Lyceum It Theatre company in New York city as tho representative dramatic dra-matic organization in r a America for presenting present-ing tho class of plays r made famous by this a company has mapped Lout L-out his policy for a future fu-ture which will cover some three seasons and which will after this rammer admit only of the home appearing ap-pearing in England j tC Boston and Chicago therefore this engage LouUe Dillon men will be the last opportunity of seeing the company for at least four years Since v the Lyceum companys birth it has given c to New York The Wife Sweet Lavender i La-vender and The Marquise Eithr i of the latter two ri could easily IIKC rq f The Wife runt run-t 1 I through the season but for the desire I if C of Mr Frohman to r jJ show the strength I I of his company indifferent I r 14 t in-different work I r r With only three plays to carry its company prosper I OUoe Brooke ously through two y l µ < t < 0 < years time is a showing that has never been equalled by a stock company and it it with considerable pride that the fact remains re-mains that one year of this time was do voted to an American playThe Wife With the return to this city of the Lyceum company the success suc-cess of their first visit being well remembered re-membered both hero < sand s-and by the company + itself especially as h they appeared as 4 i strangers before J strange faces and a the manner in which they were quickly taken up left a 1 memory that cannot r be erased and they return with the pleasant thought that they appear Mrs Thos TFhiffm among friends and although their success both in New York and San Francisco has been equally as great in Sweet Lavender and Tho Marquise they prefer to be welcomed back in Tho Wife which will be given exactly as before with the ex c ption of an entirely new wardrobe of the lauies of tho company therefore there will bo no danger of the enjoyment of tho piece being weakened by that most dangerous of all things a change of the people playing We will not have to draw comparisons save with tho previous performance of the same people The cast will be John Rutherford of the United States Senate Herbert Kelcey Mathew Culver In politlcsNelhon Wheatcroft Robert Grey Attorney atLaw Henry Miller Silas Truman of the Produce Exchange Charles Wnlcot Major Homer Q Putnam G A K whose faint heart neer won lady W J LeMoyne Jack Dexter Columbia 83Charles Dickson Mr Rudolph Rutherfords Private Secretary Walter Bellows Helen Truman an only daughter daughterGeorgia Cayvan Lucille Ferrant from New Orleans Grace Henderson Mrs S Bellamy Ives In Charities Mrs Charles Walcot Kitty Ics coming outLonlse Dillon Mrs Amory junior member of Truman CoSirs Thomas Whiten Agnes Helens Maid Olive Brooks The company will arrive here Tuesday morning direct from San Francisco resting until the engagementcommencesThursday + I It will be surprising and perhaps not very welcome news to many of our musical reades that the little hall above Coalter Snelgrovos music store so long known I as Stephens music hall is Stephens no more and that in all probability the excellent excel-lent musical organizations which have had I their birth there and made the city for blocks around resound to tho strains of Mendellssohn Mozart Verdi Balfe Done zetti Flotow and other masters under Stephens direction will no more be heard there Ho has given it up and that means giving up his classes also as it is not his intention to hold forth elsewhere for the coming season at least In explanation of this move he writes In anticipation of giving up my class work this season I carefully finished up my obligations to all my classes The juvenile classes owing to my ill health did not have a complete term for their last but as they were only charged for half a term and only lacked a couple of lessons of a full term 1 feel that I have fulfilled my duty by them Tho Ernani opera class had all the schools due them Elijah the same This left only the eon emit duty devolving upon a teacher to do a 1 in his power for his art and his pupils to Le considered This I have tried to do and 1 feel < that it is best to discontinue my classes for the present leaving an open field for others who seem to think my classes have been disastrous to their prosperity in the past Successful as I have been in my labors I also am far from satisfied with the scope of my work Too much work to accomplish ac-complish so little To advance as we I should my students must take up more massive works As this necessitates massive mas-sive numbers a large hall etc we must wait until opportunity favors these conditions I condi-tions In the meantime a most important work calls for my attentionmusic in the district schools This I consider the foundation foun-dation of progress in the future and I am eager to do it well especially as I see an interest taken in that direction that sa snow s-now is the time My university labors are closely connected with this and of course claim my first attention as the fountain head of musical instruction in the schools and that means to the masses There is a proper channel for all things and when our musical instructors aru turjod into theirs they will be far more effective than they have been heretofore I regret sincerely only one thing that 1 shall not have the pleasure of associating musically and sociallyso much in the futuro with my many and much loved students as I have in the past |