Show AMUSEMENT NOTES E1win Milton Roylos play Friends which had its Chicago introduction on tne i night of October 30 l had a warm and enthu siastic welcome from the press of that city We take the least flattering of the ascounts of the performance from the Dispatch E win Milton Royles play Friends which had its Chicago introduction at Booleys last nigh can hardly be called a comedy drama as it is designated on the bills Jt is too serious a play for thnt notwithstanding not-withstanding the relief afforded now and then by a bit of pleasing humor The story I of the play vnich has been told here deals with a remarkable case of self sacrifice on the part of a young man who find tout tile object of his own passion loves another that other being hir friend between whom and himself exists a mutual pledge of constancy con-stancy The piece has strong melodramatic melodram-atic coloring but in the hands of the competent com-petent and careful players to WLom it is committed it is saved from the panic being overdone It can hardly be called a strong play despite the evidence of cleverness that Its young author has displayed but it has much to commend it and much to justify jus-tify an expectation of some better pIece ofT of-T orfc from him in the future The introduction of a rather pretentious performance on the piano in the second act is a rather daring novelty in a work of this class but entrusted to Lucius Henderson it is made to contribute materially to the success of the production Mr Henderson as Adrian Karje a struggling young musician I musi-cian the hero of the story is called upon to entertain H company in the drawing I room of the lady he loves with a musical I number and he plays Gottschalks Pasquinade Pas-quinade so admirably as to win an enthusiastic enthu-siastic recalL It is seldom that one is found who combines musical and dramatic talents in so liigh a decree as does Mr Henderson Miss Selena Fetter Mrs Ro yle as Marguerite Otto of the Metropolitan Metro-politan opera house the heroine with whom young Karje is in love does some excellent work and plays a rather exacting and melodious role with force and discretion i discre-tion Her emotional lines are delivered I with a prudence and discrimination that make them effective without exaggeration exaggera-tion Mr Royle who plays the part of Jack I Paden jr the model oi selfabnegation is I responsible for much of the comedy work t and acquits himself with great credit Besides I Be-sides being a promising play wright he is an actor undoubted talent Theodore Hamilton I Ham-ilton gives to the part of John Paden sr a delightful rendering and adds brightness to the performance E D Lyons plays the I heavy roll of Hans Otto the stepfather of the heroine with much success A good sized audience was present Cyril Tyler the sweetvoiced boy soprano so-prano who has set music lovers agog in New York Boston and other cities is a sturdy little fellow as well developed physically phy-sically as a boy of 12 years need straight and strong He has a wonderfully expressive expres-sive face and a mass of goldenhued hair He has all the instincts of a boy and besides be-sides he is passionately fond of music He will sing a French love song with all the passion ana abandon of a lover and an aria with all the sustained effort of an experienced ex-perienced vocalist He is a natural musician music-Ian possessing in addition to a phenomenal Toice a rare intelligence His first public efforts were made in a church choir about two years age < The exhibition given at Wonderland during the week past by Professor Sun deen the wonderful mind reader and the strongest of all strong mn Mr Sampson has excited much curiosity and investigation investiga-tion among students of science The nubile nub-ile tests given by Professor Sundeeri have been truly remarkable and hare set at rest all doubts of his great powers in the minds of skeptics The exhibition givon by Mr Sampson has been so open and so conclusively conclu-sively convincing as to Inspire a feeling of wonder regarding his great work The coming programme for Thursday includes some new and attractive novelties and star vaudeville attractions 4 By a special agreement the male performers per-formers at the Imperial opera in Vienna have been permited to wear their mustaches mus-taches even in characters to which those appendages were altogether inapproprIate But just before the German emperor arrived j ar-rived there the other day a peremptory order was issued that the mustaches must be sacrificed In the interests of art and great was the consequent lamentation But William was known to be a sticker for proprieties and the razors did their dreadful dread-ful work if 4L Mme Helena Modjeska is doing a very bad business this time in New York It is the fault of the people she says They have no respect for art Thev the star system and love for money till artistic growth Still Helena was made rich and famous by these people who in her opinion have no appreciation of art Her revival this summer Is Henry VTH tt in which she plays Queen Katharine In an editorial on Indecency on the Stage the New York Times points out the 7 remarkable growth of its toleration by the New York public and the writer traces while he wonders at thl development of the Increasingly bold exhibitions which have been applauded in that city The Black Crook in that city has introduced j dances that shock even hardened habitues of the theatre 5 Henry E Abbey has about all he can attend to the coming season Coquelin and Jane Hading Sully the famous tragedian I of the Comedie Francalse and Henry irving with Ellen Terry and his Lyceum I company trill all tour this country under J 1f = I hi5 management Mr Abbey has also purchased pur-chased the American rights to the great Drnry Lane success The Prodigal Daughter K Miss Ada Rattan is consideredto be rich among actresses She owns a 80000 house possesses mortgages on adjoining property holds almost enough stock in a New Jersey railroad to entitle her to the position of director and has sufficient money on hand to take a flyer in stocks when there is a likelihood of success in Wall street I Charles L Harris the Squire Tucker of Alabama Is in no condition to strut his brief hour on the stage as ho is in a hospital hos-pital at Chicago under treatment for Brights disease Ho will probably never appear before the footlights again Harris I isa native of New Orleans His father was a weathy cottonplanter of Louisiana 4 4 Mrs Justin Harvey Smith nee Marie 1 Barnard of Boston Mass has been preferred t pre-ferred to eleven competitors for tha honor I of singing Dvoraks Requiem with j sixty in the orchestra and 200 in the choir I under the composers baton It will be Dvoraks flrat production of the the piece I in the United States 5 I Just before Dion Boucicaults death he wrote a play for Sol Smith Russell called The Tale of a Coat Singularly enough It was the only failure Mr Russell ever experienced and one of the very few re II j corded against that prolific writer Bouci i cauit It is said that Mr Russoll spent i nearly JOGOO on the production Deforo it I was shown to the public 5 j 5 5 I Luke Schoolcraft of Russells comedians i and formerly a negro minstrel was a di vinitv student in his youth and when tho late Lawrence Barrett was alive he and Mr Schoolcraft used to indulge in many a polemic discussion in which the tragedian j very often came out second best I Mme Janauschek who is resting will resume her tour after eleotion Tho prin j clpal play she will give during the remainder j remain-der of the season will be Macbeth She I will receive ber principal support from Edmund I Ed-mund Collier a young actor who was a star a season or so ago I 5 Mrs Carter will bid goodby to Miss Relyett at the end of the present season and go back to emotional work The now play which David Belasco baa written for the actress is called Heart of Maryland and it is said to contain lots of tears for the star I Mr Daly announces that he has In rehearsal re-hearsal a new eccentric comedy which ho has adapted from the German It is be lioved to be Mischs Die Strohwittwe a comedy said to be full or amusing complications compli-cations During the season Mr Daly intends in-tends to revive The Foresters Tamins cf the Shrew As You Like it and School for Scandal 5 5 5 William H Crane has a new comedy written for him by Martha Morton which is to be put in rehearsal soon and presented at the opening play of his annual New York engagement at tho Star Theatre beginning I begin-ning in January Miss Jane Coombs has come to the front I again See is now playing Lady Deblocki and Hortense in Dickens Bleak House i I at the Operahouse Wheeling Va She is called a great actress by the Daily Intel ligencer of that city 9 k Kate Ormond circus rider died In the City of Mexico August 10 Her career under the white tents dates back to the days of Spaulding and Rogers She was a fellowapprentica with Charles W Fish now a leading equestrian FOOT LIGHTS Elsie DeWolfe who essayed the leading role in Thermidor last year has abandoned aban-doned serious roles and is now playing light comedy with Ramsay Morris company com-pany in Joseph The important tidings are conveyed from New York that Lillian Lewis in Lady LiP wears with her green tights a diamond I garter valued at 30000 It is worn just above the knee I Rhea hns returned to America from her castle in Belgium Her principal play this I season will be Josephine which made I such a favorable impression two seasons I ago agoLotta Lotta will not appear on the stage again for a year She is In a private sanitarium In New York where she has undergone a most painful and serious operation Bob Fitzsimmons the Australian pugilist pugil-ist is starring in a play which ho calls The Heroic Horseshoer It has not proved a financial success Mrs Austin Smith ne Mario Barnard I I I has been selected bv Anton Dvorak to I I slag the contralto part in his requiem under un-der his own direction in Boston Robert Mantell is said to have dropped 9000 during his six weeks at the Twenty third Street theatre New YorK city With Face in the Moonlight The new play which Augustin Thomas has written for Nat Goodwin is called In Missoury Mr Goodwld will play the part of a deputy sheriff Mr Jefferson d Angeles Is said to have taken the lead of De Wolf Hopper in public I estimation by his performance In The Lady or the Tiger tIt IB said that Janaaschek has 110 trunks full of stage attire She never throws a garment away and has the accumulations if many years News from Japan says that a number of Japanese actresses are preparing to start on a tour in Europe to illustrate the native style of acting Richard Harding Davis has written a curtainraiser founded on one of his own short stories which Edward Sothern has agreed to try The father of Haydn the composer of The Creation was a wheelwright and often scolded his eon for neglecting business busi-ness One maker of plays has seized upon the gold cure asa theme and bus made use of it for a burlesque The author is Matthew I OttMarcus Marcus Mayer expects to make a fortune this season out of his two famous stars Fanny Davenport and Mrs Bernard Becre Robert Grau a brother of Maurice Grau operatic manager is under treatment at Bellevue N Y Hospital for alcholism Wilson Barrett has arrived in New York sad will open bis American season at Philadelphia on November 7 It is said that Lottie Collins Inventor of the Boomdeay craze is to kick up the dust in Chicago shortly Annie Prlxley has successfully produced pro-duced Miss Bi the of Duluth a new comedy by W Bain Gill Mrs BernardBeere will open the magnificent mag-nificent new Manhattan opera house New York November 14 Gerster has been singing at Krolls In Berlin But her voice is a mere shadow of wbat it used to be Will McConnell has signed fa three years contract to manage Robert Downing Down-ing Stuart Robson is playing in the south where he is having his usual success Mr E S Willard has created a furor in Montreal with Tno Middleman Billy Birch the famous minstrel has finally retired from the stage The Kajanka company went to pieces last week at Siauuton Va Louise Beaudet has decided to leave Pauline Pau-line Halls opera company William T Carleton has left the Lillian Russell Opera company Edmund E Price is writing a play for I Barry and Fay Sadie Martinet has joined Rose Coghlans company son Felix Morris proposes to star next sea I |