| Show It THE NEW BOY f Larg ¼ Audience at the Theatre Lust a lghtIotJLITl1c Lyceum 4 small matinee indeed one of the lightest audiences ot the season and a t bumping big house in the evening with every seat down stairs occupied was the experience of Gustave Froh j mans New Boy yesterday at the 1 theatre This comedy or farce is as r much of a provokerof laughter as its companion piece Charleys Aunt but in one respect its performance is more deserving in that the leading part is 4 taken by one of the very funniest of A the comedians on the American stage Bert Coote as Archie the new boy is just a little different In his peculiar f kind of humor from anyone that has happened along here The blithering Idiocy of the part he has to sustain II H Soes not prevent Ihe audience rom keeping up some interest in the out borne of his experiment and m the founds of saTemaTkable land grotesque a comedian Itseenis to Havesomejse qu nte and purpose but after ajl it is simply a vehiclefor the carrying out of a peculiar sort of fun which amuses everybody who sees and beats it The performance Is a couple of hours oC 1n cessaAt laughter and after the people go home we doubt very much whether they cquld describe what they have been laughing about So that It Js not a heavy tax on ones intellect to see the ipjsrformance though it may be considerable consid-erable pf a strain on us to describe it In the afternoon with 1 thinly scattered scat-tered audience whose minds were benton bent-on the Christmas dinnersthat awaited fthem it did not seem hilariously funny but in the evening with a crowded house it was found thai giggling is I catching and the roars grew loud and frequent Outside of Mr Coote there are none in the company worthy of extra praise Mr Hallam as Doctor Candy has a fine appearance and well fills a comparatively easy role Mr Lotto as Felix has a good deal of unctious fun in him But the rest are fairly standard only The New Boy will be given again tonight for the last time and will be followed on Thursday night by the first appearance of the Calhoun opera company in Arn rita The popularity popular-ity of Amorita Is recorded in operatic history and its appearance carries assurance as-surance of renewed success especially I when the chief characters are enacted I by players and singers who have themselves them-selves won popular favor In the cat will he sen such popular artists as Miss Alice Beauvet leading soprano Miss Adele Farrington lead ing contralto and soubrette Mr George Lyding leading tenor Mr Anthony B Wagner leading baritone and Messrs I Douglas Flint and Teddy Webb comedians com-edians With the company is a full orchestra of more than usual merit Tilts Opera House A wellfilled house in the evening and a light matinee with Moths still holding the boards The performance continues to be smooth and gives general gen-eral satisfaction The music under Prof Engberg Is much improved Moths will continue for the rest of the week and will then be taken off to make room for London Assurance The makeup of the company is such that they should play this well Lyceum Briant Youngs company at the Lyceum Lyce-um under his own management in Rip Van Winkle have been giving very fair performances to good houses and at the popular prices give the audience audi-ence good value received tIThe tI-The Mosqueraders has caught New York YorkEsmeralda Esmeralda has been revived at Palmers Pal-mers I Harrigans work an Notoriety ds i roundly praised by the critics I ROo Roy is running in New York and there are no signs of a letup On Friday January 11 the lOath performance perform-ance of the opera will be celebrated The story that Odette Tyler Is reengaged re-engaged to Howard Gould ds once more gping the rounds Her father says her retirement from the singe is due to ill health i Fanny Davenports iboldness in bring ing out Gismonda will be financially well rewarded The play than undoubtedly undoubt-edly pleased the New York public risque as it 5s tin spots An exquisite souvenir Is being prepared pre-pared by Managers Whitney and Evans for the 100th performance of Rob Roy which occurs at the Herald quare theatre New York on Friday January 11 There is no farce New York has ever had that has made people laugh so heartily or pleased the public so universally uni-versally as Too Much Johnson which is now nearing its fiftieth performance per-formance at the Standard theatre Mr Daly will open his next London season on May 20 and he announces among other things that Mr D5xey will go with him This will be Dixeys first iprofessional visit to London since his memorable engagement in Adonis Adon-is when he was very nearly hissed off the stage on the opening night by an organized cabal |
