Show AMUSEMENTS AAl Going Cing G just as far away as possible from its field of last week the Cum stock company last night jumped into the heat beat of the civil war warAn warAn warAn An exceptionally large first night au j made the jump with them and heaved a sigh of relief not at the I change but for the comparatively p few hitches that occurred I The Blue and the Gray is not a powerful play While the rebellion 1 I supplied playwrights with interesting j i material which half a century has not exhausted it gave also some material I j i which was thrown together cheaply by I cheap heap hands and turned out under de delusive delusive delusive cognomens The Blue and the Gray had a narrow escape I The play itself is the only thing about b ut th the production which might be condemned by the The company sought sou ht the plays level and made an enjoyable evening notwithstanding standing The scenic effects were fine I and the intricacies of stage direction this sort of play calls caUs for forthe the sounds of battle the martial music soldiers and all gave evidence of having re received received careful attention Mr Cummings was followed closely through his delineation of the true blue captain who loses his eyesight In bat hat battle battle hattie tle tie having first fallen in love with a 1 southern girl who eventually looks him up to marry him and takes a mort mortgage mOrtgage mortgage gage off the farm with part of her 2 fortune and it struck his friends that while he may be versatile he is a better light comedian than hero He gave the tIle same impression as the little minister last week Miss Hall bore the part of the sad anti sweet heroine with her usual good trace race and Miss Douglas gave the sis ala sister sIster I ter with excellent effect The real act acting actIng acting ing however devolved upon GIblyn Hynes and Downs all aU in char I GIblyn went from his Scotch of last week to Irish and he received a warm welcome upon his first appear appearance appearance appearance ance reminiscent of his hit In Weary wand Several times during the per performance p performance I the Gibson man had consid considerable considerable considerable erable difficulty in keeping out of Scotch Robert Cummings made a good guerrilla chief and Mr Blackmore Blackmor gave satisfaction in his two to roles The performance can be improved I some by giving the soldiers music when wh n they leave for the front at the close of the prologue and by cutting out the bayonet duel in the third act which is almost burlesque The Coleman orchestra was wel welcomed welcomed coined home and their was waso of o excellent quality I Bernhardt Bornhardt and Coquelin opened at San Francisco o last night Their en eq engagement engagement will wUl break all records for fr i that city financially i a aBarton Barton Hill the veteran actor rec re turned to 0 San Francisco from Austra lia Ba yesterday just too to late to attend att nd d the funeral of his wife who died there last Tuesday The actor was pros prostrated pros prostrated when wh n be he received the news news Q f hi wies death det upon leaving the steamer st amer The advance sale for RA A Stranger in 11 New York opened at the Theatre te yes yesterday yesterday es and indicates a abig big business I The i Cummin Company has secured N U lI fo fn production nest nAlto o week ami a the idea ide or of giving three nights i Jt of The Little Minister Mini ter has h S been abandoned The play is one in I which lda tda ada Rehan Reh n and Henrietta Cross Crossman Crossman man have haYe scored distinct triumphs it might be b called the reigning trumps dramatic dra sensation of f the year vear Yea |