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Show jayhouses of New York " !SK Fob. 20 Theatricals' juict just at Present, al-0f al-0f tlio Broadway plays null. The Slmborts riddr-d; bv to the season on Won t hey presented .Twin .Tw-in "The CfoddoM o Rca-In Rca-In this drama aiaryl fHrnielvcd Mira MarlowoJ r,.0 for tho e.vprcssiou ofj 7 lalonts. The nclrcssj Sc, n Breton peasant Kir tensely exacting, and tnj Eton's latest drninntfc efJ fib events of I ho Frcnelr Zen 1791 and .1704. It flvo acts and six scenes, hv several lyrm passages, ce'omc identified with the movement while if is at ;ho i3 t-Iie natural dauch-ich dauch-ich nobleman and a peas' orbec, and the height of nd the lust for the blood :rats is as fierce in that go as in the Place do la Iivetio and Dc Vardes meet 10b is attempting to sack chateau. Dc "Vardes has before, iu the mystic Paiiu-and Paiiu-and the memory of her per left him. The chateau nd Do Vardes places the Convent of the Visitation o await tho passing of tho caves tho caro of the nuns Iouev, as she is told that iinlovo with tho Marchion-)o Marchion-)o Blanchcforet. They moot tor in tho square of 2s antes. )f terror iB in full sweep, has been ' chosen as tho Season, to whom tho almost aco pays homage. . Do ) had been in prison and resent at tho ceremony, and 1 by Redmond Ltlain, dep-annes, dep-annes, a former friend of and. now a sweetheart of i Vardes is seized by tho i rescued by Yvcttc. Tho is for tho innrchionesa, who ihuid thG tri-color, but tho jealousy 13 again aroused breast and sho denounces to tho mob. Then tho girl too late, Tho tumbrils take "era to the guillotine, among co De Blauchoforot. Do indcmncd to bo thrown into In prison Yvetto learns des that ho loves her, and iORthor in the river. ues conspicuous merits as. jtst sometimes nearly reach-height reach-height of tragedy. n Abo," a historical drama fi of the civil war, was pro-lvcning pro-lvcning at the Ilnclcett ,the-entbusiastic ,the-entbusiastic and admiring Benjamin Chapin, author ' tho play, which covers a 1 Lincoln's emancipation of :o tho president's assassiua-1 assassiua-1 most oapablo Lincoln, as in and physique he bears a ig resemblance to the char-ways. char-ways. Mr. Chapin is sup-t sup-t nomas "Williams, who is ex-Stanton, ex-Stanton, the secretary of Miss Caroline Harris wins ipplauBc as Mary Todd Liu-resident's Liu-resident's wife. iner Was tho tenant of the hoiiEo this week with his wnantic comedy, "The Hon-mdy. Hon-mdy. This is Mr. Skin-engagement Skin-engagement a. Manager popular playhouse and' his Hfei . t0 metropolis since his IBfc,vp,ro.sPcrous engagement at tho t water last season. - BRfi?n8.,acts wo added to the KvQe? this week." They were' & ,B'Z performing stalliaiis, tho HTvcr. so,1-0 ,,ovel riding acts, K"G wt;ll done, and the Kudara Tcrobats. , Then there wrt HBwA ii S18t0r3 and tho- Athlotos, Sis y.er P"formcrs. The spec-' KP,miik,.'Dr.V8" the.'Bal-BpgdjW the.'Bal-BpgdjW with the "beautiful 'gramme which was one of tho bct ever seen at this big playhouse. t-H"or tr l Sam Bernard, in I" Nearly n Hero,'' Pleased large audiences at . the West laid theater. , Fred Trwinjs big .show nt Ilurtig & Sparnou s musif hall presented the fui.nv farces 'nUtlc-l ''The Great Win ft Clnt'a - Lnaics 'Dny.at the Actors . . D:V'.ia "iRirins', a star familiai-v known 111 this aity, was scon at the Metropolis Mica tor m his new play, ".Captain Clay w 2r?88 vi1"1, a J'.o Crania was written by. David and.MiUon Uiggins. The rw!,C?-nrA(1 ,n h9 mythical town of Co.rnvjlic, Mo., and it is the Into Mis-soun Mis-soun flavor. Mildrod Holland's interpretation of iho character of that most notable of ,lmiSiaS.vomo,u' Catherine the Great, in "Uic Triumph of an Empress," at tho lorkville theater, is a great achieve-mcntand achieve-mcntand was fully appreciated by au- dienccs that did not stint their enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, strong in the early .acts whore Catherine is shown as a ho3'den full-of tomboy tricks and rollicking humor, hu-mor, Miss Holland rises well to the climaxes cli-maxes of the fourth and fifth acts, which aro full of dramatic power. The play is lavishly staged. ' Harry- Lauder 'a -engagement- at-Bla--ncy's Lincoln nSquarc theater closed, on Tuesday evenng, and 'Arry sailed for Liverpool on " ednesday. Hcadlincrs in vaudeville for this week included tho following: At tho Victoria "Circumstantial Evidence," Princess Raiah, "At the Country Club." Prank Fogarty, Miss Edna Augg, Jack "Wilson Trio, Chnlk Saunders. At tho Colonial Jinny' Bulger, Miss Henrietta Byron. Empire City Quartet, The Gibson Girl Review, Miss Clara Nelson, Miss Agnes Scott and Horace Wright. At tho Alhambra Miss Blanche Ring, John B. Hymcs & Co., "Willard Simms, Edward Connellj', Abdul Under and His Three "Wives, Julius Tnnnen. At thcPifth Avenue "Spirit Land," Burr Mcintosh, Nichols Sisters. Charles R. Sweet. Ed Wynne, Jano Courthope, Roiner's Fourteen Tyroleans. At 125th Street theater Montgomery & Mooro, ."W. C. Fields, Do Haven and Parker, Camillc -D'Arvillc, Howard and North. At 'tho 'American Alexander Orr & Co.,, Miss Lucy Weston, Miss Emma Carus. I . " . TTolbrook Blinn is to play tho part of Thibault; the young Jew-baiter, when Bernstein's "Israel" is produced here. Mrs. Lcslio- Carter gave a performance-of. "Zaza" in rho Liberty-theater on Thursday afternoon. V - r Among promised now plays ie "The Conflict." b'v Maurice V. Samuels, It is described'as psychic, and "was suggested sug-gested by one of Balzac's stones, "Lc Pcau dc Chngrim" u The principal male part in "Tho Flag Lieutenant," a piece that ban been vory popular iu London, where it was produced, pro-duced, by Cyril Maud,, will bo played here by "Bruco McRnc. H . The first performance of "A V.ro-man's V.ro-man's Way'' in tho Hackett theater will .'occur .oh 'Monday af J,crno,on. ; t 4 Gnrlota Nillson will begin, an engage-, ihont in Maxino Elliott's theatre in "This Woman and .This Man," 11 new play by .Avery JITopwopd. . ' Charles Frohman has engaged Williiim Hawtrov to appear in the Prt ot Mr. Brown. Jn t,l)c coming prorJuetion of (.uv du - Mauricr's y An lCuglisb'mnn. s llomc. ' - - have charge of the programme. Mr. Coop will increase his theater orchestra to thirty men, aiid will assist the festival festi-val chorus in presenting "Fair Ellen.',' by , Max Bruoh. This- work will renuiro about thirty minutes. Besides Be-sides this there will be a short miscellaneous mis-cellaneous programme of orchestral numbers. The Salt Lake male chorus, -whic lutook-tho-first-prize -a t-thcrecout eisteddfod., will render two nnmbors. Miss Edna Kvhns will sing the soprano so-prano role in "Fair Ellen." and Ilo.raco .S... Ensign will take tho bari-tono bari-tono part. Both theso organizations have been working, hard the last two weeks in preparation for this cvont. Mr. Coop is now arranging tho numbers num-bers for the first part or this, programme. pro-gramme. This city will, bo on the itinerary of Mada'me Nazimova, who is to make a tour of tho larger Pacific coast cities this spring. The news that this wonderfully successful star is to coma west will bo of great' interest to those who have followed her rcniark-ablo rcniark-ablo course in Now York and liavo read so much of her in tho magazines. Nazimova has for two 3'cars played steadily on Broadway, and has given intellectual drama an impetus such as it has seldom known, bho came to America threo 3'oars ago, with the OrlonelT players, and nppearcd in plays in her nativo langungo, attracting so much attention t that Loo Shubort induced her to sign a contract and study English, Hor mastery of pnro language in less than six months was a notable thing, and her triumph at her first performance in "Hcddu Gablor" was so astonishing that she was nt oucp established in tho Princess, and later in .tho Bijou, where she remained re-mained for two years, offering Ibsen plays, and has boon received with enthusiasm en-thusiasm everywhere. Sam S. and Leo Shubort arc directing Madame Nazimova Nazi-mova 's tour, and will send hor to tho coast with three cars of stago settings and her Now York company. Grand opera will occupy the attention atten-tion of tho local theater-goers and music lovers at tho Colonial theater for four, nights and ono matinee, commencing com-mencing March 3, when tho Lambardi company begin thoir engagement. Only five performances will bo given hero, and thoro can bo no extonsion of the season, as the company is booked for J many months ahead. This is the fifth western" four, of the Lambardi com- j pnnv, but tho first to visit hero, and if the jiatronage is onough to warrant a visit each year, Salt Lakors aro promised an ongagemont cvcr3' 'car wlii'ib will equal tho coming ono. The company was .organized in Milan, Italy,- tho" principals all coming from the lending opera houses of-Italy, Russia. Rus-sia. Fratwe, Germany, " Austria and .Spain. and . aro some of the noted of ;lhe. European "world, although-some names aro not familiar to Salt Lakers. The repertoire hero will- be "Luein." Wednesday night; "11 Trovatorc," Thursday night; "Carmen." Fr'uhn' |
