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Show In Playhouses oflvi Special to The Tribune. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. There was a largo and enthusiastic audience at the opening" Monday night of the Gaiety theater, at Broadway and Forty-sixth, street, wth George E. Cohan in "The Yankee Prince" as tho first attraction. Cohan & Harris and Klaw & Erlanger are the lesees and managers of this, the newest playhouse in the cit3 and Cohan, with . his company, moved up from the Knickerbocker theater for a. special week's engagement. Tho Gaiety offers a return to au old idea in theater construction, in that it is built on a small scale, there beinc seats for only 335 persons. This means that everybody every-body is brought within easy hearing distanco of the stage. The structured decorations are in Louis Quiuz style. The main entrance is in Forty-sixth street, but there is a secoud entrance on tho Broadway side. From the main entrance extends a foyer the full width of the theater. a Matched by nothing in the way of soleudor of settings and rof-tuines save bv the ambitious productions of our t two graud opera-houses is "Algeria,"; the new musical play by Victor Herbert Her-bert and Glen Macdouough, which , came to ihe Broadway theater this, week. In tho dressing of Herbert 's i latest score. Frauk McKee has made, an outlay of $o0.000. The Paradise j number is tho crowning seenc of the play. Here arc shown forty costumes I in bird-of-paradise effect, not only as to j glittering hats, but as to the ballet 1 skirts and as to tall waving fans in ' the hands of one of the prettiest group I of show girls Broadway ever has 1 had the pleasure of seeing. If there is any fault in this part of the spectacle I it is that it lasts for a iimc all too , 1 short. Auother knock-out effect is the i Saharan sirocco, which closes tho first j ; act. All storm scenes the stage has ' : seen pale away to nothing by com- parison with the art and realism'of this one. The electrical devices used for I tho purpose accomplish it in a way that (sets a uew standard iu this kind of 1 stago wizardry. In the music there is no doubt that Victor Herbert has outdone out-done all his former successes. The score sweeps the range from the 1 sonorous and swelling notes of grand 1 opera to tho lilting measure of the tunc i they all whistle in the streets. One J is rominded at once of "Aida" and , "Babes in Tdylanr.." Although em-1 barrassed by a cold,- Ida Brooks Hunt. I the prima donna, rose to the full powers, 1 of her rich voice in tho song. "Twilight 1 in Barakeesh," whero the fine chorus and delightful orchestration aided her in achieving a vocal victory. This song was good for four encores, and well deserved de-served it. By virtue of a winning personality per-sonality and a captivating- grace. 110 less than by the melody of the- numbers which fell to her, Harriet Burr wou tho most honors. "Ask Her When the Baud is Playing" is a bowitching waltz number which most of the audience was whistling with Miss Burt- after she hud been called on to repeat it seven or eight times. The plot, which deals with a Sultana's love for an unknown poet, is thin aud uninteresting. Some of tho lyrics are successful, and here and there is a line which raises a laugh. This week Charles Frohman made a stage production of evory evening except ex-cept Friday. Tuesday night, at the Garrick, "The Mollusc"; Wodnesday night. "'The Girls of Gottcnberg," at tho Knickerbocker theater: Wednesday night also, J. M. Barrio's new plaj "What Every Woman Knows," at the Duke of York's thenter. London; Thursday Thurs-day night, "The Thief," at tho Empiro theater; Saturday night, "Diana of Dobspn'p," at the Savoy theater: on the samo evening, "Paid in Full," at the Aldwich theater, London, and a special spe-cial production of "Peter Pan," at Perth, Australia. - Resplendent in her new fall milincry, "The Merry Widow" climbed down fro nit tlhj New Amsterdam theater's roof garden to the theater proper Monday Mon-day night, where she settled down for hor autumn Tun. Despitd tho fact that the three hundredth and sixth-fifth pre-scusation pre-scusation of the. tuneful operetta was given, there is evidently no dirjiiuu-tion dirjiiuu-tion iu its popularitj'. Monday night's performance introduced Miss Georgia Cainc to tho patrons of tho New Amsterdam theater in tho rolo of Sonia, the merry widow. Miss Caine is; the sixth prima donna to essay this role sinco it. had its regular premiere 1 in this city a year ago. Her charm and j graco wore manifested from the moment j she made her entrance. Miss Cainc sang just as delightfully as of yoro, and her daucinjj proved irresistible. Completely redecorated and refurnished, re-furnished, tho Metropolo theater opened its season with "Tho Governor and the Boss," an intensely dramatic play, treating of political corruption and with the advantago of a moving love story- The interior of the theater now presents pleasing coutrasts in light green and gold. William H. Turner was received with favor as Big Tim Mc- Cormick, the boss in the case. Gertmdo Hoffman, in her dances, "A Vision of Salome" and " Mendelssohn s Spring Song." formed the chief feature in the closiug week's bill on the Ham-merstcin Ham-merstcin rpof gr.rden. Sho will be Hie stellar offering in the Victoria, begun- The Colonial IW,. season, .offoriuV ae r(MH S -l suii8l:c'1 bj Ijvo siaairjB tirriUi 0r "fit tb'lH crowded8 liSl';' ' th," i his appearance in Bl ?on tucater. v.ith HoberV?K leading rolv of 'HV'TMl North " is a'notller tfer fcettmg his' sleep iujhc dB tiou 01 Osven KiMarc'j Wmmml ' smmm the least. Ir. SavVUB work at t hat houss, amiYI away people every jiRnufH The Belasco tlu-aier. iliR . liss portraying "The Dcrii'Mf ! audiences at even- wrictmwmWt is limited onh bv Smmmm stands at the entrance ''B Weber's theater place where ihe tvro' Kll fiftieth performance of SnmUm it Kemper offering. "hif'jH ' will take place. This rhrlK , running a lonjr time in JTerlB; ! The Asior theater. wi iP-Hodge iP-Hodge i. no plaving b IBtt; I From Home." h'czt, b( UBtV 1 crowded Broadway houa iBu j theater, where Donjf S pleases a capacity hoae arklJBP Tfupert Hughes corned;, "B'wMp 1 Girl," is in need cl'aktftMoMkx accommodate the njt liti-'WmWM got in. The . Hacbil teaiH John Mason is, vlijbi &jkWm 1 year's run of ftrjiiitkisc wBm is a biiFv place mMiuiiHl seems that "The it&ig ftjHI as good for another m.trUHU year ago. Jt. |
