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Show I I With the First JSfighter. n? I I J To what fearful abuses are the United States I ! 'J mails subjected. Already the dope sheets from IB ,t the overworked press agents are beginning to '- drift westward, and as usual, many a dramatic 'j critic grasps this stuff and publishes it. Not be- I cause it is good stuff not because he knows any- a j thing of the performances it heralds, but because .1 ' . the summer is hot and ennui is contagious. But H ij J I it is a shame to so deceive the public, bprause I II when the weather changes and the theater habit I ' grows again and a new play is announced Milady H I ' say' "Jonn yu must get tickets, I saw in the H II ! Daily Con that the performance is the best ever," IH fl i and John takes a chance, then curses the paper, H i ' and goes to the next theatrical graft the same 9 ' way. v l it I Chicago's Latest Musical Comedy Success. ! "The Tenderfoot," is the latest imposition to be I I touted from sea to sea. And from the boosting it ! i is receiving, no wonder it will succeed when it ( starts west. Stories and incidents, ana pictures are flashed, and even The Theater gives the ven- i'' ture a couple of pages of guff. The fact is cited that the comedy is having a wonderful success in ' Chicago, with the inference that it must be good. The inference is wrong Chicago is a jay town in i more ways than one, but especially is this so re- j gardlng theatricals. I saw the jayest looking audience I ever saw in a theater at the Dearborn a M J , few weeks ago, and watched it go crazy over the H r '"j stupid antics of one Gilbert Gregory, who plays m lis Bill Barker in "The Tenderfoot." They clapped, H f and yelled, and laughed at everything said and B j done, and apologetically, the little lady on my H fi i , ' right whispered that the mob was a representa- B f J ' tlve audience. K JT i I I t5 w v H Si- Richard Carle is clever. He is Prof. Zachery B ? Pettibone, L. L. D., B. A., of St. Johnsbury, Ver- H J I mont, and a traveling tutor to a bunch of girls, Hi j graciously called "Gibson," in the programme. As H k a matter of fact, they are probably the worst spe- H . cimens ever witnessed. The professor is lamb- H like, and the comedy is supposed to come in in H ' the experiences he has among cowboys, Indians, g greasers, etc., on the Texas bender, where the i. scene is laid. The play is full of old stunts, anti- f f quated remarks, chestnut situations and inferior I $ music. However, there is one song, used by m I Pettibone and a marrow-boned chorus, that is the B I prettiest, catchiest thing on the stage. It is called m ? "My Alamo Love," and after you hear it you want B n it. In fact no home should be without at least m 1 1 one copy. It is as refreshing as a change of alti- iB g i tude and should have a place alongside the Cas-H Cas-H i toria bottle. "The Chinese Honeymoon" is running full blast at the Illinois theater, and fortunately it will i be here next winter. Seabrooke is funnier than f ever, and Katie Barry as Fi Fi is worth excursions 1 from the nearby settlements. Ben Howard, well-known here with the Nelll and Frawley companies, also has a good part In H the production. B- jx jt & m . The best thing in Chicago was the Weber- B 1 J l! Fields star company at the opera house. Their B f if : parody on Clyde Fitch's, "The Stubborness of Ger- j j i aldine," under the title of "The Stickiness of Gela- H J, tine," is one of the cleverest of their many bur- H 1 lesques. Willie Collier and Pete Dailey are ex- Wmm f cruciating, and Joe Weber is perfect as the BB I JjM Fraulein. The thing goes with, a whirl and a H I dash and a never ceasing wit that is a world beat- JH er. Just to make the first nlghters' mouth water, H i here is part of the programme of the Weber- BB jl Fields but this is as near as you'll get to them H If unless you go east. They never come west, the BH j$ snap is too certain where they are. IBSl IIIIIMMlllMMMMMMM "THE STICKINESS OF GELATINE," With the following cast of town clowns: Count Careless Kidney, a hungry Hungarian Lew M. Fields Lord Spillberries, an expatriated "Johnnie" . . . Peter F. Dailey Mr. Brightun, a mode husband Charles A. Bigelow Ship's Doctor Tom Collins Steward Joseph Torpey Paprika V. L. Ossman Goulash Henry Six Buda F. E. Dunn Pesth F. A. Hoop Of the Hungarian Band. 3elatine Pang, a tearful young person with a gum-arabic disposition Fay Tompleton VI Bumpson, of Tombstone, Arizona William Collier Fraulein Krank, companion to Gelatine Joseph M. Weber Mrs. Brightun, who means well, but Louise Allen Stewardess Carrie Bowman Miss Lansing, of Michigan Ima Pratt Scene Promenade Deck of S. S. "Pneumonia." Painted by John Young. MUSIC PROGRAMME. While I. Opening Ensemble, "Gay Old Seville" Edgar Smith and W. T. Francis Song, "Yee Ho, For the Sailor's Life," Edgar Smith and W. T. Francis Sung by John T. Kelly. Song and Ensemble, 'The Leader of Vanity Fair" Robt. B. Smith and W. T. Francis Duet, "In Stage Land" Edgar Smith and W. T. Francis Sung by Wm. Collier and Louise Allen. Song, &usle Woosie" Edgar Smith and John Stromberg Sung by Peter F. Dailey. Potpourri Ensemble M a "A Buena Senorita Am I" Edgar Smith and W. T. Francis f- b "DreamOne Dream of M,e" f!. ..,.. . i Edgar Smith, W. T. Francis and John Stromberg. Strom-berg. Song "Romeo" Edgar Smith and W. T. Francis Sung by Chas. A. Bigelow. Song, "Come Down, My Evenin' Star" Robert Smith and John Stromberg Sung by Lillian Russell. Whirl II. Ensemble, "Ho! for the Sea'" R. B. Smith and W. T. Francis "Etiquette" ... R. B. Smith and W. T. Francis Sung by Peter F. Dailey. "1 Never Loved a Man as Much, as That". R. B. Smith and W. T." Francis Sung by Fay Templeton. Medley , . . , , t&, , Sung by Company, accompanied by The Ossman Banjo Quartette. 1 Part of the conversation between Dailey and Collier, on the deck of the "Pneumonia:" i "Oh, see the pretty bass." "Yes, Dog's Head and White Label." "I don't see any lobsters tonight." i "Oh, yes; there Is one" (pointing to a woman ' in the audience in a red waist). I "Where are the sardines tonight?" , "Oh, they're all in the boxes." And so on with something doing every minute. min-ute. The best vaudeville entertainment ever seen in this city for the money is the one provided by Manager Myers at the Salt Palace. It is first-class first-class in every respect, with the single exception of Hanvey and Doane, who ought to go where husky harvest hands are needed. The Apollo comedy quartette is a cracker-Jack; cracker-Jack; Dora Pelletier is a wonderful yodler, and Martin and Ridgway have a wonderfully clever act. Miss Pelletier would do well to forget her "Ben Bolt" selection, but as a whole her performance is good. The Palace is getting the packed houses it deserves. "Alladin" bows to the public at Saltalr on Monday, Mon-day, and the interest and curiosity the announcement announce-ment of the production has aroused will probably see the opening to a packed house. t i55 Marie Bates will not be with David "Warileld next season. Mrs. Carter is to revive "Zaza" with "Du Barry" next season and has demanded the , return of Mrs. Bates in her old part of the tipsy aunt. & & The first instance said to be on record in which women were admitted to the floor of the Boston Stock exchange took place lately, when four mem- bers of the "Peggy from Paris" chorus were ac-, corded that honor. V The new musical piece in which Frank Daniels Dan-iels will star next season has so far been called "The Little Jockey," but that title is likely to be changed. Daniels' recent experience on horseback horse-back whereby he was seriously injured has been taken "as a bad 'omen by the little comedian, hence the change in title. & je : After an arduous but highly profitable season, both artistically and financially, Mr. Mansfield is resting in so far as a man of his tremendous physical and mental energy ever rests. Frequent cruises around Long Island sound in his sailing yacht are his principal diversion. Mr. Mansfield's season will begin Oct. 12 at the Lyric theater, New York. It is a new playhouse, which he will dedicate by presenting for the first time on any stage a version by Mme. de Meisner of Count Alexis Tolstoi's tragic theme, "Ivan the Terrible." Later in the New York engagement he will present pre-sent "Old Heidelberg," a comedy of German student stu-dent life, which has been very successful in Germany Ger-many for the past three or four seasons arid in London last winter, when it was done by George Alexander. & & & Here's a chance for Charles Frohman, David Belasco or any of the other big producers, says the New York Sun. The latest all-star cast in "Romeo and Juliet" failed to draw, and lost a lot of money. But in the evidence of the suit for damages brought by Miss Lizzie L. Clark, a more than middle-aged lady, against Charles H. Miller, the Gl-year-old artist, the defendant confessed that he had frequently played Romeo to her Juliet in his studio in 1874. With Miller as an ardent lover and Miss Clark, who is said to weigh within a number of ounces of a quarter of a ton, as Juliet, Shakespeare might even be made to pay again on Broadway. J5 kj Viola Allen has captured Zeffle Tilbury and will take her away from Nat Goodwin. Instead of playing in the comedian's support in "A Midsummer Mid-summer Night's Dream" next season, Miss Tilbury Til-bury will have the role of Maria in Miss Allen's "Twelfth Night" company. Exchange. Fine capture that, if the disguise is good. |