Show I II I i Plays and Player People If II III I III II I It Good Goo I no h to Ent Bitt The Gingerbread Man r n la is gool good goodenough enough to cat enL Rather a small inal i audience tried to bite of him last night and antI liked him There will bo be a bl bigger Jer I audience tonight I All the action Is divided Into two parts The 11 first firsts Ill I'll t Is s in Santa Cla Chads Clatis J land and there ther arc are In sl sight hL all th the things s sou you ou wanted canted for tor Christmas when you ou were a ell child lid Tho The other is tin till region of huns buns and sugar plums And there thero la in all nIl manner of candy built ui up Into th the th walls of houses I Thc They have one awful wicked charI char char- I actor the flue the no Bogey OY Man Man and and a dragon dragoi 01 I that maintains n. n ton tongue ue of real fire tire Otherwise the company Is composed d df man many pretty women with all nil mannor mannor man nor ner of or pretty costumes some sonic full rull am and spine some overflowing and some principals principal that are worth while Of these latter Fred Fre l J. J NI Nice e as the tho Gingerbread ManIs Man Is the chief But nut Carrie Major 1 and Item ROSR Sno Snow Anti and James cE 1 and Mabel Da and ln Nellie Nice Mice Ice nn and Lillian Jacobs an antill and Frances FranceE Kellogg Kel KI the till magnificent el E Evelyn n 10 logg J are adequate support The song do not especially Impress me mC Tr- Tr seem to lack that adaptable wIth with the e exception of the John Do Doe song without song without which comic opera m mul- mul l idles odies are arc weak But the tho whole thing Is so pleasant pheasant so tending to recoil the tho big things 8 of childhood the childhood tho onh onlY time when triton things were we're really bl big big si s I pretty th In fancy and so delightful i in fun tun that ono opo can easily find the secret secre of Its success For it haw has been heen ver very successful wherever It has been lIeen in tho the two year years C of tr Its life ute It Il Is good for the tho grownups grown grown- ups tins and a a. pack of fun for the chil- chil dren L L. LA A A. l 1111 A superior bill 1111 of or attractions Is b beIng being be be- In Ing given at tIe the this w wool el elThe The Tho famous troupe of at acrobats acrobats acro- acro bats heads the bill Mr rr Theodore Lords There will be a to fifteen and twenty twenty- five cent matinee of at King of or th the Opium Ring lUng at t the Grand Gran theater th this afternoon and a n performance tonight at nt Mr r. r Lorch Is admirably cast casl In as Yah t Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese Highbinder The t th the e company havo have roles of or value and the whole production Is a pleasing one N Capacity A Japanese Courtship continues t to draw capacity houses at the Lyric Th The sixteen girl Irl chorus In tuneful songs retty drills and new dances is one ono o othe of the features of ot the bill Tho The solo an and ancl ensemble work worl are arc also away awny above the average A number of the songs song are proving decided hits and are arc being whistled about town A change chanSe of bill Is announced fo for fr tomorrow evening on one of best operettas operetta being the of of- of foring- foring To the thirty people to appear In this will be added little Miss St StClaire StClaire StClaire Claire monolo monologist par excellence wll wil run through the tho re remainder re- re of or tho the w week ek |