Show theatrical LEW dockstader DOOK STADER the remarkable showing made by lew dockstader and his great minstrel company compana this season hak bas beckma current hafk in the theatrical world Through throughout the southern states thu tho theatrical business has suffered red generally py hy reason of the financial panic fifty three different snow a numbering among them forty odd first clas attractions tract tr lons tried the southern states and gave up in disgust Bli business was stagnated and they prof preferred prefer erred wd to their season and return to new york rather than lose all the money they had made before the money trouble e 1 started 1 this was not a a very alluring outlook for sir air dockstader when he closed ills annual bew ew york engagement but h be kept right on his route as s he had booked it without missing a single town the result has caused universal astonishment ilo iio has haa broken every record he holds bolds luring during an experience of thirty years never has he play played eill to such business and when anyone tells tho the minstrel now that theatricals are at a low jow ebb he simply I 1 laughs at them of df course there Is a reason for hlll big bushness busl ness he has surrounded him i self with the very best talent that money will hire and has put together an entertainment that for laughing purposes and beauty of music and scenic Infest investiture iture has ha never been approached pro ached in a similar production all al the old favorites remain and there arc arf za a host of now new faces each representing sonic some brand now new acquisition to tho the show mr dockstader has met with ut lingual iqual idled success in his impersonation of president roosevelt in a sketch which Is called A dull day at the white house it te Is during this travesty on the chief executive that ta tho he minstrel indulges in tho the local allusions thit that have made him famous and earned him the aarl sobriquet quat of the alan of the hour |