Show The Corner Grocery ToNight I 3 house packed to the doors aid an audience kept laughing every half minute min-ute during the progress of a play says the New York Xcws is any indication of along a-long run then Mr Dan Sully the Irish comedian and Michael Nolan in the Corner Grocery or the Bad Forgetful Boy has come to Tony Pastors theatre to stay Of all pieces ever seen on the stage for knockabout farce it takes precedence pre-cedence Persons who go to see the Corner Grocery need not expect the elegance of The School for Scandal nor the brilliant wit of London Assurance Assur-ance but in lieu thereof there is an amount of roughandtumble fun and humor which the most taciturn cannot resist There is a story in the playa string on which to hang the comical doing of the comedians and to give the Bad Boy a chance to perpetrate his neverceasing and amusing deviltries While in rapid succession such scenes are enacted as would do credit to the acrobatic and pantomimic skill of the Hanlon brothers there are touches of very clever comedy acting which even as it relieves the rougher portion of timework time-work sets the audience shouting with laughter Though the fun is not of the most polished kind there is nothing in the play to offend the most fastidious The work of the comedians may be called clowning but it is rely good clowning and stolid indeed must be those who can resist its mirthprovoking influence Mr pan Sully gives an exceedingly clever impersonation of Michael Nolan and he looks acts and talks like the proprietor of a corer grocery who had a bad boy He is very droll and his songs are given with musical ring and good expression is a picture in makeup and a neverend doings mg cause of laughter from his comical |