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"The Fencing Master," u protty but
tnedicoro opera, played to good business
at the Lansing last Saturday evening.
The opera has undergone a complete re-
' novation since it was last here including more
handsome scenery and an excellently trained
chorus. Miss Morton is undoubtedly far
superior to Marie Tempest in the title role.
It can truly bo said that the company is better and more spirited in
every way than if was last year. Miss Morton has a winsome man
ner and her vocal qualifications aro unquestionable. Most of the
leading vocal work was well done and the inevitable comedians
made the audience laugh.
Griffith's Faust comDany, under the direction of Manager Ed. A.
Church, are now on their way to this citj fresh from their eastern
triumphs. The company is now considered almost perfect, as several
people of rare merit have been added.
Last Friday evening at the Lansing theatro Clay Clement pre
sented his new play, "The New Dominion," to a small but apprecia
tive audience. Mr. Clement is a young man, who, having had ex
perience in the supporting companies of various well-known actors,
is now engaged in an attempt to establish his own identity as a
player of merit, talent and interest. Tha task he has set for himself
is not of the easiest, for the theatre-going public, when choosing its
entertainments, likes the assurance given by well known names and
well published success, but of the final outcome of Mr. Clement's
venture there can bo no doubt. There can be no great delay in a
general finding-out of the fact that'bere is a comedian of fine talent
who, confident in his ambition, has the courage to persist in enact
ing comedy instead of caricature and in playing for whomsoever
may come to seo him, few or many with self-respect and patience
making an honest bid for public favor and making it in a manly
way. The Baron von Hohenstauffen is intrinsically a gentleman
grave, high-minded, proud and elaboratelycourteous. Hisstruggles
with the half-known English language are irresistibly laughable;
his misunderstandings are many and vastly amusing, but the char
acter is never degraded or grotesque. At the conclusion of fe play
Von Hohenstauffen remains in the memory, a complete, consistent
lovable character, a man whom one recalls as one whom one has
known.
Charity giving was made easy for the public in Kansas City last
Saturday, when in return for the price of a ticket which solely
benefitted the poor the purchaser was given a theatrical perform
ance entirely out of the common and first-class in all its features.
The members of the different theatrical company's including Eddie
Foy and his company, Two Old Cronies, McKee Rankin, Alabama
and Clay Clement. Each gave an act of their show, which was
interspersed with songs and specialties by the members of the com
panies. 81300 wis tho net proceeds and the poor people of Kansas
City will long remember the actors who helped maked tho matinee
a success.
The ministers of Port Huron, Michigan, have won the fight against
the alleged immodesty of tho show bills of the "Black Crook" com
pany. Their eyes will no longer bo confronted by pictures of female
lovliness in less than the normal amount of clothing, and the result
is brought about through the voluntary yielding of the opera house
people. The ministers asked the chief of police to remove the
obnoxious show bills, but the chief declared that ho had no author
ity to do anything of the kind, and the bills staged whero they wore.
Manager L. Bennett, of the opera house, then ordered all tho pink
bespangled forms on the billboards clothed with conventional dress
es, with all the embellishments known to fashion, and thoy were.
The garments were made of tissue paper of all sizes and colors.
They were deftly pinned on every show bill in tho city. Instead of
tho gay danseusc in pink tights one now sees on tho dead walls the
demure girl of good church society, with puffed sleoves, Uowing
skirts, etc. Tho most prudish could not find fault with tho pictures
now. But the transformation has created much amusement. The
window hangers look ludicrous and attract much attention. One
hanger shows a beautiful brunnette, arrayed in short skirts and
displaying much of her anatomy in black stockings. After the
transformation the girl is arrayed in a long sky bluo tea gown reach
ing to tho ankles. A pretty blonde in short skirts of green now
hides her form under a "mother hubbard" of coffee color. The show
played to a crowded house.
. The following are the dates at the Funko opera house: March 9,
Pure Food lecture by E. B. Worrell; March lit. Philharmonic Or
chestra; March J5, Nebraska state oratorical contest; March 21,
Ellen Beach Yaw; March 2?, A. L. Bixby.
John L. Sullivan's theatrical company playing "A Truo Ameri
can" disbanded somewhere down south. John was tho star and
he kept the balance of the company constantly remined of tho fact
as he would persist in spending the box receipts in "truo american"
style, hence the bust-up. He is now in Boston and says that most
of the stories 6ent from the south cbout him were not true, and
further than that, he has no intentions of going to Cuba or Spain
and would not entertain the idea for a moment of "doubling up with
a temperance orator." He is disgusted with the theatrical business
and hereafter proposes to look after his farm.
Theatrically Lincoln is again brightening up and a performance
which warrants due consideration from the public comes to the
Lansing Theatro Monday and Tuesday, March 11 and 12, furnished
by the inimitabla fun provoker Frank Wells, and a company of real
faceurs, including the queen of "terpsichore," Carlotta. "Tho Two
Old Cronies" wl be presented. It has been reconstructed and ad
vanced to meet the general apyroval of modern times and the man
agement not only promise a gigantic pleasure boom but the Goliah
of comedy creations. Tho seat sale is now open at regular prices.