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Katie Etnniett. at the Funke last
Thursday evening, played to a good
house for there times. As principal
boy she is a success and with the ex
ception of slapping her thigh constantly
she was perfectly at home in boy's
clothes. The play has nothing original,
nothing specially interesting about it
and jet it interests. The child of rich
parents stolen and about to be murdered
by the thief to secure the inheritance
for the next heir; rescued by Katie Era
mett, the newsboy, in every ecence and
finally restored to a heartbroken father
just as she has got into comfortable
quarters on her own account, is a stage
tory repeated it would seem too fre-
quently to be thrilling yet the applause
could not show more uncontrollable
gratitude to the heroic newsboy for the
rescue 01 me cuim u ob uhu realty uone
wnai ue seemea 10 ao.
Frederic Roberts as "Pietro Bams,'
the Italian cut throat, was a heartless
villain who would as coon kill as scowl.
Harry West as "Hans Schaeidcrkopt"
had the fat part of the German emi
grant. But he imparted to it a flavor of
his own individuality and made . a hit.
Jennie Engle, as the "Widow McShane
played up to the Dutchman, tier ac
tivity with her feet, her tongue and her
hands showed an Irish woman at her
funniest.
Iu "Darkest Russia" at the Lansing,
is a Nihilist play, that is. if the Nihilist
cause can be presented from the 6tand-
point of the government. Ibe knout
in the hand) of an irresponsible Russian
noble, the chains and the prisons of Si
beria were on the 6tage and, I suppose,
they looked as much lie the Russian
real thing as stage houses and propertj's
ever resemble their prototypes. The
red and green costumes of the soldiers
of the czar, are more brilliant than an
eighteen ninety-six campaign costume.
The play is sensational, the plot is fresh-
ened up a bit by a Russian background,
t- 11 u : -Li 1
wuica uuuougu n uiigui. um teem
homelike to a Russian rfas foreign to
americans.
Sidney R. Ellis, manager and actor, is
supposed to represent the typical
American en route in Europe,
bluff, hearty off-hand independ-
ent, boastful and all that. In
point of fact there is no such thing as a
typical American. The New York man
of the world can not be distinguished
from a London or Boston man, except
by a trick of provincialism in tbe Lon
don man. Pollish Las almost made
types impossible. Even as far west aB
this there is no tvpical Colonel Septimus
Cobb. He used to live here but he has
moved further west. Still as a type of
what is supposed to be American Mr.
Ellis was breezy and agreeabln in spito
of his flippant references to his deceased
wives.
Madam Carina Jordan as the Baron
is von Rhineberg, was an infatuated
widow. Her idolatry of the Colonel was
so complete that she uted his slang as
if it were choicest English. The stage
setting wa better than the ordinary
travelling company.
"The Gay Parisians' played to good
business at the Lansing on Tuesday
evening. It was a better house than
Lincoln has furnished an excellent com
pany for some time, and a better house
than this company has yet played to in
tbe west. In tbe cast of sixteen
persons there was not a poor actor.
Tbe setting of the stage divided into
three compartments, with the open sides
toward the audience recalled "A Trip
to Chinatown.-' Friends and relatives
THE COURIER.
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separated by only a thin partition, and
supposedly ignorant of each other's
presence, gives to the audierce a feel
ing of an impending divorce or catastro
phe which, of couree, gratifies the latent
taste for "scraps" not yet eliminated
from our savage natures. But the situ
ations and dialogue were not shocking
nor riaque enough to explain the ad
vance notices which preceded them. I
wonder if the intimations which
the advertisements conveyed were
a reason for the siza of the house. So
far as that goes the audience was dis
appointed in its expectations or fears,
whichever they were.
oaaie xaariinoi. as "Aiarceil. was
fa9c;natimrlv feminine. She .W not
show the pa48ag0 of time except in a
carefuny repressed embonpoint. The
maj(l Victorinf '
Margate t Gordon-
came op to the French idea of feminin
ity and the Southern. The type is not
without au audacious charm of its own,
but when th'ey get old!
W. J. Ferguson as "Mr. Pinglet" had
the dry humor and non-resistant method
of accomplishing a victory that Sol
Smith Russell has made popular. But
he was funnier than Mr. Russell live
lier on his feet, graceful to slow music,
and not quite so mummified. James
O. Barrows, the fussy, stupid old
lawyer, who stuttered only when it
rained, was capital, All of the company
were good and eomeof them were better.
It Lincoln people do not turn out in
great numbers to gooJ shows the place
is in danger of taboo with first-class
stock companies. When the fairest
and best no longer visit ua we will real
ize what we baro lost.
Tho Bittucr Repertoire company,
which played the week at the Funke,
gave good satisfaction and something to
boot in the way of watches and dolls,
Their repertoire is a largo one, and
gives each member of the companv a
chance to show his talent. The dancing
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huh singing oi oaoy uail snowed good
training and original talent. She is a
fair-haired, plump little girl who wears
short-sleeved dresses. Her arms are
pink and dimpled, and ber baby ways
are winning. Mr. Bitner is fittingly at
the head of the company on account of
his talent aB an actor and as a stage
manager,
Christine Nilsson is living in Madrid.
Her bedroom wa'ls are papered with
leaves of music from the operas in
which she has sung.
Sarah Bernhardt will recite a poem
by Sully-Prudhomme before tho Czar
and Czarina at Versailles this week
The following from tbe Mirror indi
cates that actors are further above re
proach than members o other profes
sions: The Mirror, several weeks ago, com
menfing upon the statistics of arrests
furnished by a western city, called at
tention to the small number of theatri
cal persons who figured in a showing
that included many more from each of
otber respectablo vocations like the
law, medicine and the church.
The New York Sun the other day
published an article to the same effect
based on police figures for this city.
New York is a place in which actors
and others associated with tbe theatres
congregate at all seasons. Yet the of
ficial report of arrests in this city for
the three first months of 189U shows
that among the 25.0J0 persons taken
into custody there were but eighty-two
"who described themselves as actors,
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