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THE COURIER.
FRANK C. ZEHRUNG, Manager.
THEATRICAL NOTES
VOVJ MVlST SEE t
MARCH 12 AND 13
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
AND SATURDAY MATINEE
1 here is no question about it
The Greatest Play Ever Written
James A. Hepnc'i Bcaulpl Pla?
ASHORE ACRES
lender direction Hcnp? - ftlincr
Great Cast
Special Scenery
Coixijjlete Production
NOV! HlUST SEE T
EVENING PEICES--81.00, 75, 50 A&D 25 CENTS
MATINEE 75, 50 and 25 cents
Seats on sale Wednesdav- at 10 a. m. Children under 6
3Tears of ag-e cannot be admitted
JOHN DOWDEN, Jr., Manager.
One Night Only.
WEDNESDAY, MAKCfl 10
Management CharleB Frohman
TE Y0VtoUte
By Wm, Lestocq (author of "Jane") and E. M. Robson
Presented here the same as seen
FOR 200 NIGHTS
At Hoyt's Theatre, New York
Wa with the famous English
Beautv
THE GEEAT AND ONLY
SEE CISSY WINK!
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"W
FITZGERALD
In her Famous and Inimitable. Dances
A Genuine Furore Everywhere!
Prices-$l.00, 75c, 50c and 25c.
SEATS ON SALE MONDAY MORNING
Whenever a fad comes to town it
seems to be the province of the news
papers to place it before the public in
its clearest and most comprehensive
light. Next Wednesday Cissy Fitzgerald
will buret with all her fascination on
Lincoln amusement seekers in 'The
Foundling." Ask one of Cissy's host of
admirers wherein lies her great charm
and he will tell you that it is in her cap
tivating wink. Her wink has been
interviewed by The Courier and its his
tory is something like the following:
"I was born not many years ago in a
London music hall in the city of Lon
don. During a br d case of 6tage fright
on the first appearance of my mistress.
CISSY FITZGERALD.
A beardless youth roared at the wink,
and when my owner came into the wings
the manager foi got to find fault. As
nothing but my presence could have oc
casioned laughter, the experiment was
repeated with even mote satisfactory
results. One night a handsomely
dressed gentleman, with a heavy black
mustache, sat in front, and as I was
hunched by my mistress, I hit the afore
said gentleman in the head, directly
over the spot where he did his thinking.
The effect was as though he had received
a shock of electricity. He conversed
excitedly with his companion and then
left the house. Soon after my mistress
received a letter from the gentleman re
questing an interview. I went with her.
of course, and was present at the meet
ing, which included a large gentleman
with sandy hair and a quick, restless
eye, whom they addressed as George
Edwardes, The result was that my
mistress was requested to bring me to
the Gaiety theatre, London, and there
my triumphs began in earnest. I soon
came to be recognized by the most ceru
lean blood in the United Kingdom and I
brought to my mistress the large sum of
ten pun' weekly.
"Soon she went to America. The pro
gressive youth of this country appreciate
winks and I seem to be regarded as a
new variety. I was the talk of Broad
way and the clubs and brought my mis
tress much fame. Once, in Nsw York, I
happened to hit a small Braooth faced
gentleman, with a pleasant countenance
and a business-like expression. I saw
that I had made an impression, but on
asking my mistress who ha was learned
that he was Charles Frohman.
"Mr. Frohman cent for my mistress
and offered her 'one hundred pun' per
week instead of ten. You know the
rest. She is in 'The Foundling' and, as
you see, I am still with her."
Prices 81, 75c, 50s and 25c. Seats on
sale Monday, 10 a. m. sharp. Secure
your seats early.
One cannot imagine a more effective
method of stirring deep emotions in the
heart than that employed in tbo naive
symbolism in "Shore Acre3." Jamew A.
Heme's wonderfully complete, yet un
pretentious play. It contains much of
the grandeur of "I'httnatopsis'butmore
of the unaffected idyllicism and rralism
of Whitcomb Riley's poems. That man
who could go out of the theatre after
witnessing "Shore Acres" and deny hav
ing been moved might as well bo given
up by all the doctors of divinity. The
crust on bis recreant soul is too bard to
be penetrated by all your preaching and
philosophy. Hard-hearted Martin
Berry in "Shore Acres is won over Ly a
little baby. A self denying brother,
from whom he had been estranged, and
a daughter driven from home in a mo
ment of ungovernable rage, are wel
comed back with tears and melting for
giveness. The rude simplicity, the open
hearted homelife.the never-to-be-realized
dreams and the final resignation and
contentment in the lot of the sterling
American farmer-folk form the subject
of Mr. Heme's play. He has avoided
all melodramatic subterfuge, and by
the simplest and most natural conduct
has attained a sublimity of play-acting
hardly to be found in any other produc
tion now before the public.
In "Shore Acres" there is a lesson, but
no moral. The lesson is for the numer
ous profession of players. He has gone
further than Den man Thompson in
"The Old Homestead'' and has a work
that can do more for the uplifting of the
stage than all the magazine articles
written in a lifetime. No laws of human
life have been violated in the v'vid con
struction of his plot and nothing save
the mest ordinary acts of human beings
is utilized in its presentations, yet the
play is one of unmeasured fascination
for the beholder. Nothing can now be
recalled in a decade that approaches
'-Shore Acres' and it is almost safe to
say years will pass before anything to
equal it will appear. Indianapolis Jour
nal.
At the Funke Friday and Saturday
nights and Saturday matinee, March 12
and 13. Evening prices, $1, 73, 50 and
25 cents; matinee, 75, 50 and 25 cents.
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