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THEATRICAL NOTES
FRANK C.ZEIIRUNG, Manager.
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ALL NEXT WEEK
The originator of repertoir
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Presenting
"MY IRISH QUEEN,"
"THE EVIL GENIUS,"
"THE INSIDE TRACK,"
"THE CROSS OF GOLD,"
"HER ENEMIE'S HAND,"
"FALLEN AMONG THIEVES."
And
"DON CAESAR DE BAZAN"
Prices 10c, 20, 30c. A ladies' free ticket
given with ever' reserved seat ticket pur
chased at the advance sale before 6 p. m, Seats
now on sale. Matinee Saturdar, 10c and 25c.
THE LANSING THEATRE,
JOHN DOWDEN, Jit., Manager. '
"THE WORLD IS MINE!"
One Night Only.
TUESDAY, MARCH 23
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The prince of romantic actors
MR0 JAMES O'NEILL
"Shore Acres" filled the Funke on
Friday and Saturday night and Satur
day matinee. They might have played
several nights more to the same crowds.
The play is so refreshing, not stagy,
except as some of the lesser gifted ac
tors made it so. "The spirit is more
than flesh." The gallery that a night
or two before made the name a re
proach, now wept with the old man
and crowed with the children. After
the first act a wave of unselfishness
swept over the house; the ladies took
off their hats and cne man took out his
chaw of tobacco.
Such a play quickens pulses, which
years of sordid revelations have
numbed. The company was not so good
as the one here last year. The differ
ence was rspecially noticeable in the
characters of Nathan'l Berry and his
sister-in-law, Ann Berry. Archie
Boyd, who played "Uncle Nat" last
year, had the mark of greatness, sim-
spoke. She played with a dash and
interest that was .irrestistable. She
put volumns into the "Black Ranger"
episode that I missed on Friday even
ing. It was like getting ready for a
friend and receiving a telegram. Joel
Gates, the grass widower, with his lit
tle "hant," were the same Ed Connelly
and Lillian Claire. They were idylic
and I hope they will not be changed be
fore they come again.
Mr. James O'Neill, America's favorite
romantic actor, will ba seen at the Lan
sing theatre on Tuesday, March 23rd in
"Monta Cristo." The fact that the
larger class of the public, owing to the
season's financial depression, are very
careful in the expenditure of money for
amusements, prefer to visit attrac
tions that they know from experience to
ba worth the prlo charged. In spite of
the superior efforts of Messis. Dumas
and Fetch er, it is doubtfull if "Monte
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In Alexander Dumas masterpiece,,
MONTE CRIST,
As played by Mr. O'Neill over 3,000
times in all the leading theatres
of United States and
Canada.
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A COMPANY OF ARTISTS!
A CARLOAD OF SCENERY!
A CHAOS OF CALCIUM EFFECTS!
Tour directed by Wm.P, Connor.
Prices $1.00, 75c, 50c and 25c. Seats on sale Saturday.
plicity and directors. He reads his
lines as though they were spoken for
the first time. No look or word of his
remainds you that he knows, that you
both know that he is on the stage, and
that you are in an orchestra stall with
little gloved hands that were not made
for clapping, and little feet that were
not made to "stomp." There is no
double situation to keep the playwright
and you apart. Archie Boyd is not
himself acting the part of
Nathan'l Berry: he is the light-house
keeper himself with the honesty and
poetry and tenderness of the sea.
George Wilson, who plays Nathan'l,
mixes things a little. He plays to the
audience, he addresses them in asides
of voice and expressions which de
stroys illusion. For heaven's sake,
Gecrge: "Why can't ye keep things
spp'rate."
Ann Berry had the angular form and
quick decided walk of a New England
woman, but she was entirely lacking in
temperament Last year's company
was a las3 with an Irish brogue who
was our darling the second time she
Cristo," would have attained the age of
ten years oa the stage ia thi: country if
it were not for the labor, talent and art
that Mr. James O'Neill has expended in
making Edmund Dantes, the chief char
acter, one of thb classical creations of
American theatrical history. Endowed
by nature with a hanasome personal
appearance, stately carriage and fascin.
aticg person, Mr. O'Neill is a romantic
actor to the manor born and added there
to the elements of a truo artist, which
were developed under and trained under
the guidance of such men as Forest and
Edwin Booth. The versatility of his
tilent is never eejn to better advantage
than in bis portrayal of Edmund Dantes
n "Monte Cristo." He has all the dash
of a sailor lad and the dignity of the
holy man, Abba BuEoni, and the aristo.
cratic air becoming to the Count of
Monte Cristo. This season it is ten
3 ears since he made his tirst appearance
in the now famous part and although ho
has played it over three thousand times
be has never misted a performance.
During his present engagement, he
will be supported by a company that has