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F. C. ZEHRUNG, Mgr.
Tuesday, October 11.
FUNKE HoPuse
Primrose and Dockstader
Management of
MINSTRELS.
J. H. Decker.
Presenting
An Entertainment Beyond the
Present.
AT THE FUNKE.
On Tuesday evening; October 11,
Primrose & Dockstader will make
their great American minstrels and
they promise a program of many
novelties, a resplendent stage setting,
magnificent costumes ami a goodly
number of clever artists. The entire
company will don the burnt cork and
will inaugurate a decided departure
from the usual minstrel companies of
todayJVn olio of an exceedingly enter
taining quality has been provided, of
which the following are some of the
Hon, be they matinee girl, matron or
gouty man, can avoid being highly
pleased with this production. The
play, known as "The Gay Matinee
Girl" has already been successfully
seen in America and for this season
is being exploited with a cast of
twenty-two metropolitan favorite?,
headed by the comedians Monroe and
Hart and America's best soubrette,
Miss Mattie Vickers, who will be sun
ported by Charles 31. Dean, James 1.
Green, Pro . D'Hassa, Elmer Jerome,
Charles Lawrence. William Herbert, Al
Straus, Bert Price, Albert Waddles,
Balm of Aching- Brains.
A Hearty Endeavor to Amuse
and Yet Not
Offend.
A Great Performance in
Every Sense the Word
Implies.
Seats on sale Monday at 9
a. m. Prices: 25c, 50c, 75c
and $1.00.
georue primrose.
LEW DOCKSTADER.
THURSDAY,
OOTO-
ONE LONG, LOUD LAUGH!
The Latest and Moat Successful Three -Act Comedy
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(Under the Personal Direction of Edward P. Hilton.)
A genuine -11 star company. The comedians, Monroe and
Hart. America's best soubrette, Mattie Vickers. Ten
real actresses. Four real actors. Seven great comedians.
Twenty-one in all. New ideas. Original songs. Dainty
dances. An up-to-date high-class attraction. Prices 2o,
50, 75c and $1. Sale of seats opens Wednesday at 9 a. m.
prominent ones: The wonderful
Brothers Deonzo, trick barrel jump
ers and champion high jumpers of the
world; the clever trio, Howe, Wall and
Sully, displaying their skill on num
erous instruments in a novel and most
entertaining musical comedy act;
while not the least prominent o this
particularly bright feature will be
that irresistably frisky funster, Lew
Dockstader, in one of his famous
monologues; and still yet comes in
for their full share of applause the
"Quaker City Quartet," which is fol
lowed by the Hampton family, cele
brated English pantomimists. George
Primrose will also appear in an entire
ly new specialty. The entire company
will appear in the finale, entitled
"Greater America," in which heroes o
the late wtit will be presented in full
uniform.
JEtaid&sr October 1-itli.
The Comedy Event A FARCICAL STUDY
Direct from McVicker's Theatre, Chicago.
"Mistakes Will Happen"
With a great cast, including
CHARLES DICKSON, HENRIETTA CROS8MAN
and NANETTE COMSTOCK.
Under the Personal .Management of Jacob Litt.
Prices 25, 50, 75c and $1.00. On sale Thurs. 9 a.m.
Sa-ttarclay, October IS.
Frame Your Mind to Mirth and Meiriment. Hoyt's
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Original New York Company, introducin
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and fifty farce men and maids. Prices 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.
Box office opens Friday, 9 a. m.
At last that bright, witty, neat,
young person known as "The Mati
nee Girl" is to receive respectful, jolly
treatment on the stage, for she is to
be seen there in all her innocence and
gaiety, in all her dreamy and sweet
coquetry, and in all her loveliness, but
with her delightful sense also brought
to the front. Such a combination must
prove irresistible and that well known
director of high-class attractions, Ed
win P. Hilton, promises that no per-
Miss Myrtle Franks, Lillian Durham,
Louise Foster, Bertha Le Frantz, Em
ily Greene, Nellie Fowler, the Whit
ing sisters, Deece Bon and other good
players. Manager Zehrung announces
that he has signed contracts for the
appearance here of this dainty girl
and her company on Thursday, Octo
ber 13, and the "Gay Matinee Girl"
should be royally greeted, for it is
promised that she will please, interest
and amuse the masses as well as the
classes.
Bright lines, laughter, provoking
situations and a clever story put to
gether in workmanlike fashion made
of Grant Stewart's "3Lstakes Will
Happen," produced at McVicker's
theatre last evening, a thoroughly en
joyable play. Incident crowds on. in
cident almost to the blurring point
at times, until the mind catches the
rhythm of the author's thought, when
the web of the action disentangles it
self readily. There are two husbands
and two wives, who, pursuing various
ideals, theatrical and flirtations, blun
der into absurd situations, requiring
explanation and repentance before all
is mutually forgiven. A play's the
thing about which the characters
gyrate.
In the second and central act it is,
however, that Mr. Stewart's art as a
un-maker rises to heights. The scene
a coachhouse, is of two stories , car
riage (the real article) and stalls be
ing shown below and a loft with hay,
etc., above. Here Tom Genowin
Charles Dickson has the part starts
a course of lessons in the dramatic
art, the student being Mrs. Hunter
Chase. He pervaded the action without
seeming to be unduly prominent. He
was imprisoned in a patent manger,
he made mock love in a hay loft, and
presided at a mock trial with equal
urbanity. His success was pronounced.
High praise is due Miss Crosman for
the verve of her performance. Her
'spirit never flagged a moment, nor did
her personality cease to be a factor,
no matter how ridiculous was the po
sition the action forced her to assume.
Nanette Comstock as Dorothy May-
