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‘ AEW HONORS AE ~ WON BY WARFELD Former Hebrew Character Ao- . tor Presents a Fine Portrayal of the Gentle German In “The Musio eter,” PLAY IS BUT ONE STRING TO THE FIDDLE, Marle Bates Behaves Beautiful. ly on the “Water Wagon” and Mr. Belasco Washes Some Theatrical Linen, fo } D excellent performance of “Captain Bar Tington” at the Motropolis, the Third Avenue, ing at the Star, Harry Bryant's Extravagansa Com- and the pany came to the Dewey, Vanity Fair Burleaquers to the Gotham. Continuing at other theatres were William Crane in “Business Ie Buaie David Warfield added several inches | Ness.” Criterion; "The College Widow,” his etature af an artist by Me alto. | Garden; “The Coronet of the Duchess,” Gether admirable impersonation of | Garrick; “Mr. Wiz of Wickham,” middle-aged, gentle, finely-sensed Ger. | Bijou; Willlam Faversham in “Letty,” man musician at Bel ‘ved Nasco's Theatre last cont Muale Master,” les Kiein—and probably re itten Uby David Belasco—is ttle Tate tian One string to a fiddle, Mr. Warfleld ts the instrument which gives “The Music Master tte tone, brings to dt a truly “humag note which touches the heart- Stringg and puts the listener in thor- ough bympathy with all that tha ex- Seeptionally fino character actor does, Not once during the entire perform- ance did Mr, Warfleld strike @ talee Pola, He was very real, indeed. He ‘Played al within the small circle Which the piay describes, ‘ever for a Moment did he step outside it, never did paper to the audience, & Gelineator of Hebrew character Mr. Warfeld was the best of his phonies eq Hetr Anton Von Barwig last night he Was the truest actor of German character ¢ the American olage Offers or, pe has ever offered, Actor Made the Play, ‘The patience of the humble writer of & symphony who comes to America in Quest of & ruaaway wife and his child and ekes out an existence by playing t ano In @ museum, where the bar- bloodthirsty “Eats ‘em alive!" vas his soul; the generosity of the #e0d Bohemian who spends his last penny on w dinner for two brothers in Doverty; the fortitude of the artist Who sees his piano dragged out of bis Houston street room because he can no longer pay the rental; the thoughiful- ness which brings @ cheap little flower to the slavey of the lodgings; tho self. macrifice which keeps his tongue still When he at last finds his daughter on the eve of marrying an eligible young man, and the outburst of long pent-up sufferings and wrongs when the + @earcher stands at Just face to face ‘ ‘ ye began a woek's engargment at the Har, with the man who has robbed him of his life's treasures, pli ced Mr. Warteld On @ pedestal firmiy pianied va thw @tound of genuine art, With all due mspect to Belasco genius, Mr. Warfleld made “The Music Master," He Overshadowed It, He overshadowed it and everything ‘nd everybody concerned in it. He put meaning Into words which, in them- selves, were empty, He changed more or less rather cheap wit into simple humor, He even caught up the play, af- tor a conventional and antique acene in the second act, and saved it rom a melo- dramatic fate by his ringing ery, “1 am Beliish!" to the social highwayman, who, having stripped him of everything, makes @ weak appeal to his unselfisi- ness, § All of these ends Mr. Warfield attained by the simplest methods, and by little touches which were probably never Greamed of in Mr, Klein's playwriting Philosophy, He has @ wondertyl way o/ expressing hopeless, helpless grief by merely opening his mouth, and of draw- ing the veil of @ smile over keenest suffering, W. G. Ricclardi, ag an Italian musician whose heart is as light as his purse, was another who got very close tq Bature; while Leon Kohlmar was a ro- mantic young German to the last hair of his blond wig, Several other men Were excellently choser for interesting email parts, Marie Bates's Reformation. Marie Bates as a landlady who had Hot outilved the romance of life was elevated to the “water wagon’’ for once, od was as deliciously funny ae in the days when she didn't draw a sober etage breath. Antoinetto Walker was also clever and attractive as the board- Ang-hopee Jenfy, Sybil Klein and Jane -Cowl tried to be something akin to Cen- tral Park West birds of paradise, but succeeded only in being awfully show- {gitly. Mintle Dupree, in the role of the “Musician's Jost child, played with her custoamey tentative charm, but not aj- ‘ways sympathetically. The play was staged with the care e@baracteristic of Belasco productions, fend Mr, Belasco, as usual, allowed him- Belt to be discovered in the wings and pulled into the glare of the footlights. j He selzed upon the opportunity to wash ome theatrical linen aad to hang the 8 us to Gry of ite many ai- sins. | No matter on which side one’s sympa-, thies may be—and the/average theatre- @oer doesn’t care a rap who gives the snuw 40 long as it's @ good one—you can iy hel miling at an instanc: ny ‘bad Relghvort our managers ye it simply furnis! ‘another proof of iow York's ami provincial.em, c —— OPENINGS ELSEWHERE. “How He Lied to Her Husband,” a mew Bernard Shaw lay performed in Sonnection with “The Man of Destiny,” , By Arnold Daly and Company at the Herkeley Lyceum Theatre will Viswed in to-morrow's Kvening W. Willlam Coliler in “The Dictator’ lem Opera-House, Fred C. Whitnéy's musical production "Ween Johnny Comes Marvhing Home” was the attraction at the West End Theatre. "Tho Bleoping Beauty and the Beast” Degan its second and iast week at tne Grand Opera- House. “Ninety and Nine,” with tts almost written by Hudson; Cecllia Loftus in “The Berlo- Comte Governess,” Lyceum; Mrs. Weke in “Becky Sharp.” Manhattan; John Drew in “The Duke of Killiecrankie,” Empire; Lulu Glaser in “A Madcap Princesa,” Knickerbocker: “The Rogers Brothers ta Paris," New Amsterdam; Denman Thompson in “The Old Home- stead,” New York: Edna May in “The School Girl," Daly's; “Pitt, Paff, Pouf," Casino: “Mra, Wlers of the Cabbage Patch," Savoy: “The Iale of Spice,” Majestic; “Checkers,” Academy of Mu- The County Chairman" Wal- Herbert Kelcey and BMe Shan- non ip “Tapa,” Lyrio, VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, At Hammerstein's Victoria an excel- lent bill included Dan McAvoy and his Fifth Avenue Girls, Willy Zimmerman, Canfleld and Carlton, La Terese, (il- ette’s Musical Dogs, Hill and Sylvaney, Sparrow, Cartwell and Harris and Mo- Grath Brothers, At the Circle Theatre McIntyre and Heath were the headliners, while others were Will M. Cressy and Blanche bears, Frank and Jen Latona, Clarice Vance, Jack Norworth, Martini and Maximilian, Smirl and Kesaner, Knight Brothers and Sawtelle Keith's had two headliners, William Harcourt In "A Dakota Widow’ and Byron Douglass in "The Cowboy and the Lord.” Others were Jack Mason's Five Soclety Belles, Quigley Brothers in "The Congressman Large,” a 5 Clement De Lion, Irving Jones, Green and Menner, danoers; Vontello and Nina, Castle and Collins and Foster and bis dog Mike. Proctor’s Theatres-The Fifth Avenue Theatre stock company presented “Captain Lettarblair,” with Edwin Anien in the title role. The vaudeville contingent was headed by James Rich- mond Glenroy, At Proctor's Twenty- Third street house May Robson made her vaudeville debut in a sketch called “Coming.” Venelle'a horses, Scott Brothers, James Richmond Glenroy and Ethel Robinson were also on the bills. “Soldiers of Fortune’ was played at Proctor's One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street house, and the vaudeville Daigneen, Ida O'Day and Master Tom Coogan, Among others at Tony Pastor's were Ward gnd Curran in “The Terrible Judge,” the Fitagibbon-MeCoy Trio In “The Mischtevous Brother.” Johnson, Davenvort and Loreila in “The Foot- ball Player and the Farmer,” Swan aud Bambard, H. V. Fitzgerald in “In the Shadows of the Night,” and Potts and Pitts, ue Hurtig & Seamon's Music Hall | Odette ‘Tyler and company in ‘The Man, the Mald and the Mouse,” Hines und Remington, and othera, IN BROOKLYN, Pawtucket" began a week's engagement the Montauk, a “rhe, aude ville bill at Keeney's 1 cluded Corinne, Mason and Francis ani the Orpheus Comedy Four. MATINEE IDOL IN Sydney Ayres, in “A Texas Ranger,” Has a Pair of Eyes and a Shrug of the Shoul- ders. Fourteenth street has a matinee idol all its own, and he's @ new one, too. Sydney Ayres is the happy person, and if his reception in the title role of “A Texas Ranger,” which received its christening at the Fourteenth Street Theatre last night, counts for any. thing, Mr. Ayres Is going to make hevoe in the feminine hearts of that ellentele, Mr, Ayres’s chief stock in trade is a pair of eyes and 4 shrug whereby he rubs the back of hie head with his shoulders, thus indicating his bashful- reas in the presence of the fair sex. ‘That was hia one gesture, and he used it effectively last night. He also has curly halr and white teeth. “A Texas Ranger’ has all the old friends of ", and “The Vir- ginian,” also an English lord who doesn't disclose the fact that he's the smooth and polished villain until the Inet act, when he commences to “vill.” The hero is such a good, saimly | Cowboy that the audience strongly sus- | peeted he had been created in the imag- real ranch life, a suspicion which was borne out when at the close ofthe strenuous third act, after the coarse Greaser villain had been laid out, the! hero led out a modest, trembling Mitle | Woman who accepted the floral horse. | shoe for J. Mauldin Felgel locomotive, was enthusiastically Proctors § Fitty-Kighta © Wiliam Bregnwell was the star of an "The ranger then won the inaahiiars| pretty daughter, and his prohibition | platform was property indorsed by his AVID WARFIELD IN ‘THE MUSIC MASTER” “New York Day by Day” was saen at “Wedded and Parted" was the offer Dayne in “The New Depot," Speasardy's | bill Included Loney Haskell, Bruce and | were Mabel McKinley, the Four Lukens, | Lawrance D'Orsay In “The Earl of | FOURTEENTH STREET ination of @ woman and not In any! AND HIS EXPRESSIVE LEGS AT THE BELASCO THEA oll property just tn time to save the old place from the scheming Briton, In the latter part, Edward Emery was the only natural actor in the cast, moving about his business #0 smoothly that he concealed his wickedness Until the last. when he pro- posed to the heroine. It was the kind that Letty-like heroines might listen to, but never Texas or the re, It Led & lucky ae fe. lordship & pretty sister he jn earns with angood sombrero wallop in the ce. ba gt < ie aunt @pouted noisily thro ¢ four an made @ hit on Fourteenth HONeill & Co Housefurnishings and China (Basement) BRASS FIRE COODS-We are now displaying a nice amortment of Brass Andir it very reasonable prices, upward x ANTIQUE WROUGHT ANDIRONS—We have a faiz die play of these at prices ranging, per set, from §6.40 to,,. $22.40 DINNER SETS—101 pieces fine French Dinner Sets, including oval Kup tourcen, large plates and meat dishes, salad bowl, ete — easily worth $35.09, at.... ra seeeeee $22.50 | With this Dinner Set we give a cuadeuple silwer plated Ladle and Gravy Ladle, free of nee fone TINE CHINA TEA SETS~5¢ pleces, very pretty decora- tlons, gold edges on cach piece—good value at $9.00, for.seses $7.00 eee EEE Pictures, 35c, : Football Goods, In our Juvenile Sporting Goods De- | (Third Floor.) partment (third tieor) wine show- | Heavy Gold-plated Metal Frame Cab- a, Conde thesis os san | | inet, Photo size, square and oval 5c Shin Guards, Head Gar, Nose shape—regular 49c,; Special at. 35 Guards and Footballs, J Footballs trom $0¢. to $4.00 each, Pictures Developed Alto a complete line of ‘Athletic ‘oods, At less than cost Boxing Gloves from 75c. to $6,00 r set, of materials Penching or, Striking Bags from Take your own pictures and let us Striking as Mitte from 25¢. to | save you trouble by developing them) — $1.75 pair, | for you—here is the schedule: Basketbalis, Arsoclation foot. | Pictures 1% x 2, 12 exposures....10¢, balls, Chest Weight | Ficturcs 1 5-8 x 2, 12 exposures. .10¢. Trapeze aud Adjustable Swing- \]! Pictures 2% x 24, 6 exposures, ..10¢, ing Rines. Dumb Bells, Indian | Pictures 2% 231%, 6 exposures...10c,| Clubs, Foils and Masks, {}| Pictures, 334 x 3%, 6 exposures. .10c. Tackle, Playing Cards and Games, | Pictures, 33; x 444, 6 exposures, | Ea Pictures, 3% x 3%, 12 exposures..15c. Pictures $4 x 44 $12 exposures. Pictures 4 x §, 6 exposures... Pictures 4 x 5, 12 exposures., At Special Prices | (Basement) About 30 different shapes, designs Toilet Articles | ery ime ri pintes Bal $3 rn | at Special Prices, | er ae $300 tee ; | (First Floor.) Another lot with a better grede of decorations—a large assort- SOAP—Armour's Witch Hazel Soap, ment to select from.,..,.... $5.00 regular price, 5c,—special, 3 cakes Regular $5.98 to $6.50, GOT sceses tenes covecersesoes 10c__Gas Portables from $1.64 to $25.00, Armour's Sylvan Series Toilet ag 7 in the line of Soap, exquisitely perfumed in four Trimmings and Fixtures Lamp odors, l'lac, heliotrope, sandalwood and violet; you have paid 20c. for | —— Jewelry at Special Prices no better quality—special, 10c. cake; | Bi csrcseveases Coaseeroeen 25c | | TOOTH BRUSHES—5,000 fine qual- (First Floor.) ity Jap and French Tooth Brushes, Goid Plated SCARF FINS, {01 worth 15c. to 25c.—sale price..10¢ 25e. and 4%e.; Special at 19¢. lone HAIR PINS—Horn hair pins, shell BROOCHES —a large assortment color only, assorted styles, made to With rose finish and stone setting; sell 20, doz.—special 2 dod, for.25¢ Special at 25c., 49. and 69c. CHATELAINE PINS, enamelled and SIDE COMBS—Side and Chignon | fancy designs; Special at 19c. and 25c. Combs, heavy quill backs, shell, RHINESTONE BAR PINS, sets of shel amber and black, all the new styles, | two; Special at 30e,, 4%, and 75¢, per set. value 39c.—epecial ab... 250 Demorest Sewing Machines (Basement.) $1.00 Club Membership Fee Sends One to Your Home — Investigate Our Club Plan.—(Basement) No, 16 Machine (like illustration) {san automatic Drop Head—swell front old English oak, highly polished, ball bearing stand, guaranteed for 10 years, full set of attachments— $25.00 as good as other $50.00) Other models $15.00 to $48.00, machines—our price..... § Sixth Avenue, 20th to 21st Street, TRE, You May Now Use the New Arcade Entrance from Lexington ‘Avenue. Pamiliarity Breeds Economy at Get acquainted with our merchane ise and you'll understand just what this means, Suits Store Is a Mecca} for Women of Taste And Good Judgment. Here you will find every day discriminating women who jud garment by something more substantial than a fancy price, if Women who know the worth of a suit by the material, the cut tailoring, general finish and withal accurate adaptation of style, are our most pleased customers, and if you are not yet one of these and are ready to be convinced, if we can do it, we ask you by all means to come in to-morrow to look over these } ian Teored Suits Offered at $12.75, That they compare with suits elsewhere which are sold every! day at $20 needs but a casual examination to prove. { You will find in this collection: New Tourist Coat Suits, New Box Coat Suits, New Short Coat Sutts, and Norfolk Suits of finest all-wool imported and domestic mannish mixtures, broadcloths, cheviots and covert cloths in plain black, blue, brown and tan, The three IMlustrated give a fair idea of the variety of styles in this assortment, but the true beauty of 5 effect or the excellence of the material can “ay be learned when you see the suits themselves, Sizes from 32 (o 44 bust measure, with walking and dress length skirts—also suits for small-sized women in this stock. For Wednesday we have marked these handsome suits, .. Hs Stirring News Regarding Shoes! Price-Emphasis---and Emphasis on Quality. Starting with the hewwiaien Det the Rioaainaries sens are os bene tad treworthy tate tad Section, good-looking and stylish—news we print to-day carries an economy argument There are ten thousand pairs of new, seasohable shoes for men, women and children here to sel At Prices a Full Third Below Usval For buying favored us, and backing the transactions with a cash argument brought good lots of new shoes here at this saving. Men's $2.50 Henry Ki & Dex Call Shocs, $1.5. _ -lined Gouble-soled lace shoes oak isle, fine medium and broad toe last 3! I strictly Goodyear wi in every particular; all sizes, Women’s $3 pat. leather, Kid, vict & box calf shoes $1.98 Lace snd ballon styles, with, Hebt and. ex flexible soles, high, Cuban and low heels, with medium, broad Boys’ & Girls’ $1 Shoes, 79c. | Boys’ $2 Shoes, $153, Expert Dentistry. Our dental experts are cele brated far and wide for the high character of work they da at moderate prices, For instance, we make a full set of teeth and give a written genaniae with all our work 01 r $5. Vegazone ~tmuaate covery lied to the gums, absures } Pm lutely painless extraction ainfess filling of teeth and paigless illing of nerves, Made of vicl and box calf, with good heavy The best boys’ shoes you can iywhere— ‘xaminations free, | heels; lace style; sizes 6 to 8; | of box calf and velour leather; they've good, F M em Yo spring heels; yle; i oy coh balher tele torseed wee, © Maid in attendance, Gold Crowns, 22 kt., $8. eae Silver Filling, Soe. and twp Third Floor, Randell's Dentistry, A Special Showing of Men’s Eiderdown Bathrobes at $3.98, You'll be sgreeabiy surprised at the really luxurious appear- ance of these robes. They should sell for five dollars apiece, ’tis true, but that's an- other story. These robes are of excellent quality eiderdown, cut exceptionally full and roomy—they are trimmed with heavy worsted girdle and neck-cord, Colors brown, black and ox- ford with black stripes. Come to-morrow for them At $3.98, main ricer, oot st. section. Our Grocery Store Is Run in a Scientific Way--- Yes, there’s real science used in the selecting of our Lape from the choosing of our delicatessens to the blending of our coffees, And there's a system in all this grocery store’s workings that guarantess’ you absolutely pure food products, no matter how little may be the price you are asked—that’s the result of masterful buying on our part. Red Spanish Pep- ere, torn fer™ ier ne tbe larme can........ Te eABTNR ES Ge Misses’ $2 Shoes, $1.29. Good, sensible shoes of genuine dongola leather, smart and serviceable, in the best toe shapes; all sizes from 814 to 2. Certain Attractive Offerings in China and Cut Glass And a Word Abovt This China Store. When you get to know this china store of ours omene it, we'll have to add another thousand square feet to it to accommodate the stocks we'll need. 4 oy qi is a, est and most complete store lew f- ring none), we don’t intend to let it rest there by vee pee things we are doing that must win and keep your itention—Arst we are selling it through assortments & better class of goods at the different price ranges than any other store in the United States, and second, we are selling the staple grades of china and glassware at materi! savings on the lowest prices that are anywhere else at retail, are -to-the-point facts that we urge you to prove for your- self—for proving them, as thousands of practical people have already done, will make you a regular patron of our China Store, we are sure. To-morrow’s synopsis of china store attractions is significant of economies, sharp Decorated Porcelain Dinner Sets, $5.69. Good American porcelain, containing 100 pieces, including soup tureen, Porcelain Tea Scts (56 picces), Sets—American porce Decorated Japanese China are neat floral " Pieces Ail Styles and sizes tions ; 100 pleces, including of pieces at 10¢., 15¢., 19¢. soup tureen, special, set... ..$7.67 25c., 49c., 696. and.. Dinner Sete—English porce Lobster Dishes—Fine © iain, with neat under-gieze with handies, ach... decorations; Infants’ 49c, shoes, 23c. Dainty little things in all the prettiest fancy colors, with soft soles; worth 49c, Main and Second Floors. American Cut Glass Bowis— With full and deep cutting; brilliantly Gmished; should sell for $5, special at F Pteces ib Flavoring exceptionally Extract — Absolutely special g° Sug Ie dott, | Gee , our Se. bot- ' per set ‘ id a Lae : ‘ Sets—Limoges t Cocoon | ots prety dormtecs ani glass; 3 pint size; special at $8.98 Begeanatiy end ‘Se ta care ed futely pure, %-Ib. can Tio, ‘ American sa rs Ouve Dishes—In new and pretty designs; worth $1.50, special, gold stippled handles; 100 plecess special, per set... Dinner Sete—Fine Limoges China; 100 pleces tothe set, Including soup tureen and reg- ular shape soup plates—others are advertising similar sets for $25; special, per set.....$19.98 Tea Sets—Fine thin china, Beet Extract—2- set Bxttactss; 38c | New German e- tatoes5 Ibe Sc Asparnaus All tip meal bowls, i afin prett decorations and gold stippled edges, cach.... prettily decorated, per set... $4.98 ‘Third Floor, 50th St. Section Lasnary tone tig Re, lanes ‘cakes Lf The “Third Avenue Elevated” Trains run from the Brooklyn | {I olives aavy se sntety, ntohg- ee | Bridge to Bloomingdales’ in just eighteen minutes—not a step to fuagems at. étone 206] fre H Se | Mice =X walk at either end, and trains ig te every = — We Wednesday's Specials in Wines and Liquors. ferries 4th st, tt within a very short dis- No charge jugs or demijyhna, taut Mvaad ot tertics cars—as ine practically all the tong Island California Port or Pert oF | Cnenem age ele Sherry—The finest produced; & om, Me; 1 ity ferries. ™ yrs Bloomingdales’ is the most conveniently located store In Manhat- tan for Brooklyn people. 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