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FOR WEEK OF DECEMBER 5, 1908 NO. 33

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Season 45 0 12th Week SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1908

At 3 O'clock THE BEN GREET PLAYERS Xmas Gifts and IN Xmas Sights The Merchant of Venice This a A Comedy by . (Presented in the Elizabethan Manner.) DID YOU EVER see a REAL Holiday Season s CHRISTMASLAND, a land DRAMATIS PERSONAE Is DIFFERENT from pre- where Christine" just sings in the air The Duke of Venice vious years in the fact that and enters your very being? If The Prince of Morocco ' Suitors to Portia The Prince of Arragon never you wish to see such a place bring Antonio A Merchant of Venice before at this season the children to TOYLAND and Bassanio his friend, suitor, likewise, to Portia was it possible to offer so Salanio , show them that horse the fairies Salarino ` friends to Antonio and Bassanio many astonishing values. grew for themselves -just 32 inches Gratiano Lorenzo .in love with Jessica This Holiday season at high and as perfectly formed as a Shylock a rich Jew Loeser's is THE SAME as deer and the color of a fawn. Let Tubal a Jew, his friend Launcelot Gobbo the clown servant to Shylock always in the fact that no mat- them hear the great organ playing ...... Leonardo servant to Bassanio and see the tumbling teddy bears, Balthasor ter what conditions are or how Stephano .. servants to Portia the trapese bears, the spouting low prices go, you will never Portia a rich heiress whale, the swimming doll, the jig Nerissa her waiting maid find anything here but the

saw puzzles being cut out and -but Jessica , , daughter to Shylock MOST RELIABLE MER- it would take the whole programme Magnificoes of Venice, Officers of the Court, Gaoler, Servants to CHANDISE, and never any to tell about it all. Portia, and Other Attendants. tr less than the same GOOD Scene -Partly at Venice and partly at Belmont. _ ( And then too, there are the Christ- SERVICE, which is an mas goods for grown folks -that great 0 Q everyday part of our business. sale of Edition de Luxe books at quarter MANAGER'S NOTES Test the Store for COM- publisher's price, superb sets already This comedy was probably acted in 1594. It was first printed in PLETE STOCKS for the boxed for sending where you will two quartos, 1600, without scenes and acts. - The first folio, 1623, follows the second quarto. The folio isdivided BEST STOCKS, for the jewelry, art embroideries, furs, favors, into acts; the scenes are not specified, the characters are not given there- Lowest Prices. and everything you can think of at prices in, nor are the names of the actors. The chief sources of the comedy are Italian. Several plays of the so moderate you never could think of fourteenth and fifteenth centuries dealt with the pound-of -flesh incident.

them. ' Miss Charlotte Porter and Miss Helen Clark, in their recent edition of Shakespeare's works, state that the incident dealing with the choice , of caskets has been traced to the romance of "Barlaam and Josaphat" - (A. D. 800), from which, also strange to say, some of the incidents' of o 0 "Everyman" are said to be derived. AND g1/8 This comedy, acted by this company, was the last play ever acted chaa1i/l/GU le »_BROOKLYN , N.Y. 1 In every detail the Leading Retail Establishment of B,00ldyn.l at the Blue Coat School (Christ's Hospital, ), 1902, famous in The Only Brooklyn Store Elzabeth's time for its dramatic representations. With Private Subway Station Continued on Page 4 '

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Henry Miller, which last season held universal at- I tention for more than one hundred performances on the stage of the Savoy comes soon to the Montauk. 3 & ERLANGER'S stupendous produc- KLAWtion of Little Nemo at the New Amsterdam, dt_r(\`-: is on the same scale of magnitude that have marked the other notable presentations that have graced that remarkably beautiful and complete Theatre: VIA Wireless, a new conceit under the control of Frederic Thompson, began at the Liberty Theatre on November 2 It is hoped that it will equal in longevity Mr. Thompson's presentation of Polly of the Circus, that held possession of the Liberty for almost half a year. MADAME TETRAZZINI'S only appearance at the Manhattan Opera House this week will 1? be on Saturday night, when she will be heard in Rigoletto, the cast embracing Mariska- Aldrich. WM' 1$IEBER"F' PROPR Severina, Constantino (debut), Sammarco, Gili- TEt; HONE ¡ ?d6 ;t`LATB119HV=. bert, and Arimondi, the director being M. Cam - iota Le, panini. i PRÓSPrECT, .4!--jt .' iati;f. ¡r n5 Travelling Salesman is a companion hit to ßROOKI,.Y IY X..>í r, THEThe Chorus Lady, and is apparently destined to make an equal amount of money for its clever author. The unique and tastefully appointed Gaiety Theatre at Broadway and 46th Street offers a most attractive setting for this latest excerpt from real life. THE Grand Opera House has Grace Van Stud - ' diford in The Golden Butterfly. This produc- tion won a large favor at the Broadway Theatre in Manhattan during the early part of the current season, and should do well at the Grand, where Manager George Sammis succeeds it with Louis Mann in The Man Who Stood Still. excellent stock company ensconsed at the THECrescent Theatre are playing The Christian, a notable hit of ten years since. Colonel Henry Lewis Parker. who directs the management of the IW U renovated and reconstructed old Montauk, the Q representative of Mr. Percy G. Williams, next reverts to the olden time heroic drama, and pre- L EXIT7 5 sents The Three Musketeers on December 7. EXIT a C 4 ADE'S interesting comedy, Father GEORGEand the Boys, which for EXI3T6 EXIT 4 i ran more than one a? w.- hundred performances at the Empire Theatre last J á season, receives its Brooklyn introductory this 7 week in the Montauk Theatre, where that always 4- pleasing comedian, William H. Crane, may be seen in one of the most entertaining creations that he u,wESRETIaiNo has afforded his admirers in recent years. Mana- qaon EXITS ger Edward Trail next offers Lew Fields in The Girl Behind the Counter. the Park Theatre could have but gone up in IF flames and smoke eighteen months ago, how much better it would have been for all concerned.

Never in the palmiest days of the management of COAT R MAT Colonel William E. and Walter L. Sinn, was' that PTO 0110.I.0 AAumn house as beautiful and richly appointed in every particular as when entirely renovated by the N m Schubert direction in the fall of 1905. That a year F n M n or two later the exigencies of theatrical competi- Y, rt X tion, requiring its effacement as a factor of im- W portance, should cause it to be dragged through the mire, sent a pang to those who valued its tra- HOUSE- FIRST FLOOR ditions and held for the Park a sentimental regard. OPERA 'Phone, Foot Home Telephone, J. á t1 = = tz ^ r xs Cy =a,1 Orders 224 of ; aÿ A. 147 Montague Lhrrr aV eH L'O CV lJ4 Nó C '` .? i/ .4, a?ïami dm ci; V ; C'/ 0.1 >S ~ Livingston Main Made á Ñ Cwmp E 3` ro r.' e Ñ t Nine and BAILEY, 1863 H ÿ> Ú 'N Ó a = I:3 v ó 4-, Y N (d C > tiSG ;fl. >> t d i d L O O O s. Montague Baked x ÿ ..> T. St. Up Ladies' 4 r N 7 N Ñ t... a> w O T 8 = Ñ >, y d N C a , Strictly Main St., EXIT a 'r _1 illinerj Specialty. cOnccxT Brooklyn, Own lrrrarr g Brooklyn, ii11i3 nALL Material I Cake RETIRING FROM BUSINESS Inc. N. Y. N. æ >.; Y l, I- a.AFA,YETTE W r EXIT EXIT EXIT15 [LEVA, EXIT ASSEMBLY EXIT19 ILE EXIT 11 VATOR5 12 16 ELEVATOps 9 AvENUT ORS >_H( 6 - ROOM OPERA 4 OPERA HOUSE BALLROOM WI f HOUSE -SECOND -THIRD OPERA l 53 I- FLOOR MOUSE' FLOOR L__1 4 11EX RETIRING Roots: 2sT W X r-r o BALCONY J a 1 EXIT i nnU o EXIT EXIT EXIT COAT r 10 /7 14 13 18 (_ L Q e ( I MR. ENRICO CARUSO The world- famous tenor, made his debut in New York this season on Monday, November 16th, in Aida. The fact that upon his arrival, some two weeks since, Mr. Caruso selected the HAROMAN PIANO for his personal use adds another convincing proof of its musical superiority and of the preference given it by the greatest artists. On the concert stage this preference cannot always be shown as the pianos used are almost invariably furnished by the managers. In their homes, however, artists are free to use the instruments of their own choice -those which most satisfactorily aid them in their studies and please them in their tone. Ç Mr. Caruso, like all other great artists, is always seeking the very latest and best products in the musical world and it is therefore, of great interest to intending purchaser- - r- ' - so uses the

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