A Good Atteaction

No one who heard J. B. Polk in "The Silent Partner" last season can forget that very funny yet refined comedy. This same piece will be presented to the public again next Wednesday night at the Grand Opera House, under the litle of "Mr. E." Thomas E. Murray, who plays the part of Sidney Backus, is an excellent comedian, and the whole company is much stronger than last season. Many new features have also been added to the piece. The Philadelphia North American saye: "A new play, entitled ' Mr. E,' of which Mr Herbert Hall Winslow i- the author' was produced at the Areh Street Theater last night, for the ürst time in thr city. 'Mr. E' was introduced to the8 stage at a rnorning performance given last May at the Grand Opera House, Miuneapolis, Minn. The play dwells on complications that arise over the use of a phonograph and a myth by the riame of Mr. Everout, a suppositious partner of a young lawyer named Backus, who having failed to arrange a business connected with an old lawyer, flnally puts up a eign. 'Everont and Backus,' the former being supposed always to be absent on business of importance to the firin. When the play opens Backus is heavily in debt and every one is inquiring for Everoul. The non-aipearance of the silent partner leads to the charge that he has been murderfd by Backus, who, in order to escape the evil threatened, impersonates the tupposed dead man. The comedy abounds in excellent ecenes and amusing compücations, and has a decided vein of nriginalily. 'Mr. E' called forth the laughter and applause of a large audience, and in its entirety the performance was full of merit and very entertaininpr." Says the New York Telegram: "'Mr. E' was produced at the Fourteenth Street Theater before an audience that jammed the house. The comedy may be accorded a place in the category of the season's succeeses. The theme has been carefully adapted to the requirements of the occasion, and in its present shape is a Bplendid medium for an evening's entertainment. The action is based upon the aspirations of a young lawyer, Sidney Backus, whose short experience has oonvinced him that without an attractive signboard his chances of getting a brief are very scarce. He, in his de8ire to pose as a member of an important firm, introduces a mythioal partner. The young lawyer's 'eftbrts to keep the fact of his partner' nonexistence from reaching the ears of his clients gets him into a series of complicated ecrapes, which afibrd rio end of amusement to theiradmirers. The plot is a good one, and a number laughable situations have been introduced, and a new deparlure made in the shape of a phonograph, which servesits admirable purpose in letecting and foiling the villain." Col. Cutcheon - Didn't your wife ask you to nurebaM a load of wood this morning? Major Smiles - Yes, bat I