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3 “Hip Hire Hooray.” 
Charles Dillingham’s unique exper- 
iment of reproducing upon another 
stage—the Boston Opera House, 
~Boston—a New York Hippodrome 
spectacle in its entirety has proved an 
unqualified success. The managerial 
audacity of transporting to Boston 
the hundreds of persons and the 
dozen car-loads of scenery and effects 
who (and which) are part of the 
“Hip Hip Hooray” production—to 
say nothing of rebuilding a stage for 
the accommodation of an expensive 
refrigeration plant necessary for the 
creation of a lake of ice—is being 
fittingly rewarded. Theatregoers of 
Boston and surrounding communities, 
convinced that here is an instance of 
the keeping of a promise made in ad- 
vance—the promise to give in its 
every essential detail the entertain- 
ment which was the most sensational 
theatrical success of many seasons in 
New York—are flocking to the Boston 
Opera House in numbers that never 
before have responded to the lure of 
an indoor attraction. Two perform- 
ances of “Hip Hip Hooray” are given 
daily, and the matinee crowds are as 
great as those which assemble at 
night. 
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“Srep Tuts Way.” 
Lew Fields is coming to the Majes- 
tic Theatre, Boston, next Monday 
evening, Noy. 20, for a limited en- 
agement, in his new musical comedy, 
“Step This Way,” which has to its 
credit a very successful New York 
and Chicago run. That Lew Fields, 
of the dialect comedians, should have 
survived the process of elimination as 
it were, and still retain his brilliancy 
as a star, speaks volumes for his 
genius. In the role of “Henry 
Schniff’ Lew Fields has a character 
such as he delights to portray, and 
one in which his followers love to see 
him. As the comedian says, he is a 
“multiplied millionaire,” and having 
risen from poverty to affluence at a 
bound, it wrenches his heart and 
purse strings to have his extravagant 
‘wife throw his money to the winds, 
as it were. Alice Fischer, in the 
opposite role to Lew Fields, is said to 
bring all of her splendid abilities as a 
comedienne to this scene, and the 
mirth-provoking results attained may 
| well be imagined. 
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“Tue CINDERELLA MAN.” __ 
That most delightful comedy, “The 
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Cinderella Man,’ was one of the 
charms of the past New York season, 
where it played continually from 
January till June at the Hudson Thea- 
It is now playing its first week 
in Boston, presented by Oliver Mor- 
osco, the producer of “Peg O’ My 
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ning of the 14th week of this merry 
musical farce in Boston, the audience 
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rronths at the Wilbur, and which was 
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