Metropolitan Theatre

“A new bill has been presented at this popular variety theatre this week, in which a large company appear. Last night the house was crowded, and the two principal features of the bill were warmly received. They were a new local sketch called ‘The Rounder,’ abounding in clever and timely bits at politics, police affairs and temperance crusaders, and a burlesque on ‘Under the Gaslight.’ In the former sketch Sam Rickey gave a very funny illustration of a model police judge and Miss Jenny Hughes a clever, dashing and rollicking view of one of the ‘boys’ for which Gotham is famed. She also introduced many new songs, in which she was repeatedly encored. Ketchum appeared as a sort of modern ‘Mose,’ or rather as one of those rough spoken characters that make politics a special profession. The sketch made an unmistakable success. Ned Fox as Laura Courtland in ‘Under the Gaslight’ provoked the merriment of the audience to almost button-bursting extent.”

“Wayne and Lovely performed a new song-and-dance called ‘John and Billy Jones,’ which was well received.”