Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1898, Page 24

~~ THE EVENING STAR, SATU:i.. © »ANUARY 29, 1898-24 PAGES. The week now closing was not wholly a Zisappointment in the average of merit | maintained, and left no room for complaint as to variety. There was no opening for the suspicious caviler who asserts that managers have during the present season been pitting attractions of similar charac- ter against each other in the hope of crowding the weaker to the wall. It was a fair field, and a diverse representation of the current product of the American stage. The gamut was run from the heavy bass of Mr. Hoyt's comedy to the altitudi- nous flights by which Rhea wins admira- tion. Mr. Hoyt’s humor would be techni- cally deseribed as “low~ comedy.” He ought to curb a tendency to become more low than comic. “A Stranger in New York,” laughable as it was, did not come anywhere near fulfilling the expectations awakened by that legitimate and admira- bie satire, “A Texas Steer.” It is a re- version to his first work, but does not stand comparison with earlier efforts which were youthful, spontaneous and ir- responsible. “A Stranger in New York” strikes the observer as the work of a man who knows better and ought to be asham- ed of himself. Rhea has a devoted clientele, who have gladly met her half way and made allow- ances for the accent which still lingers slightly for the sake of the art which ani- mates her efforts. “Never Again™ proved to be a non-com- mittal bit of farce. When it was first ex- ploited much difficulty was experienced in the selection of a title. so the chroniclers tell. In the throes of brain-fag a manager vowed that he would “never again” ac- cept a play without a title. And this sug- gested the name under which, after a dis- creet metropolitan run, the piece would be put om the.roag..It was unfortunate that tire mére selection of a title should have been permitted to monopolize so much in- tellectual energy. A share of it might well have been bestowed on the performance itself. The production has humor, but it is of the intermittent type. Limbs and lyrics were abundantly repre- sented at the Academy of Music. “In Gay- est Manhattan” was a surprise—not be- cause of its superior character—but be- cause of the pattonage which it secured. Its record is a monumental warning to the players who seek to display the efforts of the advance man. Received, as origi- nally produced, with indifference which threatened at almost any time to collapse into downright aversion, it was coddled and rewritten, and now stgrts from Washing- ton for a southern tour after an engage- ment of unmistakable prosperity. Dazzling and lavieh ingenuity of advertising such as few shows outside of circuses would at- tempt to rival, awakened curiosity, which developed into genuine interest. And it seems that patrons were well content, for the manner in‘ which ‘the attendance held out till the close of the engagement proves that the earlier audiences had commended the production to their acquaintances. ‘The variety theaters had the usual list of specialties.. Kernan’s, presented the olio which a large patronage greets with unin- terrupted approval. Madge Ellis was the luminary at the Bijou. Miss Etlis is one of the songstresses who make the conservative amusement seeker long for the year 1001. This “‘end- of-the-century” atmosphere {s becoming al- together too rarified for the ordinary con- stitution. The outlook for the coming week is gratifying, presenting, as it does, the hap- Py combination of new plays and old fa- Verites to act them. “As I walk the well-paved streets of this beautiful city,” said Mr. Water Lennox the other day, “I am struck with the different appearance ef Washington from what it was when I first saw it. If I remember rightly.” he continued, “that was in 1841. My father had taken the management of a theater here and in Alexandria, and I re- member that the house in the jatter city had been closed so long that the interior back of the stage was pretty well covered with cobwebs. Anyway, the first star that my father played there was Junius Brutus Booth, who opened in ‘Richard III,” and I piayed the Duke of York. My father’s Partner in the venture then was Singer, who afterward invented the sewing ma- chine. “I've had a long career upon the stage,” added Mr. Lennox, musingly, “longer than the average member of the profession, and I think I may say my career has been an honorable one, for I have done nothing that would bring reproach upon my family or my calling. I've got to that point when I live again in my childhood. I take great pride im my daughter Jane, who is in the same company with me, and who has de- Veloped ability as an actress. I have edu-| cated her in music, and she has a voice of great purity and power, thac I trust will one of these days be heard in comic opera: but I think she should first know how to act.” Miss Jane Lennox {s only twenty-one, but | is already a young woman of many} | ces of person, with a well-modulated ice and distinct enunciation. She has al- | gained distinction as the leading wo- | for Felix Morris, and she does good ! work with Mile. Rhea as Marie Louise, the | | | | I second wife of -in the play of ¢ Empre Miss Lennox Seems to justify her father’s pride in her, and apparentiy has a bright future before her. She has inherited talent both from her father and her grandfather, and will undoubtedly keep up the standard of the family name. “All who have crossed the Atlantic re- member with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret the ‘concert’ which always comes off in the saloon the day but one before reaching port,” says Otis Skinner. Mr. inner does not believe that the actor should recite, and the rest of the story which he tells goes to illustrate the point of his contention. “The last time that 1 came back from Europe,” he says, “it was on the Teutonic. Those corcerts are just as certain as the tips you are forced to give | the steward. or the beef broth or hard bis- i my opinion that they are put off until the last moment that all may have found their sea legs and are likely to be more generous in their contri- butions. But I loathe these cabin concerts. ‘There is fixed upon my memory a compo- site photograph of a’dozen or so of them. A slenger, large-eyed woman with a fear- ful case of stage fright, singing sentimental ballads about ‘flowers and doves’ und ‘caves and graves,” just about three tones off the key; then follows a comic ditty by @ young man whose nose has been sun- burned by a few days’ promenade on deck, whose collar is invariably too tight for him, and who always accompanies himself upon the banjo. Why, I don’t know. He can’t play the barjo and he can’t sing. But everybody listens to the comic ditty as if it were a discourse upon the silver question by Senator Telier. Then there is the mercial traveler with a set of Mars’ P. Wilder stories. He gets an encore and gives some Hebrew imitations, at which I fly to the cabin. But the ama- teur violinists! You have heard the ama- teur violinist, haven't you? You never heave? Half the pleasure of your life is an unknown quantity to you. But I was go- ing to tell you about myself, wasn’t I? Well, I had successfully evaded these hold- eps on the high seas for many voyages. But my day arrived. I met my fate on the Teutonic, and after a violent struggle, gave in. “A gray-eyed little lady, who said ‘please, Mr. Skinner,’ with such a pretty smile that [I threw down my arms and su: _ dered. The acoustic properties of the s .erly. The heavy center table and chairs } creted themselves unawares to the stage | Wife, news comes to him that the rebel- pears and releases her just as the gun belches forth its deadty charge. This is said to be the most complete and sensa- licnal feature of stege srealism ever pre- sented. KERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER.—A special feature with the attraction next Monday, January 313 at the Lyceum Thea- ter will be the living music sheet as done by Anna Held at Kester & Bial's, intro- ducing thirty colored: meh to represent the totes; also a new show:by Gus Hiik who first originated the idea of combining vaudeville with burfesque, and it was Mr. Robert Manchester; who originated the idea of burlesque. Out ‘cf the two bright brains came the seheme of “The Gay Masqueraders,” whieh is to be presented at Kernan’s with all tHe elaborate scenic accompaniments of 2 metropolitan preduc- tion, Nothing has been. omitted that will ten to make its suecess. “The Gay Mas- queraders” opens with a_cieverly written burletta, entitled “The Sporty Widows,” which abounds in witty sayings and laugh- able situations. This is followed by a vaudeville performance which engages much star talent, incl ig Sparrow, the eccentric comique; the ectric Clark Sis- ters in songs and dances, also introduc- ing their froliaves of La Danse: Al Wes- ton, the originator of the laughing song: Lorenze and Allen in unique rag time dancing; Rita Durant in the latest and most popular songs of the day; Mr. Nick Brown, America’s representative cornetist, assisted by Miss Lyda Camille, who will Introduce their latest invention, the cor- nophone; Baker and Lynn in their funny Dutch comedy sketch, and Pauline May- AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. Fi A = : CHARI i TY BALL OO Teron cr eet. Grand Opera House. and Reception R H E A 5 »- KERNAN & RIPE, Managers. by the : In the New Napoleonic Play, foe a = saree! = Eee: SOUTHERN RELIEF SOSIETY,| THE EMPRESS OF FRARCE, | sm meena ot om wont ont. Friday, Feb’y 18, 1898. | Week Commencing Jan, 31 19th Annual National Rifles’ Armory. A RIOT OF FUN. seas Tomn. it - - < Lancheon. (66 AV HYOE'S COMEDIANS, A GZ Sa ore io cece FOR CH. TRINITY wr eta es| PARIS ,,|Helene Mora, MODEL.) 2 oom by dank SabuDI Pexcte MCINTYRE AND HEATH, ic Direction of RUDOLPH ARONSON. As the. Two Georgia Minstrels. . =e of over 20 conducted parties during 1898. THE COMPANY: Steamship tlckets issued by all. lines—special low ae va wy ickle, PILAR-MORIN and MAUD HASLAM, : WILLIAMS AD WALKER, Leo Dictrichstein, Caroline Cook, TE + Feb. 5—Cruise to the Mediterranean Feb. 5—Mediterrarear and the crient. Murch 5—Holy Land June 18—British Isle: June 29—London, Pa: ly 2—B-itish Isles, Send for 1808 programs, of the Teutonic are simply awful. One separately. The appearance on the scene might as well try to recite under water. of the schoolmate’s brother in the person re x - by = Two Teal Colored Comedians. I was down for a recitation somewhere ; of the comte’s young friend, the Chevalier] now in her ven E BRADBURY BUILDING, 1225 PA. AVE. Lorimer Johnston, Mollie Revel, ire about the middle of the program. A young | de Valclos, seems to portend mischief, par-| athletes Corbett MoCo at ashes | 3020-30 = Ber ieeaa! Sak eR Grand Cake Walk—tntroducing other Artista, Woman in a white dress had preceded me, | ticularly as the husband, who quickly de-| “in "their “bas punchioy wen cemstmmons | ica AND LATEIRLARY ENTERTATSENE ae ee ; and had informed the audience, by means | tects in his friend the hero of the convent criginal burlesque, called “‘A.Jay at Coney | #t See Hall, G st. x lilam Bonelli, Edward Morrison, : of intricate gesticulation, the violent shak- | romance, regards his visits with an easy | {ignd; of the temo ae ty Coney | We, Welneudays eb. 20, Felix Haney, Robt. G. Thomas, CHAS, R. SWEET. Ing of a quantity of curls and red ribbons, | sort of cynical toleration. Woman's self-| the program: Among Hatiniies whose | sf Ghaties. Wilson, peigh on snemas ’ and a valeanie flow of language, “How Sui- | love, however, is apt to be wounded by In-| pear are Emma, Manctaten edn Pee Somes Se ee The Piano Tramp. yator Won.’ This was the course timely, | difference, and in a variety of ingenious | GQuetena, Rene Bt donne wetthe ween loward Mersemer, joseph F. Watson, PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, _ AMERICA’S ri Great negro poet, in readings’ from his own | 7°8Ph Harrington, ore peed Bete, aaron, Since Steet ep NEXT WEEK: THORNE AND CARLETON, January 31,8 o'clock p.m. For the benefit of the and satisfied some men who had bought | ways the spectator is made to feel that pools on some of the other horses and who | this new phase of the situation has begun were feeling blue about it, until the young | to work a change. The chevalier, who is a lady explained. Tnen came my turn. Some | foolish and foppish young man; contrasts Rosieite Allen, Maude Clark, Mzud Bar- ton, Bessie Burns, Grace Ware, Lydia Brown, Louie Lynn and Allie Clark. e In Their Great tume before I had been lured into an in- | unfavorably with the comte. The smart] GRAND OPERA HOUSE—The leading Home for’ Friendless Colored Girls,” Meridian AN N A H E L D 2 reat Comedy Sketch, famous deed. I had committed to memory | snubbings which he receives at the hands vaudeville organization of America, high Droop's mission, cents. raee, saat ee 9 ‘The Substitute.” Buchanan's ‘Fra Giacomo.’ This was what | of the comtesse indicate that ie eae class in every particalar,. will be scen at | — 3 = _, 5022, 20881-30° iy DUNSUNONRO waned 3 I recited that night. It was a frightful | girl’s dream ts already at an end. | the Grand Opera House for one week com- 7 5 Silige a Place to recite in. but I did my best. The | of “la Marquise” also exerts Its influence: | mencing next Monday and giving the usual | Peautlful comedy, “A ape The Cat and the Cherub. ~ louder T spoke the more my voice seemed | and when the fiery old uncle appears on | Wednesday and Saturday matinees. It is | Ua"Ce” Ape aes een ee ee oe | os CANFIELD xD CARLTON to come back to me, or vanish through | the scene. and, indignant at his nephew's | Hyde's Comedians, well known. throughout | ©! zp pete during: aics Hasselt sieueacement j bia Th 5 the port holes, or go up through the sky- | conduct, insists on a petition for divorce, | the country, and now on its nineteenth an- dunner cRimsell'stentiresctanmetcthe Colum a eater. Character-Comedy and St : Ught. While I Inbored on, trying to make | there is a great revulsion of feeling, which | nual tour. Manager Hyde deserves great | Gunns Mr. Rus Thursday and Friday SUNDAY EVENING, FRB. 6, myself audible to the people sitting half | the comte is not slow to perceive. When, | credit in secering the leading acts for hts} yr. Russell will be seen in a tripie bill, GRAND CONCERT, way back, I noticed a man who had a face | in the fourth act, after many complica-| combination. He spares no expense in| M the color of a newly boiled lobster, who | tions, including a duel at a masked ball, was leaning forward from a chair at the | this stage is reached, the end is easily fore- extreme end of the cabin. His eyes were | seen. The curtain falls with the comte starting out of his head in his strain to | and comtesse in each other's arms. hear, and his bald pate was shining through a high polish of perspiration, su-| COLUMBIA THEATER.—The attraction perinduced by the stifling heat of one of | next week at the Columbia Theater is a the most oppressive evenings of the voy-| new comedy by Jane Mauldin-Feigl, en- age. When my eyes struck this flaming | titiea “A Paris Model,” which has re- object, I could see nothing else. Every Ut-| ceived the approval of large audiences tle wkile he mopped his face with a damp- | wherever it has been presented, and that looking handkerchief, and sopped up some | jt will doubtless have a successful week of the excess moisture on his bald pate. | here is evidenced by the large advance sale, Perhaps he rung his mop dry in the in-| which necessitated opening the. box office tervals—I couldn't see that. Then hej} ore day in advance of the usual ‘ime. would lean forward and try to catch some | Rudolph Aronson, under whose direction of the lines of ‘Fra Giacomo.’ The poem. | the piece will be produced here, has select- it will be remembered, tells the story of | ed a most capable company, including such an injured husband, a wife whom he poi- | prominent actors as Pilar-Morin, who is sons for her faithlessness and a guilty | capable of giving that popular French tinge monk. The monk has‘been drinking poi-|t) all her work that seems to be much soned wine, thinking that he {s partaking | admired these days. Maud Haslam, who is of the injured husband's hospitality, and | a favorite here with theater-goers, is best: when he discovers the truth he rises in | remembered fcr her clever work in leading terror to runout. The husband shouts, | roles with William Gillette, and Leo Dit- ‘Sit down!’ and then he proceeds to gloat | richstein is also a great favorite. Others over his victim in a most unfriendly sort | are William Bonneli, Caroline Cooke, Mol- of a way. My lebster-faced friend had | lie Revel, Nina Freeth, Felix Haney, Lori-- been trying to gather all of this in, strain- | more Johnston, Edward Morrison, Joseph irg his ears, his head and neck, and then | Harrington, Roy Fairchild, Howard Mes- relapsing into periods of mopping. Occa- | semer, Joseph S. Watson, R. J. Thomas. sionally he appeared to be uneasy, and | Charles Marriot and William Avery. T showed symptoms of leaving, for he would | story of the play concerns a poor but aris- glance anxiously toward the door. I was | tocratic family, the members of which setting along in the story to the point | were invited to a theater and after-theater Where the husband discloses to the monk | supper by a millionaire who has been rush- what he has been drinking, when I saw | ing round the world to avoid a’ French the victim of heat, deafness and bad acous- | actress who has secured a heavy verdict tics glance cautiously around at the rest | against him for breach of promise. The of the audience, and then at the door, and | most charming member of the poor but then back at me. By this time I had got | aristocratic family lacks a costume for her the poisoned monk to his feet. The red- | visit to the theater, and secures one from faced man rose carefully from his chair | a second-hand dealer. ‘This costume, it and was just about to tip-toe out when I | transpires, has been stolen from the French came to the emphatic line, and shouted | actress by her maid. At the supper in a with all the force of my lungs, ‘Sit down!" | popuiar restaurant, all of the characters He dropped as if shot and never moved. | of the story meet, and ‘when the young I con't know how I got through the rest | girl is arrested for the theft of the dress of the recitation. I choked: I bit-my lips | and the millionatre for avoiding the order \util they bied; the tears came to my eyes | of court, there is a scene. It turns out. in the endeavor to keep back the laugh- | however, that the second-hand clothing ter. That: thundering “sit down!’ was.the | dealer 1s the husband of the French act. orly thing the poor man had heard of the | ress. So the breach of promise case drops whole poem. I haven't recited since. I] and the costly dress 13 presented to the won't. .. | Peroine. Incidentely,’,another I¢ve affair = is introduced ir which a brainless dude WiHiam Bonnelli has a fine stage pr figures, as well as Sundown, a stiong man, nce, Magnetism and repose of manner.| who is enamored of the French actress, Besides being one of the most versatile | The scenery was designed and painsed by actors. on the stage he is said to be one of | Jcsef Physioc, and the incidentak music, the most powerful athletes in the country, | including a new dance piece called the bis muscular development exceeding that | “Winter Frolic.” which will serve to i1.tro- of the majority of professional strong men. | duce Mademoiselle Pilar-Morin in a danc- He lifts a 175-pound dumbbell with either | ing and pantomimie specialty, was com- hand at arm’s length over pis head, and | pcred by Rudolph Aronson. does a number of other feats of strength for his own and for his friends’ amuse- TER. 1 ment. In “A Paris Model,” besides lifting | (NATIONAL THEATER—A dramatic ~ ent of a great deal interest will be Pilar Morin and others in the cast dnd | Otis Skinner's engagement at the New Nev sarrying them around on the stage, he | tional Theater, which opens Monday wi juggles heavy tables and chairs in’ the t. Mr. Skinner will present his new and very crip vurene Scene of the comedy most clev- | successful romantic comedy. “Prince Ru. dolph.”” The play is a romantic comedy in the clearest sense of the word, for there is n the acticn none of the mock heroics, which in the novel reads so well, but in the making it the best of the best. For nine- teen years he has kept up this standard, and the company he will bring to the Grand Opera House is the best and most expen- sive he has ever carried. The leading fea- ture is Miss Helene Mora, the phenomenal lady baritone, who,. in her artistic line of business, excels all others. She is artistic and refined, a good singer, a good actress, a scholar and a clever conversationalist. She will have a repertoire that will please all, and her auditors will be pleased with her selections. The surrounding company is an exceedingly strong cne, including the great black-face comediars, McIntyre and Heath, who are in their twenty-fourth year as public entertainers. Williams and Walk- er, the real colored comedians, introduce the latest “coon” melodies. As a finish to their interesting act, they introduce a clev- er cake walk, assisted by three other artists.. Charles R. Sweet, the piano tramp, is a comedian of ro mean ability and a musical genius. Thorne and Carlton, in their sketch, “The Substitute Husband,” are very funny. The great Lafayette, fan- tasist and mimic, represents different char- acters, imitates Sousa conducting his band, draws pictures and gives a wonderful ex- hibition of bow and arrow practice. Can- field and Carlton awe @ bright pair. The Randalls, in thelr aerobatic and contortion act, are hard to beat.» This reviews the strongest vaudeville shew on record. ggnsisting of “Mr, Valentine's Christmas.” | Unis: nie parece for te"fongittcn see | THE CREAT LAFAYETTE 1 Washington Hebrew Temple.» ing comedy, “The Spitfire,” all of which The follow! vell-kuown artists will assist: Fantasist,, Mimic and Archery Expert, “Soy And His Great Imitation of Sous. will be put on with complete and special | Mrs. Kitty ‘Thompson Berry, THE RANDAL! ES, Scenery, costumes, properties and appro- | Mr. Frederic Crosby. Contoriionists, Acrobats and Dancers, iss Pauline Whitaker. priate furniture. For the Saturday mati- 5 nee and night “The Rivals” will be put | Mi james Nolan on. No expense has been spared to make each one of the above-named plays a beaul- ¥ ist tiful production. A large and capable com- ecompani pany of actora will be seen in support of | .An orchestra of sixty of the most noted musi: Mr. Russell, prominently among whom are | ‘laps of this city. conductor, Mr. Sol. Minster. eae Miss Edith Crane, Nannette Comstock, | of us Hom Sn POPU LAR PRICES Margaret Robinson, Fanny Addison-Piit, | Tickets can be reserved without extra charge at © Orrin Johnson, Sidney Booth, William | the box office of the theater from January 31. Sanford and Alfred Hudson. ‘Tickets on sale at the box office. it Next Attraction—“BARNEY'S “A HIRED GIRL." N CONCERT AT THE COLUMBIA.—The at concert to be giver at the Columbia Thea- ter February 6, under the auspices of the es Ladies of the Temple, promises to be one of the most enjoyable of the season. Mr. 2 ¢ : A D M Sol Minster, who will be the musical seal rail (eC an director, has assembled an orchestra of sixty performers, from which some excel- POPULAR PRICES. lent work may be anticipated. The soloists will include Mrs. Kitty Thompson-Berry, We Afa‘ances, soprano; Miss Pauline Whittaker, con. ednesday2".nis. Saturday tralto; Mr. Frederic Crosby, tenor; Jas. : Nolan, basso; Arthur D. Mayo and Henry i} HE oneay. EAST INDIA WAR Xander, pianists; Sol Minster, violinist, and \CLE, Ernest Lent, violoncellist. The program will + ivellgnl attracts cron evaridi trentieatia gem Columbia Theater, fy: now being rapidly disposed of. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, j NATIONaL GUARD BRIGADE BAND.— 8:15 P.M. An event of unusual interest to lovers of 35 PERFORMERS. EMINENT SOLOISTS. concert music will be the first concert of the National Guard Brigade Band, which | ,,@@S#RVED-SEATS, 7%, r0 AND 2 CENTS. OF 2 takes place at .ae Columbia Theater on the a BIJOU THEATER—The Bijou’s bill for the coming week euntaims us one of its principal leading features the famous New York success, Anna‘Hel@’s living Animated. Music Sheet, from Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, interpreted by* Miss Josephine Gass- man anda troupe af forty colored trouba- dours, and the animmted:watermeion patch, a southern inspiring: scene, interpreted by Miss Allie Gilbert, assisted by the forty colored tféubddours# the peculiar effect be- ing produced by a drop hung in rear of stage, Tepresenting”a watermelon field in Georgia, with ten scsre of large ripe water- mellons hanging to the stines. At the prop- er moment a score. of gtinning black faces pop through the melons, and.an harmoni- cus. chorus of forty vetces produce. the notes to the accompaniment of the singers. "The effect {8 wonderful. Jas. F. Hoey, tho famous comique, also one of the. great cards.next week,-being the second engage-* ment’ played since his serious illness. “He Will positively be on hand, and the audience can expect a new crop of jokes, songs and witty sayings. The return of thespopular Troja to the scene of her former triumphs will be hailed by the Bijou’s patrons with delight. During her coming engagement among the songs she will sing are ‘Mar: Not as Green as She Looks,” “I Wonder lf He Would If He Could,’ and several oth- ers entirely new and never before heard in Washington. Mazuz and Mazette, a team of Arabian acrobats; Keno and Welsh, bur- lesque trapeze artists; the famous unique trio in a sketch, entitled “A Jolly Good Fel- low.” Moran and Wesley, Sam J. Adams, comedian of the late Tally Ho Trio, wiil also be on hand to assist the fun, along gXening of Sunday. February 13. The} NEW Nore Benin Wed. end Sei. Mate Brigade Band now numbers thirty-five per-| Craniseg PROBM AN eIll essen toe Peat THE formers, artists upon their respective in-| ©! r N will pre mtg 5 Struments, and under the skillful direction | Most Successful and Best-played BY Epw.E. KIDDER. of Lieut.’ Donald B. MacLeod, their di- mot ‘Charact Com- < or an SEPOY rector, have been diligently rehearsing the | §§ 9 BELLION: “OF 1687, excellent program selected for rendition age ‘ with most gratifying results. The success DURPDUCING ZR ZOUNG ROMANE of the band’s concerts last summer and seretins Porine his winter mas owing: to the fact NEXT WEEK-SEATS NOW Ee W. ie POWER that the, public taste is consulted in mak- ing up programs, and while standard class- OTIS SKINN R, we sd ics are not overlopked, the popular music of the day is given adequate representation. PRINCE RUDOLPH. a SCENIC. DISPLAY OP ORIENTAL The program will include the “Stradelia”}. 5,95 0 e overture, the “Pilgrim's Chorus” and 2a the it “Evening Star Romatice,” from Wagner's heater. fannhauser*,'and the grand section | New National Theater. i\ Nt SCENE rom Rossint’s ‘Barber of Seville.” Among | ONE WEEK, A the lighter numbers will be the “Russian| BEGIN: MONDAY Night. “ape Pie Gat ae oe ee a Serenade” of Mosckowsky, Ganne's har-] \faTINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, = monious ‘La Czarina;” “Narcissus,” by a te ae ter ape ‘The Serenade Waltzes,” by Her- Annual Engagement of xh ae Globe. Sousa’s latest march, the “Bride- N! ATTRA! — NE: ” = “ow: SYDNEY GRUNDY’S GREAT PLAY, Commandery." dedicated to that bods ot O I IS SOWING THE WIND. it Templars by the director of the band, Mr. MacLeod. The soloists will be Mrs. Kittie ~ Thompson-Berry, soprano; Mr. William R. Lafayette. TONIGHT. Phillips, saxophone, and Mr. Charles H. HOYT'S BIg MUSICAT, FARCE COMEDY, Henney, euphonium. The first appearance 9 of the Brigade Band as a complete concert ge A ST RA N G E R organization is a matter of general interest sig ga abner) to the officers and members of the National Supported by Guard, who will attend in a body. Maud Durbin, I N N EW YO RK. ANNA HELD.—Miss Anna Heid and ved in this scene are not, as might be sup- posed, mede from papier mache, but are of oak, and heavy of their kind at that. ALL THE ORIGINAL CAST, INCLUDING with the burlesque, “The Algerian’s ae MjunCHOnEA witea” superb: — play lay the actor open to ridicule for al-| Dream,” with forty pretty girls. The Bi- Spouaetian of conan eee arava nevelte: Frederick Mosley Harry Conor. on we H. rows says, in the language | ways se peeTne tes ied Rated ae jou will present a new appearance upon | «phe Cat and the Cherub,” will be the at. And a Company of TWENTY PLAYERS. z lines but once in his life, and'it is a ree. | stage the major, portion of ‘ie aime, cine | obenINE Hts, doors Monday. with new up-| «action at the Columbia’ week of Webeu- Mr, Skinner will NEXT WEERSeat on sale— i . ec~ e - | holstered chairs, seyers v an; ary 7. More has probably been written honor to present his . rew. about Anna Held than about any other Suscdeston Reaakiee SGoesay, Mr. John Drew actress or singer who ever came to this : it . country, except possibly Sara Bernhardt. 46 SQUARE More superlative adjectives have been used D L AF. AYE I I ‘OPERA to express admiration for her beauty and } HOUSE, crd of which he is proud, for there are few | sumed in the action of the play. “Prince actors, or actresses either, wko can face | Rudolph” is the name of the new play the many little incidents that constantly | which Mr. Skinner will present, and it is a happen behind the scenes and retain the | free adaptation of one of the earlier novels facial and mental equilibrium required by | of that charming writer, Robert Louis their lines and “business.” The occasion | Stevenson. The story of “Prince Ru- referred to was during the first few weeks | dolph” is very inieresting. Rudolph of the present season. It was on election | Wilhelm, the hereditary Prince of Krone- night, and “Shannon” was playing at |feld, has been married to the daugh- Lockport, N. ¥., in one of those ante-|ter of a neighboring grand duke, for rea- diluvian theaters found in most one-night | sons of state, and it has been discovered by stands. It was in the second act, when | the contracting parties that the marriage Shannon meets his sweetheart unexpected- | is irksome to both. While on a hunting ex- ly in the hills of Delhi. In a very pretty | pedition Rudolph accidentally encounters little love scene he refers to her as “his | his princess, and makes the astonishing guiding star,” and looking and pointing | discovery that his wife is a very charming toward the star-lit sky, says: “And those | person, and also that there is a plot on stars, Venus and Mars, are eclipses com- | foot, headed by the prime minister, for the pared to you.” He only half finished this | overthrow of the principality and the es- line, for on looking up, he saw, perched | tablishment of a republic. Rudolph re- away out on the end of one of the grooves, | turns to the palace, and for the first time two of the most ragged, dirty little urchins | in the history of the principality assumes imaginable. Their legs were dangling and | control of the affairs of state, but is ar- swinging in time with the low music and | rested upon a warrant signed by his wife, their dirty faces lit up with a smile of per- | and is taken to one of the fortress pris: fect content. Mr. Powers says the sight | cns of the principality. Edora, the princess, of those two children of the street struck | repents, and countermands the order of ar- him as being indescribably ludicrous, and | rest; meantime the populace have arisen, he completely forgot his lines, lost control | and she is driven out of the palace. She of himself and laughed so that the entire | Seeks her husband at his prison, but he audience must have known there was | has gone to seek her at Lautcrheim. Ru- something unusual happening. Of course, | dolph finally traces her to the farm house, the jatruders were ordered down from their | Which fs the locale of the first act, and loft¥’ seat at the end of the act, and sflent- | there, they both having discovered’ that ly crept away, but no one ever discovered | they love one another, everything {s for- how they ever gained an entrance or sc- | given, and as Rudolph wins the love of his other adornments. The ficor of the orches- tra will be raised 12 to 14 inches higher, so that a clear view of the Stage can be had without rising,.as has been the objectiona- ble complaint heretofore. her vivacity than are found in any well- J. W. Albaugh... -Manager regulated dictionary. She has been seen Nixon & Zimmerman. Directors: once in this city, and she created as great a sensation here as elsewhere. She’ will 59 Beginning Monday Night. be welcomed back by those who saw her WwEpxuenay Pipe _ WEDNESDAY during her former visit, while those who i Sarcupay ° MATINEES -sarcupar have never seen her have a pleasure in oO phe sae MR. CHARLES FROHMAN store for them. —— tase The Modern Prodigzl Sen. WEEK OF Will Present Mr. From the Atlanta Cohstitution. FEB. 7 SEATS THURSDAY “Times is too hard now,” said the old Sol colored brother, “fer dese prodigal sons ter Smith be coming home empty-handed, cn ome er TTD dem is liable ter git fooled, I tell you! Dar’s Mon., ‘Tuee., Wed. Ev'g and Mat. Wed, Brer Ephraim's boy, fer instance. He | ¢, S went off ter de strange land, spen’ ali his | ““A Bachelor’s Romance, money, en when he didn’t have nowhars | Tbursdas, MR. VALENTINE’S CHRISTMAS. In the Successful Comedy of Manners, else ter go, en when he wuz good honary, | PAMay py) eee) TH a < THE SPITFILE. he come sneakin’ home fer de gol’ ring en | ‘ Saturday and de fatted calf; but what you reckon de ol’ | Nate sera, THE RIVALS. it map fa MARRIAGE dunno.”" “He say, ‘My son, dey ain’t no veal on de POPULAR oe place: de’ shevift done levy on de cat, en | ACADEMY, PRICES. OF [BY SYDNEY GRUNDY. 1 ez fer de gol’ ring—it wuz bought on de | Every Evening, Wednesday and Saturday Matinees, a installment plan, en is done been took back IMMENSE HiT OF NI ENCE Howsomever, I is mighty glad you come, KOSTER & BIAL’S BIG SPECTACLE, ° kase I wuz des fixin’ ter write ter you ter E At = = IN} iN ENIC_INVESTITUR GAYEST MANGA I TAN DIENTY SCENT RILLIANT OOURT COSTUMES. borrer $10! SNING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7. ~MONDAY’S MATINEE AT THE CO- LUMBIA.—Society and official circles have taken quite a gratifying interest in the benefit entertainment to be given at the Columbia Theater next Monday afternoon. The object is to raise funds fdr the East- era Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, and the beard of lady managers are con- gratulating themselves on the satisfactory cutcome #8 evidenced by, the present, con- dition of receipts and the high order of the program to be given. A miscellaneous program will open the entertainment with the following talent assisting: The Mad- rigs .in mandolin and banjo selections; Miss Blanche Muir, contralto solo; Mr. Matthew Halloran, Shakespearean ’num- ber; Mr. B. Frank Gebest, piano solo; Prof. George W. Mull, baritone solo; Signor An- Grea Coda, clarinet solo; Miss Annie Grant, soprano solo, and the Misses Clara Stev- ens, Margaret Divver.and Marie Hodgson in a cleverly devised dance; Miss Nannie Kearon and Prof. Leo Wheat wiil accom- pany the musieal numbers. Following this whl be given Mr. Willard Holcomb’s one- act cofmedy, “Brown's Baby," with a cast comprising Miss Alice Judson, Miss Julia A. Seaman and: Messrs. Wm. H. Conley, Robert Test and A. T. Seaman. Specialties will be introduced, including Mr. Holeomb's character hit, “Since Katie Got Struck on the Stage,” as impersonated by Mr. Con- ley in his role of “Bridget.”* een | FROM THE FRENCH OF DUMAS, hands. lion has been suppressed, and he also wins es back his kingdom. ‘The play is sald to be LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPER. Isp, | extremely well written, and it has proved —Mr. John Drew, Mr. Charlee Prriguney| ene of the really great successes of the brilliant and polis year. Indications point to the fact that comed to the Lafayette juare Mr. Skinner's engagement wi Ye a Most House Monday evening nace when herwiil | Successful one. He brings with him @ com- begin a week's engagement, including mati. | Deny that is reported to be one of the best nees Wednesday and Saturday. Mr. Drew | that he has ever had, ali of the old favor- will, it is needless to say, be supported by | ites having been retained, and the additions “No, suh!” he continued, “de prodigal With its tremendous cast, magnificent costuming, WEEK BEGINN! son er de present day done wear out he welcome; he can’t filmflam de ol’ man no | oiorate acenecy und effects, clevercst of special” o fe ad ties and the newest, best ‘and brightest songs, ETE o * ACCOMPANIED BY ee dances and ens-mbles. “ott HAW ORD, Next Weck—Seats now selling— ‘a Repertoi: Shannon of the 6th: MR. THOMAS W. KEENE.—For the week of February 7 the Lafayette Square Opera House. will present the eminent tragedian, Mr. Thomase W. Keene. Mr. Keene is too well known to Washington —+e+_—____ Wild Geese Killed by Strychnine. From the Kansas City Times. =; meed ¢ "| st the war we were not permitted MERCHANT OF VENICB pe erenm company, Misa Isabel Irving wilt| which have been made tend to atrengthen | Other than the arneanomnent of his com: | tS cerry wuss, but the bere een te tens | _se28t Ore, HiGHeLaeC, seen here for the first tim hi 2 . , great nim’ b = faCHARD ing lady, and she has a part that will en. | Frederick Mosley, John Weeks, Frank Syi- Airactions Aen ocmedian est aetna Shots wea borin ann lip out snobercyed 4nd (gee ee ee CAESAR. able her to give good account of herself. | Vester, W. J. Constantine, A’ L. McCor- Miss Elsie De Wolfe of the Empire bar mick, Maud Durbin, Ethel Winthrop, Ethel Company will come to Washington in Mr., Btowning, Noami Roberts and many other Drew's support especially for this play. | Players of reputation and repute. Mr. Arthur Byron, Mr. Daniel Harkins and Mr. Graham Henderson are old favor- ites here. The play to be presented by Mr Drew will be “A Marriage of Convenienc which has been cleverly adapted by Syd- ney Grundy from “Un Mariage sous Louis XV" of the elder Dumas. The peridéd, per- haps the most picturesque in French his- tery, gives opportunity for brilliant cos- tuming and exquisite stage appointments, and it is promised that the most critical will be satisfied in this respect. Many pretty things have been said of “A Mar- riage of Convenience” during its runs in New York and London. The dialogue is declared to be bright and sparkling, and Mr. Drew's part in it flows with the ease with which he always handles a cynical remark, an epigrammiatic retort or a poetic sentiment. The play provides him with the first light comedy role he has had in sev- eral seasons. Stripped of non-essentials, the story of the play is that of a young KERNAN & RIFE, Managers. MATINEES WED. AND SAT. AT 2. ONE WEEK, COMMENCING MONDAY, JAN. 24. ‘The Talented Young American Actor, THOS. E. SHEA, In the New American Play, MAN-O’-WAR’S MAN. By Special Request—Mr. Shea will appear in his dual role of DR, JEKYLL AND ME. HYDE on ‘Thursday Night. POPULAR PRICES. Next» Attraction—HYDE’S COMEDIANS, HELENE NORA. ‘$a24-6t,24 JOU THEATER. Mat. Day— Every Night—10, 20, 30, de. ee ‘GREAT MADGE ELLIS. indulge in a few hours’ hunting. I saw a young fellow start out one day and when be returned, not more than two hours later, he had twenty-one wild geese. I recollect one instance during that period when we were not allowed to carry guns when the Geese became so numerous and bold as to make it almost impossible for us to raise a crop. I had a field of wheat, which they were picking up before the grains had time to germinate. I took an ounce of ee dissolved it in acidulated wat scéason, it is almos®) with relief that we turn to the legitimate, and Shakespearean scholars will find if the coming engage- ment a feast in the steels carefully select- ed repertoire, embracing Richard III, Ju- lus Cacsar, HamletfiOthello, Merchant of the Sixth,” which will be scen at the} Venice and Louis .XI.t Mr. Keene this Academy next week, Edward E. Kidder’s} season is accompamied iby the talented new military drama, the author who 1s, young Washingtonfan, «Mr. Charles ~B. best known as the writer of several plays | Hanford. The. saleof seats will open at in which Sol. Smith Russell has appeared, | the box-office next *Phulwday .morning. has made a distinct departure from his ‘ —~ ~ former line of work and has done it suc- WILLARD’S HAGL.<Prof.’-Carpeni cessfully. The scenes are laid in the fa-| America’s greatest’chypnotist;~ still com mous Sepoy rebellion of 1857, and the steal- | tinues his wonderfultinstmuctive and amus- ing of the “light of heaven,” a valuable | ing scenes in mesmeuisny at .Wilard’s Hall gem, from the Hindoo temple, forms the | and is greeted by lerge>and enthusiastic basis of the romance. Capt. Arlington of | audiences each. evenings The professor's the British troops charges Lieut. Shan-+ name has already become a household word non, his rival for the hand of the gener- | to the publicof Washington, and heis always al’s daughter, with the theft. The young | a welcome visitor, for-hj presence here al- officer is placed under arrest, renounces his | ways means a-carni’ of fun, combined allegiance to the queen, is court-marttaled | with mstruction, and the results obtained Seats on Sale Thursday. LEON H. VINCENT AT WESLEY CHAPEL, COR- ner of Sth and F streets, TUESDAY, February 1, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. TUESDAY, 8, J. M. BARRIE. TUESDAY, Feb- ruary DEAN HOWELLS. Course . For sale at PURSELL’'S. 418 9th st. Single tickets, 25c., at the door. ja27-0t ————— eee “EXCURSIONS, ETC. Norfolk & W2shington Steamboat Co. . ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—In “Shannon of ter, corn in it, and scattered the corn over the wheat field. The next morning I gathered some forty or fifty of them in the wheat field. Eight or ten of them |-recovered and became domesticated.” —__—_ +o+__ Indiana’s Champion Moral Town. and sentenced, but through the aid of a ey Irishman, # iH id great and ‘sustain nity of his family. From the young Comte de Candale and hi: hibit a mutual repulsion. On ding day the lady confesses it_school from age F Ez 4