Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1898, Page 24

24 The chief attraction in a_ theatrical way this week has been “The Circus Girl,” which has done an excellent business at the National Theater. This presentation of the musicai comedy, as it is called, is an exceptional illustration of a second company being- as good as the original. When it was produced at Daly's the cast incluged Nancy McIntosh, Virginia Earle and Jimmy Powers. Neither one is in the present company, but the people who as- sume the parts driginally taken by them are fully as good, with the exception of Miss Fabbris, who takes Miss McIntosh’'s role. On the other hand, “Under the Red Robe,” which is at the Lafayette Square Opera House, demonstrates the usual ob- jection to “No. 2 companies. The “Milk White Flag Company at the Academy is another evidence of the usual weakness of second compantes. Next week there will be Frank Daniels in his new opera, “The Idol's Eye,” which has made such a pronounced success wher- ever it has been seen, and which will prob- ably crowd the Columbia Theater; “The Girl From Paris" at the Lafayette Square, and it ts to be hoped that the action has been toned down somewhat since its for- mer visit, and Digby Bell, who has develop- ed into a sterling comedian, in “A Hoosier at the Academy and variety at the Lyceum ard Bijou. While Digby Bell, in company with his wife, Was a passenger on one of the Fall river boats, en route to Boston from New York, some months ago, they occupied one of the deck state rooms on the starboard side of the Pfigrim. In contra-distinction to Mr. Bell's possesston of nerve force, Mrs. Bell is of an exceedingly nervous tem- perament, always anticipating evils, a thor- ough alarmist, which is painfully evident on water trips, and on the short ride to Boston Mrs. Bell's weakness in this par- ticular was markedly manifested, she on this occasion being particularly fearful on account of the crowded condition of the boat combined with a rather high sea while rounding Point Judith. Mrs. Bell occupied the lower berth In the state room, while Digby was snugly and safely ensconced in the upper, and at about 2 o'clock in the morning. while peacefully sleeping and dreaming of conquests to be achieved in the city of beans, he was rudely awakened by Mrs. Bell's hand grasping him and her voice trembling with fear, say- ing: “Digby, Digby, for heaven's sake wake up. we're in a dense fog: the ship as run aground; the water is pouring Into the holes made by the rocks and the donkey engines are pumping: but the water is fast gaining upon them.” Digby raised himself In his berth, Mstened for a few moments to the scurrying feet of the sailors on the up- per deck above his head, the hoarse cries of the officers, the response of the men, and the steady throbbing of the donkey engines on the lower deck, and, becoming convinced that his wife's fears for once were. like the ship. well grounded. quickly invested Mrs. Bell into two life preservers, and, drawing on his trousers, shoes and overcoat, rushed upon the deck. In his absence Mrs. Bell hurriedly gath- ered together everything portable, hastily tied them in Mr. Bell's mackintosh, and at- tached that to another life preserver, and as Mr. Bell, returning from his investiga- tion, reopened the door of the state room, turned to him with a blanched cheek and trembling voice and inquired: “Can we be saved?" Digby quickly divested himself of his outer garm and without a word sprang back into his Mrs. Bell alarmingly cried: “For God's sake, do not keep me in suspense: tell me the worst. .vhat is n? long. withering glance, Digby ac » the wall and in ironical “Tied to the dock at Newport, ¢ off freight.” An interval of a few minutes elapsed and then a white, slender hand reached into the upper berth and a small, very small, voice broke the stillness of the cabin and said. “I suppose I shall never hear the end of this." which was responded to from the upper berth with the single ejaculation, “Never.” Since this episode, which occurred last spring. whenever Mrs. Bell attempts to draw upon her nervous forces, or gives voice to an expression of fear over some anticipated event, Digby uses one expres- fion which ts happlly effective in complete- ly cheeking further advances, and that ex- Pression is “Tied to the dock.” Frank Daniels 1s greatly interested in the questicn, hall another bird be substi- tuted for the eagle as our national bird? which question now and tren plays a brief «rgagemert before the public. To some friends Dantels held forth the other night in New York in this fashion: “While I admit that people who have ex- amined but superficially the question may differ as to what bird should be substi- tuted, yet I held that no man who has given the question even the slightest con- sideration can do otherwise than answer the question itself in the afhrmative. And for this reason. We cre a progressive na- tion. The man whe does not progress lags behind. We are not in it unless we keep up with the procession. @zre say I could have made money had I another barrel continued to play “The * this year, but I should the times if I had not omething new. Hence, " So it is with the na- "3 shriek may be these who hke shrieks. I ject now and then to a shriek or f. In f: to hear the eagle s bi ot n war begun, € the bird t its vei Besides. this bird has bali-headed in the service, and is to a seat in the front row, while other bird takes the stage. at bird do I favor? Well, sirs, I'll uu. I'll name you a bird that not only music to charm the savage breast and beauty to satisfy the eye, but yields fruit in its season, and in times of depres- sion, when our currency system gets the rheumatism and fails to circulate, yields up its body to nourish mankind. I refer, f all, nat noble bird commoniy the barnyard fowl. Only I don’t ewl, so I call {ta bird. What is grander, nobler, than his strut? What ic is sweeter than the rooster’s crow, cially at the witching hour of night. ding forth the message of ‘All's well” What is more rourishing toan the fresh ezg cf the hen? What is sweeter than their flesk when properly prepared? No, I do not admit that my proposition necessi- tates two birds. What I want is a com- plete Mird. A male bird is no more a com- plete bird than a male human {ts a com- plete human. It takes a man and a female to make a complete Euman. So it is with a bird. Therefore, a rooster and a hen are in reality but one bird. Moreover, besides being useful in the manner set forth, this complete bird would be a national symbel of the soul, so to sreak, of that most sa- cred spot on eartr—the home. All hail, therefore, say I, to the substitution of the complete barryard bird for the present votceless variety of the species.” The theater-going public is much indebted for the amusement that has been offered to them for the past twenty years by Ed- ward E. Rice, the foremost producer of burlesque in this country; and that his ef- forts are appreciated in this city has been proved by the large audiences his produc- From the time of the initial presentation of “Evan- geline” at Boston over twenty years ago, Mr. Rice has given that class of entertain- ment his attention, and it 1s conceded that there is no other producer who can make & production as interesting to the eye, as “upeful to the ear, or as humorous to tha’ tions have always attracted. For instance, 17 aoe UI ~ risibilities, as Mr. Rice. Everything that has been presented by him has been on a prodigious scale, and the most lavish ex- penditure has been one of his strong char- acteristics in mounting and dressing a Presentation. His genius in the selection and grouping of stage pictures is a gift that has been enhanced by careful and long experience, and his geen perception of talent in a player that has not been brought out is an often discussed topic among other managers. Nearly all of the popu- lar stars of today have been at some time in Mr. Rics's companies and many of them owe their present standing to his training. Early in their careers Sol Smith Russell, W. H. Crane, Nat C. Goodwin, Henry E. Dixey, Richard Golden and many others, were under his direction, and today there is not a young actor or actress among the playerfolk that is not anxious to join his forces if they have ambition to become prominent in the class of entertainment Mr. Rice provides. Among the attractions he has for the pub- “The French Maid,” ‘Three Widows,” “Monte Carlo,” “The Ballet Gir “Topsy Turvey Hotel,” “A Modern Me- phistopheles,”” and other European suc- cesses that he is contemplating bringing to this country. He may also revive one or two of his former successes. The writer had occasion to visit Mr. Rice's offices in the Manhattan Theater building (formerly the Standard) last week, and had an opportunity of noting the amount of work, and the judgment re- quired in the organizing and other busi- ness matters connected with the direction of so many large companies under the management of one man. It was a sort of reporting day for the people engaged by Mr. Rice, and although he has the entire fcurth floor of the building, divided into different offices, there was hardly room to turn about. They were all there, come- dians, singers, dancers and every class of players that is seen on the stage. How- ever, the most interesting of all was the employer of all these merry people. It seemed as !f he did a dozen different things at once. While passing judgment on a contract for some booking handed to him by George Wadleigh or Joseph Kenney, his Heutenants, he would dictate a letter to his stenographer, tell the dif- ferent people what company they would go with, and send everybody away with a pleasant smile. COLUMBIA THEATER.—The only new thing in the theatrical world here next veek will be at the Columbia, where, Mon- day night, Frank Daniels will be seen in the first production in this city of his new comic opera, “The Idol's Eye.” This opera, which has been pronounced the ‘‘comic opera hit of the season,” is the work of Librettist Harry B, Smith and Composer Victor Herbert, who are responsible for that popular opera, “The Wizard of the Nile,” in which Frank Daniels was seen here last season. Daniels says that he has a part in this new opera exactly suited to him. Manager Kirke La Shelle has sur- rounded Daniels with a most competent company, and the chorus !s pronounced excellent. The choral work is said to be the best seen on the stage for many a long day, and to go with a snap and precision. ‘There is much praise accorded the manag ment for collecting together the many pretty girls who compose the chorus. The scenic investiture of the opera is said to be rich and in good taste, and through it all runs Herbert's melodious music, abounding in songs and choral numbers, certain to be- come very popular. “The Idol's * has India for locale, and the story ts of the present time. The story is that of an adventurcus aeronaut, who drops down in India among the tigers and British soldiers and Nautch girls and fierce oid Brahmins and Hindoo priests, and proceeds to get himself into a very comical kettle of fish. Following the ap- proved recipe for farce writing, the author manages to get Mr. Daniels up a tree in the first act, he throws stones at him in the second, and in the third act he gets him down again. The detail of the story is spoken of as fully as clever and amusing as was “The Wizard of the Nile,” and the other characters are even stronger. Mr. Daniels will have as a supporting company Alf. C. Wheelan and Will Danforth in comedy roles, Maurice Darcy as a young American novelist in search of literary ma- terial, Helen Redmond as a fair Cuban girl, Belle Bucklin as a cockney nurse girl, Norma Kopp as a Nautch girl and Claudia Carlstedt as a young lieutenant and as the chief priestess of a sect of Hindoo ido: worshipers. Ernest Albert has provided special scenery, one set of which represents the interior of a Hindoo temple. Mr. Dan- iels is unusually well provided with at- tractive songs, which have already become popular in New York. His entrance song, when he drops from a balloon, entitled “I Just Dropped in in an Off-hand Sort of Way,” and “Captain Charley Chumley of the Guards,” “The Tattooed Man,” “The Rabbit's Foot” and “Fairy Tales” are among the number. The engagement here is for one week only, with matinees on Washington's birthday and Saturday. NEW NATIONAL THEATER.—For more years than Digby Bell cares to reckon his name has been associated with big comic opera organizations. He met with consid- erable success, but longed for mor ambi- tious honors. Last season he determined to cut out a new line of work for himself and break away from comic opera. He felt that his many years’ experiznce would en- able him to do something more worthy. “The Midnight Bell” was one step in the right direction and paved the way for a more ambitious effort. His manager, Mr. Duncan B. Harrison, noting his determina- tion and fitness for the higher roles of le- gitimate comedy, secured from Augustus Thomas “The Hoosier Doctor,” and it was diplomatically tried for one week at the Grand Opera House, Chicago, with the re- sult that the success was so immediate that Mr. B21] continued the engagement for seven consecutive weeks to large audiences. This season he returned and proved the Star attraction of the season. Digby Bell presented “The Hoosier Doctor” here last season, and it pleased every one, winning words of praise from the critics. Mr. Bell and his excellent company will repeat the play next week, commencing Monday even- ing, at the New Nationai Thegter. On ac- count of Washington's birthday a special holiday matinee will be given Tuesday in addition to the regular Wednesday and Saturday matinees. LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE. —The “Girl From Paris” wae successful financially when presented here early in the season, and Manager Albaugh has ar- ranged for another week of the musical comedy at the Lafayette Square Opera House, which begins Monday night. The “Girl From Paris’ will be presented this time by a company of talented players se- lected from» the consolidated companies that have been playing it during the sea- son. The piece ran for a thousand nights in London and three hundred nights in New York city. In Boston the engagement was for seventeen wee! and in Philade!l- phia for fifty-six nights, and the piece will return there for an indefinite run in March. “It Is to laugh” is a phrase that the Ger- man inn-keeper repeats a number of times to tell the humorous intent of what hap- pens in the’“‘Girl From Paris,” but it is not necessary, for laughter pervades the per- formance’ in the most pronounced char- acter. The presentation is not only a mus- ical comedy, but a production complete with elaborate scenic pictures and staged with all the elaborateness so characteristic of Edward E. Rice, who always does things on a prodigious scale. It is replete with effects that are pleasing to the eye in mounting and costuming, and the ladies he has selected for the chorus are not only at- tractive in appearance, but can sing and act in @ manner that shows careful train- THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY,. FEBRUARY 19, 1898—24 PAGES. bs Ss My ma mg ai KRY which proves its catchy and tuneful char- acter. Some of the numbers that are very Popular are “So Take You Warning,” “Mary Jane's Top Note,” “I’m All the Way From Gay Paree,” ‘'The Battersea Butter- fly Shooters,” hen Off We Go" and “Somebody.” There are more good char- acters from the “Girl From Paris” than a, company usually gets. The players are fortunate in this, to which can be attrib- uted the individual hits that have been made. D. L. Don, a new typical German, is amusing, and the French girl, portrayed by Georgie Caine, is as chic as one could imagine. Anna Buckley has burted her beauty in the slavey girl and contributed much to the fun, while her “Mary Jane's Top Note” will long be remembered. Fred. Lennox gets everything possible out of a very humorous role. William_ Broderick, Nick Long, W. Wallace Black, Harry Earle, George Campbell and the other principals are well known. Mabel Clark, the graceful dancer, is also with the company. There will be matinees Wednesday and Saturday ‘and Washington's birthday. HI HENRY’S MINSTRELS.—HI Henry, whose name as a minstrel manager bears a national recognition, is in the field this season with a large, expensive and strictly first-class city minstrel attraction, which will appear at the Grand February 28 Mr. Henry's present organization includes some fifty performers, the brightest in their re- spective lines, and their program is put to- gether with the object of presenting new, novel, refined and elegant minstrelsy. It is stated that nothing of an inferior nor an objectionable nature is ever permitted, and that every performer bears the stamp of superiority and refinement. ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—The best talent of the colored race 1s comprised in John W. Isham’s “‘Octoroon” Company. which opens here Monday night at the Academy, with a Program of such variety, amusement anJ excellent ae as to invite every man, woman and child to witness and listen and feel themselves amply justifled in having secured seats. As a matinee entertainment it can have no rival in the entertainment of the young, as the novelty is something that every child can understand and appre- ciate without hindrance for fear of evil re- sults, everything being thoroughly correct in presentation. The operatic selections in the closing thirty minutes have a volume of metody. Among other selections are such gems as “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “Tar and Tartar,” “Il Trovatore,” “Red Hussar” and “El Capitan.” The comedy, dancing and jingle of the piece is in the opening sketch, entitled “The Darktown Outing.” During this engagement the regular Wed- nesday and Saturday matinees will be given, and an extra matinee Tuesday, Washington's birthday. KERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER.—Rice & Barton’s Rose Hill English Folly Com- peny will appear at the Lyceum Theater next week. The management is delighted to offer this gréit aggregation, as it has always done a great business, and no doubt they will repeat their former success.. The show contains more new and novel features then any other. The beautiful and peer- less “‘Chamleon,” the sensation of Europe ard America, comes here for the first time, She will appear in her noyel and startling act, which created marked enthusiasm in New York. The program includes the most lavghable burlesque, entitled “Gay Grass Widows,” introducing a bevy of handsome and beautiful ladies in new and sensational specialties; also the Living Art Studies, the Zoo Zoo Dancers, in the great Parisian quadrille, the hit of the nineteenth century. The olfo will present such well-known art- ists as Cain and Mack, the odd and funny tcum; the Casino Comedy Four, Doast, Mitchell, Palmer and Mitchell, the highest salaried quartet on the vaudeville stage; Blanche Newcombe, the petite song bird; Hickey and Nelson, Europe's latest novely, Twisted and Tangled, introducing grotesque and acrobatic eccentricities. Willard and Gebhardt, the criginal “Ginger Girls,” will present their new and original idea of a cake walk, and Lillian Nelson, the queen of burlesque, will be seen in the new bur- lesque, entitled ‘The Wicked Town,” with grand scenery, gorgeous costumes and the great female tug-of-war, the push ball con- est. Manager Kernan will inaugurate a series of extra Monday matinees, beginning with the Rese Hill English Folly Company next week. THE BIJOU THEATER. — Manager Greaves has secured the famous Diana, the Gay Parisienne, La Chameleon, presenting bewildering spectacular dances with a wealth of marvelous electric effects, mir- rors, calcilums and all pharaphernalia nec- essary to produce an act of this character, to appear at the Bijou Theater next week. This beautiful artist comes to the Bijou direct from her triumphant six months’ en- gagement at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, New York. The Hyland Sisters, in a novel vocal and dancing act, entirely different from any act in this country, are down for a good place on the bill; Jules and Ella Garrison, a team of travesty artists famous throughout the country for their imperson- ations; the phenomenal Aherns, in a wot derful balancing and breakaway ladder act the musical Rareus, a novel act of merit, and Collins and Ray, a clever sketch team, will also be in evidence. The retention of Misses Biggar and Dreher and Gertie Gil- son is a popular move on the part of the management. A production of “The Mika- do,” locally burlesqued, with Sam J. Ad- ams, Billy Madden, Clara Adams, the Bril- liant Quartet and a large, well and national- ly dressed chorus of inviting maidens will conclude the program. The Bijou's daily matinees at popular 10, 20 and 30 cents, with performances every night at 10, 20, 30 and 50 cents, should serve to fill this cozy little theater at every performance. “THE FRENCH MAID.”—E. E. Rice’s elaborate production of ‘The French Maid," which has just closed a successful run of 175 nights at the Herald Square Theater, New York, comes to the National Theater on the 28th of this month. It is a cbaracteristic Rice diversion, peopled with pretty women, clever comedians and grace- ful dancers, and is given with picturesque adornment of scenery and costume. “The French Maid’ will come here with the en- tire New York cast, which includes Ollie Redpath, Eva Davenport, Yolande Wallac>, Lucille Flavon, Saharet, the sensational Australian dancer, and the merriest sex- tet of comedians Rice has ever combined in a_ single compary—Charles A. Bigelow, Hallen Mostyn, George Honey, Henry Nor- man, William Armstrong and Edd Redway, HENRY E. DIXEY.—Mr. Henry E. Dix- ey will be seen at the Lafayette week of February 28 in a new role—that of mag- iclan. For the past ten years he has been identified with light comedy, but it is said he is quite as amusing and interesting in his new departure. One of the startling illusions presented by Dixey this season in his marvelous production of magic, mirth. mystery and mimicry is the illusion Leonii, in which a beautiful young girl is trans- formed into a full-grown African lion in full view of the audience. The Hon which is carried for this illusion is one that was brought to this country by Haagenback, the great animal tamer, for his exhibition at the world’s fair. It has only been in captivity about five years, and has not yet been subdued. It seems to have taken an especial dislike to Dixey and never misses an opportunity to grab at him. MAY IRWIN.—A week of downright merriment, interspersed with popular and very catchy songs, seems to be eminently descriptive of the coming engagement of May Irwin, who comes her? for one week at the New National Theater, with her original Broadway company, commencing March 7. Of the whole series of comedies which Miss Irwin has aa one by. “S Bone se2ms to have ughly suited unctuous work she is to ine same degree - a as her present success, Swell Miss Fitzwelh” It overflows with fun and vitality. “{hBre is no room for any other emotion than pure, wholesome and old-fashioned laughter. The plot of “The Swell Miss Fitzwell™is not profound, but it accomplishes imi the ludicrous complica- tions. and the clever*handling of its inci- dents more than:any of her previous suc- cesses and serves as an admirabl> vehicle for irrepressible and spontaneous fun, such as only May Irwim can manifest. “FOR FAIR WIRGINIA.”—"For Fair Virginia,” by MrRuss Whytal, which was first successfullypresented in this city More than two years ago, and has been acted continuously ever since, will be the attraction at the Golambia during the week beginning February 28. Mr. Russ Whytal and his wife are the stars, and they briag scme special scenery.and an excellent coia- Fany, including Wola Fortescue, and that remarkable chil-actress, Mabel Talia- ferro, co long the smallest child in Herne's “Shore Acres,” and who has a very im- portant character that aids in making tne performance especially pleasing to ladies aud children. “For Fair Virginia” deals with war times in the “Old Dominion,” but is a domestic story with only a war background and ng distressing scenes of battle and strife. Mr. Whytal has handled beth his northern and southern charac- ters so sympathetically that he does not offend any prejudices, and “For Fair Vir- ginia” has proved equally acceptable in both sections of the country. PROF. SCHUBERT'S MUSICALE.—Prof. Wenzel Schubert will appear before the Washington public in his first musicale next Monday night, in Trinity Parish Hall, corner.8d street and Indiana avenue north- west. This musicale is attracting consid- erable attention, as Prof. Schubert has been for many years a leading musician of the south, and brings with him testimontals as an artist and orchestral conductor. Out- side of hie practical knowledge of instru® mentation and composition, the violin has been’ his special instrument, and those who have heard’ him recently were pleased by his’ execution and style. His numbers on the program will consist of the “Scene de Ballet,” by De Beriot; the romantic Second Phantasie, by Dancla, and Mayseder’s Hema Danois, with variations. Mrs. Schu- bert, being an accomplished pianist, will render two solos by Dr. Satter, the Sonata Pathetique by Beethoven, and will act as accompanist. The following vocal artists will also assist: Miss Mattie Wade, soprano, will sing “Il Bacio,” by Arditi; Miss Crum of Canton, Ohio, the new contralto of Epiphany ‘Church, will sing ‘‘Comes the Night,” by Carl ‘Bohm; Mr. Douglas G. Miller of Richmond, Va., will contribute a tenor solo; Mr. James Watson, basso, director of Christ Church choir, will also assist with a fine selection. The recitor for the occasion will be Mrs. May Frances Stetson of Maine. The Ideal Mandolin Club will render a selection from Victor Her- bert’s “Serenade.” FISK JUBILEH SINGERS.—Monday evening, February 28, at National Rifles’ Hall, this famous musical organization will give one of its concerts, composed of the old plantation melodies with which they have so often delighted us, interspersed with songs, ballads, &c. No one who has ever heard these songs as they sing them can forget their effect upon the heart. The praise which has been bestowed upon them has not been exaggerated. They sing in such a manner as to satisfy the most se- vere critic. There is a deep feeling in those old religious negro songs, and in spite of the many repeating passages, they are of such melancholy beauty as to touch every musical mind. And side by side with them come negro chants so full of frolic and fun and contagious comical humor, and are sung with such an abandon, that the audi- ence, whose eyes «ware but just now filled with tears, burst eutdn a roaring laughter. The greatest point ‘of interest in these con- certs rests with fhe rendering of the slave melodies. As they sing them the effect is simply wonderful, not only by their pathos, but also by the masterly manner in which they are sung. ‘Those who have heard them will hear themvagain, and those who have not had better avail themselves of this occasion. Reserved seats on sale at Droop & Son’s Menday morning next. SOME MUSICAL NOTES The musical eventsof the season will be the first appearance after many years of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra at the Co- lumbia Theater, Fri@ay afternoon, March 4, at 4:15. Mr. -Mhomas' reputation as a conductor has always been high, and he ig today considered by many as thé foremost conductor, in ‘Americas: Hie will have the assistance at this concert as soloist of that wonderful violinist, Ysaye, who was the sensation of the musical season in Washington three years ago. The Sunday Night Music Club was en- tertained on Saturday evening by Miss Georgie Miller, 118 C street northeast, and on Sunday evening by Miss Alice W. Was- serbach, 1900 R street northwest, where the program included the Fourth Schumann Symphony, Aubre’s Domino noir overture, the Mendelssohn Ruy Blas overture, and Marche Hongroise; Danse of the Syiphs, and Menuet des Follets, played by the Boston orchestra at their Tuesday's con- cert. Among the invited guests were Miss Hassler of Boston, who sang a beautiful song, accompanied by Miss Elsa Ulke, and Prof. Jerichau, who played a composition by Mendelssohn, and, as an encore, an im- provisation. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lent will give a soiree musicale at the Universalist Church next Saturday night. They will be assisted by Mrs, Everest, mezzo-soprano, and some of their advanced pupils, and a program of much interest will be presented. ‘The last of the series of chamber musical concerts given by Mr. Herman C. 'Rake- mann will take place at the Washington Club next Thursday evening. The program will include a:trio by Goldmark; Nocturno end Finale ala Zingaresa by Mailing, Ro- manze for 'celle,. Beethoven, and quartet for piane and strings by Rhineberger. Mrs. H. Clay Browning will be the vocal soloist, and will sing an aria from Massenet's “‘Herodiade” and idszt’s “Lorely.” This forms an attractive collection of music, and should prove highly satisfactory. It is expected: that the attendance will be very large. The eoncert. which took place jast night at St. John’s Parish Halt for the benefit of the choir of St. Michaels and AlJl -Angels’ Church was a success in every respect. Though the weather kept a few people away, the hall was well filled and the pro- grem-thorovehly enjoyed. Those who took fart were Miss Fannie At Lee, Miss Blanche Muir, Miss Helen Lackaye, Mr. Figene Coffin, Mr. J. Taylor Cronin, Mr. Arthur Earnest, Mr. W. H. Conley, the Tuxedo Quartet and Masters Harry and Fercy Finney, who, with Master Malcolm Sutherland, Marshall White, John Maury and the chair, deserve special mention. The whole affair was-uncer.the direction of Mr. Edw. O. Asmussen. Mr. Charles E. Bell, one of Washington's baritone singers, who is one of Sig. B. E. Mori’s pupils, sang “Thy Sentinel am I” and “’Tis I Alone Can Tell,” from the opera of the “Beggar Student," at Sig. Mori’s musicale, which was held Thursday evening. This is the second one given this season. At the next one Mr. Bell will sing the well-known English baritone solo, “The Wreck of the Heaperus.” —_+- “Papa, what is: @ financial forecast?” “It's the way your mother looks-through my pocket book at: night before she asks me for money ext: morning.”—Chicago Record. S see ——__— A man is knowazby the unpaid bills he keeps—Life. —————e0+—_____ AMUSEMENTS. SUNDAY NIGHT. GRAND BENEFIT TO THE MORTON CADETS Haley’s Washington Concert Band, New National Theater, MISS PEARL LYNCH. -Soprano JOSEPH HAINA Cornet W. A. HALEY Reserved seats, 50c., 75c., $1. Galle GRAND MASQUERADE BAIL OF THE Germania Mannerchor, AT MASONIC TEMPLE, 9TH AND F STS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1898. ADMISSION, -EACH PERSON......25 CENTS 1t VALUABLE PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED. -Flute 25e. It Ancient Political From London Answers. The evil of monopolies and rings was known to ancients, Aristotle referring to them in his “Politics,” and then, as now, it was found necessary to hold them in check by legislation. The monopolist was in Roman law called a Dardanarius, and punished under the Lex Julia de Annona. Monopolies of clothing, fish and all articles of food were prohibited by the Emperor Zeno under pain of confiscation and exile; so that it is certain that the “rings” of the ancient days were as mischievous as they are now. At Athens a law limited the amount of corn a man might buy. The carliest recorded instance we have was a corn “ring.” There is an ancient tradition that the king who made Joseph his prime minister, and committed into his hands the entire ad- ministration of Egypt, was Apepl. Apep! was one of the shepherd kings, and ruled over the whole of Egypt as Joseph’s Pha- raoh seems to have done. The prime mini ter, during seven years of remarkable plen- ty, bought up every bushel of corn beyond the absolute needs of the Egyptians, and stored it. During the terrible famine that followed, he was sure to get his own price, and bartered corn successfully for the Egyptian money, cattle and land; and tak- ing one-fifth for Pharaoh, made him su- premely wealthy. It was not merely a provident act, but a very politic one, his Policy being to centralize power in the Monarch’s hands. —__-+0-+-____ Aphasia, From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Aphasia is an affliction familiar to man since the world was young. In both the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” Homer speaks of loss of speech from strong mental emo- tion. Pliny also mentions a condition iden- tical with aphasia. It is also alluded to in the Scriptures. Not until 1863, however, was the trouble located in the brain. This was brought about when cerebral localiza- tion was discussed before the French Acad- emy. Prior to this it was customary to 2c- count it as a visitation of God, caused Ly blasphemy. In nearly every community an old person can Le found who will tell how some one was stricken speechless while cursing his Maker. Scientists say that tre stroke was occasioned by excitemcnt, sot necessarily of a blasphemous turn. A curious case was that of Leonardo di Vinci, who suffered from a right hemi- plegia. He wrote with his left hand from right to left, a most curlous manuscript. After much marveling over it his attend- ants found that they could read it by look- ing at its reflection in a mirror. That sort of chirography Is called mirror writing. The plots uf several works of fiction have been based on mirror writing accidentally formed ou blotting paper. ———+ee. Interesting French Experimegia. From the New York Tribune. A valuable communication has been made by M. d’Arsonval to the Societe Interna- tionale des Electriciens concerning the therapeutic and physiological effects of high frequency currents, his experiments showing the powerful inductive effects ob- tainable with these currents, a striking in- stance consisting in the placing of three lamps in tension and allowing the current to pass through the body. These currents cause no sensations, and a man placed in a circuit does not feel that he is traversed by the currents which brilliantly illuminate the lamps. The principal results of this electrification are an augmentation of the oxidations in the organism and an inc in the production of heat; and a sub who, under ordinary conditions, eliminate seventeen to twenty-one litres of cz rbonic acid per hour throws off thirty-seven litres after having been submitted to this action. Such high frequency currents do not act solely upon the surface of the body, but also profoundly upon the interior. All these results have been obtained upon a number of subjects, and it is hoped by specialists in this line to arrive at a direct treatment for the interior of the bodies of those pa- tients who suffer from zymotic disease. Experiments to this end are in progress. “Rings.” A Wonderful Clock. From the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. M. M. Kitz, sr., of Oshkosh, has about completed the construction of a clock, al- most «s wonderful as the famous Strass- burg timepiece, on which he has worked a long time. The case Is of oak, nine foct high. Besides the regular clock dial show- ing the time of day, there is a second hand pointing out the seconds on a five-inch dial, a hand pointing to the day of the week, another dial showing the month and day of the month. Near the top is a small door, from which a beautiful angel will emerge and strike the hour on a silver bell. When her hourly task is finished she retires into a little room. Below the angel there are located three doors, from the center of which a figure representing Christ will come forth when the hour is struck. Simultaneously one of the side doors will open and the twelve apostles will pass in succession around a semi-circle in front of their Master, and when the quarter is reached on that point immediately in front of the center door, each apostle will turn and bow with the exception of Judas, the traitor. Every hour a sweet-toned music box will play an air. Mr. Kitz is not a professional clockmaker, and his designs have been entirely original. ———+e- Couldn’t Re Done. From Tit-Bits. “Boys,” began the Sunday school super- intendent, impressively, “I hope none of you will ever get into the reprehensible habit of alluding to your father as ‘the old man.’ When you grow up, no matter how big or old you may be, you should al- ways look up to and respect the silver hairs of your father, who has grown bent and gray working for you in your helpless infancy. Now, all of you who think you can do this, please raise your right hands.” Up went every hand except one. Sternly eyeing the delinquent, the super- intendent solemnly observed: “Why, young man, I am horrified—abso- lutely_horrified—as well as astonished at your behavior. Don’t you wish to raise your hand and put yourself on record as being willing to respect the gray hairs. of your father when you grow up to be a man?” “No. No use tryin’; can’t do it nohow,” unblushingly responded the lad. ‘Why not, sonny?” “*Cause he.ain’t Hable to have no gray hair. Dad's bald,” chirped the youthful philosopher, triumphantly, and amid a gen- eral titter the discomfited superintendent gave it up and passed on to something else. EPEC ERT DEES Fascinati by a Fox. From the London Spectator. One day about three weeks ago a dairy- man, who rents a few fields from the Earl of Haddington, when out in his fields noticed a pheasant roosting in a tree about twelve feet from the ground. Shortly after a fox came prowling through the smal) plantation in which the tree grew, and quickly marked the bird. At once it pre- AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia. EVENINGS AT 8:15. MATINEES TUES, & SAT. WEEK COMMENCING NEXT MONDAY EVE., FRANK DANIELS “The Idol’s Eye,” A New Comic Opera BY HARRY BR. SMITH AND VICTOR HERBERT. Kirke La Shelle, Proprietor and Manager. NEXT ATTRACTION—FEBRUARY 28, MR. AND MRS. RUSS WYTHAL, IN For Fair Virginia. , ACTED BY THEM OVER 700 TIMES. LAFAYETTE - - Tonight. ae PERFORMANCE HERE. INERS —25c., 50c.. The. . EVENINGS. Bbc. Be., TSe., $1.00 and $1.50. Charlet Frohman Presents the Brilliant Romance, UNDER THE RED ROBE. AS PERFORMED FOR 300 GUTS AT THE EMPIRE THEATER, NEXT WEEK—E. E. RICE’S THE GIRL FROM PARIS. LAFAVETT! Nixon an tors. PRCIAL RETU ENGAGEMENT. Week Beginning Monday. SPECIAL MATINEE WASTINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. Regular Wednesday und Saturday Matinees. E. E, RICE'S PRODUCTION scinating Musical Comedy, 2 It OPERA HO! NIGHTS NEW YORK. Neal | wits | PARIS 56 Nights in Philadelphia. 102 Nights in Boston. A Company of “Noted Artists: Georgie Caine, Anna Buckley, Cheridah Simpson, Rose Beaudet, Hattie Williams, ~ W. Biack, Mabel Clark. Chorus of Fifty Voices, Magnificent Scenery. “IT 1S TO LAUGH.» MSHENRY E._DIXEY. Seats on Sale ‘Thursday. Rifles’ Hall, §.5 February 28, 2° 1871——Twenty-serenth Season— 1998. Original Company back with Old Friends, | heart.” — Emperor of Singers. Droop & Sons’, 925 Pa. “These songs, as you sing them, go to the | ‘I never beard any- thing like it."'—Glad- stone. Seats selling at EB. F. ve. ENTERTAIMMERT AND BOP POTOMAC. COUNCIL, AT NATIONAL KIFLES'” ARMORY, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, ‘isos, AT EIGHT O'CLOCK. Ticket admitting Gentleman and Lads, 50c. ate Ladies’ Ticket, 25c. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT. BURNT CORK Club, followed by a dance, at Odd , 7th st. bet. D and E sts. n.w., MONDAY EV! 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Special Holiday Matinee Wasbington’s Birthday, “Success,” a veritable ttigmph.— Chicago Post. AMERICA’S FAVORITE COMEDIAN, GBY BELL Accompanied by LAURA JOYCE BELL and the same splendid organization seen here Inst season, presenting the Comedy Success, THE. HOOSIER DOCTOR. By Augustus Thomas, “In Mizzoura,”’ ete, *e5°4"- THE FRENCH FIAID. 1t_Direct from the Herald Square Theater. ACADEMY, trices” 9 PRICES, Every Evening at 8 and Saturday Matinee, HOYT’S | A MILK Best, Blegest, | WHITE Brightest, FLAG. ISHAM’S OCTOROONS. Next week— fe16-20tf CADEM POPULAR PRICES. NEXT WEEK author of “Alabama,’* Tuesday MATINEES, Tr. Wednesday, Weanecd Saturday. 25 and 50. Saturdey. The Diamond of Tropical Productions, Without a Flaw— ohn W. Isham’s Famous Qctoroons -A Tower of Merit Built To Stand Forever, The Only One Introducing the Bronze Melba, MME. FLOWERS. “Isham's Octoroons” are sald to be the band- somest company of sweet song birds of any or- ganization before the public. Some of the fairest daughters of their race will compose the chorus, The costuming and seevery is expensive and Btrike ing, and the scenes are picturesque and beautiful, Ga February 28—“A SOUTHERN ROMANCE.” Prof. Wenzel Schubert’s MUSICALE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2). 8 P_My Trinity Parish Hall, 3d and Ind. ave. n.w. fc16-5t Tickets, JK ERSAN'S LYCEUM THEATER. All This Week. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ——The Newest Sensation.— FRED. RIDER'S Moulin Rouge. EXTRAVAGANZA. Next Week—THE ROSE HILL FOLLY ©O. fel4-6t —s —_—« 1J0U_ THEATER. High-class Vaudeville and Burlesque. Daily Matinees, 10c., 20e., 90c. Nightly, 10tg BARONESS BLANC.” MARIE: HEATH Gertie Gilson, Miss Bigger and Dreher. Twelve Other Big Hot Acts. fel4-6t : — ——= LECTURES. ——» MR. LEON H. VINCENT AT WESLE} ‘HAPEL, TUBSDAY, February 23, mm Dean Howell corner Sth and F 8 p.w. Subject, Wil ets, 25 cents. ~ EXCURSIONS, ETC. RAYMOND & WHITCOMB’S TOURS. ALL TRAVELING EXPENSES INCLUDED. Parties of limited numbers will leave New York on dates named below for a series of HIGH-OLAS§ TOURS through Choral Society's American Concert. Congregational Church, CORNER OF 10TH AND G STREETS, Monday, Feb. 21, at 8 P.M. A program of solo and chorus numbers by Amer!- can composers, chronologically arranged and sung by American-born soloists— MME. EMMA JUCH, Soprano. MRS. ANNA TAYLOR JONES, Contralto. MR. W. THEODORE VAN YORX, Tenor— All of New York. Mr. Jobn Porter Lawrence, Organist. MR. JOSEF KASPAR. Director. Reserved scats, 50c., 75c. and $1—now on sale at Ellis & Co.'s, 987 Pa. ave. fel2-8t ORPHANS’ CONCERT. ‘The sale of reserved seats for the conceit by tho United Catholic Choirs of the city for the bencit of St, Vincent's Orphan Asrlum at the Columbja Theate: NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT ‘Toesday morning, Feb. i5, at box office of the theater. 14-6 EUROPE APRIL 16, for Italy, Austria-Hungars. Germany, Switzerland, the Rhine, Holland, Belgium, France and England. MAY 3i, joining the foregoing in Germany. MAY 31, for England, Norway (its Swe- for rds and the Land of the Midnight. Sup) en, Denmark, G Ay ‘many and France. MA Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Ge fungary. Northers italy, Swit lond and France. JULY 2, for France, Northern Itely, Switzerland, the Khine, Holland, Belgium and England. A PARTY (ALSO OF LIMITED SIZ) WILU LEAVE PHILADELPHIA AUGUST 2 OR 23 for p G AROUND THE WORLD. Visits will be ‘Straita Serv nts, Ceylon, India. Ren pil have three week tn Hawaii. er Europe or Around the World” te desired RAYMOND & WHITCOMB, 1005 CHESTNUT 8T. GMUTUAL LIFE INS, fel72t__ BLDG.),, PHILADELPHIA. aia & Weshington Steamboat Co. RAND OPERA HOUSE. KERNAN & RIFE, Managers. WEEK COMMENCING FER. 14. Usual Matinees Wed. and Sat. at 2. ceeded to run round the tree in a har- THE . row circle and at a rapid rate. In a very FOR short time the pheasant fell from its LAST . roost, evidently hypnotized or rendered by watching the circular career ot “3 ‘CUBA. the fox had it in its mouth and scampered ~ no 5 — : Next week of Feb. 23—-HI HENRY'S For Arlington, Fort Iyer and Fails Church--Take