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was the original "Little Minister" witi Maude Adiuns; Henry Jewett, the Austral Ian actor, who made his first Americal appearance in support of Julia Marlow and has since starred in "The Choir In visible;" Walter Thomas was the cleve jevenile with William In "Becr Service," In which play Miss Hope Ross another of Mrs. Le Moyne's supportin company, also scored success In the in ganue role. Katherine Grey, a charmini and accomplished actress, Is best known ti the public through her association Richard Mansfield. The cast altogethe numbers twelve speaking Darts, and be sides these the company Includes twelve actors and actresses who appear only Ii the ball room scene in the first act. Aside.

It is told that the Chinese minister offi clated as mediator and settled certain dif forences between Ching Ling Foo and his managers. Randolph Rapley Is now presiding as di rector of the Academy of Music, dividing his time with his new and successful poultry farm. O. H. Butler.

now manager of "The Gun ner's Mate." is an old Washington newspaper man, having been on The Star a quarter of a century ago. The dancer who appears in the Nethersole production of "Sapho" as Annabelle Whit ford is sail to be the Annabelle Moore of Seeley dinner notoriety. Charles Hawtrey is under contract to play in this country under Charles Froh man's management for twenty-five weeks next year. He will bring over an English supporting company. Anna Held has; through her managers, been talking about a ife-sized gold statue of herself for the Paris exposition.

There was some hitch and the exposition decided to go on without it. John Kellerd. whose work in "The Heart of Maryland" is well remembered, is making a highly favorable impression as a Shakespearean comedian In Modjeska's company. George Grossmith, the English comedian. who is pleasantly remembered for his visit to this city a few years ago, Is coming to this country again.

His tour will include Washington. A musical expert says that Wagner and other great composers have from time to time produced genuine rag-time melodies which are concealed in such pretentious environment as to escape notice. An English student announces that actors have a patron saint named Genetus. He was an actor in the days of Diocletten and was made a martyr for proclaiming before an audience his belief in Christianity. Musical farce Is as popular as ever in England, and the "Girl" Is to maintain her accustomed position in titles.

"The Messenger Girl" is the name of the next gaiety burlesque. Clyde Fitch passed much of his early life in Frederick and Hagerstown, where he is said to have learned a great many things about Barbara Fseitchie, which, according to history, are not true. Among the notable operatic performers who have graduated from the ranks of the Bostonians are mentioned Eugene Cowles, Alice Neilsen, Zelie De Lussan, Jessie Bartlett Davis and Camille D'Arville. Twenty-four actors and actresses and thirty-five managers have filed petitions in bankruptcy since the national act was passed. However, the number of petitions fled by all classes of debtors was only 1,974.

Mrs. Grace Van Studdiford. prima donna of the Jeff De Angelis Opera Company, has resigned because Mr. De Angelis objected to the manner in which flowers were passed over the footlights by her friends in St. Louis.

Rice and Cohen. with "Over the Pence." have accepted, a sketch by a Washington writer and will soon produce It. They were formerly with May Irwin in "Courted into Court." and since have been vaudeville headliners. Arthur Goule, formerly of the New National Theater, is with the Alice Neilsen Opera Company. There is quite an amount of Washington talent in the organization, including Frank Perley, W.

M. Hale and Miss May Boley. Nat Goodwin has suggested as a feature of the benefit to E. E. Rice a reproduction of the diamond fields scene from "Evangeline." with himself in his old role of "Blanc" and some other well-known players in correspending parts.

The Manhattan Theater. where "Papa's Wife" is. now running so successfully. was. wh, known as the Stan-lard, the scene of the most famous run of operetta made in New York.

"Pinafore." under the management of J. C. Duff. Charles Wyndham Is to play in "The Crusaders." The play was such a failure in 1Ti1 that H-'nry Arthur Jones. the author.

immediately retired from the theatrical management on which he had embarked. Ada repertoire is to include "Taming of the Shrew." "School for Scandal." Girl." "Subtleties of Jealousy." "Love on Crutches." "Much Ado "Twelfth Night" and "The Last Word." The sick list in the theatrical profession is assuming formidable proportions, including. as it doe- Roland Reed. Sol Smith Russell. Joseph Haworth and Olga Nethersole.

Mr. Iaworth has recovered sufficiently to go on with his part in "Quo Vadis." The conspicuousness of the part of Dr. Samuel Johnson in "Oliver Goldsmith" would make it seem probable that the play which is now being produced In London with Dr. Johnson as the hero would be highly interesting and picturesque. David Warfield, whom David Belasco proposes to take under supervision as a stellar probabi'ity, was twelve years ago an ush.er in a San Francisco theater.

His first New York engagement was for a Hebrew impersonation; salary, 38. Victorlen Sardou contemplates a historical drama based on a sensational poisoning case in France during the reign of Louis XiV'. when Madame de Montespan dominatod. The dIramnatic possibilities of the Molineux case are still awaiting exploitatio n. Mr.

Ziegfeld. Anna Held's manager, says that he Is through with the suggestive faree. He complaias pathetically that the newspaper denunciations of such entertainments were so severe as to make the profits enormous and the temptation Irresistible. Mr. Caryl WIlbur and Miss Gertrude Mansfield have a new sketch called "Color Mr.

WI'bur' will be by those who knew him as a boy in this city, which was his birthplace, as Wilbur Shbarpe. He has been away from here for about fifteen years. tn one of the cheap theaters In London In a melodrama dropped to her just as the curtain was about to fall and cried: "Abandoned! Lost! Oh, h'avenr. what is there left for oe'?" Al ibis a vendor in the aisle bawled: "Apple's. Oranges, Pies and Cakes." that in fifty years America will 1- recotgnlzed as a great musical nation.

makes the statement that one hears mo.re music in the streets of our cities than In any Other country in the world. However, no other country has a Sousa to write Irresistible melodic trifles. Marie Tempest describes the trouser, which caused her to leave her part in "San T. y' in London. She says: "They were hideous and awful things, to be made in the thickest of velvet duchess satin, shape of which would have made me look like the hind legs of the Blondin donkey." During an out-of-town performance of "The Gunner's Mate" the door of the fierl furnace which Nestor Lennon enters to dc is deed of heroism, became caught in somi way, ar'd before opened the "hero" ws nearly suffocated, being unconscious foi eight minutes.

He was plucky enough te continue the performance, however. Many people who saw "A Wise Guy" a the Academy of Music this week remarked at the resemblance between Edmond Hayet and Pugilistic Champion James Jefries Even in San Francisco he has been followed by admiring crowds demanding tha he tell who he purposes to "take on" fot his next encounte. Mildred Holland, who was comparativels unknown to the general pub'ic before she scorsd ber great success In the "Two Littie Vagrants," has atnee becosme a sens I about to appear In a new roMantic dran especially written for her by Theodore Err mer, entitled "Aria." Louis James, In speaking of where stag traditions come from, says the tradition business of a role Is either the Idesa of tt author or the man who originally stage the pray, or else it cam from the bral of the actor who played the part In th first "Some actors," he adds ese tentously, "really have brains, and a times use them." Mrs. Annie Yeamans, who was wit "Why Smith Left Home" at the Columbi this week, began her stage career In a operatic ballet, then was a bareback ride In an Australian circus and thence, easy stages, drifted to her present line character work. She confesses to sixty two years, and Is good artistically an physically for a decade more on the boards Richard Mansfield gets- a considerabl quantity of editorial sympathy from var ous sources because busybodies persist I making satirical comments on his manner and methods as an Individual, disregardin his achievements as an artist.

Other mar agers conduct their stages as they pleas( employ whom they please and discharg whom they choose. It is not so much wha Mr. Mansfield does that attracts attentior but the funny way he does it. Charles M. Sheldon.

author of "In HI Steps." seems to regret the dramatisato of his story in London, although as did not copyright it there he cannot pre vent ts use on the English stage. "If." says, "the story could only be played Christian actors it would be a blessing the world, but by immoral players and un der the direction of a present-day manage the opposite effect will be had." He say the story will not be put on the stage 11 America. The Kawakami Japanese troupe has guide, philosopher and friend in the per son of Mr. Bunkir Matsuki, a prominen Japanese merchant of Boston. Mr.

Matsu ki married an American girl and has i summer residence near Salem. typical Japanese country seat, with bam boo cottages and plum blossoms; a bit the mikado's empire in New England. Th heavy two-handed swords used in th Kawakami performances are the regula article, and any person who has examinee the Japanese weapon knows that while I is not quite so sharp as a razor, it shoul be handled with great care. The Impression seems to hold that role of Eugen Courvoisier, which Richar Mansfield plays in "The First Violin." ti be given during his coming visit, is the first musical role that he has ever played It is not so many years ago, six or seven that Mr. Mansfield played a little comed; called "Monsieur" for quite an extender spring run at Hoyt's, then (and now) the Madison Square Theater, in which play hi took the part of a starving music teacher in love with his rich pupil.

Johnstone Ben nett remembers this play well, for it was as the slavey in "Monsieur" that she made her first hit as a character actress in Nei York and paved the way for her later suc cess in "Jane." Stuart Robson tells of a young man wh was introduced to the firm of Robson an Crane by John McCullough, with the plea "For heaven's sake, will you do something for this young friend of mine? Of course you know who he is, but I warn you not t( engage him on the ground that, being his father's son, he ought to be a good actor Without an exception, this youngster is th worst actor I have ever seen In my life Still, for his father's sake, as well as his own. I would like you to employ After seeing the young man perform. Cran and Robson agreed that McCullough ha, spoken literally. He left them very sick al heart. The aspirant spoken of at that time with such disparagement was no less a per.

sonage than Mr. E. H. Sothern. Manager Chase claims credit for the discovery of Miss Mabel Maitland, the young woman who recites in dialect.

He expects her to excite as much comment and critical attention as New York's mysterious singer not otherwise known In vaudeville than as "the girl with the auburn hair." She comes from a distinguished southern family, anc the name of Maitland is simply a nom de theatre. More than this, she is appearing in vaudeville without the knowledge of her kith and kin, and is as much surprised at the success she has won in a stage career as yet bounded by fourteen performance: as her relatives would perhaps at first deplore her departure from the social sphere for which she was educated. People who go often to the theater who know enough of the etiquette of the place to abstain from conversation during the performance are not infrequently an noyed'by others near them who are not at well posted, or, perhaps, so considerate Not long ago Julia Arthur, in New York stopped acting to reprove a noisy box party and Lillian Burkhart, the well-known vau devillan, performed the same service to hei audience in Philadelphia a month or back. both being rewarded by enthusiasthc applause from their auditors, while the reprimanded persons left the theater hide their discomfiture. Manager Chase 01 the New Grand, in his effort to insure the comfort and pleasure of his patrons, ha.

hit upon a clever idea that will serve to repress such quasi-offenders. He has printet a neat card bearing these words: "The management requests that there be conversation in a tone that will disturb those near you." The polite service of this card by ar usher has proved a most effective remedy He might extend his good work to the "theater hat" nuisance. One bright man ager in New York uses a stereopticon to. ward this end and just before the curtair rises he causes a neatly worded invitatfor to the ladies to remove their hats to be thrown in full view upon the curtain. MUSICAL MENTION.

It is uncertain whether Washington wil be favored with a visit from Mr. Grau' Metropolitan Opera House Company or not Negotiations have been carried on by sev eral parties with Mr. Grau, but none hav reached any definite conclusion. It is ex pected that something definite will be set tied upon within a week. Mr.

Grau will no come here, it is understood, without a cer tarn guarantee, afid that has not yet bee1 made. Last season the company came the Grand Opera -House, but that is no available now, for Messrs. Burke Chas have booked attractions beyond the tim when Mr. Grau would wish to come here He could go to the Lafayette Square Open; House, but it is understood wants guarantee of the sale of all the boxes, bot) floor and mezzanine, for the season. Tha would cover him sufficiently as to his ex penses, and if he played Baltimore on ternate nights he could give a very fin season In both cities.

Those who ar anxious to have the company come her think that with the proper effort all th boxes could be sold, and it Is probable tha If an arrangement is madie It will be witi such condition, There are a good many musical events Ia prospect. The series of concerts by th Baltimore Symphony are so far advances that the.dates are fixed on the Tuesdays Il March. Petchnikoff, the Russian violinisi and Leonora Jackson, the young Americal v'iolinist, will be the soloists at the fira been selected. It is probable that Henri Marteau, th French violinist, and Miss Lotta Mills, pi anlst, will give a concert here some tIm this month. Walter Damoroech will give a lecture re cital for the Choral Society at the Congre gational Church next Wednesday eveninj -and there is a posibility that Mr.

Dani roach may come here later with Mine. Gad ski in a lecture recital, The Damroech Society will have De Pacli mann here in a Chopin piano recital, an there is a possibility that Mark Hamburj the young Ru--sian pianist who seems have taken the place of Paderewski in thi affection of the impressionable womer may come here for a recital either alone In conjunction with a remarkable 'cell player. Henry Wolfsohn, who will direct the ton of Sousa's Band in Germany, will sail ft Europe by the middle of this take the preliminary steps to secure favorable reception for the great America band leader. Choir night will be observed at Si Michael and All Angels' Church tomnorroi night. These service were inauguratem this winter and appear to be appreclate.

by the congregation. The service is almos entirely devoted to musIc, with a short set mon by the rector, Rev, Win, B. Turns, The following lhae been arranged: Proces sina 396; anthem, "Behold, I Bring Yoi Glad Tidings," by SImper; Magnificat arm Dimittis in fiat, by Garrett; a duei for soprano anid baritone, by Faure, san by Miss Gertrude Harrison and Edw. Ainnussen; hymn 4116; offertory, "Send On -Thy Light," by Gounodl recessional Urn The evening choral service is used, The sixth musical of th Washingrton Sangrerbund will be held a the club hpiine tomorrow evening. Tb soloists will be Mr.

ernma C. Rakemana viinite Mr. Ernest last. Mi Bijou Theater. a Week of February 5-10.

May aHo1ward 1Elavagaua 5 0m any. The Best Costumed Show Taveling the Theatrical Circuit. Opening Burlesque, "Fi Fi Flambeau, or 3 Gold Bricks." Closing Comedletta. "A Sporty Count." May Howard in the Title Role. No Better Olio Than This: Leslie and Curdy.

Just a Few Jokes. Few Songs and that's all. Violet St. Clair and Ida Nicola, Grotesque Dancers and Vocalists. Myrtle Tressider, The SEnging Soubrette.

M'lle De Vere, In Poses Plastique. Evans and Grant, A Pair of Jolly Celts. M'lle Eulalie and Kitty Kirwin, Premier Danseuse and Singing Comediennes. Lorenz and Allen, ECCENTRICS IN COMEDY. WEEK OF FEB.

12-17, The Bijou Stock Company In a New Burlesque. It EUGENE WELLINGTON, Manager. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS, For beneat of Christmas Charity Fund of ALMAS TEMPLE Nobles of the Mystic Shrine NATIONAL RIFLES' ARMORY, FRIDAY. P.M., FEBRUARY 9. ADMISSION, 50 CENTS.

CAST OF CHARACTERS: John Perrybingle (a carrier), Mr. Jas. A. Sample; Mr. Tsckletoe (toy 'erchant).

Mr. Fred. C. 0'Connell; Cleb Plummer (toy maker), Mr. Edward C.

Townend; Old Gertleman, Mr. J. Don Houston; Dot (John'. wife). Miss Grace Ross; Bertha (Caleb's blind Mie.

May Jameson; Mrs. Fielding, Miss Anna M. Hays; May Fielding, Miss FR rence Keech; Tilly Slowboy, Miss Ada L. ownsend. It LECTURE BY Gen.

John B. Gordon, DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY," AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1900, AT 8 O'CLOCK. Reserved seat tickets. 50c. At JOHN F.

ELLIS 937 Pa. on and after February 6. VUN MSBTYI OF MERASYLYANDA. Combined Musical Clubs, Glee, Banjo, Ilandolin. National Rifles Hall, ST.

Bet. 9TH and 10TH. Friday Feb. i6, 8:15 P.M. Reserved seats, 75c, and $1.00.

Admission, 50c. On sale at SANDRtS BI'AYMANS, 1877 St. n.w. it COLUMBIA "AINGTHET Tonght at 8:15. Last time of THE NEW YORK AND LONDON SUCCESS, George Broadhurst's Gleeful Plenitude.

"Why Smith' Left Homeo" With the Original Company. Sacred Heart Fair OPENS Monday Evening, Feb. 5, AT Masonic Temple, 9th and sts. n.w. Enjoyable attractions daily.

Everybody come. It ACADEMY. oMT.NI"HT. S. Edmund Hayes and Emily Lytton In the Funny Farce Comedy, A The laughing hit of SWISE the season, presented by the greatest cast ofI farce-comedy come organlsed.

Next Week-The Great Naval Play, The Gunner's Mate. fel-St-20 LAAYETTE Electe evaeto to Bacn and Gallery Regu orday at 2 The Novelty of the Season-The Japaee Daa tc Compay supportIng the greatest Ottojero Kawakami and Sada Yacco. (Status-maker) "Rylist, the Matine and Evnng Psronsc SaaYacco tsSWs-RV SMH JONES." ard, base, and Mrs. Hugh La Grange, soprano, and the Rakemsann StrIng Quartet, consisting of Messrs. flsamnn, Green, Fiuckel and Lent, will play two selections fromn Auf" and "Aufzug der Meisteruinger." The bund will sing Gelbke'a chorus, "Helmkehr;" Mr.

Lent will play a Mendelssohn "Song Without Words" and Popper's "Masourka," Mrs. SLa Grange will sing Mattet's "'Leave Me -Not" and D) Koven's "Ask What Thou Mr. Burchard will sing Schumann's a "Dedication" and "Spring Night," Mr. will play Beethoven's Romance In major, with piano and string accoml1 paniment, and Mr. Morsell will sing Adams' "Holy City." This excellenit program has been prepared by Mr.

Henry Xander, the musical director of the Saengerbund, and I the attendance will undoubtedly be very large The meeting of the Euterpe Club, held at the residence of Mrs. Alfred T. Gage, last -Tuesday evening, tras unusually interestrlag. It was a Beethoven night, and the I program was long and attractive.Amn I the numbers was the "Sonata which was played by Mr. Angelo C.

nant. the director of the club, in a mesterty manner, and whliS won the high apprech, tion of all presept. Anlong those present I were Mr. Italo Fronani, Mr. Byram, Mr.

I Stats, Mr. and Mrs. Alien C. Clerk, Mr. and Mrs.

H. L. Strattam, Mrs. and Miss Sussin, SMr. Ridgley, Mr.

Sigginse, the Mimses Mitchell, Miss Estefle Weatworth, Mrs, Romer tand Mrs. Turler. engrssdin studya ythe full cheir at St. Andrew's thnc AgSi 18, which Is Good PrIday. a T'hesaeiui esuby Mr.

O.GL -Me. Roet, 8t. Andrefa an Mr. Miller, ten eth Ose DAILY FIATIN IR4 IS UNR ED VAUDE Costli rogramme All Star Headliners HE t.y nn 0o1 ThrAERIAL AUSTINS II -M ENc4 GEORGE FILSON WILSON ERROL, Leading The Greatest Feature Minstrel of the Day, and Monologis, in Their with an Brilliant Comedy, Entirely New: "A Tip Budget. on the Derby." MLLE.

AIMEI Master LAVENDER MANNING AND Wl THE BHUI CTURES-T C0LUMIBIA1 LEADING Week rnin. FEB. 5 Evenings at 8:15, Popular Matinee Thursday, SOc. Matimee Saturday, 25.,50. 75c.

amid $1. Messrs. Smyth Rice Present THE COMEDIAN WILLIE COLLIER In His Own New Farce, "MR. SMOOTH" Thes Comey Ht of the Season and Chicago A GREAT CaS ayrd R1 PODUCTIGpi Neut Thursday Srah Cowell and Cormpany rn a newr play by farrieFa and Ujiene The GreateM Thing in the World. NATIONAL.

ENGliTAA AUL CE NIELSEN The Fortuhe TeIler EI EVEN INGS, 25c. and 50c. VILLE BILL NEXT WEEK --0 0-- 0 0-4 Ever Presented Here. BEST Every Act PAT I E9RG WIL ONr PAT PATRICE, The Aerial The Dainty AUSTINS Comedienne, in her Handsome Picturesque Young Women Little That Accomplish Costume Comedy, Wonderful "Edna's Ghost." Trapeze Feats. S'THE HUNAN qWALKING ON A CEILING.

MAR BSTON, GEm YIELVE lE MAVHC SCENES Opera House Beginning Feb. 5, Wednesday and Saturday Matinees, JHTI A Farce Comedy of the Highest Ordler, Replete with Amsn Sitnations, Specialties and' Funn Sayigs. A Refreshing Reviver Tired Minds. Presented by an All-Star Cast. HetWee-onR.

HOSWIN IN ''A LIOW' of 1o---ranEE LITTLrE A TAR A Ni D.RWE L1TNaAU SAmb EMI. nn Qul EvE D. ooso Sueday, 4, at to Jepmn. AvStnafford-it ACADEMY Popular With the People, wan. Pnces, and DIRECT FROM THE GRAND 01 ENTIRE NEW YORK PRESS UNANIMA be new naval drama makes a It Is loaded to the brim with actica and hearl "The Gunners Mate" a Telegral The play wont with a whoop and a bang from si A large audience enthuslastically welcomes "TI "The Gunner'; Mate" Is "The Gunner's Mate" was cheered at the Gran, Lots of action In "The Gunner's Mate." "The Journal.

It would be treason to say "The Gunner Mat "The Gunner's Mate" simply bulges with meo the average poputar-priced theater-goer. The man Opera Louse this week is a glutton with an abnoi "The Gunner's Mate" has caught BOSTON ALSO PAYS ITS TRIBUTE. High praise is due the production of "The Guns told, the climates are thrilling, and the company The whole thing mores with dauh and vigor, ai Boston Herald. "The Gunner'. Mate" is a realistic drama, a decided Journal.

A good play and an able compang achieved a -NAVAL NIGHT, MOI FEB'Y 12TH-The Sprightly Far NATI( 0 WEK MONI Wednesday a Math Charles Frohmal J01 DRI (Eighth THE TV OF TE Haddon Chambers pera Original Empire York) Cast ar Feb. 12-Primr Dockstad WALTER DAMROSCK En a Leture Reeltal, illustrated by himself en the piano, under the anspices of the Chorel Boelety. Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen D3ONGREGA 10NAL CHURCH. FEB. 5 P.M.

Om.eale at after Tiumads. Feb. 1. LECTURE Dy JC0EP J. MURPHY.

A.M.. em cO LU nB US, Lmerican Hisory at the Cathefle Umivessity of str dumn February e. teg-t K. K. 0, A.

Co SRussell Ht. Conwell, Pesbd. lThe tieroism a Prvae At WE 0WSwiimm tat- inU3M. IemeT bTiswie geata.w ai, s. -w U' AMUSEMENTS.

)neWek Onleb Coi.eMonday Feb.o HATS. 25 and 50c. ERA HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY, Same Cast, Same Production, Same Effects. THE GUNNER'S MATE. UNDER THE of Mr.

Augustus Pitou. Stage Pitu 3spwuicsi from of re dleow a ttsr New e. at PLlbTK OF GOOD OpDY. LTERPREIND BY A STONG COMPABE. )Cs IN IT PRAISE.

wit. JoL bh. art to Gunner. -s. I Opera Hoe A.ut sad heeed.

th tre Mate" stio at. at it. It pe. ias ot a good DamatYc dsices, Just the show to a-- to wbo cannot gut his worth at the Grael Dale. New oRk JrNL News.

tars The au is go, the star i well Gobe. Ad then I. not a elow minute to ths eve Ing.with thrilg ettatlons sad etmeog cult. It mad. Sided scc uston Trausedpt.

I DAY, FEBRUARY 5.e OVER THE FENCE )NAL. )AY NIGHTI nd Saturday Lees. i Will Present -I Season.) RAN NY EARS. 'Comedy of Ternvient. Theater (New Production.

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