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lilH Wj THE WASHINGTON POSt J9UNBAY NOVEMBER 15 1908 Tx OTHTNG more appropriate In entertaining humor the phllosoph of good cheer ana homely optimism could be desired than la contained In Mrs Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch which begins a weeks engagement at the Columbia tomorrow night With the numerous editions of the famous book written by Mrs Alice Hegan Rice and the long period ot success enjoyed by theplay madethere from by Mrs Anna Crawford Flexner perhaps there Is license for calling Mrs Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch a classic as has been done by Llebler Co the managers of the tour and even by commentators in the press In any event the story achiced an amazing popularity to which the enduring career pf the play has scarcely been second All ef the charming episodes of the too haie been mixed In the dramatists chaf ing dish and cooked Into a coherent luriii Kitiug mucu uraiuauu eireugui iu the action The gospel of good cheer an vr4th Ik hrtnAlt anil TnitviKlA a mrtRTiira anA iyATvKrv wTTTt nt pathos a serious thought and en honest sympathy may find lodgment behind all the laughttr occasioned by the eccentric 1 vies 01 me cnvcipnzauons ine oruer of entertainment proUded the Ply Is unusual its absolute difference from ether hearth and home comedies it extremely enraelne local color and its human Interest of a uniaue sort cen tering in a commanding and lovable personality make a comprehension of Hi popularity very potent Beyond question there Is truth sincerity and a convincing wholesomeness In Mrs Wlggs who of course is the cen trai character of the play The shrewd kindly philosophy of the humble character is brought out to the full luminance by Miss Blanche Chapman Whether she Is Ironing out the curls of one of her Jography named daughters with easy carelessness trying to conceal obtrusive articles of household equipment tn the bed or rescuing her false front from the coal hod smoothing the ma trimonial path of the mournful Miss MJ iiii i in i niii ii i i 1 1 i i 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decidedly democratic Count Ie VasssysJiaa been well known for ten years as an actor of ability on jsuro I Basil West Lillian ICemble Marlon 1 Chapman and Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh appearance Laddie popular of the English Importations and his comic stunts and grotesque dancing hit the popular fancy The advance sas has been large Btlasco The Warrens of Virginia The Warrens of Virginia the dramatic success which played one entire season and part of another In New York its popularity remaining undisturbed Hazy expatiating upon the sectarian thrKh a season of financial depression llkeness of her beloved flowers giving sneiter and motherly affection to an extra pair of homeless children or forgiving the errant Mr Wlggs she Is always human and appealing with her unfailing expression of optimism There Is whole sermon In her one earnest desire to be kept from gettln sour and sympathy goes out to the woman at tnl tme No production it Is said who Is determined to brine sunshine into her own home and as far as possible Into the mean and shabby lives of her neighbors Chases The Love Walt Chases will this week gratify public wish for the presentation of the Viennese waltx music that has New York and Boston in a furor by giving Jesse LAtKy 8 Vienna musical spectacle Tire will tnake its first appearance In Wash Ington at the Belasco theater this week The Warrens of Virginia is the most recent of David Belascos triumphs to leave Iew York and to the necessity or using both of hi metropolitan playhouses for new productions is attributable the possibility of witnessing this play here ever served better to point to Belasco preeminence among contemporary tj ducers than The Warrens of Virginia The unusual opportunity which thtf Jocate of its scenes In the valley the Rappahannock gave to him was grasped with I enthusiasm and the Belasco genius for Injecting beauty impresslveness and realism into a scenic baclfgroud was allow ed the widest Play That there should be no weak stone in the structure of the effort Belasco spent many weeks In the selection of a company to interpret Its IIVS WnlfT With AlfraA ITsnnalor n4 Audrey Maple to the leading roles I llnes na the organization Is one of Hin Added to this there will be the popular I usual strength Frank Keenan ast seen comedians Kelly And Barrett the little here Jack Ranee the sheriff Jn The Britisher Laddie fcliff the globe trotting Grt ot tne Golaen West and Miss Char king of the Ivories Will Fox theiJotle Walker whose portrayals oSouth Young American Quintet the five Jor i era herones have made her famous arm aans ana tne American Vltagraph serieaJ inav jsaseDau ran the leaders of the company The former 1 has the role of Buck Warren the flght The Love Waltz Is audevlllesl4n nead of old Dominion family ival of The Merrr Widow rh KAiMiss nalker portrays Agatha Warren rival of The Merry Widow The Soul Kiss mm waits Dm and theL otner operatic concoctions conceived to follow in the footsteps ot the first Viennese hit In fact The Love Walts Is called The Merry Widow of Vaude ville Ittls said that InMnusical nio portrays Agatha Warren his eldest daughter The other charac ters are In the hands of such artists as Misslgmma DunnWilliam McVay A Waldrtn Gtlmore Stt Raymond Bond Fredrick Watson Miss Mary Bickford Mrs Charles Craig Wlllard Rcb tlve In scenic Investiture In luxurious rtson audi others whose names are a ness ox costumes in pretty girls and thel mosl as we own other excentlonal eVment ithw i i TUouzh the action of the srreater nart such a presentation The Love Waltz 1y takes plate during the dvli Auction byMr Savage 1 war play tn the conventional sense In The composer of the waltx humor was which that phrase is used at alL crenueax tne Viennese muslciani the1 I uorewo isy west the lyrics by national WillianH Crane in Tafhw Lasky himself and the other music bvi Charles Berton Heading the operatic end of the company are Alfred Kappeler late the Savage Opera Company and beautirul Adrey Maple the former prima donna ot 3116 Waltz Dream The company nutabers 5 well known singers and comefflana lieproduction requires a car for Its scenery and properties It is said 50 000 was expended In the presentation It has had record breaking attendance In vaudeville and is the greatest ef the Lasky creations The supplementary ieadmg offering wni le Kelly and Barrett i their new military travesty The Battle Too Soon described as scream from start Xo finish The urlesoue exploits ot Careless Caseyvthe dispatch bearer are said to keep the audience in a gale of laughter Another potent attraction wlU be Laddie Cliff rho wop Washington compjetely upon the occasion his rum Father and the Boys is max to those popular favorites Jl a a A I a av rtf father who Is country bred who has accumulated a fortune and his two fuse to entertain any serious ideas about business While father works the boys loaf one going in for athletics and the other for society Finally father Jgrbws weary of the game and decides to circulate a little bit himself just to show the boys that he can lead Jheproces sion instead of remaining fourteen miles In the rear the position wnicn ther have rjolltely told him he occupied From the moment he hits the roulette Aa All rtt 4n4 wneei uau vuiiLiiiucs iuau www Goldfleld by way of the ace track 5 Mr Crane is said to poyjokeoprorlous laughter Father and the BoysJ will have a nne scenic equipment and the supporting company will Include Margaret Rale Vivian Martin Ivy TQtitman Isabella Garrison Forrest Orr Frtd Sidney Rob ert Tlfaflrftv Tnt1 On1Wt anfl others Gayety Mardi Gras eauile For a combination of comic opera travesty vaudeville and an ntertaln ment that will please the eye and ear Anay Lewis and his Mardi Gras Beauties which comes to the Gayety Theater com menclng tomorrow afternoon is heralded as one of the best organisations In bur lque Thre is a big chorus of attrac nve ana gingerjj gins witn gooo voices and a corps of men singers a feature that few burlesque organizations can boast ot The scenery Is new and the costumes rreke a rich display of varied but har nonlous colors There are SDlendld en sembles cleverly devised dances ard plo making is the source of unlimited fun Buster this season Is characterized hy little Master Reed 4the funniest lilllpu tlan on the American stake He Is ably assisted In his fun making by Al Grady as the faithful og Tige Busters nnstciTit rtYTinnnnn Ornlv 1 nnd nf the cleverest animal impersonators and I I ii VI I is aia vc uia ftius nieav uiu The presentation 1 of the jjlaythls eea son is almost entirely newv although the original fun has been retained with a lot of new comedy and many catching singing lumbers added There are a number of clever specialties Tije xastlsj one pf exceptional rnrlt lrcluding Harold West who Tjlays the role of Buster little sweef heart Phil Smith as Jack Wynne In lve with Susie Rocky Hare a much used man characterized by John Gorman August Feck a politician essayed by George Gorman Harold Castle and Jane Wolfe as i Busters father and mother Susie Sweet his rauntr essayed hy Alletta Bridgeford Mrs Sweet the mother in law and the cause of all the trouble Impersonated by Margaret Miles aad others and the Bobby Burns Brigade of Scotch Highlanders In a peaslng miljtary number Tne costumes ana scenic embellishment of the production are elaborate and the electrical effects beautiful Lyceum Miss Itey Yoik Jr Pretty chorus girls talented principals sensational costumes fend brilliant sceolc and electric effects all go toraake the Miss New York Jr company which commences a weeks engagement at the Lyceum tomorrow afternoon one pf the most taiked1 about entertainments 6t its kind In America Instead jf the stereotyped first TSart vaudeville olio and bur leKine esuailv feen in shews of this ltind Miss New xorK Jr presents a musicil scriptive will be tn the hands of the well known lecturer Steven Bush A tor of ehlna and Japan with visits to all of the many quaint and interesting places of these oriental empires Is also on tne program as is the unfolding of the beautiful dramatic story of Damon and FjTt ias A quarter of an hour with the funny pictures will conclude the evening A popular sale of prices will prevail Academy Concert The Academy will offer or the concert ti right a program consisting of two hours pf the latest moving pictures In which corned strong dramatic features scenes of trael and little stories of real life Little Selma Sellnger and Master Fete jSecker wtlD appear In a novelty singing act waiter sondbeimer will be on band with brand new parodies and Hehnuth and Grtenburg comedians will complete the bill turesque stage Views Original itehasS LM ftSJ been provided i and maiy comic situations and scenes abound in Whlrl I Fun and tile train This Is shown trr moving pic satires rr Lewishas IuU seopfe to ojs play bis fun making ability and Maud Elliott Ha sprightly and dainty comediennecomedienne fieures to advahtage bath in the comedies and in a sketch wife Mr Lewis I 7 elte Won at the Wire wMch is nTpf iJfc1 blend tt comedy Trndtdrams May Bry ant Virginia Royden Georgle Cumming3 1 ard Lottie Lewis are the feminine ieai mm A imnni A4hM In tliM aIIm awa 1 uva ul0 vc yv cLip iiy Alrona ZoelleriTrio In a comedy acrobatl act Harvey add Cummings In a neat clalty Groyes and Dojle In a clever com edy and dancing act the Gale sisters and Joe Emerson Jn a monologue Academy Bnster Brown Buster Bjown the hit every sea tftr the oast several years 4riil notf fa visit lo New Academy where if will be presented Jpr one week with matinees Tuesday Thursday and Saturday commencing tomorrow night The play which is based on Outcauils news piper drawings deals In an excruciat tnaiv funny manner with the adven turesof Busteria grandnibtker who comes to thenbme of htt partets7 to pay an unwelcome visit His father offers him a whole lot of thlngsMf can chase ner away end be proceeds ana tne coys Charles Frohman will present Wtfltam Crane one of the most popular and seniai comedians on the American stage in George Adee best effort at play writ tag Father and the Boys Mr Ade did a lot for Vie laughter loving public enhevproducai The County Chairman and The College Widow but ne treated them evenbetter in Father nn the Boys Added to this Is WJJUam it wnme vtiTBjar uue tne material or even a tair slzed sample ef it IndVhe rest is BimDle With a eonA vaVt i the com dlans jirt and personality to mane tiuu is saia assume that the audience wfilget aq the fun It is looking for anal probably jjnore And in Father and the Boys Mr Crane Is at his best His productions ot 8hakesnrrf Goldsmith and EherldaTiwireaamlrabi1l6 make Ufa a burden rcrhermttl she and even more noteworthy his The gen takes her departure His i 4r ff said to be replete with sensational fea tures chief of which I the holding up of tires and was Dosed for bv mmhtra nf the company last summer tKach one is clearly recognized in the pictures rhe scenes In fcpaln Italy Russia France gypi piDeria ana tne north pole were all built oh an elaborate scale and are During the action of the tlmr imvioi ties are introduced as fellows George I and the sport Daye Ferguson and company in the one act playlet Stiver bush Abe Reynolds the rruLenotle Ht Ibrew Lllla Brerman winsome soubfetter ire cjbic uhim ntuaicians par excei lepce the Still Cltjr Quartet four famous warblers and others TONIGHT AltfHE THATEES olnmhia Sunonde Cycloaotocenel The second 6f the Sunday eveningdiverr slonaat the Columbia Theater this evening will include as its special feature an fvent irr wiien every patriotic American mischief ruotocene As on Jast Sunday thde 4 Gayefy Concert The program arranged for the concert at the Gayety Theater tonight will Include a return engagement of John McCaslln this time presenting comedy cartoons Others engaged are Billy MJf fiin coon shduter and trick pianist Charles Leroy singing and talking comedlaniTom rookA imitator and whistler and two hours of Shepards moving pictures COMING ATTRACTIONS Columbia The Man of the Eozi The Mart of the Hourwlilch comes to the A Columbia Theater for Thanks giving week has four touring companies meeting with remarkable success In various sections oC the countr In cluding the Atlantic coast NewJEngland the mlddjer West and the far North wnv fu vr JMii mum tuu lpclmf now as when It created a sert cationrinNew York two years ago It is play pf stern moral purpose throb bing With strong emotions and with red blood la Its veins It is essentially jjiuman and its characters are real peo ple not mere pieatncai puppets or da wdtlrigi degenerates Who utter feebla platitudes Even its grafters1 are the real thing big strong men of mentality and dominating rorce National The Queen of the Moulin fiouge Special arrangements have been concluded for the bringing to the National Theater for oneweek beginning Monday November 23 Thomas Ryleys new musical production The Queen of the Moulin Rouge said to be one of the most pretentious theatrical offerings for several years The play is from tne pen ot i aui jxl Potter among whose successes are Trilby Under Two Flags Otis Skinners present popular piece The Honor of the Family The City Directory The School Girl Edna Mays last Americans vehicle Vincent Bryan the writer of Tammany furnishes the lyrics and the score Is by John Hall whose great Waltzes Wilhelmtna and The Wedding of the Winds won him his spurs In the production Mr Ryley Is said to have a dramatic story In eight scenes that allows ample opportunjty far the greatest riot of scenic and costume beauty he has ever attempted including even his celebrated Flerodora the pioneer of present day Iavishness in stage investiture National Isadora Duncan and Walter Damrosch An attractive and original entertainment will take place at the New National Theater on Friday afternoon November 26 when the famous dancer Isadora Duncan will appear with the New Tork Symphony Orchestra Walter Dam rosch conducting The program will consist of dances to the accompaniment of the orchestra playing the BeeHRoven Symphony Jfo 7 and Chopin preludes and waltzes The dancing Is a revival of the Creek art ot dancing of 2000 years ago A New York fcriticsas I Cannot better praise Miss Duncans art tnan pjr saying tnai wnat she did was no infraction of the dignity and beauty of Beethovens Immortal work The orchestra will play some numbers alone The same program that was given In NewTorkwiH be giveri here and already great Interest and curiosity are being manifested in this forthcoming entertainment Belasco Wilton Lackaye in ilThe Bat itle1 Wilton Lackaye will be seen at the Balasco Theater next week direct from his successful Chicago engagement un der the direction of Llebier Co un der whose management he comes for tr4 first time this season oeorget Tyler has gotten together one of those companies for which his firm is famous and a production said to be the most novel of many seasons Mr Lackaye will appear In his 5ew play by Cleveland Moffett entitled The Battle The piar la its more super flcial aspect may be considered a comedy but behind the lighter action in the foreground Jt makes atremendous argu ment on the great conflict between labor and capital It is a battle of giants with the honors about even at the enJ of the play In other words both sides Around its parent stalk of sordid ner cenary tntrigue are entwined the ten the gteateat struggle in modern times drits of sweet and appealing affection are fairly presented Mr Lackeye will the wve or suifor ana sweetheart of mother and son It la a mans play a woman play and an educational factor for the ysung vMore than a million New York Dlaygoers applauded It It ran for six months In Chicago and five iiafces Just prider the visit tbetlantloi months in Boston The fcast Jvere la said te embrace tne pick oi the famous players identified with the big city runs fleet to Australia Every Important in cident oi tne visit trom inef entrance of Jtheneet Into fcydney harbor through thi magnificent reception to the seacefnt 1 debarture under a beantKuimeenJiMt i i cay iTiiiiim reyrpuueea wjin tne acco eoyr ttarrywarwooa Kapiey Holmes methods employed Vlth Simonds cyclo tsfsssi sc frfJBsaaT Orismer in a new BroadhusfT a aTn pla the capItallst whJle the opposition will be upheld by those sterling actors Holland Frederick Lewin rrharia Abbe nd Gerald Griffin Josephine Vic tor ana tfijou jrernnaez will be portanjuy cai 4 Chases Vaudeville its conspicuous faatufatbalatesttravMtv tnit rne uattie lot uay Kunv a naval played fliMSiLjrT 4a ji wlrrirs4inChariesedrnTATbrtPWlMW Parker TJromas Fptwet Coir COSTWJSD otrTmwyiAoat Emtaa Dunn who slays Mrs Warren In The Warrens of Virginia Joined th Belasco forces to originate this role Be fore that she was the leading woman for the late Richard Mansfield and scored a great personal success as tne mower in Peer Gynt Miss Margaret Dale who for several seasons played fashionably polite young women with John Drew IS now appealing as a breezy vaudeville actress from the vvel wiin vm wo the Boys As a glib speaker of George Ade 4ang she has made a striking hit Mrs Leilie Carters next play not yet ftnrounced will be seen in Washington early In the new year She will be supported by a company selected by hersetr Mrs Carter will be under her own management following in the footsteps of Amelia Bingham Mrs Pat Campbell and other women of prominence Chauncey Oicott tells this story A traveler finding that he had a couple of hours in Dublin called a cab arid told thexdriver to drive him around for two hours After a while the dnv began to whip up his horse and they rarrowly escaped several collisions Whats the matter demanded the passenger Why are you driving to recklessly Im In bo hurry Ah gwan wid yez Dye think that Im going to put In me whole day driv la ye around for two hoursr Gitep William Crane has produced more nii ti imrW nn flftthnrit than inr other actor on the American stage During the1 fourteen years partnership that existed between himself ana Stuart kocboti inc comedians aside from their presentation of Shakespeare Goldsmith andTSheridan refused to touch anythlng but the work of native authors Arthur Smith reports a splendid sale for the subscription concerts to be given at Masonic Temple Mme Gadskt the first soloist will arrive in Washington Saturday morning December Thomas Ryley whose Belle ot rvffi Silver SlTmp inl nf successes are of pleasant memory will be responsible for The Girl of Moulin Rouge soon to be seen at the New National Theater 4 11lVeronln the captalrfof the Giants and Mabel Hite who are playing Jointly in vaudeville have made a tremendous impression upon the susceptible vaudeville patrons and Chases has booked the popular ball player and pretty Ulss Hite They will be seen In their baseball sketch Stealing Home DaphneV Pollard nas taken Anna Laughlins place Mr Hamlet of BCadway Mm Laughiina vaudeville season begins Thanksgiving week William A Page who Is well known In this city has been engaged as the business manager for Olga Nethersoles forthcoming American tour Miss Neth ersole will arrive in New York December 21 Violet Jewell who will be one of the features with Anna Held In lliis Innocence Abroad is willing to match curves with Maud Odell at any dis tnce according to a managerial announcement Miss Jewell is not In the baseball business but can well be classed with the most statuesque of beauties Wilton Lackayes new play The Battle Is from the pen of Cleveland Moftet author of A King In Rags and Through tlwWall whlchiD Appleton Co have Jv st published and other successful nov els The Round TJp7wlth Ifs flghUn horses and cowboys will be at the New National Theater before the calendars are pulled down Lew Dockstader has abandoned his first part portion of his minstrel en jtertainment I Charlotte Walker a Texas woman herself Is probably better equipped temperamentally than any other contemporary uctresm to portray the Southern type of American womanhood A great deal of her present eminence Is the result of her illuminating portrayals of the girl of Dixie portrayals which are said to Justify the extollment of that young woman in song and story Alice Lloyd the greatest musie hall comedienne in all merry England wh was to hav been starred by Klaw A ErlsngW this season Is returning to vaudeville for a few weeks before toarlnc Iln the S3 houses and she has signed a contract appear one weea at cnase Mary Shaw who wllj head the cast of th Martin Emery players was one cf the first American Actresses to lntro dtce Ibsen in thla country and her pl ji effort Iw this field paved the way icr tne success or many oiner acrresnes who did not have the courage to educate the public as did Miss Shaw November IT In therasL There will be forty players Winrarn Collier In The Patriot will besrln his New Tork engagement at tba Garrick Theater on November 23 William A Brady is at French Lt Jc Ind convalescing from Injuries received In his recent automobile acident Hnry Miller has accepted a new pliy by RIda Johnson Toung for production I this season lime Emma Calve wilt sing at the Hippodrome in New Tork Sunday evening November iZ Just a week and a day before the concet that Is schedoled for her at the Columbia Theater la this city As Miss Lillian Alberfson does not wish to leave New Tork Miss Julfe Dean will replace her hi the Paid In FuU company when the play goes on tour Contracts have been submitted to Al Wilson the singing ambassador of Or man dialect tor a tour ot Australia be glnnIng March 1910 He now has the atter under consideration Blanche Walsh In The Test appears to have secured another Goodman play of equal strength and popularity with the one that Louis Mann Is now piloting to fir antral and artistic success as one of the foremost attractions now before the Nw York theater goers The reservation of all seats In the top llery at SO cents each is proving one ot the meet popular move of the new management of the Columbia Theater The patrons of that part of the house are constantly Increasing in numbers and include a largs proportion ot women Although Denman Thompson Is temporarily relieved from the part tn The Old Homestead which he originated the play is crowding the Msjestlc Theater In Brooklyn to the doors at every performance George Thompson Chases chief of scenic ana stage staff has added to the property equipment ot the theater fireplace piece of Immense height with tan columns having semi Ionic capitals uul modeled UDotr th nneatef the flm places ot the period ot the first Napo neon the mils cornoraL it is one Of the most effective and picturesque properties ever seen at Chases Miss Pauline Bowman of Hat tie WT1 1 Hams company was absent from the least for two nights during the Phlla loeipni vuBscuesi met iae ut ile oanccr wj nuintug Miota a severe cold Mary Mannering opened at Providence last week In The Struggle by Edwin Ttlton The play was originally called Memory and Tomorrow and was given a short trial last season by His Mannering Congressman Joseph Rhinock who I a partner tne Bubert Theatric 1 company representing the Cincinnati in terests was reelected to Congress for Cm itbird iml3t week from the Sxth Ken tuciQ congressional custrict Salvation Nell Mrs Ffskes new play The Philadelphia Orchestra wJQ appear by Edward Sheldon will open In Provi again at the New National Theater dence this week and then Toesto theiTuesday afternoon November at Hackett Theaters New Tbrjc on Tuesday 1 2 oojoclc A.