Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-09-24
LOCAL NEWS.
.AMuaaMxars To-NIaHr


night again appear as AMY" in the Little
Barefoot" and Manager Ford announces that
this Is the last performance but two Of this play
MaTgie is charming as ever Her characters
ore All carefully studied, and she Is therefore
enaoied 70 represent them with naturalness
uuly refreshing. Tomorrow night she will
take q benefit
CAsTHRBURY.-The "ghost" has run itself
INTO the ground (where it belongs) at every
place Of amusement except Canterbury. Man
ager Slim keeps IL up, and il continues 70 prove
an attraction. But large numbers also resort
TO anterbury to witness the splendid dancing
of the sisters Clara and Mile Fowler, and the
varied performa- ees OF the regular company.
yARIETIEs.-The performances at the Varie-
ties are always interesting, and they are
especially go row on account of the presence
there OF Annetta GallettI, Mons Tophoff and
RoZani and mis- ballet Troupe. Besides these
number OF pretty girls and a fine corps of
Ethiopian performers also assist nightly at the
entertainment. sGsE
VIVIAN, THE WIZARD, is. still at Odd Eel
lows Hail.. and he continues TO draw good
houses He introduces nightly his life moving
amusing. and his performances ALWAYS tend
TO cure the blues.
BALL-The Mcclellan Social Club will give
hen second grand bali At Temperance Hall to-
night. The Holy Hill Band has been ENGAGED
and good party will be ei ven.
TROVER's THEATRR.-Sinca the close of the
summer season the proprietors of this building
hessrs Spaldins and Rapley, have been ma
KING alterations and improvements nearly
amounting 10 4 reconstruction OF the ediHce
The capacity of the building h as been in cressed
10 the extent OF some GOO persons: in fact, il
will accommodate the same numbar but much
more comfortably, than did the sold Nation al -
well known as one Of the largest theatsrs in the
country. The walls are built upon the foun
dations OF the Old National wall and ara ~ tho
best and most solid description of masonry
But the greatest feature OF Improvement per.
maps, is the additional height to the building
Iectilylng some heretofore noticeable faults in
the proportions OF the room.
As reconstructed, the theater will be one of
the best designed and best arranged in the
country. In the seating arran gements, the best
models have been followed, in order to secure
comfort for the audience and to afford those in
all parts OF the house perfect viz W of the
stage.
The first floor will be occupied by the orches-
ira and parGuette seats the second will be the
dress circle; and the third the gallery with
divisions Tor white and colored The heavy
cumbrous columns have been replaced by light
ONES OF iron, OF graceful design, and the forms
OF the fixtures and appurtenances generally
are OF exceeding elegance and beauty We
are gao 10 see that great attention has been
paid TO ventilation in the new building-a most
important requisite, and one too much neglect
cd IN the construction of edifices calculated to
accommodate large numbers of people.
IN order to afford greater stage accommoda-
tons, building OF TWO stories, thirty by forty,
viii he constructed adjoining the theater for
the dressing rooms aEd green room, leaving
Clear stage Of forty feet.
MIR. Grover, the enterprising lessee of the
theater, has . full corps Of artists and deco
raLoTs already st work upon the stage; and
hereabout We notice couple OF superb drop
scenes taking shape under the spirited pencil of
the well kno Tn scene painter Strong.
The work fer the propTetors, Messrs Spal-
ding d Rapley, is being done under the imms-
diate sUperintendance of those excellent build
els, Messrt. Entwistle & Barron; painting and
glazing, Parker Il Spalding ornamental work
by Heath, OF Philadelphia; draping by Carroll,
OF PhiiadelphIa; plastering by Sioussa; iron
work by Haywood i Bartlett, Baltimore. gas
fixtures by Cornelius Il Baker. Philadelphia
decorations by Carstein, principal decorator at
the Capitol; gas fitting by William Whelan,
Georgetown
Some 20 workmen are now busily engaged
upon the building, and Mpssrs EntWistle &
Barron expect, by working night and day to
have II completed about the middle of next
week.
1t is also designed to have the front building
covered IN 10 the street, and carried up TO a
height 10 correspond with the fine stei now
being built on the site of the old Union office
BESIDES giving space for q spacious lobby en-
trance -or The theater, this addition VIII pro-
vide room for four fine stores, 50 feet nv 20 on
the tneatsr front, and four stories above, which
upper stories have been leased for hotel pur-
poses by the parties concerned in the adioin-
Ing building.
The theater structure will, when completed
according to the plan, be universally conceded
10 be one OF the handsoTnest most conyeuIsnt
and best built edifices of the kind in the coun-
try; one that can re pointed 70 with pride by
any citizen.
MIR. Grover will in short time open with
the great combination of such actors as f. L..
Davenport, j. w. Wallack and Mrs. Farren
and a-stoek company of rare excellence.
THE DRAFT.-After our report closed yester-
day, the following cases were disposed OF by
the Board of Enrolment:
Frederick kley, paid comm utatien.
Harry Mortimer, alien.
James Barnes, only son of widow-Iiable
Samuel Biaas, (colored,) accepted.
VIM. White, (colored,) accepJ,d.
VIM. A. Cunningham, disability.
Samuel Diggie, disability.
VIM. L. Craig, over age.
James Windsor, under age.
James Peach, enormously enrolled.
Charles A. Knight, paid communication.
A. Walton, paid Communication.
Thomas q. Smlthson, paid communication.
Daniel Spauiding, paid continuation.
Edward Rowland. disability.
Noah Douglass, (eolored,) furnished substi-
ture-ThUmas Carter.
John Meg ennis, under age.
80 George g. Calu WE'LL disability.
Franklin Heron, furnished substitutc-La-
/, mont Mum.
WILDER /. Ford paid comm utation.
Daniel w. Jarboe, paid Communication.