Evening star., 1877-08-21
THE PROMISES OF AMUSEMENT.
The Coming Dramatic Season I'm
WaShinYtOn

Manager Harry Ford is back in washing
ton from New York where he hal been 10
welcome his sister-in law home, the beau
teous Ella Chapman. VINO had zen in Lo1-
don, reigning favorite, for three years
shariI as the junior of LYDIA Thompson toe
app Ire of that great city. He reports the
National as in active preparation-cleans-
ing, carpeting, and painting-for the coming
season, wntcn VIII ich will be begun on Mon
day, September 81. with the entire drama'ic
company, OF the Park Th-atre, New York,
THE FRESH CoMsDY OF "BABY."
BABY" is a romantic trifle in thr e acts,
anu wei Performed. 1t Is OF the same school
~ Forbidden Fruit" the Great Divorce
Case. and all the other French fsrces, To the
merit OF which We seem to have suddenly
awakened On this side of the Atlantic. It
was played at the Park Theatre, New York.
Gil of the present summer. The laughter
during the second act was incessanT and
spontaneous. NothiHg could be more inge-
nlously contrived than the scrapeS in VIII ch
the various dramatic persona find them
selves. A New York paper says: "From
the rapture with which the audience on Mon
Gay night received the most distant hints at
Questionable illusions, il is evident the orig
inal highly spiced repartees might have been
lett IN with advantage. AS IL is, the play is
Thousand times more innocent than For
hidden Fruit" A nun could almost gO> TO
see" Baby without being shocked. There is
SuppoSitlon OF unlawful Intrigue, but in
Callty none of Baby is simply a you1g
man who has been brought up under his
mOiher,s wing, AMI who though twenty-five
years Oh age, l. still a baDy To her. In her
presence he is the extreme ofdemure, but out
OF her sight he is n Id scapegrace."
GEoKGE r s. KNIGHT AS lotto"
the 10th of September. the success ful dialect
comedian, George $. Knight end his clever
wife, nee Sophie Worrel, with her no less
gifted sister, and a new company, in Fred.
Marsden's new play of "Otto; or, Taking the
Chances" The author VIII be favorably re-
membered in his other plays of ''Musette,"
n . HG 30
Der 18th, will appear
THE NEW DRAMATIC COMPANY
which promises 10 be the finest known to
Washington for a quarter of century.
Louis L. James, Mines Leyick, Harry X am
forth, Charles Waverly. NJ. Lanosan q Gorge
Hoey, Harry Taylor. Thos. Francis Meag6-
Julian Mitchell, Wat.'r Collier K L. Down
ing, MessTs. Wise, Galloway, Button Con-
molly and others constitute the male portion,
and the ladies include Miss Eleanor Carey
Miss Laura Joyce. Mrs. Germon, Mrs Octa-
via Allen, the Misses Weidman Perry
Brays, Richmond, Herbert and others.
The orchestra department WILL he under
the charge of Frederick Prospect. The stage
mechanical dep lrtment. Henry Santer; the
properly makers, Sherwood & Lynch; wari-
robe, Mrs. COOmbS; the scenic department
j Sommer Getz; treasurer, Samuel G. Kins
ley; the principal dOOrkeeperS. MessrS RS-
maine and Plant; the chief usher, John \.
Ellinger.
THE THRONG OF STARS.
Dion Boucicault, Joseph Jefferson, John
Mccullough, George Rignold. Lawrence
Barrett T.. A. Sothern, j. c. Williamson and
Maggie Moore, tof Australia and California)
RobsOu Crane, Frank Bangs, Clara Nor
rls, Elizabeth Won StammwitZ, Maud
Granger, Louise Pomeroy, Maggie Mitclell.
and others in negotiation will comprise the
chief dramatic Stars.
ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN AND BUR
LESQUE OPERA.
In opera we are to have the Herr English
Opera, the Aimee French Opera, the kel-
lo2g and Carry Italian Opera, and the Ly-
dia Thompson Burlesque.
THE NEW PLAYS OF THE SEASON.
Ali that are successful at the Park, the
Union Square, Wallack's and the 9Th Ave-
nue., OF New York, inclusive of The Bridal
Tour fInm Wsllack'S; Pink DnminoS,"
"Struck Oil' and Lies Danjchefs," from
Union Square; Baby" and ''The Crushed
TIaeedian," from the Park; "Belle Lamar"
fIom Booths, by Boucicault; FORBID len
Fruit" etc.
On Monday, October 1st, Mr.. John McCul-
lough will open, in Manager Fords control
the theater in Richmond, Virginia, in a
Shakspesrian character.
The National ticket Office will open on
Wednesday, August 3)jh, for the sale of
places during the first week of the season.