Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-11-16
AMnUsenlcnsS. &c.

NATIONAL THEATER.-To-night closes Ueller's
engagement in this city. All who have not wit
messed his wonderful performances will do well
10 oe at the National this evening. Some of his
Keats are more than marvellous. He has had a
TWO weeks success here. Next week the Kjr-
a 1ys. with grand ballet and chorus. win give
e11ectS and a fine cast OF characters. This pIay
aDOundS In witty dialogue. 1nterspersed with
beautiful scenery. grand ballet Of so dancers
with Mdle. Marie i,Onfanti as the premiere
danSeuse; also chorus OF forty voices, together
with solos, duets and trios by the characters
Will render the music OF Offenbach in the most
perfect manner. Mrs. Blanche Ford. Miss Ditch
er Miss Germon, George Denham. Charles
Wayerly, Miss Newburger. Mr. G. Stewart. Mr.
flanagan and others viii all appear Mr. For(l's
energy and enterprise in providing us varied
entertainment well deserves the patronage he
receives.
THE THEATER CoMIQUE is one OF the best
places IN the country TO go Tor quiet evenings
enjoyment Of fun, music, drama and ballet.
OLD CHURCHES Don't MAKE OVER INTO Coon
THEATERs:--A tradition exists among actors and
managers that church converted into theater
never succeeds. and many instances which might
be cited would seem to sustain it, Here in ROs
ton, Philadelphia Cincinnati, st. Louis and other
CUES theaterS have been engrafted On churches
and hardly any one OF them has fiourshed. some
OF them might do we'll for season or two but
soon or late they would experience financial dis
aSter. The theater (n Broadway nearly OppO-
site the New York hOtel,) which was formerly
Dr. OsgoOdS church OF the Messiah Is a striking
Illustration OF unluckineSS. After it had been
sold it was turned into playhouse and called
Lucy RushtOn's theater; but it was speediIy
closed 1Or want OF patronage. Then il passed
INTO Otner hands, receiving a new name and
again succumbed TO adverse fortune. Manage.
dller manager has undertaken il; it has been
called the New York, American, Metropolitan
NaIonai Broadway, Peoples, Manhattan Va
[,e t GayetS and one knows not what besides:
DuJ ALTERATION OF title has not cOnciliate1 The
Ihesplan fateS. IL has lost money well NIGH
stead1ly0nundredsof thousands of dollars would
not In all probability meet its deficiencies-but
men are still to be found rash enough to ven
ture upon its possibilities. II opens and shut ,
every few months. each new manager believing
that ne can achieve what none of his Iredeces
sors nave been able 10. II is amusing, and mel
anchOly, too, TO observe the flaming announce
mentS with which the church-theater is neriOd
ically opened. Scarcely any OF its manifold
enterprises last beyond two months, but man
ayers are always coming who refuse to learn
anything by the experience OF Others or in
deed. by their own.-tN: Y. Times.
To the above list may be added the theatar in
this city where President Lincoln was assassin
ated; at first Baptist church, then a play
mouse, and now the army medical museum.
DEEDS IN FEE have been filed as follows:-J.
ii. w. Burley to j. W. Dean, lot Is, So 1O5:
:2,6G9. b; H; Warner and c. II. Armes, trustees
10 ChaS. Is. Pearson, lot So, OF Mount Pleasant
$3.50. {. b. Pearson TO Michael White, lot So, of
Mount Pleasant; $500. II. j. Dean to Emile Mon
trop, lot r. So 452; $! ,ooo Bridget Kyne to John
District of Columbia to j. W. Berry, lots lis and
ZIG: Threlkeld's addition to Georgetown; s..
| c. E. Frazer and w. p. Bell TO j. NJ Wright, lot
lots l2 and -, so. $40; 800. W. II. Barnard to
w. E; Chandler and VIM. McGeorge, ir., lot on
| Stoddard street. Georgetown; s. w. H
| $4,000. Sarah L. Davidson to 6. n TaIbert and
| II. c. McCauley, lot II, So. 1000; $500. Mary
TObin Ell al. to Winifred Griffin. lot 1903. so 6IS
$500 j. F. Burger TO w. II. Mason, lot 81, So
| 5s4; 8.
! A PLEASANT REMEDY.-Messrs. Wm S. Kim.
ball Co., OF Rochester. the manufacturers OF
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