Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-11-24

In all business dealings. Aside from the afnuse-
ment he gets from cards he Is a solid financial
gamer. He is steady winner, and the best
poker and whist player in town.
THE OPERATE FARCE GOES on.
Mapleson claims that he is making money.
Abbey asserts positively that he is doing the
same. and both men are losing at the rate OF
thousands OF dollars aweek. Each backrards the
other for giving away free tickets. and both the
Metropolitan and the Academy of Music are
''papered" from one end to the other Abbey
undoubtedly gives the best opera as far as en-
SenitIe is concerned. but Mapleson has Patti and
she is a host in herself. Then again the Academy
is more popular and much cheaper than the Met
ropolitan Opera House. All the old families at
tend the Old establishment-the Beehman 5,
Livingstons. Cuttings. Belmonts, AstSTs. De
Lanceys. Tenures. Travers and Van Renslaers.
The Eanderbits Taylors. Webbs. Twombeys.
Manderyllles and Others of the newly rich" are
enthusiastic adherents of the new and more ex-
penSiye house. The feeling between the rival
! managers is no less than between the people
who attend the rival operas AS long as the
money holds out the war will continue Then
there Will be a blow up and in all probability we
will have to spend a season or two without a
single respectable company. Mapleson cannot
last the season out and Abbeys hackers though
possessing millions, will get weary OF throwing
SO much money into an enterprise without any
probability Of return.
SOCIETY YOUNG NAN.
Young Gardner s. Rowland, society man
who recently decided TO adopt the stage has
not met with the success he anticipated. How
land comes of very good family, and has been
an amateur here for several years. At one time
it was said he was engaged to Carrie Aston He
Is slight and jolly and has the theatrical craze
In its most violent form. When his father de-
cded that it was time for him to do something
the youth went to Manager DAILY and asked for
position in his company. He got it on account
of society. The first thing Daily did was to send
him ont on the road with one Of his travelling
companies. In the course of time Mr.. Rowland
arrived in Boston. He took a small part In
1.-THE Passing Regiment" and was numerically
guyed. The critics cut him up terribly not
knowing who he was. but 1t had no effect what
ever upon young Mr.. Rowland. He went on
acting in the company and then came back to
New York and was given small part In Girls
and Boys" a new play Mr.. DAILY is sv;ng to pro-
duce shortly. Mr.. Howlands acting at rehear-
sails was so bad that Mr.. DAILY has taken him
| from the company and substituted Mr.. Yorke
Stevens. Probably Mr.. Rowland will have to
GO out on the road again. There is no chance
for any Mrs. Langtry business for man. A
beautiful woman may make her fortune with
out any dramatic ability, but a man must de-
pend on his own merits. Mr.. Rowland Is very
much cut up about his unfortunate position in
the New York company but he s going to stick
to the work resolutely.
JOACHIM is COMING TO AMERICA.
am rather sorry, as we shall be treated to
an immense amount Of gush over the vonist
on his arrival. Already We are told that he Is
the greatest violinist on the face OF the earth,
and preliminary putting is the order of the day.
The public has been told so often about the
greatest vioiinist' that it is becoming sus-
picious. or course all musicians know who
joachim is. but the majority OF people who will
pay 81 head to hear him will have to depend
| on the paper. When Weiniawski came over he
was heralded as the "King Of the violinists I"
| Ole Bull had before that been dubbed with the
same title. but they were all pushed to the wall
by the announcements which preceded the ar
| rival OF Romenyi. Then we were told that
Romenyi was a mere fiddler compared with
Wilhelmj. Ole Bull was by far the most pop
ular of the violinists who came to America
This is undoubtedly because his name is neither
delusive nor snare-like. The most innocent
and conHdng American could pronounce II
without changing color.
JOHN swINTON'S PAPER
Mr.. John Swlnton is banging along with his
paper In bland. Independent and self-satisfied
way. He grows larger and redder every day
and seems possessed with contentment. No
body knows much about the paper 1t comes
out when Mr.. swinton feels Inclined to publish
It, and is invariably composed of the opinions of
Mr. Swinton and one or two of his aids. He
does not pretend to print the news he simply
| advances his Ideas. 1t is small and cheap The
general opinion is that the economist leader
| made mistake when he left $1,000 a year on
The SIN to start a paper of his own Shrewd
estimates of this mistake place it at about IS OOC
this year.
GERALD MASSEY AND MATTHEW ARNOLD
will go back to England little richer in pocket,
but with a funds of invective against America
which will probably be amusing when given in
their impressions" Thus far, the two English
lecturers have been rather conspicuous for their
unknd attitudes towards each other Arnold's
treatment of Massey has been that of sovereign
| toward serf, and Massey has revenged him.
self by advertising In all the city papers that
people beyond the third row Of Chickering hall
were able to hear what he said. This violent
statement was leveled at the head of Arnold.
whose voice is quite inaudible at twenty feet
from the stage. The fact cannot be denied that
Matthew Arnold is not an impressive speaker.
1t is an inhosptable thing to say to one who
has come over to make money out OF u.s. but
Mr.. Arnold looks like girl dressed In mans
clothing attempting to address an audience
while suffering from violent cold. The attend
| ance at Mr.. Massey's lectures has been very
slight; his first effort before less than half a
hundred people in a building that could accom-
modate two thousand Mr.. Arnold lectured to
two thousand, but only fifty heard him. He
gave trite, but somewhat hackneyed plea for
tHt SCieHCc vi sweetness anu llSQG ana u VlO-
lent denunciatOn Of Huxley, Tyndall and Oar.
win. shall be sorry for Mr.. Massey and Mr..
Arnold when they 60 to the fiery, untamed
west.
MR.. IRVING IN HIGH COMEDY
Mr.. 1rving's appearance in light comedy at the
Star theater showed that actor in particularly
unfavorable and unfortunate light. MI Irving
| can act tragedy or low comedy, but when il
comes to high comedy acting he is about as bad
an actor as I have ever seen. His efforts tc
assume sprightly and gay manner. and to
portray the graces of society man of the las:
century, were awkward in the extreme His
| dancing In the court mnuet was positively gro
tesque; he found it impossible to dance, and
compromised 1t with a sort of erratic stride
combined with Salvinis strut in his own limp
The effect was not felicitOus. Irvings manner
isms are more prominent and offensive than
when he first appeared here.
THE POINT OF VIEW.
A Timely Suggestion from q Street
Corner PhilOSOpher-HOyv the Decay
Of the City May be Arrested.
He stood in front of a restaurant. his cigar
placed at the approved upward angle, and his
slender cane cooked in the air. His air de-
termined his status at once as certainly as
though he had been labeled germs human;