The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-13
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Spring and Summer Season at AL
baugh'S.

The Spring and Summer Season at AL
baugh's.
Tomorrow the regular spring and summer
season will be inaugurated at Albaugh's Opera
House by Mr.. w. 7. Carleton's Company For
the opening they will produce for the first week
one of the most popular of modern operas,
Gen6e's "Nanon.n Four years ago ''Nanon''
made an unmistakable hit at the New York
Casino and achieved consecutive run OF 300
nights. At the close of the run in the Metropo-
lis Mr. Carleton secured the rights for its pro-
ducton in several States. The music is light
and breezy and of the sort which fingers in the
listeners memory The libretto is very funny
and gives every member of the Carleton Opera
Company ample advantages to display their
talents vocally and dramatically. In the per-
formance tomorrow night the NdnOn will be
Clara Lane, Ninon, Alice Vincent; Nine. de
1aintcnon, Clara Wisdom; CASTOR, Marion
Langdon; Nine. de Frontenac, Rose Duff; Mar
guiS dc MaySildc, Charles A. Bigelow; Hector,
II. G. Blake; Abbe, j. X. Murray, and Marquis
D'Aubigne, w. T. Carleton. The scale of
prices will be changed tomorrow, the regular
summer prices going in force. The general
admission will be twenty-five cents and the
best reserved seats will cost fifty cents and
seventy-fve cents. The advance sale is already
large.
The DAILY Engagement at the National.
An advance sale of seats of unusually large
proportions already assures Manager Rapley a
handsome financial reward for his enterprise
in affording Washingtonians an opportunity to
enjoy a week of hgh-class comedy by the fore
most American comedy company, that of Mr..
Augustin DAILY. OF course the success of the
engagement was assured from the first, as
Washington rarely fails to patronize generously
theatrical performances of real merit. The en-
gagemcnt will open tomorrow night before one
of the finest audiences ever gathered in the
National Theatre. All the boxes have been
taken for the opening night, and, in fact, for
nearly every performance. OF the excellence
of Mr.. Daly's company little need be said No
one who keeps informed of theatrical affairs but
is aware that 1t stands at the head Of American
dramatic organizations, and that every pro-
duction Mr.. DAILY undertakes is character
lied by completeness in stage setting
and costuming that leaves nothing to be
desired. Miss Ada Rehan, Miss Kitty
Cheatham, Miss Isabel Irving, Mrs. Gilbert,
Mr.. James Lewis, Mr.. John Drew, Mr.. Charles
FISHER, Mr., Frederic Bond, Mr.. George Clarke,
Mr.. Charles Leclerq, and Mr.. Charles Wheat
leigh form list of actresses and actors second
to none. The opening bill will be "Railroad Of
Love-" a light comedy that is said to be given
with irresistible spirit and finish by the COM
pany. Tuesday evening and Wednesday matt
nee "Taming of the Shrew'' will be put on;
Wednesday evening, : a delightful comedy,
Unknown" a highly amusing farce-comedy
that bubbles with fun; Friday evening and
Saturday matinee, "As You Like It," by com
petent critics regarded as the most completely
satisfactory rendering of Shakespeare's beauti-
full comedy ever seen on the American stage.
Miss Rehan's ROSdlind is said to be in every
way beautiful and artistic The bill for the
closing performance has not yet been an
nounced.
Harris's Bijou Theatre.
Shadows of Great City," melodrama that
has enjoyed great popularity, will be at Harris's
Bijou Theatre this week The play has a record
of six seasons of success and retains the most
important members of the original cast. 1t is q
comedy drama, dealing with American types OF
character, showing familiar American scenes
and presenting picturesque and romantic phases
of American life in and around the metropolis
The characters are well drawn, and are the re
suit of close study on the part of Mr.. l.. r
Shewell, the author The storyi is romantic, anC
the play affords ample opportunities for impres
siVe and telling situations in every act. The
boat house scene, the view of Blackwell'i