The Washington critic., 1890-04-26
ADJUSTMENTS.
nNOtnrai aaso al the National.

The attraction next week at the Ma
tional Theatre will be the comedians,
Donnelly and Girard, in the great
| laughing success, Natural Gas" The
! play has been wonderfully improved
since last seen here and is now brighter,
better and fuunier than ever The New
! York Times says Of the performance.
Natural Gas" was turned on last night
with loud liz2ipg and popping. Grattan |
! Donnelly, the author of the same, gives |
the auditors at least imaginable cause |
TO exercise their brains. He does not |
demand that they shall follow the plot,
for the simple reason that there
Is no plot to follow. Natural |
Gas" Is by long odds the funniest
musical comedy ever produced in the
city. IL belongs to the Eloyt style of
plays" Bunch Of Keys" Rag Baby"
Tin Soldier" etc. but is infinitely
better than any of the above plays
Donrelly and Girard, two young
American comedians, created a positive
sensation in the second act, in their
great specially, "Tho Summer Season."
giving limitations Of distinguished
celebrities. They were obliged TO
respond TO many encores. The com
pany assisting Messrs. Donnelly and
Girard is by far the best now before
the public.
dorothy" at Aibaugh's
The spring season of the Carleton
Opera Company will enter upon its
third week at Albaugh's commencing
on Monday next The opera selected
is Cellier and Stephenson's Dorothy"
which has become very popular with
the public on account of its pretty
music. The scene is laid in Kent when
the hop pickers are holding village
junketing or "bean feast" as they call
it, at the conclusion of their labors.
Dorothy Bantam, daughter of Squire
Bantam of Chanticleer Hall, and
Lydia Hdwthorne, her cousin, don
peasant dresses and mix with the
country lads and lasses in search of
pleasant adventures. Among the
, pumpkins they find material more at
, traclive, however, when Ge0frey W.
der, cousin Of Dorothy, whom he
knows not, but to whom he is promised
in marriage, and Harry Sherwood, his
friend, enter on the scene. The ladies
have taken the names Of Dorcas and
abigail, and the two London sprigs,
who are fleeing from a sheriff's officers
Immediately fall in love with them.
. Lurcher, the officer, is on their track and
comes up with them here and makes
no end of fun, after the most approved
low comic style.
: The second act is at Chanticleer Hall,
where there is also festival gathering,
and Wilder and Sherwood masquerade
Q as the Duke Of Berkshire and his com
Q panion with Lurcher as their secretary,
and completely deceive Bantam. Here
| thnu nopnt tho pf ho ort,fp prr
| in their true colors and according to
r their type and instinct, the gay sprigs
forget their country lovers of the morn.
y ing and protest themselves the slaves of
the ladies, with the difference that
Wilder pays his addresses TO Lydjt an
She,acood to Dorothy. The third act is
:. devoted TO the clearing up of the mas
>, querading, very humorous but too in.
:. uicate to detail. The music is of the
u pure English school and is simplicity
itself; fluent, harmonious and closing
with sweetness. Dorothy is an inn
y partial OPERA too, in that all the nice
u bits are not conserved for the principal
o singer. The song, Though Born q
Man of High Degree" and the ballad
serenade, II Stand at Your Threshold
Il Signing" by Wider, Bantana's supert
J. song in the second act, "Contentment
!, Give You and All that 1t Brings" with
q chorus; Larcher'S song and trio with
d Wilder and Sheroood, II Am the Sher
/. IFS Faithful Man." and The quartette
q 'Now Swear TO be Good and True,
have all become popular. The operf
:, will be well cast with the Carleton Com
y pany and every attention will be pait
TO detail
l. "she" at Harris.
''She," with all its scores of strang,
characters, bands of savage negroes
a witches, warriors, beautiful women
~ lovely scenes, novel mechanical effect
y and weird electric illusions, will be q
is Harris Bijou Theatre for week, com
'es mencing Monday night next The well
u known and popular Webster Brady
Company will act the play, which is by
W far the most direct of the many adapta
" tions of Haggards mendacious story
he OF the almost countless number of start
er ling situations that crowd the book
s none of Importance are slighted in tn
Brady version. Helen Tracy, vel
a and favOrably known actress, who's
ID beauty is remarkable, will appear a
s, "She," a character in which she is un
u excelled.
The balance of the cast is in th
S. | hobho Vi SOhpCttpu PCODlCy anu III
m auxiliaries will he numerous and wei
Mt drilled. No less than sixteen sets o
G beautiful scenes will illustrate the play
IS and the most striking pictures show al
IN electric storm and wreck of a slav
of dhow; sunrise on the African coast
of showing the monster head of th
or Ethiopian; THE Fire of Life whicl
is said to be marvel of theatre arl
IN All in all II will be red letter engage
ment at this popular theatre.
,tt DIR. Hans Won BuIow,
,rt The greatest living pianist will Civ
his farewell concert at Albaugh's Gran
e. Opera-H House Tuesday afternoon, Apri
er 29 which will positively be the onl
concert given in Washington. Th
to Boston Herald says of this great artis,
1e Won Bulow shows no striving for effect
as in his playing, but he plainly show
that he demands the attention of hi
We audience to be heard at his best, and
Ie, with few exceptions, his first Boz
ton audience was remarkably consider
m ate of this popularity. He is not
a pianist to be Judged by the ordinar
standards applicable to the virtuosC
ho His technical aitainments are ampl
"' for the clear, intelligent readings h
4, gives o! tne composltlons chosen, and n
u, makes delightfully."- distinct all the fine
III shadings, as well as the bolder light
and shadows of the musical pictures Q
depicted by his favorite composer. Th
, educational value Of this series OF col
"a certs can hardly be overestimated, an
OF the interest taken in them by student
It, was clearly shown yesterday by the us
IS, OF full scores OF the works on the day
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