The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-20
AMuSENiEN1'S.
"a rarlor Matcho At the National


and lIoey, and their delightful company
Of comedy players will present their dc
Luxe edition Of IA parlor Match,r IIoyts
funniest and best play. II Is hardly nee
cssgry to 50 into details concerning these
funny comedians as they are the most
popular comedians visiting our city. This
delightful comedy has been materially
changed since last year, any number of
rev songs, dances aud spccalitics hay-
ing been introduced. But one of the
greatest features this year is the three
English Sisters Lcncy, who are creating
such great sensation in this country
Their very appearance on the stage is
cause of creating talk on account of their
height, the smallest being feet II inches.
Their stage duings arc a series of surprises
and they will no doubt create the same
fUro,t In this city as they have elsewhere.
Mr.. lIocy will sing his latest popular sue
cess entitled They re- After Me- in which
he has made the greatest hit known for
years and II must he heard 10 be apprcci-
utcd. Miss Clara 1hropp, formerly Of the
County Fair is now playing hao,cm
ht30 and is ms cute rs she can be. Their
company this season Is the strongest they
have ever carried and this engagement
should be one for the vcricst stole to relay
and take his place among those who enjoy
nn evening of hearty laughter.
Poor Jouathnn''. at Aibaugh's.
Poor Jonathan" the New York Casinos
latest success, will be presented at Al
baugh's Opcra-lIousc next week, by Ru-
dolph Aronson's Comic Opera Company.
Mr.. Aronson's company numbers over
sixty people and IS composed of the best
material on the comic opera stage. The
following clippings from the Philadelphia
Pt~ viii attest to It's lopularity:,
"a genuine success, popular and artistic,
has varied the theatrical season. 1t oc-
cured last night nj the Chestnut-strcct
Theatre, and was won by Carl MillOcccr's
comic opera, Poor Jonathan which had
its first Philadelphia revelation in very
excellent, If rot brilliant, performance by
Rudolph hronsons New York Casino
Company, under the artistic direction of
Heinrich Conried.
"Thc music of which there is an ab,lnd-
ancc, IL most mclodious, fluent and often
| infcctiously oscillating. The libretto,
| Anghciscd aud Alncricanizcfl by John j.
| Jackson and Ralph a. Well from the
| German of Hugo Whitman and Julius
| Bauer, interprets fanciful and amtlsin {
| story Of the present time aud of American
| personagcs in lyrics that are above aver
| age quality and in dialogue that is clean
| cut. intclligiblc and clever.
"rhc piece has some well-contrivcd sit ua-
| makes, as rule, harmonizc with uncom-
| mon nicely and with an effect that stirred
| last nights audicnce--which was large,
| but did not altogether fill the theatre and
| whose mood was not at first one of favor
able predisposition--to the heartesl cn-
| tliusiasm."
After Dark nj Harris.
"After Dark Bouccicault's famous
ipelodrama, which will be given ut Harris
Bijou Theatre next week, has never failed
| to secure the commcndation of the public.
| W. a. Brady has mounted the play on Il
| scale of wonderful scenic magnitic n q
| and elaborate attention To detail Tlg
1 scene on the Thames River is presented
by means of n tank Of real water, and
this effect, which forms usually the
|! piccc de rcSiS,decc of large numb9r-ll-
most majority of modern melodramas-
is merely an incident in after Dark"
Bouccicault has filed the play with eli.
| MAKES of the most thrilling nature, anl
has drawn his characters with fur,'1 tliit
makes them fairly live in the imaSn,-
ton. One Of the scenes presents a turna
of the underground railway IN Lon lon
where the hero, Oid Tom, saves train by
| removing, lust in the nick of time an
| obstruction which was intended to wreck 1t
after Dark" has broken the record in
I
| only has been common occurrence. \
| comedy incident that has become famous
is one of the features of After Dark. "
The police are about 10 raid q gambling
dive when complete transformation !;
effected IN an instant by which the room
assumes the appearance of u meeting
| place for the Salvation Army. A London
music hall, with some excellent specially
performances IL also represented. One oi
| the pretticst scenes is a moonlight view ol
| London bridge, with the city in the dis
tance. The famous sparrers, Kelly and
| Murphy, appear IN the concert hall scene
also sherman and Morrisseey. Usual mat
| lnees, including grand Christmas matinee
Agnes Huntington.
rho coming annoor,nco of Miss .o,c.
- .VN'e "ipe n, Va ''7
Huntington III faul Jones at Lincoln
Music Hall week after next is awaited
| with keen authorization, on account of hel
| wonderful career in London and her re
markable success in New York, Boston
and Philadelphia. Miss Huntington is an
artist of high excellence, of magnificent
| physique, and the entertainment sh,
| brings is said to be of a higher order tha,
is usually associated with the term comic
opera. Sale of seats for this engagement
will begin Tuesday morning next al
! Metzerott's $ music store.
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mn ..".,s Ia'".'..,
Inc atractloh Ior christmas week ~ lh'
Lincoln Music Hall will he W. $. Cleve-
lands Minstrels. IL Is a series of entertain
ments all rolled ipto one full of voriot,
and interest and nleasinr in every detail
Tho scenery and costnmcs ore ,,Susuaii,
tine thcsnrctarIe ent;tlej g rast;lian pa}
acn j, which constitutes Tho t,rst nart az H.,
1roorammn hc;ng n sn,nnd;J nrrod,,c,;nn
The scenery Is exquisite and Tie costume
Of The most porgroi,s drscrintion VIZ,
Reception" which follows, is anothe
superb piece of artistic work. 1t open
| MN ah overture NNe III 0ic'e'a'u' pS
"T Tbe moint nerbons of MI this ..rccc,
| tioni sWillis Swcatnam and .Billyn Ric,.