Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-20
AMUsEMENTs.

ALsAUaH's.-Miss Rose Coghlan is nothing IL
not ambitious. She has chung to the highest
ideals, and the difficulties that surround the
| production of play or the presentation have
not stopped her provided the play is sufficiently
| good or the character sufficiently strong. She
Is always painstaking and has won the friends
and admiration that always wait q conscien-
| tious effort. The play in which Miss Coghlan
appears this week at Albsugh's is ''Diplomacy"
The production of this work without company
of more than ordinary strength would be
| rather hopeless undertaking Sardou has a
way Of pushing the sublime to an extreme that
| makes the mediocre actors footing on the
verge OF the ridiculous very insecure. The
! great play wrights genius makes no allowance
| for possible deficiencies and 1t all depends on
the performer whether not the audience
laughs In the wrong place occasionally. This
company includes Charles Coghsn Henry
Beauoserc, Miss Coghian as the Countess Zickd,
Sadie Marunot as Dora, Frederic Robinson as
Count Orlof, Robert Fischer Baron Stein
and John I. Sullivan Captain Julian Beau
ctero great deal Of first-class work. which
Washington remembers with pleasure, Is asso-
| ciated with these names. Miss Coghlan de-
serves the thanks Of the people for preserving
so excellent a play DIPLOMACY" to the
stage. The audience was large and enthusiast
tic and the efforts of the performers were ap-
preciated- Again tonight.
Observation-Disclosures is gradually becom-
AlAS uIdudliC Trying GROUNDS Tor t0l5
great and glorious country of ours, and last
night large audience representing the social
and official life Of the capital, vent to the Ma
tlonal to see the first performance of Paul
Potter's international play The Duchess as
presented by Helen Barry, the English actress,
assisted by Misses Elizabeth Garth, Jennie
Weathersby, Adela Measor, Lucille Nelson and
Messrs. ]. B. Polk. Henry T. Golden, A. H.
Stuart, Thos Whippen, Jno c. Blackstone and
Fred Clifton The play opens in Venice and
ts
complication Of love and betrayal and mar
rage and forgiveness and more marriage, with
Miss Barry a. the Duchess Of HuntinStOtcn
always In the capacity Of good angel who
makes success OF her goodness and Is never
downed as is frequently the case with good angels
more or less by Mr. Golden as Earl of Car
stairs, Mr.: Polk as ShtyresGnt, Mr.. whippen
as Or. Warrington and Miss Weathersby
Mass agatha Thrum, Cincinnati spinster,
runs through the play, though this at
times last night shared its duties with
what was intended to be almost, if
not quite tragic. 1t a of over done
ness. that was all and with more playing this
feature will be modified so the audience will
not laugh at the wrong time. Miss Garth as
Anne Warrington and Miss Measer as Lucy
1rem1nodre were quite satisfactory and Mr..
Stuart as Sir Harry ma de a favorable impression.
Miss Barry as The Duchess carried the house by
the merit OF her acting and the character OF the
past and not by the adventit aids Of beauty
and former swell society position. Miss Barry
lie an actress and on that ground alone claims
and successfully holds her place in the esteem
of her audiences. For the play itself it
may be said that while it is not all
good there is ample excellence in it to
develop In time into very acceptable and
effective play. As first performance there
were naturally some crudities that will
wear away and when the changes have been
made that experience shall dictate the piece
will become popular. The scenic effects we're
excellent and all the accessories were in perfect
keeping with the location OF the story.
Accommodating by Marquis Of Queens
bury rather than by the highest dra-
matte rules, by all odds the most interesting
performance at any OF the theaters last night
was that Of Mr.. John Lawrence Sullivan in Z.
Il. Prices melo-romantic drama, The Man
From Boston" The upper circles Of the house
were full to overlooking, and all the standing
room on the orchestra floor occupied, but
there were good many reserved seats vacant.
The audience was enthusiastic too, and when
1.-The best known man in the world" Capt.
HOrcourt appeared he was greeted with a salvo
OF applause that was simply terrific and that
was not the only time no got it, almost every
time he said anything he was cheered. and
when lie swiped the sUpes in the foot ball match
and carried away section OF the wings in his
wild rush the galleries almost came down TO
the ground floor. As an sctor-that is, O actor
after the order of Thespis-Mr Sullivan prob
ably lacks III some of the subtler essences that
go to make up Hamlet. for instance but as a ro-
bust slugatic actor he gets there with both hands
AZ to the play. II is built for Mr.. Sullivan, and
gives him all the opportunity he wants. The
singing of the Boston quartet was very fine
indeed and the specialties Of Miss Grace OF
tillio were catchy. The three-round slugging
bee in the last act between Mr.. Sullivan and
Jack Ashton ends the play happily.
HARRIS BIJoU THEATER.-IeonardG Growers
lt1,rp Iva, NJ, ~
magnet that drew of the largest audiences
Of the season to Harris Bjou Theater last
night. While the play tells the old story Of in
nocence at first oppressed and at last trium-
plant, the setting.xa elaborate and the COM
pany unusually strong. The third act lie worthy
of notice II represents the East river by moon
Light. vast river of real water, rs feet long
and 30 feet wide and feet deep, containing
60, 900 gallons of water. contributes to the ilu-
sion, while real steamboat running az full
speed. stopping and landing passengers, adds to
the realism. Ferries. roHboats and other ma |
rine craft also displayed. The soubrette |
work of Mics Lilly Sinclair was q very pleasing
endeavor and scored the hit of the evening |
The remainder Of the cast satisfactory and |
materially contributed to the successful pre- |
sentation of the play.
kERSAS's LYCEUM THEATER.-The perform
ance at kernan's this week is one of the best
seen here this season. The program is long
one and the specialties are all good The
sisters Onrl give q finished and daring per-
Torrance on the slack wire, and demonstrate as
fow other women have that there are lust as
good jugslers and tumblers among the gentler
sex as there are among the men. Frank Moran,
the premier stump orator, put the audience in
roars Of laughter, and the Burke Brothers, with
their cleverly trained donkey, gave a laughabe
sketch entitled 1.-The Irish Wild West Leslie
and Collins contributed fun, Horace
Wheatley presented a scenic specially and the
three Carons proved themselves clever tum-
biers After the performance there was an act
behind the scenes that the audience did not see.
The members Of the company presented Man
ager W. p. Fay with handsome diamond pin
IL recognition Of his many acts OF kindness
ORGAN REcIrAL--Dr. James Caulield will
give organ recital in the Luther Place
Memorial Church tomorrow evening, assisted by
Miss Kttie THOMPSON Berry, Mr.. Herndon
Morsell, Mr.. Perry b. Turpin and Dr. William
Long. DIR. Caulfeld was for many wears or
ganist and director of music in the r. c.
Cathedral. Dublin. Ireland, and subsequently,
OF the English Cathedral in Montreal, Canada,
and !s acknowledged to be highly accom-
plished soloist. There are few who can handle
the church organize greatest of all musical
inStruments-as skillfully IA he