Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-21
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night to see Mr.. Roland Reed present his new
comedy, innocent as a Lamb, for the first
time to Washington audience. The play. by
Mr.. Craven and Mr.. McDonough is in four
acts, and narrates the trials and tribulations Of
Mr. Tobias Pilkington (Mr. Reed). lawyer Of
New York, who tells his wife he is going to
Boston. when in reality he is going to Pater-
| son, Nj. He writes a letter to his wife before
with him At Paterson a jealous husband
mops the floor up with him. and some one who
has stolen his overcoat. with the letter. is
| wrecked a train, and Pitkington,
badly injured On the complications
arising from this the piay is built. and while it
is bright in some of its dialogue, and funny in
some OF its situations. there are several places
| in 1t where a critical audience does not laugh
with spontaneity. All audiences. however. are
| not critical and Innocent a Lamb has been
! as the theatric vernacular goes u phenomenal
| success" Mr. Reed. of course leads, and he is
| very agreeably assisted by Mr.. ". C. Andrews.
| 1Ir. Harry Smith, Mr.. Sheridan Upper, Mr..
Julian Reed. Mr.. H. R. Davies, Mr.. James
Douglass and Mrs. Mary Myers. Miss Rush, Miss
Levering and Miss Harvey. Mr.. Reed is gen.
| uine comedian and he takes his part with an eff
fectiveness that gives the distinguishing feature
! to the entire performance, and In reality does
| for the play what its authors have scarcely sue
ceeded in doing Albaughs has scarcely held
| finer audience this season than that Of last
| night.
NATIoyAL.-It was a question last night
| whether the people who were in the theater
| we're to see The Still Alarm" or to see the
mascot OF the play. Little Tuesday" the ive-
year old little girl who has everything her own
way off the stage and on. In any event they
| saw both. and there was no question about
their enjoyment of the combination. THE
Still Alarm as nearly every body knows. be-
longs TO the realistic school of plays, and there
is real live fire engine, live horses
and pretty ones, too, the inside Of
real engine house, genuine fire and
a lot more OF the same kind, a villain. a saint,
a beautiful girl and more of that kind, all
of which. added together. make a sum total
that thrills audience and gives a vast deal of
wholesome, nervous excitement. OF course it
all comes out right. with virtue triumphant
and in the hands of such people as Mr.. W. S.
Harkins. Mr.. Wilkes. Mr.. Snader. Mr.. Conyers,
Miss Bert, Miss Pollock and Miss Madden
must be well done. Special features the
Standard Quartet of excellent singers and
Little Tuesday. who in her songs and dances
takes the cakelet To hear this youDgster sing
The Bowery and to her dance the COM
plicsted and difficult serpentine worth
going miles to see.
ACADEMY OF MUsIc.-A play with pow
| erful motive. strongly presented. Is Men
| and Women" good house saw the per-
fO-mance at the Academy OF Music last
| night The cast is one that is worthy of the
management under which the production
occurs. One OF the most noteworthy character
istics OF Charles Frohmans career is the man
ner in which he secures competent people to
produce his plays. The high standard of ability
which his people always show shows not only
judcious selection. but acute discernment The
story is that of the temptations which Turk in
commercial life, and it is worked out in a man
/ ner that secures some strong chMaXes In ways
that differ admirably from the conventional.
3Ir. Frank l.. Mills took the part of the default
ing cashier and acquitted himself IN thor
oaghlv creditabe way. Miss Lila Vane was
well liked as agnes ROdn,dn, the sweetheart of
| the Young man whose financial indiscretions
! came near disgracing him. The play Is one
tina. appeals particularly 10 the intelligent and
cultured classes. although it has that touch Of
nature that commands the admiration of every
one. Ii will undoubtedly duplicate here the
success it has met with elsewhere
HARRIS BIJoU THEATER.-'.Later On" the
play in which Halien and Hart made such hit,
was given at the Bijou last night oy Wood and
Shepard in a very acceptable manner. In
| fact the performance was in all respects su-
peror 20 any musical farce comedy ever seen
at the Bijou. Like ali farce comedies. Later
On makes no pretenses at plot, but
manages 20 crowd into the two hours and half
of its life world of fun and a number of good
specialties. Wood and Shepard a musical
| team have no equal Miss Nellie Hawthorne
! as PdtchOuLd Seed was excellent and her we'll
! trained soprano voice was heard to good effect
Miss Clara Thropp as Pdnsy Weed jumped at
Won't Buy Ne a Bow-wow' was excellent. Mr..
VIII H. Sloan as Sheriff Clutch was good, and
| his specially, initiating famous actors, ex-
| ceptionally good. Taken all in all the per-
| formance would be hard to improve.
| kEaNAS's LYCEUM THEATEa.-The Partisan
Folly Company opened its second engagement
| at kernan's last night and drew a crowded
| house. The entertainment commenced with a
new comedy burletta entitled Saratoga Swells.
| in which the entire strength Of the company
y Ioe. lNall
with a score Of pretty girls as players. helped
things along. and dozen Boom-ta-ra-ra
| dancers evoked rounds of applause. Mcbride
| and Goodrich presented clever skit. Topack
and Steele gave their roaring sketch of Harri-
! son vs.. Cleveland and Sam Bernard added to
his laurels a mimic and comedian. A new
and novel buIlesque entitled Eight Bellies"
closed the performance. Again tonight.
| The NORDIcA CoNCERr.-The sale of seats for
the concert bv the Nordica Concert Company
on Friday night next at Metzerott Music Hall
| opened Yesterday. and the demand indicated
| that there will be a large and fashionable
| audience to listen to the excellent singing of
| Nine. Lillian Nordica, Nine. Sofia Scalchi,
! Sig. Italo Campanini and Sig. Giuseppe Del
! Puente. The program will be attractive and
| will include selections from Faust" that will
| be given in concert form. but will be sung with
| all the force and spirit that the scenes demand,
and the singers will have the support o. a COM
petent orchestra. Reserved seats may be
| secured at NetZerotts.
| The DANROsCH CONCERT that will take place
| at Metzerott Music Hall tomorrow night prom
| ises to be an extremely interesting event. Mr..
| Damrosch and his New York symphony orches-
| ira well known in this city and Justly enjoy
| great popularity. The program for the orches-
! ira is attractive one, including a Ischar-
kowsky symphony, the adasio from :he Beetho-
| ven septet and Saint Saens spinning Wheel
| OF Ormphale." The soloist will be Mr.. Plum
| kett Greene. a basso who came to this country
! with a high reputation from London. and whose
/ work on this side Of the water has been highly
praised
| GEORGE Francis TRAIN will deliver a lecture
| tonight at Metzerott Music Hall that should at
tract large audience. Mr.. Train may be eccen-
trio. but his has shown that he was the pos
! SCISSOR of great business sagacity and wonderful
| energy. Tonight he will touch upon live topics
| of public interest and will treat them vigor-
| ously, fearlessly and eloquently.
! midas BURIED TRKAsUREs.-Tcnight Rev.
A. W. Rudisell will deliver free lecture in the
Metropolitan NJ. Z. Church on ''indias Buried
| Treasures" Dr. Rudisell for five years
presiding elder in India and is fully equipped
| to treat the subject intelligently and interest
ingly. His lecture will be made attractive by
many excellent stereoscopic views.
HAWAII AND THE HAwAuANs.-An interesting
lecture upon Hawaii and the Hawaiians was de-
livered at Metzerott Music Hall last night by
Mr.. Edwin Browne. TIE attendance was good
and the audience greatly entertained by
| the vivid and eloquent descriptions given by