The Washington times., 1894-04-26
AS THE CROWDS COME OUT.

! Mr.. Nat @. Goodwin, in his play "a Gilded
Fool" is the coming attraction at the Ma
tional. where he begins a weeks engagement
next Monday. The play and the man to-
gether. when they cameto Washington before
were a much-liked combination. This part
| Is one in which Mr.. Goodwin looks handsome
Il Is not often that Mr.. Goodwin looks hand
| some. He remarks in "a Gilded FooT' thai
his grandpapa was SO fond Of new thing.
| that he went to the extreme OF dying o1
pulumonia. Mr.. Goodwin seems to have
| gone back TO pure comedy. There is no more
| funnier man than he in his own line.
Not Goodwin is the man who so many years
ago that you wouldn't look at him and believe
It used to travel through New England as q
star aggregation Of one. He would not send
| a man week or 80 ahead Of him to paste bills
and not until the night OF his performance in
stage coach. But wnen he had done his
funny business the town was with him.
crush City, comes to the Academy. It
tells in the farce way of,Rush City, an Okla
hama boom town. Mr.. Rush starts the town.
He persuades would-be investors that 1t is
Il
their money, and they journey to the wilds
and find it twenty miles from wood and forty
from water. The company has several good
comedians and fetching women.
"a Milk White Flag after waving for a
time rather uncertainty In not by any means
gale Of popularity, is finally fluttcring gaily
quite as Mr.. Hoyt wishes. Its success in
Chicago since sundry changes were made n
while ago has been greater every week. Mr..
Hoyt says that the corps is more than ever in
evidence, and you will remember perhaps.
that it was the corps that the critics said
would kill il. Mr.. Hoyt is now working on
"a Black Sheep" and "a Summer Girl. :"
What fetching titles he chooses.
The names connected with the performance
of the Mikado by the Mask and Wig Club to-
in their various lines. Carpenters, electricians,
and stage directors have been working for
the last few days at Metzerott hall, and mar
veous changes have been wrought by them
under the direction OF these artists and stage
sharps. Besides Prof. Cloward, director; MIR.
Willis B. Magruder, assistant stage manager,
and Mr.. Ollie C. Hine president Of the club,
Mr.. Hunter Jones, architect; Mr.. ]. Il. Gallo
way, electrician; Count R. de Maury, dec
orator; NJ. Ziff. property man at the
National theater; Mr.. Newton Ii. Bowman,
Simon Nicolaides and others versed in stage
craft and japanese love have lent their as
sistance. The stage setting Of japanese
house is charmingly real and artistic. In
this bright petit fairy land the first produc-
tion OF the "Mlkado" entirely by male voices
is to be given. 1t will be a novel perform
ance, but in addition it will be good one
musically and dramatically. The full list Of
the cast which gave last Sunday is un-
changed.
The remarkable performance of the four
Nelson sisters at the Lyceum this week is
worth a visit. They are startlingly skillful
athletic team, doing things never saw be-
fore Their quick handsprings are bewilder-
ing. One OF the girls. who lifts her three
sisters, must have a muscle measurement in
her arm OF fifteen inches.
Johnny Griffin and his athletic and spe-
cialty company will be at the Lyceum next
week. Griffin. the "Braintree Lad" is :he
boy who fought young Critic "a draw in
Boston the other day. He is accompanied by
Ike Weir. the Belfast Spider. who wishes TO
box with local aspirants for fame, and thinks
$50 worth that no one In his class will stay
with him four rounds The vaudeville per-
formance with the boxers is done by we'll
known people. Monroe and Ma,k, Conroy
and Mcfarland. Al Grant, Campbell and
Evans. and Miss Gertrude Reynolds are
among them. There will be matinees every
day during the week.