The Washington times., 1894-03-19
THE THEATER LoUNGER.

This story Of Steele Msckaye has never
been told before. He and his wife went to
Concord, N. G., on one occasion several years
ago under an assumed name in order to Sc
cure quiet and time to write a book. For
several weeks they were known as Mr. and
Mrs. Morrison. A shrewd countryman, with
Sherlock Holmes tendency, detected some
thing peculiar about them, and ferreted out
their secret. In the mean time the genial
couple had become very popular. When the
self-constituted detective exposed them they
took il, good naturedly and confessed fully.
This did not diminish their popularity. To
prove it, few years later. when Mrs Steele
Mackaye appeared on the stage in Charlotte,
special trains were run from Concord every
| night, and her old friends gave her nightly
! ovation. She is liked there as well as any-
where else In the world, which is a strong
statement.
Mr.Herbert Pattee a talented young Shakes
pearean actor, playing leading parts in Walker
Whiteside's company, is at his home in this
city for the week while the company is taking
a weeks rest at Baltimore Next Sunday he
will join his company at Pittsburg for a tour
| u
is an able and energetic young Thespian, and
he will carry the good wishes OF numerous
Washington friends and associates with him.
He appears in Hamlet" Orchard Ill.,"
''Richelieu," Merchant OF Venice" and
"Othello.'
The chorus girls of the D'Oyly Carte Opera
Company have been allowed to land in New
York. The company arrived yesterday on the
! Cunard liner Campania. There had been
considerable discussion over the question Of
whether the chorus girls were ''artists' under
the acceptance OF the term in the alien labor
law. The Chorus Singers Association have
contended that the girls are only laborers,
and that 1t would be an imposition on the
1000 or more unemployed singers in
| New York city to allow them to land. Com
missioner McSweeny. according to dispatches
last night. said that according to law they
were artists, as they had performed at the
Savoy theater, London. The company is to
perform Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera,
Utopia Limited" in NeU York on March &c.
On the voyage over they gave q concert for
the benefit of the Seamen's OrphaDage, of
London and the Home for Destitute Children,
Staten Island. n. Y.
Dispatches received last night from Chi
cago state that Bill Nye has decided to stop
lecturing. He said to newspaper man yes
terday: 'The fact is, cannot keep up my
writing and lecturing. The work is too hard;
and then my family, for whom 1 toll, are
anxious to see more OF me. l shall close my
platform career in few weeks and go home
in the mountains of North Carolina in time
to gather my strawberry crop on my model
farm. 1 call it model farm because 1t costs
me three times rs much to run it as get out
of it. and understand from competen. agri-
cultural sources that is what constitutes
model farm
The Carroll Institute Dramatic Club, which
made such a strong$ impression on its first
appearance several weeks ago at the institute
hail, is arranging another programme for an
early date. which it is expected will be even
more ENJOYABLE than their initial perform
ance The cast will be made up of virtually
the same people as took part before. except
that it will be strengthened by the addition Of
two ladies.