Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-28
N M USICAL CIRCLE S
Everything in Good Condition for the Ju-
venile Opera at Albaugh's
Some of the Children Who Will Par
ticipate i'm "Jack the Giant
Killero-Other Items.

by about two hundred and fifty of Wash
ington's cleverest little folks in Harry
Wheaton Towards Juvenile opera, Jack
the Giant Killer" The rehearsals for the
opera, which will be produced under the
stage direction Of Mr.. Percy Winter, have
shown that the parts have been well cast
and give promise of clever performance
next week. Mr.. Howard, the composer. Will
direct the music, and Mr.. Halstead p.
Hoover will be the accompanist. Pror.
j. H. Vermilya has charge of the dancing,
drills and marches, with Mr.. Sheridan
Ferree in charge Of the Amazons and their
work.
The story of the opera is based upon the
familiar work Of Jack the Giant Killer as
conaueror Of overgrown specimens OF
humanity. The first act Is laid in the
court of an oppressed kingdom. Inc KING
tells of the depredations OF giant ana
presents a valiant youth, a stranger, who
| offers to fight the tyrant. In reply to the
queen he says that he will be content only
| with the hand Of princess. There are
but five young women Of this rank ana
| they are all spoken for. Their five princes
object and the king Is obliged to decide In
| their favor. The heralds take a vote as to
the offer Of the stranger and he Is scorn-
| fully dismissed. The leader of the ANA
IONS offers to fight the giant.
In the second act the princes and cour-
tiers fight the giant and are conquered.
He then attacks the Amazons and takes
them and the princesseS captive. Inc KING
sends for the stranger, who renews his pro-
position. The queen tells of a most beautl-
full daughter, held in durance by the giant
and promises her hand as a reward for her
rescue. The stranger accepts and sets OH
| to do battle with the giant.
The last act shows the giants dungeon.
The young princess whose hand mas peeh
| promised to her rescuer offers to hperate
| her companions by marrying the giant. she
| Is accepted upon this condition, but the
| stranger enters and defeats the giant. He
| then announces himself as Jack the Giant
Killer The king gives the princess 10
Jack. and the leader of the AmaZons, TAX
ing pity upon the giant. offers to marry
| him. 80 that everybody Is happy when the
curtain falls.
The cast is as follows: A Giant Mr.. Eu-
| gene A. Davis; Jack the Giant Killer, Mas
ter Burton Carrot; the King. Master Henry
Tallmadge; the Queen, Miss Marie Howe;
their youngest daughter "a captive). Miss
Clara Moran: five older daughters, Helen
Birney, Helen Hastings, Mamie Griffin
Bessie Moore and Ellen Noble; five princes
engaged to the five princesses), Eddie
Eynon, Charlie Hendley, Ralph Johnston,
Frank Stripe and Frank Tucker.
Leader of the Amazons. Edith Stowell;
other Amazons. Eva Grossart. Miriam Par
ker. Ardella Payne, Lucy Smith. Eloise
Kaiser, Ruth Martin. Marie Hutton, Mabel
Sommerville Helen Hickcox, Jessie Holden,
Hattie Groves, Ruth Sliney, Nettie Eberly,
Helen Ashton, Daisey Clark, Maggie May
bell. Carrie Hastings. Cat Uterine Glenn, Mar
garetta Mast, Bertha Petit, Estelle Burke.
Florence Pierce. Ethel Tucker, Fannie Ed
wards Mary Howard, Fanny Virgins,
Jessie Carey, Lillian Brock, Josie Gould,
Irma McKelden, Susie Corcoran. Lizzie
Quinn.
Heralds-Don Davis, Frank Stewart.
Barbour Kitch. Warren Eynon, Willie Nc
Caully, Paul ThOrp. Richard White. Ar
thur Bovee. George Sullivan. Rhesa Grill l.
Charley Behrens, Edward Nicholson, Fred.
Walter, Sidney Kaufman, Edwin Rhea.
Court ladies and captives-Mlsses Lillian
Draney, Bertha Beane. Ethel Purdy, Rosa
ZerCga. Katie Moran, Virgie Wagner.
Ethel Howell Maggie Bell. Vida Steven
son, Ethel Clark Helen Davis, Carrie
Butt, Jennie Naef, Maud Bean. May Rick
enbacher, Dora Smith. Cora Mundell. Anna
Martin, Grace Myers, Clemence StnHing.
Lily Hughes, Mabel Van Horn. Laura
Martin. May Butt, Laura Stewart, Eva
Stanley. Edna De Neale, Sadie Filler Rosa
mond Reynolds. Minnie Grossart. Clara
Quinter, Mabel kipp Jessie Holden, Florence
Bean. Jennie Rickenbacher. Agnes Jones,
Lizzie Cornell. May Hoffman. Cora Evans,
Violet Wimsatt,Daisy McElroy, Mary Myers.
Katie Rea, Blonie Bushman. Annie Kerns,
Minnie Lyddane, Isabel Faris, Florence
McGuirk. Helen Dyer, Katie Swan, Mary
Armor Lille King, Pauline Bliss. Evelyn
Hall. Sadie O'Neil, Marjorie Keefe, Annie
Goddard, Jennie Colby, Elsie McKelden,
Boyer Maggie Hoy, Gertrude Bradt, Kate
Brown, Dickie Griffin. Lillian Koechning,
Grace Dom, Bessie McCaully. May Faris,
Annie Garretson. Matte Swan, Irene Co
burn, Ellen King, Ethel Prince, Flora
Summerville, Nellie Hayes, Marie Seitz,
Bertha Edmonston, Carrie Bagaley, Bessie
Smith, Marion White, Resale King. NirG .
Murphy, Clara Griesbauer, Kate Weaver,
Susan Bradt, Lulu Baker, Belle Hazel,
Ella Thomas, Evie Mann. Laura Weber
Ethel Burdette. Irwin Mckelden, Bessie
Senior. Miriam stoddart, Lizzie Rudd.
Pauline Bliss, Edith Gibson, Susie Watson,
Pearl Patchet, Viola Nermillion, Norma
Hood, May Goroman, Lawrence Frank,
Alice Clossen. Sadie Thomas, Emma
| Thomas, Isabel Nancy. Aubrey Henley,
Cora Counselman, Laura De Grange Annie
Evans. Mabel Owens, Daisy Gibbs, Helen
Durnin Coryal Burbank, Eta Carpente
Regina Murphy. Ella Brown, Celia Nc
Grath Carrie Burkhart, Nanee Henderson,
Courtiers-Louis Yost, Harry Peschau.
Alfred Abel. Charles Gould, Irving Rea,
Eugene Sliney. Ernest Dammann. Norris
Engle, Edwin Rickenbacher, Willie Belt,
George Sullivan, Rhesa Griffin, Garnett
Smith, Max Mccullough Claude Edmonda.
Sydney Harrison, Charlie Warren, Robert
My ers, Frederick Harvey. Edwin X. Lun-
dy, jr., Francis W. King, Willie Ourand.
Frank Stewart, Charlie Osborn, Beverly +.
Rogers, Wilfred Roach. Fred Butt, Arthur
Haughton, Roy De Neale. Israel Baumgar-
ten. Hubbard Bean, Turley Coburn, Clara
Breuninger, Harry Richmond, Olnus Smith,
Tom Swan, Harry Watkins, Charles Cor
yell Robert Warren, Walter Smith, w. ID.
Lundy, Leggett Neville, Louis n. Steven
son, Samuel Mercer, Bilaguerre Mcl<elden.
Norman Brooke, David Tanning, Mitchell
King, Edmund Schreiner, Coryal Burbank,
W. J. Clements, John Louchran, Guy Cham
berlain. Leo Custard. Frank Mast, Luther
Schreiner, Jesse Burbank, L. H. Eshelman,
Ingall Johnson.
Misses Miriam Stoddart. Lizzie Rudd,
Pauline Bliss Mabel owen, Daisy Gibbs
and Helen Durnin will execute some fancy
dances, under the direction of Professor
Vermilya.
Notwithstanding that singers now en-
rolling in the Choral Society for the first
time are required to pay the initiation fee
of 81 the number Of applicants appearing
at the Monday night rehearsals at Typo
graphical Hall is still unusually large. and
the membership is rapidly approaching
400. THE Messiah" which is now in
hearsal for production on Friday evening,
December %. is familiar to a majority of
the singers, and many of the old men,
berS, not heretofore enrolled this season,
are returning to assist in this most popular
of sacred oratorios. The financial results
of the 'St. Paul. concert, while not what
they should have been, and while indicat-
ing some lapses in the activity of the men,
bership, were far from discouragng, con-
sidering all the circumstances. Chairman
Stevens Of the finance committee an
rounced at the rehearsal last Monday that
the subscriptions for this seasons concerts
are already between $500 and 500 greater
! ba Of cI,l, ri,,tio