Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-08

while not severely classical, is not of
a strictly popular character. The sale now
going IN indicates that Mr. MuSin Will have
large audience.
National Lyceuf Course.-If the people of
Washington had known what treat Wal
ter Damrosch would give them when he
Metzerott Music Hall last Wednesday the
subscription list for the course would not
have held the names of all those who
would have wanted to subscribe. Follow
Ing the lecture there was great demand
for the season tickets, and the managers of
the course, to oblige the friends of the
present subscribers, who are anxious to get
IN ION the ground floor" have made ar
engagements with the Divide Musin Concert
Company by which those who send in
their names and $50 in the next three
days will receive tickets for the Musin con-
cert and for the nine course entertainments
to follow. These entertainments include
concerts by the Mozart Symphony Club
the Wesleyan College Glee Club and the
Ollie Torbett Concert Company, readings
and recitations by George Riddle and Jen-
ME O'Neill Potter, and the lectures by H.
II. Hagan Mary Proctor and Lewis Harvie
Finney.
The Filrey Lecture-The familiar face
of Lewis Hsrvie Fnney looks out of the
advertisement of the second entertainment
on the National Lyceum list, for which
single seats will be placed on sale next
Monday. Mr.. Finney is the private secre-
tary of Secretary Herbert He has been in
during that time has delivered several
times his lecture on the Passion Play"
which was received with great favor. He
has prepared an entirely new lecture, en-
titled The Glories of the Nile" which he
will present for the first time at the Metz
croft Music Hall December 10. 1t will be
illustrated with a number of fine-colored
views, thrown on the screen.
The Choral SOciety.-The custom prevail
ing in many of our largest and most pro-
gressive cities of making a performance Of
Handlers greatest oratorio, The Messiah"
part Of the festal observances of the hol-
iday season seems to be we'll established
In Washington, and the coming perform
ance Of that popular work by the Choral
Society, on Friday evening, Dec ember Is, at
Convention Music Hall, will probably be
attended by an immense audience The SOLO
lists engaged, Nine. Emma Juch, Miss l<ath-
crime Fleming, Mr.. VIM. II. Rieger and Mr.
Ericsson +. Bushnell, comprise the best
quartet that has ever been presented in
Washington in this great work. Notwith-
standing the enormous expense attac hing
to the performance, the prices will remain
as before, 80 and IS cents and 81, with u
nearly equal number of seats at each price.
The diagram of seats will be ready for the
members and honorary members at Droop
& Sons, 925 Pennsylvania avenue, on Mon
day morning. The sale to the general pub
lie commences a week later, the 18th. Hon
orary membership season tickets, at s.. 30
and s., may still be procured at MesSrs.
Droop & Sons and the other leading music
stores.
The c. c. Course-George Remnants IL
Illustrated lecture, Russian Political Elk
lies" is the attraction which will open the
c. c. Course at Metzerott Hall Monday
evening next. Mr.. KEENAN, has an interest
ing story to tell and some magnificent pic
lures. and his lecture will doubtless make
a great impression on the minds of those
who are so fortunate as to hear him. The
sale Of seats for this lecture will open
promptly at o'clock Monday morning at
MetZerotts music store, ITO f st.
For the Kindergarten.-Onn next Thursday
evening there will be dramatic and mu-
steal entertainment for the benefit of PEN
scara Free Kindergarten in the tapestry
gallery of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. NJ Ffoulke.
No. 2Ol3 Massachusetts avenue. Mrs.
Thomas c. Noyes, Mrs. Louise Jewell Man
ming and Mr. j. Staley Hursey will partici-
pate in the program.
DIR. Stafford on Hamlet.-Much interest is
felt in the coming lecture at Metzerott
Music Hall by Rev. DR.. Stafford for the
bereht OF the Emergency Hospital DIR.
Stafford is recognized as one of the most
eloquent and powerful orators in the Cath
Ole prizes thood and has won wide fame for
the high intellectually he possesses His
subject will be Hamlet" and there is con-
siderable curiosity among scholars as we'll
as the less erudte to ascertain the dis
tinguished theologian's diagnosis Of the
mental caliber of Shakespeare's greatest
character. The Carroll Institute Orchestra
will play before the lecture.
The Stoddard Lectures.-John l.. Stod-
dard is in the midst of the most prosperous
season ne has ever known. After unusual
ly successful courses In BROOKLYN and
Philadelphia Mr.. Stoddard went to Chi
cago, where he was engaged for a season
OF ilVe solid weeks, with lectures every
evening. crowds constantly filled the
great hall and at the closing lecture hun
dreds Were turned away and the lecturer
received the greatest ovation of his life.
Now he Is In Boston. attracting enormous
audiences. His lectures of this season are
upon places and scenes in continental Eu-
rope, but perhaps the most popular one
OF all is the revival of his famous lecture
on the Passion Play. which is brought out
this year in obedience to many requests
Mr.. Stoddard will be here in February.
The Cannibal King.-Mr. Harry Wheaton
Howard will doubtless add considerably to
his reputation as a composer by the pro-
duction of The Cannibal King" a comic
operetta, which is to be given on the even
ings of the 18th and l4th at High School
Hall, street near 18th northwest by
pupils of the Polk, Henry and Morse
schools. Mr.. Howard wrote the opera
While abroad, as satire upon the infatua-
ton of the average American for foreign
titles. He wrote the libretto, as well as
this work, as the choruses and solos are
unusually well adapted to the various
dramatic situations. The plot is most
cleverly managed. The rehearsals are pro-
crossing very satisfactorily and all in
terested look forward to an excellent per-
Torrance. The committee in charge ex-
pect to reproduce the operetta on grander
scale in the spring. Much credit is due
Mr.. Eugene A. Davis of Jack 1.-The Giant
Killer fame for the skillful manner in
which he develops the dramatic instincts
of the young artists. He teaches by ex-
ample rather than by precept, a method
well adapted to bring out the unsupported
ability of noviceS. Mr.. Halstead +. Hoover
renders valuable services accompanIst.
The cast is composed of the following
girls and boys: Beulah Boernsten, Dora
I,uStiQ Pauline Indgate. Marie Brett
barth, Harold Tracy, Dean Corser, Willie
Johnson, Leroy Breitbarth ard Harry
Freeman. Harold Tracy has already gain
ed reputation as Dick Deadeye. The
stars are followed through their joys and