Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-17
ADJUSTMENTS.

Albaugh's.-The second week of 1.-The
Black Crook" opened with signs Of pros
perity at Albaugh's last night. The house
was well filled, and the pretty costumes,
the dazzling complications of color and the
gracefully arranged marches We're appre-
ciated. while the dances and the speciality
performers awakened the enthusiasm that
greeted them last week. The increase of at
tendance last night gives indication that
this weeks attendance may justify the
somewhat illiberal policy of holding about
all the seats on the first floor as reserved.
The stage management Is still as clean-cut
and capable as on the first night, and the
audience Is filled with admiring wonder at
the smooth manner in which the intricate
effects are managed.
The Marteau Concert.-A large audience
VIII greet Henri Marteau. the great French
violinist, on Wednesday evening, April IS,
at Metzerott Hail. Mime. Linde, the Amer
lean contralto, and Annie Lachaume, the
French pianist. support Marteau on this oc-
casion. NJ Marteau's numbers on the pro-
gram will be a Beethoven Sonata, Op., "a;
a Mendelssohn concerto; Romanza by
SvendSeE, Jola, Navarro, Sarasati, and
Grand Fantasia Faust, Gounod, Wieniaw-
ski. Seats now on sale at Metzerott Music
Hall.
New National Theater FIT is a
great pity that a writer of Oscar
Wilde's wonderful cleverness should be so
irresistibly attracted by the unwholesome
elements In human affairs His pen probes
into the things which shock the pure mind
pei sistence that amounts to monomania
His efforts to sugar-coat his indecencies so
as to make them tolerable to a patient pub
lie are too palpably concessions to practical
considerations to be mistaken for sincerity
In "A Woman Of No Importance which an
excellent company produced at the National
Iheater last night, a gentleman who makes
the plea concerning his downfall that Adam
ana some others have presented and the
woman who Is the victim of his perfidy are
the central figures of interest. Mr. Wilde
does not advocate Improperly; on the con-
trary, he calls for impartial redress; but he
presents strong reminder OF the culprit
who cries stop thief with all his might
while he is himself running away with the
plumber. The concise extravagances of per-
sonal opinion which have been heralded az
epigrams were listened to with patience last
night; sometimes with approval. Frequent
~ they awakened an undefinabie ripple of
expression which Is midway between a.
laugh and a shudder. Artistically the play
Is polished masterpiece. 1t Is a triumph
or artihciality In which language and logic
take the place of sympathy and human i'm
pulse. The company Is one of rare merit
John t. Sullivan is an actor whose sterling
Qualities make whatever he does admra BILE
Thomas Whiffen is good; so are Mrs Bouci-
cault and Ada Dyas and Effie shannon so
In fact are all the people who appear on the
stage, including Miss Coghlan herself who
whatever other criticism may be offered
concerning her, cannot be said to lack in
self-confidence or the highest artistic zeal
Acaueny.-lt was Jane night at the
Academy last night, and Jennie Yeamans
was Jane. Washington has always known
another Jane, a somewhat sublimated i'm
possible Jane, albeit q charming one but
Jennie Yeamans' Jane is of another kind
II Is Jane redolent Of the house maid:
OF the dust brush dust brushy; plumply
ideal; rosy faced and rollicking; In fact.
house maid just as she is--"as large as
life and twice natural" Miss Yeamans
is extremely clever in her portrayal of the
character, and, though at times she may
give 1t Bowery touch not quite har-
monious, she somehow gets 1t in such
shape that her auditors want to laugh
every time she does anything, whether 1t
is funny or not, though Miss Yeamans
does not do many things which are not
provocative Of grin. OF the others in the
cast, some are well known to u.s. and when
that long, slim William came on he was
greeted with cheer. so much has Mr..
Cotton done for William. Joseph Aliens
Mr.. kerShaw was another familiar glad
to be greeted again. Mr.. Adolph Jackson
is an admirable Charles Shackleton, with
the air and the carriage of a young man
of good, strong, high-priced tastes. Miss
Stevens was a pretty Lucy Norton; Miss
lie Baron did Mrs. Chadwick with good
natural effect: Arthur Boylan was a lively
boy and the Pixton family tSnitz Edwards
and Miss Dodd) was the usual startling
domestic contrast. The play was preceded
by that almost best of all curtain raisers
"Chums," with Adolph j. Jackson, Sey-
mour G. Hess (who is on his feet again),