The morning times., 1895-10-24
PLAYS OF NEXT WEEK.

mans Empire Tneater Stock Company atthe
New National Tneatcr next Monday evening
local play-iovers will have the peasure OF
seeing the only dramatic success that was
achieved m tue metropolis last season. 1t
is Henry Arthur Jones drama, The Mas
queraders.''
the company as IL now stands, enbracr4
all the ola layorites and has several new
ones, u nota bile aauiIion being j. Ii. stoudart,
SO long feature OF A. n. Palmer scompsny.
Mr.. Stoddart and Miss A gnes Booth, also OF
Palmer's company, are now numbered
among the Frouman forces. The full list
of tine Empire Stock Company is rs follows:
Henry Miller. William Faversham, j. E.
Dodson, ]. II. Stoddart, Robert Edeson, W.
j. Ferguson, W. II. Cronpton, Leo DitIich-
stein, Joseph Humphreys, E. Y. BackIs, j.
f. Finney, Viola Allen, Mary Hampton, Amy
Busby, Agnes Miller Elsie de Wolfe, lGa
Conquest, Olive May. May Robson, Adricnne
Dairolles, Genevieve Reynolds and Ellen
Gail.
CrestOn Clarke win play his annual en-
gagement this year a the Lafayette square
Opera House, beginning next Monday even
ing. The fashionable world and the thea
ter-going public viii be favored with u
brilliant repertoire OF shakespearean and
classical plays, among which Hamlet"
The brilliant young actress, Miss Ade-
iaide Prince, will support Mr.. Clarke
Mr.. Clarke is credited with creating n
record at Philadelphia last season OF six
teen consecutive weeks OF ShakespeareIn
and classical plays. The repertoire for
the week VIII be, Monday and Thursday
evenings and Saturday matinee, Hamlet"
Tuesday and Friday evenings. The Fools
Revenge W. &c. '',-'' -. Merchant
of Venice" Wednesday evening. the Iirst
dramatiZation OF The Raven" by George
c. HaZelton, Jr., of this city: Saturday
evening, "Richelieu." Mr.. Clarke and
Miss Prince are social favorites in Wash
ington.
The peerless Melba will sing with her
marvellous voice in this city next week.
Manager Allen, OF Aliens Grand Opera
House, has fortunately secured the pr;ma
donna and her splendid operatic concert
company for Tuesday night next.
She is accompanied by Nine. Scalchi, the
famous contralto: Mile. Bauermeister, meZzo
soprano; Sig Campanar, and Sig. D'Au-
bigne. A complete orchestra, under the
direction OF Mr.. LandOn Ronald, will aug
ment the local musicians.
A brilliant programme of operatic Sc
lertions will be given, and the third act OF
Guonod's Faust will be rendered in fun
costume, with scenic accessories Nine.
Meiba viii be Marguerite; Mime. Scalchi,
SiebeI: Nile. Bauermeister, Martha; Sig.
D'Aubigne, Faust, and Sig. Campanari
Mephistopheles. The sale OF seats begins
tomorrow.
There are few artists on the stage so
well known and as thoroughly well liked
as Nellie McHenry. She has been on the
..l.,s ar,I sv, fh.,
time has played in every principal city in
America and Canada. and Is conceded to be
the most versatile and vivacious artistic
on the American stage. A prominent
Boston critic, speaking of her, says:
''She is by lar and away the most de-
lightful soubrette that has visited our city
She is so trinity English in her figure, SO
perfectly American in her face, aud so
deliciously French in her manners. that
to justly describe her would need COM
posite word made up from the three Ian
guages combined. jolly Nellie McHenry
possesses that certain undefinable magnet
ism which at once puts the audience and
herself on the mosg intimate and pleasant
relations" She is coming with the cycle
comedy. 1.-THE Bicycle Girl" at the Acad-
emy next week.
An event of interest to the many lovers
of legitimate comedy in Washington Is the
production at the Lafayette Square Theater
on Saturday evening of SherIuan's peerless
comedy, The Rivals" by Stuart Robson,
who, Tor the first time in thirty years, will
appear as Bob Acres
In restoring this fine specimen of the
standard drama 10 the contemporary stage,
Stuart Robson confers a public benefit
worthy of the high esteem, and what is
matter of still greater felicitation, is the
famous comedians special adaptability to
the leading comedy role, which could scarcely
have fitted his peculiar genius for fun-mak-
ing more perfectly had it been especially
created for him.
Music lovers of Philadelphia will this
winter enjoy u notable season of grand
opera and orchestral concerts, which will
be begun III that city at the Academy Of
Music on November IL. The performances
are under the direction of Mr.. Gustav
Hinrichs.
Several opera that have met with success
in Europe, but have never been heard in
this country, will be sung, among them
are Reyer's "Sigurd,'' which will be given
at the opening performance, and Lalo's lie
Roi d'Ys."
The principals Mr.. Hinrichs engaged
abroad for his company are:
Sopranos: Miss Emma Nevada, Mime.
Selma Koert-Kronold, Nile. Amelia Loventz,
Miss Minnie Tracey and Miss Alice Judson.
Nero, Sopranos and Contraltos: Sig
norma Leontina Dassi, Mile. Emma Lang
lois and Mile. Emilia Grassi.
Tenors: Mons. Raoul Viola, Mons Jules
Gogny, signor Brazio Proia and Fer.
nando Michelena.
Baritones and Bases: Mons. Louis de
Backer, Signor Giuseppe del Puente, Mr.
parrr variI1 SfOuor pfaf ro "a ppovo Mana