Evening star., 1895-04-27
AMUSEMENTS.

ADJUSTMENTS.
Grand Opera House--Preparations for
the opening Of the comedy season at the
Grand Opera House next Monday evening
have been in active progress during the
past week. ''Sir Simon Simple" the play
for the opening week. is Of q high comedy
order, and has been selected by Managers
Shaw and Bradford to again introduce
Mr.. Bond and his company to their many
general in this city. Every week during
the comedy season there will be a change
Of bin, and Interpreted with comedy ana
farce will be presented severa! plays OF
more dramatic order. Special attention
viii be paid to its proper mounting IN
every detail. Indications point to gala
night at the Grand Opera House Monday
evening
New National Theater.-Mr. and Mrs.
Kendall will play their last engagement IN
Washington prior to their return to Lon.
don at the New National Theater next
week. The repertoire will be as follows:
Monday evening and Saturday matinee: matinee:
Wednesday and Saturday nights. The
Queens Shilling" Thursday, The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray;" Friday, "a Scrap OF
Paper"
Academy of Music.-A season OF grand
at the Academy Of Music next Wednesday!
evening, the first opera being Carmen,
with Campanar and Kronoid IN the cast.
Thursday. will be Faust. Fr1aay, ay o,ta
with Guile and Campanari; Saturday
matinee, Romeo and Juliet" and Satur-
day night, Carmen" The regular Acad-
emy prices will prevail
Buffers Bijou Theater.-"Uncle Toms
Cabin" which never grows stale, because
there Is In 1t SO much of human interest,
will be presented at Buffers Bitou Theater
next week by an excellent company, and
with realistic scenery and stage enects. enc ..
the stage, always draws good houses. ana
there is every reason to believe that the
audiences at Buffers next week Will be
unusually large.
Kernan's Lyceum Theater.-The engage
ment of Peter Maher, the Irish champion.
at Kernan's next week is looked upon with
much interest by the followers of the sport.
Maher is undoubtedly the coming cham
pion of the world, and thinks seriously OF
challenging the winner of The Corbett-Fftz-
simmons battle. Although cnce defeated
by Fitzsimmons, he was but novice and
only twenty-one years Of age. Since then
he has acquired a volume of experience, as
we'll as strength and endurance! During
the engagement he will forfeit S1O0 to any
man who will stand before him four rounds.
The vaudeville contingent is.exceptionally
strong, and includes such well-known art
lists as Conley and Madden, the clever
Irish comedians; the Mayos. character
change artists and vocallsts; Campbell and
Beard, the novelty musical duo: May Rhea,
the charming lyric queen: Price and Mack,
black-face comedians; Lew Mettler, in imf-
tations, and the Keegans, sketch artists.
Maher Is also accompanied by Billy Hen
Boston. and Peter Lowery, the champion
bantam weight of Ireland.
The Kneisel Quartet-Next Monday even
ing Builders Exchange Hall will be the
scene of one of the most fashionable mu-
sical events of the season. The Kneisel
have been giving private recitals in Wash
ington and last year appeared in their
first public concert, on that evening will
present a most varied and carefully select
ed program of chamber music. This, which
may justly be termed the most refined
form of music, has for many years been
sadly neglected and unappreciated, owing
mainly to the lack of unity in musical
thought among the players who were men,
bers of quartets which have come and
gone. Not so with the Kneisel Quartet.
This organization was formed seven years
ed its original membership. The gentle
men composing this quartet are all mem-
hers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
and have for years played under the lead
ership of some of the worlds greatest con-
ductors. thus giving them a training in
ensemble work which has proved fnvalua-
Bile. The individual excellence, as well as
the popularity. of the gentlemen composing
comment. Mr.. Kneisel. as well as Mr..
Schroeder, will play soil. The program
will include Beethoven's Quartet in G
major; Sarasate's Spanish Dance, Tschai-
kowski's Andante, from quartet, in D
major: Sgambatis Scherzo. from quartet,
In d fiat major: Dvorak's Waldesruhe. Sits
Serenade. Crossmanns Tarantelle and
Schumann's Quartet, in A major.
Stuart Robson.-Last night Mr.. Stuart
Robson repeated his excellent interpreta-
ton of Tony Lumpkin in Goldsmith's COM
edy. ''She Stoops to Conquer" to the evil
dent qualification of a large and fashiona-
BILE audience. Tonight his engagement will
close with Bronson Howard's Henrietta"
in which he will assume his original char
acter Of BERTHE. the lamb.
''Cororet and Coin."-The repetition Of
the new comic opera, 'Coronet and Coin,"
the work of Messrs. Gibbs, Smith and Nc
Leod. was witnessed by a good-sized au-
dience, which was decidedly enthusiastic
and insisted on encoring nearly every num-
her. second performance emphasized the
good impression that the work made on
Thursday night, and the authors can con-
gratulate themselves upon having con-
structed an opera that should prove a
ager Messrs. Smith, Bangs, Morsell and
Mrs. Berry have all had experience on the
professional stage, and. of course, it was
expected that they would do well, which
they did, but of the amateurs Miss Flor
ence Grigg easily led, displaying not only
good and well-cultivated voice, but acting
with p1quancy and finish that would do
credit to an experienced soubrette. Mr..
Mills Thompson was a decided favorite,
irfusing into the part of Hack Sack good
deal of fun Of the infectious character.
Mr.. E. b. Fox as Sanchez made the most
Of the role. and Mr.. George OConnor. Mr..
Evans, Miss Hendrie and Mrs. Bangs
Burns were all effective In their respective
relies. The Columbia Athletic Club was
present. in goodly numbers last night, and
showed their appreciation Of Hub Smith
by sending over the footlights a magnifi-
cent basket of flowers.
The Mask and Wig Club.-No mask and
wig club has ever created such furore in
this city as has the Mask and Wig Club
Of the University of Pennsylvania. Their
coming production has caused the greatest
amount Of interest and speculation, and
that there will be crowded house at the
Academy of Music tonight is assured. They
will present for the first time in this city,
its latest success, "kenilworth,' in which
the scener. is beautiful. the costumes be-
yond reproach and the dancing new artis-
tic and novel. The book of the operetta is
lively and bright. and the music is exceed
ingly catchy. The journey of the Penn
sylvania boys to this city is always a So
ciety event, and this time will be no excep-
to the rule that has prevailed in the past
in this regard. A large following Of col
lege admirers will help to swell the num-
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