The morning times., 1895-11-05
Parker,Bridget&Co
CLOTHIERS.
Bis 9Th St.
As THE GROVES CONE OUT.

rNhaustlng encores. embarrassing them WIN
riches of appreciation.
Two scenes of the opera are enacted
aboard the L. s. :. Kankakee. and are
most picturesque iustaging. nigby Bell rs
.Gabe Swift was niirtn provoking and
original, his topical song, What Could the
Poor Man DO, seeming 10 especially pleas
the audience. while his burlesque OF the
modern society play. in which his talented
wife, Laura Joyce Bell, took part, wa
uniquely successful.
Josephine Knapp. as Christine, sang ex'
quisitely the many melodious numbers
of her part, nothing more artistic than
the BIRD Song ever having been heard
here. Fetching shapely Della Stacey. in
dainty costumes of pink and blue and
scarlet smiled welcome to Washington
of which she is i native, and looked de-
Gciogsly pretty.
Clara Jewel. as Nancy. was handsome and
winning, and David Lythgoe, as Capt.
Edmund Lee, made an ideal sailors sweet
heart.
The reception given Mr. Thomas Q.
Seabruoke last night by his friends at the
Lafayette Square Opera House was quite
worthy of their old friend, the witty and
jolly king of the Isle OF Champagne.
The play in which Mr.. Seabrooke is now
starring is "A World of Trouble" the
same being built on the Observation-Disclosures
of u husband and wife, an old story. but
made quite new and entertaining by its
treatment and the wealth of its surprises.
Mr.. Seabrooke is the husband who does
a thousand and oEe funny things and says
another thousand funny things under the
whip and spur OF a consuming Jealousy.
The order of the wit is much higher than
that familiar as Scabrooke's in THE Isle
of Champagne" 1t is tie dignified bumor
OF the legitimate III which Mr.. SeabrOokc
is as much at Ecme as Re was in the bur
lesque, and that is very high praise.
The part of the wife was played by
Miss FfOlliott Pacet. 1t is sccd char
acter with plenty of spirit ard acton in it.
both of which the actress developed with
taste and Judgment. The scenes bet yyecn
Miss Paget and Mr.. seabrooke are alone n
good play. But there are others of So
much merit in tie cast that the company
asa hole may lie 81 id 10 be very competent.
The story of the play is free from The
slightest suspicion of anything objection
able either in language or suggestion and
VIII be favorite with the best classes
Of thcatcr gOers in this city.
large house, which proved to be thor
eughly en- rapport with Miss Marie VAIN
wright, greeted that well-known actress
last night at Aliens Grand Opera House
The play was His Puritan Wife, in
which is developed the idea of wife driven
W tN Tue OF DuSD1Hl, the
understood guilt of the husband, and final
reconciliation.
The burden of the play falls on Miss VAIN
wright as Elsie Dunbar, the Puritan wife,
Mr.. Joseph E. Zahner as the husband, Mr..
Nathaniel Hartwig as the man of the world,
and the cause OF the wife's downfall and
Mr.. Godfrey Stein, as modern knight
Grant. The acting OF the latter was ex-
ceptionally clever.
W a. IL 81 tn ha1 Wl I'm w ip
saw familiar face and a style of acting
which she has made very popular. The
audience was thoroughly pleased and re-
peatedly 8pplau ded her work. The clos
ing scene between her ana Mr.. Hartwig
was done in particularly artistic manner.
Miss Wainwright Will appear in several
plays during the week and will, judging from
last night and her reputation, continue to
attract large audiences TO the opera house.
Gus Hilfs novelties, (which are always
heartily received. are at Kernan's Theatre
this week, and last night they played to
Il full house. The specalties are first
class, and the one-act comedy sketch en-
titled, The Twentieth Century Barber"
with which the show concludes, is q neat
success.
Little Dick who appears in the
Gardiner combination, can twirl drum
majors mace with the best of them. and
is also good dancer and musician. Miss
Bonnie LOttie, i'm her dancing and sing
ing received mcrited applause and demon
strated her ability to do pretty good
turn at high kicking.
Among the other good specialties were
Fields and Salma, Lew Hawkins, Gray
and Conway, the Dutch Dugans,' Fred
H. Leslie, with his performing dogs. McCale
and Daniels, and the only Gus Hill ill
his great club swinging act.
Probably the most attractive feature
of the performance is Mile. Eugenie Pet
rescu, who holds the spectators spell-s
bound with her wonderful feats OF con-
tortion and dancing. She not only walks
but waltzes on her hands, and I'm fact can
use them as a means of locomotion nearly
as well as most people use their feet.
The Two Orphans" with Kate Claxton
in the leading part, made its regular APP
pearance in this city at the Academy OF
Music last night. The play is such an old
one that nearly all theater-going people
have taken it in ut one time or another.
Notwithsta nding this the house was very
comfortably filled with an audience whose
enthusiasm was manifest throughout. In
deed, SO persstently did they applaud
that in two acts the curtain had to be
raised twice.
While Kate Claxton, as Louise the
blind girl, was of course the center of at
traction, some of the other members of the
company came for a large share of the
approval of the audience. r. J. Dustan
made n splendid valet to DeVaudrey. and
was the life of the play. Indeed, he is so
good, that it may be said he is out of his
class.
The work of Blance Weaver. as Hen
riette, was exceptionally good w. F.
Clifton and Prince Lloyd carried the
characters of the Frochard brothers very
well and Marie Bingham made a splendid
old bag as La Frochard.
Advance Sale for "The brownies"
The advance sale of seats for c. b JEFF
ferson, Klaw n Erlanger's dazzling spec
taculdr production of up alner CoX's Brown
les" which viii be seen next week at the
Lafayette Square Opera House, with matt
nees Wednesday and Saturday, opens Thurs
dag morning at O'Clock sharp. The big
equalization comes by special train intact
from New York, where il ran for $50
nights 10 crowded houses. Palmer Cox.
the famous Brownie Man." viii direct
IN person every performance of his gorgeous
spectacle in Washington, and the stage
will be managed by Charles b. jefferson,
sou of the distinguished actor, Joseph