The morning times., 1896-11-29
COMING TO THE THEATERs.

| Charles Frohman's Empire Theater Stock
company brings four dramatic and comedy
successes to Washington for its weeks
engagement at the Lafayette Square Opera
House, which begins tomorrow evening.
The company Is a much more powerful
organization than when last seen here.
Its repertoire calls for large number OF
preSided them. hn'' anu MI fi0hinan ha'
vam alen ms a smeeIs a5e Es Ms
de Wolfe, Agnes Miller Annie Irish, Ida
Conquest, May Robson, Mrs. Thomas Whit.
oar @ nodssn nSas Ay RGbe5q sseS RSssan 9ik Gil
Williams. Ferdinand Gottscnaik, E. Y.
Backus, W. II. Crompton, j. E. Finney,
Gail, Kathefine MuiEins, @ ef Iottie Nicoii. ht,nn
SSharies Young, Walter Day, and George
The repertoire will be as follows Monday
anu Tuesday evenings, and Wednesday
niaunee, Il. C. Cartons original modern
Play, Liberty Hail." will be presented,
In Tins play ran for over 100 nights at the
Empire Theater, and set all literary New
r,d aork TO talking OF it, 50 exquisite and
original, but si,npIe and delightful, is its
| treatment OF the old, cid theme of two
hearts yearning for each other.
a., wednesday evening viii be devoted To
.ne only performance OF Clyde Fitch's
,Bohemla,'' which had over 100 per
iDriiiahces at the Empire last sea son, and
Would have prolonged its triumph mad
day and Friday evening ana SATURDAY, mat
nee, sydney Grundy's Inasterpiece. SOW.
| LIZ 'ne VINO, VIII be presented for the
| hfst time IN Washington by the original
| cast. rms play is so We'll known to theater-
| goers OF this city that little need be said.
IN saturday night, for the farewell per
lorna nee, Marriage" a co medy by
Brandon Thomas, the author OF ''ChafIey'i
| aunt, VIII be offered. In this piece. the
| Empire Company achieved probably its
| sIeaest comedy success in New York
| Nodoubt many of our theater- eoershold in
| grdtefui remembrance the play made from
! MARX Iwain's story Of the Quaint old Mis-
sOurIan W nom his neiehl orscalled. .PuCd'n-
| head when it appeared in this city a
few monthssince under the title of Fudti'n-
head Milson., and win welcome its return
| tonorro" when 1T comes to the New Ma
| tlGnal almost precisely the same in cast
aud the same in production as when here
iast season except Theodore Hamilton, an
excellent actor, who VIII be seen in the
ceIlcnt
A delightful atmosphere of village life
pervades the play. The time OF It's &C.
currelce belng before the war, the slavery
question enters into it somewhat. Then
| the.e a re two babies who are fnterchaneed
at the christening. one a white child, and
| the other the child OF Roxy, a Colored
servan,, whose child is oniy Il thirty Sc, ond
| paIteoiored BY thisinterchange the white
enid grow up slave and the coIored boy
| the master.
The whlte boy, who is SUPP osed to lie a
| slave ana grows up az such, is all % cd.
while he ooiored 0y is diaf oiIcaiiy deSihsh
and all bad. Then there is an ATTEMPTED
murder All OF these things are at Iasi
ciedred up by Dave Wilson, with hi despisetI
theory OF thumb MARKS which has teen
part OF the cause Of his being called a
Pudd nhead The play is filled with that
EeartinteTeSt and human ma ture that ma ket
the whole world kim
IA Florida Enchantment'' Will be pro.
dueed at the Columbia Theater the weeE
beginning tomorrow night. IL is the --latest
4 III al fr h f,ytrrt lgf
Archibald Ciavering Gunter, author or
I MIR. Barnes of New York" Mr.. Potta.
or Texas, Prince Carl etc "A Florlda
EnctiantTnent is a merry concelt, whict
has been prepared for the stage solely al
bit OF frOlic.
| The story deals with the fortunes OF Lii.
| llan Travers, New Y ork society belle anc
| helress. While on visit TO Florida, she
comes INT" possession OF a mysterious nut
Containing seeds, which, according TO
| document left by an ancestor, an old slave
trader. were discovered on an East Indian
Island and Possess the magical properties
1l changing the sex OF the individual who
| swallows one
The play enjoyed a run OF eight week,
IN New fOrk, closing last night and 1t
umph In the cast are Marie Jansen, bar
Collier, Clarence Heritage. Grace Hunting
! TON. ana several other well-knOwn pia yers
"a Bowery GIRL which Will be the
| attraction at the Academy OF Music for a
week commencing tomorrow evening, is a
play that caters 10 the masses. The char
acters are studies, and the bowery flavor
makes them more attractive.
| The company is said TO I've much stronger
| than last season, and is headed by the
captivating cOmedienne, Miss Fiorrie West
talented Young lady who has gained
| popularity on botn siGes OF the Atlantic
Miss West was especially engaged for
The nazzler" when that play was at
Miss West VIII sing a number OF new and
Original songs, ana Will have the sup
Guiding Miss Carrie Ezier. who is CON
ceied to be one or the test deiineators
OF negro meiodies; Miss Mamie Ryan,
helen Jones' Georgie Lester. Little Jess.
a tot seven years old: VI. J. Cody, AshIey
Miller, Lawrence Merton and others.
The story or Faust, Marguerite and
Mephisto is one that students never tire
or reading, musicians OF singing. play
gcers or watching 1t VIII be seen this
week at the Grand by the Morrison ConI-
| pany.
IL is a charming story. and the drama
| Is one or the finest and most deserved V
popular or the plays which keep the
stage. The company and scenery FOR this
production are promised to be all that
can be desired.
Agnes Wallace Villa VIII be seen this
Week at the hljou IN her well-known play
The World Against Her" In this piect
she plays Madge Carleton, role admir-.
abbey adapted to her capabilities.
Frank Harvey, who wrote Woman
Against oman" and The Wages OF SIN y
S the author he has written his pIays
tor the people, and his characters nave
been taken from the people and all with
a very shrewd Snow wiedge or the needs of
| The present day. He has discovered new
combinations in the melodrama. Murder
and romantic mystery anu the complicated
| lives or the nobility do not concern nIm
he takes an honest woman and makes nel
. | suffer for the sins OF some creature who
may have claim on her
Reilley & Woods Big Show at kernan's
| this week have novelties in the Olifans
. Tom, Dick and Harry all in ONE" and
| the opium parOdlsts, Roberto and Doretto
) In their laundry act
Among the other leaders are Pat ReiIley
e | fetrie and Elsie in Fun at the Toll Gate
: and Cook and Smith, the American million