The morning times., 1896-05-12
DE ANGELS GIVES 1T LIFE
"Eleur de lis" Presented by the
Della Fox Company.
"a Happy Little Home" Pleased a
Good Audience at the Academy.
Gaiety Girls at the Lyceum.

The Della Fox Opera Company, under
The direction of Nat Roth. producing j.
theeyer Goodwin and William Furst's
ada ptation from the French, "Fleur de
LIS, opened their second enga cement in
Washington last night at the New National
Iheater. AS counter-attractions in the city
there We're circus of prestige and con-
siderable weather.
AS rule, the theater gets the cold
shoulder from hot weather, and comic
opera hasn't any more show aside q circus
than oysters In July. But when "FIeur de
Lis was produced here New Years week
the receipts ran into four strong figures
and came close enough to five TO hail it
with hopeful how-de- do. On that occasion
it made friends, and number of them
didn't brook tue interference OF weather
or circus i'll the matter of paying respects
to old acquaintances. There was a fair
audience present, remarkably good, all
things considered
Though Good win wrote the book, no
one will ever blame him for that Nor
praise him, either. 1t all belongs 10 the
OTHER fellow, the Frenchman, aud ne de.
serves little OF both. Herr Furst cut
off three acts of his stock in trade, ready
made music, and it occasionally turns into
ear tickling jingies and melodies that prove
very enticing. splendid mount is stiil
feature OF the piece, revealing in the first
act the public square of st. Claude; in the
second the fortress, and in the third the
interior OF a picturesque old mill. The
costuming. too, is very attractive.
Della? Well, she's tie same little Della
She sings.as il she longed for the notes tiat.
never came, and in her speeches she les
ltates bet Ween en-tOu melndrama and
farcical fhppery. Ask any OF Ter friends
and they'll say it's her chief charm. She
is not changed from her Letite personality,
and that adipoge scare went up in air-at
least, it didn't materialize in flesh for
Della Is just her same little self.
Few comic opera stars dare surround
themselves with the quality of talent
which scintilIates about Della. They all
do nicely. The res Kate TART, a pretty
woman with u delightful cOntralto voice
Villa Knox comes back with the practi-
cal results of some famous anti-fat. She's
physical trifle compared to what she used
to be; but her voice is the same full. sweet
organ of melody. Melville Stewart is
handsome nd me iOdic as ever, and Charles
DUNCAN as the Baron. Charles Campbell
as Christophe, and Alfred Whelan the
Marquis, were also quite excellent. Par
ticularly Wheian in a sustained hurlesque
of Henry Irving. which was carried off
with no end OF good fun.
The hit Of the performance. however, and
the hit of any performance to whi,h he
lends his inimitahle genius for humor was
Jeff de Angels. 1t is seltom that Il man
takes Il character with such happy results.
He is the quinteSsence of Righteousness and
ne COudenses more laughs into his lines
than anyother man in the profession, star OF
support. II is d wonder lie hasn't ipIt his
name at the head OF the bill in big type
long ago. II goes where ii belongs next
year. These performances are the last
opportunity to see him as a satellite. He
received demonstratve welcome last
night which SPOKE in its way for his I~pu-
arity. His best work wasin the third act
with Wheiau and then with Fox III the
ghost scene.
''Fleur de Lis is TO be the bill for the
balance of this week. Next week Little
| Trooper viii be substituted.
The fair-sized audience. in spite OF the
heat and the counter raCtion in the circus.
that attended the Academy last night en-
ioyedan entertaining comedy satire i'll which
George W. Monroe was the central figure.
1t was the iuau gural presentauohin Wash
ngton OF "A Happy Little Home" 1t is
all but true To Its name and successful
week cannot fail To lie its reward.
His graceful awk kwardness, as Monroe
becomes known, Eo sooner makes his ap-
pearanCe unGer the impression that he IS
detective doing i little quiet work i0r the
head Of the house. than he wins the hearty
approval OF the audience nd easily bears
away the palm Of the evening.
There is quite Il plot 10 the piece for a
| musical comedy and all hangs upon The
suSpicionsofan up to-;late te wife whosuspe:ts
her husband of enjoying a rapid lie ~ an
| = AE
personates an irish woman VITO is rBga ged
by the lady and plays upon her belief in
theosOphy 20 his own advantage.
Miss Blanche Chapman assumes in
happy manner the role of the wife She
is a popular Washington actress, ana her
appearance was the cue for hearty well
come.
Rose the ward of Mrs. Gayfeather, the
wife of today. is interestingly pGrtra yed
! by MISS Cora Macy.
Special vaudeville features enliyen the
performance Among the Interesting per-
formers who figure in this are Gee rye L.
Tallman, the tenor soIoist: IdaleEe Cotton.
In her best limitations: the well-known
Vesta TilIey; Harry c. Stanley, the clario-
netiSt aud Dorothy Drew, pretty girl,
who can slug cIeverly and dance grace
fully.
Equally ente ertaiuing members Of the
| company are Harry Hottie, Nick Long,
| George W Howard. NJ. T. Tracy, B Ham
! mond, aud Miss Josie Intropidi.
John A. Flynn's London Gaiety Girls
opened a weeks engagement at Kernan'S
last night Time has been when the an
nouncement OF the Gaiety Girls being in
Washington would be sufficient TO fill any
| theater But that time was not last
| night Ma ybe IL was because the circus is
in town. or that the Washingtons couldn't
bunch their hits yesterday at Cincinnati
and lost or that the show is not az good
as usual Anyhow. the audience was
small and refreshingiy cold.
Just why the audience should have been
| small and undemUnstrativc is not clear.
The performance was u good one, the
people producing it were ali right, the girls
| were pretty, their costumes were hand
some and the wearerS were certainly as
| sbapely lot OF artists as any one could
| wish to see.
| The opening number on the program was
| a reurption rendered TO King Kokomo 10y
| the Century Club.
| Among the good things dished up in this
| hodge podge of mirth and music were
| speciaties by the Chappelle Sisters, the
| wooden shoe dance by Maggie Ferguson
| and Dot Lothroy and an amusing sketch
| by Virgie Seymour, entitled The Little
| School Girl
| The vaudeville portion of the program
| included George Graham, the monOlogue
| artist who has legions of friends here. Mr..
+ Graham did some clever eNtemporizing in
which he referred to the growth and popu-
| larity OF The Washington Times. The au-
| dience evidently CoinCided with him. for at
| the mention of the paper the applause was
| hearty.
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