Evening star., 1896-10-20

comedian. as Lttleton Snaggs, the hotel
RaUpr,etor' R199pn vas quite funny, and Ben. T.
SGuolence In continual roar Of laughter.
trace Vaughn and Bessie Varse, as the
neys sisters. prove themselves clever In
tneir respective roles, and the remainder of
Inc company 1s above the average.
kernan's Lyceum Theater,-The enter
tainment offered the public at Kernan's
@ .nls week is pleasing one, and in many
respects one Of the best shows seen at that
popular resort this season. 1t is Weber's
number Of new speciaIties. but several
new races. The performance commences
with a novel creation. entitled "Fads and
rancles, introducing the entire strength
OF the company, and Miss Letta Meredith,
burlesque queen of considerable beauty
ana cn1c For the vaudeville part of the
entertainment Pauline Black with the as
sas; slsaanSe or little tot in the gallery. sang
denshaw contributed a ten-minute special
ty that was clever The feature Of the
snow, however, in the John Good Dance"
q a. saoansse creation that ie full Of ginger
ana entirely satisfactory. 1t Is said this
dance is similar to the one given at Kyoto
Japan. In 1894. when the treaty of peace
between China and Japan was ratified, and
the inVeptor was made famous for II
Evans and Hoffman did a neat sneciaItv
ana Leslie and Tenley repeated their for.
mer success OF the Hfbernians The musi-
cal whitney Brothers proved a rare treat
ana played upon almost every known in
strument The performance ended with a
hrst-ciass burlesque. entitled Venus, the
Beautiful Model"
Paul Dunbar's Readings.-Paul Lawrence
dunbar. the negro poet, who has achieved
considerable notoriety through the publish-
Ing Of his book and the criticisms on 1t by
Colonel Ingersoll. w. d. HoweIls and
others. made his first appearance In
W Washington him , last night at the Church
Oh our Father In series Of read
ings, assisted by some local talent.
MI. Dunbar was introduced by Rev. Dr.
Rankin, president Of Howard University,
and gave a number of extracts from his
works. Mr. Dunbar possesses a full, rich,
musical voice and natural style of elo-
cution, which is pleasing, and although re
had arranged his program SO as to bring
grave and light number together. he
was encored SO frequently that it rather
broke up the original arrangement. He
gave number of the productions from his
book, and scored a complete success with
his large audience, which was made up Of
colored and white auditors. Mr.. Dunbar
was assisted by Miss Beatrice Warrick
pianist; Prof. J. T. Layton baritone: Jo-
seph Douglass, violinist; Charles S. Worm
ley. baritone; Miss Louise Hamer, soprano:
Mrs. j. s. Ball. soprano, and Mrs. Alice S.
Davis, accompanist. fhe entertainment
WAS fer the benefit Of the Berean BapIist
Church. and netted quite a sum for that
institution.
Benefit to Miss Dailey.-A benefit concert
VIII De gwen at tne metropolitan "A M f.
Church, NJ street between 18th and 10th
S reefs northwest, next Tuesday evening for
Miss Lillian Z. Daley, who was kidnapped
at the age of five and held by her abductors
for thrice years. The story of her final
restcl alton to home and friends in this city
through the instrumentality of the San
Francisco police has been told in the news
papers. The concert is not given, the
projectors of the affair state, because of the
romantic adventures of the young girl who
Is to be the beneficiary, but for the sole
reason that the circumstances are such as
to render such aid an absolute necessity
until she has chance to aid herself. Her
mother is in a hospital at Boston, wrecked
by the years Of toll spent in the effort to
ffrd her lost child, while her relatives here
were even unable to raise enough money to
pay for her pa.sage from the west. Among
those who have volunteered for the concert
are Mrs. Lula Joy Brooks. soprano; Miss
Louise Hamer, contralto: Mr.. VIM. Good
rich, tenor; Mr.. John I. Layton, basso;
Mr.. Joseph Douglass. viol,nist, and Mr.
William Braxton. pianist. Besides these,
Miss Daley will relate her experiences dur
ing her thirteen years absence from home
and friends, ard will also give a reading.