Evening star., 1896-09-19
AMUSEMENTS.

AMUSEMENTS.
Lafayette Square Opera House.-About
sixteen years ago Professor Samri s. Bald
win, who will be at the Lafayette Square
Opera House next week. visited every great
city on this continent and achieved q won
derfu degree of success as an exposer Of
so-called spiritualistic mediums and other
pretenders who at that time worked on the
credulity Of the public. About that time he
and Mrs Baldwin visited the orient, and
spent many years there In the study and
development of the unknown forces of ma
ture, and acquired much of peculiar
East India lore that for years they mysti-
fled every part of the earth. with many
miraculous presentations These are pre-
sented as an item of a brilliant entertain
ment in which Professor Baldwin humor-
orsly gives a series of 1nimitabe features,
and In which such clever artists appear as
Edgar Ely, the only future dude: Miss Lou
ise Tauax, phenomenal child whistler, dain-
ty Georgia Gardner, the American chan
sonnette; Samuel ]. Adams, the atlas of
comedy: Baby Nick Russell. symphony
in black: Victor p. Komer, in matchless
piano recitals; the Tally-ho Trio vocal
comedians: ]. Z. Morgan. basso- -buffo;
Chas. E. Perry, tenor-comedian, and others
selected from the best that the American
and European stage affords. No perform
ance that can at all be classed with this
has ever been attempted in this city be-
fore
Grand Opera House.-Lovers of refined
high comedy drama have much reason to
feel exultant over the fact that The AmeH-
can Girl the daintiest and most interest
ing example of this popular class Of enter
tainment. will be at the Grand Opera
House all of next week, beginning Monday
night, September 81. H. Grattan Donnely
disputed masterpiece and easily outranks
his other successes, as Darkest Russia"
Natural Gas" Ship Ahoy," Later On"
etc. The leading role is intrusted to that
capital comedian and great favorite r. E.
(Bob) Graham. His portrayal Of the
busted actor IL true to life that 1t
would have brought tears to the eyes of
any real old-time "barn-stormer." Ida Bell
essays the character Of the American GIRL
and her artistic work shows the ideal,
plucky. afectionate, unassuming girl of
America to perfection. specially attrac
tive feature OF this play Of intense dra-
matte and cheeriest comedy interest are
the two really wonderful children, Prince
Ray and Little Lady. Numerous songs
with producing specialties are introduced
throughout the play and make highly en-
tertaining performance. No pains ex-
pense have been spared to make THE
American Girl the leading comedy-dra-
matte attraction of the present season. and
| it will doubtless duplicate here in Wash
| iEgton its phenomenal standing room
only success enjoyed the past week at the
Holiday Street Theater in Baltimore.
New National Theater.-"My Friend From
| 1nGia' will be the attraction at the New
| National Theater next week.
Academy of Music.-Joseph Hart in "A
| Gay Old Boy will be seen next week at
the Academy of Music.
| Kernan's Lyceum Theater-The City Club
| Spectacular Farce Comedy Company, under
| the management of Thomas E. Miaco,
| comes to the Lyceum next week. The OPEN
ing burlesque, entitled ''The City Club at
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| natural beauty as one rarely has the for
| tune to see on the stage. The olio which
| follows contains the names Of artists well
known to the vaudevilles. Tom Nolan, that
| popular parody singer, will render many
| new and spicy songs. Nellie Waters, the
| Gelineator Of Irish and negro songs, will
| appear at each performance. Her render
ing Of Irish songs is said to rival Maggie
| Cline in many ways Those funny Dutch
| comedians, Fields and Wooley, who are
| styled 1.-The Dutch Doogans," have many
| rev jokes and songs to offer. Ollie Ather-
ton and Sophie Erbs will sing number Of
| popular songs. X Rays Bixley, known as
the Musical Tramp and singing comedian,
| is an artist whose peculiar and pleasing
speciality is distinctly his own, and has
| earned for him the title Of 1.-The funny
| man. Miss Carrie Fulton, the popularizer
| of many familiar negro songs has a budget
| Of new and catchy ditties to offer to her
| many admirers. The olio is brought to 9
close by those matchless monarchs of mirt h
ing act, called Caught in a Cyclone" in
which they Introduce burlesque Spanish
dances. burlesQue somersaults and side
| splitting buriesque dramas This season
there is presented new series Of living pic
| lures, exact reproductions by living models
Of work of the great masters and famous
paintings from the art galleries Of the
| whole world. The performance is brought
to close by the sensational burlesque
| THE Sporty Dutch-S." which, like the
opening. is scenic production, and intro
headed by the popular queen Of burlesque
| Miss Fannie Everett She assumes the
leading character in both burlcsques, and
will wear many stunning costumes. She
will be ably assisted by those two clever
burlesquers, Ruby Marion and Carrie Full
ton.
Maggie Cline.-Miss Maggie Cline, WHIT
has made a great success in her play "Ol
Broadway" will be seen at the Lafayette
Square Opera House. after the Mahatmas
For years Miss Cline has been the acknowl
edged leader in her branch Of the pro
fession, singing such songs as Throw Hin
Down. McCloskey," and "Arrah Go On" a.
she only knows how, to sing them. So i
was perfectly natural for her to make he
famous songs the groundwork for her play
"On Broadway which Is used as the We
| hicle to introduce her as a star. She is sup
ported by an excellent company, including
such weli-known people as Beatrice Morgan
| Isabel Waldron, Alice and Helena Thill
John G. Sparks, Ben. T. Ringgold, Georg
| w. Howard, Harry b. Bradley and JohI
T. Burke. --...
Bijou Theater-Edison's vitascope an
Barlow Brothers Minstrels will be tn
| double attraction at the Bijou Family Thea
ter next week. The merry minstrels fl
| themselves should be sufficient to fill
| good bill. judging from the excellent pres
notices they have won elsewhere. but a
! a special treat to his patrons Manage
Whitesen has arranged for the first ex
; hibition In a Washington theater OF tn
a. off hn h0N a nnF,
The inventor of this-a Washington mar
by the way-has improved on the kineto
scope idea and enlarged his machine G
; that he can throw the pictures on an i'm
: mense screen, in full view Of a whole thea
. ter full Of people. Furthermore, this ma
has so perfected his machine that ther
is no flickering and blurring In the picture.
| but they are SO real that one seems to
| looking out of q window at the novin
| throng on the street. or actually witnessin
! a scene from a play or a dancing specialt!
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