Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-19
AMI SENENTS.

COLUMBIA THEATER. - The Castle
Square Opera Company entered upon its
last week in Washington for some time to
come at the Columbia Theater last night
with presentation of Won Suppe's spright-
ly comic opera. Glover" The opera is one
that gives both principals and chorus am
pie to do. and it may be said that in the
main the majority of the opportunities that
We're presented were well cared for The
cast individually was excellent but col
lectively the evident lack of rehearsal was
most apparent in both the vocal score and
the book. There are four acts to the op-
era or rather a prologue and three acts
that gave the scenic artist of the company
chance to show his skill, since they were
laid in entirely different scenes and the
production in this regard was an unquali-
fed success. Miss Grace Golden was as
signed to the part of Stella and was entire
y at home in it, Miss Golden may always
be depended upon for her knowledge of
both words and music and her work is
never amiss in this regard. In her solo
in the first act she gained a decided encore
and sang her role all the way through in a
most acceptable manner. Miss Elvia Croix
Seabrooke made her first appearance with
the company and enlivened the proceedings
not "a little. She was in excellent voice and
added to the comedy element a large
amount of its attractiveIesS. Miss Bessie
Fairbairn as the Spanish lady of uncertain
age and Miss Gertrude Rutledge as Florina
Were good in the little they had to do JOS
Sheehan. while still showing the effects of
the cold that kept him from the stage last
week, sang the part of Rudolph in his
usual style, with finish. sweetness of tone
and force. His solo in the second act was
given double encore. while all of his
numbers were given that amount of an
plause that betokens at once the popular
favorite. Mr.. Melville Stewart had a dou-
t'le role, sergeant in the army and the
brother of the Spanish lady of uncertain
age Mr.. Stewards work is nearly always
bile I'VE q we'd
quite a tendency to forget both lines and
music. In his work with Miss Farbarn in
the last act he rather made up for some OF
his shortcomings and gained encore.
Raymond Hitchcock was the one bright
particular star of the performance. He in
stilled quiet humor into the part of Cas-
sinner. the valet, that kept his house in
continuous roar. and in the second act in
terpolated some comic songs that gained
him half a dozen encores, completely ex-
hausting his stock in that direction. Mr.
Hitchcock has many friends in Washington
VINO wish him well. Maurice Abbey and
w. G. BrOCkmeyer had snail parts which
they performed acceptably. the makeup of
the former being especially good Contrary
to the general rule, the chorus did not do
the best work it was capable of. In the
closing chorus of the second act it's work
was splendid and no fault whatever could
be found with it. but in some of the other
choruses the work was ragged and showed.
as in the work of the principals. an evident
lack of care in rehearsal. The orchestra
rendered efficient service.
LAFAYETTE.-The wonderful work of
Kellar, the magician, at the Lafayette last
night delighted good audience, and will
continue to please and mystify for the re-
mainder of the week. The entertainment
is a strong card for the theater Kellar is
probably now the prince of magicians, and
has reached tie perfection of his career
From beginning to end of the performance
there Is nothing stale in the work of KEEL
lar. Some of the tricks are not exactly
new. but they are performed with a dex-
terity and cleverness that gives them all
the pleasure of new tricks. This is espe-
cially so in the pure sleight-of- hand ex-
periments- The display is unique, marvel
OTIS.
Kellar rivals the greatest of spiritualis-
tic mediums in the puzzles that he pre-
sents. A clever oonceit of the artist is the
disappearance of his wife. She IS seen
swinging in a chair in the center of the
stage IL full view of the audience and with
bright light shining on all sides. Quick
as lightning Kellar discharges a pistol full
at the body of his wife, and she disappears
as suddenly and mysteriously as if she
had vanished into air. This feat is follow
ed by many still more mysterious
In what the wizard calls his blue room
| he furnishes some weird and astounding
| Illusions and spiritualistic manifestations
Flower pots filled with sand suddenly show
plants, which grow, and in minute beau
tiful rose bushes and fruit trees appear
| kellar does not go near the pots while the
mystery Is In progress.
Kellar's own disappearance is weird and
ghostlike. The magician seats himself IN
! a chair. and. waving his hands about his
head. commands his body to dissolve in
| the air. He slowly fades away, still sit
ting In the chair and In the full food OF