Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-17
Next Week All the City Theaters
Will Be Closed.
GOOD WORK 1T afHE COLUMBIA
Sousa Both as Composer and as a
Band Master.
TALK ABOUT NEXT SEASON

mental season at this house. has been en-
5oyable II not highly remunerative to the
management. The company has been COM
posed of good people, who have displayed
more versatility than it was supposed they
possessed. 1t is gratifying to know that
the Washington actors have done excellent
work. and Messrs Boag, Stein and Hans
Roberts have added to their artistic repu-
tations and gained a warmer regard from
their friends. All the ladies in the COM
pany have become popular here and will
be gladly welcomed back. Miss Grey, dainty
and bright; Miss Gallatin, plump and bril-
liant; Mrs. Wilson, matronly and artistic;
Miss Evelynne, pretty and piquant; Miss
Scott the little blonde soubrette: Misses
Farrell and Berg, careful in all their WORK,
have all warm places in the hearts OF those
who have been regular attendants at the
Columbia. OF the men Mr.. Barrows has re-
ceived the largest share of attention, ana
| he has proved himself the most versatile
and accomplished comedian that has ever
been seen here in stock company. Messrs.
Lipman and Ingersoll are good leading men;
Mr. Thayer was very acceptable juvenile,
| and Mr.. Jefferson evidenced the possession
| of hereditary talent even in the small
parts which he called upon to do.
Mr. Bergman was an efficient stage man
| ager. as well as competent actor 1t Is
| to be regretted that a company so well
| balanced could not be maintained during an
entire season.
Two Castle Square Opera Companies will
| manage to get some pleasure out of their
summer work. They alternate between
Philadelphia and Atlantic City. the COM
pany that plays Monday. Tuesday and
! Wednesday in the Quaker city going to the
seashore for the remainder of the week,
and being replaced by the company that
commenced the week at Atlantic City. This
arrangement gives beth companies an OPP
mi n ind, in SfIrf hn fnN
three days each week. 1t is expected that
| the Atlantic City season will last at least
three and probably six weeks, and then the
company will come to this city for per-
manen. location.
BY the way, there is good deal of quiet
gossip about where the opera company is
| to locate when it gets here. 1t was stated
| that 1t would return to the Lafayette
Square Opera House, but Mr.. Albaugh
said he couldn't afford to have the COM
pany there whole season. for he couldn't
make money enough at the prices fixed
FOR this class of opera. Those experienced
| in the business say that it wouldn't be
| feasible fer tie syndicate which controls
oil the first-class theaters in this city to
move the orera company from one house
| to another. because 1t would work serious
deriment to theater that had been ask
| iEg 81 30 per seat in the orchestra to sud-
denly run in an attraction and drop the
price to 10 cents; run this along for six or
Ten weeks. and then put in another hign-
There is one way out of this difficulty"
said manager to a Star reporter the
other day, and that is for Mr.. Savage to
take the Grand Opera House and run his
house. l Think he; continued, us much
better than the Lafayette Square, and the
mousse Is big enough TO enable opera to be
run there at the same prices asked in Phil
adeiphla, ana yet leave margin for
profit. The stage is a good, big one, and
even better effects can be produced than
heretofore. A very small expenditure
would be necessary In improving the audi
forum and making 1t attractive and COM
Portable for the patrons. l believe that
tne mousse could be secured for a reason
able rent, and If l was handling the opera
company l should try and get it,
The Dramatic Mirror this week pub-
.lsheS an interview with John Philip Sousa
IN which the great bandmaster tells some
tnlng or mis- early career, and then speaks
OF the circumstances necessary for him 10
be inspired to write a good march. The
number of marches that Mr.. Sousa has
written, their uniform excellence and their
great popularity has made him Justly
called the March King, and his musical in
ventlon in that class of composition seems
to be inexhaustible Had Mr.. sousa never
this title by the fertility of his musical
genius. But he is also today the greatest
bandma5ter Of this country and there arc
Few across the water who have equal
lower TO get out Of body of musicians
their best work and to hold them com
pletely under control. To be good con-
ductor requires much more than to he a
GOOD musician or good composer. He
mus. possess executive ability, tact in the
handling of men and a personal ma enetism
that Will communicate itself to the force
Under his control. All these qualities Mr..
sousa possesses in an eminent degree
one thing that has contributed largely To
Mr.. Sousa's popularity is his apparent lack
or Jealousy of other musicians If an nm
hhoWn autnor writes good march and
sends 1t to Sousa, and it is a good work he
VIII nave his band play it. 1t must be up
to certain standard, of course, and then
ne Is obliged to exercise good deal OF dis
elimination, but Mr.. Sousa has no feeling
OF OF he Jealousy or resentment because some
otner man has written a good march. On
the contrary, he Is glad of it. for he saws
the world is large, and there is ALWAYS
room Tor good musicians. He is genial and
good-natured, and jolly and inferestine
companion, but he has a good memory and
doesn't forget any one who does him an
injury. GA
Three of the most notable dramatic at
trac tons that New York has known for
many years will be ION the road during
the coming season. First and most i'm,
burtan. OF an, because 1t is the greatest
too, 1t is the first dramatic work evolved
and put into shape under the stars and
stripes and woven of entirely American ma
by an all-Amerfcan cast that has made an
out-and-out London success, winning the
Endorsement of royalty, and the approval
Of the English critics, and attracting the
public in manner that no play produced
In London in a decade has attracted them
Is Secret Service''-the drama written nv
William Gillette around the siege of Rich
mond. This war play, which packed the
Garrick Theater in New York for over
seven months, and crowded the Boston Mu-
scum to the doors for three months. and
which Is now the dramatic sensation of
London, is to remain in the English cap
ital for probably another twelve months.
It has moved from the Adelphi to the
Comedy Theater, where it has been ar
ranged that 1t shall stay until its popularity
begins to wane. which will not be. It is
said, for a whole season. Mr. Gillette and
his New York company, however, will not
remain at the Comedy Theater all that
time; an English company is now rehears-
ing Secret Service, and when it is time
for Mr.. Gillette and shis associates to re-
turn to America to fill their dates the
English organization will 60 on with the
piece. Charles Frohman will open the
American tour of the original ''Secret SER
vice" company with a three weeks pre-
sentation Of the war play at the Empire.
beginning September /. After that the
principal cities will be visited and their
theater-goers will be given Opportunity to
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