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LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE.
faust" with its tragic story beautifully
told in song, by the Castle Square Opera
Company, and given with scenic acces-
sories and electrical and spectacular effects
such as have never been witnessed in any
former production here, will make the
Lafayette Square Opera House more than
attractive during the current week.
Faust" for its proper and effective pre-
sentation, makes necessary three essen
tial accessories-a company Of more than
average capability, surroundings in har-
meny With the weird beauty Of the story
and display of electric effects that must
impress an audience with the weird sur
roundings that are such q necessary part of
the performance. In the Kermesse ecene,
where Faust first beholds his living ideal
in Marguerite, to the famous garden scene,
with its story Of temptation; to the death
Of Valentine and the insanity of Mar
guertte. The cast that will present the work
is of exceptional fitness. Miss Annie Lich-
ter, both in voice and as to the dramatic
requirements, Is rarely gifted Marguer-
lite. She win have as alternate Miss Ida
Klein. Miss Mary Linck will give to the
character of Sibel a sweetness aad finish.
and Richie Ling and Reginald Roberts will
alternately sing Faust. William Schuster
and Mr.. A. G. Cunningham will be Mephis-
tcpheles, and William G.. Stewart, the best
Valentine on the American stage, VIII
come from the Grand Opera House, Phila-
delphia, to assume that character. Miss
Gertrude Rutledge will be Martha, and
Mr.. Vogel, Wagner.
Despite the tremendous outlay and mag
nificent production, prices will remain the
same-25, SO and 70 cents-for the best
seats, evenings, and Is and 30 cents for all
seats reserved at the matinees. Wednes-
day there will be another rose matinee.
COLUMBIA THEATER.-Opening May
II the Columbia Theater will have one
of the strongest stock comedy companies
that have ever appeared here. 1t Will be
made up of well-known people of recog-
nized ability, and will not only produce
farther and will give productions Of plays
never before given on any stage-notably
on the opening week, when it Will produce
for Mr.. W. A. Brady Il new comedy by
Paul Wilstach: The new work is modern
farcical comedy on the order of '.Wnkin-
sons Widows "Charley's Aunt" MY
Friend From India and Never Again"
This is the high order of comedies which
will be the feature of the seasons offering.
The members of the company are all well
known. Edgar L. Davenport. jr., is a
young actor of fine attainment and excel
lent reputation. Henry Bergman is noted
as an artist of broad versatility. He was
last seen here, and made a great hit as the
fiery Cuban, in Lost Strayed or Stolen"
William Bolg, at present playing leading
parts with w. H. Crane, is too well known
mere to demand introduction. James o.
Barrows has long been one Of the most
valued character actors in Daniel Froh
mans companies. Alfred Hickman comes
directly from a pronounced success: with
Mrs. Fiske, in Tess of the D'UrberviIle."
But he made even a greater hit as Little
n "a character
was the creator. William Jefferson, is a
son of the most famous of American COM
ediars, Joseph Jefferson. Geoffrey Stein is
a Washington boy, and after playing juve-
niles delightfully."- with Marie Wainwright,
this year created and played through the
season Ayoeb. the half-cast, in the Cher
ry Pickers." Katherine Gray is a charm
ing young artist, who has played leading
parts with Richard Mansfield. and Gre
ated the leads in Shore Acres" and Mad
anne Sans Gene" Grace Mae Lamkin Is
still fresh in the memory Of Washington
ians, for her charming performance Of
Bertha, the Doctors sister, in "Dr. Bel
graft" Kate Denim Wilson is the we'll
known delineator of old women characters.
Pearl Eveyne and Clara Emroy are two
charming young artists. who have been
with Daly's and others Of the first-class
companies.
CALvE AT THE COLUMBIA-Next
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock Nine. CAL
concert in Washington. and, judging from
the already large sales, there will not be a
vacant seat in the house. Calve, who might
almost be called the favorite opera singer
of the American public, with all the tenn
perament' which she throws into her great
roles, is woman of the simplest tastes.
Like most women of genius and great tai
ent, she is Of mixed races. Her father. M.
de Roquer, was Spanish engineer. her
mother a French woman. On both sides
her family is good, but by no means
wealthy. She sang her first song in public
1t was "L'Etoile que J'Aime"-at a charity
at once. and went to Paris. where she had
the best teachers; but she always speaks
most tenderly Of Nine. Rosine Laborde,
VINO, she says, always believed in her tai
ent, and propheSied her ultimate triumph,
1t has been Calve in Carmen" in "Cayal-
leria," almost necessarily, and naturally to
a true artist of great versatility 1t has
been confining. AS a novelty. she was
promised to the public in Faust" as Mar
guerite and the revelation Of what there
Is In the dramatic side of the role different
from the conventional stage business was
astonishing. No artist-within recent mem
phases Of the role with such force and dra-
matte action. She will also offer as a nov
city here the fourth act of Ambrose Thom-
as Hamlet, and no one can question that
sbe VIII act the mad scene as no one else
cEn.
NEW NATIONAL THEATER-"The
Jucklins," by Opie Read, Is the authors
latest and evidently best work of fiction.
The story combines all Of the best elements
which have made Mr.. Reads previous fic-
ton famous. 1t is a beautiful love story
vividly realistic and thrillingly dramatic
occasionally running close to the tragic. but
abounding In bright comedy and tenderest
pathos at times. The characters are drawn
with mastery skill and force, and the
scenes are laid chiefly in the rural interior
OF North Carolina. Several of the person
ages presented are of original nature. es-
pecially Lem Jucklin, the character por-
trayed by Mr. Robson in Daniel Hart's re-
cent dramatization of the story. which he
Will present at the New National Theater
Monday night, May TO- Lem Jucklin ia a
charming specimen of the North Carolina
variety, and his vagaries, wild in their way.
are fascinating. But the cock-fghting pro-
pensities OF old Jucklin are delightful II
anything goes wrong in the house or re-
garding domestic matters, the old mans
voice Is heard outside Immediately hike
ing 10 his chickens. He has an Inordinate
love for cock fighting, and browns all of his
troubles in an impromptu main. The ad-
mirers OF Mr.. Robson, and, by the way,
there are multitude in the city, are await
ing his coming in the new character with
considerable eagerness. While unlike any
tning he has heretofore presented to the
theatergoers of Washington, 1t is said that
the part affords him exceptional opportun-
ity to display his well-known versatility,
Tne JucklinS, on account of its whole