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OF the Cleusian6 Sor9eis, and II q leader In
the social Me ~ Cleveland. NE. Stewart
ns ne. ..s adoPted. o y stsee through pure love
interest. N his I'D aahletic: pastime. He is
4 handsome yoshs fllow, and looks more
like college boy taan ansactor.
LAFAYETTE BQuARE'oPERA HOUSE.
The most pretentieus work musically that
has come from the gifted pen and brain Of
Gilbert and Sullivan ID ''The Gondoliers,"
next week BY the Castle Square Opera
Company There ID 90 much beautiful
music in The Gondoliera' that It seems
almost unfair to call 1t a comic opera; in
ly correct-the difference In the two mean
ing to the general public q greater degree
OF eHec tfvehess In the musaci ana there Is
no organization more competent to fully
develop the lyric parts than the efficient
members Of the company selected for its
presentation. This opera .ls particularly
popular h6fe, where 1t VAS given four
years ago by the Dickson company under
the management Of D. F. Hennessy. the
present manager here Of the Castle Square
Company. The large business done then
proved the wonderful popularity OF this ex-
ceedingly pretty work. sThe character of
the Duke of PlaEa-Toro. a grandee of
Spain. will be taken by w. Propert Carle-
ton, son Of w. T. Carleton, who Is one
Of the favorites Of the company here. Ray
has been playing General Kniclerbocker in
The Little Tycoon" this week, will be Don
Alhambra del Bolero, the grand inquisitor.
part peculiarly fitted to his talents. An
other favorite retained for 1.-The Condo
liers'' is Joseph sheehan. as Marco Paf-
mieri. The Duchess Of Plaza-Toro will be
Miss Gertrude Rutledge In which charac-
ter she has already made a decided hit.
a clever actress. Alice Judson returns to
the cast of the Lafayette next week as
Casilda, while Grace Golden remains here
as Gianetta,- and w. G. Stewart as Giusep-
pc Falmieri. Arthur Cunningham will be
Antonio and Belle Chamberlain Tessa- In
honor of Monday being Flag day, the man
agement of the Castle Square Company
nave arranged for magnificent chorus of
the entire company, which will render 1.-THE
Columbian Anthem" the song dedicated to
the Daughters Of the American Revolution
by E. Berliner, and each lady in the audi
ence win be presented with q copy of the
song. Matinees will be given Wednesday
and Saturday.
COLUMBIA THEATER:-rhe Columbia
Stock Company will open its second month
Of comedy next week with the Paultons'
farcical play. "A Man With Past" Dur
ing the four weeks past the Columbia
players have established themselves as
local faxorites. and in addition to their
invariably good work. have broken several
records In the summer comedy line Out
Of the four plays given two have been
try, and the others have been novel to
most Washingtonians.' In breaking away
entirely from the old stock repertoire and
giving original productions. as well as
plays which have not yet been done to
death, the players shaye incurred an i'm
mense additionsfo their labors, fer 1t is no
small matter te,take a new manuscript and
put the play On the stage without any pre-
Yet the Aondly night openings have al
ways been smooth and satisfactory; no
missing Of CUES, Dr audible promptings
from the wings. Every line has been
players went through their parts as If they
had been on the mad for months rather
than making their frst trial Of a new play.
All of which Wfill be duly appreciated by
Of the stage 4saf -.
Consequently,theaa.is IL every reason to an
ticipate an eqlallys sereditable presentation
: of "A Man With a Past, :" which was pro-
duced by the HollaAds in New York and
Boston at the closas,of their starring sea-
son. Washington being the first city out
side OF those msnt46ted to see II. Boston id
particular welt6med, the new play warmly,
as u proved by the fact that business dou-
bled on the week. and had the Hollands
not already made other arrangements, they
might have continued In 1T this season with
profit through the country. The story deals
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ace and Josiah ~Hoopeg, English business
men, who have a branch house in India
Horace IA blameless bachelor, who has
never married because Of his fear OF in
the opening Of the play, however, he has
found pretty orphan, whom he takes as
q partner for life and brings home to
England. The young wife, by the way,
has theory that no man who has not
sown his wild oats Is worth anything, and
is greatly disappointed when she discovers
that he- husbands past is of the most
innocent order. But brother Josiah is a
different sort Of fellow: he has wild
oats" to sell, SO to speak, and as some
of them are coming back from India, where
he spent some suitry and lively years. he
Is only too glad to transfer some of his
surplus stock to brother Horace Horace
accordingly adopts his brothers past"
and is soon surprised to find how much
there is of it. People are constantly turn
ing up and accusing him of all sorts OF
misdemeanors. until even the young wife
becomes wearied of it. The climax comes
when another wife and child come from
India to. claim him, and the rest Of the
play Is devoted to Strengthening out these
tangled pasts. The cast Of the play In
cludes the full strength of the company
THE GRAND OPERA HOUsE.-Messrs.
Herman and Rife. managers of the Grand,
have struck the popular pulse at last, and
as variety is the spice of life," they have
been presenting bountiful supply Of
spice" Next week. the third of high-class
vaudeville, will be presented an entire new
bill. brimful Of specialties~ culled from the
cream of the legitimate profession Among
the prominent are quoted Eugene O'Rourke
and Miss Ada Dare, recently associated
with Hoyt's "A Trip to Chinatown" who
will appear in a sketch entitled After the
French Ball." written and adapted by NC
Kee Rankin; Mr.. Mark Murphy, the cele-
brated Irish comedian. late with Our Irish
Visitors and O'Dowd's Neighbors," will ap-
pear in one of his new monologues; Mr.
ladist. star of Tuxedo" and composer of
some Of the most popular songs of the
day. among them Sweet Marie;:" Miss Pearl
Andrews, the queen Of mimicry, who was
complimented by Chevalier on her imitation
of him, and who remarked that she was a
human phOnOgraDh. will praoont bar