Evening star., 1897-02-17
AMUSEMEyTs.


ture at the Church of Our Father last
evening. on the subject "Our Brains and
What Ails Them" Mrs. Stetson is well
| known as an authoress and lecturer, and
amply fulfilled the expectations that were
raised by the announcement of her ap-
pearance The lecture was given for the
benefit Of the Womans Suffrage Associa-
tion, and a handsome sum was realized.
Mrs. Stetson was introduced by Miss Cora
Thomas. president Of the District Woman
Sunragists, who spoke Of the lecturer ana
her work Mrs. Stetson has q style pecu-
liarly her own. clear. distinct voice and
personality that impressed her audience
from the first Her lecture was not only
interesting, but instructive as well, ana
showed the careful study and thought that
had been put upon 1t.
Two Little Migrants. ts."-"Two Little Va
grants" which will be played at the La
fayette next Monday evening and the re-
mainder Of the week, including an extra
matinee on Monday. Washington's BIRTH
day, bargain matinee Wednesday and
the usual Saturday matinee, is from the
pen of Pierre de Courcelle who has been
prominent in Partisan theatrical affairs for
81 me years. The play concerns the ad-
ventures Of two boys of twelve or four
teen, and has a prologue with lapse of
seven years between it and the play. The
children are Fan Fan and Claude. The for
mer Is the son of George d'Armont, who,
on mere suspicion that his wife Is
faithful to him, delivers their four-year-
old son into the hands Of LIE Renard.
rohber, whom he discovers in pursuit of
MS profe SSion in the drawing room of his
house at a conveniently critical moment.
ClaIde Is the nephew of this bber, whose
wife, Zepharine. is a clairvoyant and road
side entertainer. Claude is a big-hearted
little fellow. though puny and sickly. The
two boys become great friends and their
adventures are thrilling and their friend
snip pathetic. The play offers charm
ing picture of boyish courage and devotion.
lt has Eearly every dramatic quality that
goes to make up a high class melodrama,
and is intensely emotional The company
numbers about twenty-five people, the pick
OF Charles Frohman's forces. The two
boys are played by Jessie Busley and Min
nie Dupree. and the other characters will
be enacted by such well-known actors as
r. J. Ratcliffe, Thomas Kingston, Giles
Lawrence Edinger. Amelia Bingham,
Frances Gaunt, Alice Fisher, Mabel Eaton
and Lizzie Rachelle
"A Parlor Match"-Of all the amusing
skits written by clever Chas. Hoyt, "A
Parlor Match" has been the most success
1ui and the most lasting. Evans and Hoey
starred continuously for ten seasons. and
It's further tours were interrupted on ac-
count of Mr.. Evans desire tc retire from
TIE stage and assume local management.
Inc success that has attended his manage
ment of the Herald Square Theater Is we'll
kno"n, and 1t was only by means of q
ntst tempting offer, made by Manager
Z1egfeld that Mr.. Evans was induced TO
put IN season of greasepaInt and travel.
The company for this revival was espe-
cially selected, and the scenic investilure is
all new AS a special feature the celebra-
ted French beauty and artist Mile Anna
Held, was imported from Paris, where she
was a reigning sensation. Her reception
IN ttls country amounted to an ovation
and the Herald Square Theater was packed
for weeks. This was also the fact at the
Boston Ileater in Oft cho
has visited. Her dainty ditties will become
the rage in Washington next week The
engagement will begin with a special holi-
day matinee on Washngtons birthday
on the Bowery. On the Bowery," the
New York comedy-drama and original
'BoWery' play. In which Steve Brodie is a
promiL ent figure. has become a perennial
faVorite, and the announcement that it will
be the attraction at the Academy next
week should interest large multitude of
people. The popular success of the piece
has been little short of amazing Wonder
has been expressed at the fact that a plav
showing true scenes and characters of the
Bowery should be entirely clean, free from
the slightest immodesty The reason is
that the picture. quite true as far as it
gees stops short of anything offensive in
the real life OF the Bowery. The fun is
uproarious, but always pure. The charac-
ters are most amusing lot and are por-
trayed in the most lifelike colors AS for
the melodramtic incidents, including Bro
rescue from the flames, they are the kind
that raise audiences to the highest pitch of
excitement. New specialties and new Bow
cry features are introduced this season
The engagement will begin with a special
matinee Monday, Washington's birthday,
at the regular matinee prices of 25 and 50
cents for reserved seats.
Lost, Strayed st Stolen.-"Lost, Strayed
or Stolen" that excruciatingly funny
French farce which succeeded in putting all
Nnr{ in, hon fro
ing its run at the Fifth Avenue Theater
recently, comes to the Columbia, Monday
night. March ]. Lost, Strayed or Stolen''
is described as play that is all Laughter
and lingerie" something to attract the eye
and ear is always in evidence and there is
a Jingle and jest about the whole perform
ance that is said to prove irresistible to the
average auditor. The original cast and pro-
ductirn Is promised for the Columbia en-
gagement of Lost, Strayed or Stolen"
whose company numbers over fifty players.
Madame Lillian Nordica.-The appearance
Of Madame Lillian Nordica at the Lafayette
Square Opera House. for one grand matt
nee concert Thursday, February % begin
ring at pm, will be hailed with delight
for she is the greatest singer of the age
She has won for herself a place among the
greatest artists of the world by her sur
passing successes in the Metropolitan One
IA Company, and at the great Wagnerian
festival at Bayreuth in 1894. Nine Nordi-
ca was born in New England and first sang
In publlc In church cho1rS In Boston. She
afterward studied music under the best
masters of Europe for two years, and sang
with much success there in opera and con-
cert. Her American debut was made with
Her Majestys Italian Opera Company. in
Boston, in 1886 when She sang Gilda in
"Rigoletto,' and Violetta in ''Traviata."
Then she returned to England where she
added to her repertoire the parts of Mar
guerite in Faust Susanne in the Mar
riage of Figaro" and Don Elvra in Don
Giovanna. AS her voice grew stronger she
dropped the lighter roles from her roper
toire and became one of the few dramatic
sopranos of England while she at the
same time became acknowledged through
out England as one of the best resident
oratorio singers. 1t must be highly graft
flying to those persons who have com
planned heretofore that no American singer.
no matter what might be that singers abil-
ity, could command the prices received by
foreign artists. to find Madame Lillian Nor
dica on the top wave of artistic prominence
and financial success. She is not only lust
now at the zenith of her power as a dra-
matte soprano, but is the only soprano
available for those Wagnerian roles In
which the great German singers have made
their regulations. Seats are now on sale
for this important occasion.
The City Club Company.-The City Club
Spectacular Farce Comedy Company will