Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16

Natior al Theater next Monday evening.
The company presenting I'm Town is
large one numbering over seventy persons,
and 1t is said to possess a greater guam
tity and better quality of feminine pulchri-
tude than any company of English high
class buriesquers yet seen here. Indeed,
1t is claimed that George Edwardes. who
Is an adept In the selection of pretty as
well as talented women for entertainments
of this kind. has brought together larger
number OF beyitChing young ladies in I'm
Town than he has ever been able to mass
In any of the other burlesques which have
made his name famous. There are Juliette
Nesv1lle. who came over here three years
ago and made great hit. Marie Stud
holme, who needs introduction, and
Maud Hobson who Is considered one of the
Irettiest girls in all England, and these are
but types OF more than two score young
women. each of whom is reputed to be as
worthy of distinction in the beauty line as
either of the distinguished duo named.
Miss Marie StudholIne will be remembered
as the WfnSome girl who made such a con-
quest during the engagement of 1.-The
Artists Model here. and whose Tom
Tit song was re-echoed all over Wash
1ngton- In Town Is a musical farce full
o. fun and color. 1t has some clever come
dams and good singers and dancers in it.
Some peculiar types of London society are
burlesqued in this farce. There Is the i'm
pecunious man about town, who knows
everybody. and has the run of everywhere
and WHO gives the impression that he has
ilmitless resources. though he is really
stone broke" He encounters ducal
family at a leading London hotel and I'M
dertakes to show the ropes to all the
members of it. from the dgnified duke
down TO his airy-brained son. A luncheon
Is arranged at a hotel. where the young
lord meets the prima donna of the Gaiety
Theater. and when other Gaiety girls tum-
bic III at the proper moments, and the fun
OF the incidents is heightened by compli-
hro int Lot
the whole ducal crowd. and by the attempts
of solicitors clerks to serve writs of at
tachment on the moneyless but mastery
man-about-town. In tie second act all the
personages of the play are shown in the
green room of the Gaiety Theater where
the Johnnies' are introduced, and spe-
cialties are woven into the action. 1t is
the first night of a Gaiety production and
there is the most interesting revelation of
the goings on behind the scenes during the
Zig burlesQue performance of such a night
The real love story of the play concerns
the fondnesS of the man-about-t and
the Gaiety prima donna for each other
and il is worked out cleverly to the regu-
lation happy conclusion. The engagement
Is for week, and there will be Saturday
matinee only.
COLUMBIA THEATER-Next week
which is the farewell week of the opera
season at the Columbia, the Castle Square
Opera Company will be seen in a lavish
production of Franz Won Suppe's pleasing
work. Glover" Special efforts will be
made to make the final weeks bill an un-
usually attractive one. The cast selected
includes all those singers who by their
conscientious work the pas: six weeks
have endeared themselves to music lovers
and new member in Miss Elvia Crox Sea-
lrooke. who is well known and we'll liked
here This charming comic opera come
dienne has voice in which sweetness and
Strength are found. and in addition she Is
an extremely clever actress. She will as
he doh roll -
Golden will appear Stella, Miss Ger
trude Rutledge as Florina Miss Bessie
Fairbairn as Petroneila. Mr.. Joseph Shee-
nan as Rudolph. Mr.. Raymond Hitchcock
Cristobel and Mr.. w. c. Brockmeyer as
Count Wilfred. The large and efficient
chorus will find plenty of opportunity to
test its capabilities IN Glover" 1t is
needless to say that the settings and
surroundir IS will be all that is required of
them. With this company they always are
most appropriate, but In Glover there is
a better opportunity for rich stage embel-
hshments and beautiful costuming than in
some Of the other productions that have
been recently given.
Glover is a charming opera. Its music
is bright and exhilarating and its dia-
logue brisk and entertaining. Suppe's
work is always marked by an unusual
fhorou2hress and Intelligence, and the Cas-
tie Square Company may be depended upon
to bring out these attributes
The opera begins with characteristic Ba-
variar music In the Partisan scene there
Is all the airiness and gayety of the French
school; the camp life in the second act is
made stirring and thrilling by martial
music and picturesque staging while in the
last act. representing the carnival at Ven
Ice. there is a rapid succession of sweet
melodies Glover IS happy selection for
the goodbye" week Of the Castle Square
Company. II gives all the principals equal
opportunities. and the production in its
entirety shows the entire organization to
the best possible advantage. The usual
" tarsain' matinee will be given on Thurs
day and the regular ladies' and children's
matinee on Saturday.
LAFAYETTE SQUARE THEATER.-
keilar who appears at the Lafayette
SEM several large illusions. which are said
TO be SO far in advance of anything hith.r-
TO seen i'll the line of work usually followed
by maSicians as to mark a new epoch in
the art The amount CT mental and physi-
cal work which must have been required
10 produce these masterpieces is rarely IL
ever. given a mon ents thought by the
thousands of his patrons who marvel at
his skill. kellar is a busy man and a
thinking man. He Is always striving to
lecture something new and novel in The field
d magic and This season has brought to-
gether the most bewildering collection of
receptions he ever produced. enc of which
he terms the new decapitation. III pre-
senting this most novel feature Mr.. Kellar
the center of the stage, brilliantly lighted
and before the very eyes of his audience
removes his head entirely from the body
and allows IL to float away in the air Dur
ing the progress of the trick the heat.
Keeps up continual conversation smiles
and mods 10 the audience. and finally dis
appears entirely. kellar will also present
his new hindoo clock mystery an uniaue
and startling conceit, and one that fairly
nCmfounds the audience with the accu-
racy with which ii answers all questions
bearing on the past. present and future
In addition to the above. MIR. KelIar will
also present his new dark seance and a
me OF new experiments in pure sleight-of-
hand. thoroughly up to date.
BANDA ROSSA-Direct from its series
OF concerts at the Metropolitan Opera
{ House. New York, the Banda Rosa al San
Severe Will give concert at the New Ma
1onal Treater Friday afternoon, October
- IL Is not military organization like
other bands which have come over here
from Europe. but body of musicians
brought together in San Severe. a small
town of southern Lay, whose inhabitants
distinguish themselves by that intensity of
devotion TO music which made Italy the
nome OF art for many centuries The
Banda RosSa first attracted universal at
tention when IL was awarded the first prize
of sixty-four comp ting orchestras al the