Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

every nOlOlnR reserved seat. This
attractive souvenir will mark the fifteen
hundredth performance of Shore Acres"
LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE.
The season of grand opera at the Lafay-
cite Square Theater next week will, of
Tar as the playhouse is concerned. The SUBJ
scr1ptfon sale Of seats and boxes makes this
fact plainly apparent Grand opera is al
ways accompanied by more or less of a
social 1are-up, but this years season bids
fair to eclipse any that Washington has
had for some time. The sale Of single
seats. as well as the subscription sale, indi-
Gates that seats will be at premium long
before the curtain rises on the first per-
fcrmance of "Traviata." The company is
assured Of an excellent house Monday night
en- account of the great popularity Of Ira
viata." and the fact that Melba will sing
Violetta. The other operas to be presented
Will attract. however. with equal power
and although Melba Is to sing in but two
the other two have the splendid support Of
Gadski. kraus, Staudigi, Bispham, Fischer
SeVgard, Salinac, Campanar and others
me 1uli season includes "Traviata," 10
hengrfn. Carmen" and Faust" the first
to be surg in italian, the second in German
and the last two in French Mr. Dam
rosch will conduct the Wagner perform
ance, but the other operas will be under the
direction i,e OF Sig. Bimboni. The orchestra
VIII be Mr.. Damrosch's New York SYM
phony Orchestra, and the chorus will he
large and well trained.
COLUMBIA THEATER.-BeginningM Mon
day evening, that popular favorite. Roland
reed VIII make his temperance In this
city, after an absence of over two wears
at the Columbia Mr.. Reed returns with a
new comedy that has proved one Of the
big hits of the season, crowded houses
peing the rule everywhere. The play en-
ables the comedian to be seen to the best
Of 30
he has yet appeared in as a star 1t is
that OF man about fifty who has by
close application to business amassed
large fortune i'll San Francisco and has not
been from home in twenty years. He is
extremely mean and close in his business
and private life. The scene of the play
opens at Old Point Comfort where Sites
has come on account of the defalcation of
a clerk. who has forged his name to a
check for $4,000. The matter has been
placed in the hands of a detective agency
and a reward of 5000 is offered for the
arrest and conviction of the thief. From
an intimate friend Sites hears that his
former employe is about to visit Old Point
Comfort, where, in order to escape recog
milton, he has registered under the name of
MIR. Wright. He Immediately comes in con-
tact with a niece and nephew, who are
there on pleasure bent. He takes them
into his confidence and they promise to
assist him. A crisis comes upon the arrival
OF Henrietta Oliver q female detective
who has been placed upon the case by the
detective agency. Sites becomes smitten
with her, and she thinks Sites is the
forger for whom she is looking, as he has
also taken the name of Wright. Upon his
meeting with Henrietta, Sites entire ma
ture changes, and he spends money like
water and entertains in a manner that is
dazzling. All this strengthens the idea in
Henrietta's mind that Sites is the foreer
and that he is dissipating upon the pro-
ceedS. Numerous are the complications
that arise from this incident, and in the
final act Sites is arrested for robbing him
self. Henrietta in the meantime has be-
come greatly attached to Sites, and after
she has caused his arrest regrets her ac-
ton and endeavors to induce him to escape
All is finally satisfactorily explained. Run
ming through the play are several interest
Ing underplots. and the story is told in
bright. crisp dialogue. The characters are
novel In construction and well carried out.
MIR. Reed has surrounded himself with an
exceptionally clever company, chief among
which is the charming Miss Isadore Rush.
who has novel character to portray
that of a female detective--which gives
her splendid opportunities, and in which
she will wear some striking gowns.
traction at the Academy, beginning Mon
lay, will be Two Little Migrants" with
the usual matinees. The play is a melo-
lrama Of the better order, and as presented
here last season was one Of the strongest
ever seen in this city. A brief synopsis Of
the plot will show how strong the situa-
lions are. Carmen, the wife of an auto
cratic diplomat, has lover. Capt. DIAL
bert, by whom she has a child who has
DC en- reared in secrecy Helene is the wife
and they have one son, John, afterward
known as Fan Tan. Helene endeavors 20
shield her sister-in-law, and successfully
pleads with him for the return Of Garments
n YrpVn ntctvn 1atf - Oh. a,,x
TO an orderly, who meets with fatal ac-
cident while on his way to deliver them,
and the papers are stolen from his person
by LIE Renard, the paramour of Zephyrine,
4 strolling entertainer. The captain writes
to Carmen warning her that the letters
have been stolen, but does so under cover
10 Helene. D'Armont, who secures possess
sion of the letter, thinks his wife the guilty
0ne. He casts her OF. and takes further
revenge by giving his own son-though be-
lieviEg 1T to be the child of another-to
LIE Renard to be brought up as a thief.
Seven years later DArmont and his wife
meet in a square wherein is the van Of
LIE Renard and Zephyrine. Hearing the
husband and wife speak of their lost child
the thieves see chance to make money.
bargain for the boys return is struck at
once, but meantime Fan Tan" runs away,
so Claude, nephew Of Zephyrine, Is passed
off as the lost child. Claude is taken home
by Helene, and everything that a mother
can do for him is done, but the true heir
turns up in due time, and all ends happily
thoroughly capabl e company is promised,
the leading member of which is Miss Mil
dred Holland, who has been especially en-
gagged to portray the character of the little
stolen vagrant Fan Tan" 1t is said that
her conception of the part is unique and
original and the claim is set forth that the
part as now played is easily the most prom
lnent In the piece. The same scenery and
mechanical effects as seen here last season
will be used the coming week.
KERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER.-Once
every year a particularly successful bur-
lesque organization is launched; one that
from its own force becomes more generally
and favOrably known within few weeks
than others do. 1t is not wonderful that
Vanity Fair which will come to Ker-
mans Lyceum Theater next week, has had
such phenomenal success. Those who have
seen 1t recognize 1t as good thing" and
pass the word along. 1t is one Of tne most
gorgeous productions that has been pre-
scented to the public, in scenic and mechan-
ical effects, and new music, which has been
expressly written for it, and the perfectine
of everything into one complete harmoni-
Gus whole. The company comprises the
following well-known star artists: Mitchell
and Jess, as 1.-The Irishman and the Sport :"
Dave Marion; Hanley and Jarvis, eccentric
comedians; Weston Sisters, condolences:
Shevett and Newell, comedy bar experts:
Fannie Vedder, the vital spark Mahr Sis
tiers, grotesque dancers; Bessie Stanton, the
original bronze model; Marguerite Tebeau.
champion female baton twirler; Annie New
ell, soprano; Lena La Couvier, wonderful