Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-18

WIDOW. Pretty Eva TAylor B0bcOck, as the
charming young widoU of nineteen who is
in search of her fdeahyoung man; Geo. w.
Howard, who takes tie part Of gay young
man about town, whose hearts, finally cap
tured by sprightly Carrie De Mar in the
pretty soubrette part of Annie Morris;
Chas. E. Lothian, studious young man,
WIG has just attainad his majority, and
who Is taken in hand and inathe end won
by The Tarrytown Widow Robert Pat
ton Gibbs, who is wei remembered as the
count of the most Aerce and revengeful
type. with a hankerfng for the wealthy
widow and a diplomacy thatgunder certain
circumstances will be- worthy of a states
man.. Joseph Crowelh as an old maid of
uncertain number ofsyears, who hangs on
like grim death to her last chance to
marry; stately Ida Vernon as the jealous
Mrs. Bascom, wife of Benjamin Bascom,
and last though not least in Importance in
the quality of acting, Ben Dillon as the
clerk and bell boy. This makes cast of
talented comedians from the leading role
to the smallest one. Messrs. D. w. Truss
& Co., the quality of whose productions is
well known in this city. have not been con-
tent with the mere merit of the play, and
the company presenting it, but have been
uncommonly liberal in giving 1t an excep-
tlonaily handsome setting. elaborate APP
'pointments and the minutest care in re-
gard to detail. The first act takes place
in the waiting room of the Grand Central
depot, New York, being an excellent fac
smile of that famous railroad station. Acts
two and three show the grounds of a beau
tiful villa at Tarrytown-on-the-Eud
and act four takes place in country hotel.
ACADEMY OF MUSICAL the Academy
of Music commencing next Monday, with
the usual matinees, Mr.. David Higgins will
present his new and successful southern
romance. entitled AT Piney RIDGE to
Washir gton audiences for the first time.
This is the play that received such strong
press commendation on its original pro
duction at the American Theater, New
York. last February, and enjoyed a long
and prosperous run at that theater. The
play deals with no hidden immortality, but
is straight, clean story of vital human
interest. and of everyday men and women.
good and bad, with their hopes and ideas
and their own notions of what they re-
Guire for their life happiness. The motive
of the play turns the substitution for a
white child, in infancy. of another, tainted
with negro blood, the white one being taken
to the mountains by the revengeful slave
who makes the change and there deserted.
The action of the play begins at that period
in this white child's life, when, having
reached manhood, he has acquired wealth
by the discovery of minerals upon lands
left him by his foster parents. Through
the various incidents of the drama he be-
comes enamored of the young woman with
whom the masquerading negro-tainte1
child, now grown to maturity is also in
love, and when the girl shows her prefer
ence for the young mountaineer,
the other brings forward the charge
blood in his veins. Necessarily, in the
Piney Ridge view of things, the engage
ment is broken off. and the rest of the
play is devoted to the proving of his purity
of blood and that Briarson, his rival. is the
tainted one. But this idea is a mere de-
tail of the drama, which tells a strong
story of southern life, rich in incident and
character; and brings in sharp contrast
the comparatively refined life of the val
q oxyicf of t1,n
taineers. The southern gentleman with
his generations of culture back of him,
the soft sweetness of the southern daughter
OF wealth. the rude poetry Of the hills the
HouHla1n GIRL the stern religious feryor
of the old mountaineer father bent on as
ne believes, just vengeance on the wronger
OF ms lamliy's name, the revengeful octo-
room ard the negro with his volatile tenn
permanent are all brought into strong re-
lief and skillfully handled in contrast with
each other to produce an interesting story
GRAND OPERA HOUsE.-There are
many realistic plays before the American
pubic, but none that can offer even pass
ing comparison to the great elimination
OF dramatic art, Patent Applied For"
which will be presented at the Grand Opera
House ON next Monday. Much honor is
due the gifted young author, Elmer 70.
Vance. for this latest triumph, but eouaI
honor Is due his talented star, Beatrice.
whose dramatic ability has made its pre-
inventor Who, after years of hercuIean
eHore and countless privations, and after
passing through alternate periods of de-
SPAR and hope, finally makes the dream Of
hls life an accomplished fact-he COM
pletes aid applies for letters patent for
horseiess carriage, an invention destined
to revolutionize modern methods of travel
A meeting IS held to demonstrate the sue
cessful workings of his invention, and at
its close the old man, overpowered by low
at the successful conclusion of his Iife's
work, falls dead. The patent papers are
stolen by the owner of the works in which
the old man toiled, and who endeavors to
fasten the crime on the foreman, who is
the lover of the inventors daughter The
scenic and mechanical effects are entirely
new ana are unequaled by any drama on
the road. The play abounds in thrilling
situations. most ingeniously connected and
calculated to command the eager attention
OF an audience from start to finish I'm
doubtedly the greatest scene in the play
takes place In the third act, where a hand
some steamer is seen in the throes of an
awful storm. Ore can imagine the feel
1ngs of the excited audience as the hero
and villain are seen in a life and death
struggle on the swaying deck of the
steamer. The hero succeeds in Wrenching
himself loose and gains the wheel in time
to save the vessel, which is about to
FOUNDER. There is not a slow moment in
the play. and everything is new, startling
and realistic.
hERNANS LYCEUM THEATER.-Co-
ney Island is great pleasure resort, with
every mode of amusement, beach which
affords every advantage for natatorial di-
version. and accessible by cheap excursions
to people in the humbiest circumstances
Thousands of people go there, ana at times
there is enough frolicsome humanity on
the island to people one or two American
cities. In Naughty Coney Island Rice
and Rarton's satirical extravaganza, which
will be the attraction at Kernan's Lycaum
next week picture of everyday life at
New York's famous resort is depicted. The
incidents. the occurrences and the scenes
are based on actual life at Coney Island
and though the burlesque tends to the sa-
tirical. the characters are not ovetdrawn
nor overdope. The plot is worked out by
just such characters as are found on Coney'
Island every day, and throughout the en-
tire performance careful attention IS paid
to every detail essential to the making I'D
of complete picture of New York's ia
nous resort. The introduction of these
characters affords abundant opportunity
for comedy, and it may be safely expected
that the extravaganza is funny. Rice and
Barton are. of course. the central figures,
each assuming role to which his comedy
talent adapts him, but they are surrounded
by good people and many pretty girls. who
lend them able assistance. The burlesuue
is enlivened by vocal. instrumental and