The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-05-14
THEATRICAL EVENT.
The Great Cast Tha: Will Appear at the
Glands Gambol'' in Baltimore.


prises of one kind and another has come TO
be one of the chiefest of American charac-
teristics. So far as the Yankee spirit is
! concerned, it regards records as only made
for the purpose of being broken. The
Lambs Star Gambol is the latest of these
record breaking affairs, and the indications
are that it will set such high mark in the
matter of stage amusements that only a
worker of miracles will be able to outdO it.
To begin with, the Lambs Club of New
York embraces practically all the first class
stage artists Of the country. Almost every
actor OF worth is member and the Club
is loved as only those of an tinerant pro-
fession can love snug home where good
fellowship prevails. And the Lambs, who
for years have given their delightful gam
bols in their own club house to their own
members exclusively, have been beguiled
into sharing their enjoyment with the gen.
eral public. OF course, they are going to
do it in way to impress their methods
indelibly on the public mind. One hun
dred and twenty five people will make up
the company, and in the list of names one
can be sure of finding his favorite actor,
for it includes all the notables. The tour
will begin at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, on Monday evening,
May Odd. From the theatre the entire
company will 90 to special train of five
sleeping cars, two dining cars and one
buffet car, and be whrled to Boston where
a matinee will be given on Tuesday.
Hastily leaving Boston the company will
give an evening performance in Springfield,
Mass, following which a night run will
bring the organization to Brooklyn for
matinee on Wednesday. The same even
ing Philadelphia will be entertained, and
the next day Thursday will witness a
matinee in Baltimore and night perform
ance in Washington. Friday evening will
be devoted to Pittsburg, and then, by
special run, which will make the New
York and Chicago Limited look like an
accommodation train, the company will be
brought to Chicago Saturday noon, where
a matinee and night performance at the
Auditorium will close the weel; $ tour. 1t
will be noted that the stars who compose
the company will be hurried from theater
to train and train to theater for the entire
week, giving ten performances in pine
towns in six days, over territory stretch
ing from Boston TO Chicago. There will
he no luxurious idling at hotels and 10
time for anything but meals, sleep and
work. Yet every Lamb in the fold Cheer-
fully tenders his services without comptn-
sation because of his love for the Club and
his desire to see the club house freed from
its honded debt.
Aside from the stars. with whom the
public is thoroughly familiar, the Lambs
Club comprises n great amount Of talent
apart from that which enjoys the center Of
the stage or the glare of the calcium light:
Nearly all the playwrghts of established
reputation, nearly all the prominent comic
opera composers and conductors. and nearly
all the able stage managers which the pro-
fession boats. are members OF the Lambs,
and they all contribute sketches, witt
cisms. hurlesques, songs, original musi"
and their active services in conducting the
music and managing the stage performance.
Tho Drourou en- hrappS a minstrel first rort
which will be the rarest bird that negro
minstrelsy has ever known, for it will have
only Jokes that are new. 1t will introduce
as end men: Nat. Goodwin, Stuart Robson,
JEFF De Angels Walter Jones, Willie
Collier and Ignaco Martinetti; and De
Wolfe Hopper will be the interlocutor.
Among the ballad singers are Eugene
Cowles, Chauncey Olcott, Henry Clay Bar
nabee, VIM. Philip, Van Rensaaer Wheeler.
w. II. Macdonald and others of like promi
nence. Half dozen famous musicians
will conduct different numbers, including
Victor Herbert, Reginald De Koven, S. l..
Studley, Jesse Williams and John Hitler
and Herbert Grips, Eugene Presbrey, w.
II. Post and Joseph HUMPHREYS will man
age the stage.
This would seem enough to satisfy even
the Lambs: but in addition to this array of
talent is added Victor Herberts entire band
of fifty pieces which will also act as or
chestra.
Following the minstrel first part there
will be presented several of the bright bur.
lesques which have given the Club gambols
their unique reputation. In these will ap.
pear all the fayorite stars, leading men,
character actors, comedians and singers
and even the most unimpOrtant roles will
be interpreted by stars. The female roles
will be taken by men, of course, for this
performance is very early Shakespeare, in
that in it no woman may appear. An idea
of the fun which lies back of this statement
may be CLEANED from the knowledge that
lanky De Wolfe Hopper will burlesque
Mrs. Leslie Carter's performance in "Thc
Heart Of Maryland, while Henry +. Dixey
appears as leading lady in burlesque OF
stage life.
Not to be excluded from the labor of love
which this entire venture represents, The
numerous celebrated painters and illustra