The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-24

40. and on reaching The platform he said:
ladies and gentlemen. am afraid viii
have 10 stand In with Miss DuEgan. as
she - my wife" 1t was q Rreas jo1Ie
and Sam says the most cieverfy worked
up he ever saw. II Almost caused riot
9 Q 9
During one of my trips through Ire
land. says Chauncey Oico:, II found
myself IN a small village with no raxors.
Taey had been packed in nay handbag.
which had left at the hotel where had
stayed the day before There was no
barber shop In the place and I was in q
auandary as 70 how / might &c, shaved.
The innkeeper told me that there was a
man In the village who occasionally
shaved peop.e and I determined TO risk a
cut or two and send for him The ANA
ieur barber arrived with his raxor. and
after little hesitation he said to me:
VIII you please. sir. lie down Nat on
your hack while shave you. sir.'
thinking that IL was probably a Gus
tom of the country. / stretched out COM
fortahly on my back and nearly went TO
sleep while the fellow shaved me. 80 lixht
was his touch. When he had finished I
arose and said:
Il am curious to know why you asked
me to lie down to be shaved?''
Because. sir was his ingenious re-
ply. 1 never before shaved q tive man,
sir
II may add that I sent for no more
amateur BARRIERS to shave me during my
trip In Ireland"
The Bride Elect" comic opera IN three
acts. the words and music by John Philip
Sousa- was reproduced In the Knicker-
booker last Aorday. and was an immedi-
ate and enthusiastic success One man
cannot do observation-disclosures to the con-
trary Observation-Disclosures 30 the critics
say that Sousa's Hbretto IL as weak as
his music Is strong. The audience did not
agree with the critics. Scusa's hbretto
gains strength as the story develops
which is good point, and 1t just suits
the times. which Is another. It Is a war
opera. Brigands carry or the king just
about as he Is to wed the bride elect and
an army OF women march against the
briganda The incidents give Sousa the
cue for his most stirring music. His new
march. "Unchain the Dogs OF War"
aroused very great excitement. In the
peatedly encored- The cast includes Nelia
Bergen and Christie Macdonald, Albert
Hart and Frank Pollock, and there are a
chorus of sixty and a brass band on the
stage. From a critical standpoint the
music OF '"The Bride Elect" IL a notable
advance from that Of Ell Captain. From
a popular point OF view, the new opera
will be most successful.
o @ o
Wilton Lackaye will produce his new
play. Charles O'Ma.iey," at the Lafay-
cite Square theater. Washington. tomor-
row night. The pay il the work OF
Theodore Burt Sayre. q young play
wright who has already won his spurs
with "The Wife OF Willoughby," pro-
duced at the Lyceum theater last season
Charles O'Maliey," his latest work can
hardly be classed as a dramatization,
pure and simple OF Levers move, as Mr.
Sayre has constructed a new plot and In
troduced enough original episodes to justi-
fy him in calling his play an original
work.
Maurice Barrymore and James X.
Hackett were both DESTROYS of securing
the play. but Mr.. Lackaye had first OPP
tion on 1t. and intends to give II a careful
production. He WILL OF course. appear In
the title role. Mr.. Sayre has telescoped
the two favorites OF the novel. Frank
Weber and O'MaIey. into one strong
character. which Mr. Lackaye will as
sumo. Incidentally he will be called up
on to sing those rollicking classics. ''The
Widow Malone. Ochone" and ''The Man
from Galway" as well as Sheridan's
famous Let the Toast Pass
The first act. which takes pace In a
Dublin drawing room. embodies O'Mai-
ley's historic prank Of gaining access to
a swell ball disguised as an eccentric old
Irish lady. He also wins wager by
kissing Lucy Eastwood. his hosts daugh-
ter In the next he fights a duel with his
rival, Capt. Hammersiy. and. as he lies
wounded on the ground, Lucy coafesses
her love for him. The third act is in
military quarters of the British army.
near Barcelona, Spain Here it is that
O'Malley incurs the enmty of his SUI
perior officers by refusing to surrender a
letter which comprises his generals wife.
This episode. which is entirely OF Mr.
Sayres own invention, Is the strongest