Evening star., 1898-08-09
ADJUSTMENTS. A

GLEN ECHO.-The storm assured cool
ness in the Glen Echo Amphitheater last
night. and the efforts of the Jaxon Opera
Company in TrovatGre afforded picturesque
ana interesting entertainment. The good
old opera has survived all sorts of vicissi
tUdes. Its melodies find welcome despite
the lbels of the ill-tuned piano wagon or
the gross misrepre sentations of inferior
vocaists. Its songs require only sugges-
tion frcm the stage They sing themselves
in the auditors mind, and unless something
in the nature of a revelation is promised
the artists need do little more than dress
the characters and avoid absolute discord.
But the leniency of its demands do not
tempt the Jaxon Company to any indiffer
ence in their performance. The opera was
sung with taste and spirit, and the gems
evoked the applause that has come to be
as invariabe a feature of this operas pre-
sentation as the melodies themselves. The
work was not given in its entirety, but
familiar a composition will scarcely be
scrutinized for consecutive detail in a
summer production. Mr. Payne Clarke us
Manrico and Miss Diard as Leonora were
highly appreciated and the role of the
Count de Luna was creditably assumed by
Mr.. Winfred Goff. On the whole 1t was one
of the most satisfactory of Glen Echo's
series of experiments in high musical art
with al fresco accompaniments On Thurs
day night The Daughter of the Regiment"
will be the bill
KERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER-Ker-
mans Lyceum Theater was opened yester-
day, and the new policy of playing twice
daily was inaugurated. The Robin Hood,
Jr, Burlesquers began weeks engage
ment at the matinee. The theater was
crowded last night in spite of wet and heat,
and the BurlesQuers' bill was so often en-
cored that the performance did not end till
after II o'clock. One novelty it affords is
a female conductor of the orchestra, and
she held her seat and waved her baton at
the side of Professor Wagner, the house
leader with the grace and precision of a
veteran. She is not the least attractive
feature of the performance, either. go far
as looks are concerned The long-eXpected
Spanish gag" bobbed up at all stages of
the bill, and the changes on Licking the
Spapiards'' and "the United States gets
there all the same" were rung in frequent
ly, and, it must be admitted, with some ap-
plause from the dim and distant gallery.
The best speciality is afforded by the
Versatile trio made up of j. c. Marshall,
Nellie Sylvester and Charles Weston. 1t
was clean and more refined than the 9TH
ers, and was given with a spontanety of
humor that provoked loud and long laugh
ter. They held the stage way beyond their
allotted time, and the audience was loath
to give them up. The Bartons. a colored
team gave a neat hodge-podge of songs
and dances. interSpersed with smart say
ings, and some of their quips were refresh
ingly new. The Carlisle sisters sang a
risque song in anything but risQue way.
They would be far better doing an eccen-
trio act a Ia the Cherry sisters.
Other specialties are given by Delaphone,
Watson and Waltham. and Killeen and
Murphy. travesty called THE Widow
Cay and another, The High School Girls
began and ended the performance. There
is plenty of opportunity for improvement
in them. In these Ruby Leoni was promi-
nent and she sang and acted in a spirited
way. The chorus is neither shapely nor
tuneful. AS the weeks pass and the first
rate companies come out Manager Herman
s.lr tEfn cont he
of them to his Washington patrons. Next
week the Bon Ton Burlesquers, who are
remembered as furnishing very clever
entertainment several times last season,
will be the attraction.