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The times., 1898-10-09
CoIumI.fa--A WAR correspondents -

COIuml,Ea-..A War Correspondent
Tomorrow night at the Columbia Thea
ter there win be produced for the first
time on any stage a new comedy, called
"a War Correspondent" The production
viii also signalize Burr McIntosh's debut
as a full-hedged star. Mr.. Mcintosh is
perhaps the best-knOHn actor on the
American stage today who has not al
ready headed a company of his own. If
a pleasing personality, a magnetic tenn
permanent. and a host OF friends count
for anything, the actors venture should
prove a success. In the support of 9TH
ers he has shared honOrs with the prin-
cipals in everything he has done, and
there is every reason to believe that the
time is ripe for him to step into a place
all OF his own
The vehicle which has been selected is
a Cuban war play, from the pen of Lottie
Blair Parker. Mrs. Parker has done
good work before and there is every
reason TO suppose that she has not fallen
back in this latest effort. Her first offer
ing was the one-act curtain raiser, white
Roses" which was produced by Daniel
Frohmau at the Lyceum Theater It
was given for an entire season, in con-
junction with THE Grey Mare" Last
year Mrs. Parker's New England idyl
Way Down East" ran for twenty weeks
The times., 1898-10-09
THE Passion Play.

The steady sale Of seats for the Pas
sion Play Pictures, which are to be pre-
sented at the Lafayette Theater tonight
is said to- have been surprise to the
managers. considering the little notice
that has been given of the famous re-
production of sacred drama. Probably
much of the interest is due to the pros
pect Of the Rev. DR.. STAFFORD cooperating
with this company next season. for al
though the eloquent clergyman has de-
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National-"The CharIatnn "

De Wolf Hopper
comes to the Ma
tional [ o m orro W
night in Sousa' S
new comic opera.
1.-The Charlatan."
The best critics are
said to have pro-
nounced the music
of the piece superior
to anything that the
March King" has
so far written. The
book is by Charles
Klein, author of "El
Captain" u n lik e
most librettOS this
The times., 1898-10-09
Kernan,s-Rentz-snntIey Company.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Company.
TheRentZ-Santley company, which Will
appear at Kernans Lyceum this week, Is
said to be the oldest burlesque show IN
existence-one of the most valued trade
marks now before the public. 1t was or
ganized by NJ b. Leavitt, who achieved
success with multiplicity of enterprises,
but finally met with reverses and went to
the wall. Mr.. Leavitt was at one time
recognized as the leading burlesque man
ager of the United States. For number
of years he had associated with him his
two brothers, Ben and Abe the former of
whom acted as director of the Rentz-Sant-
ley, while the latter served as advance
representative. Mr.. B.. or Mike, as he
is Familiarity called, was always profuse
In his praise of Abe's work, and even as
serted that he. was the best agent on the
road Ben finally retired from the man
agement OF the show, and opened a the
ater in Chicago. while the managerial
relns were taken W by Abe. The pros
perity the organization has experienced
Is the best evidence of the representative s
1udicious work. Ben is in charge of
house at Paterson, N, J.. and Mike" is
said to be getting on his feet again. But
Abe has clung to the old friends with an
abiding faith, and is meeting with degree
or success of which he never dreamed
perhaps, when he was merely his brothers
advance agent
The times., 1898-10-09

cided that he cannot leave his church
duties for even short period. Manager
Coward has not lost hope of securing
him. At the close of the coming pressn-
tation the organization will go TO Rich
mond. where they start in on a three
months tour with the Rev. DR.. Wharton,
of Baltimore. the great Baptist evangel-
ist. Tonight the people of Washington
will have the opportunity of hearing Prof.
N. DuShane Coward In several vocal Sc
lections, as well as Blanche Yewell, VINO
will also render several sacred songs
The moving pictures are described In
beautifully written lecture delivered by
Prof. James Skeily, of Philadelphia.
The times., 1898-10-09

contrast that many of the best points were
MISSED. All of the climaxes were bad
needing careful building and more inter-
est. Occasionally when finales are of an
order that has practically little TO do
si'h What mas preceded them they may
sustained py clever propping, but
nose IN the Du Souchet farce were dron-
ped so abruptly that one wondered why
'he author had taken so much pains to
get them started. Then the plot was had
" involved and so complicated that fire.
ouehtiy the audiences were forced TO give
up all effort to keep track of 1t.
But carefully looked after, there is ev-
cry chance OF success in the comedy. The
main idea Is an excelient-even n great
one, and properly handled would carry
the fimsiest of plays. 1T is equally tho
most unique of the trio and readily the
most interesting. There has aIread,-
been some clever work put uDon the
story. notably, the tale of the shipwreclx
in the second and the moving closets in
the third act. These and one or two
equally good situations would assure the
farce triumphant reception. At the
worst. the writer is by no means sure
that the spectacle of Miliie James i'm
tights Will not provide employment for
the man in the box office of the thea
ters at which the piece is acted That
flash of white in the last scene of "a
Misft Marriage" would cause many a
first-nighter TO forgive every error Du
Souchet ever committed.
Localities were given two puzzles to
solve last week in the designation OF at
fractions to be seen tomorrow, and as
result. there is probably mo-e gray Eair
in the community than ever before. The
first of these struck town when Manager
Iederer announced the coming of Will
Jams and Walkers '-Senegambian Carni-
val" Even the most thoroughly edu-
Gated were temporarily stunned by that
phrase and matters were not he.ped when
careful searches through various and
sundry dictionaries failed to reveal the
first of the words used Many arrived at
the conclusion that the line meant merely
colored and hence Senegambian was mis-
applied more than ever before Some few
people, recently from school. have re-
membersd that Senegambia is a province
OF Africa. but even this knowledge does
not aid in spelling the name. and very
little is being written about the Acade-
mys coming attraction.
Another surprise came in the pronIIn-
citation of the word charlatan. which
everyone knows means a fakir or pre-
tender 1t has been repeated with the
accent on each of its three syllables. with
the initial ch sounded hard and soft, with
two divisions more than Webster allows
and in a dozen other different ways AS
is usual in cases where people have gone
all around the bush for correct usages.
the word is really delivered just as il IS
written. But folk have not learned that
yet, and many sprained tongues bear evi-
dence of indiscretions in that line.
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Gar, and all ends well. The cast of char
actarS &c a . foIIou-S-
Lafayette-"Ihe Cuckoo,

''The Cuckoo" a new farce by Henry
Guy Carleton. author of The Butter
fiies.'' Ambition" and "a Gilded Fool.
will be this weeks attraction at the La
fayette Square Opera House. A Smyth
and Rice combination of cemedians-the
same, in fact, which originally presented
My Friend from India''-will BE- seen in
the characters afforded by the piece. and
should do very creditable work. Among
the people engaged for this organization
are Fredric Bond. a warm local favorite
May Vokes Helen Reimer. John Watd.
Joseph Alderman. John Maher, ]. II. Haz-
Teton, John Finn, Clara Hathaway. Meta
Maynard. George ERIN and Nita Allen.
The farce is supposed to be elabo-ately
staged and should prove most enjoyable.
The times., 1898-10-09

Despite the prevalent worthlessness of
many stage people. who are most loudly
heralded. it Is seldom. even in this day
and age. that an entertainer is found who
cannot be commended for a single thing
he does or leaves undone The company
engaged in presenting why Smith Left
Home" offers, however. two noteworthy
exceptions to this rule in Maurice Darcy
and Sadie Kirby. whose comedy proved
last week to be of that dolefui variety
that drives respectable gentlemen to
drink, and matinee girls with tendencies
toward melancholia to suicides graves.
The two played opposite each other and
limited their influence for evil only by
lines the discriminating author must
have cut out when he discovered who
was to have the parts he had created
Mr. Darcy was seen here last year with
Frank Daniels, his acting then appear
ing to be just as tenorish as his singing
was base (not bass). Evidently some
of the candid things the local papers said
of his work at the time determined the
young man upon leaving the operate
stage, for, afterrsa brief absence he
"bobs up serenely" with Mr.. Broadhursts
organization.
History does not state whence
Miss Kirby came. but she Is. IL any
thing. a trifie worse than her partner
Rough and amateurish In her work, she
fails utterly to invest her lines either
The times., 1898-10-09

Among the best people who have been
seen at Kernan's in many moons are
the Ford Brothers, two boys who danced
there last week with Morris Little
Lambs" The pair not only perform the
most difficult steps imaginable, but work
in perfect unison and with a degree of
combined agility and grace rare in the
most skilled of terpsichorian artists. The
younger of the two is especially good
and provoked at least a half dozen rounds
of applause nightly during the longest of
his three turns. Nothing of equal merit
has ever been given in the high-class
houses, and the two vaudevillians de-
serve hearty praise for the restt of
their efforts.
The times., 1898-10-09

Probably as a legitimate following to
the truth Of that proverb which relates
that 'after the calm comes the storm
one may aptly turn the phrase about and
say. after the storm comes the calm"
Thus it was that after the enormous busi-
ness done here by ''The Christian" the
atrical finances sank to the lowest ebb
last week and none of the local houses
did sufficiently well to cause their man
ayers a moments worry as to the APP
pearance OF the standing Room Only
sign. The reason for this may have been
somewhat in the success of the play
named above and. the consequent aliena-
ton OF those who seek amusement only
once In a fortnight, but the attractions
themselves were much to blame. In the
first place, there being nothing but farce
In town. lovers of that class of enter
tainment were about evenly divided, and
in the second, though all the pieces given
were rather above the ordinary, none
possessed the element of novelty for
which the public apparently longs. Peo-
pie are just about growing tired of the
disreputable husband and suspicious
mother-in-law as the basis for their
laughter. The business of the week was
Gone at the Academy, where good sized
9Udiences assembled in the hope of find
ing something risque in "Gayest Man
haitian" Within the portals of the La
fayette a new play, ION and Of" was
presented by Charles Frohman's Madison
Square Theater Comedy Company to half
houses, while the National and Columbia
came in about even with Broadhurst's
why Smith Left Home" and DuSou-
chefs ''Misft Marriage" Both We're the
work of celebrities whose initial efforts
eclipsed the existing ones. Harry Morris
Little Lambs" gamboled gracefully at
Kernan's and a good vaudeville bill was
offered at the Bijou before assemblies
that might have been selected with great
care, so far as numbers went.
The attractions of the coming week
promise to be a great deal more diverse
than those Of last. Opera, farce, musical
comedy, romantic drama, burlesque, and
vaudeville are TO be presented at the
different local houses. with excellent
prospects. De Wolf Hopper, always a
strong card here. comes TO the National
with Sousa and Klein's latest effort.
The Charlatan, while Henry Guy Carle-
tons rev creation, THE Cuckoo, is
promised by a Smyth and Rice COM
pany at the Lafayette. What has come
10 be the usual first production occurs
tomorrow night at the Columbia, when
Burr Mcintosh. the Taffy of 'Trilby,"
viii make his stellar debut in "A War
Correspondent" a play from the pen of
Lottie Blair Parker, who also wrote W.
A Brady's success. Way Down East"
Williams and Walker, the colored COM
edians bring their ''Senegambian Carni-
val To the Academy, and Abe Leavitt's
well-known Rentz-Santley Company IS
10 be the attraction at Kernan's. Jose
phine Sabel and a good vaudeville bill
viii be seen at the Bijou, while moving
pictures of the Passion Play are TO be
given tonight at the Lafayette. The out
look is better for special favorites in the
list than for all concerned, but, still,
prospects are brighter than they appear
cd TO be last Sunday.
The times., 1898-10-09
Academy-williams and walker.

ademy-Williams and Walker.
Williams and Walkers "Senegambian
Carnival will be this weeks attraction
at the Academy. This enterprise is said to
be a most startling and original combina-
ton of novelties, and, as a theatrical un-
dertaking. is certainly notable from the
fact that its management exhibits a most
venturesome spirit, inasmuch as they have
booked the company at the very best class
of theaters throughout the country. The
entire enterprise is announced as being
planned on a monStrous scale, and is, in
reality, the first OF it's kind to cater to
the more refined body of theatergoers.
The organization marks the first time in
the history of the American stage that
negro entertainment has been raised to
the level of standard attractions and
with the accomplishment of this end in
view the management, Messrs. Lederer
and Mcconnell, are said to have spared
no expense to equip the presentation with
the choicest and highest class of enter
tainers.-
The scenic and costume surroundings
are no mean feature of the company, and,
altogether, as stated before, this is re-
ally one of the most ambitious ventures
of the season. The offering takes the
form of comedy, and interspersed in
the action of the piece are many origin
al coon songs and dances character
istic of the colored people,. 1t must not
be supposed from this that the ordinary
coon song predominateS the musical
portion of the entertainment, as. in fact,
there are many original numbers of a
pretentious nature The composer of the
incidental selections is a local musician,
VIII Marion Cooke, who graduated from
the Musical Conservatory, Leipsic, Ger
many, after six years course.
The book" and lyrics were written by
Paul Dunbar, the colored poet. It's locale
is laid in the South. representing the old
fashioned darky of ante-bellum days.
and the final scene takes place in the
drawing-room of a member of the black
aristocracy of New York city. In this
particular act a striking illustration is
to be given of the progress of the negro
from plantation to palace" the entire
company appearing in evening costume
and winding up with an original cake
walk.
Of course. Williams and Walker who
should need no introduction, are the stars
of the organization, and they are sur
rounded by such well-known performers
as Hodges and Launchmere, duetists;
Goggin and Davis, acrobats; Mallory
Brothers and Macy Brooks, in their re-
fined instrumental act; Magic Carl, said
to be the only colored magician on the
American stage; Henry Williams, other
wise known as "Blue Cob" champion
buck dancer; Lord Bonnie" the drum
major; Charles Moore, Carrie Carter.
Henry Thomas, phenomenal basso;
Charles Elkins, Lottie Thompson, Ada
Overton, Grace Halliday Mamie Emer-
son and others. Altogether the company
numbers over sixty persons, including a
chorus of forty Georgia "rosebuds."
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tions oDwhieh to build differ in any great
degree. "A close examination OF the three
farces seen locally last week will con-
vince the most skeptical that the mate
rials utilized in the building are of pre-
natal similarity. All that is required of q
presentation nowadays in the way OF
novelty in some very slight val station
upon the time-worn theme. Therefore in
the Frohman Offering was given a spir-
itualistic relative who mistook the voice
of phonograph for that of St Michael
and another parsonage with pretended
nervous affection that caused her To
summon all the masculine members of
the cast to her side; the Smyth and Rice
effort boasted a really unique mixture in
marriage services and an odd application
of the moving locker idea that has been
used in the variety houses from time i'm
memorial, and the Broadhurst production
laid claim to passingiy new scheme in
the Secretary of the Cook Ladies Union
Otherwise none of the trio could supply
a solitary oddity. All were constructed
on the ancient ideas of mistaken iden-
tify, domestic infelicity, masculine du-
plicity, matronly suspiciousness maiden
ly cleYernesS and like matter. Surely.
Earnest Hogan should have called his
first song success. "All Farces Look
Alike to Me-
The times., 1898-10-09
FRIENDS OF LAST WEEK.

The American stage affords no greater
paradox than is embodied in the spectacle
of Nat Goodwin doing serious parts while
E. NJ Holland wastes his talents on light
er efforts. One man is quite as much
genius as the other. and either might be
successful at anything from triple-bar
work to Shakespearean roles. and yet 1t
seems a pity that both should insist upon
continuing in certain lines Of business
than which they can do much better.
Mr. Goodwin not only made his reputation
in portrayals of a fareical nature, but
he has demonstrated dozen times Of late
notable among them the occasion when he
was seen as an end man with the Lambs
Minstrels, that. despite ambition toward
what he probably considers greater things,
he has not lost the talent that made him
the greatest farceur in creation. And
still Mr.. Goodwin persists in his efforts to
play THE Rivals and kindred pieces.
even despite the advice of critics who
admire his pluck and energy but cannot
help regretting that they should lead in
that direction.
And so it is also with Mr. Holland,
whose remarkable impersonations while
on his starring tours viii be remembered
quite as long as either the "AIiddleman''
of f. s. Willard or the Poor Relation
of Sol Smith Russell. Thorough in his
methods, artistic in detail and magnetic
from the perfection of his art, Mr.. Hol-
land has given the contemporary stage
at least two of the best Characterization
1t has. His powerful valet in "A Social
Highwayman" and his clever physician
in "a Superfluous Husband provoked
the greatest praise from those who know
the full value of intelligent acting and
the rarity with which it Is seen. While
it is undoubtedly true that the ability to
win laughter is as high a one as is the
strength to gain tears. one cannot think
of the man whose dialogue with the ad-
ventures who was trying to ruin his
master marked him as being among the
first theatrical lights of the day without
contrasting him with the E NJ Holland
of Never Again and ''On and on"
There seems to have been little reason,
in the first place, why the failure of
DIR. Claudius'' and their inability TO Sc
cure another play at once should have
driven the two brothers out of the stellar
field and IL is all the more a pity that
1t should have sent the cleyerer of the
duo to hunt living from French farces
And the excellent things he accomplish
ed in that very sort of labor last week
at the Lafayette only reminds one of the
better efforts and achievements noted in
more serious portrayals and recalls the
feet that the stage cannot afford TO lose
so clever man or even to permit of his
wasting his talents in the present man
ner. And so the writer's who have been
urging Mr.. Goodwin to give up his am
bition and return to the very work now
being done by Mr.. Holland may at the
same time turn their quilts to excellent
account in advising Mr.. Holland to go
back to the place that would then be sur
rendered to Mr.. Goodwin.
The times., 1898-10-09

with spirit or Intelligence. She IS not
in the least attractive. though this de-
feet becomes positive virtue when one
has noted how Mr.. Darcy appears to
plume himself upon his looks Alto
gether. the pair are totally lacking in all
essentials. and only serve to seriously
injure the excellent ensemble efforts OF
the organization with which they are
seen.
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