Evening star., 1898-06-18

can be seen going to the theater. where
tney don their exercising costumes and be-
gin the work with enthusiastic energy. At
| hrst II was very hard. and for a while 1t
was uncertain that the club would live.
however, they were persistent and encour-
aged by each other with the feeling that it
| was or great benefit to them, the club
! nourlshed, and what was at first work Is
now play. Miss Gilman is the president.
| Ihere Is also a board of directors, and Mr.
Arthur Tempest the stage manager of the
company, who before going on the stage
| was very prominent athlete in England
is the general instructor. The club is di-
vided In classes. according to the length of
| time the ladies have been members, and
the advancement they have accomplished
In the working of the different machines
etc, that are used. That they present a
very pretty picture attired in their natty
costumes can readily be imagined. Draw
IN Your mind Ceie Ellis the trapeze
certainly there could be no fairer acrobat.
and then picture Josie Hart punching the
Dag or reveling in the delights of muscle
tests She has also for her own use
lung developer, to enhance the top note
MISS Martins favorite exercise is the
| home bicycle trainer" and there are few
who can manipulate Indian clubs or dumb
| bells like Miss Hobbs.
! NATIONAL THEATER.-The National
| Opera Comique Company will offer for its
second weeks engagement Onenbach's y
| Grahd Duchess" The fattering success
oi their nrst week s engagement BODIES well
| Ior the balance of the season, and seldom
| Is IL the pleasure of the theater goerS of
Washington to enjoy opera SO well sung
ana presented as was 'Plnafore' and Rus
ticana this week at popular prices. Miss
! Carlotta Gilman has a sweet and powerful
| voice, and she knows how to use it, to
| Which all who have heard her will attest.
She Will play the role next week of the
| Grand Duchess; Miss Celie Ellis that of
Wanda in which she is so well and fav-
| orably known; Mr.. F. H. Marston will play
| General Boum, and Mr.. William Blasdell,
| the most entertaining of singing come
| dams, will appear as Prince Paul, with
| largely augmented chorus of peasants, &c.
| lhe scenery and costumes for this produc-
| ton nave been specially designed and
| made for this company and Will add very
largely TO the pleasing effects of the opera.
| Inc Grand Duchess pictures willfu and
| impulsiVe young lady, who has been reared
| in luxury and allowed her own way until
| she becomes uncontrollable; then the usual
| love at first sight. disappointment, &c. In
| TACT, to attempt to describe the plot would
| destroy the pleasure of witnessing the
opera. Manager kapley has dressed the
| house most beautifully with palms and pot
| ted plants, and with his cooling apparatus
| has given one. the idea of d mountain re-
| sort instead Of tcity theater.
| COLUMBIA THEATER.-The Columbia
| stock company wiz next week offer a well
come revival of William J. Florences ia
| nous old comedy, The Mighty Dollar"
| This was one of the first and most success
ful of the political plays, on the order of
| For Congress-, in which John I. Ray
mona made a great success. and The
Senator" which is still the most popular
| play in VIM. H. Cranes company. The
old timers still remember the furore which
| clever BILLY" Florence and his charming
| wife made in The Mighty Dollar" but
| since the death of that genial comedian
his successor in the role of the Hon. Bard
| well Slote, member from Cohosh has not
| appeared, and as a consequence this most
hal pha act .fvrl J., ,it, ifi1
| for nearly a decade. But it would seem,
! from the work they have heretofore done
| here, that in James .. Barrows and Mrs
| John Findlay the Coium bia has Just The
! players to make the characters of Slote
| and Mrs. General Gilfiory live again upon
! the stage, even if their prototypes have
| ceased to exist in Washington hfe. while
| the stock company may be relied upon to
| I'LL the rest of the cast most acceptab bly,.
AS some theatergoerss will remember the
| story of the play deals with the efforts
of the Hon. BardWell Slote to push through
| Congress a bill which will bring boom
in the land holdings of his friend Colonel
! Dart, and he seeks Mrs. Giltory's assist
| ance in lobbying. That worthy dame, who
| is devoted to the French language and her
darling ward Libby, dear" as usual,
manages to get things mixed, with the re-
suit that she booms another tract owned
| by Roland Vance. young newspaper
! man, who was formerly engaged to Mrs.
| Dart. The lady still loves him, but he has
found solace in the affections of Blanche
Mcssthorne, whose family fortunes have
| failed and whose former home has passed
| into the possession of the Darts.
| Another comedy courtShip is that of
| Charley Brood a sporty young fellow, and
| Lord Cairngorm, an English tourist, who
are rivals for the hand of Mrs Gilhorv,s
ward, Libby Ray. The two romanc.s are
| mingled with any amount of comedy COM
| plications through which the Hon. Mr..
| Slote, with his pompous style and short
| hand language, and Mrs. Gilf1ory, with her
| terrible French and her faculty III
| all sorts of mistakes, meander merriy until
| they find themselves anmeshed in middle
| aged romance. The play has been brought
| up to date in many minor particulars, 1t is
| announced, but the main story and the COM
J edy incidents, which still linger in the
memories of all who have ever seen the
play, are retained Following is the cast
| complete:
| Hon. Bardwell Slote, James o. Barrows:
roland Vance, William Ingersoll; Edward
Dart. J. R. Furlong; Charley Brood. John
| aye; Saville, ]. H. Bass, Tom Frank Ball:
Mrs. GeE Gilfory, Mrs. John FindIay;
| Clara Dart, Maud Haslam; Libby Raw.
Margaret Mayo; Blanche Mossthorne, Flea
more Browning.
| The play will be mounted with special
| scenery. and as the scenes are laid in and
| around Washington. there will be plenty of
! local interest both in the text and tn. set
| tings Some up-to-date topics instead of
| the antique legislative measures are prom
| ised and 1t will be surprising if the Hon.
| IodIuWei uoeS not score soma hits on the
| present crisis and some of his brethren in
| Congress.
| GLEN ECHO-Audran's merry opera
| touffe, La Mascotte." will be the bill for
| the fourth week of the Parry Opera Com
pany at Glen Echo. 1t has been SO long
since this popular opera has been given in
| Washington that while everyone who has
ever heard it hasi some pleasant memories
! of the work. perhaps a brief resume of
| the plot would not be out of place. The
scene is laid al Piombino Italy, in the 18th
| century. and the first act opens during the
| vintage festival on the farm of Rocco, who
| Is having even harder luck than the aver
| age Kansas agricuiturist. He has lust sent
his shepherd, Pippb. to beg assistance from
| his brother but the latter sends only a
basket of eggs and Bettina, who is reputed
| to be mascot
| The incredulousi Rocco prefers cash to
| mascots however, and is about to send Bet
tina back without thanks, when Lorenzo
! XVII, the superstit1ous Prince of Piombino
arrives with a.hunting party and carries off
both Bettina and Rocco to his palace, max
| ing the little peasant girl a countess and
/ the awkward farmer his court chamberlain
| The second &C. deals with the very mixed
love affairs ofFerederic Prince of Pisa, who