Evening star., 1898-11-22

her way into the good graces of her an-
dience at once, and that of the Powers
Brothers, who put up laughable exhibi'
ton of trick bicycling riding, attracted the
| most attention. Airline Athens made very
pretty Superba. while Eva Randolph was
capable Wallalia an evil genius Ada
Zell as Silvia. the maiden, and Elouina Old
castle as Leander, the lover. were also ac-
ceptable 'Superba" will continue at the
Academy all this week. with the usual
n,atinees Wednesday and Saturday, besides
which special matinee performance will
be given Thanksgiving day.
KERNAN.S LYCEUM THEATER.-The
Partisan Widows frisked and frolicked at
kernans last night and large audience
gave them a royal welcome. From the
name which Manager Weber has selected
one would imagine the company is all of
the gender feminine. This is far from
no means to be despised, in which several
f1rst-rate comedians appear There is
Billy Mack. Walter Goldie, Max CASTELAR,,
Billy Gilbert and Al. Shean, all first-class
comedians, and they contributed in large
measure to the enjoyment of the evening.
The burlesque "A Night on Broadway
brought out all the pretty, shapely girls,
who frisked under the leadership of Miss
Sadie Cushman. Lizzie Van and Melytha
Adams also contributed to the beauty of
the burlesque. There are three scenes to
the burleSoue, which carries the interest
throughout the show. incidentally first
CLASS OllO IS DTtSeDttu. III WHICH NoS'Niih'
and Hall do an acrobatic sketch the Bur
man sisters sing pleasing songs Golber
and Goldie have new character sketch,
Cushman and Holcombe, the best and most
refined of vaudeville sketch teams, are
seen in "A Business Transacter, and
Boyce and Black and the Manhattan COM
edy Four appear. All in all the perform
ance is good enough not to miss.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.-The biograph
illustration of the Passion Play attracted
a small but appreciative audience TO the
Grand Opera House last night. Mr.. Jas
Skelly gives an interesting and instructive
lecture with the illustrations, and n.
Dushane Cloward and Blanche Yewell fur
nish the accompanying music. rms pro
ducton of the Passion Play is not unfamll-
lar to the Washington theater-golng public,
having been given at the Lafayette few
Sundays ago. The pictures will be shown
every night except Thursday night durlng
the week and every afternoon at 4:lo
o clock.
RUSSELL. AND HACKETT IN NEW
PLAYS.-Two new plays were given their
first productions last night at Philadelphia,
both scoring. it is said. pronounced sue
cesses At the Broad Street Theater Sol
Smith Russell created another of those
quaint and tender-hearted characters which
have given him his unique place among the
PLAYERS of the day Mr. Russell appears
as THE Hon. John Grigsby In CharlHs
KIeins play of that name, his role being
that of poor man lawyer In a little III
nois town, who champions the cause of
Young school mistress whose character has
been attacked by the man who made 0rSs-
by a judge. He wins his fight and the girls
heart.
Much interest was manifested by the
Philadelphians I'm the production of An
thony Hopes dramatization of his sequel
to the Prisoner of Zenda, by James X.
HacKett who was seen in this city last
week in "The Tree of knowledge The
play is in four acts and six scenes and
closely follows the play, the action taking
place three years after that OF Lenda.
There is no lack of chivalrous enterprise
and a continual conflict between the enc
mics Rudolf Rassendyll, played by Mr..
Hackett and Hentzau, the latter, the tltle
role. being played by Arthur Hoops, who
will be RENE embored for mis- excellent char
acter work Katherine Grey Is FlaVla,
Charles r. Pope, Col. Sapt and Mabel Am
ber, Rosa Half.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON'S SONS-At the
Alvin Theater in Pittsburg last night
large audience witnessed the production Of
1.-The Rivals by the Joseph Jefferson
Comedy Company. William Winter Jeffer-
sen son of the venerable Joseph Jefferson.
who has been quite seriously i'll for some
time, played Bob Acres, his striking resem-
blance to his father and close copy of his
manners, creating favorable impression.
age. Another son, Joseph Jefferson, jr.,
of it. Thursday night a third son of the