Evening star., 1898-05-21

the first appearance in this city of the
young actor Mr.. James Young, whose sue
cessful engagement at the Academy must
have been gratifying to him. He was
greeted with good houses at every perform-
ance. and the three plays that he has pre-
sented have shown his versatility and DEM
onstrated the possession of an ability that
only needs the development of experience
and thoughtful study to make itself felt in
the profession.
Next week summer comedy commences at
the Columbia, and an excellent company
has been assembled by Mr.. Geo. +. Conn.
which. under the stage direction OF Mr.
James Barrows, the excellent comedian,
who became such favorite last summer,
will iDaugurate its season with VIM. Gill
lette's Held by the Enemy"
Jimmy Barrows of the Columbia Stock
Company feels that he has been placed IN
false light before the Washington pub
lie, and is very anxious TO redeem himself
Last summer, through no fault of his own,
he was forced to impersonate series of
bad old mems characters. which, he feels
sure, served to ALLEVIATE the regard OF the
good and innocent Beginning with Major
GaibyTd. in Paul Wilstach's farce. "A Gay
Deceiver." and with the sole exception of
the good old Doctor In "A Superfluous Hus-
band" he played the whole gamut of gay
old roues in the Frenchical farces which
Stage Manager Bergman inflicted oil Wash
ington. And he played them so well that
by most people ne is remembered as d bald
headed old reprobate with variegated
whiskers and a satyr-ike leer, who made
love TO every lady he met, married or not.
and otherwise carried on a reprehensible
course of conduct which WAS redeemed
only by his good humor.
Now BarrOws holds that he Is not IN any
degree the wicked person he has been COM
PEELED TO fmpersonate on the stage. and
this season. since he has the direction of
the stage in his own hands, he will make
an earnest effort to correct that error. Be-
ginning with Held by the Enemy" in
which he will play the comic war corre-
spondent. he has mapped out series of
thoroughly amusing but quite unobjection-
able characters. which he hopes will serve
to redeem him in the minds of Washing
ton theater goers. He will, later in the
season. undertake VIM. H. Cranes char
acter of Brother john" and still later he
will revive Billy Florence's famous char
ecter of the Hon. 'Bardwel Slote, NJ. c..
in The Mighty Dollar" 1t may be that
during the course of the season he will be
obliged TO throw in a wicked old man or
two. just by way of contrast but he wishes
IL understood that he is playing for a high
moral stage record this summer and will
attempt to prove that good men can be just
es amusing as bad ones.
Mrs. Leslie Carter has caused something
OF personal sensation in London as we'll
as having made great impression as an
actress According to a letter just received
from member of The Heart of Mary
land company, they call her over there
the Rosetu' American. and she is said
TO be the cynosure of all eyes as she rides
through Rotten Row every morning along
with the fashionables of London Her
hair has excited good deal of attention
as well as admiration and is known as the
Rosetu hair. 1t has become the fashion
with women to wear hair of the same color
and IS one of the pronounced fads of the
London season
The lambs Club public eanbo1 of
which so much has been heard and written
during the past few weeks, is beyond uues-
uoh the most unique enterprise the Amert-
can stage has known 1t is already being
alluded to by people of the stage as the
great garnbol." and as such it cannot help
but he remembered in after years by the
theater-goer.
The Lambs Club in New York consaryss
all that is best in the realm of Bohemia
IL Is not familiar name to the man of
everyday life, but club men all over the
civilized globe know the Lambs Club in
New York as the home rost for the hest
wits and best fellows of stage art and lit
erary life in America That they should
call themselves Lambs is in keeping with
their naive mOdesty, though they number
among them many Of the lions of their
several guilds. They have their "shep-
nerd their boy" and their collie" and
the office OF these several officers is no sine
cure, as any one familiar with the ..fock''
can testify. Sometimes the flock becomes
restive. and il is then that the shepherd
ordalhs gambol. which, OF course takes
pace at the club rooms, OF, more properly
speaking. at the fold" The collie is told
70 select such of the Lambs a he REQUIRES
Ior the occasion and entertainment is
given TO the rest OF the flock OF necessi-
" these entertainments must be Of an un-
conventional nature, on account of the NO.
culiar audience for whom they are design
ed The burlesques, parodies recitations
songs, pantomimes and what not are orig
inal creations with every gambol, chestnuts
being the one prohibited thing within the
ioId. These gambols are exclusively club
functions, 10 which none but very limited
number OF privileged guests are Invited
1t goes without saying that these gambols
nave aroused continual curiosity on the
part OF the public. which always Graves
novelty.
Recently the Lambs who have hecon,a
collectively more prosperous than they de-
serve from the standpoint that art should
Dc It's own reward, bought themselves q
new club house. Many of them objected
10 paying interest to some real estate baron
or other for the necessary mortgage and
the shepherd said. in hts characteristic
way. Wei. what are you going to do
about it?'' and some one suggested thar
the public might like to see one os their
gambols, and II a really worthy one were
devised handsome sum might be realized
with which they could get rid of the said
real estate baron for good and all. ana
hence the great gambol"
Viewed as a theatrical event pure and
simple, Its magnitude may be partly esti-
No less than ten authors have contrib
uted TO the work. among whom are Clay
NJ. Greene, Charles Hoyt Augustus Thom.
as. F. E Kidder. Glen MacDonough and
Clyde Fitch. Six famous artists have IL
lustrated the program, which in itself will
be sought for by art connoisseurs and col
!ectors, Its value as a souvenir increasing
With the passing years.
Regarding those who are to take part in
the entertainment. the prospective specta-
tor need only think of his favorite actor
whoever he may be. and he will be found
In the cast There will be not less than
nfty artists, all stars, or the most prunlt-
nent members Of the leading companies. in
clucins w. II. Crane. Nat Goodwin, H. E.
Dixey, H Clay Barnabee w H. MacDon-
AID, Chauncey Olcott. DeWolf Hopper, etc
etc. ad Nb- Musical numbers will be con-
t-ibuted By six of the best-known com
p"sers and conductors. which include Regi
maid De koven. Victor Herbert Victor Har-
RS. etc. etc The orchestra will be as large
as ever used in the grand opera for il win
comprise the full force of Victor Herbert's
band.
COLUMBIA THEATER.-"Held by the
Enemy" William Gillette's greatest war