The times., 1898-03-04
MAINE MONUMENT FUND
A Monster Benefit Arranged To
Swell the Amount.
A DRAMATIC FEAST PROMISED
Theatrical Managers Prepared to
Lend Every Assistance Possible
The List of Attractions should
Fill the Columbia Theater From
Gallery TO Pit.

From developments incident 10 the ben
eft al the Columbia Theater for the pur-
pose of swelling the Maine monument
fund II would seem that Washington is
TO be treated TO vaudeville and dramatic
bill one week from today al the Columbia
Theater such as has never before been
arranged in Washington. While Mr.. Ed
win B. Hay has been untiring in his work
of arranging the program and has worked
night and day in its preparation, he has
found that theatrical managers gener-
ally are quite prepared to lend every as
sistance possible that the entertainment
may come up TO the expectations OF the
people of the District.
The Clara Morris Company will render
almost its entire program, which includes
people Of worthy reputation and high
standing in the Thespian world. The adj
vent of Clara Morris in Washington with
Mr.. +. j. Harriott will have tendency
to swell the receipts of the boX-office, and
bring out our best people. Who has not
heard of Richard Harlowe, known as the
Daisy Queen Of Spain of old, and today
the great female impersOnator? Harlowe
can always draw, and assisted as he is
by Mr.. Godfrey Stein. there is every rea-
son to expect great results. Miss Nor
ris's Company contains also Lew Haw-
kins, the monologue artist; the Gardners,
musical comedians, and the winsome La
Petite Adelaide. the dancing sunbeam.
BY way of an exceptional feature, there
will be May Irwin, the magnetic. the roll
licking, the Iaughter-provoking singer of
coon songs, who storms her audience with
the mirth common to her wonderful ia
city TO control a house from gallery TO
pit. Mr. d. Rosenbaum, her manager,
nix Ir.Nx-i in hat be1.
best work can be done for a worthy
cause, and it may be well TO interject
that Miss Irwin is one Of the few ac-
tresses in this country who is the partc-
ular pride of the American Navy, having
been entertained by them on the flagship
New York not many weeks ago Her
heart is with the sailors and the marines,
and their misfortune is hers. May Irwin
can always be depended upon to come to
the aid of the tar and the colors of the
Navy.
Through the courtesy of Mr.. Joe Open
heimer. manager of the Miss New York"
Jr Company, and Messrs. James L. and
Hugh Herman, of the Lyceum Theater,
there will be some very interesting num-
bers culled from that company. Among
them will be Marie De Rossetti, who
juggles a rife with the skill of an Arab,
the daring of Cossack and the rapidity
of lightning.
The Dazzling White Squadron March
Corps, consisting of Misses Edwards, Mo-
rella, Goichau, Thomas, Cleveland, Ros-
setu, Wainwright, Lynch, Kennedy and
Ida Morrella, will perform evolutions
with such marvellous mechanical preci-
sion and grace of movement that they
seem as one individual moved by one i'm
pulse.
We have something of local Importance
in Miss Anna Lowe Jonas, the Southern
.ia1lf fGt
worth, a young lady who whistles like
the moclSing bird, loud and echoing as an
alpine horn, yet sweet as a matin bell.
The Three Vivandieres-Miss Clara j.
Stevens, Miss Maggie DIVERS, Miss Marie
Hodgson, of Washington - have also
agreed to grace the program with their
interesting terpsichorean numbers.
BY way Of novelty, combining interest,
MIR. Homer Davenport, the celebrated
cartoonist from New York, will be in at
tendance, and will draw a dozen or so of
the characters of the nation, all of whom
are familiar to the people of Washington.
Among them will be Senator Hanna the
President, Speaker Reed, Chairman Ding
ley, Congressman Simpson, Congressman
James Hamilton Lewis, Senator Quay,
Senator Jones, Senator Fairbanks, Sen
ator Spooner Senator Mason and other
statesmen, whom the audience Will rec
ogniZe before Davenport has drawn three
strokes. Mr.. Davenport will explain the
particular characteristics that make these
celebrated men interesting to him, and
those who have heard this young man
lecture regard him as one of the keenest
students and delineators of expression
this country has ever seen.
Col. Edwin b. Hay is deeply interested
in the work which he has brought into
form, and promises Washington some
thing worth more than the price of adms-
sion, and many things which they shall
not soon forget. Very shortly tickets will
be on sale at the Columbia Theater, and
those who want to get good seats must
come early, as the demand has already