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California.

Edward Harrigan will present at the California tonight "Old Lavender the most popular and surely the most earnest of all his many plays. To the elder playgoers it will be interesting to see how the play and player have worn. and to the younger generation the per formance should be uniquely entertain ing. MT. Harrigan is one of the pio- neer American dramatists, and in his day enjoyed an almost unrivaled vogue The character of Old Lavender is full of quiet pathos and observation, and Is remembered here as his master piece, both in authorship and acting.
 It is hardly to be expected that the present company will come up with our recollections of the original one, but it Is said that MT. Harrigan has rebanded his players with considerable tact and
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By ASHTON STEVENS.

the occasion of Mir. Mainhalfs first ap- pearance at Morosco's (and my last but this) he seemed to me to be just the man for the place, and 1 am still his frank admirer. His personality IS quick and magnetic and he gets over the lines in 1.-the cadences. ! find but one fault in Miss Hall to quibble over, and that is apparent only when she has not cold and sug2rs her elocution to the cloyins point. And there are other trusty standbys in the company. Julia Blanc, who often does a marvellous bit of old woman ~ortraitUre; Fred J. But Ter, who has developed an almost boundless versatility in odd character parts; and Mortimer Snow, now that he has quit the mOnotonously heroic, seems much more VitaliZed in side char acter parts, if I may judge by his ex
 cellent Frenchman of this performance, too, does a clever bit in the fragmen- tary version of the Franco English ad- venturess. Another valuable Morosco is Landers Stevens, the villain man (whom 1 habitually slight out of a family modesty). He has, I believe, the South Side record for endurance, having just completed sixty consecu- tive weeks of steady employ rent, nine performances to the week. His acting Is spacious and his voice wide. He has
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The Devils Disciple would refute that-but because he believes that in the present policy of theatrical man. agement the only chance an author has is to place his works in the hands of the reading public. And so we shall soon know as much about Shaw as we do about Ibsen.
 But. unlike the Scandinavian, Shaw has very decided views as to the fu- tility of offering readers mere repro duction of the prompt copies" pre- pared for stage use. The dramatic author must" he contends in one of his prefaces, fall back on his powers of literary expression, as other poets and fictionists do. What would we not give for the copy of Hamlet used by Shake speare at rehearsal, with the original business scrawled by the prompter's 8 pencil? And if we had, in addition. the descriptive directions which the author gave on the stage-above all. the character sketches, however brief. by which he tried to convey to the ac- tor the sort of person he wished him to incarnate-what a light they would shed, not only on the play, but on the
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tention of attending the French ball in Madison-s square Garden. He loses his letter, which is picked up and de- livered by a stranger who has no desire to deceive, but who is welcomed with such cordiality as would have been shown to the real person for whom the communication was written, that he has no chance to withdraw, and finds himself all at once in the cen- ter of a brisk Whirl of gayety
 The other, for whom the letter was penned, discovers the error which has been made and starts in brisk but hopeless pursuit.
 This portion of the action takes place in one of the corridors of the Hoffman House. The next chapter is unfolded in a room in the tower of Madison-s square Garden, occupied as 6 studio by one of New York's charac- ters. In the end the stranger finds an opportunity to disclose his identity. but he has come to be we'll regarded by
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has just startled the world which he Is perpetually startling with the an- nouncement that next month will see published his collected plays, those that have been played and those that have not-and it would not be at all unlike the wild Irishman of the Saturday Re view to give an inkling in the preface of the book as to just why Henry Irv- ing and a few other celebrated actor managers did not produce Shaw plays as per agreement with the au-
 thor. The publication will be in two volumes and entitled Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant" and every one who is interested in the critical work of this remarkable man will be anxious for the taste of his quality as dramatist. If MT. Shaw is always to be believed, he is, by his own confession, better and saner playwriter than William Shakespeare, and a close second to Henrik Ibsen. He now for the first time publishes his plays, not as the last resort of a dis appointed dramatist-the success of
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Columbia.

MT. Herne begins the second and last week of 'Shore Acres" at the Colum- bia tomorrow evening. The houses have been uniformly large and the prospects for the closing performances are the brightest the play has yet en- joyed in this city. Miss Marion Gull len, who has been playing Perley dur ing the past week, will exchange roles with Miss Julie A. Herne for the clos ing week. Miss Cullen is protege of Denman Thompson and for two sea- sons was prominent feature in the veteran actors production. It is Mir. Herne's intention to withdraw from "Shore Acres at the close of the pres ent season as he is anxious to stage his new work, The Rev. Griffith Da- venport." This new play will be fol-
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be a good idea to give concert on her 'wn account. at which she might expect the patronage of those whom she had 50 frequently served. Accordingly she engaged a hall. made all her arrange ments, and started out to sell the tick cts, Her, father. however. recognizing with joy his opportunity to cure her of her inclination to sing in public, set about to secure a disastrous result for the con cert by previously calling on her friends and pledging them, as a favor to him, to decline to buy. The result was that when the eventful evening came Melba found herself confronted by select but diminutive audience of two Nothing daunted, she gave the entire concert &C., cording to programme; and, later. when bills for hall rent and advertising were presented, susDecting the trick he had served her, sent her creditors to her father. who, by that time, convinced that his brilliant scheme had failed of it's hoped-for result, and with a secret adni- ration of his daughters pluck, paid them willingly. It cannot be doubted that her splendid career has long since removed his early objection, which, had it been successful, would have deprived the world of song of its most shining light.
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all the other personages, and loses nothing through the deception in which he had unwittingly participated. The locale of the piece gives opportunity for handsome settings and the glitter and glamour of the French ball Is re- produced, 1t Is said, with striking ef- feet. The play Is full of new music by Richard Stahl and A. B. Sloane.
 At the head of the company comes Anna Boyd, of known quality, and Joe Coyne, new to us, but with a reputa- tion in the East. Others in the cast are: Charles Dungan, John Dudley, w. H. Halter, Harry Rodgers, Steve Maley, Sam Marion. John Mitchell, Willia Martin, Ed Wonn, Willie Mar tin, Thomas Quinn, Minnie McEvoy, Minnie Bridges, Camille Cleveland, Liz zie Mccoy, Nellie Mccoy and Amy Muller.
 The attraction to follow "A Stranger in New York at the Baldwin Is ''The Purser," which Ferris Hartman will bring out.
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Baldwin.

The latest Hoyt farce, "A Stranger in New York" is announced for produc- tion ct the Baldwin tomorrow night The farce is given the credit of being an unusually bright one, with action swift and tireless, and not a moment of weariness between the first and final curtains
 The story is rather more complicated than most of those in which Mr. Hoyt has dealt, and tells of an old chap from Chicago, with letter of introduction to a New York man about town. He arrives in the metropolis with the in-
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which was the despair of the critics on Its production in London and New York; "The Man of Destiny" one-act comedy, in which Sir Henry Irving had intended to appear as the youthful Ma poleon; You Never Can Tell" four act modern comedy concerned with the adventures of a sparkling pair of twins, and Candida" a frankly sentimental play, which MT. Shaw hopes to find un- derstanded of women. if not of men.
 For some reason or other his latest and most successful play, "The Devils Disciple" will not be among the plays printed The books will be published Here by Stone & Co., of New York, and in London by Grant Richards.
 Even the glorious Melba is not above the tune of the twittering press agent. This came neatly typewriter:
 Long before Melba had any thought of a public career the fame of her beautiful voice had become known, and she was in frequent request to sing at charity concerts, in Melbourne, much to the dis pleasure of her parents, strict Scotch Presbyterians who were greatly opposed to her appearance in public. After awhile it occurred to her that it would
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lowed by "Silas Lapham," which Will liam Dean Howells Is having drama uzed for MT. Herne A second com- pany playing Shore Acres is headed by Archie Boyd. and, although con- fined mostly to one-night stands, it is meeting with financial prosperity in the East and Middle West.
 Nancy Hanks" comedy success of the present season, is announced to fol- low Shore Acres at the Columbia Theater on the 18th inst. At the head of the presenting company will appear Marie Jansen.
 It is not a racing play as the title may indicate; the Nancy Hanks" re- ferred to Is not a horse, but gold mine, or rather a mine that has been "salted" by interruptions persons and palmed off as a rich ore-producer upon speculative Frenchman, on whose complicated adventures the plot hinges.
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Orpheum.

An entire new bill is announced at the Orpheum this week, when Hyde's comedians take the boards in place of the present string of talent. The Hyde show opens with to-nights perform ance. The Hyde combination is said to be the strongest of all the road vau- devile shows, and several acts have been specially engaged for the coast tour. At the head of the list is Helene Mora, the famous female barytone, who will appear in descriptive songs and ballads. She will introduce one written specially for her, entitled For Old Glory" which will be produced with scenic effects. Mcintyre and Heath, the black face comedians, have an amusing skt. entitled Two Georgia Minstrels," in which the experiences are presented. An entirely different line of black face work is that by Will Hams and Walker, colored boys, who will present the idiosyncrasies of the flash coon and his sweetheart. This team scored the phenomenal run of thirty two weeks at Roster & Bials In their act they will introduce Lord Barnie," the famed black mascot of the Chicago baseball game; they are as- sisted in the cake-walk by two creole girls.
 Charles R. Sweet, known as the piano tramp, will appear in SpecialtieS, and Thorne and Carlton will present skit entitled "The Substitute Husband" The great Lafayette who has attained fame as an imitator of John Philip Sousa, will appear in a turn of fantas- tic mimicry. Among other features of the bill is Ajax, known as the flexible marble.
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the mannerisms of the villain business down to a science, smoking cigarettes, digging in his trousers pockets, toying with his gloves and wearing top hat with faultless malevolence. The only improvement I should suggest is that he try to read his big speeches with the same easy emphasis he gives to the little ones and that he learn to shoot his cuffs. Who ever heard of a really swell villain that didn't shoot his cuffs :?
 ASHTON STEVENS.
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AlcaZar.

"The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown" will be the new bill at the AL cazar, where at very popular prices 1t should make a successful week, as it has been played here but once before, and that time with Eddie Foy in the titulary part and at the Baldwin. For those who may have forgotten this Is sketch of the theme: A young Eng fish officer weds a ward in chancery" and to rescue her from a private school in which she is confined, disguises him. self as young woman. In the school he has no end of comic adventure. There is strong bit of subsidiary character in a German music teacher who is in love with the school girl.
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Music.

At Thursdays symphony concert in the Tivoli MT. Scheel's orchestra will play Schubert's c major symphony, the Parisian Bacchanale from Tam hauser" and a symphonic poem by Ur- ban, entitled ''The Ratcatcher."
 The first of a series of concerts to be given here by the world famous Knei- sel quartet will take place at Sherman & Clay Hall on the evening of May 16.
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Morosco's.

The prologue of "Pavements of Paris,'' which will be the next attrac- tion at Morosco's, opens with a scene in the province of Lorraine, at the foot of the Alps, during the period of the Franco-Prussian war. The wife of Jean Le Franc is the missing heiresS to the titles and estates of a noble family. Their union has been blessed with a daughter, Little Marie, about whose subsequent adventures much of the in- terest of the plot centers. The closing scene of the prologue, in which occur the murder of General Peronne, the supposed death of Jean, and the ab. ductiOn of Marie occur, has been util- ized for the introduction of hiStori- cal war tableau. It will show the op- posing armies confronting each other upon fortified heights, during the heat of the bloody battle of Forbach. An other important new scene will be re- production of a view of the city of Paris by moonlight, fourteen years later. The moonlight flooding the stately buildings falls upon the placid waters of the Seine. The famous Pont Neuf, or New Bridge, spans the river. The Tomb of the Rabbits" low Par isian groggery, where the thieves and gamins of Paris congregate for their nightly revels. affords meeting place for the villain and his tool. Little Mary, now grown to comedy girlhood. is a fugitive from the prosecutions of a procuress Che crosses the bridge, is seen by her enemies, pursued and thrown into the river. Her father, who has served through the war, and returned to Paris to pursue the voca- tion of a hackman, hears her cries for help. He is at the foot of the bridge. filling his water bucket, and rushes to the rescue, forming the final tableau with Marie's dripping body in his arms. Mir Mainhalls part is that of the Vi- compte de Flashon, chevalier d'indus- trie and all-around rogue, whose re- deeming traits and droll characteris- tics rob his interruptions actions of much of their repulsiveness. La Petite Lund has been cast for little Mary and will introduce specialties, and the rest of the company will be prominent 1 ly represented.
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JHE OUTER WORLD.
Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant
 bu Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw, the most bril- liant, if the most cratic of all the liv
 ing dramatic critics. and the author of such dramatic satires as Arms and the Man" and "The Devils Disciple" |"
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preserved all the traditions of the parts Dave Braham will play Dick, the Rat the role made famous by the late Tony Hart, and all the original Braham songs will be sung.
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Chutes.

The animals, their intrepid trainers. Chiquita and several new people in the free theater will make the Chutes an attractive place this week.
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Olympia.

Mandola, the clever equilibrist. who has been the especial hit at the Or pheum this week, will be one of several new turns at the Olympia.
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,istorv of the sixteenth century!

history or the sixteenth century! 1t Is for want of this process of elabora- ton that Shakespeare-uns as poet. story-teller, character draughts man, humorist and rhetorician-has left us no intellectually coherent drama. and could not pursue genuinely Scien- tific method in his studies of character and society,".
 In place of the familiar directions and scenic specifications the Plays. Pleasant and Unpleasant" of Bernard Shaw will be annotated with finished descriptions, vivid character sketches, psychologist notes and sallies of a characteristic mordant type The first volume will consist of those plays unpleasant unpleasantness ly- ing in the fact that they convict the capitalist phase of modern social or ganization, and are written from the point of view of a socialist who regards the basis of middle class society as thoroughly rotten, economically and morally. Under this he heading come derer" and Mrs. Warren's Profes- sion." The root idea of the first named is the rich suburban villa standing on the rents of the foul rock cry: of the second, a four-act topical comedy, the fashionable cults of Ibsen- ism and New Womanism' on a basis of clandestine sensuality-the Inde- pendent Theater refused to produce it on account of it's immortality" while, in the third, Mrs. Warren taxes society with her occupation, which is that of a procuresS.
 Volume II-"Pleasant Plays"-will comprise Arms and the Man." the sparkling comedy in three acts, of
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TiVoli.

The Tivoli's new piece. "Sinbad the Sailor" which was produced last night, is reviewed in another part of this paDer
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Volume ll-PleaSant PlayS"-will comprise Arms and the Man." the sparkling comedy III three acts, of youthful romance and disillusion,
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TAISOMA PARK.

The entertainment given Friday night at the
Town ualI by the Tnkoma Park Ministries for the
her eft of Takoma I.id-e. No. ~. +. A A NJ was
che Of the successful ever given at the park
Tn. program which concluded 10y parior so
.ai WAS rendered 10y home talent, and colSisl ed ~
hi-h-,ass music Jubilee songs and farce. entitled
Box and Cox the features being as follows;
openinr chorus hy the company; yachting glce.
chorus medley, quartet, Miss Dinah Rawson, Miss
Topsv Turycy, Mr.. Io>ephus oHngeilos-'m AMI
Brother Tambo; creole song. solo, Miss sisSeFetta
Jones: Floating Down the River" duet. Misses
Dinah Rawson and ToI~y Turvey; 20 That " alter
melon" brother. Bones; rs Your Nanny Always
with Iou:' colo; a. 'ticod News, D. IA aiioil-
ing g Some of These Mornings. Jubilee quar-
tpt Misses Bouncer and ToIsy Turvey, Dr. Unison
Weed and Brother THmlo; Jolly Blacksnitis,
Josephlis orangeblossom: Great DAY, brother
Tamho and chorus; ''Zenta, by the minstrel trio--
VIOLIN Miss Penelope Ann Ferguson; mandolin Miss
y.ndalia Cherryhlossom: guitar, Miss faisy Bins-
som Farce BOX and Cox Box, Brother Tambo;
Cox. Brother Bones; Landlady. Aunty Bcuncer
Mr. James Harvey and family. who recently
moved into Takorna gave a houscwarmng and
dance last Tuesday night, nj which were ptes.h, u
Ing Mr.. and Mrs John b. Clark. MIR. and Mrs. Il.
w iar,iisty. Misses Mamie Linda and Lnia 'lark'
Miss Daisy Inrdlsty Misses Rose and Emma Co
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Nichols of Clifton Park: Charles Harvey James
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yenal of Washington: Misses Hannah lonifant'
Mary Tyler Alice Tyler. Messrs. John u fider'
lanes Higgins, Thomas Bonifant, Edward loNla'';
Ernest Ioylace and w. f. 'issfl OF sligo; Mr: hil
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Tuesday evening AT Takoma Hall. AZ,
Mrs Seller who has been the guest OF MISS
Hlanch Law at Takoma Heights. has returned to
her bnpr ar Pcrkclev Springs, w Va Miss Lay
acron,lrani.d her and will remain about MONTH
CAPTAIN and Mrs. W. W. Mills OF mashihk''h
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