Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-16
| Elliott. Estelle Mortimer and Hattie Rus
| sell. There will be no Wednesday matinee
/ during Mr. Goodwin's engagement


LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE.
Monday evening the Broadway Theater,
New York. Opera Company will inaugurate
Square Opera House, where De Koven and
Smiths new three-act comic opera, 1.-The
Highwayman," will receive its initial pre-
sentation in this city. In this opera there
comedy. with romantic interests Dick
Fitzgerald. the title character, is an Irish
soldier of fortune. who has been ruined by
gambler named Hawxhurst. Dick takes
secured by Lady Constance Sinclair. who
is In love with him, but the pardon has
fallen into the hands of Dicks enemy,
Hawxhurst. The latter has determined
to suppress the pardon until Dick can he
shot or hanged. Hawxhurst starts on a
Journey in the mail coach. Constance
knowing that he has the pardon in his pos
session, determines to hold up the coach,
and at pistols point to get the pardon from
HawxhurSt In the course of the COM
plfcations Constance Is wounded and the
pardon comes into the possession of Dick,
who encounters numerous dangers, having
MS own pardon in his pocket without being
aware of what the document contains, Con-
stance having exacted from him a promise
that he will not look at it, There is q
strong comedy interest caused by the fact
that two others. for their own purposes,
start out to impersonate the highwayman,
v no goes by the name of Captain Scarlet
The result is that three different characters
in scarlet cloak are arrested, each for
bis own purpose claiming to be Captain
Scarlet, while Dick Fitzgerald, the real
highwayman, is mistaken for an Irish lord
whose clothes he has stolen. Mr.. de
koven's music is in his best style. This
composer excels in music with the old En-
gl1sn flavor, and the score of 1.-The High
waym nan is undoubtedly the best work he
has done. In addition to a magnificent
cast, which includes Miss Camille DAT
vile, Joseph O'Mara. Jerome Sykes, Van
Rensselaer, Wheeler, Miss Maud Williams,
Miss Nellie Braggins, Harry Macdonough,
Reginald Roberts, George ODonnell and
VIM. S. Corliss, there will be chorus of
sixty. and an augmented orchestra under
the direction of Signor A. de Novellis.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.-That charm
ing emotional actress, Miss Cora Tanner,
will head strong melodramatic company
in revival of Robert ,Buc anan's master
play, alone in London" at ths Grand OPP
era House next week. All of the scenic eff
this melodrama famous in the past have
bean preserved. Miss Tanner will be seen
in her original part Of Annie Meadows,
role for which nature seems to have fitted
her, and in which she achieved success dur
ing her three years Interpretation of the
character. Her conception of the part of
the confiding and over-credulous pastoral
maiden is clear consistent and we'll sus-
toiiHeu her SCeHeS Oh passion ara HSTce III
their outhurst against her oppressors, while
her display of pathos Is tender. loving and
in harmonious keeping with the role. Mr..
Louis Massen assumes the part; of John
BiddlecOmb. thus sharing the honors with
the star. The moral tone of this drama is
convincing in its truths, and 1t Is this ele-
ment in its construction that endows alone
in London" with its lasting drawing power
The scenery for this production is from the
studio of one of Americas most famous
Of
fective. Among the notable scenes shown
may be mentioned the old sluice house, the
Westminster bridge, the historical houses
of parliament, the grim and mysterious
river Thames, with its dark secrets, the
howell at Rotherheith, etc.
ACADEMY OF MUsIC-Quite the fun
NEST woman on the stage is bonnie little
Fanny Rice. who comes to the Academy
rext week. in her very successful comedy,
"At the French Ball" Without the aid Of
eytravagant makeup, in fustian or in silks
and satins without distorting grimace or
an ungainly movement of her shapely body,
she can make people laugh and laugh un-
til they could almost beg her to stop to
give them breathing time. Innumerable
actresses have tried to copy her style and
methods. but they have met with no Sue
cess like hers. She is the embodiment Of
all that is original. fascinating. spontan-
eous in comedy with her rollicking good
humor her irresistible spirits and CONTAGIOUS
laughter. AT the French BALI is a funny
conceit from the German. whence the
greater number of the successful farces
are drawn. 1t has a serious undercUrrent,
but this Is never allowed to crop up to the
surface of things. 1t is the story of a shoe
makers wife of humble surroundings, who
takes 1T into her little head that she is not
getting all the happiness out ofslife that
should be in store for every pretty woman
She therefore decides to seek the bauble
happiness in the mouth Of that all-devour-
ing monster called 1.-The world" Her ex-
periences are immensely funny, but by the
time she has tried a good many things, in
Guiding French balls and wine suppers,
she comes to the conclusion that "all that
glitters is not gold" and that she was far
better of in her humble home with the
honest love and devotion Of her husband.
1t is salutary lesson, but the lesson Is
not the only thing in the play. There is
more fun in 1t than anything else.
SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT. - The
Washington Military Concert Band of thir-
ty-five musicians. Under the direction of
Chris Arth; tr., will give concert at the
ed by Mrs. Kitty Thompson-Berry and
Mss Bertha Lucas as soloists. A program
of unusual excellence has been arranged
for the occasion. The band has been re-
and have arrived at a degree of perfection
that viii more than delight their friends
ard admirers.
VAL ORCHESTRA.-Music's perfected ex-
preston, in harmony, dramatic fire, ar
tistc finish and superb ensemble effects
with which the famous Boston Festival
Orchestra of fifty pieces will fill the CO.
lumbia Theater next Tuesday afternoon,
beginning at o'clock. will doubtless at
tract the culture, refinement and fashion
of Washington as no other musical event
of late. The feature of the engagement,
however, Is the presentation of Nine. Cad
ski, who will be heard in the festival con-
cert which will occupy the first part of
the program. Madame Johanna Gadski
maintains an enviable position in the very
front rank Of younger German dramatic
81 1gers. The other artists who will be
heard In the first part of the program are
Miss Janet Spencer, who is recognized as
Boston's first contra1to: Miss Minnie Lit
tie. also Of Boston, and who will interpret
Liszts piano concerto No. 1, in E fat and
Mr.. Alexander Heindl, who was cello solo,
list with Nine. Melba on her recent concert
tour, and who has been connected with the
Boston Festival Orchestra for the past four
years. In addition to Gadski, Spencer, Lit
tie, Heindl and the orchestra, the princi-
pal scenes from 1.-THE Barber of Seville
will be presented, in costume and with APP
propriate scenic effect. The part Of Rosina
will be sung by Miss Rose Stewart, the
gifted classmate Of Calve and Melba. Sig
nor Del Puente. in his role OF Figaro, the