Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26

performance and didn't come again.
1t sounds funny, after the lapse of ten
years to tell about that production" said
Mr.. Barlow. but 1 never came so near
getting ratified in my life. Think of an
Irish Eva by a full-grown woman, and of
Topsy by Dutch woman who was not
onto the English language, and imagine
Row you'd feel to play with than. It was
awful. but after all these years I am be-
ginning to see the funny side of it ALL and
l guess If it had been kept up the play
would have been a bigger go than it was
with child Eva and a Topsy who could
speak English and was not fat"
COLUMBIA THEATER-The fact that
Mr. DAILY will bring his superb organiza-
ton from Days Theater. New York to the
Columbia next week will be hailed with de-
light by the theater-going public who ap-
preciate clean and wholesome comedy.
Days is justly admitted to be the repre-
sentative and foremost comedy theater of
America. Augustin DAILY has written for
himself. his theater and his company a
very distinct chapter in the history of the
drama in the United States. When he
shall retire from active work it will be
found that by his managerial care and
artistic ambition he has left American
dramatic art, executive and creative on a
higher plane than where it was when he
became interested in it. Knowing the pub
lie. he gained its confidence and now he
reignS supreme in the house and realm he
created for himself The reason of his sue
cess-or one of the many reasons-is that
he has understood the spirit of the times.
The play for Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday evenings and Thursday matinee and
evening Will be Number Nine,' a little cur
tain raiser called ''Subueties of Jealousy"
1t Is an adaptation from the French Of
Pailleron, and Miss Fairfax in the lead
ing part presents a wildly humorous pam
Drama of the self-torturing and illogical
suspicious and emotions that pass through
the brain of jealous wife, finding a climax
of equally Illogical reconciliation when sus-
picfon has passed into certainty. Mum
Der Nine" or THE Lady of Ostend," was
recently produced at Days, and is pro-
nounced to be one of the most charming
entertainments that the metropolis has had
in several seasons. The absurd and uroIl
complications which keep the audience in
one continuous roar of laughter in Mum
Der Nire" are mainly brought about by the
young married man
finds to his horror that he and an unknown
young woman whom he has met on an
empty bench at Ostend are exhibited in the
act of embracing In one Of the cinemato-
graph pictures which all London is flOcking
to see. On the program the picture is
known as Number Nine" and Number
Nine" is the hit of the show. His wife, his
mother-in-law and his cook all see the
picture before 1t is on exhibition two days,
and his club associates organize cinemato-
graph parties especially to gaze on his oscu-
latory gyrations. Explanations Of all sorts
are in order, but they do him no good
Finally the young woman in the picture,
who since her Ostend vacation has mar
ried champion wrestler, writes to her
victim that her husband has seen the pic
ture and demands satisfaction. The com
plications are carried out ingeniously and
the fun Is never allowed to flag. In the
hands Of such body of artists as Angus
tin Days company an evening of delight
can certainly be expected. The production
is exactly the same as given at Days
Theater, New York. Friday night and Sat-
urday. at matinee and night, Arthur Pine
ro's farcical comedy. THE Magistrate"
will be given.
LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE.
Not since Dickens crossed the water
and swayed the great mass of this republic
to laughter ard tears by his wonderful
books has any writer taken captive a
whole people and made them laugh and
weep at will as has Ian Maclaren." To the
truth OF this statement, made by a promi-
nent critic, must be attributed the fact
that not for many Gay has the announce
ment of new play been received with
such universal interest as that accorded
the dramatization of Beside the Bonnie
Brler Bush" This interest is best evil
denced by the steady demand for seats
and boxes at the Lafayette Square Opera
House, where, Monday night, it will be
presented for the first time on any stage,
under TIE management of Frank L. Per-
ley and Fred. M. Ranken. Every one who
has read Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Kate Carnegie and 1.-The Days of Aud
Lang Syne" will experience toward James
Macarthur and Tom Hall feeling of
gratitude for the skilled manner in which
they have transplanted them to the stage.
They have selected from these poetic and
yet essentially human tales the characters
episodes and situations that admit of dra-
matte treatment and have placed them in
proper environment. Act 1 shows Mar
get HoWe's cottage, with it's flower garden
ana ciumps or brier bushes. Herein are all
the characters introduced as they come to
lake counsel Of Marget. who is the conf
can't or cid and young in Drumtoc hty.
Flora's love for Lord Hay and the anger
or her father at the knowledge are deity
related. The second act, which Is located
in Lachlan CampbelPs cottage, recounts
the lack OF progress made in the wooing of
Kate Carnegie and Rev. John Carmichael,
ard Flora's dependency over the absence
OF HAY. Her secret departure for London
and its discovery by her father furnish
OF the third act tells of the privations en-
dured by Flora in London and her meeting
with Mcclure and Hay. In the second
scene we have the successful Termination
OF the love story of Kate Carnegie and Car
michael. A striking contrast is afforded
in the latter half of the act by the return
OF Flora, sick unto death; the arrival of
the London specialist, the crossing of the
swollen Tochty, and Lachlans wild appeal
to Mcclure to save Flora's life The drama
is brought to happy ending under the
Toof of Lachlan Campbel1's cottage.
This succession of finely interesting situa-
items has been placed in al exquisite scenic
setting. which faithfully reflects the beau
ties OF the Drumtochty landscape. Josef
Physioc has painted a series Of pictures
destined to transport the spectator to the
heart of the Grampians. Scotch colliss,
the Sheep horses, ETC., are added touc hes to
the realism of the presentation. The many
Scotch melodies which have stood the test
of time have formed the basis for an
elaborate musical setting. Overture, entire
actes and incidental measures have been
composed by Hermann Perlet, director of
music at the Herald Square Theater, New
York. A quartet will sing old Scotch part
songs arranged by Dudley Buck and other
well-known composers, and will also rem
der an original anthem. Charles Bergman
will conduct an enlarged orchestra and r.
A. Roberts will direct the stage The
players have been selected with a view to
their individual fitness for their parts. ].
II. Stoddart and Miss Marie Burroughs.
two fayorite players. head the company.
that includes Augustus w. Cook, Marian
A. Chapman. Charles Harbury, R. A. Rob-
erts. Carrie Lee Xtoyle, w. F. Rochester.
EvanGeline Irving, CUyler Hastings, Del
phlne Pcrrault, Walter Craven. Gertrude
Robinson. Emmett Corrigan, Augustus
Duncan. Everett Dodsou, James M. VIII
son: street singers by Harold Going.
Ethan Allen, H. w. Humphries. Tom DIX.
on. Theater goers need not fear a s,,rplus
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