Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
AMUSEMENT


tain. f%S, and A. e. MARI, lJDl, VINO nave
met great success with their songs this
year They have both been on the clubs
for three years.
The banjo club consists Of eighteen men
and Is led by Louis Bevier de Witt of New
York who is playing for the fourth
Year on the clubs. He also plays the
mandolin club. The medley arranged by
him is the clubs most popular piece and
j. composed of darky airs and rag time
Other pieces played are Smoky MokeS,
"A Rag Time Skedadd!e" and the very
popular new air. "impecunious Davis
John w. Converse of PhiIade phia is the
leader of the mandolin club, and for the
PAST two years has been 'celiist. owing to
the many kinds of instruments included in
this club il is usually the last to round into
form. but Mr.. Converse's club ready
with the other clubs TO more than do its
share, even in the early fall The most
p"Fu,ar selections the sextet from
Lucia Iii Lammermoor,' by Donizetti
ranged for the club by a. S. Andrews, %;
The Fortune Teller The Flatterer,"
and the new opera, THE Singing Girl
y hlch is having such a run in New York.
The business manager of the organization
is Alexander Blaine Robinson of Pittsburg.
me assistant manager is W, Schuyler
Smith Of New York city, a member of the
junior class.
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CtNCERT.-The young Russian pianist
Mark Hamburg, who has been quite sue
GcSsful in New York. will be heard in
ashington next Thursday afternoon at the
National Theater playing with the Balti-
more symphony Orchestra. Mr.. Hamburg
made brilliant 6ebut at Moscow about
hine years ago, and won the List scholar
snip later at Vienna. after three years
or close study with Leschetzky On his
appearance with the Vienna Orchestra in
1875 he was hailed as pianist of extraor-
binary power and temperament. Soon af-
ter he proceeded to Berlin and scored an
DINER triumph with the Berlin Philhar-
monte. He then went to London, where
he received an Endorsement equal in warmth
10 that bestowed upon him in Moscow vi
emma and Berlin. He subsequently visited
Paris, and his appearance at the Colonne
Orchestra concerts won him the approval
Of the most authoritative critics of the
French capital His tour through Austria
liza was one Of the most successful made
there In recent years. Returning to Ger
many. he played last winter in such cities
a. Berlin. Leipzig and Frankfort and was
praised for his complete mastery of the
keyboard over any pianist who has APP
peared there for some seasons past and
vas pronounced a pianist of the first rank.
compare his playing with that of the late
anton Rublnsteln. Like the majority of
the latter-day virtuosi. he is possessed of
WeI-knit frame, Is of medium height, has
plastic artistic temperament. keen. Intel
lectual, psychic insight and extraordinary
physical endurance. Next Thursday he will |
play the Rubinstein Concerto in D minor.
Seats for the concert are now on sale at |
Guzrnans In Droop's music store.
YALE GLEE AND BANJO CLUBS
sung can understand the feeling which |
they create in the listener, and to those |
who have not. no description can give than |
Justice. The Yale concert this year will be |
a regular old-fashioned glee club concert,
full Of college songs and medleys, which |
viii be rendered with a vigor that is |
charming. The Christmas trip Of the boys |
is one continual round of festivities. In |
every city where concert is given they |
ara entertained royalty, There have been |
many discussions of late to how import |
ant a part athletics play in the growth, |
reputation and fame of a college. II would |
be equally Interesting and quite aston |
lShfng could we know exactly to what ex- |
tenn Yale College is indebted to its Gee |
and Banjo Clubs. This years concert oc- |
ours on the evening Of January 4, at the |
Rifles Hall.
BURTON HOLMES -LECTUREs-Mr. |
Burton Holmes began the seventh season |
OF his career as lecturer in South Bend |
Ind. His manager. Mr.. Louis Francis |
Brown, has lately booked for him 100 en-
gagements, filling nearly every evening ex-
cept Sundays from the commencement of
the season, and a large number OF matinee
lectures in addition, which will keep Mr..
Holmes In this country until April T. 1900.
when he will sail for the opening Of the
Paris exposition. Mr.. Holmes subjects will
be: Manila" Japan Revisited Round
A6out Paris The Grand Canyon and
'Barbaric Arizona The lectures will be
given in this city at the Columbia Theater
on five Tuesday afternoons, at Ais o'clock,
q mmencing Tuesday. December 70.
JOHN BI4AIR'S MODERN PLAYS.-Paul
Hervieu's strong play. Les Tenailles," will
be the second production in John Blair's
course Of modern plays. 1t will be played
twice in New York, once in Boston and
Il special matinee will be given the after
noon of December % at the National Thea
ter IN Washington.
The English version Mr.. Blair will pre-
sent is called Ties" and is the work of
George Peabody Eusds and Paul Kester
Les Tenailles or Ties" was originally
produced at the Theater Francois In Paris
four years ago, and enjoyed large meas
ure Of popularity.
perhaps as representative an example of
this new tendency in dramatic literature
as the French stage has yet furnished.
In the original cast were such artists as
lie Barge. Langier, Duflos. Candy and
Mines. Blanche Pierson and Marthe Bran
DIES. AT the production at the National Thea
ter Mr.. Blair will play the part created by
Dufos in Paris. while Miss Florence Kahn
viii be seen in the role taken by Nine
Brandes.
CONCERT AT CARROLL INSTITUTE
HAL.-Prof George Lawrence director
of the Lawrence School of Music and Flo
CUtion. will give concert in aid of the
PansOara free kindergarten next Tuesday
evening. at Carroll Institute Hall. 10th
street northwest. At this concert Miss
Mary Mckenzie Byrne will be the soprano
SplOist. assisted by Miss NJ. Aurelia Bar
rington, elocutionist: Mr.. Ed. Thomas, bari
tone; Mrs George Lawrence. violinist |
Singing Association Miss Marie Becker
Will be the acconpanist and Mr. Harry
Stratton organist. The entire proceeds will
he for the benefit Of the free kindergarten,
CO., - street.
The committee having charge Of the con-
cert consists of Mrs. Louise Pollock. Mrs
sarah La Fetra, Mrs. Thomas NJ Talbot |
Mrs. Mary Lockwood, Mrs Hussey, Miss
Ella Nichols. Mrs. ]. W. Stokes. Tickets |
may be obtained Of any OF these ladies. |
PADEREWSKI.-Pade the great
Polish pianist, arrived in New York on last |
Thursday morning and between now and
his FIRST recital In this country, which takes
place in New York city next Tuesday even
ing. he VIII put IN his time recovering from
the effects OF tne sea voyage. The sale Of
seats for his recitals in New York ciry
has been the largest ever known in the his
tory of the career of any pianist He will |
give his only recital in this city Tuesday
afternoon, December 10, at the Columbia
Theater- That the pianist will achieve new
laurelS az composer mis- friends and ad-
mirers confidently predict During the last
few months. while the world has seen little
Of him he has spent most of his TINA in