Evening star., 1899-03-28
Duncan Preston Oscar Dane, Augustus
Halbach, Walter H. Crosby, James P. Corr
and George Morley


and George Morley
KERNAN's LYcEUM THEATER.-The
Rentz-Santley' Burlesque Company is one
OF the Oldest combinations on the road. For
years it has sustained its high reputation as
a nrst-class company of entertainers, eno
this season 1t is strictly first-class. Two
buriesques are given with the performance.
Both are snappy, well-dressed and inter-
preted by a clever company of comedians
and pretty and shapely girls. Yankee
Dewey Dandy" the opening burlesque, Is
bright conception and shows what pirates
can do with legitimate. farce comedy. 1t
is steal of portions Of THE Girl From
Paris "A Night Frolic," the closing bur-
lesque, was even brighter, and barring
dash of vulgar jokes and suggestive ges-
lures, which should be cut out, was clever.
1t Is to be deplored that clever comedians
to get an extra hand from the gallery
will resort to such questionable methods. In
the olto Richard Ward was easily the best.
His speciality on the bicycle combined HUI
morous with difficult riding and he possess
es merit as a comedian. The Sisters Eng
strom were hard to tolerate. Van Leer and
Barton perpetrated lot of old jokes with
9 few new ones They were both clever in
the burlesques. Ford and West contributed
neat sketch, and the dainty Walker Sis
ters won applause with their singing spe-
cialty. The Kummins presented lightning
sketch with a boxing specially that was
good.
BIJOU THEATER.-At both perform
ances at the Bijou yesterday big audiences
welcomed a bill that was clever only in
spots. Some of the specialties We're above
the average, while others were bad enough
to be a bore. The stock company took Up
half an hour of the program, and was
more or less entertaining. Clifford and
Huth, the top-Hners, were entitled to all
the applause they received. Both are clever
entertainers, and the sketch they gave left
nothing to be desired. Those clever aero
bats, ''the Livingstones" repeated their
popular act, and Emmonds, Emerson and
Emmonds contributed a laughaDle sketch,
Only Joke Sam T. Adams, one of the
best comedians the Bijou ever knew, has
returned, and received an ovation GeTtie
Gibson is the same thing over again. May
Hoey, new soubrette was fair while
Williams and Adams, black face dialogue
team. handed out new talk, and lots Of it.
Ozeola, the much-advertised marvel, was
clever in her speciality Mr.. Linwood Tay-
lor, in the opening melange, sings several
songs in his rich baritone voice.
THE GRAPHOPHONE GRAND-The
graphophone grand entertained a good
sized audience last night at the National
Rl1les armory the occasion being the first
public concert given in this city on the
marvellous talking machine. The audience
displayed great enthusiasm. and several of
the reproductions were loudly encored. The
reproductions were clear and natural, and
could be heard from every position in the
massive hall. The evenings program in
cluded among it's excellent selections comic
songs, banjo, baritone, Xylophone, clari-
net, whistling and other instrumental solos,
with variations: speeches, minstrel and
songs and orchestral selections. The exhi-
bition will be continued tonight and to-
morrow night at National Rifles Hall, 91S
G. street northwest.
FOUR DAYS MORE OF "TRILBY.
There remains but four days more of the
exhibition of the famous painting "Trilby,"
at 1909 Pennsylvania avenue. Those who
wish to see it should bear this in mind.
The exhibition will positively close next
Saturday night.