Evening star., 1899-05-27

eral new artists whom Manager Grieves
has engaged for next week. Daily matt
hees.
GRAND = OPERA HOUSE-Managers
Burke and Chase bring their first season of
high-class vaudeville to a close at the
Grand Opera House tonight. The supple
mental jubilee period, during which contin-
u0us performances were held from noon
TIL midnight daily, was successful in every
sense. More than fifteen acts and special
ties were provided and no better bill has
ever been offered, even in New York city,
during a similar public celebration. Finan-
cially the houses were the largest in the
city and the completest satisfaction was eX-
pressed The specially beautiful entrance.
the novel and lengthy program and the
prices on the popular level were a combi-
nation that drew the expected and desired
attendance. If no other purpose was gain
ed, the weeks performances opened the
eyes Of amusement going Washington to
the pleasures and benefit of the continuous
plan. Perhaps In the near future Managers
Burke and Chase will have modernized
Washington to the same continuous amuse-
ment degree New York has attained. Dur
ing the summer weeks Manager Chase will
personally supervise the work of redeco-
rating and refitting the entire theater from
the entrance arch to the back stage wall
Judging from the standards Messrs. Burke
and Chase have set for themselves in all
that they have done during the past season
the prediction IS safe that there will be no
more commodious or beautiful theater in
Washington or the east than the rejuvenat-
ed Grand, The friends, and they are le-
gion, of this magnificent temple of music
and drama have reason to be grateful to
Messrs. Burke and Chase for their intelli-
gent and conscientious direction of its af
fairs during the crucial period They have
saved the opera house from oblivion, and 1t
and high-class vaudeville at popular prices
have become synonymous in the minds of
theater-goers. The reopening will occur
September Is, and there will be a theatrical
houscwarming to which all refined, fash
ionable and intelligent Washington will be
welcomed.
THE HOUSE OF GOOD SHEPHERD
Great interest Is being manifested in the
concert and dramatic entertainment in aid
of the House of Good Shepherd May 80 at
Columbia Theater The sale of tickets has
been quite large. The announcement that
Cardinal Gibbons will be present has been
hailed with great joy by the committee IN
charge. There has been no delay in the
sale of boxes. Boxes will be occupied by
his eminence, Cardinal Gibbons; Mrs. Jus
tice White, the Misses Riggs, Mrs. John G.
O'Donnell, Mrs. Bayne, Mrs. Henry May,
Mrs ]. Maury Dove and Miss Morris.
ATTRACTIONS AT GLEN SLIGO
The Boston promoters of Glen Sligo
will within a few days complete the
first series of attractions promised
to the pleasure seekers of Washing
ten. The new mammoth dining hall will
be the largest and finest in this section; the
seating capacity will exceed by fifty guests
the largest banquet room in the city.
Twenty walters will be dressed in conti-
mental uniforms, with powdered wigs and
cooked hats, and the service will be the
best A bake oven thirty-five feet square
will produce the celebrated Rhode Island
clambakes which local people read about,
but will now for the first time have the
chance to patronize at home. The new
dancing pavilion, that will exceed in floor
space any other pavilion devoted to dancing
south of New York, will have room for
800 couples. A carrousel, consisting of
twenty-four animals, will be a novelty, as
well as the Romany Rye gypsy camp
which will represent the truest type of gyp-
sy life in existence today, with the dozen
tents and queen van. Tomorrow there will
be musical program by the Caldwell or
cheStra from p.m until II pm.