The evening times., 1899-09-02
THINGS THEATRICAL.

The first of the legitimate houses to
open this season will be the Academy of
Music, which is announced to re-enter the
local field with Labor Day matinee. ].
K. Emmett and Lottie ellison are the stars
to whom the honor of first occupying the
reftted stage has been assigned, and the
duo will be seen in revival of Fritz In
Madhouse.' comedy that stood the test
OF ten years continuous run in this
country. Mr.. Emmett and Miss ellison are
recruits from the ranks of the vaudeyil-
lians and each is too well known here to
require extensive mention. Both are
clever, and there seems to be no reason
why the old play should not return to it's
pristine popularity in their hands. Seats
for the week are now on sale at the
Academy.
Dewitt and Tourgie, musicians; the
Haines Sisters, soubrettes; North and
South, whose act is entitled "A Bunch of
Nonsense" Manning and De Crow, bar
experts; Eddie Weston and Sophie Thorne
sketchists, and the celebrated Leonards
form the roster of the metropolitan"
Burlesquers, which organization is to be
seen during the coming week at Kernan's.
All of the people mentioned are said to
lines OF labor and the performances they
present cannot but be meritorious. Some
thing of sensation is promised in the
afterpiece provided by the company, a
skit written by Frank Dumont and enti-
| tied The Girls Bachelor Camp" This
farce is supposedly well staged and OF a
superior order. Matinees will be given as
| usual during the engagement
No Ir,,,y tba
headliners of the bill to be furnished next
week at the Bijou, is woman of consid-
erable prominence in her profession. A
sister Of May Irwin, she followed an ex-
tensfye tour in which she was assisted by
Pete Daley with another in The Widow
JONES'" farce already all but worn out.
Her receipts during her first season on
| the road are said to have come within a
| few dollars of equaiing the best ever
| scored by John j. McNally's work. Miss
| Irwin has always been a feature of the
vaudeville performances in which she has
| appeared. She will be supported at the
| Bijou by Walter Hawley, a native CT this
city, and is to present an entirely new
sketch.
With those who have taken the electric
| cars for Glen Echo on hot nights of this
summer 1t has been matter of general
| comment that the temperature seems low
er Immediately that the city has been left
| behind. Washington, with its asphalt pave
ment5 and brick-fronted buildings, is like
| a giant oven which retains the heat of the
| sun hours after that orb has retired from
| business for the day. This being true, moth
| ing more refreshing than a jaunt into the
country could be imagined, and Glen Echo
/ with its various entertainments, furnishes
an ideal destination. The resort will remain
open until the coming of cool weather.
| The gentleman in Wang" who was per-
petually troubled by the fact that he had
IAN elephant on his hands would proba-
| bly, retain his sanity just about ten minutes
were he one of the Wallace Brothers, whose
| circus comes to town for next Monday and
| Tuesday Not only have these venturers a
| collection of dozen elephants, but they
| also possess a complete menagerie of unu-
| sual proportions. The food for the animals
they carry makes up a goodly share OF the
| $40, 600, which is mentioned as being tbs
sum of their daily expenses. When one
| considers that many OF the beasts eat only
| grub brought from Africa and Australia
that others must be kept continually sup
| piled with marvellous quantities OF ice. and
that all require watching ii would seem
| that the aforesaid gentleman in Wang
grumbled without having any more reason
for SO doing than a watch has for stopping