Evening star., 1899-04-15

best monQloguists In fropt of the footlights.
The pertormanpss2 eoneudes . with an e. e.
King" which Is certainly amusing. Dancing
specialties are here intooduced, and there
is patriotic finale which brings forth ad-
miration from all.
THE BIJOU THEATER.-As result Of
Jealous efforts and careful selection on the
part Of Manager Grieves the followers of
the Biiou will be enabled to witness an
other strong and entertaining program dur
ing the coming week. McAvoy and May
will head the strong bill In rousing COM
great laugh from start to finish. The
three brothers Luken, who are acknOwl-
edged to be among the greatest acrobats,
will appear in their exhibition of marvellous
feats on the bars. Dan Tourgee and Eva
Dewitt will present a comedy and musical
act said to be greatly above the average.
Fish and ouigg, styled the long and short
comedians, will be seen in their eccentric
and laughable sketch. The three Goldsmith
sisters singers and dancers of ability, will
appear in a delightful and artistic Offering,
and the famous soprano singer, Miss Adelia
Rotano, Is also down for return engage
ment. The Bijou Burlesque Company will
appear in a novel musical offering, intro
duc!ng many new favorites and all the es-
tablished ones, including Dot Davenport
Flora Parker, Viola Sheldon, Will Thornton,
Billy Watson, Sam Adams and many 9TH
ers of equal note.
THE ELKS' BENEFIT.-The arrange
ments for the Elks' benefit next Tuesday
afternoon at the Grand Opera House are
complete, and the affair promises to be
one of the events of the season. The COM
mittee in charge have secured the services
of long list of artists, and an enjoyable
afternoon is assured to all. The full United
states Marine Band under the direction of
Prof. VIM. H. Santelmann. will open the
program. Among the others who will ap-
pear are Miss Minnie Dupree and Com
pany, in Annie Russells ''Dangerfield, 95;"
Miss Nellie MacNulty, the popular Wash
ingtonian. who sings new coon songs: the
Sisters Millar: Hilda Thomas and Frank
Barry, in Miss Ambttion;' Burr Mcintosh
and Company. presenting The Colonels
Xmas Eve" Miss Constance NJ. Hurworth,
the phenomenal double note whistler; We'll
by, Pearl, Keys and Ne!ls, artistic
dancers: Mile. Adelna Roattna, operate
vocalist; the Three Nondescripts, acrobatic
comedians; Miss Florence Henri King, the
charming Washington violiniste: Carmenel-
Ii and Lucille, musical comedians: A. c.
Lawrence, monologuist Dewitt and Tour
jee, two American trumpeters; Whitelaw
and Stewart. German and Celt; Fish and
Qulgg, eccentric comedians; Miss Louise
kcrlin, vocalist; Miss Flora Parker, vocal
list: Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Darrow, sand
drawings, finger pictures, etc; Marguerite
and Princess, in their pantommic and
terpsichorean descriptive speciality, Amer
ica.' and the three Goldsmith Sisters. The
performance will commence at 1890 and
continue uninterruptedly all the afternoon
The house will be beautifully decorated,
and handsome souvenir programs furnish
ed those holding reserved seats The ad-
vance sale indicates that standing room
will be at 4 premium.
COMTESSE DE KERMEN'S LECTURE.
The Comtesse de Kermen gave her lee
ture, entitled Celebrities of the Modern
Stage, at the Columbia Theater yesterday
afternoon. refined audience, chiefly
feminine in character, expressed the keen
est pleasure and complimented the COM
tesse by giving her close and unbroken at
tention to the end. Her graphic word pic
lures of Coquelin, Irving. Jefferson Mod
jeska, Bernhardt, Salvini, Rachel Booth
and others were most admirable and novel
presentations. The stereopticon views
which accompanied them were especially
clear and fine. Comparing Mansfield's
"Cyrano' with Coquein's original, she
said: An excellent quality of the play is
It's eXuberant wit, which, being put into
poetry, makes it the most exquisite dish
that has ever been served to US. If that
superior composition Were to be criticised
we might say that it is too witty. Although
much of this quality of wit has been lost
In the translation, still even in English the
play is witty. But Mr. Mansfield does not
always bring out the wit. In the brilliant
TRADE about his nose he did not vary his
tone; IN that other magnificent one about
the dignity of authorship, he had no en-
thusasm. He forgot that he was PLAYING
the part Of Frenchman, still more the
part of Gascon."
Nine. de kermens picture of the hero as
he lived in the seventeenth century showed
that his face was badly SCARED and was
adorned by nose of rather unusual length
said she: "Cyrano as represented in Paris
by Coquelin may be compared to the most
brilliant summer day, with delightful
touches of melancholy, poesy, grandeur
ana suphmty; Cyrano as translated and
played by Mr. Mansfield Is like sentiment
tai night and melancholy autumn with
some false notes, but also with some mag
nihcent accents of pathos and tragedy
BURR McINTOSHS LECTURE-Burr
Mcintosh will prove his versatility next
week in quite an unusual variety of ways
On Monday he will give his justly famed
Frawleys production of Alabama" at the
Columbia Theater. Mr.. Mcintosh is the
acknowledged leader among the actors OF
southern character parts, his performance
SMITH in In Mizzoura," Colonel Calhoun
Barker in John Needham's Double"
Daniel Boone Bingley in The Governor of
Kentucky" and other creations, attesting
to that fact. An entirely new character to
Washingtonians will be presented on Tues
day afternoon, when Mr.. Mcintosh presents
his sketch of Virginia life, THE Coloners
Xmas Eve, from his own pen, on the oc-
cas.on of the Elks' benefit.
But next Friday afternoon at 4:15 Mr..
Mcintosh will be seen in what will pos
sibly be his most interesting performance
of the week, when he gives what he styles
A very interesting couple of hours are
promised, and ones which will very prob
ably give heartaches to the admirers of
several popular idols. While showing the
hundred and fifty pictures on the screen
tall of which he himself took, Mr. McIn-
tosh promises to tell the unvarnished truth
about number of the events which oc-
CURED during the progress of the 5th Army
CorpS.
LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE.
The last appearance here of John Philip
Sousa and his ever-popular military con-
cert band for a year will be at the Sousa
spring music festival announced for
Thursday afternoon, April 20, at the La
fayette Square Opera House. At this time
of the year Sousa always prepares some
especially attractive feature for his Wash
ington concert, and this time he has ar
ranged to give the first public performance
of two new compositions from his own pen
and he will also introduce five soloists new
to these concerts. First of Importance is
the new Sousa march, which the band
master-composer has reserved for it's first
hearing in this city. The march is written
in Sousa's characteristic vein and has all
the fine military swing and dash of his
famous THE Stars and Stripes Forever"
Sousas marches are so universally popular
the world over that every new contribution