Evening star., 1899-01-28

be a pleasure to theatergoers to learn that
Julia Arthur. who is now completing ten
weeks season in New York at Wallacks s
Theater, is soon to he here and will again
be seen in her famous characterization of
the dashing Clorinda Wildairs in her mag
nificent production of Mrs. Burnett and
Mr. Townsend's play. This season Miss
Arthurs s success in the play has been even
greater than it was last year, and as she
has made such a notable impression in
this city in it, it is likely that she will
again present "A Lady of Quality" and
also double bill which has met with de-
cided success in New York-'Pygmalion
and Galatea, followed by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich's picturesque little drama, "Mer-
cedes. in which Miss Arthur appears as a
Spanish peasant girl Miss Arthurs other
successes are 'As You Like 1t" and lingo
mar"
Crowded houses are said to have been
drawn by Mason Mitchell, whose war talk
is described as simple. thrilling, modest and
with the ring of absolute truth and SOL
dierly courtesy about it. Mitchell is glow
ing with enthusiasm over the magnificent
nShtlng of the colored regulars who made
the famous charge up San Juan Hill He
pays words of praise to Hamilton Fish,
Lieut.. Thomas and many of the celebrated
fighters who fell before the fearful attack
upon the old sugar mill at the top of the
hill at Las Guasimas, and in his enthusiasm
Mr.. Mitchell comes very near forgetting
that he himself was severely wounded ard
carries MS scars DrdNSly IN SlienCe. OF Col
Roosevelt Col. Wood and the splendid
Rough Riders, of whom Mitchell was one Of
the most fearless, the actor-soldier speaks
brilliantly and effectively, carrying SINGER
lty and as result conviction in his frank
pleasant twenty-five minutes of dread his
tory He wears the fatigue uniform of the
cavalryman, which is one honored with
wear and tear though perhaps not the one
IN which the shrapnel of a bursting shell
found him, and laid him over in the arms
OF Dig, sturdy Sergeant Sweet of the New
York police force, who carried Mitchell
wounded, to the shade of a neighborinp
thlcket. sweet was one of the finest men
of the great body of New York policemen
when he joined RooseVeits Rough Riders
But one night wan, yellow skeleton of a
man waited for Mitchell at the stage door,
and ms uniform brought a generous clasp
OF Mitchell hand, without any RECOGNITION
The soldier said, smiling: You don't know
me, do you?" and Mitchell was bound to
confess he did not. Well" said the SOL
der. smiling, you We're not too shy to
bleed all over my new uniform at San
Juan, and then Mitchell recognized in the
worn sick comrade the brawny Sweet, re-
duced to bones and friendliness.
The striking .cSemblance that Miss Josie
DE Witt bears to Nance o. Neil was the
outcome of an amusing incident that re-
Gently occurred In San Francisco and Los
Angeles. 1T appears that both had sittinps
at Well-known photographers in the for
mer city, and by some hortsightedness on
the part of an employee the packages Of
pictures became mixed, Miss O'Neiis being
consigned TO the agent of Mathews and
Burgers Company at Los Angeles for re-
production in the local press, while Miss
De Wits was forwarded to the same CITY
to the representative Of Miss ONeils COM