Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-11
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

B1JOU THEATER.-The Bijou will next
week present one of the finest programs
or high-class vaudeville acts that has as
yet been offered to it's patrons. Manager
Grieves is fully determined that his offer
ings shall be selected from the first ranks
OF the theatrical profession, and the per-
Torrance will fully come up to the high
standard of excellence Manager Grieves
has already set. Edward NJ. Favor and
Edith Sinclair, two artists of sterling
worth, will head the excellent BILL and the
place of honor will BE- well taken care of
in the hands of these capable ARTISTS, who
scored such pronounced success with Ed.
R1ces 'li92, Of which company they were
prominent members for several seasons.
They will appear in charming one-act
play1et, in which there will be comedy,
songs and dances. Another act which for
merit is worthy of the black type, is that
presented by Five Whirlwinds. the wonder
full acrobats. whose marvellous exhibition
has attracted much talk on the other
side of the water The three Racket
brothers viii offer an original creation that
VIII doubtless prove entertaining. Dainty
little Oracle Emmett will make her first
bow before a Bijou audience, presenting
budget of new and popular ballads. An
other act that will he sure to please will
be that of Charles Obrien and Nettie Col
Inns, the excel ent farce comedy team;
Fred Nibo the old Washington favorite.
VIII be on hand with a batch of new jokes.
HOwley and Leslie singers and dancers of
remarkable ability. will be seen in a new
sketch, while the Bijou Buriesque Com
pany, bigger, brighter and better than
ever, Will appear in a new and attractive
burlesQue.
SPIRITS ON THE sTAGE.-sunday
night, February u, at the Academy. DR.
John j. Alexander, who has been startling
the world by his superhuman theories will
give one of those seances which has made
him famous throughout the English-speak-
ing world, not in darkness but in open
hght. The following are among the many
manifestations given: DR. AIexander's
open seance, the same as presented by him
before the crowned heads of England Aus
tria, Germany and France. table rises
tour to five feet and floats in midair spirit
hands and faces are plainly seen and rec
presented by DIR. Alexander before the
greatest scientist that lives Prof VIM
Crooks, F. r. s.; flowers are brought and
passed TO the audience by hands plainly
seen etc. 1t is an established fact con-
coded by critics that DR.. Alexander has
done more to elevate the cause he repre-
sents among the scientists than any medi-
UNI since the days of Daniel Hume as he
IS positively the only person in the world
VINO mas the Endorsement of the Royal So
ciety of London, they having for three
months tested him in every way that hu-
man ingenuity could suggest and at the
ilnlsh presented him with a letter signed
oy such names as VIM. Crooks Wallace
Sargent Cox, Ionides, the Greek philoso-
pher, and Others, to the effect that the
manifestations given in their presence were
beyond human aid
"A TEXAS STEER. ''-Hoyt's "a Texas
Steer Will be seen at the Academy of
Music week of February 20. This is gen.
orally conceded to be the best comedy ever
written by Americas most fertile play
wright. 1t is based the trickery of ma
tional politics and the hollowness of FASH
ionable society. The story is that of a
StalWart Texan, a cattle raiser W.o is
elected to Congress against his will. and
compelled to accept the honor at the noints
OF mob's revOlvers. The congressman
elect accedes, and takes his family to
washington. Their incongruity with the
fashionable atmosphere in which they find
themselves affords Hoyt splendid o9por-
tunty for plenty of that gentle conta gious
humor, and he has awaited himself OF the
chance Lobbyists and office seekers
pounce on the new member and Hoyt ernD-
tles his whole CULVER, discharging satiricaI
shaft after shaft at the life and customs
OF sor1e of the nations lawmakers Katie
putnam has been specially engaged for the
dlfncuit role of Bossy one of the most de-
llghttul girl parts ever written. The strong
supporting company includes Will H. Bray
the original minister to Dahomey." and
Herbert L. Sears. the Maverick Brander.
evening at the Columbia Theater HaIey's
Band will give its second concert of the
season al popu ar prices, and. Judging from
the already large booking of seats and box
es, ne Will be greeted by a large and fash
lonabte audience Mr.. Haley has done
much TO keep alive the local musical in
terest and has gathered together band
that he has worked up to a high state of
perfecton and one of which Washington
may be proud. AT the Knights TemnIar
conclave in Pittsburg this fall HaIey's band
accompanied our local knights. The band
was highly commented upon and the news
papers of the smoky city heaped praise up
on the band and stated that it was url, ,IIes-
tlonably the best in the line of parade The
program. which IS given below has been
arranged TO please all classes of concert
Soers and contains many familiar airs. also
several new selections never before PLAYED
mere. The solotsts, four in number, are all
high cass, two of whom have never an
peared on the concert stage in this CITY
The band numbers will include the Tam
hauser marcn, the 'OberOu'' overture
Naldteufels waltz, Return of Spring."
sodeman's Swedish Wedding March,
characteristic by Miles selections from
Der Freischutz," KeIa BeIa's "Katchka
Polka I.angleys "Felice' and Sc ections
from The Fortune Teller The solos will
be Matters Leave Me Not and Denza's
"A Happy Morning" by Mrs VIM L. VIII
son: Rodney's Calvary" by Mr.. Leon Riz-
ensteine; De Beriot's A violin concerto, by
Mr.. Oswald Welt and a cavatina from III
IroVdtore, by Miss Mary Helen Howe.
THE NEXT BURTON HOLMES Lee
TtRE.-The next lecture to be given by
Mr.. Burton Holmes in this city Is on the
Grand Canyon of Arizona a subject I'M
equa ed in magnitude, wonder and beauty
for nowhere is there its equal as yet dis
covered in the world, nowhere on the
earth's surface IS there known such an
enormous crevice. laying bare the very
skeleton of this continent, over mile and
an eighth below the level of the surround
ing country. The Photographic results of
Mr. Holmes several weeks sojourn in these
wilds have been in the capable hands of
Miss Katherine Gordon Breed, whose fame
as d colorer of lantern slides is second to
none, and the result is said by Mr.. Homes
to exceed any of his former pictorial eff
forts. In addition to the still pictures, an
extensive series of motion pictures taken
by MIR. Holmes and his assistant Mr. De
Pue. will be shown. Among these motion
pictures there win be shown pictures of the
Moki snake dances, the descent of the car
AVIAN into the canyon, the six-horse stage
coach and trailer, view of the Colorado
river rapids at the bottom of the canyon
forty feet below the surface of the brink.
The lecture will be given at the Columbia
Theater next Wednesday afternoon at 4:15.
SUNDAY CONCERT.-The usual Sunday
concert will be given at the Bijou tomor
row night. Manager Grieves has provided
an excellent bill A number of new faces