Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-03
daughter. The Carroll Institute Orchestra
will furnish the incidental music.

KERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER.-The
benefit performance to Hughey Herman at
the Lyceum Monday afternoon and even
ing will include many talented volunteers
will fill out the week. The artists are well
known here and are universal favorites.
Elaborate costumes and gorgeous scenery
and the brilliant effects produced by the
dazzling throng of beautiful girls has every
where created unbounded enthusiasm. The
burlesque, "a Hot Time at the Club" is
said to be right up to date, with funny sit
uations, and the supporting company is of
admirable strength al harmony. Miss
Violet Thorndyke, who plays the principal
part In the burlesque, appears to enter
timing advantage in her respective role,
and displays a versatility unequaled today
for scope and sparkle. Mitchell and Cain,
Misses Burman and Van, Blakely and
Lewis. Sevor and De Voc, Kline and Gott-
hold, Dora Weisman, the Grahams, the
Madisons and a chorus of twenty-five beau
tiful girls will no doubt be big success
next week. Reports of the Fitzsimmons-
Jeffries fight, Friday. June ., will be re-
ceived by special wire, and the audience
will be advised promptly by rounds.
THE BIJOU.-The rising of the curtain
at the Bijou Monday afternoon will be the
signal for the commencement of another
of those excellent shows for which that
popular play house is noted. The long and
brilliant program will be composed chiefly
of artists selected by Manager Grieves from
offerings will constitute thoroughly en-
joyable entertainment. The Brothers Abac-
coo, fresh from European triumphs, will
make their first bow to the local public in
a daring novelty which has won them the
nom de plume of THE European Marvels''
on the other side of the water. Dan Swift
and Fred. Huber will appear in side-split
ting comedy sketch. Others on the bill are:
Johnnie Weston and Annie Beasey, the re-
fined travesty duo in their dramatic play
let; the Sisters Stewart, dashing come
diennes, in a budget of up-to-date songs
and dances: the Tankas, in their mystify-
ing exhibition, and the Bijou big burlesque
company, which will appear forty strong
in snatches of grand and comic operas. The
following artists, assisted by the splendid
chorus, will occupy the principal roles:
Nina Collins, Annie Carter. Dot Davenport,
Flora Parker Barry Thomson, George Dia-
mond, Abbott Dawson, Charles De Forest,
Jack Flood and Sol Goldsmith. Matinee
daily.
CHEVY CHASE LAKE.-visitors to the
worlds fair Chicago will long remember
the. enchanting scenes on Wooded Island
during the summer evenings when lit up by
apparently innumerable miniature lamps in
glowing colors, giving it the appearance of
veritable fairy land. AT a heavy expense
the management has arranged with the
Chicago Lamp-Candle Company for a re-
vival of those delightful scenes at Chevy
Chase Lake for the week of June 4, 1899.
Thousands upon thousands of fairy lights
Elections on the placid surface of Chevy
Chase Lake. Music on the waters iIumi-
mated boats. You can't afford to miss it.
MISS CLARA STEVENS MAY BALL
The popular aversion to sitting through an
entertainment during the warm weather
did not affect the attendance at the repeti-
ton of the annual May ball of the pupils
of Miss Clara Stevens, given by them at
Carroll Institute last night, as testimon-
ial benefit to their instructor The large
audience was not only generous in point
of numbers. but was also enthusiastic in
showing appreciation of the excellent work
performed by those having a place on the
program. The program was the same as
that presented by Miss Stevens at the orig
inal exhibition, the grand march beginning
at O'Clock, with the addition of a special
number of Miss Stevens herself, given in
response to very general request on the
part of her audience. At the conclusion of
the regular program the floor was cleared
and general dancing was enjoyed until a
late hour.
GLEN ECHO.-The attractions for next
week at Glen Echo include John Kernel, the
king of Irish wits; Banks Winter and his
daughter Mona in a sketch; Cushman and
Sadie and Herbert, in an operate
sketch, Louis Falkousky, the great animal
1mitator, his first appearance in Washing
ton; Lester and Jerome, sketch artists; the
three NaVarOS, the American Vitagraph
and Frank Monroe and company in their
one-act comedy, "One Wife Too Many