Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-09


prices rule during this engagement.
COLUMBIA THEATER.-Mr. Otis Skin
ner and Company is the announcement for
the opening at the Columbia. September
IS, when he will present Henry Arthur
Jones brilliant comedy, entitled The
Liars This play was originally produced
in London. where it ran for full year. the
American production taking place at the
Empire Theater. New York. last season,
where 1t ran for four months and was I'M
doubtedly the comedy success of the year.
The entire production, with scenery, cos
York. will be brought intact for this en-
gagement This play is a delightful enter
tainment of excellent literary quality, even
when compared with the best of this au-
thor's previous plays. In construction and
treatment 1t Is genuine comedy, its char
acters diversified and well assorted and
they are readily recognized as types from
everyday life. Indeed the comedy is re-
markable in its seeming reality and faith
full portraiture of human character. The
scenes of the play are laid in England, and
its character are all members of the Eng
lish aristocracy.
A thoughtful, frivolous. fascinating and
selfish woman. weak of head and hard of
heart, is married to an honorable but
rough and masterful man. her very OPP
posite in taste and disposition To amuse
herself for the mere fun of the thing she
has carried on Irritation with A gallant
soldier. a hero Of African explorations,
who has taken her very seriously and en-
couraged a passion which threatens to
wreck both himself and her Warned by
her sister and others of the danger she is
running. she attempts to dismiss her lover.
but he is no longer under control and fin
ally persuades her to grant him a farewell
meeting in a Riverside hotel. There she
is surprised by her husbands brother ard
realizing at last the peril Of her position,
she implores her sister and her most in
innate friend to back her up in the rather
n iy>,-t h{oh cIA hoc two tod - lie
arm her husbands righteous wrath The
conspirators. in a capital scene with very
strong ending. involve themselves in all
sordts of hopeless contributions, and In the
end the erring wife with her lover and hus-
band at the point of personal encounter.
does what she ought to have done at first.
calls upon the former to make a clean
breast of 1t. This he proceeds to do by de-
claring the lady's innocence, his own infat-
uation and his complete Indifference to the
husbands opinion on the subject. recon-
citation is brought about through Sir
Christopher Deering, and the lover returns
TO Africa the wife promises amendment
and the husband. admitting his own negli-
gence in the past. declares his intention of
assuming the part of lover in the future.
Mr. SINNERS supporting company this
season is a strong one. headed by Miss
Nannette Comstock The sales of seats
and boxes open Thursday morning
NEW GRAND OPERA HOUsE-There
Will be thirty participants in the opening
program of the New Grand, which begins
its second season under the management of
Burke K Chase next Monday. OF this num-
her Miss Lillian Burkhart is but one, vet
she is a host in herself. No more popular
actress or accomplished artist is to be
found among the many who have forsaken
the legitimate drama for the more popular
vaudeville. There is no better criterion of
the high standard of a house than the fact
that she performs there. In the rendering
of her newest dramatic brevity she has as
ISOLATED with herself an unusually promi-
nent company of actors. The Streator
Zouaves, numbering eighteen picked and
past masters of the military art are a
conspicuous part Of the program. They
nave been the sensation for some weeks at
the Toronto fair and will make the long
jump from that city to here. They claim
the title of champion prize drillers and
wall scalers of the United States and their
act next week will illustrate their asser-
ton. Edna Bassett Marshall with her
Street trchins' Quartet will give pictorial
singing of kind. 1t is believed, never be-
fore seen here. She has beautiful voice
and the three little children with her give
remarkable limitations of eminent singers
Sunshine and Sorrow" and this promise
OF mingled pleasure and pain will be agree
ably realized. George Wilson will angle
for fresh witticisms and viii have a basket
ful at every performance. His newest
songs and his latest sayings will be equal
TO any in the past, not even barring his
Waltz me again Mile. Salinas acrobatic
dancing is entirely different from that
usually done that the most extravagant
promise seems justitiable She has provided
special scenery that advantageously en-
Vlrons her artistic work Arthur Amsden
a genuine musical genius. will extract ha,.-
monies from all manner of Instruments
lnterspersinS them with his inimitable mono
ioSue. DAILY and Devere, the last of the
hill are exponents of legitimate Irish COM
eCy, and their singing and dancing have
head of b.i ola in,
refined vaudeville
ACADEMY OF MusIC.-The Academy of
Music VIII have for its attraction next
week the popular comedian George w
Monroe. who has surprised his most ar
uent admirers this season by his skillful
Interpretation of Mrs. e. 'Shaughnessey
in the comedy bearing the same name with
the concomitant of wash lady. In the de-
liheation of this parsonage Mr.. Monroe has
been called upon for the exposition of al
the artlficc in the gamut of histronic art
ana he has emerged from the ordeal with
distinction and honor. The saIlies of trench
ant wit, coupled with dainty bits of deica tie
pathos. make the character a most complete
one. that in the hands of a less talented
actor could be easily buresqued. But Mr.
Monroe handles his creation with that
consistency and subtility which character
ICES all of his work and stamps him today
one OF the foremost comedians upon the
American stage. The comedy of Mrs B.
o Shaughnessey has been constructed with
the sole object in view of making people
happy. The average life possesses enough
sorrow and tribulation Of its own, without
sitting IN theater to have it reproduced
to the detriment of ones nervous tempera-
meht, tired brain or reStful repose The
comedy Is literally embellished with clever
specialties and catchy songs.
KERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER-The
High Rollers open at the I.yceum next
week beginning with the Monday matinee
This Is the second season of the High Roll
ers, and 1t has been a triumphal march
from one city to another. They crowd
every theater where they have performed
The opening part of the bill gives you
glimpse of gay Partisan life. 1t is called
The High Rollers at the Paris EXPOSE
ton and along the line their lights do
shine. After the first part follows an olo
OF vaudeville artists, every a crack-a-
jack. Every performer taking part is
head-liner who dispenses wit, humor grace
and novelty until you wonder and marvel
that so much merit could be crowded into
one performance You hold your breath
and stare in amazement at the surprises
which follow in quick succession. For a
finish there is a buresque on the Great
Rubie," a play pronounced by the entire
auctions. and Il has proven a rich store
house to draw from. A frivolity has been
evolved of the catchiest sort which
blended as il is with the fun of the come
dams, the pretty girls in airy costumes and