Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-03
ADJUSTMENTS.


In theatrical matters this week. although
there is but one of the principal houses
open. That house, the Columbia, has had
the Standing Room Only sign out every
night except one, and ON that occasion there
was a terrible rain storm. Even then the
house was comfortably filled. These large
audiences in the face of a torrid tempera-
ture show the strong hold upon the play
going public which the Frawley company
has obtained. To be sure, interest this week
has largely conferred in.Miss Blanche Bates,
who came here very highly heralded, but
who has fully justified the praise bestowed
on her elsewhere. The Dancing Girl has
been admired both In an artistic and finan-
clal sense. and could run another week
with good pecuniary results. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the company should now leave
the city when it is making such splendid
success.
The National Theater opened its doors
Thursday night for one performance Of
Romeo and Juliet with Miss Maud
ACams as the Veronese maiden. 1t was
profitable venture for Mr. Frohman, who is
exploiting Miss Adams, and for the local
management.
Next week will be the last Of the Fraw-
ley company's engagement at the Column
bia. 1t is proposed to give repertoire
that will present Miss Bates in several
characters that will test her versatility.
For the early part of the week London
Assurance will be given, with Miss Bates
as Lady Gay Spanker. Friday night Sweet
Lavender will have one additional per-
Torrance, and at the Saturday matinee
and night THE Wife" will be repeated. In
both these plays Miss Bates will be seen
in the leading female character. The Ly-
ceum and the Bijou still present good vau-
deVille programs, and the weather appears
n a no hi he at
tendance. Monday night will be Manager
kernan's benefit, and the capacity of tbs
Lyceum will undoubtedly be tested
COLUMBIA THEATER.-'How blessings
brighten as they take their flight" is an
Old phrase applicable to the impending de-
parture of the Frawley Stock Company.
During the season of this excellent stock
organization, which will have lasted ten
weeks when 1t closes next Saturday even
ing, its popularity and patronage have been
constantly on the increase, until, during
the present week, the Standing Room
Only sign has been in use almost nightly
The plays selected by Mr.. Frawley, with
one or two exceptions, have all proved ac-
ceptable, while the players have made
themselves individually popular. During
the season they have run the gamut of
standard drama, from farce to melodrama,
proving almost equally good in all, although
the taste of the public plainly showed
preference for parlor plays, in which both
the comedy and dramatic talents of the
players could have full sway. Such plays
as ''TriIby,' The Charity Ball." The
Wife" "All the Comforts of Home" Lost
Twenty-four Hours" Alabama" Sweet
Lavender" Private John Allen" and THE
Dancing Girl calculated to bring out
all the resources of the best stock organi-
cation, and the fact that the Frawley Com
pany has been excellent in all of them
speaks volumes for the high standard of
ability contained in its ranks. From time
to time there have been changes in the
company, special players being engaged for
particular parts and in this way we have
seen such people Burr Mcintosh, Nine.
Cottrely, John Keilard, Chas. B. Hanford,
Alice johnson, Augustus Cook and last but
not least, Miss Blanche Bates, who has
made the stellar hit of the season in THE
Dancing Girl"
Fog next week Manager l'rawley has
planned farewell festival, including the
production Of Dion Boucicaul.'s celebrated
comedy, London Assurance, and revivals
OF two OF the most popular plays of the
past season. London Assurance" has not
been played here for SO long that it is
comparative novelty to the rising genera
ton of play goers, and, in addition to Civ
ing the Frawleys an opportunity to prove
their abilities in one of the little classics
of the English stage, the role of Lady Gay
Spanker will exhibit another phase of Miss
Bates versatile talents. The brilliance and
gaiety which she gives to the more emo
tional role of Drusilla Ives should stand
her in good stead in her irnpersonation of
Lady Gay, who is one of the brightest,
breeziest types ever given to the stage
by that prolific dramatist. Dion Boucicault.
The fact that London Assurance was
his maiden play, written when he was
only eighteen years of age, makes all the
more remarkable its construction and
character sketching. That sterling actor
Of the genuine English school, Augustus
Cook, should realize the hunting squire,
Max HarkaWay, to the life, while Har-
rington Reynolds will preserve the tradi-
tons Of the part as the audacious Dazzle,
from whose assurance" the comedy takes
its title. Charles King will be the gay old
beau, Sir Harcourt Courtley, while Mr..
t'rawley will play the role of his demurely
rakish son, Charles. Their contest for the
affections of Grace Harkaway, who will
be prettily played by Miss Mary Van Bu-
rem, is one Of the funny episodes of the
comedy.
j. r. Amory will play the mild-mannered
Mr.. Spanker, husband of the dashing Lady
Gay; Godfrey Stein will at last have a role
worthy of his talents in the ofticious law
yer, Mark NEEDLE, while Alfred Hickman
viii have another Cockney character as the
valet, Cool. Georgia Welles will be the
maid, Pert, while Frank Matthew, George
CASTOR and Thomas Phillips will complete
a cast well calculated to do full justice to
this delightful old English comedy
London Assurance" will run all the fore
part of the week, including Thursday matt
nee, and on Friday night there will be
single performance of Pineros prettiest
play, Sweet Lavender" with Miss Bates
1t so popular when presented earlier in the
season. Miss Bates will also play Helen
Truman in THE Wife," which will be the
farewell bill for Saturday afternoon and
evening. The final week promises to be thu
biggest in the whole season, and unless in
dications go for naught the company will
receive a farewell ovation that will linger
long in the memories of the members
Washington is a rather conservative city
and 1t takes stock company some time to
get on the best Of terms with our theater
sCers; but once established in local affec-
lions there is nothing too good for a home
company. Frawley's having been formally
adopted by Washington, will doubtless re-
ceivs a great send-off when they start for
Milwaukee. The final performance of The
Dancing Girl'' will be given this evening
MRS. MILLS CONCERTS.-Mrs. H IT.
Mills will give two concerts by her pupils
enc on the 9th, and the other on the 18th
instants, at the Church of Our Father The
programs have been carefully arranged,
and the performances will be inter sting
Although Mrs. Mills has introduced the
innovation OF selling her tickets This sea-
son. there has been a large advance sal,.
and much pleasure, as well as intellectual
and artistic profit, is expected from these
popular concerts