Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-22
ADJUSTMENTS.

| The hot weather has not been favorable
for theater-going this week. although the
| nights have been cool. But the play at
the Columbia Theater has not been pop
| ular one, nor has the company. with but
| an exception, shown to so good advantage
| as last week. Mr.. Godfrey Stein has done
by long odds the best work, and that fact
| has been recognized by the audiences.
Next week Miss Blair will present East
| Lynne" play which, like Camille" will
| never grow old, because there is so much
| of heart interest in it. Lucille Western.
| Mrs Bowers and Ada Gray all made a
| great deal of money in this play. and it is
| believed that Miss Blair will prove as ef-
| fective a Lady Isabel as either of those
| actresses. The company will also appear
to advantage.
None of the announcements made in the
theatrical world so far this season is SO
| brimful of healthy promise as that of the
Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Am
sterdam. The authors of the play are
| Brander Matthews and Bronson Howard,
| and II an apprenticeship in the craft of play
| making, Skill a nice sense of the dramatic
| unities and brains go for anything, their
| play should be a success of no mean order.
| When 1T was announced that Mr. Matthews
| and Mr.. Howard had collaborated on play
| Tor Mr.. Crane, requests began to pour in
| on Joseph Brooks, the comedians man
| ager, from all sections of the country from
| managers who desired to contract for Mr..
| Crane and his play. The demand has been
unprecedented, and it shows the vast
| amount of faith the theatrical world has
| in tho as yet rntried play As it looks now
| Mr. Crane will do very little travelling dur
ing the season. He will begin his tour after
| long series of rehearsals in Providence
| after which he will visit Hartford and New
Haven, leaving the latter city for New
| HOrk, where he hepiOS q lnnPthv
| gagement in early October. 1t is not prob
able that he will leave New York until
after the holidays, and then only to visit
! the larger cities of the country.
Julia Arthur will continue to play "A
Lady OF Quality occasionally, as it is de-
Handed by managers and the public,
| though her personal preference is for the
| higher examples of the drama Therefore
her magnificent production of Romeo and
| juliet, which she has presented so far
| only in Chicago and Boston. where it was
! received as great triumph in dramatic
| art, will be given frequently in the various
cities of the tour, as Mss Arthur is very
| fond OF the character of Juliet and agrees
| with the large body of Shakespearean crit
les that this tragedy is the greatest love
| story ever written in any language.
| Miss Arthur will also present Hamlet"
| playing herself the role of the philosophic
| Dane. Her beauty, temperament, style
| Voice-ner whole histrionic equipment-alI
| VIII !end themselves peculiarly to this am
|
doubt afford brilliant opportunities, for the
display of her remarkable tragic gifts Miss
Arthur has devoted much time to the crit
1Gal study OF this sublime tragedy since Sir
| Hehry irving suggested at rehearsal in
! London one Gay that she play Hamlet
| However. Julia Arthurs piece de resist
| ance Tor next season will be the spectacular
Parisian success. More Than Queen" by
| Emile Bergerat, first produced in the
| French metropolis by Jane Hading and
Goquelin. This is romance of the time of
Josephine and Napoleon. Miss Arthur will
present this drama on a most elaborate and
| sumptuous scale. In fact, it will be almost
| an exact duplicate CT the presentation made
at the Iheater de la Porte Saint Martin in
.aIls. me empire costumes to be worn by
| MISS Arthur and her coadjutors will be
| rnodeled on those actually worn by the
| creole empress, ard will be superb The
| 1eWeiry that Miss Arthur will use is now
| neing made for her by a skilled workman in
| the Museum of the Louvre. who has OBJ
| tanned permission to copy the crown jewelry
| OF Napoleon The scenery for More Than
| Queen will be archaeological and beautiful
| to a degree perhap s hitherto unattemnted
| except by Sir Henry Irving What con-
| stitutes part of the supreme attractiveness
oi ms imperial idyll is that it exhibits the
| olsunctiy human SIDE of that majestic per-
| sonai1ty whom mems imaginatfons reading
between the lines of history have invested
I with something of the mystic and the
| superintendent his relations TO the irra
| sistfble Josephine. the woman bebind tho
| throne, who through the heart of the SOW
| ereign, always kept finger tin upon the
| scepter. "
| NaSenhals & kemper's triple-star com,
| plhauon, Louis James. Kathryn Kfdder and
! lures IS. Hanford, will play limited en-
sasement In this city in September nre
| senting repertoire of Shakespearean and
cassie plays. The feature bill will he an
elaborate revival of 1.-THE Winters Tale -
i n, "l ,I.. ar. James will be seen Antoly-
| Gus Mr.. Hartford as Leontes and Miss Kid
der In the dual roles of Hermjone and
Ferdlta, the characters in which Mary An
uefson made her farewell appearances in
| this country. The production will no tho
most sumptuouS and comuIeta fror, -
scenic standpoint of any Shakespearean re-
Vlval ever given in this country, and viii
| appfoacn IN massiveness and detail the
productions OF Sir Henry Irving During
tne engagement here the triumyirate will
also present THE School for Scandal -
winch proved such brilliant success last
season. The company engaged TO sunnort
the Louis James, Kathryn Kidder ava
tharies b. Hanford combination is one of
superior strength 1t will include Earrv
Ia is soa41, ana 1ohn Eilsier the two grand
tombstone, Thomas Coffin Cooke Norman
racket, Helen Singer. Mrs. Henry Van
denhoff and twenty others
Jennie Eawley. formerly second contra1to
OF the Bostonians, and last season sunport
ing Alice Nelson in The Fortune Teller"
mas been re-engaged by Manager PerIev
scene representing an Austrian eardan
OF the last century on the banks of the
beautiful blue Danube will be one Of The
inviting stage pictures in the new opera
Julian Mitchell, under whose direction Alice
Nelson's comic opera success of last sea-
son, The Fortune Teller" was produced
VIII stage her new opera, the title of which
mas not yet been decided. Alice Nelson
will sail from San Francisco on the steam
snip Yucatan on the Goth of this month for
the Sandwich Islands She will snend q
month in Honolulu and Waikiki. and then
return to this country, going direct to New
York to rehearse.
The residents and employees at the naval
proving grounds, Indian Head Md. re-
Gently enjoyed an entertainment given by
Mr.. Edward n. Hoyt. the well-known actor
and elocutionist. The program consisted
Of Rotations and representations classic,
pathetic and humorous, and was rendered
in a mastery manner Mr. Hoyt was
warmly complimented by Captain Couden
and many others. Mr.. Hoyt is identified
with the legitimate drama having repeat
edly appeared in the nations capital in
support of Louis James, Frederick Warde.
Robert Downing and Charles B. Hanford.
Miss Minnie Hunt of WASHINGTON hoe