Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09


| sentences in his private correspondence as
| well as in his public compositions:
BOSTON, January p 1894.
"Beloved-My Wife: Inclosed is the form
al transfer to you of my wedding gift TO
| you, a play whose third act was written
F; with your beautiful face before me IN
| memory, and with love of you filling my
heart with hopes sweeter than hopes of
heaven-a play whose success is more than
a little due to your own exquisite self fllu-
| minating it like ray of sunshine
Il do not wait till our formal wedding in
March, for l wish you to know it from the
| beginning and | am now in your debt
S1,36o, already paid me, and which sum is
to be refunded to you.
You are the holy thing In life-the
first to teach me the unutterable sweetness
| of love-the first to whom my soul gave its
| absolute self, the first who drew from my
nature its entire strength, its perfect ador-
alton.
Il love you, love you. HAL.
"P. S.-Should the. occasion arise 1 desire
| you to enforce this transfer. BY it you are
| enforcing my dearest wish
If Mr.. Carleton were sufficiently cold
blooded he might put the letter into pay.
| 1t would sound very effective across the
footlights.
Richard Mansfield is to do Beau Brum-
| NELL and some others Of his old plays
| again, the successor to "Cyrano" not yet
! 40 SSNeii W.
One of the leading music halls in New
York has burlesque on Barbara Freit-
| chic with the irreverent title Barbara
| Fidgity.''
| Chicago is disposed to regard '.zaza" as
mild and moral compared with Olga Meth
| ersole's ''Sapho.'
William H. Crane is to appear in the dra-
| matization of David Harum," for which
| Charles Frohman has arranged. The first
production will occur in Syracuse. n. Y,
| where the late Edward Moves Westcott,
| author of the novel, lived.
| John w. Albaugh ST.. the veteran man.
| ager of the Lyceum Theater, Baltimore.
| who has been prominently identified with
| Washington theaterS makes his farewell
| appearance in Baltimore tonight, with a
| performance of ''Shylock." He has been
| connected with the stage as an actor or
| manager for forty years.
The character of Roubillac. the Italian
! said to afford Robert B. Mantell who Will
| be at the Lafayette Theater Christmas
week, perhaps the best opportunity he has
| recently had to display his powers as a
romantic actor.
Sol Smith Russell believes that a better
tone is soon to assert itself in theatrical
| performances and In public taste. He re-
| Gently said in Chicago:
1t has never been my fate to see the
decadence of a play house or the drama
! but always see the good ahead. In spite
| of 1t all the signs of the times are favor
able 1t has been a pet opinion of mine to
| observe that the theater is obtaining to-
| day a caste that it needs for its future
safety. We will have the drama proper.
| tragedy, classic plays. the domestic drama
| and the different forms of the melodrama.
| different forms of dramatic entertainment
1 in theaterS that have been built and dedi-
Gated to their use. That is where caste is
| coming in. We will always know first
| class theaters and ira gedy houses, the
| classic play house, down to the kindergat-
ten OF the theater proper in the vaudeville
house.
! THE strongest evidence in favor of my
| argument is the establishment of superior
stock companies, presenting plays in bet
ter manner than We used to give them in
| the cd stock days. The public is giving
strong recognition and encouragement to
/ these efforts. l attended performance in
Cincinnati by stock company that was
surprise to me- There is no better school
| for Il beginner than to be associated with
intelligent people, such / have found
members of these stock companies to be.
When the old stock days passed away
there was no school for the actor left, but
it is all coming back. and as good plays
predOm.nate, and, in fact, are the only ones
obtainabe under royalties that do not kill
all profits, the immoral play will have
short-lived run, / think"
THE Girl From Maxim's" was roundly
berated by the Philadelphia papers and
did a business SO large that the engage
ment was extended beyond the time origi-
nally contemplated. The management at
tributes the success of the Piece largely to
the violence with which its immoral tone
was condemned
The first production of who Killed Cock
Robin which was to have appeared in
Washington. proved TO be a brief and mel
ancholy inquest. 1t lasted one night. Mr.
Thomas Q. Seabrooke says the authors
We're TO blame. while others are inclined to
place the responsibility with Mr.. Seabrooke.
Miss Mary Sanders who is well known in
Washington, is to essay a starring season
in a series of the plays which Lolita used.
She will first appear at the Fifth Avenue
Theater, New York. in Little Nell and the
Warehouses, from Dickens old Curfos-
ity Shop" The company will include p.
Aug. Anderson, who played Qu.lp with
Lolita. and Harry Lacy, who will play Dick
SwiVeller.
NEW NATIONAL THEATER.-Charles
Frohman will present the Empire Thea
ter Company in Lord and Lady
AIgy'' during its tenth annual Washington
engagement, which will begin at the Ma
tional Theater on Monday evening and con-
tinue for six nights and two matinees. r.
c. Carton, the author of Liberty Hail.
wrote this comedy, and 1t is of the
greatest successes the Empire players have
ever appeared in. 1t ran all last season at
the Empire Theater to crowded houses,
closing its run in May at the very height
of its triumph, to make way for Maude
! Adams Romeo and Juliet" Recently the
company presented 1t in New York for two
weeks, and strong was the impression
made by the piece during its original run
that after an interval of six months it
picked up and resumed its triumph at the
point where it was broken off and played
again to a series of capacity audiences
Mr.. Frohman's faith in the comedy is so
great that he will use it again to open the
regular season at his theater early in Janu-
airy, and he confidently expects that 1t will
repeat its big business of this and last sea-
sons
Mr.. Carton depicts certain characters of
London's smartest set in this comedy, and
the manners of that branch of English
society are charmingly set forth. The
play has an attractive refined atmosphere
and is brilliantly written.
The story of Lord and Lady Algy" NAV
be briefly told as follows, though a bald
outline can give little idea of the recog-
nized beauties of r. C. Cartons work:
Lord and Lady Algernon Chetland who
give their names to the play, although
married but a short time, are living apart
when the curtain rises. They could not
agree on certain matters she has gone
to i've with her mother, while he is es-
conced in a fiat. They are all this time,
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