Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-20


a sentmentaliSt and a lover, with tender
| speech and dgrified bearing. In the end he
becomes 1ivd figure of terror and hope
| lessness, outlined against a background of
| riot and destruction. Glarfsse the charac-
| ter to be vivified by Miss Terry, is liberty
| with history, introduced to supply the heart
interest of the play. Her presence is only
excused by the recorded historical fact that
even Robespierre in the days of terror had
time and inclination for fntrigues of a
purely social nature.
LAFAYETTE OPERA HOTSE.-Robert
b. Mantell and a company of clever play
ers Will be at the Lafayette Opera House
next week with new production, entitled
Inc Dagger and the Cross" 1t is a dram
auzation of Joseph Hatton's novel by W.
A Iremayne, and is given in five acts The
production has been emnently successful,
and Mr. Mantell has reason to be happy
thdt ne mas obtained a play so wei, suited
to his romantic style of acting and con-
tanning so much interest that ones atten-
Ton Is heid throughout the development of
the plot The story is of Bernardo Roubil-
lac, an Italian painter, who is tormented by
the attentions paid to his beautiful young
Wite by Giovanni Zilletto, sculptor and
noted rogue.
ACADEMIA most original performance
is IN store for those who attend the Acad-
envy or Music during Christmas week Rose
Melville will present for the first time in
inns city her pastoral comedy hit, sis Hop
hfns. play of Indiana life by Carroll
Fleming. Miss Melvil1e's quantity humor-
Gus rendition of the character of isis Hop
klns, together with her pathos, makes her
a favorit from the start with her audiences
Miss Melville is surrounded with an excel
lent company. including that clever de-
l1neator of comedy character, John Keefe.
The comedy is further frightened by the
INTRODUCTION at appropriate periods a num-
Der or original songs and several clean
specfalties. The engagement begins with
Christmas matinee
NEW GRAND-Seven headline" acts,
emp Dying forty-two prominent vaudeville
performers. and twelve new biograph NOV
ing picture scenes make up the Christmas
week Offering at the New Grand. On
Christmas day there will be three perform
ances. in accordance with the Grand's Gus
tom and the advance demand for seats in
dicates that all will be needed to provide
ayes lead the long list of favortes Their
first appearance hare early in the season
set the town wondering at their marvellous
martial skill. They are the champion fancy
drill team of America Maud Courtney re-
turns and Is the second great feature of
the bill. She has been engaged by David
Belasco, who expresses great confidence in
her future. Prince X. O'kabes Imperial
Japanese troupe will fill third place. The
princes troupe We're the chief attraction at
Atlantic City last summer, and their per-
formances in the Japanese village were al
ways before hosts of people. The two clever
little lads remain with them and are the
most admired members of the company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins D. Fisher and their
company also return to partake of Wash
ington cheer. Their former presentation of
The Half Way House will be repeated
and the claim that 1t Is the best quiet
vaudeville sketch will be supported by all
who saw it at the Grand early in the fall.
Genaro and Bailey. a handsome woman
and a talented comedian, will present their
speciality. Tom Hefron, the great dancer
and high kicker. alsos is engaged. Twelve
new moving pictures will be shown by the
moving picture machine.
KERNAN's LYCEUM THEATER.-Al
Reeves Big Double Company will be the
attraction at Kernan's Lyceum Christmas
week. 1t is headed by Inez Mecusker. who
probably is the highest salaried singer in
burlesque today. AL Reeves, with his banjo
and original Jokes and funny sayings is
always a prime favorite and he presents
besides. fifty artists of rank who combine
the interesting feature of minstrelsy, vau-
deville and extravaganza in a program that
promises to be the most varied of the sea-
son.
BIJOU THEATER.-Comm next
Monday afternoon and for the week follow
ing the Bijou will reinaugurate the appear
ance of its stock company, which has been
strengthened especially for Christmas
week. The chorus will number forty pretty
girls and ten comedians. The opening bur
lesque will be directed by Mr.. Lew H. Car
roll, recently of the Have You Seen
Smith company Mr.. CAROLS opening
burletta will be entitled Willie Off the
Yacht" In the olio will appear the Four
Weston Sisters; Patterson Brothers. hort-
zontal bar performers; Mile. Azara, the
human chameleon; Ralph Post and Essie
Clinton, eccentric comedians: Smith, Doty
and Coe. musical artists. and Mitchell and
Marion, late of the Brilliant Quartet"
Smoking will, usual, be permitted.
BENEFIT TO BIJOU TREASURER
Mr. Fred S. Wilson, treasurer of the
Bijou. will receive a benefit next Sunday
night when the full strength of the Bijou
gram. There will be ten big vaudeville
turns in addition. This testimonial will
come in the nature Of d Christmas gift to
Mr.. Wilson. and his friends seeing to
it that all the tickets will be sold. The long
program will be constructed In a manner to
offend no one. Tickets are selling fast.
BURTON HOLMES LECTURES-The
Burton Holmes lectures. which have come
to be considered an annual affair in this
city, will be given at the Columbia on five
Tuesday afternoons at 4:15, commencing
December 20, the subjects, with one excep-
ton, being entirely new. This exception is
Mr.. Holmes lecture on the Grand Canyon.
which met with such approval last season
and occaSioned so many urgent calls for its
repetition that Mr.. Holmes has decided to
embody it in his present series. This sea-
sons lectures will include the following
subjects; ba Man5a snd m, Rsysited
IONA" During the past summer months
Mr.. Holmes has been in Manila and Japan,
having secured splendid collection of
views showing native and military life in
the former. The other subjects for this
winters lectures are Round About Paris
the byways and paths seldom trodden by
the American tourist, appropriately chosen
in view of the coming exhibition-and The
quaint and barbaric simplicity of life
among the Indians of the southwest. BY
a special arrangement Mr.. Holmes will this
year be enabled to add to the pictorial por-
ton of his lectures motion pictures taken
in the lands upon which he will lecture.
Seats are now on sale.
THE MESSIAH.'-Thereis a perennial
freshness about Handers Messiah which
has justified its annual repetition for ten
years by the Choral Society. The compile
ton of the decade gives fit opportunity
for a special celebration of kind, so far as
can be learned never before attempted in
this country. The entire work. as Handel
wrote it, it Is well known, would consume
four hours in its rendition. 1t has conse-
quently been the rule to make liberal cuts
in the work, as to make a concert of
about two hours in length While different
omissions have been made in different
years. the result of this plan has been that
some of~the choruses of very great beauty