Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-13

conclusion Of the New York engagement
win play q few Of the important cities and
TEtll ylsis Washington on the evening Of
a Te entire proS Sassns VIII r. be s lseMn
~ the New National Theater where or
ders are now being received These orders
Viii pc ready for delivery on Tuesday. May
16, at am, and on Wednesday. May II,
the regular sale will open.
WAY DOWN EAsT."-The attraction Sc
cured for jubilee week at the New National
Iheater is w. A. Brady's successful pro-
auction. Way Down East" which pleased
a succession of crowded throngs at this pop
uIar theater last fall. The unusually strong
cast remains intact. and its return will be
warmly welcomed by lovers of bucolic
drama
MISS CLARA STEVENS MAY RAIL-
Inc annual dancing exhibition by the pupils
OF Miss Clara Stevens will be given at the
National Rifles Armory, G street between
9th and 10th streets, Tuesday evening next
at I:30 o'clock. The program that has been
arranged for this event, while an extreme
iy long one, embracing a great number of
SOLO, Duet and group dances. should be
very interesting and entertaining. The
frst part is given up to the entrance of the
queen of May attended by the members of
her court. whose appearance is set for 7:30
o CLOCK sharp in order to allow the pro-
gram to be gone through with in time to
give the older persons present oppor-
tunity for general dancing during the lat
ter part of the evening number of solo
dances viii be given in this part of the
evenings entertainment, including some
novelties that have not been seen before
in this city.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE BIJOU STOCK
COMPANY.-There will be a testimonial
benefit rendered to the ladies of the Bijou
Stock Company tomorrow evening at 5
O'Clock, for which occasion q splendid pro-
gram of vaudeville talent will be present.
The season now closing has been a highly
successful one, both from an artistic and
box office point of view. This is partly due
to the hard work of the stock company,
which has proved a drawing card during the
past two seasons, and now the management
is about to demonstrate its appreciation in
substantial manner. Besides the big bill
of fourteen high-class variety acts, the
stock company will appear in a new musi-
cal burletta written for the evening, in
which will appear Nina Collins, Sam
Adams, Annie Carter, Barry Thomson,
Ruth Beecher George Diamond. Flora
Parker, Will Thornton, Flora Scott, Chas
De Forest. Dot Davenport, Jack Flood:
Leona, Clara Higgins, Lolita Hill, Mabel
Brown, Hilda Howard, Florence Brown,
Allie Danish, Fanny Howard. Ethel lie
Van. Sidonne Dixon. Maud Woody, vera
Cameron, Stella Wood, Violette Narney,
Anna Danish, Minnie McCahan, faiihy
Flynn and many others
MANAGER KERNAN'S BENEFIT.-The
Hot Air Burlesque Company is the organ
ization engaged for the week OF Mt
Kernan's benefit, June 3, including the peh-
eft performances, Monday afternoon ana
evening. Though this will be the hrst APP
pearance of this aggregation, 1t is what
Manager Herman has sought viz: to pre-
sent at his benefit a burlesque organization
that had never appeared here before 1t Is
under the direction of Sam Dessauer whose
eventful career has won for him the So
briquet of the millionaire Snowman. and
who played with the beneficiary years ago.
spicy entertainment is promised, with the
temperature up to the safety point, and
there is Mr. Dessauer's assurance that his
company will include a number of the ia
vcrites of the Dainty Duchess Company
with which he was recently associated.
Seats for the benefit are now selling. and
whole sections of the orchestra have been
engaged by delegations of Mr. kernans
friends from Baltimore and New York.
DIR. STAFFORDS LECTURE.-Lovers of
Shakespeare and all literary Washington
ians will have the privilege of enjoying
rare treat in the form of another lecture
by Rev. DIR. Stafford at the Lafayette
Square Theater next Thursday evening.
This occasion will mark the first presenta-
ton, of a new critical Grafton upon Shakes
peare's Julius Caesar by this eloquent lee
turer and it may confidently be expected
to equal and perhaps excel his other sue
cesses The coming lecture is to be gwen
as benefit for the Ladies' of Charity, and
the sale of seats, which has been in prog
exceedingly large.