Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23

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| over his kind old cheeks. I've seen him
white with rage and his dark eyes blazing,
when some one belonging to me has said
lightly and piayfully to him, Why did
Ing 50 tired yesterday? You work her too
hard. He thought It was unjust and SIM
ply famed in his wrath-but oh. 1t was so
sweet. the reconciliations after the little
| MISUNDERSTANDING: and the rehearsaIs
were always shorter afterward. He used
to say there should be no such word as a
quarrel. and one morning he produced
mysteriously from his pocket book a slip
or paper with these words written in big
letters: There do exist such things as hon
est m,sundersta ndings. There. my Flea
(my name is Ellen Alicia) stick that up
| IN some place where you will often see It
Better put 1t on your looking glass he
| rsoely added. and it will give you world
OF unhappiness IL you get those words well
into your noddle.' 1 think he was right
NOT always so right were his theories about
Stage management. One idea Of his was
| tnat everything should be real in the way
| OF properties upon the stage and he pro-
ouced a little play of his own called 'Ra-
cnel, the Reaper and tried to nut into
practice some of his pet theories. He had
snort, real wall built across the stage
OUT as there was no real sun there were
| no real shadows, and the absence of the
painted shadows made the real wall ap-
pear IKE anything but wall at all. There
was real pony, who did his part beauti-
| fuily; but the real sheep the real dog and
me real goat really deserved to be fined a
week salary As for the real pigs-weIl
tney never appeared at all. Mr. Reade ar
rived In four-wheeler one morning at re-
| nearsal, with goat and three wee pigs
Inc goat was secured, but the Instant the
CAB door was opened away went the wee
pigs helter-skelter, one toward the strand
another toward the Endell street baths and
another here and there. and dear old
Charies Reade flying after them. and in
such deadly earnest, too. for did not the
success of his play depend upon those real
pigs? But no-not one little piggie STAYED
at home and Charles Reade in his rage
oe ,e the pigs should be cut out-an1
cut out they were The goat was taken by
Charles Reade to his beautiful garden al
hnightsbridge. A little matched house was
punt tor him. and books on goats were
nousht TO Know how to treat the animal
properly. But the uugratefuI wretch had
no appreciation of the fine food bought
MIN. nor of the velvety lawn and even
the matched house failed to touch his heart
He pinned away. getting thinner and thin
FER the better he was fed. But the dining
room was on level with the lawn. One
evening the windows were opened and
when the gas was lighted in frisked Mr.
Goat in the highest spirits. All was clear
He had been born and bred in the sawdust
(Charles Reade had bought him from a
elrcus) and he pinned, not for fresh air. nor
for lawns, nor matched houses but for
the smell of the lamps and the applause of
the multitude. He may be alive at this
day, for he was sent back an ungrateful
Speit' NJ Hdu no more appreciation tnal
pig OF an aesthetic existence. How many
animals ION two and four legs) have cause
to remember Charles Reade with reverence
and gratitude
COLUMBIA THEATER.-"Naughty An
thony' is a Belasco comedy. After such
serious work this really clever writer of
plays has done 1t will be interesting to see
what he can do in the way of laughter
Curiosity will be naturally aroused by the
assurance that Belasco has not seized upon
any OF the tne-worn devices for creating
funny situations. In Naughty Anthony I"
his thoughts have chosen a compare lively
untfodden field. He is to give us a So tire
on the absurd rules which govern such
places as Asbury Park and on the old blue
law of Connecticut making kissing crime
He has located the action of his new com
edy at Chautauqua, N Y. where "Nau-h-
ty Anthony, professor of moral culture
mas not only established a college, but has
gathered about him group of ideaIists
Ihey worship him. He caters to their alb
surd notions. hosiery model comes to
ChautauQua with her EMPLOYER and his
wi!e' she ioathes her calling. 1t is nothing
but stockings, stockings, stockings she
wants to get away from them She hears
one OF the professors lectures and believes
she has at last reached the climax of her
a nha OF peter life Being human-very-
she proceeds to fall in love with the nro-
1essor Not because he is attractive; on the
| contrary. he has weak eyes weak voice and
weaker head. He hesitates She persists
anu Inc stillHtHy OF OLD, he wpaRaOS
Is one of those stories that are told at the
beginning w j. LeMoyue, who plays the
part OF an innocent old gentleman. is &C
cused OF the awful, soul-stfrring crime of
hlSSlng woman. This loses him his wife
In the first act his home in the second and
Is ABOUT to lose him his character In the
thlrd, when. like the proverbiaI worm he
Turns. or course. things end happily. the
professor confesses ana the hosiery model
is duly penitent- He goes back to his col
!ese ana she to trying on stockings There
is love story in the play; story of two
u ,ist. people VINO have walked hand-in- nd
win hearts beating together through half
century of welded life The production
OF Naughty Anthony" Will be elaborate
Every one who follows dramatic afTairs AT
all Will know that anything David Paiasao
does will be well done. He salec,aS aSot
clever woman. Blanche Bates. for the boN
slefy maid; W. ]. LIE Moyne, whose name
Llee9s no praise; Frank Worthing. who has
made good impression here. GI;,,a Dc
path, Maud Harrison. William Elton ~
mace hit In "A Little Ray of SUNSHINE -
Aloert Bruning. who was the roue in ga
"a, and a number of others ~
NEW NATIONAL THEATFR IF ..
likely that the quite unusually marl.5
demonstrations of appreciation that greeteJ
lying and rs, ENGAGEMENTS in New York, Boston
ana Philadelphia will be repeated IN w.
lngton- The repertory of the week Is as
follows: Monday. Tuesday, "Wednesday md
n nn1rsday n nights: "Robespierre;' Friday
tiie,t' aieicHdHI OF Venice Saturday
naanee The Amber Heart" and Nance
o OH Saturday night. Waterloo" and
me Bells The new Sardou play. "Roba-
spierre, calls for immense stage settings
which are afforded in the resplendent sty1e
Oh OF the London Lyceum. In the first act IF
hooespierre' liason that has existed he
tween the man of terror and CIarfsse de
nafqeon IN days long gone by is referred
60. honespierre comes to glade in the
forest OF Montmorency to meet an English
emissary- His personal attendants discover
Clar1sse in hiding with her niece. Robe
splerre is told of the incident, but does not
see the women. He orders that they be inn
prisoned In Act II the first scene IL the
prison Some of the condemned play at
gong to their death with sham guiliotine
ana scanold made of tables and chairs
Here are Clarisse and her niece Marie
Iherese, Olivier, the son of Clarisse and
Robespierre, gets in to see his mother and
Is deeply impressed with the cruelty of
Rooespft rTe. whom he does not know as his
father. In another scene of this act is the
great pageant the Fete of the Supreme
Being, whose prophet Robespierre is pro-
claimed to be. The dictator addresses the
crowd from the statue of liberty. when DIV
Ter, In the mob, denounces him and is hur-
RED on to prison. In Act III the scene is