Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-19

and Carleton kept the audience in a roar
OF laughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart barrow
present very clever and unique speciality
making sand pictures, smoke drawings and
shadowgraphs thinner, the juggler, has
originality as well as skill. Trask and
GLADDEN. are satisfactory singing and dane
ing comedians, and the new, biograph pic
lures are good.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC-Miss tombstone
Bennett struck the town last night, and as
THE Female Drummer" with her unlim-
tied supply of push and nerve, entertained
a capacity house at the Academy of Music
The production of this Blaney piece is al
most precisely the same as seen last sea-
son at the Lafayette Square Opera House.
The cast has remained unchanged in the
important characters, while the scenery, cos
tunes and girls are bright and fresh as
ever. Miss Bennett has her name in box
car letters on the program and is content
with no less than eight parts. She switches
from masculine female drummer into a
babe with q bottle in the twinkhng of an
eye. and then runs through list of per-
Sonages of both sexes. In fact, she develops
a diversity of DISCUSSES that would have
aroused the keenest envy in the breast of
the WHY old Hawkshaw. Miss tombstone
Benefits work is along the same line she
has followed for some years In truth 1t
must be said she has added nothing new
during the twelve months the present show
has been IN the road. Her business and
lines are the same. THE Female Drum
ici Is HOtHiuB more OF less lnd0 a Nduue-
Vile performance, and hence should at
least be polished up in spots when playing
in city already visited. The other capable
people In the cast have injected lot of pep
per and up-to-dateness in their work. Nell
lie O'Neil In the last act aroused the audi
ence to enthusiasm. Clever Willis P. Sweat
man was welcomed in his old role of Super
Stitlous, the colored janiter. The Colored
imperial Quartet sang exceptionally well.
The chorus girls are young and pretty.
PADEREWSKI.-This afternoon at AIS
at the Columbia, Paderewski, the great
Polish pianist, will make his bow before an
audience that will undoubtedly crowd the
auditorium of this theater from pit to
dome, and with receipts the largest that
nave ever been payed to in this city by
pianist. His recitals last week in New
York city and Philadelphia were attended
by one crushing mass of humanity, and in
stop selling tickets. The program, which
Is given below, has been selected with
great deal of care, and includes selections
from most of the great masters. Pade-
reWsk1 arrived in Washington late yester-
day afternoon. His selections will be as
follows: Fantasia and Fugue. A minor,
Bs 4 Sonata Appassionata, minor,
the Lark, Fri King, schubert-Liszt; Bal
lade, A fiat major, OPP. Al, Chopin; Valse,
Up. ~, Chopin: Etude, OPP. 10, No. 3,
Chopin; Polonaise, OPP: SO. Chopin; Barca-
major, Paderewski; Valse Man Lebt Nur
Einmal," Straus-Tausig; Rhapsodie Hon
groise, No. 8. List
kERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER.-T
program offered by the Hurtfg and Seamon
Company at kernan's this week is good in
spots. The entertainment suffers by the
dragging in of offensive material. A clever
OHIO Is opened by the Brownings with rms
time melodies. Nina Collins, much i'm
proved in voice. was entirely satisfactory in
her contribution. Johnson, Davenport and
Lowell introduced q ia ring tio
cialty. The worlds trio have slightly modi-
fed their time-honored specially. Both the
LADIES are clever. By far the most enjoya-
bic feature was the singing of the Bison
City Quartet The singing is clever, but
the comedy is bad. A featureless after
piece, entitled "a Social Maid closed the
entertainment.
B1JOU THEATER-Vulgar suggestion is
the chief though not the only, stock in
trade of the performers at the Bijou this
Week Little Egypt gives a performance
of which description in print is impossi-
BILE II one can forget these things, or
leave the theater before the appearance of
Little Egypt, very clever entertainment
burlesque entitled "A Gay Old Time" in
which the full strength of the visiting COM
pany is augmented by the Bijou Stock
Company and both work with a harmony
that is pleasing. The olio, too, is good.
MISS PITTS CONCLUDING LECTURE.
Miss Pitts gave last evening her lecture
on the Danish Conquest the last of her
deServedly popular course on early Eng
land" The lecture was very exhaustive,
touching on the relation of that event to
the Norman conquest, but bearing most
strongly on the social and political democrat
ization that alone made 1t possible for a
free and prosperous people to be left at the
mercy of ruthless invader. Quoting every
now and then from the quaint phraseology
of the Saxon Chronicle, the speaker pic
tured the horrors of the Danish attacks
under the terrible Swegen Forkbeard, the
rresolution of Etheldred, the "redeless'
who deceived him; his futile attempts to
make diplomacy serve in place of courage
and honor; his ill-directed spasm Of energy;
his weak yielding to ever-increasing de-
mands for tribute, known as Dane-money,
which had to be raised by renewed taxation
of the already wasted land. Together with
these ills the dark picture Was presented of
the prevalent selfishness and fafthlessness.
the shameless quarrels and treasons among
the leading mobiles relieved. nevertheless,
by shining instances of self-sacrifice and
valor. The whole story was used as an
object lesson to show that only by main
tenance of high standard of individual
morality and honor can a people hope to
continue their national existence.
JOHN BLAIR'S PLAYS-At the New
National Theater on Friday afternoon John
Blair and his company will present the
ond of his course of modern dramas. The
play chosen Is Paul Hervieu's Tiles C'Les
Tenailes'D. The English version is the
work of George Peabody Eustis and Paul
Hester. The former is nephew of the late
ambassador to France and is well known in
this city.