The evening times., 1899-03-23
THINGS THEATRICAL.

The managers of the Columbia Theatre,
commencing with next Tuesday evening,
will present Burton Holmes in series OF
Lenten lectures. MIR. Holmes recently
gave a series OF five afternoon talks at
Luckett & Dwyer's coy playhouse and
made so excellent an impression that an
early return was soon decided upon. 1t
seems that the speaker comes fully up 10
the standard set by his predecessor in the
field, John L. Stoddard, while the views
with which he illustrates his subjects are
mentioned az being nothing less than
beautiful. The repertoire selected for this
local booking enables Mr.. Holmes to de-
scribe The Grand Canon of Arizona on
Tuesday night and az the Saturday matt
nee: The Hawaiian Islands" on Wednes-
day: "Fez, the Metropolis of the Moors''
OF Thursday; "Grecian Journeys" on Fri
day, and The Yellowstone National
Park" on Saturday evening. Seats for the
engagement went on sale this morning.
Press agents may rant and rave about
their production, may cite the length OF
runs on Broadway, and may even detail
sundry important portions of the prepara-
ticns made. but after all there is but one
thing which can accurately shadow in ad-
vance the merit or demerit OF an Offering.
This thing is the list of people engaged
for plays cast, and, since it cannot be
denied that the company means much, sue
cess may be easily prophesied for The
Bride Elect" which opens on Monday
evening at the National. In the organi-
zation which presents the Sousa opera
there are not only Christie Macdonald
and Albert Hart, both of whom make hits
with the piece last year, but Hilda Clark,
best known for her efforts in Robin
Hood" THE Highwayman, and "Prin-
cess Bonnie" incidentally the roster con-
tains the names of Mabella Baker whose
greatest success was as the wife of the
show owner in The Circus Girl" Mel
vile Stewart, formerly of the Castle
Square Opera Company; Alice Campbell
George Lyding, Charles Drew ami Carl
Marwig. Such a combination could be
nothing but good, and a big local engage
ment may be promised for The Bride
Elect"
Several of the st-known people in vau-
deville have been secured for next week {
bill at the Grand but perhaps none OF
them will prove more pleasing than the
members of The Dresden Trio" an Or
ganization which succeeded in New York
as nothing else of the sort has succeeded
there since the Hawthorne Sisters first be-
gan singing THE Willow Pattern Plate
The young women composing The Dres-
den Trio present an operetta written for
them by George Totten Smith and A. B
Sloan. 1t is entitled THE Queens Fan
and details the manner in which the fig
| ures on the subject from which the piece
takes its name come to life one night and
for an hour hold high and graceful revel
The specially is certainly novel and should
be as delicately pretty as anything seer
| here in some time.
Almost direct from its long rGn at the
| Academy of Music in New York, the big
| production of The White Heather comes
| to Washington's Academy of Music mex
week, when the largest sort of audiences
are expected to witness Charles Frohman':
melodramatic success. The piece is a SEN
| sational one with all the marvellous me-
| chanical effects belonging to such a pre-
sensation. but it is also well acted and bet
| ter written than are most of the like
| works which one is accustomed to seeing
Many of the spectacular novelties shown