The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-20
SOCIAL and PERSONAL
Mr.. Barracks Monoiogue an Ar
tiStic Success.
4 Fashionable Audience Was Pres
ent Mt the Recitation OF "JuIius
ator and Mrs. Davis - A Eucbre
Tourney to Be Held There Tonight.

Fashionable people to the number of
several hundred listened last night 10
shakcspeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar"
as interpreted by Mr.. Marshall Darrach,
of New York. The recitation was given
in the drawing room of Senator and Mrs.
Cushman X. Davis. who gracously placed
their home at the disposal of Mr.. Oar
rach, who, in turn, will donate half of
the proceeds derived from the sale of
tickets to a benevolent cause. The mono
logist stood on a platform erected at the
rear end of the drawing room, in such
position as to command a full view of the
dining room, both apartments being
filed with rows of chairs. Despite the
rainy evening, every seat was occupied
by an audience that fully appreciated the
work of the great master and its splen-
did Interpretation by Mr.. Darrach, who is
admittedly one of the most thorough and
gifted Shakespearean scholars of the day.
The tragedy was given from beginning to
end without scenery, the monologist
standing against green background
formed of the soft silk that draped the
windows and yelled the tall mirror be-
tween. Each character was impersonated
invoice and gesture with a realism that
elected round after round of applause.
No stage accessory could have heightened
the effect of the impassioned appeal 20
the populace over the dead body of Cae-
sar. For the time the speaker was Mark
Antony and the platform a street in
Rome.
At the close of the play Senator and
Mrs. Davis held an informal reception,
the latter regally handsome in black net
jeweled with green. A midnight supper
was served in the dining room, which
was fiorally beautiful with Easter lilies.
orchids, and fern. Among those present
We're the Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Gage, the Secretary of the Interior
and Mrs. Hitchcock, Justice and Mrs.
Gray. Justice and Miss Brewer, Senator
and Mrs. Wetmore. Senator and Mrs.
Mcmillan, Senator William Clark of Mon
tana, Senator Depew, Senator and Mrs.
Hanna, Mr.. and Mrs. Westinghouse Mr..
and Mrs. Henderson. Senator and Mrs.
Lindsay, Senator and Mrs. Kenna. Sena-
tor and Mrs. Penrose, Senator and Mrs.
Clark of Wyoming, Representative and
Mrs. Hit. Representative and Mrs. AL
drich. Mrs. D. J. Hill, Mrs. Steele. Mr..
and Mrs. James Knox Taylor. Represent
alive and Mrs. Eddy of Minnesota, Mr..
and Mrs. Willis Moore. Mrs. G. H.
Wilson, Miss Daisy Wilson Moore, Miss
Gale, and Mrs. MacNaughton.
Dialect recitals by Mrs. Waldo Rich
ards and songs by Mr.. Francis Richards
will be given this afternoon at 1870
O'Clock at the residence of Mrs. Waiiach.
1901 I Street Mrs. Richards selections
will include Yankee. negro. and Irish dia-
lect sketches. together with little songs
that have been written expressly for her.
The Catharine II. Birney Chapter of
the National Homeopathic Hospital will
give a euchre tourney this evening at s
o'clock at the residence of Senator and
Mrs. Cushman K Davis.
Miss Mary Eloise Power and Mr.. George
VERIFY Alsop. of Newport News, Va, were
quietly married at 1301 Wallach Place on
last Saturday at noon. The bride is a
sister Of Rev. Frederick d. Power, who
performed the ceremony. and the groom
a nephew of Mrs. Power. The bridal cou-
pie went to Atlantic City. and later will
be at home at Newport News. where Mr..
Alsop is connected with the Newport
News Shipbuilding Company.
His EXcellency the French Ambassador
will entertain at dinner tonight.