Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-29

Stage-dOor intimacy with numberleSS Ca
sino queens. He had not many real favor
ties, however, but Lillian Russell seems to
have won his heart. though she always
called him Paddy liberty he would
have resented from any other of the nu-
merOuS stars.
Weber and Fields newest slzts are bur-
lesques The Gay Lord Quex and the
royal family. A feature of the occasion
was the appearance Of Fritz Williams in the
part originally rehearsed by Charles j. Ross
Mr.. Williams was borrowed from his man
ager at o'clock in the afternoon and was
as easy and nonchalant as though he had
been playing the part for several weeks
He fell right into the ways of his fellow
burlesquers without any slips and made a
genuine hit.
The first performance by the special road
company playing Mistress Nell the
reigning success in New York city, was
given in Port Jervis, N. Y, on Monday,
December "a. The play was greeted with
enthusiasm and bids fair to score as heav
lily on the road as it has done in the me-
tropolis Agnes Ardeck, clever young
woman, but comparatively unknown, is
playing Henrietta Crossmans part of Nell.
Roland Gibson, who is member Of Marie
Burroughs Company. which appears at the
Columbia Theater in the Battle Of the
Strong" next week, Is Washington boy
A year ago he was a member of the press
gallery at the Capitol one of the assist
arts of his father, e. j. Gibson, Washing
ton correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press. Later he was a member of the Will
liam Morris Stock Company, which played
at the Columbia during the summer
months.
sousa and his band have embarked on
their eighteenth semi-annual concert tour.
Both as composer and conductor John
Philip Sousa has been recognized every
where as the representative American mu
stefan, and the great band which has been
cor nj rel "a limo
years has been termed the model band of
the world" Nearly 100 different cities
will be visited In the United States and
Canada after which the Sousa band Will
be the principal musical attraction of the
pan-American exposition at Buffalo.
Hope Booths company, which has been
producing that stirring melodrama, "A
War on Woman" has stranded. In order
to save her $1,000 worth of diamonds from
being attached Miss Booth sent her hus-
band to Chicago with the jewels and when
the crash came there was nothing on hand
with which to pay off a lot of arrears la
salaries. Miss Violet Cregan, the soubrette,
took the case into her own hands and then
blackened Miss Booths eyes. The COM
pany has been running behind for some
: weeks and during the past month there
has been no pay day.
Col. w. F. Cody otherwise Buffalo Bill'')
has come east to organize his Wild West
show for next summer To an outsider 1t
seems an odd place to come for the purpose
of organizing bucking bronchos, wild In
dams. Mexican cowboys, crack shots and
other raw material into an harmonious
whole. Probably it is done by long dis
lance telephone. Col. Cody is by no means
devoted entirely to his show interests. for
on his journey he stopped at Buffalo as a
delegate to the irrigation congress. The
reclamation of the arid lands Of the west
is a subject dear to his heart
Della Fox became the bride of John Levy,
the New York diamond broker, In Baltimore
city this week. The groom bears the So
briquet of Diamond Jack" Levy. The
ceremony was quietly performed In the pri-
vate office Of Clerk James II. Livingston OF