Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-20

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LANCER. who rank among largest producers
of theatrical entertainments on this side
of the Atlantic, will present De Koyen &
Smiths new comic opera. Foxy CUTLER
at the Columbia Theater Monday evening
for the first time in Washington. This will
be the most important event of The t..eatri-
cal season. The Klaw and Erlanger Opera
Company has been especially organized for
the purpose of exploiting this new work
The title role will be taken by Jerome
Sykes. Mr.. Sykes creation of the charac-
ter of Foxy CUTLER in The Highwayman,
is remembered Jas being one of The most de-
llcious approximations ever given to a char
acter in an American comic opera. His
Foxy CUTLER created such an emphatically
favorable impression that Klaw & Err
LANCER engaged De koVen & Smith to write
an entirely new comic opera in which Foxy
should be the central but by no means the
only character. In the new comic opera,
Foxy CUTLER" will be thrown into new
scenes, into more ludicrous situations. into
new surroundings. will meet new charac
tiers and will have increased opportunities
for merriment. A superb supporting COM
pany, including Adolph link, the lilliputian
comedian. who is thirty-six inches high and
weighs fifty pounds; Helen Bertram the
1Tima donna; Grace Cameron, Georgia
Game. Josie Intripodi, Julius Steger, w. G.
Stewart, Harry Marlborough, Louis Cassa-
want and others have been provided with
roles peculiarly fitted to the abilities of the
many artists mentioned. There will be a
great chorus Of 100 voices. a ballet. three
KIaw & Erlanger standard, and, a nota-
BILE innovation the company will carry it's
own orchestra of twenty skilled musicians.
Mr.. DeKoven's music has returned to the
more legitimate forms of lighter compost
ton. OF late years the American stage has
been saturated with productions in which
the two-step was not only the dominant,
but about the only movement. Mr.. De
Koven has written in his first act some
beautiful English songs and choral effects.
In the last two acts, which are laid in
Corsica, he gives full rein to his fancy. and
his music is redolent with the voluptuous-
ness and color of the true Italian school.
Here the waltz movement is again made
prominent. Mr.. De Koven was the first
of American composers to gain a foothold
on the native stage, and he is also the first
to return to the iegtimat tie in comic opera.
Mr.. Smiths book is described as witty.
Its dramatic situations are so arranged as
tc form many splendid stage pictures The
whole production has been placed on the
stage by Ben Teal, who is unquestionably
a master of stage craft. The opera re-
mains at the Columbia for one week, in
Guiding a single matinee Saturday, and the
demand for seats for these limited per-
formances is exceedingly large.
NEW NATIONAL THEATER.-"He
are Trumps,' said TO be the best of the
i'm ported English melodramas seen in this
in many years, will be presented
a. the National Tbeater on Monday night;
The production is made by and is under the
direction of Charles Frohman, who is cred
tied with having spent $4O.OO0 on 1t before
giving it to the public. All of its scenes
are huge and impressive. Cecil Raleigh is
the author Of the play and took for his
theme love and hate, sin and sorrow. His
efforts were directed toward keeping out of
the much-trodden path of melodramatic
play building and to evolve work that |
had sanity, coherency and interesting at
An old mans desire to be re-
venged on the family of a man he believes |
to have wantOnly caused his brothers ruin |
IL the groundwork of the play. woman |
and her daughter in high society are the |
objects of this mans spite. The woman |
lays herself open to his Vaccinations. for |
she has a passion for gam |
bling, which ends in her losing money and |
her estate. These mortgages |
the man secures, and it is only matter of
a short time before he drives her from her
home Then follows the woman's efforts
to earn for herself an honest living. In
some respects the play Is singular one
and is filled with surprises. fellow one |
At first expects will turn out to be a viii
ain performs the most heroic act in the
whole affair. He is young man in love
with girl who doesn't like him and he
shows inclination to force himself upon her
Later. under pressure from a sinister
source, he paints her portrait and repre-
placed on exhibition and is recognized by
Ill society, with the result that the origi-
Ia. of it is Stunned with great unanin-
ty. Up to this point he Is rather despica-
|
IN avalanche and the artist, the girl and
lis rival are in danger, he shows that he
8 made of sturdy material. One of the
hree must be sacrificed to avert certain
leath to all of them. The artist chooses
o give his life. and he plunges to his doom
10 that his rival may take the girl they
10Th love. One scene that is surprising in
Is immensely shows the stage and the audi
orium of music hall. The real audience
ooks across the stage of the hall and over
IS footlights ar huge mimic audience
'eing entertained by the customary vaude-
lille turns given at those places. In this
Gene a biograph machine Is put to efrec-
i've use. The play Is in fourteen scenes,
ivided into four acts. Three hundred peo-
lie take part in the production. the princi-
als including Francis Carlyle. Sidney Her
ert, Dore Davidson. g. Miller Kent Tully
Miss Eleanor Morretti, Miss Jes-
lie Busley. Miss Lottie Alter and Miss Maud
Iosford.
LAFAYETTE SQUARE STOCK CON-
'ANY.-All is now in readiness for one of |
he most important events in the local !
heatrical season, an event which has al |
eady aroused the interest of Washington
to great degree. This event
will be celebrated ON Monday night at the
lafayette Square Opera House, when Man
ger Frederick G. Berger will present his |