Evening star., 1900-04-18

| inely successful novelties among head
| liners" Hugh Stanton and his company
| will be seen in their new satire. "A Wife
6ys by Advertsemsn M Third on the list but
| Maude Courtney. whose charming singing
| of 'ye olde' songs has again and again
| pleased New Grand patrons. The others
| are Charlie Case. the monologist; Frank
| Jones and Lillian Walton, with their rural
comedy, Our Country Cousins Herbert's
troupe of canine wonders; Dorothy Drew,
| the singing and dancing comedenne, and
| the Musical Tobins. The bill has the merit
of diversity, as well as the assurance of
| individual excellence in many of its feat
ures. The prospects are that it will stand
high in the list of programs which Manager
| Chase has prepared for his patrons.
BIJOU THEATER.-The Tuxedo Club
Will be the BiiouS offering for next week.
This is burlesque company, organ
| lied expressly for Manhattan Beach and
other seaside resorts for the summer season.
and will have its first appearance at the
Bijou There will be eight vaudeville acts.
FOR LONGFELLOW'S STATUE. - The
concert and recital to be given at the Ar
lington Hotel. under the auspices of the
Longfellow Memorial Association, which
has been postponed from tomorrow until
Friday night, promises to be an extremely
interesting affair. People prominent in the
social world have taken the matter up not
only on account of the object which is to
erect statue to one Of the Durest poets
this country has produced, but also because
of the artists who will participate in the
program. These are Miss Jean Wilson,
who is recitationist of marked ability and
great personal magnetism and who has just
returned from a remarkably successful
trip to the Pacific coast; Miss Marie Paige,
violinist of high reputation, who has played
with distinction with Theodore Thomas
orchestra, and who Is pupil of the famous
i'm nd MrS Sheldon vocalist
international reputation. The interest ex-
cited in this entertainment will undoubtedly
fill the large banquet room in which it will
be held.
WAR SONGS OF ALL NAT1ONS.-The
lecture next Sunday night at the Columbia
Theater by Mr.. Willis Arden promises to be
a very enjoyable as well as an instructive
occasion. The District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard has charge of the arrange
ments, and music will be furnished during
the evening by the National Guard Brigade
Band The program is very extensive, ana
includes a well-trained chorus and COM
petitive drill, in which three prominent Ma
tional Guard officers will ofiiciate as judges.
The program will illustrate the routine
events during the day of a soldiers life in
the field, starting with the sunrise gun and
reveille in the morning, and concluding
with the sunset gun and retreat in the
evening. The lecture by Mr.. Arden on
national war songs is the main attraction
during the evening and promises to be very
entertaining
FoREPAUGH AND SELLS BROS
CIRCUS.-The advertisements of the great
Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers united
shows call special attention to their fun
making contingent of twenty-five clowns,
and there Is plenty Of proof at hand that 1t
is an unprecedented array. both in numbers
and rib-tickling talent. This circus was the
first one to make the clowning real, live
and laughable feature. and the resulting
success has encouraged 1t to still bigger and
better effort in that direction. MIR. James
A. Bailey sent from Europe such a delega-
ton of famous fools that they are said to
have made the Holsters laugh In transit, and
our own side of the water furnishes band
of button-bursters at which even the editor
of comic weekly would be forced to smile.
This motley gathering made New York city
hilariously howl over its "Soo-see Band
its champion exhibition games of base ball.
foot ball and golf; its pugilistic matches
its races, rivalries and hits and skits at the
follies Of the day. In fact, these twenty
five merry gentlemen appear to be much
more than clowns in the ordinary accept
ance of the term They are artists, high
class comedians, impersonators, mimics
musicians, acrobats and pantomimists. and
they are full of originality and vim. Asso-
ciated with them are droves. schools, caval-
cades and packs of clowns. with trunks and
fiippers. and in fur, hair and bristles-fun
enough to fill all hearts with glee, and of
the right kind to please all classes.
A SONG RECITAL.-Mss Gertrude Har-
rison will give song recital at the Wash
ington Club tomorrow afternoon at 4:15
o clock. Miss Harrison has made quite a
reputation as singer of ballads during the
past winter and she will present a program
that cannot fail to please. She will be as
sisted by Miss Jessie Nivien Kerr, pianist
PADEREWSkTS FAREW ELL.-The last
concert to be given in America by the great
Polish pianist, Paderewski will be given in
this city at the Columbia Friday afternoon.
May 4. No pianist that has ever toured this
country has met with such fattering recep-
ton, and since his appearance here in. De-
cember ne has made a tour covering the en-
tire country. and is now on his way back
from the Pacific coast, where he played four
concerts in San Francisco to the largest re-
ce1pts ever known by a single artist The
program Will be announced later as it Is
to be an entire change from the last one
DIR. STAFFORDS LECTURE-The lee
ture last evening, at the National Theater.
on Hamlet" by the Rev Dr. D. ]. STAFF
ford, was attended by a large and appre-
ciative audience. The recitation of many
passages in dramatic manner and from
which he drew excellent lessons in morals.
was followed closely and enthusiastically
received. In most of the other plays, the
speaker said, Shakespeare had dealt with
persons ana events, whereas in Hamlet
great principles of life had been most beau
TRULY portrayed. Hamlet" he said was
continually reaching out for ideals. and to
the fact Of his not being able to realize any
or these was probably due his melancholy
ana particularly was his treatment of Ophe-
ia due to his shattered ideals Of woman
hood. A life beyond the grave was clearly
the belief of Shakespeare, and the continual
reachlns up after something higher demon
strated that the longinss of the soul are
not satisfied in life on this earth.