The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-17
SEATS IN GREAT DEMAND.
Promise of n Great outpOuring at
the Beneft Matipees.

Thoughts of charity have entered count
less hearts in Washington and the interest
in the Galveston fund benefits which are
to be given at the National Theatre, the
Columbia, the Grand, the Academy, the
Lyceum, and the Bijou on Wednesday att
ernoon grows as the hours pass by.
The aggregate of the money received at
the theatres named will be devoted to nit
igating the distress of the Texas storm suf-
ferers. Every dollar, every penny, taken
in at the box Offices VIII so to Galveston.
The theatrical managers have dedicated
their playhouses to this charitable use,
and the artists have volunteered their
talents. Not a cent is to be deducted.
These are TO be benefits which are benefits.
'Mam'selle 'Awkins,'' at the National
viii be presented by Harr. Kelly. Etienne
Girardot, Edward S. Ables, Martin o'Neill
Snitz Edwards. Lawrence Wheat, William
Burress, Olive Wallace. Esther ManteE
Ethel Moore, Elaine Selover, Marie Alle-,
Georgia Carhart, Anne Dale, Ruth Man
tell, Ethel Hoag, and Lucille Verna.
At Hashim's Academy of Music there are
Maggie Cline, the Irish Queen, who will
sing ''Trow Him Down McCluskey;" Truly
ingale; John W. Ransome, as David B.
Hill; Casey and LeClair comedy sketch
artists; Blocksom and Burns, premier
black face eccentriques; Carrie GRAHAM,
the original Sis Hopkins; Lawrence ana
Harrington, in East Side character
sketches; Fields and Ward, comedians;
the Three Leiliotts, musical artists; An
ME Hart, comedienne; Lowell and Lowell,
grotesque comedy scontortionists, and Pc
lot. the juggling wonder.
At the Grand there will be the Banda
Rosa (the Red Band of Italy), composed
of forty solo musicians, directed by Signor
Sorrentino; Hal Stephens and company in
the scenic monologue. AT l A. M" the
Retons in "A Christmas Eve at Home" I"
the Great sGoldin, comic iuggler; Annie
Meyers, prima donna soubrette; the Gloss
Brothers, gladiatorial athletes; Hugh
Stanton and company in "a Bargain
Fiend,'' aud Ed Latell, comedian and ban
joist.
Rose HITS English Folly Company viii,
be at Kernan's Lyceum. Among the clever
entertainers with the company are Collins
and Collins, punsters and parody singers;
Catherine Rowe Palmer, contortionist and
dancer; Joseph ]. Sullivan, comedian, and
Carrie Weber, who present a laughable
act entitled Nam m'selle and the Cop"
Hickey and Nelson, an acrobatic sketch
team; Willard and Wheeler, two pretty
girls in a change act and conversational
dance, and Phil MacFarland and James P.
Lee, in Dutch and Irish comedy. The
finale of the entertainment Is a musical
and terpsichorean novelty, entitled
stolen Pleasures.
Among the players at the Bijou will
be the Matweef duo. Russian dancers:
Leslie and Curdy, comedians; Amy Mel
son, comedienne; Weston and Stapleton,
kings of Momus; Harry First, character
comedian, and Barth and Fleming, gro
tesque eccentriques.
The programme at the Columbia has not
been completed, but will be today. Among
those entertainers to appear will be
Charles Hanford, Mile. Julie Vallette, Mrs.
Thomas G. Noyes. the Carroll Institute
Dramatic Club, and teams from the Acad-
emy, the Grand and the Lyceum. Man
ager Joseph Luckett has agreed to provide
an attractive bill
1t is expected that an order will be is
sued today to close all the departments of
the Federal and District government in
Washington about noon on Wednesday.
Many of the large stores will also close.
Everybody in the city. SO far as practi-
cable. is to have the opportunity of at
tending a Galveston Day benefit matinee
Many tickets have already beer bought
and the flood tide of the buying sill set
in today. Hundreds of theatre parties are
organizing and free hearted people are
handing around benefit matinee tickets
among their poorer neighbors. Thousands
of dollars will be realized for the storm
victims and thousands of Washington peo-
pie will spend a happy afternoon.