Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-14
.AMUSE NENTS.

NEW NATIONAL THEATER.-The sale
of seats for William Gillettes engagement
at the New National Theater next week
begins at the box office at 9 o'clock tomor-
row morning. That there will be big
demand for places there is little doubt,
for there has been perhaps no play pro-
duCed in recent times about which there is
so much curiosity as Sherlock Holmes"
Conan Doyles masterpiece of deduction is
known to millions Of readers, and Mr.. Gill
lette's dramatiZatiOn Of the detective story
series has been declared to be the best
realization of a literary hero ever seen on
the stage The popularity of the play is
something phenomenal, as the run Of nine
months at the GarriCk Theatcr, New York,
last season testifes. This will be the last
opportunity to see Mr. Gillette In some
time, as at the close of a short American
season he opens at Sir Henry Irving's Ly-
ceum TheaJer. London, for a run. The
production to be given here will be on
particularly extensive scale, and some
startling effects in stagecraft are promised.
The Ambassador" which has been the
bill at the National since Monday night,
will have its final performance here to-
night, and tomorrow wheels Within
Wheels" a comedy in three acts, by R.
c. Carton, author of Lord and Lady
Algy," The Tree of knowledge and Lib
erty Hail. will be presented. This has not
yet been seen here, though it is known as
great success, having been the attraction
at the Madison Square Theater. New York,
most all last season. 1t was originally
zone at the Court Theater, London
THE OLD HOMEsTEAD"-Denm
Thompson opens Monday night at the CO.
lumbia Theater in the "Old Homestead
Outside of Mr. Thompson's lifelile imperson-
alton the play is of peculiar quality that
detes all rules of dramatic art. And vet 1t
IS wonderful success. 1t has no villain no
melo-dramatic hero, no lovers, no thrilling
q inT IL.
tanned from beginning to end by real peo-
pie who touch the heart with genuine pa
thus, bubbling humur and hOmely wit The
very fact of its being unlike other PLAYS is
one of the secrets of its success. The en-
gagement begins al the Columbia Monday
night. The prices for this engagement will
be 81 - cents, 80 cents and - cents. This
is departure from the regular prices and
will be for this engagement only. The re-
served seat sale opens Thursday morning.
THE GREAT RUBY."-The production
Of The Great Ruby" by the LAFAYETTE
Square Stock Company next week will be n
gigantic undertaking to prepare in only six
days The play is one of the great Drury
Lane melodramas and caused more of a
sensation when first performed In America
than any of Its predecessors because this
was the first time the late Augustn Dalv
imported a melodrama from the Dr1rv
Lane. Before the piece could profit by its
long New York run and make a successful
tour Mr.. Daily died and his company was dis
banded. Hence, 1t happens that though
only two seasons old, The Great Ruby"
has never been seen in Washington. Ada
RChan and Blanche Bates played the two
leading roles in the original DAILY produc-
ton, and next week Miss Bates will be
seen in her celebrated creation of the adj
ventures. Countess Mirtza Charkoff, who
manipulates the great diamond robbery
around which The plot centers. The full
strength OF the Lafayette Stock Company
Will be required to present The Great
Ruby" and in addition nearly a dozen
players from New York have been engaged
for next week, only to play some of the
parts. There are over thirty speaking
parts in The Great Ruby" and other es-
sential elements to Its proper presentment
about fifty supernumeraries to com
pose the various mobs; four horses to draw
on the tally-ho at the races. and a balloon
in which hero and villain ascend into the
clouds 20 fiSht their duel.
THE RAKEMANN QUARTET. - The
first of the concerts to be given by the
Rakemann String Quartet in the banquet
room of the Shoreha Hotel will take
place tomorrow evening, and the program
arranged is extremely attractive. 1t will
include the Rubinstein Quartet. OPP. II No
.; Beethoven's Trio. Op 81. for piano vio-
lin and cello, and Busch Elegie, Op. 30, for
strings. The members of the quartet are
Mr. H. c. Rakemann, first violin: Mr.. VIM
E. Green second violin: Mr.. Joseph nickel
viola, and Mr.. Villalpando, cello. Besides
the members all eady mentioned Mr.. Villal-
pando will give two cello solos-Popper's
Romance and Davidoffs Am Springbrun-
nen"-and Mr.. Fabian will play two piano
solos-Raf's Valse, from Op. a. and
Fields Rondo. The work Of this quartet