Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-17

including the Nocturne in d nat. opus q:
the Etude In @ fat. opus 10: two preludes.
Mazurka, opus :. F minor. and the A fat
Baliade. opus 81 The recital will be given
at the Columbia Theater on the 14th of
March at AIS in the afternoon.
BISCHoFF CoNCERTs.-A program OF
e e attractiveness and musical In
terest has been arranged for the Bischor
concert TO be given at First Congregational
Church. 10th and streets. Tuesday night.
February 20. The Bischor concerts have
come to be looked upon as events of great
Importance in Washingtons musical year
Their high standard has been maintained
rigldly from the very first and Bischon
audlence is always assured OF a satisfying
feast Tuesday evenings program will be
opened with double selection on the organ
by Dr. Bischof. to be followed by Mrs
Hattie Meads Smith and the church choir
IN a Field poem set to music by Neyin
Miss Dayelle Taylor. Mr.. Herbert D. Law
son, Miss Mary Halbert Page, Mr.. Douglass
g. Miller, Miss NJ. Adelaide Lynham Mr.
Fulton B. Karr, Mrs. II. Clay Browning
MIR. J. Walter Humphrey, Miss Mabel Claf-
I'm, Miss Jessie MacBride and Miss A. Belle
carpenter are others of well-known ability
Who will be heard. The church choir in
choruses will be feature of the concert.
PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS CON-
CERT.-The combined musical clubs of the
University OF pennsylvania gave their an
nual concert in this city last evening The
proved thoroughly enjoyable. There was
quite large audience present in National
Rines Hall despite the snow storm Lib
eral applause was bestowed upon the stu
dent musicians and encores were plentiful.
THE ONLY wAY."-The National Thea
ter will have for its attraction the week
after next one of the biggest dramatic sue
cesses known to the stage In many years.
and in conjunction with It a favorite actor,
who as the hero has scored a triumph
which places him among the eminent actors
of today. The play is The Only Way" a
dramatization Of Charles Dickens great
tor is Henry Miller. The play ran for over
a year in London, and after a three months
run In New York this season its metropolis
Tan engagement was shortened through
prior contracts. The company includes such
sptendid actors as ]. H. Stoddart, d. H.
Harkins. Byron Douglas. Joseph Brennan,
ID. A. Weaver, jr Earle Brown. William
HaWorth. Miss Margaret Dale, Miss Ger
| trude t1nney and others. The services Of
| one hundred people are employed In the
production. Orders will continue to be
booked until the regular sale opens on
| Thursday.
THE GREAT BEHMAN sHow.-The
| Great Behman Show will be the next the
| atrical attraction at the New Grand, begin
| ming February 20 and following the ninth
| congress Of the National Society of the
| daughters of the American Revolution,
which will occupy the theater all next
week. The Behman Show is controlled by
Mr.. Behman of the firm of HYDE & Beh-
man, the other partner managing Hyde's
Comedians. The friendly rivalry between
| these two road attractions has caused them
| to become the strongest in existence. There
| are nine headline" acts in the Behman
aggregation, which includes among other
''headliners" those diminutive athletes and
| humorists. the Rossow midgets: Ethel Levy
| the singing comedian; the Four Cohans in
new sketch, and the Merllel Sisters aero
| bats.
| RICHARD Richard Mans
held will begin his annual engagement in
Washington one week from tomorrow even
| Ing at the Columbia. He comes almost d.
rectly from his winter season in New York
| city, where the brilliant reyivals of his re-
pertoire were received with a larger share
| of popular and critical praise than any Of
| the new plays of the year. On Monday
Wednesday and Thursday evenings and at
the Saturday matinee he will be seen for
| the first time in Washington in THE First
Violin" Mansfield will this time refrain
| from assembling agencies of makeup 1t
VIII De the nrSt time the public will see him
in propria persona without art or artifice
to hide or disguise his own personality.
On Tuesday evening Mr.. Mansfield will give
"Cyrano de Bergerac' with all its original
| magnificence and the full strength of his
entire company. Friday evening will be
the occasion of revival Of Beau Brum-
mel, and the farewell bill Saturday night
will be DIR. Jeykn and Mr.. Hyde" The sale
of seats begins Tuesday morning and or
ders by mail and telegraph will be filed in
order received.
MANAGE wELLINGToN'S BENEFIT.
On Sunday night April 1. Mr.. Eugene
Wellington, the popular manager. of the
BiJou Theater. will take his benefit So
great is Manager Wellington's popularity
that scores OF the leading vaudeville ar
lists and artistes have volunteered their
services this far in advance. 1t will re-
quire special car to bring the volunteer
talent from New York alone and Phfla-
delphia, Chicago and Baltimore will fur
nish a strong quota