Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24

ers returned to the Casino few weeks
since. after two years career Of success
in England, they were received with all the
ardor and enthusiasm that marked their
leave-taking of their friends in England a
fortnight before. Edna May has been ac-
cepted as professional beauty and prac-
ucaiiy a star actress. Another success was
promptly scored by Toby Claude a little
irish girl, who made her first appearance
In American as Fiji in THE Belle of New
York" The entire production with its cast
OF LONDON favorites. will be brought to the
New National Theater for the week OF
Monday. March 8. The regular sale of
seats Will open on Thursday morning In
the meantime applications for seats by mail
or by telegraph will be filed in the order of
their receipt.
QUO VADIS.-whitney's production of
Quo Vadis" has won a recognition In the
west and northwest which is said to equal
the success Of Ben Hur'' in the east. In
Chicago, where IL recently closed an eight
weeks engagement. the theater was crowd
ed every night. and at the regular wednes-
day and Saturday matinees: and during the
last week of Its stay there. in compliance
with the public demand. Manager Whitney
had to give Quo Vadis' every afternoon
as well at night, The piece Is to be
brought intact to the Columbia, week OF
March II.
THE sToRM.-'-rhe Storm" which
will be given at the National Theater on
thS dllcTifpDn Oh hdFCn L. Is a picture OF
the old-fashioned Muscovite life. II is the
Russia of Peter the Great and GATHERINGS
time. with its patriarchal family life which
sill exists today in all the towns Of lesser
Russia, hardly disturbed by modern influ-
ences.
: The special merit. however of The
Storm" lies in the fact that 1t is one of
the closest analyses of the Russian charac-
ter ever made. Katia, the heroine. the role
which Miss Florence Kahn will assume.
typifes freedom-a refusal to be bound by
the cruelty of life, and her attitude. weak
though 1t seems to us, is the revolt of the
spirit in a land where Tolstois doctrine
OF nor-resistance is the national outcome OF
centuries Of serfdom.
The company which will give THE
Storm includes Miss Kahn, Miss Ethel
Chase Sprague. Miss Kate Hassett, Miss
Josephine Wyndham, Donald Robertson, F.
e. Lewis, w T. Romaine, Stanly Jessup
and w. G. Bennett. The piece has been
staged under the direction Of Robert o.
Jenkins.
SHAKESPEARE'S LECTURE-RECITAI..
William Shakespeare the celebrated vocal
teacher Of London, has been secured for a
lecture-song recital to be held in Universal
list Church. corner 18th and L streets north
west, Wednesday evening, March q at Sis
clock. In production. execution and in
depreciation it is claimed for Mr.. Shake
speare that he stand pre-eminent. To en-
phaSize the art of the man, 1t is only neres-
sary to quote from a letter by Johannes
Brahms, written shortly before his death
in which he says: at Is the most musical
Singing sLg which | have ever heard" Mr..
Shakespeare was born at Croydon and
showed musical leanings in childhood At
the Royal Academy of Music he won the
Mendelssohn scholarship and went to Liep-
SIC with some reputation composer.
He yielded to the advice of his friends
there, who encouraged him to train his
voice. And so he went to Milan to study
As this will be his first and only an
pearance in Washington seats have been
placed on sale at popular prices.
GEORGE GRosSMITH-George Gross
mith. who has returned here to repeat mis-
old monolOgues and introduce some new
ones, has made two previous trips TO the
United States. although he has not been
seen here for several years. Mr.. Grossmith
now devotes himself almost exclusively to
this style of entertainment, although hts
connection with the performance of the
earlier Gilbert & Sullivan operettas makes
him a historic figure on the English stage.
He and the late Florence Marryat used 10
give an Entertainment called entire nous"
Sir Arthur Sullivan heard some of Mr..
Grossmiths recitations in a drawing room
just before THE Sorcerer'' was produced.
Both the composer and librettist were look
ing for somebody to sing John Wellington
Wells in that opera. Mr.. Grossmith seemed
just the they wanted.
Mr.. GroSsmith will give two of his hui
morous and musical recitals on the after
moons Of April 2 and ), at the Columbia
Ineater The seat sale opens Monday at
Guzman's, in Droop's.
MARK HAMBOURG-Meetin the young
Russian pianist out in the world CASUALLY
one would glance at his head and figure and
say that ne was a student, possibly with a
speculative bent. His shoulders are broad,
for they are the seat of much
Of that astonishing physical power.
and are slightly stopped, which is
the mark of the student and his
head is large and well developed, broad of
brow. and covered with a heavy name of
chestnut brown hair that falls back over
his coat collar very much a la Rubinstein.
He has played in all the principal cities 4
Europe, and made two concert tours to
acknowledgements he is but twenty-one-
and all the while he has been mastering his
instrument, batteribg away at prodigious
feats of digital dexterity, building up that
cyclonic technique of his like young Sieg-
freid hammering at the sword of Nothing
Mr.. Hamburg gives his first and only
Washington recital next Tuesday afternoon
at the Columbia Theater. and will play the
following program: Prelude and fugue, A
minor, Bach-Liszt; fantasie. OPP. Il. Schu-
mann: nocturne, two preludes and sonata
B fiat minor op. 49, Chopin; intermezzo in
octaves, Letschitizky; Volksiied,- Ham,
bourg: etude on false notes Rubnstein:
Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 2, List The seat
sale is at GuZman's, in DToop's.