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The times., 1900-12-23

The week before Christmas, so gener-
ally regarded in the theatrical world as
the worst in the season for business, gave
Washingtons two leading theatres large
audiences, and, notwithstanding the fact
that two-dollar price for seats pre-
vailed at both the Columbia and the Ma
tional, there was not much spare room at
either house during the week. The La
fayette, with "The Lottery of Love" as
the attraction, was accorded we'll
pleased but small audiences, while the
Grand, with a travelling vaudeville COM
pany, not up to the Chase standard, like
wise failed to more than half fill the
house. The same condition of affairs
prevailed at the Academy. where new
star to Washington. Harry Glazier, gave
a frst-class production of an interesting
version of The Three Musketeers." The
Bijou and Kernans drew we'll, and the
performances were generally satisfactory.
The Christmas Eve openings Will in
clude Olga Nethersole. in her creation
Of Fanny Legrand in "Sapho,' at the
National. while at the Columbia those al
ways satisfying players, Herbert Keleey
and Efie shannon, viii be seen in a new
play entitled my Lady Dainty" The
Lafayette will put forward revival of
Bronson Howard's "Aristocraey," and
Manager Chase will return TO house bill
tina. promises TO be more than ordinarily
good. The Academy of Music will have
a sensational melodrama-"Through the
Breakers"-and the burlesque houses at
fractions will be a New York Girl at
the Piinu and AL Reeves show at Ker-
mans.
Tie outlook for business is very prom
ising, and there is no disCounting the
quality of the performances that will be
provided for local theatregoers during
the holiday season.
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Christmas, Thursday. and Saturday. when
they will present for the first time In this
city their successful new play, entitled
my Lady Dainty" by Madeleine Lucette
Ryley, the author of christopher, Jr.,"
IAN American Citizen" and other sue
cesses OF recent years
The play is said to be admirably suited
10 the ability, refinement and charm which
distinguish the art of these popular fav-
orites. 1t is claimed for 1t that II min
giles brilliant comedy and the pathos Of
tears, rejecting the lights and shades
The times., 1900-12-23

Castles novel Of that name, by the late
Abbey Sage Richardson, and Grace l..
Furniss. isss
THE Pride of Jennico" is new here,
as DIR. Hackett wes presenting Rupert Of
Hentzau' on the occasion of his last visit
a year ago. The star is under the man
agement of Daniel Frohman. and his
company includes such well known play
ers, as Bertha Galand. Arthur Hoops,
George w. Barber, Thomas A Hall.
Theodore Hamilton. Longley Taylor, Ste
phen Wright, Ralph Lewis, Edward Don
nelly. James 0tley,4George Alison, Ram
sey Nicholson. George Trimble, ]. E.
Mackin. SidneJ Price, Gertrude Rivers,
Margaret Iiiington, Frances Nelson,
Carry E. Thatcher, and Elizabeth Hollo-
May
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which color life all around us and is free
from single line OF offence to clean and
elevated tastes. The dramatic construc-
ton is said TO be in the playwright's best
strain, the dialogue terse and sparkling,
situations and climaxes ingenious and ihe
result is a play which appeals TO the
auditor from all points of view, play In
which comedy and drama are associated
in contrasts not discordant; play which
can be enjoyed without the necessity of
reasoning too deeply on the why and
wherefore OF the phase of life which 1t
represents.
Miss Shannon plays the title role, and
Il seems scarcely necessary to point cut
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The Academy-"Throueh the Break
ers.v

Through the Breakers" should draw
every performance during the engage
ment there this week, with matinees
Christmas Day, Thursday, and Saturday.
According to the claims of the man
agement, Through the Breakers is one
of the best sensational melodramas that
will be presented here this season. 1t is
said to be well planned, well constructed,
wei! acted and we'll staged, and to be
exceedingly effective, interesting, and ex-
citing to its audiences. It is far more
honestly and carefully constructed than
the average play of this kind and its
every scene has a climax of much dra-
matte strength. The second scene of the
second act is probably the best and its
climax is dramatically the strongest of
the play, but clever use of stage mech
anism helps TO make the more conven-
tioaal third act climax equally effective
with the audience a comedy relief is
also to a very considerable extent gen.
uine comedy. The press agent says the
company is above the average. The ac-
tors are individually capable, and as a
good many of them have been with the
company since Through the Breakers"
had its first production, they work well
together Ali are said to act with intel
ligence as well as decision and strength.
so that the melodramatic points are made
without undue strain and the climaxes
are we'll worked up.
The scenery is claimed to be unusually
good and the mechanical effects managed
in the most capable manner. The sea
that breaks on the rocks at the mouth of
the smuggler's cave is the great scene OF
the third act and is one OF the best sea
scenes ever shown on any stage One
must carry ones memory back as lar as
Olive Logan's surf scene to recall a stage
scene that ever approached this for re-
alism and picturesqueness.
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The neutrality-suspicious. Lise.v

Sporting Life" which will be at the
Academy next week, is declared to be the
greatest nelodramatio production ever
made in America. 1t is said to be mas
siyely picturesque pIesentment, fourteen
huge sets of scenery from New Yorks
leading studios being used.
The superior excellence of the cast pro-
yided by the management will attract no
less attention than the great display of
elaborate scenery. The company is said
to be one of the largest that has visited
this city, and the chief players are reputed
to be among the most capable ever seen in
melodrama.
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country. 1t has been dramatized by
Edward E. Rose and Willis Steele. Mr..
Roses name is identified with several
dramatic successes now before the public
and his work In The Battle of the
Strong" is said &c have eclipsed all of his
previous efforts. Miss Burroughs man
ager, d. V. Arthur, has engaged to support
his star particularly strong company The
play will be produced in this city on De-
cember 81, for one week.
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made for the season
by Managers Luck
EFT and Dwycr, Of
the Columbia The
atre, is Marie Bur-
roughs. in The
b a t tie of { h 9
Strong" The book,
which is from the
pen of the English
novelist, Gilbert
Parker, has achiev-
ed a widespread
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The Nntional-James X. nacke,,.

James X. Hackett and company will be-
gin their annual engagement at the New
National next week, opening on the last
daY OF the century. Mr. Hackett will
give a matinee on Saturday only. during
that week. His play is the Pride OF
Jennico,' a dramatization of Egerton
The times., 1900-12-23
The Columbia-Kelcey-S Com
nupN

Much interest is manifested in the en-
gagement of Herbert Kelcey and Efie
shannon at the Columbia Theatre begin
ming tomorrow night and continuing
throughout the week with matinees
The times., 1900-12-23
The Lafayette Observation-Disclosures


'Aristocracy,'' play on an American
subject by an American author. Bronson
Howard will be the offering this week of
the Lafayette Square Stock Company. The
occasion promises to be one of the most
successful reyivals the stock company has
yet made.
The play enjoyed a long run in New
York and unusual prosperity on the road
1t was given in Washington and made a
very strong impression. This was due, not
only 10 the strong cast originally present.
ing IL, but TO the intrinsic value
of the play itself. which is
an exposition Of American life, aspirations
and ultimate good sense. which is not
only refreshing. but remarkably vivid and
true TO real life. There are three kinds
OF aristocraey portrayed in the play The
first is the rugged aristocraey of wealth
from California. the head OF which an
nounces: You cannot possibly object TO
my family because l was found On a rail-
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NEXT WEEKS ATTRACTIONS.

The C0Iumbia-"The battle of the
Strong.n
One Of the most prominent early BOOKINGS
The times., 1900-12-23
The Grand-VaudeviIIc.

Manager Chase has seen to It that the
polite vaudeville bill at the New Grand
this week is in harmony with the charac-
ter Of the annual festal period. 1t con-
tains James o. Barrows. John Lancaster,
and company, Eugene 0'Rourke and Rose
Braham, the Four Juggling Johnsons,
Henri French, the Three Macagnos, lit
tie Alice Lewis, petite Mazda Snyder, and
Yankee" and Dixie" This list includes
fayorite players, number of newcomers
of high repute, and others intended prin-
cipally for the delectation of holiday
making little folks, many OF whom resort
to Chase's for their weekly fund Of pleas
ure.
Mr.. Barrows, Mr.. Lancaster and their
company will be seer in what is conceded
to be their brightest sketch; in fact, one
of the best that has been produced in
vaudeville this season. 1t is called THE
Majors Appointment" and tells story
which should be especially pleasing 10
Washington people. as its scene is laid in
this city. Its Interpretation. according 10
the management. will be all that can be
desired, as it is an ambitious Offering and
a very attractive one, too. Eugene
O'Rourke, the comedian who was for so
long associated with the Hoyt plays, and
who was last seen here with Della Fox in
''The Little Host" VIII be seen locally
for the first time in vaudeville. He will
be assisted by Rose Braham and will pre-
sent what is said to be Iaughable farce,
entitled "Parlor A.
The other features Of the bill will be
the Juggling Johnsons. who have an in
imitable act; Henri French, in feats of
skill and mystery; the Three Macagnos,
in European acrobatic novelty. entitled
Fun in a French Restaurant" Little
Alice Lewis, in songs, dances. and imita-
tions; Yankee" and Dixie" dogs of
almost human intelligence, and MAZDA
Snyder, who is said 10 be an attractive
and dainty child artistic.
The advance sale for Christmas week is
large one, and Manager Chase advises
that seats be ordered without delay The
regular prices will. as usual. prevail.
The times., 1900-12-23

1.-THE Sprightly Romance Of Marsac." to
which is attached considerable local in
terest inasmuch as it was written by
Molly Elliott Seawell, a Washington au-
thoress, has not proved a success in New
York and the management has given
notice that it will be withdrawn for a
short period-until the piece can be
housed in another metropolitan play
house. The fact that Viola Allen Is due
at the Republic, where "Marsac" has been
playing, lends a little truth to the man
agerial announcement, but the chances
are that the comedy will never again be
presented in the metropolis. The first
act, which was practically entirely writ
ten by Miss Seawell, was by all odds the
best part of the piece, and had the work
of William Young, who furnished the
other two acts, been up to the opening
one, there is no doubt but that Mr.. Ar
buckle would have had a very valuable
theatrical vehicle for his inaugural tour
as star. If Miss Seawell could have a
chance to reconstruct the play there
might be some hope for it, but in its
The times., 1900-12-23

Manager Rapley announces that Sarah
Bernhardt during her engagement at the
National Theatre, commencing Monday,
January II. will present the following re-
pertoire: Monday. Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights and Wednesday matinee.
"LAiglon;" Thursday LA Tosca;" Fri
day, Hamlet Saturday matinee, La
Dame aux Camelias,' and Saturday night,
"Cyrano de Berger1c."
The times., 1900-12-23

Lyceum last week, with w r. BailauI
around the box office once more. TIE for
mer treasurer was in the city with irwin's
Big Show. of which he is the manager. as
well as general representative of Mr.. Ir-
wins enterprises in the burlesQue field,
and these, it may be stated, are quite
numerous. Since leaving his post at the
Lyceum box office Mr.. Ballauf has made
q decidedly enviable reputation as man
ager and writer of burlesques. In this
latter occupation he has been most aetlVe,
and furnishes all OF the burlesques used
by the Irwin companies. and, after one
has viewed most of these similar enter
tainments that come to Washington. it
must be confessed that the Ballauf product
is much superior to the average.
In speaking of his labors in the direc-
ton of grinding out material for burlesque
entertainments, Mr.. Ballauf confessed that
he is able to write a thirty minute offer
ing in about three hours. This record is
nearly as good as Harry B. Smiths, who
claims he can write three-act comic
opera in three days, lyrics and all Mr..
Ballaufs hard work does not terminate
with the writing for according to his
statement. the real labor commences when
the comedians and other members of the
company are called upon to rehearse the
work Few persons who are regular at
tendants upon burlesque performances have
DCen able 10 ulSCGEH Il StupcLuuuS siiiiuuuN
of intelligence In the average comedian,
but Mr.. Ballauf expresses the belief that
these alleged fun makers do not possess
even an iota of originality. In the stage
entertainments that are offered at the
Casino and Weber & Fields, such eomed-
ians as Sam Bernard, John Kelly, Dave
Warfeld. Joseph Weber and Lou Fields
are a great assistance TO the authors of
the pieces, and usually their contributions
to the burlesques overshadow that OF the
writer. But in the cheaper forms OF bur-
lesque the composer is compelled to drill
the comedians In every bit of business. ex-
plain the meaning of most of the lines,
and in all Of this receives not one bit of
assistance.
I'VE cannot hold a good comedian for
more than a season." says Mr. Ballauf
''As soon as we develop clever man some
of the managers of higher priced Gttrac-
tions are after him. This was we'll Illus
trated in the case Of George Sidney. whom
The times., 1900-12-23

An entertainment OF especial interest to
those who enjoy college songs will be the
concert OF the Johns Hopkins University
Glee Club at the National Rifles Hall. on
next Wednesday night. The club has
large following in Washington and with
programme that promises many new fea-
lures In the line Of college diversion. there
Is every indication that the visit Of the
undergraduates will attract a large as
semblage.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-04
WHIPPING CRIMINALS.


The old and familiar subject of the
whipping post is again under public dis
cussion. Delaware has always had the
whipping post as a means of Furnishing
criminals But the spirit of modern adj
vance has reached even Delaware and the
reformers are crying out for the aboli-
tion of the whipping post.
The discussion has brought forth argu-
ments from unexpected quarters in favor
of the time-honored institution. The
stocks and the ducking-stoo1 may have
passed away in the natural and COM
mendable evolution of humane thought,
but according to a number of judges of
courts of record in New England who
have had wide range of experience with
criminals and their punishment, it would
be a grave mistake to put an end to the
whipping post. They go further and in
sist that other states should take up
the practice of whipping if they seek to
rid themselves of certain kinds of crimes.
1t would not be at all surprising if
the whipping post, as the result of cur
rent discussion in the East, were rein
stated somewhat generally, at least in the
New England states. 1t Is conceded
that the mere hardened criminals are
peculiarly averse to this form of punish
ment Such crimes as garroting, WIFE
made punishable in this manner, are al
most unknown in the abiding home Of
the whipping post, the state of Della
ware In Maryland, too, the number Of
wife beaters are said to have fallen in
one year from 14G cases to 70, as direct
consequence of instituting whipping as
a punishment for that crime; while in
England garrotlng came to a virtual close
as the result of its institution.
Whipping as means of public punish
ment has passed largely out of vogue;
and we have started to reform rather
than punish as the means of lessening
the commission of crime. One of the chief
results of the reformation idea is that
we provide for our criminals food, lodg-
ing and raiment Of quality and guam
tity such as the poor man who is burden
ed~with family and has no skilled en-
ployment often finds it impossible to fur
nish to his family. 1t matters not what
the nature of the CRIME may be this pro-
vision is made for its author, and his
punishment is expected to be furnished
through the comprehensive agency Of
''hard labor" as prescribed in his SEN
tence In the administration of our
penitentiaries it often comes about that
the hard work. prescribed for many an
irredeemable scoundrel means no more
than the doing of some light task. The
forger turns clerk and bookkeeper in
iail, and the gentlemanly wife-beater or
attempted assassin often spends his
term at washing dishes.
There are certain rogues in this world
who can be reformed only through hav-
ing the cuticle removed to some con-
siderable extent OF this class are the
highway1nen, the thug and assassin, the
wffe-beater, the seducer and the pick
pocket The existence of the whipping
post has ever been one of the great de-
torrents with this gentry, and probably
ever will so remain.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-04
NEW SUIT EVERY HOUR.
Jones Carries Twenty Trunks Filled
with Gorgeous Raiment.

st. Louis Cor. Chicago Inter-ocean.
Frank Elsfnore Jones is a guest of the
Planters hotel. He arrived from Chicago
today, the advance guard of a New York
wholesale millinery house, and Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed as he,
for Jones brought with him twenty
trunks packed full of wearing apparel,
and dons a new suit every hour of the
day He works two hours each day at
his duties as a millinery salesman, the
balance of the time being devoted to a
sartorial show.
Two of his twenty trunks contain waist
coats alone, and there are no two alike.
In the pattern of the vests checks pre-
dominate, but everything from a plain
stripe to copy Of the label is contained
in the collectiesl. His shirts are equally
loud in pattern. In numbers the waist
coats have the advantage, but in all
other respects the shirts hold their own
styles in shirts change every fortnight
and that he would rather be dead than
found wearing shirt that was not in
the style. With his trousers Jones Is
equally effective. He numbers them by
the score. They are all of the peg-top
variety, and are in stripes Of one color.
As the Price Of Wales has decreed that
creases in trousers are not good form.
it is needless to say that Jones are
creaseless.
Jones has proved himself to be a good
statesmen, and when he goes out to visit
his customers he leaves his load Of suits
in his room. Every hour during the day
Jones appears in the corridor of the
hotel CARRIED in an entirely new suit Of
clothes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-04

churches in the East Those same
fashionable churches could turn their
zeal to far better use inside of their
own pews.
The American people have an exceed
ingly strong sense Of right and justice.
stronger than any other nation, and
every time justice miscarries. and muir
derer laughs at the law and goes scot
free, the whole community concerned
chokes with wrath and indignation, and
when such a farce is repeated too often,
they will lose patience, revert to first
principles, snatch the law from the i'm
beetle hands to which they have dele
gated it, and execute both the law and
the criminal themselves. The people
feel that the punishment should be ade-
quate to the crime, especially where the
crime is Of such an atrocious and re-
voting nature. In such q case the
principle of "a life for life" is the
only one that meets the popular demand,
in spite of all that mawkish sentimental
lists may say against it. But In Colorado
capital punishment has been abolished.
The severest sentence that could have
been inflicted for this heinous double
crime was a life sentence in the peni-
Tertiary, after serving ten or fifteen
years Of which the people might rea-
sonably expect some chicken-hearted
governor to pardon the brute and turn
him loose again upon humanity
The principal motive that actuates
those who participate in a lynching, at
least outside of the Southern states is
the apprehension that the courts will
allow the criminal to escape unpun-
ished.
Preach and resolve against that and
see what good it will do you. Better
bay at the moon
The only thing to do, is for those to
whose hands the law has been entrusted,
to make their work so effective and
efficient that a miscarriage of justice in
the case of capital crimes will be rare
exception instead of the common rule,
and then lynching will stop of its own
accord. at least in such states as Colo
RADIO
There is no use in denouncing the peo-
pie. The people are all right. The worst
that can be said against them in such
cases is that they err in their way of ap-
plying a sentiment which in itself is most
commemorate. 1t is the making and adj
ministering Of our laws, that needs to
be reformed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-04
LAW VS.. LYNCHING.

The burning at the stake Of the colored
murderer at Limon, Col, has been the
subject of no end of denunciatory edi-
torials and indignant resolutions.
And justly SO.
The details of that performance We're
extreme. It was a piece of unmitigated
barbarism. 1t was like a glimpse Of the
Middle Ages, the real genuine thing.
AS an instance of atavism it stands IN
paralleled. A mob Of Chinese Boxers
would have considered it a very credita-
bic piece of work
So much for that feature of it.
But the public Indignation has had a
it might not be out of place now to look
at several other sides of this affair The
American people have an Unborn tenden-
cy to look at both sides of a thing, and
if the papers fail to lead the way they
do it by themselves.
Now, the first thing that strikes one
as rather preposterous is the intensity
with which the performance was de-
nounced in Chicago and some similar
cities. But when Chicago, with all its
rank, unutterabIe vice and crime its
unfathomable rottenness, pretends to
stand aghast at anything they possibly
could do out in Colorado, it certainly
reminds one very wildly of what the
learned judge down in Texas called
''Shakespeare's anecdote about the mote
and the BEAM" 1t is like the leper calling
the chimney sweeper unclean
In the next place, it will be noticed that
the concourse of persons which per-
formed the act bore none of the ear
marks which commonly designate mob.
There was no excitement. no disorder
Everything was done with a ealmness
and elaboration which would put to
shame many a court of justice.
And what is justice and who shall dis
pense it? Among our primitive ances-
tors the question of life and death lay
in the hands of the entire people. With
other primitive peoples the power of cap
ital punishment has been vested in the
priesthood or the king, with the Anglo
Saxons and the other Germanic tribes it
was vested in the people themselves, and
a man was tried and convicted by a Jury
composed Of all his kinsfoIk and tribes
men.
A mans life is never safer than it is
in the hands of the people themselves.
There is no safer tribunal of justice than
the people.
Our trial by jury is based on the same
primitive and fundamental principle As
the commonwealth became more COM
plicated it was difficult for the people to
exercise this power themselves; hence
they delegated it to a judge and a jury.
composed of twelve good men and true
selected from their own midst.
AS far as the sentiment of that mar
ticular community is concerned. this
murderer in Colorado was tried by a
jury composed Of nearly the entire ponu-
lation of an entire county, and he was
convicted and condemned. calmly, deliber-
ately and practically unanimously.
Lynching in the West cannot be STOP
| ped by passing resolutions in fashionable