The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-27
THE NEW GRAND THEATRE.
Miss LOTUS scores Hit at the Pop
ular Play House.

II is no wonder that Cisse LOTUS did
not want TO leave New York or that New
York did not want TO lose her. Apprecia-
tion is always gratifying to an artist and
while a great many weird productions
have come to this city claiming metro
politan endorsement they know a good
thing over there when they see and hear
it, and it is a safe statement that long
before the close of her engagement at the
Grand Washington will be quite as unwill-
ing to lose Miss LOTUS as was New York
On the official programme she is de-
scribed as a mimic, and il must be as
sumed that she assents to that descrip
ton; but il is erroneous, nevertheless.
She is much more than that. She does not
merely initiate this or that actor or act
ress; she is them-or they. whichever it is
and she recalls some of their tricks of
voice and manner which you may have
forgotten but which. nevertheless. is in
stantly recognized. Perhaps the greatest
charm is in the contrast between her nat
uralness of voice and manner-together
with an absolute lack of make up-while
she is Cissie LOTUS and the decided man
nerisms OF the subjects or objects Of her
limitations. II is a far cry from Sara
Bernhard through Ada Rehan, Edna May,
Julius Steger. Chauncey OIcott Fay Tenn
May Irwin, but that is the gamut that
Miss LOTUS ran yesterday, and it is i'm
possible to say that one impersonatiOn was
better or more realistic than another.
1t is improbable 10 try to describe any
one of them; that would simply be TO de-
scribe the different people. They must
literally be seen 10 be appreciated.
The rest OF the programme was some
what disarranged by the unfortunate i'll
ness of the three Mortons, who were billed
to appear Their places. however. were ac-
ceptably filed by Miss Marion Johnson,
who rendered two selections on the violin
with orchestral accompaniment.
Mason and Francis. in sketch entitled
The Rube and the Soubrette." and THE
Great Golden in feats of prestidigitation,
completed the first part of the programme.
The latter made his entrance in Il blaze
Of glory emanatrng from a flaming bowl
produced from an apparently eiapty hand
kerchief and nys;ified his audience quite
as much 10y the explanations of his tricks
as by the tricks themselves.
In the second part the three Murray
brothers furnished an acceptable variation
from the usual musical comedy act for
which they were billed by clever dancing
singing and playing on instruments other
than those of the freak order usually en-
ployed by eccentric musicians. Two of
THE Four Dawsons'' Illustrated fourteen
different STYLES of dancing, and the other
two--from the nursery illustrated the re-
naming styles. Then came Cissie Lotus
and Kreisel's Dog and Monkey Circus
closed the evenings entertainment with
a series of animal acts. including a ser
pentine dance and cake walk and tight
rope walking by blind folded dog
Afternoons at and evenings at for
the rest OF the week.
For next week an all-staT cast is prom
i=er, headed by Mr.. and Mrs. Edward NJ lton
Royle and company In new sketch. and
including Solaret in drapery dances Little
Elsie in songs, dances. and representations;
the Bachelor Club in a comedy, singing
sketch; Mary Madden. monologist; Louise
Cunning. Scotch balladist. and Hanson
and Nelson, dancing soubrettes.