Evening star., 1900-12-15

called that Courtney Thorpe while MEM
ber o. lue hoalna NoAes company, pre-
scnted tnts p.ece for the first time.
Sensational rnelodrama Of the most thrill
ing VIII hold form az the Academy
ChrlstInas wtth. when owen laws
Through the Breakers begins its engage
ment.
The French mi-ics,l piece "MademoIselle
Geo ge' has been scared by George W
L,d~r-r 1t - pronounced guile dAshing
ana harry Il. Smith VII adapt it for the
Engllsn-speahng stage
Alice Judson recenly underwent an op-
Grafton for throat trnubie. and is now re-
ported dong well She was compelled TO
resign from - h. Cadet Girl company ON
account of the allment.
The Star and Garter company Will
close a week hence ana the AGoust Family
Will join he Ie,er ai.ey company. another
of Mr.. Mckee's atIra5., ,ons. The Star and
Carer has been loser from the start.
Marie Dresslcr has just concluded. at the
Columbia Thyater. Bosom, ghy sue
cessful engagement ia Miss Print on
Monday, December -. she goes to The Vic
torIa Thea,cr. New urh, for long run.
Charles tr)bman has almost made up
his m nd MOI - bling he 2 London melo-
drama, 9TH" Prince Of Peace" "a this
country. l, will cost him Al cool $1,000 %
break the contract;
When Nell Gwynne" goes on the road
with a second company. Grace Sherwood
Will be the nd nG lady. Miss Sherwood
was recently wi. .he Hearts Are Trumps'
company.
Some of Charles B. HanfnrFs friends
have suggested to him that he play an en-
gagement of private John Allen" here
while Congress is in session, 9s an object
lesson in what an honest politician can do.
The cast engaged by Wagenhals & KEN
per to support Henry Miller includes Lou 81
Thorndyke Bouc.'ault, j. II. Stpddara
Arthur Elliott. Florence Rockwell, Law
renee Lowell. Louis Payne and Jennie Eus-
taCe.
Among the Representatives Of coming
theatrical attractions in the city this week
+. r. Jack in advance OF san Toy:
Charles Emerson Cook in advance of Mrs.
Leslie Carter; Leopold Jordan in advance
OF Olga Nethersoe.
Jessie Jordan, a member Of The Cadet
Girl chorus. was married this week 70 Ger
aid Foster, q Harvard undergraduate Mr.
Foster halls from Cleveland ana is said to
be very wealthy. The couple VIII reside in
Boston until the groom is graduated.
Jessie Bartlett Davis is getting tired of
playing vaudeville dates and says this will
be her last season as head-lner. Miss
Davis complains of loneliness and misses
the friends that We're usually around her
when comic opera queen.
ITO Anna Held from George II. Fetch
um' is the inscription engraved upon q
siver-plated horseshoe presented to the
COmedicnne The shoe worn by
Cresccus 600 in the great $50 O0O stallion
race won by him at Boston, September -.
The Metropolitan English Grand Opera
Company, under direction Of Maurice Grau
and Henry W. Savage, will come to tbs
city in about month and remain week
The company will include in addition to
the principal artists an alI-American chorus
OF loo. orchestra of fifty and q ballet Of
thirty.
Under the present mana g mcnt the Pijou
Theater is coming to the front as an up-to-
date and thoroughly equipped pace Of
amusement. The latest impr vement is the
REPLACING OF the old orchestr seats bv
chairs Of modern style upholstered in green
nile leather with aluminium frames.
Jessie Bartlett Davis has determined to
remain this season only in vaudeville She
says that being a vaudeville headline is
the loneliest thing she has ever done and
she thinks that only an advance agent
claim a more solitary existence. She
will appear here in February.
Bernice CASTILLO. young dramatic reader
who has delighted cultured audiences Of
New York and Boston with her new aid
original representations, viii make her
debut in Washington at the Masonic fem
pie Monday, December II In addition TO
her usual program Miss Castillo give
Paul Leicester Ford's new and popular
stCry, Wanted Match Maker"
1.-THE Burgomaster' is the new mosaic
Of whirl- l-about-the-toNn gayety to be pro-
duced at the Manhattan, New York on
New Year eve. Peter Stuyvesant is dug
up in Printing House Square after a nap
of go years and given few exciting eXpe-
riences of up-to-da'e life, in which SOU
brettes cut no incDnSiGerable figure.
Nat Goodwin is rega.uiug his good health
and announces thai he viii appear as
''Shylock" in New York about next Febri-
ary. Maxine Elliott will play "PorJta."
With Sothern. Mansfield and Goodwin play
ing Shakespeare il would appear II The
Bard of Avon is Sti!i in The running.
Harry Damn. the. liorettist, is couaborat-
ing with David Belasco IN a play called
1.-The Red Mask for Mrs. Leslie Carer.
and also on piece on 4 hebrew subject for
David Warhed. MI Warfeld branches OUT
a star und@r Bela=>o's management next
September.
Notw hstaudns a bad start and a scor-
ing by the London critics, The Wisdom of
the Wise" has been doing splendid bust
ness. George Alexander, the actuT-mau-
ager. and Mrs Craigie Cohu Oliver Hobbs,
the author. are reported to be more than
gratifed over the present outlook Tor the
play.
''Betsy Ross" which William A Brady
and Joseph r. Grisaer are to present in
Philadelphia shortly. is a romance Of the
revolution. 1t was Betsy Ross who made
the first American flag The old house in
which she lived still exists at 2}o Arch
street, Philadelphia, and she is buried In
Mount Moriah cemetery. A memorial
sociatiOn has been formed to purchase he
house by 10-Cent subscriptions, and nearly
10000 names have already been enrolled.
THE CHORAL SOCIETY.
The Singers Who Are to appeur in
the CELESTIAL Production.