Evening star., 1900-01-31
ADJUSTMENTS.

Drew VIII play MS eighth annual engage
ment at the National Theater the week be-
ginning Monday next, presenting his new
est successful vehicle, 1.-The Tyranny Of
Tears" There will be Wednesday and
Saturday matinees. This is one Of the
most welcome announcements yearly made
to Washington playgoers by Manager Rap
ley. Clean, wholesome stage work Is al
ways expected and realized where Mr..
Drew and his co-workers are concerned.
His new play, s'The Tyranny OF Tears,
is a success of big proportions. IT has met
with the commentator OF New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore. me cities
so far been presented by Mr. Drew. 1t had
an all-season's run in London. with Charles
Wyndham in the part Mr. Drew Is now
playing. Charles F>rohman put 1t on at
the Empire Theater, New York, at the
beginning of the season, and 1t ran there
up to Ave weeks ago. 1t was originally
booked for ten weeks, but the extensions
of time were made owing to its continued
success, and it would probably have re-
mained at the Empire all season mad NOT
Mr.. F'rohman thought 1T necessary 10 prlns
in his Empire Theater Company & Tor rhs 1ss
tour which Mr.. Drew has now begun Will
be the longest Of his career. continuing
until late in the summer and extending TO
the Pacific coast. 1.-The Tyranny of Tears
will be the only play used, and this fact
alone is highly illuminative of the Froh-
man and Drew faith in 1t. The play is de-
scribed as comedy of temperament" by
mitted to be elegantly, even brilliantly,
written, and to be so admirably con.
structed that while the first act Is good'
the second is better; the third act height
best Of all. Its theme will be found of alb.
sorbing interest to both sexes, and 1t Will
no doubt prove an immensely popular and
continuous topic of conversation. Isabel
Trxn ManHt1n.
Arthur Byron, Harry Harwood and Frank
Lamb are in Mr. Drew's support.
COLUMBIA THEATER. - Willie Col
lier in a new farce will be the attraction
at the Columbia next week. Mr.. Collier.
after many palpable hits in the plays Of
cess of his career in ''Mr. Smooth" a new,
ingenious, witty and ultrahilarious farce,
the story of which was conceived and the
play constructed by Mr.. Collier himself 1t
Mr.. Collier like glove. He takes the part
Of a suave, plausible. genteel young man,
who introduces himself to the president of
a bank as the son Of a former partner
who has left for foreign lands. He quickly
ingratiates himself with the bank manager.
makes love to the daughter, and everything
is going along swimmingly until the return
Of the real Mr.. Smooth. which, of course.
creates most intricate and humorous COM
plications. 1t gives Mr.. Collier opportuni-
ties for some of his most Enthusiastically
funny scenes in prevaricating himself out
of the difficulties. These. of course. have
a final happy denouement in his tnheritiaS
an unexpected fortune and marrying the
bankers daughter. Mr.. Collier is supported
by his own company, including Louise Al
len Collier. Helene Collier. Helen Reimer
ACADEMY.-Not since The Ensign" has
there been naval play produced which was
as we'll received by New York as 1.-The
Gunners Mate" which makes It's first ap-
pearance in Washington at the Academy of
Music Monday night. 1t Is legitimate
melodrama, affordtng opportunities OF
taken advantage Of to the fullest degree
The play is not a war drama. Love. hate.
Jealousy and all that goes to make melo-
which concerns the matrimonial ambitions
of "The Mate" The scenery is painted
from photographs made aboard the cruiser
New York, and are said by "jackies'' to be
the most realistic of any yet attempted in
depicting life on the ocean. The cast Is
also Of reputed excellence, including sew
eral men who served with Dewey and
Schley during the late international misun-
derStanding.
NEW GRAND OPERA IIOUsE.-As will
be seen, the most pretentious and diversi-
fed vaudeville program ever offered by the
New Grand Is the one announced for next
week. Manager Chase has been enabled.
through the continual presence Of Mr. Burke
In New York city, inspecting promising
acts, TO secure unusually excellent bills re-
Gently, but the one next week is regarded
the most attractive Of any yet put to-
gether. Indeed, its strength is so well di-
vided that to no one act can be given the
special distinction of being the ''headliner."
Filson and Enrol will make their first ap-
pearance, and their reputation as giving
the most brilliant comedy in vaudeville will
weeks to secure them, without success un-
til now. They will offer "a Tip on the
Derby" which is said to be superior to
their former comedy, "A Daughter of Bac-
chus." George Wilson, the eminent black
monologist. will return. and for the coming
occasion he brings a wholly new budget of
songs and sayings Wilson regards Wash
iDgton as his home. Patr1ce comes back
also, and this time will give her much -ad-
vertised and long-promised "Edna's Ghost"
a costume comedy wholly out Of the ordi-
nary. Patrice is a winsome comedienne.
with a strong fascination for feminine au-
ditors. The aerial Austins are also promi-
nent features of the bill, and their aerial
act is very probably the most divertfng ever
witnessed here Both women are hand
some and daring. Still another strong bid
der Is Mile. Aimee, the human fly" whose
sensational ceiling walking, head down.
ward, has never been duplicated. Of great
Richardson. the mental marvel. who gives
quite the most remarkable evidence of pre-
cocity ever witnessed.
DAMRosCH LECTURE RECITAL
Every year shows an increase in the inter-
est in Washington in the music of Richard
Wagner. The Wagner programs of the
Boston Symphony season always attract
ed overfowing houses. some to understand,
some to wonder. some to criticise. but an
always increasing number to admire. The
Wagnerian opera performances are usually
the best attended. But 1t Is conceded by
the greatest admirers of the much-discussed
genius that enjoyment Of his works de-
pends greatly on the understanding of their
dramatic purpose and the musical means
of enhancing the sentiment Of the poem
Mr.. Krehb!el lectured last year on Wag-
ner and his art work, and Mr.. Walter
Damrosch will explain On the evening of
Tuesday, February 9, the story Of the
Ring of the Nibeungen," and will Illus
trate on the piano the music composed by
the dramatist to aid in arousing the emo
tions of the auditors There are four dra-
mas in the great Tetralogy. beginning with
Rheineold, where the plot is woven; then
in Die Walkure the result Of Wotans de-
ception breeds sorrow to gods and men;
In Siegfried. the hero without fear, a CLEAN
OF hope appears, and in Die Gotterdammer-
ung the inevitable catastrophe overwhelms
the gods in an endless darkness. Mr.. DAM
rosch's playing is a notable feature of the
recital. He has conducted all these operas.
and by knowing thoroughly the entire or