Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-20
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NEW BIJoU THEATER.-Next week at
the Biiou Sam T. Jacks Own Burlesque
| Company makes its bow for the first time
! In three years to Washington audience.
1t is now nearly two years since Mr.. Jack,
| who organized this and various other bur
| ieSque companies, died, and the managerial
| relns of this. his star organization, was
! taken up by Miss Mabel Hazelton, the pres
| ent proprietor and manager. Miss Hazel
I ton has more than demonstrated what
woman can do in this line. She has sur
rounded herself with a company that does
| her great credit. The performance opens
| with a new burlesque departure, "A Hay
| seed Soubrette.' by George Totten Smith
and w. T Zero, satirizing the principal
| features of Sis Hopkins and "A Hot Old
| Time 1t is replete with musical novel
ties and surprises. The vaudeville portion
of the entertainment contains some of the
! celebrities of the vaudeville world. The
| closing burlesque, THE Sapho Trial" by
! the same authors, while clingng to all the
| leading features of the famous Sapho trial
| in New York is full of comedy and muS-
| cal novelties. As an extra feature for the
| first time in Washington the famous Sam
l. JACK living pictures. with all the spe
| cial scenery, electrical and mechanical eff
| fects will be produced.
INNES' BAND CONCERT-Innes' inva-
| sion of the orchestral field with a comhlna-
! ton of brass and reed Instruments. and re-
| inforced only by the bass vols and harp.
| has been matter of wonderment. The
best critics held that the idea was imprac-
| ticable, but lines has proved these pred,c-
| tons to be wrong. Through his ability as
| dr!llmaster and as the result of tedious
| patient toll, aided by new combinations OF
| reed instruments in connection with strnged
BASES, saxaphone and blossoms, he has at
| last realized his ambition and become the
| head of concert band that. besides being
| thoroughly orchestral in tone, is distinctive
| IN It's class. lines and his band have been
| playing all summer at Atlantic city in a
| big auditorium, seating over 1000 people.
Which has been built for his concerts by a
| group of well-known Philadelphia capital
| lists lnnes is said to have played to nearly
a million paid admissions down there Fol
| lowing up his success he is now making a
! tour which Will extend from coast 10 coast
| ana upon which he will be accompanied by
a number of well-known grand opera sing
| ers, who will be heard in scenes from
FauSt and "Trovatore.' The ORGANIZE
! ton Will be here on Sunday afternoon ana
| ter
kERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER -
IiSuck d fennessy's Rambler Burlesquers
VIII be at the Lyceurn Theater for ono
week. commencing Monday matinee Dur
| ing the time that this company has been
on the road 1t has made name for itself
second to that Of no other COMPANY of a
IKE character in the country Messrs
Heuck and Fennessy have selected for this
aggregation of talent the leading pIayers of
| Ihe many shows that have played at their
Ieopie Theater in Cincinnati in the past
Few Years, with the result that for variety
and general excellence the performances
gwen by the company is all that could be
desired The program is made up of a
speciality bill and a burlesoue in which all
the members of the company including
d shapely chorus. take part. With such
cleVer performers as the Burke Brothers,
comedians; the Quaker City Quartet the
Ihree Dunbar Sisters. singers and dancers.
BONITA and LaRue, ragtime performers.
raymond and Clarke eccentric comedians.
and Dora De Vere with new illustrated
nile
Queen of the Holland Danes" written by
the Burke Brothers, closes the perforn1
ahce. Ida Dexter, the handsome bur-
iesquer, heads the dozen or more shapely
young ladies who take part in the bur
lesque.
THE KNEISEL QUARTET.-The adj
mirers of chamber music in Washington
VIII be very glad to learn that the number
OF concerts by the kneisel quartet will be
increased this season from four TO five with
no increase in the subscription this re-
manning at So for the season The addi-
tonal concert has been made possible by
me growing interest shown last season,
When the concerts Were first given in the
commodlouS and beautiful banquet hall of
the Hotel Raleigh. These concerts were
started eight years ago by the cooperation
Oh sixty subscribers and We're heard first in
private house of a well-known music
lover Then they moved to the Washington
Club and the audience increased while the
SUBSCRIPTION price was lowered and after
three years there a removal was lunera
tiVely demanded to larger room Their
character as subscription concerts has
never changed. and fully three-fourths of
the audience at each concert are holders of
season tickets. Their prosperity is one of
the many signs of WaShngton's growing
interest In the best music. The first con.
cert Is on November %
THE CHORAL SOCIETY.-The increased
attendance at Monday nights rehearsal in
dicates the great renewal of interest in the
thofai SocletyS work. President King then
announced that 165 members had been en-
Toi!ed 10 date as against 10 at the same
GATE last year. The lint of sixty sopranos
mas now been reached and further annIi
cants on this part will be placed on the
waiting list, to receive positions when va
cancies occur. The alto list is nearly frII
but about ten more bassos and twaIva
tenors are still needed. Mr. Kaspar has
already drilled the chorus on four Of the
me evening is always ended with one of
the familiar but eyer-weIcome choruses
from THE Messiah"
E. H. SOTHERN AS HAMLET Mo-.
piaygoers are familiar with F. III Sothsrn
as the good-natured and reckless Lord
!, ohumley They remember him with dis-
unct p easure the gawky and provjnciaI
Master of Woodbarron." in Jeron,a Il
Jerome's delightful comedy, and the hastv
ana inpetuous Capt Letterbla;r These
~ seemed to have direct affinity
70 each other, and mark the progress Of
" 9othern IN his art. Then followed the
Duke Of Guisbury in Henry Arthur joins
play, The Dancing Girl" showing $ III
further advance. Sheridan came after.
Ia. .aSlng the way to Rupert Rassendyl in
me PRISONER of Zenda.' and the pic ur- .
esque Huguenot in An Enemy to the
klng The climax of these romantic roles
was reached in his new rendering of
D Artagnan, the hero of Dumas Mus
kgteers" After that came Heinrich in
, me Sunken Bell, which paved the way
for his Hamlet" From Chumley to Ham
let Is a remarkable stride.
If the wonderful success Mr.. Sothz,n
made on his memorable opening at the Gar
ien Theater New York. is repeated on
Monday, October 20, at the New National
he performance will be one of the most
interesting the play-goers of this city have
lad the pleasure of seeing in long time
virginia Harmed is the Ophelia of this
treat Shake spearean revival Her perform
lnces OF the Dancing Girl ''Trilby."
y ady Ursula" "Milady'' and the eIf-'is>
,Rauntendelein'' were all efforts leading in
he right direction. The costuming and the
tage groupings are magnificent. The music
ised is that which Adolph Mohr specially
wrote for the Barnay production in Berlin.
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