Evening star., 1901-02-12

queens cavalry OF the British fcrces. She
IL constantly annoyed by the love of Col.
Marque, son of the Boer general, whom
she rejects Seeing how much she, the
heroine. loves the British officer Col.
Marque, the villain; persecutes her, and in
one instance, where her lover is held a
prisoner OF war, threatens to have him
shot II she refuses to wed him, which she
does to save her lovers life After many
exciting episodes Of this character the VII
lain Is murdered by a young girl whom he
professed to love, which occurrence sets
the heroine free. Thomas McLarney as
COL Winston, the young lover, Is excep-
tionally good, as issW A. Whitecar as Col
Marque. the Villain. Olive White as Kath-
erin Livingston, the heroine and prosecuted
girl, assumes her part capably. Laurens
Hascall as kahama.' the African king, who
Is CLOSELY connected in the play with the
heroine, fills his role with a digniied coun-
tenance The part Of the war correspondent
Is handled by JAS F. Kelly who creates
mrch laughter. During the third and fifth
acts specialties are introduced by Jas. F.
Kelly and Dorothy Kent.
CHASES THEATER-There is another
excellent bill at Chases Theater this week.
ana the audiences yesterday afternoon and
night were large. Edestus the marvellous
equilibrist opened the performance last
night. All of his tricks border on the phe-
nomenal and belong strictly in the sensa-
tlonal class Lew Wells followed in a music
al comedy turn that went fairly. Another
novelty is the third number on the bill,
Prelle's Talking Dogs. Prelle is ventrilo-
quist of considerable cleverness and after
dressing the trained CANNES grotesquely
creates the impression that they are talk
ing. The act pleased everybody with its
novelty. The Musical Johnsons have been
heard here before and scored their usual
emphatic hit. Walter lie Roy and Flor
ence Clayton gave their well-known sketch,
"McGowan's Visit" and created consid-
cradle laughter. Lillian Burkhart has not
been seen in Washington for some time,
but her former success had not hpaO for
gotten, and she was greeted cordially upon
making her temperance. Miss Burkhart
has a dainty little sketch entitled 1.-The
Lady of the Rowan Tree which was en-
tertaining, but lacking in continuous hu-
NOR. The actress clever work alone
kept it out Of the ordinary. Charley Case
followed with his budget Of songs and sto-
ries, which made him the laughing hit of
the evening, the applause being almost
constant The Hawaiian Queens closed the
bill, presenting "The Queens Fam which
afforded an opportunity for rich costumlng,
dancing and singing. All three ladies are
pretty and with good voices present an act
that can be classed as far above the aver
age In entertaining qualities.
KERNAN'S LYCEUM.-The one-half cut
rate in prices at Kernan's Lyceum Theater
seems to have met with popular favor, as
the house was crowded at every perform
ance last week and good beginning was
made yesterday, when the lower floor and
galleries were filled In every part. Robes
Knickerbocker Burlesquers Is this weeks
attraction, making it's first date of the sea-
son in this city. The performance begins
with Social Session." which is replete
with songs, dances and rough comedy. Bert
Leslie is the bright particular star of this
and the closing burlesque. His work is
along original lines, and the impromptu
witticisms are very funny. Classy Grant
and Sophie Leslie contribute good support
and are excellent foils. The oio. although
short, is fairly strong. The Three Wrights
are fair singers and dance well. Rlce.
Cady and Vedder, in "a Triple Mistake
created considerable laughter, while the
Brothers La Moyne proved adopts on the
horizontal bars. Carleton and Terre sang
well and presented many funny jokes
Bert and Sophie Leslie closed the olio In
a talking turn that proved bright and
clever. The burlesque which winds up the
performance Is in fairly good form. but
lacks ''ginger" essential in pieces Of
this kind.
NEW BIJOU TIIEATER-Fred. Riders
Night Owl Burlesquers are at the Bijou this
week. They have been here before this
season, with practically the same bill 1T
Is a conscientious vaudeville show, divided
according to tradition, opening burletta,
olio and afterpiece. The latter is described
as side-splitting burlesque. 1t is sufh-
cIentIy funny and Is sprinkled with the
usual number of tramps, shapely soldiers
In tights and more Or less comic Irishmen.
The first part is billed as "A Hot Old
Time. 1t is fun OK movement ana repar-
tee but the material. is not new. All the
knockabout tricks are present including
the telling of a funny story and slapping
the teller over the head to emphasize the
point. There some taking songs intro
duced, some of them quite new. A we'll
costumed chorus helps things out and all
goes well. The olio contains some good
things, the best being the Silvinis, aero
bats, and the Newsboy Quintet. Mitchell
and Love do some clever dancing Mccall
and Carew appear in a sketch, and Healy
and Farnum dance. The Owls are as wide
awake as the average and pleased two
large audiences yesterday.
PITTSBURG ORCH HESTRA.-The last
concert of the Pttsburg Symphony Orches-
ira will take place tomorrow afternoon at
4:l5 o'clock in the Columbia Theater. Only
a very few seats We're unsold at noon to-
Gay, thus assuring one of the largest audi
ences Of the season. Among the sub
scribers are to be found many Of the lead
ers in social circles here which will make
the event of special interest to society as
we'll as to musicians. The program is to
largely include Wagnerian music, but there
will be sufficient Of other selections to in
terest all music lovers. Victor Herbert has
proved himself one Of the MIST satisfying
conductors in the country, 36d the orches-
tra he presides over is of nigh rank. The
soloist will be Julian Walker basso cam
tante late of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany.