Evening star., 1901-12-25
ANIUSE MENTS.

Foxy QUILLER.'-Th hit made in
Washington by the Klaw and Erlanger
Opera Company and Jerome Sykes in De
koyen and Smiths comic opera, Foxy
CUTLER last season, has been repeated in
many cities. Confident that there is pub
lie that desires and will support clean,
artistic musical entertainment, Klaw and
Erlanger spent money on this attraction
without stint and organized one of the
greatest companies of singers ever heard in
comic opera in this country. Mr.. de koven
has written the score for many operas, and
in Foxy CUTLER" he has produced music
that not only pleases the popular ear,
but which appeals to the cultivated musi-
clan well. MIR. Smiths book is entirely
devoid of coarse jest. Mr.. Sykes Foxy
Quiller" has been called true gem OF
stage art. Sykes is legitimate in his stage
methods and possesses a personal ma gnet-
ism that has made him strong favorite.
His support includes Eleanor Kent Grace
Cameron. Lillian Seville. Marie Christie,
julius Steger, Louis Casavant, the lilliput-
ian comedian, AdOlph link; Arthur T.
Earnest and others. The sale of sea is for
all performances, including the New Years
matinee, will open at the box office of the
Columbia Theater tomorrow morning.
THE TOREADOR Nixon & Zimmer-
mans production of the latest London
Gaiety Theater success, The Toreador ,"
will receive it's premiere at the National
Francis Wilson in the role of Sammy Gigg,
footman, or tiger whose ignorance and
tirnidiey involve him in a series of humorous
complications remarkable for their comic
interest. Mr.. Wilson is widely known and
admired in this city and his first appear-
ance in THE Toreador' Is awaited with
not a little interest. This musical comedy
was first produced at the Gaiety Theater
in London last June. 1t made an instanta-
neous hit, and since that time has been
one of the most successful attractions pre-
sented in the English metropolis Mr.. Will
sons part gives: him wide scope to display
his versatility as a comedian and to intro
duce that peculiar style of grotesdue but
refined stage humor for which he is noted
He is expected to prove especially strong in
the second act, where the unsophisticated
footman finds himself involuntarily posing
as the champion bull fighter of Spain, with
eight angry bulls awaiting him in the arena
and horde of fire-eating conspirators al
his heels insisting that he shall lead q
Carlist revolution. The new piece will be
presented in two scenes. The first repre-.
sents a flower shop in Biarritz, a seashore
resort on the Mediterranean in France, and
| the second, the plaza in Villaya in Spain
| distant about two hours travel The cos
| tuning will be brilliant. especially in the
| second act in which 12O people will be
/ seen, over one hundred in Spanish dresses
| OF gorgeous colorS.
! SWEET LAvENDER"-The Bellows
| Stock Company will present that dainty lit
| tie comedy drama Sweet Lavender at the
hatayette La next week The play is one OF
! the early successes of Arthur W. Pinero
the author Of THE Gay Lord Quex." bu-
belongs to an entirely different school from
the latter play. While The Gay LORD
Quex is risque, Sweet Lavender is pure
and wholesome. The play was original,
done In New York some ten or twelve year.
ago. Ehie Shannon, now starring with Her
bert kelcey, appearing in the title role. Mr.