Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-06
4 MUSEMENTS.

ELEANOR MERRON'S DAIRY FARM"
Eleanor Merrons domestic drama, THE
Dairy Farm" which has just concluded
prosperous season lasting within one week
of year, was forced to close on account of
the opening of the regular season at the
theater at which 1t was being done in Chi
cagO after run of thirteen consecutive
weeks, during the intense heat of the past
summer. Fourteen weeks of the season
were also played in New York city. where
lhe play received the highest Endorsements
of the press and clergymen of all denOrni-
nations. The play is a clean, bright comedy
without the slightest suggestiveness. 1t is
staged in most picturesque and realistic
manner. Miss Merron has laid the
scene of her pretty story in the old
village of Hurley on the Hudson
and has introduced many quaint char
acters' including the village miser,- the
pastor, the old country squire, the village
peddler and his pretty granddaughter, the
plowboy and several others that go toward
making one of the most charming plays
that the stage of this country has seen in
years. 1t will be presented atlthe Columbia
next week, with all the original scenery and
costumes.
THE sOTHERN-HARNED HAMLET"
The SOthern-Harned production of Ham
let will be presented at the National Thea
ter on next Monday evening. 1t is con-
coded by even hypercritical playgOers to be
the finest Shakespearean revival seen in
this country since the Henry Irving mag
niticent spectacles. 1t was the general
opinion, despite the laudatory results of the
presentation, that II could not be more
than a suces d'estime: but the unexpected
happened. and the venture has proved as
big financial success as the artistic
| triumph merited. In this nineteenth CEN
fury, three hundred years after its original
production at the Globe Theater London
Hamlet" is the fashion, and to the mod
ern piaygoer. in a great measure, a nov
city. Whether it Is the modern treatment
| in the delivery of the text, the massing Of
the auxiliaries, the imposing pageantry, the
truth of color and effect. the naturalness of
ensemble and the grandeur of the mis-en-
scene, or the craving of the theatergoer to-
day for more intellectual entertainment the
fact remains that Hamlet this season
is craze. The opinion of this city on the
performance and the production need not
be biased by New York or Boston, but 1t
is fair TO say that Sothern in those cities
created quite a Juror by his splendid per-
Torrance. He was compared to Edwin
Booth, and 1t was said that all his previous
efforts in romantic drama. in THE Prisoner
of Zenda,' AN Enemy to the King" and
his ''D'Artagan," paled almost to insignifi-
canoe by the side OF his imnSrsonaton of
the Prince of Denmark. 1t wilrmean stand
ing room only on Monday night of certain
ty. Miss Harned's performance of Ophelia is
also matter of great interest Her former
successes have fully justified the higher
flight she has made. The massive and
Hamlet" causes the necessity of the cur
tain rising at 7:45 pm.
1t has been decided Miss Virginia Harmed
VIII give a special matinee of Camille
next Wednesday, the 18th instant. This
will be her third performance of the part,
the two previous occasions being in Cleve-
land and Pttsburg, the success OF which
surpassed her previous efforts in both
Lady Ursula and "Trilby." Even before
| the matinee performance was announced
| here number Of mall orders for seats for
I W llGf hnh he brxy
| Harmed telegraphed that her success
/ in the Dumas play was being discussed by
| Washington playgoers, who wanted to see
! her as Camille. and she at once replied she
/ would be pleased to play the special matt
| nee.
| LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE.
| Sowing the Wind" will be the attraction
| a. this popular house next week. 1t is
| one Of Sidney Grundy's strongest and best
dramatic efforts. and he is one of England s
| foremost dramatists. Sowing the Wind
| is strong drama of the human heart, with
! az intense sentimental interest conferred in
! two young people, who love each other and
| whose path, fate DEGREES, shall be every
J thing but smooth A shadow on the young
| girls life, and a determined father, with a
| meGdlesome friend. on the young lover
side. gives ample opportunities for intense
| situations. Mr.. Ormonde will essay the
role of the widower Brabazon, whose adopt
/ ed son. Ned AnneSley (Mr. Wyngate), falls
| desperately in love with Rosamond Miss
| HaswelD, an opera singer Of renown. Ow-
| ing to the uncertainty of the young lady's
! antecedents, the father, assisted by his self
| appointed adviser, his old chum Watkins
| CMr. Rogers does everything In his power
| to keep the young couple apart. A good
deal of bright comedy is interviewer In the
| plot, supplied principally by Miss Macin-
tosh and Miss Scott, as the frivolous widow
| and her more frivolous daughter, respec.
| lively. j. T. Sullivan will play the prin.
| ciple villain, the dissipated Lord Petworth
NJ. John Daily Murphy will get a good OPP.
portunity to display his comedy talents II
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