The Washington times., 1901-11-03

tion Of new electric lights completes ths
improvements. and with the excellent bilis
| which Manager Osgood has continued to
offer. the Academy of Music has no su-
perior in any popular price house in the
country
Bertha Galland will tomorrow COM
mence n two weeks tour through the
smaller towns of New York and Penusyl-
vania. She will use THE Forest Lovers.
exclusively.
The Love Match" Sydney Grundy's
comedy. which was hastily put on at the
Lyceum when THE Forest Lovers was
deemed a failure. proved TO be even worse
than the dramatization of the Maurice
Hewitt SCR
When Miss Galland appears at the Ma
uonal Theatre. this city. on Thanksgiv-
ing week she will be seen in The Forest
Lovers"
Over at Chase's during the same week
| Henrietta Crosman will present her sue
cessful Nell Gwynne,'' which made the
most briInant hit of the New York season
last winter and raised her from the rank
| OF one-nfght stand star ard stock
actress to one of the foremost players Of
| the country.
or late local theatregoers of an observ-
ant turn have noted the appearance OF
enjoyed recent productions.
The Academy of Music stage showed
| men Of the cloth in The Volunteer Or
| ganist' and last week in Mans Enemy
| The Lafayette had clergymen in The
| Little Minister" and Shenandoah" and
| the Columbia entertained ministers in
| Lovers Lane" and The Christian
and n Bishop in THE Way of the World
/ One of the important characters In Lady
| Huntworth's Experiment, given last
| week at the National. was vicar.
| II this thing continues. Representatives
/ of the church promise to take equal rank
| with comic lovers, women with pasts.
| deep-dyed scouEdrels, innocent. trusting
| heroines, and curIy-haired. mustached,
muscular heroes in the literature OF the
| stage.
Paul Wilstach writes TO The Times that
the receipts of Mr. Mansfield's first twen-
| ty-one performances of "Beaucaire'' were
| SilC9O. and the present engagement at
| Boston promises to make the record still
more formidable.
| Never since his Beau Brummer' has
MIR. Mansfield enjoyed such a great pop
ularity in "Beaucaire," and "Herod,'
which was put in rehearsal few days
after the Booth Harrington piece was
first played, with view to later produc-
tion, has been postponed. and Beau
caire" will form Mr.. Mansfelds sole Of
fering this season.
George Cooper. a Washingtonian, a
graduate of one of Gothams dramatic
schools last June. has been engaged for
an important position with Charles FrOh-
mans Empire Theatre stock company.
F. c. Whitney believes that much OF
the success of a comic opera depends
upon the chorus Mr.. Whitney should
surely know, for he has produced num-
ber OF successful comic operas during the
past decade notably Rob Roy Brian
Boru," THE Fencing Master with
Marie Tempest in the chief role, "A Nor
mandy Wedding, and mis- latest enter
prise, Dolly Warden" which introduces
Lulu Glaser in the principal part.
Speaking of the merry-merry maidenss
who add beauty and picturesqueness, X
not always melody, to a comic opera pro-
duction, Mr. Whitney says:
My observation has been that the av-
erage period of attracuveness OF the
chorus girl is not beyond six years. The
hard work, late hours, and wearisome
travel play havoc with the beauty Of the
chorus girl. Comparatively speaking they
wither like a violet on frosty morning.
''Out of ali the raft Of girls seeking
chorus positions and who drift up and
down Broadway during the summer, II is
q most difficult matter to get intelligent
girls of attractive face and form who
know the business and can sing one or
the prerequisites in comic opera is
good-looking female chorus Good look
ing, shapely girls are always IN demand
for the attractions that are playing in
New York, and IL is only by the payment
of higher salaries that a company goin6
on tour can induce them to leave the
metropolis.
The lecture loving portion of Washing
toms population will doubtless be pleased
to hear that Burton Holmes will this seq
son have an entirely new series of lee
lures which he calls "A New Way Around
the World" Mr.. Holmes lectures viii be
delivered at the Columbia Theatre, on five
successive Tuesday afternoons early in
the coming year.
Mr.. Holmes recently returned frcm his
journey around the world with mimi and
camera abundantly filled with the results
of his travels during the past summer in
Russia, Siberia. China, and Korea.
In addition to several thousand plates
OF the most interesting spots he visited
during his travels, Mr.. Holmes reports
that he secured an unusually large num-
ber of motion pictures. and, thanks to his
Photographic expert and fellow traveller,
Mr.. Depue. the films of these moving
pictures, many hundred feet in length,
were developed on the spot, almost
soon as taken.
The coming of Tortatada to the Bijou
Theatre next week will be the most ex-
traofdinary attraction Manager Schles-
niger viii present during the season. so
he says He was able to secure the cele-
braJed Spanish dancer only on account of
the failure of The Ladies Paradise
with which Alfred Aarons sought to
change the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, from the home of grand opera
to the residence of the light and frivol-
Gus musical comedy style Of shows.
Tortajada was fulfilling London engage
nents at the time Manager Aarons was
in the English capital, and only consent
ed to secure release upon his representa-
tionS of the magnincence OF The Ladies
Paradise. The piece was put on week
before Tortajada arrived in this country,
and by the time she was quarteTed in Il
performance, it was suddenly Withdrawn.
because the management had not been
able to pay the salaries of the numerous
performers for the first week of the pro-
duction.
Torta jada. it is saiG. will confne her
vaudeville appearances to a trio of cities
before she returns to London to resume
her successes there. Washingtonians
will have the opportunity TO witness her
graceful dancing and the patrons of the
Keith theatres in Philadelphia and BOs-
toa will be likewise favored.
The scale of splendor on which Man
ayers Fisher and Ryley are presenting
''Florodora" throughout the country will
be the better understood when it is re-
lated that every one of the eighty-seven
people required to sing the music OF the
famed favorite is a regular member of
the organization. and that such n thing
as extras are an unknown quantity,
barring about a dozen musicians, who are
added to the regular theatre orchestras.
No play which achieved success in New
York City was ever sent en- tour under