Evening star., 1901-10-09
ADJUSTMENTS.

COMPANY.-It does not often happen that
managers of theatrical enterprises are as
sured of the financial success of an under
taking before the opening Of the season, but
that is the condition of affairs which is
announced from the Lafayette Square Tne-
ater, where the Bellows Stock Company en-
tiers upon its second year as Washington
permanent home company. The booking Of
season tickets has been in progress since
Monday. The regular sale of single tickets
for the opening week will be inaugurated
tomorrow morning. 1t is anticipated that
the company will be accorded a most en-
thusiastic reception at the opening of the
season Monday night
Although THE Wife, was originally an
nounced as the opening bill, II was at the
last moment decided to substitute Bronson
Howards great war play, shenandoah
This change was made In order that the
new company might be brought out In Its
full strength Then, too, Shenandoah af-
fords almost unlimited opportunities for
handsome stage settings and accessories.
Its selection would seem to indicate that
1t is the purpose of the management TO
pursue the same liberal policy which marx
ed its productions last year. Shenandoah
is one Of the most expensive royalty plays
obtainabfe.
JULIA MARLOWE-Com and emo
tionalism have been blended In Paul kes-
ters dramatization Of Charles Majors
story When Knighthood waS.in Flower,
which Julia Marlowe will present at the
New National Theater for one week COM
mencing October IA. The first act OF the
play depicts an outdoor scene near the
river landing in Windsor park. on Mayday,
1913. Miss Marlowe, as Mary Tudor, comes
down the Thames on a visit Of state to her
royal brother, Henry VIII. and receives
from him news of his determination to
marry her for reasons Of state to Louis
XII, King of France. Mary's heart Is set
upon Charles Brandon, suffolk squire and
captain in King Harry's gaard, who, say
the historians Of his time, was the hand
soonest gentleman in Europe. How Mary's
love for Brandon is made source Of sor-
row both to him and to her is swiftly dis
closed by the progress of the first and Sec
ond acts. by the end Of which the lovers
seem to have involved themselves in an al
together hopeless situation. Mary's inge-
nuity and Brandon's courage are employed
to such good purposes, however that the
fourth act brings the happy ending so dear
to the heart Of the American playgoer. Mr..
Major says that Miss Marlowe has realized
his Mary Tudor for him in a manner which
he did not suppose was possible outside the
realm Of his Imagination. Miss Marlowe
on her side Is delighted with the part. To
her thinking 1t unites the charming attrib-
utes Of such Shakespearean women as
Viola, Rosalind and because of the princes
ready and often audacdous wit, Katherine
in THE Tanning of the Shrew.'
ELSIE DE WOLFEs NEW PLAY.-In-
terest in the production at the Columbia
will be closed on Monday night for final
perfecting preparations-of 1.-THE Way of
the World" with Elsie de Wolfe as it's
star is unusually widespread. The num-
served places for the opening performance
are already extraordinary. Miss de Wolfe
and her supporting company. together with
all Of the paraphernalia, scenery, cos
tunes and original effects incident to this
new Clyde Fitch drama-called modern
play by its author, by the way-are ex-
pected to arrive in Washington tomorrow
afternoon The interval between the time
of reaching here and next Tuesday will be
devoted to final rehearsals A notable fea-
ture of the organization is its possession
of three leading men instead of one.
Frank Mills, for the past several years
has been the leading support in London Of
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Mr.. Forbes Robert
son and other English stars; Vincent Ser
rano of Arizona distinction, and Mr..
Harrison Hunter, last year the leading
support OF Olga Nethersole, are the others
of the trio. Clara Bloodgood, whose New
York success in "The Climbers is well
known in this city, is also in the cast.
THE Way of the World" is play of
purely domestic tone, the action passing in
society and bearing an undercurrent of
politics, pointing the danger Of husbands s
devotion to ambition to the neglect of his
wife. The window sale Of seats begins at
the box Office Of the Columbia Theater to-
morrow morning at $50.
HYDE'S COMEDIANS.-Follow the
Introductory season of musical comedy and
interspersed vaudeville by Chase's Musical
Comedy Stock Company there will be pre-
sented at Chase's Theater next week, in the
way of variation, Hyde's Comedians,
pure vaudeville attraction that has always
presented the best in its chosen field. Bal
t1more Is now giving the aggregation both
newspaper praise and box Office indorse-
ment. Helene Mora, the phenomenal wom-
an baritone, who has just returned from a
W ha ha rinof ofr,a1 =
ure Of the bill. The coming Chase en-
gagement will mark her temperance in
America, and she promises some new songs
In conjunction with the favorites that have
made them and her famous. Surrounding
Miss Nora will be found Horace Goldin,
with new Illusion; Dooley and Kent, re-
fined singing comedians; Hayes and Healy,
"the long and short of IT." Tom Moore, the
king Of "coonology:" Oracle Emmett and
company, in a new sketch entitled my
Second Husband" the Musical Colbys,
Trovolio, the ventriloquist, and ORourke
and Burnett, the California dancing duo
The couponing of seats in the second bal
cony of Chases and the rigid inspection ex-
ercised in their sale has induced, during
the past several weeks, hundreds Of la
dies and their escorts to accept those COM
Portable seat locations rather than suffer
the discomfort of standing on the lower
floors. In the second balcony are to be
found the same privileges that prevail in
other parts of the theater.
THE WHITE SLAVE."-The attraction
at the Academy of Music next week will
be BARLEY Campbell's white Slave" The
play has not been seen in this city for
long time, but it's success during the cur
rent season fully sustains its reputation as
one of the few standard American melo-
dramas.
BLIND TOM.-Blind Tom, who delighted
large audience at the Columbia Theater
on Sunday evening with his wonderful en-
terta1nment, returns again to give fare
we'll concert at the Columbia Theater to-
morrow afternoon at AIS. He Is a pro-
found psychological mystery, whose depth
lies far below the plummet of speculation.
Born slave, deprived before birth of the
power OF vision, endowed with faculties
that hover upon the borderland between
intelligence and non-responsibility. that
narrow horizon which seems destined to be
forever illumined by the twilight of intel
lect, yet he is musical miracle His
range of themes Is great, whether 1t is a
sonata of Beethoven or a wild African
plantation hymn, the divine inspiration of
Tom finds utterance in expression Popu-
lar prices will prevail at the matinee.
BIJOU BURLESQUE AND vAUDE
V1LLE.-The coming week at the Bijou will
witness one of the most expensive and
promising bills Of burlesque and vaudeville
of the season. The success attending the
efforts to provide local theatergoers with
the very best acts in the vaudeville field