The Washington times., 1901-12-01

then had a husband and three sons fight
ing for their country and was often heard
to remark that she was sorry she had no
more sons to send OF these four men
| two we're killed and the others we're al
lowed to return home alive. though MAJOR
Crosman. the eldest son, was badly
wounded.
Alexander Crosman. who had rank in
the navy as commander Is well remem
| bered, and his heroic death is a matter
/ of record 1t was off the isthmus. His
vessel was stationed there to guard Amer
| lean interests. just as our bluejackets are
| now. during the trouble and fighting that
| is going on Two of his crew we're cap
sized in a small boat, and calling for
| help. were heard by Commander Cros-
| man Without hesitating he leaped from
| the deck of his vessel, intending to go
| to their assistance but he was never al
| lowed to even reach them. Before he had
swan a hundred yards there was splash
near him A sharp fin cut the water and
| the officer disappeared. Search was made
| for days but his body was never found.
During the week Of Decembe. 16 the
Percy Haswell stock company from
| Chase's Theatre, Baltimore, will appear at
Chase's Theatre. in this city. presenting
Henry Arthur Jones society drama, The
Liars"
The coming of Miss Haswell at the head
of her own company is theatrical event
OF more than passing interest in Washing
| ton, for her numerous admirers, who be-
came so fond of her last winter while she
WAS leading lady of the Lafayette Square
| stock company, have anxiously awaited
her return to Washington with her own
| company. Washington has almost a pro-
! prietary interest in Miss Haswell as
/ stock company star, for II was here that
| she first made her debut with a stock
company, while even before that she was
educated in this city at the Academy of
the Holy Cross on Massachusetts, Avenue,
and lived here for several years before
going on the stage under the care Of Au-
! gustin DalY.
Miss Haswell came to Washington In
June. 1900, as leading lady of the William
| Morris stock company at the Columbia
Theatre, and her success was pro-
nounced that Manager Berger, of the La
fayette Square Theatre. engaged her as
leading lady OF the Lafayette company for
last winter. Her season there was one of
the most notable personal triumphs of
stock" player ever witnessed in Wash
ington. and it Is probably no exaggeration
to say that to her own personal popularity
was due some of the success If the stock
organization which occupied t--3 Lafayette
the present orgs lization
| Miss Haswell last winter signed a con-
tract with Manager P B. Chase. by which
she became the star of a stock company
organized to occupy his Baltimore thea
ire this season. The company, under the
control and direction of George Fawcett,
%. has been highly successful ia Baltimore,
and visits Washington for one week only.
E. H. Sothern has by no means relin-
quished the idea of reproducing Ham
let" Next season his engagement in New
York is considerably prolonged with the
special object of giving even a finer pres
entation of Hamlet than his original re-
viyal
1t will be a very massive affair. and
already the scenic artists are at work
preparing new models that mean more
elaborate stage settings. The number of
auxiliaries will also be increased and Z
quantity of new costumes are being de-
signed. The idea is to give the biggest
revival of Hamlet ever witnessed in
this or any country.
Meanwhile Mr.. Sothern will continue to
study this remarkably varied character of
Shakespeare, he being by no means con-
tent with his first reading and hopes
to excel in many instances the interpre-
tation that won for him the plaudits OF
| every class OF playgoers.
The costumes used in "The Red Kloof,"
Paul Potter's Boer play, in which Louis
and Clara Lipman appear, were fashioned
from designs from a number OF sketches
made in the Transvaal and from still
larger number of Photographic sketches
taken by Miss Lipman throughout Ger
many and Holland. In fact, Mr.. Mann and
Miss Lapman spent most Of their summer
vacation abroad gathering local color
for Mr.. Potter's play.
In their journeyings they penetrated
even to the Island OF Maarken, on the
Zuyder Zee, where the Oldest of old Dutch
live, and from which place many of the
early settlers of the Transvaal came. The
latter were indeed in great part from
Northern Holland-principally Friesland.
That makes the Boer OF today mixture
of Dutch, French, ana German, with q
preponderance OF Dutch-and he has alb
sorbed some Of the costumes OF each. Miss
Lipman's Photographic studies embraced
pictures taken in Scheveningen. Amster-
dam. Hilversum. the Island of Maarken,
and dozen other places.
Miss Lipman says she has never left
her hotel unless armed with a camera, so
as to be prepared to snap" any pic
turesque costumes she might run across
in her wanderlngs; and she has rarely
returned without a number OF studies.
Sometimes only hat would strike her.
Other times it would be a rough wooden
skirt with deftly embroidered apron.
Again 1t would be a cap of snowy linen
set of by gay ribbons and silver orna-
ments. And to get the pictures of the
hats. the caps and the skirts. Miss Lip
: man was obliged in all cases to photo
graph the wearers. One special negative
which she prizes highly was taken in Tri-
berg. little village in the Black Forest,
and 1t was snapped by a peasant woman
who owned a cap which is perched jaunt-
lily on the condolences head.
The actress wished to photograph the
peasant, but the latter, who seemed to
: view the camera as some kind of an in
fernal machine, at first opposed the op-
Grafton strenuously. Then Miss Lipman
through the potency of handful of
Dutch pennies, induced the peasant to
loan her the hat. This accomplished. she
perched the article on her head. and
again, after endless pleadings, more pen
nies. and much patient instruction in the
; art of handling a kodak, she persuaded
the peasant woman to do the Swapping
; herself.
; Klaw e Erlanger's production of "The
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" at the
: Broadway Theatre. New York, is drawing
! the immense audiences its Importance and
! novelty warrant. Anything like 1t has
/, never been seen in this country nor has
, so much really enjoyable and artistic
amusement e9er been crowded into three
hours on an American stage.