Evening star., 1901-10-02
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will open a weeks engagement with his
new operatic comedy. Miss Simplicity,
at the Columbia Theater next Monday
night. Miss Simplicity is the work of
r. A Barnet and H. L. Heartz, which was
first produced at Fords Opera House, Bal-
timore, last Monday evening. 1t received
the highest praise on the opening night
and is crowding the historic old Baltimore
playhouse to the limits of it's capacity this
week. All the advices from the Maryland
metropolis promise the new piece brill
liant and unqualified success. Liorettist
Barnet is credited with having provided
Daniels with the best part of his career
as comic opera star. 1t is said to afford
the comedian some new and striking op-
portunuieS for his peculiar style of fun.
Manager Kirke La Shelie has greatly eli
nanced Daniels support this season by the
acquisition of Helen Lord and Henry
Woodruff, who are intrusted with the Lead
ing juvenile roles Miss Lord will be re-
membered as the pretty girl who so sue
cessfully followed Edna May in The Belle
of New York" Mr.. Woodruff is making
his debut in musical work, and the charge
is pronounced an agreeable one. The other
people in the company who have made hits
are Allene Crater, Grace Belmont, Grace
Myers, Owen Westford, Frank Deard-uff
and Fred Bailey. The music is accredited
with being tuneful and refreshing and the
lyrics attractive. Daniels has several hui
morouS numbers.
PRIMROSE & ,DOCKSTADER.-A the
New National Theater next Monday even
ing Primrose & Dockstader will make their
annual visit to this city with their great
American minstrels and promise program
of many novelties, splendid stage settings
magnificent costumes and clever comedians,
whose regulations in many instances are
second to none. The entire company will
clded departure from the many minstrel
entertainments of the present day. The end
chairs will be filled by George Primrose and
Lew Dockstader. When the curtain rises
display of the scenic artists ingenuity
and talent, and as the military
band, under the direction of Carl Carleton
strikes up a melody the entire company will
take their places. The vocalists have been
selected with great care, and number
among them such wellknown artists as
George Pearce, Harry Ellis, w. H. Hallett,
Frederick Barnes Walter Vaughn, Fred
GladdiS and James Bradley.
"a BRASS MONKEY'-The attraction
to be presented at Chases Theater next
week, beginning with the Monday matinee,
will be Otis Harlan and Chase's Musical
Stock Company, in Hoyt's "A Brass Mon
key As thorough a performance is prom
1sed as the one that is this week being
given of "A Stranger in New York" En-
tirely new specialties in the way of songs
and dances have been especially written
for the production. coon song which has
not yet been named is said to be de-
parture from the accepted standards of
that class of music Although written
nearly eleven years ago, the satire in "a
Brass Monkey is not by any means out
of date. The reason for the statement is
very simple. The theme of the play is SUI
perstlt1on an element of life that will prob
ably exist as long as the world is peopled.
Jonah" the hoodooed man, is living to-
day in numerous degrees. Mr.. Harlan was
one of the original cast and will bring to
amt
edge of the stage business used in the
initial performance, thus securing that most
important quantity in stage production, at
mosphere. Maude Scott. Mary Marble,
John W. Dunno, David Andrada, Little
Chip and all the other permanent favor
ties will participate. They are said to be
cast congenially. Mr.. Harlan has in prep
aratlon speciality which will be surprs-
be interspersed literally. The concerts be-
fore each performance will be continued
Late comers finding all the reservations on
the lower floors taken are assured that they
will be furnished locations of comfort in
the second balcony, the seats Of which are
couponed and entrance to which is now
gained through the main door on the ave-
nue.
THE VOLUNTEER ORGANIST"-The
engagement of 1.-THE Volunteer Organist"
next week at the Academy of Music is an
event which is awaited with small de-
lar theater. In presenting this attraction
Harry Martell has surpassed himself to an
unusual degree, as it Is a production on the
most magnificent scale. The song of the
same title, from which the piece was
adapted, was great success, having had
most phenomenal sale, but it is hardly to
be compared with the popularity that has
been attained by the play since its first
Its author William B. Gray, has started
a scrap book in which he has preserved
score after score of congratulatory letters
from ministers having charges in almost
every city in the country where the piece
has been presented The play Is of the
pastoral order, and is an idyll in its way
The story of the drama is simple and is
blended with genuine comedy and ex-
ceptional pathos. Advance criticisms speak
in glowing terms Of the cast and scenic
effects. There is not a dull moment
throughout the play, and the action is
author of THE Volunteer Organist, is a
well-known composer of popular songs.
MERRY MAIDENs" AT KERNAN's.-
A great aggregation of gilt-edged special
ties and pretty girls that Is announced as
the attraction at Kernan's Lyceum for next
week is 1.-The Merry Maidens Burlesuuers"
Nellie Hanly, the celebrated singer of illus
trated songs, heads the organization, which
is said to be of much excellence and to in
clude such well-known and capable artists
as Leo and Chapman, comedy acrobats:
Vile; Harry Setback, champion bag punch
er; Spencer brothers, favorite Irish come
dians and dancers; Ed Begley, the popular
comedian; James Lowry, the well-known
comedy producer, and score of pretty
girls in two sparkling burlesques. The per-
formance opens with merry musical me-
lange entitled "A Gay Time at the Capital"
which serves to introduce the entire COM
pany. The scenery for this represents the
Capitol at Washington and is said to be
the finest and most expensive set ever car
ried by any burlesque attraction while the
costumes and electrical effects are novel
and handsome. The closing burlesque is a
lively skit on life at the seashore and is
called 1.-The Merry Maidens at the Beach"
The company also carries very elaborate
special scenery for this.
BIJOU BURLESQUE.-The Bijou bill for
next week will contain unusual amount
of entertainment of the sort that patrons
of burlesque' houses seem to like. There
will be merry melange in which the entire
strength of Mr.. Grieves company will ,be
seen in mixture of comedy situations and
music and dancing. The management has
determined to retain the motion pictures
on account of their extraordinary excel
lence and the great amount of interest that
has already been manifested in their exhi-
bition by those who have seen them. The
pictllreS are said fo he So clear that tho