Evening star., 1901-12-25


she has had this season to display the full
scope of her talent for this particular line
of stage work. She has made the most of
everything intrusted to her. and 1t is the
opinion of the management that she Will
make an ideal Sweet Lavender. The play
will bring out the company in its entirety
and will be beautifully staged. There will
be the usual Wednesday and Saturday
matinees.
KETTH'S CYCLE SENSATION.-B. F,
Keith's Original and Only Cycle Track Sen
sation is the chief feature Of the New Year
week polite vaudeville bill to be given at
Chase's. 1t has been only recently pro-
duced in New York, where 1t gave vaude-
vile patrons so many new and thrilling
sensations that it has become the rage Of
the hour. The act was discovered in Eu-
rope by Mr.. Feiber, the foreign representa-
tive of the Keith-Chase houses, and he at
once secured the right to produce it here.
Armstrong Brothers and Baker, three pro-
fessional trick bicyclists, are employed in
it. Baker is the daring rider who rode
down the west steps of the Capitol some
years ago. The three are probably the
''grittiest" riders to be found in the United
States, and advance accounts would seem
to justify the belief that only cyclists who
place no value upon their lives would dare
to attempt the feats that these men per
form. The track used is the smallest coli
scum track ever employed on stage and
has the Steepest incline ever known, that
of seventy degrees. 1t is funnel shaped
ana all that hOlQS the r1QerS on lS the CEN
trifugal force generated by their speed
around the circle. Take a picket fence and
place it to form circle, sloping at an
angle of seventy degrees, put upon it three
bicyclists, speeding around 1t, performing
various hair-raisng tricks, with complete
disregard of life and limb, and some idea
may be formed of the act. The famous Rus
sell Brothers, who have just terminated
their starring tour in Sweet Marie" will
be seen for the first time at Chase's as
THE Irish Servant Girls their best known
act, which seems to have perpetual life.
Wormwoods Monkey Circus, with new
Simians and fresh tricks, Wiz be a feature
of rare enjoyment for many. Chas. Wayne
and anna Caldwell will present the gay lit
tie comedy, "A Book Detective" Mayme
Gehrue, the dancer formerly with Weber
& Fields; Edward M. Favor and Edith Sim
clair, weI-known entertainers, will present
their laughabie speciality, 'The Maguires."
Others are charming Margaret Ashton,
the girl Of quality" and Scott and Judge,
the comic athletes, as 1.-The farmer and the
athlete" Prices will be as usual on New
Year day and seats are now on sale.
.'wINCHEsTER."- new war play is
ter" and was written by Edward Nc
Wade. The drama will be given an
elaborate production, with entirely new
there will be shown a race for life" in
which Margaret May, a handsome young
actress, who has been especially engaged,
will appear with her famous jumping horse,
'Mazeppa,' In one Of the most sensational
and thrilling episodes ever presented on the
stage. For this scene the racing machines
of Neil Burgess. used in ''The County
Fair and Ben Hur' have been secured.
Winchester is in four acts, with the
scenes laid in the Shenandoah valley in
1868 The story tells Of Major Kearney
Wright Huntington), northern officer,
who is wounded, and nursed back to health
by Virginia Randolph Miss Margaret May),
a southern girl.
SAM DEVERE's OWN COMPANY,-The
attraction at Kernans New Years week
bids fair to outdo anything of it's kind that
has visited the house this season. 1t is
Sam Deveres Own Company, and under
the sole management of Sam Devere, who
has always been identified with the best
vaudeville and burlesque shows. The olio
is composed of such clever performers as
Bennet and Stembler, in their comedy
sketch; Sam Devere, with all new songs
and sayings; Mildred Howard De Grey, SEN
sational dancer; Sallah Abdullahs Arabs,
seven in all, the most wonderful acrobats of
the age; the Troubador Four, quartet of
singers and comedians hard to beat; the
celebrated Phasey Troupe, direct from the
Alhambra Theater, London, Eng, and the
Royal Ascot Girls, the latest English SEN
sation. The performance will be brought
to a close by farce entitled The Cloak
Models" which is said to be full Of bright
and witty sayings, new and catchy music,
funny comedians and a host Of pretty
young ladies. The show should prove to
be one of the best drawing cards Manager
Herman has had this season.
MADISON SQUARE CYCLE WHIRL.-
Excellent as is the program of vaudeville
and buresque as given by the great La
fayette show and the Bijou Stock Burles-
que Company, at the Bijou this week, Man
ager Schlesfngers offering for next week
promises to be even better. Heading the pro-
gram will be the original Madison Square
cycle whirl, which has been very aptly
described as .'Whirlwind Bicycle Race
on Miniature Track" This exhibition of
startling bicycling will be given by John
Lawson, THE Terrible Swede,'' and Leste
Wilson of Pittsburg, who finished second
in the recent six-day bicycle race at Mad
ison Square Garden, New York. These two
daring riders will speed around at break
neck pace on a bowl-shaped track that will
not occupy one-half the space of the Bijou
stage. The act is undoubtedly a most SEN
sational one, and should prove a great at
traction for the patrons of the Bijou next
week Bonnie Thornton, the vivacious
comedienne, who sings songs in her own
peculiar and inimitable manner, will pre-
sent a new repertoire of songs, none of
which has ever been heard in Washington
before. Williams and Adams, who style
themselves The millionaire comedians,
will give knockabout act that is said to
be especially good and Sam J. Adams will
Hilton, comedy cyclists; harrington and
Martell, two young women who sing and
dance, and the Ryders, with their funny
performing monkeys, will close the olfo.
The stock burlesqus company will be seen
in new laughable absurdity, employing
the entire strength Of the organization.
THE MESSIAH.-The Choral Society will
have three rehearsals this week in order to
present the Messiah acceptably Friday
night. Professor Kaspar is indefatigable In
drilling the chorus, and although the So
ciety has now given this work annually for
eleven years, he Is not satisfied unless it
Is rehearsed with as much care as if 1t
were entirely unfamiliar. The vocal quail
ity of the chorus is of marked superiority
to that of previous years.
The soloists will arrive in the city FRIDAY
morning, and Friday afternoon will re-
hearse at the Congregational Church, SO
that there will be perfect accord between
the conductor, the soloists, the ACCOMPANY
lists and the chorus. Much interest is felt
in the coming appearance of Nine. Jacoby
the contralto, and Mr.. Baernstein, the bass
These two singers are very we'll known In
New York and have made extensive tours
of the country, both east and west 1t Is
rather remarkable that neither has here
t.tofore appeared in Washington. The So
ciety feels that in securing them in Coop
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