The times., 1901-06-16

| managed fit into pockets The wands are
| about six feet in length and when held
| horizontally at arms length make a dis
I tance of about twenty feet from tip to
tip The material is from France. and its
extreme fragility and the character of
| work for which il is used make careful
| attention to the slightest detail absolutely
| necessary to guard against its complete
| ruin. The material has to be frequently
| renewed.
! The strain on a dancer constantly NOV
| ing Is more than most people can imagine
| when they see the beautiful figure fitting
| gracefully about the stage. reflected a
hundredfOld in cleverly arranged mirrors.
| A course of training in which every mus
Gle must be developed is one of the essen
| tialS of the spectacular dancers educa-
ton. One needs but to try waving the
arms as long and as fast as do these dan
| GERS to learn in q very few moments the
amount of work which is represented in
| the graceful series of evolutions which are
so admired by playgoers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Giles Shine O4avinia Shan
nom have arrived in the city and are
| staying at the Hotel Normandie, where
they viii remain until August
A little over two years ago, Washing
ton hardly knew the meaning of the term
vaudeville but it is different now and
those who have freQuented the Grand
| since Manager Chase first introduced this
form of entertainment can tell before
! what sort of bill they are going to wit
ness. There is the one-act sketch-some-
times two, the song and dance team, and
the Omnipresent black-face monolOgist
/ But occasionally surprise IS provided in
d new act, and If possessed of the small
est bit of merit. II rarely fails to score
/ Such is the Reed musical trio. which oc-
| cupled the second place on the Chase bill
! OF last week. and more enjoyable, arts
. tic, and refined entertainment has seldom
: been presented before a locaf audience
: II was not the conventional musical act
that Of playing on bells and instruments
made TO resemble anything but what they
! are. For fifteen minutes last week the
audiences at the Grand were transported
3 to u drawing room and entertained with
Z old melodies, charmingly rendered by
three young women, gowned in simple
/ white frocks, and diffusing air Of re-
hnement, which made itself felt to the
farthermost cerncr of the house. Two of
/ them were harpiSts and the third Yio-
/ liniSt. and all were musicians of skill
/ They played Moores Believe Me, If All
Those Endearing Young Charms, Bon
Thome's soulful reverie Simple Confes-
son," and had they gratitied the evident
( desire OF the audiences they could have
filled douSle their time
( a representative of The Times met Mr..
! Warner. the manager Of the act the
! other evening, and gathered some inter-
| esting information concerning the talented
/ young people.
Yes" he said, las you may imagine
/ the act is comparatively new. We have
! only been out since February, but are
/ booked solid for a year. The act was
/ formerly known as the Aeolian Trio, but
! managers did not seem to like the name
/ and We changed ii to its present one
| We started out just as an experiment
| not knowing with what measure Of sue
] cess we might meet. / had seen NUM-
! bcr of musical acts, but never one IN
! which a harp had been the feature, and
! ii occurred to me to try two o. them and
| a violin and see now II worked. The young
I women | employed had only done draw
! ing-room work and so were a little back
/ ward about having their real names used
/ in case the venture proved failure. Their
! friends are not aware even now that they
are the vaudeville stage, but they
will be next year, for now it is all right
| Everywhere they have played they have
| been emiEently successful and the public
| seems TO enjoy and appreciate the old
( songs. At first we thought Of using clas-
/ sic music, but soon saw that II was not
| what the people wanted. Yes. We shall
continue under the same name, for we
look upon it now as mascot
The Iiebler & Co. press agent, in dis
cussing the tour of the Skinner-Robson-
| LeMoyne organization in In q Balcony"
| says:
The five weeks tour Of In n Balcony
| and its companion piece, the Yeats play,
| The Land of Hearts Desire was a
remarkable one for several reasons not
the least of which was the test of physi-
| cal endurance to which il invited the
members of the company. Let one i'm
| agine, by way Of illustration. an evening
! performance at Milwaukee. Wis. on Il
! certain Wednesday, an all-niSht flight By
! special train 10 matinee at Louisville
! KY several hundred miles distant, on
! Thursday afternoon, and then by special
| train to Lexington, where they gave an
! evening performance the same day; thence
| TO Cincinnati where a matinee was given
J an ErriH a DaTfuTmHnge
! Dayton. Ohio, sixty miles distant, the
! same evening, and thence TO Columbus
| Ohio. for performance the following day-
! There were several forced marches of
! similar char lcter in the tour, and how
the feminine members Of the organization
| were able TO endure ii and not miss
! single performance will probably remain
| a mystery for all time. There We're other
! tests in those two performance days, such,
/ for instance, as ringing curtain down
| at 30 O'Clock in the afternoon. respond
| ing TO encores for twenty minutes longer
| then taking down and loading up scenery,
| transporting u by special train one hun
| dred miles distant. and having a curtain
| ready to ring up at $50 o'clock
( The In Il Balcony tour was not or
| ganized for a money-mal<tng venture, but
! il made some money. for the attendance
| everywhere was very large, at places eX-
| ceeding the widest expectations. and II
| the enthusiasm and kinds words could be
| converted into cash, the tour would have
| made all the principals wealthy Tor ne
| 1t has been many years since an effort
| in the interest of art has been so royalty
| T. ceived, and the remembrance Of the en-
| coura ging words spoken will remain long
| in the memory OF the players.
Sag Harbor" has been playing TO large
| audiences on the Pacific Coast. George
| Woodward, one Of the best character ac-
! tors in the country, was sent on to take
| Mr.. Herne's part when the late actor
| dramatist was taken seriously III in Chi
| cago. and his Interpretation has been ac-
| cepted quite extraordinary When
| Mr. Herne's condition became critical
| Julie Herne and then Chrystal Herne were
! released to 80 to his bedside. FanchOn
| Campbell was sent out 10 Denver to take
| Julie Hcrne's part. that of Martha Reese.
| and soon after Charlotte Walker went
| out To san Francisco to essay the role
| of Jane Cauldwell. part which Chrystal
! Hcrne had taken from the Initial per
| fOrmance. Fortunately. both actresses
i proved nicely fitted 70 the parts assigned
| them.
| Next season Sag Harbor' will be sent
| South, with a strong cast and one that
| viii probably include some new and nota-
| bie people. who Will add much to the in
! terest surrounding the organization.
That the summer bills at Chase's Thea
| tre are to be In every way equal
| 20 the offerings in what has here
| ofOre been ccnsidero3 the regular the
| atrical season is evidenced in the an
| nouncenents for this week and next.
| Washington playgocrs viii be pleased to
| hear that the famous team of Mcintyre
| md Heath, The Georgia Minstrels." will
9 1e one of the headline attractions Tor the