Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-27

Honeymoon" She says that she revels in
the part and claims to play 1t quite IN q
Claude is the wife of the handsome and
athletic young barytone, w. T. Carleton,
who has been seen here in "Florodora.
She and Mr.. Carleton first met in London,
when both were called to rehearse the duet,
when We Are Married. in THE Belle OF
New York
In the true country life there Is nothing
that is such a social function as barn
dance. No stately cotillion could begin TO
compare with one Of these merry OCCASIONS,
when the fiddlers gather on the haymow
and the villagers and young farmers assem-
BILE for miles around for few jolly hours
with Portland Fancy" Virginia Reel
and Money Musk Minuets may have
been very well for those of 1.-The oiden
times" but there was not one-tenth OF me
genuine enjoyment that is always to be
found in a barn dance. When Edward II.
Kidder wrote Sky Farm he wanted to
end the comedy with a scene of merrl-
ment and so he chose a barn dance for
this episode, and put it on the stage in a
manner that leaves nothing to be desired
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The windows and dead walls of the city
of Washington are singularly free from the
brazen theatrical Autograph and the glar-
ing pictorial poster. This welcome condition
has been brought about by the joint action
of the local theater managers, and is due,
not so much to a desire on their part 10 no
longer offend the eye of the esthetic passer-
by. but to more sordid motive-the repres-
sion of the free pass nuisance For be 1t
known that when a shopkeeper permitted
theater to display its bills in his window
ne demanded for the privilege pass for
two seats. Men were employed by the the
aters to distribute the advertising bills and
the passes, and pretty soon it was discover
ed that the passes were not reaching the
persons for whom they were intended, but
were being sold by the enterprising agents
and photographers, and the money SO OBJ
tanned confscated to their own use. The
issuance of passes was consequently stop
ped.
Now comes George Bowles to Washing
ton, heralding the approach of the Chap
erons'' company to the Layafette Opera
House. and submits the following biblical
quotations in support of the stoppaSe OF
managers:
I'm those. days there were no passes"
Numbers Xx:1S.
.'This generation shall not pass" Mark
xiii:3 80.
Suffer not man to pass" Judges iii:2S.
None shall ever pass" Isaiah xxxiv 10.
THE wicked shall no more pass Nahum
its
InOu Snalt IOt pass. 4>uuipeiS IA 10.
Though they roar yet they shall not
pass" Jer. %.
so he paid his fare and went. Jonah i:3.
THE Chaperons' had its first representa-
ton on any stage at ST. Georges Hall in
London on April %. 1901. The London
production was made for copyright pur-
poses.
The process throu Oh which a manager
,Nla =
ton of the English law is not generally
known. 1t is necessary in the first place
that the piece shall have at least one per-
Torrance; that the production shall be ad-
vertised in at least one daily paper: that
there shall be printed program; that two
bills announcing the play shall be posted
on a board in front of the theater in which
Il is given; that the ticket office shall be
open from o'clock in the morning until
the end of the performance; that there
shall be an orchestra; that the curtain shall
be down before the play begins and shall
ascend and descend between the acts: that
ar least two guineas shall be taken in at
the box office, and that at least one verse
of each song shall be sung at the perform
ance. Finally, two copies of the play,
which may be typewriter manuscript, in
stead of being printed, as in this country,
must be deposited at Stationers Hall.
The ceremony of copyrighting play in
Great Britain is usually converted into a
gala occasion. The orchestra may, and does
generally, consist of a piano at which the
player drums as he smokes a cigar. The
manager gives two guineas to a friend, who
steps up TO the box office and purchases
two tickets to satisfy that provision of the
law. hall is secured of which the rent
is not exorbitant. and the cast is made up
of the managers friends, who will consent
to see him through the performance.
The English copyright presentation of
1.-The ChaperonS' was no exception to the
rule of these productions. A large force
was required to fill out the cast. Julian
Mitchell of Weber & Fields directed the
performance and John E. Nash was stage
manager. Joe Cawthorn, now with 1.-THE
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast. Queenie
Vassar. who has recently become his wife.
Viola Gillette, who plays the prince in
the Beauty and the Beast George Schil-
Ter and his wife, with Sally in Our AL
ley" Joseph Herbert and his wife, now
with Anna Held: Richard Carrie, author Of
and leading comedian in THE Storks:' Lii
Hawthorne of the Hawthorne sisters; Ellie
Fay and many more assisted at this per-
Torrance. Several who were present on
that day will be seen In the production
here next week, including Trixie Friganza,
who was in London with THE Belle of Boz
hemia;' Edd Roadway. who was then con-
nected with George Edwardes Gaiety The
alter. and May Boley. Jessica Duncan. An
ma Belle Gordon. Carl Hartberg and Ed
ward Elkas. who were with the Alice Mel
sen Opera Company. Most of those pressed
into the service were members Of the Edna
May Company. Geo. W. Lederer's Belle Of
Bohemia" Company. and Frank L. Perley's
Alice Nielsen Opera Company, then play
Ing in England who read their parts and
performed the piece as 1t never has been
done since.
Moung Toon and Moung Chef, PARKWAY
Burmah's quaint and expert masters Of the
extraordinary game called "chinlone." a
difficult and unusual variety Of foot ball,
together with Bert Howard and Leona
Pland. Gillette's musical dogs, the famous
Rossow midgets. Frank Gardiner and Lottie
Vincent, little Charlie Rossow. Rae
and Brosche and colored motion pic
lures Of the Little Red Riding
Hood" story constitute next weeks bill of
polite vaudeville at Chase's. In playing
chinlone the use Of the hands Is barred.
This restriction has led to the really mar
Vicious development OF the dexterity of the
feet of these two Burmese, who are what
might be called the Lajoie and Delehanty
of Burmah. The requirements Of the game
are that the wicker ball shall be put and