Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-17
ADJUSTMENTS.

ADJUSTMENTS.
e. H. sOTHERN.-The sale Of seats for
the engagement of E. II. Sothern win open
tomorrow morning at $50 at the National
Theater. Mr.. Sothern appears for seven
performances, presenting Saturday NATL
nee only besides the regular evening per-
formances. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings he will be seen as Hamlet In
his new and massive production. Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday evenings and
Saturday matinee he appears for the last
time as Francois villon in Justin Huntley
McCarthys stirring dramatic romance, II
I Were King" The new production OF
Hamlet" will be seen here before Mr..
Sothern takes It to the Garden Theater.
New York. where he enters upon long
run. This production has occupied the at
tention OF the most noted scenic artists and
costugners of New York for the past year.
1t is declared to be far more elaborate than
was his former noted presentation of the
piece seen here two years ago, which was
totally destroyed by fire. Miss Cissie Lof-
tus plays the role of Ophelia. She has come
here from Sir Henry Irving's company In
London to become Mr. Sothern's leading
woman. Miss Crystal Herne appears as the
player queen. Jennie Eustace as the Queen
of Denmark, Rowland Blackstone, first
grave digger; Henry j. Carvil. Horatio;
Sidney c. Mather. Laertes; Edwin Varrey,
Polonius. and William Harris, the ghost Of
HamletS father.
THE TWO sCHOOLS."-'The Two
Schools will be presented at the Columbia
Theater next Monday evening for one week.
1t mas enjoyed a highly successful run for
three months at the Madison Square Thea
ter. New York. 1t deals with domestic diff
flculties, all of which are solved to the
satisfaction of everybody concerned. Jane
son Lee Finney, Ida Conquest, Jessie Bus
ley, M. A. Kennedy, Beatrice Morgan, Win
Norma Macdonald, Frederick Bean, Elsie
Ferguson, Frederick Spencer, Inez Marcel
are among the members Of the cast
pretty sentimental scene is furnished in the
third act, when the separated young hus-
band and wife make up, which Is described
as delicious object lesson in the difficult
art of settling a domestic squabble. The
comedy played to large and mirthful audi
ences at the Chestnut Street Theater, Phfla-
delphia, last week.
YORK STATE FOLKS."-Arthur Sid
mans new rural play York State Folks"
on Monday evening. December %, with the
usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees,
and special Xmas matinee. Every effort
has been used to make this presentation Of
story of village life in York state as
realistic as possible. The piece is in four
acts and five scenes, and car loads of seem
cry and mechanical effects are carried. The
scenes are from the brush of Arthur Voegt-
ond act, in particular is said to be mar
velousiy natural stage picture company
of fifty people is carried, including a choir
OF twenty boys for the church scene. The
Leading part is that of an old village organ
list and organ builder, a character full of
dry humor. but with pathetic touches here
and there. 80.
VAUDEVILLE AT CHASE'S.@Christmes
week at Chases, beginning December %,
the usual enlarged holiday program Of po-
lite vaudeville attractions will be presented
Susanna Leonard, sister of Lillian Russell,
tation Of a musical comedy. 1.-THE Under
study" Techows cats, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Kelley in Uncle Phineas," Gertrude Mans
field and Caryl Wilbur In No 81 Prospect
Street" Lizzie and Whey DAILY. dancers;
Sailer ard Barbaretta as the comedian
and the pajama girl" and the vitagraph, IL
Illustrating Mother Goose stories, are among
the other features
HER MARRIAGE VOW."-"Her Mar
riage Vow" will be seen at the Academy
Christmas week. The play deals with rail-
road life. The hero is a railway telegraph
operator and the heroine is an engineers
daughter. The villain is the son of the
superintendent Of the road and the wicked
woman is the presidents daughter The
other members are nearly all connected
with the road. AT the end of the third
act the villain assaults and binds the hero
who Is supposed to switch a freight train
into siding so that the limited may pass
In the other direction. The villain throws
the switch and collision is imminent The
soubrette breaks from a room in which she
has been locked by the villain, and releases
the hero who smashes a window in the
switch house, jumps through, and after a
hand-to-hand fight with the villain and his
accompltce turns the switch in time to
avert the catastrophe. The two trains each
200 feet long and going in opposite direc-
tons, rush past at great speed in full view
of the audience.
PARTISAN WIDOWS"-Thea attraction
at the Lyceum Theater next week will be
Lawrence Weber's Partisan Widows" The
entertainment opens with travesty entI-
tied THE Smart Set" The olio includes
Clifford and Harvey. Bert Leslie and
Charles Falk.
BURLESQUE-The Empire Theater viii
have as its attraction for Christmas week
the Innocent Beauties Burlesque Company.
The prominent vaudeville acts are the six
original Ben All Arabian Whirlwinds, SEN
sational acrobats: the Original Young
America Quintet. the Engstrom sisters I'M
hof and Con. Williams and Aleene, the
Mitchell-Hanley Company, Russell and
Cain and Barton and Ross. Two burlesaues
will be presented.