Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
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be seen next week at the Columbia Thea
ter under more able conditions than she
has ever yet enjoyed in her entire career.
Her great success during the past two
years in this city and Baltimore at the
head of her stock company induced II. =.
Harris, who exploited Amelia Bingham, to
make an arrangement with Miss HaSweH
to present her throughout the country iii
the same exalted manner as IS Mauds
Adams, Julia Marlowe, Viola Allen and
other favorite feminine stars.
Mr.. Harris has secured for Miss Has
wells use one of the greatest romantic
comedy successes New York has ever
known, "A Royal Family" which ran for
nearly two years at the Lyceum Theater
in the metropolis. Miss Haswen is said to
be surrounded with a production in keep
ing with the royal title of the play, and
supported by a company of unusual dra-
matte Importance, including such we'll
known names as Boyd Putnam, Maud
Granger Harry Burkhardt, Nancy Padget
Frank Roberts, Walter Crosby, Charles ID.
Pitt, Harris Forbes, Brayton Byron, James
Mcdonald, Jeanette Northern, Robert G.
Turner and others. The sale of seats COM
mences tomorrow morning.
my ANTOINETTE." - There are so
many combinations in Alfred Aaron's and
George II. Murray's new musical comedy.
My Antoinette,'' which will BE- produced
at the National Theater next week, that it
Is impossible in short space to give de-
scription of them all. First comes the
libretto, written by Geo. Totten Smith; then
the music composed by Alfred E. Aarons;
then the cast. which includes Jose phine
Hall, Grace Belmont, Nellie Beaumont,
Beatrice Darlington, Bertha Darling, Rich
ard Goodall, Joseph Daley. George Yeo-
man. Eugen Wiene and Harry Short. Next
in order are the magniticently costumed
young women who compose the chorus,
and lastly the beautiful scenery. The lat
ter includes a mountainous scene in Switz-
erland, drawing room in an aristocratic
mansion in London, and what is best of all.
perhaps. an exact reproduction Of Behind
the Scenes with everything and everybody
as natural as life There is, as rule, little
II any plot in modern musical comedies.
but in My Antoinette' it is said the story
is well sustained Throughout the entire two
acts. Special attention has been paid to the
accessories. The costumes are all new, and
the chorus ladies are among the pick of
Broadway.
THE PIKE THEATER COMPANY-At
the Lafayette Square Opera House next
week the Pike Theater Company viii play
a special engagement Of one week, present
ing Hall Gaines successful play The
Christian The Pike players in their home
city, Cincinnati. where for the past six
years they have appeared in long engage
ments. producing the New York successes,
have a standing equal to that of the high
priced combination houses. They have
played each season a twelve weeks en-
gagement in Detroit and a similar one in
brings with it new scenic equipment for
THE Christian" every setting used in the
production being absolutely new. More
than fifty people will be in the larger stage
PICTURES, In the company are Byron
Douglas, George Farren, Thuriow Bergen,
John B. Maher. Barry O'Neil William A.
Hackett. Mary Hall. Emelie Melville, Grace
DaGsell, Sara Moore and others.
only A SHOP GIRL"-According to
the statements given out by the New York
Booking Syndicate I.otte Williams Salter
in her new play, "Only a Shop Girl" is
one of the most financially substantial and
artistic successes Of the present season.
A succession of large audiences has greet
ed the play since its initial production. 1t
is staged by Charles E. Blaney. with origi-
nal music by NJ. b. Streeter. The story is
of a poor shop girl who has to fight the
world alone. whose life IS in jeopardy,
placed so by jealous rival but who finally
surmounts all her difficulties and marries
shows the interior of Cooper Macy & Co.'S
department store, the shop girl is rescued
from being crushed to death by the ele-
vator. This bill is the card at the Acad-
envy next week. with the usual Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday matinees.
TEN ICHI.-Chase's polite vaudeville bill
for next week has eight distinct divertlng
qualities. it is composed of the wizard
Ten Ich Sager Midgey and Gerie Car
Isle, Berol and Beroi. Florence Bindley,
the three Livingstons, Burton and Brooks.
James Thornton and Orth and Fern. Ten
lchi is magician to the Mikado of Japan,
touring this country under royal permits
sion. His troupe of necromancers includes
a picturesque little Japanese girl, Ten Kat
su. Sager Midgley and Gertie Carlisle are
very popular, and will present an entirely
new Offering that gives Mr., Midgley his
best opportunity as an eccentric rustic
comedian. Bero and Berol have a dis
tinctly novel European speciality that of
making pictures with rags. Florence Bind
ley has earned the title Of the versatile
artist The three Liv!ngstons, in evening
costume, give a remarkable acrobat tic per-
Torrance. Burton and Brooks are the we'll
known parody singers. best known by their
song, More Work for the Undertaken"
Their new act is entitled "A Quiet Evening
at the Club" James Thornton is a singer
and satirist with original compositions
Ortiz and Fern are musical comedians who
have a comic piano speciality.
KERNAN's LYCEUM THEATER.-T
bright and breezy burlesques will be pre-
scented in a very elaborate and attractive
manner at the Lyceum Theater next week
The first part, or opening burlesque, is
a musical melanee. entitled The Joneses
at the Merry Maidens' Ball" and is said
TO surpass anything ever seen in burlesdue
houses. The closing buretta is a lively
sklt on life at summer resort, ana ii is
called The Merry Madens at the Beach"
The scenery, costumes and electrical eff
fects in these two burlesques are very
elaborate.
Manager Herman announces that tomor-
row night after the regular performa nee
Jone Grant of this city and Frank HerriCll
the Instructor of the New York Athletic
Club. will wrestle best two out of three
falls in one hours bout. The admission for
this contest will be 10 cents, 20 cents 80
cents and 10 cents.
SHOOTING THE CHUTES. -Genuine
musical comedy, which has proven very
scarce in popular price theaters during the
past few seasons, with all it's well-known
surroundings of pretty girls, jngling songs,
eccentric character sketches, novel dance
numbers and mirth-provoking situations,
VIII be the attraction at the Empire Fami-
ly Theater next week In that ceverly de-
vised farce, Shooting the Chutes." Muir
ray d Macks company, numbering thirty
people, Is presenting the comedy this sea-
son, as it did the two previous ones and is
meeting with the same great success. This
comedy conceit has enjoyed a most fiatter-
ing run, its career throughout the country
having been marked by a succession of
record-breaking audiences everywhere The
presenting company is strong, and among
a host of faVorites includes the Unknown
operate duo. Little and Pritzkow who are
warm favorites in this city. Ward Caul-
field. the clever Irish comedian, is also OF
the company, together with AL and Josie
Lawrence, Marty Moore and a chorus of