Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-13
MRS. BARNEY'S PLAY
BRILLIANT SUCCESS IN PERFORM
ANCE AND IN AUDIENCE.

Society Leaders Act for Charity-The
Castle Be Repeated Mon
day Afternoon.
A brilliant audience gathered at the La
fayette Square Theater last night, and
enjoyed and applauded the dream of Queen
| Elizabeth. musical extravaganza, writ
! ten and staged by Mrs. Alfred Clifford Bar
| rey. and presented by amateurs for charity.
| Those who took part included very large
part of Washington society, who have for
weeks been studying and rehearsing for the
performance, and the result was veritabe
triumph. both for the author and for those
| who took part.
The Cast.
The cast included the following:
Queen Elizabeth; ;............ Mrs Fremont
xiscountess of Shrewsbury Miss Marion Oliver
Hon. Audrey Manners .. Miss Sargent
Lady syble southwick. Miss Grcsvenor
LADY Lettice Knoiiys. Mrs. Moves
Two Dutch peasants attendants Of
James Of scotland. Mr.. George A. Bentley; jr.
EnF rS Sf 6ssse il hnt,ar Hopkins
Sir Walter Raleigh. ................. Capt. Beach
SIR SIR Francis rs Bacon ..;, Mr. Gist Blair
Stene tfavorite of
sames Lieut. c. r Buner e usN
Herald. .Paymaster v: S. Jackson, U.sN:
Page -; Mr.. Walter Rummell
Bruce tbaGpipe player to
Sword bearer to queen Mr. Charles Remey
MerSn Sps Mr. rr., hom Greene Fae
Court lades.Nlrs. Kearney Miss Grace Bell,
Mrs Harlow Miss stiekney Miss shepard Mrs
Rennett Miss Parker. Miss Van Reypan, Miss
tngly.
~ Mstresses of the robes-Miss Schroeder Miss
JEAN Icrns Miss Mary tolshoroas Mss E sI
Seckendorf Miss Walker. Miss Annett Townsend.
Miss, Miss Jean Crosby, Miss Miller and Miss Shelby
p, Spanish prisoners of war-Mrs. Bowen Miss
Bell. Miss Helen Humphrey, Miss Louie Jones,
Miss Logan. Miss Howard, Miss Rosita Alvarez
Galderon, Mr. Alfredo Alvarez Caideron and Miss
| Blanquita Alvarez Calderon.
The Play.
synopsis of the play. as given in the
| program tells this story:
| Act I-Queen Elizabeth is worried 1t is
| in vain that the ladies of her court dance:
| that Leicester, that Raleigh. Just from Vir-
| ginia; that Drake, just from a victorious
voyage; that Bacon and that Shakespeare
| all assure her that she is the most beauti-
| ful of women. Her cousin, King James of
Scotland permits himself to let her know
| that this opinion is not unanimous and she
| is harassed by this doubt. While posing to
J Holbein for her portrait she falls asleep
Act ll-Scene l: Queen Elizabeth dreams
! that she awakes in the enchanted forest
| where Merlin still remains bound by the
| charms which Vivian has laid about him.
! Elizabeth calls upon him to show the wo-
| men OF the and tlp n u indp
| If they be as pre-eminent in beauty as she
| is now. They appear, one after another
and still the victory is awarded 10 the
| queen
| Scene .: Queen Elizabeth awakes. The
enchanted forest has vanished into that
distant horizon beyond which enchanted
forests lie, and the queen, conscious that
even in the land of dreams her beauty is
pre-eminent. denies that she has closed her
eyes. and calls upon her musicians TO strike
up ana upon her court to dance.
Some Features.
The first act. in which Elizabeth is being
| entertained, afforded an opportunity for
| presenting some extremely effective stage
pictures, in which handsome women and
handsome gowns were so grouped as to
bring forth the enthusiastic applause of the
audience. Some very effective and for
amateurs, remarkably well-rendered dances
We're feature of the act, and in this par
ucular the children of the Peruvian minis
ter, Senior Calderon, carried off the chief
honors. These included Senorita Rosita
Calderon. debutante of this season: her
brother, Senior Alfredo Calderon and the
younger sister, Senorita Blanquita Calde-
ron, II years of age, who fairly danced her
self INTO the hearts of the audience The
song and dance by the Misses Freemont
was also especially well received and well
done. Another very effective part of the
performance was the singing of Mrs L c.
Noyes, who sang an old English ballad inst
before the curtain fell in the first act where
the queen was sleeping the song being
taken up again and finished when the eur
tam rose for the last time after the dream
pictures had been presented. The tabIeau
pictures We're splendidly grouped and pre-
scented series of beautiful bits of staging
such as would have carried the perform,
ance BY themselves.
The Pictures.
The list of pictures presented was as fol-
lows:
Juno, Miss Belle Hagner, Miss Newberry,
Mr.. Charles Lee; Psyche, Miss Sally TYLER.
Daphne, Miss Cortlandt Palmer; Salome,
Miss Elizabeth Warder, Mrs. Oliver Crom-
Well, Miss Kate Deering: Helen of Troy.
Miss Ellen Coin. Mrs. Randall Hagner.
MISS lowering: Ligia, Miss Grace Train,
Miss Mary Hopkins, Miss Wise: Judith
Miss Wadsworth, Mr.. Evans: Du Barry
Mrs. John 7. Davis, Mr.. Frank Poe: Mar
guerite. Miss Anne Goldsborough. Mr..
ii9gh Legare Rosamond, Miss Ethel Seek
| endorf, Mrs. Horace Westcott: Mary Queen
OF Scots. Miss Edith Harlan Child
Brilliant Audience.
The audience was one of the most brilliant
That has ever gathered In a thcater in
Washington, including practically all the
diplomatic corps and the official and resi-
dental circles.
Some of those who bad charge of affairs
| included she folowing-Stage manager, MIR.
Edward 4 Mitchell; director, Capt j. r. NJ.
Taylor; assisted by Mr.. William T. Parker
and Mr.. Z. l. Morse.
Committee on costmes-Mrs. Barney
Mrs. Hunt Slater, Mrs. John Rodgers
Committee on prOgrams-Miss Patten
Countess Cassni. Mrs. Hugh Legare Miss
| Wetmore, Miss Alice Warder, Miss Ward
| Miss Patterson, Miss Isabel May Miss Ma