Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-16

that detracted from Miss Tiiley's perform
ance. She really wasn't worth this amount
of money. But If she couldn't be secured
for less II speaks well for the enterprise
| that brought her here. Miss Tiiley. by the
way. had better get IL as often as possible.
for the first evidences OF age are beginning
to appear. though scarcely perceptible in
her performance.
Billy b. Van. who was here last week
with the minstrels will be starred in a new
N steal comedy next season which is to be
called "A Country Cler.s." Sullivan Harris
q woods are to manage the tour. Van Will
have role similar to his familiar Patsey
Bolivar creation. appearing first as a chore
boy In a country gr,cery and later as a
freak In a museum. George Totten Smith
and Rem Shields will provide the libretto.
1t will be news to many here that at the
closing OF the engagement at Minneapolis this
week of the Savage English Grand Opera
Company Pietro Gherardi. the lyric tenor.
who appeared with the company here in the
role OF 'Lohengrin." will sever his connec-
| tiol with the company. He will be pleasant
~ remembers here as having appeared also
in the operas Carmen, Aida" Tam
heuser' and Martha
1t is reported that Sarah Bernhard will
VS.. US next autumn under the management
of Maurice Grau and Charles Frohman She
VIII play in Sardou's new work La Sor-
| ciere."
In all earnestnesJ Manager William Brady
| onered Nat Goodwin 81, 800 q week to play
Uncle Tom In big revival of that piece
| Mr. Goodwin's declination was funny.
CA. An anecdote or two has followed Richard
strauss. the Berlin composer to this coun-
| Try. one Is very good illustration that
often u man is no more hero TO his wife
| than to his valet
Last summer. it is told a distinguished
American musician was dining in Munich
at tie home of the composer who is now
settlng musical America by the ears with
ms extraordinary compositions. AT coffee
the American visitor was left alone with
tne wife OF the composer. Talk turned to
him and his works
an America sad the visitor. we con-
slider your husband a genius"
The composers wife smiled deprecatingly
On. no. Richard is not a genius He is
bigger than the rest of the men who are
writing music, but he isn't genius"
Another American girl has graduated In
the character of Marguerite in Faust ar
Nice She Is Miss Alice Suzanne williams
TTa s or the late DIR. Williams of Ohio
Inc American colony was out in force and
gave her hearty reception
1t transpires that the divorce sniff insti
| tuted by Rosamond Sullivan. better known
as Rose Coghlan. against John r Sullivan
| In the district court at Helena. Montana
mas been withdrawn, and costs charged to
| the former.
Warde and James have been deligbtIne
western audiences with an elaborate nro5uc
uon or Alexander the Great" A Min
| nesota paper says: '"rhey present a series
Oh beautiful pictures, youthful as to his
torlc detail. One is King Philips palace I'm
Nacedonia, with its groups of well built
young men and its daintily CARRIED girls en-
| gagged In the Greek pastime of handbalI
me maj act shows banquet hall in Baby
iona, with the splendor and lavish display
that made that nation byword.
| Inc people of Verona, Italy are In a great
state OF agitation, for a blow has been Of
Tered TO their civic pride and their tradi-
| IONS The destruction of one of their most
| revered landmarks, the house I'm which
| lived Juliet, who was loved by Romeo and
| immortalized by Shakespeare, has been
| threatened and by one of their townsmen
| A few weeks ago they were stunned by
| the news that the present owner of the his
| toric house. not satisfied with the revenue
coming to him from the building had de-
| cided to tear 1t down to make way for
more paying ENTERPRISE modern sky
| Scraper.
! The story comes waited from the far
| away western plains that a company Of
| dramatic artists were giving a weeks stand
OF plays In a town where the theater mama
ger, yielding to local pressure insisted upou
the expungfng of all swear words from the
performances. 1t went with the company.
| but 1t sounded funny to hear, "Lay on
| Maduff and darned be he who first cries.
| hold. enoughP' and "out darried spot" But
| the climax was reached In the lines from
Shore Acres" IT gave you the mother,
but III be dinged II give you the childr'