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with acting ability. Another valuable men,
per or this organization is Miss Jefferys
Lewis. an actress who has been famous for
many years. Miss Lewis is considered one
or the best Character actresses and inter
prefers of grand DANES in the dramatic
profession and it was only by persuasion
and large salary that she was secured
MISS Louise Galloway, the ingenue of last
seasons company, returns again for tie
same line of parts. Miss Galloway has
Just closed an engagement with Mr. War
field in The Music Master" Another mem
Der of the Columbia company is the we'll
known English actor, Mr.. Fuller Mellish.
last seen here with Mrs Patrick Camp
bell In a prominent character part Mr..
Mellfsh was transferred from Mrs Camp
bells company to play the leading charac-
ter part with Miss Annie Russell In her
new play. Jimmy the Carrier and his per
formance was reviewed with praise equal
IN some instances to that accorded the star
herself Mr.. Mellish is undoubtedly one OF
the best English actors brought to this
country by Mr.. Frohman.
Another interesting member is Mr.. John
W. Deem, who has tust closed a season 8
engagement as leading man with Miss Ber-
tina Galland, succeeding Mr.. Orrin Johnson
as Sir John Manners in Dorothy Vernon
of Haddon Hall"
The opening bill has been selected on ac-
count of It's charm. 1t is a delightful lit
tie comedy with q beautiful heart interest.
1t is entitled THE Case of Rebellious SUI
san" 1t was originally presented by Mr..
Daniel Frohmans Lyceum Theater stock
company and proved one OF the strongest
successes that that organization ever had.
1t was revived and presented in this city
a few weeks ago by the eminent English
actor, Sir Charles Wyndham, and was re-
ceived with unstinted praise by the local
critics, and proved the mos delightful play
in that gentlemans repertoire.
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Academy of Music.

The Span of Life will be the attraction
at the Academy for the coming week, with
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday matinees.
The play is well known to theater-goers and
the incidents of the human bridge and the
lighthouse scenes are especially well re-
membered. The latter shows the light
house with the angry sea dashing around
and enveloped in a heavy mist. The fog
horn on the steamer can be heard in the
distance gradually getting louder and
louder. The hero, who has been wounded
by the villain. RECEIVERS sufficiently to realize
the impending danger of the slowly ap-
preaching vessel The oil for the lamps
has given out, not drop being in the
place, but boat from the shore is ex-
pected with help and through the darkness
the headlights of steamer seen APP
preaching. There is nothing to be done
but ring the fog bell. The hero, with one
arm useless, climbs up to the outside of
the lighthouse, reaches the beam and rings
the bell just as the small boat from the
shore arrives, bringing help. The huge
ocean liner Is seen dashing toward the
rocks with port holes aglow with light
The beacon light OF the Coffin rocks breaks
forth, and as the curtain descends the
steamer is seen backing away from danger
Tonight Shepards moving pictures give
their farewell performance. A number o.:
special features will be shown, including
"A Trip to the North Pole 1.-TWO Or
phans," Climbing the Alps and number
of athletic subjects.
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The columbia's Special Season.

The theatergoers of Washington have
gotten into the habit of looking forward to
the Columbia Theater for their amusement
each spring and summer. 1t has long been
the custom of this theater to present eacb
season strong dramatic company in a.
series of REVEALS of well-known plays. The
management has built up a reputation for
this class of entertainments, and claims
that this will undoubtedly be the strongest
company ever presented in this city for a
special season. The players have all been
selected with great care. The productions
have been presented with much attention
to detail, and already the scenic artists
are preparing for the opening performance
ON Monday evening, May 10. The prices at
which this organization plays enable any
who feel that they cannot afford at times
to see the best plays when they are orig
tnally presented an opportunity of Witness
ing Them
The company this season Is headed by Mr.,
Guy Standing and Miss Charlotte Walker
Mr.. Standing has occupied leading posi-
tion with Mr.. Charles Frohman's companies
for several years. and is considered one of
the best actors on the American stage He
has just closed his season with Mrs Pat
rick Campbell as her leading support.
Miss Charlotte Walker Is no stranger to
local theatergoers. She has appeared here
for the last four years as the leading sup
port to Mr.. James k Hackett, and has in
deed, divided the honors with him, not only
in this city. but throughout the country
Miss Walker combines youth and beauty
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world-renowned composers and band mas
tiers he impersonates. OF 1.-The only Wag-
ner' Herr Zimmerman says:
"Of course, / studied him from life. One
of my earliest limitations was that of Herr
Wagner, and 1 caught his little tricks of
the baton by watching rehearsal of
'Tannhauser' at Munich many years ago.
II was in the private theater of Ludwig
the mad king of Bavaria that | saw him
publicly conduct the opera, and his maj
esty was good enough to declare his dis
belief that any one but Wagner himself
could be in the directors place when L
gave my first imitation of the great COM
poser"
OF course King Ludwig was unable to
refrain from his invariable habit of deco
rating any artist who pleased him; in Herr
Zimmerman case the imitation of Wag-
ner won him the tribute of medal from
the solitary man of Munich.
The only official censure he ever received
was extended to Herr zimmerman by
Frau Wagner herself. and. like our own
Heinrich Conried, he still lies under the
disapproval of Frau Cosima.
1t was at Bayreuth that the composer OF
"Parsifar' put up little joke at the ex-
pense of his dignifed frau. and persuaded
Willy Zimmerman TO impersonate him for
a few bars of Rheingold rehearsal II
was one OF the traditions of Bayreuth that
even the lynX-eyed Cosima was deceived
by Herr Zimmermann's makeup and man
ner with the stick, but she denounced the
imitation roundly when the false Wagner
DOTTED his wig after a few beats
AT the piano." said Herr Willy, "Liszt
was still the leonine old able of yore, but
in the directors chair he was man whose
excited baton no one could play by. To
follow his leadership would have resulted
in very pandemonium. All players knew
this, of course, but so great was the respect
In which the father-in-law Of Wagner was
held by every musician in Europe that the
orchestra followed the scores he led, and
with whose readings they were Telgiously
familiar, in utter disregard of his wild
baton"
SHAKESPEARE'S MIRTHFUL MOODS.
1T seems almost sacrilege to suggest
such a thing" said Charles B. Hanford
recently, but I am inclined to think that
among the people OF the Elizabethan era
Shakespeare's plays were in many instances
regarded very much are the comedies
of Charles Hoyt or Clyde Fitch. i do not
mean to place the three authors mentioned
on a par, but / think that in our admirp-
ton of Shakespeare's pre-eminent poetic
genius we are tempted to overlook the fact
that he was practical as well as a literary
man: one who studied the moods of his au-
diences and the prevailing taste of the time
quite as assiduously as do Charles Frohman
or Klaw & Erianger. and who fully realized
the truth OF the saying that they who live
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to please must please to live Mirth was
the first and almost the sole consideration
in some Of his plays. as A Comedy Of
It could scarcely be urged that the two
Dromfos conveys any moral lesson, or that
Petruchio presents practical example of
the way to win woman. should be
sorry indeed II my performance should move
any sutton to attempt the rugged methods
by which the tempestuous Katherine was
brought to show respect to her lord and
master. There Is. of course. certain
chivalry in Petruchio, for he never de-
sends to physical violence. but 1t is an
experiment which 1 am sure should be re-
served for stage purposes only. Benedick
in Much Ado About Nothing affords, on
the other hand a fine example Of chivalry,
and is an acute study Of human nature /
doubt IL there Is anybody who has not had
experience with young people who, after
positive declarations to the effect that mat
rimony was not for them, have succumbed
to the tender passion and made most ad-
mirable spouses. Shakespeare fully appre-
ciated the effectiveness of the costume play,
and although his study Of the modes of
the periods he selected was not always
thorough, the results were invariably pic
turesQue."
A VALUED MEMENTO.-Among Mr.
Charles B. Hanford's cherished possessions
is a costume hat that once belonged to Ed
win Booth. 1t is a silent witness to the
quiet simplicity of a great man, and bears
testimony to the extent to which he de-
pended on his Individual art to the ex-
clusion of exterior assistance 1t is of the
style which Benedick was supposed to
wear, but would have been repudiated by
any gilded youth of Padua as a shocking
specimen of apparel One night Booth had
mislaid his hat, and as his cue came, bor
rowed that of Mr.. Hanford, who was stand
ing in the wings 1t was a good hat then,
n black Int ROOtb
tinued to wear it until the jaunty feather
broke away a portion of the brim. When
Mr.. Hanford claimed 1t as a souvenir, its
value for wardrobe purposes was wholly at
an end.
QUICK CHANGES.-The quick changes
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Stories of the Stage.

LONDON TICKET SPECTATORS
1.-The evils of ticket Specializing in New
York. OF which / have heard and read so
much. are. far as the public is concerned
less hard than those that exist in London -
says Mr.. Charles Hawtrey. SIN New York
# seems to be an established rule that the
increase In price shall be 80 cents a ticket
at the hotels, but In London the price is
raised according TO the demand, and often
as much as - shilliugs is asked and OBJ
tanned for a stall, the nominal price of
which is 10 shillings and sixpence This,
of course. IS for great successes; as a rule
the premium asked is two shillings.
II suppose ticket specializing is an evil
that 1t is difficult to stamp out, as it seems
to be an outgrowth of the memorable law
of supply and demand While recent
case tried in New York showed that some
theaters receive a part of the premium OBJ
tanned by the hotels. in London the man.
ayers sell their tickets to the libraries in
big patches at discount OF from to 10
per cent This deduction is, however more
than compensated for by the fact that the
sales TO the libraries form kind OF man
agerial insurance fund. Before any i'm
portant new production is made the own
ers of these Libraries inform the theater
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CARDS 1.-THE Tanning of the Shrew'' as a
hilarious farce. and 1t is his endeavor to
present 1t as such. The role of Katherine
will be assumed by Miss Marie Drofnah,
who has become a popular favorite where
ever she has appeared. At the outset she
manifested wonderful intuitive compre-
hension Of dramatic requirements, and she
has from season to season advanced in the
favor OF the audiences until she now holds
a place of unmistakable emfnence. Mr..
Hanfords company includes Frank Hennig,
most eminent of this countrys players and
producers others in the cast are Mr. Ferd
Hight, actor to whom students of the
stage affectionately refer one of the old
school, Mr.. Henry McRade. Miss Bessie
Hunter Hight. p. J. Ford. Edouard D'Oize
Alexander Mackenzie and John NJ. Kline.
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made by Stella Mayhem, the popular COM
Medicine, executed with such rapidity
as to ofttines cause discussion among the
audience. During one of Miss Mayhem s
changes from the Aunt Indy costume, con-
sisting of wardrobe of the ancient southern
style, with face blackened to represent an
aged southern nanny, to that OF white
face and evening dress Is all accomplished
in one and three-quarter minutes. In At
lanta, Ga. wh@re the show girl was play
ing recently, a couple of occupants of the
upper gallery, consisting of negroes only,
involved In such a heated argument as to
wager money as to whether 1T was Miss
Mayhem or sure enough colored wo-
man who sang the coon songs in the sec
ond act.
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Ringling Brothers Circus.

Ringing Brothers worlds greatest shows
will exhibit in Washington Manday and
Tuesday. May Is and 16 The Ringing
Brothers have long made the claim of pos
sessing the biggest, best and most entertain
ing collection of high-class novelty circus
features and rare animals In all the world.
The mammoth menagerie contains los
cages, lairs dens and tanks of beasts, fowl
and aquatic species from every jungle,
plain and ocean.
Among the hundreds OF geological specf-
mems in this department are two beauti-
full CRATES, the last of an almost extinct
race In order to keep them alive in the
trying climate Of the United States they
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are given even more attention than a baby
secures from its proud and loving parents.
The giraffes are transported in specially
constructed cages, the tops of which can
be raised and lowered at will. Cages of
this kind are Indispensable on account OF
the great height of the animals The walls
of the cages are thickly padded with curled
hair and fine wire springs, to prevent pos
sible injury to the occupants. Their food
is prepared according to the scientific rules
laid down by famous veterinarians.
Another feature of this colossal menagerte
is Baby Boo" the only baby elephant
bred. born and successfully reared In cap
tivtty in North America. The rhinoceros
Is another exceedingly rare wild animal In
this menagerie.
Ringing Brothers present also BIS aerial,
equestrian and gymnastic artists in their
circus performance.
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"London Assurance"

Miss Ellis Jeffreys has closed her New
York engagement in the successful play of
London Assurance at the knickerbocker
Theater. Miss Jefferys is described as typi-
flying the well-bred woman who is always
at her ease, always gay, always sincere,
always womanly, and yet can play at man S
game without losing either her head or her
heart in any false position. She has now
commenced a brief tour of four weeks in
Guiding Philadelphia, Baltimore Washing
ton and Boston, previous to her return to
England, and will be seen at the New Ma
tional the week of May Is. In the all-star
cast to be seen with Miss Jeffreys are Eben
Plympton. w. II. Thompson, Joseph Wheel
ock jr., Murray Carson. Ben Webster.
James Nell, Herbert Sheath, Mrs Felix
Morris and Kitty Chatham
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the Hungarian musical mimic, in life por-
traitures of the great band masters and
composers, past and present; Harry LIE
Clair, described as 1.-The Bernhard of the
vaudevilles:'' Cole and johnson; Patty
Brothers. foreign equilbrists; Yorke and
Adams, comedians and parodists; Hath
away and Walton, wooden shoe dancers,
and the motion pictures of an Irish evic-
ton.
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War Talk.

Mr.. Harry Rapley. manager of the New
National Theater, announces for the night
of Sunday, May 81, War Talk by Mr..
James f. j. Archibald, war correspondent.
who has recently returned from the scene
OF actlon IN Manchuria, after having served
ten months with the Russian army in the
Held Mr.. Archibald went through the ba t.
ties or Lioayang and Mukden, besides nu-
merous other engagements, and illustrates
his talk with $50 views actually taken
by himself in the field
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welded, but No Wife -

The Academy will have as its attraction
week of May 10 Welded, but No Wife"
with Miss Selma Herman in the leading
role. The play was written by Maurice ].
Fielding, and has been staged under Miss
Hermans personal direction
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Chaae's Theater.

"Dida," the mysterious aquatic Illusion.
will be presented at Chase's this week. The
illusion is heightened by the fact that the
audience is enabled to see in, through and
all around the tank in which two nymphs
are created seemingly from nothing. The
bill will include Herr Willy Zimmerman,
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Kernan's LYceum.

The show at the Lyceum Theater during
the week of May will be .'Rush's Bon
Tons The program will include Raymond
and Clark, Cook and Cook, German come
dams Kelly Brothers, the Simpsons, musi-
cal artists: Katherine K1are, coincidence;
with two burlesques.
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Theater on Monday and Tuesday, May %
and ., draws a larger salary than did the
entire company which first played Oliver
Goldsmith's brilliant comedy in London a
century and half ago. So have the the
atrical times changed. Actors pay was
not large in those days. Such an income
as is derived by Eleanor Robson and Kyrle
Bellew, who head the big company. was
thought of by performers in Goldsmith's
and Garrick's time only a perqu:site of
royalty. Besides Miss Robson and Mr.. Bel
lew, the cast contains Louis James, Mrs.
Calvert. ]. E. Dodson, Sidney Drew, Frank
Mills, Isabel Irving and other fine players
of lesser note.
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co-author Of "The Tenderfoot," and 2. w.
Corlss are responsible for the music.
The attraction is described a conglom-
Grafton of scenery, costumes, comedians,
specialtes, music and pretty girls.
Stella Mayhem is at the head of this or
ganizatfon, which includes Matt Kennedy,
AL Cunningham. w. J. Samuels and Esther
Wallace.
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LAFAYETTE Theater.

"The Show Girl which comes to the
Lafayette Tuesday evening, Monday being
devoted to college club entertainment, is
by r. A. Barnett. author of 1872" Eek
celsior. Jr.,' 1.-The Girl from Paris" and
Little Christopher" H. L. Hearth. who is
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THE Old Guard a one-act play, in which
Mr.. Hanford gives striking impersonation
of one of Napoleon's officers, whom the
direst poverty could not discourage in his
fidelity to trust, will precede The Tanning
of the ShreW."
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Stars in "She Stops to Conquer"

Each principal in Liebler & Co.'s great
all-star cast presenting "She Stops to
Conquer" to be seen at the Nauonal
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The new comedy by George V. Hobart
and Milton Royle, in which Miss Marie
Cahill will star next season, contains a
very serious love story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Harrison Ford OF Robert Blossoms COM
pany Will. in July, accompany a govern
ment geological surveying party to Arizona
in the capacity of secretary.
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Alberta Gallatin didn't find "A Clean
Slate more reliable vehicle than did
Jessie Millward two seasons ago. Miss Gal
latin is tack IN New York after four weeks
of road travel.
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Frank Gheen of Robert Blossoms company
is brother of Gertrude Gheen, one of
Richard Mansfield's leading women.
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JUNE McCree of THE Seminary Girl
company has entered into a flve-year con-
tract with Melville Raymond, who Will
shortly launch him in a big musical play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Nora Bayes. the vaudeville singer, left
New York for Paris last Wednesday, where
she expects to have her voice cultivated.
She will remain abroad a whole year and
do no work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Charles H. Bowers a prominent MEM
Der of the Smiling Island company, now
playing in Philadelphia, was married last
week to Miss Dorothy Holt of Boston, a
non-profeSsional.
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Adelaide Thurston will retire from the
management of the Wilstachs next season
and will appear in a new play, The Tri-
umph of Betty managed by Francis Hope.
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Charles Henry Meltzer is to write a new
play for Margaret Anglin, said to be found
ed on German drama Of emotional power.
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George z. Evans, the Honey boy OF
vaudeville, has been secured TO take Arthur
Dunn's place at the head of THE Runa-
was"
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The sudden departure of Marie Doro for
London recently is explained by her en-
gagement to play the leading role of Lucy
Sheridan with William Collier in The
Dictator"
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There are two pairs Of twins in ut Hap
pened in Nordland' company, now play
ing in Boston, the Misses Jessie and Jeanne
Crane and the Misses Mabel and Ethel
Gilmore.
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"Strongheart" is Indian play without
a bit Of warpaint or feathers.
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ION Satan's Mount is the legitimate
successor to that other novel by Dwight
Tilton, Miss Petticoats.'
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Claiming Pollock is to dramat!ze In the
Bishops Carriage for Liebler q Co.
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Charles Frohman has secured the Ameri-
can rights to Henry Lavedan's The
Duel"
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tombstone Bennett has been Ill in a
western hospital for the past several
months. Miss Bennett is remembered by
her work in Jane" and 1.-The Female
Drummer" Her last work was in vaude-
vile.
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THE Garden of Lies is to have its first
presentation in this country in San Fran
cisco July 8, with T. Daniel Frawley in
the principal part. If the play and star do
well both will be seen in New York at the
opening of next season
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Next Saturday night, at Philadelphia the
comic opera The Wanderers will have
its first presentation with Amelia Stone as
the star. The comic opera is the work of
T. ]. Palmer and H. NJ. Stanton, and the
scenes are laid in Salt Lake City.
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When the Lew Fields stock company,
playing 1T Happened in Nordland" left for
Boston last Monday Marie Cahill refused
to accompany the organization. giving as
an excuse illness. Billie Norton. Miss Ca
hills understudy. will play the latter 8
part. 1t is supposed that Miss Cahin dis
likes engagements outside of New York,
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Nine. Modjeska bade a formal farewell
to the American public last Tuesday after
noon from the stage of the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, at a monster
benefit rendered the actress by her many
theatrical friends The net proceeds were
over $1,000