Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-03-11
At COLONIAL THEATRE.
Good Plays Coming Next Week
at Local Playhouse.

A chatting dish, a cook book, two eggs
aud a pint of milk are q combination
which give Louis Mann in The Second
Fiddle" which will be seen at the Colon
ial Theatre Monday night, March 18th,
the opportunity for one of the most
amusing scenes in which he has ever par
tIcipated, His part is that OF Ceopold,
poor composer, who has been untortu-
nate in his operas. He goes to theatre
in Paris only 10 hear an opera from his
own pen loudly applauded, while the
name OF q Partisan Count appears on the
programme as the composer. He returns
10 his humble lodgings, tired, discourag-
ed aud hungry. He looks about him
nd discovers q chatting dish, the eggs,
the milk and the cook book. He decides
to make an omelette. He eagerly opens
the book, and in his excitement turns
first to "Olives" then TO Onions, "Oys-
ters,n before he discovers the recipe for
omelette. To his dismay he finds that
the first recipe requires tomatoes. He
seeks further. The second requires
minced ham. Growing desperate he looks
again, and this time he learns that an
| even more impossible ingredient is jelly.
He throws the book away. A plain ome-
| lette under the circumstances he believes
he will relish best. One egg drops from
his trembling fingers and smashes upon
the floor He hastily breaks the other in
the chatting dish, pours in some milk and
| lights the lamp underneath. Just as he
is about TO stir this connection, friel.d
arrives with the newspapers containing
the criticisms of the opera, He forgets
temporarily his hunger aud devours the
papers instead. When his thoughts re-
vert to the chatting dish, his omelette is
nearly a cinder at the bottom of the
chating dish. "Nr. Mann in his career
as a COMEDIAN says one authority, has
been given many amusing situations, but
for really mirth- provoking humor, inter-
mingled with delicate touches OF pathos.
his preparation of plain ON lette Is the
best bit Of acting he has ever done.
One of the beet known and gifted of
our young stars. in last seasons greatest
New York cuccess, will be seen at the
Colonial Theatre next Friday, March
nth, when Bertha Galland appears in
Paul Kester's dramalization OF Charles
Majors celebrated historical romance,
| dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.
| Wherever Miss Galland has appeared in
her new play the production has been
pronounced as complete and as beautiful
as anything ever seen in that city; while
the charm Of her art, which for the first
| time is given full scope, was the subject
| of the kind of enthusiastic praise that
would turn the head of less sensible
Young woman. Miss Galland's leading
man is Orrin johnson, who has filled q
similar position with Annie Russell,
Mande Adams and other well known
actresses. In the cast and appearing in
prominent roles are Frank Losee, Fred
w. Peters, Z lward S. Grant, Helen
| Tracey, Kate Denim Wilson, Helen Bell
and Mary Faber The scenery was paint
ed and constructed from actual photo
graphs of the place. The exteriors are by
Ernest Gros, while Ernest Albert has re.
Produced some of the beautiful interiors
of Haddon Hall. The fact that practi-
cally whole wing of this famous ex-
ample of medieval architecture has
actually been built on the stage will give
some idea of the massiveness OF the pro-
ductio1,
sway Down East" has become some
thing of a parental, and its presentation
| in Annapolis at the Colonial Theatre
where it will enter upon an engagement
| of one night, Tuesday, March 14th, is in
| yariably looked forward TO with pleasant
| est anticipations. AS has been the case
| year after year, this fine old New Eng
land domestic drama will doubtless be
greeted with large, apprecialive and
| applausive audience. 1t might be diff
cult on general principles to determine
just why this rustic play has such hold
on the public fancy. 1t does not, appar-
emily, matter at all that it has been re.
| reated times innumerable. Repetition
only strengthens the demand for it, and
the enthusiasm with which the charac-
| tiers, incidents, scenes and situations are
viewed indicates plainly enough that
SWAY Down East appeals to the multi
| tude; that it has merit which the longer
aud more often it is presented, the more
popular it becomes.