The Washington herald., 1906-12-16
DreamIand BurIesquer. at Lyceum,
FUTURES AND FEATURES.


FUTURES AND FEATURES.
THE War Correspondent will be the
Christmas week attraction at the Ma
iestic. An elaborate production is prom
ised. and an extra matinee will be given
Christmas day.
Mr. F. s Willard IN repertoire John
Drew In His House in order. and Grace
George In Clothes" are among the in
teresting January announcements Of the
National Theater.
Richard CarIe, in The Spring Chicken"
is one Of the interesting announcements
from the booking department OF the New
National Theater. II Is likely 10 be Of
fered in Washington New Years week.
NO Mother TO Guide Her is the title
OF the meIodrama written by Miss lillian
Mortimer, which will be seen at the
Academy Christmas week. with Miss
Mortimer I'm the star role. and a compe-
tent supporting company.
1t is announced that Dwight Elmendorf
will be heard IN a special series of Lenten
lectures during February and March at
the New National Theater. The subjects
will be Ireland, England - scotland"
Norway and THE Land OF the Mid
night sun"
one Of the principal features in the pro-
duction Of a Midsummer Nights
Dream is the flying fairy ballet. This
novel speciality is said 10 create more
of a sensation than the flying girls Of
either Mr. Bluebeard' or Mother
Goose Annie Russell does considerable
flying herself.
The handsome souvenir announcement
cards that Mr.. Dwight Elmendorf's man
agement have been circulating are quite
the most artistic Of their kind ever given
out in Washington. The card shows a full
form picture cf the lecturer They will
again be distributed at the National
Thursday afternoon.
Eddie Foy. the comedian. has achieved
the hit Of his career. mis- friends think. IN
the role Of Jim Cheese. the dog-uainer in
THE Earl and re Girl" company the
musical comedy that has recently termi-
mated a run Of over 200 nights at the
Casino. New York. and which is 10 be seen
at the Belasco shortly.
Christmas fun is promised at Chase-s
next week, when nine prize attractions are
on the bin, led by Volta. the electrical
wizard The others will be VIII NJ.
CresSy and Blanche Dayne. in "Grasping
an Opportunity" Dave Lewis. the former
star Of The Royal Chef Foster and
Foster. in The Volunteer Pianist" Cook
and Madison. and Mile. ViCtoria's s dogs.
Murry X Hill. The word craftsman. and
the Bakers.
While the stage Of the Columbia The
ater will on next Monday evening re-
sound with the echo OF the bugle and the
clank Of sword and spur. "Brigadier
Gerard" Arthur Conan DoyIe's new COM
edy in which Kyrle Bellew will be seen
here, IS by no means a swashbucklering
play. The hero. Etienne Gerard. is the
central figure in a play OF dash and
humor. only the setting OF which is his
tOrical and military. The figures of Ma
poleon and Talleyrand important char
acters though they be in the comedy. are
employed by the author rather for the de-
velopment of his plot than for their in
trinsic value.
At the BelascO Christmas week, the
comic opera, The Rose of the Alhambra,'
by Charles Emerson Cook and Lucius
Hosmer, will be interpreted by the Opera
Comique Company. This organization Of
seventy singers and players and A special
orchestra is to be permanent, and aims
TO popularize light opera OF the better
class and it hopes to be looked upon as
the legitimate successor of the famous
BOstonians The cast of The Rose of
the AlhambTa" includes such artists as
Louis Casavant, Henry Norman, owen
Westford, Eddie Heron. Augustine Baci.
Greta Risley. Lillian Hudson. Isabelle
Winloche, and Betty Ohls. The title role
will be In the hands of Miss Agnes Cain
Brown.
Burton Holmes and his Travelogues are
making a great hit in the West, so much
so as 10 neCessitate a series of return en-
gagements all along the line. In his ear
lier circuit. in Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
New York. and Brooklyn, all box-office
records were broken and return engage
ments are now being booked In Philadel-
phia and Pittsburg, in conjunction with
Washington, in January and February,
and in New York and Brooklyn, in con-
junction with Boston, IN March and April.
Mr.. Holmes is just finishing his fourth
week in Chicago, st. Louis. and Milwau-
kee, and his business has been such as to
practically demand a return engagement
in those cities, for one or more series in
each, the spring tour to begin in the mid
die If February.
The dramatic version of Gen. Lew Wal
lace's The Prince of India" soon to be
presented by Klaw & Erlanger at the
National Theater, is asserted TO be the
greatest historical stage presentation
ever made in this country It is said to
represent an outlay of over Sl50,000 In
scenery and costumes alone. The play is
staged in a prologue and Ave acts. with
eleven great scenes. These stage pic
lures represent Constantinople and the
Golden Horn from Galata, panorama of
the Bosphorus to the White Castle of the
Turks during a storm. the tent Of Mo-
hammed before Constantinople. a street
in Constantinople during the battle, and
the Interior OF the Church of Sancta
Sophia after the capture OF the city.
Trials and Troubles.