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Grand Opera in English.

Washington will have a week of grand
opera in English at the Belasco Theater
the week beginning Monday, February 4,
under the direction of Mrs. Katie Wilson
Greene. The operas selected are: Mon
day and Tuesday evenings. Bizets Car
men" Wednesday ard Thursday evenings
Verdis "Rigoletto; Friday ana Saturday
Verdis III TrOvatore:" Wednesday and
Saturday matinees. Chimes of Normandy"
Miss Claude Albright will sing Car
men. Azucena in II Trovatore' and
Madalena in "Rigoletto." Miss Albright
was one of Savage's singers last season
in the repertoire company. Mr.. Winfred
Golf will be heard as EscamilIo in Car
men" and also in the difficult role of
Rigoletto. Tom Greene will be heaTl in
three of his best parts. Nine. Helene
Mold, for two Years prima-donna soprano
with the METROPOLITAN Grand Opera, will
be heard as Leonora in III Trovatore"
and Gilda in "Rogoietto." Miss Fran
ceska Kaspar, soprano. will make her
operate debut as Mchaela in Carmen"
Mr.. Irwin Myers. baritone will sing the
role of Count iii Luna in I'll Trovatore.
Mr.. Ford LanninG will make his first APP
pearance in Washington in this opera.
An orchestra of twenty-five musicians
has been engaged, and il will be under
the direction of Mr.. Harry Wheaton How
ard a feature of these performances will
be chorus of sixty voices, trained by
Mr.. and Mrs. Greene.
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Belasco Theater,

David Belasco will present for an engage
ment of one week, beginning tomorrow
night at the Belasco Theater, David War
field In the three-act comedy drama by
Charles Klein, entitled THE Music Master"
Nearly every one who has been in touch
WI matters theatrical has eagerly awaited
the coming of Warfield, for the play and
his work in it well known. For three
seasons this attraction has been playing to
the utmost capacity of a Broadway theater
in New York. and during the closing weeks
of the engagement hundreds of disappointed
playSoerS were unable to purchase even
admission. A new record in American the
at1-cal history has been made by this Be-
lasCo attraction. While the type that War
field portrays strikes common human
note and is filled with the sympathies of
human nature his Interpretation has been
regarded by persons of artistic analysis
nothing short of a classic. The dominant
clement in the play is heart interest"
Warfield's art is the sort that appears in
frequently during centuries In the opinion
Of critics the new role that he has given
to the stage VIII remain an ornament to
American dramatic art 1t is not given to
many plays to see third season on Broad
way in fact none has ever run through
continuously two seasons, and the achieve
meat OF Wariicld in The Music Master"
IS al the more remarkable. As Mr.. Belasco
viii present Mr. Warfeld in a new play
rcEt season. the present Washington en-
ileement is the only opportunity local
.aySc>rs VIII have to see him in The
NIs.c Master On account of the unusual
demand for seats there VIII lie an extra
matinee Thursday. and the regular matinee
viii be played Saturday These VIII be the
only matinee performances of the week.
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months to crowded houses. The story
concerns Filmer lesson. q severe, self
contained Englishman. loving order and
regularity only the typical Britisher
can. He has married for a second time
and considers his second marriage a fail
ure, in that the young woman possesses
none of the qualities he had grown &C
customed to in his first wife. The second
wife is subjected to the constant praises
of the first. from the family of the dead
woman and from the husband. Finally,
when the prosecutions of the dead wOmanS
family become almost unbearable, the sec
ond wife discovers by means of letters.
that the first wife. far from being the ex-
emplary person her relatives claim, was
the mistress of a friend of her husband
and had planned to elope the very day she
met her death. Nina asks advice of her
brothcr-in-law. Destroy the letters is his
command and Nina defeated and crushed,
hands him the letters. In the succeeding
scene the humilites that are poured upon
the second wife reach thei" elimination
and incense the brother-in-law until he
can stand il no longer. and after pleading
use.esslv with the husband to act like a
human being, he angrily places the letters
in the husbands hands. When the harass-
ing relatives have been driven out the
husband sits gooG?ily holding the letters
when the wife enters. she takes the let
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leen Mavourneen." The title role was
taken by Nellie Lingard a niece of the
historian and essayist. The two were fast
friends during the engagement of the
Brooklyn repertoire company.
The first musical play in which Miss Ca
Hill took part was Charles Hoyt's "A Tin
Soldier" She played the part of Patsy.
Her work consisted mostly of dancing.
From this appearance Miss Cahills sue
cess was practically assured.
Her recent career is familiar She be
came star as the result of her work in
The Wild Rose" in which she sang
Nancy Brown" and the whole company
was taken to Newport for a single per-
formance by Mrs. J. ]. Astor. Under the
management of Daniel V. Arthur she
made her first appearance as a star in
the musical comedy named Nancy
Brown and after long season at the
Bijou Theater. New York city. she spent
the following season touring the country
In the same play. At the commencement
of the next season she became a star of
the musical play Molly Moonshne."
PRESIDENT OF THE PLAYERS CLUB.
What John Drew considers the greatest
honor in his professional career was his
selection as president of the Players Club
of New York. There certainly wSss never
more popular president CT this old
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ganization. where Mr.. Drew is Familiarity
hailed as "UncIe john Its home. in
Creamery Park. is the house occupied
for years by Edwin Booth and his COM
panion, Lawrence Barrett. Booth was. Of
course. the first president of the Players
his letter to Lawrence Hutton, written in
the early eighties. accepting the presidency
of the club, to whose purposes he had
turned over the Booth residence at Ora
mercy Park, retaining only his own and
Barretts rooms. is still to be seen, framed
upon the wall Of the room which was
once Booths private library. This letter,
now brown and wrinkled with age, is a
typical example Of the carefulness with
which the Players Club has preserved
every attainahle memcnto and souvenir Of
It's founder. One entire hallway wall
is occupied by green cases. within which
are all of Booths costumes. An original
or copy of each his famous portraits &C.
cupes tho wall Of another room. Upon
the shelves Of two immense vaults built
into the walls OF the living room aIa pre-
served all mis- stage jewels, the swords he
used in Romeo" Hamlet" and 'Riche-
lieu" the silver crown bestowed upon him
by the emperor during his tour in Ger
many, poor Yor:ck's' skull many of his
own manuscripts and, not less interesting.
though not so closely related, the original
copy of the letter which Oliver Goldsmith
wrote to Samuel Johnson. asking him for
small loan until he could DISPOSE of his
poem, The Traveller" and get free of the
bailiffs who had surrounded his lodging.
With very few changes. the house stands
just as it was when Booth occupied it.
AS a perfect memorial to dead genius il
is a unique institution. Every nook and
corner offers some memento TO Booths
memory Its library, living room and card
rooms seem infused with the very ''melan-
choly gloom which always hung upon the
brow and damcan0r of the prince of play
ers." But most interesting of ALL on the
third floor facing the park and only to Dc
entered by special permission, is the bed
room in which Booth died. with every
thing lust as he left it at the hour of
dawn in 1893. The house porter opens
the door with Booths own key, still at
tached TO the little red ribbon by which
he always distinguished il. Inside every
to 1t. Here are his cigar boxes, for he
was an inVeterate smoker. his ash trays
and over a chair. Just as he tossed il, the
old leather Jacket he used TO wear about
the room. Most touching of all, upon the
table rests a volume of William Winters
poems, still kept open by little ivory
paper knife at the last place Booth was
reading Everything about the room be-
speaks Booths exquisite taste. Its ar
engagements are soft delicate and pleasing
to the eve.
1t is John Drew's ambition TO preserve
all this and to intensity rather than to
lessen the delightfully."- pathetic atmos-
phere which the house still breathes since
its occupancy and the departure of its
Sweet prince.
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Columbia Theater.

Marie CahiN will be seen here at the
mencing tomorrow night in the new mu-
steal play, Marrying Mary" written for
her by Edwin Milton Royle. with music
by Silvio Helm. and lyrics by Benjamin
Hapgood Burt. The play made a hit in
New York at Days Theater, where it
ran for two months. The original New
York cast and chorus will all be here
Marrying Mary" is a satire divorce.
The action takes place at hotel in Florida
1t is built around the character of Mary
Montgomery, played by Miss Cahill, who
has been married and divorced three times.
Husband No. ! was old Senator Bunch
grass, No. an eloquent evangelist and
No. was cousin. While Mary was
waiting at a hotel in Florida with heavy
bills staring her in the face she fell in
love with Ormsby Culpepper. young con-
gresham. whose hobby was to abolish
divorce All three of her divorced hus-
bands appear on the scene and start a
most involved set of complications. Mary
has all sorts of trouble getting rid of suit
ors and endeavorng to conceal her past
from Ormsby. But her marriages are re-
vealed and Ormsby tells her he cares moth
ing for anybody but her. and they are
secretly married. Much comedy is de-
veloped in the piece and the amusing stu
atoms follow in rapid succession. In Miss
CahilPs support William Courtleigh,
Eugene Cowles. Roy Atwell Geo. Backus.
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Majestic Theater.

AL H. Wilson, the clever German dialect
comedian and singer, in Sidney r. Ellis
new play, Metz in the Alps" will be the
attraction this week at the Majestic Thea
ter, commencing with tomorrow's matinee.
AS a medium for the display of Mr.. Will
sons abilities Metz in the Alps is said
to be superior to any of his former plays.
The scenes are laid In the Swiss Alps, whose
snow-capped mountains are famous in leg.
end and story. and the play Is of the kind
that appeals to all closes of threatergoers.
The story deals with young Switzer, Metz
Muller, who journeys across the Alps with
important papers. Plots and counterplots
follow each other in rapid succession, with
which is where the heroine Is rescued from
a. vast icy crevasse by Metz and two life
saving St. Bernard dogs. During the ac-
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Academy of Music.

The new combination play of melodrama
music and fun. The Cowboy Girl" is
said to be delightfully."- entertaining vehi-
Gle. 1t is by Lem B. Parker and is chock
full of ginger. Everywhere THE Cowboy
Girl has been great enthusiasm has been
evidenced and the musical numbers are
called real hits. Th tunes are bright and
the comedy full of snap. and the interest
ing story of the play. which is of a western
locale, is of the possible kind. The kilruy
and Britton company is a large one and
includes u chorus of show girls who can
sing, dance and be entertaining and give
tone and strength to the ensemble numbers
Seven new ard original song hits are
among the good things in The Cowboy
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"The Duel. "

Otis SINNERS annual engagement at the
Columbia next week has already stimulated
unusual interest. Mr.. SINNERS vehicle this
year is The Duel a play that had long
run in Paris, Berlin and New York and was
seen in Washington. 1t is the work OF
Henri Lavedan, a Partisan playwright
The Duel is strong in its dramatic inter
est, and Mr.. Skinner has met with great
success in 1t. His role in the play is that OF
a young priest, a religious enthusiast. who
finds himself the antagonist of his brother
in the conflict for the soul of a woman. Mr..
SINNERS company includes Charles Wal
cot Walter Hitchcock, Alfred Hudson, jr..
Walter Laid and Miss Keith Wakeman.
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Playhouse Paragraphs.

The Prince Chap will shortly have n
production in Paris "
andrew Mack has decided to return to
Australia early next month
Emma Carus is appearing in a new mu-
Steal play, Too Near Home
Dorothy Russell will have a good part IN
the Mimic and the Maid"
me White Cat, "A magazine story by
Gillett Burgess. is to be dramatized
Lena Ashwell Is to dedicate the new Mary
Anderson Theater In Louisville KY
Eleanor Kent has replaced Truly Shat
tuck in Anna Held's Partisan Model" com
pany.
Grace Fillkins is playing in the support of
Eleanor Robson in The Girl Who Has
Everything"
A new theatrical organization has been
formed which is closely allied to the Stair
Havlin syndicate, and II already controls
nearly a dozen new houses in western
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Frank Burt of
Toledo is the president of the new syndi-
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New Lyceum Theater.

At the New Lyceum, beginning tomorrow
matinee. the High School Girls will be
the attraction for one week. Cupid in the
Philippines" the opening burlesque, is re-
plete with action. humor and song while
the closing concoction is claimed to be
comedy mixture varying greatly from the
usual old-time "afterpiece'' seen with the
average burleSque organization. Kennedy
and Evans are with this company. The
olio will include Doyle and Howard, the
Misses Willard and Hughes in From the
Bowery to Broadway" George and Lila
Brennan and the Red Raven Cadets"
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Girl This attraction will be seen at the
Academy all week.
ChaSe's Theater.

Chase's headliners for this week are Mr.
and Mrs. Gardner Crane and company in
a comedy skit 'Everybody's Up in which
Mr.. and Mrs. Crane each play six distinct
characters. Other attractions will be Miss
Toby Claude, the little Coincidence from
England who made a hit in The Chinese
Honeymoon Master Willie Eckstein,
known as The Boy Paderewski;" Seymour
and Hill, in the acrobatic sketch THE Mix
and the Mixer" "Petro the Great" an
educated ape, who will present new phases
of the humanizing of the subjects of the
Darwinian theory; Chalk" Saunders
Bandy and Wilson and the motion pictures
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Burton Holmes Travel Lectures.

Burton Holmes will give the second in has
illustrated series of Travel Lectures at
the Columbia Theater tonight This even
ing he will take his audience in his pri-
waite yacht. the Memo. from Cairo to the
very borders of the mysterious Soudan, to
the Second Cataract. TO the wonderful
rock Temples of Simbel and the Assouan,
the site Of the greatest irrigating reservoir
in the world In his travelogue Mr.. Holmes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

WHEN WAKEFIELD FORGOT.-David
Warne!d was telling of his first appear
ance on any stage.
After some time" said he, in an in
terview with ]. Herbert WEIGH in Success
Magazine. 4 persuaded the manager of
the Wigwam. a vaudeville house in San
Francisco, to allow me to give an audience
an exhibition Of my powers. 1t was an
exhibition. all right. / shall never forget
that night.
Feeling that my whole future depended
upon the outcome of that first real APP
poarance. l grew more and more fright
ened as the hour approached. AS | stood
in the wings waiting for my time to go
out and entertain that big crowd with
stories and limitations my legs felt so
wobbly that | was actually afraid that l
would sway and fall down my way to
the center OF the stage. The act of the
man just ahead OF me seemed very long
and yet l wished that he would never stop.
At last the comedian came rushing off,
flushed and cNultaut. amid applause and
laughter. The orchestra swung into the
music for my entrance. | cleared my
throat. threw back my shoulders and tried
to walk out briskly with an air OF smiling
confidence: but IL was a weak smile and
when l tried to speak 1 discovered that
there was something the matter with my
voice. 1t sounded strange and husky.
started to tell lively story; but in my
efforts to keep my knees from shaking l
lost the thread of it. The people out In
front began 10 turn toward each other
with grins. Try a song, called shrll
voice from the gallery. This was followed
by other jeering remarks. ! commenced
my story all over again.
- Forget IT, shouted somebody He
has answered somebody else. Then
heard singing Kisses. CHANGING toward
the refuge Of the wings. | saw the man.
ager reckoning. l bowed. tried to smile
and walked of.
WAS NEVER PRECOCIOCS.-M Ca
hill. star of Marrying Mary" was born in
Brooklyn, n. Y. Shortly after her baby
Carriage days she went upon the stage in
the little BROOKLYN theater where Harley
Merry. the famous scenic artist, was con-
Quoting a stock company. Miss Cahill an
nounces with much pride that she never
spoke a piece" during her childhood and
that she was never precocious ana never
gained the reputation of being an infant
Dhenomenon Another distinguishing fea-
ture and an unusual one. is that she was
never a member of the chorus.
Her first appearance was in small
soubrette role which she played in "kath-
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Coming Attractions.
National Theater.

One of the interesting dramatic offer
ings of the week will be the performance
monday evening at the National Theater
of Pineros drama. His House in Order,
in which Charles Frohman will present
John Drew and his company. including
Miss Margaret Ellington. The production
comes from the Empire Theater. New
York where II had a run of over four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

The eighth of the Washington College of
Music concert series will take place at the
Columbia Theater on Friday afternoon next,
January Is, at +:39 O'Clock, when Leland
Powers. the great impersonator of Boston.
viii read Cyr2Ho de Bergerac. Mr.. Powers
is distinguished by rare facility in vocal in
terpretation of literature, oratory and dra-
matte art.
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"Secrets of the Police

A. II. Woods new sensational play, Sc
crets of the Police which will be at the
Academy the week of January D. is said
to be one of the best of its kind. 1t has
four acts and fourteen scenes. The ac-
ton takes place in New York, London,
Paris and st. Petersburg
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SheDard's Moving Pictures.

Archie l.. Shepard offers his exhibition
of moving pictures at the Academy to-
night, presenting a unique entertainment,
lasting over two hours. and combining in
struction and amusement. Tom Moore
will appear in illustrated songs.
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"The Futurity Winner. y

Chase's next week will be the scene of the
production of one Of vaudevilles greatest
novelties, The Futurity Winner" a sensa-
tional racing spectacle with race horses,
Jockeys and all the environment of paddock
and track reproduced Other novelties will
be Burke's Rollicking School Girls, James
F. Macdonough, John w. World and Min
dell Kingston. the Ellis NoWlan Trio Ethel
McDonough, the Girl Behind the Drum"
Count de Butz and Brother and The Magic
Flute motion pictures
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"Clothes. "

Grace George. coming from her run Of
four months in the Manhattan Theater.
New York city. and supported by her COM
pany belonging to that playhouse, will be
seen at the New National Theater next
week in her great hit. Clothes written
by Avery Hopwood and Charming Pollock
This play has been one of the dramatic sue
cesses Of the season In New York. Miss
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George has. in the role of Olivia Sher-
wood a part which gives her unprece-
denied chances as emotional actress.
Included in Miss Georges company are
Frank Worthing. Robert 7. Haines, A. Ii.
Stuart. Charles Stanley. Kenneth Daven-
port, Selene Johnson. Diana Huneker, An
gela Ogden and Justine Cutting.
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Mayer Concert at the Majestic.

The series of Sunday concerts at the
Majestic Theater VIII be continued tonight
with musical and motion picture entertain
ment. a well-known pianist, the latest
illustrated songs and several vocalists will
Is haa
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will escort his friends to the pyramids and
the sphinx, and by means of motion pic
lures show the difficulties of ascending to
the top of the pyramids, some of the joys
of camel riding and the patience needed
to make the journey in ones own boat.
1.-The Nile will be repeated tomorrow
afternoon at 400. and Tuesday afternoon
Mr.. Holmes will give the second in his
third course. the subject being Port Ar
thur
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ton of the play Mr.. Wilson will sing six
new songs. The supporting company is
said to be strong and the scenic equipment
beautiful
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"a MeSSage From Mars.

The Majestic Theater will be the scene
of an interesting attraction next week
when "a Message From Mars" by Rich
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

Matilda, musical comedy which has
eeen running in New York for the past
fortnight closed last night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

ard Ganthony, will be presented for The
hrst time at popular prices This plav was
the starring vehicle for Charles Hawtrey
VINO presented it In London more than
five hundred lights and in New york To-,
over three hundred nights The story
deals with the strange experiences of Hor-
ace Parker, wealthy, egotistical. selfish
man. VINO IN dream is visited by a mes
senger from Mars who shows him IN -;
Gus practical ways what thorouphIy
contemplate character he has become.
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f. II. Sothern and Julia Marlowe gave n
matinee performance of Romeo and Juliet
in Boston at which the receipts were over
$4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

The 0Oth performance of The Lion and
Ihe Mouse will be given at the Lyceum
Iheater, New York, tomorrow night
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Mark Smith H. Guy Woodward. Charles
Judels, Annie Buckley. Gladys Claire and
large chorus.
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Edythe Meyer has succeeded Billy Norton
IN The Dream City and The Magic
Knight at Webers Theater, New York
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Robert Edeson recently celebrated the
"Strongheart."
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Cyril Harcourt's new play. The Re-
former is TO be produced at the Court
Theater. London, the latter part OF this
month.
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Lillian Russelrs tour has been extended TO
the Pacific coast, and Ter engagements in
The Butterfly will keep her busy until
the middle of July.
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tiers and they sit beside the fire and burn
them as the curtain falls.
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cate which is working under the title Of
the National Amusement Company
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The Gallopers'' is to be made over into a
musical comedy for Raymond Hitchcock
and VIII have its premiere next month in
Clicagn.
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Clyde Fitchs latest play. The Truth"
had its first presentation in New York last
Monday night with Clara Bloodgood In the
principal role.