The Washington herald., 1907-02-22
AT THEATERS NEXT WEEK.

Mrs. Fiske and the Manhattan Com /
panv viii appear at the BeIascO next week
i'm Llngdon MitchelTs Satire play The
New York Idea" The sale Of seats began
Yesterday The engagement OF Mrs.
Fiske and her notable group Of associates
is an occasion Of exceptional impor-
lance The play is "a satire on social New
ork in particular, and on the views Of
marriage and divorce which the laXity Of
our divorce laws has occasi0ned through
out the country Mrs. Flske returns 10
Il comedy role iu the new play. and II is
said is doing the best acting Of her
career. The Manhattan Company THAT
appeared here with Mrs. Fiske in Leah
KIeschna" last season continues as her
support. New players have been added
10 il this year. The east viii include
John Mason. George Arlss. Charles Har-
bury. Dudley Clinton, Robert Y Fergu-
son. Dudley Digges. Marion Lea, Ida
Vernon. Blanche Weaver, Emily Stevens
and Belle Bohn.
The appearance Of May Irwin at the
Columbia Theater for the week beginning
next Monday night with Thursday and
Saturday matinees, is being regarded with
pleasant anticipation by theater patrons,
as no star commands more general favor
as a maker of wholesome fun than this
breezv coincidence. She viii be seen this
time in two distinctly different character
izations. Miss Irwin viii present here
Mrs. WiIson-Andrews,' the comedy, with
music by George V. Hobart, which ran
three months at the BijOu Theater, New
York and which Boston and Philadelphia
have most cordially indorsed. Mrs. VIII
SON Andrews viii be followed by George
AIDES one-aCt farce. Mrs. Peckham
Carouse. which was proouced Tor the
first time in Boston a few weeks since
with great success.
Cbase's bin next week viii be headed
by julius Steger and company in The
Fifth Commandment Mr.. Steger has
sung here many times in light opera and
musical comedy, and has many warm
admirers here. He has just concluded
successful run in New York vaudeville.
Clifton Crawford will divide honors with
the leading attraction. Mr.. Crawford
came here once without flourish of trum-
nets and made good" Now be is IA
vorfte with Chase audiences. VIII Rogers
with ex-Sheriff Buck Mckee, and the
ueryv broncho Arcade will unite IN
furnishing "a thrilling lariat throwing con
test. Other acts viii be Julia kingsley
and Nelson Lewis in After the Honey
NOON" Rogers and Deely, the Three
Liviers. Fred W. Morton, and The AMI
mated Statue motion pictures.
Next weeks attraction at the New
Lyceum viii be a new burlesQue organi-
alton. The Innocent Maids numbering
thirty-ive Of the leaders in that popular
form of entertainment. Allied with the
burlescuers will come such vaudeville
stars as Smith and Champion, comedy
sketch artists; Horton and La Trislla, the
messenger clown and the human doll; the
Sevons. eccentric takers; Sadie Huested.
the famous California barytone; Hughes
and HazeIton. travesty artists, and Hill
and Hill. cyclists. Two burlesques will
be presented, viz, The Geezer' and
"Happyland.
chinatown Charlie" the melOdrama
to be presented next week at the Males
tic bv A. H. Woods deals with sights and
incidents in the part of New York that is
inhabited chiefly by Chinese As it IS
Woods melodrama, no doubt can exist
that there viii be plenty of excitement
in it,
CLYDE Fitch, the prolific author, has
done no better work in a creative way
than is shown in his character concep-
! tons in Her Great Match the comedy
/ IN which Miss Maxine Elliott returns TO
the National on Monday night In Her
Great Match there is, first of all. the
/ high-spirited American girl, played by
Miss Elliott Next comes the only other
American character in the play, Mrs.
sheldon. "a calculating semi-villainess. who
suggests the almost forgotten Mrs. Chad
wick
Another character, familiar 20 any one
who has brushed against even the fringes
Of society. as revealed by Mr. Fitch. is
the wealthy brewer, who has plenty of
money but no social position. who is VIII