The Washington times., 1907-02-24
A Glance Ahead at the
Good Things Coming

Mrs Fiske's engagement at the Be
lasco this week is one Of the events Of
the Washington season. Mrs. Fisko's
engagements are always events. Mrs
Fislxe herself would make an event. put
she always brings with her an inter-
csting play. and she always brings
with her a model company, not merely
model in the matter Of the artistic OK
ceIIence OF its personnel, but model In
the matter of Its magnificent stage man
ngement. To use a vaudeville phrase
its splendid team work. is at the bot
tom OF the reputation that Mrs. fiske's
company has achieved.
II is rather remarkable that there mas
been scarcely q week since the first OF
January when at one or another of the
theaters there has rot been an engage
ment that belongs in the event class.
This week Mrs. FislIc is the event;
though. if she were not here, Maxine
Elliott at the National might have as
pired 10 that honor. And certainly Nay
Irwin. who is At the Columbia is big
enough-oE no. nothing personal.-to
come pretty near constituting an event.
She is the RECONCILIATION of that laugh
ter holding beth it's Sides whereof the
poet wrote. The ladies certainly are
having their innings.
The record Of the past two months in
the local theaters would be hard 10
heat. but the announcements for next
month come near to maintaining The
pace set by them. The National has
Fayersham in THE Squaw Man." Fay
TempletOr. in "Forty-five Minutes from
Broadway;" AIarteH. in Shakespearean
repertoire. and Ellen Terry, in roper
toire not Shakespearean, for March
Tor April il has secured Olga Neither
sole. George Conan, THE Hypocrltes,
and The Lion and the Mouse though
probably not in just that order. The
company which is to play "Hhe Lion
and the Mouse here is the best Of the
road comIanjes. and judging from It's
makeup should give quite as good
performance as the New York COM
pany. Arthur Byron plays the lion;
Gertrude Coghlan, the mouse, and NAL
cohn Duncan, the son Of the one ana
the sweetheart Of the other. The latter
particularly has earned warm well
come by his remarkably good work
here last summer in the Columbia Stock
Company.
The Columbia is to have Checkers
The Bishops Carriage" THE Walls of
Jericho" Wilton Lackaye in his own
dramatization OF lies AIiserables,' and,
best Of all, the Crane-Jeffreys com
bination in "She Stops TO Conquer
The Relasco's announcements can only
be made for the next three weeks. On
March 4 Henry Miller and Margaret
Anglin give a single performance OF
The Great Divide" which opened the
theater last September, and which has
been one Of the unquestiOned successes
of the winter in New York. The single
performance seems to be for the espe-
cIal benefit of the official set, which had
not vet returned TO winter quarters
when the play was here before The
week is TO be filed out by De WOLF
Hopper IN "Happyland,7 than which no
greater contrast could well be imagined
Following that THE Tourists with
Richard Golden, comes for week.
Golden is said-nOt by the advance
agents. but by the press of the cities
that have seen him-to be at absolutely
his funniest. And that is saying a good
deal. Following him comes Joseph and
William Jefferson as joint stars in their
new comedy entitled, Playing the
Came which is meeting with the great
est success on the road. A splendid cast
will support the JeffersOns. which viii
include Aubrey BOucicault Beyond thaI
Manager Taylor is afraid TO make airy
announcements For the independents,
whatever their virtues may be, are a
tri7e sudden. They change their minds
and do the unexpected in a fashion that
would do credit to ''All-of-a-Sudden
Peggy"
It frequently happens that the dra-
matte editor is appealed to to help re-
form theater manners. Occasionally 1t
is the manners of the management or
the cast that is complained Of more
often it is the manners of the audience
And the complaint always comes from
feIIow-members of the audience The
managers have long ago learned TO suf-
fer in silence.