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was a decided novelty to me. and that is
'Gosson's School of Abuse.
''1n the introduction to this 1t was stated
that the first public theaters for dramatic
performances were established in England
in 1J16 and in this year there broke out
a controversy as to the morality or i'm
morality of plays, theaters. etc. but the
most interesting fact was that in this in
PRODUCTION it was stated that in 1JI2, four
wears before the first establishment Of
the public theaters. parliament had passed
an edict which declared that all Fensers
Rearewardes Common Players i'm Enter
ludes and Minftrels, not belonging to any
Baron of this Realm or towards any other
Honorable perfonage of greater Degree
TO he 'Roges, NacabOunds and Sturdye
Beggers and. as SUCH provided for them
whether male or female. follows: On
F'irft conviction to bee grevouflye whip
ped and burnte through the SrifJe of the
right Eare with an hot Iron of the COM
paffe of an Ynch about. manifeftinse his
or her rogyphe kinds of Lyef \ second
offense was adiudged felony. A third
offense entaled death without benefit of
clergy or sanctuary.
1t didn't seem hardly possible" said
Miss Burke. as she laughed, that this
terrible edict had ever been passed until
a rather distinguished lawyer told me
that it really was Statute II. Chapter V,
of the laws of Queen Elizabeth.
Miss Burke paused is she dWelt over
the wonderment Of this truly remarkable
parliamentary law.
But | am awfully glad" concluded
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FritiZi Schef.

Charles Dillingham; will present FRITZ
Schef for the week beginning March :..2
at the Columbia Theater in The Prima
Donna. the new comic opera written for
her by Henry Blossom and Victor Her
bert. In which she has just closed a long
run at the knickerbocker Theater in New
iork. The same company that support
ed her in New York will he seen here.
The organization will include James T..
Sullivan, William Raymond. William X
Harcourt Martin Hayden. Donald Hall.
Herbert Ayling. Phil Branson. Mace Bon
vile. Blanche Morrison, Ruth Holt Bou-
cicault. Katherine Stewart, Renee Dyris
and La Noveta
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"Jack Straw"

Mr.. John Drew is coming to the New
National. The distinctly pleasurable fea
ture of the enga cement is the fact that
he comes to this city with play by an
author whose previous work has been
seen on the local stage this season. This
Is Lady Frederick in which Miss Ethel
Barrymore appeared at the New National
last month. Mr. Drew's play Is called
Jack Straw" and it will afford the nov
city of seeing the dgnified Mr.. Drew or
the Duke of kilicrankie" and De L.ancy"
days appearing as a waiter in d London
hotel restaurant.
What may be termed IAN all-star cast"
will support Mr.. Drew here. Among the
more prominent players are Miss Rose
CoShlan, Miss Adelaide Prince. Miss
Grace Henderson, Mr.. Edgar l.. Daven-
port, Mr.. Frank Goldsmith, Mr.. Mario
Majeroni. Mr. f. Soldene Powell and Mr..
Edwin Nicander.
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Coming Attractions.
New National,

particularly interesting engagement Of
the present dramatic season in Washing
ton will be that Of Miss Billie Burke at
the New National Theater this week. for
while this is Miss Burke's home city, she
has never before appeared here as star
in her own right. Miss Burke was seen
at the New National last year in John
Drew's support, appearing in the title role
of My Wife,
Second to the interest attached to Miss
Burke personally is that directed toward
her play. Love Watches" Is by De Flers
and Caillavet. two well known French
playwrights, and adapted by Miss Gladys
Unger. Jacauelin Miss Burke) Is an i'm
pulsve. whole -souled young girl of about
twenty. She has taken into her head to
fall desperately in love with her cousin
Andre. and does not hesitate to tell him
quite bluntly with the result that when
the second act is disclosed the two have
been married three months. Andre SIM
ply worships his young bride, his love for
her increasing as her beautiful and gra-
cious nature begins to show itself from
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Miss Burke, as she touched her ears joy
fully. apparently, that that edict is not
in force today.
YOUNG, But AN OLD ACTOR.-Harry
Bulger's span of star-life has almost COW
cred two generations of theatergoers. And
yet he is young man. years go. and
despite his period of service the stage.
is still at the head of the roster of musi-
cal comedy and extravangaza comedians.
In many ways Bulger is like '-Old Hoss''
Bill Hoey of .'Parlor Match fame. Like
Hoey, he graduated from the variety
stage into vaudeville although Hoey pass
ed into farce comedy, there being no vau-
deviie in those days of the kind existing
today. Buger was a partner OF Sherrie
Mathews, and their joint ability soon put
them in the headline class Then they
diverted into farce and musical comedy.
continuing up to the time Mathews was
taken i'll and ended his stage career. For
a time ii looked as If it would dampen
the prospects Of Bulger. but klaw & En-
langer took hold OF him and he became
a great faNorite on Broadway in the eX-
travaganzaS so popular number of
Years go. Joe Cawthorne is another who
reached fame about the same time and
by the same route. Indeed. he and Bull
ger were companion comedians in sew
eral OF the biggest spectacles put out
under the wing of the syndicate. Then
Manager Henry Savage sprang into man
aSerial limelight and attached Buger to
his staff OF funmakerS stroke OF gen
eralship that proved them the quality of
wisdom of the Savage individual Bull
ger was not starred exactly. lie was
what is called "featured' with the Savage
eXtraEaganZa undertakings. Under the
astute Savage, Bulser reached his high
est altitude of popularity and has remain
ed there ever since. Recently he starred
in Victor HerbcrtS 'Algeria. failure.
due. Herbert claims. TO the poor quail
of the book of the opera. Rulger agrees
with this. although lie was a hit i'm his
part and likes it better than any he has
ever played. Herbert has purchased his
own opera and intends having another
author write another book. Buger Is
waiting for that happy moment to arrive
and then he will go back starring in
Algeria. rcjuvenated.
Il want TO work a little longer" said
vaudeville to stay. What do l mean?
Simply that il will he a shame for me
to take all that money for so little work.
! have got 10 wait until | need the money
before my conscience will let me take the
price | am offered. Vaudeville seems too
easy to ma, maybe. because | was
brought up in variety and was weaned on
vaudeville. | prefer extravaganza or
muslca! comedy. however. simply because
there Is greater opportunity for good
work. | mean that vaudeville comedy
acts are too short
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In the Spotlight.

! Alice Fisher is TO appear i'm vaudeville
in condensed version of Captain Jack
Paid i'm Ful'' is 10 be given a produc-
ton i'm Holland during the month of May.
Henry B. Harris has accepted new
comedy written by kellet Chambers. 1t
is described as dealing with American
life.
Flora ZabeIe has been engaged for Bet
tina. and Estelle Wentworth will sing
Fiametta in the revival of The Mascot
in New York
The united booking offices have engaged
Andrew Mack for a ten-week season in
vaudeville. For his services he is said
to receive $1,000 a week.
lie Rargy. the French actor, is to play
the leading part in RostandS "Chanti-
cleer, which was designed for the late
Coquelin.
Miss Percy Haswell. now with OTIS
Skinner. is to have the leading part in A
new play by Booth Harrington, called
Foreign Exchange.
Blanche Walsh reached New York last
Wednesday on her way to her home in
Massachusetts,, where she will take a long
rest, resuming her stage work in the fall.
The Fighting Hope" with Blanche
Bates. will leave New York for a tour OF
the larger cities Easter Monday. This
will bring 20 an end one of the most eX-
traordinary runs known to the stage.
The four Huntings. Lew. Tony. Molie
and John. well known as dancers and
comedians, will be an early April attrac-
ton at the Academy in their new musical
vehicle. THE Fool House
Burt G.. Clark. who has the role of the
lovable character. Col. Sandusky DOolittle.
i'm I'm Old Kentucky is the original I'm the
seasons of its sixteen years of life in the
same role.
When Rose Stahl sails to London to
test the British sense of humOr with The
Chorus Lady Margaret Robe will be a
member Of the company. Miss Rohe has
not appeared the stage for several
years.
When FRITZ Scheff begins her engage
ment i'm this city March 22 she will bring
1.-The Prima Donna" company by SPECIAL
train direct from New York city, where
they have had a long run at the knick-
erbocker Theater.
James h Hackett has a new play by
Charles T. Dazey. entitled "A Son of the
SOUTH which ne will produce in Pitts
burg for the first time March %. Mr..
Hackett expects the piece to be one OF
his chief offerings next season.
Blanche Ring announces that she is to
star i'm musical version of The Wall
Street Girl comedy which Edgar Sell
wyn submitted for her use nearly year
ago Miss Rings engagement on tour
with Joe Weber prevented the consumma-
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Academy.

I'm Old Kentucky viii be al the Acad-
emy this week. 1t is now on its sixteenth
annual tour of the country. The story
told in I'm Old Kentucky is compare
lively a simple one. The hero is a manly
young kentuckian, the heroine a girl of
flesh and blood. product of nature un-
trammeled 1t unfolds an idylic love
story, charmingly developed and unusual
ly we'll told. The incidents are thrilling
and the interest well sustained. Then
there is the pickaninny contingent. These
comical little darkieS can sing dance
whrl batons, play musical instruments
and do all these things in natural, I'M
affected way and with infinite zest and
humor A brand-new outfit of scenery
and equipment has been provided. Sew
eral of the players have appeared in "In
Old Kentucky almost continuously since
its original New Yonk presentation, no.
tably Charles X. French Uncle Neb
and Bert G. Clark as the Colonel. Miss
May Stockton is this seasons Madge. the
mountain heroine.
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Beauty Spot in which +. Ray Comstock
will offer jefferson De Angels in the stel
lar role 1t was originally intended that
the premier should occur tomorrow
night but a desire to give a perfect first
performance decided the management i'll
the matter. and today and tomorrow and
tomorrow night as well will be given
over to dress rehearsals. In the cast are:
Marguerite Clarke. the stellar feature;
Viola Gillette. George J. MacFarlane.
Jean Newcombe. Frank Deane. Billie Nor
ton. w. II. Denny. Bertha Blake. Alf De-
Ball. Eileen Kearney and Ellen Beckwieh,
There are q score of musical numbers.
the principal ones being. ''Wading. The
Garden of Girls "A Song of the Sea.
Dear Old Days" THE Prince of
Borneo" In a Hammock THE jungle
Man and BOYS Will Be Boys
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Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will
give it's last concert of the season at the
National Theater next Tuesday afternoon
March 16 at 4:30. The soloist at this
will be Mr.. Ernest Schelling the
pianist. The program Overture to the
opera Der Freischutz." fantastic suite
for pianoforte and orchestra, Schelling;
suite for full orchestra taken from the
score of the ballet "Nutcracker. op. ia,
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Travel Talks.

For five Sunday evenings. beginning
this evening at $40 clock. and four Fri
day afternoons. beginning March -. Mr.
Fred Niblo, the humorist-tourst, will pre-
sent at the Columbia unique series Of
Talks of Travel in Distant Lands The
series will consist of five journeys to
foreign countries. illustrated with color
ed views and lifelike motion pictures. The
first of the series will be a trip through
Africa from the Cape to Cairo covering
the entire territory that is included i'm the
itinerary of the proposed hunting trip OF
eX-President Roosevelt.
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Columbia.

Max Rogers. the little fellow" of the
Rogers Brothers. supported by Joe Kane,
late star of THE Belle of New York.
and the original New York company pre-
senting "In Panama" will be at the Co.
lumbia tomorrow night and the remain
der of the week Miss Marion Stanley
has been re-engaged as leading woman.
Josephine Barrows and Eileen Sheridan.
Avita Sanchez, Flo May. Sibyl Brennan
Nina Du Bal and Ethel Fleming are also
in the cast. The male contingent. headed
by Max Rogers. consists of Joe Kane
George Lydecker. Philip Leigh, Robinson
Newbold William Edmund, Frank
Holmes, Henry Lehman and Alexander
Kleinman.
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1.-The Morning After"

Chase's next week will present a coll
lection of polite vaudeville novelties. com
prising Valerie Bergere and Company in
Willis Steeles new comedy of stage life.
The Morning After: the w. II. Murphy
Blanche Nichols company in 'The School
of Acting: the big city quartet under the
direction of Henry Leonhart; the Charles
Ahearn troupe of comedians: the Helms
juvenile protean artists: AL. Lawrence
late star of Little Dottie Dimples":
Charles Newhold and Annie Carol in An
Interrupted Angling Party
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Chase's.

'Chase's this week promises Harry Bull
ger & Co, Paka's Hawaiian Trio. Cler-
mont's Burlesque Circus, Brown. Harris
and Brown, Emma Partridge, Mr.. Quick
the Vedmars and the latest series OF mo-
ton pictures, especially interesting here
'sThe Inaugural Parade" Harry Bulger
will "bulgerze a musical farce called
HE Was a Soldier. Too" In reality the
sketch is based upon the camel scene in
algeria the Victor Herbert opera in
which he has just finished starring. His
songs "For He Was a Soldier. Too and
THE Captain of the Bismark Guard are
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Majestic.

Manager Weston has booked for the
Majestic Theater this week Langweed
Sisters. eccentric buck dancing: Rome and
Ferguson. late of Henry w. Savage $
prince of Pilsen company: Hamlin and
MitchellS Babes in Tnyland' company IN
comedy sketch. Just a Little Variety,
and Billy Sully. backface monoloSuist.
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"Tony. the Bootblack.v

Tony. the Bootb!ack," comes to the
Academy the week of March % The play
is a sensational melodrama of life in
New York, and gives a vivid idea of the
nefarious methods employed by the motor
ious Black Hand gang of infamous
criminals TO ensnare their numerous vic
tins. The piece is said to contain stir
ring climaXes, infectious comedy pa
thos and any amount of exciting situ-
alton. Dave Genaro and Ray Bailey are
the stars.
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Belasco.

There will be no performance at the
Belasco tomorrow night. but on Tuesday
night Washington playgoers will be given
an opportunity OF passing judgment upon
the latest score from the fertile mind of
Reginald de Koven, for he has supplied
the music and Joseph Herbert the hook
and lyrics Of the new musical play. THE
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said to be the best he has delivered Her
bert Hall Winslow and Mr.. Bulger col
lahorated in the production of the COM
edy. Paka'S Hawaiian Trio are the added
attraction and the act is described as
beautiful novelty bearing the romance
laden atmosphere of the far-away Pa
cific Isles that have been added to Uncle
Sans Pacific possessions. ClermOnt's
Burlesque Circus is another attraction.
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Lyceun.

At the New Lyceum Theater this week
The CoZy Corner Girls will be the at
traction. The program opens with
musical comedy affair, ''The Honeymoon
Trip. Among the other attractions are
the German comedy star. Will Fox, who,
with his company. presents the one-act
musical mix-up, An Cngrateful son."
Mitchell Sisters, Miss Lulu keegan, JO-
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Altemus-Hall Recital.

Miss Ellen Altemus and Mr.. Glenn Hall
will appear in a joint recital at the New
Masonic Auditorium Monday evening.
March u. Miss Atemus has just returned
from abroad. where she has played in
London and Paris. Miss Altemus played
in Philadelphia last season as soloist with
the Philadelphia Orchestra at two con-
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posed unfaithfuness. and he sends her
home with some good counsel.
After Jacquelin has led her entire fami-
ly connection a terrific race to find her
and straighten matters up, the whole
thing comes out. as was inevitable and
the play ends in gale of laughter. the
tentatively errant wife forgivng and be-
Ing forgiven.
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Academy Concert.

Another bill will be offered the patrons
Of the Sunday concert at the Academy to-
night. the program including the National
City Quartet. Miss Alma Nelson. Charles
Young, George Hellmuth and a selection
of life motion pictures.
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"Salome Reading"

Miss Amy Grant OF New York will be
heard in Washington in "Salome'' read
ing at the Columbia Theater Tuesday
afternoon March o3 at 4:30 o'clock The
English translation of the play is used.
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My STOCKTON
In OLD KENTUCKY

certs Mr. Glenn Hall. tenor. has also
recently returned from Europe. He is
protege of Arthur Nikisch, and has sung
in Berlin. Leipzig. London and recently in
Canada and Cincinnati.
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BILLIE BURkES POST CARDS-Im-
medately after her success in Love
Watches Miss Billie Burke began to re-
ceive series of post cards from c. Ar
mand Caillavet, one of the two authors
of the French piece. The first postal
card announced to Miss Burke:
You must be great actress. don't
sou; G. ARMAND CAILLAVET."
About week after this Miss Burke re-
ceived another postal card which read:
Tell me that you are simply wonder
ful, is it not?
&c. ARMAND CAILIAVET.'
At first Miss Burke thought that Mon
eieur Caillavet was having little fun at
her expense. but by this time IL friend of
his had arrived in America who ex
planned to her that Monsieur Caillavet
was very fond OF the English language
and was using it as often as possible. SO
that when during the successive weeks
the following cards came she was more
than gratified:
'All reports agree you have most
charming what is personality
&c. ARMAND CAILLAVET."
The next postal, dated November Z, de-
clared:
Friend who saw your premier enthusi-
astic knocked on the head"
November -, the
Il intend next play To be written for
you, Is that you agreeable?
&c. ARMAND CAILLAVET.'
MIR. BLOSSOM LUXURIATES.-It is
always a pleasure to read of people as
ISOLATED in the theatrical profession get
ting on tremendously. The pleasure is
especially keen when the people are
author and actress. respectively. The re-
lation is one which often invites criticism
in a spirit of candor rather than gener-
osity Here Is what Mr.. Blossom. as re-
ported by Mr.. Ted Leary. says about
Miss FRITZ SchefY-it least, here is some
of IL. Listen.
Somewhere / have read of a girl with
a hundred selves,
"A hundred selves-and just one pretty
sylph-like form enveloping and controlling
their multiphases! One picture Of hun
dred component parts. all blended into a
finished and harmonious whole.
Such is the composite photograph
which the light rays of FRITZ Scheff' s
acquaintance and friendship have de-
veloped In my mind and memory.
1t seems paradoxical to say that FRITZ
Scheff IL always yet never the same: but
that is how / can best describe her.
"Compositely, she Is the only FRITZ,
wholly unfque-but one is never twice
impressed by the same component quail
ties In her. and more than one sees twice
In succession the same hue In diamond S
ever-changing color flashes. though they
are all combined with the gem.
Take az ingredients full measure of all
the adjectival qualities which laudatory
critics have seemed glad to shower upon
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1schaikowski: prelude and Love Death"
from Tristan and Isolde" Wagner: over
lure TO The Flying Dutchman." Wagner.
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seph Mack and Oracle Reynolds. The
closing burlesque is entitled vacation
Time"
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Alice Fisher is to appear i'm vaudeville
in condensed version of Captain Jack"
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