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"The Bohemian Girl.

The season Of the Aborn Opera Com
pany at the New National Theater will
be brought to n close with Balfes beau
tiful opera, ''rhe Bohemian Girl as the
offering for the twelfth and last week,
starting Monday night. July 10.
1t will doubtless prove a welcome and
attractive selection for the goodbye
week The Bohemian Girl is one OF
the foremost of the popular classics,
due to its richness in melody and the
variety and eXpreSsiveness of its entire
score. well the human interest and
romance of its story. Such numbers as
"Th. Heart Bowed Down. L Dreamt
l Dwelt in Marble Halls '"The GYPSY
Bride 1.-THE Fair Land of Poland" ="
Then You'll Remember Me-" Bliss
Forever Past" the gypsy quartet and
many other tuneful gems. have endeared
this opera to every music lover. Ii not
only gives ample display to all of its prln-
ripal chara cters. but demands a cast OF
the highest excellence. both vocally and
from dramatic standpoint. and Messrs.
AbUrn promise their patrons the fulfill
ment of these requirements. Tl1c cast
will he an attractive one of favorite
singers. all of whom have been heard in
the same parts here before. including
Harry Luckstone as the count. Blanche
Morrison as Airline, Edith Bradford as
the queen. George Talman as Thaddeus.
George Shields as Deviishoof and Phil
Brunson as Florestein.
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Mrs. Temples Telegram.

Mrs Temples Telegram VIII reach
the Columbia Theater = week from To-
morrow night. As matter OF 1act.
Mrs Temples Telegram IS not a teie-
gram at all. but lish-class farce COM
eiy with which the Columbia players
may be depended upon to entertain the
Columbia patrons next week.
Like several OF the previous colhmoia
offerings this season. Mrs lenipie
Telegram was one OF the Madlsoli
Square Theater successes. Under an
other name il was originally pfoouceu
by Proctors stock company IN Nev'
York. but quickly passed into the hands
Of Walter Lawrence. who accorded IL an
elaborate production at the MADISON
Square with company OF notable play
ers There it remained for many months,
while other companies were ORGANIZED
and sent upon the road to cater 10 the
demand the reputation of the piece mad
created.
During the past season 1T was released
for stock presentation and since thel
practically every stock organization IRON
tie Atlantic to the Pacific has presented
Mrs Temples Telegram To the dctign,
of, audiences everywhere. While Mrs
Temples Telegram is rated as farce
AMI has all the infectious laughter OF
Are You Mason?' and The Man
From Mexico" it is different IN many es-
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"Chat Saws Goodbye"

The first break in the ranks of the Co
lumba Players and one that is regret
ted by the management, the public and
the players themselves came last night
when Thomas Cfatterton, the popular
Juvenile. bade farewell to Washington
for a time ut least. Chat" has been
having a strenuous time since last Au-
gust and needs rest badly. His depart
ure is due partly for that and partly
for business reasons.
\ week ago he signed a contract with
Brady d Grismer TO play the role of the
mayor in ''rhe Man of the Hour the
coming season. Shortly afterward he
received ffattcring offer from Fred
Belasco To become member of the
Alcazar Stock Company of San Fran
cisco. permanent company, and one
of the best of its kind to be found.
Chat" is fond of Washington. He also
likes his part in '.The Man of the Hour
But. oh, you San Francisco.
This really is wha- takes him aw2y at
this time. and he left witt a /araul
goodbye and good wishes foSc/Try body
who had helped make his brief stay here
so pleasant. He hopes to return next
season. and many others share the hope
with him.
He goes from here to New York city
for few days, then TO his summer
home on Seneca Lake, at Geneva. n. Y,
and then-.
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QgQ7MT THE4IER I'D

Mother Eve started the fashion IS thdt OF
having nothing to wear. MISS petin Is
d afflicted in the opposite way. Indeed, she
is now wrestling with the proposition
whether she shall sell OUT give her prop
! erty away, or sacrifice her commodious
dressing room, with Its fuli-length mr.
rors. its easy chairs. its comfortable
couchcs and its battery of electric iahs
10 the demands of her wardrobe. One
or the other is inevitable.
Miss Deans dressing room IS the largest
I'm the theater. Indeed. there are few
theaters that can boast of one so large
aud comfortable. II is but a step from
the stage, and might easily nave housed
tile horses. carriages, automobiles ana all
the other like para phernalia recently used
for In the Bishops Carriage, all at
once, and yet furnish dressing space for
several ordinary performers But MISS
Dean is no ordinary performer. Al least
the public ard the critics are beginning
TO think so. She has her troubles. now
ever and this latest one is OF her own
making.
One recalls the laughable story OF the
youth who sat OIL the limb of the tree
and sawed himself on to the ground MISS
Deans experience is somewhat similar.
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week days he is eoi g TO give free vaude-
vile. This week tie vaudeville feature
acts include Harrison and Force, eccen-
tric Irish coInedi ms: Chrissie Waltham.
singing soubrettc and ''coon shouter''; the
Clark Brothers, whistling imitators: the
Dupont Sisters. aerial Symnasts, and the
motion pictures.
Today, in addition to the usual sacred
concetts by tie American Regmenta al
A,,nd this afternoon and tonight and the
motion pictures and illustrated songs in
the A'rdome tonight. Daredevil White
will make his last appearance at } o'clock
this afternoon and 1T 10 O'Clock tonight
in his thrilling bicvclc ride and plunge
into shallow tank of water from a
great height
Manager Good felloW is laying stress
upon mis- claim TO the largest and best
equipped dancing pavilion in this section
of the country. It's elevation and the
cool brcczes that sweep through it on
the warmest city nights make dancing
not only possible but enjoyable. The
orchestra is III attendance every night.
The special feature If the dancing pa :
vilion is the prize dances Tuesday and
Friday nights, when handsome and valu-
able presents are given the best lady
dancers. The Trip to The Moon" with
its tcn-minutc ride and sky-voyage iliu
sion, is also one of the chief attractions
at the park.
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New National.

The Belle of New York" probably
the best of all of George Lederer's !
New York Casino predictions. will be
the offering at the National this week.
When it was first produced al the Casino
II took immediate hold OF the popular
fancy and settled down to one of the mos,
phenomenal New York runs in theat-
rical history. LedeIer then took it to
London where its success was Just as
instantaneous and quite as pronounced
In the original cast of The Belle of New
York many unknown to fame al that
time found such opportunities i'm il
that they became prominent stars aft
erward in other musical offerings Prac-
tically the same cast seen I'm 1be
Aborn production of last summer has
been reassembled for the coming week.
including Edith Bradford and Carrie Rev
nolds, who return as Cora Angeliaue and
Fiji. respectively. Robinson Newbold. in
his laughable caricature 81 Ichahod Rrou-
son. Agnes tirlay as the demure little Sal
vation Army lass: Harry Benham as
Harry Bronson: Herman Hirshbea.g as
the polite German luEatic. Karl Pumpe~-
nick: Lester Brown as Doc" Snifkins
Jean Moulan and Felix Fantus as the
two Counts. Ratsi and Patsi, and Joe
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Coming Attractions.
Columbia.

In the very name of when We Were
Twenty One" the pretty play which the
Columbia Players will present this week,
there seems 70 be fascination which
grows the stronger when one remembers
that il was in this play Nat 4. Goodwin
and Maxine Elliott attained their great
est triumphs. 1t had an unprecedented
run in New York and charmed London
audiences Into according Mr.. Goodwin
unusual recognition. His imperSonatou
of Richard Carewe is considered by many
the best thing Mr.. Goodwin ever did. The
play. which il in four acts, was written
by III. v. ESlnond, actor as well au-
thor WHO had himself in mind for the
part of the Imp. Richard Terence Miles
Andane. III the original production,
however the part was assigned to Harry
Woodruff. Everett Butteriield Of the Co
lumbia Players is booked for this role,
and will find it particularly rich in pos
stbilities. The parts played by Mr.. Good
win and Miss Elliott fall naturally TO
Orme Caldara and Julia Dean. who have
not only played them many times before,
but have won success in them. AS Phyl-
lis Miss Dean will be seen at her best.
For time she was member of Mr..
Goodwins company and played the par
with him. She is sure to give an exce,-
lent account of herself. While Mr.. Cal
dara's work in the role of Carewe has
been confined to stock presentations.
the praise heretofore accorded him by
public and critics alike gives promise that
his impersonation will be d revelation to
his admirers. The guardians Of the imp,
the three unusually good parts OF Sir
Horace Plumber, Bart, commonly called
"Waddles'; Col. Miles Grahame, known
as the Soldier Man, and Terence Nc
Grath 'the Doctor Will be played by
AtrNapder Frank. Charles Lane and
Lawrence Eyre respectively. lille Alex
auder Calvert will BE- seen a. David
.tlf I
Duugalet. Clara Sidney will be Mrs
Erickson, Ruth ID. Blake The FiIcfiy''
ana Ethel Wright has been cast for the
part of Eileen O'Brien.
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I. Stoddard TaYlor.

1t is doubtful if many of the patrons
of theater ever stop to think how much
of their comfort and enjoyment is due to
the manager. The perfect system which
may prevail. the conveniences and the
homelike and artistic atmosphere which
may surround the place may be seen and
felt. but one bent upon seeing the play
or hearing the opera seldom goes further
to inquire and less seldom ever knows
that these things inevitably reflect the
personality and training of the nanag ger.
The suave, genial. modest gentleman
who is most largely entitled to the credit
for all these things at the Belasco Thea
ter is Mr.. l.. Stoddard Taylor. its resident
manager. and one of the most popular
men in town. Popular in the broadast
sense of the word-not only with il's wide
circle OF acquaintances among men. but
aso among the women and children who
come to the theater and perhaps do not
even know his name-for Mr. Taylor is
built upon the Chesterfield model, and
those who have seen him raise his theater
to the frs, rank In Washington know it.
Mr.. Taylor's first experience in the the
atr.cal line began i'll d very humble ca
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travelling companies. including two sea
sons with When knighthood Was In
Flower" r. d. MacLean, the trasedian:
Odette Tyler, and long engagement with
Margaret Anglin. His last road engage
ment was with a musical comedy, THE
G ri and the Bandit after which he was
engaged by the Messrs. Shubert as resi-
dent manager of the Belasco in this city,
a position which he has capably and sat
isfactorily filled both for proprietors and
patrons for four seasons. The step from
theater usher to resident manager is Il
long one, but Mr.. Taylor has success
fully spanned it. thanks to his keen intel
ligence, his unwavering courtesy and his
Jealous application to duty at all times.
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so to speak, a public for every sort OF
play-tragic. humorous. psychologist OF
bordering on the melodramatic. There
fore. it does not so much matter In what
direction the new idea seems to tend II
only il is truly virile and sincere.
Il am always ready to venture much
on a play which seems to me TO contain
an original theme and will even over
look technical deficiencies, believing that
the inspiration Of new thought and real
ambition viii reach over the footlights
farther than a superior piece Of technical
work founded on tiIneWorn thoughts and
treated with the skill of the expert hack.
Il am as anxious to help develop au-
,fors as authors doubtless are TO be de
veloped' This is not altruism, but sound
business sense. paving the way for fu-
ture productions.
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In the Spotlight

One Of the early offerings by the Co
lumbia company will be The White
Horse Tavern"
In When We Were Twenty lone" at
the Columbia Theater this week Ruth d.
Blake will be seen as The Firefy."
Five hundred photographs of FRITZ Won
Busing were distributed TO the ladies at
the National. Tneater yesterday after
noon.
Souvenir photographs of Agnes F'inlay
in THE Belle of New York will be dis
tributed at the National Theater next
Saturday afternoon.
The Columbia Players were the guest of
the Columbia Canoe Club last Sunday aft
ernoon. The trip 10 the up-river home OF
the club was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Eddie Fowler. the box office man at the
Columbia Theater, who has been planning
vacation trips for the past two months,
has abandoned that amusement, as he
Says it now looks TO him like a contin-
uous performance.
Lawrence Eyre. who played the role of
Majors In "The Man From Mexico last
week, has both aspirations and jnspira-
tlonS AS composer. lie Is an nonOr
graduate of the Starnburg Conservatory
of Music in Philadelphia.
Elaborate plans have been arranged for
the last week of the season at the New
National. souvenir photograph of the
entire company in THE Bohemian Girl'
will be presented to each lady attending
the final performances Saturday night
Robinson Newbold, who scored heavily
at the National Theater last week. VIII
bid farewell TO Washington as Ichabod
Bronson in THE Belle Of New York
this week Mr.. Newbold goes to New
York to begin rehearsals for the coming
season.
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FAST ELEC TRIO
TRAINS
FROM POST OFFICE CORNER TO
MOUNTVERNON
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
EVERY HOUR
FROM 10 AN. TO Pm.
je23-tfl5
FRITZ Won Busing.

Miss FRITZ Won Busing, who has woi.
SO many admirers in this city during her
engagement with the Aborn Opera Com
pany at the New National. retired from
the local company last night to go TO
Newark, n. j., where she will assume
the leading contralto role in Princes
Chic Miss Won Busings beautiful voice,
her marked dramatic talent and her
genial personality have made her a warn
favorite i'm this city. She has been eS-
pecially popular with the younger women.
who on matinee days have crowded
around the stage door after the perform
ance In large numbers just to say and
to have said to them How do you do"
Miss Won Busing carries many good wish
es into her new field of action from those
who grew very fond uf her during her
stay here this summer
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Colonial.

The feature at the Colonial Theater this
week will be the Peerless Hungarian Or
chestra, which will play each evening for
the motion pictures as we'll as solos and
in concert The live vaudeville includes
Jim Hawkins. coon shouter,'' in new
offerings: Edna Buckley, singing come
dienne, and Billy Halinian, Dutch come
dian. An entirely new series Of motion
pictures will be shown.
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Glen Echo Park.

'i;cn-Iiur," the dramatizatiun Of Gen.
Lew WallaccS famous novel. will be re
produced in motion pictures with Ed
ward Morgan in the title role. and every
detail portrayed. in the Hippodrome at
Glen Echo Park this week, beginning
tonight. Admission to it will be free.
During the week nights there is free
dancing in tho pavilion, and wide di-
verSity Of 0 her amusements. The L
street cars run direct to Glen Echo
,k
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Chevy Chase Lake.

There are no off nights, apparently
at Chevy Chase Lake. Every evening
finds the beautiful resort thronged with
music lovers and pleasure seekers, old
and young. The park caters TO every
taste. There are amusements for the
juveniles, swings, riding track. etc
The Marine Band evening concerts are
we'll arranged, and on weekday even
ings the great pavilion overlooking the
lake is the rendezvous OF hundreds. Ere
quent changes Of motion pictures at the
rustic thcater make il a popular fea-
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Luna Park.

Manager Goodfellov at Luna Park is
out to win the children. Hereafter he IS
going to throw open to them free of
charge Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday afternoons, between ) and .
o'clock, the carrouse, the chutes. the
roller coaster the aerial swing, the social
twirl and the scenic river, all the attrac
tions of the company at Luna Park
He is also making a strong bid for the
older folks, for. commencing tomorrow, In
addition to free admission to the park On
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lii the ten weeks she has been playing in
the city she has had change of bin each
week. Each play calls for three complete
Sc S of costume at least. not one of which
can he used for second play. NotwIth-
standing her well filled trunks Miss Dean
has been buying new gowns here vi il
now her overgrown accumulation of fiiery
threatens to put her out of doors unless
some way out OF it is found. Some
thing really must happen" she SAYS. '.and
very soon, Or something really Will
happen
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- he Belasco Theater Producing
ComT2ay, and an excellent
ono II is closed its engage.
merit in this city last night,
ahead Of the preannoHnced
time Ii goes to the Van CGr'er Opera
House Schenectady, y. Y, for two weeks,
on 4 guarantee. and thence 10 the Apollo
Theatcr, at Atlantic city. for four weeks.
Its performances here were thoroughly
enjoyable Tie idea Or having 1t try
OUT new plays for next season in Wash
iagton, although evidently perfected too
late to make the venture a financial pos
sibiity, is not bad one. and il carried
out in the weeks Immediately following
the close Of the regular season Will In the
future, as il would have done this year.
prove profitable in more ways than one
Washingtons judgment has launched
many a play upon a successful career.
and its condemnation, If needed. would
have saved many dollars TO managers
and producers who thought they knew
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est. Elmo"

Willard Holcomb's dramatizatiou Of "St
Elmo Augusta Evans Wilson's famous
novel. appears to be success. The right
to produce the play was acquired by Mr..
Holcomb and Vaughan CHASER Just prior
10 the death of the author of the novel.
1t has been copyrighted In Great Britain
and the colonies. as well as i'm the United
States and Canada. Vaughan CHASER STe-
ated the role of "St. Elmo' at Windsor
Ontario. the afternoon of June IS. II Is
announced that klaw A. Erlanger are &c
produce 1t in central territory the COM
ing season.
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Edmonds as Biukey Bill
The libcretto and lyrics Of The Eelle
Of New York, are by Hugh Morton. The
score is 10y Gustav kerker and includes
many CATCHY gems that won great pop
ularity. Among it's most striSing song
hits. are When We Are Married, Tine
Purity Brigade Down at toney Island,
Wine Woman and Song. Follow On.
La Belle Parisinne. You and and
''She Is the Belle Of New York. The
Aborn revival of The Belle of New
York will include several interpretations
of other songs
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pacity III the days of Hooley's Theater.
Chicago, now known as Powers Theater.
At that time r. NJ. Hooley, the organizer
cf the famous Hooley's minstrels, was the
proprietor After year Mr.. Hooley died
and Mr.. Taylor served a varying expert
ence as usher and chief usher in several
of the leading Chicago theaters. His
quet. effective work attracted the atten-
ton of the managers and he was engaged
at McNicker's Theater, first as usher and
later as chief usher. After the theater
had been burned and then rebuilt Mr..
Taylor was given the position of assistant
treasurer by l.. l.. Sharp. for thirty years
the manager of McVicker's Thea ter.
Later he became its treasurer. Under the
careful discipline and admirable manage
ment cf Mr.. Sharp and the elder Nc
Wicker he learned much that has been
of great profit to him in the present day.
1t was while engaged in the box office
that Mr.. Taylor met Charles Hanford.
then with Thomas w. keene on his last
tour. and through him his road expert
ence began as treasurer of the company.
During the tour Mr.. keene died and Mr..
Taylor found himself the following sea
son with Mr.. Hanford. Later he looked
after tho business interests Of several
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STORIES OF THE OPERA.
"The Belle of New York"

The story of The Belle of New York
this weeks production Of the .Aborl
Opera Company, concerns the romantic
career of Violet Gray a Salvation Army
lass.
Harry Bronson. son of Ichabod bronson,
president of the Y. N. Rescue League of
Cohocs. \. u, is celebrating his twenty
first birthday and his farewell to hache-
lorhood, as he is going TO he married q
noon to Cora Aneeliauc. the queen of
comic opera. He is In befuddled state
when he gets Il telegram from his father
stating he and the entire rescue league
are coming TO New York TO work up a
crusade against vice, and that he may eX-
pect them in few hours. This news is
followed by the arrival of the bride and
bridesmaids her father. Doc Snifkins,
and the two counts. Rattatoo. each OF
whom want to marry her Then kissy
FitZgarter. a dancer. and her friends,
wnn claim Harry has trifled with her
affections. arrive the scene and
further conplicates matters by falling
in love with Fiji, his French chef S
daughter. Cora, however. is determined
to get him. At the crucial moment they
are interrupted by the arrival of the
V NJ. r. L., led by Ichabod, who. sur
prised at what he sees and the various
stories of the woud-be brides. casts his
son off penniless, and all leave him but
I'm, VINO promises TO stick. Harry, now
ever, falls a victim to the charms of
Violet Gray. Salvation Army lass, known
as THE Belle of New York. whom Icha-
bod Bronson has made helress to all
his money. Being without means of
support, Harry gets d job at the soda
fountain in Smyler's candy store. There
Fih finds him, also Cora and her
crowd. Violet Gray, who has made a
lasting impression on his heart. also finds
him there and proposes a plan whereby
l,
favor. Harry, however, refuses to listen
to the plan, and they are interrupted by
the arrival of n German lunatic. whose
mission ii is to kill Nh Bronson. whom
he does not know. Violet, ignoring Harry.
begins her plan on his father, but. after
a vain struggle to carry it out. she faints
in Harrys arms Harry tells his father
all about 1t and everything ends happily.
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New Ideas Wanted.

Lee Shubert. the elder of the two broth
ers famous in the theatrical producing
world. says III an article recently CON
tributed by him for publication: There
is nothing in all my work as producing
manager which SO interests me as the
search for new authors with new ideas,
and nothing gives me mere pleasure when
7 discover a dramatic work apparently
inspired with some new thought than 10
give the author the assistance OF every
technical department under the control Of
our firm. so that his play may be offered
to the public in the form and manner
best calculated to obtain judicious ap-
proval.
within the last few years the Ameri-
can public has become much more cos
mopolitan. and its judgment of theatrical
works more discriminating and more lib
eral. Every time / discover piece with
some essentially new purpose and am
able 10 produce it with the right players
and the right equipment throughout |
feel that | have actually accomplished
something for tire cause Of theatrical
advancement.
In the great american cities there is
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sential details and will doubtless prove
one of the drawing attractions Of the sea
son
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TOO MUCH TO WEAR. Julia Dean
Is seriously threatened with forced sale
of her effects This Is not because she Is
in financial straits-quite the contrary.
for she is known to possess comfortable
bank account: but she is really In danger
Of being put out of house and horne-that
is TO say. her theatrical house and home.
her dressing room.
The complaint with most women since