Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29


been indeed fortunate during the past
week. For have they not, at much less
than half the regular season prices had
offerings at the three leading theaters
which, judging from the warm approval
given each. both in the matter of patron
age and applause, merit special COM
tmendation?
The Professors Love Story as given
at the Belasco by the Ben Greet play
ers was a finished performance. ade-
lquate in every detail and charming In
its entirety. At the National the Aborn
Comic Opera Company. which closed
it's season with an exceedingly COM
plimentary finish last evening. pre-
sented one Of the best productions OF
the old familiar and ever-popular
robin Hood that has been given in
this city.
| In 1.-The Great Divide" at the Column
bia Theater. Julia Dean and Paul Nc
Allister. assisted by a capable and COM
petent company. gave performance
! which might we'll crafty Henry Miller.
who permitted the drama to pass into
other hands after seasons of success
under his own management and with
his own company, in which he appeared
with Margaret Anglin as star.
| The work Of Miss Dean and Mr.. Meal
| lister was not only enthusiastically ap-
| proved by their admirers but to those
| who watched il with a more critical in
! terest. especially in the third act. it was
| a revelation. Miss Dean. having won an
| established position in her profession. is
| naturally sensitive at being patrOniZed
| after the manner which Washington pets
| its favorites, but her work, as we'll as Mr..
| McAllister's, in The Great Divide" will
| stand the test OF the most critical. A
just appreciation OF it is in no sense
| tendency to patroniZe.
! The bills in the vaudeville houses, 100,
seem to show increasing Improvement in
| quality as we'll as quantity. Altogether
| Washington seems fortunate in the pres
ent outlook for the summer theatrical
season.
| TALENTED WASHINGTON GIRL
Miss Alice Eversman. with the Aborn
Grand Opera Company this week, is
| Washington girl who has accomplished
much in her musical ambition. She began
her musical education In this city under
| DR.. Bischoff. continued it at the Peabody
Conservatory in Baltimore and later went
| to Europe to perfect it. There she was
a pupil Of Ferguson of Berlin and
| Miksch of London. For time she was
| a pupil of the director of the Royal
Opera at Berlin. She also studied for
! a while in Paris. Last year Miss
Eversman made a special course in
| New York city. She has clear So
prano of wide range and fexibility, and
| is an intimate friend of Helen Won
Sayn. the Russian violinist who was
heard in concert In this city during
! the past season. Miss Eversman has
made several concert tours in Russia,
and through the reputation she then
made was honored by a command to
| sing before the Car of Russia and his
court.
| Miss Eversman is not only talented
| singer. but an accomplished linguist
as well. and she has travelled quite ex-
| tensively.
BEN GREET'S EARLY CAREER.-An
account Of Ben Greet's career would fill
large book. SO extensive and varied
| has been the experience OF this inter-
national actor-manager.
| Even his birth occurred under unusual
circumstances. He was born on H. NJ. s.
Crocodile, a battleship. Of which his
father was captain. He was educated at
| and after graduation did tutoring for
short time.
His career on the stage covers thirty
three years. 1t began in the Theater
Royal at Southampton. in 1879, where he
played all sorts OF parts. with company
which gave twelve performances a week.
After long series of such engagements
he became a member Of Minnie Palmer's
company, winch visited cLIlSidNu With d
play called my Sweetheart In it Mr..
Greet played the role of the fop with
unlimited success.
The late King Edward. then Prince Of
Wales. attended the play once, and then
brought his children to see it. After the
performance he asked that Mr.. Greet be
presented, and Greet was hurried from
his dressing room with half his makeup
still on. The prince requested Mr.. Greet
to jump across the stage as he old in the
MA he ~ a -
whom. he explained, he had tried to imi-
tate the eccentric skip at home, but
failed.
Engagements with Mary Anderson.
English stars Of the day followed in
rapid succession. Mr.. Greet also created
role in the original production Of Jim,
the Penman."
He is pioneer in the presentation Of
| outdoor performances in England, and
was also the first actor to present them
to any extent In this country. the few
previous performances having been copied
from Greet pastoral presentations in
England
Mr.. Greet has not been entirely identi-
| fed with the Shakespearean drama as
producing manager In England because
| his efforts were spent In other directions.
| He has had at various times as many as
| six companies laying THE Belle of New
York. four playing The Sign of the
Cross" three playing Sherlock Holiness"
| three presenting THE Little Minister
| and two playing THE Great Ruby" The
| two latter productions were burned, one
| In a theater, the other in the baggage
| cars on the road.
AN AcTRhss OF EXPERIENCE
Emelie Melville, whose impersonation OF
| eccentric character parts has made her
one Of the most popular members of the
Columbia Players. is widely known in the
three-fold capacity Of actress, singer and
manager. Miss Melville comes Of an old
| old French actor, and both her parents
| were engaged in dramatic work. She is.
| therefore. an actress by hereditary right,
| and may be depended upon to give an
| excellent account Of herself in a wide
| diversity of parts. Under the direction
| of her mother. when but child, she
| starred in ''Fanchon,' Little Barefoot
| and other plays At the age Of eight she
| played the principal child parts in classic
| drama with Jeanne Davenport, known as
| the American Ristori. Later, in San
| Francisco, as a member OF the California
Theater Stock Company. she played with
such stars as Lawrence Barrett. John
Mccullough. Edwin Booth, E. L. Daven-
sothern the elder. Mary Anderson
and Mrs. D. p Bowers she earned
her early triumphs. Her singing voice
| developing when she WAS about sixteen,
she began the study of opera. At her
initial performance as the prima donna In
| La Traviata'' she scored q hit. Since
| those days she has played with great sue
cess In this country, Europe, Australia
and Africa. Her work is as finished and