Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-28

brand-new season. In saying
the season had closed one neces-
sarily realizes that there has been a
constant offering OF a varied sort to
those OF the stay at-homes. who find the
theaters a regular warm-weather variant
In the case of the Columbia Theater, the
step from the summer season to the
regular season Is compassed by only q
few hours closing For when the Co
lumbia Players make their final bow to
Washington the house will begin imme-
diately to get In order for the regular
season the following week.
The National Theater will open again
September 5. holiday, and always con-
sidered an suspicious date for the start
ing anew OF theatrical enterprises. The
other theaters which will not have opened
Ut that time will follow in short order, so
that the warm weather will scarcely have
passed before the playhouses Will be
thronged again. And Ii may be said, too,
that managers believe that the coming
season Will be among their best rms Is
iorecasted upon the knowledge that sew
eral remarkable plays have Washington
on their route and will be seen he-e at
frequent intervals throughout the season.
All eyes are focused on the expert
ment 10 he tried at the Columbia The
will be presented tomorrow night. This
drama. which a magazine has called
the most remarkable play in the Eng
lish language" and which Is termed in
superlative degree far and away
surprising the ordinary play in point
OF beauty and artistic excellence, will
come to the Columbia In the nature OF
n elimination of season OF constant
endeavor This play ran for two years
IN New York, living through the hot
weather and playing to crowded houses
during all of that time. The general
characteristics OF The Servant in the
House" are well known The story
deals with a servant Of Christlike char
acter VINO is shown in contrast with the
hypocrisy OF the ultra-respectable men
and women in a stratum or society
above him. II Is a modern play, with
scenes from English life.
Vaudeville has flying start this sea-
son. as Chase's Theater opens It's sec
ond week tomorrow. The popularity of
this STYLE OF amusement Is shown In
the crowded houses Of the first week
For the second week the management
OF this theater has bill which closely
approaches the successes of midseason,
when all theaters are crowding close
upon one another for the reclamation
OF the crowds.
Lovers of thrills will find plenty OF ex-
element. IL is predicted, In the oHer-
ing at the Academy of Music this week.
will be presented. with story OF VII
lainy and heroism that will furnish
food for heart throbs.
Singing dancing and burlesque COM
edy will be the features at the Lyceum
this week. A large chorus is the fea-
ture of the Miss New York, Jr., Burlesque
Company, which has the boards there
beginning tomorrow.
An aeroplane with a girl in 1t, sailing
above the heads of the audience, Will
be seen at the Gaiety this week. along
with other novel features OF the Great
Behman Show.
For the theaters which OFFER the COM
bination OF moving pictures, playlets.
sketches and vaudeville the coming
week will undoubtedly be an exception
ally good one as this class OF amuse-
ment is adding TO Its friends daily.
Special attractions are offered for the
week at the Cosmos. the Casino and
the Majestic.
ESSAYED MANY PARTS.-In assum-
ing the part OF the Drain Man in 1.-The
Servant In the House" this week, the part
originally played by Tyrone Power. Paul
McAllister, the leading man of the Column
bia Players, is but adding another 10 the
long list OF star parts he has been called
upon TO play this season. The Drain Man
differs in every particular from the equal
ly important role he assumed during the
mast week as Raffies. in the play of that
name-the part originated by kyrie Bel
lew Throughout the season OF seventeen
weeks the parts assigned him have been
OF as diversified a character as IL would
be possible to assemble in SO short a sea-
son.
starting out with Montgomery Brewster
in "Brewster's Millions" Mr.. McAllister
has successfully portrayed the part OF
Stephen Client In THE Great Divide.
the part originated by Henry Miller; VIII
liam Golfers part Of Dick Crawford IN
Caught In the Rain: Sol Smith RusseiI
Ill I'm
Romance: Charles Richmonds part In
Miss Hobbs: Robert Blossoms role OF
Richard Clay In Soldiers Of Fortune,
and others.
ON A MOTOR TRIP.-EliZabeth Brice
is an ardent motorist. This summer she
motored down the Shenandoah valley in
search OF strange scenes and unusual
types OF people She found both In
Abundance, for while the valley Is dotted
with thriving towns and is threaded with
railroads and fine turnpikes. there are
spots that even now seem virgin SOIL.
untrodden since the Indian roamed the
heights along the Blue Ridge. Says MISS
Brice:
Coming back from stanton I made
up my mind to cross old Matanucchen
mountain. opposite Mount jackson VII
lage, and go TO the i.uray caverns. ~ -
"A hard climb up and down almost from
the village to the gap at the top. and We
were hurried in our crossing BY heavy
thunder storm which chased US up the
valley. The mountain road was full OF
rocks and water breaks. but We success
fully negotiated all OF them and finally
came TO q stop at a two-story frame house
lust down the slope from the road where
IL passes through the mountain gap, the
name OF which I do not now recall.
Two little negro children came from
one ode OF the house and a girl In q long
dress, carrying baby. with an older
child gripping her skirt. sidled into the
picture from the western side OF the
place. Evidently II was one OF those
houses which the poor whites and colored
folks share equally in the south. The girl
seemed hardly more than sixteen or sew
enteen years of age. and her interest In
our marty was that Of an immature child
Yet she told me when I asked her that
she was the mother OF the two white
children. And the little white girl was
chewing tobacco! Imagine my consterna-
ton!
II asked her the name OF the baby and
she replied: Della Belle i did not be-
lieye i had heard Alright and asked again.
The second reply was the same. Then
turned to the boy baby Ciutching her skirt
and asked his name. Amos Eugene the
mother responded, unable to take her
eyes or the automobile. Why. where did
YOU get such picturesque names" l asked
7 imagined that some OF her relatives
may have had such names. and that her
children had been named after them
Got them from books, the little mother
replied with Just the suspicion OF a blush
coming over her brown cheeks. l have