The Washington herald., 1914-05-14

The Aborn company opens It's season Of
opera at the National Theater next Mon
day night with the old favorite. II rro-
vatore.s This viii be sung Monday.
Tuesday, and wednesday Nights and
WEDNESDAY matinee. Thursday. Friday.
and Saturday nights and gaturday mat-
inee Madam Butterfly" will be the bill.
During the first part OF the week Phoebe
Crosby and Aida Hemmi viii alternate In
the part Of Leonora. with Helen Gaynor
a. Insx. Louise Le Barron and Louise
Hausmann alternating ~ Asucena, Henry
Taylor and Albert Fretwell as Maurice.
In Madam Butterfly" the latter part
Of the week. Miss Hemmi and Miss Cros-
by with alternate in the part Of Cho Cho
San, Louise lie Barron and Louise Haus-
mann a. susu. Ki.. Messrs. Taylor and
Fretweli a Lieut.. Pinkerton. and Thomas
Chalmers and Wilmot Goodwin in the
part Of sharpless. The week Of May s
Carmen" and The Tales Of Hoffman,"
win be produced.
CoIumbaa-"sweet Lavender"
Another New York Lyceum Theater
Stock company's success. Sweet Law
ender." 10 well advanced in preparation
by the Columbia Players for production
at the Columbia Theater next week. Dan
lei Frohman has always anectionateiy
regarded this play ~ one Of the best OF
the writings Of Arthur Wing Pinero. and
II Is no secret that he has Of recent years
kept It in reserve with view to making
q big revival Of II In New York at an
early date. Despite this purpose. how
ever. he has permitted his friendship for
Manager Fred G. Berger to influence
him into permitting the Columbia COM
pany to produce the play at this time.
Violet Heming will be seen in another
Of the parts in which Georgia Cayvan at
tained pre-eminence. The piece Ii prom
ised q fine production.
Poli'-'HLittls Miss Brown"
Philip H. Bartholomae's comedy. Lit
tie Miss Brown" will be next weeks Of
fering at Polls Theater. The play, which
was written by the author Of Over
Night" and when Dreams Come True"
ran for more than seven months at the
Forty-eighth Street Theater in New York
two seasons ago. The story Ii built
around the experiences Of Q bashfui and
very pretty girl who II stranded In e big
city. She has arrived q day sooner than
her friends expected: no one meets her
at the station; her purse Is stolen by q
pickpocket, and no hotel in the city will
accept her as q guest.
On this decidedly promising beginning
Mr.. BarthoIomae has built a comedy that
Is frequently thrilling and invariably
funny. Its scenes and its characters are
familiar to American playgoers. and its
humor Ii as fresh and original as II 10
irresistible.
b. r. kelth's-HiGh-class Vaudeville
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter de Haven will be
seen at the B. F. Keith Theater next
week. Another feature will be Marie
Shaw, the operatic prima donna. Third
In ranking order will be Mime. Adelaide
Hermann. the widow and successor of
Hermann the Great. Other attractions
will be Swor and Mack. the blackface
comedians: Andrew Kelley, the Upper
airy wit with the brogue of Blarney: the
Three Collegians. Rich and Calvin, the
Tuscano brothers, and the Hearst-Selig
motion picture review.
Next Sunday the attractions and head
liners In the present weeks bill will COM
pose the program to be offered at the
two regular concerts