Evening star., 1921-06-12

and Browne, and Misses ]. Orton. o.
Marshall, A. Clarke and Mrs Syl-
vester. The prices Of admission are:
Private boxes, $5; dress box chairs.
Is cents: orchestra chairs. IS cents;
first circle boxes. SO cents; parquette,
so cents; family circle, 25 cents; gal
lery, Is cents.
Charlotte CuShman was the nrSt
member of the theatrical profession
to be given tablet in the Hall OF
Fame in New York University. Five
women were previously honored by
/ memorial tablets there, they belng
Harriet Beecher. Stowe. author; Mary
Lyon and Emma Willard. pioneers In
the tcause OF women's hlgher eoua
tions Frances E. Willard. the tem-
perance reformer and Maria Mitchell.
astronomer and scientist.
Charlotte Cushman made her last
farewell to the stage at Booths S The-
! ater, southeast corner of 9Th avenue
and 23d street, New York, November
| Z. 1874. The play was Macbeth;
George Vanderhoff playing the lead
ing male role. Among the prominent
people present were Samuel J. Illden.
| Abram s. Hewitt. William Cullen
! Bryant. r. H. Stockton, Col. John
Hay, William H. Vanderbilt, Rufus
Hatch, Clarence A. Seward. r. b.
Roosevelt, Gen. Hancock. Joseph JEFF
:! ferson, Dion Boucicault, Lester w val
| of the performance a farewell meet
| ing took place on the stage. and
| William. Cullen Bryant made an ad-
! dress, an ode written by Richard
Henry Stoddard was read by Pro1.
Charles Robert of the City College.
and Miss Cushman spoke. She died
| in Boston February IS. 1876, in the
! sixtieth year of her age.
| Then look at your modern planlStS
This new player. Raphael Joseffy, is
! I-lI nh
| every time he comes here. Vlademlr
| De Pachmann, whose right name is
Waldemar Bachmann. is an eccentric
i genius and a wizard with the keys.
Won Buelow, Carrena and dAlbert
are good and this young chap with
seems to have something in him and
he may turn out well. but people who
applaud these newcomers never heard
Gottschalk. Thalberg. or the king of
them all, Franz Aszt. Then here is
this new fiddler Ysaye! He lacks the
well. but not so well as Ole Bull or
Sivori. And when you youngsters
| talk of Mary Anderson and Lily
Langtry as being beauties, why, for
! sooth, young man, they are not to be
compared with Julia Dean. Mrs; Sid
dons, Adelaide Nelson, Christine
Nilsson and Adah Isaacs.
NEVER heard Of Adah Isaacs? How
~ ignorant these young people of the
| 70s and the sos are. She was a New
Orleans girl, born there in 1885, and
became a dancer in the old French
| Opera House. She danced through
| Cuba, Mexico and Texas and then
became a teacher of French and Latin
| in a seminary. She made her debut
as an actress in 1858 at the New Or
leans Varieties, went to New York,
cities of the country. came. think. to
Washington. was in California in
| 1863 and went-to England in 1864.
She was sensation in London, Paris.
Vienna and Rome. She was married
four times. her second husband be-
| ing John c. Heenan, the great prize
| fighter.
! What! Never heard Of Heenan!
Never heard Of the international prize
fight between Tom Sayers and John
Heenan? Good night! Heenan. for the
United States and Tom Sayers for
England, fought for two hours and
| six minutes at Farnborough, near
London, April II, 1860. It was draw.
Parliament did not have quorum,
and the courts were closed because of
interest in this light: very raks likely y1;S2 you
man, Bill Neate, Tom Cribbe. John
Broughton, Tom Hyer and John Nor
rissey!
And yet you talk for hours about
! these young fellows John Sullivan,
Paddy Ryan, Jake Kilrain, Charlie
Mitchell, Peter jackson and Bob Fitz-
simmons! I tell you, my son, the pub
(! lie schools are not teaching children
right Adah Isaacs' first husband was
| Alexander Menken, q southern musi-
clan, whom she married in Calves
| ton in 1885, She divorced Heenan, her
| second, in 1862 and married Robert
| H. Newell, the humorist. This MARI
riage was dissolved by the courts and
| her fourth husband was James Bar
clay. Adah bade farewell to the stage
| at Sadd1er's Wells Theater, London.
| in May 1868 and died at Paris in
August, that year. She was hailed
| by thousands, tens of. thousands of
| men. as the most beautiful woman of
| the stage.
Perhaps the. Rambler has .rambled
too far afield in giving rein to these
memories. What he started in to write
of were the pleasures of the theater
when you and I were young. Two
| Sundays ago he told of opening of
! Albaugh's Grand Opera House and last
| Sunday he told Of the remodeling of
Ford's Opera House and some Of the
| amusements we had generation or,
two ago. He mentioned some of the
| summer opera attractions in the sos.
| 1t really seems to the Rambler that
Washingtonians had more music and
] ma trouiZed ii better then than now