Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-04
May
More Than Ago

America. The first appearance OF the
celebrated Mr.. B. Yates and Sam
Long, the great comic singers. The
celebrated Budworth> Brothers! Miss
Ada Tesman and the Stars OF the Va
rieties, numbering over SO performers.
Special Notice-A grand matinee on
Saturday afternoon for the accommo-
dation of Ladies and Children. Miss
Eva Brent, the accomplished vocalist.
is engaged at this establishment, and
win appear on Monday evening, Jany.
So
IND you note the number of talented.
celebrated, accomplished and beau
tiful players at that old show place?
Well, read on:
THE New Canterbury, Louisiana
Avenue, Near Sixth Street--George
Percival & CO.. proprietors and man.
ayers. A Grand Reopening Tonight.
Stupendous improvements! This i'm.
mensely popular place Of amusement
will be opened in state of magnifi-
cence not to be equaled in the coun-
try. The work has all been executed
by Washington workmen at cost
exceeding $4,000! New pro2cenium.
Private Boxes, Parquette, ETC., by Emit
WHSLE and Barron, builders; new stair
way, stage appointments, etc, by MIR.
James Darling and assistants; painters
in fresco, Messrs. Shutter & Co.; gas
fixtures, etc. by Messrs. Myers and
McGhan; plastering, masonwork, ETC.,
by John Keller The magnificent new
scenery by Messrs. Lamb and Morti-
mer. The Canterbury Hall is now
one Of the largest, handsomest and
most comfortable Temples of Amuse-
ment in the country. Great Music
Hall Of the World.
Miss Agnes Switzerland. the Scot
fish Warbler; Miss Kate Pennoyer the
popular Terpsichorean Artistic; Miss
Nellie Taylor, the Charming Methodist;
The Court of Beauty, Misses Jennie
Allen, Clara Berger, Kate Harrison,
Lilly Brandon, Tilly Forbes, Ann Har-
rison, Mile. Jeanne, La Petite Ella.
George r. Edeson, the great come
dian, pantomimist and vocalist; the
Talented Corps d'Ethiope. consisting of
Willie Armstrong, iuggler; ii. w.
Egan, the unrivaled comedian: T. NJ.
Hayes, the champion clog dancer of
the world; Billie Emerson, the reliable
and versatile performer; M. Jean
Closki, the Disciple of Terpsichore; j.
Sylvess Clarke. the acme of punctual-
ity; Harry Talbot, the immense tam
bourinist, who will appear every eve
ming in an olio poddria of Corkgraphi-
calitiesr
You notice that most of this story
is quoted. l have used the writing OF
others because I wanted to make this
good story. 1 might have rewritten
Mr.. Mudd'S treatise and related the
advertisements without telling where
I got them. I might have told you,
after a fashion of many authors, this
after arduous research. which has
given me eyestrain and warts, have
brought to light from the darkness OF
the ages. verified by my own recollec-
tons, this histor1 Of old theaters."
You might have thought / superin-
tended the construction Of the Wash
iigton Theater in 1894 and put on the
plays. To be perfectly honest with
you-wait a minute. please, want to
withdraw that phrase, Ito be perfectly
honest with you I never r. q
man to use that phrase who not
making ready to sting me. So me
rewrite that phrase and put i. this
way: To be perfectly truthful with
you, / had no hand in building the
Washington Theater in 1904. was a
bricklayer at that time. and there be-
ing a bricklaying job at the Capitol, /
took that. I thought a Government
job softer than a private job, and /,
being no more nearly honest than re-
spectacle citizens, thought there were