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One of the few really notable dramatic events In Washington each sea-son is the engagement of E II SothernSpecial Interest attached to Mr Sothems return to the Capital this yearfirst because he came without the addedprestige of his delightful and giftedcostar of the last few seasons JuliaMarlowe and his work had to beJudged solely on its own merits In thesecond place because his repertoire wasmore diversified this year than over be-

fore and In the third place becauseevery ono in Washington was anxiousto see how worthily ho is wearing themantle of supremacy on the Americanstage which it Is generally concededfoil to his shoulders when RIchardMansfield died

Mr Sothorn opened his weok In agloomy forbidding but powerful dramaof Slavic origin The Fool Hath SaidThere Is No God It was a play inwhich there were but two distinct per-sonalities Rodion the student andUezak the magistrate As Rodlon MrSothern embodied all tho force thefanatic earnestness and the bitternessof the Russian whose soul cries tautagainst the existing order of things andyet whose mind cannot solve

the problems which he believesmust be handled by man It was anadmirable picture of the warped willand logic of the freethinker Thetorture endured by Rodion who arguesthat vengeance is his was depicted withalmost brutal reality The third act In

the murderer is brought to con-fess his deed was Interpreted withgreat power and discretion It grippedthe audience with a tension whichwas almost painful

The Irving play has no universal ap-peal Its chief interest is for the

as it presents a faithful doercutdelineation of an abnormal nature

Delightful TransitionOn Tuesday night there was de-

lightful transition from the morbidRodlon to the rollicking bibulousand Impetuous lover Francois VillonMr Sothern Interpreted the stellar roleIn If I Wore King with all tho

fervor of former days and hisaudienco was thrilled by the majestyof his bearing and the charm of hiselocution His naturally sympatheticvoice was heard to advantage in reading the rhythmical lines of Justin McCarthys work

Thursday night the revival of LordDundreary which had not beenon the American stage since 1S70 wasan occasion of much Interest MrSothern as Lord Dundroary was seenagain In one of those delightful rolesIn which he first won general recognition as an actor of talent The audi-ence saw In the stuttering Englishmanthe same type of actor who delighted-us years ago In Lord Chumley TheTaylor play Is of the old school and asa dramatic work It Is of no InterestJudged by presentday standards Butas the vehicle for Introducing such acharacter as Lord Dundroary Itenthusiastically received

Old Theatergoers ApplaudThe best evidence of the artistic worth

nf Mr Sothorns Dundreary Is the facthe seems to have satisfied completelythe playgoers of thirty years ago whosaw the elder Sothern In the same roleand who have voiced the opinion thatthe work of the son rivals that of thefather This is Indeed high praise whenwe take Into consideration the pronenessof human nature to discount the meritsof an products of the present day whencompared with those of former yearsTho fact that the actor of the newschool has succeeded In giving an Impersonation that does not dispel theglamour with which memory has Im-bued the oldschool actors Interpreta-tion Is an achievement of which MrSothern may well feel proud

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distinguished portrayals of RichardMaiisfleld there is quality in his workwhich Mr always lackedsympathy and human appeal MrMansfield never permitted us to

from the consciousness that theactor was giving a magnificent imper-sonation Sothern on the other handwhile deficient at times in techniqueand In tho compelling force of gigantic will succeeds in making his audiencereally a something which MrMansfield almost invariably failed to do

Sothern the Man

To those who are familiar with Sothorn the student and the hispronounced success during the pastweek In the several roles of RodionFrancois Villon Lord Dundreary andHamlet is particularly gratifying Tothe writer Mr Sothern appears In thelight of a theatrical phenomenon for

a modest actor During his engagement In Washington last year in dis-

cussing his then approaching visit toEngland he evinced a remarkable freedom from overbearing egotism thatcharacteristic which has come to txsecond nature with most of our stagefolk I am going to England withmuch trepidation he said on thatoccasion In this country I havebeen on tho stage so long that I

have a certain following On theother side however Miss Marlowe andI enter a field where our names arescarcely known And while I am

uneasy as to the outcome I amnevertheless most anxio tic to under-take the venture for I shall know thenjust what my acting Is worth I shallbe Judged solely for my worth bothIn comedy and tradegy-

It Is such actors as these anxiousreally to achieve something and sotmerely to live by of a reputationwon perhaps through a single clovercharacterization upon whom the stagemust rely for its permanent uplift

Polly of the Circus-

A charming stage character was In-

troduced to Washington playgoersTuesday Polly of the CircusIt is the occasion for no little wonderment thnt a play of such fragile plotand so little action could have takensuch a hold on its audience as did thissimple story of a child who falls Inlove with a minister While the dia-logue was amusing it was never par-ticularly clever but the simplicity ofthe love theme and entire absence ofall theatric devices In the developmentof the story was a restful Innovationand those who saw t c play left thetheater in a spirit of wholesome humansympathy quickened into being by thelife story of Polly

Much of the credit for the success ofthe entertainment Is due Miss MabelTaliaferro whose wistful yet attrac-tive stage and appealing voicecombined with an undefinable quaintness and grace of movement embodiedan ideal Polly The grief of a childover real or Imaginary misfortune Isalways a peculiarly pathetic sight andIt the soul of childhood which Mia-sTallaferros acting reflected with truthunmindful of artistic effect MalcolmWilliams gave Miss Taliaferro admir-able support

Theatergoers will learn with genuineregret that this is to be fifes Tallaferros last stage character for upontho conclusion of her N w York seasonshe will retire to private life whore sheIs known as Mrs Frodbrtc ThompsonBut if we must lose Miss Taliaferro Itis a pleasure to remember her swansong characterization as that of thewholesouled sympathetic little figureyearning for the love of an uprightman May the propitlcus future thatunfolds to the minds eye In the finaltableau of Polly of tho Circus be anearnest of her own future

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Since Fritz Scheft has been In thiscountry she has sat for no feWOr than720 different styles of photographs

The Roonoy sisters at Chases thisweek are the two youngest daughtersof the late Pat Rooney the Irishcomedian They are considered amongthe finest fancy dancers in vaudeville

Fred Stone of Montgomery and Stonesays he would rather have the favora-ble verdict of his mother than that ofnil tilE professional critics who haveseen The Red Mill Mrs Stone nevermisses a performance of the merrymusical comedy which Charles Dlllingham has been running for two seasons

The Robert Hiokman School of Actingwill move Int its new quarters In thenew Brentsno building corner F andTwelfth streets northwest the latterpart of this week The entire fourthfloor which will be occupied by MrHlckman haS been remodeled so as togive him three large classrooms and atheater and stage

An Important attraction coming to theBelasco after the holidays will be theengagement of Miss Julia Marlowe whowill be seen in the title role of her nowplay Gloria Her company will In-

clude White Whlttlesey FrederickLewis David R Young T L ColemanAlice Harrington Eugenia Woodwardand Gwendolyn Piers

Flo Irwin the sister of May IrwinIs billed for Chases Christmas weekMiss Irwin IS the baby of the family

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Athenaeum show In the palmy days inBoston

Jamos Hackett In Alfred Sutrosbest play John Glaydes Honour willbe at the Belasco as its New Yearsattractions

Tho character of Bates in MeredithNicholsons novel adapted to stage pre-sentation by George Middleton will

the hands of E M Holland whocomes to the Belasco Theater soon

John C Fisher who gave Florodoraand Us original sextet to the Americantheatergoing public was In Washingtonlast week as business manager forMabel Tallaferro in Polly of the Circus

Peter F Dalloy hag gone back toWeber Ha was one of tho bright particular stare with the old Weber andFields aggregation and leas manifestlybeen made to understand that he hasa better chance with an all star thana one star cast

George M Cohan and his bride sailedyesterday for a belated honeymoon InEurope They will be absent twomonths during which time Cohan willfinish a new play for himself Uponhis return he will dedicate his owntheater the Gaiety In New York

Virginia Harnod has closed her tourIn Anna Karonlna until after theChristmas holidays She will resume herseason early In January

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Holiday SpiritBy A H BALLARD

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S TIME wears along and themellowing influences S YuletideInduce a philosophic mood weare wont to count over the

blessings of the present theatricaland we try to accept UM blight

with hardihoodTake it all in all we have had a

brilliant that has transfixedour attention at least with big suc-cesses AM well as spectacular failuresAbove everything the theater has cer-tainly maintained Us position of Im-portance and perhaps has advancedsomewhat

This week there have been no trueopenings as we usually understand thestandard to be Ermette Novell theItalian actor has brought on some-thing n w In his native with-a competent company o asshit himeach evening continuing la repertoireprogram which was begun a fort-night ago He eonlderabtnotice and draws a goodly numberpeople to the Lyric at each perform-ance among whom are many Italiansas a matter of course His realistic

01 horrible Predicaments inwhich human beings may are tosay the least agonizing in their inten-sity and KedeHty to detail There Isnothing he likes better than to die nany number of ways He permanentlydispcls the old Idea of dying peace-fully After witnessing a few of hisselections as to the manner circumstance and phenomena of death theaverage man may readily pray to besnatched asumier when his time corneaby a pistolshot in the lung

Arnold Dalys ChangesThe only other approach to an open

ing since last Sunday apart thenightly happenings at the Lyric 1 theactivity and changes of bill achievedat the Berkeley Lyceum where ArnoldDaly Helen Ware and Margaret Wycherly are prominent In the casts Invarious strange plays now under in-

direction of Llebler and Company Actor Daly has heralded his amusementhouse as the Theater of Ideas for some-time and amid a splurge and plashof talk he has attracted some ridiculeand much attention The assumption ofcontrol by the LleWers who are suc-cessful magnates in the h atrlcal busi-ness is understood to mean that thereIs money in Ideas in the production ofnew plays under the renutmenU of asmall Lyceum and nanny a Neophyticplaywright Is nof conscious of risinghopes The Berkeley playhouse alsoprovides an arena for the exploitationof new talent which might not otherwise see the tight of the stage tiJoritof the playrlght nrJfcr ar l also anionsthe stagefolk Plays oneict curtainraisers for Instance let them be evers good tho better they are the morethe present management likes themmay be on there to the delight andedification o the more seriously In-

clined In this mlxedup town TheBerkeley is paying now and rumor hasIt that It did not pay before It Is gaintag a substantial clientele and thewares it offers remind one of goodmusic which grows more interestingthe more you hear

Rose Stahl Still PopularI was not astounded but I was

pleased along with thousands ofothers when Miss Rose Stahl foundhor popularity and that of The ChorusLady to have waned not the slight-est bit when they returned to NewYork the other day and opened againat the Hudson Theater This city Istrue to Its loves If the right combination of circumstances can be oncecaught and a success scored then thecity is as faithful to 1U onceacknowledged Idols as the English people arekind to tho old folks at home Thispicture of a chorus girls life and theextremely interesting delineation of thecharacter by Miss Stahl has delved

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Aunt MaryBiascoThe Yiddish PlayerMajestic VaudevilleChases Grace Jtfayhew sad Vaude

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Tomorrow evening Robson willopen a weeks gngageraent at the Co-

lumbia te The Rejuvenationof Aunt Mary Robsondirect from the Garden Theater where

In the quaint role of Aunt Marytoe yearning tenderness of the childlers old lady rises at tines to a heightthat is almost rgta The pity Is fullof bright comedy lines novel situationsand that who owes sweetness thaiappeals to everyctte

The ply is from the novel by thesame name and dramatised by Uteauthor Anne Warner for Miss Robwm The comedy follows the originsstory o closely that Aunt Mary andher friends turn out to be old acquaint-ances The rejuvenation of course Iseffected through her nephew JackIK a modern college boy with moretrending money than Is good for hissoul Aunt Mary is the chancellor of

exchequer so far as Jack isand although she is soft-

hearted to her scapegrace relative shedraws the line when a 85000 breachof promise suit tomes as the windup-to a series of the nephews misdoingsJack Is disinherited and to ease hisheart he falls In love with Betty thesister of his best friend In her NewYork home Jack is making love toBetty for whom the boys have pre-pared a birthday party when AuntMary comes from the to see-the scamp The many complications

follow are wholesomely diverting

ROGERS BROTHERS INAT NATIONAL THtt REEK

Fresh from their triumphant ofthree months at the Broadway TheaterNew Yorw Gus and Max Rogers beseen in their successful musical com-edy ot ring The Rogers Brothers InPanaw at the National this week

The book was written by SylvesterMaguire and A iron Hoffman t the lyricsby Edward Madden and the music com-posed by Max Hoffman who has con-tributed so many popular and tunefulmelodies In the past

The acting company Is one of unusualmerit in adlition to the two starsGus and Max Rogers there are MarlonStanley Fk and May Hengler AvltaSanchez Marion Mosby Lottie Green-wood Hickman George LydeckerJoseph Kane Robinson NewboM Wal-ter Ware Jame Bliss William

several other pricipals just asprominent and monster chorus

Ben Teal one of the best known mas-ters of stagecraft personally supervisedthe production and t Is his boast thatit is the best work he has ever done

With chorus of fifty the instructionwas quite special and Intended solely

in the young beauties everyart calculated to please the most blase

LIPZIN YIDDISH COMPANY

The LIpzIn Yiddish company will ap-pear two performances at theBolasco beginning night Thisfamous organization has drawn downinto the Ghetto of New York city Iqvers drama who though they didnot know the Yiddish language were

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the play presented before them To actwith every part of the conscious bodyevery phase of the drama and so

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without tbe need of words to doththem Is to portray life with amazingtruth and it is for this realism thatmany of the lauded native stars whoscintillate along Broadway are said tovisit repeatedly the Yiddish theater intbe Ghetto The two plays to be seenhere for the ant time are by JacobGordin Tomorrow night JewWhQuest Lent will be presented awl

Xedea on Tuesday night This organisation is headed by Mme KenyUpain Bernard Bernstein and LyonBlank

STBLLA MAYEiSW FEATUREAT CHASES THIS WEEK

Chases hails this week tbe near ap-proach of the holiday period of politevaudeville by an exceptionally brilliantNIl comprising Stella Mayhew assistedby Billle Taylor MmklenFitzpa trickcompany Gilletfs FourTooted ActorsJames and Jennie lee Murry K HilTZlska and King the Sooner sisters andthe motion pictures of The VeiledBeauty

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Stella Mayhew makes her debut invaudeville after a happy experiencestarring in musical comedy notablyThe Show Girl Coming Through the

Rye and others of that Woo She willgive three of her cleverest characteriza-tions embodying her inimitable stories

The Turn of the Tide will be mirthfully plaVed It Is promised by theMaddenFltspatrick company An an-imal drama with many laughable in-

cidents will be pantomimed by the Gillett troupe Th Lees will be seen in av onderful waltzing wire novelty

Vaudeville at Majestic-A highclass vaudeville show will be

the attraction at the Majestic this weekManager Weston has arranged forseven New York vaudeville hits TheMil is beaded by Prof Tomltn one ofthe cleverest magicians on the stageMlle Anne is his retractive assistantShear and William eccentric come-dians appear in their laugh provokingact The Discovery of Nothing Thisact is said to be one of the funniest onthe Roberta Keene triple voicedvocalist Eddie Collins in singing anddancing specialty Prof Parkers dogkcireus are also on the bill

The End of the TrailThe New Academy for the week be-

ginning tomorrow night will offer aplay dealing with life out on tbe freeopen plains where the picturesque cow-boy reigns supreme and where everyman deals out law according to thecode he makes for himself The piecehi termed The End of the Trail waswritten by Willlair Jossey anauthor of repute is presented byLincoln J Carter The story Is laidin Now Mexico the retag theold Santa Fe trail that hietirle route

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The atmosphere of the far Westits semitropical thongs will be

Yale Glee Club at the WaiariYales Glee Banjo and Mandolin dubs

have always received a cordial wekIn Washington and It is probable thatthe reception accorded them at the con-cert which they will give Friday nightIn the New WiUard Hotel win be evenwarmer than usual The clubs

are well up to the standard which hasbeen set by forme musical clubswhich have come out of New HavesThe college boys have been well trainedand bring with them many n w andamusing songs as well as the old songswhich are known to every old gradGreat attention has been given uquartet and these four men give anexhibition of dose harmony whichwilt take any college man back to thedays he on the campus Thereare fortyfive men in the dubs Ticketsfor the concert are on sale at T ArthurSmiths 1411 F street northwest

Behmans Show at GayetyBehinans Show and Frank D Bry

ans Congress of American QMsto the Gayety this week under the

of Jack Singer Principalshave been selected with a view to theirspecial talent to impersonate the Broad-way stars around whom the drat bur-lesque is written Oscar Hamtnerstelnhis famous tenor Bond Mme MelbaMaud Adams Montgomery and StoneAnna Held Charles Blgetow LoutsMann and Joe Welch are the burlesqued characters in this opening part

The seventeen Hoosier Zouaves underCaptain Jacob FOX acre part of toe Behman show and will parade each dayThe Carson Bros famous

handbalancers have been broughtfrom Europe for this

Jolly Girls at LyceumThe Jolly Girls Company comes to

the New Lyceum this woek with Edmund Hayes in the stellar role MrHayes will be seen in the twoactcomedy entitled A Wise Guy a

of novelty and goodhumor byGeorge M Cohan Specialties will begiven during the action of the comedyby The Wise Guys International En-tertainers acrobats of extraordinarymerit Miss Harriet the dash-ing soubrette and otliirs of the girlsare May Irish Merle Jansen andSheldon

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Lake of FairiesParis Sensation

TIM newcalled Le Lac des Aumes tHe Lakeof the Fairies by M Henri Marechalhas scored a great success and is saidto be a beautiful production The com

of a magician entrapping the little spirits of the air and the stream

Tbe Brl King thereupon commands hissubject Elton to discover the magicianssecret Elton thanks to a talisman iscable to remain Divisible to all exceptLulla the magicians daughter whofalls in love with the graceful littlespirit BMen carries avar Luna Theyare pursued by the magJctaa who findshis child ha the Sri Rings grotto butcannot save her

When the run rises Lulls is ass float-ing oa the lake of the oils

her lover ElfenThe music for each character to ad

Tntrabiy suitable bold fade forthe magician light and dainty tor Lullsand bright and mischlevom fee JBtfenThe opening bars of Shuberfs batedthe Erl KInK formed the prelude andthis them Is also introduced J e andthere in the other scenes

ELSIE JANIS TO EAT

STAGE CHRISTMAS

Elsie Janis has arranged to eat her

Illinois Theater for all the merry laugh-Ing chaffing Hoydens win be playinga Chicago engagement holiday weekThe details of the menu havent beendecide but there are going to gin-gerbread Teddybears Janis iscertain of that Every dressing roomthe ttttle DiUmgham star istined as to wall space with bears andeach has a particular name Miss Jaaishad some photographs taken m her NewYork dressing room a week or so agowith the especial of securing astriking likeness of her fa-vorite Teddy

JULIA MARLOWES NEW PLAYThe new play In the Sfe berfs

will present Julia Marlowe renamedGloria Is by lames Facia a young

Irishmen The scenes are laid in Italyin the sixteenth century and Miss

role Is said to furnishthe SIne opportunities for the displayof her abilities as MaryIn When Knighthood Was in Flower

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