THE CUTTLEFISH"-THE LATEST TYPE OF SUBMARINE In rebuilding its navy the United States is not confining its efforts to duplicating the huge battleships of other nations. It is also leading the way in developing the submarine line with this comparatively new building material. This bridge, which is 1,450 feet in length, spans Rock Creek, a picturesque stream flowing through a deep valley to the west of the city, and will undoubtedly be the means of building up a fashionable and exclusive suburb at its western end, as the best residential portion of the city is located near the eastern brink of the little valley. This valley is a Government reservation, and no pains or expense is being spared to make it one of the most beautiful natural parks in the world. In the construction of the bridge it was necessary to use some stone in the foundations of the piers, and this was quarried within five hundred feet of the bridge site. Vast quantities of material have been used, including 34,000 tons of sand and 14,300 tons of cement, as well as some million and a half feet of lumber in the falsework. The total cost of the bridge is to be $850,000, and it is hoped that it will be ready for use by the first of March next. The Connecticut Avenue Bridge is only one of the large number of public works in progress about the National Capital which are intended to combine architectural charm with practical utility, making it, as was the intention of the founders, the most beautiful capital city of the world. THE GREATEST CONCRETE BRIDGE IN THE WORLD The Connecticut Avenue Bridge at Washington, D. C., which is now nearing completion, is 1,450 feet in length and cost $850,000. It crosses a valley that is a Government Reservation and no pains or expense is being spared to make it one of the most beautiful natural parks in the world A Young Star The Drama and Music As the winter season begins to wane, the theatrical world usually finds a brilliant new playwright or a promising young artist with whom to reckon seriously. The month has produced that anticipated sensation-the popular recognition for stellar honors of a young girl, HENRIETTA CROSMAN Who is playing in the farce-comedy, "All of a Sudden Peggy" barely twenty years of age, who in a night rose from total obscurity into fame. Frances Starr, the leading woman in David Belasco's production of Tully's "Rose of the Rancho," with but two years' experience and but meager training, has displayed a maturity of art seldom encountered in precocious genius. The play itself, admirably staged by that master of stagecraft, Belasco, is a romantic melodrama which might have been termed commonplace had it been less carefully cloaked in all the careful details which make for artistic atmosphere. As it is, dealing satisfactorily with early California days and a Spanish-American romance, this novel setting has formed a delightful framework for the art of a promising young actress who is destined to an unusual career. Redivivus While one year ago G. Bernard Shaw and J. M. Barrie were the most talked-of playwrights in the theatClyde Fitch rical firmament, by a peculiar turn of the wheel of fortune, Clyde Fitch is once more the man of the hour with three simultaneous successes on Broadway. While his clever little comedy, "The Girl Who Has Everything," promises to serve capitally for some time as a vehicle for Eleanor Robson, the fate of "The Straight Road" and "The Truth" as permanent hits still hangs in the balance. In the former Fitch has built a strong drama of the people, borrowing from the slums a picturesque, weak, but not evil type carefully portrayed by Blanche Walsh with her accustomed intensity and power. In contrast, "The Truth" is a gentler and more cynical exposition of life in a higher stratum, with less backbone and therefore a lesser chance to live. Emotional Drama The revival of Henry Arthur Jones's masterpiece, "Mrs. Dane's Defense," by Lena Ashwell, has resulted in a tour which is a series of triumphs for this brilliant young Englishwoman. As an exponent of the realistic school, she has few equals. It was in this rôle that she first sprang into fame. Likened to Eleanora Duse in her method of interpretation, it is doubtful whether the Italian artist could present a more superb characterization, as respects cumulative interest, a dramatic intensity, and simple, unaffected, emotional acting. Another emotional drama of foreign manufacture, namely, Lavedan's "The Duel," has met on tour the success denied it during its brief metropolitan run. Dramatically powerful, technically superior, a more brilliant exposé of the ebb and flow of human emotion has rarely been brought to our stage. Its depth and its reality, showing the contest of the soul between the spiritual and the SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, THE MOST CULTIVATED MUSICIAN OF HIS RACE Mr. Coleridge-Taylor, although only thirty-one years old, ranks as one of the most interesting and remarkable of British composers and conductors. He is the embodiment of the possibilities of the negro under favorable environment. He is a teacher in Trinity College, London, and conductor of the Handel Society and Rochester Choral Society. He has done much to give permanence to the folk-songs of his people, but he is probably best known in England and America by his sympathetic setting in cantata form of portions of Longfellow's "Hiawatha". He is now on a concert tour of this country. structure is "Caught in the Rain," by Grant Stewart and William Collier, though the latter has built for himself a comedy rôle admirably adjusted to his. peculiar stage personality. While the piece is trivial when viewed from the standpoint of histrionic and literary merit, its laughter-provoking lines will serve to keep it alive. After knocking for some months at the doors of Broadway for a metropolitan hearing, "Brewster's Millions," a dramatization of George Barr McCutcheon's novel, opened quietly and scored an unlooked-for success. Though hopelessly machine-made and well thumbed by three authors and two producers long before it found its premier cianly. It recalls superior comic opera of a decade ago and is evidence of a tendency in the right direction toward an improvement in light musical entertainment. Lina Abarbanell, the little Portuguese nightingale, so-called, is destined to rival the Teutonic Fritzi Scheff for prima donna honors in light opera rôles. In the realm of lesser opera and musical comedy, several mediocre works, "The Red Mill," "The Spring The Great Success of Chicken," and "The Belle Small Matters of Mayfair," have made astonishing hits. It is evident the general public still demands frothy, inconsequential musical entertainment. In "Marrying Mary," by Edwin Milton Royle, Marie Cahill has found a vehicle with a farcical, but consistent plot, and is estabishing herself as a singing comedienne of unusual methods, combining as she does the comedy manner with a tragic face, in the Ada Rehan school. "Mamselle Sallie" and "The Flower Girl" are less stable in character, yet seem to meet adequately the perennial demand for frivolous amusements. The Religious It is not so long ago that people were declaring that the age of evangelists had passed. However true that may have been a few years since, it is certainly not true now. Not to mention evangelists of the type of "Billy" Sunday, Dr. Torrey is conducting revivals on a consider able scale in a number of cities, while "Gipsy" Smith, after making a profound World impression in Boston, Portland and other New England towns, has moved Chicago as no man has moved it for years. An interesting feature in the case of Mr. Smith is that he is on salary and does not exploit his evangelistic success in the interest of income. Another fact is that while his message is peculiarly searching, at the same time it is never somber, but always full of joy. It is a message |