Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1921, Page 50

George M. new stage York. A gustus The anniounced plans for ons last week in New can drama by Au- ‘will shortly be placed in rehearsal. A new-comedy farce by, Mr. Coban will be produced in Feb- ruary. A pew musical play by Otto Harbach and Lou Hirach, the writers of “Mary,” is due to arrive early in the year. A new farce by Jose Rubens is also scheduled for An early spring pro- duction. NOW PLAYING WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS A_Vitagraph Super-Productio: CRITERION THEATER 9th St. at D N.W. CHICAGO SYMPHONY | ORCHESTRA FREDERICK STOCK. Conueter ~ National Theater, Thursday, January 27, 4130 Soloist PRIHODA, Violinist Seats mow on sale at Mrs. Greene’s Concert Bureau ia Droop’s, 13th & G By Courtesy Crandall’sKnickerbocker 18th and Col. Rd. JANUARY 12, 2 AND 4 P.M. Benefit George Washington University Hospital “The North Wind’s Malice” (Courtesay of the Goldwyn Co.) Comedy, “Why Go Home” (Courtesy Pathe Co.) Scenes From Monte Carlo (Courtesy Selznick Ce.) Tichets, 50c. Rescrved seats, $1. Tax exempt. WORLD'S GREATEST CONDUCTOR, AND LA SCALA ORCHESTRA of Milan (102 MUSICIANS). TWe CONCERTS, POLI'S THEATER, 4:30 Monday, Jan. 17, and Wednesday, Jaa. 19 PRICES, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $4.00. Soats now on sle at Mrs. Groeve's Coacert Purean, in Dreon's. 13th ~nd G. arionettes Community Service House 918 10th St. N.W. Friday, Jan. 14, 8:00 P.M. Saturday, Jan. 15, 2:30 P.M. Tickets, $1.00; om sale at Friendship House, 3268 Va. ave. s.e, and T. Arthur Smith’s, 1306 G Bt. N.W. ANDALL'S' METROPOLITAN F at 10th, =~ THIS WEEK &3 @ CONSTANCE TALMI,NA«DGE V/ DANGEROUS BUSINESS 7 — — A Pirst National Attraction —Supplemented By— New Toonerville Comedy “The Skipper’s Treasure Garden” News—@verture—Topics b, THE SONG — AMUSEMENTS. Photoplays This Week Continued from Third Page.) Among Cannibals,” which will be shown this week at the Leader Thea- ter, beginning today. _Americans— Edward Laemmle and William F. Al- der—cast_ashore on the coast of Dutch New Guinea, managed to make friends | «without a Wife": with the Kia Kia headhunters, fero- cious cannibals, and not only succeed- ed in filming ' the ceremonial head dance, but obtained intimate scenes of the cannibals' daily life. The film was made without artificial prepara- tion, and the stage settings are the natural actions of the cannibals. “While New York Sleeps.” “While New York Sleeps,” a Fox Special in eight reels, said to be both a sensational and artistic melodrama, will be the offering of the Criterion Theater this week. The picture is in three episodes, each of which depicts a situation in the night life of the upper, middle and lower classes of New York people. Knickerbocker. At Crandall's Knickerbocker Thea- ter today and tomorrow “Dangerous Business,” featuring: Constance Tal- madge, with a new Toonerville com- v, “The SKipper's Treasure Gar- > will be shown; Tuesday and Wednesday, Mabel Julienne Scott, with Milton Sills and Eiliott Dexter, in “Behold My Wife.” a film version ry, “The and the Vanity Fair ; The _Sleepy Head”; Thursday and Friday, Pathe's photoplay of C. Haddon Chambers’ drama, “Passers By,” and Harry Pol- lard, in his latest comedy, “The Morn- ing After,” and Saturday, Bessie Love, in “The Midlander,” and the Booth Tarkington comedy, “Edgar's Sunday Courtship,” with a Mutt and Jeff cartoon. Crandall’s. Jack London's famous story, “The Mutiny of the Elsinore,” will be shown in film form at Crandall's Theater the first three days of this week, with Mitchell Lewis and Cas- SHUBERT-BELASCO Begiuning Saturdsy, January 15th, 10:30 a.m. Each Reel Shown Only Once. Change of Program Weekl ly. CHILDREN’S MOVIE Beautiful, Fascinating, Wholesome, - Instructi Educational, Fuany. PROGRAM medy—Bobby Bumps Becomes an Ace. Motoy—Little Red Ri Feature—Pied Piper of y Circus ttle Journeys to Shrines of Patriotism. January 15th, 10:30 fo 12 a.m. Tickets, 25 Cents to One Dollar. Excellent Music. 2 for Children. Public Organ Recital Charles l;.y Courboin Organist of the First Baptist Church, Syra. owse, N.Y., and guest soloist of the Wama. maker Auditerium, Philadelphia, Pa., under the auspices of the District of Columbia Chap- ter. AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS A Z t EPIPHANY EPISCOPAL CHURCH #MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1921, 8:30 P.X. Beats will be reserved for patroms to the aeital fund until 8:20. . THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS INVITED A Silver Offering. Sabscriptions received at 1306 G st. n.w. Will Be Taken. GREAT VIOLINIST NATIONAL THEATER, THURS,, Jas. 13, 4:30 Seats Groens’s Dow_on sale at . Buresu, in Droop's. 13th asd G. TUESDAY -~ Mae= PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA . WITE Ossip Gabrilowitsch As Guest Condunater. T. Arthur Smith, TUESDAY, JAN. 18 N. Y SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WALTER DAMROSCH, Conductor TICKETS, $3.50, $3.00, $1.50, $1.00. Ofico T. Arthur Emith, 1306 G Street. FRIDAY, JAN. 21 Next Ten-Star Comcert MARGARET MATZENAUER WORLD-FAMOUS CONTRALTO. TICEETS, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00. " Tickets Now Seling RUBINSTEIN CLUB January 25, March 15, May 3 8:30 O’Clock Soloists—Wyrna Sharlow, prano, Chicago Opera C Karle, America's favorite concert tenor; Christine Langenham, so- prano. and Mana-Zucea. I CKETS, $5.00. $4.00, $3.00. Office T. Arthur Smith, 1306 G 8t. lin, Browning. s0- Henry Bellett Presents OF SONGS His Latest and Most Beautiful Singing Production With a Cast of Eleven Sélected Voices. An Event of Great Interest to Music Lovers, But With Enough Variety to Appeal to All. JACK GEORGE DUO In the Negro Comedy Classic, “WHO DAT SAID WHO?" EDNA BENNETT & (0. The Magazine Cover Girl, In a Beautiful Production. CALVERT & SHAYNE| AL WHITE & CO. “Those Aces of Songland With the Latest “Hits."” LYLE & EMERSON In an Amusing Comedy Diversion, “IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY.” Speclal Two-Reel Comedy, MY GOODNESS A Sennett Laughmaker, Shown at All Performances. In a. Real Comed: Playi “APPEARAN! it ES.” PIQUO & FELLOWS A Comedy Novelty of Songs and Acrobatics. Matinee Feature Film, BEHOLD MY WIFE A George Melford Production. Shown Only at 1:15 and 4:45. son Ferguson featured, also Harry Pollard and the Hal Roach fun- makers, in “The Morning After”; Wednesday and Thursday, snother Metro production, “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,” will be shown, with Fon- taine Fox sketches for ’First Na- tional—*The Toonerville Trolley that Meets All the Trains’ and Friday and Saturday, May Alffson, in “Held in Trust” and Johnny Hines, in “Torchy Turns Cupid. Apollo. Sunday and Monday, Lois Weber's “To Please One Woman.” and comedy, Tuesday, “The utiny of the inore,” and comedy, Sand_Witches”; Wednesday, Beb Danlels, in_“You Never Can Tell Thursday, Ethel Clayton, in ‘The Sins of Rozanne.” and comedy, “Home Rule”; Friday, Billle Burke, in “The Frisky Mrs. Johnson”; Saturday, “The Soul' of Youth” and Vanity Fair Girls, in “The Sleepy Head." Avenue Grand. Sunday and Monday, “The Fure nace’ Tuesday and Wednesday, James Oliver Curwood's “Nomads of the North”; Thursday, Sylvia Bream- er. in “Unseen Forces,” and comedy, Without a Wife”; Friday, Kthel Clayton, in “The Sins of Rozanne/' and comedy, “Mr. Fatima”; Saturday, “The Branding Iron.” Empire. Today and tomorrow, “The Servant in the House"; Tuesday, George Be- ban, in “Hearts of Men”; Wednesday, rice Tournier's oman”; Friday, Gladys Walton, in “Risky Business, and an I-Ko comedy, and Saturday, Harry Carey, . X i episode 12 of “Bride Thirteen.’ Lyric. Today and tomorrow, William Faversham in “The Sin That Was His”; today matinee only, Franklyn Farnum in “Vanishing Trails”; Tues- E ice Joyce in “The Vice of ‘Wednesday, Lewis J. Selz- nick’s “Red Foam"; Thursday, Louise Herbert Rawlinson in Woman,” and _Saturday, George Walsh in “Number 17.” “Extra matines only, “The Son of Tarzan. New. Buck Jomes in _“Sunset tomorrow, Gail Kane in ‘uesday, “A Daughter of Devil's Den”; Wednesday, “The Servant in the 'House”; Thursday, “Midnight Gambols”; Friday, Romaine Fielding in “A Woman's Man,” and Saturday, all-comedy night. Olympic. Today and tomorrow, Otis Skinner, in “Kismet”; Tuesday, Carmel Myer:! in “The Gilded Dream”; Wednesda May Allison, in “Held in Trust’ Thursday, Gladys Walton, in “Risky Business”; Friday, “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath"; Saturday, Neal Hart, in “Hell's Oasis. Today, Sprague' “Empty Arms” Revere. Today, “The Midnight Riders Grace Davison in “The Hid- : Tuesday, “The Servant in Henry B. Thursday, althall in “Boomerang’ s Romaine Fielding in X Man”; Friday, Billie Rhodes in * body’s Girl” and Saturday, William S, Hart in “The Hell Hounds of Alaska.” Savoy. Sunday and Monday, Thomas Meig- han, in “Conrad in Quest of His Youth,” and Harry Pollard, in “The Morning After”; Tuesday and Wed- nesday, “The Furnace”; Thursday, Ethel Clayton, in “The Sins of Ro- zanne,” and comedy, ‘The Big Show"; Friday, Mitchell Lewis, in “Burning Daylight,” and Vanity Fair Girls, in “The Sleepy Head'; Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven, in “Twin Beds. Truxton. Today and tomorrow, Lon Chaney, in “The Penalty”; Tuesday and Wednes- day, Elmo Lincoln, in “Under Crim- son Skies”; Thursday and Friday, Edith Storey, in “The Golden. Hope"; Saturday, Lyons and Moran, in “Fixed by George,” and “Son of Tarzan.” Yorx. unday, James Oliver Curwood’s omads of the North”; Monday, Sylvia Breamer, in “Unseen Forces, and Vanity Fair Girls, in “The Sleepy Head”; Tuesday, H. B. Warner, in “One Hour Before Daw: and com- edy, “A Trayful of Trouble”; Wed- nesday, Blanche Sweet, in “Help Wanted: Male,” and comedy, “A Soft Boiled Yegg”; Thursday, Billle Burke, in “The Frisky Mrs. Johnson”; Fri- day, Mr. and Mrs. De Haven, in “Twin Beds,” and Toonerville comedy; Sat- Daniels, in “You Never and comedy, “Edgar's L Wither cla: i e: AT st mw, Bhone Fe- 1570 " Cogne- Roseland Dancing Academy, o 1012 H l; n.w. let, us teach you how to enjoy i e Tnst 3 Phone Franklin 6451-J. 'nfi'n' 10s m to10p. m. ARCADE |rz-ziss= DANCING | Fhene Col. 1283, WEEK NIGHTS D-ANC VERY NIGHT, 8:15 TO 11:15 t mustc, Dest patronage. RIGHTWAY SCHOOL OF DANCING 1218 NE YORK AVE. For 10 Years America’s Foremost Academy Lessons, with the advaatage of prastics in the vast AUDITORIUM lendid _orchestra not have an appointment. Fr. 7554, $1.50 enrolls you. 108 AVE, Franklin 5833, m for stage & STUDIO: 1141 CONN. Phonex: Day. Col. 5866. " Kve., Individual private lessons in Al fancy aud shoe-dancing Sialty. PROF. AND MRS. ACHEE, STUDIO, 1127 n.w.—Class Monday and Friday, 8 to intment. Phose . Private leasons by | 6786, Established 1900. CATHERINE BALLE 740 9th St. N.&. Franklin time ' with people who waste produce resuits, Leading s specialty, Hours, 1 to 10 P.M. 1 DAVISON'SERF1329 M n.w.Saat Strictly private. g Advanced clase Toes. Eves. ia 869 steps. Class dance Bat. Eve. with orchestrs. J. 3 Hoffman and Mrs. H. L. Holkt SALON OF DANSE. Now Iocated at 1808 Kalorama road, 2 blocks south of 18th and Columbia road. Phone, stu- dio, Col. 761-W. Baliroom and all branches of stage dancing eorrectly taught. MISS CHAPPELEAR NORTE sior et s G, AV 5 1118 11th st. nw. Franklia 4283 Berwyn 460, THIE;_ SUNBET STUDIO BAUMER & WEBSTER SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION, DANCING 'AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION Harry Baumer. _ Marjorie F. Webster. Maxx. Ave. N.W., on Thomas Cirele lass and private instructions in all forms of danclag. year normal course in phy- sieal education and expression and one-year pro- Tessional course in dramatic art and dancing. in Modern Dancing, Seturday, 7 P. DANCING OLASSES CHILDREN. Vestoff Serova and Chalif methods used. inxses. Franklin 32 Das and Night . Excellent Ballroom and Banquet Hall for rent. G. 1407 Fairies in Pictures. ~Cinderella,” “Red Riding Hood.” “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and oth- er fairy-story characters come to life for the children of Washington, in the presentation at the Shubert-Belasc), ecial se- movies, based on story-book lore. Designed specially for children, and to place before them features more suitable for their minds than the average movie, the first program will embrace such subjects as “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bobby Bumps Be- An Ace,” “The Pied Piper of For more mature patrons natural history and patriotic filme are scheduled. Prominent mothers in the diplomatic and official sets are inter- ested in the experiment. Knights Run Wild. A VISION of cavalier days—when knights were bold and fair dam- Sels ran wild with Corsican bandits. M. Le Richelleu is seen dancing with Ann of Austtfa. In the back- ground and in and around them whirl cloaked and silken figures of bold bandits dancing gayly with rosy- cheeked Norman peasants. Off in a corner ladies-in-waiting are resting on the arms, of court jesters. Up in the balcony spurred and booted cava- liers pay homage to bare-kneed girl! and through this whirling and chang ing maze of vari-colored figures comes a nomad of the desert guiding :‘ Puritan maid of the early seven- es. This big colorful scene was recently. filmed at the Selznick ¥ort Lee studios for the forthcoming Elaine Hammer- stein production, “The Girl From Nowhere,” directed by George Arch- ianbaud. —_— A Retired Actress. ANGDON McCORMICK, the author of “The Storm,” is also a producer of plays and an inventor of stage eftects, a manager of sensational vaudeville acts and a few other things. One of the plays controlled by him is “The Forest Fire.” ‘While presenting this play in a southern city, a large, fat and ebul- lient negro woman approached him ;wnh a request for a pass to the gal- ery. Mr. McCormick inquired as to her reason for making the request, and learned from her that she was a “re- tired actres Somewhat astonished, further enlightenment. “Yessah,” she said, “I'se a retired actress. I was in ‘Antony and Cleo- patra’ wid Mis' Fannoy Davenport. I was de fan bearer.” Watch Your Hands. “WE have held many types of hands in our lives,” say the Hoban sisters, in Ed Wynn's big show, “and we know from experience that hands are very interesting, for, while completing our musical education, we earned our daily bread as manicurists in the William Penn Hotel in Pitts- burgh. “One day I would take charge of the business,” said Bessie, “while Marguerite would be at school, and the next day I would go to school while she would take charge. “To break the monotony of our work we agreed to study the types of male patrons by their hands, as in a year we both held more than a thousand pairs of hands as we pol- llh‘?d and cleaned and trimmed the nails. “The bookkeeper has a differently shaped index finger from the execu- tive. The stenographer has a still dif- ferently shaped set of fingers. There are np two pairs of hands alike. Char- acter is marked as plainly in the shape of the fingers as it is in the fact he sought ‘Did you ever motice that the in- dex finger of the left hand of an expert salesman is nearly as long as the second finger, while the little finger of the gambler is very long? “Once & ychologist of national fame told us of the observations we could make. He was the first to show us that the character of the person is registered in the shape of the hands and particularly in the length of the fingers. “We have held the hands of every type of man almost from the loWly clerk to the statesman, and the claim of our learned friend was borne out by our observations and inquiries. “We still have the habit of observ- ing the hands of our acquaintances, for nature surely registers character in them.” Fashions in China. AH'ERICANB have been in the habit of crediting the oriental women with a constancy in the matter of styles in clothes that has become pro- verblal. And they have pictured the Chinese woman clinging to one mode of dress, until it became almost a sacred institution with her because of its age. Prince: Jue Quom Tai, Chinese prima donna of the William Rock Review( however, dispelled the il- lusion in & reeent interview. “Do fashions change in China?* ask- ed_her interviewer. “The chsage is in time and ma. terial,” was the answer, “although we always wear a great deal of embroid- ered silks. and brocades. You never see some of the wonderful patterns h%y.” she 8aid as she shattered the American ideal of “up-to-the-minute™ clothes with a laugh, “I have walked down Fifth avenue and seen dis- played as the latest model at $175 what was fashionable in China about seventy-five years ago, and could be picked up anywhere in Shanghat for 155 “How does the oriental lady feel about wearing last year's model? The princess’ answer showed that “what will the neighbors say”’ was not a_“made-ni-America product.” “Fashions change not only every season, as they do here,” she explain- ed, “but almost every two weeks, and during the period in which brocade is in vogue one would not dare venture out in silk, while as for wearing the loose sleeve when the tight one is fashionable, or a collar cut differently from the popular one, well"—and the look in the dark eyes of the princess indicated that fashion decrees were of as much lmp:runca in the orient s in this country. l-m:e princess speaks English fluently. —_— Hassard Short has been engaged b: ‘Wilmer & Romberg to direct the stag- ing of “Three Kisses,” the musical com- edy presenting Vivienne Segal. “The Girl in the Spotlight,” the work of Victor Herbert, Harry B. Smith and Robert Bruce, ciosed its season last night in Wilmington. When it comes from the hands of the play doctors a week hence it will be an_entirely n opera, and known as “Molly Darlin Mary Milburn will have the title role. Charles Frohman Company will pro- duce the dramatization of Ibanez’s novel, “Blood and Sand.” This piece bad been announced for presentation by John D. Williams this season, and it had been expected that Lionel Barry- more would play the leading role. The Shuberts have accepted a new play for production by David Arnold Baich entitled “Cognac.” It has noth- ing to do with the prohibition problem. Mary Alden, it is said. copled her make up. in “Milestones” from. pic- tures and her own remembrance of Lady Dorothy Neville of England, a woman to whom King Edward left £100,000 because of the entertain- ment she had given him and others by her wit and humor. Miss Alden lived in England for a number of years and was personally acquainted with Ledy Neville. = OLD, RARE AND UNUSUAL BOOKS New Catalog on Request, Free B. C. SEELEY CO, 40 Peterboro St., Boaton 17, Mass. THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 9, 1921—-PART 3 Reviews of New Books| Notes of Art and Artists MEMOIRS OF THE EMPRESS EU- GENIE. By Comte Fleury. New York: D. Appleton & Co. RIVATE letters, personal corre- spondence, family papers and official documents make up the material out of which Comte Fleury reconstructs the court of France during the second empire. Each of these two volumes of me- moirs is, in a sense, complete in it- self. 5 The first one deals, primarily, with the central figures of this pe riod—Napoleon III and Eugenie, Em- peror and Empress of France. Around them is the.flow of court ceremonial, the tide of civil and domestic events. The volume opens with the family and antecedents of the empress and closes with the death of the em- peror. The second volume takes up the foreign relations of the empire— its relations to the Crimean war, to the struggle for Italian nationality, and the Franco-Prussian war, ending with the fall of the empire and the escape of the ex-empress to England. The recent death of Eugenié recalls the period in which she was a domi- nating figure and gives to these vivid memoirs a most timely appearance. A PRISONER OF TROTSKY’S. By An- drew Kalpaschnikoff. Foreword by David R. Franci ew York: Dou- bleday, Page & Co. The immediate purpose of this book Is to describe its author's arrest by the soviet goverrment and his half- year of solitary confinement, without trial, in the famous prison fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. Its larger purpose is to analyze, from the stand- point of & Russian, the chief causes of the complete falling apart of the Russian empire. In pursuance of the first of these objects, the writer charges a conspiracy between Trot- 8ky and a member of the American Red Cross mission sent for relief work to Russia. This by way of rev- elatfon of certain political relations that developed between the bolshevist sclaiming any truth in the accusa- tion against him and supported this denigl by Ambassador Francis himself, the writer assigns to this political connivance not only his own arrest, but the relative failure, also, of the Red Cross mission in Russia. A good part of the story is taken up with a description of the prisoner's confinement in the fortress that was the tomb of many a political convict in the days of the old empire. The rest of it deals with the Russian sit- uation as a whole, analyzing the Rus- sian mind, taking note of the com- mon Russan lack of poltical expe- rience, of the deep-seated discontents of Russia as a whole out of centuries of oppressio; This writer has lived in America—live here now. He knows the American people, therefore this story and this revelation. ROAMING THROUGH THE WEST IN- ES. By Harry A. Franck, author ‘A Vagabond Journey Around the World,” etc. Tllustrated. New York: The Century Company. The swan song of the vagabond, Harry A. Franck. At the outset of this West Indian trip the vagabond took on a wife. During its course a baby joined the company. Respectability has overtaken Harry Franck. The old delectable foot-loose days are over. From now on we shall read of peram- bulatings around the garden walk. ‘To be sure, Mr. Franck makes a fine flair of declaring his independence. He will not walk, unless he choose to. Nobody can make him walk when he prefers to ride. As a matter of fact, he has got to ride, with all this im- pedimenta upon him. However, we have the book in hand, the story of his West Indian *“roamings"—soft word to set up beside the good old “vagabondings” and “trampings.” And the old flavors are still here—the swift picture, snapped off by camera or pen; the ready episode, the compact little drama, the touch of history— all together serving to bring out a vivid and plcturesque moving picture of the islands—American, British, French—that are included under the common name of West Indies. In 80 far as he can, Mr. Franck pursues the old method, and to this extent the travel story is of the quality that stamps the whole of his work. Cer- tain, it is that from no other source can one get a more intimate touch on the everyday life of the islands than from the sight and insight of this prince of travelers. More than a hundred pictures from his own cam- era help the text of this informing record at many an important and in- teresting point. AMERICA; Via the Neighborhood. By John Daniels. New York: Harper & Bros. : The first volume in this series dealt with the school as an instrument of Americanization. This one considers the neighborhood from this point of view. In 2 measure the work has al- ready_commenced for political par- ties, labor and other organizations have turned to account the immi- grant groups within the neighbor- hood. The writer gives specific in- formation to show how the racial co- herence of these groups may be made the foundation of substantial progress in those qualities and aptitudes that stand as the ideal and pattern of Americanism. The study is broad in it plan, concrete in its handling and of sufficient detail to constitute an admirable guide to those whose work is among the immigrant populations of the country. PETER. By Arthur Sherburne Hardy. ‘Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. This is a debt of honor paid to Peter by his master, as it is also en open appreciation and tribute of love. Sim- ple, true, beautiful, this trapslation of Peter into terms of human under- standing will take its place among the few genuine interpretations of the dog at the hands of one or an- other of his friends. The sincere and deeply touching little study makes one wonder, all-over again, how it came to pass that the dog. derives from God himself in the unquestion- ing quality of his love, in the serenity of his confidence, in the steadfast- ness of his fealty, whereas man, in his _deepest affections, is torn with doubts, assailed with fears, corrupted by selfishness. ‘“Peter” makes one weep over its truth, and its beauty. THE ABANDONED FARMERS. Irvin Cobb, author of “The Life of the Party,” etc. New York: George H. Doran Company. ¢ This is merely a bundle of Irwin Cobb nonsense tied'to the usually pro- saic and painful business .of going back to the farm. A few years ago there was enough of a hullabaloo about the ebandoned farms of New England to work up a good stock of enthusiasm on the subject. Just the matter to.create a fad on the subject of farming at no expense for the farm. How this cheap scheme fell through is a part of the economic law of sup- ply and demand. But In its heydey this movement, or gesture, was filled with the futilities and absurdities and failures that could not fail to appeal to the humor of Irvin Cobb. So, here he goes into the innumerable detalls of hunting for this farm—this farm “of abandoned character”—and, later the ardors of farming itself supply to the reader an hour, or o, of hearty laughter and first-rate fun. KINE DALE, PIONEER. By John Fox, jr., author of “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” etc. Illustrat- ed by F. C. Yohn. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. A story of Virginia and the western tronticr in revolutionary days. In the primitive surroundings of that period the author sets Eskine Dale, a Vir- ginian stolen by the Indlans and rear- €d in the practices and beliafs of that race. Later, out of this train- ing he serves as the leader of his own people against both the English and the Indians. In contrast to the rude life of the boy's up-bringing there is set the open-handed colonial existence in the home of his inherit- ance. A love story of mild complex- ity only goes along with the rugged warfare through which the larger part of the adventure develops. The story is a typical John Fox invention dealing with times, and places and circumstances that made an frre- sistible appeal to this pleasing Amer- ican story maker. AND HOLLER. By Belle Kanaris s.anmtell. author of “Amarilly of Clothes Line Alley,” etc. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Company. Not an exacting adventure, this. All the reader has to do is to hop into the ramshackle little roadster, along- side its good-looking ' kind-hearted owner, and set off with him on his vacation. This hero does the rest. Where this vacation is to take him, he has no notion at all. He is merely on his way. A strip of torn-up highway and the pesky temper of the little car serve to land us in Sand Holler. And in this unlikely place all Sorts of ex- citements are pulled off. Mrs. Ann Bee with her dozen children and her violin-playing mate, Olynthus, consti- tute the first adventuré, one that lasts throughout. A stolen child takes part, to be traced back to his beginnings and restored to his home. The owner of the car falls in love, of course. That is what a vacation is about. Sand Holler, squatting over mineral wealth untoid, mushrooms into a city —and so on, right along, things in reason and out of it come to pass in a gale of happy inconsequence and good-naturad fun and laughter. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The following list, arranged by subjects, includes some of the latest additions to the Public Library. The lists which appear in this column each Sunday are reprinted at the end of the month in the library’s monthly bulletin. Copies of this may be obtained free at the library, or will be sent by mail for 15 cents a year. Fiction. Adams, S. H. _Wanted: A Husband. Agate, J. E. Responsibility. Allizon, Willlam. A Secret of the Sea. Altman, Mrs. A. R. The Harmons. Anderson, A. W. The Rim of the Desert. Annunzio, Gabriele d’. Tales of My Native Town. Ashford, Daisy. Daisy Ashford; Her Book. Mrs. M. H. No. 26 Jayne Ayscough, John, pseud. Ahbotscourt. Balzac, Honore de. Christ in Flan- ders and Other Stories. (Every- man’s Library.) T Bartley, Mrs. Girl. Baxter, A. B. The Blower of Bubbles. Beach, R. E. Pardners. Benson, E. F. Queen Luecia. Beresford, J. D. “An Imperfect Mother. The Best Ghost Stories. Black, William. In Far Lochaber. Blackmore, R. D. Cripps, the Carrler. Blasco_lbanez, Vicente. The Enemies of Women. Brown, Alice. The Wind Between the Worlds. Burroughs, E. R. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Burroughs, E. R. Tarzan the Un- tamed. Burt, K. N. Hidden Creek. Cadmus and Harmonia, pseuds. The Island of Sheep. CanI‘e:on. William. Stories of Irish ife The Gorgeous e. Carswell, Catherine. Open the Door. Col;)m:lvre. G., pseud. The Thunder- olt. Cooke, Mrs. G. M, Their First For- mal Call. Couch, Sir A. T. Q—Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts. Crockett, 8. R. The Cherry Ribband. Crockett, S. R. Lochinvar. Crockett, S. R. Strong Mac. Darrow, C. Farmington. Daudet, Alphonse. The Nabob. Davis, R. H. The BExiles. Davis, R. H. Gallegher and Other Stories. Deland, E. D. Clyde Corners. Delu;!‘d, Margaret. The Promises of Alice. Dell, E. M. The Top of the World. Dodge, H. I. Skinner Makes it Fash- ionable. Dodge, uis. ‘Whispers. Doyle, Sir A. C. The Stark Munro Letters. Dunn, J. A. E. Turquoise Canon. Eggleston, G. C. A Captain in the Ranks. Evani Evarts, H. G. Farnol, Jeffery. Jocelyn. Ferber, Edna. Half Portions. Findlater, Mary. Betty Musgrave. Fitsgerald, F. S. K. This Side of Para- dise. Fletcher, J. S. The Paradise Mys- tery. . Fogazzaro, Antonio. The Woman. Ford, Sewell. Torchy and Vee. Fox, John, jr. Erskine Dale, Pioneer. French, J. L., ed. The Best Psychic Stories. Frothingham, E. B, ver. Galsworthy, John. The Island Pharl- sees. Gregory, Jackson. Man to Man. Haggard, H. R. Pearl-maiden. Harte, Bret. The Bell-ringer of An- wel's. Hewlett, Maurice. The Light Heart. Holding, E. S. Invincible Minnie. Holdsworth, Ethel. The Taming of Nan. Howells, W. D., ed. The Great Mod- ern American Stories. Howells, W. D. The Vacation of the Kelwyns. \ Hrbkova, S. B., ed. and tr. Crecho- slovak Stories. Fughes, Rupert: What's the World Coming To? Hutehinson, H. G. The Mystery of the Summer House. — Jean Dedini, once famed as “the tur- nip king,” as a result of his spectacular feat in catching a turnip thrown from the top of the Munsey building in Wash- ington on a fork clinched between his teeth, but now retired from the foot- lights, has just launched his second company on’_the Columbia burlesque wheel, ‘The Twinkletoe Girls.” 2iv. Caradoe. My Nelghbors. ‘The Cross Pull. The Geste of Duke Her Roman WOMAN DIRECTORS (N THE MOVIES. (CLTERETOFORE the fair sex have been identified with the motion plotures chiefly in the role of actress,” observed E. P. Hunziker, the picture- play producer, the other day in speak- ing of the growing importance of woman's part in the movie industry. “But of late woman has turned her talents into all branches of the work entailed in producing the most popu- lar_entertainment in all history. “The scenario miche in the film in- Qustry recently has been ocoupled to a great extent by women, and Some of our most ingenious screen drama. has come from them. Now ambition is carrying them into directorial posts. “We are all famillar with the type of production that Lois Weber has given to the cinema mart. Ida May Park, a veritable feminine wizard, whose epecial forte is the soclety drama, has _won .wide fame ‘and is now one of the leading producer- directors. Mrs. Sidney Drew has de- serted the lipstick and grease paint for the megaphone: Frances Marion is directing Mary Pickford, and Mari ‘Bollman is a new member of the sex in the fleld, as assistant in_the Dial Company’s = production of “King Spruce. “Who but a woman can aocurately gauge the romantic appeal that has so strong a hold upon the falr sex? Wha can so well guide the artistic branch of the production in the preparation of attractive gowns which composes so large an element of attraction in the up-to-date picture? “Out of about 250 directors in_the |*: production fleld. there have been scarcely more than a half dozen wom- en. I predict that their number will steadily increase for obvious reasons. The ideal thing ls the making of a picture would two directors, man and woman, in order to secure the maximum result by getting. the best balance with the . incorporation of things that appeal specially to the masouline and to the feminine mind. Watch for the development of the woman director.” ‘Washington artists are holding an exhidbition and sale at the Washing- ton Arts Club for the benefit of the relief fund for starving children In Europe. During the war none re- sponded to the calls of the Red Cross and of the other great charities more promptly and generously than the artists, contributing works which rep- resented both money and labor and serving in every capacity in the ranks as well as in civtl life. Again has come a call to Amarica for aid and again the artists have responded generously The walls of the reception room on the second floor of the Arts Club are hung with paintings and etchings by the foremost Washington artists. William H. Holmes curator of the National Gallery of Art and presi- dent both of the Society of Washington Artists and the Washington Water Color Club has given no less than Seven water colors. Miss Bertha E. Perric has contributed one of her very best paintings of Gloucester fishing boats. De Lancy Gill has con- tributed a landscape notable for pic- torial quality and artistic charm. There are excellent works by Miss Munroe, a figure of a woma® seated on a sunny porch; by Miss Critcher, a bowl of bright ‘zenias; by Benson Moore, a poetic little landscape, and others. Miss Hattie Burdette has sent a charcoal drawing, done in her own inimitable way, "of a voung girl idealized. Miss Ellen Day Hale and Miss Clements are represented by a number of their best etchings, among which is a portrait of Miss Hale's distinguished father, the late Edward Everett Hale. On a stand by one of the windows are to be seen three little sculptures by Miss Clara Hill, who, by the way, has lately completed a medallion por- trait of Miss Helen Blodgett. One is the little figure of a daughter of Hobart Nichols, formerly of Wash- ington and well known in art circles; another is a portrait study of a little boy, done purposely for this exhi- bition and sale. These are cast in plaster, but charmingly colored, and thus may be repeatedly duplicated. H. K. Bush-Brown has given a little portait study in the round of Viscount Bryce former British am- bassador. From Baltimore has come a painting by Alice Worthington Ball, a picture of a little house, col- orful and virile. The collection as a whole makes a brave showing. In order to secure purchgsers prices have been made very low, the pictures selling from approximately 315 to $50, the sculpture at $15 and $20. This should give mnay an op- portunity to secure attractive origi- nal works of art for the home, and at the same time lend substantial assistance to a much needed and beneficent charity. The exhibition was aranged by Mr. Bibb architect, and Miss Clara Hill, sculptor, with the assistance of oth- er members of the art committee of the club. It opened on Thursday and will continue for about a week. * x x x The president and trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art announce the thirtieth annual exhibition held un- der the auspices of the Society of Washington Artists from Saturday, January 15, to Friday, January 28, inclusivi The Society of Washington Artists has not for two years held its ex- hibitions at the Corcoran gallery, un- der the conviction that a larger at- tendance would be secured at a more frequented place, a conviction which was not proved correct. Art is some- thing ;which requires for its apprecia- tion repose of mind. The busy shop- iper who snatches a few moments to visit an’ exhibition is rarely in a mood to find therein the right kind of enjoyment. Furthermore, as a rule, the so-called ‘tired business man” wants recreation of a rather noisy sort. Those who have learned to enjoy pictures, and to secure re- freshment from them know they must take the time to see them properly and are willing to go to the trouble to seek them out. In any event it augurs well that the Soclety of Washington Artists is returning to the Corcoran Gallery's hospitable quarters and there is rea- son to believe that the coming ex- hibition will be upheld to a befit- tingly high standard. This _exhibition will include not only paintings by Washington art- ists, but out-of-town artists as well. The jury of selection consists of the officers of the society, Willlam H. Holmes, president; Miss Sarah Mun- roe, vice president; Miss Annie D. Kelly, treasurer; A. H. O. Rolle, sec- retary, and the executive committee, composed of H. K. Bush-Brown, Miss Bertha Noyes, Miss Bertha Perrie, Richard D. Engel and Benson Moore. T Richard Merryman, assistant prin- jcipal of the Corcoran School of Art, |1s painting, in the boar2 room of the Corcoran Gailery, a portrait of Secre- tary Daniels for the Navy Depart- ment. It is a_three-quarter length and shows the Secretary seated in an armchair looking squarely at the ob- server. The background is a large painting of a naval subject by an English artist, Bernard F. Gribble, which hangs in the Secretary’s office The painting represents the return of |the American fleet, a battleship in the foreground. Mr. Merryman came to Washington from Boston a couple of years ago, where he had already established an enviable reputation as & portraitj painter. x X X % During the past week several men notable in the art world visited Wash- ington. Among these was C. Lewis Hind, the well known English art critic, who is on a mission to this country in behalf of the Imperial As- sociation for A isting Disabled Brit- jsh Naval and Military Officers. Mr. Hind. who is the author of numerous standard books on art, such as “Ad- ventures Among Pictures, ‘Post- Impressionists” and “The Education of an Artist” was accompanied by Bis wife, who was formerly Mrs. George Hitchcock, and who, as a lec- turer on art, is likewise well known. ‘Mrs. Hitchcock gave a memorable Jecture on “American Painting” be- fore the Washington Sotl!ty'fl( the Fine Arts in the hall of the National Geographic Society, this city, some 0. years ag P, Another visitor was Charles C. Cur- ran, national academician, who 1s one e trustees of the Ranger fund. ‘;‘!hrlot:jgh the instrumentality of &hl; fund purchases are yearly made o works by American artists on all of Which the National Gallery of Art has Hrst option, though the paintings, a cording to Mr. Ranger's will, arg. not o be deposited here finally undl 2 umber of years after the artist's death. Meanwhile they are loaned to the various art museums throughout try. e rran 1 a palnter of very con- siderable distinction uflfl'hw vlcmrvs{. painted at moor, New York, 0 Joung sirls and women seen almost in stilhouette against summer skies, their garments t ssed by the breezes, have attracted wide and favorable at- fention and possess very declded Soaes ok k% Peixotto, who was one of 'lllfrl:'eti':ll commissioned by the gov- ernment and sent abroad during the war to make pictures at the fromt, and who is admirably represented in the national collection now on view in the National Museum, has, since his return to this country, executed a series of war pictures of unique ype. Like James McBey, the Scotch etclter. Mr. Peixotto has pictured the devastated districts, especially those connected with the American of- fensives, in a way which is both his- torically correct and artistically im- e of his pictures he shows a fll{: om('x aochurchpwmu which there is & dramatic play of light and shade. ¥n another he shows a road crossing a once fair country torn by ravage of war. And yet in these dramatic scenes of destruction and de: Mr. Peixotts has found a certain def- inite element of beauty. The ser es g & iwhols 2 mental work and one W hoped that some day will part of the national collection. * x % % Miss Felicle Waldo Howell is ex- hibiting at the Macbeth Gallery, New York. between January 3 and 17, a collection of paintings of old Salem doorways painted during the past summer in Salem. In this old city to- day are found many of the homes of great architectural beauty of dis- tinguished men of long ago. There are twenty-four paintings in the series and they are all most skillfully rendered. Paintings of this sort preserve not merely the archi- tectural aspect of the houses, but the very spirit of the dwellings, savoring of the romance of accumulated mem- ories. * ¥ x x Frank Alvah Parsons, president of the New York School of Fine and Ap- plied Arts, who is gIving a series of lectures in this city this winter on “Art In Every Day Life.” under the, auspices of the Washington Soclety of the Fine Arts, announces the open- ing of a summer school in France next June for students in interior dec- oration. The class. which is limited to twenty-five, will have its head- quarters in Paris. whern six woeks will be spent. There will be two weeks in Versailles, one week at Fon- tainebleau, two at Tours and the Loire Vallay and one week devoted to short trips to Complegne, Mal- maison. Chatres and Blois. The class is under the distinguished pawonage of the directors of the Louvre, du Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Walter Gay, Ogden Codman, Miss Elsie De Woife and others. The purpose is to give background and a better compehension of the art of interior decoration than the ma- Jority of our untraveled decorators have. It is interesting. both as an oxperiment and as an extension of the established field of art study. MECHLIN. BUENTSARESNOW CREATMETROPLS May Be World Sixth City. Next to Paris in Latin Communities. Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, which recently attracted world atten- tion by withdrawing its representa. tives from the league of nations as. sembly, and which was recently visited by Secretary of State Colby in his trip of courtesy to South America, is the subject of the following bulletin issued by the National Geographic Society from its Washington, D. C., headquarters: “Buenos Aires is not merely the capital and chief port of a South American republic. It is a world center—a city of superlatives, con- trasts and paradoxe: “Its population of close to 2,000,000 makes it, by a wide marg.n, the metropolis of South America and the southern hemisphere. It is the great- est of Spanish-speaking cities, having nearly three times as many inhab:i- tants as Madrid. It is greater than all Latin cities except Paris. In the new world it shares third place-with Philadelphia; only New York and Chi- cago surpass it. And now that Petro- grad and Moscow have shrunk, while Berlin and Vienna are marking time, it probably ranks or soon will rank as the sixth city of the world, led only by the two metropolises of Europe, }he Ao of North America, and Tokio, n Asia. New Yorkers Feel at Home. ‘This great city is the focus of the culture, thought, politics, economics an social life of Argentina, as well as the funnel through which pour the miilions lions of bushels of wh which make up the contribution of the republic to the hungry peoples of the old word. In its general aspect it is a combi- nation of New York and Paris. Its lan- guage is the language of Spain, but many other things Spanish have been thrust aside. Its inhabitants would laugh at the idea of a midday siesta—so generally observed in_most Spanish- American countries. The obsession of ‘manana’ has been discarded: the peo- ple of Buenos Alres live in the throb- bing present, going strenuously about their business in streets whose bustle and whirl are as balm to the heart of. the homesick New Yorker who feels that after all he cannot be far from Broad and Wall or 42d and Broadw: Subways, commuters and taller build ings than can be found in any other city in_South America heighten the illusion. “The rapid development of Argentina has made innumerable fortunes, and the stream of gold has been poured lavishly into the lap of Buenos Aires. In no other city, perhaps, can one see so strikingly displayed the evidences of ex- treme opulence. And while a large pro- portion of the populace is fairly well to do, marked contrasts are not lacking, especlally in the case of many of the re. cent immigrants, who live in squalid hovels on some of the outskirts of the city. In progress and the possession of vision the people of Buenos Aires are unsu even by the restless builders of North America’s greatest cities. For centuries after its estap- lishment Buenos Aires was without a port. Ships anchored miles from the shallow, sandy shore and all freight was handled in lighters. twenty-five yvears the municipality has constructed the largest artificial docks in the world. These provide adequate facilities for the thousands of ocean ves- sels and coasting craft that put into its port_annually. “The narrow checkerboard of streets in the business center which the colonial ‘Buenos Aires bequeathed to the world- city of today. has been a_constant em- barrassment in the face of the demands of modern business. The municipality has widened some of these narrow ways at a cost of many millions of dollars into stately and handsome avenues, and is carving other arteries of traffic diag- onally through the closely packed squares. of ample width and numerous broad. avenues have been laid out. Many of the avenues are lined with the costly palaces of Argentina’s multi-millionaires. It is in this part of the city and in such semi-business avenues as the tree-rimmed Avenida de Mayo, with mile or more of fine hotels, clubs, and business buildings de luxe Buenos Aires reminds the traveler of Paris. The comparison is forced on the ob- server again when he drives in the aft- ernoon through Palermo Park, the Bois de Boulogne of Buenos Alres, and be- comes a part of the seemingly inter- minable procession of smart equipages bearing their throng of well dressed men and women. Ahead of Parisiennes. men of Buenos Aires are up- to-date Ia nil things, but its women. are even ahead of the times. They wear the latest Paris creations even Dbefore they are donned by the Pari- siennes themselves. Climate must be given its rightful place in the explana- fion of this paradox. Summer models Within the last { In the newer parts of the city streets _ + | of pounds of dressed meats and the mil- » Sre designed in Paris in December, and __ sals of the seasons south of {':: r::::wr makes these seemingly premature creations fitting attire in Buenos Aires in January and February = ‘when_they mug_: mla“bem monde of stant metropolis. e enos t Tren 16 in the south lati- tude corresponding to that of Charles- ton, S. C., north of the equator, and has folk, though drier. Something more than half the population is e up | of Argentinos. The two most impor- tant. remaining factors are Ttalian and Spanish_immigrants. There are rela- tively small numbers of British, North Americans, French and Germans, and a 4meimiing of many other peoples.’ Climato somewhat like that of the 7% Sountry between Charleston and Nor- ‘i3 i