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N . Part 3—6 Pages he Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY musements “Che Theater —_———— HE discordant note will creep into the sweetest harmonies some- | times. Hence, it is. suggested, in all humi ty, that “Monsieur | Beaucdire” was not ordained by the eternal fitness of things to | be an opera. Even clothed in Messager's magnificent score and embellished with lyrics rare in poetic thought and rhythm, the story | seems hampered by its musical dress. Gilbert Miller’s productipn is one of beauty and quaint charm, but as an opera the story seems like a fish out of water, and it is doubtful if even a better singing cast could have “Red Rose,” its dominant song, was beautiful. E were pleasant intrusions, but helped matters. d - "Pl’?flomcl" and “Honor and Love Are Not Speaking Ni anachronism, and, pretentious music. ¢*RROADWAY BREVITIE glory of the stage, as might have been expected, “got by, o dearly love “glorified vaudeville. teeth of it all, modest but offended burlesque casts its challenge and won- ders how some things can live and move and have th: betters are passed with silent scorn. If theater, it is all right; but if burlesque dares, * ¥ % OMANHOOD has found youth in silk stockings and mountainous fur “observation-hiders,” but the .play'wrighl vexes poor man with the insinuation that “the early seventies” is “] snipped or bald head shivers in the cold winds. t “seventies” could ever be familiar to any one, and yet be “not so long Girls did dress differently then, and it may be also remarked they dressed more—downward instead of upward. Yet withal the little play was pleasant in memories for those who remember the da: the generosity of those wh sternly and promptly rebiked. A ago.” story told. * k % X v ‘N NIGHTS IN A BARROOM,” which seems fafed to clatter down the corridors of time as long as champions of the millennium seek oratorical occupation to escape the curse of Adam, came out of its an- cient tomb, and, after a brief walk in the night, vanished even as Banquo’s host. Perhaps the dear old temperance ghost never will find its ever- asting repose until new bugaboos arise to take its place. Bob Downing gave to his role the realism born of experience alike in the ministry and on the stage, and then observation came to the rescue, for but few could toss off the toast, “Here’s to You, Tom Moore,” without admitting some external assistance. * ¢t A BRAHAM LINCOLN,” the ow,” quaintly delightful as it was, ke other pretty numbers of the sc and blossom in musical comedy rather than in romantic opera, w song is essentially a part of the story. strued as a reflection upon either the lyrics * % % " the late: * k% X% . masterful portrait by the English poet, Even Ve seemed like,an e score, born to blush here the This is in no sense to be con- or Messager’s beautiful and ok st Shubertian contribution to the thanks to But in the eir being, while their you see it on the stage of a big its presumption must be 'Not So Long Ago,” while his No part of those wicked s of which its John Drinkwater, which comes again this week, doubtless will com- mand the interest it deserves. It is a masterpiece of American manhood peculiarly fitting for the times. Hatred, an emotion rare to the American breast, and never tolerant to the American conscience until a tricky world taught the 1&sson, has had its wicked day and is now an undesir- able citizen in the light of the memory of that greatest of all great Americans who gave utterance to the sublime sentiment, “With malice toward none; with charity for all.” And this is the sentiment that will make®possible the rebuilding of the world along lines that will last. A lesson in Lincoln will be wholesome dramatic food for the coming week. * % * % FTER thrilling the critical world elsewhere, .Jacinto Benavente’s “La Malquerida,” translated by John Garrett Underhill, under the English title, “The Passion Flower,” and. with Miss Nance O'Neil, the great emotional actress, in what is said to be-t] 3 making its first 10 be the first revelation in Aimeriea s iring to lead his nationals, if he has not mmendation of both the play and the tunity in her career, ish playwright, who is dy s::ne so in his art. role of greatg}s‘t 'oppog; on.: It is sai o pier or the Yl:lnr from the cities where they have appeared is divided only in de;ree. t is a Shubert attraction. - * k k k S{XJAY DOWN EAST.” David Wark Griffith’s latest screen master- piece, and “What’s Your Name?” will be other attractions of the eaters. ‘week at the Shubert-controlled th * % k % 'AUDEVILLE patrons will be interested in the recent announcement of the new twenty-million-dollar Shubert Advance Vaudeville Com- pany, with a circuit which will include Washington and Baltimore. and extend as far south as New Ogleans and as far west as Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, with extensions :fig u:dtr consideration. YDIA LOPOKOVA will appear.in “The Rose Girl” when_it opens at the new Ambassador Theater, New York, February 7. She has been abroad for several years, but f§ said to be now on her way to New York. * k * MADGE KENNEDY may make her first trip to London with “Cor- nered.” It is said a London manager has applied for the English rights for next season, including Miss Kennedy and her company. * ¥k ¥ k A: of A: L. Erlanger, this spring. E. MATTHEWS, the English actor, will play the role of Jerry in “Peg o’ My Heart,” with Laurette Taylor, under the management * %* ¥ % ED WYNN will appear in a‘new production under the management of A. L. ErlangeéF next September. One of its principal features will be a “Congress of World Beauties.” Mr. Erlanger is seeking novelties in Europe to fit certain situations planned for the new entertainment. * * * * LFRED LUNT, who created the title role in “Clarence,” now play- ing in Boston. is to be featured in a new comedy next George C. Tyler.. Mr. Lunt is said to have one of the most cu season by riously in- dividual personalities in the American theater. * X is said Helen Hayes will have the choice of three plays for next sea- t IT son, one by Eugene O'Neill, one by Booth Tarkington and one by _I:Zdw::d Childs Carpenter. She is now beginning an extensive tour in Bab,” after its long New York run, and will wind up in Chicago for a spring engagement, the first she has ever played in that city: * * B performance, to pre-war rates. ‘movement. OTH Marc Klaw and Florenz Ziegfeld, jr. have reduced pri i their New York theaters, includin, new Ziegfeld roof g _those for the new Ziegfeld roof Sam H. Harris preceded them in the * % * % 'I'HE failure of Mme. Matzenauer to include operatic arias in her re- cent recital performance may have been due to her to the language in which to sing them. In New York, tan, she was called upon to sing ,Lohengrin,” English. A opera with men. Men of Chicago will soon tak grand opera as they do in base ball.” uncertainty as at the Metropoli- the Wagner opera, in * % %k % RTHUR HOPKINS has announced that Ben-Ami's Delilah” is a modern play d:al)ikng*symbolically with the Bible theme. * EVERYBODY expected Mary Garden to do something w made the executive director of the She now announces that she is goin, Chicago so that men may come to hear it in overalls, are ,going to remove the dress-suit fetish,” “Samson and X hen she was Chicago Grand Opera Company. g to popularize grand opera in f they wish. “We she says, “and popularize e as much interest in In the Spotlight Beatrice Noyes has succeeded Flor- graduate of the University of Califor- ence Nash in “The Mirage. Louise Closser Hale, who plays the part of Grandma Bett in “Miss Lulu Bett." has written a one-act comedy, | entitled “The Rag Dolly.” aTTs Y Jane Grey is to play the role of | tha Skin | Chloe Hornblower in “The Game,” the Galsworthy play, at the Bijou Theater, New York. “A Night of Love,” by Samuel Rus- nin. has joined the Passing Show of 192 studied in Paris. “Irene,” now in fits sixty- web‘l(( at the Vanderbilt ';h:,l{e ork, ensemble of “The 1" Miss Popenay second T, N z s;‘%ofi'&é’o = have earned 'more ,000,000 since its open: the end’is not yet in sight. RErang “John Hawthorne” has fafled please New Yorkers and was with Xin Golden, will be tried out by 4. |drawn from the Garrick Theater Inat mar MacGregor. the producer, who |Dight. promises an elaborate setting for it. ‘The opening in New York of “Co- gnac.” scheduled for last week, was again postponed. The play continued on the road for a few weeks. “Ruffles” and not “Three Kisse first announced, will be the ti the mew musical play in which W e of 11- will be | Playhouse, New Yor! l It may be rewritten, but the chance are said to be strong for “cold storage.” ‘The cast with Grace George at the , in a series of matinees of “The New Morality,” by Harold Chapin, will include Lawrence Grossmith. Ernest Lawford and Lil- ian Kemble. The nightly dancing program at the ner & Romberg are soon to present | Arcade this week will be augmented Vivienne Segal. Laralda Popenay of Los Angecles, a 4 by “Paul Jones” damces tomorrow night and a kaleldoscopic “doll party” Wednesday evening. Tenny Hinson ‘Gayety MORNING y JANUARY 30, 1921. Louise. HOMER.- Polils PEARL REAGAY- .J‘IANCE. ONe1L Shubert - Belasco ~ BIRGIT ENGELL National Current Attractions r NATIONAL—“Abraham Lincoln,” this evening at 8:20 o'clock. morrow. at 8:20 o'clock. row at 2:15 p.m. morrow at 1 p.m. noon. GAYETY—“Girls from ® noon at 3 o'clock. AT THE THEATERS THIS WEEK BELASCO—“The Passion Flower,” play. Opens tomorrow evening at 8:20 o'clock. POLI'S—“'Way Down East,” Griffith’s motion picture. GARRICK—“What's Your Number?” farce. KEITH'S—Pcarl Regay, vaudeville. COSMOS—“Hank Panky, Jr., vaudeville. STRAND—Texas Comedy Four, vaudeville. Happyland,” butlesque. Opens this after- John Drinkwater drama. Opens Jacinto Benavente's Spanish‘ Opens to- Opens this evening (New show.) Opens tomor- (New show.) Opens to- Opens tomorrow at “Abraham Lincoln.” John Drinkwater's impressive classic, “Abraham Lincoln,” will be presented again this week, beginning this evene ing, at the National Theater. The play comes in the very high tide of its career, it is sald, with the greatest record of success ever made by a work of its genre in New York, and with remarkable records for attendance Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Pitts burgh. It is en route to Boston, where it is to remain for the remainder of the theatrical year. There is but’ the one company in America, the- original—organization, unchanged in any essential item. Frank McGlynn, creator in this coume try of the role of Lincoln, is to be seen, of course. He is now officially | “featured” in recognition of the not- I able value of - his characterization. ! Others of especial distinction include Albert Phillips, James Durkin, John 8. O'Brien, Jennie Kustace, Winifred: Hanley, William A. Norton, Carson Davenport, Frank E. Jamison, David Landau, Wallace Ford, Gerald Cornel and Ralph Williams. No extended reintroduction of the play is needed. - It is enough to mote that it is in six scenes, each pictur- ing a vital phase of the great emanci- pator's career between the time of his first nomination for the presidency and the final tragedy five years later. Mr. Drinkwater has had no purpose to write the history of Lincoln, but does seek to interpret it. in terms of the drama. How extraordinarily success- ful he has been is testified to by the triumphs _achieved by the play, not only in this country, but in London, where the English company continued for the unprecedented period of more than a year. “The Passion Flower.” Bonavente's drama, “The Passion Flower,” in which Nance O'Neil is starred, will be presented at the Shu- bert-Belasco this week, opening to- morrow night. Bonavente's dramatic gem has opened a controversy. While South Americans and Spanigrds in New York maintain that the play is true to the 1ifc of the Castilian, and critics seemn unanimous in ir admisston that it is @ u.rmatic triumel, gcnte of them conclude the characterization to be unreal. An interesting view of this situation has been given by Luis Enrique Osorfo, editor of the Span- ish department of a New York publi- cation, who has seen the rendition of the piece both in Spain and in South America. He says: “There is an intensity of feeling which the American actors bring out walch has peen lost in the Spanish productionsf’ according to Osorio. “Tt appears to American eyes more tragic than it does to=us. Personally, I lik the American way the better. Describing his impressions of the acting of Miss O'Neil in the character of Raimunda, he says: “Her portrayal of the role is different from that with which I have been accustomed, but it is far more effective and vivid.” Richard G. Herndon is the producer, and both he and Miss O'Neil have re- celved cabled congratulations from the author. This {is the rather unique intro- duction of the play to Washington. e “What's Your Number?” “What's Your Number?” a new farce, will be offered at the Shubert-Garrick ‘Theater this week, opening this even- ing. It was written by Adelaide Mat- thews and Anna Nichols, the former author. of “Nighty Night” and “Scrambled Wives” and the latter au- thor of “Linger Longer, Letty.” ‘Three important characterizations are in the hands of Marie Carroll, Dorothy Mortimer and Isabel O'Mad- igan, each of whom has a record of theatrical success. The principals in masculine roles are Forrest Winant and Tom Lewls, described as a com- edian of sublimated low comedy, but whose stage methods are entirely “legitimate.” The play is in three acts and four scenes, opening at the pier in Bor- deaux, Franoce, just before the sailing of the liner Lafayette. The rest of the action takes place aboard ship en route to New York. The cast also includes Richard Taber, Gesmonda Nicolai, Purnell Pratt, Anton Ascher, ‘Willard Foster, Robert Harrington and James A. Boshell. - “Broadway Brevities” Tonight. | George Le Maire's “Broadway Brevi- ties” will give an extra performance tonight at Poli's Theater. In its comedy and laugh elements it ig un- usually strong. Bert Williams, George McKay and George Le Malre, Ula Sharon, a marvelous new dancer; Nel- son and Cronin, Maurice Diamond, Isabel Mohr and Mildred Richardson, former prima donna of . the -KFollies, are its strong points. “Way Down East.” D.. W. Griffith’s master effort, a photoplay of “Way Down East,” is announced for presentation the first time _in this city at Poli's Theater to- morrow night and continuing twice daily at:2:15 and 8:15 p.m. for a limit- ed engagement. 2 In announcing that he has elabo- rated “upon the famous stage play originally written by Lottie Blair Parker and Joseph R. Grismer, Mr. Griffith says he wishes to impress upon his ,patrons the effort he has made in providing pastoral scenes of grandeur, ad well as scenes of splendor and luxury in city mansions, which eould not be done for the play: a dedghtful barn dance, sleigh ride and, rural frolics of simple folk, and enla:s'lnt the scope for the rare comedy of the tale, and ending it all in & elimax of snowstorm and crash- ing ice gorge thrills. Attention’ is also directed to the significance of the po- tential theme, which bares a woman's soul, weaving into the woof of trust and devotion a story of love that is followed with a fidelity, disarming any fears as to the reception of these truths.’ Intent upon making “Way Down East™ his supreme contribution to the screen, the producer assembled an array. of Interpretative talent of un- usual distinction, including Lillian Gish," Richard. Barthelmess, Mary Hay, Lowell Sherman, Kate Bruce, Burr Mc¢Intosh, Mrs. Morgan Belmont, Greighton Hale, Vivia Ogden, George Neville, Florence Short and others. Pearl Regay—Mason & Keeler. Pearl Regay, Homer B. Mason and Marguerite Keeler will co-star in A the bill at B. F. Keith's Theater-this week, commencing at.the matinee to- mOrrow. g3y, the musical comedy favorite and-danseuse, asso- ciated” with Dester Sheehan in a dancing’ spectacle, will be assisted by Roy Sheldon and the Rialto Jasz Band in “the presentation of “Terpsichore Meets Syncopation.” Homer B. Mason and Marguerite Keeler will present their sketch, “Oh!" rated as utterly improbable, but all the funnier be- cause of it. Porter Emerson Brown, author of “A Fool There Was,” wrote it. Ed Gallagher and Joe Rolley will be seen in “At Palm Beach,” and Co- lin O'More, the tenor, who starred in “Lassie” and was with American grand opera and musical comedy or- ganizations in recent seasons, prom- ises a song program of wide variety and charm.’ Harold Yates aids him at the piano. Others will be Ed Press- ler and Blanche Klaiss, in a smart and pattery potpourri; Bostock’s Rid- ing School; Bernard and Gary, south- ern syncopators, and Ralph Lohse and Nina Sterling, in an original athletic act entitled “Frolicsome Follies,” with “Topics of the Day” and the kino- m. gra; Today at 3 and 8:15 p.m. last week's bill, with Leo Carrillo, Elsa Ryan and Paul Decker, with be presented. « b ‘Hanky Panky, Jr.” A big Broadway musical comedy in its diminished vaudeville version, “Hanky Panky, Jr.” will be present- ed at the Cosmos Theater this week by Joe Woods, with Frank Manning, Flo Davis and the Moriarty Trio featured in a cast of sixteen, most of them very pretty girls. The mu- sic and lyrics are by Leo Wood and emphasis is laid upon the beauty of costumes, settings and the produc- tion in general. The supporting bill will include Foster, Ball and com- pany, in “Since the Days of '61” a civit war reminder; Matt Osborne, the composer-pianist, and Hazel Crosby, a vocalist of ability; Mardell and Corbley, in songs and comedy of class; Walter Fukton and compahy, in the amusing playlet, “Any Home.” and Lockhardt and Leddy, in songs, dances and acrobatics with fun be- hind_them. ““Unseen Forces,” the big First Na- tional photoplay, said to picture the strangest love story ever told, will be the added.matinee feature. Bus- | ter Keaton’s comedy, “The Scare- | crow,” will lead a number of inter- esting and amusing films at all per- formances. A fine bill is promised today, start- ing at 3 p.m. “Texas Comedy Four.” Tomorrow and all this week lhol Strand will feature the Texas Comedy Four in new snappy: songs. Others will be Ling and Long, “Two Ex- tremes in Fun,” followed by Rose Garden and her piano, in “Fragrant Tunes from the Garden of Melodies”; Grace and Eddie Parks will present “A Bungalow of Beauty,” and the Three Walters, in comedy bar and acrobatic feats. Shirley Mason, in the William Fox production, “Flame of Youth” will be the photodramatic attraction for the week. The scenes of the story are laid in' the Belgian countryside and in the artists’ quarters of Paris, and the theme is love and art. A cast including Raymond McKee, Philo McCullough, Karl Formes and Betty Schade will be seen in support. Short film subjects and world happenings caught by the camera, together with special orchestral numbers arranged by Arthur J. Manvell, will close the|ed bill. “@irls From Happyland.” “The Girls From Happyland” .com- pany begins a week's engagement at the Gayety Theater with today's mati- nee. Joe Hurtig, its sponsor, has an unusually strong company, all more or less prominent and_important in musical comedy, burlesque and vaude- ville. “Nearly a Husband,” in_three scenes, is the opener, with its own complications and mix-ups; and for its climax a department store scene whero fun reigns undisputed. “The Wonder Springs,” the amusing story of the affairs of two adventurers at 2 health resort, is the secondary at- traction. The company ‘includes Tom Senna, Vivian Lawrence, Jimmie Connors, Tom McKenna, Bert Lester, Dolly Meden, Tenny Hilson, Al, Watson and Violet Hilson, Senna and Webber, the Four Dancing Demons and the “Hap- pyland” chorus of twenty. Twenty- five original musical numbers are pre- sented, Coming Attractions ! At Theaters Next Week | NATIONAL—~“The Girl in the | Spotlight,” musical comedy. ' COSMOS—“Extra Dry,” vaude- | ville. i | STRAND—"Nine OClock,” vaudeville. GAYETY—"Jingle Jingle.” “The Girl in the Spotlight.” The attraction @t the National The- ater next week, beginning Sunday night, February 6, will be Victor Her- bert’s musical cgraedy, “The Girl in the Spotlight,” featuring Hal Skelly and Mary Milburn, with a brigade of feminine loveliness. “Extra Dry.” A breezy and beautiful little mu- sical comedy, with hosts of pretty girls, “Extra Dry,” a Willlam B. Friedlander production featuring Jack Fairbanks, with Jeanette Lawrence, Sue Parker and Lawrence Ackerlind, will be the headline feature at the Cosmos Theater next week. Its scene is laid in the Egyptian room of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1t is also said to be full of Jacinto Benavente, the Spanish Playwright. 'ACINTO BENAVENTE, the Spanish author and playwright, whose “La Malquerida’ was produced in New York last January as “The Pagsion Flower,” and in which Miss Nance O'Neil has scored a great personal triumph, has had a career so varigd -and versatile that the old adage “jack of all trades and master of none” might seem at first to apply to him were it not for the fact that he has groveni'a master more than once. 5 Among things theatrical he has been, successively, a call-boy, bill-poster, stage mechanic, scene shifter, actor, producer, theater manager, circus rider and press jagent, and—the author of no ‘less than ninety-six plays. When not en- tirely occupiéd, by these pastimes he has managed ta achieve a European rep- utation as a litterateur and conneisseur | W in fine arts; to build, equip and direct Spain’s national theater; to dally be- times with the complicated game of law giving and politics as a member of the Spanish deputies, and has even found time to bring suit against a well known New York producer for an alleged theft of certain interesting scenes which he claimed had been lifted bodily from one of his own plays. ‘This latter incident, it is said, inclined the famous Don to peevishness toward things American, especially as he lost his suit in the courts and thereupon swore a Castillian oath never to allow any of the many children of his dra- matic genius to make their bow across American footlights. However, the Theater Guild of New York, an association of independent co- operative players, which started: not.so long ago with $37.1€ in the treasury, but whose pej bee: ard v such sug g ced Benavehtés prodi “Bonds of Inter- est” after several friends of the author had interceded with him in behalf of the guild. The play, however, was neither an artistic nor a financial success,-and for a time it looked as though the Bena- ventian drama was to be an unknown quantity on the ‘stage of the United States, ‘until the agcidental discovery of “La Malquerida™ by a friend of Miss ONell, who recognized the role of Rai- munda as offerlig opportunities for which she had long been yearning. The play wis an instantaneous hit, and it is now whispered‘up and’ down New York's Rialto that: a theater is to be provided ere long for the exclusive pro- duction_of the lard’s other works which have been known on the other side for so long. Not so many months ago, Benavente was hailed throughout the length and breadth of the United States as the win- ner of the Nobel prize for literary achievement, the announcement appear- ing In several of the leading literary | reviews. Later advices from the Nobel committee, however, provedy the report » | Lincoln the great opportunity every catchy song numbers. Other acts will include Leon and Mitzi, in an acro- batic novelty; Wilson and Wilson, ”; Rob- “Bill Blithers, Lawyer,” a play, and the celebrated Marconi Brothers, ac- cordionists. The added matinee fea- ture will be Roscoe (Fatty) Ar- buckle’s big picture, “The Life of the Party,” and the leading comedy, Mack Sennett’s “Fireside Brewers." “Nine 0’Clock.” Frank Davis' presentation, ne O'Clock,” a farcial oddity, by Howard Clark, will be the feature at the Strand next week. Other numbers include Wil- ,bur and Lyke, songs and sayings: Edah Delbridge and Tobe Greemer, in their own song hits; Hart and Helene, ex- pOhents of music and originalities, and Billy Bernard and Charlotte | Meyers, in *The Cabby and the Fare.” | “The Stealers,” by William Christy Ca- banne, will be the photoplay. “Jingle Jingle.” Herk's “Jingle Jingle” company, next week’s attraction at the Gayety Theater, features Stella and Dolly | Morrissey, with Harry O'Neal, Fannie Albright, Loretta Ahearn, Morton Beck, Fred Trust and Frank Ander- | son. | to have been erroneous, and, 5o far, there has appeared no explanation as to how the mistake occurred, although it is said that Scribpers received what they had every reason to believe was a bona fide cable from Madrid containing the an- nouncement. Benavente, according to his interpret- ers, abides by no known rules of dra- matic construction when he works, His plays are mere books without direction as to “business,” costuming or other de- tails, and no other dramatist in these times enjoys so much making his audi- ence think out the situation and plot. A medical practitioner in New York, who is also a keen psychological student, recently made the assertion after wit- nessing Miss O'Neil's performance that “the audience did more acting than the people on the stage,” which seems, in a to _explain the deep interest which “The Passion Flower” has aroused wherever it has been presented. Benevente is expected to arrive in the United States shortly, and if present plans do not miscarry, it is hopd by the pro- “The Passion Flower” he will attend the opening of Miss O'Neil's engagement at the Plymouth Theater, in Boston, following her Wash- ington appearance. Portrays Abraham Lincoln. ; FRAN'K MCcGLYNN, whose portrayal of Lincoln in the Drinkwater drama of “Abraham Lincoln” has given him such reclame, is a native of San Francisco and is fifty-three— just the age of the real Lincoln at the height of his career. Mr. McGlynn studied law and prac- ticed for several years, but finally determined to become an actor. He is what is technically known as a “character” actor, and because his im- personations have always been such as to sink his own personality in that of the role, his reputation has been largely among the professional world of the theater, and but little with the public. He played for many seasons with Henry Miller's organizations and with the Empire Theater stock, un- der Charles. Frohman's management. but until his selection for the part of sincere player hopes for never came. Mr. McGlynn is & nephew of - the late Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, long a eonspicuous figure in the religious and public life of New York, and early in his life a friend of Lincoln. It was from this source that Frank McGlynn originally acaulred his great interest in Lincoln, and it is a curious fact, for. superstitious persons to ponder over, that for many years Frank McGlynn has been noted as a student of Lincoln and_his times, and as a coilector of Lincoiniana. [C'oncerts anc. Le ctures Lectures on Far Nortn. Dr. Maurice C. Willlams, receni : returned from a six-year urn in the arctics, who will deliver a series of lectures every afternoon this week at the Shubert-Garrick Theater, has spent over a year among the exiles of northern Siberia. At other times he traveled up the Yukon river in Alaska, the sana river and in the mining distMcis about the White river. His lectures will cover all points - visited during his_ travels, which extended as far in the aretic circle as the 7ith degree north collection of moving pictures, which forms a part of his lectures, include scenes of Rex Beach's cabin on the Rainbow river, pictures of the cham- pion dog team of the north and views of the Eskimo in his native haunts. Questions by the audlence will be invited and answered. Today's lecture will be at 3 pm. ‘Those for the balance of the week will be started at 2:30 p.m, Lashanska-Boston Symphony. Mme. Hulda Lashanska, the- noted 1yric soprano, will appear as Soloist at the Boston Symphony concert ta.be given Tuesday afternoon in the New National Theater at 4:30 o'clock. Pierre Monteux will conduct-in Schu- bert’s Overture in the Italian Style in . C major, Haydn's so-called “Military™ sympony in G major, one of the mas- ter's last works, and the gpirited and E‘irquu’n‘: Suite Fmgalu, g the Hving ench composer, Roger Dugasse. . Mme. Lashanska will sing; Wwith th orchestra, Pamina’s aris, “Af, lo 50. from “The Magic Flute,” R n- tier's famous “Depuis le jogr," from his opera, “Louise.” Mme. Lashanska's debut several seasons ago in New York caused quite @ stir of enthusi- astic praise in that city. She now ° ranks in a foremost place among the lyric sopranos of the rising genera- tion. Mme. Homer-Miss Homer. Mme. Louise Homer, the American contralto, and her daughter, Miss Louise Homer, lyric soprano, will be heard in joint recital at Poli’s Theater Wednes- ay afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Mme. Homer's fame in opera and concert is world-wide. Miss Louise Homer has a Voice of youthful clearness. The pro- gram will include: Aria, *“Del mio core,’” from “Orfeo” (Haydn); “Serenade’ (Schubert), by Mme. Homer; “O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?’ (Handel), by Miss Homer; “Tuscan Folk Song: (Cariccioli), by Mme. Homer and daugh- ter; “Cuddle Doon” (Homer), *‘Re- quiem” (Homer), by Mme. Homer; “There’'s Heaven Above” (Homer Sing” (Homer), by Miss Homer; Banjo Song (Homer), Mme. Homer and daughter; *“Voci @i, primavera’” (Strauss), by Miss Home: “Love Went A-riding” (Frank Bridge), “My Ain Countrie™ (old Scoteh), arl . “Nobil Signor,” from “Les Huguenots’ “Sing to Me, “The Meyerbeer), by Mme. Homer; *Last §‘i‘hl thn) Nightingale = Woke ~Me™ rulf), “Sous le dome epais,” e (Dotibes): “do, Dretty Rose" (Marzials), by Mme. Homer and daugh- ter. Seats are on sale’ at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's .concert bureau, 13th and G streets. Birgit Engell-Laurence Leonard. A joint recital with Birgit Engell, the Danish soprano, and urence Leonard, the English baritone, as the artists, is announced for the sixth concert of the T. Arthur Smith Ten Star series, at the New National Thea- ter, Friday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. The program will be as follows: By Birgit Engell: “Aria of Larissa,” from “Il triofo di_ Cleli: (Gluck); “Nina" (G. B. Perholesi); “Amarilli” cini); “La Procession™ “Le Bonheur est chose lef Saens); “Quelle souffrance” mand); “Pierrot” (Winter Watis): “Pastoral” (D. de Corval-Rubner); “A Spring’'s Fancy” (Densmore. By Laurence Leonard: .Aris, Fugitive.” from “Herodiade” (Masse- net); “Lamento Provencal” dilhe); “Carnaval” (Fou! Neige” (Bemberg): “Inter Ni ander MacFayden); “The Paj (Continn-d on Foorih