Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1921, Page 53

4 o * money and the money instinct, but not the mind, jazz the legitimate Part 3—8 Pages he Sunday Star. WASHINGTON, gsement * fl%he Theater — 124 song. to quote a recent comedy hit, will usher iw mau;ura[i week and President Harding with his new administration of | serious purposes in the establishment of ":\mrru‘_;\vl rst.” | The great metropolis, where for the present the gegfus guiding the American stage resides, has giv freely of what it cofisiders its best to Belp the inspiration oi the hour. and. incidentally, to gather in flw} shekels upon which it feeds. Even the Arabian Nights of old will | find a new guise and a new meaning in the hands of the “hum epitome | of pep. punch and persomality,” the redoubtable Jolson, and his merry | aggregation, while George White, with his “Scandals of 1920.” will supply | call that unflagging emergy and the expenditure of last year's earnmgs g can contribute to a varied version of the three-armed structure in the form of “wit, women and musical motion.™ i x % 3 WO comedy bits helped to make the entertainment oi, the week just closed enjoyable in theatrical circles. True “The Hottentot” ap- proached more closely the domain of farce. but it was laughable and de- lightful. “Adam and Eva” lost none of the richness of its comedy fas- cination on its second visit. and both theater patron and critic readily covered it with.praises. “The Passing Show of 1919" will linger a while longer. In addition to, its other allurements, it has a striking burlesque contingent and a solo dancer that win its chiei applause. It is a bit travel-worn in its seenic department, it is true, but one must expect that after its long and sturdy service elsewhere. Two years are likely to tarnish even the Shubert tinsel, and there is no dispesition, apparently, to polish it up for a Washington appearance. = % ok ET there is no mistaking the fact that the revue and its imitators seem to have taken a hold upon the public which is remarkable, and as the chief dramatic aim of the modern theatrical purveyor is un-! questionably commercial. it is not to be wondered that the purveyor ill purvey as long as the public will pay. In the meanwhile drama. by a long sleep, may regain its former strength and healtl, and, in a day to come, reappear in its richest charms. For somé time the dance move- ment of the stage seems to have dislodged dramatic aspiration irom the head and settled it firmly, but shakably, in the feet. Young and pretty girls, in gorgeous raiment. swinging and swaying in rhythmic motion, are the sirens that have lured things dramatic to destruction, and yet they are pleasant to look upon. 'HEs handwriting, however, is on the wall. Close observers have per- ceived the renaissance of the amateur dramatic club and society, and have marked with interest the persistent and capable efforts put forth among the p2ople themselves to revive the plays and the form of the drama that have ever had, and ever will have, a potent power of attraction in this jazzing world of ours. The time was when amateur dramatic effort was regarded with scorn by those who affected to believe | that it might injure rather than help the legitimate stage. Efforts of the Drama League and oi other societies with similar aspirations were long a butt of the irony and sarcastic paternalism oi the defenders of the legitimate stage. How times havé changed! The legitimate stage, with one fell swoop, has resigned its legitimate occupation, and at the same time routed its whilom defenders. while the critic with trenchant pen is now dipping his quill in sugar water to €rim for a new diversion. It may be that the amateur player and the amateur playwright may prove the salvation of classic drama in America, while those who have the % * into the realm of junk or the ardent attention of the censor. In the Spotlight ") has been set for-Sunday night, Mu{ 29. After one performance the eom- pany will- start on tour, playing the In the Spotlight. John Drinkwater's “Mary. Queen of | |*30InE clties of the east and middle Scots.” will have its premiere at the | Frolic* presented on the road since new Ritz Theater. New York, March | 1916. #21. Clare Bames will play the role of Atary. | “The Tyranny of Love” adapted gom lhe“l-":ench by Henry Arthur 3 S, aron, wi e The new Klaw Theater in New York | oo 5" How oy eoa cor the Grat will b§ opened !Dmo:row lr‘ch!u:lfl;;i noon, with George Flateau, Estelle several postponements on &cco of | y 3 The Cevere weattier Saw: H. Thicria'| S rocd and MerssrétiDalelin i tHE roduction of ice People,” a comedy y Rachel Crothers, with Frances| Larrimore sgarring. will be the at-y traction. i Margaret Anglin celebrated the 200th performance of “The Woman in Bronze” in New York last Wednesday night. The occasion also marked the h anniversary of the play. which made a coast-to-coast teur last sea- son before going into the big city. | William Faversham has been inyited | hy the authorities of the New York | HaJl of Fame to unveil & bust of Mark | Twain and take part in the exercises connected with the unveiling. Phyllis Rankin has been engaged for the new John Golden production, “Happy New Year,” a comedy by Hale Hamilton and Viela Brothers Shore. which will have its first showing in Atlantic City March 28. Eric Leighton. an actor known to London playgoers, American debut in will make “Nemesis,” jhew Augustus Thomas play, under his *he ! the management of George M. Cohan. 1 | Mr. Leighton was recently leading man at Daly’s Theater, London, in “The Happy Day,” and was the first artist to win the distinguished derv- ice order in the war. He is a cousin of the late Lord Pauncefote. one-time the Cnited | British ambassador States. to Philip Moeller is directing the new | production of the Theater Guild, “Mr. Pim Passes,” a comedy by A. A. Milne, which will open tomorrow aight at the Garrick Theater, New York. Lee Shubert last week announced the purchase of Keeney's Theater, | Newark, which i8 to be used for Shu- bert advanced vaudeville. which will open next September. The theater is to be entirely refurnished by that time. “Heartbreak House.” “Thy Name is Woman,” “Mixed Marriage,” “Er- minie” and “The Importance of Being Earnest” ended their respective en- gagements in New York last night. Kissing Time,” with William Nor- ris and Edith Taliaferro in the lead- ing parts, continues to pull them in at the Shubert-Riviera Theater, New York, and it is predicted that this catchy musical comedy will stay there until the end of the season. Whitford Kane has been engaged for the Spanish play, “The Cradle ‘Song.” which opened in New York last Priday in a series of special matinees. A. L. Erlanger has made arrange- ments for the Sunshine Girls from the Folies Bergere and twelve Parisian beauties from the Ba-Ta-Clan Theater in Paris to join Ed Wynn in a musical show to be produced early in the spring. “Tangerine,” & musical comedy pro- “Woman to Woman,” a new play by Michaal Morton. is in rehearsal in New York and will open in Roch- ester next Thursday night. Wilette Kershaw heads the cast. which now includes Gail Kane, Kenneth Hill, Felix Krembe. Andres Corday and Stapleton Kent. d by Carl Carlton, opened last - Ao Y ptiantic City, and is shortly | Herbert Gresham. general stage di- o be seen in this city. The book is by | rector for A. L. Erlanger, and at one time a prominent member of Augus- tin Daly's great stock company, died last Wednesday at his home in Mount Vernon, after a long iliness. He is survived by a widow and three chil- dren. Rather Work Than Play. {E Four Haley Sisters schemed to get away from their twenty-three R |acres of oil lands in Oklahoma and takes a trip to Europe in search of | 1oy just so they could go to New dramatic material—and perhaps a lit- v,y 4ng earn a living. The oil lands, tle stimulant. Returns after & VIsit 0} i py next door to the land where the the South Sea Inlands with a germ of | (2 1T T L it firat an idea. and six months later pulls himself out of his study with a manu- | Well in Oklahoma, are more or less a matter of indifference to the sisters, seript entitled “Alimony Isle” Then comes the dirty work—ten producers " Feceive ten copies and ten producers|Who have thrown all responsibility return same as unsuitable. A pause in action as “Alimony Isle” lies on shelf of author's library. He gets idea one night, and next morning walks into office of Carle Cariton, the man who produced “Irene.”” A cigar. a drink and another manager reads it. Three weeks later Carle C “I'm a gambler.” and zoes into rehearsal. Tike title ¢(he's a friend of Al Woods) | and picks “Tangerine” as the fated caption. Six weeks later; time. T:45 | pm.. fifteep minutes to opening n; doors; scene of action. auditorium o e ) Giobe Theuter. Atlantic City: char- |, “We had to get away Robert Milton. stage director, | DoMd. somehow.” said Grace, “so we ired and worn, but with & determined | Succeeded in getting to New York on smile, putting the electricians through | the pretext of studying music. 1 was their lust | % rehearss going 1o study for grand opera, but,” Four hours later: Crowds going out [ with a laugh in her blue eyes, Philip Bartholomae and the music by Carlton_and Carlo Sanders. Vivienne ,Segal, Irene rilson and Edwin Ni- cander head the cast. The forthcoming The Evolution of a Play—By a Press Agent. The author, Philip Bartholomae. i “Friars’ Frolic” for their management on a brother- in-law, and live on their income from singing. As Bernice Haley apologized for keeping on with her sewing in her dressing room. “Why, I'd have to do something! I make many of my own dresses, and | tove it. Mabel. are equally industrious. far as they can,” said Lucille. EAR BEER, chickens and jazz.” rather than wine, women and f Her three sisters. Grace, Lucille and | £y yorites : D. UNDAY ! Automobiles l MORNIN i. FEBRUARY o 27, 1921 - ANN PENNINGTON § GRACE. KENNEDY Cosmos N athElBL CHARLES BROWN, AL JOLSON and PrI1ZI VONDUSING ~ Shubert- Belasco eVAUN- Gayety ~ KITTY DONER Keithi Current Attractions — ing at 8:20 o’clock. BELASCO—AI Jolson in “Sinbad,” revue. 8:20 o’clock. POLI'S—"“Passing Show of 1919,” revue. Opens this evening at 8:20 o'clock. Opens tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. morrow at 1 p.m. STRAND—"Five Virginia Belles,” tomorrow at 1 p.m. GAYETY—“Breaking Into Society,” burlesque. noon at 3 o'clock. NEW CAPITOL—Burlesque. Open AT THE THEATERS THIS WEEK NATIONAL—“Scandals of 1920,” musical revue. Opens this even- | ! | | % t KEITH'S—Kitty Donor and company, Vaudeville. ! COSMOS—Vaudeville and photoplays. Opens this evening at (New Show.) (New show.) Opens to- vaudeville. (New show.) Opens | Opens this after- s today at 2:15 and 8 p.m. “The Passing Show of 1919.” The second and last week of “The Passing Show of 1919 begins at the Poli's Theater this evening. - This legalized joyride in two acts, hteen scenes and twenty-three cal numbers shows every sign of outdistancing its seven predecessors in popularity Avith Washington the- atergoers. Starting on Mount Olympus, where the gods, as yet safe from profibi- tion, bemoan the fall of man, this speedy succession of spirited scenes, set with soulful sirens, leads to the Canadian border, to old Salem in Puritan days, to the road of destiny, to Florence in the period of “The Jest.” to King Solomon’s kitchenette, to the court of the same muchwrdded, but still wise king, and to other joy-in- fested regions t0o numerous to quote. The cast is headed by James Barton. the Avon Comedy Four, Lon Hascall, Frankie Heath, Kyra, Hazell Cox, the Rath Brothers, the Four Haley Sis- ters, Harry Turpin, Tillic Bartom, Eddie Miller, Peggy Merriment, Jack Leslie and Johri Crone. Al Jolson in ‘‘Sinbad.” Al Jolson, president of. the world of fun, with his large and brilliant com. pany under' the direction of the Messrs. Shubert, will open his engage- ment at the Shubert-Belasco tonight, in “Sinbad,” the gay and gorgeous production from the New York Winter Garden, which has served him so fa- | mously for two years. The forthcom- ing engagement is for inaugural week only. Both Jolson wnd “Sinbad” are said to be peppier than ever. Mr.! Jolsons atter u holiday vacation at| Palm Beach, is in a state of bounding spirits and comes to his hom town with a budget of new songs. new jokes. new everything, in- cluding “Avalon.” which composition s sweeping . tho count Also new costumes and scenery. “Sinbad,” with Jolson at its head, has rolled up the biggest receipts ever earned by a Winter Garden production. In the ten cities where it has been presented to date It is said to have shattered all records for so-called “regular. at- tractions.” and here and there cven overtopped the receipts of the grand opera companies, g In Mr. Jolson's supporting company of nearly one hundred entertainers include score of _Broadway galaxy of Winter the leaping houny Garden_beautl “1 think that every one should live|of the North Shore Country Club agi on what they earn and get ahead as|a host of attractive dancers and sing- | Iittle soubrette who pais of his support are: The prins Creiginton, Virginia Smith, Fritzi von in the galaxy will be Kitty Doner, the Broadway danseuse, associated with Al Jolson for several seasons and also one of the bouquet of beauties of the New York Winter Garden. Miss Doner, as- sisted by her sister Rose and her brother Ted, both exceptional twinkle-tos artists, will present “A League of Song Step: The extra added feature will be George Choos’ production of “The Eyes of Budd- ha,” described as a work of art, but rated by the average vaudevillian as a musical comedy of abbreviated length, but full size quality. Heading the cast is Nace Murray, reinforced by Carl Byal, Sallie Keith and George Gould, also introducing Frank Masters and Ruth Hale. The book and lyrics are by Milton Hockey and Howard J. Green, fllld' the music by Walter 1. Rosemont. Craig Campbell, American tenor, is listed, and Hector MacCarthy will as- sist him. Syivia Clark, the little clown- ette, otherwise known as “The (lad Girl,” will offer catchy songs. Hugh Herbert, the comedian-author, will pre sent a one-act comedy called “Mind Your Business.” A capable company is announced. Watts and Hawley will give “Laughs Coated With Melodies." Raymond Wilbert, “The Unusual Fel- low”; Raymond and Shram, in “A Syn- copated Cocktail”; Mang and Snyder, “The Twentieth 'Century Wonders” | “Topics of the Day" and the Kinograms will conciude the list. Today at 3 and $:15 p.m., Keith's last week’s offering, including Mme. Em- ma Trentini, John B. Hymer and Fred Lindsay, will wind up its week. “@irls Fronr the Follies.” The 18 from the ¥olli burlesque of the better class, comes o0 the Capitol Theater Tor one week, starting with the usual matinee to- day at 3 pam. with a new equipment of nery, costumes and electrical effects This organization which for the past ten years has taken the lead in the q ity ‘and character of . its novelties is the best evidence that the “Girls” have pleased the thousands of bur- lesque fans who never patronize any other form of amusement. Among the leading artists with the show may be mentioned Fred Binder, a Hebrew comedjan. with a reputa- tion second to none in his particular field of endeavor. “Fred” receives able assistance from Billy Kelly, Lew Howard, Billy Walsh and Theadore Murphy. Mabel prima donna and @ versatile per former} Lu Arnold,” a talented genue with nice singing Pauline Graw. character enne, and Mae Kennis, in- voice ; comedi: pretty “uts up” as only can. The chorus the best soubrette | et away from Okla-|Misses Helen Eley, Leah Norah, Sue|is composed of an agile lot of young women, who have been properiy Busing, Margaret Mack and Ma-Bells | trained in the singing and avrobatic (premier dunseuse), und the Messrs. ¥ranklyn A. Batle, Forrest Huff, 1| Charles Brown, Eddie Lynn, William Barns, Frank Holmes and Samuel of Globe; remarks, beautiful. rotten.;found out it took too long a time.” t. a lemon. delightful. Ten min-| “I never even got o @ piano teach- | Critcherson. later: Cariton back stage con-|er” added Mabel, who is the elder of eratulating players. Press agent of sisters, v Ehow approaches: offers hand to Carl- | e, Sisters. and Who took to’stage work first. “The Dan-cmE Doners.” way, and whose cfforts should find favor with the habitues of the Capitol Theater. “The Five Virginia Belles.” Melody, syncopation, comedy, romance mystery are . the ingredients which White is clever as a | ton. “What do you want, Get out of here and get to Baltimore. and if we don’t sell out the opening there you're “But the oil wells?" “Our brother-in-law attends to leas- fired. " ing all our business. We're salting 4 TWinale: Midnight train ong to Baltimore: press agent sunk | Wearing? in the “Passing Show eof his xcat. This is some life. 1919, now playing at Poli's. Inauguration week commencing at{Manager Sparrow has used in making the matinee tomorrow at B. F. Keitl'} up his double-bill of vaudeville and pic- Theater bids fair to be one .of thelturrs which will be presented at the oceasions in thé history of Keith)Btrand Theater all week beginning to- shooting | that down. The Haley sisters are ap- | vaydeville. here, as the bill is of unusual|morrow (Monday). * length, and there will be an extra matis|= The -“Kive ‘Virginia Belles,” a quin- nee Kriday at 5 p.m. The central stapftet of charming feminity in a stringed i " and prass instrument number, presented by Messrs Canton and Yates, will head- itne the vaudeville portion of ‘the m gram. Others to be seen inclyde = mero's Canines, said to be of the greatest dcts of this character on the Jack Goldle, in “Smiles and Songs”; Jules Kibel and Pauline Kane, who present their original comedy oddity, “Inventions A Ja Nut,” and the popular comedians, Sam Lewis and Ar- thur Thornton, offering “The Great Lovers,” by Joseph Browning. X ‘“The Greatest Love, a new Select Special, with Vera Gordon of ‘‘Humor- nounced as the photodramatic offering for the week, the production being shown for the first time in Washington. Mother love is the domMnant feature, and the rise of the little immigrant fam- ily from poverty to power in the new land of opportunity, followed by tragedy and humiliation, constitute a cross sec- tion of life which might be met just around the corner in any city. In copjunction wit hthe showing Ar- thur J. &fanvell, conducting the Strand Orchestra, promises a score of unusual appeal and appropriatness, special num- bers including _Shilkert’s ~Make Be- lieve Short film features will com- plete all showings. Mme. Doree’s Celebrities. Eight notable singers, known as Mme. Doree's Celebrities, are an- nounced for a return engagement at the Cosmos Theater this week. begin- ning tomorrow. The company, which is sald to be vaudeville's finest oper- atic organization and which made a great impression here last sedson, re- {turns much improved and enlarged, and will display special new scenic ef- fects. at Moments from Great Operas” will be offered and lovers of good music are assured of a real treal. Other bright and interesting numbe: of the bill will be a return engage- ment of Jack George Duo, in an un- usually funny blackface act; Anderson and Burt in a comedy skit. “A Quiet Evening”; Dobbs, Clark and Dare, ac- complished farceurs, in a hodge podge of merriment; Murdock and Kennedy, comedy songs, cross fire and dances, and Frank and Ethel Carmen, in “Whooping the Hoops.” The extraor- dinary added matinee feature ' will be Douglas McLean in “The Rookie's Return,” one of the season’s big photo- play successes. “Movie Mad.” a two. reel Christie comedy, will be shown at all performances. Gayety. i The “Bon Ton Girls” offer “Break- ing Into Society.” a clever musical satire on the affairs of New York's socially elect. as the attraction at the Gayety Theater this week. In addition to the regular fourteen per- formances during the week, an en- tire show will be given for the beneiit of inauguration visitors, commencing at’ midnight Thursday, March John Barry and George Douglas, pri pal comedians with .the “Bon Ton Girls,”” are firmly entrenched as fa- vorites among burlesque fans.. The supporting cast includes Harley Mayne, prima _donna; LoG Barty, soubrette, und Mickey Feeley, Marge La Vaun, Walter La Foye, James Mc- Cauley and_Kdwards Simmons, not forgetting the chorus of exactly twenty winsome young misses; who not only look their parts, bul can also sing and dahce to - perfection. Two acts and eight Scenes are r quired for the staging of the enter- tainment. Provision has been -made for the introduction of specialty num- ers. The music and lyrics, the work |of Ruby Cowan and Jac! clude such songs ns “Hold Me Am a Vampire,” “Lullaby. A !and “Humming Song Arcade. The dancing program under prepa tion for this week at the Arcade promises to be one of the best of the season. On Wednesday night a “shower” dance, with prismatic “rain’ and umbrellas as favors, will be the latest novelty. A matinee dance from 3 to 6 pm. is anngunced for Friday, March 4, while the “big event will be given in the evening in the shape of an inaugural carnival with the audi- torium and the private baliroom thrown into one for the accommoda- tion of dancets and spectators. -Two large orchestras will furnish dance music and appropriate souvenirs, con- fetti. noisemakers and unique “sur- prises” will be distributed. esque” fame in the stellar role. is an-| (R O e e ) 1 | The Theaters Next Week. | | NATIONAL—“It’s Up to You." | { | BELASCO—"Tangerine.” | POLI'S—“The Whirl of the | Town.” | | COSMOS—“The Winter Gar- | “den Girls.” | KEITH'S—Gertrude Hoffman. STRAND — Vaudeville and | photoplays. GAYETY—“The ' Little Ele- phant.” ) “It's Up to You.” Heralded as a fast and funny mu- sical, comedy, With a book by Augus- tin MacHugh, said to be an entertain- jment ‘in_itself, and music by the late Manuel Klein, “It's Up to Yoy.” fea- turing Joseph Santley, Ivy Sawyer and Douglas: Leavitt, comes to the New National. the week of March 7, preceded by glowing reports from Boston, where it holds that staid city’s record for length of engagement this season. William Moore Patch, the producer, has provided -“It's Up to You” with a cast of unusual excel- lence and a chorus that still has Bos- ton gasping. “Tangerine.” Tn_“Tangerine,” which comes to the Shubert-Belasco Theater on Sunday evening, March 6. for an engagement of one week, the promise is made that Carle Carleton, producer of smart . musical >comedies, seems (o have,found a brilliant successor to nis Initial stage offering, “Irene.” “Tangerine™. is a musical comedy that Qeals humorousiy: with the complex affairs. of the ultra-fashionables—of | mopey-making men and money- spending women, whose marital en- | tanglements and their unravelling provide for smart satire and bril- liant wit, cleverly interspersed with lilting tunes and ecxtraordipary ex hibitions of the art of Terpsichore “Tangerine” was written by Philip Hartholomae, who has to his credit such_ success s “Oh. Boy” and “Very Good. K¢ The production has been beautifully staged under the direction. of Robert Milton, with the ensembles by Julian Alfreds, i ‘Winter Garden Girls. “The Winter Garden Girls, with Billy ALbott of musical comedy fame, are the prineipals in a musical act which f:is announced as the outstanding fes ture of,program of the Cosmos Th ater for the week of March 7. Be- sides the’act is said to be.one of the biést Jaugh-makers of the season, and will, introlnce some beautiful scen- SEy an to-the-minute costumes. Six ' other: higs acts will be offered, nd’ in . addition two photoplays, s the f a Mack Sen- ‘Midsummer Madness, ture, and “Movie Fans, nett comédy. “A Night on the Beach Lyndail Laurell and company, pre- senting thie geason’s oddi ‘A Night on the Béach”; Maric Keel und the Brower Brothers, in “A Study in Syn- pation”; Margaret Merle, offering | “Melodies of the Moment’ ard and Lillian West, in their musi- {cal comedy idea, “The New Hotel Clerk,” and Lthe Johnson Brothers and Johnson, $n “Moments in Minstrelsy,” are the vaudeville attractions at the | Strand for the week beginning March 7. 4 Photodrgmatic offering, Jack Piclk- ford, In his Tatest production, “Dou- ble-Dyed Degeiver.” Short subjects and speclsl orchestral features. " GAYETY. Next week's attraction will be “The Little Elephant,” a musical whimsi- ality, presented by “The Million Dol- Jar Dolis,” a brilliant company, the A Nat Ren- | fCom ing Attractions | roster of which includes the names of {Joe Freed, Al Tyler, Irene Meara, | Mildred Cecil. Harry Fentell, Al | Mardo, Ben Drohan and Marty Du- | pree. | 5 5 | Jolson Discusses Audience. | PHETTY sort for you” suid a Irnend o Al Juifuas Onc day, SLANAINEG 10 ITORL OL tut Ve ILter Gdi- 1 as nundreds of New Yursers wers rugging 1or place in i like W wWie DOX “ullice thal extenued lnree lui locks dOWn Broadway, Lrying o buy seats for JolSom's premier i “Siu- bad'—" you Sing a lew songs, tell a Iew stories, laugh witn them and at em, and then cotlect =0 mucn money that you'll never be able to count it ” “Now, once and for ail, listen,” spake up the famous comedian, “and get me, it_you can. “An audience of any kind must be made to laugh. You can't coach them, and you can't tell them that you're funny unless you can make them be- lieve it. They hate to laugh when you want them to, and when you want them (o cry, they laugh. There isn't anything so obatinate and perverse on earth as an audience. What you've g0t to do is to try to convince them how happy they'd be’if they'd just permit themselves to Jaugh. “Once I entertained before a deaf and dumb asylum. There was a test— {still, it wasn't the first time that 1 ! had tried joking before an audience that didn't seem (o hear me. An audience must be trained to laugh. | And training an audience is a very different thing from training a seal When you have a seal you want to do something, all you have to do is to throw him a fish. No audience can be-trained that way “I have heard of actors who are afraid of audiences. (Between you and me, some of them ought to be.) 1 have been myself, but I soon came to realize thut an actor without courage should be a chemist, or professor in a college, or something like that which requires faithfulness and mild- ne: ometimes it Seems to me that the people in the front rows at the the- ater have strolled into the theater b; mistake. They don’t want to laugh: they Jook up sadly as if they were afl prayer meeting. From the mana gerial point of view, their money is as good as the next, but it's rough on the comedians. The thing to do is to go to the theater ready and willing. even hoping to laugh, then comedians work themselves to death to please, | and everybody is satisfied. “My hardest audiences? Well, per- haps they were in the old nickel- odeons,” when I used to give twenty- three shows a day—appearing, like a short: 1motion picture, every . little while. You know, a nickel is & nickel, and the people who went there want- ed their money's worth. Mr. Jolson will be in Washington for inauguration week. openipg tonight at the Shubert-Belasco Theater. A "Repeater. The fiftieth performance of D. W. riffith's masterpiece of stagecraft, 2 vill take place at hubert-Garrick tonight. This is the record for either the silent or spoken drama in the history of the lo- al stage. The local management be- lieves it is partially due to what one calls in theatrical parlance “repeat- ers”—people who come a number .of times, bacause they find when talking who have also been to see play that something escaped their notice upon the previous visit. One party in particular has been to |see the play five times. He became | confidential” the other night while talking to the ticket taker at the door between acts. pivd have been here five times.” he nd 1 am coming again mext if the old woman wiil let me.” “Why shouldn’t the old woman let you?” the ticket taker asked. “Well, you see.” he whispered, “it seeus a bit cruel, but you know where the girl is snatched from in- stant death by that young hero fel- low: well, some night that youn fellow is golng to miss her, and I'l be right there watching her go over the falls. Concerts and tures Toscanini—La Scala Orchestra. The demand to hear La Scala Or- chestra, under Maestro Arturo Tosca- nini, has become so insistent that Mrs. Wilson-Greene has announced a third appearance. to be given at the New Na- | tional Theater Thu farch 2. at 4.30. Mr. Toscanini's eminence as a conductor is always a matter of common acceptation among lovers of music in America, and with the personnel which he can command the orchestra will be jgnal success. His pro- Vincenzo lilei g : unknown uthor (end of the sixteenth century). “Villa- nella”; unknown author (end of the si: teenth atury). “‘Passo mezzo e Ma: cherada,” antiche danza ed aria per liuto (arranged by Ottorino Respighi L. van Beethoven. “Seventh Symphol jin A Major, opus : oco sostenuto. { “Allegretto” “Scherzo.” “Allegro con brio”; Johannes Brahms, “Variation on 2 Haydn Theme”: Victor de Sabata, “Juventus,” symphonic poem, G. Ros- sini, overture to “William Tell.” Pavlowa and Her Ballet Russe. Mme. Paviowa and her Ballet Russe, with full symphony orchestra, will appear at Poli's Theater for a return engagement. Wednesday, 3 at 3o | Mme. Paviowa's Russian ballet com- | bines at once. the drama. pantomime, music, painting, art and the dance. Amarilla chanted The d Mazurk: Her program will include (ballet in ome act). “The E Lake” (ballet in ome act). vertissements will include: (Glinka), *“The Swan”. (Saint-Saens). “Pas de Trois” (Zibulka)., “Czardas” (Grossmann), “Scens Dansante” (Boc- cherini), “Greek Dance” (Brahms), “Syrian Dance” (Saint-Saens). Under management of Mrs. Wilson- Greene concert bureau, 13th and streets. Mme. Galli-Curei. Mme. Amelita Galli-Curei will again be heard in recital at Poli's Theater unday afternoon, March 6, at 3:30 o'clock. Only the intimate friends and ac- quaintances of Galll-Curci are aware of the versatility of the phenomenal soprano who has taken the musical world by storm: It is not generally known that she Ix un admirable pi- anist and linguist, an authority om Italian literature, i« charming con- versationalist and an all-round good fellow. Seldom does a great opers singer excel in the concert field as well, but Galli-Curbi has proved that | she is equally at home in either. ln | both coloratura and lyric roles she has won success, and as a singer of ballads she is second to mone. Seats now on sale at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's concert bureau, 13th and G streets. Bauer, Thibaud and Kindie:. Harold Bauer, planist; Jaeques Thibaud. violinist, and Hans Kindler, cellist, will appear -ii-Joint recital at; the National Theater Tuesday after- noon, March 8, at 4:30. The appea ance of this instrumental trio is without question one of the most important musical events of the musical season. Harold Bauer is @ master in every sense, Thi- baud is France’s greatest vio- linist and Hans Kindler's name is synonymous with the greatest at- tainments in the field of violoncello music. This distinguished trio ef usicians in onme recital offers the highest class musical entertainment. temaining seats now on sale at Mrs. Greene's concert bureau, 13th and G streets. Joseph Hislop March 10. The Washington concert debut of Joseph Hislop, the Scottish tenor of the Chicago Opera Company, is an- nounced for the New National Thea ter Thursday March 10, under the lo management of T. Arthur Smith. This concert will mark ‘the opening of a « on