Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1921, Page 55

i T I Theaters I “Che Theater ENUINE charm and unmistakable beauty arc the distinguishing features .of William Moore Patch's production, “It's Up to You,” which easily outclassed the musical productions that reigned in the local theaters the past week. It scems a pity, if rumor be ®ruc. that a modification of the cast is'likely. In the artistry of its color and lighting effects it has not been surpassed by even the great Belaseo himseli. while its human garden of modest beauty made it a delight to the eve and to the sadly assaulted morals of “the purists” of Washing- ton. But added to all this was the comedy clement that made for honest laughter -without a single drait upon the forbidden. or even upon the fountain of the uncouth. It was the aptest illustration of the season of what a musical comedy can be without a single sacrifice of Te- spectabilit, “Tangerine.” child of promise, was unfortunate in being brought to light so soon. Much remains to be done before it can expect to arouse cnthusiasm. “The Whirl oi the Town” seemed to be all that “It's Up to You" was not. but as the advance notices claim it had the personal supervision of the Messrs. Shubert—]. J. and Lee—and New {'ork Century Theater patrons flocked to see it in the hub of the universe, it doubtless is a brilliant example of what the tired business man and the transient visitor to the great metropolis wani. It was not a Washing- ton hit. ® ok k *FFYHE current week. redolent with the breath of coming spring, also gives promise in the theater, where we shall have the new Belasco- Frohman, Inc., spring production. “The Romantic Young Lady": Leo Ditrichstein and “Toto.” the charming “Maytime” and the Griffith mas- terpicce, “Way Down East.” with its never-waning popularity. It is almost enough to make one feel that mother is home again. Washington feels that it knows what to expect of any production with a David Belasco association. It knows Mr. Ditrichstein, too, and will, thereiore, prepare itself for a second comedy treat. “Maytime” will always bring the beauty of romance, and “Way Down East™ will continue to drive home a moral lssson not so untimely. Those who yearn for more leeway in entertainment will find 1t in the attractive bill announced for Keith's and headed by Ethel Levey. the idol of the varieties; the bathing beau- | ties at the Cosmos : the experiences imaginable in a dentist’s office at the | Strand—and the never-fading joys and excitement of burlesque. * ¥ K HE Win‘er Garden in New York is going to celebrate its tenth an- piversary. It was first made an institution in the world theatrical | by fh> Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert, March 20, 1911. and stili continues to present the same kind of entertainment—revues and extravaganza. The repor‘s state that “the Messrs. Shubert still coatinue to scour the ends_ of the earth in search of novelties and artists.” In their time. we are_told. they discovered and brought to light Al Jolson, Eugene apd Willie Howard. Frank Tinney. Marilynn Miller, John Charles Thomas, Mitzi, the Dolly Sisters, the late Frank Carter, Kitty Gordon, Kitty Doner, Lucille Cavanaugh. Rosie Quinn. Harry Pilcer, Shirley Kellogg, now-Mrs. Albert De Courville of London; Fannie Brice, Mollie King, : Bernard Granville, June Elvidge, Ada Mead, Eileen Molyneux, Juliette Lippe and Daisy Irving. Could Columbus have done more? Yet the Mesars. Lee and J. J. Shubert did. They presented for the first time in this gountry foreign celebrities such as Gaby Deslys, Mme. Sahara-Djeli Mme. Thamara Swirskaia, Mme. Baldina, Mme. Rita Zalmani, Dollie Dalpert and Emile Agoust, not to overlook Irene Bordoni. Perhaps the most memorable of the contributions of the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert Ato fle American theater are “The Passing Show of 1912,” “The Passing Show of 1913,” “The Passing Show of 19M,” “The Passing Show of 1915,” “The' Passing Show of 1916," “The Passing Show of 1917,” “The Passing | ShéW of 1918,” “The Passing Show of 1919” and the other “Passing Shows” since then. although “Sinbad,” “La Belle Paree,” “Vera Violetta,” “The Whirl of Society.” “The Honeymoon Express,” “Dancing Around,” “Robinson Crusoe, jr..” and “The Revue of Revues” will not be forgotten. “The' Whirl of the World,” “A World of Pleasure” and “Broadway to | Paris” also are carved on the Shubert role of fame, and perhaps others. | Their cost of production has been prodigious. b * % x % LOS CARITOS, premier Spanish dancers from the Royal Opera House, - «Madrid. who were brought to this country by Wagenhals and Kem- 3" 40 appear in their production, “Spanish Lov it is reported, have ecided to become American citizens and citizenesses. “the lure of the! country plus the lure of the movies” being attributed as the reason. { - * X k% NNOUNCEMENT just made sets forth that under a blanket insurance . Gontract, the B. F. Keith Circuit of Vaudeville Theaters has ceam- pleted arrangements whereby every Keith employe is automatically in- sured. and receives a policy without examination. All employes are in- ! cluded, irom the scrubwoman in the theater to the house manager. Those ! who have served less than five years are insured for $500 and those of | five years' service or more, for $1.000. l * & ¥ % EORGETTE CORMAN. the sixteen-year-old daughter of George M. ! Cohan. has announced her retirement from the stage, and J. William Souther, her newly made husband. has bought a seat on the New York! Stock Exchange for $99,000. according to news reports. The young bride ! pathetically remarked. according to the report: “I'd rather be what I am than the success that mother and daddy have been—a great. wonder- ful wife, with glorious things to look forward to. I'd rather be just what I am than a Sarah Bernhardt.” g oo ‘ * ¥ ¥ % OL.\'LL'\IEBT. has been made that John and Ethel Barrymore will appear in New York this spring. in “Claire de Lune.” a piay written by Mr. Barrymore’s wife. Ethel Barrymore, it is said. has been cautioned by her physician against further touring this year. The appearance of the :'rom‘e_r al?d sister in “Claire de Lune” will be but for a limited period in New York. A * % % % HE Kenh interests have purchased a site in Dayton for a new theater ~“designed to seat 3.000. It is one of a series heing constructed for the Keith vaudeville circuit. which. it is stated, by the end of the year, will § « have twenty additional new theaters. 4 ! An’ Intimate Chat With Miss Martha Hedman EY WIL AM BARTLETT REYNOLDS. . i OME veurs ago there was a family | tives asked me what I thought of the living in a little town in the north Performance. 1 told them I had en- of Sweden that prided itself on two | joren. I, 4nd that eyt eciaediite things—the butter made by the wom- | “What & shock this taused: My :'llnl lO{h‘ me such a thing was not ¥ roper for a yvoung lady to =ay, eve given to the chu jin jest. Howaver. I found great en- Ta this family was a little girl with | couragement in my uncle. Who sug- s tails hanging down her|Kested that I couid confide my am- | Vonde pigtails hans ! I hitions to Gretchen's mother, for the back. She wasn't a healthy child.and firct and not the third, Mme. Strind- the doctors told her parents sheiberg. as is usualiy reported. was shosnid g0 up into the hills with some | conceded to be one of the best dram- old woman who tended the goats and latic_teachers In Scandanavia. cows in the summer, live on milk and 1y en aad the number of boys it had i “Well. the rest may be told quick- I did confide my aspirations to Gretchen's mother and she took me | exwe.and breathe the pure air, and the | Fretehon's mother and she took me promise was made that she would feel | Lours of training on the minutest| . better in the autumn when she came | details. She kept me for months on! back. The little girl was fourteen|the gestures of my hands. the in-i vears old then, and the treatment was | flection of my voice and such things, Leneficlal. 5o the following spring she |and then, when I imagined that 1 was. gent away again with the same ) ready for my debut she sa old woman. During four or fivellet me see you try to walk motiths she saw no human beings but| “It was a stunner. but 1 tried. and the man who came to them once x|from her criticism I found that | had mough to bring meat. and the old|{more months of study ahead of me. shepherdess i “Perhaps American actresses do not When she came back to her villuge | Ko through this rigid training. but the mext fall the family decided she | we must do so abroad. only to hear should be educated. 5o they sent her|our teacher say at the finish: ‘Now to @ockholm. where Gretchen Strind-|do not do anything because I have il told vou to do it. but play a part as name meant nothing to her at the You feel it’ It all seems a prradox. tUme, for she had never even heard of | _ “On~ of the first surprises I found in the . theater, and wasn't aware that | Engiish-speaking countries was that her ¢hum's father was the most fa- | audiences expect their principal actresses mous dramatist in the country . !to have what is called a sympathetic At “Christmas Strindberg wrote a|pirt. They say that ‘So-and-So mirved fairg tale into dramatic form for an unsympathetic part so sympathetical- enagiment by his children and their|Iv.' Such a thing would be strange in frionds. and Lt this little family party | me country. Audjences there wateh for Martha Hedman made her debut as an | acting. They don't want an actress to acticis. {make a part ‘sympathetic’ when it is “I-played the prince.” Miss Hedman | not. They want her to caaracterize, says, “and it all seemed %o natural to!and they judge her performance ac- me..,Jt was exactely what I wanted : cordingly. to do, the very thing for which I had | “Thismay account for the unpopulari- longad during the long summers up |ty of xome of our actresses wnd dra. | soon became her best friend. The | there In the Swedish highlands, but| Matists. They are called cold, unrelent- I didn’'t know then t there was|ing and too realistic. But that is their xuch +a thing as dramatic art, yet 1! training and what they think to be| felt instinctively that there ought to be. | right. ""rm I went home for the numm»r! When Miss Hedman suddenly decided vacation and my parents sent me to|that Sweden was too narrow for the my unele and aunt at Helsingfors, | proper development of her talents, and Finland. This was a great treat, for | was sent to England, she mastered the 1 felt: that at last 1 was to see a real | language in a year, and began to act theater, the thing Gretchen had told|in the company of Sir George Alexan- me gbout. And it happened that the!der. W7 et iay T went to see was a drama| Then Charles Frohman brought her to from her father's pen. 7 America, where her success was imme- “When we reached home my rela-)dlate and emphatic. | A e e e e jcur the first American performances of cess, lation of Spanish playwrights, with the | author of “Maytime." | auspices capital that Mr. Belasco and Alf Hay- MARCH ]\Te’cional MaTTIE DE LECE. Gayety Current Attractionsi AT THE THEATERS THIS WEEK ]‘ i NATIONAL—"The Romantic Young Lady,” comedy.” Belasco-Froh- | man Company, Inc.. production. Opens this evening at 8:20 | o'clock. | BELASCO—"Toto." comedy. featuring Leo Ditrichstein. Opens to- i morrow evening, at 8:20 o'clock. POLI'S—*Maytime,” play, with music. | |- | Opens this evening, at 8:20 | o'clock. ARRICK—"Way Down East,” Griffith photoplay. Showfi today | at 3 and 8 p.m. | KEITH'S—Ethel Levey-Ciccolini, vaudeville. New show. Opens | tomorrow. at 2:15 p.m. y | COSMOS—"California Bathing Girls,” vaudeville. New show. Opens tomorrow, at 1 p.m. STRAND—"At the Dentist's Office,” vaudevill tomorrow at noon. GAYETY—"Victory Belles,” . o'clock. CAPITOL—"Girls from Joyland,” burlesque. at 3 o'clock. e. New show. Opens e Ty ot burlesque. Opens this afternoon, at 3 : Opens this afternoon i “The Romantic Young Lady.” #Maytime.” At the National Theater this week, “Maytime,” now in its féurth season commencing tomorrow evening, will oc- | and still an outstanding musical suc- comes to Poli's Theater for a “The Romantic Young Lady,” a comedy | ;vv;‘k uym‘_mem-mg llhhg ct‘enln}g‘. Rida e , Johnson Young, who wrote “Her Sol- from the pen of Gregorio Martinez|gior ‘Boy - ““Naughty Marietta.” “Capt. Sierra, foremiost of the younger gener-| Kijdd, Jr." and Brown of Harvard. is tho The musieal set- . cersion by Helen and H. Gran- | li"& was furnished by Sigmund Rom- English ve! Y | berg, composer of “Her Soldier Boy." ville Barker. The production is the| "3, Ciimc” has an appealing —siory latest In the series of presentations made that has to do with inherited affections annually each. spring under the ;o;m'wl'lerebyl*hx:nnd.:.u‘.:nnd realize the hap- 2 2 s thut a shattered romance denied of David Belasco and the ipeir apcestors. All of the scenes are Charles: Frohman Compan: laid in New York ‘citv, and the four For many months “The Romantic, ets, or cpisodes, give a picturesque rep- Young Lady” has been playing to large Fesentation of metropolitan life at fi audiences at the -Rovally Theater. in: Widely separated periods—1840, 18 London. It was immediately followiss| 1880 and 1920, the syccess of the comedy in the British| _The cast includes Eileen Van Biene. Worthe Faulkner, Otis Sheridan, Mario man, head of the Charles Frohman Com- | Pettes, Henry Norman, Ruth Thorp, pany, obtained the rights to production | Teddy Webb, Senorita bepita Granados in_Ameri | and many others, with a gallery of pret- The play has to doWith the unusual |ty young women of vocal and tersi- and amusing. attempts of an attractive ! chorean talents to represent the danc- young girl to assert her individual inde- | ing girla in fashion’s frocks of four pendence, while rebelling against in- | generations. numerabie discriminations which she finds. hedging her in on all sides, al- s though in comparison, greater freedom is - Way ‘Down Eas permitted her brothers and men in gen-| ‘“‘Way Down East” begins the seventh | week of its record run in Washington |at the Shubert-Garrick Theater this eral. Her attempts to go “on her own hook' find their climax in an amazing afternoon at 3 o'clock. with performances twice daily during the week, at 2 and & adventure. Tmportant roles are intrusted to Mar- |o'clock. The performance this evening | will be at 8 o'clock. tha Hedman, -happily recalled for num- This picture of a famous old play has erous notable characterizations ; Francis Byrne, Elsie Bartiett, Marie Wainwright, Edward Emery, Ada Boshell and many | been pronounced by substantial authori- others. ties as the greatest work of Mr. Griffith, who has combined in it drama, artistic motion photography, color and humor, with a musical embellishment that is irresistible. The people of Lottie Blair Parker’s original play have been brought from the land of make-believe far more charmingly than they were originally introduced. | | | “Toto.” Leo Ditrichstein is announced in his latest play,’ ‘Toto,” for the Shu- bert-Belasco Theater this week, com- mencing tomorrow night. “Toto,” originally a French play and one of the outstanding successes of the Parls season. is essentially a comedy. yet there is a beautifully told romance running through it and in its more serious moments the play touches the high lights of Parisian night life in contrast to the severe rural simplicity’that predomjnates in provincia) France. It is this contrast which is said to make it enjoyable. It is credited with some of the clever- est lines of the season in addition to amusing situations. The American adaptation was made by Achmed Abdullah from the French of Maurice Hennequin and Felix Du- quesnal. It was staged under the per- sonal direction of Mr. Ditrichstein. The play ‘is in four acts. Mr. Ditrichstein, in the role of Toto, is a gay spender of Paris. His com- pany includes Phoebe Foster, Albert Brown, Frahces Underwood, Jean Robertson, dward See, Orlando Daly, Lee Millar, Josephine Hamner, Emma Knill and Beach Cooke in m. portant roles. There are many others Ethel Levey-Ciccolini. { Ethel Levey and Ciccolini will be {the stellar attractions at B. F. Keith's jTheater this week, commencing at | the matinee tomorrow. Miss Levey Is the famous American comedienne whose singing of dialect melodies has enraptured London for years. Since then she has risen to fame in drama and the music halls. She starred in {the London productions of “Hello, | Ragtime,” “Hello, Tango,” *“Watch | Your Step” and others, also in the play ' ‘Outcasts” Several negro dit- ties in her repertoire are said to be sung with the volce and realism of true genius. Ciccolini is the Itallan tenor of the grand opera compani of London, Paris and other foreign capitals. In this country he has been principal tenor of the Chicago Opera Company.. Third in the bill will be Julius Tannen, billed in vaudeville as the chatterbox comedienne,” but fa- miliar as the original “Mawrus Perl- mutter” of the Montague Glass com- #dy. Others are Jay Dillon and Betty Parker. formerly of ‘“Going Up.".in . 3 | D ! and funniest of juvenile playlets, P “Nie Nacs of Now™; Jack Conway and in an oddity called “The Maud Muller and Ed Stanley. “Rice Pudding”; Percy Athos an company. in “The Poetry of Motion"; the "Parish vaudeviliians in barrel jumping and eccentric dancing, and Adventures in “Topics of the ¥ and the kinograms. Today at 3 and §: bill, with Gertrude Hoffman and George Whiting and Sadie Burt, will be given in its entirety. “California Bathing Girls Manager Brylawski of the Cosmos Theater. announcse as with morrow at 1 p.m.. Tom Rooney Earl Lindsay's Broadway sensation, “The California Bathing Girls,” ten in all, with Donna Montran in rare songs and Anna La Toy in unusual dances. Their entertainment is in the form of | @an elaborate and beautiful revue of the! | bathing costum.s of the world, past, present and future, with unusual inter- polations. A strong supporting bill will include Mellon and Case, in “A Slight Inter- ruption,” a unique comedietta; the | famous Aronty Brothers, who blend artistry with fun: Ed and Edith Adal in “The Shoe Shop.” a comedy sketch McCloud and Norman, southern boys, with the violin and banjo and an en- Joyable program: McCarthy and Sten- nard, ip.a travesty, “In Two Beds,” and, as a special added feature. James Car ney and Della Rose, in “Lost—A Hus- band,” a mirthful but novel diversion. “The Inside of the Cup,” one of the great photoplays of the vear, will be the extraordinary added matinee attrac- !tfon, and “Moonshine,” a merry Mer-| i maid comedy, the news pictures and, ! other film entertainment will complete the bill. A fine array of vaudeville talent and film features is announced for today, statirng at 3 p.m. “At the Dentist's Office.” Announced as one of the cleverest ney, Jarrett and company of four ver- satile youngsters will offer, as the headline attraction at the Strand Theater this week. beginning tomor- row, “At the Dentist's Office,” a half hour of gentine amusement.” Eugene Brothers, in a comedy triple horizon- tal-bar act, will open the bill, fol- lowed by the Spanish harmonist, Paramo. in more “Musical Originali.| ties”; Anthony and Arnold, in a char- acter comedy. “When Greek Meets Greek.” and Jim and Irene Marlyn, who present “A Kaleidoseopic Revue' of ‘songs, dances and violin and piand welections, with special stage and lighting effects. The photoplay feature will picture Shirley Mason, in her latest William Fox production, “Wing Toy.” Wing Toy has been left in infancy wlfi! a Chinese laundryman; reared by Yen Low, a wealthy and unscrupulous dealer in drugs in New York's China- town; grows to beautiful girlhood, and is rescued from them and a deles.led Chinese marriage. “Victory Belle: “Girls 'n Everything,” is the title of a lively musical farce to be offered by the Victory Belles Company at the Gayety Theater this week, commenc- ing with today's matinee. It is staged in two acts and eight scenes, besides a prologue, and is said to comprise many refreshing novelties, including an action picture of the average big burlesque entertainment. Eddie Dale and Scotty Fridell are the comedians, and Lynn Cantor is the prima donna. with a voice and a wardrobe of beauty which is expected to make a particular appeal to the feminine contingent in the audience. Others are Ruth Hebert, Matty Delece, George Walsh, Edward Griffin, Helen Andrews, Daisy Gary, May Mack, Ar- thur Vance and Claude Kirk, with a chorus of twenty. An added attrac tion is the Hebert Musical Revue, a company of seven skilled musicians. The book and lyrics used are by William K. Wells, and Hal Dyson is ‘(Colunued on Fourth Page.) . last week's | his feature ex-| traordinary this week. commencing to- | and ETHEL_LEVEY Rexth's At Theaters Next Week | NATIONAL—"Mary.” musical | comedy. | BELASCO—"Take It From Me,” musical comedy. | ! | KEITH'S—Song Rev of - 1921, vaudeville. | COSMOS—"A Japanese Ro- mance,” vaudeville. | STRAND—Ralph Whitehead, impressionist; vaudeville. | GAYETY—"Roseland Girls,” | | burlesque. { CAPITOL — “Tittle = Tattles,” | burlesque. | “Mary.” George- M. Cohan's comedians soon be presented in England and oth- er countries, will begin a week’s en- igagement at the XNational Sunday. March 20. | “Mary" is a typical Cohan show. It never stops once it gets started, but speeds merrily along from the first curtain to the last. Every man and {high pressure and to the delight of the audience. Many . pretty songs, many melodies of the clinging type, {pretty and attractive women, clever comedians. lovely stage settings and ever s0 many dancers of grace or | grotesqueness. contribute to a unique | and entertaining story, 'The company is exceptionally large, and an active, pretty and able girls' chorus is augmented by a male chorus of ability. “Take It From Me." “Take It From Me" is coming to the Shubert-Belasco Theater next week, opening Sunday night. It is a crea- | tion of tuneful. jingling musical num- bers and mirth-making situations. If you want to laugh or to hear a really leasing spectacle, “Take It From should satisfy the desire. The plece is fuil of action, cleverly staged. and the comicalities are guar- anteed “all clean and wholesome.” It is claimed tosbe a radical departure from what has generally been known as musical comedy. Three young men attempt to wreck a department store by resorting to ridiculous excesses. One of them has spent $50,000 left by his uncle, where- upon he is notified he must take over the store and conduct it successfully for a year, in which event millions will be his reward. The manager of the store has framed things so that the boy cannot succeed, which causes the youth to decide to wreck the business. But the strangest part of it is the store succeeds. “Song Revue of 1921.” Next week at B. F. Keith's the in- complete bill, as announced at this time, will contain Gus Edwards and company of thirty young folks in his “Song_Revue of 1921"; Kane and Her- man, Frank Gaby. Josefson's Iceland- ers. in native defensive methods and sports; Mabel Nurke, Dakoma, etc. “A Japanese Romance.” Charles Rogers. the noted western vaydeville producer, will present as the headline feature of next week's bill at_the Cosmos Theater “A Jap- anese Romance,” a delightful singing novelty, with a cast of nine excep- tional ~ singing players, handsomely staged and beautifuily costumed. The act is classed as of the highest cali- ber. Other numbers of an interesting bill will Include James Thornton, former- y af James and Bonnie' Coming Attraction in} woman in the cast moves along under | Thornton, pne * Philadelphia last night. Donna Montray VmmE——x BEULAR KENNEDY Capitol S of the fine: of vaudeviile entertain- |ers: “Past. Present and ‘Future.” an |amusing travesty of an old comed dep.cting woman’'s woeg sine the days of the cave man. by u cast of I8iX clever people; Shepherd and Dunn. Hilton and Mae. in comedy and !songs; Onri and Brother, in classic |posing and a cycling no ty: and the famous Kitara | The added mati !the big photopla (ing the Piper.” Ralph Whitehead, “Impressionist.” The musical comedy star. Whitehead. & character impressionist of ability, will be featured in the bill for next week at the Strand Theater. Others in a triple headline program will include Arunold Grazer {and Myrtle Lawlor. in music. style {and dances: Arthur Sullivan, a lh}' Cora Bell. in “Drawings Life": the three Kanazawa Boy feature will production, “P: be From n X Japanese dexterity. and Rose and Lee | *Mary,” the ‘musical comedy. that is| Bl in “Song Studics and Hits of irapidly developing into one of the|ygs' biggest successes in America. will| First-run film offerings both in fea- ture and short subjects will complete the program. “Roseland Girls.” Next week’s attraction at the Gay- {ety Theater will be “The Roseland Girls,” with a cast headed by Rert Lahr and Harry Kay, comedians. and a cast consisting of Adele Ferguson, Kathryn Dickey, Ruth Denico, Mer- cedes La Fay, Emily Dyer and Rich- ard Clay. : “Tittle Tattles.” For next week at the Capitol The- |ater the attraction announced is “Tit- {tie Tattles” featuring the “Four { American Beauties.” the only act of {its kind in burlesque. Competent art- { ists, pretty girls, matchless scenery. striking costumes, tuneful, music and an exceedingly funny book are claimed for it also. ! i Rose From Burlesque. Jolson, it is said, was once a Al occasionally appeared in burlesque. Leon Errol, who is being starred this season, was for vears in burlesque. | The Rogers brothers. and- Weber and Fields. were at one time known as “German comedians” in burlesque. Fred Stone, with the late Dave Mont- | gomery, was appearing with a bur- lesque show on 14th street, New York. when Charles Dillinghat dis- covered them. Harry Fox. also ap. peared with another team in one of the more recent burlesque shows. Above~ them all, David Warfleld. who gained his initial stage experi- ence as a “crepe comedian,” as be- whiskered interpreters of Hebraic roles are termed in burlesque, was another who rose to fame from the ranks of burlesque. There are oth- ers, many others. Tho American stage has found } much of its comedy and many of its comedians, as well as more serious actors, in the burlesque field. As a matter of fact, burlesque for many years has been the nursery of the comedy " stage., - The musical comedy companies are filled with burlesque actors and actresses, and the “revue” type of entertainment could not exist without them. The route of many en tertainers leads from burlesque via vaudeville to Broadway. Indeed, it is claimed that many burlesque man- agers have to use the greatest watch- fulness to protect themselves aguinst | Raiph! ted Concerts ar Lectures Prihoda-Fioravanti Toda; the young Boh a deep im snioint with the Orchestra, will | heard in a recitul. this afternoon 3:30 at the Shuheri-Belakco Thea' Prihoda comes (o Washington rect from a v estern tour, having » peared for the diet time in Chi Minneapolis and St. Paul as sol | with the Minneasolis Symphony chestra. ! With Mr. Prih | Clelia Fioravant {can contralto. who a'so appears Mi Ttal mer ng_as Carm with the Washintgon Opera Co: {pany last vear. The program for Mr. Prinoda v i Ibe: “La Fellia” (Corelli). in F Sharp Minor” (Ernst), (Sud-Ondricek). “Caprice Venno! (Kreisler) and “I Palpiti” (Paganin Miss Fioravanti will sing “Hab nera,” from ‘armen” (Bizet). “To na a Sorento” (Di Curtis), “Vi Veneziana” (Brogi Clavelito (V3 de). “A Toi" (Bember i (Curren). emory” (Gan Fairy Piper” (Brewer) v (Rummel). 2 Titta Ruffo Tomorrow. Titta Ruffo. the famous baritonc. L heard for the first time in Washin {ton, at Poll's Theater. fomorrow afte | noon at 4:30 o'clock. Within a few d of the announcement of his availabi! fer concerts after the Chicagn, New York and Boston opera seasons th great Italian baritone was engaged fo° i no less than six festivals. { "His program will include: Aria. Itrie” (Paladilhe); prologue from *I'a igliscci™ (Leoncavallo): serenade (Mo i zart). Sei morta nella vita mia | (Costa); aria from *T Barbicre di Si J viglia™ (Rossini). i | Tickets are on sale at Mrs. Greene's | concert bureau, i3th and G streets. i {Theo. Karle-Rubinstein Club Tues- H H day. Theo. Karle, accredited by great critics as America’'s leading tenor. good song, or prefer to witness an |Small-time black-faced comedian and | will be the solo artist at the second concert of the Rubinstein Club’ Washington series, at the New Ma sonic Auditorium, Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. With a voice of extraor- dinary power, and yet capable of the tenderest delicacy of tone, Mr, Karle has_scored many successes during his five seasons on the concert stage. His program follows: “Care selve (Handel); “Moon of My Delight.’ “Persian Garden” (Lehmann); “The Lament of Isa the Praud” (Grisses), “Song of the Open” (La Forge), “The Island” (Rachmaninoff), *The Coming Spring” (Rachmaninoff). *“The Cry- of Waters” (Campbell-Tipton), Indian songs from the ‘“Garden of Kama-Lohr.” “Starlight,” *Just in Passion is ut an Ember’ Lagan Love (arranged by “T'll Follow You" (Maley), Knows the Trouble I've Seen.” mnegro spirituals (arranged by Burleigh): “Hard Trials,”” “To a Hilltop” (Cox). “Twilight” (Glen), “Sands of Mil- lane” (Stickles). “Have You Been Too Long™ (Burleigh). Tickets may be obtained at the offices of T. Arthur Smith, 1306 G street. Dohnanyi-Boston Symphony. At the last Boston Symphony concert of the season, which wiil be given at the New National Theater Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, Erno Dohnanyi. the Hungarian com- poser and pianist. will play, as solo- “the lifting” of their players by the managers of Broadwa. —_— Arthur Byron has been engaged to appear In “The Ghost Between.” a new play by Vincent Lawrence, and which will be given a New York hearing shortly, Byron ended his sea- son with “Transplanting Jane" in ist, with the orchestra, Mozart's pianoforte concerto in G_ Major (Koechel, No. 453). Plerre Monteux will conduct in Dvorak's “Second Symphony in D Miner,” which, though less famillar perhaps. the “new world” symphony of the Bohemian compeser, is accounted more beautiful in many wa: The (Continued ap:Fpurth Page,)