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A MISS PHOEBE FOSTER X Wore a graceful negligee in “Toto.” FOOTLIGHT FASHIONS. BY ELENORE DE WITT EBY. ISS MARTHA HEDMAN in the “Romantic Young Lady" gave a' delightfully ingenuous impersonation of a girl who thought herself quite { ultra-modern in her thinking and ideals, but who found that at heart| &he was more or less “old Iashloned"‘ after all. The scene of the play was ! Jaid in Spain, but if the fact were not ‘ wtated on the program it might be| * magincd anywhere. Miss Hedman's| gowns are very new. and really ex-| Quisite. | In the first act she appeared in a| simpe atternoon frock of pale orange- | tinted georgette with a few touches of old blue stitching. The bodice had | a rounded. collarless neck and short kimono sleeves. It was belted in with & narrow fold of self material, on one | side of which was placed a corsage of | erange flowers clustered in ribbons. | A single panel hung from back of these and extended about seven inches longer than the skirt hem, which was scalloped and edged with blue. The tailored suit sketched was a| girlish model of dark blue tricotine ! with braid trimming. The loose | raight-line jacket had bell-shaped | eves and was slashed around the| lower edge to form panels. A white lace collar finished the neck, and the blouse worn beneath was also white. Jower part of the skirt was | slashed in panels and outlined with braid to correspond with the !nv:k«l.l A wide girdle of red silk fringed with blue was draped around the waist to | add a dash of “Spanish paprika” col- | oring to the costume. | MUSEMENTS. f MISS MARTHA HEADMA Wore an attractive ta‘lored suit in “The Romantic Young Lad Miss Phoebe Foster as Louise de Tillois in “Toto" entered the first act in a lovely evening gown of white georgette with a short overskirt lengthened into panels at each side of silver-embroidered chiffon. Later she wore a simple little frock of old blue silk with a flounce of pleating to edge the rounded neck and a skirt showing several layers of tucks. A bow at the throat of mauve silk af: forded the only touch of color con- trast. In Miss Foster's opinion the most beautiful garment she wore was the neglige of chiffon in rainbow color- ings, which is illustrated. She sa'd that she preferred simple things, and although negliges are usually rather ornate, this particular one was cer- Reviews of New Book THE GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE. By Gerald Stanley Lee, author_of “Crowds” etc. New Yark: E. P. Dutton & Co. HE White House is haunted by a vague, helpless ab- straction. a kind of ghost of & nation, called the peo- ple.” *“What we really do with a President is to pick him deliberately Wp out of his warm, human living With the rest of us, with people who. | Whatever else is the matter v\ith‘ them. are at least somebody in par- € tleular, Jift htm over into the White| House, shut him up there for fpur| years to live in wedlc erage—a kind of vague. tual, . with an Av- rold, intellec- Terrible This is the wikubstantial, lonely, lled the People.” est job on earth.” Now, the only way to say anything z::ul a writer of the Gerald Stanley is not to say it—just let him #ay it himself. The quotation already given is a sample of the way in which this writer defines the ways and means—some of them—by which the ghoetly hundred million people of this country can make themscives felt as warm, human beings by the lonesome man in the White House. Of course, this & most reudable book. Its secures that quality. Its sub- , 100, goes along with the orig- inality of its manner. Both are alto- mether Gerald Stanley Lee-ish. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN DREW CARNEGIE. Tllustrate Bo:ton: Houghion Mitlin riking effect of this story is that at the end of his Jife Andrew Carnegle was as much of a child, in @ertain ways, as he was in his actual childhood. He had a child's confi- dence in human nature, in his friends ang in the essential goodness of th: world. 1t is a joy to read tne book for this quality alone, even though it were not packed, as it is, with inter- ting and Imporwant details of its author's progress trom a poor Scotch immigrant o onc of the richest men in the worid, and one of the most humane. The later years of Mr. Car- Begic's life are, to a degree, matters of common information—his wealth, his benefactions, his kindness to yoyng men of promise, his friends among the noted men of the world. One loves best here the stories of his early days in Scotland and America. Innumerable incidents here are a joy 10 the reader. A good story, among hundreds, tells of the day when lit- tle Andy was given a pair of rabbits for which his father buut a warren. | The usual multiplication immediately met in. Soon the question of forage | Wwas uppermost. School days hindered | the solution of this problem. Andy | hit upen the expedient of enlisting all the boys roundabout to spend a part of Saturday in gathering the week's provisions. He paid them by nhming @ new rabbit after one an another of these members of the com- | missariat. Tooking back u shade of ! doubt as to the ethics of the plan ap- pears—but the humor of could mot keep the story out. Mr. | Carnegie's library plan, for which he | is 80 famous, took root years ago | when, a lttle boy in Pittsburgh not | able to get books, he became forever | gratefyl to Col. James Anderson. who opened his library of 400 boo boys. That was what he te do when he grew up. That was what he did do. The whole story I8 a beautiful one just because the spirit of the man himself lives in it, and throughout it. E INTERALLIED GAMES—I919. Compiled and edited by Maj. George Wythe and Capt. Joseph Mills! Hanson. Tllustrated by Capt. Carl| V. Burger. Paris: Published by the Games Committee. Do you know that there is a Per- shing “Stadium in Paris? And that this was built by our soldiers, given By the Y. M. C. A. to the A. E. F. and given again by the A. E. F. to the people of France, to the end that | augments. i tion: the man iT the “bonds of friendship between France and America, forged anew on the fleld of .battle, may be still further strengthened on the friendly fleld of sport”? This Is true; and the book in hand gives a full count of the origin of this' beautiful sym- bol of friendship between the two countries. Moreover, it gives a de- scription of the ‘military Olympics, which took place at the stadium, a meet in which athletes from all the armies of the allies took part. It is, besides, the complete story of the gathering in Paris. the housing of the contestants, the entertaining, the contests of 1,500 picked men fre about eighteen different countries. A picturesque assemblage and a thrili- ing story of friendly rivalry. The - condition of eligibllity for the entrant was that he had earned the it to wear his country’s colors by 1 defended them in service as oidier. A most inspiring situation which the story itself supports and ‘The book is handsomel. made, both in regard to its illustr: and its mere book charac- teristies. THE _VACATION WYNS. By Wi ells, author of Fortunes,” etc. Bros. This novel, written several years ago has been published only since the ideath of Mr. Howells. The story moves staidly along the quliet paths that this author laid down for all of his works of fiction The immediate background of the action is a Shaker community. Its larger environment is the countryside of New England The action itselt hinges ypon the summer vacation of the Kelwyns—a college professor and his family— tuking its stressed moments chiefly from the housekesping defections of the hosts of the Kelwyn family. The romance rises out of the unexpected advent of a young cousin and the ac- cidental presence of a youthful ex- perimenter in a line of social science’ This combination spreads the fleld of literary activity in which this au- thor loved to wander—no amasing plot, no striking climax, nothing of that which Is called romanticism. Rather are there hundreds of finished sketches of individual and local char- acter. The people are all of the usual stripe—so much like ourselves that we more than once lose the sense of reading a story and seem, instead, to be partaking of the homely enjoy- ments and the frequent vexations that the situation entails. All the ple are real, as real as we our- 1 are. with uninteresting mo- ments in their personal attitude and behavior—just such as folks outside of hooks are affijcted with. The whol HE KEL- m Dean How- ‘Hasard of New New York: Harper OF TI il « a litle bit of life presented with the fidelity and restraint and deli- ate humor that stamps the entire work of this “dean of American let- ters NO DEFENSE. By Gilbert Parker, author of “The Right of Wa; ete. Illustrations by C. D. Wil liams. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin- cott Company. This story sets jtself much to_do. herefore, it has o move fast. Ire. . _England, across the Atlantic to the West Indies, furnish, in turn, the stage for one or another of the laps of its advance. Its hero is an Ir man, captivating of course. Convict- ed of a murder which it turns out he did not commit, his first adventure is of the prison variety. Beyond thig point he engineers a mufiny in the British navy, wages a victorious sea fight off one of the West India fs- lands, syppresses a revolt of the na- tives on the Island of Jamalica—cem. porting him at évery turn as a full-fledged hero of high romance should. "The time of this adventure i8 the period of the French revolu- tion, with the Irish nd gon- niving against England then. much as they did in the rrl ent century. There is & beautiful lady whe stands as the motive of much of this daring enterprise on the part of the here— a lady who rewards chivalry as it should be rewarded. One whe likes i | MISS EILEEN VAN BIENE Was a picturesque figure in “May- time. tainly exquisite in its classic lack of detail. The front and back were jdentical, and consisted of straight: panels hemstitched across to form an empire waistline. The square sleeve drapery was set into the panels with iscens upon ' THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 20, 1921—PART 3. NAN HALPERIN ON WOMAN'S DRESS. The Giddy Stage “Mother.”| NOT so long ago when an actor men- [ Photoplays This Week THI-: attempts at the standardiza-]and there to conform to her own likes tioned the word “mother” he put tion of woman's dress are fu- and dislikes. If skirts are short and|pig hand on his heart and the audien a0 tile” saya Nan Haiperin, the wonder- | Recks are low, they will be o Iheaved a sigh. When mother was in PEE T gk it by Yol gL €151 of “The Midnignt Rounders™ or lower as ihe individual NOMSS] Ciuced in the play sne was o sweet : | Thure: ouien Tovely. 1o Wi Wit ot d :f.‘n",'\'f"‘,';‘.f'g,,“'f“ We may all wear white-haired old lady, very helple ind and comedy, | HRrt, in “The Testing Block.” a for women that shall embody all es- | cause turbans are the tb and everybody was busily engaged inj 4 | Saturday, Maurice Tourn ur's “The sentlal features and yet be uniform. defy man or woman to find taking care of her. | - Bait o But ver s omen wearing 6t 3 : of stage mother | | 2 e ¢ men whe o . oc 1 tomorrow o e SRR P i b o Which demands uniformity | the giddy mother. She wears peroxide |, - he i Do eak Today. Licut. Ormer Lockiear, in £ r “is obvious | with good on, but no woman. nd no back te her dre The Skywayman™: tomorrow. “So reason is as simple as i Vednesd Rasil King's The charm of woman is individual and | pretty or ugly. will risk her cha and sings and marries a new i, oo Gak Brae | Long. Tuesday, Frank Mavo personal. Anvthing that takes away|in a standardized dross when the o n the last act. This mother. { in® § 5 in “The Marriage Pit": Wednesday, individuality and personality fails 0K R0 T, fifty, looks but thirty - 2 Dorothy Dalton. in “The Remantic “We w s i aie veni the ne . izty Rryant Washburn, Srtipi ey L 3 ferent variations of woman's Aress as | to. social uniform we ust at present : M e Wit Mot Triday. e there are women. Just as men are.|will have enerally a by ke, in “Ma G (<R B e B o (I thank goodness. made to adore dif-levery man who resents sical comedy. i features, including “The Son of Tar ferent women., so women were horn|fashion v forces him to wear the new 5 | zan.” to desire different clothes. The main |clothes Sometimes uubecomine i Empire. | ptyle and cut will be determined fto resi to a stricy rule ooy PHACHIY ton largely by the dictates of fashion.|that h like every other A bl ks y " but each woman will change this here dbman. ¥ he 3 I andslin ALl ©] Teday and tomorrow Forbid = S mother Dty bt A 3 Wedpeaa e aen Ditng and ¥ Keaton in bping baritone named Jack Truth™. | .The Scarecrow™: Tucsday. Bessie Music and Picturzs. Lwho = In the Spotlight. strapping baritone n Thursd Friday. oes out to Kansas, q.—n\;- o | Love nnie Wednesday, ] . and returns smelling of petro Men FEATURE of every production HUR BYRON'S opening in “The | very rich in “The bearing the name of D. W. Grif- e S e ! “I love the new stage mother.” Wallaee fith is the music. Those who have AREGIB S ST G TOT D Broske. who impersonates ! . and Saturday. Conway seen “The Birth of a Nation.” by Vincent Lawrence. in New! “In fact aim to be the first = {in “The Road of Ambition ™ erance” “Hearts —of th . has been changed to next Tue _Mi e | Lyric. e e night { Dle like youth on the stage | Today and tomorrow, Madge Savoy. T e e | i v looking people in a musica The Highest Bidder”; Fodin. Al temorrow: e nstie i A Harry B. Herts is soon to present completely out of the p Mary Pickford. in “Th | ,m‘nh“h or shading by the charact with Walter Hampden. in|my face and make myself look u tust iiride”: Thu “Paying the Piper.,” and medy, of music played, and whether ihere | . e star reland 1 pointed out that few Dorothy DAlton. it xpril Fool”: Thursday is fortissimo or pianissimo makes the v M fifty ays permit them: day. William Fair- {5 g ent 200 comedy greatest difference in the effect of the re ore than thirty, th Western | Girl™: Frida Tilestones,” tke intent ctator hairdresser, the masseu: R 4 The firat perforn an d_in “Way ed with a role- ctor, Some of the Down East” is ident music M [ hemstitching, while a picot edging | served to finish the rounded neck. The; | entire creation was made of four lay- | ers of chiffon, shading from light pink ! ito pale yellow and then lavender. while the outer material was a deeper lorchid. At the sleeves all four tints| | were visible, as the material was! graded in uneven lengths, and th | same border effect was used around | the skirt. Miss Foster carried a show- | {er of roses, and their delicate tints| added to the general harmony of the color_scheme. In Maytime Miss Eileen V: was & quaint picture of an old-fash-; ioned girl just “sweet sixteen.” Her | frock was of cream lace combined! with pink taffeta and black velvet| ribbon, and with it she wore a head- | | band of black velvet. finished at each | side with a rose. The tight bodice of the gown was of taffeta, with col- |1ar and sleeves of lace, while a cluster | of pink flowers and a spray of velvet ribbons gave a dainty touch of tr'm- ming. The crinoline was composed of a succession of lace ruffles, with black velvet bows placed here and there at random. The last act of the play brought it up to the twentieth century. and Miss Van Biene as a granddaughter of the old-fashioned girl wore a more mod- ern crinollne skirt. with the hoop | placed at the hips. The bodice of | Alice blue satin was cut with kimono sleeves and the neck was edged with a rolling satin cape collar, which ex- | tended into 8 point at the back. A lavender ribbon at the wa'st and some flowers gave a delicate touch of trim- ming. an Biene ! a whirlwind romance, with no stop- overs anywhere along its course, will | have the best sort of a time with “No Defense.” | THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON , FROM WYOMING TO MEXICO. ! By Eilsworth L. Kolb. Nlustrated. | New York: The Macmillah Com- ! pany. This is adventure—real adventure, And the story tells itselt. That Is ito say, the plain account of what i these two brothers did day by day, with no_ effort toward adorning the tale, makes a story that thrills with i the excitement of danger, and exults in a progressive guccess from point to point of the hmzardous way. The modesty of this account is one of its charms. The two adventurers make it clear that their simple pur- pose was to make a photographic trip In rowboats down the Green and Colorado rivers. This they did. ! And here they tell us about it. Beau- i titu} pictures, an abundance of them, | serye the reader as a capital vis- 1ualizing agent, and a good map {guldes his course. In a charac- teriatic introduction, Owen Wister pays tribute to the courage of these { adventurers. pointing out some of the tests of that courage, and de- fining, also, bits of the enchantment that lured them to this dangerous exploit. One is sure that hundreds of boys would devour this book with great joy. ) A WORLD REMAKING; Or. Peace Fimaunce. By Clarence W. Barron, author of “War Finance,” ete. New York: Harper Bros. i ! These letterlike chapters, written |trom London, Paris, Boston ana Wall street during the months of 1919, take up certain of the outstanding Froblems of peace finance, much as an | earlier book by this author took into consideration the conditions of war finance. From London the author looks out over England, finding in that country the great war loser among the allles. From this stand- point he makes a study of the meas- ures and means by which England is attempting to restore itself to in- dustrial and financial security and eminence. From Paris he makes a corresponding survey of France. America, in its bearini upon ultimate international stability in industry and {ts representative, money, comes in for a final expert analysis of the general field. To a seasoned and ex- pert knowledge of this generally per- plexing subject of finance the author is able to add here the gift of simple pictorial statement. Under this treat- | ment the subject lights up, making | concrete appeal to that which stands commonly a8 an abstract and elusive theme. In effect this is a dramatiza- tion of money in the role of re-crea- tor of the world to the pursuits of peace. CHARLES E. CHAPIN'S STORY. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. This is the story of a man who, as a little boy. presents a picture of as- tonishing zeal to do things, to know things. to become a man of substance and worth. Through the most of the course of the narrative it is the story of hard work, of fighting off poverty, l | | | l l of improving every chance to move head. Like 80 many boys in similar ituation, the newspaper became the goal of ambition. This was, in time, achieved, and Mr. Chapin became the city editor of a great New York er. Then—the balance was ho essly unsettled. Charles Chapin i today. serving a life sentence in Sing Sing prison. It is from this place that he has set down the story of his life. Under the friendship of Basil King, who has written an introduction to Mr. Chapin's book, it was finished and brought to publication. A story that is both touching and terrible. A sim- J | | ple, ghtforward account, that confines itself to facts alone. —_—— “Burvival of the Fittest” a new play, by George H. Atkinson, had its premiere performanes: Jast week in New York, at the Greenwich Village Theater. Grant Stewart, Laura Nelson Hall and Montague Love. played the principal role The American Academy of Dramatic Arts New York wifl present for the it time in this country.a drama by riele D'Annunsio, called “The Heneysuckle,” at the Lyceum Theater, New York, tomorrow. afternoon. - and 1 e of slight value in creatir if to nothinz ame kind of gam and . Coul for all the characters in a Griffiih - Thomas csis” occur- (and now I seem to be down | { play have their characteristic musi- | red in v last we 1m- ! mother parts. I played one in ‘Honey- | al theme and when the theme recurs | mett Corrigan is featured in the cast. ! dew’ last year, but the lines really Mary Pick- | the appearance of the person is def- called for an elderly woman. They FER 08 i mona o s 5 S initely indicated Pittsburgh last Monday night| kept ref 2 to the ‘old woman.' and Golden THope~i| . ¥ ; Many rehearsals are necessary he- er Hampden add acheth™ tof [ used to every time I heard it e TR enore i | venge of Tarzan”: tomorrow. Norma fore the orchestra can come pat upon| The production, design-| So 1 got a from that. Home Thursday, | Talmadge, in “The Way of a Wom the incident or scene, and Griflth | s Bragdon, was oo Somebody said man 1s as old « AN COReAY; FOR Bby": Taselaly. himself, who devises much of the| s \e Teels. but a woman as old as she ;s o e music for his productions, is the | looks. He was right. Consider the | TR l\lg":::‘:l’_l'll xouns.n |lv‘u«.:‘.'m"' greatest stickler for these musical irl of a generation ago. From eight- e effects. 1t is his belief and conten- .| een to twenty-four was her life. If AN A tion that sometimes old standard com- | he wasn't married at twenty-four she i Raphael. Hedils positions are hetter than original s an old maid. The poor girl reaily | . [, ¥ scores for pictures. | this city while about six years to live. ‘When she ) TOdAY. JORRES © “In opera or at the symphony.’ Che House That | married she ‘settled down. What a| RooKies’, (et = rays, “we do not absorb the j horrible expression. She raised chil- { [0 Y, Y G0 Paint. and Powder at one hearing. Many dren, did housework and went tof APSEEC SR Mack nétt's some operas and Arthur Byron i ared for the church. She wore somber clothes. By | 7 B St Loa® ann! comeas necessary to their time in “The Ghost Betwe ime she was forty she wore a ke “In the case of pic es Atlantic O 1 er her head, and, some of them sary” to impress the one to open in New ty smoked a pipe at the fireside, | innocent flirting. and the wife has as | hearing, and a score. no matter how ¥ night ow look at us. From eighteen to | good a time as the young girl. NEXT WEEK'S PHOTOPLAYS. fine, made up of new melodies, would - wear the same kind of clothes,| “The old-fashioned girl had about Metropolitan—Charles y, in 19 s of life. We have about thir- | < ‘eammared v h oo eomines ooof th t of “M woman of fifty from times as much. Probably the ' Phyllis.” % , carefully modulated and w will h ts initi glass. rneration will extend woman's Palace- tty” Arbuckle, in “Brews- of a definite relation to the action on|at the new Ri Theater, New York,| Wr sappearing, y hair | ability to ¢ until she s‘s‘t\'.lter Millions. e G the screen. ' tomorrow night is unknown, husbands do not object to | enty.” It's a period to live in. Columbia—*"The Faith Healer ey 4} oy MED; ro MECE muN orva 3 " Fasiy . QLU VaLum, voy)y o Now as Never Before You Need The ENCYCLOPZEDIA'BRITANNICA What has been the lasting heritage of the war? In brief, a nation of keener thinking, knowledge demanding people. 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