Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1921, Page 59

Theaters ll Part Pages The N The Sunday Star. WASHINGTON, D G, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 9 1921. Automobiles Theater son has been engaged Dillingham for “The Frances ( by Charies reached his 300th . The Bad Man the Ritz Theater X t week. “Shufle_Along produced the Nikko Producing Company I not bv John Cort, as orig- inally announced. Georze Lo Maire. the “Broadway Bre Iso produced. has ors n here with which he been engaged by the andals of 102 The Hotheads.” which Licrndon is producing the “Right Way.” wiil city June & Richard G. renamed from dpen in this “inslow has been enzaged fo: leading role in “The Melody of T A new ¢ iy by George H. Warda Howard. American a who has headed a dramatic company in the far east. arrived in New York iast week from Ceylon, In- dia. n One of the travest napshots of 1 hich the Sel- wyns and Lew Field are to produce at the end of the month, will be a sa- tire on detective nlays, entitled “Who Tone 1t?* with Nora Bayes and De Wolf Hopper in the principal roles. sketches “Two Blocks Away.” the new com edy by Aaron Hoffman, will have | first performance at Atlantic City to. rrow night. e O'Neill's “The Emperor ended its run in New York ht. Charles S. Gilpin will open piece in London July 18 and will tour this cointry next season. Frances White has been signed by the Shuberts for five years and yill be seen in a new musical comedy in the fall. Doris Keanz will end her engage- ment in New York in “Romance” next aturday night and will open in Chi- cago the following Monday for a summer's run. She will be seen in a new play next season. “The Last Waltz” which was to have had its premier performance in this city. has scored a tremendous hi in New York and doubtless will con- tinue throughout the summer and next season. Although *“Phoebe of Quality Street” did not make much of an im- pression in this city, Dorothy Ward, who sings the title role, has cabied her London agent to cancel her en- gagements in that city until after Christmas, as she is to remain over here until that time. White for a comedy role in ini | Charles Dillingham received a cable (last week from Elsie Janis, from ! is, in which she says her suc- s in that city will not prevent her « tret urn (o America in August Zizi." the new farcical comedy by Fred De ¢ ¢ and Fred Jackson. was presented at, Atlantic City Mon- | | day night for the first time. Carle Carlton has signed Jack Ha | zara to appear in his forthcoming Julia Sanderson production ‘rangement with Charles B. ham. Dilling- | i | Adolph Klauber has engaged James Gleason for the leading comedy rol john Hunter Booth's new play .we a Kinz." when it is presented | in September. | | | | a new play by | “The Reason Why Mrs. Trimble Bradley and Grant| Morris, will be tried out by Edward i H. Robbins and his associate players | at the Roval Theater, Toronto, May 30. Harry Fox has been engaged b) A. H. Woods for “The Pink Slip.” in Which Bert Williams will be starred next season. ! Bertee Beaumonte, comedienne, in ! “June Love,” goes to London in Sep- ember to fulfill a music hall con {tract. She will rejoin “June Love for its Chicago showing in November. The Selw. ns and Lew Field present = mew revue, entitled ! Shots of 1921," at the Selwyn Theater. i New York, about May 30. The cast is ! headed by Nora Bayes, Lew Fields and | De Wolf Hopper. Clara T. MacChesney, painter, completing a portrait of Frank Bacon las “Lightning Bill_Jones,” in com- memoration of his 1,200th performance in “Lightin’” at the Gayety Theater, } New York, June 6. i “Shavings” ended its second season recently in New York and will again o on tour'in the fall. Harry Beres- ford and James Bradbury will con- tinue in the cast. Alice Brady broke all sorts of records in her new play, “Drifting, in. Brooklyn recently, the house be- {ing sold out for every performance. The play is the work of John Colton !and Daisy H. Andrews and is a ro- mance of China. Ina Claire had some trouble with David Belasco, which resulted in her withdrawal from “The Gold Diggers” and Gertrude Vanderbilt taking her place. Miss Vanderbilt has a tw year contract with Belasco. Miss Claire was anxious to be seen in an- other play. which brought om the controversy. 1 is LITTLE THEATER PLANS FALL OPENING. After a short but successful sea- o!wnrk from an interpretative and son, the Little Theater, at 1742 Church street, will open early in the fall in a place already selected in the business district of the city. The premature close of the season is oc- casioned by the objections of some of the residents of Church street to the location of a theater in their neighborhood. Washington's Little Theater justi- fled its existence Wwith its presenta- tion of two new plays in its first two productions. One was a charm- ing adaptation of a Hans Andersen classic. and the other was an epic piece of grandeur in dance and drama entirely _new, “The White Gods Come.” This played over two Weeks. Then followed two other plays skitl- fully produced and handled. The cur- rent attraction has been running for the benefit of the Chinese famine fund and is “The Chinese Lantern.” by Laurence Houseman, a fine piece ——————————— acting standpoint, with a creditable scenic mounting. Each new produc- tion has added to the conviction that the new Little Theater of Washing- ton is a dependable institution. with force of players and producers. “The Chinese Lantern” is billed for |- fer the famine fund. In the mean- time the Little Theater will lose its permit and will _close—on Church street. But the Little Theater man- agement has its plans and the un- looked-for curtailment of its spring season will not interfere with them. Washington's Little Theater will con- tinue its work in a more central lo- cation under better conditions. | and downs have been strenuous and frequent. but the emergence trium- phant of even a few of them—such as the Little Theater of Detroit, for instance, which had one of the most difficult fights for “existence—lends courage to others. QUITS MOVIES FOR STAGE. Motion pictures have robbed the stage of many of its most popular | gratifying success came not after he personages, but this season has found | became famous as Abe Potash, but some of these deserters coming back. improved in technique and mort popular than before. Such a one I Louis Benniso; pearance in “Zizi,” which opens to- morrow evening at the National Theater. Mr. Bennison was born in California_and spent the first two decades of his life there. He gained his first theatrical experience with a stock company in San Francisco. He first played character roles and then graduated into leads. His first suc- cess was in “The Heart of Maryland Botween engagements and during vacations. Mr, Bennison spends his time on his farm in Pennsylvania, where he raises horse: Not a Life of Ease. Gloria Swanson does not look with favor upon those who believe that mo- tion picture folk live a life of ease. There's a reas finished her first Paramount starring piet: Elinor Glyn's “The Great Moment. left for a vacation. She had just arrived at a mountain camp when a long-dis- Dircctor Sam tance call ca from Wood. “Retake:”™ was the gist of her director's conversation. ) Gloria dio. Two hied herself back to the s hours” work sufficed for the “retake. but the incident delayed the star vacation four days. Too Realistic for Taxi. In “Closed Doors,” her new starring production, Alice Calhoun is required to effect a collision between her run- about and the town car of the villain of the picture. In this way. according 10 the story, she first meets the man who br. a aio amount of shad- ow i life. “Taxi” the prize bull{ terrier. who was riding in the rul about during the taking of this sce evidently d qui the idea, for he 1 1 ing to preve ping off of the runabout to warn the r of the impending o on. Expensive Rage. The statement comes from New York U §30,000 worth furniture for a or setting was smashed in eri the Paramount production, * which will soon The setting in ckground for a 1 by Wallac: Theodore Wanda Hawley “and It is an ultra urious apart- ment and the production manager was jnstructed « 1o expense. But the story required the desiruction, and Wa d was instructed to run amuck, shing evervthing breakable in the Not one stick of furniture remained 1< original shape and position when 1 ndalism was ‘complete. As a «iimax the husky star seized -the huge «ierstuffed divan and hurled it through A the French doors at one end of the set. who makes his @D-4 banned for ten years ! 'BERNARD'S GREATEST HONOR. | Barney Bernard holds that his most | in San Francisco, years before, when ¢ he was permitted to play a Jewish! part after the character had been in all San 1 Francisco theaters. Finally Bernard came 1o town in a production called “Fiddle-de-dee, which had been warmly received in New York with David Warfield playing the Hebrew er for the laughs of Weber and Fields. Bernard essayed the same role as feeder to two comedians named Kolb and Dill, who had suc- success, and Bernard, instead of The production was a tremendous success, and eBrnard. instead of staying in .San Francisco twenty weeks, remained in San Francisco for more than scevn years. His por- trayal of Jewish characters made San Francisco forget the old objection. -Sipping Cider Palls. Champagne cider is the bane of the motion picture players life. says Aznes Ayres, Paramount leading woman. who worked her way in pic- tures from the ranks of the “extras” llnln the leading feminine part in “Cappy Ricks.™ . You have no idea hew terrible it is to sit at a table in a cabaret scene and sip cider by the hour. At first, when it is cold. it is not so bad, but after it gets warm it is simply awful. | but you have to keep sipping just the | same."” i i | : Filming on a Ferryboat. on the Hudson river. has been charter- | ed for a week by Vitagraph. It will be used in filming several sccnes in the new Alice Joyce production. “The Inner Chamber.” 1t was found that| any ferryboat on its regular trips would not do, as the passenzers just would get in the scene at the wrong time. Director Edward Jose will have a hundred or so professional actors as passengers when the scenes are taken. Larry Semon's Latest. “The Fall Guy” will be the title of Larry Semon’'s comedy to foliow “The Bakery.” *The Fall Guy"” gives a burlesque of the usual western drama, with an unusual angle which Semon is Keeping a secret until the reicase of the tilm. Norma Nichols. Frank Alexander and Babe Hardy appear in Larry’'s support, and the Larry Semon ballet will also be secen. e Gilbert Miller, son of Henry Miller, has arrived in New York from. Europe, and said that while abroad he had en- gaged Maurice Moisevitch, a Jewish actor, for a series of performances in this country next season. 1 Amusements an adequate and: unusual working | presented at during the week beginning tomorrow. | Other another week and one out of town {afya; and a society butterfly. play during National Theater wick, Louis Bennison, Carlotta Mon- terey, Morgan Wallace, Helen Lowell, Kenneth Hill and George Graham. any professional music and is judged by the samc standards. {there are several. Scene MOORE Shubert. Garricks G Tom EORGF, PARBLE Cosmos MASK ard W16 CLup Shubert- BDelasco Jor. JACKSON Kertths' \CurrentAttractions r opening tomorrow night. NATIO! B. F. KEITH'S—Vaudeville. COSMOS—Billy Allen Musical Comedy Co. and vaudeville. STRAND—"Fortune Queen,” musical comed THIS WEEK AT THE THEATERS. GARRICK—*“The Washingtonians,” in “The Chimes of Normandy”; NAL—"Zizi,” comedy ; opening tomorrow night. y; vaudeville and pic- | | tures. - 5 “Zizi.” jthe costuming of the pizco “The 41 = ashingtonians” follow the Kurope: The farcical comedy, “Zizi,” will be | companies and use the court dr(';’s do“f the National Theater |the period, a feature not used by any “Ziz story deals with the marital of a hard-headed business man The marriage takes place, d then Little theaters have come and |2kt eI mare b . y decide that the one thin Eone from time to time in manyli; go s io call off thelr marriage. cities over the country. P2{Out of the awkwardness that results ies. ‘The players who will be seen in the its engagement at_the include Irene Fen- “‘Somebody’s Lion.” The Mask and Wig Club of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania will present “Somebody's Lion—A Nautical Tail in Two Knots,’ tomorrow night. at the Belausco Theater This is the thirty-third annual pro- duction of the students of the uni- | versity, whelming success at Atlantic City, character. which served as the feed- | oiona © 1o and it has met with over- Wilmington and in. the home city, Philadelphia. Through the almost” insistent demand of the Washington Alumni, the club decided to give the play in Washing- ton and, judging from siastic reception accorded the club clsewhere, it is fair to assume a treat the enthu- is in store for Washington. G The average amateur performance is one which appeals to friends and rela- tived of the participants. But the Mask and Wig Club has long since passed that stage. The club each year is giving a performance that appeals to the public in the same way that 1 comedy does flexible has “Somébody's Lion” characteristic which permits of dix- pensing with the piot from time to time in order to make room for a specially or noyeity dance, of which KEITH'S. Though Washington will se the first time this week, the and Hayes Pevue” wnich will be the headliner at B. F. Keith's Theater, it is claimed, has established a record over the Keith circuit as one of thel smartest musical acts cver oficred in vaudeville. Prominent in its cast in addition 1o the stars are Bobbie Tre- One of the targe ferryboats plying |maine, Will Higgic. Saul Mariiall between New York and New Jersey | Broaaway. 0 orus fres rom and Winnie Baldwin added attraction, an amusing skit i music by Percy Bronson appear as the ext in “Visions of 1 written by Jack L: Neil Moret. Joe Jackson, the tramp comedian, is third on the bill in im- portance. One of the few who have mastered the art of pantomime, Jack- son is in a class by himsell in his line of work Others on the same bill are Craw- ford and Broderick, in This and a Little of Tha arson and Willard, in “Meet the Doctor”: Mc- Cloud and Norman. modern entertain- ers; Page. Hack and Mack, cquilib- rists of distinction: Burns Brothers, dispensers of laughter and thrills: Topics of the Day, Kinograms and the other regular featu: that are distinctive to Keith's Theater. “Chimes of 7N;mnandy." “The Chimes of Normandy” will be sung by the Washingtonians at the Schubert-Garrick for the week be- ginning tomorrow. This is consid- cred the best of their opera repetoire. “The Chimes of Normandy.” or “The Bells of Corneville,”” as (he opera is known in Europe, is one of the most popular light operas. The 3cene is one of the old-fashioned Norman vil- lages of the seventeenth century. In 'A_Little of § husband and. wife make the discovery | that they are not in sympathy, and that their marriage has been a mis- and the humorous situations that anse | the authors have woven a comedy said to be rich in amusing possibili- American company. Estelle Murray will sing Serpolette and Ruth Peters will be heard as Germaine, They meet, | Raymond G Moore as the marquis, T. | £o through the maneuvers of 4 super- | Brooke Amiss, jr. as the bailli; Dr. ficial courtship and their wedding | Charies Gordon as Gaspard and M. day arrives without either having | Harry Stevens jlearned anything about the character or temperament of the other. | Grenicheux. trand. Motion picture patrons are looking forward with pleasure to the personal ppearance today and all week at the Strand Theater of Mae Marsh, star of many of the cinema masterpieces. She will ‘be seen in publte off the screen for the first time in her career in con- junction with the showing of “No- body's K “Mary Cary.” by Kate Langley Bosher. “Nobody's Kid” faithfully follows the life and adventures of an orphan whose heart is gold and whose love | brings sunshine, notwithstanding that 1 *he lives in the confines of a prison | musieal world, tenanted by derelict waifs. No effort has been spared by Man- ager Sparrow in building up a meri- torious vaudeville program, Messrs, Cantor and Yates presenting as the headline feature a melodious musical | comedy satire, “The Fo-tune Queen.’ Others appearing will include Hanlon and Clifton in “A Quiet Evening at Home"; Hal -and Francis, offering a skit entitled “Town and Country”: Joe and Bertha Burke presenting “A Western Union Flirtation,” and Shaw and Glass in-a comedy, “Th s y e Mosquito COSMOS. A Dill of unusual merit, headed by the Allen Musical Comedy Company, in “Don’t Tell My Wife,” a one-hour condensed version of the original production which met with such great success at high-priced theaters this season, is the offering of the Cosmos Theater for this week, beginning tomorrow matinee. With a cast of twenty-five players of marked ability, including®a number jof pretty dancing girls, the company is claimed to be the largest and best musical production in vaudeville. The work of Billy Allen, the comedian, who heads ihe cast, is too well known in Washington to need any special _exploitation. The supple- mental features will include Bennett and Fletcher, offering a musical cocktail, “The Shimmy Doll"; Bick- nell. the busy baker, in studies in dough;: Morely and Mack, two clever girls accomplished in the art of har- monizing, and “The Runaway Four,” a quartet from “The Sunshine Girl.” “Buried Treasure,” the Cosmopoli- tan photoplay success, featuring Marion Davies, is announced as the ] extra matinee offering, while “Let Me Explain,” a two-reel Christie comedy, will be shown at all performances. Special Events at Arcade. Two special events of interest to the Washington dancing contingent are scheduled for this week at the Arcade Auditorium on employes’ bene- fit night, Wednesday. and a week-end carnival Saturday cvening. On both these occasions Edith Chapwick and Nelson Tyndal, formerly professional dancers ind associale teachers with Vernon Castle, will give exhibitions of artistic dancing. and different or- chestras will furnish jazzy music on these nights. “Midsummer Night's Dream.” “Midsummer Night's Dream.” to be presented by the Tommunity Players in the woodland theater at the Dean place Tuesday afternoon and even- ing, will be in two parts .nstead of the usual 4ve Mendelssohn's beautiful music will he featured, as will he the fairy dunces and the choruses. The three distinct groups of char- acters that are employed by Shake- speare 'n the telling of his story are in the hands of capable local players especlally vell suited to their parts. Arthur White will play ihe Duke The- seus, with Emma Ware Anderson as » . ax adapted from the novel | 1 i Hippolyta, queen of the Amazon. i the lovers' group, Marie J. McGuire as Hermia, beloved of both Ly- ander, played by Leslie Waudby, and Demetrius,” by Maurice Jarvis, | Virginia Hardy as Helena and Ben- !):lmln F. Hinkle as Egeus, the father {of Hermia. “The hard-handed men of Athens, the six mechanics who present the tragedy of Pyramus and Thishy be- fore the duke. will be played by J Martin Scranage as Quince, the {penter: Alexander Woodburn a Clifton P. s mender; Emery J. Moon as Starveling, a tailor: Ralph Robert- son as Snout. the tinker, and Finley Hayes as Bottom. the weaver. In the fairy group Harriet Murphy will play Oberon, the kinz: Fayne Barnes Hayes. Titania, the falry {queen, and Pauline Graff will be Puck i Tita attendants will be played b, in ug, Clarke as Flute, Agnes Walter, Katherink Nichola: Laura Clark., Carol Taylor, Martha | Byrd Keémon, Nona Cush, Mabel Payne {and Katherine Iickert. The cns dances will be performed b Charlotte Pafterson S mic Cultur wome munity Chorus, as {of the Rubinstein Club, Seats and boxes are on sale at the New Wiilard newsstand. & mble the chool of Rhyth- and the choruses by the on of the National Com- ted by members ! i i i “Kiddie Review of 1921.” Mrs. Lillian Holt and Mr. J. J. Hoff- iman, teachers of children’s fancy !dancing, will present their “Kidaie Review of 1921" at the Shubert- Belasco Theater Thursday night, June 2. The theme will be Japones More than one hundred children, be- tween the ages of five i years, will participate. - Mrs. Holt and Mr. Hoffman will perform several fancy dances. Seals are now on sale at the studio, 1808 Kalorama road. S Base Ball on Electric Score Board. Washington base ball fans can see Washington and Chicago play today. A direct wire from the Chicago bull park to the Capitol Theater will carry a description of each play, which wiil be reproduced on the Rodier electric scorcboard. The game starts at 3 p.m., Washington time. COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF MUSIC WEEK NAMED Appointment of the music week committee members who will be in charge of the events for Washing- ton's musical period from May 29 to June 4 was announced yesterday The committee is as follows: Ham- lin Cogswell, director of music in thej District public schools, chairman;| Edouard Albion, Dr. F. W. Ballou, Capt. Fred Beall, Ira Bennett, Rollin Bond, Mrs. John C. Boyd, Thomas Brad- Jey, Mrs. W. N. Brown, Mrs. Eugene Byrne, P. J. Callan, Steve Chaconas, George B. Christian, Dr. C. W. Collier, Mrs. Avery Coonley, Will Corby, Mrs. Eustis-Corcoran, Mrs. R. H. Dalgleisch, Rev. Nicholas De Carlo, Mrs. H. W. Dimmock, Col. James A. Drain, Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, D. A. Edward: Seldon Ely, Senator D. W. Fletche Mrs. Marie M. Forr Victor Gar- rigus, Maj. H. L. Gessford, E. C. Graham, Bishop Alfred Harding, Rob- ert N. Harper, George Harris, Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, Phillip King, Henry Lansburgh. Dr. H. B. Learned, Charles Light, William Lynch, M. McAuliffe, Col. John A. McElroy, Ma. J. G. McGee, Edward McLean, Avery Marks, Frank Morrison, Theodore W. | | |Noves, Rev. Lewis O'Hern, John H. Pellen, Charles A. Rogers, Dr. L. 8. Rowe, Mrs. Francis A. St r. W. H. Santelmann, Brig. Saw- ¥ Mrs. Leonard Albert ! | Schultels, Ldward D. Shaw. Col. C.{ [ 0. Sherrill, Justice ¥rederick L. Sid- dons, Mrs. Thomas W. Sidwell, Prof. Otto’ Simon, Robert Starr, Mr C. W, Sumner, Jessc C. Suter, Mrs. Lyman P. Swormstedt, Mrs. Theodore Tiller, W. B. Westlake, Claude Wood- i ward, George Julian Zolnay. Members of the music week com- mittee for colored activities follow: Prof. John R. Hawkins, Roscoe C. j Bruce, Mrs. Coralic ¥. Cook, Dr. J illn)’di‘n Johnson, Mrs, Fountain Pey. ton. Dr. William L. Board, Mr. John C. Nalle, Dr. W. S. Montgomery, Tohn I1¢. Bruce, Miss Marion Shadd. Mrs. with | and fifteen | l OUT-OF-DOORS. | Chesapeake Beach. } Chesapeake Beach will open for the season next Saturday. It will be an opening that will extend over Sun- day and Morday, Decoration day. One iof s of the resort thi s be the dancing. Musici will be furnished by a new orchestra .of eight pieccs, under direction of | Prof. Ralph Garren. Dancing will be free at all times. The resort offers a host of amuse- { ments, all of which will be in full | operation next Saturday. i Spacious picnic grounds, with i beautiful shade trees, flower gardens, {grassy slopes. rustic benches and quaint pavilions, overlook the ba { which is twenty miles wide. |~ Fishing 18 excellent and fzcilities are extensive. Rowboats and sail- { boats are available for those who | Idesire to visit the fishing grounds out * { {in the bay. Salt water bathing makes a strong appeal to many excursionisis. The bathing grounds are surrounded by a wire netting to keep out undesirable marine intruders. The weck-day schedule of trains! from next Saturday until June 18. when the full summer schedule be- comes effective. will be as follows: | Leave District line for beach at 9 and | 10:30 am. and 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Leave beach on return trips at 6 and | 10 p.m. Sunday trains will leave the | District line at 9:30 and 11 a.m.. 2. i beach at 6. ¥ and 10 p.m. Specia train service will be furnished Decoration da Trains will leave the District line at 9. 10:30-and 11:30 [ am., 2, 2:30 and 3 p.m | First Trip of the St. Jonns. The steamer St. Johns will make her first_trip in the summer season to Colonial Beach today. The Amer- ican Benefit Society of the German Association has chartered the vessel for one day's run to this popular resort. The St. Johns has been com- pletely redecorated, painted and over- hauled arid government officials dur- ing the past week inspected the boat. The first trip of the regular ex- cursion season will be made next Sat- urday, with trips following Sunday and Monday on account of Decora- tion day. Dancing again will be a feature on the St. Johns. with music turnished by a Washington or- chestra. Chevy Chase Lake. Now that the weather has become warm, the younger dancing set are going out to Chevy Chase Lake in great numbers every evening. They are already passing words of praise| for the music being furnished by' Meyer Davis' two orchestras.. The new pavilion is handsome in design and has a highly polished floor. Street car service to and from the lake is adéquate. Cars are not vet] running straight through to the lake up 7th street and a transfer at Chevy Chase Circle is necessary. About the 1st of ‘June there will be “through” service up 7th street. Glen Echo Park. In anticipation of a gathering o thousands of amusement seekers to- day like the throng of last Sunday, l | the management of Glen Echo Park has arranged for additional car serv ice. Free concerts will be given the afternoon and evening by Min- ster's Band. All of the varied at- tractions of the park will be in evi- dence for the visitors today, with the exception of the ballroom, dancing being restricted to weekday nights. The coaster dip is the park’s newest attraction, and has become a prime favorite. - The new carrousel has an appeal that is a'most s strong to the older ones as it is to the kiddies. The midway, with its"long list of fun provokers, the whip, the derby racer. the water ride, and all of the other attractions, will be on hand all the week. Tomorrow night the ballroom will again be open to the dance fans, who commend the new system of charging admission for the evening's dancing instead of charging 5 cents for cach dance. as formerly. Admis- sion to the park is always free. ' Great Falls Park. The 1921 season at Great Falls Park will be opened formally Memorial day, May 30. Admission to the park, as well as dancing and the afternoon tDaisy B. Glenn, Miss Josephine Worm- ley, Miss Mary L. Europe. Miss Loal Johnson, Ernest Amos. Mrs. Joseph Douglass, Henry Grant, J. Carlton Dorsey. Prof. J. Henry Lewis, Rus- sell Wooding, W. Scott Mayo, ‘Mrs. Roy W. Tibbs, Miss Lula V. Childers, Dr. George W. Haynes, Lieut. Z Willlam Flipper, Walter T. Dixon and | Perry Howard. and evening concerts by the Great Falls - Orchestra, is free. An added feature this season is the Indian vil- lage and exhibition. Facilities for picnics are provided by the manage- ment. The Washington and Old Do- minion railway runs frequent electric trains to the falls from the Washing- ton terminal, at 36th and M streets northwest. | Aaron 'Hoffman, “Two Blocks Away.” Barney Bernard in 2 new play and new character is the attractive of- fering at the New National Theater for the next week. Bernard has abandoned Abe Potash to enact a lnew type of Jewish character in +*“Two Blocks Away,” a play that has | been especially written for “him By whose “Welcome, Stranger” has kept Chicago and New York laughing for two years. “Two Blocks Away” is constructed around the character of a lovable old Jew- | ish shoemaker whose outlook upon ‘e is changed by the sudden acqui- sition of wealth. A company of un- usual strength has been selected by the author and the star. Dodson Mitchell plays opposite Mr. Bernard. Vivian Tobin, who was so charming n “Shavings.” is the leading lady. Among the other players are John Rutherford, Wallace Erskine, Douglas MacPherson, Margaret Linden, Kate Morgan, Kathrin Ward and Alice Sey- mour. 3 Lee Children. Beginning Monday, May 30, joy will reign in the hearts of the kiddies Jane and Katherine Lee, the popular children of the screen, will be at Keith's for one week in an act writ- ten especially to display their own particular talents. Other acts of dis- tinction_and with vaudeville reputa- | tions will appear in conjunction with the Lee children. |Coming Attractions " Strand. Next week. beginning Sunday. the Strand Theater will present another | all-star program of vaudeville and |cinema offerings, including on the | first portion of the bill Vera Burt and five syncopated steppers in a “jazzy | revue of songs and dance special- ties”; the Flying Howards, in “spec- wtacular aerial frolics”; Du Tiel and {Covey, in a humorous singing and | talking skit: “The Crisis,” a playlet, | presented by Daisy Dean and com- | pany, and the popuiar Ward and Wil- {son. in “laughs, laughs and more laughs.” The photodramatic offering will be “Partners of the Tide” staged and | depicted by a large casi | COSMOS. *“Little Miss Sunshine,” a brilliant | little musical comedy, in which seven | talented artists participate, is an- nounced by Manager Brylawski as the principal attraction at the Cosmos Theater for the week of May 30. Six |other high-grade vaudeville acts in- ‘clude Earle Gate and company, in {aance diversions; Ramo and Rogers. ocomedy character act; Cliff Nazarre {and Darling Sisters, song and dance |Tevue; Edward Reading and. ocom- pany, in a sketch. entitled “Prospere 3:20 and 4:45 p.m., and will lexve the | of Washington, for during that week | ity”; Brown and Barrows, in singing and’talking act, “Happy Days,” and | Pauline and Francis, in aerial stunts, | The added matince’ offering will bs the Clara Kimball Young photoplay production, “Straight From Paris” and {“His Fierv Beat,” a Fox Sunshine comedy, will be shown at all perform- ances. Special Buildings Erected for Anne Boleyn. Screen architecture is described as moving along :wo paths. parallel and yet divergent. One leads into stylistic adventure, into an art-language which avoids any mirroring of actuality and which invents backgrounds for imag- inative stories. The othet moves in the path of illusion of realities, giving even to the past a formerly unknown plastic probability. “Paramount” offers to American au- diences examples of these two types of background—“Golem,” _avoiding mitation of actual examples, and Deception,” giving vivid reproduc- tions_of actual historical settings. In “Deception” England of the six- teenth century is revealed. Pointed arch and ornamented field fraternize with ltalianizing touches. It 'is the London of Henry VIIL | showing the castle courtyard with | broad open stairway down which the royal glutton went forth to hunt. There is nothing of an architectural school problem about this. It all bears the imprint of daily life and use. There were problems to solve. Many important scenes of the drama took place within and in front of Wesi- minster Abbey. A great mass action takes place in front of Westminster. An arched gateway is built up some distance from the church facade. Through it is shown a long street to the Gothic portal. To the right and left are houses, stairways and bal- conies. The deep shadows thrown by the archways and the bright, open stretches of ground leading to West- minster form a striking contrast which gives an effect to great space. Another example of decorative art is an open court of the tournament, framed on three sides by several tiers of wooden galleries with portals in the background. decorated by free- stone reliefs. In this court, as well as in other open spaces, a colorful picture of massed life unfolds itself. PROPOSED SALE OF FORT MARION, | FLORIDA ANTIQUITY, PROTESTE. Protest has been made to the War Department against the sale of old Fort Marion at St. Augustine, Fla., described as one, of the best pre- served antiquities in the United States. According to the records, Ponce.de Leon landed at St. Augustine, Easter Sunday, 1516, and the city was found- ed by Menendez de Avilles, in Sep- tember, 1565. In the latter year an octagonal-shaped fort of logs was built for protection against the In- dians. It was located at the north- east corner of the town, and com- manded the entrance of the bay, It was displaced in after years by Fort Marion, originally Fort San Marco. Begun in 1665, the present fortress was not finished until 1756, ninety-one years later. Its walls and four bas- tions are made of coquina, a rock of shell formation, quarried a few miles away. The walls are twenty-five feet high, twelve feet thick at the base and nine feet at the top. The entire structure is inclosed by @ wide, deep moat, and its only entrance is through a sailyport over a drawbridge. It ocontains twenty-six casemates, five dungeons. and a torture chamber and & _chapel. Notwithstanding that most of the work of construction was done by slaves, it is reported to have cost $30,000,000. When the bills were pre- A & sented to the King of Spain he marked that it must have been b of silver. Many Indians died witn, walls in capi ty, includin the great chief, Osceola. - It was_captured by the English Admiral Drake, but withstood many other sieges and attacks by the Brit- itsh, the French and the Indians. Its walls show the effects of frequent cannonading. It came into the possession of the United States in 1821 with the ces- sion ‘of Florida, and was renamed Fort. Marion in_honor of the revolu- tionary hero of that name. Since then it has been used as a prison for hostile Indians and for Spanish sailors and soldiers during the Spanish war. It was modeled after the great castles of the middle ages and is regarded-as one of the best examples of military architec- ture. of ite time, The War Department finds that it is no longer of any military value and has asked Congress for authorit/ to sell or otherwise dispose of ¥ Being one of the show places of Augustine, residents of that old tol have appealed to the War Depf ment for its preservation. —_— Charles Feleky, representing /7" pean dramatists, has placed wf AT~ thur Hopkins for production ntt S¢a~ son. two plays by Arpad faszton Hungarian playwright, enti gerkas” and “The Song Ets Pasztor has been in New business trip, but has sailef for /