Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1921, Page 16

16 Amusements Keith’s. Keith’'s promises to maintain its .standard of bills with the attractions secured for next week, beginning with the Monday matinee, the prin- eciplal offering being the well known Broadway star, Henry Santrey, who will head his band in a program new to Washington. Other features will be Lydell and Macey, in a character- Istic interpretation; Florenz Ames and Adelaide Winthrop, presenting their aew annual thumbnail revue called “Alice in Blunderland”; Rome and Gaut and La Bilbianita, and others !o. be announced later in these columns; the “Topics of the Day” and the Pathe Pictorial News continuing as usual. Garrick Players. “Adam and Eva* Guy Bolton's New Yn‘:l:“comrdy ‘success, will usher in} the Garrick Players at the Shubert- Garrick Theater in their third annual presentation of high-class Broadway attractions, beginning Monday, June 20. Robert Brister will head the cast, fomposed of Florence Martin, Doug- lass Dombrielle, Leah Winslow, J. Ar- thur Young. Edna May Oliver, Leon Gendron, Constance Hope and Ger- trude Keith, John Ravold will direct. Popular prices will prevail through- out the season, with matinees Wednes- day and Saturday. NATIONAL. ofold interest attaches to the pr"‘\;:uctmn of “The Turn in the Road. which Sam H. Harris will offer at the National Theater next week. A new | play by Augustus E. Thomas Will O presented and Mary Ryan again will be seen on the stage. The play 13 from the pen of the author of ! i " “Just Suppose” and “The (Rlfiml‘zn." in which Grant Mitchell has had such a long New York en- gagement. iss Ryan needs no introduction to thentergoers, for her motable suc “On Trial.” “The House ol <s.” “The Little Teacher” and “The rtune Hunter” won for her an en- viable position on the American stage. 1In addition to Miss Ryan the cast will embrace many well known players, as the star of her latest photoplay production, “Sham,” in which she is supported by Walter Hiers, Theodore Roberts, Sylvia Ashton, Helen Dun- bar, Clyde Fillmore and Eunice Burn- ham. The production was scenarized by Douglas Doty from the famous comedy-drama by Elmer Harris and Geraldine Bonner. The story con- cerns the successful fight for hap- piness a girl waged between the call of love and the social pressure of her family, when fate left her penni- less after a life of luxury. Metropolitan. Beginning next Sunday at the Met- ropolitan Theater and continuing the chief feature of the bill for one week only, will be shown for the first time in the capital First National’'s film version of Ralph Connor's celebrated novel, “The Sky Pilot.” In this stir- ring story of romance, humor and thrills are reveaied a suc- cession of novel incidents, the most exciting probably being the Trescue of a young girl from a stampede of 4,000 terror-stricken steers. The picture adheres closely to the printed story and presents a qual- ity of scenlc investiture that has sel- dom been equaled upon the screen in granduer and beauty. John Bowers, Colleen Moore and David Butler lead the cast. “The Sky Pilot” will be rec- ognized by discriminating picture lov- ers as one of the most productions of the year. Aftewnnhy Knickerbocker. Wanda Hawley will be the pi e pictured star of the bill arranged for premiere Presentation at the Knickerbocker Theater tomorrow and Friday, in “The i ¢ House That Jazz Bullt." The a T come- ?'{e-;?cl;xon :ill be “She Sighed I';y Seaside”; S < ooy eanids aturday the Knicker- present Douglas McLean, the Washington star, in “The Home Stretch.” Next Sunday and Monday “The Sky Pilot” will be shown; Harr; Wwill supply the subsidiary {{uf\:,r];“:g “The Kill-Joy.” Tuesday and Wednes- day the feature will be “Without Ealmfl. sSupplemented by the comedy, ‘His Bitter Half." Thursday and Fri- Including Harry C. Browne, Percy Potlock.” Neil Mariin, Ruth Mero, Leon Cunningham, Blanche Fridirici, Kate Mayhew and Margaret Shackel- ford. The play has been staged under the direction of Sam Forrest. COSMOS. Billie Burke’s “Tango Shoes” the farce which has been the laughing hit of vaudeville for three successive season, will return to Washington with honors gained in the country's best theaters, appearing as the head- line attraction at the Cosmos Thea- ter next week, beginning Monday matinee. Having its original cast, the act is said to be as good as it was on last appearance if mot better. A vaudeville program of six bright acts will be supplemented by a revival of “The Champion,” Charlie Chaplin's famous motion picture production, which will be shown at all per- formances. “The Homestretch.” fea- turing Douglas McLean, is announced as the added matinee attraction. The vaudeville features are Clemon, Bil- lings and company in a funny animal Ibers and North in a come- dy s “A Bashful Boob;” “Poilu,’ one of France's decorated sonms. in a musical offering: Adams, Held and company, in a blackface comedy en- titled “Ghosts:” Ted McLean and com- pany in “A Modern Diana.” a comedy sketch that is new and amusing; and Dewitt and Robinson in songs and music. Strand. What promises to be an unusually entertaining bill, due to the diversity of the acts presented, is announced for showing at the Strand Theate- all next week. beginning Sunday. Bar- nold’s animals, introducing dogs and monkeys in a complete playlette en- titled “A Hot Time In Dogville" which they give apparently without direction or assistance of any human being, will be the feature of the vaude- ville portion of the bill. Other acts include Francis and Wilson in “Ups and Downs.” a variety of snappy do- ings; Den Lynn, the weighty come- dian’ from musical comedy, in songs and dances; Lyle and Emerson in an amusing diversion, “It Happens Every Day,” and Kee Tow Four, oriental harmonists giving several melodious song studies. The feature photoplay will be “A Divorce of Convenience” and its star part falls to Owen Moore. Katherine Perry, formerly of the Ziegfeld Fol- lies, and Nita Naldi play the opposite roles. Short film features and special orchestral numbers will accompany all presentations. “The Canterbury Pilgrims.” The Howard Players will present “The Canterbury Pilgrims” by Percy Mackaye, on the Howard University campus _tomorrow evening at o'clock. The performance. which is under the direction of Mrs. Marie Moore-Forrest of Community Service and Prof. Montgomery Gregory, will te staged in a natural amphitheater overlooking the city, and prepara- tions have been made for an un- usually beautiful outdoor spectacle. Old English dances and songs and spegial music by the R. O. T. C. band of the university will feature the pro- duction. The drama is based on Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales.” The play is a feature of commencement week of the university. Among those appearing in_ the cast are Bernard Pryor, John Broadnax, Walter Goens, George Davis, Ethel Skinker. Grace Nash, Aaron Paine, Harold Bledsoe, Helen Webb and Myles Paige. Photoplay Features. Rialto. Next week is expected to be a ban- mer one at the Rialto Theater, when, “beginning Sunday, the appearance of William Farnum is announced in “If 1 Were King,” a screen version of Justin Huntly McCarthy’s novel and stage success, the production in which E. H. Sothern made such a “hit.” Mr. Farnum has given to the screen many important pictures, but in none is he said to equal the performance he gives as Francis Villon, the famous vagabond. Spectacular and gorgeous scenes, lavish costumes and the per- fect acting contribute to what is claimed to be one of the big pictures of the year. Selected subsidiary sub- jects and a specially arranged inter- pretative orchestra score will accom- pany all showings. Garden. “What's Your Reputation Worth?" will be the featured attraction at the Garden Theater the first four days of next week, beginning Sunday. In it wealth is contrasteq with poverty, weauty with plainness, the city with nature’'s beauties. New York's “White ‘Way"” with simplicity of the farm. A circus story with all the-romance of the “big top” will be the principal offering Thursday through Saturday. It is called “The Man Tamer,” and is adapted from the story by John Bar- ton Oxford. Gladys Walton and Ros- coe Karns are the stars. There will be short features and an interpreta- tive orchestration. Columbia. “The Woman God Changed,” the vivid film reproduction of the story of the same name by Donn Byrne, will be presented at the Cojumbia ‘Theater next Sun afternoon for an extended engagement. “The Wom- an God Changed” is the story of a dancer who, maddened by jealous shoots her lover dead and flees to the south seas, where she is apprehended by a detective whose life she saves and who falls in love with her. Their romance on a tropical island, the girl's eventual trial for the crime and the happiness that finally dawned for the two lovers are fascinating factors of an even, more fascinating story. Palace. Ethel Clayton will be seen at the Palace Thealer next Sunday afternoon A day, Mary Miles Minter, in “Don’t C: ;{e Little Girl.” and “Taoner\'ill:']![ oozem Friends” will be presented. Jackie "('ooran will be screened as star of “Peck’s Bad Boy" Saturday. Crandall’s. At Crandall's Theate Yer” ~and “Toonerville’s Boozem Friends” will be shown. For the last two days of this week the major feature will be “The Volce in the Deginning Sunday a i the chief feature of the bilf Tpsming Tuesday will be shown “Reputation.s in which Priscilla Dean is starred. Wednesday and Thursday “Without Limit” will be the major attraction to be followed Friday and Saturday by “His Own Law.” A comedy offer. ing will be “Dummy Love." Savoy. y and Monday, Jackie Next Sunda Coogan, il “Peck's Bad % Toonerville comedy, "Theagi'wn:];": Flirtation”; Tuesday and Wednesday. Priscilla Dean, in _‘*Reputation: Thursday. Justine Johnstone, in “Sheltered Daughters,” and comedy, “Holy Smoke": Friday. Marion Da. vies. in “Buried Treasure.” and Harry Pollard, in “The Kill-J Sat- urday. Douglas McLean: ino <tnel ome retch,” and i “Trailing the Coyote o feature. Avenue Grand. Next Sunday and Mond Oath”; Tuesday and Wedn Clara’ Kimball Young. Wednesday, in “Straight from Paris,” and Ben Turpin, Sighed by the Seasid Th':rsdahye. Wanda Hawley. in “The Outside Woman” and Toonerville comedy, “The Skippers Flirtatio Friday, Justine Johnstone, in heltered Daughters.” and comedy, “His Bitte Half,” and Saturday, Jane Novak am; a(orllme Sldlmhury, in “The Bar arian,” and Harry P G S y Pollard. in “The Apollo. Next Sunday and Monday, Clara Kimball Young. in_“Straight from Paris.” and Ben Turpin, in “She Sighed by the Seaside”; Tuesday and yedneldny. Elsie Ferguson. in Sacred and Profane Love, and Harry Pollard, in ‘The Kill-Joy”; Thursday, Justine Johnstone, in ' “Sheltered Daughters.” and comedy, “Zero| Love”; Friday, Agnes Ayres and K. Lincoln, in “The Inner Voice,” Harry Pollard, in “Money Talks,” Saturday, Tom Moore, in “Hold Horses.” and Toonerville “The Skipper's Flirtation.” York. Next Sunday and Monday, Phillips, in “Man-Woman-Marriage Tuesday, Justine Johnstone, in “Sh tered Daughters.” and Toonervill “The Skipper's Flirtation™; star cast, “Straight ; Thursday, Clara Kim and i Is the Wa. ball Young. in “Straight from Paris, and Harry Pollard, in “The Kill-Joy’ Friday, “Bob Hampton of Placer, and Saturday, “A Tale of ‘Worlds.” Lyric. Next Sunday, Jack Hoxie, in “Cy-| clone Bliss”; matinee only, Eddie Polo, in “King of the Circus’; Monday, | Alice Calhoun, in “The Charming De-. iver”; Tuesday, Eileen Percy, 'Big Town Ide: ‘Wednesday, Frank | Mayo, in_ “Tiger Tru ‘Thursday, | Corrine Griffith in ‘4t Isn't Being Done This Season”: Friday, William Fairbanks, in “Montana BIill"; Satur- | day, Buck Jones, in “The One-Man | Trail”’; matinee only, “The Diamond | Queen OUTDOOR AMUSEMENTS. Glen Echo Park. Amusements with a punch and a thrill to them, in a setting of green trees with cool breezes blowing, are what Glen Echo Park is offering as a daily attraction. Dancing in the new | ballroom to_ jazz music, boating and canoeing are some of the things that makes the resort poular every night | that the weather man is kind. There is no charge for admission to the park. Chevy Chase Lake. Whether it is the numbers they play or the way in which they play them is hard to guess, but Meyer Davis' two orchestras at the lake are drawing encore after encore from the thousands of dancers who go to that park every evening. Car service straight through to the lake has been started and additional cars are running on the route to give every convenience to patrons going and coming. Chesapeake Beach. Evening trips to Chesapeake Beach, the nearby bay resort, are growing in popularity. A train leaves the Dis- arriving at the beach at 7:30 o'clock arriving at the beach at 7.30 o'clock and giving excursionists until 10 o'clock to enjoy the numerous at- tractions. _ Free dancing to Jjaszy music by Prof. Ralph Garren's clown orchestra makes a strong appeal to the evening excursionists. Sait water bathing, fishing and boating are ad- ditional attractions. Steamer St. Johns’ Trips. The forty-mile moonljght tri that have been made by the ltu.mg: St. Johns since the beginning of the season. will be continued every night this week, leaving the 7th street wharves at 7:15 o'clock, and return- ing about four hours later. ot only do these excursions offer the oppor- tunity for a delightful ride, but also to the lovers of dancing a chance for. enjoyment on its spacious decks, for | which music of just the right tempo is provided by an excellent jazs or- chestra. Sun morning at 9 o’clock the same steamer W make its Wweekly trip to Colonial Beach, where 2 host of amusements awaits the Pleasure seeker. Great Falls Park. Attracted by the amuscment fea- tures, as well as the beauty of falls, increasing numbers of pleasure geckers enjoy a’day's outing at Great ree r amuse- by many who also Falls Park. In the evening the g, concerts and oth joyed a. to and from the falls. illuminate i the falls at night, which, with a myriad of- colored’ lights, make a| « scene of rare beauty. ASSIGNED TO NEW DUTY. Several Army Officers Leave Wash- ington Barracks. Officers relieved from duty at the Washington barracks, have been assigned to other General Staft College, duties as follows: Col. Samuel Hof, ordnance depart- ment, to the office of the chief of ordnance, var Department: Col. George C. Gatley, fleld artillery, to the 10th Field Artillery, Camp Pike, Ark.; Col. Lutz Wahl, adjutant gen- eral's department, to the office of the Department; _ieut. Col, Daniel F. Craig, field ar- Field Artillery. adjutant general, War tillery, to the ith Camp Stanley, Tex.; Walker, finance d Col. Kenzie rtment, Robert partment, and Lieut. Col. to the Patterson, Medical Corps, fice of the surgeon general, War De- partment. ACTION IS DEFERRED. Longworth Resolution Discussed Republican Steering Committee. propos- ing to make rates of the new per- manent tariff bill effective when the measure is introduced in the House, vesterday by members House _republican steering committee, but action was de- ferred pending consideration of a sub- stitute for the Longworth resolution the United States The Longworth resolution, was _considered of the Senate being drawn by tariff commission. Sentiment among the republican lead- id to be virtually unanimous for adoption of some measure to pro- the tarift bill is before Congress. Senator Lodge and others said, however, that it measure ers was s: tect American markets while was difficult to design a which would stop the flooding of American mark: and at time not leave business men in would be imposed Senators at the meeting and several House leaders were said to be unpre- pared to accept the Longworth plan. PETITION ON ALCOHOL. Therapeutic Society Action Ex- plained by Wayne B. Wheeler. Action of the American Therapeutic petition Con- . | gress and prohibition enforcement of- and | ficers to lay” aside all rigid restric- tions preventing physicians from pre- Your | scribing alcohol “does not apply to comedy. : the pending enforcement bill.”" ac- Society last week to cording to a statement issued Wayne B. Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League. “The action of the therapeutic Dorothy | ciety may be in point when directed , but not legisla- to some of the state la with. reference to pending tion,” declared Mr. Wheeler. 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