Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1921, Page 67

AMU First Concert Ten Star Series America’s Favorite Concert Soprane . NATIONAL THEAT Friday October 21, 4:30 New York Symphony ORCHESTRA WALTER DAMROSCH, Cond. ALBERT COATES, Guest Cond. Solo; Paul Kochanski, Violinist | Mme. D’Alvarez,Contralto Alexander Siloti, Pianist Tickets, $12, $10, $7.50, £4.50 Now Selling T. Arthur Smith. Inc., 1306 G St. 3100 S5 Daily 33 | Sunday £25 Reserved Seats 25c at Daily Mati —_—— 8 I, Beginning Tomorrow Mat. Cariston Toaglaid Prese to HARRY CARROLL and Company. in the Brosdwsy Hit “VARIETIES OF 1921 GRACE FISHER and tho B:-nett Twins, Harry Laughlin and Six Slick Chicks Book by Ballard Macdonald. Music by Rurry Carvoll. Staged by Leon Errol. RA ADDI ma~ VAN BANK WILL ONEY Aski-g “WHY BT SFRINUS?!" Anita Diaz's Monkeys , SNELL A Darwinian Novelty | “Anl " Today, 3 & 8:15 ROGER IMHOF, MARCELLE- Moore & Littlefield, &c. * SEMENTS. Loui S Gottsclmlk. OUIS GOTTSCHALK, who will long be remembered as the producer | for Henr: : of Franz Lehar's | “Merry W this country in 11908, arrang € the musical score for Douglak Fail film version of Filmograms Bidgood's “An Auto Ride,” featuring carly morning, 7 o'clock strikes, ar- rival of the car, the start, on the road, the accident, halt for repairs at ye hanks *“The Three Mu: village garage, return home and Gottschalk W v conferance | finale, and Harry Von Tlizer's “Hump- in Los Angeles with Fairbankg his)tx-Dumpty" are announced as special orchestral features at the Strand this director, Fred Niblo, and Edward}orehe: | Knoblock, who is credited with the ‘of the famous Dumas starting work on his re- Mrs. William Atherton Du Puy, 1502 Vyoming avenue, hes been appointed Washington representative of the Vhotoplaywrig] 'lens edition = . | w League of Amer! For two s, Gottschalk | N g prepared the musi smpanimenth | & Co-0perative association of scenario for D. W. Griffith ts“Rix | Writers, incorporated under the laws i score for “F 1 is con- ;" California, for the purpose of giv- sidered a classic example of this kind | B8 the screen better and higher class of work. photoplays. Mrs. Du Puy, who is & {7 Among notable stage productions,S¢enario writer, will endecvor to se- cure local talent in the production of s written the 2 photoplays. | for which Gottschalk music are Frank Baum's “Tick-toc ! Mrs. Du Puy also is na- i Man of 0z" and “The Wizard of Oz i tional president of the League of |He also staged several Broadway |American Pen W s jianceesse The Strand hewter is pla | Loew’s popular vaudeville, and It is estimated thag three-fourthsje Manager Sparrow states re- by an arrungement, the shows which are presented at the Hippodrome Cheater in Baltimore come direct from that house for a week's run in Washington. . e yearly line-up of attractions nresented in houses hooking the Loew circuits is known, and a series of the strongest acts and vaudeville stars obtainable for a popular-priced theu- ter is promised Washington amuse- ment seekers at the Strand through- out the winter season. i Watc}l the FOOt on the Floor | ot America's fire loss ¥ due t | lessne: Holidays *: 35 | Prices & Except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays Louise Groody, the skillful voung verson who danced through Charles Dillingham’s musical comedy su: ‘The Night Boat.”” with great succes: The average person who visits the theater mis: least half of the dancer’s art,” says Miss Groody, “be- cause he only watches one foof, and that is the foot in the a Now, it happens that a dancer is not using that particular foot to dance with, at least not at that moment. “Whatever may be the degree of the Aancer’s skill, that skill is found- ed not upon the foot which is cut- ting ecasy figure eights and other imaginary geometrical designs close JOHN STEEL Former Star of Concert, Opera and Musical Comedy, Prese-ting THE CHOICEST SONGS OF TODAY. Jerry Jarnagin, Accompanist. 3D ATTRACTION OFF & C COREENE & CO. 5325, ] WANCELLE FALLET “Tha Framoh Refuges ' Acsop's Fables In an Artistic Treat ,*The Dancicg Master' A VERENGY Topien ot the Day |ito the dancer’s head, but the foot in Fun Pathe News Pletorial !\\nh which the dancer is maintaining polse and position. Some dancers who become most adept with the foot which Is pointing to 12 o'clock still fail because they never develop the ability to keep the floor foot busy, or at least gracefully busy, at the same time. “It is my opinion that any person , Gertrude Hoffman, | T L T can learn to do reasonably well the varions stage kicks. it A T (! T I [l T in The Sat:rday Evening Post, A New York “first the great production A PARAMO PALACE TODAY AND ALL WEEK ‘Footlights® Miss Ferguson wears 30 different gowns, each worth more than a thousand dollars! specially erected theater! In _the course of the picture, surprising imitations of stage notables! Full of sets that mark beauty and luxurious screen investiture! Miss Ferguson's greatest picture!—One of ADDED PROGRAM SELECTIONS s, as well as many (of the novelties. The real art comes in being able to teach the floor foot i to keep the body as a whole in pleas- ing positions and to avoid all sugges- tions of strain or discomfort. This, I think, is a half-and-half matter, comprised of approximately equal varts of natural aptitude and hard work. THEATER A Puzzle to Musicians. MARIE STODDARD, essaying o role that would destroy an or- dinary singer's voice within a few days, and boasting that she never had a music lesson, sings pleasantly throughout a range from bass (o F {above high C. in # whimsical offer- ing she styles “kidding the actors.” Miss Stoddard is a puzzle to the | musically educated, but she defies analysis - by recourse to . comedy. There is more than one suggestion ;0 tho Iyceum stage in the neatness of her woik—in fact, she graduated to_vaudeville from the lyceum. Her strons sense of humor has been a fatality for Marie, for it killed A promising dramatic career in the clas sics. Born in a Pennsylvania village of a family that claimed descent from the last of the Scottish chiefs—Angus MacIntosh—Miss Stoddard prepared for the legitimate stage and played most of the feminine roles of Shak: speare—Juliet, Desdemona, Opheli Ratherine in “Taming of the Shrew.’ and even the heavier Gertrude in jamlet” and Lady Macbeth—before taking up readings of the lighter sort ir the lyceum field. There she found scope for her bubbling good nature lin the whimsical humor of James Whitcomb Riley and Eugene Fields' | gentle verse. While appearing in Seattle circum stances gave her a peep at a vaud. ville pay roll, and to qiote herself, it gave her a headache. She went home |and evolved a type which sho pre- sented in vaudeville, and it is the foundation of her present offering—a .series of caricatures of _various | jclasses of entertainers In which the latter are mimicked in a ridiculous way, but entirely free from coarse- ompleted a six- month engagement at the Alhambra Theater, London, and has made_suc- cessful tours of Scotland, Ireland and !+he English provinces. Burton Holmes’ 29th Season. November 10 Burton Holmes of Travelogue fame will begin twenty-ninth season of his person- ally delivered “Photo Stories of Travel” with five new subjects, the first being Qn “Mexico.” With the | firdt week {n December he will have completed the 300th release of his “Burton Holmes Travel Pictures,” having_ issued a new plcture each week for 300 successiye weeks, be- ginning February 7, 1916. This, it 18 sald, beats all records for travel night” reproduced in & the ar does the last word In pictures In the moving picture theaters. s of all time! _ —_— UNT PICTURE A Bealist. Mr. Feathertop—When Penwiggle's car hit that truck he described a com- plete somersault before he struck the ground. Miss Gushington—How I wish I could have been there. He has such S vivid powers of description. IR T ym¢~HELD OVER---POPULAR Di RIALTO TODAY 2:30—ALL WEEK—11 A.M.—11P. M. MOORE’S Z) MAR Hi 7272227777 Y % 2 W INTERPRETATIVE ORCHESTRATION WILLIAM FOX SUPER-PRODUCTION OF i K TWAIN’S---A ECTICUT YANKEE ARTHUR'S COURT EXCLUSIVE SUBSIDIARIES | Artist in Opening Concert O‘ the Ten Stal‘ Scfie! i MISS ANNA CASE. Coming Attractions y “ y S s i Wf\TCFI the foot on the floor if | NATIONAL—“Wake Up, e You would judge a dancer's = f The Famous Tewor real skill” s the advice of Missi than. Theater next week, beginning Mon- day evening, in “Wake Up, Jona- than!” the play in wkich she had an all-season run at the Henry Miller Theater, New York, and which was declured by almost every metropoli- tan critic to be the most delightful comedy of her brilliant career. ’ It differs in almost every respect from every other play in which she kas been seen of late. It is a do- mestic fantasy in which tragic notes serve to form a symphony of rare humor and wit. The play was staged by Harrisen Grey Fiske. POLI'S—“Ladies’ Night.” nfinite Jaughs and not adies’ Night,” which i season at the Eltinge New York, will come to Theater, Toli's next week, commencing Sunday nigh., October 23, under the direction of A. H. Woods. Avery Hopwood and Charlton Andrews are the authors. It concerns a bashful young mar- ried man and his experiences with the scantily clad feminine charms. B. F. KEITH'S—Hyams & Mec- Intyre. At B. F. Keith's Theater next week Hyams & McIntyre, Edith Taliaferro, Harry Fox, Bert Errol, Joe Rolley and company, Clara Howard, Latell and Vokes and others to be stated later will be the attractions. It would appear from telegrams re- ceived by E. F. Albee of the B. F. Keith circuit that no celebration of a theatrical nature in recent years has aroused the nation-wide interest de- veloped by the announcement of the sed observance of the “Third-of- * anniversary of the found- ing of B. F. Keith vaudeville by Mr. Keith, E. F. Alpee and the former's son, A. Paul Kelth. COSMOS—*“Extravagance.” One of the beautiful and salutary offerings of late production, the mo- rality playlet, “Extravagance,” pre- sented by Phillis Gilmore and com- pany, will be the attractive headliner of next week's bill at the Cosmos Theater. A second feature, exquisite in its line, will be the Imperial Five, a quntet of noted opera singers, in “Great Moments from Great Operas,” each with a special scenic setting and one of the finest acts ever presented at the Cosmos. The Four Roeders, a_ Ringling circus attraction; Charles Keating and company, Jack Harley, “nut comedian”’; Firman and Oldsmith, two clever girls: the three X-Y-L-O. and Dave Randall and sister. The ex: traordinary matinee attraction will be niversal's Frank Mayo production, ‘The Shark Master,” while “Tin Cans,’ featuring the wonder dog “Brownlie, will be the mirthmaker for all perform- ances. STRAND—Adele Jason. A merry gambol of class and mel- ody, featuring Adele Jason, under the ‘title “Four Jacks and a Queen” will headline the vaudeville portion of the program at the Strand Theater next week. Others will include the De Lyons Duo. equilibrists in feats of Istrength and endurance; Harry and 'Kitty Sutton. in their latest hit, Powder Puff Girl Lew Hawkins, “the Chesterfleld of ministrelsy.” and. as an extra added attraction, Octavia Handworth and company, in a one- act_nlaylet, “Salvation Sue,” by John B. Hymer. One of the best photodramatic of- the | ferings of the year, featuring a popu- lar star. with subsidiary films, will complete the bill. GAYETY—“Bits o’ Broadway.” The attraction next week at the Gayety Theater is *“Bits o' Broad- way,” an Arthur Pearson production, unique and exceptional in its various Scenes, which were devised by Mr. Pearson, assisted by New York artists. The production was built at the Vi- tolo-Pearson studio. The opening act is a bit of the enchanted land of Bo- hemia, an artist's studio in New York, with beautiful artists’ models. ‘The secohd scene is laid in Holland. i and then comes a lively foot ball act, showing the Yale bowl. After this a view of the famous Palisades along lh":zl‘l{udson, e cast includes Jamie Coughlin, Harry Welsh, Catherine Crawford. Alice Lawler, Arthur .Putnam, Fred Garland, Billie Smith and Gladdie Riley. Make Laughter Habit. Fn&xcss WHITE, who s starred in i “Phi Phi,” is a believer In mer- . riment. | “1t you laugh, the worla laughs ‘with you, doesn’t it?” she asks. “And when it comes to a show-down be- .tween being happy and being mis- erable, why not choose happiness? “The truth of the whole matter is i that thege are really very few situa- tions in life that cannot be saved by {a good, hearty laugh. Then, too, what a great thing it is for the clearing away of mental cobwebs, blue devils and all those otaer ;imaginary things. i 'Laughter should be made a habit. {1f you brood over trobue, real or imaginary, the first thing you know you are weeping all the time. And the same way, if you are looking for |an- excuse to laugh, you will find ‘that it comes much more easily than .tears. Personally, I try to keep 1laughter on tap, as it were. “Gayety - IS one of the-greatest jcharms of womanhood. A sweet, cheerful expreshion calls for its re- t flection from every one. Is it not | better to have the pearly foam of a hearty laugh and take the aftes chances of a bitter taste than to have the bitter taste without the light-hearted gayety? I thoroughly believe we should-go about refresh- ing the world, not depressing or op- pressing it.” A Qualifications for a German Am- bassador. From the St. Louis Post-Dispateh. Von Bernstorff says the next Ger- man ambassador to the United States should speak English fluently. It would be well also if he would speal it more sincerey than did.some forme! lambassadors. 4 ‘the play. 1 Jona- ! Augustus Barrett has written the Mrs. Fisko 13 coming to the Natlonal [, CRATIes B a e Night in i = In the Spotlight. E Shuberts have accepted for im- mediate production a new play | by Edward Sheldon entitled “The Lonely Heart,” déscribed as a story of the life of a man. Basil Sydney has been sclected for the principal masculine role. He will also stage ! Jolson, \who is appearing in‘ 'Bombo” in New York, announces that he has become a producer. He has placed in rehearsal a Hawalian love story, by Mthelbert Hale, enti tled “Aloha Let’ J. C. Huffman will | stage the play. The opening will ! taRe place in Stamford in two wee «ibel, winner of a Washing- | and reciptent of o Anna E ton beauty conte: marriage proposal from a congresx- in hon at man, will make her debut rl Carlton’s “Tangerin New York Casino. Dinita De Soria, the Spanish =i appearing in “The O'Brien Girl.” w a prima donna at the age of thirteen, when she sang in a juvenile produc- tion in Por She was for- merly in The People’s Players of New York are rehearsing Charles Mackay's drama, “As Ye Mould,” prepa to opening a subscription seuson at the Fifteenth Street Theater. whose ar- John Murray Anderson, fc effo ts v CHE the reenwich Villuge Follies” s at White Sulphur Springs on a vacation. When he returns to New York he will start a new musical play to be produccd under his own management. score. | Charles Dillinghain presented for Atlantic City his new musical comedy. | ood Morning Dearic,” by Jerome Kern and Anne Caldwell. The crit- ics gave it a good send-off. “The Rose Girl" which opened the new Ambassador Theater, in New York, last son, was presented in Stamford, Conn., Friday and Satu day and opens in Boston tomorrow night, with Fred Hildebrand heading the cast. Marie Carroll, recently of the play “Two Blocks Away,” has been added to the cast of “Love Dreams.” Carroll was succeeded in “Two Blocks Away” by Edna Hibbard. | “Phi-Phi,” with Frances White as the star, had its opening in Atlantic City last week and pleasing reports of the production were forthcoming. The title role is said to fit Miss White like the proverbial kid glove. Doris Keane began her season’s tour in * New Haven last week. She “The Czarina," later in the season. ' Ruth Chatterton opened her season in Cleveland last week in “Mary Rose” and registered a splendid start. While the members of the Giants and Yankees were being feted and invited to theater parties last week, John Charles Thomas, starring in “The Love Letter” at the Globe Theater, remembered the poor um- pires. Mr. Thomas invited Messrs. Quigley. Morfarity, Chill and Rigler, who announced the balls and strikes in the world series, to see his per- formance in “The Love Letter.” The quartet accepted and occupied privaté box. Ethel Barrymore is not to do a play from the pen ot Alice Duer Miller, despite published reports to the contrary. The rumor evidently arose from the fact that Miss Barry more read a play by Miss Miller no long ago, but subsequently rejected it At last Mae Marsh is off on her re- juvenated career as a star of the speaking stage. The auspiclous event took place Monday night in Plain field, N. J., when the actress was pri sented in the leading role of “Brittie. The production is under the manage- ment of Richard G. Herndon. After two weeks the éticks, scheduled for a New York run. Of the five new plays presented for the first time last Monday night in New York, every one is reported to have registered a success. One of the purposes to which E. F.| Albee i3 said to have pledged himself in observing the “third of a century anniversary of the B. F. Keith circuit of vaudeville theaters, is the promo- tion of American music and dancing. During the coming season the Albee o management, it is announced, will extend every possible encouragement to American musicians, both in the vocal and Instrumental fields; to! American authors and composers, and American dancers, and to place every facility at their service to present their art before the public. Manager Craerin announces that on the calendar for Poli's Theater for the month of November are scheduled panish Love, while the 8an Carlo opera for December. E. H. Sothern and Jul'a Marlowe are also on the calendar of attractions that are to come. William_Gillette will shortly ap- pear in New York in “The Dream Maker,” based on a story by Howard L. Morton. Mr. Glllette is the author of the dramatization and the Charles s’rnhmnn Company will be the pro- ucer. “Pop,” by Frank Mandel and Oscar Hammerstein, has been placed In re- hearsal under the direction of A. H. Woods and Hammerstein. O. P. Heggle will have the leading role. “The Reckoning,” a play by Mar- jorie Chase, recently tried on tour by A. H. Woods, s being rewritten by Eugene Walter. Lowell Sherman willl have the leading role. This is a Mark Twain season in the theaters as well as in literary circles. The admission of the greites American humorist to the Hall o successful revival of his great play, “The Prince and the Pauper,” and the making of the William™ Fox film ver- sion 0% Twain's famous comic ro- mance, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.” Broadway is to see more Mark Twain plays ere long. Anecdotes of his life are being recalled, and the public is eager to know more about fm. This in spité of his own ironical challenge: “Why should I write for posterity? Posterity never did any- thing for me.” Dudley Digges has been engaged to play, in the touring company for this geason, his original part in “Mr, Pim Passes By,” together with Laura Hope Crews and Erskine Sanford, members of the original cast. Renee Delting has been engaged by the Shuberts for a role in “P] Phi,” a'musical comedy from the French, in which Frances White is to be starred. Leo Carrillo, pending the prepara-‘ tion of a new D! *Lombardi, Ltd. David Belasco has contracted to pro- duce a mew play by Eugene Walter, with Frances Starr heading the cast. Bessle Barriscale {s to resume her tour in “The Skirt.” The play has been rewritten and is expected to go into New York in November for an all-win- ter run. ‘When Charles B. Dillingham produced “A Bill of Divorcement” in ladelphia Allan Pollack returned to the stage in the leading role, after an absence of years. A. H. Woods has purchased _the dramatic rights of a short story by Bert Levy, the cartoonist, entitled “For the Good of the Race.” It is described as an idealistic tale of Jewish life. Eugene G. O'Neill's play, “The Straw,” has -been placed In Tehearsal b George C. Tyler. Margola Gillmore wil have the leading role and an important part will be played by John Westley, Who also will stage the play. A new comedy by Rachel Crothers, ichiffon which is sketched, for it is by " “Mo -y Irene and “Mecea lthird act with | pany | season early in January, has been en- it f Fame was almost coincident with thel itheater in November lay, will again tour in| » 2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 16, 1921—PART 3. FASHION CREATIONS OF THE STAGE. Nora Bayes uppeared in a ing gown of pearl-embroidered e chiffo AMUSEME Miss Gertrude Mofim shawl " were Spaninh and- NTS WMixs Dorofhy Smoll ing gown of orchid g ! Bachelor's N te in ‘A i BY ELENORE DE WITT EBY. | ITH the coming to Washington of | two such stars as Gertrude Hoffman and Nora Bayes and the Pulitzer prize play, “Lulu Bett” all in one week, local theatergoers seem- ed veritably to have had “more than their share.” “Chickens,” at Poli’s, was interpreted by an excellent cast, led by Miss Helen Ford as the winsome country maid, and her frocks w charming for their very simplici As a contrast “A Bachelor's Niga: at the National, was staged in an exotic setting of orange and black, and the gowns were gorgeous both in colors and materials. Miss Bayes, who appeared at the Bhubert-Belasco, has only recently returned from an extensive tripi abroad, and, of course, she brought back a number of fascinating things. Perhaps her most wonderful purchage was an English collection of six huge ostrich feather fans, three of which she carries in heract. One isof white | and the remaining fans are hand- | painted, one in yellow and black, au- | other in geranium pink and a third in blus Miss Bayes changes her fans, but not her frocks, but certain- Iy the audience is content to “feast its eves” upon the gown of white incrusted with pearls in a design of amazing intricacy, and each separate bead is handsewn. Her togue is also of pearl-embroidered white chiffon with a crown of silver cloth, and a lon white ostrich streamer winds | about the brim, its ends trailing 10 below the walst line. 3 Miss Bayes is more discriminating | and particular about her stage ap- parel than many artists, and per- sonally supervises every detail. For| instance, she has brought back sev- eral stunning street frocks from Lan- | continued, ibrave and cheerful attitude. | signed and executed from r | painted fabrics. Ivin, and a handsome fur wrap, but she says that she would never pur- chase her stage gowns outside of the United States. “When the Parisian designers learn for se,” Miss Bayes stat ed, ol 1les Bergere and begin putting thing In the world on it € kitchen stove. They glor: and these are all thrown together in an _“imposaible” manner. “Paris is very dull now.” Miss Bayes “for the pevple scem have lost all their spirit. Thin, bad in England, too, with man ple out of work, but the spirit glum is wonderful. fered more than any other people in the war, and yet they ail Miss Bayes is planning to to Europe next summer, and is cro- cheting an entire dress to wear to the water sports on the Thames. She was busily plving the crochet hook prior to making her appearance ou the atage, and told the writer that it “interested” her. “Just as a change In my frocks does,” she continued. “For three days I wear this white gown, then I appear in a jade green, and the last part of the week 1 wear black. The audience doesn’t know the difference, but I do, and I like to hu-| mor myself by changes now and the Miss Hoffman, at Keith's, presente to her audiences the first all-Amesi- | can ballet. and it proved excellent throughout. The scenic effects were unusual, and the costumes for tl ¢ en- tire production were especially de- ch hand- The star's Spanish costume was selected for illustration because it is quite different from the usual costume of that country which we see, and shows the relation of many of the newest gown creatio s to their credited Spanish source. hat a gown is to be | cept the | in_span- | gles and dangles and truck and junk, | return | The ! lhad e fitted smonthi | 8h 2d eeves, and | ways with sh w fw Hoffman's Rus o particularly ef- dress of rose gold border, red crusted hand-painted jadorned with floating va bons. Miss Hoff) tion is 80 new wre had been “hack in_the wood headdress icolored rib- | person; is going 1o tri ght. Audi- ences and eritics fell that the entire | producti v nished” one now | and that dividual was “par ex- | cellent, of cou the artist | herself can always peresive room for | improvement. | Miss Hofiman, like Miss Dayes, loves to have odds and ends to sew 1 between acts. but had been busy that | had a square meal for weeks | see.” she contingied, “a dancer has to | eat’ sparingly, then walk briskly, then .~ and then do it all footlizght life isn't n ou | g0 on | over when our efforis ar we work hard to pl bro‘dercd in turquoi | tured. Tt was cut on | the drapers of the train was «flect of brilliants gav ccstume. tmy; n orchid and and her headdre a regal note to the entited “Everyday,” has been placed in rehearsul, with Tallulah Bank- head inm“ the “leading’ role. Emily Ann Wellman, whose original film play “Once Upon a Time" had its premier at Poli's, has adapted this three-act novelty for vaudeville. * Donald Brian, the orig dancing star of “The Merry Widow recently star of “Buddles, ing his first journey over vaudeville highways and is booked for an early appearance at the Belasco. A_musical version of “Pomander k.” Louls N. Parker's delightful play, is being made for production by Russell Janney. Chisholm Cushing is Photo Plays This Week (Continued from First Page.) Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow, Charles Ray, in “Scrap Iron”; Tuesday and Wel “Dangerous in nesday, Rupert Hughes' Curve Ahead.” and Ford Sterling, Sennett's “Fickle Fancy”; Thurs May Allison, In “The Last Card.” Eddie Boland, in “Sweet By and By"; Friday, Douglas MacLean, in “Passing adapting the book, and the lyrics will be written by Hugo Felix and Brian Hooker. “Irish Dew,” which Willlam Harris tried out in' the spring, will be pro- duced again in New ‘York under the title, “The Top Shelf.” ‘Willlam Hurlburt has written a new a_ surprise finish for “Lilies _of the Field,” the play in which Marie Doro is starring. Arthur Hopkins has given the French rights to “Daddy’'s Gone a- Hunting” to Marjorie Rambeau, who is starring in the plece, and who in- tends to make a French production of it next June. Mme. Amelita Galll-Curel will open the winter season at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, with “La Traviata,” reproduced with an entire- 1y new scenic production by Joseph Trban, and with Rosina Galli and her ballet featured. Mme. Frances Alda, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who will not join the Metropolitan Opera Com- until the close of her concert gaged to sing at the Royal Opera, Berlin, next May and June, and later at the Opera Comique, Paris. She will appear in ‘“Othello,” “La Boheme,"” “Faust,” “Aida” and *Manon.” John W. Low, one of the solo dancers of “The Last Waltz" company, was engaged by the Shuberts to produce the dances and ensembles in “Phi Phi,” In which FrancesWhite is starred. Rachel Crothers’ new play, “Every- day.” is to be produced at a Shubert by Mary H. Kirkpatrick, with a cast including Minnie Dupree, Vincent Coleman and Ann Warrington. Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish sing- ing comedian, comes to Poli's the week commencing October 31 for six night performances, with four mati- nees. His unique personality, the swinging melody of his songs, tem- pered at times with the wistfulness that seems to belong to the land of the plaid and the heather, have given; him a distinction that no other singer of homely character songs has ever achieved. Sir Harry returns with a generous repertoire of characteristic songs. lncluding a number written since his last visit. One of these, “I Know a Lassic Out in O-h-i- is Said to breathe the spirit of old Scot- land, with a touch of life in newer merica. . Bessle McCoy _Davis, Richard Harding Davis widow of d famous as Through,” and Charlie Chaplin, in “A Da. Pleasure’ Dana, in “Puppets of Fate. “It's Your Move,” apd first insta ment of “Hurricane Hutch.” * Circle. Tomorrow, Alice Brady,~in ittle Italy”; Tuesday, May Allison, in “The Last Card”; Wednesday, Wanda Haw- 1 Oak”; Thursday, Hugh Ford produc- tion, ““The Great Day,” also, by re- quest, “Our Navy in Action”; Friday, Charles Ray, “Serap Iron,” and Saturday, Juck London story, “The Star Rov Dumbarton. Today, Viola Dana, in “Home Stufl tomorrow, Charles Ray, in “Scrap Iron”; Tuesday, Pauline Frederick, in ge”; Wednerday, William S. Hart, in “The Whistle Mae Marsl in “Nobod day, “The Great Day, “Cold Steel.” Kid": and Saturday, Elite. Today, Ralph Ince, in “Wet Gold”: tomorrow, Alice Lake, in “Uncharted Seas”; Tuesday, Jack Pickford, “The Man Who Had Everything’ Wednesday, Arline Pretty, in “Life’ Thursday, Bert Lytell, in “The Man Who"; Friday, Monroe Salisbury, in “The Barbari: " and Saturday, Con- way Tearle, in “Whispering Devils.” Empire. Today and tomorrow, Tom Mix. in “After Your Own Heart”; Tuesday, “The Money Maniac”; Wednes: “The Orderly”; Thursday, Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, in “Wom- en Who Wait"”; Friday, Edith Roberts, in “Open Shutters, Ruby De Remer, y tenth episode of “The White Iforse- man.” Hippodrome. Today, Bebe Daniels, in “Ducks and Drakes”; tomorrow, “The Spenders”; Tuesday, Cecil B. DeMille's “Forbid- den Fruit”; Wednesday, Edith Rob- erts, in “Thunder Island”; Thursda; Lon Chaney, in “The Penalty”; Fri day, “Good Women”; Saturday, Lois Weber, “What's Worth While. Lyric. Today and tomorrow, Edith Storey, in “Beach of Dreams’”; today's ma inee only, “The White Horseman, N 8”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Conwa Tearle and Rosemary Theby, in ey and Walter Hiers, in “Her Sturdy ! | NEXT WEEX" Columbia. Alla Nazimova, the gifted R PHOTOPLAYS. stage and ser Metro produc sie, “Camille. v ported by Rudolph Valentino, RIALTO. v Realart’s 1. al production, ‘The Speed Girl turing Bebe Dan- 1s. Chaplin, in “A Dog's Li Viola Dana, in “Fappe % and first iustallment of “Hurricano Huteh.” H York. in “The Whis- feorts Alice Nilsson, in “What Wo and Eddie Boland, in “The Heart Line MacLean, «in “Passi urday, Charles New Music Director. SIGNOR ER) ATIELLO has been appointed to the conductor- ship of the orchestra at Harry Crandall's Knickerbocker Theater, 15th street end Columbia road north- west, Signor Natfello is a native of Italv, who came to this country in his early youth, gequired a sense of American musical taste and style in the finest conservatories in America and, on at- taining his majority, returned to his native land to graduate from the Milan Conservats under the tutes lage of Maestro Farias. After a career in Italy as a direc- tor of bands, orchestras and opera Signor Natiello returned to the United States, organized his own concert band and for twelve vears filled en- gagements of importance from coast to_coast. When music in the motion picture theaters became an important fac- tor Signor Natiello devoted the fruits of his experience to the musical in- terpretation of photodramatic sub- jects. This artistic pursuit was followed not only with regard to the daily pre grams of the theater, but in tho synchronization of musical scores with the action for leading producing concerns. His next step was to_the orchestra conductorship of the Cirele Theat fndianapolis, where under the g« eral managership of Barrett McCor- mick, it is =aid, great advances wers made in the munner of presenting silent drama. Shakespeare as “Wet" Propaganda WAG in Bostor has accused E. H. Sothern and Juliu Marlowe of the “Yama Yama Girl,” is making her|“Whispering Devils"; Thursday, Cath-|malice aforethought in their produc- appearance in Shubert vaudeville in a new gdancing act. . Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield, re- cent stars of “Look Who's Here” and scheduled to open shortly in a new production, have deserted musical comedy temporarily for a tour of the Shubert vaudeville circuit. Ben Linn, who is at the Belasco this week, -was leading man in the comedies of the late John Bunny. He tips the beam at 306 pounds. —_— Man and Motor. From the Boston Tramscript. “They say the driver of a car comes to have a sort of sympathetic under- standing with the machine.” “There is a mysterious relatlonship between a man and his can, that's a fact. For instance, whenever my car :,u broke I know that I am. going to e erine Calvert and Herbert Rawlinson, in_*“You Find It Everywhere"; Friday, Bernard Durning, in “Diane of Star Hollow,” and turday, Antonio Moreno, In “Secret of the Hills.” Republic. Today, tomorrow, Tuesday and Wed- nesday, the spectacle, “Quo Vadis" Jim Aubrey, in “He Laughs Last,” and Topics of the Day; Thursday, Frid: and_ Saturday, J. L. Frothingham' production of “The Ten Dollar Raise. featuring William V. Mong. and Charlie Chaplin, in “A Dog’s Life.” Savoy. Today and tomorrow, Harold Lloyd, in “I Do”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Rupert Hughes' *i gerous Curve Ahead,” and comedy, “Assault and Flattery”; Thursday, Jack London's “The Star Rover”; TFriday, Alice Brady, in “Little Italy,” and Charlie H | tion of Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night,” {which he contends is outspoken, unadulterated propaganda for - the “wets” with its salient satire on a world without drink. Certain it is thet Sir Toby Belch makes an eloquent plea for the flowing bowl and life with no blue Mondays. The prohibi- tionists, however, have their consola- tion in his ultimate disgracé and smash-up. “This is all very amusing,” com- ments Mr. Sothern, “but we have no ulterior m.ssion in presenting any of Shakespeare's dramas. They are the greatest heritage of the stage, and this greatness lies in the fact that first, last and always they are playe, written for amusement and entertain- ment. That Shakespeare was a mag- nificent moralist is evident because he doesn’t preach; that he was a tru man of the theater is the rcason 12 has survived gl oUglplaywrighie 7