Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1921, Page 64

IRGINIA O'BRIBN will sing the role of Marcla.dn Oscar Strauss’ “The Chocolate Soldier,” whick is to be revived by the Shuberts. Donald Brian will alss be in the cast. Dorothy Francis, who has been al- ternating with Lydia Lipowska “The Merry Widow,” has been en- gaged by Henry W. Savage to sing the role exclusively for the transconti- nental tour of the production. * This afternoon some eighty corre- spondents attending the conference on limitation of armament., will at tend the matinee at B. F. Keith's Theater. Sam H. Harris announces that he has acquired the American rights to Walter Hackett's play, “Ambrose plejohn’s Adventure.” a com of “the London season. and that will present it in New York with Wallace Eddinger in the title role. will be renamed “Captain Applejaci Adele Rowland entered the ranks of vaudeville last week in New York. offering a program on new songs, and scored a hit. Robert Hilliard also came into the two-a-day ranks last week, presenting gll\{(p' playlet, entitled “The Littlest i Henry E. Dixey and Fay Marbe have been added to the cast Little Mis Raffles,” which the Shuberts are pro- ducing. George opened at the ¢ York, last Tuesd: in Antoinette The were harsh on the play, but spoke well of the acting ability of the com- Grace house, Ne pany, especially the star. Gilbert Miller bhas completed rangements with Doris K ap- pear under the management of the Charles Frohman Company, in “The Czarina” a play by Melchoir Lengyel and Lajos Biro, which is said to be one of the most interesting dramas that has recently come out of Hun- ary. The production will be made riy in January. Catherine Proctor. who has Dbeen nlaying in “Ambush.” in rk. will appear in “The Wif; a Smile” @ play from the French, by Denys Amiel and Andre Obey. which will_be presented tomorrow night in the big city. Richard Harding| Jweek. i AMUSEMENTS. e Spotlight \ning in New York and that the invi- |tation was an S | Golden—was anxious to start a move- {ment to get rid of such plays. Robert Ames, recently seen in “The {Hero,” wHl be with Richard Bennett and Violet Heming in the cast of 1“Face to Face.” Flsie Ferguson made her first pub- lic appearance under the management of Sam H. Harris last Monday night in Newark. in Zoe Adkins’ new play, “The Varying Shor: “Three Wise Fools,” now playing over the southern circuit, will be taken to London next season. John W. Ransome and Hazel Sexton will ihead the company. Miss Sexton brok her leg last son and but recent {resumed work Mae Marsh, the screen and stage sta is to bring out a handbook ow {motion picture acting and scenario jwriting this season. The matinee perfarmance on Thanks- giving day marked the 100th perform- ance of Marjoric Rambeau In “Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting” i w York. Miss Rambeau began her run in the piece, which is by Zoe Adkins, on August 31. “The Bat” opened in Baltimore last Monday night to standing room, and it is said all the reserved seats for the week were sold out by Wednes- iday. nd, who dlines the Adele Rowla next audeville bill Washington xirl cived her knowledge of the three Rs in the Pope and Henry schools of the District. Her last musical com- edy success was as star of the ovigl ew Y company in “Iréne. She is now the wife of Conway Tearle, motion picture star Richard Harding Davi “The Lit- tlest Girl,” has been revived for jvaudeville and is among the Decem- ber bookings at the Bel 0. Jarly enough the widow of Jth thor, Bessic McCoy Davis. r haoked for the same house during the holiday season. been engaged for in_the new musical Raffies,” in which sing the leading Marbe 1 ce thut he—r|ine veterans of the civil war are not D. ¢, NOVEMBEE %7, 192[—PART 2.7 AMUSEMENTS. Coming Altractions BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | | In these days of world war heroes, B. F. KEITH'S—Babe Ruth. | _Next week’s bill at 1. F. J Theater will be headed by Babe Ru “king of swat g At the Theaters Next Week NATIONA L—Ethel Barry- more, in “Declasse.” belng forgotten in official Washing- ton. It has been noticed that the =2 plea of the Grand Army, or a delega- { POLTS—*The Rose Girl" | ot o " tion of the G. A. R., gets ready ear| musical comedy. | | week during his incursion into v at the White House, in the pension | | GARRICK —“The Mountain | | ville. ~ Others on the bill wiil b o - s Watts, James Doyle (lute of office and before Congress, ‘where i Man,” a love story. | Doy nd Dixon), Patricola, Margo there are a decreasing number o!} B. F. KEITH'S—Babe Ruth Waldron, Holmes and Le Vere, Jack veterans who wore the blue or the Pl e Sl | La Vie: 1 Paul and Mac Nol ey i COEMOS - “The Cottary 1T 0 Al iR Mnp Nolan. The meeting of the United Con- Revue,” musical vaudeville. S—C federate Veterans this month in Chat- | 1 STRAND —*Marri 3 COSMOS—Century Revue. tanooga, following the reunion of th TRAND —*“Marriage v | A delightful little musical satire Grand Army in Ingianapolis, has em- | Divorc fon things as they are. presented by phasized that the 'blue line and the GAYETY — Sydell's “London of nine, under the title 3 k 5 nidry Revue h ¢ gray line, which fought so sturdi more than a half century ago, al apidly passing. Representative Henry Californfa, who entered Army at the age of seventeen: Repre- | ntative Charles M. Stedman of | orth Carolina, who entered the Con- | federate Army as a private and rose | to the rank of major, and former Representative Isaac Sherwood, now a newspaper correspondent, who | advanced from private to major gen- | eral during his service with the! Union Army, were discussing with omforting satisfaction the powerful Union which has arisen in a_little| over a half century, through the in- dissoluble union of both armies. Their discussion brought out the! records which show that the average | age of the soldiers of the northern army during the civil war was itwenty-three. In the south it was lower. Fifty-six yea 2 ince Lee surrendered at Appom So the age of civil war veterans must average eighty years. The G. A. R. was organized in 1866, wigh all the vigor and enthusiasm of the Amer- ican Legion. In 1890 i ched i peak membership of 4 Tn 1917 only 135,931 members remained alive. Now they have dwindldd to less than | 3,000. { The boys in Dblue are passing, on their march into eternity, at so rapid a pace that nine years hence the last one may be gone. That will be taps | for a mighty army that had enlistments and re-enlistms palhe Unitea Confederate rave dwindled to a membership only 45.000—all that T left of lhe'“l‘)lluli\lnrl!:eflle Maxwell ax the| \Miss Lenore Ulric wore a triking' = Miss Fritz) Schefl appeared at! Cofifederate Army of 640,000—an army r Circasxian” was a picture of yoq tamre < “Kiki, Keith' el {Conredsrate ATy oL S10.000 ! suos_’n-mm_l sbiendor at the” Shubere- | T “: ta frock in “Kiki® at the, Keith's in a lJuxurious ermine :lofllfl {cumbed to superior forces only after | Garrick. b and & gown uprinkied with sequins {four yvears of conflict and starvation. { H * % * % Belles.” burlesque. CAPITOL — “Mischiefd Makers,” burlesque. adway dances, tures of ik hits oF of its new big and Z. Osborne of | the Union | NATIONAL—*“Declassee.” “Declassee,” the play in which Ethel Barrymore is credited with h achieved the most emphatic sud of her career, is announced for th National Theater next week, be ning Monday, December 5. . “Declassec” is from the pen of Zoe Akins, the young St. Louis authoress | g fih W v Who leaped into fame following the |y LA Soa0: first performance of her play in New | [00 h versat U Fork. She is sald to have written aj\/\ (il Dk S T0EEs play “Pineroesque” in its truth tojulafrabh taughmaier. Fihe modern life and conditions aud in its coe_she uvsostonst relentless logic e o, Throughout the three acts of “De-| 2 rlassee,” Miss Akins' story has to do y 3 b with the social adventures of “The Mountain Man. | Helen Haden. an aristoeratic e ! Englishwoman of fine British birth i, i nd environment. to whom, throueh | fault of her own, save an imberited | o scklesgness. unhappy circumstances | ring matrimonial disas ppears from he: embarks upon a carecr in {try, the gay center of a 1 AaBE | of inusual people. 1n the « with the s own kind hopelessly adriff, her ad-jm i ventures here, alternately amusing Ui lana pitiful, reach their climax ai tragedy at a moment when happiness | m { seemingly ix almost within the grasp !of the adventuresome wandercr able company includes Edward | Abbott, v, Henry Danicll. Philly lter M Cyril Charles W, a4 Rowe, Hubbard Kirk : ] W. €. Leith :;d ard] Le Hay |STRAND—"Marriage vs. Divorce. _ | West, Mary R. De Wolf, Gabr k 1 Theate i vine, Ina Rorke and elle Thel trained wh is credited a Keene and Williams w ¥ Feller and Mason in . and an pianologu company th lguroos, { - Yocal Verdict, artellas, luman a genuine novelty TWo first-run pictures 4 in the e in the “The Appli- New per | { 10 11 week maragement Owe , Mauto , Chex Leor nt | Veterans | of | 23 Hesso Irby Jan wi tion D |ing to Miss Ulric in its very daringness | white satin b shs BY ELENORE DE WITT EBY. of color and workmanship. "The mate- ered in One of the happiest men in W William_Gillette opened a season in i ington is Francis Kil- ASHINGTON thedtergoers have o i rs | New Yo > e son. Dan Quinlan, one of the most wide- > B o = 5 Boers Ve | ria] taffeta andf its hue the bright- this worn sy | o cday Dearing i piast Tuesday niEhl. &D-,1y known of minstrel men, been Executive amslstant (o JHel been eagerly awaiting Miss | est scarlet imaginable. On one of the | velvet bandeau, fringed with POLI'S—“The Rose Girl.” i Al Al el ) Maker” It Is a erook drams & d"_"{“ipnx ged for an important role in the ! :\ “:- chief of the budket,y ..o Uiric's appearance in her new Shoulder straps perched a large full-| m trousers were of pale “The Rose Gizl" a bright T | Others 1 include George and 0 be crowded ol and saldynew Melntyre & Heath musical ex- |2 ilkenny, some years ago| = = o - eivsh " blown poppy, and the tight bodice and ¢l with gold-embroid, R O N ik | L arden, w he xylophons owded with thri travaganza, “Red Pepper.: when he was secretary to the con- |characterization, “Kiki” and (hey |exaggerated full skirt seemingly tried = motifs e N S {todious operetta, composed by Anselmn | Lilly Garden, with i syluphone. Florence Nash has also joined the = '10;’? of the currency, organized the fwere well rowarded when the past|to equal the brilliance of the flower. wide green-jeweled girdle w sc_!as»-iv"flfli_"‘m‘ "W“l“]":‘"‘ rics by William | 42 Revue Modern and Exc o onrush into vaudeville, appearing in [, “The Blue Kitten." a musical play hapfw tl;:os?d \¥a because of h"L' Iweek brought her to the National. |A Tuching of the material formed a - (% APOUL L oty “\:""n\-”“llli',:mfl‘r‘;'thflo attrastion’ at Doli's Theater next | & American comedy a new sketch, “Telling Tales " writ. | based upon the French and now run- oy ays because of the im- g, "1,y S Do e edging to the skirt top, and at one side | Wa8 removed. Aliss Maxwolls Sarti il At GNE a week et | Fred Norbeck e o M i i it | e Taris, will be produced in|Provement of the Irish cause and be- | /1 P s, as promised, distinctly [{"5 coned to about six inches, raising Dair was revealed in a high coiffure, | week, commencing a week from tomor- | AL Camphatl Margaret Dale, Edmund Gurney | thur Hammerstein, Joseph Cawthorne hg"l {:sh"“ or six years ago when {ously portrayed, although we catch a tance at that point. A long train, g & J st describe et g“;u\,h o im. | the King b “hercul and Grant Stew: ve heen engaged [and Lillian Lorraine will be starred d& ot R r'i.(;.':(.r:‘;.l-"!r rhflf?c? d T““; { few faint glimpses of “Tiger-Rose” in | ver-embroidered, appeared at the back. b il ;{’)“"‘""‘ J g cdy athletes play will be hy ) revor 2 - ay ™ £CO, Be 0 C i d ousands o & N IE i J] ar E n igl i > 1 0. pduction. featuring by Norman Trever for “The Married | in the piece. ORI Shout e aande 0 {mr careless handling of words unsual- | 400 Miss Uirie u:mffil ,‘m’:;‘_"{n"i‘,fi"’,f :’”":wn,] that blend of humor x ‘,.ll.y ks .‘.(;‘l:(f,‘mv.‘ atu d = . The father of the widely known|Movement Last week Kilkenny was:ly indicated by dots and dashes, and | plete the startling effect of the « ol o (o, Te% of | romance which used to malke the operet, et John Golden, dramatic producer. has | tumbling Dooleys, Robert. Dooley, | WalKing through the corridor of the fin the assertion of an all-powerful | “The Fair Circassian” at the Nhub hite crepe, embrc 1 heavily in|tas of a decads gone sot satisfying GAYETY—Sydell's “London invited New York's chief cit trate to head 2 committee o of managers, actors and he hopes to organize to give the thea- ters a housecleaning. Mr. Golden McAdo- has written him a letter com- menting on offen e plays now run- magis- composed 2:15 8115 | Sunday 5533 [Seats, 260 at Deily inn Daily g Tomorrow Matine men which | who in other was a comedian, will return to the footlights this in New York with Johnny Doo- ct for Shubert’s vaudeville. J Mr. Docley in recent years has heen in business in Philgdelphia. u colonel in the war. 5 BT | Holidays tinees, Exoopt Satulia “aisis | Prices 77 Sundays and Holi- o and Ending Next Sunday Night days. Begi CO-HEADLINERS CROWN A CLUSTER OF STARS America’s Most Popular.Ball- Room Danc: FLORENE 'WALTO With Leon Leittim and lexander Vings Also Milan Smolen, Planist. and Maximil The Screen Star And Company Preésenting the EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION MRS. SIDNEY DRE ‘The Artist Supreme and Interna- tional Sensation ZXENORMAN he “Creole Fashion Plate.” presents Something Different.” Edwin ' We eonducting. An aristocrat of the thi ter. standing beyond comparisom, who fascinates audiences and is the most brilliant and tantalizing problem on the American The Comedy Notable Farcieal “PREDESTINATION” The Blackface Favorite of Musical Comedy and Vaudeville JACK WILSON Assisted by Harry Antrim All-Star Cast. in “A N e Wittient of Women JOHNSON, BAKER & JOHNSON Presenting **Practice’ 4 OTHER JOLLY F TODA BOYLE_& 3 & FRITZIE 8:15 ALL THI The Season Hit = KITTY FRANCIS & €O, “AMBITION” Just back from a three-year trip sround the world. A great comedy act with 15 entertainers, including singers and dancers of interna- tional reputation. BEATRICE HERFORD crambied Legrs” TURES—BUY SEA'’ SCHEFF, LIGHTNER GIRLS AND ALEXANDER, BEN WELCH, ETC. GAYETY ALL-STAR CAST XEXT WEEXK—“IONDON (€ A GREAT ALL-COMEDY SHOW NEXT WEEK\YZ=%) and Betty Browne ONSENSICAL REV! Tn Her Merrieat Monologue Mood Alice Gerstenberg's Travesty “‘A DRESS REHEARSAL" EARLY—PHONE MAIN 4485 BENNETT "9TH STREET -=- BELOWF -- S WEEK - Jazzy, Girly Show With An “Ye Old Tyme” Movie Show The great comedy novelty of the season—movies as they were 15 years ago. Mary Pickford and a host of others when they first came out. “Song-slides” and all the old-time absurdities. DUNHAM & O'MALLEY A elever pair with unusual comedy ideas. JESS & MILT FEIBER Two Boys and & Piano FIRST RUN FEATURE FILMS Mack Semnett’s New Comedy, “Swestheart Days” FA Great Virile “HOOT” GIBSON IN “RED COURAGE” Matinees Only at 1:15 and 4145 KIBBLE & PAYNE To their fumny playlet, “The Selesman” CHAS. & HELEN POLL In bits of varisty and novelty stunts, Story of Adventure, by Peter B. Kyne. International News Weekly--- He was Treasury building when he met an rrick, presented rather an escont sequins ury | {love that will “do and dare all." st old man who has charge of old books | pic English life of v and documents. This old man teld {, 10 costumes there is a decided con- algn,,‘\:l‘ll:n T e e i ed with 1 r-like | ed out to logi Belles. Kilkenny he had a book he might Ll her former QRDCAT- |tery of the cust mingled with the i of crystal hea s ibanafati Qiosame time admite: kAl < famous “London Belles want, and when he learned it was his ¢ of “The Bird of Paradise, ing fog in “Old London Tow of brilliants in Miss S was el s i e next week, in a 0ld scrapbook Francis actually threw pind of Paradise,’ of | costumes¢of both gentlemen and ladies effcctive with both : S ety e ldhudean s 3 ie Son- I the red slippers with rhinestone | musical conedy demand. and gay and with its contents outlined! of the nobility were intere in thei A his arms around the neck of the £ prised salvager. H In those Yesteryears Kilkenny used to live on Mas; husetts avenue. ' .-\l»nng about inauguration time a com- | mittee set up tablets on historic site: for the most part on houses where famou_s menAhud lived. Going home one night Kilkenny saw a tablet on|mark” feather. Later, when she is l_hn front of the house in which he:given the opportunit of ordering lived and was amazed to find that it | gowns us she choos Kiki garbs proclaimed that herein lived the or- | herself in bizarre creation of black ganizer of the “Back to Ireland” | vel with a w skirt of old rose movement, who could be found there taffeta. and wears five or six strings daily before 9 a.m. and after 5 p.m.|©0f vari-colored beads around her As far as Kilkenny was able to learn, | N¢¢k. he was the only ing man to whom | a tablet was er d at that time— | all of the others were for men who had been famous in an earlier day. - e The | Fred Hi i is the fes { dian, but Shep Camp and Louis nd it wasirun bim a close second for comed for theiors. Hillebrand, with his six feet four ainty ghite fur strips of which it!iinches of length, is a was confpused were alternated with!and his unique boneless narrower ones of red satin brocaded { poetical chatter are in zold, so th Kind of striped or | Bose Girl. effqet given. The deep| Marguerite La - Yomposed entirely of the!donna who sin fur, and extended into long stole-like | voice, as ) at the front. The wWrap Was prima donna for the Chicago Grand | sughout with red satin, gold | Opera Company, and Barbour Halliday red. so that one scemed tofare the romantic lovers of the story reverse side of it between | The music, full of songs of r ands at the back.iis entirely free from jazz musical vulgarity. The cast includes Harold Cra {cis Morey, Sarah Ldwards, I ip\o. Ruth and_Arthur Boy; four dashing debutantes. ustrations, spark and humor. Jo diest little comedian surrounded by Georg. Mildred Campbell Mie Leonard, Rose Sy the Romas troupe. in ad 1 sydell magnet big ve see in “Kikl little f the Paris street incing ashions bad and yet a as her language. e first entrance is made in an absurd Iscant bluck and white checked skir bright orange blouse and =mall green turban, topped by a long “question- e Teels and large colonial buc worn b rmine wrap jlustrited, w Miss Scheft 1, Toth beautiful and unusual, 0dd elaborateness of most gors worn by the his_followers assian slave girl. The latter role was portrayed by Mi xwell, and her fi heeu sketched. but one colors to really appre- i are, a voung prima features « with great beauty of should. having been a ciate its beauty. The face veil was, of but over the head was hood of dull blue-gra: cloth, which extended ""’q ¥ large enough to envelop ‘the ictured was oddly becom- completel Beneath the urse, white. thrown | Jonnny v's inimitable many {of singing beautiful ballads is a fea- ture of the “Mischief Makers” show. mes 1o the Capitol Theater ek. Mr. Crosby may not b s great as the wonderful Ca Lut when it comes to singingz h ina o by himself. “ros embroi glimpse th | the narrow ermine Old Shoes at Weddings. A Statuesque Southern rus, is said 1o 1 _“"Some Sandstorm.™ P ; ‘ HE great wind machine was work- Beauty. O vou know why old shoes are | *-1 ""'e,,nat Karngares. !T ini its hardest in a desert sand-{_ : ty‘ Rab) thrown at newlyweds i = HE New York zoo recently re-jStorm sceme of “The Shel \\'h"h{l ,‘-" 1'1 ;“‘“dl"t"d‘la.k “Z."l' “i! Charles Eldridge, charzn .»‘r| n-(';xo:.‘ THE SERVANT IN THE HOUSE {George Melford was producing. The] ¢a the leading role is intrustedlwno plays the role of an old shoe- said hoe is g na- yrians and bargain had been | hamed of Parent: ymbolism of the older than any to a statuesque beauty, Gladys Han- scn, who is seen as Sharazad, a rolz‘ which Oscar Asche, the author, cre- ated for his wife, Lily Brayton, who was prevented from playing the part. however, by her London engage- ment. Miss Hanson is a native of Atlanta, 3 Sesabh the shoe Ga., and went to New York, after a|gome married men career in amateur theatricals in At- 5 undcrfl;.(l:e \fl"}?Snxur T lanta, fired with an ambition to be-| “Among the Anglo-SaXOns o come & ‘reat dramatia getress. Like|SISIOmErY to throw o sendel Ser Kennedy, the playwrisht, She broysht many ambitious youns women With | thority hud been transferred to theiFUR UGG i written. That play high idcals, she decided that E. H.{husband, and at the W Sothern was one of the great dramatic maker in that the doubtl. ceived a large and varied con-}eor : i 1R S eomest brlman maicanhas aka mp_ivnlrl‘l‘m:s of purticles were swirling at tiles from Australia and South Africa. | NER rate of speed as Agnes Avred| Many of the Australian accessions|’"® Budolbh Valentino were engaged have mever before heen —exhibiteq |in a dramatic scene wherein he res- alive in the United States. Amomg | cues her from marauding Bedouins. them are several species of kanga<{ “Stop the engine.” called Medford. roos, the most remarkable being theiObediently the mechanic switched off ‘West Australian rat kangaroo. { the aeroplane motor. which was rais- ! “When sjtting upright this creature! ing 8o much dust, but the sand con- iis only fourteen inches high. It is{tinued to fiy. particularly interesting and remark-{ “What the deuce—" began Mel- :db]e because of the srange character-!ford. “Didn’t 1 tell you to stop that istics of the tail, which the animal|sandstorm?" uses as a supporf, as the larger and|{ Then everybody recalized that a real typical kangarcos do. The tafl is|sandstorm had come up during the almost naked, appears to be much | artificial one. They crawled under swollen and corrugated and apparent- | cover and for five minutes the air was 1t is really | almost unbreathable. Do ECAUSE of the interest manifested in Walter Hampden's revival of “The Servant in the House! 1 tion with its i e n sometimes | facts iu connecti 4 s s sood | Presentation may not be ax sandal as a token of good presentation may Mot | that| In 1807 Mr. Hampden was playing and | in London as leading man in an en- gagement in the West End, when Edith Wynne Mathison ctres joined the company. s Mathison cas and is the wife of Charles Raun otheérs, whose opit . cansed Mr. Miller 1, would not be a success had been mad: on, he did at last de- it a production. ut" had its premicre i Marel, for one night only, i Baltimore. the singls date being for the purpose of giving Mr. Miller, who was in Baltimore at the time. an op- portunity of looking it over, ag stated Aw piece opened at th Savoy Th , New York, and prove immensely pop It ran for aimos a season in New Yofk and later du- plicated in other cities its metropol - edding itseif | her husband had was “The Servant in the Mo e rther often handed the shoe to3¥as ~The Servant in the g the groom. who, b v of gentle Te- i P GT0 have it produced in London, Iy segmented into rings. p 5 é a reservoir for the storage of fatt “If we'd waited five or ten minutes,” | actors and that a schooling in his|minder, tupped his wife's head Withi i o Fynsuccessful, and, finall n vogue. Mr. Hampden appeared & nourishment and enables the apimal {grinned the producer, after the storm | classio organization would be the | j Ded for New York. Manton. AMiss STathisoh astAnntis ko is [llo\lgh!hlo H times when] iles at | tim Tyrone Power as The Drainman. Ma bel Moore. who played the original Mary in the cast, will appear here |jth Mr. Hampden in the same role. €0 that two of the major parts will De filled by their originators. The play cleancd up a quarter of million net profit before it was witl drawn. Indeed, its success was such that it proved the forerunner for may vmbolic plays of the sort, includingz the famous “Passing of the Third Floor Back.” Last season Mr. Hamj - den felt the time was opportune for its revival and the enormous success marking_ its rcappearance justified his belief. Comes Heralded Highly. was NV[ARGUERITE LAMARE, the younx gave prima donna who will make her carcely a day elapsed from the! e Mr. Hampden passed through the 5 customs at New York until he was the robber bridegroom. seated in a summer house on the tate of Henry Miller, the actor m . o ager, reading to Mr. Miller the script “In Days of Old. 3 log the play. Ordinarily Mr. Miller ab- 2 . jhors having plays read to him. But W[ ITTLE 012 New York” is set inlin tnis instance he lay back i 2, As ¢-| kammock, simulating slumber. the {eariof 1810 An the BieY end he expressed deep interest and goers watch the progress of ;he lt- e o take ""’,}' S immediate- ¢ they awaken to the con-jly, but as he himself was going on :llceio:x‘:::;‘q that New York is not)tour this was impossible. He feit he 2 could not give it his own personal at- i merely aemodern city of the moment.§i p4ion. So he engaged Mr. Hampden but that it has a xlorious historic| us leading man for Nazimova in "4 Why He Did Ir. WARK _ GRIFFITH he it. “But the wedding shoe be a relic of the ancient the pursuing father hurled m finest kind of training for a dramatic career. Miss Hanson joined Mr. Sothern's company at the time Florence Reed was his leading woman. The play in which she appeared wa Fool Hath Said There Is no God, which she had a small part. Miss Marlowe, who had been -appearing with Mr. Sothern. had temporarily re- tired from the stage at that time. and so Miss Reed created the leading feminine role. The play failed and Mr. Sothern put on & revival of “If 1 Were King.’ Miss Reed was taken ill, and as Miss Hanson was her un- derstudy. she stepped into the leading role of Sothern's great success. She played the part for several weeks, and the following season became Mr. Sothern's leading woman in reper- toire. Following this, Miss Hanson played to pass periods of several weeks in its| had passed, “we might have saved a| burrow without eating. After a|lot of gasoline! period oflsxuch lns(lniz the diumnterl of the tail is so greatly reduced that Athletes and Rules. HAT an athlete mlay defy all the it is no larger than that of other small species of rat kangaroo. Four species of genus Bettongia are known, all of which are remarkable for using | 4 rules laid down by experts for the tall to seize and carry ETAssesifor | eating, drinking. sleeping, exercising and general mode of living and at the same time be a strong man and an equilibrist is sa to be exempli- the Rath br ers, rated by in the ground; but as that leaves the entrance on a level with the sur- rounding herbage, it closes it with ia e fied JWRea AN nat s sxtendly TR o the physical instructor = tat’ Harvard Universi as perfect specimens of physical manhood. H grass, which it drags after it, and so; Neither one ©of the Rath brothers follows any set sthedule or partic- ular regularity in_ living. “Of course,” says Dick, “we do not do any all-night carousing, but in a past o soomer has the curtain than a voice is heard tage calling “Tea water! Tea water” Only the initiated know that the referenc: to the famous “tea-water pump, risen AVID asked to explain why D general way we follow the same |, geason with Henry Miller, in a re- t n B A course as the every-day mortal. By |vival of “The Great Divide” and then|which stood in whntd“_s r:}ll_;efl :‘!n\?:; such an elaborate screen production |first wppearance here in “The Rose that 1 mean we eat what we like. If | went under the Belasco management, |ham road in those days. e to “Way Down East” This is his ex- Girl” is the daughter of Ewvelyn was so excellent that it was in con- stant demand, and the New Yorkers e supplied by men distributed it _in v as present-day Friend, leading ingenue of the famous Boston Museum Stock Company dur- |ing the last seasons of its existence, and Lamare Middleton (Harvard '96), who for a score of years or more was the Paris correspondent of tife Chicagzo News and the New York Herald we feel like smoking we do it. We drink anything and everything that appeals to the taste amd is not in- toxicating—in short we are bound by no strict rules of diet or mode of living. * “A good clean mind, plenty of good fresh air and any and all wholesome food that appeals to the tongue and appearing In leading roles in “The Governors Lady” and ‘“The Woman. n She became leading woman with Lou}of that ttime w Tellegen, in ‘The Ware Case” andi{and women who plaved a season of classic dramatic|carts as regular] roles in the Greek plays produced by | vendors supply milk. Granville Barker. When Patricia O'Da Miss son has performed also be- so delightfully pl re camera, cre-|Tobin). lived in X R e in “The|would venture after nightfall beyond planation: £ “1'selected Lottie Blair Parker's story of “Way Down East' because it lies closer to the human heart than (the characteriany play 1 ever read dealing with Sy Genevier® ! plain people and told in & plain man- y ner. I have had so many requests d ew f majority needs for good health.” e | *'A New Maude Adams.” COLISE ’ UM Centor | ~LNEVIEVE TOBIN, the slip of -a Over Nisth ead Pemamyivasia ave. nw. Market girl whose playing in “Little 01d November 22 to 27, Inclusive | xew vork” caused some of the first- night critics to hail her as “the new Thursday, 4:30 YaAT.orar y’ - THEATER Maude Adams,” did not travel to stage . = success by any royal road, but along Festival of Strauss Music With the hard highway of experience. Although Miss Tobin has just passed Richard her twentieth birthday, she is by no means a debutante in her profession. Bronsilaw Huberman, Violinist Willem Willeke, Cellist stomach are the only recipes we fol- les i Sd low, and the same system is all the ;Ila‘xxw:go,"m&rhlmgzmngigh? Road” “The|Broadway toward the North river{from those who care for my work toj Miss Lamare herself was born in “The Primrose Path.’|without carrving a pistol. It Wasiperpetuate, insofar as the motion pic- § France, and attended school in Boston Climbees's; and also the period when night watchmen marched on their beats in couples, one to take care of the otheg. and Brookland. Next she went 1o Chicago, where she began her profes- sional career four years ago. In Paris Miss Lamare met Mary Garden, during that distinguished arti areer at the Opera Comique, and it said they formed a fast friendship. In Paris also Miss Lamare O See Miaine just s quickly as 1[had the advantage of instruction from can see it in Alabama. ‘Way Down |Mme. Bernhardt, in addition to her East’ is a human story, humanely told j mother's constant training. So it was by a woman who deserves a place in |natural enough that she should begi the dramatic and literary hall of fame j hor career as a member of the Frencl. for the reason that she has given to | Rapcrtory Theater in the wester: the American people as a heritage one |metropolis, first playing ingenue parts of the most tender and appealing |j,ut presently graduating into leadin stories ever writeen. jroles. later, on advice of ) “We have all too many of the other | urden, she became a member of the kind of stories these days, and we|Ghijeago ‘Opera Company. need sometimes to turn aside from | yfie’ Lamare is petite and this the vampire and the charlatan and |,no reason why musical comedy suit< let our eves rest softly on the kindlier { FUT IR0 VW MU €0 She and more sympathetic characters of | iy Vo gahut as prima e the long ago. title role of “Little Simplici Now. it is said, she has her best role in “The Rose Girl ture may be capable of perpetuation, this story of New England life. Naturally, being a southerner, I might have preferred to handle the subject from the viewpoint of a man Who was born and who has lived in the south. I am_ a Kentuckian and mighty proud of it ; “But my heart is not sectional. 1 can see human love and human kind- | l is i tMBny theatergoers will recall her as one of the group of children who ap- i | pearea .with David Warfield in “The Grand Army MAn.” That was her first | stage bow and with her were her.l brothers, George and Robert. Gene- vieve then was seven, George eight jand Robert had reached the ripe old age of six. The Tobin trio forsook the stage at the end of the New York run of “The Grand Army Man” and entered school, but Genevieve's sister, Vivian, went on tour with her mother to play with | Laurette Taylor in 4 piece called “Yo- semite.” A year later Genevieve returned to the stage to create the role of the lit. tle boy in “As A Man Thinks.” Mean- while George and Vivian had appeared with Nazimova in “A Doll's House' and in the companies of Ethel Barry- more and Mrs. Leslie Carter. After “As A Man Thinks” had end- ed its run, Genevieve was sent to Paris and placed in a private school. When she returned from Europe she joined her sister in a Washington Square Players' playlet, “The Age of Reason.” appearing in the vaudeville production of that piece on a coast-to- coast tour. This bringy Genevieve's history down to two seasons ago when she appeared in “Palmy Days.” Now she is surrounded by such an illus- tripus stage company as Johh Jacob At{nr. Cornelius _Vanderbilt, Wash- ington Irving and the other historic ‘personages with which Rida Johnson Young has‘peopled her comedys Tickets, $3, $2.50, $2,, $L.50, $1 T. Arthur Smith, Inc., 1308 G St, —_— A most noteworthy film in the non- theatrical film library, is “The Animal Circus,” a one-reel novelty, showing clever tricks of trained goats, cats. birds, dogs, polar bears and seals, and a vaudeville series showing tumbling, acrobatic, sleight-of-hand and danc- ing acts. Another novelty film, “Mira- cles in Mud,” shows rough clay tak- ing shape by means of unseen hands. Filmograms. SY\JEARIN' the soup and fish makeés some folks feel chesty,” says ‘Wes' Barry, “but, believe me, I had to wear the blame thing for a coupler days while they was makin’ ‘School Days’ and I was glad to git back to the glad rags, so's I could knock around, natural like.” Gus Edwards’ play, “School Days,” has Wesley Barry for its star. The Incomparable thli DRAPER In_ her original character sketche: “*Her characters are perfectly wrought —each one lives. All that she does is entirely unforced. * * * Miss Draper can make us cry when she wante to; for the most part she makes ns laugh. She is as witty s she is charming; xhe is a fipe artist in the fine shades of character. Sie is the George Meredith of the reciter’s platform.”—The Ob- server. ONE APPEARANCE ONLY AUDITORIUN, 13th st. and X .. ave. Tuesday, 8:30, Dec 6 Tickets, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00. Mail or ders with checks to T. Arthur Smith, Tnc., 1306 G. o MT. VERNON i Margaret Landis. who plays the feminine lead opposite Henry B. Wal- thall, in “Parted Curtalns,” the latest Warner release, wants the world to know that she is five feet six and one-hajf inches tall, weighs 123 ounds, and has blond hair and gray- ue eves. “4 May See Again. There was no Latin' quarter in 2 Greenwich Village as there is now. B many friepds of Ben Welch | y0®i Mo Tine” characters in _the who have known him in bur-| i3y _Washington Irving and Fitz lesque, in musical comedy and in|Greene “kml}leck—t:ou’nd something rather e the artistic or Bohemian vaudeville have been much cheered | Z8Ther JINe tR6 S0 AR Che C village within the last few days by the Te-|boasts today. With other writers of port that Wef®h probably will be able | the period, they escaped at times to Cockloft Hall, a mansion on the Pas- to see again before long. The News|gyic river, and there, it is said, they is doubly interesting to Washington | “cut up” vhery l;nuch after the man- cople. for it was in this city last|ner of the literary and artistic r,“p;n_ Tl Vaihlesing. with | 8Toups in Greenwich Village today. the musical show “Jimmie,” that he lost his sight. = His eyes had been giving Hhim New Films for Schools. trouble for seme time, and at times ING = the sight was considerably impaired. | FOLUOWING “fast on the public During the week that “Jimmie” ran prgnouncement by William Jen- here, however, Welch came off thejnings Bryan taat “the motion picture is stage after ome scene comnletely|one of the greatest educational institu- bling He felt that the condition was | tions that man has known” and “there not temporary, but permanent. Nev-| 7 ertheless, he kept on playing his role, :f:’;mflim:;xofi?ct‘?:g bincd not only during the remainder of e S that ‘week, but all the rest of The|aunouncement of new films suitable for schools and churches, for Christmas season, and except Jmembers of the including “The Fairy and the company and & few friends nb one » “Holy Night” “God and the knew of his misfortuhs until weeks |aran’ o1 and the Mountain,” and others afterward. -He had no .difficulty in||jxe them. finding his way about the stage and| Always on the lookout for such films few in the audience suspected that he|as are suitable for the non-theatrical could see mneither tha others in the|exhibitor, Harry Levey, who specializes cast nor the stage furnishings. fa such things, has recently added sev- ‘Welch is a master of character de-|eral big features to his film library, lineation. He was long one of ‘the|among them “Kismet.” featuring Otis most popular comedians in burlesque | Siinner; “Joan of Arc.” the life story and becaude the tvpes he denicted| ¢ Joan of Arc: Dickens' famous clas were so real he advanced steadily in|gc " “Dombey and Son.” “Big Happi- his profession until eventually he|negs with Dustin Farnum; the pop reached high honors in vaudevilloand|jar novels. “Diane of the Green Van, musical comedy. “The Mistress of _Shenstone,” ‘The —_— Houss of & Thousand Candles” and the Max Linder, the little French come- | Brentwood series of stories of American dian 18 making a burlesque on “The|life, “The Heart of Twenty,” “Seeing It Three Musketeers” at Universal City. | Through” “Better Times, ‘Bright 1t is to be released by Goldwyn in two § Skie™ *“The Turn of the Road,” “Poor reels. “Spike” Rankin, the thinnulllhllfionl." and “The Third Genera- girl in pictures, is to play the queen. tion.” i