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Part 3—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1922. ably does not possess; a HEN the new play, “Fashions for Men,” goes into New flark it will be eagerly scrutinized in a search for something it prob- moral. Molnar was apparently in- clined to do little more than analyze the mental processes of his mortal associates in this temporary existence; indifferent as to their ethical purposes as the naturalist who studies the sociological relation- ship of the anthill or the bechive. If he seems to take a genial view of his topics, so much the better for the world that loves to laugh and is growing a little weary of the slapstick. No doubt many European authors have suffered inwardly, though maintaining outward calm, through the persistent tesdency of American audiences to take them too seriously. “Their most buoyant moments of casual interchange, as well as their seri- ous efforts to be helpfully informing, are scrutinized for deep intellectual purport. “Good morning” becomes a profound philosophy and “Please pass the butter” a religious allusion associated perhaps with reverent prayer for our daily bread. Itis bewildering no doubt to a foreign author to find himself placed upon a pedestal like a brooding idol of the orient and bombarded with critical paper wads by solemn and devout literary worshipers. It is complimentary; but it is bad for business. You can give a man a reputation as a highbrow and then let him go hang. * % * X GEORGE BERNARD SHAW vainly protested against being regarded as anything but a romping reprobate of the pen and was compelled, though a man capable of most voluble protest, to submit to having his work culturally classified under the ponderous and clumsy term “Shaviai which must be peculiarly embarrassing, for Mr. Shaw never shaves. He is one of the leading promoters of the game of “beaver,” now so popular in London. James M. Barrie, in modest personal retirement, humbly sub- mitted to having his fanciful products dissected in search of allegorical analogies. German philosophers have gone mad, because their prepos- terious perversions in displays of ironic cleverness have been taken in all faith by people as solemn discoveries of new truth. looked for in every kind of expression. And to add to the pathos of the situation Dr. kind of propaganda. who use their brains thoughtlessly and proclaimed Ulterior motive has come to be It isn't proper unless it's some Einstein, who desires, above all things, to be taken seriously, is per- sistently poked in the ribs by a giggling universe. * * k S esoteric research with reference to “Fashions for Men" is inevitable, a humble effort in that direction may as well be made here and early. The generous shopkeeper, Juhasz, typifies the effort to be indiscrimi- nately benevolent while endeavoring to build up a small business. is a moral, palpable and practical. Here Never Extend the Privilege of a Charge Account unless you belon, to a reliable Credit Men's Association. & y i But this is too wordly. Let us brush back our straggling locks in order to extend the forehead expanse and delve dceper. Juhasz is the embodiment of that sublime virtue patience. But it is only when he finds Cowl stage comedy, in place of the production of “Abie's Irish Rose” which was previously announced. The popularity of “Smilin’ Through" dur- ing the past week brought about a last-minute decision to retain the at- traction for a second week, and it is| that his confiding generosity has wrecked his home and his business that |also announced that owling to previous he wakes up and proceeds to begin arangements for a better home and a better business. Moral: makes away with your Money and your Wife. Or, delving still deeper, shall we suppose that Juhasz is sent over to us as the symbol of a great national impulse of indiscriminate generosity contracts calling for the use of the President Theater tomorrow (Mon- day) night by Almas Temple of the There is no Sense in being too patient with a Clerk who | Mystic Shrine there will be no per- formance of “Smilin’ Through” on that one evening of the current week. | _“Smilin’ Through" is the dainty ro- mantic comedy by Edgar Langton quick to bestow, but hesitant when demanding return. The faithless wife | Martin that covers, in the course of and clerk may be taken as representing the profiteering beneficiaries, recklessly eager for material welfare; the whimsical baron as an ancient aristocracy, a little bewildered in the modern hurly-burly, but unswerv- ing in the sense of noblesse oblige, game to take a flyer in trade and [hood a girl, only to find her in love democratically ready to venture an affair of the heart with the untitled | With the son of his old enemy. The village beauty; and the village beauty, who recovering from an impulse of selfish and indiscreet aspiration, applies herself to straightening out the tangled affairs of the generous Juhasz by means of sincerity and common sense, a village beauty who in her maturer reflection. proves well | B. F. KEITH'S—Mitty and Tillio. worthy to_share the responsibilities of modern affairs, commercial and political. When you absolutely insist on finding a moral in a play you can usually go as far as you like. If you are cynically disposed, you can stop with the character of Juhasz as illustrating no more than the folly of trying to be too good. In which case the speech often employed “Oh, Juhasz,” pronounced “Oh, You Hass!” (with the H sile i 3 ] 1 nt except in Lon- don) becomes a play on words which, even if accidental, is fraught with great significance. Such processes are laborious, but they seem inevitable. * % * *x Happy the man whose brow is low, An unenlightened elf, Who likes to go and see a show And just enjoy himself! * % * * its action, two generations of lovers. It shows how a man whose life was: blighted by the action of a jealous rival in his youth rears to woman- conflict between the old hate and the new love makes a most engrossing stage story. E. F. Albee, president of the B. F. Keith circuit of theaters, is himself presenting Mlle. Germaine Mitty and M. Eugene Tillio as the headline act at B. F. Keith's Theater this week. Mitty and Tillio are the leading danc- ers of France, and for their tour of the B. F. Keith theaters come direct from the Casino de Paris, France. Their act is described as a surprising and exquisite combination of the classic, the dramatic and the acro- batic dancing art. The leading comedy feature of the bill is the well known character come- dian, Ben Welch, who presents “Pals,” an original character sketch, assisted by Frank P. Murphy, ‘A LAN DALE is one qf thcv New Yorl_: first nighters who seemed utterly | ‘A special added attraction is Edna incapable of enjoying himself. His soul is steeped in sarcasm. And what caused him to be resented most was the fact that his sarcasms were always smart. personal associations, he is bold as a lion in_the arena of the white lights. He has written plays, the latest of which comes to Washington this week. Critics have done things in the theater before. Eubene Scribe was a critic. So was Augustin Daly, at the age of twenty-one. Charles Dillingham was scarcely less precocious, but his talents for diplomacy refused to subordinate themselves to literary impulse. sarcasm so well that he employes it on himseif. A novel that he once [lazy clow: Mr. Dale loves Aug and company in a new one- act comedy by Edwin Burke called “Day Dreams.” Laura Plerpont and A gentle, almost shy man of deep affection in his | her players, in “The Guiding Star,” promise a surprise with a novel act, of which Edgar Allan Woolf is the author. Jimmy Lucas, with Francene, in “Vampires and Fools,” is a gloom dispeller. Lou Lockett and Peggy Hope present thefr famous dancing act. Dooley and Storey. in “Vaude- ville a la Carte,” and Rich Hayes, “the are added comedy fea- wrote he undertook to review. One of his comments on his own work | tures. was this: “Who_is this Alan Dale? I understand he makes a ! in| abusing actors. Where would Alan Dale be if it were not for mm§ Eating snowballs, I guess. Bowery Thackeray. Bowery and precious little of the Thackeray.” desire to state that there is a Reference has been made to him. as the reat deal of the If Mr. Dale’s play is roasted the chronicler will have at least the generous satisfaction of knowing that the roast cannot possibly be as pungently severe as it would have been had Mr. Dale written the Current Attractions article himself. PHILANDER JOHNSON. AT THE THEATERS THIS WEEK. GARRICK—Henrietta Crosman, in “Nobody’s Fool,” comedy. Opens tomorrow evening. PRESIDENT—"“Smilin’ Through,” second week. Performance this evening. B. F. KEITH'S—Mitty and Tullio, vaudeville. New show opens to- morrow afternoon. BELASCO—“Midnight Rounders,” Shubert unit. Opens this after- noon. COSMOS—“Fairyland Frolics,” vaudeville. morrow afternoon. New show opens to- ~STRAND—Scotch Revue, vaudeville. Opens this afternoon. GAYETY—“Giggles,” burlesque. Opens this afternoon. HOWARD (Colored)—"“Cotton Blossoms,” musical. Opens tomor- row evening. GARRICK — Henrietta Crosman, © “Nobody’s Fool.” The Shuberts will present Alan Dale’s comedy, “Nobody’s Fool,” with Henrletta Crosman as the featured player, at the Shubert-Garrick The- un‘r“_um week, opening tomorrow {1 Miss Crosman returns to the stage after an absence of several years. o g recognized as one of the most distinguished comediennes of age. She is a bril- ih in war work. During the past two years she has been residing in Cali- band being one of the els strongly on the subject of ‘“poor mether,” and has frequently express- ed himself on the subject. In his play, “Nobody’s Fool,” he has endeav- ored to give to the stage a new style of maternal parent, not one of the ; Bently illiterate mothers—the ple- baking mothers, and the maudlin, tear-washed mothers. The character | Mas of Mrs. Bixby shows motner as a dip- lomat, who manages her family and induces it to think that it manages her. She breaks up the unfortunate entanglement that holds her boy in the grip of an adventuress, manages hubby, house and everybody in it— and nobody knows it. " They regard her as weak; she is strong. They consider her as clay; she is marble. All the way through “Nobody’s Fool” it Is Mrs. Bixby who manipulates everything. ‘The cast in support of Miss Cros- man includes Lluella Gear, May Col- lins, Belle Murry, George Lund, Wil- liam Harcourt, ymond Van Sickle and Morgan Farley. The play was staged by F. Gatenby Bell. PRESIDENT—“Smilin’ Through” (Second Week). According to announcement from the President Theater, the President Players will present, for & eecond eek, beginning tonight at 8$:30 Felock, ‘B {lin® Through,” the Janelthe e screen features are “Aesop’s Fables,” Pathe News Pictorial and Topics of the Day. Today at 3 and 8:15 p.m. will be glven the final performances of Sophie Tucker, Yvette Rugel and the others of last ‘week's bill. BELASCO—“Midnight Rounders.” The New York Winter Garden re- Vue, “The Midnight Rounders,” with @ Century Theater chorus, will be the attraction at the Belasco this week, opening with the matinee today. An Imposing list of principals is headed by Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, featured in two mirthful diver- slons described as “Hungarian Rhas- pody” and ‘““The Doctor’s Shop”; Jane Green, singing comedienne, assisted by Jimmy Blyler, composer, will pre- sent a budget of new melodies, and Regal and Moore and company will offer “The World's Greates which includes some skillful acrcbatics; Jack Btrouse, an amusing monologue, “Over the Telephone Lola Chal- fonte, recently featured with the Philadelphia Opera Company, will be heard in classical selections, and Jean Carroll will be seen with Davey ‘White in dancing moments. Others are Frank J. Corbett, Colin Cameron, Lillian Washburn and ‘Charles E. ‘Wheeler. The book of the “Rounders,” which is in two acts and nineteen scenes, has been provided by Harold Atte- ridge, with original song numbers by Jean Schwartz and Al an. A chorus of twenty pretty girls is nota- ble for an ability to dance in a series of ensemble numbers staged by Jack on. COSMOS—“Fairyland Follies.” The Cosmos Theater will offer as its leading attraction this week the music and scenic splendor of dainty extravaganza, in “Fairyland Follies,” a Bert Irwin production in four scenes, “The Gypsy Camp,” ‘Windmill"” ella’s Pala Marks. and was staged by Earl Lindsa: The_ supporting _bill Jack Inglis, eccentric comedi: ‘ard and Zellar, ‘comedy jugglers; Tivoll in “Oh, What a Girl,” and Le Ve blending music, comedy and song; O'Neill and Plunkett, in an amusing | Jaroslav Kocian, specialty, and Mark Heehan and com- |lin any “Good |and is' more than duplicating the tre- in & comedy sketch, pany, Morning, Judge.” The photoplay, an unusual one, down | tours. RACHMANINOFF~ President “The Opus 3 “Fairyland” and “Cinder- |scherso, marche funebre, finale, Cho- ce,” with music by Jacque|pin; It is handsomely costumed|maninoff; “La Jongleuse,” Mosskow- Jnacr Inetiss-Cosmos terntaional News will be added at- tractions. The new bill will be presented at the matinee tomorrow. Today, start- ing at 3 p.m., last week's attractions will entertain. STRAND—“Scotch Revue.” The Strand Theater this week, be- ginning today, will offer a “Jovial Scotch . Revue,” presented by Jack Wyatt ‘and his lads and lassies, and the premier showing in this city of Equity Pictures spectacular produc- tion, “Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonigh Others_on the vaudeville bill will include Perez and La Flor, in spect- acular feats of equilibrium; Willlam Dick, singing comedian; ain, Gates and company, in a clever comedy skit, “Stateroom Number 19,” and Kass and Brilant, in “Lots of ep. “Where Is My Wandering Boy To- is heralded as the “picture a story of village and metropolis, of swell cabarets and a little church, of soda fountains and jazz parlors; a story of stage John- nies and plain country folks, of a mother and her wayward boy, of a country lass and a chorus girl. An added feature will be the sing- ing of the Montrose Male Quartet. Short films, including a comedy and news, with Irving Berlin's “Home- sick” and Fairman's “Kiss Mamma, Kiss Papa” as orchestral numbers, will be added attractions. GAYETY—“Giggles.” “Giggles,” a musical burlesque or- ganization, opens at the Gayety The- ater this afternoon for a week's stay. “Joytime” is the title of the main melange of jazz music, song and dance, with Miss Valeska, prima don- na, leading the vocal forces. Kincald Marigold's Jazz Band will offer a rag- time specialty. The five women in Marigold’s will augment the regular chorus delegation, thus “jaz- zing” the show throughout. Betty Palmer, Mildred Simmons and Miss Valeska will contribute solos with the chorus. Comedy will be forward- ed by Harry Evenson and Bert Marks, Harry La Mont, a tall and eccentric comedian, and Willlam Davis ‘and “VALESRA -~ Gayety Charles Smith, leads and light fun- makers. There will be a chorus of twenty-two pretty singing and danc- ing girls. New scenery and costumes are said to make it one of the richest shows of the year. HOWARD—“Cotton Blossoms.” Edward Saunders, manager of the Howard Theater, announces for_ this week W, H. Boman's “Cotton Blos- soms,” a 'musical comedy, full of pep. with Leroy White and Bonnie Bell Drew, just returned fromy a success- ful trip through the south. This aggrogation comes to the Howanl with the distinction of being one of the season's best colored attractions An added attraction in conjunction With this musical hit will be Wesley in his new picture, “Rags to " Barry, the lovable juvenile screen actor, in this photo-drama sorves to bring home in an entertain- ing and foroeful manner the keynote to success and happiness. Arcade. The Arcade, a mecca for throngs of dancers, announces a ‘Pal Jones”’ tomorrow night and a beautiful souvenir “army dance” Thursday even- ing, in addition to its regular evening dancing. Concerts—Lectures Janet Richards Tomorrow. Misy Janet Richards will give her Monday morning talk on publio ques- tions tomorrow at 10:45 in the audi- torlumi of the Masonic Temple, 13th street and New York avenue. The goneral review of outstanding world events will include, with other ques- tons, the latest German crisis and the American-Japanese relations; also re- sults of British general election. Rachmaninoff Tuesday.- Rachmaninoff, the great planist, will give his only concert in Wash- ington this season, at the President Theater, Tuesday afternoon at-4:30 o'clock, under the management of Mra. Wilson-Greene, as the first concert in the Philharmonic course. The re- maining four concerts will be given at Poll's Theater, as originally sched- uled. Subscribers holding Poll tickets for_this concert must change them at Mrs. Greene's concert bureau, 13th and G streets. Mr. Rachmaninoff's program will include: “Improvisation,” N. Medtner; “Sonata Appassionata,” allegro assal, andante con moto, allegro ma non troppo; “Nocturne,” “Valse,” “Sonata, grave, dopplo monimento, “Serenade,” Rach- “Melodle,” “Two Etudes,” E major, and “La y. ski; will include | Campanells.” Jaroslav Kocian Thursday. After an absence of eleven years, the Czechoslovak vio- virtuoso, has returned to America mendous . success of former concert Kocian will be heard in recital urasday an here. for the first time, will feature|at the President Theater q Hi of “The Birth of a Nation,” with Mar. Chance.” A film laughmaker, ,w and Ralph Graves, in “The |Ine rban Movie Chats and the In- sion Kocian ‘Walthall, “the little colonel” | afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock, under the ocal managemen it of T. Arthur Smith, ‘The technic and natural comprehen- commands in his art made him an 1dol of the musical public in thig country on previous visits to America, and his triumphs here even exceeded those won by him in the old world. Koclan's manner and style are singu- larly free from affectation. It is said that since Paganinl’s death, Koclan is the only person that has played on the master's violin at Genoa. His playing was classed by the Genoa officials as the equal of that famous violinist. His program for Thursday will in- clude the_ following composers: A. Glasunov, P. J. Cafkovskij, J. S. Bach, J. Suk, B. Smetana, A.' Dvorak, J. Kocian and Wienlawski. ckets may be had from T. Arthur Smith, Inc, at 1306 G street. LaSalle Spier-Arthur Mayo Thurs- day. 5 LaSalle Spier and Arthur Mayo, both young Washington artists of high ac- complishment, will present a two-piano recital Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock at the Masonic auditorium, under the local management of T. Arthur Smith, will be as follws: D minor, Opus 81 in Washington; Sinding] “Petite, Suite,” Debussy; “Plece,” in B minor, (Roparts), first time in’ Wash- ington’; “Rondo,” C major, (Chopin), and “Concerto,” D minor, Opus 23, (Mac- Dowell." Reinald Werrenrath Friday. Reinald Werrenrath, the American baritone, will be heard in recital at the City Club Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock, under the management of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. His programs are always attrac- Be Flo‘ro Costume,” Gilovanni Legrenzo; LoT.A CHALTONTE Belasco | “Over the Hills and Far Away" (old Irish), arranged by Willlam Arms Fisher; -“Roy’'s Wife of Aldivalloch" (old Scotch), arranged by Charles Gounod; “Von Ewiger Liebe,” Jo- hannes Brahms; “Madchen Mit Dem Rothen Mundchen,” Robert Franz; “Irmelin Rose,” Carl Nielsen; “Silde Ved Nat Hin Kolde,” P. Lange-Muller; {“Two Rivals,” “A Song For Lovers” “The Messenger,” Deems Taylor; “Sun and Moon,” Arthur Penn: “The Wreck of the Julle Plante” (W. H. Drum- mond), Geoffrey O'Hara; “Duna,” Jo- sephine McGill; “On the Road to Mandalay” (Kipling), Oley Speaks. Tickets are on sale at Mrs. Wilson- Greene's concert bureau, 13th and G streets. Burton Holmes December 3. The Washington season of Burton Holmes Travelogues will begin at the National Theater, December 3. There will, as heretofore, be a Sunday even- ing 'and a Monday afternoon course, but this year, owing to the delay in the completion of the National, there will be only three photo-stories of travel in each course, instead of the usual five. i The first travelogue will be on present-day Peking showing this an- clent city now responding to up-to- date {nfiuence, and casting off its shroud of dead traditions. The sec- ond travelogue will shift to the amaz- ing waterways of the Yangtze-Kiang, the very heart of China. Mr. Holmes' motion pictures are the first ever taken of the upper regions bordering this wonderful river, the gorges of which he compares to the marvels of the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Ossip Gabrilowitsch December 7. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the distinguished planist, will be presented in recital at the Masonic auditorium, Thursday even- ing, December 7, for the second con- cert in the series of master pianists’ recitals, given by T. Arthur Smith, Inc. The playing of Gabrilowitsch is round, broad full of sympathy, warmth, romance and charm. His appeal is to the best, an inspiration free from sen- sationalism, but stirring and uplifting. His technical though it is, is held in rigid subjection ; the poet's nature is always in evidence. Tickets are on sale by rthur Smith, Inc, at 1306 G street. Poli’s Opening, Nov. 27 THE formal opening of Poli's The- ater is announced for Monday evening, November 27. “Hayseed, or the Villain Still Pursued Her,” & mu- sical comedy, will be the attraction. The cast will include Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Barry. The interior of the theater has been designed in Italian Renaissance. The color scheme is in the ivories, with & small quantity of black and gold, and the walls are paneled in rose color embossed velvet. The draper- ies are rose colored velvet trimmed and embroldered in black and gold. Spacious new boxes will be one of the attractive features, There are not only proscenium boxes, but & row of spacious mezzanine boxes continued all across the front of the balcony. There is a beautifully furnished mezzanine floor, a charming blue and silver ladies’ room, with plenty of mirrors, and also & well furnished men’s smoking room. Last, but not least, s the new lobby, which con- tinues the Inesth of the side of the auditorium, This will be in addition to the mezzanine, and quite a meet- ing place during intermissions. The lighting fixtures in the new hou: are all of crystal and gold. The: crystals were imported from Bel- glum, In addition to the features of the theater, the new construction, it i announced, makes this theater abso- lutely fireproof. The balcony is con- structed of reinforced concrete and steel, and was personally inspected by the Engineer Commissioner, Col. Keller, and his assistants. The former top gallery has been abolished in the new house, which admits of the one balcony being of much greater seating capacity than formerly, —_— Miss Billle Burke, supported by Allan Dinehart, Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, Frank Conroy and an exceptional company, will be a Thanksgiving week attraction in Baltimore, fol- lowing “Sally.” Mi jurke will ap- pear in Booth Tarkington's latest comedy, “Rose Briar,” which will have a typical Ziegfeld production, as she Is this year appearing under Mr. Ziegfeld's exclusive management. equipment, astonishing NATIONAL—“Bull Dog Drum- mond.” . 1f you delight in thrills which send the shivers running up and down your spinai column, tense, gripping drama in which clever detective work ulti- mately circumvents crooks. you may like. “Bull Dog Drummond,” which, with H. B. Warner in the stellar role will be presented by Charles Dilling- ham as the opening attraction of the Natlonal Theater next week, begin- ning Monday, November 27. The action of the play takes place in Englard and the story concerns the efforts of a band of international crooks to extract money from & wealthy American, who they dope in his_hotel and convey to a private asylum, with torture-chamber at- tachments. The hero, a young English captain, London newspaper asking for ad- venture, that with crime attached be- ing preferred. Well, he gets all the adventure he 18 looking for. includes C. H. Croker-King, Geoffrey Millar, Henry Green, Harry Plimmer, George Sydenham, Willlam McNell, J. H. Hunt, H. Ashton Tonge, William Read, Wallace Hickman, James A. Boshell, Tracy Barrow, James A. Leahy, John F. Dougherty, Mary Robson, Marjorie and Gladys Burgess. Fred G. Latham, general director for Mr. Dillingham, staged the pro- duction. The English author known under the pen name of “Sapper” wrote “Bull Dog Drummond.” GARRICK—“The Painted Lady.” Of extraordinary interest is the an- nouncement that Fay Bainter—she of colorful “East Is West” fame—is to come to the Garrick next week in her new piay, “The Painted Lady.” This visit w1l mark the final lap of the preliminary tour of three weeks, pre- paratory to opening at the Ritz The- ater, New York. “The Painted Lady” is described as a play of finer fabric and more serious import than those hitherto offered by Miss Bainter, and is sald to present her personally in @ new light. The plece is by Monckton Hoffe, remem- bered for his delightful comedy, “The Little Damosel,” and his “The Faith- ful Heart,” current this season on Broadway. | _In this newest work Mr. Hoffe deals with the lives and Joves and traditions of “show people,” the chief character being a little circus girl. Arthur Byron, himself a star of the first magnitude, will be the featured member of the company, which in- cludes more than fifty. Manager Wil- llam Harris, jr., is reoponsible for the production. B. F. KEITH'S—Ann Pennington. Ann Pennington is announced by the Keith management as the head- line attraction for the week of No- vember 27. Also on the bill are Chief Caupolican, late of the Metro- politan Opera Company, and Al and Fannie Steadman. Other acts are to be announced late: HENR!ETT:\ CROSMAN has been drawn back to the stage by Alan Dale’s comedy. Miss Crosman retired during the war In order to be near her son, and after the armistice she went to Cali- fornia and spent two years at Holly- wood with her husband. Her first appearance on the stage was made in 1883 at the Windsor Theater, New York, as Lily, in “The White Slave,” under the management of the late John W. Eillsler. Subse- quently she toured with Robert Downing, appearing as Parthenia in Celia, in “As You Like It” and then joined the Lyceum Stock Company, under Daniel Frohman, making her first appearance there April 9, 1890, as Phyllis Lee, in “The Charity Ball” She appeared with the late Willlam Terris, in “Roger La Honte"; at the Lyceum, in “The Idler”; at Hermann's Theater, in 1891-1892, she played in ‘he Junior Partner” and “Glorian retired, places an advertisement in & | The cast, of Dillingham excellence, | Henrietta “Ingomar,” Virginia in “Virginius,” ete. | She appeared at Daly's Theater as Coming Attractions PRESIDENT—‘Abie’s Irish Rose.” The attraction at the President Theater next week, opening Novem- | ber 26, will be the Metropolitan pro- | duction of “Able’s Irish Rose’™ Anne Nichols' sensational laughing success, now in its elghth month in New York, which has played twenty-two weeks in San Francisco and 400 times in Los Angeles, and still s current in all three citles. The production will be staged under |the direction of Harry Master. The cast will include Henry Duffy, Eileen Wilson, Harry Shautang, Anne Suth- erland,’ Leo Hoyt, Robert Lowe, Guy D'Ennery, John Carmody and others. BELASCO—“Gimme a Thrill.” The Joseph M. Gaites unit, “Gimme a Thrill,” will entertain _during Thanksgiving week at the Belasco. Specialities will precede a two-act revue provided by the Tip Top Four, Sorel and Gluck, Gene Barnes Compan Herbert and Baggett, Nanine and Fray and the Gardner Trio. On Thanks- giving day there will be an extra | matinee, beginning at 5 p.m. COSMO0S—*“Slatko’s Rollickers.” The famous “Slatko Rollickers” in an offering of music and dancing from big-time vaudeville, will head- line the Cosmos Theater bill next week. There are eight talented per- formers in the company, and their act has been beautifully costumed and staged Josephine Davis and company in a singing novelty, “The Family Album,” will be another offering of a superior type. Others will include Corwinand Garby, singing comedians; Vi and Tully, comedy acrobats, and others, to be announced later. Priscilla Dean, in “Under Two ;F!ag will be the photoplay feature. |STRAND—Paul Whiteman Or- chestra. A treat is promised lovers of musle at the Strand Theater next week. when Paul Whiteman, whose name is Known to every possessor of a phono- graph, presents his “Romance of Rhythm Orchestra,” an organization of nine sterling musicians under the direction of the youthful Alex Hyde, B. M, U.S N. The Morley Sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, will be an added attraction in “High Browns in High Tones.” Others will include the La Toy Broth- ers, humorous pantomimists, and Birdie Kraemer, as “The Cute Little Mocking Bird." The photoplay will picture Shirley Mason in “Youth Must Have Love.” GAYETY—Watson “Beef Trust.” Billy Watson will head his “Beef Trust Beauties” in their twice-a-day revelries, in “Krousemeyer's Alley.' at the Gayety Theater next week. ‘Watson wiil play the Dutchman and Clarence Wilbur will be Grogan, who heads the “opposition” to Krouse- meyer's supremacy. The Morette Sis- ters, instrumentalists; Sweeney and Rooney, eccentric dancers, and Dot Leighton, prima donna, will provide special vaudeville interludes. Crosman and played leading roles in “Mr. Wil- kinson's Widows." Under the management of the late | A. M. Palmer she appeared as Gladys in “The Rajah.” She then came under the management of Charles Frohman She played Norah In “Burmah,” as Gwynne in “A House of Cards” and was seen as Kate Shipley in a revival of “One of Our Girls.” Miss Crosman was raised to the rank of “star” in 1900, her first ven- ture belng in “Mistress Nell.” Then followed appearances In oan of the Shoals,” “As You Like I and “The Sword of the King: | Bellairs,” “Nance Oldfield, and “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." She was seen as Peggy O'Mara in “All-of-a-Sudden Peggy.” as Beatrice Stuyesant in “The Almighty Dollar” and as Christian in “The Christian Pilgrim.” She was Katherine Van Riper in “Sham,” played Mlildved In “Anti-Matrimony, played in “The Duchess of Suds,” in “The Peacock and the Goose,” Jess Loraine in “The Real Thing,” in which she subse- quently appeared at Maxine Elliott's ‘Theater, New York. Chance for Tulent. IN the effort to provide new faces and new entertainment for vaude- ville, Manager Brylawski of the Cosmos Theater, in line with vaude- ville producers and exhibitors in other cities, has been inviting those who have talent to come to his theater on Thursday between 10 a.m. and noon, bringing their music, in- struments and other paraphernalia, for a tryout, in the ultimate hope of tation. Friday evening of each week has been set apart as “Opportunity night,” when individuals or acts that are deemed to have reached a stage of development that warrants it are permitted to appear as a part of the Cosmos bill before large audiences. If they make a sufficient impression, they are offered regular engagements LENDER as a reed; an ardent sportswoman, who skates, swims, plays tennis, boxes and rides, and is declared by French critics to be the ideal of modern feminine physical perfection, Mlle Germaine Mitty, the dancer, comes to Washington this week with her partner, M. Eugene Tilllo, direct from “La Revue des Etolles,” at the Casino de Paris, France. Mlle. Mitty is declared the sensa- tion of the French dancing stage, and the greatest woman athlete in France. She s not truly a French- woman. She is of Spanish origin, a Basque from the Pyrenees, and it is id brings to the dance & finished technic, a remarkable flash -of pas- sion and unusual grace and prowess. “I lead no idle life of pleasure,” Mile Mitty declares. “My life is not gilded, and I do not follow the de- ructive path of galety. You see, I m not French, and I haven't the in- stinots and desires of, the French- woman. The average Frenchwoman thinks always of pleasure, and men. She spends her days with the mas seuse, the manicure, the hairdresser and the modiste. She lives for ad- miration. Her whole thought is of & masculine conquest, and she contrives to. appeal to the opposite sex. Her moods are those of the boudoir and beauty parlor; she rests; she diets; her coiffeur is a matter of deep and concentrated thought. “Naturally, she has a pale complex- fon, due to lack of exercise. She must ‘put a complexion on' every day— sometimes oftener. She is by nature. languid and exotic and strives to ef- fect strange styles and types. She 15 2 poseur. one of those things do I ocare & ? for. It my bair is not dressed shaping their acts for public presen- | for the circuit with which the Cosmos Theater is connected. The response, Manager Brylawski says, has been astonishing in a de- gree. Each week finds an encourag- ing number of Individuals, singly and in groups, who are eager to find a stage career, and the percentage of those who have had tryouts and sub- mitted to changes or other sugges- tions for the improvement of their of- ferings has been unusually large. Neither the tryouts nor the appear- ances on “Opportunity nights” are to be confounded with the old familiar feature of the smaller theaters here- tofore known as “amateur nights” when untrained amateurs have been permitted to compete for small money | prizes, or have furnished amusement by their awkwardness or other short- comings, The Cosmos experiment is a genulne effort to find new talent and to help to develop it for proper professional use. Likes the French Woman? —what does it matter. Rouge—I ab- hor it! Although I appear twice each day in vaudeville, 1 rehearse two hours every morning with Eugene Tillio, my partner. ‘Afeer that 1 dance a few ballroom dances; running comes mnext; then, I play handball. and skip the rope. I take breathing exercises, and whenever I can get & chance I swim for an hour or two. I am not French—I am Spanish and if I work hard to keep my supple- ness, my curves, my health it is be- cause I desire to live naturally—not pharmaceutically!” David Warfield As Shylock OFE of the most interesting the- atrical events of the season in ‘Washington will be the presentation by David Belasco of David Warfleld as Shylock, in “The Merchant of | Venice,” at the National Theater, Mon- day evening, December 11, with mati- nees Wednesday and Saturday, preced- ing an engagement at the Lyceum Theater, New York. In Mr. Warfleld" support will appear ,Philip Merivale, A. E. Anson, Ian MacLaren, Walter Percive]l, Herbert Grimwood, Albert Bruning, Horace Braham, Reginald Goode, Herbert Ranson, Fuller Mellish, Charles Harbury, P. Wivian, Morris Strassberg, Edward H. Wever, Edward Crandall, Ward de Wolfe, Nick Long, H. Brown, Miss Mary Servess, Mary Ellis and Miss Julia Adler. e s T Pamela Gaythorne, because of pre- arranged plans. has ended her en- gagement as leading woman of “The Fool,” now running in New York, and Alberta Burton has taken her place.