Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1923, Page 58

John Drew Compares the Stage Of the Past With the Present T is Joln Drew's opinion mu the "American theater of .today at| 118 best; is as go0d as it Wwas:in the | days wlhep howas one of the shining [ lominartes of the companies of Las- ter Wallack and Augustin Daly. The veteran actor will be seen this week [+ in “The Circle,” at Poli's Theater. . “It's hardly fair to make a com- Parison between actors today and | the members of the pwofession in old days, ‘because- conditions : have undergone such a great chamge,™ said Mr. Drew in a recent interview. “iVe Lave more actors now, such @ multi- tude of theaters.. Thén wa had’ com- Daratively few actors and only two or three companies in New York. They were permanent stock ' convpanles which the actors lhe\nufl\au \ook pride in upholding. “It was a great privilege to helnvlk to Daly's company or to Palmer's. or 1o Wallack's. We were not only Proud of our profession, but of being mombers of such organizations{ be- cause of the respect and esteem in which theatergoers held them. That fact certalnly gave us a womierful egprit de corps, which helped Mr. Daly to achieve sych artistic per- formance. owad things are different. The love of the actor for his work remains just as ftrong as cver und his pride in his profession may be just as great, but under the ciroums ances it is Impossible to have the same feeling that we used to have and which inepired such texmwork and suel loval co-operation us the members of the old Daly company Then, too, the same people alway worked together and got to Know one another well and entertained a The Moscow Art Theater Aims at Uniform Excellence | NEW YORK, February 17.—The Rus- n of New York has ad- vanced to its objective. After the uve-Souris had laid down Ks fourth | barrage. Broadway capitulated befors | | the concerted assault of the Moscow | Art Theater. i Concerted is exactiy the word. The | Moscow Art Theater has not won 13 | reputation as the foremost play- | house and acting company in tha| world because of ary Bernhardt or | Jruse in its ranks. Through twenty- five years of mdefatigabie effort ‘it has reached its ul\h'tua ennne‘n-c by ives an perfect per m cvery from the largest 1o smali c-Rated a great scting wa- | Theatrical people call this an sian inya cirine. Chinese Woman's Jeweéls. L EATRICE JOY, wha plays the role ] of 2 high caste Chinese woman in | ava Head which will be at the 2 tiis weelk, had a goodly share! aposed upon ler! eening of the plcture. | ty-aine distinet arti- | 1 costume accesso- Miss Joy had to keep accurate sccount and make corre uss. Anong them were incladed, largé and small peacocks, jade grapes pins, mottled stone ornaments, jvord bairpins, tvory and silver dope pipe, | small brass nallbeads, jade and peari rrings, double strand of green mlass adg, mouvnstone. ornaments and va- sious other pretiies. Legemi of the Peacock. VW HEN Ruth St Denis dances he at the N onal Theater on Feb- ruary 23 the second time thig ¥ear, one of the most interesting nums berg on the program.wil undoubtedly be “The Legend. of the Peacock,” a! number which wak coneeived. wheg e was dencing in London. The co me was dexigned then but the dance Jid not have iis premiere until the cummer of 1914, when it was given to° ihe accompauniment of the Chicaga Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Park, . near Chi‘ago. Since tien it has bee one of the most popuiar offerjnga m| the entire re]y«rlD(rE aml wt a later date it was amplified to apn eutire sceme with ten others assisting. 1t i1l be seen hera in its eriginal form. | The peacocls s« remarkable for the! fidelity with which the dancer iz able to reprodyceé the movements of majaetic bird, quite as extraordinuy in its =3 was the writhing of the sarpen! in the dapnce calied The | Cobrag.” The story runs as follow A peacock, which makes it home:| ameng the marble tombs 4n a Moham- medan cemetery, was in a former in» carnation a beautiful woman itad been a poor girl in a Cashmere hill town and was loved devotedly hy a youth of her own caste But the rapah, passing through with his re- tinue, saw her and. took hr-r to his palace to dance for him. Urged on by ambition she plotted lo ccome & faverite, ‘and by her superiative | dsnéing she, realized her wish. Tie uoposed queen gave her a poisoned -ing and her jor was short of dura- tion, In convulsions she dles and is turned into % peacock. Mournfully she struts about among the tombs. A{ bit of tiltnx bearing the crest of the rajah recails her former glory.. For 2 moment the becomes the. faworite agaln, and then dying, resumes the form of the bird and continues her lonely wal! —————— ELEN RENSTROM of the “Gay- eties of '1923 Company ' has tis distinetion of being the only prima donns who has ever been privileged to sing on the floor of the House of Representatives. Known as - the “Swedish Nightingale,” -through her narentage, she is, nevertheless. an! American ‘girl who cluims Oklahoma ag her home state. When the gue tion of admitting Oklahoma to state- hood was discusaed in Congress, the | beat. kers from the ferritory were | ocalled upon for their choicest efforts. The exercisgs came td a close with the slnzlnfi of 'the national anthem by Helen Renstrom. who wi the best singe! af ponsibility during the s Thete ae sev cles of jewelry ries of h | | Poll' Reals Hn- 13th_and 6. W Greatest on;"gn'.a. Ton: ‘zv. LVENING CONUERT, New York Symphony Orcluun ALBERT COATS Guest “.-" | Constantin Stanislavsky. !S;‘nger With Nothing to' | i tenor lan (nstantanesus 1jit, and on the sanie {March 11 mutual (flrM‘d for “each other. " This {.qaneideration and friendship’ betwoen miembers of a_company 15 very help- ful. In the Daly company Ada Rehan, Mr. and - Mrs. John Gilbert, James Liewis and T were together for yegrs. Naturally the “constant assoclation and-comradeship resuited in & mutual | understanding which - was very| helpful. “Mr. Daly nossessed remarkable | abtitty as ap adajiter of foreign plave. He used to take a German or Freach play and have it trans(ated, then he would ‘Amerjcanize’ it. himself,. e &l it do any translating, His wark consisted in adepling the .transiation to. American life and conditiops. He ,u.»me-s to. he able to do this better | fhan &ny ‘one. When he finished the .play it'did not have -any forelgn ‘Auvor. but appeared to bo an Amer- n-made product. ' “T_do.not. know why play finot do the mame thing now. The! best of the adaptations from . the | French and German retain so much of their original forclgn element that it is impossible to conceal it. Mr. Daly could even take an English play and Americanize it, something that no one attempts nowadays. “But the theater has grown to be such a tremendous institution in this | covntry it is absurd 1o make any| sweeping statements about it. Per- sonally. 1 have no fault to find with | the general trend of our theaters. That is. after all, entirely In the hands of the publi¢, which Is bound | to get what it wants In the end and secms to. want a Httle of every- thing. “Frankly, 1 don't gee anvthing wrong with our American theater, We arc a normal, heaithy, clean- minded people. We 'have a falr share of narrow-minded hypocrites on one 1:and and an cqually large proportion of low-browed and low-minded folks on the other, to contend with. We shall always have these two classes among our theatergaers, but there is ab¥olutely nothing to worry about." JenagmBle. but it Hecomes. the averige Ameri it In terms of the chine or the Harvard foo | at its b The Pe chine vhm s ot | var ma- ball tesm 'y Haughton of this Is a gigantic Russian ma, named Twenty-five | vears ago he was an amateur actor with a group of students and a “little theater” on his hands. Anotheér ama- | teur—we may as well call him another high brow” and bs done with it— h-Diantchenko, who taught dramatic art, joined rislavaky In opening the Moscow Art Theater in| 1898 with a h Tolstoy's “Tsar Fyodor | ‘quarter ‘of a introduces the { COmPANY 10 & new e agt new | world. (Copsvight, 1925) Sing. h to be a tenor musical play in are played That's the situation Kkled Teddy Webh Blossom Time." date back to the for Gilbert and in “Rlossom Time" tenor note to utthr. | To make matters worse, the only singing called fov In his role in “Blos- b gom Time" is a brief tra-la-la which, | for comedy purposes, must be badly sung in accordance with his line. “I used to have a pretty talent for {iging myself. Tra la la la. You| a little baritone with & touch of | tenor. Knowing it to be # touchy point. th other members of the company have been joshing Teddy about it. Recently he had-his revenge. 11 sang the tra Ja Ix 1 in a sweel tenor and finished the line-with: “Not vo bad, eh?" Tt was a mood thing the audienc howed its appreciation by applau as it -took -several seconds for the other members' of the flabber- mipany 1o recover their Avits ‘Good Morning, Dearse,’ Coming. B\v v to the scene of its early cen- quests comes Dillingham's ex- | travagant musfcdl comedy. “Good | Motning, Dearle,” with the nr"mal! cast intact. It - was here Wagh- | ington at the National Theater that “Geod Morning. - Dearie,” .was given its premiere two years ago, scoring TS tou, in and to be which the | by others. | has ran- a roles which the comedian Teddy's tenor days | years of popularity | ullivan operaa, but | hasn'ta s s pu it will $unday Atfer leaving Washington “Good \(oyu(nx Dearie” went to New York, it zan pver.400 thmes. “Good \1» ‘ning, Dearie,”. captivated Broad- | and gince leaving New York hus duplicated ita =uccess In Chicago and Boston. - It-1& the work of Anne Cald- well and Jerome Keru. It is staged by Bdward Royce, director of “Irene,? SallyY dnd “Plie. Night - Bogt." in ich he ¢ollaborated with Miss cfld- ir. Kern The cast is studded with stara cluding Louise ‘Ggeqdy, Ozcar shu H:rlund Dixon, Ada Lewis, Willtam Kent, Marie Callahan and John Pric Jonohin fact, the entire original ¢ast, ipoluding the sensational Eng- lish dgucere xteen sunshine stage, with the same company, feappear the week beginning éhows Daily at 2: Bdra MdSPM Thursday) Eo .‘ngru?y";,ma. 43P . DfMice: Washingto iey of Np .5 3 rl-n"’\en-' S i ghts | | perioas { eatin. Inecie edged with Miss Pearl Harpe: of white velvet, seen at Ket Peried gown of bine Wrocade mnd lace 'worn by Elsie Herndon ne {n “A New Way to Pay Olo Minx Adele terncon ereation d Judy.” —_—_—mm BY ELENORE De WITT EB HIS gowns displayed behind. the footlights during the past week were as varled us the they represented Hampden's old English play, “A New Way to Pay Old Debts" was placed in the early part of the seventeenth cen- tury, whilé the ‘operetta in The Bunch and Judy" skipped to Venice in the mid-eighteenth. Miss Elsie Ilerndon Kearns, as the | tragile heroing in Ilampden's play, | first appeared in a gown of light pink | neok and huge | The rounded puffed sleeves werc ttimmed with deep “rufMes of cream-colored lace, while the bodice was ornemented with loops of satin ribbon. Tie voluicingy skirt was panciled with ‘ows of gold ribbons appliqued to-the satin spr- faces, and & large pink flower at the waist added the final touch. Miss Kearns also wore a gown of pale blue satin de trimoted with | 1 tiny bows of black velvet ribbon. The tight-fitting bodi; bad rounded a collar of ‘silver iace, while the short houffant sieeves | ;were banded with velvet rlbbons and { Antshed with narrow flounges of the rkling lace: - Ti skirt was, of | e, very wide nd tapered into a broad train at the back. A panel of historical | Walter | | White striped by narrow bands of sil- ver luce ran the length of the gown at the front, and the tiny black vel- | vet bows were dotied along its sur- face. A pretty touch was added in fichu of exquisite white lace, which was draped around the shoulders and fastened with 4 rose at one side. Rosebuds and Jewels embellished Mies Kearn's coiffure of quaint corkscrew curls, while ropes of pearls and Brooches crnamented the gown with |dazzling effectiveness. = The Venetfan creations in “The { Buneh and Judy" were fashioned on | bouffant crinoline lines, strikingly similar to some of our “newept eves Some of them ning models of today were of cloth of gold, rome of light . while others were of black i a, they were all trimmed | Climbing trellises of colorful i ribhbor flowers framed {n verdant foliuge. . Towering white wigs fes- tooiied with rones of pearls completed | a picture that was exceedingly love! {and that had all the “atmosphere” arnival Venice, from the dreathy ong of tie gondolier on ihe oanal| to the soft music of the minuet within | far Palazzo. Later the scene shifted to a modern | cabarer, and introduced Mirs Adele Astaire In a smart gown of today. The | blouse was of vellow crepe printed | with an elaborate deslgn in black, but its batean neckline was emphasized | | with @ band of plain vellow silk. The | kimono slceves were extremely short, Photoplays This Week: (Continued from Tiivd. Page.)’ Novak, in “Thel : Wednesd Wild Irish Rosel Tburalln!. . in “The Frozen ner comedy, atural Born Liar: ay. 3 My Heart sElite. Today ard tomorrow. Lewis Ston “The Dangerous Age TFarte Fox. in “The Man-She Brought Rack”; “Wednesday. House Peters, (n Yeh Men's Wives'; Thursday and Friday, John Bower ‘Guincy | Adams Sawver. Peters, in in “Human Hearts": Tuesday; Talmadge, in_“Lucky Dan’ Frank Mavo, ‘in “Altar' Stairs Thuraday and Friday, Buck' Jones, I “West of Chicago, Hlppodmme Today. Madge Bellamy, Dopne”; Monday, Marjorie ree Alr’:. Tuesday. Pola & es of the Mummy” Herbert Rawlinson. in Thursday, Rodolph Valantine, in Conquering Power'; Friday, Candles”; Saturda in_"Lorna. Fifty Quest.” with | Monday, *White Shoul- Kathering MacDonald; king All Others,” with CoTean Moores Wedyoadan S reimh, wih Jane Novak: Thurs lence,” matinee P. bangerous Game,” with G ton: in" Bighteen ~Davs"s “Satifyd Third-Alarm,” with “Ralph- L3 Ne,w. Von Stroheim, in Snowy Baker, ghting Breed";. Tuesd: H it ~in_ “Thé Long Chanc Betty Compton, Today. Gladys Laslie; de?s, with ugsday. “Fori s Wal. Ewis Fand& LSSunday Matatd & Beginning Monday Matinee : Fun-& 3 D Egor Alon WasH OKE’ " wHHTED SKATHIYN ANDREWS © KINGS *HARMONY -hsmm : | Myers, i Today (th episode, “Al ah’\dl(he Wc_}rlm | i “Foolish | Have and to Mol Tom | Mix, in _ “Arabt . Lienel | Barrymore. In “The Face in the ¥Fog’ |:Saturday, Jack Mulhall, in "Danger | ous Waters/ ; Thursday, tomorrow, ) Barry, in i Tuesday ' and Wednesday, House 'Peters, in “Human Hearts': | Thursday, Lon Chaney, in “A Blind |'Bargain,” and Dan_Mason, in_“Pop Tuttle's Grass Widow" | Helene Chadwlick, Richard Dix and James Kirkwood, he Sin ¥lood,” and Reginald Denny, in round 2 of the “New Leather Pushers’; ¢ | day. Rodolph Valentino and in “All Night": comredy, and Paper’: added matin | William Desmond, in | World in Eighteen Days." Pringess. and temorrow. Madge Bel- and John Bowere. in “Lerna Norina Talinadge, in By Right of Purchase”: Wednesday | land Thursdm v Compson, in "To | | Have “and_{o = Hél | Novak, in “Thelma™: | Bosworth, in “Sea Lion ‘Savoy. Today and . tomerrow..Milton and star cast, in “Skin Dem." National, Tuesday | = 4:30 | New York Symphony Orchestra ALBERT- COATES Guest Conductor M}scha Levitzki ¢ Seloist Wesley Carmel Paste attraction, Around the chapter 2 tamy { Dgend’ . PROGRAM: % “ Lisst Concerto jn i Flat: Pareell Sulte for Strings, and “A '-l'lll“l Symphouy”’ "Tickets: 9350, $2.00, .50, w100 . Arthur Smith, Tne., 1308 G St. . “RETURN ENGAGEMENT and the Denishawn Dlleen The Mowt Artistic Dancins . “Attraction of the Century ‘NEW DA&CI'G NUMBERS NATIONAL, Friday, 4:30 T. Avthur Smith, Tnc, 3308 G St. Pttt b b e LEGINSKA Ficketu: 8100 to. M- il-o ar tax .- Arthur 8 STAR cd. ER’I‘ National, Friday Aft., Mml 2 HARS. mDu;R vl Wl@ (CBLLIST S noumuro . 7., Axthur Smitk, Ino, 1808 ‘RETURN OF AMERICA'S : “FAVORITE JOHN - CHARLES NATIONAL, Thurs. Aft, March 18 T. Arthur Smith, Inc, 1308 G _!‘ 4 “‘Heroes of the | Friday. | satur- | and fuffy bits of dark served to cuff them. fur took the place ween blouge and skir! concealed The entirely skirt. tha taffeta sash £nd a Miss Lee Patrick, in_ “The Bunch and | atiractive afternoon brown flat crepe. veiled at the | of self-color lace band of brown cireular hem of th lined with a wider Later Miss Fatrick stunning evenling | colored velvet, with a I ver wrap Uned witls | Miss Peart Harper, played an attractiy white velvet, embroid beuds. The basque br !wuh an unusual sq was, of course. sleevel was wide, and taper: at the sides, which sus fox appeared at the bodice, and abov of the skirt. ——— | { Larry Semon gnd Broke: Thurad ove in the Dark’: | derrul and Charlie Chaplin, Life"; & Ascends.’ and Bailed.” Today: and tc ‘Do and bare’; Mason, in.*Youth Wednerd, Thursda; rrow Tu, Constance 7 S REAE l‘hm'lu Id and ‘here the Judy back by enter A d bluck (nffeta, seen'In “The Bunch brown fox fur A wider piece of of a sash and marked an odd slanting waistline be- uge bow of black taffeta appeared at one hip, ts bouffant loops forming a quaint pannier, und its wide end a panel that one wside of the latter was cut with an uneven hemline that dipped almost to the floor at one side and lifted to meet t. AR t the other. also wore costume The bodice ‘Wwas a short cape from wiile the sKirt wus out- of fur. in a of flame- matching vel- cloth. dis pended fur, strip appearcd ion silver at Keith's, dance frock ered odice . was e, vd into nearly in “The Counter Jump- | Tuesday and “’Edreudx) ‘Thomas Molghan and Lila Lee, tn ok Homs Dana, Jimmle Adams, ‘s N. Tea,” and Prizma's wters™; Friday, M in “The Woman Who Foole Viola in Truxton. Tom Wise, duy, Talmadge, MN _ Fint Nhnfx! eu{. KATHERINE _ MacDONALD orted by Bryant Washburn, -June p {e il Lowis, Francis Me- - a Strong vof -Vivid Cnul-mu. De; tAé Adventures of a Bssutiful id - Transplanted . to _WOMAN CONQUERS ~The Most Delightful Vehicle the “dimer- ican Bearty” Has. Had——Dvrn'od by Tom Forman. ¢ appearing in erystal cut re neckline, and | The sk points reached the floor. A erystal embroldery motif front of the each dipping point “Won- Aliison Hersel ‘A Dog’s aturday. Alice Brady, tn “Anna and Paul Parrott, in “Jailed Shirley ! Muyst Have Love’ “The Better Man Win: Richard Barthelmess lnd Dorothy flhh, in “Fury.” 5 Centul. “X Front-Pags, Story” the first four @ays. Thursday, Friday and Satyrday, “The' Volea Froni.the Minaret. i‘lrfl. three da “Burnin ds." On "Wedneaday and - Truredey,. the “Outcast” “¥or ihe last two daye “The Third Alarm Lincoln. The first four days, “Jaszmania’ Friday and Saturday, “The 8in Flood. Palace. -The attraction at Palace Theater for next. week. will be “Making a Man,” the picturization. of um story by Peter B. Kyne. Columbin. The Calumbig attraction next week will be “Jeszmania” in which Mae Murray s supported by a dlistin. guished cast. Rislto. “Kick In" an adaptation of the stage guccess of the same name, will be shown next week at the Rialto~ —_— | Laurette Taylor on Criti- cr'sm. WHF ¥ Lanrette Taylor was playing “The Harp of Life” at‘the Globe Theater, New York. a few years since, Dean Talcott Wijlliams of the Colum- bia School of Journalism fook all the members of the senior class to wit- uness her performance. He then the students wite critical reviews of the performance and of the play. A few days thereafter Mlss Taylor was invited by Dr. Williams to ad dress the school. The actrews was shown the- students’ criticisms, and ghe took opportunity to Teply {0 sume of them, which even aimed at herseif and the play. Not only did she ad- dress her remarks to the amateur critice of the school, but also to the regularly astablished members of tie crafr. “A’ critie must be’human and hu- mape,” said she. “He must have a heart as well as 2 mind. He must not despise sentiment. Only the very young should be permitted to pose ~—for it is more or less of a pose. I'm a eentimentallst, and am proud of it. “One eritic said that'when I depict- oA mild grief L blew. my nose, und that when it was presumed to be more intense 1 gave utterance to a bron- chial wheeze, To that I plead guilt 1 do these things, but 1 do them b cause of the peopie of real life, whom I have actually seen do them. “The critics have helped me many {times,” continued Miss Taylor. I very often accept the critics' advice when my intelligence and judgment tell me that they are right, but if we actresses failed to do evervthing they tell we not to do we wouldi't have any act left, “I wouldn't like to see you students £TOW up to be eritics unless you have to.-1t's better 0. be a creator than a fdissector. Some of these criticisms Which I've just reag have been writ- ten by young men and women who seemt 10 pour out thelr wihale souls inte what they write. They are too | emotional to be fair critics. It would |be a shame for them or for any one | eise to be a critic when he might be an of a of it West™; Friday, Willam “Without Compromise.” York. Today gnd tomorrow, Laurette Tay- lor, in- “Peg o' My Heart"; Tuesday. ' Colleen Moore, in “Broken Chainw.” and - Pavl - Parrotf, in “Jailed and Bailed”;” Wednesday. May Allison and Rabert Ellie, in 'The Woman Who Fooled Herself.” and Charlie Chapli in A Dog’s Lite”; Thursday, Thomas Meighan and_Lila Lee, in Ade’s “Back Home and Broke": Fri% day, Johnny Hines, i “Burn 'Em Tp and comedy, “The Skipper's Saturday. star cast in Kyne's “The Pride of Palemar” Th and new Aacnop- fabie, 1s in Jast | Farnum, .x in X\I)\I LS RQP QLIT \N P ATLY IO A cial, Ensemble in. a. ting oeiety. he. Mfic Ezngpsrated | America b, { Joseph Cawthorn fn the leading role. {a [in “The Laughing Lad. . AMUSEMENTS. THE SPOTLIGHT N HAHR(_QRLEH !l play the Louls Mann-vole i a forthcoming Lon-. don production of “Give and Take.” “The Chastening”- s the name of Charles Rand .Kennedy's new play, be_produced by the Equity Bdith Wynne Matthison, Gage and Mr. Kennedy will be in the cast. The authors of “Lady Butterfly,” now having a successful run in New York, are writing another musical comedy, to be' produced by Qliver Mo- rosco the coming spring. Thompson Buchanan's play, “The Sporting Thing To Do.” with Emily Stevens in the stellar. role, will no open in New York as planned because of a disagreement between the auther and O)iver Morosco ovey the caxt. After witnessing a produ tion of the piece {n* Elmira, Mr. Buchanan demanded its withdrawal or a stronger company. Zelda Sears, author of “The Cling- ing Vine,” I= choosing the cast for the new musical play which she has just_completed and in which lenry W. Bavage will present Mitzi. Miss Sears is looking for pretty girls who can sing and dance. “The Two Nightingales.” a musical piece adapted from the German, by Howard Dietz, will be produced in New York in August by Phillp Good- man. _Willy Bredschneider, ~who srote “Maytime,” is the author of the score. ‘The Jayanese Doll,” a play from Vienna, has been purchaseg for| Carle Carlton, and will -d here in musical form. be produc “Light Wines and Beer,” a comedy, by Aaron Hoftman, will be placed in rehearsal soon by A. H. Woods, with The piece is now being acted on the Pacific_coast under the title of “Now and Then." “Passion for Men,” “Jitta's Atone- ment” and “Listening In" failed to Impress New Yorkers and closed last night. Florence Reed will appear at the Morosco Theater, New York, tomor- | row night, in “Hail and Farewell Eleanor Painter and Jose Ruben | wil] head the cast of “Exile,” a play by Sidney Toler, new in rehearsal. Mr. Toler is & member of the cast of "Kikl,” and the author of many | plays. Lotis Alberni and Corbet Morris are recent additions to the ecast of “ita Coventry,” whieh opens in New York tomorrow night for an expected long run: Oliver Moroseo will present Emily ..in *The Sporting Thing to by Thempson Buchanan, at the Ritz Theater, New York, tomorrow night. Included in the cast are L Reeves Smith, Clara Joel and Willlam Boyd. ‘Johannes Kreisler, New York at a big cost, failed to meet the approval of the theater patrons and closed down last ‘night. The scenery will go in storage. as it is too elaborate for a road journey. presented in Carle Carlton has gone abroad_to confer with the authors of “The Javanese Doll” which is te be adapted for musical comedy produc- tion in this country in May or June. George S with Louis now fin series edies. dney, who is co-starring ann, in “Give and Take.” is to be starred in of two-reel domestic com- Ethel Barrymore returned .to the New York stage last Monday nigh and though | she scored a personal hit, the play | was not warmly recelved. i “The Wasp,” by Tom Fallon, had its first performance at Allentown, Pa, last Monday night, and is re- ported to have made a hit. Helen | Ware and Emily Ann Williams head | the cast. Margaret McCambridg Meakin, who appear in * both resident W. N. Mirskey, conductor of the sym- | phony orehestra at the Metropolitan | Theater, this week will offer another | and Hardie | uddies,” are | hingtonians, | 11PM ‘A First National Special BUSTER KEATON Iv His Firat Multiple-| Rul Comadfkstu» < a ' Séintillating J Trodden Youth "Mllfl Goad" Heartless City and Wntmy Home to the Girl Letters Full of Extravagant Boasts ‘Which Prove to Be Mcrolv in the - DAY DREAMS Three Full Rools- of Lqughtor Packed With Clever Uninterrupted” ow Stunts SONG GYGLE--FI!EI! EAST—-—-BARYTOHE wonm suaVI‘l NOVELTY, RELL- DE LUXE ‘peared in X { the | ber. overture number never before played in this country. Bearing the tig “Roland,” this number is dcseribe a8 a “herolc rverture,” and was com posed by Guy Marylle. ’ “Kempy,” the comedy hit from the Belmont Theater, New York, with Grant Mitchell and the Nugents, will be the iast visiting attr: n at the Shubert Garrick. Florence Moore, who lus starred in *Parlor, Bedroom and Hath" ani other farces, is the principal come dienne in “The Music Box Revue’ so0on to be seen here. Mier Monre vowed that she would never agai appear. {n a_bedroom play, and < she joinéd “The Music Box Revue. She makes her appearance in & clever skit shortly after the entertainmen begins and she s discovered in bed, Back in the days when Lester Wj! lack called John Drew, the dean « comedians, “an aristocrat of the the ater,” he convinced Mr. Drew tha comedy was his metler in the play house. Certainly, his comedy role have Leen his finest roles—none ha been fluer than his Lord Porteous “The Circle.” e Housc, ma of New Yot en MacDonough, has been o cented for production’ by Mack H{! liard, who will head a new producir company. It will open In New Yor about the end of next month Charles Lawrence will be in the c of “The Cherry Chair,” John Murray Anderson’s musical comedy produc tion. Mr. Lawrence has appeared thix geason in “It'e a Ro; and “Extra.” the latter closing in New York las night Over in London Peggy Hyland ha deserted the ecreen long . enough appear in the leading role of vival of “A Little Bit of Fluft.” Th play. original some years ag: on the Briti . waus subsequen ! lv prese York, but wit little success, ro Beatrice Maude, who recep aj ew York in “The World We Live In,” is to be the guest sfay of the Toledo Stock Compuny unt', opening of the Caupek nl Chicago, March 1%, when she w join the company. Her op Toledo will be “Tiger Rose bi John Craig. who has been play in “Jitta’s Atonement.” in New Yort and his wife, Mary Young, are pla ning a perman; special matine playhouse for . to be opene in the Times Square district in Octy Formarly they operated t)i Castle Square Theater, in Boston Baltimore will-get the first gf Mary Ryan's mew vehicle, ve-maker,” on the night of Mar 5 When Sam Hapris discloses the pla at Ford's Theater. George White's n be called “Scandals,” it seems pre well settlled now. Rather, he ning a summer_show for the Theater, New York, which will buyt around Gallagher and Shean, that pair of comedians are successf. in oblaining their release from “Tt Follies” in time to go into it A. H. Woods is reviving “The Bar: boo Tree” the musical cemedy. | which the lats Bert Willlams and H; ry Fox were to have been present early seasop. The show wa inally knc s “The Pink SHp." t show will r AN Street at _10th 4 MITCHEL IMAN 0! CRANDALL'S ‘oen Bet, D and TODAY AND TOMORROW —FAIIl CRANDALL’S ROW—DOROTHY HOLT, o The-ier.nn‘na TODAY AND TOM PALTON. .na JACK E SEAS MATS TODAY ~ TAVE: CRANDALL’ MATS. 2 PM. DAILY. PEREORMA 8, TS 6 CRAmLL’S \l\'ll\ BATURDAY AY mnluu W —MARY PICK oY THE § T PERFO FAASCES MONDAY AT 53 CRANDALL’S MAT! TODAY AN TAVLOR, YORK THEATER G8. Are. & Quebe St SATURDA Oth at O St N.W. TODAY AND TOMORROW. 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