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N no age of the world, perhaps, has there been more to inspire the writing of great drama than the present. The world war and its memories are still fresh; indeed, in the opinion of many, the war has not yet ended. But how many deeds of valor there are to lift an imaginative writer into the very rcah,! of creation in a dramatic sense. New nations have sprung into life, some, apparently, with a glorious fu- ture before them; others trembling in the hands of fate, and\ with them the aspirations and struggles of both the individual and the people at large. Homes have been annihilated, old ties have been sundered and human destiny generally has had a turnover such as rarely occurs in the history of men. And yet our dramatists have not risen to the occa- sion. The men who have taken over cannot be blamed for the lack of production of what they have not. the production of drama in America But have they given a thought or an effort in the direction which might lead to just one great play. The metropolitan dailies are giving pages to what they arc doing—fighting the battle commercial with the players who will be relied upon to produce that play should some genius unexpectedly appear upon the theatrical horizon with it. We are living in an age fruly eommercial National leaders are differing even as to patriotism, and the smaller fry are wriggling and crowding each other in a mad struggle for the dollar. Dramatic thought seems to rise no higher than feminine physical charm, or sex complication. frivolity ‘and nonsense—comedy, burlesque, travesty, farce and*fanta all of the type mediocre, with which it is a sad state for a great people. “111 fares the land, to It is content to devote itself to the world already is flooded. Truly, hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates and men de * % T * % E great Russian actress, Mme. Olga Knipper-Tchekhova of the Mos- /cow Art Theater, in a recent New York interview, filled with en- thasiasm over America, and evidently anxious to please a people who have made the stay of herself and her associates onc of very p'easant memo- fries, yet told us: “You have no true theater. Fine actors you have, yes— "but no theater in the sense of an organization, building up a standard of art through a period of years. You official cncouragement and sponsorship.” have no government aid for art, no She even made fun of our pastimes. “Here," she exclaimed, “the serious things are sport and busi- ness, and they are about the same. money—these are the serious things in America.” indictment? To do, to win, to build, to make Isn’t it a scathing The Russian actress is admittedly one of the great artists of | the world. To counterbalance this declaration of belief by an observer who might be expected to be partially inclined to please with flattering | comment, had it been possible, we have this little pipe from an official | of a big association of actors: “It has been generally claimed that no more brilliant season has ever been known in the history of the New York stage than that of 1922-23.” Tt is the one gasp of defense that has yet appeared in print; and yet it was not at all intended as an answer to Mme. Knipper-Tchekhova, but was a prelude to a claim of what percent- age of the actors of the association had contributed “to bring such credit to their profession.” * ¥ * % HIS seems somber and heavy food for thought at a time when the city itself, with lavish display of colored bunting, beautiful decora- tions and unrivaled electric illumination, is preparing to stage the great- | est spectacle, perhaps, in its history—at least in the matter of magnitude. Perhaps there’s the rub. The easiest and best way to distract a people from a realization of their condition when it i serious, to curb thought that will tend to improve it, is to tickle the eye. A rattle will always amuse the baby. And the good work of gathering and hiving the dollars may go on undisturbed. Was there ever a time which more imperatively demanded a turnover in the control of the American theatcr—at least what is left of it—than now? * % * % ‘A LL Washingbon is astir to properly stage the mammoth spectacular production which has been provided for the visiting Noblas of the Mystic Shrine. Our little part in the drama will be to fling the banners on our outer walls, illuminate our homes and public places, and, as the spirit behind the performance, more than the stage settings and lighting effects, make the play, to breathe into the welcome we have the spirit of national brotherhood and hearty friendliness, losing sight for the time of ourselves and the little sacrifices we may make, to let sthe stranger within our gates” know and feel deeply and sincerelv that he is not a Rilxrim in a strange land, and, above all things, that his brethren of the National Capital, his city and ours, are not beasts of prey. It is impossible to conceive the effect of our performance at this time upon the future destiny of the city we all love. * ok * ok 2 T the very entrance to Washington and upon a spot that has been more or less hallowed by memorable religious devotion will be staged “The Passing West,” perhaps, as we are told, the last historic panorama of “the race of true Americans” and of the men who condh ered the al- most insurmountable obstacles of the great western country. It ought to inspire “the white American” with memories that thrill. We shall have the great national game of America in our ball park. The historic Poto. mac will disclose the story of the ships, and our great Avenue of national memories will featuré in pageantr; among the countries of the world. cently met the demands upon her convention of her splendid career. ‘without ‘exception, will do her credit and the glories of the nation in its progress Washington has proudly and magnifi- for what we are told is the greatest There is no fear that her people, honor her visitors, from the highest fez-topped noble of the Mystic Shrine to the humblest rural visitor from the far-off community, at this festive time. Gift to the HEN President Harding visits Los Angeles in July he will be the w Yecipient of many presents, all more or less tvpical of California and mo- tion pictures, but the outstanding token which he- will carry back to the White House with him 1s a solid silver copy f Ella Buchanan's “Young Lincoln” a statuette twenty- two Inches high, now in process of casting by Gorham, Providence, R4 L. The donors will be Al and Ray TRockett and the Rockett-Lincoln Film Company of Hollywood, now producing _“The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln,” which work in- Epired Miss Buchanan to create this new study of the great emancipator. By speclal arrangement with the artist “The Young Lincoln” will be used in_the exploitation of the pic- ture. President Harding's copy of who may be drawn within her walls W. H. LANDVOIGT. President. “The Young Lincoln” will be the first to be done in metal. It will be in- closed in a casKet of California hard-, woods, In Miss Buchanan's work, Lincoln, the youth, stands hatless by the stump of a tree. In_his right hand he holds his axe, his fingers gripping it close to the bit. The gaunt figure i8 clad in hickory shirt open at the throat, pants baggy at the knees and the heavy boots of nioneer davs. His thick, windblown hair is piled above his noble brow, and his gaze is direct- ed downward toward the stump, whereon is perched a baby squirrel, nestling In the left hand of the kindly woodsman. The poise of the body is that of a workman. weary with his task, paus- ing to enatch a moment's breathing space, while upon the .lean, homely features there is an expression of| tenderness and compassion that al- most moves the beholder to tears. Louise Lovely Herself Loms‘s LOVELY, the golden-haired, blue-eyed girl, who has been Xnown to America chiefly as a star 1n'its beloved movies, is now appear- ing before her public in the flesh Unlike other fiim lights, who make *'personal appearances” Miss Lovely has not contented herself with mere- 1y coming out on the stage, fluttering her eyelids and with appropriate estures, telling them how much she oves them all, Louise has a real en- tertainment prepared, which includes a_satirical one-act play, called “The Wedding Night,” and then a scene called “A Day in the Studio,” In whi the audlence s transported for a few minutes to Hollywood and initiated }into the rites of movie making. Louise Lovely began her stage career at the age of nine in Sydney, Australia, her birthplace. Her real namd is Loulse de Gunehyn de Car- basse Alberti, her father being Swiss- Italian and her mother Swiss-French. By the time she was fifteen years old lll:e was being starred in legitimate plays. ‘Then, because of a resemblance to Mary Pickford, she was featured for & year in the photoplays of the Aus- tralian Blograph Company. She con- tinued with her stage work at the same time, in a play called “The Warning,” written and produced by her present assoclate, W?Iton Welch. In 1915 Miss Lovely came to Amer- ica and made her debut on the Or- pheum Circuit. Then she went into pictures as the star of Blue Bird photoplays and played in pictures un- til this present tour. KiTTY GLAsco ! “ i“American Duse" ting Ready. OHN GOLDEN has secured for {J Helen Menken, the “American Duse” of his “Seventh Heaven,” which passed its two hundred and fiftieth performance nearly three weeks ago, the autographed copy of the elder Junius Brutus Booth of Boyer's ! French-English and reverse diction- lary for use in her studies during the twelve months’ marathon she has be- gun to master French, Itailan and Spanish. Booth's signature on the title page is of the date of 1827 and the volume, edited by N. Salmon. was printed in London. 1814. Mr. Golden has promised Miss Menken to make her an international star, paralleling the careers of Bernhardt and Duse, if she masters the three languages, and will present her in Paris, London, Rome and Madrid in translated ver- sions of “Seventh Heaven” the sum- mer of 1924. Should the play run through its second summer in New York, as did Mr. Golden's “Lightnin'" and “First Year,” the tour will take place the summer of 19 Who Discovered Valentino? 0 correct all rumors about the va- rious peofle who discovered him Rodolph Valentino in a recent intgr- view gave unqualified credit to June Mathis, Goldwyn editorial director, who, he says, really gave him his first start. ¢ This discovery, according to Val entino, was just previous to the film- ing of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” Up to that time Val- entino had played “heavies” and many people felt that was his onlytype. | But after seeing him at the Metro studio Miss Mathis expressed her be- lef in him as a dramatic actor. And, although an unknown and practically untried actor, she picked him for the leading role in this big production. Valentino claims that it was the faith which Miss Mathis had in him that led him to achieve what he has. Dedicate Organ T(;day. TANLEY W, RHOADES, concert or- ganist of the Apolio Theater, today transfers his activities to the Avenue Grand Theater, where he will dedl cate the new $30,000 Wurlitzer o chestra-unit pipe organ that has just been installed. This is said to be the largest instrument south of New York, and embodies every modern attach- ment_ essential to theater use. The smallest pipe is three inches long; the largest’ double-bass pipe sixteen feet in length. Any desired combination of instruments can be secured by the various stops. The organ has a triple-manual console. = Mr. Rhoades will play a new march, which he has composed and dedicated to Harry M. Crandall, in honor of the occasion. He will also include in his recital pro- gram Drdla's “Souvenir” as a violin solo with harp accompaniment; his novet arrangement of “Onward, Chr; tian Soldlers,” and a new satire df h: own arrangement, called “Spark Plug,” based on the current popular song hit, “Barney Google.” —_——— Sold to Screen for $100.000 Get- ' ;s Gy Current Attractions AT THE THEATERS THIS WEEK. N BELASCO—"“Captain Applejack,” comedy, second week. Perform- ance this evening. PRESIDENT— ing. KEITH'S—Louise Lovely afternoon. STRAND—Newman's Orchestra, vaudeville [alk of the Town,” burlesque. GAYETY BELASCO—*“Captain Applejack.” Suppose you were a perfectly cor- rect and decorous Englishman, who lived in a picturesque little village by the Cornish coast—a little villuge in which your family had lived for generations. Suppose it had been suggested that that village tradi- tionally was the former haunt of the pirates and smugglers of the Si Main. Aud suppose that you. never done an unconventiona in your life, made the wonder‘ul dis- covery that your ancestor had heen the most notorious ofe these pirates. the most daring of those smusxlers? What effect would it have on your temperament? That is exactly what happened to Ambrose Applejohn, the hero of the comedy of “Captain Appiejack,’ which George Marshall is presenting at the Belasco Theater. This play by Walter Hackett is one of the dis- tinctive hits of the Washington sea- son. = Mr. Marshall has given this de- lightful comedy & picturesque produc tion and cast it with player: tinction, including Fania AMurinoff, Margalo Gillmore, Fred Raymand, jr. Frank_Conroy, John Daly Murpi Anne Sutherland. H. Dudley Bawl Wallis Clark, Mildred Le Gue snd othe: Matinees will be e%en Thursday and Saturday. PRESIDENT—'Abie’s Irish. Rose.’ “Abje's Irish Rose,” the sensational Irish-Hebrew mirthquake by Anne Nichols, which recently achieved a record-breaking run at the Prasident, will be presented for a return sngage- ment this week, beginning toright at 8:20 o'clock. : “Able’s Irish Rose” has alre3dy had 400 performances in Los Angeies and it is now in its second year as a Broadway attraction. Its WasBington success, it is claimed, has beeg dupli- cated in Baltimore, Pittsburih and Brooklyn. 5 Harry Manners has staged thi Pres- ident production, and the cast will be headed by George Barnes and by Miss Kay Hammond, the beautiful Pacific coast star, who scored a hit in “The Gold Diggers.” Others will jnclude Lew Welch, as Abie’s father; 7 new- comer, Miss Henrletta Vaderas: Rob- ert Lowe, Harry Shutan ani Guy D'Ennery. = The story concerns the secre: mar- riage of Able Cohen, the son of an orthodox Jewlsh father, and.Rose- mary Murphy, the daughter .of an Irish contractor of pronounced “atho- !I‘c views, and consequent complica- tions. — Louise Lovely-Julius Tannen. Twin head-liners are announsed for Keith's this week—Louise Lovely, the screen and stage star, In “A Day at the Studio,” with Wiiton Weich, an English comedian, and Julius Tannen. the perennial chatterbox, in “Speak- ing the Public Mind.” Miss Lovely will fake pictvres on the Kelith stage and the Keith audi- ences dafly will be in these short Teels which Miss Lovely personally directs. A Mr. Tannen talks, like Will Bogers, on every known subject® from oats to kimonas and has something scin- tillating to say on his varied sub- Jects. . The extra attraction will bring Renee Robert, the charming dancing star, in connection with the -Glers- Dort Symphonists, with Irene, Elvira Dort featured among KEITH THE speculation as to which mo- tion. picture company would se- cure the film rights to Frank Craven's comedy drama of American life, “The,) First Year.” is at arf end with_the an- nouncement that Preferred Pictures has closed %tontracts for this stage piece that has established a long ruh record. A bld of one hyndred thousand dol- lars was made by Al Lichtman and J. G. Bachmann, executives of Preferred Pictures, and was accepted by Frank Craven, Winchell .Smith . and John Golden, in whose hands thé rights to the play lay. Its principal characters are a youn; couple who are weatheriag the firs year of married Mfe, - Completing the bill will be. Bailey in_“The Little Produc- Estelle Davis;: Jack ‘Rube” Clifford, in “Camera-Eye Car- Claudia Coleman, the impres- Barrett and Farnum, In ‘Dancing—And Then 5 A Stryker, in “Position Is Everything, and the regular Keith features, Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and the Pathe News Pictorial. Last times today, at 3 and 8:15 p.m., 8f Helen Ware, Anne Gray, Wayne and Warren, Kerr and Wes- ton, and the others on last week’s bill STRAND —Newman’s Orchestra. “A noble bill for the -entertainment of Nobles" is the slogan.of the Strand bie's Irish Rose,” vaudeville. of dis- | | ton on| comedy. Performance this even- New show opens tomorrow Opens this afternoon. ®pens this afternoon. Theater this week. begining. today & Newman and His Orchestra, the latter “a bunch of college boys who never made more than fifty in their classés, but who register 100 in mu- in “A Marriag etween Comedy armony,"” 11 headline the le half of the bill, which also will present Charles Leonard Fletch- er in “Character Impressions and Bits of Screen Humor™; Myrtle Boland and Mable Knight, two pretty girls, in a skit. including popular tunes, witty comedy and eccentric dance steps; Amoros and Jeanet, “French and the Flapper,’ in a mirth-provoking sketch, “Mon Chapeau.” and the Pick- fords. i accrobatic and juggling feats. Miriam Cooper, Forrest Stanley and Mitchell Lewis, supported by Mautle ayne, Richard Tucker and Kate Lester, will be pictured in “Her Acc den Husband,” a story of romance and and concerning a girl who marries a man because she hates him. An ded attraction will be the showing of “Discovering Movie Stars” pictures made on the Strand stage during the past week by Edu gust and scenes enacted by Washing- amateurs. laughable comedy and late world events will also be shown. GAYETY—“Talk of the Town.” Beginning at this afternoon’s mati- nee and continuing through Shrine week, the Gayety Theater will present three performances daily, at 2:15, 8:15 and midnight. Manager Jarboe has arranged a sumptuous program in honor of the Shriners, under the titie “The Talk of the Town,” the best summer burlesque show available. The special feature staged for the benefit of the visiting nobles, entitled “The Dance of the Sacred Tob,” will be given by “Nadja," a dainty and daring Bedouin beauty, said to be a direct descendant of the tribe of Koreish. “Talk of the Town" is a musical revue, with music by James Johnson and Harry' Collins. There will be twelve scenes in the two acts of the comedy, farce and burlesque. Eddie Hall and Charles Fagan, tramp come- dians, will be featured along with Kitty Clasco, a prima donna of per- sonal charm and musical gifts. Eight- een chorus girls will be led in tune- ful numbers by Miss Glasco, Mabel Clark, Virginia Sellers and Nettle Knise. An added attraction will be Lize and the “Shuffiing Six” dancers in whirlwinds of jazzy songs and dance: vaudev art interest with many thrills| SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1923. In the Spotlight. EORGE "GROSSMITH and Andre Charlot, English producers, ar- rived in New York last week to in- ‘spect several new plays. A public performance of “The New 8in;” by Basil MacDonald Hastings, was given last week in New York by the Green Room Club, Jane Cowl will be seen in Shake- speare’s “Anthony and Cleopatra” and and “Twelfth Night" next season, ac- cording to an announcement made by the Selwyns and Adolph Klauber. Miss Cowl closes her successful se son as Juliet, in New York, next Sat- urday night. She will rest for a month and then make & tour of the west. 2 |,, Elste Ferguson closed her season on the road last week In “The Wheel of Life” She will use the same play next season, opening In New York in September. “Oliver Cromwell,” the latest play by John Drinkwater, had its premler in London last week. Brock Pemberton is considering for production a tragedy written by Ana- tole Feldman. Charles Winninger and George Bickel have been engaged by A. Woods for “Light Wines and Bee: that is to have an early presentation. The Bonstelle Players, in New York, presented a new play, “The Vigil," by Daniel M. Rubin, last week, as a try- out for Willlam A. Brady, who ex- pects to make it an early fall attrac- tion with a strong company. “Adrienne,” a musical comedy by A. { Seymour Brown, with music by Al- bert Von Tilzer, was presented for i the first time in New York last week. The music is said to be charming and the book sprightly. Vivienne Segal and Billy Van have the leading roles. The Shuberts announce that the next production at the New York Winter Garden will be known as “The Pasging Show of 1923.” “Magnolia,” by Booth Tarkington, with Leo Carrilio starring, will open in Stamford, Conn., Friday night for a tryagit. Bivia Field, late of “The Cat and the Lanary,” will play the title role in “Eonnie Goes Home," the new com- edy “by Edward Childs Carpenter, whieh ‘will be produced by Klbourne Gordon in Atlantic City. The Temple Theater, in Detrolt, has been taken over by the Keith circuit and will be improved for the fall opening. Feitz Lieber is to play in “The Fountain,” Arthur Hopkins' American production “of the Eugene O'Neill pla¥, when it is presented in New Yori: in September. The plece s due also for'a showing in London by Mr. Hopkins in association with Charles B. dochran. Richard Bennett, star of “He Who Get? Slapped.” will be starred this autdmn in “Debris,” an_American play by Wilson Colison. Mr. Bennett is ax present in Italy acting in pic- tures with Lionel Barrymore. R. H. Burnside, George Marion, Frank Smithson and Julian Mitchell have staged “Four Well Known Darjes—and a Guy.” by Tom Barry. It #% to be played at the Lambs An- nuai Spring Gambol tonight in Ne: York at the Earl Carroll Theater by Charles King, Douglas Stevenson, Sam Ash, George Basely and Walter Woulf. Arthur Leslie Smith. co-director of the President Plavers, is making plans for the Smith-Duffy production of @ new play in which the movie star, Tom Moore, will be starred. Mr. Moore recently signed a contract with the Smith-Duffy organization to appear under their management in Washington and elsewhere. Léw Welch, who assumes the role in “Abie’s Irish Rose” at the Presi- derft this week that Leo Hoyt played during the earlier run of the play at the . President, has made many ap- pearances in Washington in the past, chiefly in vaudeville and burlesque. He s a nephew of Ben Welch, the confedian, who was suddenly stricken blind in Washington during a stage performance several years ago. Eigene Lowe, son of Robert Lowe, one of the veteran members of the President Players, will assume the post of stage manager at the Presi- dent this week. He is a midshipman at Annapolis, who has just finished his “plebe” vear. He had, however, a year or two of Stage experience before entering the Naval Academy. A special Shrine excursion to Wash- ington from points along the railway to Chesapeake Beach will be run Tuesday, the day of the big parade. Fares have been cut practically in half for the day. The return train will leave Washington at 11 p.m., so as to give visitors an opportunity to see the illumination of thd Avenue. Thousands of Marylanders, it is said, will be brought to the city on-the excursion. At the request of Manager Schloss ‘of Glen Echo Park it is announced the inspection department of the largest liabilily insurance company in America made a careful examination of every device in the park before its opening. The park has a staff of 120 people, many of whom are mechanics, who daily scrutinize every moving contrivance. Not a wheel cun move until they pronounce everything abso- lutely safe. “Robin Hood™ Cosmos. JDOUGLAS FAIRBANKS' own pro- duction of “Robin Hood" will be the extraordinary attraction at the Cosmos Theater next week, begin- ning June 11, under the new summer policy of the management and at the reduced prices fixed for the summer. Manager Brylawski regards this offering as one of the rarest and best ever provided for the patrons of his theater. It has been secured at much expense and after much negotiation and will be exhibited at the Cosmos precisely as it was originally shown in this city at higher prices. at the What Is Love? Does Maurice Tourneur Know? OTION picture patrohs of the United States may never expect to see. genuine love depicted on its screens, according to Maurice Tour- neur, producer of “The Isle of Lost Ships," “The Brass Bottle” and other well known photoplays. The First National director con- tends that puppy love is as far as the screens of America may go in depicting the grand passion. “The full; beautiful, terrible splen- dor of love is not ignoble, but we are afrald of it as of something shame- full” he declared with feeling. “There is much love making among boys and girls. We hide and. forbid these impulses, so that they become twisted and unhealthy, much as our films are forced to repress realities with glamorous fair tales. Repress things always come to the surface distorted. “Love isn't the green sentimentality of a boy and girl walking through an apple orchard. It's more apt to be an agony, as most elemental things are. “The mating love has been given & jhameful sighificance because It seeks seclusion. Also, when we are t our hardest problems— is an ordeal—we try to hide from ourselves, behind soeial conven- ln or leafy shelters, in oplates or T3 8w censorship for the screen clearly in- dicate that anything beyond mawkish puppy love is unclean and ‘unfit to be seen or thought about, o matter how insistently life projects it, to the confusion of the fable fed. “True love, the actual love of life, beautiful and matured, ca/n never be portrayed while censors snd persons who think in harmony with censors sit in judgment of this new and won- derful screen art. *Little Old Delmonico's" JHE Delmonico's that has just been closed In New York was a far dif- ferent restaurant from the one remem- bered by-old New York residents. In 1820 it was possible to get a meal there for 20 cents that would shock present- day epicures. The/ first Delmonico’s, the one of a*century/ ago, when New York was- a modest 1fttle city of only 8,000 persons, is eaid to be realistically brought bagk to life in Marion Davies' new Cosmopolitan feature, “Little Old New York.” is restaurant was just = little shop fwith no front, it being the first_Delmonfico’s habit to put up shut- ters at nl It was something on the order of thyje present-day lunch wagon. A dinner of ale, oysters, coffee and a le gould be obtained for 20 cents. nicg paid his waiter, young ds, wages. % g ¥ ~ i AMUSEMENTS IN FHE OPEN @Glen Echo Park. ) LEN ECHO PARK is a mecca for ‘Washingtonians every. evening with its dozens of unique amusements. A new feature is the “Skooter,” controlled by the driver electrically, and housed in an out-door pavilion. ‘Thrillers are the giant derby racer and coaster dip, and, in a milder way, the old mill’ 3 ‘The kiddies still claim as their own the merry-go-round and midway. while the large ballroom is the lure for those who seek a dance floor and excellent music. Dancing runs from 8:30 until 11:30 every week night un- der strict censorship, the policy of the park. Glen Echo will be one place in Washington where the admission is free. Coluni;l }ench. The steamer St. Johns leaves the Tth street wharf Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and Sunday at $ am. for Colonfal Beach, seventy miles down the his- torlc Potomac, where salt-water bathing, fishing, crabbing and other out-door amusements, with dancing and music for those who do not care for water sports, may be found. Moonlight trips to Indian Head forty miles to and from Washington, are ‘made nightly by the steamer St. Johns, except on Saturday and Sun- day, from the 7th street wharf at 7:15 p.m. returning to ,the city at 11 o'clock. A feature s dancing on the spacious covered decks every trip, rain or shine. Cheup:;kT Beach. Shrine week will be ushered in to- day at Chesapeake Beach, Washing- ton's nearest salt-water resort. Spe- cial trains will be run as occasion demands to avoid crowding. Officials of the Chesapeake Beach railway, who are Shriners. will be on hand to wel- come visitors. hardheads. free dancing to music by jazz musicians, boardwalk promenads ing, picnicing, boating and tourd Amusement Faliryland are some of the principal attractions. The beach is just an hour's rigé away. The dis- tance is forty miles by road and the highways are declared in excel- lent condition. Chevy Chase Lake. Both pavilions at Chevy Chase Lake announce extraordinary attrac- tions with thelr woodsy setting, at- tractive lighting effects and smooth dancing floors, situated almost on a direct car route. Tommy Thompson heads the melodists. Trips to the Seashore. The Norfolk and Washington Steam- boat Company is featuring trips via Po- tomac river and Chesapeake bay to his- toric Eastern Virginia resorts during Shrine week. Virginia Beach has devel- oped into a typical seacoast city, its cot- tage line now extending several miles along the beautiful sandy beach. Ocean View is Virginia's Atlantic City ; an exclusively summer resort with all of the attractions and entertain- ments_usually found at such places. Cape Henry also is largely patronized during the summer season. Old_ Point _ ymfort, Newport News. Buckroe Beach, Norfolk and Portsmouth aiso afford nu- merous attractions. Great Falls Park. The summer season at Great Falls Park opened May 30 with varied at- tractions. Dancing in the cool pa- villon overlooking the falls, and for which no charge {s made, is one of the main features. Lovely picnie spots, boating, fishing, and slides for the children, etc., are others. The ride through the , Virginia countryside adds to the pléasure of the trip. The management offers im- proved train service from the ter- minal at 36th and M streets north- west. Sundays, free concerts by the Great Falls Orchestra take the place Salt-water bathing, fishing for of dancing on week days. A Fact Worth Remembering. APOLT elghteen months ago there | there was a play he'd like (o hav operied in London a comedy which has proved the reigning hit of the year—a comedy by Walter Hack- ett, the co-author with Roi Cooper Megrue of “It Pays to Advertise.” The name of the play was “Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure,” and when the London agents of Sam H. Harris saw it they cabled him immediately with regard to it. Mr. Harris grew deeplv interested in the play and began castinz about in his mind for some one whom he might depute to go over and see it ‘or him. One day he met on the street the young actor, Wallace Fddinger, and engaged him in conversation Eddinger remarked rhat he wa sailing for England within the week and Mr aid easually tha Coming A BELASCO—"Lawful Larceny.” Immediately following the engage- ment of “Captain Applejack” at the Belasco Theater. George Marshall will_persent Lowell Sherman, Broad- way's latest star. in Samuel Ship man's comedy, “Lawful Larcen which ran for a whole vear at the Republic Theater. New York. KEITH'S—"“Creole Fashion Plate.” 1 Norman, the “Creole fashion plate.” will top the Keith program next week in “Something Different,” with music by Irving Bibo and Leo Woods and gowns by Lester Com- pany of Chicago. Mr. Norman is known to vaudeville fans as one of the foremost of impersonators. His offering is declared a riot of color and charm Others will be Victor Moore and Emma Littlefield, in_“Change Your Act or Back to the Woods”: Maude Powers and Vernon Wallach, in “Georgla on Broadway"; Helen Stover, a soprano, making her vaudeville debut: Thomas and Ackers with Phil Sheppard: Fenton and Flelds, in “4p- pearing Person™; Leo Donnelly,/ in “'Tis and 'Tisn't,” and Young WAng and company. “My Lady of the Evening.” The National Theater will open for dinger look over for him—one “Am- brose Applejohn’s Adventure’ “That's funn replied Eddinger with a smile, “that's over for.” “Well,” sald Harris, “thera are three or four other producers after it. but if vou think it's the right sort of stuff for us, you make some arrange- ments for me on it, and we'll see what we can do.” Eddinger returned in about A month’s time with great enthusiasm for the play, with the play itself and with the author! The result of it all is that Ham H. Harris presented the American edi- tion of the comedy at tne Cort Thea- ter, New York, where it played for hat I'm going almost a yvear to capacity busine: But it ‘was George Marshall hrought it to Washington, w ! now in its second week ttractions. jone night v, Monday, June 11, when Miss Cora B. Shreve will pre- sent her 1922-23 dancing production and juvenile musical comedy, enti- tled “My Lady of the Evening.' Morgan A. Sherwood and Walter Burke, stage manager and electriclan, respectively, of the National. together with a score of stage mechanics, it is announced. are preparing a produc- | tion to surpass anything ever at- tempted in a children's performance, Many unusual electrical and scenic effects are promised. The reserved seat sale will open at the Natlonal Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. STRAND—“Mammy and Gold Dust Twins.” i The Strand Theater, next week, will feature a queen of syncopation. (“Mammy" and her “Gold Dust Twins" {in twelve minutes of peppy harmony |and dance. Others will include the Fay Rash Trio, in “At The Race | Track™; Charles Martin, “The Senti- {mental’ Cowboy Baritone”: Wilson and Jerome. in “Odds and Ends” |and Holden and Graham, in“versatile a_ Universal | entertainment. “What Wives Want," | photoplay, will picture Ethel Grey | Terry. Margaret Landls, Niles Welch, Vernon Steele and Ramsay Wallage in a present day marital problem. who e it is What Makes an Actor? N actor is not an actor in the real sense of the word until he can characterize,” declares Lionel At- will the David Belasco star, “and he cannot do this until he has experi- mented in the art of impersonating various parts. “To be an actor one should play a variety of roles. The opportunities to- day fof the young player to get this necessary experience are rare. But it is an essential part of an actors training and if He is sufficiently lucky to attain any position of prominence, there is bound to be a tremendous handlcap if he wishes to do more complex and finer work without this wide experlence. “I firmly belleve also that a range of characterization should be the aim and goal of every actor, if only for the reason that a greatar interest is “« thereby stimulated on the part of the public. In this way an actor becomes better known and added interest is given to his performance by the fact that the public may expect not only a good technical plece of work, but also a new and distinct characteriza- tion each time he appears. “The public Is better able to appre- ciate the art of the theater by seeing an actor whose personality it knows deplcting different characterizations than just witnessing a play, with the various characters cast with actors who naturally are temperamentally and physically the parts they are chosen to play. This unfortunately is the method depicted by most pro- ducers, although, to be falr, it must ba id that this method is largely un- avoidable in the main. “The responsibilities and require- ments of a star should be greater and more complex than in the days when one was only the member of a cast. It is not so difficult to attain a posi- tion as it is to maintain ft. It is my firm belief that the popularity of a star will soon wane if he or she is not primarily a good character player.” Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., a Star HEREAF‘TE’R there are to be two Douglas Fairbankses in the films— Douglas sr. and Douglas jr.—the lat- ter a Paramount star, appearing in boylsh roles, the first of which may be Mark Twain's “Tom Sawyer." Young Douglas will be one of the youngest stars in the business. He is only thirteen, but he is large for his age and has many of the athletic characteristics of his, father. The young man has just returned from Europe with hi mother. Here's what' Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of the Famous Players- Lasky Corporation, sald: “The last thing I did before leaving New York city for the coast was to add this truly wonderful boy to the t of Paramount stars, and I be- lieve it is one of the most important things I have done since first I en- te: the motion picture industry. Douglas Fairbanks, jr., is the typical American boy at his b He is the kind of boy I hope my son will grow to be. I fell in love with him the ; r minute I met him, and so will every other American father and mother and son and daughter when they see him on the -screen.” New York and Holly- ‘IUOOJ. NEW YORK will hereatter have to struggle along without her pres- ence as a resident, Is the declaration of Gertrude Astor, who recently went west to play a role in John M, Stahl's picture, “The Wanters,” & comedy-drama of society life. Formerly a member of the Holly- wood film colony, Miss Astor went to New York some time ago to appear In a picture being made there. Stu- dio conditions there, however, ars not nearly as prosperous as in California, the star states, only two of the blg plants being open, and they have only & few companies at work.