Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 16

_16 AMUSEMENTS ] Poli's—Basil Sydney. The new world is to the young, and ® twenty-eight-year-old “star,” Basil Sydney, who has already made his ®ark since his long run of success in Wew York, returns to Washington New Year week, at Poll's Theater, com- mencing Sunday evening, in “He Whi Gets Slapped,” “The Devil's Disciple’ and ‘‘Peer Gynt,” all made even more famous by the distinguished Theater Guild_productions from the Garrick, New York. He Who Gets Slappee is the open- ing attraction for Sunday evening, and the box office will gi a souvenir copy of the complete text of Bernard Shaw's “The Devil's Disciple” to the first playgoers booking two or more seats for the Sunday opening. ‘“He Who Gets Slappet be repeated Thurs- day afternoon and evening. New Year eve Basil Sydney will be seen in his and Bernard Shaw' popular part of the “Devil's D i will be repeat Year day and again on Friday evening, while what may again prove the piece de resistance of the program, and, as- | suredly, Basil Sydney’s tour de force in the' repertoire, “Peer Gynt" (the spectacular romance by Tbsen, -with wonderful music by Grieg), will be! played Wednesday night and Saturday | afternoon and evening. Basil Sydney is supported by a com: pany of nearly fifty artists, including three leading ladies, under 'the direc- | tion of Joseph M. Galtes. All the pro- ductions are those originally seen from the Theater Guild, New York. Garrick—Zona Gale's New Play. ! New Year week Zona Gple's new play, “Mister Pitt,”. will be Presented by Brock Pemberton at the Shubert- arrick Theater, beginning Monday | evenin This Is the first play Miss Gale has written since “Miss Lulu Batt, won the Pulltzer prize in 1931, The new play is a dramatization of her nevel, “Birth." The_cast is headed by Walter Hus- ton, Minna Gombell and C. Henry Gordon: and the settings have been designed by the distinguished Dutch artist, Herman Rosse. Nation-al—“Tflank You." Phe underpaid clergyman — the *Thank You Man,” whose inadequate salary is more or less expamded by casual donations—is the person whose necessarily restricted mode of living forms the basis of “Thank You.” a diverting three-act comedy which John Golden will send to the National Theater next week beginning Sunday, Written by Tom Cushing and Win- chell Smith, co-author with Frank Bacon of “Lightnin,” this newest Golden comedy is said to be a play of the people, with its humanity as its strongest asset. The meeting of the church vestry in “Thank You" is said to be one of the most amusing scenes staged in several years, com- parable in its humor to the famou: courtroom sceme in “Lightnin. While “Thank You" points {ts little moral, its lines and situations are very humorous. The cast identified with “Thank You" during an entire season at the Longacre Theater, New York, and at the Cort Theater. Chicago. is promised here. It includes Harry Davenport, Martha Hedman, Frank Monroe, Richard Sterling, Phyllis Rankin, George Schiller. Herbert saunders, Phil _Bishop, Frederick Malcolm, Albert Hyde, Helen Judson and Elinor Post. Belasco—0utward: Bound" ‘William Harris, tho Shubert-Bel new play, This play, by Sutton Vane, is one of the outstanding successes of the London season. Those who have seen it in the British capital state that it is something new in the way of plays. The story deals with a ship- load of humans outward bound—for heaven or hell, they do not know which. As the boat nears Its desti- nation the passengers become pan- icky as to their probable fate. They approach the examiner who comes aboard with a consclousness of their misdeeds and with a great fear of what is to be meted out to them, The unfolding of this story Is said to carry with It a sweep of the emo- tions that is seldom met with in the nodern theater. The play has been cast with the care that marks the productions of ‘William Harris, and Robert Mil- ton has had charge of the rehearsals. | The scenes are by Livingston Platt. The cast includes Leslie Howard, Alfred Lunt, Margola Gilmore, J. AL Kerrigan, Charlotte Granville, Eu- gene Powers and Beryl Mercer Keith's—Ray Dooley, And Flol‘enz AITICS ext week's bill at B, F. Kelth's Theater reads like “oid home week" for musical comedy stars. Miss Ray Dooley and Mr. Florenz Ames are back again, in @ new vehicle called A Terpsichorean Dilemma,” written by Joseph Cawthorn. These are as- sisted by Eben S Litchfleld. Miss Dooley, of the famous Dooley family, was last seen in Washington with her brother Gordon. Since that time she has scored in “The Follie he Bunch and Judy,” “The Nifites” and many othe Successes. Mr. Ames was | last seen In vaudeville in a sketch called “Alice In Blunderland.’ Eva Puck, after an absence of five years, returns with Sam White in a new song and dance travesty en- titled, “Opera ve. Jazz.” Leo Singer, of the famous -Singer's Midgets, will present the latest fandangie in in- strumental and vooal syncopation, Ina Hayward and Dora Maughan and Misha's boys, who abpear in “Modéls and Music” constitute a jazz quin- tet, and Thomas Dugan and Babette Raymond will pass out laughs in ~An Ace In the Hole” Flo Lewis will Lave @ new act, “From Burnheart to Heartburn.” with Jesse Greer at the plano. Breker's bear comedians will perform unusual animal Stunts, and the Weldanos sensation, two men and a woman, are billed as vaudeville's most spectacular attraction. Manager Robbins announces one. matinee Now Year day, at 3 pm., and a speclal midnight . performance, begin at 11:15 p.m. Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and'the Pathe News Woekly complete the bill. jr, next week at Cosmos—"The Beauty Par- lor. = A dash of Broadway brilliance is promised in Billy Batchelor’s. miniature revue, “The Beauty Parlor,” which will | headline the Cosmos Theater. bill ‘next { week. It has a merry plot that has to do with an_institution where plump ladies are made lean and lean ladles are made plump, and four pretty girls help Bill show the audience how it is done. Pretty songs, pretty scenes and costumes that dazzie go with it. Middleton and Spellmyer are bring- ing “Lonesome Land,” as the dramatic bit. It is a melodramatic. comedy and full of laughing material over an inci- dent of the southwest before fences came. Bobby “Uke” Henshaw, ukelele virtuoso, also vodels and gives imi- ®=ations and his act next week promises a real surprise. Others will include Eddle Pardo an ar, who in of “The Whirlwind and tl Krayona Radio Company, with its novel combination of electrical drawing and explosive art. All told a nifty little New Yedr offering .is- promised. William 8. Hart's serious and thrill- ing story: of thre west in its edrly days, “Wild Bill Hickok,” will be the photo- play feature, supplemented with a Mack hnnolt comedy and the Urban Movie Chats, - Stfl.nd—'Pic:f the Family’ The Strand Theater bill for the New | Year week, nning Sunday, prom- izes to met igh standard’for its shows -during 1924. 3 Walter Miller, screen star of more than a hundred photoplays, will head the program. appearing in jperson in a one-act comedy by James Horan, gntitled “The Pick of the Family, { Estelle Mardo and Willlam H. Power are in the cast. Mr. Miller for the past five years has played with such stars as Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, _Mary Pickford, Dorothy Gish and Mae Marsh. The added attraction, Eileen Scho- field and Bob Gore assisted by a bevy of beautiful dhncing girls, will be a pretentiously staged offering, “The Jewel Box Revue.” Others will in- clude Bruce Morgan and Tommy Moran as “Legitimate _Legtis “Kara,” the sensational European juggler, and Billy Frisch and Verna Sadler, 'in “The Song’ Writer's Wed- ding Belle. Combining the features of pittu of the sea, of the “South Sea Isiand and of _society, “South Sea Lov Shirley Mason's first contribution for the New' Year, will be presenied as the photoplay, ‘with added short films. Gnyety—‘HoEwood Follies' A lively travesty on life at Amer- ica’s great motion picture producing center will be offered as the princi- pal feature of Joe Hurtig's attrac- tion at the ‘Gayety Theater next week. It is called “Hollywood Fol- lies” ‘and has elght big and colorful stage settings, faithfully reproduc- ing interiors aud exteriors of many well known California studios, with appropriate _costumes to ~carry out the idea. Marty Collins ‘and Jack Pillard, comedians, are the stars ef the company, which includes Jimmie Connors, Al Belasco, Al Stern, Ward and Oliver, Jullette _Belmont, Es- telle Nack, Jacques Wilson and the Hollywood" Syncopators and -Serena- ders, a comedy jazz band of twelve. There will also be a flock of dynamic singing and dancing girls in the chorus. Harvard Glee Club. e Harvard Glee Club, which will be heard at the Masonic Auditorium next Tuesday ~evening, has Dbecome recognized as a men’s chorys of the highest rank, and in its devtlopme! from an ordinary college glee ciul has exercised not a little “influence on choral singing in general. In 1919 he Harvard Glee Club undertook the experiment of singing first-rate mu- sic. classical and modern, and sud- denly came into prominence as one of the outstanding. mep’s choruses of the Tnited States, if not of the world. The man to-whom the credit "for this achievement is due is Dr. Archl- bald T. Davison. For some years he had been organist and choirmaster at the chapel, and under his.direction the chapel choir had gained a wide reputation for the fine quality of its Selections and the skill with which it ve them. 2 s B Miesday the program will inciude compositions by Schutz, Vittoria, De- cius, Lotti, Morley, Holst, Sullivan, Ireland, Elgar and Handel. The local management of the club is with the concert bureau of T. Arthur Smith, inc., 1306 G street. Metropolitan—"Her Tempo- rary Husband.” ew Year week attraction at s Metropolitan Theater will be onal's film version of “Her Temporary Husband,” one of the mosi amusing of recent stage farces. The story is a rollicking recital of the love adventures of a girl who was compelled by her aunt's will to marry within twenty-four hours, in order to inherit a fortune. She plans to wed an elderly invalid, whom the doctors declare has not long to survive, but instead weds a Young man by the name of Thomas Burton, who had made up to look liky the prospective bridegroom. Others, however, thought of the same thing and during several of the scenes the bride seems to have three husbands, all iden- tical in appearance. Execitement is added to the fun by the activities of a tough gunman and laughter in abun- dance is furnished by Sydney Chaplin, ‘brother of Charlie. - The bill will be augmented by newa topical and comic films and an or- chestral setting. Rinlto: Reno.” Queer twists of the law, which make a divorced man a bigamist when he crosses the state border, and otherwise stir up unusual but real complications, have been used by Rupert Hughes to enliven the plot of his divorce film “Reno,” which will be the New Year week attraction at Moore's Rialto Theater beginning Sunday. ‘Besides _ writing _ the story, Mr. Hughes _directed the film, which is| sald to be one of his best to date™The cast includes Helen Chadwick, George ‘Walsh, Lew Cody, Carmel Myers, sup- ported by Rush Hughes; Kathleen Key, Willlam Orlamond, Dale_Fuller, Hedda Hopper and Robert de Vilbiss. Short film features and orchestral numbers arranged by Director George ‘Wild will_complete the bill. Columbia—"Fashion Row."” Mae Murray In “Fashion Row," her, latest photoplay, will be presented at Loew's Columbia next week, be- ginning Sunday afternoon. “Fashion Row.’ is sald to be utterly different from any production that; this “'gorgeous butterfly” has.yet pre- | sented, and reveals Miss Murray’ in a | dual role. It is sald to exait the magnetic Murray charm, the Murray dancing, _the bewildering Murray | clothes, _$200,000 worth of gowns, | many of them adorned with céstly jewels. A Russian masked ball is the last word in spectacular beauty. |fil Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin : wrote the story and Robert Z. ||| onard directed it. L ha cast includes Earle Foxe. the [l Washington stock favorite, and Elmo | Lincoln, concerns a Russian | dancer who becomes the toast of | Broadway . as a former Russian | fi noblewoman, and a Russian, marked | ff by the dancer in a Russian dive years | |f ago, who arrives In America seeking vengeance.~ Palace—"The Ca Canyon.™ Next _week beginning Sund: Loew's Palage.will present, for the first time, the new pleturization -of Zane Grey's story of the éast and West, “The Call of the Canyon,” love tale in which Richard Dix and Lols Wilson have the leadigg-roles. The cast also includes Marjorie Daw, ||| Noah Beery, Rieardo Cortez, Fred. Huntley, Liliian Leighton and Helen Dunbar. It is the romance of a young vet- eran of the world war and & girl Who, while performing many notable aocts of self-sacrifice during the, strug: gle, has plunged bacle into: the jazz- Whirl of New. York. % of the Ambassador—"Her .Tempo- % rary. Husband." Crandall's Ambassador Theater also, on next Sunday and Monday, will offer/ v{:\r‘t National ‘em) and Charles Gerrard, short repl :subjects and_seléctions from '*The ‘Herbert. and 3, Courtship of Pt oin Good Oldb':n Ty E e, “The vs"” ; Thursday and Friday, Metro's “Pleasure Mad,* an epit of the flanper era, together with Charles Chase, & mew comedian, in' “At First Sight'” ‘and an orchestril over- ture; turday, n Alexander, Henry B.. Walthall, Rockliffe Fellowes and Irene Rich, in Booth :zoll‘ot wsr."--’:rl» an Central—"Bright - Lights of || " Broadway,"” “Bright Lights of Broadway” will be shown for the first time in Wash- ington -the ‘first four days of New Year . week . at Crandall’s Central Theater, contrasting typical small- town American life and the dlzzy whirl ‘of one .of the most famous streets in the world. The story con- || cerns a young woman who accepted | i the offer of a suave Broadwayite to star her in musical comedy after hav- ing pledged her heart to Tom Drake, son of the minister in whose choir she sang. Doris Kenyon, Harrison Ford, Lowell Sherman. Edmund Breese, rone Power, Murray and Claire Dolorez are in the cast and the action is participated in the chorus from tae New ¥ girls “Qur- Gang", in Kinograms and pipe organ music will complete the bill. Thursday and the balance of next week - Myron Sleznic of “The Common Law,' Griffith, Conway Tearle, Elliott Dex ter, Hobart Bosworth, Bryant Was burn, Doris May, Miss du Pont, Phy! lis Haver, Wally Van, dowsky and Harry Myers in the cast, will_be shown with CUff Bowes in “Under Cover” and the Kinograms. Crandall's—"The Mailman" Emory Johnson's The Mailman,’ the faithfulness and heroism of the members of the postal service, will be shown, for the first time in Wash- ington, THE EVENING STAR, TO MAKE A LONG SToRY SHORT I'm Bhack’ IN THe PRESIDENTIAL RAce! T JusT HGARD THAT THE PREIIDENT HAS A PRWATE YACHT ‘AT HIS Beck AnD cALl! week at thrilling dangers and son, from the band of Effie Shannon, Charles arry P t's'a “Dogs of Wai Anna 's production with Corinne Sunday Dagmar G in “Lon, Fable; production - of a dramatic tribute to Sunday Keaton, the first four days of next ning Sunday afternoon. woven into the movement and Johnny Walker are cast as father steal a valuable shipment of money. Boy. Q. Nt will be seen in Metro production, together with new Aesop Fabl WASHINGTON, D. AND ALSO A PRIVATE CAR = AND ALSO A LoT ot 6THER THINGS ! AND T'M JUST THe BABY For A SOFT JOB LIKE THAT, Crandall's Theater, begin- Romance is |day, of this recital of the duties-and the of the service. Ralph Lewis . and “the climax springs son's herolsm in defeating a crooks who are trying to [Boy. ollard will be seen also in and Frank Keenan ‘Hearts Aflame,” the " 'a | Code"; ‘The High Fliers.” * Apollo. and Monday, Buster Keaton, and novelty Tla;(‘lly, Wed- ackie Cos Live the King." and Aoe‘l‘onl; day, “On the Banks of the and' Harry Pollard, in “It's | ton, Saturday, ““The_Spider and and “Our Gang,” in “Dogs Thurgd Avenue Grand. Al and Monday, Buster in ‘Our Hospitality,” and and More THE MOST PHENOMENAL VALUE-GIVING EVENT THAT WE HAVE EVER HELD! Clearance Sale novelty reel, “Close Hospitality"; Tues- Wednesday = and Thursday, Jackle Coogan, ‘in King," and Aesop Fable: nd, the Rose,’ “Fighting - Blood”; “On_the Banks of the Wa- and Harry Pollard, in "It's a Spider a O’Hara, Dumbarton. Sunday, Viola Dana, in “The Social Monday, and Wednesday. “Why Worry?”; Thursday| * and Friday, Blanche Sweet, in the Palace of. the King" Tom Mix, in “Soft Boiled Tuesday Lioyd, in in “The Gold Diggers’; Tuesday and = Wednesday, Buck' Jones, in a) comedy. Matines Tuesday at 2 p.m. all-star cast, aiso comedy. ~Friday, Geo: “Slave of Desi ;. also Saturday, Jack Hoxle, in comedy. comedy. “Men in the Raw’ 0 YOURE SELLING Pi3tr TV GGT MONEY To FINANCE YouR. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGR T WHAT /= Do You Atk FoR THEMT comedy. “Long Live the Friday, “The and_George Sat- Self-Made Novarra, “in Ends.” ‘Counterfeit Love”; Harold “In Saturday, Sund. Empi" madge In ovak _in also Bloo “Blg_Dan"; “Crooked also the last epi- v Our Great January . In accordance with our policy never to carry goods over from one season to another, we hold this event. This year the event will be greater than ever, for cost and profit have been forgotten, and we will offer the smartest styles of the season, in the finest materials, from the best manufacturers at savings that average 1; and more. If you need apparel—here’s your opportunity—Come and Save! Owing to the tremendous reductions all sales are final. No exchanges, no refunds. 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Sunday and Monday, Corinne Grit- fith in “Six Days”; Tuesday and Wed- | basl nesday (open 3 p.m.), Blanche Sweet and Hobart Bosworth in * Palace of the King”: Thursday, Claire Windsor in “The Eternal Struggle”; Friday, Ethel Grey Wite': ““Where Olympic. y, Marie Prevost in Lights”; Monday, “Three Wise Fools”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Norma Tal. “Ashes of Thursday, Bryant Washburn and kva “Temptdtion”; Sunday and Monday, Hope Hamb-|Gladys Walton in “The Wild Party" and George O. Hara in ; Saturday, Douglas Fairbank: 186 |ir. in “Btephen Steps Out.” Savoy. Sunday and Monday, Buster Keaton, “Our Hospitality,” and Pollard, in “It's a Bo; 158 16 Sport and Tailored Suits Stone Marten Chokers Full-Animal, Originally $45 "33 * Mole and Caracul Jacquettes-. Originally $195 \ Finest quality fars; trimmed with Jarge collars and cuffs offox. = '@ ‘95 C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1923. (Copyright, 1923, by H. C. Fisber. Trade Mark Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off.) —By BUD FISHER I'LL HELP You ALONG! ='LL SLIP You A NICKEL FoR o HE WAS JUiT A3 HARD T CATCH AS THE BiG ONES, and and Thursday, Jackie “Our _Hospltality”; Wednesday, “Long Live the King.”|Kenneth Harlan and Florence Vitlsy Fable; Friday, “The|in “The Virginian," d the Rose and’ George [Liars African Jungle' “Fighting _Blood”; Sat- [Claire Windsor and Nof On_the Banks of the Wa-(in “The Acquittal” and and Lige Conley, in “Runnin’ (lard, in_“It's a Boy": brook Blinn and Enid Bennett, in “The Bad Man,” and Ben Turpin, in “Pitfalls of a Big City”: Saturday, Lionel Barrymore and “Seena Owen in “Unseeing Eves,” and Aesop Fable. EX-PUGILIST SHOT DEAD. NEW YORK, December 26.—Jossph Tomasullo, forty-five years old, for- 218 “In_"the T Takoma. Sunday and Monday, Douglas Fair- banks, in “Robin Hood.” Tuesday and Wednesday, Gloria Swanson, in “Bluebeard's - Eighth comedy, “Baok Stage. and Friday, May McAvoy, Reputation”; Sennett comedy, "Sky- larking,” and Kinograms. Saturday evening, Florence Vidor, in “Ci quering’ the Woman”: “Jack Fro: Aesop's Fables and chapter 9 of “In the Days of Daniel Boone.” Satur- day matinee same &s in the evening, oxcept that “Conquering the Woman" will be withdrawn and one more pop- ular with the younger set will be substituted, Terry in_“The Saturday, Ramon the ~Pavement “Red merly a pusillst, known f&s Thomas,” and one of the owners of the “White Poodle” cabaret in Green wich Village, was shot and killed early today as he left an zplnmen‘t house in Hancock street. His as- sallant, who is unldentified, escaped. Police believe the killing was the result of a gambler's feud. Tomasullo was believed to have had $2,000 in cash {n his pockets at the time he left the apartment. But when the body arrived at the hospltal there Wwas no money in the clothes. Vengence”; Friday, “Fighting York. 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