Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1924, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1924. Cobb, Ruth y, Anne Morrison, | New York. “The Marionette,Man” will | chanical device that eliminates stage|ward of 2,000 performances of 'the|no 1 ed as suprems {n necromancy, magic Albert March, Mathilds Baring, Guy|provide his second English-speaking |waits in the changing of sets. play. For two years she was a reg- was |and prestidigitation. “Herrmann the i Milham and George W. Howard. role. The theme 13 the career of a young|ular member of the cast appearing | wri 0! Great” died, but his widow, Mme. Prominent in his support will be | couple who leave s rural atmos-|at the Galety Theater, New York, but n , CI 53 d Joe |Adelaide Herrmann took up his "ofl: . his fame and w - it. Mme, o o . . . iriam Battista, Dwight Frye, Clau- | phere to seek their f ig (at her own request she was trans- or the lyrics and New pohcy at th‘ Glmck. o C. Porter Hall, Michel- 5 vm.snud‘.: :‘;"r‘l.\xrl:. s ferred to the qcomplny headed by |tunes. This unusual vaudeville pro- N 1801 city. 1 Crane. . The Mossrs, Shubert; through Man- | ®'4s, Burani and Mal Crane., . :Il{e o radi 3 Thomas Jefferson. duction is presented in five scenes, to the elaborate nature of the scenic 3 eir rejuvenation and|_The Bacons are Californians, and|tells a story and adheres to It. e _stage s Fra Elsie Ferguson Tonight. B enize Yo give M sments | ager L. Stoddara Tayior, announce & | elabora ultimate success are sald to be pow- s been on_ th ns" Draia, the simous [neie i te oA nd oy C world f; Gar- ym sketches m: marion- he was £o! e old. Sh - composer and violinigt will be The Shubert-Garrick Theater of- | AratmlEn ] Fon oD ol N re” it | Tiok “Thearor were Whioh suness |Site. theater on’ Mulberry street. in | °FEUILY T o Yure daat 1| it mer dlsavse n & |extra attraction, pidying his own gers as its attraction for tonight, to- | Wagner defer ck Theater here ought 1o | New York. Frank M. Thom: rd f plays. compositions. This fs Mr. Drdla’s|Ad morrow, l-‘ru'i(nyM.‘nd Is':?llurd;'y of the | tonight. N widely commnn’d it tlo_ notice. Much > ol arda How- | Year: am! first appearance in the two-a-day. current weel ss sie 'erguson, . e has been sald for a long time about » 2 ~ P vest, ai as a Ina Williams and Dick Keene, a supported by Sidney Blackmer and (Mrs. Leslie Carter in “Stella|(ne nign price of theatrical entertatn. Red Light Annie. 200 A et R Vinbent Feal star of the [new combination in vaudivile wil] a company of uncommon excellence. - . Shubert A. H. Woods will offer his widely ' s present, “Shall I?" Miss Williams 1B, hel three-act play, “The Moon Dallas. Euiy - | atséussed melodrama, “Red” Light A V. in “Lichtnin"." r 3 i the frat thept | was a atar of the Zlegfield and Cen- |u lower." > rical rformance ven in n Fran- | tur; Roof, and Mr. eene a member o This play. which is to have its| Mrs Lesiie Carter, who needs no|Garrick wit Annfe” starring Mary Ryan, at the eteran m - Laghtnmn .~ |*ical 59 parthquake. . Three | the orlginal Music. Box. Feve premiere at the Garrick, Is by e | introduction to the amusement-lov- pay:..: b ts o Shubert-Belasco next week, begin- Although the term “veteran” seems Le ing public of America, will be pre-|8rea il ot ning Monday night. inappropriate when applied to a |father on a play that ccess- | youth “Just Out of Knickers.” w! sented by the Selwyns next weék at Next M. ‘l{l! play. by Norman Houston and|youthful comedienne it is difficult to |ful run at the Fulton Theater, “Five | he presented by Lewis and Gordon. o . n B - |Sam Forrest, 1s rated by metropoli- | void using it In connection with Bes. | O'Clock.” It is said t the practice of several other | Higgl 1t ! L | ¢ a % m tan critics as one of the gripping and [sie Bacon's length o smack strongly of |“The New Stenog”: Nathane and Sully ing ! est A s ' of service in Booth Tarkington's ‘Seventeen” |in a brilllant dancing specialty with prominent managers in not divulging | * . ed by Gertrude | oo ring a8 intensely interesting dramatic tales|“Lightnin’ " the famous comedy clas- i the sto s There will be other features, with |scenic effects: Elsie White, a sharme story in advance of {ts presenta- ct Harry Wagstaft Gribble. . “The M heINE | of the current season. It Is credited |sic which her father, the late Frank | Pat Rooney and Marion Bent Aesop's Fables, Topics 6f the Day and |ing singer; Bill Bea g e tion. & 1 ast in [ new ra: , | with picturing life in a very frank|Bacon, wrote in coilaboration With| pg Rooney and Marion Bent with |the Pathe News Weekly. with “a lot of The cast, {n addition to Miss Fer-|keeping with the author's ideas|w, 3 and graphic way, but nevertheless it| Winchell Smith and which John Golden and Marion in songs and nonsense. s| when writing the dramatization and s sald to drive home a moral les- nt at the National Theater & Broadway production of a peppy, . Aig it al thy +| including, ‘I adaition” to Mra. Les- 3 ot bac rece i | son ‘o story is"toid Throusha | for, anotter wesk o o e Mith @ company of | Madame Adelaide Herrmann |, S*558 1t} B1l be the teaturs -|llo Carter. Margaret Hawkins, Bea- ries of mcenes flashed rap! be- 88 Bacon is still on the safe side 2EE " 5 = 7 patrick and Gustave Rolland. Owing | trice Moreland, Almeda Fowler, Jotia ! toion man, W n Vi v the audiance by means of 5 me- |of thirty, but she has appeared in up. | tra. is the headline attraction an-! “Herrmann the Great” was regard-| (Continued on Twenty sixth Page.) _—m s s e e - s F- | ht' TEX RICKARD TELLS THE T'1Z1NT. = INSIDE HISTORY OF THE RING! The low-down—about the last big fight, the coming one, that go of ten years back which has always been a puzzle to you. - The low- down about the men, theconditions, the places, the millions that have changed pockets—about all the secret things that the most favored of us pick up twisted in chance gossip. The inside story told by the man who knows the most. . . . TEX RICKARD, greatest of all promoters, is going to tell his story from beginning to end; it's a romance interwoven with the his- tory of the modern ring. Champ- ions and Chance, he calls it, and it starts on Sunday, January 20— in this newspaper. A chapter a day—and they’ll keep you waiting tiptoe for THE STAR. 3 e. a great entertainment for a vaude- oy Clemens' comedy playlet of [ville act. 2 1| Dan Coleman and his company will come also in his laughavla farce, AKE the Dempsey-Firpo bout. You know all about it—of course . . . . But do you know that Dempsey didn’t know he had won? And do you know why? Tex Rickard gives you ringside glimpses on things like that. Closer than ringside; it’s like a referee’s-eye view of the whole procession of fights through the greatest period in the history of the sport—by the man who has staked more than anyone else in purses. ' CHAMPIONS AND CHANCE: the Story of the World's Greatest Fight AD V ENTUR E! Promoter, by Tex Rickard, is a good deal more than a string of records and gate ® receipts. And it's not the usual I-did-it stuff: “He says to me and I says to him.” Tex Rickard knew all about gun fights before he coer saw Rickard has something to say—and he says it. . . . This is a story of success. e e e o s The biography of a man whose career reads like a red-blood movie scenario. But it'’s real life all through. The story of Tex Rickard, the cattle country kid of a few ~ Cowboys— ; o years back who stakes fortunes on the most spectacular sporting events of the modern e e vt e i R A world. Cowboy, prospector, gambler, mining expert, promoter. When you get the outfit that took the second herd ever driven north of 36. A man among cowboys ; a buckaroo himself who knew all about it before there thl'ough you’ll know lots Of fight dope that’s never seen prifll‘ except in this serial ever was a moving picture. The old-time cowpuncher, the real thing. That’s Tex Rickard. in the Pink Sports Section of THE STAR, starting next Sunday. Bandits— What is Rickard’s secret of success? How does he call the turn harder to handle than a temperamental prima donna? 1f so, Jesse James and the belt that he never took off—till he forgot, just when failure means the loss of a fortune?—He tells. . why? Tex ought to know that one by now—and he has an eye once. Roving gangs. Lone hands. Bandits who Begged Tex to join them. Men he had worked with who stuck up trains and raced across Is a grudge fight the best fight? Does it hold the public in- for the comic. i i e terest®most? What makes 100,000 people pay $1,000,000 or What was it Jeffries said to Johnson in thering? Do you know Lynchings— more to see a match? that Jeff was not knocked out nor counted out in the Johnson boose—¢! ; ; Was the Jeffries-Johnson fight framed? There were wild fight—and Rickard was referee? Do you know the story of the qT:ieck‘.:h“Hold bal::;,nt‘ll‘:ebl;:“l::y:?e. AA:.flbfi'ciw’:.n Efi:mfifld& rumors—what’s the truth? Rickard tells that too. picture of a jackass which made Rickard the biggest individual hanged man’s life. . . , Fi 1? No. Tex it 5 figure in the ring world today? Or what nationality produces Taxwtsi R i Who are the greatest men in the different classes in the last ti}fe most fight fans? Or how); crowd is handled at a title bout? Gold— quarter century? Whichof the lightweights would have beena Why society women got interested in the sport? What Nolan match for Dempsey if he'd only grown to the latter’s size? 4o 5 do to Gans at Goldfield? What Jack Johnson did In Nevada—in Aluska, A man went to Tex with an old that Could Jeffries have beaten the present title holder if they had . wpen Rickard flashed a roll of $1000 bills? Why Rickard felt %m?“%fi"imi" il 5. A L e T been of an age? Wh‘t,” i s opinion of the whole lot— sorry for Dempsey when he first saw him before the Wiilard fortume; that's the miner’s life. Rickard lived it for years. - his list of top notchers? ‘ fight? Do you know the biggest fight thrill since Young Why did Carpentier and Dempsey play golf together- before the Corbett’s day? Ask yourself your own questions. The things fight? Why did Rickard listen for hours to Johnson playing many fans want to know are touched on somewhere in the bull fiddle? And go fishing with Jeffries? Is a pugilist Champions and Chance. Never before has such an epic of the ring been written. Never has the “inside dope” been spilled so Bad Men— | liberally by a man who knew so much. And never has such a story had the human interest as that What's tiat scar on Rickard's thumb? A trigger j i which tells how Rickard came to the top of the heap. was in Nevada—long after the bad men of ; v But it’s a story in itself. Chance— - “Champions and Chfince”—Tex Rickard’s own story. A chapter a day. On the sporting page. It starts next Sunday, January 20. Only in , only 3 y CHAMPIONS AND CHANCE: the Story of the World’s Grest- a% : really ens. And it’s told in g way that keeps you reading. 4 S : .