Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 46

AMUSEMENTS Comlng Attractlons| i st . P “The Clinging Vine. A Dlessing vellér from the girl: revyes s promised in “The Vine,” which Henry W. Bavi scheduled to bring to xne Nn onnl ‘Theater for one week, beginning Monday, January 28. “The Vine” and its pleasing star, Segal, both are sweet and clnnly wholésome. This latest production of Henry W. Savage is a comedy with music. w”lfllh Jo)m Quigg, the nL:Orfll(‘n' Tou and Bert Marks, Sidney ge and Bob Wilson, with a love- 5! nngm. iv ‘bunch o amiy oy pirates. ing Show" February 3.} Giinging THE New annual new revue, “The Passing 1923 edition, coming to 8| : |Poll's Theater the week commencing Zelda Sears, its author, has turned {Sunday cvening, {ebruary 3, has been out an Bonast-to.goadness atol a plot_and everything, and Harold TePey nas turbisned It with & beaut These two writers responsiblo also for Mitst's two lat plays, ‘Lady Billy," in leured for thre easons, and “T| pearing in New York. Henry W. Savage has staged the show with & fashion parade of gowns. “Partners A(.'n." “Pariners Again” com: Poly Xheater next week, hellnnlnt Sun- day night, January 27. In writing “Partners Again,” Mon- tague Glass and Jules Eckert Good- y they have utilized the psy- v of & prize fight, which pre- ‘one's_opponent from getting “get.” “The boxer Reeps up his attack WIith the insistency which precludes #ny letdown.” 1In just the same man- ner, it {s clgimed, the playwrights send the rib-tickling lines over the footlights, and audiences laugh so continuougly that Mr. Bernard and Mr. Carr would find it an impossible thing to make themselves heard the stage were they not past masters in their business. *"The Goose Hangs High." “The Goose Hangs High” & new comedy of American life, by Lewis Beach, whose pli found so ch favor witl York critics last season, will be pre- nted next week at the Shuber Theater by the Dramatist T successful playwrights, have banded together for the purpose of giving their plays the pro- | ductions th desire, thought so much of the Beach comedy that they post- poned giving one of thelr own In or- der to present It. Mr. Beach is thought to have a thorough grasp of the conditions of life in our emaller Clll! and he de- Dicta some phases of it With rars fidelity in ‘The Goose Hangs High.' The story is sald to be wonderfully interesting and full of rich humor. The cast organized by the Dramat- ists' Theater for the presentation of the plece is one of distinction and comprises ch players as forma Trevor, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, Wil- liam F. Seymour, Katherine Grey and Miriam Dovle. The play s bein ed_by James Forbes, author o ‘e Chorus Lady. “Beggar on Horseback.” Another premier—listed as one of the most important of the new year scheduled for the Shubert-Be- veek of January mes will present Tge entitled, on_Horseback.” The Kaufman-Connelly and they rank the most successful of the school of playwrights. Deems TFatior. metropolitan muele critic, has supplled the incidental melodies.” The rame of Winthrop Ames has always Leen assoclated with the al-nncly high-class of the theater. Th, pany for YBeggar on Horseback will be headed by Roland Young, and includes Kay Johnson, Richard Barbee, George W. Barbier, Ann Carpenger, Marion Ballou, Os- 5004 Perkins, Spring Byington, Fay Walker, A. V. Garrilov, Liv Reid: and Drake De Ki Gue Edwards’ Son( Revue Gus Edwards (himself) will be the headline feature at B. F. Keith's next week, in his * al Song Revue. It is described as “a revue-sical mu- sioal comedy.” The Edward proteges are headed this year by Chester Fredericks, and a long list of boys elp to make the revue the Billie Burkc 's " Tango Shoes™ Bert Coles” amusing mystery, Billle Burke's “Tango Shoe iaugh maker, and & mystery ause the na- turs of the attraction cannot be di- vulged in advance without destroying the pleasure of seeing it for the first time, will be the outstanding attri tion 'of next week's bill at the C mos Thea “Tango Shoes” mus! ‘something to do with dlndnk and it_has. but just how {s the secret. It will hold a laughing audience for eighteen min- utes, Billle and Tddle Gorman are going to exploit the topk:l of the day in song. and_they have a fine collection of exclusive and popular songs for the purpose. Dan Boudinl and Adele Bernard will come with accordeons in a program which Includes jass, har- mony and classical music, and they are accounted ters of thefr in- strument. The Camille Trio, world famous bar comedians. will also be in_the bill, and there will be others. The pnommy /will be the ser adapted by r Monte M. Katterjohn and directed by Wi for Paramount distribu- pec Tental mm attractions. “The Radio Girls iScenic, costume and musical de- lights are promised in next week's attraction &t the Gayety, “The Radlo Girls,” in a fantastic tale of adven- Vure et to & delightful musical score. Two acts with six scenes unf bért is chiet comedian. line marr. Hi Guest Conducter rthur Smith, Inc. treet :griig:(:h:hl;.?og:le:iv";l?rl Oth e “NATIONAL I Tuesday, THEATER 4130 I.Qopold Stokowski, Conductor FREDERICK STOCK ee 'he |sald the costumes worn i; Magic Ring,” in which she i now ap- ul spectacle are the lovellest in de- [& “Bosear ! co-author- |$ With (aoclaimed as the greatest show ever produced. There is a company of one hundred and fifty people; there are two acts and twenty-elght scenes, and it is| this colo: sign, the richest in fabric and the most tasteful in coloring cver seen {n & modern extravaganza. Art crit- ics have bestowed high praiss on ite esthetic aspects. One of the novel-; is “the Living Chandelfer and { the Living Curtain.” Plenty of danc- | ing, lively ‘muste, Including an ex-| tz song or two, humorous 0od skits, a great amount of com- ! edy and well managed chorus afford entertainment of wide diversity. The music is by Sigmund Rom berg and Jean Schwarts, Harold A teridge wrote the book and lyri and Allan K. Foster arrauged the dances “Merton of the Movies" February 4. SWNJERTON OF THE MOVIES” tal coming to the National Thea- ter the week beginning Monday, Feb- ruary 4. The comedy was made from Harry Leon Wilson's magazine story of the samc title by George S. Kauf- man and Marc Connelly, authors of “Duley” and “To the Ladles.” The play follows the Wilson story very closely The first act is laid in Simsbury, I, where Merton Gill is a clerk in'a general store. The rest of the play takes place in Hollywood, where Merton has gone to become @ motion picture actor, and, If possible, act with Beulsh Baxter. a movie queen, with whom he has fallen desperately in love. The comedy is in four acts and six settings and there are twen- ty-five speaking parts. Glenn Hunter will' play Glil, and Jean Ford will play the Montague Girl, which are the two principal _characters. Others in_the cast are Edward M. Favor, Bert Mel- ville, Peggy O'Day, Fanchon Camp- bell, J. K. Murray, Albert Cowles, Wilton Lackaye. jr.. A. Romaine Cal- Jean Webster, Aluunfler Clark. jr.. Helen Royton, Saul Z. Martell, Ruth d Feltman. “Blossom Time? Coming. EXT month at Poli's beautiful and fragrant “Blossom Time” returns to Washington. The company Is the one which achieved the initial triumph on Broadway, and which subsequently won the record n of something over two consecu- vears in the theatrical metrop- The beautiful Ambassador The- ter production. designed by Watson Barrat, the well known English art- ist, is promised. April 15 the same cast will sall for England in response to British appeals. quaintly iety Pioneers’ Madison's “Variety Pioneers. JANET RICHARDS Public Que-uon : Home and Foreign Every morning at 10143, New Masoi e Temple, 13th S¢. and ‘v-w Yovl Avc. Ve ___Admission (inoluding tax), 80 cemts, HIGH-CLASS VAVDEVILL[ s L E WORLD'S TALENT BXCLUSIVELY DAILY 2159 845- M MATo 3 Toyiew of world eveats. York Winter Garden's|the Alti young collegiates, BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE VRUDEVILLES NEWEST SERGATION PAT ROONEY. MARION BENT AND TWENTY PLAVERS Mtk MARTUCCI'S ORCHESTRA i Tirst V-u FRANZ DaBIA_ RLD PAMO! Jawum' "SERTNADETTHE! mwu INA WILLIAMS & KEENE Inthe CHARMING SKIT, *SHALL 1 27 he LONDON MUSIC HALLS FREDERICK SYLVESTER:Co STHE NEATEST OF THE.NEAT! TODAY a¢ 3 enat §15 RM. GRACE LA RUE MR.GMRS HALE HAMILTON-9 OTHERS THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Lombard brothers, Hl Tom Ward and Sam Johnson, old timers of ab! will head “ttie st next week. 923, will app: 1 ppear in gnotz's Tango Lesson.” Others on the bill Include the Three 25 earis.in “A Revelation In Aerial ri HEN one thinks of the evolution of a star one pictures a long g and arduous climb from the bottom. of | qn o Bine i, Lee with “Son&8|ihe theatrical ladder to the topmost trio, Spanish dancers, featuring |run = ;:‘ne‘{l‘f:""‘- honorary ‘Girl Scout| Ordinarily that is exactly the way The photoplay will be “Deserted it 1s, for the name in inoandescent | lights over the portals of a theater ubuslly means many previous years of smell parts and much of personal sacrifice and struggle. To this rule Mrs. Leslie Carter, how- ever, is an outstanding exception. Ap far as the public is concerned she an her dramatic career as a star. Her name has been in incandescent lights in front of every theater she has ever played for the past twenty- five years. Until her I’Dmnfil under > [he ‘.l:.yn management n “The Cir- " that o) They have |{ny Just completed ten records of bopulnt |1 ra tome aspociation Wit David B dance hite Tor a leading phonokraph (175 She held the center of every company at Camden, This is the st time In the history ob tns Ry, D e T ner motion picture in Washington that an organizat! enviable place in the Ameritan thea. D n Eayisation of this standing has | F2VI0IS CUt Nard work. Her evolu. engaged for o purely picture | 10 ¥ 0k place under the private house. Ehe Pennsyiv will ap- tntelnn of Belasco, and through it Dear solely as an added attraction: R e —_—_ Fect herselt, Tn Kontucks: whare ane Janet Richards Tomorrow. o was born, thers was any buainess or prof Miss Janet Richards will give her|for a woman, but aft usual weekly talk on public questions, home and foreign, tomorrow morning " with a cast Including Tu 1y Marshall, Bes: Love, Frank Lee, Willlam Scon Wlde Boetler and Barbara Tennl.nt A Commg Attraction. One of the outstanding musteal treats of the tesson 13 promised. o patrons of Crandall's Met: " Theater beginning next Bllllfll ';:?\ ennsylvanians will begin ement at the F street house. Pennsylvanians are twelve jperform mi name stood alone, to Laslle Carter she made up her mind in the auditorium of the New Masonic Temple, 13th street and New York avenue, at 10:45 o'clock. he talk will include an interpre- tive review of outstanding world events of the past week. with speclal mention of the government crisis in England, present conditions in the 1rish Free State. aleo on “our” Gen. Dawes and the effect upon the Euro- Yean mind of his appess for unity of actlon 4 in dealing with German repa- ra others. She therefore g0 to David Belasco and ask for op- portunity to prove her ability. So it came about that Mrs. Carter found herself facing what would have seemed to the average young woman an insurmountable difficulty, for she and Bel co d n6 common ew no one to in- troduce ‘her "o him OF to apeak word In her behalf. She made effor covering many months before sh gnined. his attention. Her letters to him were opened by his secretaries, Ram's Head. Playeru Wed- nesday. The Ram's Ilead Players will con- tinue their presentation of Bertram Bloch's modern American comedy “Ceclly Ann,” this week, beginnin Wednesday night, with a matinee Saturday in nddmnn to four evening Roberts a uun Tracewell, Marion Law ae Sinelal u,ge. & futurist known and Smith E. Wel« fer as Pilkins. the butler. KREISLER RACHMANINOFF PIANIST GALLL-CURCI Beats for lbo\e N)m‘nru on sale Mrs. Greene's Bureau, Droope, 13th & G 8y: produced last Wednesday e first time on any s night for L4 m's liend Players ( presents the R most comedy rol with Josephines Hutchinton in the title part of Ceeily Ann and with Walter W. Beck In the ¢ Marshall, the novelist. ry. (he nhew juvenile i W jeading part a3 Rotand Ames, th novelist's nephew., who Provided a model for his uncle's new- grt heroine, to steal her from him before nal curtain. Others will include Betty Farrington as Mrs. Baker, the housekeeper: Robert Bell us Dr. Newbold, the minister; Leona “TALES OF HOFFMANN" To MORRO PRESIDENT THEATER 11th & Pa. Ave,, 8:15p. m. Washington Opera Company EDOUARD ALBION, General Director MABEL JosEr GARRISON SCHWARZ Metropolitan Soprano Chioago [+Y RALPH ERROLLE Chicago Tenor SENOR ANANIAN SAMASSOUD Conducter Metropolitan Opera Co. ’ Box Office President - Theater Seats NOW i orders, 1614 G 5t N W. Prices: $2, $3, $4 and $8 "SHORTY" MEALLISTER —————— NEXT WEEK “RADIO GIRLS" WEEK OF JANUARY 21st to 27th ALL ACTS FROM THE . “B. F. KEITH” VAUDEVILLE EXCHANGE MADAME ADELAIDE HERRMANN “QUEEN OF MAGIC” lems-—Meoat Wonderful Spectacular A Now Berte -—-I‘J"'":llh:l‘Ar;'-u-l Tivonhs Arer T MACK & MARION NATHANE & SULLY “For Geodmess Sake” Daiaty Songs and McCOOL & REILLY Supporting KATHLEEN MURRAY “THO! WERE THE DAYS” BILLY BEARD ELSIE WHITE . “The Party from the Sowth” The Charming Young Sengstress SUPER:PHOTOPLAYS “1'0 m LADM” Full of Action and Humer WITH THEODORE ROBERTS A Paramount Picture And Big Cast A New Leather Pusher and Comedy DON COYOTTE AND THE MANDARIN Mrs. Leslie Ca’rter. D. C., JANUARY 20, 1924—PART 3. none the less hard for that. Of course, was hard to wait and work through years before she tried her n Broadway. At last the great hour came. “The Ugly Duckling,” in which she played [the: principal role, was withdrawn and Mrs. Carter was presented in a musi- cal:piece called “Miss Helyett.” She aoquitted herself with such credit to tutor and herself that Belasco thereupon determined to write a play 10 8t her talents. That pley was ‘The Heart of Maryland, hich M: Carter ‘Gtarres’ for tntee ‘acasons. in thie country and afterward at the Adelphi Theater, London. At the close of her London season 65 to and she had no means of locating his un-l presence. nally she learned his wherdabouts, d she traveled many miles to Bim, Reaching: at lase the door of the house in which he was staying, Mrs. Carter met a rebuff. T! declgr-a that Belasoo was not i ‘Carter's tear-drenched voice In- Sted 8o vehomently that the sounds reached the ears of the producer. He seemed to recognize the dramatic fower behind the tearful plea, flung open the doo‘r u?fl(nvlltadd ti | and [she returned to the United St into his study, wi ® |create the title role of “Zaza." T OppOEtanity o & play had its premiere in Washin SRty ton. After a season in that and other d 80 attracted him. iternating between “Du Barry” and Thus began the association betwedn |“Zaza,” Mrs. Carter appeared in “An- d David Belasco. which “she played until “the t asted through eighteen years of 108, when she sovered her briliiant eucosss. Under his tutelage ehe atudied many parts. The public never saw her interpretation of them, but the Titian-haired beauty worked WE PLAY LOEW'S VAUDEVILLE STRAN]) g association with Belasco. Buhmquemly Mrs. Carter earod the management of rles Dllllnxh!m in a repertoire of her BEGINNING TODAY—COMPLETE CHANGE OF BILL. DOORS OPEN 2 P. M. THE CITY'S FAVORITE IOPI!'I.AI FRICE VAUDEVILLE mAm P ROTE—_VAUDEVILLE TODAY 35, 5:39, 725, .10 P, M. = 325, 5:30,7:25, 9:1 P. M. ‘- SEASON'S GREATEST ATTRAOTION—MR. 1. 5. ROSE PRESENTS THE ROYAL MIDGETS IN BUROPE—A SENSATION IN AMERICA | 265~ WONDERFUL LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN--25 18 TO 83 INCHES TALL—19 TO 42 YEARS OLD ONE HOUR ENTERTAINMENT FOR YOUNG AND OLD WELTON AND MARSHALL JACKE GOLDIE, HIMBELF “A Gag. @ Dance & & Bunch of Watr" A Dark Gpasm of Joy” LY THOTOPLAY—~FIRST TINME SHOWN'®) QLADYS WALTON w “THE NEAR LADY' A WHIRLWIND OOMEDY ROMANCE YOU'LL RNJOY KINOORAM—RXTRA mmb—:onvmzs—ncmzur MUSIC - TWO TWo Ml TNE mlcsxr.oul - SHUBERT Mc tinaes, T TO NIGHT ONE WE! 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HM 3 d ~ ll-'. $1.00; fl‘:nl.... -‘N”’ ‘=A. i.:“‘..lll NEWMAN TRAVELTALKS Exquislte Color Views and Motion Piotures. IMPRESSIONS OF 1923 = TODAY &tmi it BRAZIL Roosevelt's Exploration of River of Doubt in Motion Pictures Shown For First Time PRICES—80c. 77e, $1.00, $1.50, Plus Tax. Box Office Open 1 P. M. a0 | PABLO CASALS THE UNRIVALED ’CELLIST ComeflBum:,'l‘.ArtlmrSn‘n'th, Inc., 1306 G Street i, 3i.00. 31007 oo e AMUSEMENTS. — most successful plays. Later she be- came her own manager, appearing In “Kasea,” by John Luther Long, fol- lowing which John Cort starred he: {! “Two Women” and in a re, of her best plays. pectois Now @he is with the clla Dallas.” Netwipe in SHUBERT ARRIC [GaRRicK EXTRA! LAST TIME TONIGHT ELSIE FERGUSON IN HER BEST PLAY IN YEARS “THE MOON-FLOWER” A Play From the Hungarlan By ZOE AKINS witi SIDNEY BLACKMER and Magnificent Cast—-Gorgeous Preduction ) WAKE UP FIRST BIG ATTRACTIQN UNDER THE PRICE REDUCTION POLICY. ABSOLU'II:IE%‘V; THEATER ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD N ew s h‘lslltlr at 8:30 ; T Policy will present his latest and most ambitious offering [ The Marionette Man an actor of European renown, assisted by a company of pucty 18 oadl"We mieo or e et et S5 tively staged at ears. Order seats early if you desire TOMORROW! VEIwi% A $250 ATTRACTION IN ANY OTHER . Sl.lO Price 50: w 11'30 BROCK PEMBERTON A new melodrama by Frances Lightner, with extraordinary ability, with new production. it has been cry- save. LLRICH HAUPT, after 15 years of rll-ed hy &he ‘\Qw \ork cntiu as one of the most brilliant WEEK OF JAN. B— ANOTHER :vA 2 QEA'A"E“‘I;IIIXLE\IE!I_)AY THE DRAMATISTS' THEATRE, INC. “THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH” A Comed‘y. nféx::mundufe. by Lewis Beach. R NORMAN-FREVOR Mrs. Tn:;;l::dwal&' OPENING KATAERINE GBPT ll: A Score ¢f Others of V;'. WATINEES | QPENING POLI'S - & Ot*~ring Foremest Attractions Under Disection 7= & J. J. Shubert. Monday Evening Benefit Verformance Relief for Fatherless Children » Greece COMMENCING SUNDAY, JANUARY 21 Prices Eves., 50¢ to $2.50, Thur. Mat., 500 to 81.50; Sat. Mat., 50c te $3.00 MA'I.Now ORDERS Seats Wednesday THE ADVENTURES OF POTASH PE M:I« THE AUTOMOBRE BUSINI JE GLASS & JULE! e B e e et O AT F e P il ONE WEEK---BEGINNING SUNDAY, FEB. 3 Dve.. $1.00 to $3.00; Thurs. Mat.,, 50c to $2.00; Sat. Mat., 50c to $3.50 NO WWH%'A&%ING‘ Upc-cl'TNS Y AAPoruiar ScAE \UILL PREVAIL The @I(‘S tqrfal'mw (i Hn story of the Siac. 1923 EDITION---TED LEWIS---150 OTHERS 100_WINTER GARDEN BEAUTIES—100