Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1924, Page 19

MUSE] Ve B 5 " Nikcqw Art Theater—"The eLower Depths. Superb'is the word for it. The more one sees of these Rus- sians, the more delightful they be- come—especially If one can master the knack of reading the lines of a translation and getting an idea of what the players are saying while listening to them unravel the play. When a performance is given in a foreign lanzuage, necessitating eye- strain to follow the translation. and diseriminating hearing to pick up the words of various figures on the stage; When it leav st pleasant after- Elow and distinctly tory after- taste. superlat admissible for There is paradox in the Moscow Art, Theate: performance of Max H The ‘Lower | the quality | < st e ¥ by players. play- wright and dramati ectors to de- pict chaos in sq Smaoothness in | Stage direction: in ren- dition of lines: ext prese:- | vation grder: actors who live their parts; that strike to the heart— r of p atic arrangement to raise presentation to a rare. highl The Lower Depth 1L Tt s a story of the | utter dregs.of. so-called sdciety. Not £0 much the interesting matic intrigue as the stripping husks from human souls l.)‘il‘ l H the play vibrant with realism forceful in its appeal. A motley group of chagact the instruments for variegated ewpoints is Kostiloff, ke r of ing, v ssilisa, sensuous, ul. . “There | night-lodg- ! his wife treacherous lovable, htened at life; Vaska Pepel, lukewarm lover of the wife, a thie with good qualitie smoldering unde: ashes heaped on them by unwhole some environment. T 8 the U %, absolutely ne e others into prominence. In the forefront as pers: ations of round _char for bring- | | unger. | umph despite it. fsely and | but it takes a real man to realize the ) yet Satine feels the influence tory of dra- {spot of the production. IENT veil. He gives words of hope to the young thief, and paints word por- traits for him and the frighted sister of thg wila of the lodging Keeper that stand out like fresh rowers in a barren waste. He commiserates with the baron and tells the drunken poet that there is a chance. He spreads happiness; but he does so— according to the reallst Satine’s phil- osophy—with lies. S This intrigue between Pepel and Vassilisa—the thief and the wife— reaches such a State that an all-round figitt and double murder result. The little sister is hurt by a stab-wound. The husband is killed by Pepel. The girl believes Pene] staged the fight as a means of doing away with the unwanted husband, and, from het spot on the ground, accuses both Pepel and Vassilisa as fccomplices in the murder. Pathos in the extreme entering here, finds her denunciation piercing the heart of the young thief. The last scene opens with the joy reading vilgrim gone. Satine, W his philosophy of truth, predominates again. N He bespeaks his ide: “Man is everything; he can place himself above he can place himself abov anything: everything exists in him; man_should not fear the truth but tri- Lies may be all right truth and not be weakened by it.” And of Luk: admits it; admits his a the man who spreads in lieu of the truth. that stirs the depths is re at the end. It is the high The baron en- The actor has committed suicide —poor fellow, he has realized the truth. t iled a good soni remarks i the final curtain is dropping. avsky is - Satine in_the yes the part. Ivan Moskvin Luka.' Convincing. All are so well balanced 2nd so we -ained the pilgrim A song sounding tel there’s no use in marring it all by | adequate descriptive attempts, "The River's End.” Shubert-Belasco ening Monday eve s will have s he James Oliver Cur- for. the stage hland flesh. | pens of Zel Sears and Harold Levey, who also furnished her with “Lady BIll; in which she last was seen in this city. Mitzi will be surrounded by a cast of “excellence, in which Boyd Mar- shall, Stdney Greenstreet, Jeanette Macdonald, Worth Faulkner, Phoebe | Crosby, Adrian Rosely, Estelle Bir- ney, Carlos and Inez and Lyon and Murdock lend prominent support. “Irene” Returning. A splendid cast of players, headed Dale Winter, is promised in rene,” the famous musical comedy by James Montgomery, which will return to, Washington at Poli's next Sunday night for an engagement of one week, The Vanderbilt Producing Company is its producer. The music is by Harry Tierney and the lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. A special orchestra is provided and the production is staged by Idward Ro; 4 The story concerns a young shop | girl, Irene O'Dare, who masquerades as a member of the smart set and whose adventures are humorous and {amusing. Her Prince Charming woos wing her and Irene and her jchums, whom she does not forsake, lare transferred from 9th to 5th ave- nue in a magical modern way. i In addition to Miss Winter, other |members of the cast are Mary O'Moore, Gladys Nagle, - Dorothy {La Mar. Henrietta Housen, Dorothy | Kane, Howard Freeman, Henry Coote, jGeorge Collins, Iddie Marr and | George Mantell. E "Threew\Veeks." | Next week, beginning Sunday, {Leonard Wood, jr. will present the | Washington Theater Guild in Elinor stage version of her novel ¢ Weeks,” at the President The. Kellard will essay and M the 1 Raiph ! Coudray sisted by Henry Cros ster, Emily Smiley, Margaret Hume, Jlyn's rese omestic conditions have | pied the spotlight often, very e trying days of world re u- n, | n: production wiil be s d by rk, with settings by Bradshaw, forme with | | Stuart Walker in Indianapol | Names! ONeil' and Frank | distinetion in { “Don't Call It Love, and pantomime; Hargy Holbrook, the singing marihe, will” come through the courtesy of the United States Ma- rine Corps; Schichtl's Royal Wonder- ettes, little figures of wood and wax, will delight kiddies, and the Royal Gascoignes, European jugglers, will offer “Ten Minutes With a Thousand Thrill The usual screen features will com- plete the bill. Clem Bray's Entertainers. One of tha prize features of the coming season at Atlanti¢ City, Clem Bray's Maryland Entertainers, a Jag- zymphonic aggregation of ten picked artists from the field of syncopation, will be the outstanding feature of the Cosmos Theater bill next week. This famous collection of jazz play- ers from the Arcadia, are free but for three weeks and, it is announced, the Cosmos will have them one-third of that time , They are a $2 at- traction elsewhere. Peggy Frear, who was last seen here with Donald Brian in Ziegfeld's Follies, and Harry Miller, comedian of Ehe “Century Whirl,” 'will come in “An Kpisode of Modern Youth,"” written especially for them by Rus- sell Mack. It ought to be good, for they are very good. i Others will include Jaclk Sidney, ‘The Jack of Spades,” one-time mem ber of Gus Edwards famous combi nation; Bronson and K wards, ver- satile vaudevillians, who are credited with performing marvelous feats in their line; ddie Furman and Olive gers worth while, and 3 t Trio, dancers of inet ances of that type. William De Mille's production, in which Agnes Ayres, Jack Holt, Nita Naldi, Tfieo— dore Kosloff and Rod La Roque are fffislured. Will be the photoplay It is one of the great productions of the vear. There will also be a Jim- my Aubrey comedy, “A Fishy Tale, and something else besides. “Arkansas 7Valentinos." The Strand Theater announces for week, beginning Sunday Myers and Ford Hanford, sas Valentinos,” late features of the Ziegfeld Follies. Th. it is claimed, carried Broadway a with his feet and the latter taught he il _be, the different nd artisti Smith and tritt as al | formances, | closing P. George, “The Musical Chef, in noveities and musical specialties, and Morris' Springtime Follies, with Cal Norris, “America's Prince of Wales,” in songs, ‘talk, dances and animal specialties, The photoplay will feature John Gilbert, popular screen star, in ‘Just Off Broadway,” an _adaptation by Frederic and Fanny Hatton of their well known play. Marian Nixon, Trilby Clark, Plerre Gendron and Ben Hendricks, jr., appear in the cast. Black and White Revue. Jimmie Cooper's Black and White Revue will be the attraction at the Gayety next week. This show is said to have the largest company of play- ers in Columbla Burlesque—sejenty people—two / complete and separate shows in one. The entire first half will be a com- plete burlesque show with a cast of thirty-five white cntertainers, while the second half will be a complete show in itself with a company of thirty-five colored players. Jimmie Cooper sprints through the whole show. The white cast includes Fred Harper, Tarzan, the wrestling wonder; Rita Rose, Midgie Gibbons, Mabel Lee, Josh Delano, Blossom Sis- ters and Cowboy Bill Pruitt with a peppy chorus of eighteen youthful beauties. In the colored delegation are ten Jjazzy musicians to inspire Bessie De Sota, Octavia Sumler and Reuben Brown, and a complete cho- rus. 2 Ram's Head Players Tonight The Ram's Head Players will present August Strindberg’s play in “Easter,” beginning this d continuing for ten per- with Saturday matinees, aturday night, March 29. This is their sixth and last pro- duction for this season as planned in the advance schedule. The players will reopen next season in the new theater at Wardman Rark which is now under construction. Easter” is well cast, with Mar- garet Woodburn, a8 Fru Heyst; Wal- ter W. Beck, as Elis, her son, and ephine~ Hutchinson, as Eleanore, aughter. Christine Elis' be- trothed, will be played by Leona Roberts; Benjamin, a pupil at clas- sical high school, by Ranald Savery, and Lindquist, a creditor, by Robert Bell, who is directing the production, withi settings by James Reynold: C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924.° : o Rialto—"Daughters of To- s day. Moore's Rialto Theater announces for next week, beginning Sunday, *‘Daugh- ters of Today,” a much-talked-of photoplay, and the California Ham- Dlers, one of the famous jazu orches- tras ym the Pacific coast. Daflighters of Today, which pur- uorts to make a searching investiga- tion into the present generation, has for its players Patsey Ruth Miller, Zazu Pltts, Edna Murphy, Ralph Graves, Phillips Smalley, Philo Mec- Cullough, Fdward Hearne and George Nichols, with an ensemble said to be a reminder of the Ziegfeld Follies. Paul Whiteman, Art Hickman and Ar- thus Hand, with his Ramblers, all originally came from California and the three bands are declared among the finest now in the east. The band features a fascinating subdued tempo of special appeal aid symphonic ef- fects. It s a ten-man organization. They play at the Monte Carlo, New York city. Columbia-; A Society Scapdal.” Gloria. Swanson, recently seen in a no- table picture of the Paris under- world, will be pictured in “A Society Scandal,” at Loew's Columbia next week, beginning Sunday afternoon. It is a screen adaptation of Ethel Barrymore's ~ play, “The Laughing Lady,” by Alfred Sutro. Its cast in- cludes Rod La Rocque, Ricardo Cor- tez and Allan Simpson, and it was directed by Allan Dwan. The social background of modern, fashionable New York serves as the locale for the story of a young so- ciety matron whose marriage to a war hero has descended to a drab, boresome affair, and she seeks diver- sion in the company of a scoundrel. Sued for divorce, she is unmerciful- iy grilled by her husband’s attorney, who, believing her the victim of a plot, nevertheless is impelled by am- bition to win his case at any cost. The wife, now an outcast, plots revenge When the chance for it comes she finds that she loves her victim. Palace — “The Fig}uing Coward."” The picturesque charm of the old Mississippi steamboat days of 1850, when a cavalier aristocracy reigned in the south and the code duello was unchecked, is promised in ful romantic comedy called “The Fighting Coward,” at Loew's Palace Theater next week, beginning Sunday afternoon. The cast includes Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Cullen Landis, Phyllis Haver and Noah Beery. ‘The Fighting Coward” is an adap- tation of a play by Booth Tarkington which was presented on Eroadway last season with Leo Carillo in the chief role. James Cruze is its cinema producer, Cullen Landis is pictured as 2 youth of southern ancestry, who, reared among Quakers in Philadelphia, re- turns to his native environs and promptly falls into disgrace for his re- fusal to accept a challenge from a notorious fire-eatet of the neighbor- hood. Practically forced from home in disgrace, he gains the good will of the fearsome Gen. Orlando Jack- son, famed gun-fighter and card shark, and when Gen, Jackson gets through with him he is quite pre- pared to show the folks back home a thing or two. On his returm, however, he learns that he did not really love the southern beauty over whom the quarrel arose, but that he has never forgotten the beauty's sister, who deeply sympathized with him 'in his heur of sorrow. A’ short length comedy, Topics of the Day, Pathe News and orchestral interludes and accompaniment will be added attractions. Metropolitan—Fun Week. Fun week will be celebrated at Crandall's_ Metropolitan Theater be- ginning next Sunday afternoon, with a diverting program headed by Thomas H. Ince’s unique production “Galloping Fish,” featuring Sydney Chaplin, Louise Fazenda, Ford Ster- ling, Chester Conklin and Lucille Rickson, together with Jan Garber's (Garber-Davis) Orchestra, brought back for a special engagement. A new Christie comedy, “Busy Buddie starring al Burns and Vera Sted- man, the Metropolitan World Survey, a scenic subject, “Children of Hol- " and music' by the Metropolitan Orchestra, under Daniel Breeskin. alloping Fish” is a farce of a type never before scen on the screen and is sal to be literal with laughs. Louise Faze tributes 2 notable characterization Ambassador—"Galloping Fish.” ) ish,” Thomas H. Ince's will be shown th T first two days of next week at Cra dall's® Ambassador Theater also, ginning Sunday afternoon. togeth.: with Christie’s’ comedy, “Busy Bud i, and orchestral contributions Tuesday and Wednesday, Agnes Ayres Jack Holt, Nita Naldi, Theodore Ko |loff, Rod La Rocque, Robert and Julia Faye, in' “Don't Lov “lara Heranger's film of Julian Street’ Coventry,” and M k dy, nbad, the Sallor”; . William Fox's spectacle youth and romance, “The Temple of Venus,” with Mar. in, David Butler and Phylis Ha: cipal roles, a picturization of the 3 Williams, with mpeau in the cast, the family in “Roughing 1t." Central—"The Old Fool.” The first four days of next week at Crandall's Central Theater, beginning Sunday afternoon, Hodkinson's pro duction, “The Old ¥ of “The Telephon, series of two-reel comedies, based on H. (' Witwer's stories. will be shown, Old Fool,” with Lloyd Hughes. Fazenda, Betty Fra B rows, Barbara Tennant Heandricks, jr. in the cast Thursday, F: and Saturday of next week Douglas MacLean will ba pictured in “Going Up,” together with Mermaid's comedy, “Neck and } ” Short reels pe complete Crandall's s 'l:he Heritage | of the Desert.” Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence, Noah | Beery and Lloyd Hughes will be pic- | tured in Zane Grey's “The Heritage of the Desert” the first three days of next week, beginning Sunday noon, at Crandall’s Theater, togethe with the Spat Family in “Roughing and short films and pipe companiments; Thomas an, 1 Wilson, Emma Dunn, Charles Steven son, George Fawcett arles Wir ninger and Hugh Cameron in “Pied Piper Malone,” the Booth Tarkington together with Hal Roach’ various types of human emotions are a story of ~—Luka, a kind-hearted soul, bring- | northwest, of the Ro ing hope with his logic of white lies | Motnted Police and of love” - arkened, despairi: ©S; the; venture on the tskirts of A star-studded bill with two he; a drunkard, riving from the ! tion. Man playwright liners is scheduled for B. F. K s Stll to regain his plane, piti- | tempted to adapt the sto the {Theater next week. Nance O | Crumit. ctor, Nastya, woman of the | stage, but none of the dramatizations | “the Bernhardt of the &, longing for just one crumb of | met with the PProv: of James | stage will be seen in gnition and one savor of respect; | Oliver Curwood until Kusell presented | World' ag by Alfred, Sutro, he baron, an aristocrat, but a man: | his stage version N author of Ethel Barrymore's “The Satine, the outstanding figure of | The cast will include Willlam 1gth, virile enough to face facts | Boyd, George Probert, Mary Brandon, and triumph over them by looking the | Geoi acQuarrie, Dodson Mitchell, truth square in the eve —without| Mona Kingsley, Baker Moore, I quaking. despite his forlorn condition. | Collins and Frank Merlin. Into a hole of wretchedness, the, A massive scenic production night lodging, comes Luka pil- | the studio of John Wenger will vin. Satine’s pessimism the ! to the effectiveness of the prese air. The truth, is felt d orts | tion. to dull it with' delu nd | lies. Luka brings a rax of light. His| dietim What rou believe e {Laughing Lady In ‘this comed drama of the present day she is sup- ported by Alfred Hickman. From “musical comedy will- come rank Crumit, late co-star with Julia on, in “Tangerine” with ukelele and general fun-mak- <athleen O'Hanlon and Theo character dan srk Hippodrome, will present an unusual dance cf baret in Cubz tine Orch: Signor S al director. rard th the . “Rolling § and from id the s ta- | 1 in i Euro o e . . _.jers from the Mitzi and “The Maglc ng { What vou do not believe is no After a_triumphant career in New fstent.” He couns 1 of| York, Philadelphia and Boston, the the streets Yo believe herself in I er popular Mitzi is_scheduled for delusions the heroin an engagemenf at the National Thea- whom men love and r ter next weék, beginning Sunday they kill themselves night her. 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