Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1925, Page 54

AMUSEMENTS Wouldn't Be a Manager ' A GOOD many vears ago” says Frank Craven, “I vowed I Would never have anything to do with the theatrical business in any way. “It was always & struggle with my folks, as it was with a great many theatrical families, to go from June until Labor day, when work was scarce and salaries were not what they are now. It meant economy all the time and long trips on the road, and somehow I always had the lean- ing toward a home. So after serving the early years as a child actor, I de- cided upon a business career and went into the insurance business—for nine months. That was plenty for me “At first I spent five years in stock companies and I had the combination of what I wanted; work In the pro- fession 1 could not get away from and a place where for at least 30 weeks out of the year I could settle down and call ‘home.’ But one can’t go on In stock for- ever I went into production and there I was dissatisfled. At first if 1 had a bit, the play was a hit, and it 1 had a great part the play was fai That was up until “Bough! nd Paid For,” when I had a combina- tlon of what it would seem should satisfy me t again there was the road, with long stays in San Fran- cisco, Chicago and Leondon, citles 1 have since to love from asso- cviations -made there, but at that time {he most lonesome spots 1 have ever 1t seemed I for a hit hoping it something come was always longing and then if it came alons, would close so I could do else. It all sounds un- Artifigi_al_Rain by Cue AL days ago, w the veteran stage director, Washington putting the final to the President preduction of “Rain,” so gratulated him the speed with which he had mounted the play and whipped his company into form in the short space of time between 9 o'clock ast Saturday the next night Whipping the company for this show,” said Forrest, “was not done in Washington. These players were letter perfect long before ‘Rain’ ever saw Washington. But my est the Capital was to see purely mechanical side of was properly fitted to the stage, and. once fitted, to see that it worked right “Take, for example, the matter of stage rain that plavs so/mportant a part in this play that it inspired its title. I don’'t know just hdw much water we it_ must run into tho gallons during a performanc: merely rig up a vice to liberate a continual down- ur into a speclally prepared series of cateh-basins is no job at all job lies in the endless exper that must go on to properly volume of water spi volume of sound b S[\!P was in touches one con- on into shape at the e play President menting ‘cue’ the ed to the exact ng uttered on the evening and § o'clock | big- | The | en Sam For- | sound of the rain, Theater's [ that we have worked out | public doesn’t realize that the | our in ertain fixed wn out the aialogu the dialogue, would completely Rain,' it allowed at a rate, would complete more duleet passages does it realize th its higher drown out | permitted of a quick seepage to the piteh, | exhaust hose the | water to t | Will be supported by Frank Lowman, | word in |allowed to fall steadily | would catch grateful, as ‘though I had the most dissatisfled nature in the world, and vet all' it was was the “yen" for home “I wrote a plly which I thought if it was a hit would make enpugh money for me so I could realize my desires, but in order to have the pla; accepted I'had to play the part my- self. That was “Too Many Cooks” and that is what has happened right along. So that Christmas I would be in Decatur, New Year's in Tulsa, Okla., Thanksgiving in Gary, Ind.. and Fourth of July, when I should have liked to have been In the White Mountains, I was in New York get- ting ready to start rehearsals. “To all this the last manager I had, John Golden, listened sympatheti- cally, and -there may have been just a touch of irony in his sugges- tione that if I thought the managers had the soft end of it to try being one. But sinoe I had been everything else in this business I thought at least I should try it and the first thing I would do, if I produced my own show, would be to tell myself 1 was not the type for whatever part I thought I could play. I wouldn't send myself on the road “However, actors propose and man- agers dispose, and it was not long be- fore I discovered the fact that if I wanted to have played right the part that I hoped to consign to another, then T must play it myself. So instead of lolling in luxuriant ease as a producer, I am now another one of those three-barred workers In the theater, a playing-writing-producer. And if T had work before them, I have work now. But I love it just the same.” unless one kept step with the other. “Thus It is, after long experiment, no less 75 cues that must be watched by the mechanical force back-stage during the performance. When the dialogue starts to rise in volume, a one of the players' speeches is the cue for an extra turn of the control nozzle. When the dialogue drops away the control is turned down and the water drips in small, soft-pattered drops. Not one person | in a thousand. of course, would note] that the volume of rain falling| throughout the play is not constant, V but they would know something wa serlously wrong if that downpour was at the same throughout the en- than pitch of sound tire performance. “Incidentally. our most task—and this really seems like a trifiing detail—was to devise the proper sort of a trough that not only the water, but would imitate closely the peculiar drum- ming sound of tropical rain. It was abvious that to turn on enough wa- ter to produce such a sound would obvious that to turn on enough wa- around the difficulty after long ex- periment by having the water fall from perforated pipes onto specially prepared wooden frames, over which sacking has been stretched taut and | which is padded underneath with ab- sorbent material This gave the proper ‘drumming’ sound and also difficult which outside.” carries off the and ning Virginia Dudley, who Mr. Pim Passes By" Slump,” will take the Harvard streets, Thursday eve- | played in| and “The title roll. She | Willard Miller, Dr. P. THE SUNDAY STAR | CREATOR OF WONDER MARIONETTES Miss presen cently an Sewall vears of the Corcor: Miss represented in art circles, her sister,| Maude Ing organists of the city, | on musical | in musical ci ter, Alice known painti York C The in inches portion are th | heaas, trom by her The offers ballads, drama and comedy, absence daughter of her RACHEL K. SEWALIa Daughter of the late Rev. Frank Sewall. Wonderful Marionette Mimicry. Rachel K serious ter of marionettes, returned to Washington, maker and marionettes in presenting dramatic literature. Miss Sewall has spent several years after| yiudying marionette work with such of several years, is the|famous persons as Tony Sarg and the late Rev. Frank | Lillian Owen. Preparation for a per- of this city, who for many|formance requires both- skill and was the pastor of the Church|thought, as all the setting must be ew Jerusalem, Sixteenth and | in minlature, and everything in per- an streets | fect proportion to the tiny perform- Sewall comes of & family well| ers. As shown by Miss Sewall, t marionettes make a subtle appeal to the audience, though there is always much humor in their antics, yet the little puppets offer something serious, too, as they depict in their unique way events of history and stories of the drama Sewall who has re- being one of the lead- | a lecturer ubjects and well known les here. Another sis- A. S. James, is a well writer and. painter, whose gs have been exhibited in New | ity and in the Paris Salon. | 3| | Sewall, puppets which Miss Sewall uses in height, and in perfect ..,—., N--l Coneert This Beasen to the human body. They | BRUNO WALTER ., e work of her own hands, the | poii Taeater, Tuse. Aft., Mar. 17, of paper mache, being cast| clay ‘models which are made Mozart's Double Concerto artist sister, Mrs. James. { Yor_Violin and Viela—8eleists programs which Miss S wall combine musical pantomimes, It being| e lasle & Conductst WASHINGTON, D. C. |Samuel Dushkin and Lienel Tertis | MARCH 8, 1925—PART 3 Hats Get Laug’hs. DDIE BUZZELL, comedian in “The Gingham Girl,” believes that one funny hat will get more laughs upon the stage than twenty good jokes. That is why every comedian has a Det stage hat, which he values more than any other article of his ward- robe. If you want to have a good laugh,” ays Eddie, “just stand cn any busy street corner any day, watch the pa- rade. The hats of the passers-by will keep you laughing until the traffic cop orders you to move on. “A hat is a signboard which tells the quality of the concrete which lies under it.” In Chicago Eddie met a fellow with a comic lid. “What will you take for that hat?’ asked the comedian. “A new one” replied the yokel. “You're on,” said Buzzell, and away they went to a hat store. Eddle gave instructions to the hat- ter to send the old lid around to the Garrick Theater, where “The Ging- ham Girl” was playing. When he did BeiAScO Quaiity Preseating the foremest Forei mot recefve it the next day he phoned the hatter, who explained that the lid had got mixed up among other old ones. and he was sending a boy around to the theater with a number of discarded tkellies” so Eddie could take his choice. Thee boy arrived, but the comic gem was not among the bunch of derbies that he brought. Eddie worried more abou¢ the loss of the comic lid than he didi when his pet bull dog died, and the hiutter had cause for worry, too, for Eddie kept after him every min- ute, in a desperate effort to get it For two days hats were brought to the theater for identification. Finally the hatter got mad and brought a wagon load of discarded old hats, dumped them at the stage door, and said to Eddie: “There is the entire collection of the last month; take your pick.” But the ‘big scream’ was not In the lot, and a stage-hand had to take a shovel te clear the en- trance. Nightly at 8:30—Orchestra, $2.50, Messsaine. §3 $1.30; Beleony, il. 81 oc. ' Matinees, da) y—on-ho-trs. llJ‘ Baleony, ve Artists OPENING TONIGHT Primitive Passions By DeWitt Newing § ( THE DANCING E | BEAUTIES of the E | SHEIK’S HAREM WED., SAT. NEWING & WILCOX Preseat A ROMANCE OF THE DESERT with FRANK WILCOX HENRY HERBERT Miss ALLYN KING and A CAST OF 25 % PRIEER MATS, §0eto %<0 %%% The ")ther Sarden OF Washingtos - COLUMBIA BURLESQUE TWICE DAILY ~ 215 & 8:15 LED.E. DALEY'S P SPEED)CYCLCWE WITH Biy FosTER. AanDYA Great _Hast. ! I C75)p/ca/ @a/e))/éfiorus ONTHE ILLUMINATED RUNWAY ! 171 / 25 ~Lapie’s BarGAINMaTinee Daiya2df NEXT WEEK - Fast.Steppers” AMUSEMENTS. MME. SCHUMANNR- HEINK | Polf's, Mon., Mar. 18, 4:30 Mrs. Groene's r Bu | et e 2 REINALD ~ ~ WERRENRATH Baritene, With \ RUBENSTEIN CLUB March 10, 8:30 P, Tickets, Willird News Hiand, WE PLAY LOEW’'S VAUDEVILLE §TRAND SINNING TODAY—COMPLETE CHANGE. OF BILL. DOORS OPEN % P. M. THE CITY'S FAVORITE POPULAR PRICE VAUDEVILLE THE CITY'S FAVORITE FOPULAR FRICE VAUDEVILLE THEATER D5 VAUDEVILLE TODAY-—3, 5:15, 7:30 AND 945 P. M. 99§ 3, 5:15,7:30 AND 9:45 P. M. "9 MUSICAL MELANGE OF HARMONY AND SYNCOPATION JACK POWELL SEXTETTE IN “WATCH THE DRUMS"—A DEEP BASS HIT NOVEL ADDED ATTRACTION BOB MURPHY AND --- “COMBINING BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE"” ROBINSON, |MURRAY AND| M. GINTAR JANIS & co. GERRISH FAMOUS e “Studying Stars” Tos Spinnsr and Juggier _——-__===_= P~ PHOTOPLAY—FIRST TIME SHOWN | TRIO PRODUCTIONS PRES BEBE DANIELS & NORMAN KERRY IN A PEPPY DRAMA OF PART-TIME MARRIAGE “DARING YOUTH” EXCLUSIVE FOX NEWS _COMEDY—EXCE) ENT MUSIC DR ALWAYS BEST FOR LESS—2 SHOWS PRICE OF | —3g <fiWW$&W9’M NS, hs B STANLEY SELECTED PHOTOPIAYS HENRI BERCHMAN AND HIS SYMPHONIQUE DANCE New High Standards Clifton Clark, Have Been Set This Season In fakes her idea and endeavor to get away | trom the strictly amusing side of the | tnarionette and elevate it to the plane| of olassic drama. In a recent per-| formance given at the Critcher Hill| School of Art a varied program was| Toalth” which $akes ia theme from | pay; Malion and Arsa Cagiwbell, ali ed @ na ge views exempl \tvf whom appeared in “The School for by Fannie Hurst, the authoress, | S.andal,” recently presented by the in her "‘7" life. Lee Moran A‘!‘”‘"Y Community Players at Central High Hoyt, Lillian anxdon and George) School. Other membe of the cast Pearce uppear in the cast are: Arista Huber, Sylvia Hutt, Jchn ORCHESTRA GORDON & RICA Comeds _¥andesitlians Natlonal Tuen‘hy at4: 30 A comedy, news subjects chestra numbers and or- complete the bill. Gayety—"Runnin" Wild." The Gayety Theater announces for | this week's attraction Ed E. new version of his popular show, unnin’ Wild,” which was one of st season’s burlesque hits. Heading the cast is the well known Daley's Dutch funster, Billy Foster, and Sam | Micals, Hebralc comedy whose methods blend nicaly. John O. Grant is straight man, with Foster and Micals, ofiers a vau- deville novelty, “Comedology”; Haz- liman, a team of dancing offer a dancing novelty; vthe Bates, Southern beauty prima donna r soubrette; Aildred Holmes, as “the Musical 17 will proffer a xylophone specialty McVay, who whistles and imitates various birds as well as singing some new “blues” selections, and a chorus of 18 partner, who, Healy, i known ne of the moteworthy Wild" are “The Birchwood Trail,” showinz a forest in Autumn with the chorus doing an elaborate dance; “Painting a Picture.” wherein pretty little love tale is unfolded, and “Crystal Gazing " an elaborately costumed scenic number. Mutual—"Steppin’ Out." Beginning with a matinee today, the attraction at the Mutual T‘h«\fl!-‘ this week will be “Steppin’ Out,” with a cast headed by Frank (“Rags") Murphy, comedian. Others are Benny Platt, utch humorist; Arthur Lan- ing, straight man. and Sam Gore, a singing and dancing blackface The ~ingenue role is taken by Thelma Seville, who has a sweet singing volce. Laura Houston is the soubrette and Opal Taylor sings and dances. A bevy of pretty girls forms the chorus An added feature Deluge,” said ing ploture stage. s scenes of ‘Runnin is “The Great to be the largest liv- ever portrayed on Wilson players in “Dulcy. THE Wilson Plavers, rection of Aurora M present the comedy “Dulcy,” by Kaufman and Connelly, at the Wilson Normal Community Center, Eleventh under the di- Poston, will HARTLAND JACK® HEALTH STUDIO. 1528 K % W Dancing lesions atrietly brivate. F _PRIVATE DANCING | Sy TR lessons_%5 or $1 lesson. 1636 19th st. n.w. Phone Pot. DAVISON'S single a3 %5 " Miss Fowler—C apitol Hill. New, interesting steps: thorough Instruction. Private Cli Maia ¢ 0 ME. STAFFORD PEMBERTON. Ex-partaer to Mae Murray, Gertrude Hoftma Leasons in All Styles of Dancing. . Studio. 1850 Biltmors St. " CASTLE CLUB STUDIO 1213 K 8t. N.W. F Professionsl instruction Formerly Eoloist to Caar of Russia nd Evening Clawses New Clacs, Adults, Thursdays 78 Elena_de Sayn Sohool. 1108 Connscticut A GLADYSE WILBUR Ballroom and Stige Dancing. +io Stage Dancing, Dupont Stuta. Dupont Circle. Phone Fr. 1435-W. Clas No 1 wili | Rabe | Audrey | the | | | to be given by this group in March | ana April. | dance on | erable stir in this country Neeb and H. Shopmeyer. This is the first of a series of plays Arcade. Patrons are promised at the Arcade | this week an unusual opportunity to the splendid floor of its beautifully decorated dance palace at popular prices Monday and Tuesday evenings from 9 pm. to 1 a.m. Paul Specht’s Orchestra (of phonograph record fame) is coming from New York to furnish the dancing set with real music. Friday, the “13th,” will stage a “black cat night,” wtih a “lucky spot” danci Former Ambassador's Story RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD, for- mer Ambassador to Italy, thor of prominence, caused consid- when he an au- “Here's How."” Whatever the purposs of the au- thor, the public Is now afforded an opportunity ef forming its own opinion through the medium of the screen, for Universal Pictures Cor- poration bought the film rights to “Here’s How" and screened it under the tile of “The Mad Whirl.” It is a photoplay attraction of the week. The general opinion is that Mr. Child was astonished upon his re- turn from Italy to find that certain elements of the body politic of this country had gone pleasure wild, and that the prohibition laws had resuited in unusual indulgence in forbidden stimulants. Furthermore, the story is taken to ndicate that not only is the author aghast at the new and liberal con- ventions that govern the conduct of the youth of the land, especially those of wealthy families, but also at the attitude of some parents, which he believes is a subject demanding general consideration. . A distinet novelty in the way of mass singing will be presented at the Century Theater this Spring when tne combined male choruses of “The Student Prince” and “The Love Song" will be heard at a special Sunday night concert now belng arranged by the Shuberts in response to requests trom music lovers. The combined wnorus will contain more than 100 volces and will be under the direc- tion of Oscar Radin, orchestra con- ductor of “The Student Prince.” wrote MUTUAL THEATER PA. AVE, AT NINTH BEGINNING TODAY “STEPPIN’ OUT” OLD TIMEY BURLESQUE That the Ladies of Your Family Will Also Enjoy THURSDAY NIGHT—WRESTLIN JOE TURNER VS. MIKE NESTE: NEXT WEEK—"RED WoT" The Famous DE RESZKE SINGERS Unusual Ensemble Four Voices and SALVI ‘World's Greatest Harpist Poli's, Wed., rl.uch'.ll.' reaun, Seats Mrs. OTQ u.“ given audien: “wooden-headed actors,” gestur terpreting the lines as read by Sewall, tion, t pressive performance. numbe: “Romeo and Juliet” tion o POLI'S delighted | the little| their quaint in- M in her really beautiful dic- he whole making a most im- One of her| balcony scene from | was a revela- be achieved with| {llustrating to ce the charm a of THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 115 ARTISTS Willem Mengelberg, Conductor Seats on Sale by T. Arthur Smith, Inc., 1306 G TONIGHT MAT. THURS. and SAT. NICOLAI-WELCH-DE MILT, Inc. BRING YOU SCHWAB & KUSELL'S MUSICAL COMEDY HIT es and simple movements rs, the f what can v EDDIE BUZZELL and Superb Cast, Assisted by a Select Ensemble, including Dancing Beauties Whe Start Difficult Stepping Where Others Step Hear “THE TWINKLE IN YOUR EYE” nnd “AS LONG AS I HAVE YOU” $1.50—8at. Mat. 50¢ to 32.08 15. S-tsWod Mail Orders Now BLOSSOM TIME Eventngs, 20c Schubert’s Own Music Schubert’s Own Romance e DYSISAL WIT Cast of Exceptional Meri 30c, $1.00, $1.30, $2.00 and $2.50; Thursday Mntinee, . ; Saturday Matinee, Soc, 3 $500, Flas Tar” T F. RAY COMSTOCK and MORRIS GEST Have the Great Pleasure of Announcing The Return to Washington, Immediately Fellowing the Cenclusion of the ment, of The World's Most Unosusl Theateical Entertainment BALIEFF’'S CHAUVE-SOURIS (The Bat Theatre of Moscow) ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAM PRESENTED THUS FAR ONLY IN PARIS, LONDON AND NEW YORK At POLI'S THEATER For One Week Only, Six Nights and Two Matines dny and Saturday, bewinning with a Gala Premierer " MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 23 Prices—Nighta, $1.00 t> $3.00; Thur. and Sat. Mat., 50c to $2.50. Plus Tax. MAIL ORDERS NOW ASSOLUTELY FIREPROOF oy Thestw la W attaerea siosively Ameriesn end foreion NIGHT NA'"ONAI- TOMORROW The FRANK Popular MATS. WED. & SAT Comedian GRAVEN In His Latest amd Most Sperkliag Comedy NEW BROOMS eI A Splendid Supperting Company Blyth Daly Doris Kelly Helen Weathersby A G. Dorothy Robert McWade Anderson Jack Devereaux Harry Leighton Blackburn James Kearney EXT WEEK—MMetiness Wodnosdsy and Sxturdey—SEATS THURSDAY THE DRAMATIC XEVENT OF THE DECADE Mrs. Fiske Thomas A. Wise Lola Fisher Chauncey Olcott James T. Powers Lotus Robb w “THE RIVALS” By RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN -nu—m of GEORGE C. TYLER and HUGH FORD PRICES—Eves. 34 Bal. $1.10. Wed. Yo orene Oreh., $3.30; Oreh., $2.75. PRESIDENT THEATR PENNA. AVE. AT 1ith PHONE MAIN 667 Bal. 35.75. 5130, 5185, 2d Bal. Bal., $2.20, §1.65, §1 . 88, TONIGHT AT 8:20 Mats. Thurs & Sat. 2:20 2nd i LAST WEEK Dramatic Success of All Times From W. Semerset Maugham’s atory, “Miss Thom:; . By John Colton and Clem ce Randolph == KATHARINE HAYDE After due consideration, no wonder “Rain" is so well presented at the President theater. It was pro- duced and staged by one of the most gifted and tal- ented men in the theatrical business, Sam Forrest, of New York.—John Daly, Post. Nights, Orch., $2; Bal., 5 rows, $1.50; next 5 rows, $1 Remasinder, 50c Mats., Orch., $1; Bal, $1, 75¢ and 50c Frank Tonv MARINO avo MARTIN “The Letter from ‘Pectsa-Burgh’” MADAME POMPADOUR ¢ The _Phenomenal - EXTRA ADDED FEATURE “YOUNG AMERICA” A Tnla of Real Youlh Highly Colored White Folks GUSSTE NIXON and SANS OUR PHOTO"LAY FEATURE First Showing In Washington RICHARD DIX In “TOO0 MANY KISSES” - A PARAMOUNT PICTURE Vaudeville and In Motion Pictures and the EARLE THEATRE Is One Of the Standard Bearers Continuous ONE To ELEVEN CARL EARLE NEWS—EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF OUR NATIONALS at Their Florida Training Camp THE CAPITAL'’S FAVORITE PLAYHOUSE e Daudeville THE GRFEAT ARTISTS OF THE WORLD EXCLUSIVELY A BIG BOOM IN BILLS BEGINS First of the Vanguard of Super-Headliners CNime SOPHIE TUCKE Queen of the American Varieties Effervescing With Fun and Frolic Aided and Abetted by Her Peerless Pianists TED SHAPIRO & JACK CARROLL Extre Added Attraction | HARRY WATSON:. The Funniest Travestist of the Times Offering His | Famous Characterization “YOUNG BATTLING KID DUGAN and the Uproariously Laughable Telephone Booth Scene Fred-BERRENS & FOSTER-Lora In a Modern Musical Fantasy STEPHENS & HOLLISTER “The Passing Parade” ROSEMARY & MARJORY “Heart Songs” PAUL KIRKLAND & CO. “The High Stepper” HECTOR A Canine Marvel HARRY LAVAIL & SISTER Aerial Perfection Shows Dally. 2:15 & 818 . Mat. 5 ,Oged Orch. NEXT WEEE FRANCES DOROTHY WHITE AFSOP'S FABLE! TOPICS OF THE DAY —PATHE WEEKLY