Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1925, Page 21

AMUSE NATIONAL—"The Grab Bag.” Smiling as only a high priest of foolishness can, a nationally recog- nized paragon of folly pulled a string and opened “The Grab Bag” at the National Theater last night. The re- sult was a delicious surprise. Out tumbled humor, beauty, real music, sirging and daneing in satisfying pro- portions. The old question was on the tips of tongues during the exit march after the curtaim had descended upon a Kaleidoscopic array of threatrical comets: “Is Ed Wynn as silly in real life as he is on the stage?’ There were two reasons for the question The first is that he seems so abso- lutely at home while generating kid ders, giggles and outright laughter. And the second reason is that one can hardly believe a man can be naturally as droll as Ed Wynn appears. The real answer to the question is, “Ed Wynn is Ed Wynn.” o describe in detail Bag” is to attempt the impossible. nces and short paragraphs, rning that follows, must ou are intent upon pre- serving a melancholy outlook on life or If you are a young undertaker with serious mien to be preserved at a uneral on the morrow, don't go to “The Grab Bag.” It will wreck your aspiratio; “The Grab suffice. The outstanding numbers are “The |’ Rose,” a spectacular scene, in which he Heart of a Rose,” a song hit, is introduced. “The Apartment,” in which carefully draped chairs, a chaise lounge, a bureau and vanity dresser turn into. young ladies in elaborate attire, is a distinct novelty. Wynn ‘sandwiched between ht Volga songsters in Cossack orms - presents a h of the iculo blended with the sublime. Those Volga boys hushed the house. They sang in Russian, but' no one minded that. It was the way they sang that gave a demonstration that American audiences still can appre- ciate true beauty and authentic vocal music. They received a well de- served ovation. These are merely the high lights of he Grab Bag.” There are numerous other features on a par with these. It is well worth while for any one who can appreciate dancing, music, humor, singing, spectacles or novelties, or all of them together. PRESIDENT—"White Cargo.” “White Cargo,” the sensational play Leon Gordon of the white man’s le for existence in the wilds of A . went into its third week last night ‘at the President theater, at- cting a capacity house. The play has already established tself here, as one Broadway, as some- thing of popular interest. The cast is strong, beginning with the doctor and including the “broken white man,” who has succumbed to the climate and the liquor, Stransky, Cornelious Roddy, Bernard Thornton. by and Keith’s—Wayburn's Demitasse Revue. Keith's presents a bill this week in which a gorgeously staged and ex- tensive feature act, Ned Wayburn's Demitasse Revue, s hard-pressed for first honors by Alma Nielson and her company in a, high-speed dance act, and by Frank Fay, ably aided by a pair of morons in a ludicrous turn| that brought call after call from the audience. The revue is in 10 settings, the most striking of which are a beautiful pom- padour dance, followed by a tableau | (marred, perhaps, by an unneces- sary disrobing feature), and a gypsy campfire that was first shown behind a shimmering but transparent curtain A dance of the dolls was well done, as were two specialties by a rag doll, perhaps the best dance of the revue, and a snake dance. An Egyptian dance also was well executed. The revue as a whole is far above the average, the girls in the chorus be- ing both comely and adept in their steps. The costumes varied from the beautiful hoopskirts of the pompa- dour dance to the shimmering but scanty attire of the Egyptian dance. Foliowers of the setting-up exercises broadcast from New York each morn- ing might learn much from the dance f Alma Neilson. Assisted by Dan B. Ely and Dave Rice, Miss Neilson and her company introduce new and mighty difficult figures in their danc- ing that brought a storm of applause from the audience. They were forced to respond with several encores, de- spite the fact that the act came next to the revue with the intermission and a news toplc reel only interven- e rank Fay's act gets off to a burst of laughter almost in the first minute, and the merriment continues unabat- Helen | MENTS ‘'songs, dances and music.” Billy gives selections on the piano, tenor banjo and clarinet, and Vera dances, clog and otherwise, with a few fine imitations of famous dancers, includ- ing George White, Pat Rooney and others, winning much applause. James act play, “The Squire,” which con- cerns the maritai difficulties of a young couple whose happiness had been somewhat threatened; Thornton and Carlton entertain with songs and parodies interspersed with stories and light dissertations, and Charles Russell and Walter Hayes offer strong man and acrobatic stunts. which made a t. The photoplay is & thrilling, romantic and love-making drama, entitled “The Last Hour,” with a cast_headed by Milton Sills and Carmel Myers, and including Pat O'Malley, Jack Hower, Alec B. Francis, Charles Clary, Walter Long, Eric Mayne and Wilson Hum- mell. It finishes a well balanced bill. METROPOLITAN—“New Toys.” Richard Barthelmess scores a ten- strike in the first fulllength screen comedy of his career, “New Toys," shown yesterday afternoon at Cran- dall’s Metropolitan. Movie fans have |loved “Dick” through a creditable number of seasons, in characters of many types. Now here is a new “Dick” fn a new surrounding, but just lovable as ever. ew Toys” is as clever, clean and funny as a Frank Craven comedy of domestic tribulations. It is the story of a young man, two maids and another man, with a few nelghbors thrown in for good measure. A vamp- ish young woman, salling for Europe, presses into the hand of the chap to whom she has tried hard to become engaged some tickets for a benefit performance, which another man of her acquaintance is producing. He goes, and tumbles madly in love with one of the girls in the show. Every- thing swims along in peace and beauty in the Webb love-nest, to which 2 third member has been added, until the return of Natalle Wood after a couple of years abroad. Determined to get her man, Natalle plots and schemes until life in the Webb apartment becomes a chaotic hodge-podge of marital cyclones. A new opportunity is afforded the young wife to engage in amateur theatrical work, and, with her acceptance, new | complications arise, a few busybody neighbors enjoying thelr innings mean- while. There is, honor bright, a hearty laugh in every foot of the film. Mary Hay, who is Mrs. Richard Barthelmess in private life, is_excel lent as the young wife of “New Toys. Other members of the cast are equal- ly fine. The screen version is adapted from the play by Milton Herbert Gropper. Hal Roach's “Gang” appears in a roughhouse classic, and all the other “trimmings" of the program are good, particularly the music, from Victor Herbert's “Fortune Teller.” RIALTO—"Fifth Avenue Models.” A thoroughly pleasing bill was pr sented at the Rialto yesterday, with Universal's production of “Fifth Av nue Models,” adapted from the maga- zine story, “The Best in Life,” as the | outstanding feature. Little Mary Phil- bin, well remembered from “Merry Go Round,” is costarred in it with Nor- man Kerry. It concerns a girl fitter in a Fifth Avenue shop, the daughter of an artist in Greenwich Village, who is' unex pectedly forced into the role of a model. Resenting the affronts forced upon her in the shop of Mme. Suze, she is invited to leave, but soon after obtains ,employment as secretary to| the owner of an art gallery to which |she has carried some of her father's paintings. Here Dan Cupid prepares the way to a happy ending. Besides the well known stars, excel- lent work is contributed in unfolding the story by Josef Swickard as the father of the girl, Cesare Gravino in a small part, William Conklin, Rose- mary Theby, Rose Dion, Betty Fran- cisco and Jean Herscholt. Lieut. Felix Ferdinando and his Ha- vana Orchestra fully merited the ap- plause given them on their return en- gagement. The other musical feature | is the Carmen overture by the Rialto | Orchestra under its brilliant director, Mischa Guterson, supplemented this week by Margaretta Campbell, the ‘Washington singer, who gave an ex- cellent account of her talents. The International News, an Out-of-the-Ink- well cartoon, “Pay Day"; a Century comedy, “Gridiron Gertie,” and Wanda Wiley round out the interesting pro- gram, which will continue throughout the week. PALACE—"Proud Flesh.” ed until a reluctant audience finds | that further applause will bring no | more encores The remainder of the program is in keeping with high quality of the fea- tures. Larimer and Hudson, in a clever and funny bicycle act, open the show, and are followed by Ryan and Ryan in an unusual ski dance. letti and Kokin, with a pair of trained monkeys, were well received. Their novel work places thém above the ysual run of trained animal acts. A dance-and-song sketch by Marie Walsh and Frank Ellis comes just before the revue. Miss Walsh is a very capable dancer. A spectacular acrobatic turn, Weldanos Sensation, followed by a news pictorial reel, completes the pro- Ga- | Eleanor Boardman is seen in & typi- cal “Connie Talmadge” role at Loew's Palace Theater this week—all super | stylish clothes and high temper just | waiting to be kidnaped by the brutal |cave-man hero, who doesn’t disap- point her. The picture is called | “Proud Flesh,” and is a film version| |of Lawrence Rising’s novel. As a subtitle candidly admits, the {story opens for “apparently no reason at all with scenes of San Francisco's | earthquake.” Fernanda Borel, of | Spanish lineage, born at that time |and left an orphan, i sent to rela- | tives in Spain and reared in the home |of a grandee. Harrison Ford, “climber |of 10,000 balconies,” is chosen by Fernanda 18 years later as the most | possible of the many Spanish young Kennedy and corpany present a one- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. much, if not more, than the star and the story. Gloria is seen, of course, as the laundress of Napoleon in his more ob- scure days, who rises to the rank of duchess as the “Little Corporal” rises as emperor. TIVOLI- 'ampered Youth. “Pampered Youth,” adapted from Booth Tarkington's story “The Mag- nificent Ambersons,” is the feature at Crandall’s Tivoli Theater the first two days of this week, with “A Rasp- berry Romancs,” in which Ben Tur- pin ‘again gets his eyes a'l teagled up, the Pathe Review and excellent pipe organ music by Otto F. Beck and HaroldT. Pease, to supplement an entertaining program. ‘“Pampered Youth” has for its cast Cullen Lan- dis, Ben Alexander, Allen Forrest, Alicé Calhoun, Wallace McDonald, Charlotte Merriam, Aggie Herring and others. The story is an inter- esting tale so true to life that it won its author the Pulitzer prize. One of its outstanding effects is a realistic fire in which the entire Los Angeles fire department under the command of Chief Hendricks is plctured. AMBASSADOR—“New Toys.” Cliff Bowes in “Ship Shape,” a new comedy of wholesome laughs, with added short reelssupplementing First National's film version of “New Toys,"” starring Richard Barthelmess and Mary Hay, are the Crandall's Am- bassador attractions this week after tomorrow. CENTRAL—"“The Beloved Brut, Marguerite de la Motte, Victor McLaglen, William Russell, Mary Al- den and Stuart Holmes are seen in leading roles of “The Beloved Brute,” a Vitagraph production, at Crandall’s Central Theater the first two days of this week, ending today. R. D. Mec- Lean, the well known tragedian and former Washingtonian, is also an im- portant factor in this picture. The story involves the contending person- alities of two brothers, o1e a stal- wart advocate of all that .tands for right living: the other a reunegade. Lloyd Hamilton, in “‘Half a Hero,” in cast firstasan unwilling policeman who had been drafted onto the force and then as the unlucky referee at an amateur boxing show. PRINCE’S PARTY GLAD TO REACH COOLER ZONE Refreshing Wind Revives Those Cruiser After Equator Going to Capetown. on Passing By the Associated Press. H. M. 8. REPULSE, April 27 (by wireless via Capetown—Those on board the Repulse, which is bearing the Prince of Wales toward Capetown in continuance of his southern voy- age, are enjoying the welcome tran- sition from the heat of the tropical sun to the cooler climate which the battle cruiser is now entering. Yesterday, for the first time since crossing the Equator, a refreshing wind sprang up, acting as a tonic to jaded minds and bodies, The Prince of Wales continues in the best of health and spirits. The ship’s company, which has been virtually without news from home for some time, now is receiving news bul- letins by wireless through Walvis Bay, Southwest Africa. MORSE PAID TRIBUTE. New Yorkers Honor -Memory of Telegraph Inventor. NEW YORK, April 27—The mem- ory of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was hon ored yesterday at ceremonies held at his statue in Central Park, in com- memoration of the 134th anniversary of his birth today. The exercises were conducted under the auspices of the Eastern brokerage division, Commer- clal Telegraphers' Union of America Today 30 descendanis of Morse will take part in an observance by students of the National Academy of Design, city officials, art patrons, members of the academy and the gen: eral public. _— One out of every eight recruits for the British army is rejected, the main cause being ill health. Prof. | UNIQUE MUSIC PROGRAM IN VIEW AT ARTS CLUB Famous Composers to Assist Well Enown Washington Singers in Interpretation of Compositions. “I hear America singing,” one of Walt Whitman’s famous lines, will be the theme of a unique and un- usual program to be given at the Arts Club Friday evening next, when 15 of the most famous American com- posers will assist 10 of Washington's well known singers in the interpre- tation of their own compositions, fol- lowing a special dinner, at which these composers will be guests of honor. The composers taking part in the rendition of their own compositions will be Mrs. H. H. Beach of New Hampshire, Gena Branscombe of New York City, Ethel Glenn Hier of New ! York City, Mary Turner Salter of New York City, Harriet Ware of New Jersey—the “Big Five,” whose won- derful music still rings in the ears of those privileged to hear them last year. Other composers are Phyllis Fergus of Chicago, Frances Marion Ralston of Los Angeles, Mabel Wood Hill of New York City, Karolyn Wells Bassett of New York State, Helen Sears of Chicago, Florence Parr-Gere of New York City, Mary Howe of District of Columbia, Mabel W. Daniels of Boston, Ulric Cole of Los Angeles, Elizabeth Merz Butterfield of New York State. The interpretive artists will be Gretchen Hood, Georgla Hazlett, Helen Howison, sopranos; Bermice Randall, Hazel Arth, Thelma Smith, contraltos: Warren Terry, Everett Hardell, tenors; Harry Angelico, Harlan Randall, bari- tones. George H. Wilson accompanist. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hood Wat- son will be hosts at the dinner. PLACE IN HALL OF FAME SOUGHT FOR U. S. NEGRO Drive Started to Get Honor for Frederick Douglass, Slave Who Became Envoy. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—Negroes here have started a drive to have Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, abolitionist and later United States Minister to Halti, allotted a place in the Hall of Fame. At a mass meeting yesterday com- munications indorsing the proposal were read from Gov. Alfred E. Smith, from Howard University, Washing: ton, D. C., and from Johnson C. Smith, formerly ‘of Biddle University, Char lotte, N. C. Douglass ise the first of his race to have his name proposed for such honor. He was born in Maryland, February 14, 1817 RUM SCHOONER SEIZED. 300 Cases of Whisky on Craft Cap- tured by Coast Guard. MOBILE, Ala. British auxillary schooner Frances F bearing 300 cases of imported whiskies in tow, the United States Coast Guard cutter Saukee arrived here yesterday. | The liquors have an estimated value | of $10,000. The cutter discovered the schooner anchored off Cedar Keys, Fla., inside | the mile limit. - The schooner’s | port was given as Will Take Walter Beed.l’mt, Maj. 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Louise Dose makes an attractive Carmen in her brilliant cos- tumes. She has a clear and sweet so- prano and her singing of the aria is especially good. Ralph Cavalier's Don ! Jose and Guiseppi Martino’s Escamillo also won gratifying recognition by the udience. The number probably ranks | as one of the best in vaudeville, es- pecially with lovers of good singing sic: “A Girl of Today,” a singing and dancing sketch, gives Jack Fulton and Dorothy Quinette a chance to show their wares and they have many things pleasing to lovers of vaude- ville. Fulton is a clever comedian with a pleasing poice; Miss Quinette is a good dancer and an attractive picture in her handsome costumes. The lights had to be lowered several times to get this couple off the stage. Other good acts include the Romas acrebats; Adelyn Jason and Helen Harrington in songs; a sketch en- titled “The New Stenographer,” with Thomas P. Jackson and Jean Rus- sell, in well acted parts; Herrison Greene and Katherine Parker in pat- ter and songs, and the usual house at- tractions. “The Night Club,” with Raymond Griffith as the star, is a very funny photoplay of the Harold Liloyd type. There are many hairbreadth escapes and numerous funny _situations brought out by trick photography. STRAND—De Carlos and Granada. De Carlos and Granada, South American - stars, with their own Argentine orchestra, in ‘“Character Dances and Melodies,” provide this week's headliner at the Strand Theater. - They give an exceptionally good series of Argentine tango and apache dances and their offerings were warmly received. Billy Goelet and Vera Hall offer “San Diego), glves a decidedly in-| dividual characterization, with rather subtle humor and sarcasm in his con- venient and well-evolved ‘system” for love-making at the least expense. Piqued at Don Diego's apparent in- difference, Fernando sails for her na- [tive heath, Gus that she “will arrive early in December.” Then it is that Pat O'Malley arrives on the scene in time to help_the fair young damsel in dis- tress. Because he is a plumber, how- ever wealthy, Fernando haughtily spurns his advances while accepting | his help. “We have no plumbers in Spain,” she tells {him. |also has complicated things by ar- riving before Fernando and surpris- ing her with a pianola record of “La Paloma.” _ Of course there is a tango by Don Diego and Fernando at one of the big parties given by the admiring San Francisco relatives, and, after a twosome amid lovely scenery and a_broken promise to 1 marry the plumber, Fernando is kid- naped and taken to the plumber's hunting lodge. To add reelage, Don Diego rescues her and takes her home. In the end, however, the plumber gets her. Much of the scen- ery is beautiful and Eleanor films de- lightful, although she wears chiefly two expressions—arched eyebrows in coy fiirtation, and an icy glare at al- | ternate intervals. The Mack Sennett comedy, “The Lion’s Whiskers,” chiefly concerns an old toothless lion and a very fat lady. The Pathe news completes the bill. COLUMBIA—“Mme. Sans Gene.” Gloria Swanson, in “Mme. Sans Gene,” started propitiously on her second week at Loew’s Columbia yes- terday afternoon, playing to capacity houses throughout the day. The picturé from a production angle is undoubtedly the biggest attempt of Glorfa’s career, though Swanson fans may differ as to whether the star is at her best in the title role. Gloria really divides honors with the sets, one might say. 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