Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1925, Page 20

20 FIRE ENGINE HOUSE URGED BY CITIZENS Association Asks Equipmenti Be Located Near 16th and Criitenden Streets. e equipment th and Crit- streets will be urged upon sioners, according to res- lopted by the Piney Branch Association at its final Spring meeting in Hamline M. E.| Church last night The Comm stoners will be asked to include this item in the next appropriation bill presented to Congress. Included in the resolution also were recommenda- tions for the purch of a site for 1 16-room school building between Shepherd and Webster streets “and the addition of an assembly hall to the West School Improved Lighting Sought. Installation of an improved light- g system is sought for Thirteenth 4 Fourteenth streets and Georgia avenue, to extend to the District line. Resolutions were passed re- questing the paving of Thirteenth street from Addison to Taylor{ streets and also for the paving of Emerson from Sixteenth street to| Piney Branch The need for | a sidewalk on the east side of Six- | D teenth street from the Tiger Bridge | to Colorado avepue was pointed out| olutions Citizens AMUSEMENTS BELASCO—“The Butter and Egg Man.” A large and highly amused audience set the stamp of approval upon George S. Kaufman's new comedy, “The But. r and Egz Man,” at the Shubert o Theater last evening. And it seemed to be the consensus of opin- ion in the lobbies that Mr. Kaufman's nd the Commissioners will be urged | fst individual effort at playwritng, to include estimates for this work |3 coie 'S0t five it its final polish in their next appropriation bill. _ |might take rank with the successes Appeal will be made to District|genjeved by the playwright in col- officials to_further the work of the|jrpor Vo P "\ Connelly. National Capital Park Commission | There is no doubt that ““The Butter by including in the estimates a sum|anq Egz Man” is an individual suc- sufficient to permit the commission cuccess for young Gregory Kelly, to take definite action on the task|hom Washington saw and liked very of park extension in the city | much in “Badg: one of the Kauf- Urge Fourteenth Street Extension. | man ggge;nnifi};ofifomn 050“1?““6- The association renewed its stand 3 sewion Sibpteaan for the extension of® Fourthenthi| ooy ne Tocure might heimuchitre street from its present terminus to| The story of the piay, which is an- the District line in resolutions fa-|other disillusionment of the theater be- vorably adopted. It is the contention ind the curtain, is woven around of the members of the association | young and difident Peter Jones of that development of the upper Four-| Chillicothe, Ohio, who has recently in- teenth street section is hampered | herited s ng more than $20,000 because of repeatedly denied re-|from his g ather, and who has quests for the opening of this thor-|come to New York, the center of the- oughfare atric art, to plunge into_play produ Daniel J. Donovan, auditor for the | tion and “clean up” quickly. His con- District, was lauded in resolutions |fidence in himself arises from the fact adopted for his part in having|that he has already produced several placed to the credit of the District | productions along amateur lnes in more than $500,000 now in the United | Chillicothe. On his arrival he is quick- States Treasury. Upon motion is was decided hold a Fourth of July discovered by Joe Lehman of the celebration in 1926, and the president Lehman Production, Inc., who needs an “angel” with cash to enable him was authorized to appoint a com- mittee to begin laying plans for the | to ring the first curtain up on “the event reatest thing the stage has ever Education Board Considered. | s2en.”” Peter pavs $20.000 for a 49 per | cent”interest. Eepiay uuoyek fail- - = 5 |ure, but his efforts to butt in and W. O. Tufts, E. E. Clement and | pelp improve it being cast back in his S. T. Cameron were appointed by |face by the Lehman, who knows the President, at the direction of the it all, so irritates the young man that association, to recommend to the|he pays $500 more for an option on the chief justice of the District Supreme |other 51 per cent interest in the show, judgment, | with no thought whatever as to where to the sev-|he is going to get the additional will occur in|$10,000 of purchase money. He suc- Education some time | ceeds in persuading an assistant man- AC( MADE UPHIS MIND TO KILL THE GIANT AND GOING OUTONE NIGHT HEDUG A DEEP HOLE AT THE FOOTOF THE MOUNT, COVERED IT WITH STICKS AND HID ITALL WITH A SPRINKLING OF EARTH. © McClure Newspaper Syndicate ONCE UPON A TIME— against his hotel manager, to buy a 49 per cent interest, pursuing closely Lehman’s methods with him, only to be confronted with the legal repre- sentative of a man who claims that the story and characters of the play were plagiarized from a previously published story of his client. Mean- while the play, transferred to New York, where they know a good thing in the way of plays, is ing them up at the box office.” Whereupon Lehman and his stool pigeon bob up again, this time to give the poor fel- low his money back. They find him a sad but wiser producer, however, and before they get through he obliges them to buy the play and a prospective law suit for $100,000, thus insuring his assistant manager partner a return of $49,000 and himself $51,000 as the result 'of his first venture. The lines of the play are not particu- larly brilliant, although much amuse- ment is created by a vaudeville club juggler, wife of Lehman, in her com- ments on the play and its leading lady. The real enjoyment of it all, however, is Mr. Kelly’s unique comedy along the lines indicated by his work in “Badges.” It is the play's best asset by far. The harsh note is sounded by a feminine character, friend of one Bernie Sampson, who has been calied in by Lehman as a play doctor. Its removal would be a big improvement, at least in Washington, and it is doubttul if its elimination would create any complication at all. Harry Middlemass, as Lehman, the New York producer,.is a character strangely familiar to those acquainted with play producing, and so is Francis X. Conlan as Jack McClure, his “‘as- sociate.” Lucille Webster, as Fanny Lehman, the club juggler, is inimita. ble and a real asset. There is, of course, an incidental love story, with Mildred MacLeod as a pretty and satis- factory sweetheart for Peter. And Harry Neville is realistically good as the English stage manager. NATIONAL—"“The Best People.” The National Theater players add- ed another triumph to their brief ca- reer last night with the production of Avery Hopwood's satirical three-act comedy, “The Best People.” n only about two months e Season’s Lowest Price! 600 Cool English Broadcloth and Silkette Brcad Stripes Narrow Stripes All Kinds of Stripes! At a recent sale of these dresses we sold out ina short time and at a higher price, besides. Even though we RESSES “I’w HE BLEWALOUD BLAST WITH MiS HORN WHICH WAKENED THE GIANT. CORMORAN WAS IN AGREAT HE SPIEDJACK HE ROARED IN A VarAGE g:fl}gwpflmm RASCAL | WL PUMISH YOU FOR. since the road company, under me‘ Frohman interests presented the play at the National, but this brief lapse of time seemed to detract little from the interest in the efforts of the stock players. A sizeable gsudience, con- sidering the humidity, viewed the in- itial performance and gave it a very hearty stamp of approval. ™The Best People” was lifted from & magazine story by David Gray and dressed for the stage by Mr. Hop- wood in an inimitable, amusing and breezy style. As served under the di- choice tidbit of entertalnment even rection of Clifford Brooke it is a on a Midsummer night. The play bristles with humor and abounds In dramatic situations. The audience starts chuckling with the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. rise of the curtain and the merri: 29 Record Breaking Values C., TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925. e [ND WITH A STEP THAT SHOOK THE VERY GIROUND HE CAME CRASHINGs DOWNTHE MOUNT. SOONAS HE HEELS INTO THE yowaemow —BY W. J. ENRIGHT, l REACHED THE BOTTOM HOWEVER, HE STEPPED INTO JACK'S TRAPAND FELL HEAD OVER PIT. WY MACK WAS NAMED THE GIANT KILLER « ment grows in intensity and volume as the show progresses. Mr. Hop- wood has sprinkled through the three acts just enough spice and slang to give the usual modernism in dramatic seasoning. There is no lagging, no slow action; every movement comes with a refreshing aggressiveness and forcefulness. The story is bullt around the rebel- lion of the present-day youth against family chauffeur as another the s caste and what it terms the|shock to her parents. Her portrayal sugar-coated traditions and conven- approximates the finesse of perfection, tionalities that were born with the|if one is familiar with the ways of a Victorian era. Of course, it depicts, too, the trials and tribulations of the modern parents who try vainly to shape the destinies of their care-free, pleasure-seeking children, who have |girl broken bounds in frantic quest of re-|ed father of this rebellious pair, i lief from the monotony of a drab and|enacted by Edward Arnold, while Li of things. Leneta Lane, the attractive star of the role of Marion Lenox, a genuine cigarette-smoking ‘“‘flapper,” who finds solace from the rigors of convention by dabbling in Broadway's night life. | “flapper.” Cert William Phelps gives life|the stenographer to F |10 the character of Bertie Lenox, her | | rum-loving brother, who also shatters ton, the caste-bound brother of Mrs. |tamily traditions by marrying a chorus| Lenox; Thomas L. Brower, a waiter, Bronson Lenox, the broad-mind- |and Walter Soderling, the butler to boresome existence under the old order |lian Dean appears as the misguided | and scatter-brained mother. The comedy crescendo hinges on the National Players, has been cast in | Katherine Givney, the slangy chorus | &irl of the piece, and her work stands Minor Wateon as out prominently. the high-minder family Tiern |fections. §he is sweet and convincing. | Romaine Callender is the luckless ti {tled suitor of Marion; the aunt of Alice O Charles Hal he Lenox famil v has a minor role as|Range.” rude | Alice O'Neil, the object of Bertie's af-|ver': Saturday, Richard Dix in arjorie Metcalf, |yrveorof achievement for the stock company, and is guaranteed as a certain cure for the hot weather blues. KEITH'S—Ina Claire. Ina Claire, who in the past two sea- sons, gained another triumph in Vadja's “Grounds for Divorce,” in which the New York critics acclaimed her “our first comedienne,” returns to vaudeville after an absence of many years, headlining at B. F. Keith's Theater next week in “Righ You Are,” a oneact comedy by Gene Markey. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Bronner will be featured in a resume of their most successful efforts in Broadway productions, called “Memories.” Others will include Shaw and Lee, Nature's Gifts,” in 12 minutes of the xhibit nutty Jack McLallen and Sarah, in a remarkable hibition of roller skating, with comedy, song and dance; Skelley and Hi & Co, in song studies and character delinea- tions; Harmon and Sands, in “We and Us,” two beautiful girls with fine voices, and Bononia, Italy’s unique musician, with the Aesop’'s Fables, Topics of the Day and the Pathe News pictorial. N CHEVY CHASE Sunday and Monday, Rin-Tin-Tin in “The Lighthouse by the Sea,” News |and Fables. 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