Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 70

AMUS Current Attractions (Continued from First Page.) “attorney for the 23 lawyer Darem, monoiogist of b.ackface ve wit. bill also includes an organ re- Alexander Arons, concert art- The cital by ist. The photoplay feature will be Para- mount's production, “The Splend.d Crime.” a comedy drama featuring Beb: Daniels, supported by Mahlon Hamilton. A news reel also will be shown. STRAND—Welder Sisters and Co. .dlining _the vaudeville atirac e Strind Theater this weel Welder Sisters and company, Alexander Gerber offering, wish a luding Mur Lubit, Buui nd Archur Pin The productior s 1 costumed sparkling mu i dance and comedy. Walton in his or iinal net, the Saume Thing to Sume One Else, furnishing amusing moments in son and comedy. Others include Fra Dixon and company in a comedy turn, "By Appuis unu\nl, by W Yiam '/ . Walsh, Dale and ngsier: in and Rec in equilibristic feats, en v Entertainers. play is a romance © and Main_street, “Brigh ¥ titled The Broadway Lights." co- Pauline Starke, ture of which is with Pauline dancers. Short films and orchestra numbers will complete the program. PRESIDENT—"The Lost Battal'o of one of the _the W an_inter a Charleston ballet, rke leading th nal act nounced. which is t e n'y uary the Di is declared to he one of the most accurate films of the World War ever offered to the ‘pub lic. It picty the adventures of seven companies of the 77th Division which were hemmed in by the Ger for six davs dur- ‘This * )ln ket ‘endeavored to This tragic episode of the war w €nacted by many of the survivor cluding Maj. Whittlesey, who manded the battalion. The film was made in collaboration with the United States Signal tul]N it 18 claimed, and all do~uments, m: ete., are disputably authentic. Though filmed primarily as patriotic propaganda, the eble human apps teresi h h talion” s followed from the time of {18 organization to the parade after the war. Many members of the bat. | talion were given c(he distinguished service cr One of the most dramatic portions depicts the battalion In the “‘pocket,” deprived of food and water, and hem- med in by the Germans. pigeon brought the first news of the battalion’s location to the American lines. The pigeon lost an eye and a lcg, and was awarded a D. S. C. by Gen. Pershing JWGAYETY— Hurtig & capture. re- com- “Lucky Sambo.” Seamon’s all-new “Lucky Sambo” mukes its bow at today's matines at the Gavety Theater, mencing a week terry From the bizzest of the colored re vues and cabarets come the talent that offers this sparkling Ethiopian entertainment. pals are making their initial burlesque uppearance. Al have played in high- er-priced offerings. Here are some of the stars: Julla Moody, recorder of phonograph discs, featured feminine player and doing her famou< “blues" besides paz,/ing in the two acts and | many of the 10 big sc nes; Billy Hig- | a droll colored chap, who has ihe Ernest R. Whit- ored straight man on . comedian: Arthur Porter and James V laugh pro- viders: Three Dixie Songbirds. a tric of Soutt irls_in specia‘ties anl vocal ensembles; “Red” Cassidy ‘and Nina Hunter in extraordinary Rus- slan dan with Ji the stage: J AUTO SHOW All This Week WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM Current Events Lecture By William Rufus Scott Monday Mornings at 11 0'Clock WARDMAN PARK HOTEL Monday Afternoons at 4:45 LEAGUE OF PEN WOMEN 1709 H St. \“’ Ad~'exion, either n'a: MALIN! The Magician Firat Washington Appearames im 4 Years New Willard Hotel Two Performances Only Willard Room, Wed., Feb. 3 Small Ballroom, Thurs., Feb. 4 8:30 P. M. CATHERINE BAL aliz. Wi Special rates for Ladies. 719 9th 8 i | MR, LEROY H. THAYER. | Class private lessons any hour. iesday | ao?-mmun. in 5 Cotlesiate: l."\Y Open Conservatory WE TEACH YOU TO DANCE . Fox_ TPM “llll. Tlll D. Chlllflwfl Every o= DANCING 532 New York Club Jazz Orchest: Ogr, Fenna Ave. and 9ih Strget "RW. 31 A carrfer | com- | Some of the princi-| s'nging specialty, | Vaughan and 3 Fox_ Trot, Tango and cnrlmvv-v\ | <. New York n5%m. EMENTS. his 12 Jazz Hounds and the famous Black Diamond speed chorus of 18 ||m|] ing a specialty of the Charleston dance. MUTUAL—"Giggles.” Joe Levitt is the producer of “Gig- gles,” which opens at the Mutual to- day, with-Lew Kelly as the principal comedlan Lew ILelly is well known to bur- lesque, his unique characterization, “The Dope,” being a siudy that has been developed over many years. In the suppor.ng cast are Sadle Banks, Mildied Simmons, ingenuc; Lew Harris, straight man, and Leo Brecher, specialty dancer. i HOWARD—"Aces and Queens.” Another colored favorite who has created a spiurge of entertalnment on | he big circuits, Gonzell White the| nusical queen, and her band, includ ing some of the best jazz tooters and blues blowers in America, isannounced s a ieature in coujuncuon wih thy | nusical comedy, “Aces and Queens.” vhich opens 8 week's engagement at he Howara Theater this week, com mencing tomorrow night. A company of 60 people, with a pril- | iant cast and a large chorus o bronze maidens’ in beautiful umes, a cleverly written book and gor- seous settings with wonderful eleciri- | al effacts are p omised. Newman Traveltalk Today. Newman, traveltalker,ut the | wal this afternoon and evening | will present in pictures and story a journey to “Paris and Nor.h: France,” that will teau Thierry, Rheims, rinating De \\l\ch at the Summer “ontainet nd the m point of globe—Paris. In an up-to-the-minute splendid motion pictures and sti vie wil Im shown bustlin, monuments, famous restaurants and | the Latin qus artre, and for the first time, claimed, the well known treasur the Louvre in clear, close ra motion pictures. Venus de Milo ap ears o revolving pedestal and | etter views are obtained of famous | paintings and many of the | Known art treasur In a remarkable group of colored motion pictures wil | | be displayed, by living mannequins, a | col'ection ot ‘Summer, Autumn and Winter sty designs of the fore | most ators of women's attire, and an added feast of beauty will be a visit to the recently opened exposition of decorutive arts, ngh Spots.” ULIA MOODY, recorder for phono- graph ragtime records, famed the snappiest “blues” singer of her race, is a featured member of the cast of “Lucky Sambo.” the all-new, all- colored musical play at the Gavety Theater this week. She has a melodi s, rangeful voice and in popular Songs Is maid to be the proverbial -last word.” She makes several appear. nces backed by the Black Diamond speed chorus, in addition to a single act that invariably is the high ap- plause spot of the show | Another “high spot” is Jim Vaughn {and his Jazz Hounds who also have recorded popular numbers for the | Phonograph. There are 12 of them {and each can—and does—play from | three to six different instruments. Maurice Schwartz has deferred his | production of “Katerina,” and in the meanwhile he is planning an earl English presentation of ‘The Seven | Who Were Hanged.” it is ac ENGAGEMENT Flew York “Chicago. popALR LAHER'S a4 THt \HKHNNAI. SHUBERT seannng TOUAY AL week ter and Mont- | s | without a ‘good 0 o i SINCE THE ORIGINAL HAD IT FOR A YEAR/ PLAYED IT FOR MONTHS / ; 3 NOW WASHINGTON IS 70 CET cAnother CHANCE .TO SEE : AW (RFATESTW// |NTERNATIONAL SUCCE!SE s The o by Ralph sPenu, NEW, YORK cast’ { vaD FUL TOMORROW SIaf" s BELASCO Vs THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FAMOUS WAR INCIDENT Captured runner of “The Lost Battalion™” film sent back by the Germans for Maj. Whittlesey’s famous answer to the demand to surrender, at the Presi- | dent Theater next week. put in the proper mood. He watched the effect of music on the acting of Bebe Daniels in “Miss Brewster's Mil- lions,” and Ernest Torrence in “The Blind Goddess,” and stated he thought the effect was remarkable. Sousa and Ernest Torrence are old friends, and he imparted to Torrence | the important {nformation that he has just composed a new march, “Jazz America,” which was inspired by the song “Oh, Suzanna” In James Cruze's production, “The Covered Wagon.” NEW YORK SYMPEONY WALTER DAMROSCH, Conductor Poli’s Theater Tuesday, Feb. 9—4:30 GALA WAGNER PROGRAM SRIENZE RSIF. Pictures and Music. 1113 motion picture theater has been of incalculable benefit in spreading the love for music,” says Jobn Philip Sousa, the noted band- er and composer. swadays no pieture fs complete | musical score, com- both of popular and classical to suit the theme of the pic- ure. This has created an amazing aste for music among the theater- zuers that see motion pictures. “Before motion picture theaters, especially the big ones with their arge and splendidly conducted orches cune cu> « doub if 100,000 peonle u week heard orchestral music in this country. I really believe that it is this taste for music that was de- veloped inmotion picture houses ch has paved the way for the tre- mendously successful reception given to radio and radio problems.” 1sa was especially interested in the manner in which music is played on the set during the making of each scene of a motion picture, in order that the actors and actresses may be BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor ram: Overture to “Euryanthe™ Prelude to ‘“The Afternoon of a hupy). Soite trom the onera an” (Rimaky-Korsakov). Svm. 'in ¢ minor. Op. 68 (Brahms). Poli's, Tuesday, Feb. 2—4:30 Remaining Seats Mrs. Greene’ Burcau. Broop's. 15th mnd G. posed nieces, including four ex And entire Tomnle Scne Boloists: _Delis Bal Meisle. * Cantrult Chorus from Mai it BT "or riiadetbbie. Universits "of rn-u-ylunl. Glee Club. sale Mrs. Greene's Bareau, Drosp's. 15ih nd G: . G103, AN el \;/?, WARDMAN THEATER| “Wardman Park Hotel : A {ENTRANCE THAOUGH MOTEL LOGD (Weber): Company Presents “Enter Madame” A Sparkling Comedy Week of January 3lst Evenings, 7 WASHINGTON Londcn KEPT IT 8 MONTHS Baltimere ‘RAN IT 5 WEEK d JAS! WLELLIOTTS BEI.ISGO - \ MONDAY NIGHT FUNNIEST = - +SHOWOovEARTH NEXT WEEK BIGGEST SEXSATION OF <EASON \N[ACT. s NIGHT mn h\‘~ WED. & SAT. Spienuii Lusi—Exoiic Musie & ”lfl'" SEA DANCERS oming_ Actor 8 Monthe o’ New Snd' Direct ‘trdm 3 'Sa Al ALEX GERBER FRESENTS WELDER SISTERS & CO. MURRAY LUBIT BOB LEWIS —~WITH— STAGED BY FRANCIS WELDON THE INTERNATIONAL CYNIO BERT WALTON PRESENTS HIS \ IN TWO FRANK DIXON & COMPANY “By Appelstment”—By RECK & RECTOR “Boelety Entertainers” “You'll Do the Same Thing to Someone Else” BILLY CREEDON ARTHUR PINNAS ORIGINAL IDEA EPISODES Wm. Anthony McGulre WALSH, DALEY & WA_SH “Harmony Funsters™ s PHOTOPLAY—ALWAYS FIRST TIME SHOWN = “BRIGHT A Sparkling Eomance of B: ‘fO ENCOURAGE FAl Children’s Admissions r 12 Years—Accompanied by Adult—Week Days Only Matinees, 15c¢; Evenmgs, 25c U: ANY SEAT CHARLES RAY AND PAULINE STARKE ANNOUN LIGHTS” and Main Street, Featuring CEMENT MILY ATTENDANCE THE HOUSE JANUARY 31, 1926 —PART Rise of a Producer. ROHALIP} STEWART, producer of “The Show Off,” the comedy that comes to town tomorrow night, had a hunch to fame purely her own. Unlike most romantic stories of the theater, Miss Stewart did not yearn 0 be an actress; neither did she give 1 whoop about anything connected with the theater. Her entrance into the mystic realms )f the stage was virtually forced upon her way back in 1908, when blindness hreatened her father, who was then perating a chain of theaters in Texas, and Miss Stewart cut her education short in order to read his mail and answer his letters. Then she assumed more important duties, and presently made herself so useful that when her facher hied himself to Chicago for a better selection of variety acts, she vas taken along to help in the booking. the Orpheum Circuit was not asleep it the proverbial switch. Those in *harge recognized Miss Stewart's abil- ty and proceeded to pluck her from under her father's wing by offering her a julqy, fat job—which she at »noe accepued. That the choice was a wise one is evidenced by the fact that | Chicago proved too small for her. J. J. Murdock of the Keith office brought her to New York in 1911 and placed her in supreme command of i1l the Southern booking for the United Booking Office. Followers of h: woman movement might be inter- ested to kmow that Rosalle Siewart us he firsc of her sex intrusted with the responsillity of booking vauue- ‘wis wor S0 large a cireuit. This, however, was .-~ from satis- tying to the ambitious sliss Stewart, who teamed up with the late May Tully in 1914 in a partnership that ‘esulted in many fine offerings for the varieties. But always there lav “in n her heart the cherished, it stified, ambition to boldly present en- (erta.nments that ran over a period of hree acts. She formed a new partnership with the late Bert French in 1923. Mr. French had already achieved an en- iable reputation s a director of en- sembles and dance numbers for musi- -al comedy, but for a time both were oontent to produce only for vaudeville George Kelly appeared at this time with' some clever varlety skits and thay were produced with more than | the usual success. This served as an | encouragement both to the firm of Stewart & French and 4o George Kelly | mim MUTUAL A Wow of a Time for SUNDAY SAVE ME A SEAT, JACK And a Gang of the Sweetest (1 They Are thr himself, and both decided to take a dip into the legitimate, Stewart & French as producers and Kelly as playwrigh The result was “The Torch Bearers a brilliant satire on the it movement. ‘‘Meet the Wifo, Starhing, followed soon after. The biggest success, howeve: not come until “The Show Off, comedy by George Kelly, which really placed the firm in the foremost rank of play producers. A polgnant touch was added to the glitter of this new achlevement by the unexpected death of sert French, then quite a young man and at the pinnacle of his own personal success in_the field of musical comedy. Rosalie Stewart carried on, however. She not only triumphantly bore “The Show Oft” through & run of 76 weeks in New York, but crossed the ocean and invaded London with the comedy Then she took the play to Chicag: and before the curtain had rung down n another season another company luunched for the Pacific CoasL s season three companies took to Theirva: g Took the Alrt HUNGRY goat created & near- panic at the United Studios re cently, ruined a perfectly good scene in Norma Talmadge's First National pleture. “Kiki,” and cost Oliver Marsh, chief cameraman, & new automobile tire. Marsh had his new automobile parked near the set, a reproduction o: a street in Paris. While Miss Tal madge as & French street gamin and hundreds of extras were enacting one of the higgest scenes, an explosion threw the company into confusiom. Paris gendarmes, taxi drivers, shop. pers and others forgot their roies and rushed out of camera range. Direcior Clarence Brown, who final \y restored order, discovered that a stray goat, supposed to be working on onother set, had tried to eat a tire on Marsh's new car. The animal didn't know what happened after it nibbled through the outer casing. The blow- out hurled Mr. Goat several feet, and he lay stunned for 10 minutes, with shreds of tire hanging from his PRESENTING BURLESK AS IT SHOULD BE whiskers. A jousting tournament, with mount- ed knights in armor, forms an out [HEAMRE | essu, | WHEN Wi OFFER GIGGLES WITH LEW XELLY (HIMSELF) Boys Inte Maay SEE THE GIRLS ON OUR NEW ILLUMINATED RUNWAYS ! Every Nite is » Bie Nite—Get up s party—a better time cannot about melwwhflo—‘bemct’h ta'k ng Nites—they our Special We Thursday THE (ADITAT’T Novslty Featsre BUPTOnt The Greateat Enigme MERCEDES "'“"‘w 'gm‘:“ sumam' Por Big end Heerty Laughs Bert Fitzgibbon And_Brother Lew The Original Daffydil_ . 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THREE EVENINGS AND MATINEE Tuesday, Wednesday & Saturday Evenings, 8 o’Clock Saturday Matinee, 2 o’Clock. Feb. 9, 10, 13 WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM Tues. Eve., OTELLO (in Italian) Raisa, Van Gordon, Rimini, Marshall, etc. Wed. Eve., LOUISE (in French) Mary Garden, Annseau (the great French tenor), Baklanoff, upedlny Sat. Matinee, CARMEN (in French) Sat. Eve. RIGOLETTO (in Italian) All-Star Cast, Mason, Hackett, Ruffo, etc. Orchestra 65—Enti; Equipment Chomue :5. 'lncldenhl D::usntn.d‘gorpu de Ballet Single Prices—$7, $6, $8, $4, $3, Plus Tax. Mr-.Gn-cuBmDnopl, AMUSEMENTS. standing part of “The Pllsen,” which has just pleted In Hollywood " for A bastian Productions, with PPaul Powell as director, and a cast which includes Anlta Stewart, ge Sidney, My Stedman, Allan Forrest, Otis Hurlan and Josephine Norma: Prince of Milton Sills and Pen Women. ILTON SILLS, the First National screen star, will be the honer guest of the Washington branch of the League of American Pen Womer at the annual bull to be given in the sayflower Hoel Wednes wald is sald to show George Sid Mr. in :’alls from horseback that are o ually beautiful sequenc throne room of 1 cluding an elaborate marriage mony. work of the fonal dapart Harriet ment of the Crand: i st yeas ley Locher, director ke to the radlo audience through tation WRC as the first film star tc “Crandall Saturday Nighter : | Locher, Incidentally former president of the leagur. PRESIDENT THEATEN Beginning Sunday, February 7th. Matinee Daily. THE W~o1 0’S MOST ASTOUNDING PICTURE Pauline Starke s to be featured a new Elinor Glyn called Blindness.” KOMANCE AND REALITY RE-ENACIc. BY THE HEROES THEMSELVES ‘Go-to-Hell” Whittlesey, Maj. Corporal Cepagli Private Munson, Krotoshinsky, and hundreds of others, with a big cast of motion picture stars. LAUGHING-EYED HEROES—THEY FACED DANGER WITH A SMILE. 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JOHN CORT Offers The Sparkling Musical Comedy ‘SUZANNE PHYLIS CLEVELAND FEON VANMAR JOHN CANTWELL DODSON MITCHELL ADORA ANDREWS NICX LONG, Jr. JOSEPH SELMAN EVELYN BENNETT RU'OFF & ELTOY WIYNT & WARRFN And a Chorns of Brosdway Beauties—Augmented Orchestra Stage. 3 JUL N 4l Cactt ZIMBALIST National, Thursday, Feb. 11. Tickets $2.50, $2.00, §' $1.00. T. Arthur Smith Burean, 1330 G St., in KITT" H Eve. at 8:15m40c. COM. TOMORROW, Feb. 1st EDWARD LANGFORD OFFERS ¥OU Wash ngicn’s Favorite Musical Queen GONZELLE WHITE AND HEE FAMOUS . JAZZ BAND “ACES 3 QUEENS”| HER 60—PEOPLE—60 20—Gertrude Harlem Girls—20 NOTHING LIKE IT "'VER SEEN BEFORE EVENING, TRAVEL TALKS Matinee Tues., Thurs."& Sat. T at Jth St Nw. 25c. WEEK