Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1926, Page 67

[meer | The Sundlay Sha® [womoric ] Part 3—14 Pages WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1926. HARRISON Wardwan Park Theater How to picl( a Goodfi lslay. “WHEN Ring Lardner wrote ‘How | others equally populir aave been | o Wetteis: Shot Stbis vs| turned down by smart managers = T Tofeent Y s The Poor Nut' met with rebuffs in | Patterson MeNutt, “the Great Neck | the uffices of five of the leading pro- | humorist had under his belt, so to| ducers of New York. [ don't take By DPhilander ]o}mso‘ | | speak, a number of short stories|any particular credit for having pro- | which qualified him as an expert. |duced the Nugent comedy, rexcapt may bhe said to Washington's | ple. Cities of a more commercial 5 g credit that in theater patronage | type may be expected to provide au- | - . 4 4 | “With only one successful produc- | that 1 figured it was the kind of a i riiates msnally iniiabor oYl diehcee s it Bt ie Fiheir Aice fas i i . z o tion to my credit. I'm often asked | play I'd like to produce. he clean-cut, competent cndeavor, | rough as possible. % - i it = . e 7 3 s how should "r‘l_@ go about it to ples here are a few popular beliefs whether in the selection of musical | ok ! § 7 - , ; ’ V. " CHUt T game. With the ald of| Besed on false founaations. . Oue. i ittt comeay orthe iclas: | | The®tion s iCapitalbhastdelivered . 3 * o Winchell Smith, Mary Roberts Rine- | that public taste runs in swaves. I sic~. Richard Brinsley Sheridan has | some sorrowful surprises to pro- | o ! ;s : : Atk Gnd e 6% oilecs FIF glve the Heieras with Ahat ides I Foieve heen established on a footing of rep- | ducers who assume that all publics | 4 i correct recipe for ‘How to that what the public wants all the utation which makes him a modern|are alike. “Aloma” had been_so| « 3 " G 4 i 3 e Successful Play.’ 8 time is a good play, regardless of popular favorite. For a long time|prosperous in other communities | z 4 | “l:“"h"!l -\ml_'h’;\'h'h in my ',’M.”,' type. 5 g it was customary to regard him | that it was the intention at first n»} :';‘ iz :::;\‘fbl,:'llivvll;";"‘:'1(“jl"{': \X')" ::‘f @ _\r';v:-‘ uf”unx |r{-3~l- the _\\u;:l.: “v... a subject for research. like an an-|book it for a two weeks' engage- g play is like a foot ball or base ball| ‘Under Fire: After that there was cient tomb, with the desire of renew- |ment. A prudent second thought | P : . ime. That is. it should have in 1t|a flood of poor war plavs shich acquaintance with more or less |prevented this strain on personal | somebody for whom or against whom | failed to catch on with the public Chaic splendors of wit. Now Sher. | patience. A Washington public may | and C ORNELIUS® QODDY~ Nafional May Collins Coming. an audience may root Everybody. or almost everyhody. said il ik stk Lait e - RD SG et e o Y ; i “John Golden tells me that Smith | “The public won't stand for any mor. L o e e e L i v MY COLLINS, the young actress | often comes back to him with a play | flag waving and homb tossing stuff” : who achieved a brilliant success | he has been asked to read with the| But what happened when ‘Civilian | more discussed and appreciated than | cause of them Want a New Warfield INCE the announcement that search Wdliigon A Gusll Town, For a Good play as Julia in “The Rivals” and as Lady | report that up to a certain point he| Clothes.” “The Famous Mrs. Fair' and Teazle in “The School for Scandal” in | rooted vociferously for the leading|‘What Price Glory? came along? ] anv nf the current dramatists. One | | : | % recent all-star revivals of the Richard | character, but that after that he lost & a newcomer in the producing | of the Sheridan fascinations lies inj the contrast of character types. ex- ceedingly striking, vet attained with- Brinsley Sheridan comedy classics, interest in him or her. Smith al-|field, I'd like all playwrights to un joined Cyril Maude and will ways advises against the production | derstand that I'm not looking for out resort to caricature, and affords f i Al e here when that distinguished English | of that kind of play Ebr iotihe rinpon ke pa ol e s o Ly o e actor makes his farewell appearances| “Babe Ruth is a dramatic charac- | is a good play. ach ber of the cast il e s R next week ter. Fans flock to the Yankee Sta- ve learned one thing from “The MDA ”*'"; e ‘m‘:“_,. - ‘;(m},‘ role in “The Music ; It will be quite a change from the [ dium to see him play, because they|Poor Nut.” and that is if you can't . * BRI T nor!d—‘ v | stilted formality of the old plays to | get almost as much kick out of see- | get u dosired effect with people you + As this city continues to grow we| famous plavs purchased from David the essentially modern flapper she will | ing him fan as seeing him_pole one | can't et it at all. In other words may hope in a few vears to see en- m";‘):;" IA@';L""‘";“”""}; ;"’ said to play with Mr. Maude in the Michael | over the right-field fence. Whatever | mechanical effects have pree gagements for standard plays fre- | ofq:0° Sl ed:at the f st Coast Arlen comedy he doex is dramatic. Those who are ! little 10 do with the successful « iently iextended beyond ‘the dimitas | 5 £ jese xange from the L2 . s Sl pulling against the Babe vell glee-|ing of a production. In the second f’;‘,‘,"f n“- m\“, "\;19 Thichacalrenay frankly impossible to those from ac- ¥ : . = fully when he fractures nothing more | act of “Phe Poor Nut we tried voice s . k. 1 ¥ ady | tors considered likely to have. in some : e E substantial than the atmosphere. amplifiers 10 create the illusion of heen done in a number of instances | measure, the necessary qualifications. > * . 3 i ber of La Scala. Milan, Chicago.| “Kour plays can be compared to|much excitement and a biz crowd for motion pictures and musical | Prominent among these are .fohn 4 ; | Metropolitan and Scotti grand opera | four suits of clothes. Al of the suits | They fAonped i k) i <hows. “The Student Prince” enters | Barrymore, Alec Francis, Henry B, companies. | may be all wool. and vet only one of ey Roberts Rinehart told me Walthall and George Sidney 5 . . The international equestrian comed- | the' four, the purchaser thinks, will t the best wayv to ‘zet’ an audi From the outset it was underatood 4 i fan, “Poodles” Hanneford. will be seen | Jook weli on him. It is the same with | ence is to excite the imagination of T dernization of a story long since | that the quest would he a most diff 4 4 ;i in “Horse Nonsense” with a large % THat iudtence fiodennizationiof 2 story lonk Gice cult one. ' Belasco realized this. In ’ . . supporting company. i well known along Broadway “How do I pick # successful play ar to theaterg 1 tt M conference with Fox officials he ex id : 5 b Others will include Stan Staniey successes like ‘Is Zat So? and | “Oh, gee! Do vou know? 3 to the work of Dorothy Donnelly | pressed regret that Warfield was un. 1 i 5 whose offering is laughter as a tonfe. - — and Sigmund Romberg m the del il Y & g ” in “In the Audience from 1908 to | gate and too often neglected element ‘v‘fi;:]’d. one of Inu- nost m‘m-m,\ & ! 19. Henry B. Toomer and Esther . ©of song construction in connection |actors this country has ever produced, - : 4 Day in a new comedy, “A Very Bad t o T “Uime o " entertaimment. | had voce and something else. That Cold”; written by Frances Nordstrom | n e (o) 1 A b Lype 5 gnificant something else was facial and based on a story by Kennett | Songs Without Words” is a ver s el s le for the old inst 'Y |expression. In “The Music Master Harris; Paco Cansino, of the famous striking title for the old instrumental | David Warfield could make you weep Cansino family. with Juanita, « talent- 4 e collection. Musical shows with | merely by twitching the muscles of his ed Spanish girl. in a diversified pro. | PEARL EATON neither words nor music worth con- (face. In “The Auctioneer” he could gram of dances, assisted by a com- | have been an abundant |move you to tears by the mere hunch- v . as by | ave been an al 2 2 % p . : ireeof adfcss on both sides of |IN& of the shoulders and a murmured pany; juggling. with a new twist, bY | \yincnell Smith has sailed for Lon the orchestra. The association of [¥ord: It was virtually the same in lin, and the Zelda brothers with | Go" o Work with Michael Arlen on|sets for Evrelnoft's “The Chief Thing {hese names has produced some of |Lne Grand Army Man® and “The f | his new play, “What Fun Frenchmen | which the Theater Guild will shortly v 5 : # » “Unique _Aerial Frolics,” also an : ] Return of Peter Grimm. MAPGA]?ET u Fre Have. put into rehearsal in New York the most satisfactory entertainment ! [ was Warfield's inimitable artistry Aesop’s Fable, Topics of the Day and | JHcred in recent \va,\l, ,Imd ey | S e ol tleric i (el [ w - the Pathe New Lucille Watson will play Mrs. Alving | Anita Loos’ book, “Gentlemen, Pre have commanded nnbounded patron- | that made this humble San Franciscan pAM T E US‘C*H— ~ L t —_ in the Actors’ Theater's (New York)| fer Rlondes,” which she has dry and applause, while one speci- | renowned arie "’mJe Lj EMRL—"Pompadour Ballet.” l!m'l)u'nmmx revi of “Ghosts.” tized with the ince of John on of slapdash melody and hit-or- - Hundreds would hk: to imitate | This week's bill at the Earle The- | n. 1€ to have its initial presenta miss rhyming after another has tod- | him—but who can do it? This is the ter, beginning this afternoon, will be ‘Nirvana,” by John Howard Faster week, but will not reach 1 Caway to it own limping |Problem confronting Kox officialx headlined by the Albertina Rasch | son, it is said, will open in New New York until the Fall. Producer to f 12 ge i . : o ”» | “Pompadour Rallet,” one of the most | this weck Sel is on the hunt for a Another Summer Stock. FOLKS who | s B & LKS who love the feel of back particular type of play. All I npon another weck and announces no definite time limit. The charming sister of Mary matinees of ““Twelfth Night and “The Zaton, is now with “Sunny | Merry Wives of Windsor." Serge Soudeikin is designing the . Sigreaoc C t Att t varieties, featuring Noree, supported | May Collins, recently seen as Lady = for the stage. Rachel Crothers. not [, o h0mas oA that tution ot ithe wa “The o ) Andy Rice, jr.. Nono Otero, the De | Charming People.” production is successtul he will follow g innounced. has prompted that organ- | vitation of the ement of “The fan o Nanol O | le fon i successul e will fol ontent with heing recognized as the Lization to continue for an indefinite | Poor Nut.” the college comedy playing | At the Theaters This Week. | l‘nl;m"F:flm;’le\ Ml e, Fied| Anansieike vave béen completed ‘\'.\:.\"l.:‘.,,.f:.lv"@ o e Sardou of Main sireet or the Dunias |period at Wardman, Parkc Theater. and |at the National Theater, (o come down | | NATIONAL—"The Poor Nut,” comedy. Opens tomorrow cvening. | |and. Mae® Henry In' “Alwavs in the | for Ina Claire in ~The Las of 3rs. | sl letate e Jesiny e RS el b Bt ensor || 5 = . | :LASCO—Eva Galli i o Ibs v ens | Air; Wright and Marion, eccentric | Cheney,” to appear in Paris after th Amelia_Gardner, Lyster Chambers GdE b bEcoine @ producer i duex fyand o/ Spring i ksinmes meascn | sctt onnilving Jiio fack fincetiscens BP.LQ:X(‘.‘;(: e LesGalicanciinibwo Tusenplays. s Opensitomorrowi oo SIREE o ot fis e YRAUTE | gl =il i NGWE S YRR SIMER | WAl i Tl esmaT haveabecn loits a comedy entitled “Charm,” by | of this company iIn the little playhouse ‘"‘ the second act. NEITE e e . 1 {rels”; Thomas Fullmer and Danny | means that Paris probably won't get |added to the cast of “The Trouper.’ POLI'S—“The Student Prince,” operetta. Performance this evening. | Barrett in “Moonlight in Killarney,” | it for some time. which opens in New York March & WARDMAN PARK—"Dulc |a dainty playlet: Ray Hughes in “The = | et oc itloos % lon the hill. That is just what they are now urged | i }\”L’:a‘:f},i\'\’\'}:ltl‘{rl\rl\:v‘\mh: Ruth Harrison's work with the [to do—the more the merrier. A bid | ELIE s A B Herbert players has established her as | has been extended by Patterson Mec- i Ray H 1 I sdtsito: cillidare. . chiss seseon i ; g h : f s - all Guy b ting, and| Margalo Gillmore, this season in| KR, e akes a group of people N‘im 'I"i\ | an actress of ability in both emotional | Nutt, producer of the show. especially | —*Mellie” Dunham, vaudeville. Opens this afternoon. ,P\v,f.l,lmn\;',‘,. and Baufman in “The Radle | “The Green Hat.” has sig n- | fl.“.“",,’:"fi! :[,” e f,‘#’\-;\‘\ i".\"’v'\' irom circles of plain cvery-day life [and comedy roles, and Parker Fen- |to members of amateur and little the- | BB ombaHBaIRE 161 & vabdevile. - Obers. e srleriacs R A kil sl he | (ract Wit the Thenter Gutid caling | Fareymere il make her Sew, Yo : ; < 0 by Alexander Arons or all next seaso one or various STRAND—Lcon's Death-Ray Gun, vaudeville. Opens this afternoon. | |Eiyen also b lexander Avone - | S0 fetions GAYETY—"Silk Stocking Revue.” burlesque. Opens this aiternoon. “hat highly accomplished writer " comedy. Opens tomorrow evening. “Easter.” The Stagers will make the = production and on the same bill will The Frohman Company will make | be Joseph Conrad’s plece “One Day a Spring production of “The Duchess [ More.” Though popular in Europe of Elba,” by Rudolph Lothar. The |neither play, it is said. has been done American version has been made by |in America. Hapwood, and Florence Larri nd <hows them struggling to strike [ nelly is still upholding his reputation |ater groups in this city to avail them- pace for which their customs and |as a capable leading man. Both will | selves of this opportunity for a trip be- manners lcave them entir unfit- | continue with the company, in ad- | hind the footlights without the at. 4 o™ s “fall of laughs, but the |dition to others who have become |tendant worries of parts and insistent | ughs are obtained by obvious de- |PeRular favorites. ) i i etk aneraats ; 2 w > T ® : it o 2 A number of the newest plays re Incidentally, acrangements are m: NATIONAL—“The Poor Nut. featured player: Ruth Hammond, | 1ol B PR MO foaturing wer fes: ices. some of them famihiar, SOME|ja;ced for stock production are being | so that hona fide amateurs with lttle | . "5 "0 o the Jaughable Nu- | Norma Lee, Grant Mills, Cornelius i Charlie M Wl | 5 th rovel, but for the most part e t by Mr. Herb out. | TG ot 28a150 e Poor Nu aughable d Lee g worth, Charlie Murray, Walter Long. L 1em nove Part | contracted for by Mr. Herbe ut- | theater groups are accomm 4 o Keefe, Percy Helton, Con Roddy. | \Winiam V- Mong. Nigel T e | Avery howing a trace of laborious deter-|standing successes of the .-nnmv.m's“-uh seats for a performance of the | gent comedy of college life, will return fy\-pip KKramer and 100 others. Ben 'Tm_m“ "It combines humor and | more will be starred in it. Jination on the part of both play-|Winter season have been “The Devil.” | play following their appearance as|to the National Theater Monday for a st Ll P o - «right and player Tarnish.” 'The Handy Man," “The |college rooters, £o they may see (:e ek WARDMAN PARK—"Duley.” S C it s " * % % % Tady Next Door” and sroduction from both sides of the x e o = Madame." [ proseentum If you have ever come across a| “Dulcy,” the well known comedy in| STRAND—Leon's Death-Ray Gu | fellow smitten with the “inferfority | three acts, by George S. Kaufman and| | oo heath Ray Gun will head |complex,” “or if you have not. vou|Marc Connelly, will be presented to- |, CONS FEEEL AN BER GlGe and . o = Shidestarean atmirecs it hampion Maine Fiddler. “ s are due for a thrill or two from Elliott . morrow night at Wardman Park | hrtlasbns bl S Thes it e ot o bl Champ Death Ray Gun. Nugent, who wrote the play in con-(Theater by the Thomas Herhert Stock | PiCture attractions at the Strand Thea ihe mocopled 2 niot S0 TMPLERADIE A% | i i DUNEAM. Years \}/HEN Leon. who presents the |junction with J. C. Nugent, in the|Company. jrecceh i ks : fistiobt The Merchantiorivenios wH ,',‘,\,v,”,[ e i vaudeville, | Star role, John Miller, “the poor nut Booth Tarkington has written of "rT‘:nl{:fim1:,‘4;»)-,”“”\"..:'\\ S erfected his experiments in control- | The comedy of “The Poor Nut'® is|“Duley”: “It Is just a brillantly ex-| . .% jjve' woman, incased in a steel D e et . waman | entirely_spontaneous. 1t rings true. | pressed gay thought ahout some kinds |Snce 7 live woman. incased n 4 steet| e e ant o Ateel armor |scene for scene. It happens along |of human foolishness, and since a gay | Shell 5 b ichnA af (he asath oy annliReay. | g nteinjqulte pR e e nla_\]‘ thought about anything can be as i e 2ol > unfolds and builds up a climax toward | true as a gloomy thought about the | ; e e : ‘Follies” will be given as usual this [piteation to i action of 3 modIfEAtlon | the ‘end of the third act which makes | same thing. and since the gay thought |Toaulaes an absclutely fearlete woman | fine voices in songs raneing trom | EONS "L, 0¢ S L 00 ooy : : « ‘ax | you leave the theater with a healthy i< worth 10 times as much as the : y jazzy numbers to seml-classical bal-| . 1ooted. contradiction of his an th Fiboister aborate | “Now he {s making a tour of the |Steelnosed shell. and then he WaS|Gyortje in your throat. Eloomy one and is Incredibly more | {0 Pe the one person in Amarica who | jads. ar - others. while a vaudevllle in e e oo wilk 2" structure of boisterous farce. It|pincipal cittes with his old_fddle, | Fady—except for the woman. .|~ Staged by Howard Lindsay. who|dificult to express, as this play does, | can fill the bl Other vaudcvile num | terlude is promised by Armond Mon- | 108, SONECChiaver. The nucleus < difficult to understand why a play | “Gram” and a corps of New England | (. Final v ne BoCh [GUOR IR ) A | evinces a strong taste for implacable | nothing could have been more cer- | 56t Wl IFEREE FON TS SO SO Kok ”‘“:"‘ e ""f,'“".m" o the clar- [ of the new “Follies” will be taken ontaining so much laughter should| gancers whe have no use for jazz or | A ate: el KROER, COVEC B G [HCN: | realism, and presented by Patterson | tain from the outset than that ‘Duley" | PATS v, net. Eighteen chorus misses are Pl Beiich NGNS, how g 5 res i ; v vl v “ = ally . vor | Feln and Flo Tennyson in a skit. “Via | heralded as “lookers” who have been |from L cave so shallow an impression in|syncopated measures and don’t need | P G o 2ded as truly a woman | McNutt, who was co-author of “Pigs would be generally called ‘a clever| p it/ by William K. Wells: Frank | autfitted with vogte gowns and who | Plaving in Ficrida ecollection. Its characters command | them to put up novel and even thrill- | Tiip ot fear, but Leon had to prove this play deals with a phase of col-|little play.' " 2 v ; - r Nut” 3 Parker F .| Whitman with violin selections, “The | cing 4 U o aon! yut little human sympathy. The ex- | ing features in vaudeville. | Yo her that thie unbellevable properties | Iege life. “The Poor Nut" is a junior| Ruth Harrison and Parker Fennelly | 1 Jqtmer VISR SO0 S0, "0 ing and prance with i e e dggerations are pressed too far to| Probably a large majority of the | and potentialities of the death ray and who works his way through college | will have the roles of Duleinea, the |Fld nfinite Surprises.” an¢ i e oI neioniyadta tuate fool sehl AT 1| present and rising menerations mever | Spd hotentlalities of the death ray and |as handy-man-ot.all-work in the book fintrepid feminine mixer into_every- | Elsle Gelll, featured with Visser and | Wilson Players, Thursday. e o et 01 AVEIARE ML | tan iy ot the ola MANEes—nbt Sven | b Ko e T e et store attached to the University of |ane's affairs, and the over-indulgent | (omPany In an acrebatic, SMEINE And | rhe Intimate Strangers.” by Booth | E RGO IR T8, 7 the =iding waltz, the nimble polka, | gmmpine from an alrpiane at the |Ohlo. ~He suffers incurably from a |kusband. Gordon Smith. Leona Rob. | {&heing Aumber 1| Tarkington, will he presente SR e Pk SR e the dashing schottische or the grace. | height ('_’ 000 feet and walting for g | Peautifully demonstrated c of “in-|erts will be seen as Mrs. Forbes:|© ,I.‘;". Shotoplay presents Lon Chaney | Wilson Plavers, Thursday. SR M pireliused the! Amevican the ; : ful lancers, The minuet, the Vir-| parachute to open is o thrill But |feriority complex™ and firmly believes | Ruth Russell. as Angela Forbes; Rob. | 1% PREREY BIEECRIE S8 C RN b m., at ‘Wilson Normal Auditorium. | vizhts to Alberto Casella’s Halian play radoxical fact that for certain | sing’ reel, the quadrille—even the | habody. will ever know the feeling 1 |that of all the no-goods in the world fert L. Clear, as Tom Sterrett; Arthur |1 [he_ £xenitet, Cor AEIE S0 (8| Kleventh and Harvard streets north- | “ieath on a Hollday Bl Plvles of taste a farce may be entire- | fig. the bhreakdown and the rgadoon | hed when 1-glimped tnto the ahell to | Ne I8 the prince-alect, and not charm- | Rhodes, as Forbes; John Schelhaas, ¥c4%. (The Tack Bt sugborted bY | weet. Theatergoers will recall that[ o baduce it nest season too funny Saive crated snsalfons Plase | no e from e eath rax kun|ing. either. In this ‘hallueination he [as Vincent Leach, and Thomas Her:[# cast beaded by L and | his ‘comedy came to Washington in | 2 * Tt ol " | teat . call o tany v oih |is strongly supported by his frat|hert, director, as Blalr Patterson, with | l¢fee A " wm | 1921, with Billie Burke, Alfred Lunt; e i o p ] e ae e b o el | mmiEht At s Bl el Of eteRl, o t® | chiiina, swho rilas no oecaslon for PUL | Henty. the bytler, playediby: Emmet| SNOECIONR (eataresandy muste willl .5\ Glenn Hunter fithe leading xoles: | | *The Eoot Nut?lays el to beins he dusky drama that deals with | Dunham and danced by s Yankee | Lillian. owever, Lilllan is still alive, id . ¥, " 3 a 3 4 m" Yands near tropic seas has had ' hoofers. | and she has thus far suffered no I ting something over on him. His | Le Compte. complete the bill. | “"Aurora M. Poston, who directs the !Ai:‘«l :flfi..‘.‘.fl.?\.f:;}‘: ix'ifffiu.fi?fi'fxfi}' c: “Mr. Ford is as strong for dancing | jury. i a peculiar history, so far as this cityy hona i 8 o1 ? T %, concerned. Scized upon as pre- } as I am, ays old lellie, ‘and we Audiences are mystified as they see case continues hopeless until there . A e ., | piay. will play Isabel, with paul Mal- 0of o i appears upon the scene one Julla Win KEITH'S—"Mellle* Dunham., | GAYETY—"Silk Stocking Revue.” | " "ynes and John Neeb and|[te the fact that not one of the com ters, a college girl, who as a student o ! An out.of-the.usual brand_of enter-| Claudia Graves will represent the|PAny sits down in chairs throughout & limited audacity in mat. | think that everybody ought to dance. |this unbelievable - experiment _per- | ¢"0 & 008" (it Cure that John | “Mellie” Dunham, famous flddler | ainment s promised at the Gayety |younger gemeration. Others in the|the three acts. There is something frats for unimted aucaeity i taac, | He says that’ if the old-fashioned | formed, with every detall executed be- | {0 FIVRE G Supject for demon- | @nd champion of the State of Maine, | Theater this week, beginning this after- | cast “are John M. Wolcott, Artista |d0Ing every minute, and incidents ters of costume, specch and pose, | waye, “\which is the most beautiful of |fore their eves. The consummation, strating the lesson she has learned in | Who was picked by Henry Ford as the | noon, in the Harry Hastings show,|Huber, Irene Neikirk and Curtis|Crowd too quickly on each other to | terred,” a Producers’ Distributing Co | poration” production, supervised by Cecil B. De Mille, featuring Vera Rey | Grace Georze was recently request |ed to go to London to play a new The (Coburns, during their engagze- | comedy called A Widow's Cruse. ment in New York in “The Rizht Age | She could not accept owing to plans to Marry,” are isidering specizl [ for a Spring production in New York Cyril Maude has the Ameriean rights T i to “A Widow's Cruse” and may pro duce it in the early Fall is perhaps not fair to dwell on mprobability of plot as a serious player of rvare gifts. The straizht man, Ralph Stamford. is from musi o o cal comedy. The juvenile lead, Tommy | - Kongo, by Chester De Vande and Emmett, who teams in a series of ‘_""j“_“_"' "'“\l"_‘ R e ol dances and songs with Florence King. | rehearsal by Jiv, cordon Lo | the company’s soubrette; Adele Lewis, |15 A0 S ICATR ISR T and seems to pass through a solid | jnzenue, in a eycle of syncopated song | sheet of steel armor. This experiment | anq dance, and Busch sisters, with| | | | | | | | | | ave pledged themselves to unlimited old, champion fiddler of Maine toleration. Yet the sale of a book [and exponent of Henry Ford's ideas itled “Charm” to a rather dull|about “real dancing,” took his white- age hoy who desires to acquire [haired wife “Gram™ and a number of o arts of personal magnetism | other Pown East steppers to New ccems a rather + foundation | York and immediately proceeded to anon which ta establish so elaborate | Create a succession of sensatlons. Florenz Ziegfeld announces the genee to <hare in his own imagina- tion the mental attitudes implied by | dialogne and action. It is a only those plays which could show|ay Steps, were to be revived, more | the actual firing of the woman in the | (78008 e, SO SER JRC (ETTITE 0 | perfect type of old-time violin mu- | “Silk Stocking Revue,” sponsored by | Woedsone. Miss Clelia Fioravanti of | 2llow of any rest come touch of genuine idca or sug-|people would dance than are dancing | shell through the solid sheet of steel armor, is declared without a parallel “You know a lot of allright folks|in the annuals of sclentific achieve- ment. gest human impulse toward some | now higher plane of thought have been well attended. Reports of the most | think these new jazz hugging dances may be cast off as a snake casts off its skin by inducting a superior complex into the consciousness of the victim. The fun begins from a new angle |the minute Julla starts in on the sician, with “Gram” and a bunch of the home folks from Norway, Me. will entertain twice daily at Keith's as this week's headliner. “Mellie” | will “do his stuff” amid quaint, rustic | the late Mr. Hastings' widow, who made the production after jthat im- presario’s death. Liong a performer and later her hu: band’s assistant in the production end, the Katherine B. Heald Studio, will sing. The Wilson Players have been put- ting on good plays for four vears and hold & high place in the little theater Elliott Nugent is obsessed with the charm of “No. 13.” For this is his lucky number. The three plays in which this voung actor has plaved il cpartures from the human |are. well, a bit unmodest, and they b R faring departu ! won't dance them or let their children . Ray Goetz is due in New York |“poor nut” with her stunts of psycho- | Surroundings, and will, no doubt, thrill | Mrs. Hastings has sent on tour a show | groups of Washington. Their pre.| were all opened on the 13th play habit of wearing "‘,"‘"Yfl "‘:‘f”‘r‘r"f\“' dance them—if they can prevent it. |this week from Havre, having com. |something to drag the inferlority | the people of Washington as he has |that is making hox.office and attend. | sentations inchude ~Mr. Pim Passes |opened on the 13th, as did “Kemns Y0 Rronse EyEn i TIHpIC O AN The square dances, too, are all more | pleted arrangements for the coming thing out of the bewildered and |those in New York and Boston. ance historv on the Columbia circuit. | By,” *“Duley” and “The Country Nugent's greatest success. Then. in here. An analysis of the population ciahle and jolly than the sort of of Raquel Meller in April. He is also | shocked freshman Supporting the headliner will be the Heading the fun section is Frank Consin.” order to clinch the spell. “The Poor Washinaten irom the viewpoint Wt of couple hringing eontricts and the manu- Patterson MeNutt has brought hiz | American dramatic soprano. Aliee X. Silk, . versatile and clever tramp The plavers earry on their worl nn- Nut™ wis opened on Good Friday. the the theater roy s a hizh per- t le. T find. never saw | script of “Mozit.” in which Yvonne complete New York east with him, | Gentle, who makes her Washington character, and, as a foil for his droll % I nspices of the Columl 13 o the worst theatrieal dav in ihe wiage of reading and studious peozfor wig Printerops is now playing in Pagige - § Which includes Elliott Nygent, the.dgbut. she has been a valued meny ) erivs, Frapk Marlin, Gl 4 Ch@FeeHer | Lisights Community Centes, ‘n‘ e years Sae =