Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 60

2 - AMUSEMENTS. Celebmtles Commg‘ Here. then she has appeared in numerous productions. She has played stock engagements throughout Massachu- setts, New York, Colorado, Ohio and Virginia. Her last appearance in Washington was as the much-be- lenguered wife in ‘“The Potters.” Another interesting addition to the cast {s Percy Winter, son of the dis- tinguished critic and commentator, William Winter, and in his own right an actor of character parts known from coast to coast. Still & third {8 Charles Hampden, who began his professional career in England with Cyril Maudé, rgmained under varfous managements® for 10 vears in London, then switched to a season in grand opera, which musical flight was ended when he toured the | country Jane Cowl in * Time" milin’ Through. 1924, at the Belasco here, he was the lead, John Cartaret, in “Smilin’ Through,” with Miss Cowl. He has also played with Marjorie Rambeau, under the A. H. Woods banner; | ducted his own company for a season | in Toronto, and is versed in a wide va- riety of parts, from Hamlet and lago to hm u-med' Comedy ---Wl’lat Is It7 In some “comedy VW HEN (he National Theater Play ers open their second annual sea the Natiol ster Monday. in “The Alarm Clock™ there will be a distinguished newcomer in the cast. Adelaide Hibbard is her name, and more than ordinary interest centers around her because of her social back- und and the prominence attending her debut some years ago at the Som erville Theater in Boston, when the Roston papers next day devoted first- page articles to the histrionic talents | of one of Boston's “first ladies.” Mrs. Hibbard was the wife of Bos- ton’s last Republican mayor. Not long after hie retirement he died, and his widow’s re-entry into the world, from which she had retired for the period of mourning, was made via the stage do son at “I had had some experience, I knew 1 could act,” says Mrs. Hibbard, “and T simply had to earn my own living. ich is the way she puts it, without | any persifiage about art. That was 15 vears ago. Since then M Hib- bard has ripened into an actress of fine attainments Her debut was "I in_“The Chorus show _Since made as Lady have become euphonious. ramount places they are now called ulations. it [constructors,” and the new title has nd corners | served (o reveal their limitations, be- It van- |cause comedy can't be constructed. them | It is either inherent or spontaneous. it.| The search for a laugh has reached | | the point where the supremacy of the | | matinee idol is threatened. Youth and | physical beauty are no longer prime requisites, What's the answer? |but here's a guess. Men who have heen knocked about by life, have Comedy is the mo€t soughtafter |known worry and cares beyond the thing in entertainment tod: The |average, have retalned their ability to world wants to laugh, it seems. And smile. They can still laugh at them- the movies cater to the world. Laugh |selves and the world, but they don't and the world laughs with vou, doesn't |do it derisively. They do it with Apply to pictures. It often laughs at | sympathy and understanding, and the you, when You intended to be serious. | world likes it In recent years “gag’ men have| Comedy and tragedy have been heen sitting around sets in motion | walking with them through life and picture studios in increasing numbers | they know each other. It remained suggesting comic situations. As their | for motion picture directors and pro- tmportance has increased their tities | ducers to discover the pals together: Michael Arlen Agam ! Blossom Seeley. | BUOSSOM SEELEY, perpetrator of ARLEN, whose ncer of Paris.” has 1 Ja melodies, talking: “I'm will: heen screened. has had a .\»Z;x:u_ 1| g ‘to bet” sav Blossom, “that no literary career. llis mnovel, " | one puts more hard work into a space Green Hat.” has sold over 100,000 | niiites $hin: I 06 copies. : lat ana |, "Vaudeville is a mater of concen His pla Gregn i j trated effort, mental and physical. 1f hese Charming Ieople,” have plaved | (o siop working for one second you to capacity audiences wherever they | i’ oo have been enacted. |7 "I is alwo largely But to revert to Mr. Arlen. It was | geling personality. It is the artist he of whom a e British eritle | wpo has sufficlent personal mag said, in a general review, t ANY | petism to hold the undivided attention one ‘who had read his most popular | novels Arlen was defies the analyst, declares | Jeraunld of has no rules and is continually darting and grinning at its pursu ishes into thin air and flat, and anon they stumble over hold it tightly for a space, & ag 1t is gone. The genius whe can ation is funny, that isn't: this person is a scream, that one is mildly mirth- provokine would be worth millions to any movie producer ComupY 1. M It leaves situ say this Nobody knows, story u ICHAEL N “The question of h o | of every member of the uudience who obviously “every ) gycceeds in the two-a-day. Perfection other inch a gentleman, { of talent is frequently a secondary is- America has taken no such nasty | gue. It is often personality first, then THE PercY WINTER. The Moving Picture By Robert E. Sherwood Tumi Holly- ["WO of the most naries in the wood have been spr through the soft coal smoke of New York City during the past two weeks. And 1 have been privileged to = important heavens of an Douglas Fairbanks, who came for the opening of “The Black Pirate”; the other Harold Lloyd, who brought with him the first print of his latest comedy, “For Heaven's Sake.” Doug is his usual ous self, terribly enthus everything—and with good reason, “The Black Pirate’” has proved itself a substantial financial success in New York and in London as well. At the Selwyn Theater, in New York, it is raking in some $22,000 in gross re ceipts every week, which is phenom enal business On April 3 Doug and Mary for tion in, Kurope although “vacation” is hardly the word, as they are bound to be on display wherever they go. Their admirers alwayvs man- | age to find them out and shower them with attention—which is gratifying, of course, but at times inconvenient Never having been worrled by exce: slve popularity, 1 don't know what it feels like; but I should think that the thrill would occasionally signs of wearing o It doesn’t seem to bother the gent Doug much. He walks about the | range. One s is bronzed, strenu astic will sail | digs at the voung fictonist. On the | accomplishment. contrary, he has been easfly the most | o establish personal interest you lionlzed figure of the among the | have to work from the moment you Hteratti. 1t has poked at deal nf\\(p]\ on the stage until you leave fngenuous fun at him no barbed By work I mean work! You have | sarcasms. 10 concentrate ‘every atom of yout| bably the most energy in attracting and entertaining raillery hurled at him in New York | the individual members of your au- was uttered by Irvin & Cobb at a | dience. The slightest slackening of | dinner in Arlen’s honor. During the | your effort and the act is as good | course of his remarks Cobb declared |as thrown away. In legitimate pro. that he took no stock in the wild tale | ductions, a star has more than a that Arlen was an Armenian. “I have | single opportunity to make good. A | known him for more than an hour,” | flop in one scene can be righted in said he. “and he hasn’t vet tried to | the next. Vaudeville is another story. sell m» a rug!” | An artist has a few minutes to go It is considered out and make good and if he or she the discretion and should fail that’s the end of it. There santell that in his 1s no second chance.” he Dancer of I’ the Arlen flavor of the Arlen pla tals of his cha vea ag hut amusing bit of a_high tribute to the ability of Alf pictn tion of | he has retained | 1s well as the bhasis and the fundamen- terization | Schedule. sing t vear includes: pictures picture: Douglas | tudolph \ sema Talmadge on, two ple tho pictur three | Dolores Costello. | DOLORES COSTELLO, now star ring in “Bride of the Storm,” had | frequently played in pictures as a | | chiid She and her . United Artists’ HE United schedule for the ne Mary Pickford in Charlie Chaplin, one Fairhanks, one picture entino! two pictures; N two pictures; Buster K tures; John Barrymore, sister Helene, daugh ters of the old-time screen idol, Mau | vice Costello, luter sought the stage s 4 medium of expression and formed 1 dancing teum with the George \White | ndals.” ere she wax discovered by a Warner Brothers representative, : ! 4 and signed a long-term contruct. Samuel Goldwyn Productions, S Tor L CtiarEabL. & niratlatiteitoritn P“;”""l* The Sea Beast,” starring John Bar- Of_these 35 fims, 0. fak: definitely rvmore, won her stardom overnight scheduled for release are. | “Mannequin” and ““The Little Irish Mary Pickford's “Sparrows.; Charlie | G1r]" were her next pictures. cus”: Douglas Fair- | ck Pirate”; Rudolph | he Son of the Sheik™ Imadge’'s “The G den of amuel Goldwyrn’'s tella The Winning Barbara and “Beauty and the Beast.' Roland Wesi production of two | World Laugh Over Joke. From the Manchester Guardian ish efforts at humor turn prin- cipally on kisses, unlucky bete, un- killed zolfers, drankards and mothers- inlaw. Frenchmen laugh at jokes on will not pro- | soldiers and nurses, frivolous wives, duce for United Artists Corporation. (German. tourists, Government matches A rather dramatic disclosure was and mothers-in-law. made in this connection to the effect | The German's pat objects of derision that the popular screen comedienne |are the professor who forgets his um- will quit the films to reside with her |brella, the miss who worships army hushand, Capt. Alastair William | officers, the cook’s lover, the husband Mackintosh in England, after her next | without a latchkey and mothers-in- three piciures. law. The_ Itallan favorites are the overfed cleric, the Neapolitan cabby, | women's hats and mothers-in-law. Americans laugh at almost any- thing, but their chief face contorters are the common man squashed by a trust, the stolid Englishman, whisky labeled lemonade, Italian organ grind- ers, cheap motor cars and-yes, the | |last item on all the other lists, Dallas Worth the of and Talmadge e Fame to the Unknown. HE search for leading male role sides,” James Cru tious motion picture unknow: actor, (' handsome young New won the coveted position of a score of nationally known actors. The part is thought to be probably the most important role of the motlon picture year, IFarrell was born in Onset Bay, is a graduate of Boston University and ob- talned his first pteture work as an extra pluver at the Paramount studlo in Hollywoud. a boy to play the “Old Iron- preten 110 an almost Farrell, glunder who over u tield in most Finds No Error in Moon. | From the Living Age For u long time It Las been observed that the moon is frequently shead of time, and sometimes hehind time, in veaching the position ussigned her in the heavens by astronomers. Now | comes Dr. Innes, director of the Union Observatory, South Africg, to suggest | |in the Astrononische Nachrichten that | the earth is at fault. Our clocks ave | adjusted to the rate of our own pian. et’s rotation, which undergoes a slight alternate diminution and increase. This, Dr. Innes believes.. leads to an error, not in the moon, but in stand- |ardized clocks, Unimportant, if True. PP you know George Bancroft two enlisted ever Annapolis Allan Dwan of mathematics Richard Dix once worked in a bank? Noah Beery owns the largest stable Hollywood? ning was once an auto- one of the men appointed to was once a professor “Not Much Difference.” From the Toronto Globe Mother (to her extravagant daugh- ter)—Grandmother used to put her money into old woolen stockings. Daughter—And [ put mine into new There’s not much Malcolm St. Clair ic the tallest di rector in the film industry? Wallace Beery was once tmpersonator? a female | | silk stockings. difference. Ruby Norton, internationally fa- | mous as a singer of American songs and this week headlining here in | vaudeville ut the Farle, was chosen to play Ophelia in a musical burlesque of “Hamlet” at «u recent Friars | Frollc in New York. 7To esty Shakespeare's fumortal drama of the melancholy Dane may or muy not be sucrilege, but Ruby Norton was & riot | | | | | | | skt 1 | | Next Week's Photoplays COLUMBIA — Marion Davies m “Beverly of Graustark.” METROPOLITAN —*“Sally, Irene and Mary”; Waring's Pennsylvanians. PALACE—Louise Fazenda and Jack Pickford in “The Bat.” RIALTO--Reginald Denny in “Skinner's Dress Suit.” TIVOLI—“Behind the Front,” Irene,” “Memory Lane” and “Mike AMBASSADOR—"Sally, Irene and Mary.” “Dancing Moth- ers,” “Torrent” and “Behind the Front.” :NTRAL—"Paint and Pow- der,” “Irene,” “Lady Winder- mere’s Fan,” “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter” and “What Happened to Jones.” DANCING MR, LEROY H. THAV Private lessons any hour. Latest steps and Charleston, T X K‘ to 11 pm.. Sppointment Fr. 8567, DAVISON’S Jeaen gectly in 2 few leasons. ¥ private: any hou and dance Saturda; with orchestra . Waltz, D Est. 1800, Charleston. Foxtrof. ‘Miss Fowler—Capitol Hl“ w interesting steps: thorough instruction | Day phone Main 8155 Exe. Atintic 4084 ay phone ve. ‘Atlantie 4 54 First_Btrest N.E. LY 5 - | countered | standable. | colors to dull by | the picture | we had | Pickford’s next treets of the city. goes to the theaters and mingles with the hoi pollof in the lobby at the Ritz, and is always per- fectly at ease. He acknowledges cas ual salutations with the utmost grace and when accosted by total strange he behaves & though he had en- a long lost and greatly missed friend. extraordinary ap peal to his audiences is readiiy under and his director, told me of the extreme nerv- | with which they had ap the work of color photog- | Doug Parker. ousness proached raphy. “The Technicolor to use vivid splash reds, oranges, greens and purples,” sald Doug. “‘We knew that that had been the ruination of colored fllms in the past. Too much brilliance Is dan- gerous. The eve strays from the main points of interest on the screen: after a while the eye becomes tired. and he owner of the eye becomes bored That's fatal “We deliberately o people wanted us s of color-brilliant toned down our tans, bigek reds and subdued greens, so that the color would never obtride at of the dramatic interest “When we started actually we ran Into 1% to shoot 1 unexpect ed difficult. -olors appezred entirely different when photographed by artifictal light. So to nme two distinct sets of | costumes—one set for the exterior scenes and another set for viors.” Doug is loud in his praise of Mary picture, “Sparrows, although it must he conceded that h the inte- | | opinion is not a strictly impartial one He savs that it is the best thing she has cver done, which statement, even if it is only half true, leaves room for an enormous quantity of merit. “Sparrows” will be released soon he future plans of the Pickford- Fairbanks menage are indefinite, but it is safe to assume that they will re- turn from their foreign travels with a fresh batch of ideas. Their frequently rumored retirement from active serv- ice on the screen is still a long, way off. hich is as it should be, | for with all the John Gilberts, Norma earers, Dolores Costellos and Rich- ard Dixes who have sprung up within the past few years, there is no one in evidence as yet who is qualified to in herit the crowns that have rested s long and so appropriately on the brows of Mary and Doug. * Kok % Harold T.loyd has a much easler time of it on his vacations, for he can go wherever he lkes without fear that he will be Identifiéd with the be- in.huled young sta: of andma’s Boy,” “Safety Last” and ““The Fresh marn He Is so totally | celebrated Harold Lloyd that he evokes dark suspicions in the miuds of those to whom he s iutroduced 1s Harold Lloyd,” a young lady once said to me when I had pointed out the modest youth to her, “then 1'm the is enjoying himself hugely reveling in his anonymit) I accom panied him to a performance of “The Cocoanuts,” in which the four Marx brothers disport themselves, and I such complete ahandon. “That ‘Harpo' Marx knockout in pictures,” averred Har- old. (Incidentally, there is a strong possibility that the Marx hovs will have a chance before long to burst fort on the screen.) Harold Lloyd is going to show me “For Heaven's Sake” within the next few days, and I hope to be able to { report on it in these columns. 2 Walsh, while directing the movie of “What Price Glory,” was stricken with appendicitis, but will ! return to work soon. . . ncle Tom’s Cabin” i3 now in process of pr duction _at Universal City, means that all the owners of blood- hounds in_southern California are preparing for a profitable Summer. Irving Berlin's song hit, “Remem- ber,” 1s to be made into a motion pic- ture, although just how is not at the moment known. . . . Sid Grauman, the distinguished Los Angeles impre. sarfo, has been in these parts ately, and may bulld a several million dol lar theater here. . . . Work on the new Roxy Theater, by the way, is progressing rapidly. (Copyright. 1926.) Raoul Still another example of Ihsen will be seen this Spring in New York when ‘When We Dead Awaken,” at th Fifth Avenue Playhouse, late in April. ding their luster and communicate with them at close | whout | long ! “It that | late Kmpress Catherine the Great of | which | show | #¢Co! W } the expense We found that the same | | Folly." SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, NEW FACES IN LOCAL STOCK Lo | Nahonal Jheater Playerw® LE PARADIS. Doors of enchantment will be open ed at Le Paradis next Tuesday when A Night in Bagdad” will be staged, | with the fancies of Scheherezade, mu sic colored with Oriental rhythmsand a background of swirling incense and an brocades. Felix Solari and | alter Kolk will present several Ori- | ental dances, and dudian ballads | will add to the general gavety. The | g dance music program will be filled | with all the Orientalisms that can be | found in the Broadway dance hits. Vivian Marinelli, the clever dancing uty, will be featured all next a series of new danc num them the “Powder Puff be: of | we Lers, in amon } Dance.” The Chatean Le Paradis, on the | Washington-Baltimore boulevard, will have a gala Spring opening April 15, ling to announcement. MAYFLOW ‘ Dance music that twinkles with | Orchestra, | ville GARDENS. | & D. ¢, MARCH 28 1926—PART 3. Keep S “Kb!“P smiling and you will always be beautiful,” says Julia Sander- . “Beauty is a sense of humor, and, paradoxically, humor creates a sense | of beauty.” declared the star. “It is all a matter of likes and dislikes. One seldom takes readily to one who is| constantly serious, but if one meets a person with a beaming smile one is immediately disposed to accept that person as a friend no matter how ir- regular the features may be. “Therefore, 1 do nat helieve any one bheautiful without a_sense of “Take any woman who is con- serious, or one who is forever ng a grouch! When she is 40 son. | body and soul. AMUSEMENTS. ' Janet Richards ‘ Public Questions Mo 10:10 Y. Ave mlllng’. she will look like 60 and feel like 80. She becomes tiresome and her illness | of mind is bound to create sickness of y ad N ST Admission—5 “And can you imagine the purga Pros_and Cons of the Volstead ry her husband is constantly in? he same thing applies to men who acquire that cronic grouch. It is most frequently on that account the divorce courts have a long waiting list on their calendars ‘hat splendid smile that denotes sweetness of character is what mikes people beautiful in the sight of their fellow men. It makes good fathers and | good mothers and beautiful children; it _establishes a sound foundation for a better civilization Act L ! L U TUAJ TWICE DAILY "= BEGINNING TODAY BOYS THE GIRL i ) A K A A A K 1 A | A | X “The chdmg March.” THE say. Mghthearted and care free Vienna of pre-war days and the gaunt, half-starved Vienna of the days just after the great struggle are said to form the. background of Erich von Stroheim’s latest work, “The | Wedding March.” Tales from relatives and friends of the Vienna of today as compared with the Vienna (hat he knew before he.| came to America 16 years ago in spired Von Stroheim to write “The Wedding March,” . according to the few who is destined to be his ¢ chievement The action opens in the opera bouffe atmosphere of the . Austrian | capital. The characters drawn from the upper and lower planes of | Viennese soclety. The two pivotal characters are a dashing nobleman | and a little harpist, who plays in a wine garden At first she is just plaything to him, but the hardships he | goes through due to the war bring | him to the realization that he is really | in love with her, and, stripped of all his pre-war glory, e finds happiness | with the little harpist in almost dire circumstances. The theme of “The Wedding March’ is that any marriage not founded on love is sacrilege. Has Many Talents. OST prima donnas are happy to have good looks and their voice to rommend them (provided the voice is all they hope it i), hut the prima donna of “Wine, Woman and Son at the Gayety Theater, Helen Ken nedy, boasts, in addition, the ability to syncopation, a la Spencer Tupman, is announced for the Mayflower Gar dens, with tea, dinner and supper ses- sions. The Spencer Tupman Mayflower the featured attraction, is | considered one of America's premier dance orchestras SWAN Swanee Al Kamons and his ncopators are nightly put jazz programs and wiil con- a white-hot jazz band from ‘enn., in next \Wednesday's At the v Swanee ting out tend with | Memphis, Battle of Music The Capital Revue" will special offering for Tuesday's “Vaude- | Night,” when a group of Wash ington amateurs will be presented for | the first time. Dance and comedy a | m will be featured. ‘“Juvenile ight,” Thursday evening, will pr sent aJdine-up of the Capitul's clever est children in @ smart specialty, and | inday evening dancing will be fea tured, as usual. | | Le the | WARDMAN THEATFR: UJur im L Park ER TN ferbert Stock Presents The Thos. Co. The Servant in de Operas Loss, Movies' Gain. I ANDA HAWLEY, who plays ‘ombat,” hecame a motion ture actress onby through accident Her ambition was to hecome an opera singer, it is said. She studied | music in the public schools of Seattle, Wash., and later continued in the Uni- in ple: Albert | versity of Washington and then at the \l(‘n opolitan school New Y Opera in ng been understudy in | she-suddenly contracted | laryngitis and lost her singing voice. The control of the octaves was lost | and she was no longer able to reach a high pitch Consequently she answered second greatest ambition and into pictures, arid she was not in rising to the top, She has been in motion picture eight vears, and she has had innumer- \ble adventures of a thrilling sort in. cluding that of being hit by an aero- plane propellor and that of being in- jured while being drawn up a mine shaft dangling from a bucket. her went long | Daugl’lter Joms Daddy ICHARD BARTHELMESS Is in Hollywood making his first pie- ture there in seven years, “Ranson’s He has taken a place near BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor eeing all the shows and | have seldom seen any one laugh with would he a | group called the Performers gives | Poli’s, Tueldl\. April 13—4:30 Remalning, Bzuscfl NIGAT Moews, REJOIGE. REJOICE!! YOUR PET GORILLA ITY Returns to Thrili and Laugh You to Endless Joy The Incomparable First Cast nr,ufi SELLING | SAME GARRITY unlike the | SAME MULLIGAN SAME EVERYBODY LAST CONCERT PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA sopold Stokowskl, Conductor sotonl Bacehar Taveseen: " Votimist WASHINGTON Tuesday, 4:30 AUDITORIUM Bureau, Tickets, T. Arthur Smit 1330 '@ St., in Kitt's Thurs.,4:30 To Greet (Our Own) SYLVIA Tuesday Eve., Apnl Gth Friends of Music Present The Famous BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM, PA. J. FRED WOLLE, Conductor And Members of the PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA I “The Passion” WASHINGTON Dr. According to St. Matthew AUDITORIUM the House Ry Charles Rann Kennedy Week of March 29 Eve. 8:30. Sat. Mat. 2:30 Prices, $1 & $1.50. Mat., 75¢ Rox Ofce Phone Col. 2000 l]H'.:l‘IH- O'Brien’'s in Whitley haring it with his_friend actor, William Powell Little 3-year-old Mary Hav mess, accompanied from New York by her nurse, has joined her father| there, and Barthelmess has purchased | a young and lively Scotch terrier Heights, and co-| Barthel named Snifter. to be her plavmate he star's own pet, a Great Dane, s husky for little Mary | AI‘OLUTEL' FIREPROOF NIGHT MATS. WED. AND SAT. Posttwely One Week Only THE WORLD’S BEST MUSICAL COMEDY JULIA SANDERSON--DONALD BRIAN FRANK CRURAIT--ONA MUNSON And the Incomparable Glori n of Girls H. H. FRAZEE 15 PRESENTING With the Big Four of Musical Comedy and Sat. Mat., $1 to $3— $1 te $2.50 Next Seat Sale Mond;y Night Tomorrow NATIONAL THEATER PLAYERS Directiou Clifferd Breoke, Offer Avery Hopwood’s Overwhelming Comedy “THE ALARM CLOCK” Nights, Orchestra, $L.10; Balcony, T6e; 24 Balcony, 60 Saturday Matines, Orehestra, 7So; Balconies, 30c. WED. MAT. ALL SEATS 50c THE, LINCOLN THEATER U STREET AT 12th ™ N., MON., TUES. FRIDAY Richard Monte BARTHELMESS BLUE With Lois Moran. in the Love Story | Dorothy DeVore and John Roche in of a Dashing Prince Eqrl Derr Biggers' Mystery Drama “Just Suppose” “The Man Upstairs” Lloyd Hamilton in Alice Day in Sennett's “Careful, “Love and Ki Pleas o WED,, THU SATURDAY Tom MOORE Besvle Love andy Harrison Ford in Geo. M. Cohan’s Success. THE Song and Dance Man N Marie PREVOST With Matt Moore, in a Screen of the Newspaper Serial Story “His Jazz Bride” Ralph Graves in “Good Morning, Madame” Burns in “My Swe: FRIENDS ARE HEIRE A cnfir SHOW play a violin and the gift of graceful | dancing. ] Miss Kennedy plays the violin and at the ~yne time, and if the | on required she could add a song | would thrill. In fact, she is a | pretty girl, of many gifts and graces, | and comes to the local theatrical field | with a host of admirers to welcome | Poll’s_-_ here before | N b3 A K A = WEEK OF APRIL t1th RETURN ENGAGEMENT of the MUSICAL HIT OF AGES Mesars. Shubert Present Fragrant, Facinating Unforgettable BLOSSOM TIME The Wonderful Love Story of Franz Schubert Made Glorious by Franz Schabert's .Own M MAIL ORDERS NOW PRICES % Ore., $2 §2.00, 8 $1.00 & 50c: Pop Thur. Mat to §1.50; Mat., 30c to her, for she has been with other Columbia shows. Fegxy Alblon Presents MARIA Asaisted by John AMADIO (Flutist) Tomorrow Night at 8:15 WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM || 13¢h and ¢ | and Woodward & Lot Prices, §1. $1.50 ar Seats now, Jordan Piano Co. Phone Main 487 rop (Victrela Dept i2. lus tax S T T e CEGINNING ATODAY Ai. WE A MARVELOUS ARRAY OF TIP-TOPPERS Sidney tt Presents “50 MILES FROM BROADW with Harry B. Watson and Reg. B. Merville And Olga Woods 11—Company of—11 CARSON & WILLARD “‘Meet the Doctor” Wayne--BEEMAN & GRACE--Alma “You'll Be Surprised” JA DA TRIO “Three Sailors and a Piano” Champion 014 MCRGAN KILEY Viddier Johnny---FRANCES & WILSON---Rene ‘‘Acromedians” & PHOTOPLAY—ALWAYS FIRST TIME SHOWN ‘DOLORES COSTELL®O In a Melodrama of Love, Tears, Terror and Joy “BRIDE OF THE STORM” Laid in an Island Lighthouse on the Far-off (n.q of Washington's Own MALN 430 DAILY - 8:15 DAILY, 25¢ NINTH NEAR 2:15 - TWICE LADIES' MAT E‘},.IELY (“I's a Darn Goed Show”) “WINE, Lewis Talbot’s All New Edition of WITR HARRY S. LeVAN and NATE BL;SBY NEXT WEEK—LENA DALEY'S ''MISS T THE CAPITAL'S FAVORITE PLAYHOUSE Great Artists nl'du Warld Exclusivelv BEQINNING SUNDAY MATINEE, MARCH 28 BLOSSOM SEELEY The Girl Who Glorified Syncopation —With— BENNY FIELDS Presenting & Program of Characteristic Jazz Diversity That for Rhythm And Meloduy Is Unsurpassed Fa ' fi‘%\ CHARLES WITHERS That Superbly Amusing Bccentric Star in “WITHER'S OPR'Y” Travesty om the Old Time Variety Shows Daily 2:18 and 8:15. Sun- day Matinas at 3:15. Bargain Sundoy and Orches- TOM BRYAN & LILLIAN FAIRCHILD With LYNN BURNS “Billboard Steps LA KREMOLINA & DARRAS BROS. An Athietic Sensation § EDDIE ll.I.EN & DORIS CANFIELD “Gimme the Mskin's" Youth and Cleverness Bmartly Teamed JACK MERLIN vith LOIS EVANS “Just @ Lot o' Laughs" B "BORDNER & BOYER Aesop’s Fables—Topics of the Day—Pathe News Lesson No. 1, “The Charleston” in Movies M Monday, tra Seats. Nites, $1 Mats. 50¢; Raicony Seats . Buy Bariy. e SPECIAL Tickets for the Famous _ Midnite (Clown) N. V. A ‘P e r formance April ®, Go On Sale Tomorrow. “A Laugh— TArl—A Laugh” Extra Added Attraction JAS. ). TORBETT & BOBBY BARRY The Popular Ex-Champion and His New Partner in Their Breexy Comedy “TAKING THE AIR" A Very Funny Act i =