Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1926, Page 49

v % Theaters l Part 3—14 Pages " Hrtyn Y - ROcK. Tarle "The Seas_on 1 n Retrospect. By Philander Johnson. IN spite of much material that in- vited protest and perhaps pre- pared the way for a sentiment in favor of absolute blue laws for the theater. the departing season was distinguished by a number of delight- ful episodes. These episodes have been eddies in the general current, r among the autocrats of the stage there has apparently been an anar- chistic license self-assumed and wide- lv interpreted as significant of a general state of social disorder, The theater has reflected wild stories, not only in play and scenario, but in T!n. city embellishments of personal hiography. The. motto has been Everything goes in the notoriety lin® from a simple divorce sensa- tion to a champagne splash in a bath tub!” It is a condition to be expected in a course of recovery from the universal shell shock of war. E * X % x A retrospective impression as the budding trees proclaim the welcome advent of the tional Theater stock company for a Summer run (unless Winter continues to persist) is that of a hash or a mince pie built terials, and yet, some parts of it very good, indeed. It is pleasurable to note that the strongest liking was manifest for the most genuine! meritorious productions; conspicu ously George Arliss in “Old Fng- 1i%h,” in drama, and “Old Heidel- berg,” a beautiful and satisfactory play long before it was decided to snake it a musical production, subor- dinating action and story to melo- dious exploitation. o o The laughing honors of the sea- pon, in spite of the usual procession of gentleman comics, strangely enough, went to a woman, Rosetta Duncan, whose mirthfulness, defiant of every restraint taught by Sunday school or seminary, broke her audi- ences into complete fer spirit of uncompromising physi- al fun. No woman has worked so ;x’ard or so successfully since Marie ressler assefted funmaking as a iperior feminine mission. Duncan #s not as big as Dressler in stature, but in a funmaking way there is even more of her. * ok ok { Having estimated public taste on fhe lowest possible terms because of puch successes as “Rain” and “Ladies of the Evening” and several more, there was a shameless and abject willingness to oblige manifest among the New York producers. deluge from an ill-secured manhole §n a city street, there emerged an ill- vapored torrent. The discussion of the theater became an exercise in the use of circumlocutions to imply the presence of an offense which gould not be described in deliberate germs of general speech v if snse <till greater. AWoman,” “Mission Mary,” “Aloma” nd a dozen like them jumbled along nd soon disintegrated or were swept pside. It has been a fungoid theater Wwith the popular distinction plainly evident as hetween the edible mush room and the toadstool. Among the quushrooms which proved edible w *1.adies of the Evening.” Aniong the toadstools “Desire Under the Elms” promiptly made itself known as the most repulsive specimen, both to taste and view. * oK Kok It was something of a disappoint- ment to find David Belasco, whom the public insists ‘on putting on a pedestal, and who seems almost like a bad boy in his obstinate efforts to | b down and play in the dirt, walking circles around Washington aiter his unsatisfactory experience with Achmed Abdullah Achmet's pre- .Mous play, “The Passionate Prince,” /should have been a warning that “Salvage” might easily prove a diffi- cult proposition to save, even hy the unlimited use of block and tackle by from carelessly selected ma- | submission te | Like a| the stage hands. It is just as well, perhaps, that Belasco’s production of the much-discussed “Miss Lulu Belle,” the immediate object of stam- | pede patronage, did not take place | here. "He might at last have suc- ceeded in delivering a shock that | been so strangely unwavering. That he knew his public has been again | demonstrated through the box office. i The effort to idealize him because of the superb artistry he has held in facile command regardless of his theme has caused the public here to idea him and it aould relinquish that idealism with great reluctance. | If anything could slacken the devo- | Belie.” With producers vying with one another to utilize the wastage of the world and to insult any tradi- tional respect for the playhouse, it is to Belasco that the auditorium still turns for some positive demon- | stration of artistry that will at least | | palliate the impression of ruthles: |disregard of ordinary self-respecting instinct. , To paraphrase the immortal Floro- dora Sextet, “We really must love some one, and it might as well be | Dave!” | ok ow ok | As the speaking drama became more unsavory, the 'musical theater | | displayed-a disposition to clean up. | The best the song composer could do in imitating the reversion to early Saxon vocabulary was to. exhibit a | grammar and pronunciation which defied every slight suggestion of taste in matters of human speech. The pace was too strong for him. There are words which can be | thrown fleetingly into the air in a moment of emotional impetuosity | which could not be by any possi- | bility introduced into even the crudest of lyricism. The musical | stage, therefore, was forced not through any impetus of reform, but by sheer force of circumstan expurgate itself. { ook ok The greatest revelation of the | season was the presentation by the | Moscow Art Studio of “Carmencita and the Soldier.” Its coming was not heralded in the concise intelli gible terms that would separate it in impression from the performance of pure drama by the Moscow Art Theater. The result was that only the venturesome confided a precious evening to the custody of those bril- liant artists whose names, for the most of wus, still remain unpro- nounceable. There was not a trick of American advertising employed. The selection of a favorite star on whgm to concentrate the spotlight would have contradicted the essen- tial scheme of the institution. Yet the work is far more satisfactory ! than the production of opera in ac- cordance with our custom with one or two singers celebrated by every ! device known to large type, from massage cream to shaving soap, and leaving the remainder of the cast pretty much to take care of itself. Opera has threatened to become lit- tle more than a solo concert, with < | vocal accompaniment figuring in co- « | opétatioh with the orchestra. It was hard even to find a name for the | wor! Its promoters objected to the {term ‘“opera,” saying that opera is usually a periormance by singers 1 of the Moscow Studio is by actors who can sing. The idea of elevating | the art of acting above the ability for agreeable vocalization i lectually stimulating. But to impress it practically in this coun- itry would involve the American im- | presario in war to extermination {'with many a plump prima donna. | * k% % : What the Moscow Art Studio, with all its opulent resources, appar- ently still needs is a prep school for press agents. | would swerve the loyalty that has| | tion it would be a play like “Lulu | es to| | who cannot act, but the expression | _ The Zu niay Shar WASHI G, NGTON, D. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL RuTH HARRILON Wardman Park. Jheaterr What They Have Been Doing THOUGH. generally, this waning | * season has been considered throughout the country as one of the slimmest in point of worthy, new | plays produced and in slack tinles for | the acting profession, Winter's exiles | from the National Theater Players, | who are back home again for the | Summer season, had no share in the | idleness whatever. Indeed. some of them worked other engagements until | the Jast possible moment allotted them | by Director £'lifford Brooke. | “Leneta’ Lane returned from the | West Coast early last week. Through | out the Winter she has been playi | stock leads for Henry Duffy in | Franecisco. She reports that Duffy | doing tremendously well and is now | conducting half a dozen houses and, | plans to lease one or mare theaters in | Australia Kathryn Giveney most of the season | played in “White Collars,” leaving four or five weeks ago to support | Otis Skinner in “Capta from | which she resixned 10 days azo. Billy | Phelps, Dorothy Tierney and Romaine | Callender had harely enough leisure | hetween en zements for needed rest | until the rehearsal call for “The | Alarm Clock | John Warner, leading man, held on | | In” “White Coliars” until two weeks | ago. Edward Arnold, who Is to join the National troupe later, is still play- | ing in “Easy Come, Easy Go." with | Otto Kruger, in which he hasappeared | all season, | | New faces in this vear's line-up are | | Adelaide Hibbard, long a stock and road actress of note; Charles Hamp- | den, who has supported such stars as | Jane Cowl and Marjorie Rambeau Percy Winter, character actor, and David Munro, who also plays charac- | ters and who has had veteran stock | experience. To Stage :'Danton's Death.” | WITH the advancement of art an- | nounced as his primary pur- | pose, Carl Laemmle has arranged a | stage presentation of *'Danton’s Death,” hy George Buechner, at Uni- | versal City, with motion picture players in the cast, on May 31, June 1 and 2. | “'Danton’s Death” was a tremendous | success abroad, as staged by Max Reinhardt in Berlin and Vienna. It virtually made Emil Janning's stage reputation. On account of its size and the number of-people required it has never been shown in this country. The play is being translated from the German by Benjamin Glasser and will be presented under the auspices of the Pot Hollers Art Theater. The play deals with the life of Danton, the great figure of the French revolu: tion. It was written by Buechner on the tables of the dissecting room of the medical college he attended, heing | created entirely during the night. It | was completed in 1832, but was first | produced by Refnhardt in Berlin in 1919. | | Eormetnisgmann wil play Danton. Others assigned parts are Francis X Bushman, Joseph Schildkraut, Ru dolph Schildkraut, Oscar Bereg), Billie Dove, Otto Matleson and Warner Oland. £ Historic Theater to Go. HARRY M. CRANDALL, who spent the first two days of last week in Baltimore in the Interests of the Stanley-Crandall Co. ‘ef Washington, of which ha is executive vice presi- dent, announces that the Stanley- Crandall Co. has recently purchased the Academy of Music. one of the Monumental City's historic playhouses, and the Boulevard Theater in that city. The Academy of Music will be re. placed by a new $2,000,000 structure, ! with a seating capacity of 4,000. The old house is famous in theatrical his- | | The Earle and N. V.A. Week. 'THE Earle Theater today lMunches a joint celebration of Easter and i N 8 A.” conspicuous in the | week's “announcements stands for | “Natlonal Vaudeville Artists, Inc.,” | who once a year dedicate a seven-day | period to the furtherance of their | worthy charities and the promotien of general interest in' their faudable | enterprises, carried on under the presi- ) dency of Fred Stone, the famous comedian. | The Earle this week, in addition to affording its patrons more than the customary measure of brisk enter- tainment, will join with Keith's in making the annual “Klown Nite”. one | long to be remembered at Keith's Theater, Friday, starting at 11:30 p.m. The entire proceeds of this perform- ance will go to the N. V. A. benefit fund. Samuel Wallach will give the first performance on any stage of “Over Here,” on_ April 12 at Atlantic City. The week following it will appear in Baltimere for a week, | Billy LENETA LANE JOHN WARNR And (Divector National Current Attractions NATIONAL BELASCO. he Alarm Clock, tomorrow evening. KEITH'S—N. EARLE noon. STRAND—“King of the Turf” and vaudeville. Miss Tabasco,” burlesque. GAYETY- NATIONAIL—Stock Season Opens. The 1926 Spring and Summer stock season will open Monday night at the National Theater, when the National Players will offer the Hopwood farce, he Alarm Clock,” with Leneta Lane and John Warners in the cast and with Clifford Brook: director “The Alarm Clock” had its premiere in Washington two years ago and for long time after exploited the farce alents of Blanche Ring, Bruce McRae, Marion Coakley and Vincent Serrano. Hopwood saw the original version in Paris and revamped it for American audiences. A rich young hachelor, who has b hitting the high spots, neglects his tonsils or his teeth, or some- thing, and is laid up with rheumatism. He is warned to a reposeful life for & time and his nephew, from a rural backwater, is sent for to guard him. The nephew arrives with his sweet- heart and her mother. The humor develops from the remarkable appe- tite the country visitors develop for New York’s night life. Within a week they are jazzed to the hilt and carry- ing on a pace that leaves the bachelor a weal/ runner-up. In support of the two Kathryn Givney, Romaine Phelps, Dorothy Tierney, Ade- laide Hibbard, Charles Hampden, Percy Winter and David Munro, Charles Squires has designed an entirely new group of sets for this production. WARDMAN PARK—"Her Temporary Husband.” “Her Temporary Husband,” Bdward Paulton’s comedy, s the special offer- ing of the Thomas Herbert Stock Com- pany at Wardman Park Theater Easter week, opening tomorrow ‘eve- ning. It is a succession of big, hearty, wholesome laughter. While ‘“Her Temporary Husband” is a comedy, however, there are moments when the big human dramatic element. creeps into the play. It is this combination, cleverly woven ahout an ingenious story, that has made the Paulton play an exceptional success in New York. Ruth Harrison and Parker Fennelly are cast in the leading roles, as the permanent wife and the temporary husband, respectively. Ranald Savery will enact -the part of Dr. Gordon leads are llender, ‘Spencer, and Ruth Russell the part of Kate Tanner. John Schellhaas is cast ax Judd, and Robert L. Clear as Clar- ence Topping, a young lawyer. KEITH'S—Eddie Dowling. N.-V. A. week will be celebrated at 8. . Keith's Theater this’week, start- ing today, with Eddle Dowling allie, Irene and Mary’ as the head- line attraction. In addition to the regular bill there will be many special stunts and sur- prise features. Among these will be the second of the “Charleston Lessons,” given by ‘Arthur Murray; Tom Browh, origi- nator of the famous Brown brothers, and his merry minstrel orchestra; Edith Clifford, comedienne, pleasing to both the eye and ear, in-a new offering: Al Coogan and Mary Casey, in a pew offering by Eugene Conrad, calle bert Warren and company, in a new comedy in two scenes, “The Mahat- ma,”, by Emmett de Voy,' written around the Kast Indian ‘‘Mystic,” who preys upon ‘the gullible society ladies; Paul Remos, with his wonder midgets, in an imported equilibristic novelty; Irmanette, “The Terpsicho- < “The Gorilla,” mystery farce. WARDMAN PARK—"Her Temporary V. A. Week, vaudeville. “California Night Hawks,” vaudeville. of | “The Shrinking Violet”; Her- | At the Theaters This Week. farce. Opens tomorrow evening. Opens this evening. Husband,” comedy. Opens Opens this afternoon. Opens this after- Opens this afternoon. Opens this afternoon. an Violiniste,” who will dance and | play her way through a novel offer- ing, and the Oxford Trio, interna tlonal cyclists, with their * et Ball | on Bicycles. | EARLE—"California Night Hawks." A special program has been assem bled for this week at the Earle The. ater for the celebration of Easter week and the henefit week annually devoted to N. V. A, (National Vaudeville Art- ists, In n_oganization that func tions under the presidency of Fred Stone, the famous comedian. The headline attraction. beginning this afternoon, will be the California Night Hawks, a group of gifted instru. mentalists, who present the novelties and melodic heauties of the best mod ern orchestras. The added attraction will he Ethel Sinclair and. Helen Eby Rack. two talented actresses, In a clever skit, “The Long. Long Trall,” written by Paul Gerard Smith. Another fine offering will be Jimmie McLaughlin and Blanche Evans in a classic of the tenements by Ben Ryan, a Little Side Street,” delineating fe Fork, manners and customs in with chatter, dances and songs Others include Allan Shaw, coin n ipulator and cad illusionist, as the % mous Money Maker" Arline’s in amazing feats, with a charm | ing mermald, and the Brewster Pome roy Revue, with Freddie Martin pre- senting 'he Passing Follies,” as sisted by Josephine Erlich, Joseph Geonski and Gladys Grant. The photopla; will be Producers’ Production of ““The Million Dollar Handicap,” a thrilling turf romance, featuring Vera Reynolds, Edmund Burns and Ralph Lewis. Short-reel screen subjects and a pipe organ re- cital by Alexander Arons will complete the bill. Doors 5. seq open today at 2 STRAND—"“King of the Turf. At the Strand Theater this week, be- ginning this afternoon, will be offered a thrilling and sensational innovation in connection with the feature photo- play “The King of the Turf," a heart clutching drama with a great horse carrying her colors for the last time. On the screen will be seen the strain- ing thoroughbreds dancing at the barrier, then the snap of the wire. the shriek of the mob and they're off. At the helght of the race the screen tain will be raised and on the stage | living horses, with their jockeys, run- | ning ‘at full speed will actually finish the race before the screen curtain is { again lowered for the completion of the love theme that is woven into the he vaudeville program is headed v Roscoe Afls in “A Nonsensical Hodge Podge,” with Katie Pullman, Others will include *‘Syncopation’s Favorite Band,” a jazz_band treat, with Joe Rose, Dorothy Ellsworth, and Cecil Graham, In “Dance Sensa- tion of 1926”; Myrtle Fiske and George Lloyd in “Songs. Plus’; Myrtle Bo- ‘land in a song and plano recital, as. | Sisted by Ellen Hopkins, and the | Royal-Sidneys in a juggling number enhanced with ongs and comedy, en- ltitled “In Their Own Versatile Sur- e. | ""Short films ana orchestral numbers will conclude the program. \ GAYETY—"Miss Tabasco.” Talented Lena Daley will star at the Gayety this week, beginning this afternoon, with her own show, “‘Miss Tabasco,” a larger show than she had | of 1926. b DALEY Gaqet:{ ¥ Stage and Movie Technique. JT seems. atter all, that the view is | not unanimous that there is a vast difference between the technique of the audible drama and that of the motion - picture. A director who ought to know recently had some- thing to say concerning that “vast gulf* that is supposed to divide the e fotion pictures are more close- |1y allied to the stage than one would think,” says Edmund Goulding, whose Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer production, “Sally, Irene and Mary,” is now be ing shawn in Washington. Goulding, before affiliating himself with_motion pictures, was an actor on “the speaking stage. “Motion picture players have to he pantomime artists,” he continues. “It is only by enunclating their actions clearly that their thoughts are con- veyed to the screen. It is also neces- sary for them to use their voices on the screen, for it gives them expres- slon and feeling.” “The only radical difference lies in the tempo. Actions must be gulded much more slowly before the camera than hefore an audience. “The reason is the camera W s much more: quickly than the eye and what would appear In perfect time to the latter would transport jumpily to the former. ““That 18 why many stage players have not been successful in pictures Working &t a certaln speed has be- come such a habit with them that they find it impossible to make a change and still retain their natural- ness. “Stage comedians are especially bad on the screen. FEverything they do before the camera looks hurried and without subtlety, while their chief charm on the stage is working quickly. “So with the exception of tempo the two arts synchronize, really be- coming one, they are so closely alifed.” last year, as there are in all 19 scenes, some truly regal In their splendor. Miss Daley's personal wardrobe is sald to have come from the celebrated shop of Weldy, in Paris,.and includes a pair of rhinestone-covered slippers which are said to surpass any hrticle & nature ever worn on the stage. Favorites of last year's company in- cluded for the present season are Billy (Bumps) Mack and Lew Denny. Newcomers include Steve Mills, Bus. tor Desmond, - Andy McCain, Spencer and Dorothy Alexander. Willlam K. Wells wrote the hook of the show, Freddie Phillips is the au- thor and composer of the music and lyrics, and Frank Montgomery - has staged the musical numbers, all under the personal supervision of Miss-Daley. Twenty girls: will be in the chorus. Scott’ Lecture Tomorrow. The wseason of current. events lec- tures by Willlam Rufus Scott at Ward- | Hotel will close with the morning at 11 man Park lecture tomorrow o'clock. Thix Summer Mr. Scott expects to %o to Europe to study the foreign situ- ation, probably taking ip the League of Nations session in September, when another effort will be made to admit Germany. Last year Mr. Scott spent { “The Miracle’ | Arthur EoDIE DOWLING -~ Keith WILLIE and Eugene Howard will appear next season in a musical comedy entitled “Sammy," with music by J. Fred Coots and book and lyries by Henry Mvers. Under the direction of Robert Me- Laughlin and Leo Carillo, a stock company is to open next at the Auditorium Gardens, Beach, Fla Mark Smith has been engaged for | “Kitty’s Kisses,” a musical plece to be produced by Willlam A. Brady this month. Gavin Muir, it is announced, will act the leading role in ‘the London Hippodrome production of Crooks,” in May. | @eorge | “Rainbow present MacFarlane, Rose,” announcex Iso “'Str Sheep,” Charles Washburn: “Mother and Son,” a play from the Swedish, and “Tax on Sin,”" of unannounced authership. Lumsden Hare, who is directing the revival of “What very Woman <0 will appear as Venables, his original role in the Barrie piece. Helen Hayes will play the role once Hugo W. Romberg, Juno and the the Russian right play by Bernard producer of "hubert. Martin Flavin conferred last week th A. L. Erlanger about his comedy, Service for Two,” which the latter | is preparing to produce. Mr. Flavin wrote ““Children of the Moon.” a good | . in which Florence Johns in 1 | made her first important impression. | The Triangle Theater of New York < B preparation & piece called “The Milk Kings” by Claude Habberstead, which is reported very amusing. Morris Gest; the producer,. on reach- ing New York last week after a West- ern trip. announced that he had. sold to Kansas City, Tos | Angeles and San Francisco, the en. gagements to be plaved in November, during the Christmas holidays and in February of next season, respectively.. rolled up-its 200th Tuesday in New “Craig's Wife performance last York. “Juno and the Paycock™ has won the annual English literature of 1925, according to a cable from London. This award is comparable to the Pulitzer prize. Rehearsals of “Just Life,” by John HBowie, were started last week in New York. Walter Q. Lindsay i the pro- ducer with Jacob Oppenheimer and Oscar Eagle will direct it. Ray Goetz last Tuesday received a cable stating that Raquel Meller | had boarded the Leviathan for New York. Mr. Goetz is to manage the ." has sold | oft Coal,” the { for Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright, | Hawthornden prize for | In the Spotlight. | tour of the Spanish actress, and it | may be recalled that on six different | occasions she has started for America {#nd turned back at the last moment Irene Franklin will start rehearsals shbrtly of her new “Red Head Revue, in which she will play. evervthing but the program girls and ushers. Boothe ‘lflaasnn and Truex are to produce L this piece for a Summer run on Broad- way. Herman Kiingelhutz of Minneapolis is reported to have sued for $100,000 |on the ground that the name butter- and-egg-man is an insult to dairy deal- er< in general. His action was brought against a vaudeville performer whe sang a song of that title nedy hy | Amelie’ Rives and Gilbert Emery, will bring Madge Kennedy backs to.the | sTage after a couple months' rest. She | was last seen in'Owen Davis' “Beware | of Widows,” which lasted only two weeks, Love ,‘ The public, through the medium of | B. F. Keith’s Theater, is being put | through Arthur Murray's course of sprouts in Charleston dancing. This week marks the second of Mr. Mu ray's moving picture lessons in the Charleston, one reel each week for ix consecutive weeks. Those who like them can have their Romneys and Rembrandts, but Steve Cochran, manager of the Na tional Theater Players, prefers his lit ,(|P bla and white drawing which shows that season reservations for | the’ Wednesday matinees have been applled for almost to capacity. The Saturday matinee hart is a close | runnersup. and though choice seats for |these matinees are available, the reser- | vation list-#s atmost entirely used up. At tomerrow nigh performance of “The: Alarm :Clock," 175 young ladies from an exclusive New York school will be guests of the, schonl manage meat at their first ‘‘after Lent™ blow out. “The girls.are faking 4n Easter | yacation tour and have Included the National-as a point of acute interest “Puppy Love,” directed by Clifford | Brooke for Anne Nichals. is still run |ning in New' York, .although Mr. | Brooke has détached” himself from the Nichols pay roll to direct the Na | tional Theater Players. Irving Berlin, | music of Sam H. Harrls' musical comedy, “The Cocoanuts,” has re- turned fo London from Madeira and is now engaged in writing the music for a new_musical comedy for which ederick *Lonsdale has' written ‘3 book. and which will be prodyce@ the Drury Lane Theater tn London early in September. Sam Il Harris' farce comedy, “Cradle Snatchers,” now in its thirt second week, since last September, has done a total gross lusiness e $670 900, composer of the nearly zix months in various European countries. JANET RICHARDS — TOMORROW. Miss Janet Richards will give her. regular Monday ' morning talk, on Public Questions. tomorrow and will include the subject announced for last week, namely, the pros and cons .of the sharp conflict over the Volstead act, “Will Revision Mean Nullifica- tion? and How to Repeal a (onstitu- tional Amendment.” She will also touch upon the “highlights in the world's werk for the past week, hoth at home and abroad. . The talks are,given in the New Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue, at 10:40 o'clock. BACH CHOIR—TUESDAY. An outstanding attraction of the current week will be the p i Tuesday of Bach's ing to St. Matthew the famous Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pa. This over a quarter of a century and its members. are generally considered foremost interpreters af Bach’'s music. It boasts a roster of nearly 300 ‘voices, taken - from the small community where it is located. Soloists for the second visit to ‘Washington .are -Mabel Beddoe, con tralto; Emily Stokes Hagar, soprano: Kraft, tenor; Fred Patton, baritone, and Charles Trowbridge Titt- mann, basso. Dr, J. Fred Wolle will conduct. Accompanying the singers will be the major portion of the Phila- delphia Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are on sale at T. Arthur Smith’s Concert Bureau, 1330 G street. BARON FERSON TO LECTURE. Baron FEugene Ferson will deliver a course of four lettures at the Play- house, 1814 N street northwest, this week, the first on Tuesday evening on the theme, “Does the Splrit Fiew organization has been in existence for | Matter?" to be followed Wednesday with “Do the Dead Come Back to Life Again?" Thursday with “Prob- lems of Modern Marriage,” conclud |ing Friday with “Your Success.” The | tectures will begin at 8:15 p.m. and | will be free to the public, ! Miss Hawke's Faster Fete. A children’s Easteér:dancing festival for the henefft of the' Girl Scouts of the District will be given Friday after noon at 2:15 o'clock: at the Belasco Theater undef the -direction of Miss Hawke, who will present-a program | of dances, including a fairy fantasy written by Mrs. E. Goring Bliss, ent! tled “Once Upon a Time." Groups of experienced child dancers from 6 to 16 years of age will be seen in original numbers, including dance of the dolls, Columbine and Harlequin, polka of 1830, Easter bunnies, clowns, futurist dance and many others en- | tirely new this season. Two dances | of last vear will be repeated by re. quest. “Dragon Flles” and “Spring- time.” One hundred children will ap pear in the program. The fantasy “Once Upon a Time” tells in dance pantomime the story of Gay, & tny fairy, who accidentally finds herself in the everyday world among the mortals in Topsy-Turvy Town, a haven for the idle and dis contented. She is befriended by an old bun woman, Madame Pan Pan, takes an interest in the little becanse of the loss many yvears hefore of her: own little daughter. although in continual feud with h neighbors, particularly the procrasti- nating 0ld innkeeper, whose name is 1. Putoff. Beautiful costumes, a charming | stage setting and special lighting will be features of thix annual presenta tion in aid of the Girl Scouts’ Summer camp fund. Tickets may be had of Miss Hawke, 921 O ctreet. Phone North 8618, »