Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1926, Page 16

You Can Spare Your Purse Without Spoiling’ Your Pleasure VERY visit to New York will be an occasion of real, carefree enjoyment when youstop at the Hotel McAlpin — the Centre of Convenience. No matter what price you pay — from $3.50 to $30.00 per day —you'll find a cordial welcome, genuine interest in your welfare and the famous McAlpin Service — prompt, friendly and courteous —always at your disposal. McAlpin Service is a matter of Policy —not of Price! 1700 comfortable, cheerful rooms from $3.50 to $12.00 per day Suites from $10.00 to $30.00 per day HOTEL McALPIN Arthur L. Lee, Managing Director 34th Street and Broadway NATIONAL—"“The Alarm Clock.” There was an_atmosphere of “old | nome week” at the National Theater last night—one of the pleasantest nights that the house ever has en- joyed. The occasion was the return of Leneta Lane, John Warner, Billy Phelps, Romaine Callender, Dorothy . ‘et al.—the National Theater Players—for their second season in stock in Washington. wasn't a_sparsely settled house when the curtaln se, and the audience's pleasure as manifest in loud and long hand- 3 each favorite of last troupe came before the foot- 1t was a happy evening—for vers and the audience. And the newcomets of the company were also made to feel welcome and fully at home, The company, presenting Avery Hopwood’s farce, “The Alarm Clock,” | took up exactly where it left oft last September. To its splendid following no more need be said. To others, who { will miss something really fine if they fail to fall in line, let it be said that | best road companies would be hard pushed to run a close race with the National Theater Players in their | work. | Judging by last night's audlence, | Washington is fully conscious of the advantage to be gained by starting in at once with its stock company. It knows Cifford Brooke and it knows the splendid aggregation of players that he has assembled. Speaking of Clifford Brooke, he did his part in giving last night “old home week” at- mosphere in a curtain speech at the THE AMUSEMENTS ing that Steve Cochran ls responsible for everything as managing director of the company. And Steve last night looked proud and happy. ‘Wardman Park—“Her Temporary Husband.” A capacity audience rocked with laughter for some two hours last night at the Wardman Park Theater Aduring the Thomas Herbert Stock Co.'s initial performance of Willlam Courtenay's comedy, ‘‘Her Temporary Husband. Not only is the play replete with clever lines and clean, wholesome humor, but it presents many refresh- ingly original situations. The plot centers around the efforts of a young girl to live up to the letter of her dead father’s will, and at the same time to marry the hometown man to whom che has been engaged for sev- eral years. Complications arise when the hero, a man from the city, who has fallen in love with the girl, but has never met her, attempts to save her from the designing flance who in reality is a fortune hunter. Parker Fennelly, as the ‘‘tempo- rary husband (the city man in dis. gulse), gives his usual excellent inter- pretation, and Ruth Harrison is charming as the girl in the case. John Schellhaas, cast as Judd, a male nurse employed to take care of the ‘‘tem- porary husband” in what should be his last {llness—but isn't—carries off the comedy honors. His affectation of the English cockney is delightfully amusing. Ruth Russell makes a dainty nurse. Ranald Savery is the young doctor who visits his patients for their nurse's sake. Robert Clear affords many laughs by his clever EVENING STAR, i knot. Mr, Herbert deserves a great deal of credit, not only for his happy se- lection of plays for production in the little theater, but for his unerring Jjudgment in fitting his actors to their Toles. A misfit is rarely found, and the result is a naturalness and ease of action which is one of the great charms of his productions. A Keith Afternote. Virginia Bacon, niece of the late I'rank Bacon, who made “Lightnin’ " famous, and also a protege of Ned Wayburn, is belng featured at B. F. Keith’s this week, supplementing the Charleston lesson with practical dem- onstration. Her act includes many new steps and is an added attraction to make the 1926 N. V. A. week at Keith's the biggest in its history. GAYETY—"Miss Tabasco.” Lena Daley, who probably ranks with Mollie Williams as one of burles. que’s most popular feminine perform- ers, is at the Gayety Theater this week with an entertaining show. The first impression made upon the patron entering the lobby of the Gayety is taat Miss Daley is the one and only performer with the company, for about twoscore pictures of this voung lady adorn the walls and rest on easels to the exclusion of every one else. The- delusion, however, 1s soon dis. pelled when the show starts and Steve Mills and Billie Mack, together with Dorothy Alexander and Lou Denny, starts things golng. There is much in the way of comedy, [ T AT Y A T (Y (Y Y Y Y (Y (Y T (o (e (Y (2T (2 (o (o (T (o (2 (20 (2 (2 () The Glove for Semi-Dress WASHINGTON, D. R R R e N e e oo et bert is the minister who tles the fatal| though some of the wheezes are a | F'RST NEW TAX SU'T FILED ., "TUESDAY, little anclent. Steve Mills is destined to become & popular comedian. His work is good. Billie Mack has been here before. He performs entirely in pantomime and his dances and rol- ler skating are worth seeing. Doro- thy Alexander, puts much pep in her dances and songs, while Lou Denny doubles in straight and comedy and is equally good in either. Of course, Lena Daley is the star— she could not be anything else in her own show—and she still knows how to dance. Her costumes are bizarre, to say the least. The chorus has youth, energy and pulchritude, and the costumes are brief enough to be fashion plates for the South Sea Islanders. a newcomer, NOTED JURIST DIES. Dr. Klein, Internationally Known, Succumbs in Vienna. VIENNA, Austria, April 6 (#).—Dr. Franz Klein, international jurist and former Austrian minister of justice, dled today, aged 71. He was one of the Austrian delegates to the St. Ger- main peace conference in 1919. Dr. Kleln was director of the chancery of'Vienna University from 1885 to 1891. He framed the process of civil law which was put into op- eration in Austria in 1893, AbPrIL 6, 1926. The first suit under the new reve- nue act of 1926 was filed yesterday in the District Supreme Court by Ben- jamin Kraft, & merchant of H street northeast, who asks an injunction against David H. Blair, commissioner of internal revenue, to prevent the making of an assessment of addi- tional income taxes. Through Attorneys J. L. Krupsaw and L. Howard Sothoron, the mer- chant says he was not given 60 days’ noticg within which to file an appeal withthe United States Board of Tax Appeals, as required by the new act. A new right is given the taxpayer under the new act, and the assess- ment was made without reference to | this new provision, counsel say | The ORIGINAL Maltéd Milk —~ Nourishing—Digestible— No Cooking. The Home Food-Drink for All Ages State Society Meeting. 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