Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1926, Page 76

| o—{Continued from Fifth Page) Yeauties of the Peterhoro Colony, the memorial to the illustrious Edward MacDowell. Ruby E£mith Stahl has returned from Philadelphia, where she sang last week at the Sesquicentennial The large auditorium. which sez 10,000 people, has remarkable acc ous tics. However, all concerts there to be abandoned be of the of heating apparatus. Eunice Louise Graves of [MUSIGRAPHS | THE SUXN | Due Home Today I NDAY the list of active concert prograr Mildred Kolb e has participants in local wnist and | ened her | 3 north- 1 She 18 planning to give a series | of informal musicals during the son and will have “open house” Sunday afternoons. George Dixon Thompson, Washing- ton planist, who returned varly in the | Summer from Europe. where he spent roin concentrated study with Sauer, one of the few living ex- STAR., WASHINGTOX, Photoplays Used in Americanization School LANS are belng perfected by Har | ®" riet Hawley Locher, director of the public service and educational | department of the Crandall Theaters, i the District Board of Education and Mrs. Kiernan, directly concerned in the conduct of the classes, for the re- | duction of the afternoon and night isessions of the District Americaniza- { tion School, which is conducted in the { projection_room of Crandall's Metro- {politan Theater iwith Government iand other appropriate films utilized in screen methods of teaching English by the titles and American customs by the action on the screen. Mrs. Locher, on October 30, will D. C., OCTOBER 10, Wells a Movie Extra. NK WELLS, son of the English novelist, H. G. Wells, worked for a while as an extra with the Herbert Brenon production, “God Gave Me 20 Cents,” at the Paramount Long Island studio. Dressed in masquerade costume, young Wells and his friend and traveling companion, Hugh Brooke, did their bits with the crowd of 300 gaily clad extras engaged for jthe New Orleans Mardi Gras scenes of the picture. Brooke, who is the {son of Clifford Brooke, the English theatrical producer, drove a victoria in the scene and Wells acted as fodt- man. “We thou<ht this would be a good way of seeing how American films 1926—PART 8. New ‘“Little Theater™ Group. A “LITTLE THEATER" group is being formed by Miss Estelle Allen, who maintains a dramatic art studio at 924 Seventeenth street north- west. Miss Allen wants only interested applicants with exceptional dramatic ability, on whom she can depend in the casting of the plays that she ex- pects to produce this season. She wants an “all-Washington" cast, from the leading lady down to the scenery painters. Tryouts will be on Thurs- days at 7:30 p.m. and Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m. ‘Washington authors of unpublished one-act plays who would care to sub- mit their work to Miss Allen are re- quested to do so before December 1. Americane to Hear Priceless Instruments MONG the treasures of the old world that are being brought to America is the most costly orchestra of stringed instruments ever gotten to- gether, every piece a perfect and rare specimen made by a famous master. Violating the precedent of placing such treasures in museums, this or- chestra will be heard in concerts this season, according to announcement made yesterday by the Wanamaker Auditorium. ‘The Swan, the last violln made by Stradivarius at the age of 93, is the central piece of the orchestra. Musi- clans set no price on this instrument. Students as “Atmosphere.” OUT in California the movies have opened up a new avenue of rev- enue for students who are working ge. Collegs for pictures “The Campus demand among Bebe Danfels’ Flirt,” are in great the g;oduvers. Bebe and hier company moved b: and baggage up to Berkeley, w{‘g‘ across the bay from San Francisc in order to get the proper cmp& background for this picture, and, quite naturally, a good many of the sty dents picked up !pemun mnnoy by playing in the college *“ Hom i i e S students, with their indefinable alp of colleglate life, were indispen: for the scenes in which Bebe ‘l'nk the college track team With it are masterpleces from the hand of Guarnarius del Jesu, Mon- tagnana, Guadnini, Gofriller, Tecchler, ‘Tononi, Testore, da Salo and Albani. The collection has been brought to- gether by Rodman Wanamaker. . Leading European musiclans are scheduled to play with this orchestra. Among them are three new discover- ies, Marcel Hubert, Yvonne Hubert and Marcel Lanquetuit, all French and all youthful stars who have taken first prizes at the Paris Conserva- toire. Hall | ponents of the Liszt school, has open- her [ ed his studio for the season at 1731 tals | Connecticul avenue northwes will be there Wednesdays and days. inaugurate a new season of special | performances for juvenile audiences | to be held Saturday mornings in Cran- | dall's Tivoli Theater and at Crandall's | Chevy Chase Theater, Interest is being demonstrated in these activities of the public service and educationdl department of the Crandall houses by the Will H. Hays organization in New York, which has adapted to natlonal needs many of the entertalnment features originated | by this department of the Crandall organization. are made and how your directors work,"” sald Wells, ‘“Mr. Brooke and myself are now producing two-reelers In England. We've been going only about six months, but we thought there might be a market for our ma- terial over here. Lighting problems are especially interesting to us at present. Mr. Brooke directs our pic- tures and 1 do most of the designing and art work. We are now making a serfes of my father’'s short stories called “Storifes of Life and Adven- ture.” and o Charley Paddock, “the world's tuu-‘ human,” when she is badly frightened by a mouse. Every available horse in Hollywood and environs, it is sald, was com. mandeered by Sidney Olcott for the city of Tibneh, Palestine, scenes in “The White Black Sheep,” starri: Richard Barthelmess. Director Olcotf was several days ‘“shooting” these scenes, aided by a corps of assistants and an elaborate loud-speaker system. —_— Percy Wenrich, composer of “Castles in the Air,” now running in New York, left Broadway for California last week to rehearse the Western company of that musical play for Edward D. Smith, who bought the Coast rights and will produce it in Hollywood the last of this month. Fred Cowhick, assistant stage man- ager, and James W. Elllott, the pro- ducer, went along to stage the dances and ensembles. place northwest plano classes, have become vel Schultz of the Cato also will tudio, assisted by the MeKinley dancers, will be ! by Ameli M. Ohr recital Saturday o'clock at the Che of Mus Their prog dramatic and rh alko da assisti Mary Fisher, hompson S g having made | detinit on with the Dubin- sky Mus Ml | AL_the 11 o'clock service the Mount Il it Congr Church this morning the mu g | e Elven b the Mount Pleasant Hhe | Chiorus and the . composed Alice Callan, | §f 1 Ylrene 5 man, Martha | MAry Apple, 5 ni: bstituting for William P, ine Patterson | p,jan, and connec Chase L will be made up Shan- Herman Fakler, il lirection of Norton M. with Claude Robeson at the Mabel Linton Williams, or cholr director of Firs has recovered from a serious major | nd has returned to the ! quartet, which will be | year, is composed soprano; Mabel loyd C. Williams, W. Moore, basso. The prngr m Quean prolude Tenor avlo. 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