Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1926, Page 73

Part 3—12 Pages T heaters @h WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY From Old-Time Minstrels To Mo the stage of vocalized entertamment, the retort courteous 1 promptly made block to the north by the old-time fun of minstrelsy, which luxuriates in traditional,splendor side by side with the filmé, Al Herman has col- lected a versatile troupe and has proved that Mr. Bones and Mr. Tam- bo have a place in popular affection no less today than when Jack Haver- ly performed alchemistic feats and transformed the carbon of burnt cork into diamonds big and bright enough to hold their own in rivalrous effulgence with the decorations of the most glittering hotel clerk. ok % To be sure, the Herman minstrelsy was not complete in all extraneous details. It lacked the street parade at 11:45 am., when, with white high | hats and linen dusters, the troupe followed the band with jaunty steps, its members separated at wide mte vals so as to occupy as much time as possible in passing a given point But when a minstrel company gives four performances a day, as this one does, and manages to make them all snappy, they can hardly be expected to throw in a morning promenade <imply for good measure. It is a long time since this city has seen a real minstrel show, and it was re- markable to find one in tab oid so true to type, offering the silken-clad troubadours m song. dance, repartec and even with a little glimpse of the old afterpiece that cast some husky athlete to imitate the romping co- quetries of a darktown belle. Of course, the old-time razor play must be discarded, since the razor has be- come no longer a versatiie blade to serve either as a too. or a weapon, and has established itseif as the most noble emblem to accompany the motto Satety First.” A burlesque of the apache dance is employed in a rough-and-tumble scene and cails attention to the persistence of a ruc mentary idea through many genera- tions, though wearing a muititude of disguises. * ok ok ¥ Contrasts in artistic occupation as- sert themselves strangely. Our fun- makers have become scrious. while our tragedians.: playing “Hamlet” in evening dress, display an cvident yearning toward travesty. The Airo- American actor is demanding recog- nition in the most responsible and even ponderous forms of drama. He is no longer comp etely typical of light-hearted merriment. Mumstrelsy seems to have faded along with an- other type of enteriainment, the show depicting the jovial adventures of clown, columbine, harlequin and antaloon. A visit to Humpty- F’\m\p'_\ was held out to chiidren as an inducement to be good. with al- most as much influence as a promise of a trip to the next circus. But ex- tremes met on the way to forgetiul- ness; burnt cork and bismuth made the journey toward oblivion together. The circus hrings us hack a glimpse of the chalk-faced roysterer, but it is only a glimpse and lacks true en- vironment. Sir Clown has gone the gloomward way with Emperar Jones. and we see his story now only as re- vealed with tragic significance by “Pagliacci.’ A S o one dern Movies BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. S the motion picture usurps the National Theater and asserts itse’'f on equal terms of interest with rivalry. as far as eolossal effect in production is concerned in such easy: going genialities as "Howdy King, ‘Laff That Off’ and “They Knew What They Wanted.” The last named is a New York Theater Guild Pufitzer prize play. all of which would seem to be suggestive of grave and lofty skulled responsibilities. Tt carries its burden in this respect very lightly and conveys the impres- sion that the Theater Guild tends to become more and more a very world- ly institution. In fact, the guild treads on a dangerous border of flip- pancy in some of its literature. instance. in the preface to its printed ~opy of the Mexican history drama, Juarez and Maximilian,” it refers to American dramatists who “tootle of the lack of cis-Atlantic subjects”™ and jater to “Loms Napoleon shooing the French army out of Mexico.” | e e |1t is unreasonable to hope for a <ustained pose of dignity in the rapid-fire discussion which modern amusement compels, even of the gravest events and personalitics, art The influence of swift- |and history. i working (and perhaps at times slow | thinking) modernity is manifest on stage and screen as well as in critique. The mechanical influence. whether of the typewriter or of the | camera, exerts its speed pressure. And some ill-chosen word or a per functory e'ahoration of idea is almost ertain now and then to get by the censorship of taste. In the “Ben- Hur" films, for example, the chariot | racing scene finds such ahundance of mechanical possibilities available that in the effort to utilize them all it be- artificial. It a'most appears to be repeating itseif, something after the fashion of the half dozen super- comes numeraries who used to file past an | open window over and over again in order to represent a large srmy. The effect was prodigious, until the spec- tator learned to hail them almost as personal acquaintances. ok ok X The banishment of the live horses and treadmill device for the chariot race put one of the best stories of the theater out r\,{ current applica- | tion. A man who’had scen the show revisited 1t and took with him a friend with a mania for hetting on uld | | any kind of a horse race that co |be arranged. He inimediately cepted the offer of a wager and inno- | cently’ put his money on Messala, while his host chose Ben-Hur. The game sport cheered Messala while the race was on and his fa se friend chuckled while waiting for the usual finish. The stake was quite large Possibly the Ben-Hur hacker meant | to treat it all as a joke and fully in-| | tended to explain and to restore the money Something went wrong with the ma- chinery that cvening and Messala nosed out ahcad for probably the only time in the history of the per- formance. His backer collected in a'l good faith and made it clear that ie for one had been playing for | keeps. | P | The production by Earl Carroll of so idyllic a comedy as “Laff That Off" looks almost like an effort to| ingly checkered career. enable him to apply ~wn affairs. NATIONAL—"Young Woodle; John Van Druten’s “Young Wood Jex.” which comes to the National next week, is a play about vouth written by vouth and enacted by gen uinely vouthful actors. George C. Tyler, its producer, has cast it with his nated faith in young actors. with | the result that the play achieves a | fine coloring of unusual vouthful lightness and a quality of adolescent spirit quite rare Mr. Tyler relles on his faverite Young actor to portray the central | role, that of the poetic’ Roger Wond | ley. This voung man is. of course, Glenn Hunter. still in his 20s, and as energetic and vouthful as he was several vears ago when he played in Booth Tarkington's “Ciar ence.” Secondly. there is Miss Helen Gahagan. late of Barnard College, and about the same age as Glenn Hunter, ctatuesque and Junolike in appear ance, who plays the part of the school- master's wife of 28 For the role of Alnger, staunch and _svmpathetic | friend of Woodley, Mr. Tyler found a voung English actor named Philip Tonge, who has already made a con- siderable name for himself. In the other roles are I Earle, Richard Shepland and Master Paul hia, who 1s but 14 and plavs the ¢ ‘the browheaten chore boy or " to the older boys. v is 4 young man only 23 years of age. and besides being a play- on wright he is a lecturer Welsh university law at a| ening.” Milton Cropper’s sensational com edy, “Ladies of the Evening.” which broke box office records when it pre miered in Washington. will be the attraction next week. heginning Sun- day, at the President Theater. The highest rovalties ever paid for a stock company production. it is eald, are asked by the David Belasco offices for the right to produce this comedy in Washington | The play will present Leona Pow-| ers, Walter Gilbert, Frank Charlton, | Francis Fraunie, Lorraine Webster. Betty U'tmore and the other President Theater favorites in congenial roles. Especially built sets of an elaborate character provide a handsome setting for the play. “Ladies of the Evening™ will be of-| fered for only one week. with Mo in-| ease in prices. The box office sale for the production opens at the Presi | dent on Monday KEITH'S—Jean Acker. Jean Acker, screen star and the first wife of the late Rudolph Valen tino, will top the bill at B. F. Keith Theater next week, when she appear In a dramatic p “Smoke.” FARLE—"Four Morton Outstanding features of next week's Ml at the Earle Theater will he the laylet, entitled | | I Four Mortons, headed by Sam and Miller and Mack, “the Bing in comedy, singing and danc- “Matinee Idols,” a movel | featuring four feminine andl stars. | a mirre faith girls will be First Deception, and Aileen ! feature he Gr Ben Lyon The screes | National's featuring Pringle. STRAND—"Danceland.” Renee Adoree is the featured play- er in “Rlarney,” the screen attraction for next week at the Strand Theater, a powerful, fast-moving story of a man's regeneration through love and On the stage the offerings will he headed by Gomez and Winona in Danceland,” a terpsihorean revue, with Ched Freebarn erna Shaff and Palmer Young, introducing the six Aancing rockets. Other numbers will | inclnde Frank Browne and K. Lal Velle in "Don’t Handle the Goods.” with songs by Paul Gerard Smith: | Marty White a novelty bit, “The ! Rolling Laugh.” and the Herberts in | “Thrilling Comedy Gymnasts.” | GAYETY—"4-11-44 Next week's attraction at the Gay-| Theater will be Hurtig and Sam all-colored musical and dancing | sensation, "4-11-44," featuring Eddie | Hunter, comedian. The cast will in-| clude Gravee Rector, ingenue prima | donna: Aurora B. Greeley. ingenue: Gieorge W. Cooper, Le Roy Broomfield, Juvenile; Nina Hunter, soubrette: An- | Qrew Tribble. female impersonator;! Crawford Jackson and Catherine Jar vis, specialty dancers: Duke Charles Victor, Happy Holmes, Norman Ast wood and a chorus of 25 brown-skin 4.11-44" has a plot and is presented in two acts, with plenty of music and dancing. MUTUAL—"Parisian Flappers. Next week, commencing with § Jay's matinee. the Mutual Theater is announcing “Parisian Flappers™ the attraction. i | | Wants the Credit. VEN though the acrobatic terpsi-! chorean feature described as “the Charleston” has been banned by the nighbrow dancing masters and the premiere danseuse no longer includes It in her repertoire, Ned Wayburn till protests it is his child, his very own He pwints to the October 20, 1923, program of the New Amsterdam Thea ter, New York. which houses the Follies, as proof of his paternity. This program. which is still carefully preserved in the files of the famous | theater recites this little legend: “Scene First act finale. introductng a new | iance invented Ly Ned Wayburn| alled “The Charleston.” ! s who can doubt the fact after | > Yet. it is explained, Mr. Way- Jurn does not claim that he realiy created the hasic Charleston step. bhut he does insist that he was the first | man to see its possibilities and to pre- | cent them to the public long before the Charleston assumed the propor- tions of a dance craze. Who cares to deny Ned this con- ’ solation? But he never had a chance. | apologize for that producer’s exceed- | A few more works of simple sunshine may vt | the title to his | ¢ Sy Star MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1926. | i | ‘ HELEN GAHAGAN- National - Week of Oct.25™ | - THEODORE RUSSELL FILLMORE- President ROBERTS Keith's FOX‘ endship's Sake zo Charlie Murr: o | PEGGY ANDRE-Earle v graduated Applause in Envelopes. !fo\'t FOR nine years T have been work | from small part and roles in ing in deadly silence, save for|the movies. He is now a featured fellow with a megaphone, the click | artist for First National. of a_camera and the mechanical racket Outside the industry the full mean- of the studio to break it.” Theo- | . § dore Roberts, “grand; old man of the | 18 Of this s not perhaps thoroughly | sereen.” “and 1 don't like it, for 1, understood. But a player is | love applanse. | one who does just a tiny little bit |y R g v ause. s o ard] / 3 TS the speaking stage doomed by ,,,u'i\lh-fl“.‘-’..‘»‘,":;;fln"l":u.'fn'f,,.x ol 'i‘;‘ of acting in a film—not enough to de- the steady advance of the motion | L . | mand or receive screen credit. So | picture as the popular choice of the | finished. Then my applause comes in | envelopes with 2-cent stamps on them. | it may readily be seen that when an The fans tell me how much they :avtnr steps into the featured roles he enjoy this r that in my work, while | ;"o e jealous of his position. I, as a rufe, have forgotten all that | i 8 , ks Hicy ot few weeks | However, with Charlie Murray ago 1 letter from a fan | friendship comes hefore anything else. in A ew Zealand. She said | Alfred Santell, who directed “Suhway she had fallen in love with me when | Sadie” for First National in New she saw me floating ashore on a! York, and Al Rockett, the producer, raft with the chicken. And for the | told Charlie they would like to have life of me T couldn’t remember what| a man like him pla the part of a chicken taxi driver in thelr picture. It was “But have 1 hettered things in| only a “bit.” vaudeville? 1 don’t know. Now I| “Well if T can get the time T'll do have to go 22 minutes in my act|it myself,” said Murray. hout a smoke and that's cruelty,| “Now. Charlie, we don't want vou it you will pardon me. | to do anything like that,” said Santell = the desr old fellow [ and Rockett mauled it ound 1. with the unforgett heaved a sigh. ‘I would do anything for a couple | of real friends.” was the reply. 'And Charlie did the little bit in “Subway |:=;mip" just for friendship's sake—a - e chy Murray is an outstandin S. Z. Puli. theatrical magnate and | frason Wiy : A = Biier 0 Lt Mo ihvatniu 1 il et | (hRcR-teE IIAHESCEERTERAGEIS has entered the field of producing at- in his teeth ble Roberts squin, masses? William A. Brady, astute Broadway producer and manager, thinks it at least jmenaced. He paints a| gloomy picture on the outlook for the audible stage, | | " But Walter Gilbert of the President | | Theater Players, who has worked in | screen | | both dramas and the spoken | play, declares the voice has an ap- | peal for amusement seekers with whicih the camera can never compete The stage and its players will alwa | live. But hearken to Mr. Gilbe dne cannot but he impressed ‘(hn fact that the great motion picture theaters, those that seat thousands, find it necessary to embellish their ms with short musical come- sketches and other divertisse in which the voice and with prog dies, ments actor in person are the things, says “The answer to that, of course, must be that the picture alone does mot MiLpRED COZIERRE Diffe_rs With Mr. Brady Mutial Attractions In Washington Playhouses This Week At the Theaters This Week. NATIONAL—“Ben-Hur" (fourth week), photoplay. This afternoon and evening. BELASCO—"Magda,” drama. Tomorrow evening. POLI'S—“The Challenge of Youth.” drama. This evening PRESIDENT—"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,” farce. Tomorrow eve- ning. KEITH" ning. EARLE—Ned Wayburn's noon and evening. STRAND—"Nonsensical Revue,” vaudeville. This afternoon and eve- This afternoon and eve- —Theodore Roberts, vaudeville. rariety Show,” vaudeville. This after- ning. GAYETY—“Powder Puff Frolic,” burlesque. This afternoon and evening. MUTUAL—"Midnight Frolics,” burlesque. This afternoon and eve- ning. S e N NAL—"Ben-Hur. _Charles Brabin. The story is based Ll “Ben.Hur" at| upon the ldea of a woman's daring Thie four-waelc ury of (AUl courage when her baby is in danger the National Theater wil ;"dm:,i,‘,zl(l‘mlngnuu.ummln Charles Murra 'f.r?."ffii"‘:,’lfl?:,'.“‘i‘nxf\”- at 3 pm. | Maude ‘Turner Gordon, and Cyril r‘;\arklng one of the most successful | Ring also appear in the vu:]t. e picture engagements ever played at The house tiflnll\lrow‘\.lll ._r;. ude Dot theatcrs Advance Bookingesn | concert overture by (SIee 2w (o other large cities, together with the | chestra under Floyd €. V p»n.p, and fact that the regular dramatic sv;\-}lflr‘“ organ accompaniments by Alex son at the Natlonal is scheduled to| ander Arons. week, will force the run begin next to a close next Satur of “Ben-Hur" day night. “ The picture of “Ben-Hur" was di- rected by Fred Niblo, and the history of its three years in work is a real- 'TRAND—"Nonsensical Revue.” On the stage at the Strand Theater this week will be effered five acts of Loew's vaudeville with a Broadway comedian headlining the bill in an life odyssey of enterprise and adven-|.yiriordinary engagement with W turing, culminating with the comple- | o “Gault, Soyna Leyton and Willia tion of the Antloch chorus and race | \yaeq" T Revus course, and the filming of the great| iper pumbers on the program will chariot race between Messala and Ben-| i, jyqe Bob Yates and Evelyn Carson Hur. in a comedy skit, “Getting Soaked™; Gen. Lew Wallace wrote “Ben-Hur" | .y S dnd Carlton Revie half a century ago (1875-80), and its|, 4 ssique Dance Offer aitecess as a novel was followed Injpg.; Warren Keane and Gra 11899 by its dramatization. The Stage | \white in “Manipulating Marvel, ! spectacle held the boards for Hori & Co.. assisted by Hana 'k vears, in which It became, perhaps.|.Jomethin:, Somewhat Different. known stage offering |in America. In picturizing the work. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have had the! immense, advantage for the movies of | ithe most widely Subsidiary out the bill “The Waning . Metro-Goldwyn- ersfon of film features, will round L nd | Maver's film a stage suc- a story laid in outdoor scen Wi} Hayecs S e 3 : s Sl of the same name, will be the characterized by the splendot ST fim feature, with Norma Shearer as |'l"ml\ ;\f‘}“‘fl::‘ GnE the star of a mile-a-minute, smilea- KIRIE o i minute film comedy of romance vs. a < on which 3 . ||":=m'r::§-p':“af‘m;:‘_: eCiehed ita re. | career. in which Conrad Nagel, with | i Jerusalem | teA¢ e latest in lo irls ‘a:dla\(rhf'{fr;aurn’ (rsz:w::‘;:sm{h] e ; of the clinging vine type, others that und - i = | he described as ¢ z oaks, I etween Greeks and Romans, the (gDt bhe described as clinging ocaks, L | blondes and brunettes are in Hlife in Antioch and the chariot | and 1 :lh: hore's assembling of his Gailflecan | Waning Sex. legions, the finding of his mother and | Hinnom. and GAYETY—"Powder Puff Frolic."” sister in the Vale of i the miraculous healing wrought b | zjorris Wainstock's new edition of { the Divine power. These scenes are|the owder Puff Frolic” will make knit together by a story of love and| oy this week at the Gavety The- | revenge, to which the romance of Ben- | qter,” siarting with today’s matinee. i Hur and Esther, the intrigues of Mes | japa vou will find Jjollity, dashing {sala and the wiles of Iras I nd €N} girls and seenic beauty biended into ! grossing interest. an entertainment subdivided into 21 | Ramon Novarro in the role gorgeous scenes, many of which are | Hur, Francis Bushman, replicas of noted sets from the Eu- | Av (‘lah’; MeDowell, | Kathleen | ropean musical halls. | Key, Betty Bronson. (armel SV Among the principals are George | Nigel de Brulier, Mitchell Lewis 8001 gl qhurst, who headed this same igel de Br some of the prin-| vank Currier Are | Columtia burlesque last season, and cers in the large cast. A ny::-?‘llalplfi:‘)a::-l‘:olis e Beamtifnl Men. | Billy Fields, who was chief comedian e a? muaic, Interpreted by a large | With “Chucklea.” Both originate touring orchestra. For the remainder ‘(‘lflll'\‘?-r flvl]rhl‘n-q in l«u:h ma of ement, the picturs will| terfal and between them O e e duily at 2:30 and »30. | bulk of fun. Ralph at 3 pom. | leading man and Lew 1 pm. | voung dancing juvenile. | mer and Romeo’ Somma | interesting dancing and fill | The matinee today will | The box office will open S0 _prov seats at ! PRESIDENT—"Parlor, Bedroom | ", oq. ‘table with juvenile fresh and Bath. | tiedie Beginning tomorrow night, the | “The woman leads include a vouth President Players will present Mark ey soubrette, Victoria Youngman; i Swan and C. W. Bell's comedy, “Par- | Prances Ryer. with a sweet. tuneful ! Jor, Bedroom and Bath,” for a Week's | voice, prima donna. alded by Pegsy | engagement. Ray and Marie Ambry. Florence Moore, just now scintillat-| A “novelty is the appearance of |ing on Broadway in “She Couldn't|Mabel Sloan. ‘world champion girl Say, No," first came into prominence a5 & comedienne through this Mark Swan comedy. She played in it for two full seasons and then was en: gaged for the “Music Box Revue| Bq-’rfan'::ChB:S:':’fn:maT:mhath" has| MUTUAL—“Midnight Frolics.” ity Getaplee andiplenty ofiaction: | Jo€ Ledvitt wilcee offetings e | base ball player,” who also is a singer and hjgh spot of the show. An even | two dozen active young girls round out the show. Pl& a farce, typically imitative of the | W’t‘l’ jli-ar‘: hfl\plnclmhtulwd surprises Frehch—fiviby, fase axd fovions—to | 309 Blosiens, will pessent st fhe {speak alliteratively. One laugh-mak- ;m: s “:f_"'F. H \_.",‘ ,F_::]ungn_n_u? }ing situation is piled up on another | (b L S LI Sl | antil ofieinam:a conplication thaicre- | SES DOTOWIT 0L SREIEHES, SONRS { Ates wonder as to how it will all end. | FEE (ENCEE (VTGS o Cozlerra: | The climax is clever and quite unex et o blues singe pected “Tobin and ron Exton, soubrettes “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath™ offers | y o " : 'I"nn"gsz:\un:n'l;nnm:er'"rm' the President Players fine opportu- | frigsh comedian: Tke Wallman ¢ | nities, especially Leona Powers. Wal-| NMoKay and Lew Harris, with 20 ter Gilbert, Lorraine Bernard. ANk | Broadway dancers, singers and acro- | Charlton, Betty Utmore. Russell Fill- | bats in a colorful production. more, Francis Fraunie. Arthur Young and Gilberta Faust. There is HOLY ROSARY PLAYERS lso a large cast of incidental actors| fn minor :ans. | The Holy Rosary Dramatic Club 2 will open its season on Wednesday KEITH'S—Theodore Roberts. and Thursday nights. October 27 and The “grand old man of the movies.” | 2x, at Carroll Hall, near Tenth and (; streets, with a threeact mystery Theodore Roberts, will appear in per- | : o S > T e top of the B. I Keith bill | drama. “The Ghostly Judge,” the first effort of Gino John Simi, a young this week. Mr. Roberts, who comes | to Washington by special permission of Jesse L. Lasky, will be seen in as. local playwright The club, which scored two excep- O e itn ardee Kirkiand 'in | tlonal hits last season with the “Dutch Willlam C. De Mille's sketch, “The | Detective” and “Mary Made Some Man Higher Up.” Marmalade,” has scheduled an am- Robert Chisholm, Australian bari. | bitlous program. A vaudeville revue, tone, who opens his first tour of | “This and That,” will follow the American vaudeville, will he featured. | mystery drama late in Janu; Dur- Others will be orge Grifith and [Ing Lent a drama will he presented dealing with the life and sufferings of | Christ. It will he the most elaborate | attempt since the club’s first two ef | forts, some years hacl when it pre- | sented the veligious dramas, it | and “Saint 1 The season | will close with & farce comedy, still to | be s ed. company, with Rosette, in a_produ tion entitled “Flirtations,” with scenery and effects designed by Mari Bollman; Ken Murray and Charlotte in a melodious_entertainment, “Fool ing Around”; Florrie Le Vere, who 1 will not only give her own clever en- | tertainment but will appear with Lou dr oy Handman in a bit entitled “Celebri-| The cast for “The Ghostly Judge" is ties,” in which they are assisted by | exceptional, including Panl Messink, Edythe Handman; Clayton and Lennie | Alva, Lavezza, Stella Niero, Leo Bad {in a humorous bit called “A Sundae in | duecei, Fri Mannarino, Rose Fra London,” written by Claude W. B fmnmnnu Elvida Peerce, Joseph Mar | tock: Frakson, known as “The Man |cellino and Gino Simi. Beside these 'of A Hundred Cigarettes.” who is o | there are two new and promising ad- pretation of the human voice. They | omedian as well as a magician, and | ditions, James Ferrara. who comes = weakened in the transfer to the| srchie and Gertie Falls, who offer ' from onzaga Players, and silver skeet. {nn 1 posing and thrilling acrobaties | Mic hiesa will don the sock I love the movies and go to them|in “A Few Hard Knocks." d buskin for che first time. The constantly. But my first and my| The bill will be completed by |direction is by Paul Messink. great love is the spoken stage. I be- | Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and ; The drama deals with the sensa lieve it has a mission entirely apart | the Pathe News Pictorial. Jtional murder of a retired globe from the camer: ind 1 feel that [trotter in which after an amazing there is a tremen: audience that| EARLE—Ned Weyburn's Varlety |series of baffling complications and demands the spoken play and will | [l counter complications the murderer s always demand t lible actor.” | 2 s ... lrevealed unexpectedly. Gilbert, who has a leading role in!, This weeks ‘M" . L Euve e e e e T the | Theater, beginning this afterncon. | yucicy COMMUNITY CENTER— ) ey ' ! will be headlined by Ned Weyburn's 4 \ President Theater this week, two years| Will be headiined by Wed SHeviurn o | The Wandering J ago had the choice of a fine role in | 3 g | “THe Wanderiig Jawi" s spectacu the screen adaptation of Paul Leices- ter Ford’s novel, “Janice Meredith, made by Cosmopolitan Pictures. I m nt <ix weeks' work at $750 every | he has concent | regarded as one of the greatest pro- ! ducers of musical comedy, revue and ! vaudeville acts in this country. and rated his talent in this lar motion picture, showing the Jews' struggle to maintain racial integrity, will be shown at the Jewish Commu- nity Center, Sixteenth and Q streets t _ | varlety show, which is in three acts seven days. At the same time he r es ¢ ceived a stock company offer of three | and 16 scenes and enlists the services "Il"llr‘:‘“\'L’m‘x:)v?;[:m' tomorrow and i 8 e | vouthful | TYEe 3 onths' work at a much smaller sal-|of & group of talented and vouthful RUGIon, R Toedis ScHinkiai: Gilbert didn't hesitate. - stock stage, although the monetary sacri- fice is considerable. tractions for Columbia Burlesque. Mr. Florence. Moore, now the highest ‘Pt_vll'_\ f. st \r-n!m'?. AT i_ the | paid comedienne on the American World Revue, I‘l:""" 4 _week's en 1 stage, stalked into overnight Broad gagement at the Gayety Theater this | wav prominence in “Parlor, Bedroom season, managed by James Thatcher, ' who will be remembered as a former manager of the local Poli's Theater. Mr. Poli has purchased a second fr: chise for Columbia Burlesque “Aloma of the South Seas,™ and Bath," which the President Play- | ers will offer next week. Four vears| 8g0 her salary was $350 a week. To- | day she has a salary and percentage | arrangement which brings her weekly income into the fowr-figure class. in which suffice for a complete program. The | musical comedy actor and the dra- T ic artiste will find a new fleld if the tendency continue: Mr. Gilbert adds. “I think that the outlook is not one over which the actor need feel | the slightest fear. | “There are lines in our great plays that arc written to be spoken. They | may be transferred to the screen, but | they lose their compelling force, their will be seen at the Gayety Theater in a few weeks. Miss Moore's present gtarring vehicle is “She Couldn’t Say No." K significance, their full rounded mean- ing, unless they are given the inter- M Anne Ni to watch the performance of “They | Miss Nichols also watched a rehearsal of | numbers provided by the Ned Wey- | the | burn unit. Knew What They Wanted.” “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath," Mark Swan comedy which the players will offer this week. She is the pro- Broadway. { He took | performers, including Jack La Flack, | company job, because, he he honestly prefers the speaking | chols, the millionaire pro- | tons, tight rope performers Qucer of “Able’s Irish Rose,” dropped and May in a comedy act: | in at the President Theater last week 'Ieture in comedy. songs and dances; | - | production, ducer of the latest Mark Swan com- edy, “Howdy, King,” now headed for foremost Jewish actors, play the lead- ing roles, and other actors on the Jewlsh stage are seen in supporting roles. The picture is based on the life and inspiration of Dr. Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. It is lav- | ishly produced, and shows not only the ‘past of Jewish history. which in spired Herzl, but also the dreams of Jewish idealism as he hoped them to materialize. " The g"r\\;,ng Men's Hebrew Associa . . [ tion. which recently brought *Yiskor" lay is l-‘.i‘r!( Natjonal's | here for its premier, is li.!ltflfig this fismates,” adapted from | performance. Two showings will ba the play by Myron C. Fagan, with | given tonight at 7 and 9 o'clock, with Doris Kenyon and Warner Baxter in ' one showing tomorrow and Tuesday the featured roles. It was directed by at 8:30 p.m. Ed Foley, Lea Leture, Myron Orton, Virginia~ Bacon, Helen Shapiro and | Shirley Richards. It exploits three distinctive types of amusement, the circus, musical comedy and the revue. Others will include the Four Or- Wallace oley and Hap" Farrell and Florence in toms of—for No Reason'; ‘mp- | and other ‘The pho . B Y