Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 65

Players Reflec of the StanglilflfiDrama. BY PHILAND HERE are a few artists of the theater who delight in meet- ing the taste of a discriminat- ing and comparatively limited elrcle of playgoers who remain loya! in their appreciation of the foreign fanguage classics, even though join- ing the throngs from time to time | that crowd the auditoriums to wit- ness farce or revue. These artiste are not so numerous as they wereand they find increasing welcome as time goes on. One of them is Bertha Kalich, distinctly a representative of the old school of acting. not only the old school of American acting. but that of the Furopean theater. where playing means not merely the pos- session of talent. but a lifetime of discipline, at first under recognized masters and later the higher disci- pline of self. .- x “Magda” still asserts itself as a dramatic poem founded upon a theme of social conflict that has become archaic. Tt remains a favorite among great actresses, especially those of early European training. to whom the authority of the home may be still a recollection of deep and rever- ential significance. Its chief lure to the artist is no doubt its weaith of extraordinary acting npp_ortuniliet: Tt presents shadings which range| from light and graceful impetuosity to the severest darkness of tragedy It is necessary for the modern andi tor, as is so often the case with a translated play. to call in his own imagination and construct a picture of social surrounding which will serve as a logical background. The girl driven from home who becomes a singer of high reputation and wha is, nevertheless, reduced to the same abject deference to a father's wich and word that she had felt in chi'd- hood. is a character difficult to ren der plausible in the surroundings of the present. The role of the azed father who asserted his wi'l as im- mutable law in his household i< one that must he plaved with all the con- fidence and skill of such an artist as Edward Fie ding, in order to pre-| the domi- | vent an impression that i nant note of the plot is the whimsi- cal self-assertion of an aged and ar- bitrary man whose years demand dulgence beyond all reason. The con- flict between the life of a home and the life of an unconventional world and the impossibility of reconciling the two is touched upan with some- thing of the clear emphasic that Ih-| gen achieves in “Ghos‘s” but it re- mains a subordinate element in the narrative that deals first of a!l with a life that is cruched hy an authority which knows no rule cave that of unreasoning exaction demanding im- plicit obedience. ok % x “The Challenge of Youth” has been undergoing processes nf reconstruc- tion. Its producers express a confi- dent hope that it will eventual'y as- sert itself as one of the plays that have been successes. even though written more in rehearsal than in tac manuscript. * oo x “Ben-Hur." after its remarkably splendid engagement, turns the stage of the National Theater over once more to spoken drama under the dis tinguished auspices of George ( Tyler and Basil Dean. The compli- mentary comment on the play, “Young Woodlcy.” and the ac f Glenn Hunter represents a lavis flow of printers’ ink. One sentence appears to link the engagement to| some slight extent with the religious spirit of the departing “Ben-Hur.” as it refers to the performance as heing “en perfect that it stands just this side of Paradise.” It may be doubted whether George Tyler ever succeeded in stirring quite so reverential a In the chal BY FIRST WHENEVER that clever little comedian and monologist. Joe Lewrie, came to Keith's during the past three or four years, he has never failed to tell Manager Roland Robbina that he had written a play and _expected some day it. Lowrle's assertion has become a byword around the theater and when- ever the comedian would drop off to produce | ting’ Traditions ER JOHNSON. mood since the night when at the same theater he stepped forward as one of the country’s greatest mana- gers when he produced “The Chris- tian.” LI B “ A véteran of the theater who has made the standard drama his peculiar speciaity is Robert B. Mantel’, who | comes to this city with nothing new | in his repertory, but with a decided svelty in his scale of prices. The large seating capacity of the Wash- ington Auditorium makes it possible to play to liberal receipts, even when the highest-priced ticket calls only for a dollar, which. considring the diminished purchasing power of a dol'ar in other directions, means a bargain indeed. Mantell waited a iong time for his poctry-loving public to come to him, since his advent in America as_romantic leading man in the play “Fedor>” a play that be- came so populi that hatc were named after it. He used to play melodrama, and -once remarked in a ha!f-apologetic way: “Why should 1 not pay melodrama? Even Henry | Irving plays it.” He made his | Shakespearean endeéavors cantious- | Ty at first. usually reserving one ! night a week for a-classic play while e was doing thrillers such as “Corsi- can Brothers* and “Monbars.” It was not until he had hecome indeed a veteran of the theater that he com- mitted his career unreservedly to the roles of the postic Enelish-snaaking | stage. His success came brilliantl, and was a fitting reward for the pa- tience with which he had survived | an era when hakespeare spells | | ruin” was one of the axioms of | Broadway. While strong in the tra- ditions of his art. he does nnt hesi- tate to plav a prank with it in pre- senting “Hamlet” in evening dress. He reports that it is one of the per- formances that the public finds most | intercsting. Any who saw him as the handsomest of leading men in plave then known as society dramas will find a gratifying interest, even though the “Hamlet” mav not be greatly prized, in seeing “Bob” Man-! ¢’1 again in evening clothes. ! -k ok % The confidence now manifested in Shakespeare makes it peculiarly re-! | grettable that the late Charles B.! Hanford was compelled by i!l health | |to give up playing just at the time! when the Shakespearean tide came; i with a ruch. It is theorized that| the war had influence in estahlishing | 4 new appreciation of fine poetry and ! deep philosophy. | oxox o | There is many a link of sadness in +he chain which binds the precent to| the past. It is al! too often that the‘ i GAHAGAN and “National I WILLIAM ROBYN = Palace- current news has to tell of some one- time stage favorite who has heen left | behind to struggle in friendless | | neglect. The annal of the billboard | are often but fleeting and the friends | | of high-noon success do not usually | linger into the twilight of life. It is a who'esome and a happy thing to know so distinguished an exception | i to this all too general a rule in the! life and character of the late Charles Hanford. When he found that| ! health no longer permitted him to | U nursne the calling to which he had| {devoted himself with such brilliant | | cuccess he gratified a long-expressed | desire as he returned to the home; and the friends whose association! meant far more to him than the! fleeting triumphs of the paver's art. | He said to & friend of his: “\When: the time comes for me to leave the i stage i sha!l try to make my exit { w'th hecommg grace and enioy the rriumphs of others without a regret | that I can no longer have an active | part.” He lived up to this fully, en-! ioved the life of a useful and re-| spected citizen with plenty to do in furthering the projects of those who are striking into paths in which he EMMA JACKSON— Gaqe’rq GLENN HUNTER- MORRISEY Mutual could afford such expert and authori- tative advice. Playhouses NIGHTER. world famous success, ‘No, No, Nan- v ette,” will present his newest musical lected. The way Steve handles the 'comedy, “Yes, Yes, Yvette' at the Summer stock company demonstrates | National Theater next week, begin- that he has a thorough knowledge of | ning Monday, November 1, with an the theatrical game. |attractive assembly of principals and a_ vouthful chorus. known as the | Frazee “Gorgeous Garden of Girls." : up against it since the|” \iyes Yes, Yvette” is a musical ver- | house’s new policy has gone Into ef-{ujon of Ja Montgomery’s success. | fect. He has an almost perfect stage, fy] farce, "Nothing But the Truth,” | but he now wants a new entrance. The | revised by Mr. Montgomery. who gave House manager Ratto of the Palace | ts certainly fComing’ Attractions NATIONAI—"Yes, Yes, Yvette.” H. H. Frazee, who produced the ecrowds during the past three weeks from 7 to 9 give him more trouble than | all the remainder of his duties com- bined. t est play, “If I was Rich.” has un- , 1 | Missed Theodore Roberts, the char-! carthed Joe's Dlg effort and in 80 M- | pcter actor At Kelth's last week. by an | v it that he plans not only | oiajagh, but caught Robert Chisholm, | the Australlan baritone, in his dress. ing room ax he was donning his street | clothes. “You, an Englishman, how come that you sing French songs and dres in the well known souave costume” here he would alwave be reminded about this play. Now it comes from New York that Willlam Anthony Mc- Guire, who has written Lowrie's lat- borate on the piece but to play | himself. The Lowrie play is called “Tell It to Jones.” 1f little Joe gets time at Keith's next Summer ‘won't he crow? to the stage “Going Up.” “Irene.” etc. The lyrics are by Irving Caesar of No, No, Nanette” fame, and the mu- sic is also by Mr. Caesar, with addi- tional tunes by Phil Charig, who con- tributed to the score of the present New York sensation. “Americana.’ The plece is in three acts, the first scene displaying a charity bazaar, col- orful in dress and setting, where many persons of social and financial promi- nence congregate. Those familiar with charity bazaars know that any means is permissible to a successful end. In Something of a notable slipped Into and out of Washington last week In Mabe! Sloan, who claims the title of heing the “hbest girl base ball plaver in the United States.” She is a member of the company that showed at the Galety and was falrly enter- talning in a dancing and whistling specialty and also helped out in the ‘burlesque. Miss Sloan carries a large scrap-book In which are newspaper clippings from Gotham. Brooklyn and other Eastern papers., and she is evi- dently entitled to her prestige. When seen at the Ninth street playhouse, Mies Sloan said: “I have had a base ball In my hands almost from babvhood. and as 1 grew older. 1 wore knickers and mixed with the kids on the lots. When 1 was 15 1 received $:i0 for catching for a team of sem!.pros and since I have made good money every Summer. 1 know personally Babe Ruth, Bucky Harris and, in fact. all the pro players and they have al- ways had a good word for me. My girls’ team In Brooklyn gives me the Most trouble. I organize them. put them on the fleld, but after one or two games, a majority of them get married and leave me flat. 1 get a good kick out of the show business. but base ball is my main depend ence.” There was much joy and hand- ghaking up around the National last Monday when Mr. Rapley gave it out that Steve Cochran was to he mana- ger, taking the place made vacant by the death of Willie Fowler. Steve has been around the National for so long_that 1t was only natural he should Peceive the appointment. and s better man could not have been se- Chisholm smiled pleasantly "and Te- | this case $60,000 is the object. | plied: 4 | Ralston, autocrat, is the center of at- I was In"P:rls studving when 'he‘[nck_ Ralston’s daughter is leader of | big row started. and before I knew it|iha charge. Her sportive sweetheart, {had enlisted in the Foregn Legion.| Robert Bennett, is intrusted with $15, | The French lads won my heart with (00 and implored to increase that their plaintive songs. far outshining & !amount in any manner he can devise. | dozen othera from all over the earth.; Robert declares he.will stick to honest and 1 determined to make a few need-| methods. Ralston and others assert ed dollars transmitting their aire in that under such conditions success is | foreign lande. 1 have done very well \impossible: that one cannot go a_single | 80 far and expect to score a triumph {day without telling a le. Robert {in my native land, when 1 vaach home. | wagers the $15,000 that he will not tell | | as there are many of French descent |a lie within the next five hours. Riot- | | out there. | ous complications follow. | | Sing, Dance and Smile.” “Fonder." | Buses. Bat st seanen there Will | it et A e iy | be only three—Natfona!, Belasco and | o 3 Fest 4 President—ror the legitimate, and an a | o3, 5 the, Kind of 8 Box for tne find result the talk of a new theater willi g numbers in the score. | not down, especially around Fifteenth | " "Heading the cast Is Lynne Overman. | and H streets, and one prominent real | erbert Corthell, Robinson Newbold. estate man wanted to wager that an | Arnold Lucy and Leo Henning are additional amusement palace would be | a)50 comedians. Youth and beauty ac- up by next season. | centuating their other charms will be !tound in Jeannette MacDonald, Ro- berta Beatty, Elizabeth Duray, Helene | {T.ynd and ‘other principals and the choru I Irene year, the President t week, following ning.” aughty Cinderella” proved one of | | Washington Ia pretty well filled with | i play - . { Club Pirates’ Den. | Three colored \'vodoo bands are an- nounced for the Club Pirates’ Den, | which soon opens its doors to merri- | ment. One of these has played at the | Tuxedo Club In Fiorida, 2nother at !the Drake Hotel in Chicago, and all {of them at cabarets in Atlantic Ciiy. | ne where their soft, weird, blood-tingiing | music has caused a sensation. With | them will be 20 singing and dancing | Miss Bordoni’s most engaging plays | | waiters, Including a number of well {in recent years. The action calls for |known = vaudeville actors, and all |frequent changes of costume, and dressed as pirates. Miss Leona Powers, who will essay | " The club will be open 24 heurs ¢ |the Cinderella role here, can be ex- |day, with music and entertainment [pected to flash a sizeable and original from 11:45 a.m. to 4 am. and with | wardrobe. tea very afternoon. As to story, the plece 1s light and a Bordoni's success Naughty Cinderella, Playvers’ drawing card ‘Ladies of the | of frothy, hovering hetween farce and comedy. Cinderella, a _little nobody, is engaged by a gentleman to consort with him on a trip to the Riviera, for the sake of agitating his real sweet- heart into a realizat®n of her snob- bery and his indifference to it. The fetching ways of the counterfeit sweetheart soon have not only her em- ployer, but a legion others, hovering about her pathway. The inevitable | happene and the audience goes away happy. KEITH'S—Dunninger. Dunninger, “Master Mind of Mod- | ern Mystery,” will headline the bill at | B. F. Kelth's Theater next week. He is seen for the first time upon the stage. His feats have previously been seen only In private interview EARLE—"The Gypsy Camp.” The Earle Theater next week will present six acts of Keith's popular- priced vaudeville, among them being the spectacular production of “Th Gypsy Camp”: Frank X. Sllk, a com- edian of known worth; the Five Pet- leys, and Murray and Dougherty and | Mathews and Avres. The photoplay feature will be the “Devil Horse," featuring ‘“Re: the | gifted equine actor: supplemented by “Move Along.” starring Lloyd Ham-| ilton, and other short reels. STRAND—"Songs, Comedy and Pan- | tomime.” Beginning next Sunday, Rin-Rin- Tin, the wonder dog. will be shown on the Strand screen in “The Hero of the Big Snows,” a drama of ro-| mance and heroism in the Far North! The vaudeville will be topped by Ed Pressler and Blanche Klaiss, in| “Songs, Comedy and Pantomime ' : Other numbers will include Japonette | and Edward, in “Symphonic Dawn.” with Jeanette and Alice; James Ken nedy, in a comedy skit, “Paradise’ Mabel Clark and John Crosby, in a comedy turn entitled “They Don't Understand,” and Tom Davies Tvio three motorists from the Coliseum, London, and Alhambra, Pari GAYETY- ve and Take.” SRGUsands. ot idren's growth; OCTOBER J Seere )()?cm/ LABIES of the EVENIN President ’ [cd ROBERT B. MANTELL - Auditorium - Week of Nov-Ist. Popular Priced Shakespeare HALL the classical drama disap- pear from the Rialto map? Not if Robert B. Mantell and Genevieve Hamper can help it Comes the announcement that the top price for the Mantell-Hamper en- agement in the Washington Audi- orium will be §1.10, the lower floor oxes at $1.65 with the house scaled rdingly. It is the first time that hakespeare has been plaved at that price in_this city, at least in many The announced explanation is fantell-Hamper desire to place eare within the reach of the students and theater- goers in this vicinity, ANNIE BESANT of Adyar, India, international head of the Thensophical Soclety, author and lee- turer, and in her seventy-ninth vear, is about to set sail for America on a strenuous lecture tour which would test the endurance of a robust man of 40, for the itinerary ‘extends from coast to coast, and begins in the tor- rid month of August. Yet Dr. Besant considers the effort merely in the light of the day's work. Dr. Besant's interests are world- e. and for a_half-century and more she has devoted her efforts to the up- lifting of mankind. She is “Very Illustrious Grand Mas. ter of the Co-Masonic Order,” an in- ternational organization for women, which she has largely built up; [ tector of the Order of the Round ble, an organization devoted to hoy and girls; International President of the Theosophical Educational Trust, created to advance educationsl idea based upon the knowledge of Honor commissioner of Indi “Give and Take" is the title of next week's Columbia Burlesque 3 tion at the Gavety Theater. show is a merry concoction of gir gowns and comedy, and Abe Reynold: popular comedian, is featured in a r that is well suited to his interpretation | of the Jewish type of characters, by | which he is best known. | MUTUAL—“Step Along.” | With nothing eold but the title, “'Step Along” is booked for the Mutual next week. Advance reports state | (Continued on fecond Page.) the Golden Chain Indian Woman's Ass tor of the Order of ast, and head of the society in India dealing ustoms of chi.d marriag rigidity. In 1918 she president of the Indian National Con- gress, which s said to represent Indian political opinion. All these organizations are said to | look to Dr. Besant for guidance. She will lecture Wednesday eve. ning, November 10, at 8 o'clock at the Washington Auditorium. g ] | able success with their dance creations. | Mack. “The Bing Bo; 24, 1926, Attractions in the Washing’- ton Th*eia}fertis Tl‘xisr Wee]( At the Theaters This Week. VAL—"Young Woodley,” drama. Tomorrow evening. —“Lady Fair." operetta. PRESIDENT—"Ladies of the Evening,” drama. KEITH'S- Jean Acker, vaudeville. EARLE—The “Four Mortons, evening. 4-11-44," burlesque. T! Flappers,” GAYETY MUTUAT evening. *arisian NATIONAL—"“Young Woodley." Young Woodley,? John Van Dru ten's play, starring Glenn Hunter. which comes to the National Theater tomorrow evening, is a poignant study lof a boy's first love, told with a fine understanding and a lack of sentimen- tality. The setting is an English pub- lic school; the characters are a small group of boys of individual types, an unsympathetic schoolmaster and his sensitive wife. It was one of the no- table plays of the New York season. Glenn Hunter, remembered for his work in_“Clarence.” “The Intimate Stranger” and “Merton of the Movies," | portrays a shy, lovable boy of 17, full lof sentiment and wonder about life. i His adolescent affections are showered i upon the young wife of one of the pro- fessors, port-ayed by Miss Helen | Gahagan. Out of the lonely tower of her life with the pedagogue she dis- plays to the lad A congenial spirit. Thelr mutual avowal of love places [lhem on dangerous ground. In the | final scene the woman soothes the {Ind’s troubled heart with a sane and | sensible analysis of the case, and sends him out into.life with a better under | standing and alignment of ideas. The cast in support of Mr. Hunter land Miss Gahagan includes A. E. {Anson, as the schoolmaster: Grant | Stewart, young Woodley's father, and | Philip Tonge, the sympathetic friend of the boy. 3 dies of the PRESIDENT—' Evening. David Belasco's production of “La- dies of the Evening" has been released for repertoire and will be offered, ex- act as to setting and atmosphere, by the President Players this week, com- mencing tomorrow night. The piece had its premiere at the National The- ater here two seasons ago, wWith James Kirkwood, Beth Merrill and Edna Hib- bard in the leading roles. Later it ran a season and a half in New York and then moved to Chicago. That there is a tinge of white in every scarlet woman is the argument advanced by an idealistic young club- man, and to support his contention he wagers a fellow member that he can discover it in the first “lady of the evening” he meets. Bets are on. he starts out, and what ensues takes place in a constantly shifting scene, from the richness of the club atmos- phere to the squalor of a lodging house, the gayety of Atlantic City ana, finally, to one of those busy cafeterias where all sorts rub shoulders. The dramatic tensity of the play is relieved by the presence of a slangy young golddigger, whose one ideal is gold and whose one problem in life is how to get it. Walter Gilbert will handle the Kirk- wood role, with Leona Powers in the Beth Merrill part. CLARA MORTON- Earle Capital Sideshows. I KEITH'S—Jean Acker. Jean Acker, well known screen star, will top the bill at B. F. Keith's Thea- ter this week {n a playlet entitled “Smoke."” 2 PARADIS. The amusing vaudeville tabloids that are a midnight feature at Le Paradis are “good medicine” for that| hored feeling. And when the tabloid i topped off with the hubbling seitzer | C: B Maddock ls prescnting as o of the famous Le Paradis dance | tFet o A qiled’ plece termed music a perfect cure is guaranteed. | %} gAY BN B o turing Walter Kolk, who will return asi &, “00& OL 0%, 7A0% o chief entertainer the middle of this | JaSK Cameron and Leo Lee. @ o week, is expected to put renewed zest | wpjare This Week.” an act that ie into ' his popular version of the | goiaf€ TRl TGy D2 second: “Black Bottom” and will also pre-! o o0 Berrens and Mile. Fifi in an sent several new specialties, assisted | oot by Herman Timberg called “Ten by his three teammates. Felix Solari, | Dollars a Lesson™: “What Price Re- Frank Rothschild and “Fuddy” HAr" | view.” with Warren and 0'Brien. from The Club Chantecler, twin attrac- ;2:‘(":':,,‘"!,12:‘12%‘ e tion of Le Paradis, continues to be | a'new act from European music halls: the gathering place for the most ex-| Helena Russo, singer. who will be clusive element of Washington so-|gceen as Mme. Pompadour, and Koeh- clety. The delightful dance music |jer and Edith, “Foremost Roller Skat- of the Chantecler ensemble is en-|ers. d hanced by the gay French and Ger-| Aesop's Fables. Topics of the Day man songs of Bert Bernath, who is|and Pathe News Weekly will complete also a gifted violinist. ! the show. SWANEE. White-hot jazz, right out of the blast furnace, is the specialty of the Swanee Syncopators, which is the lure that brings young \Washing- tonians to the Swanee ballroom every evening. As extra trimming Director Al Kamons of the syncopators has de- vised a scheme of vaudeville inter- missions in which the talented mem. bers of the band offer their specialtie: The star performers are Nat Abram: dancer; Al Norton, banjoist and clow FEARLE—"Four Mortons.” The “Four Mortons." famous in vau- deville for two generations, will appear at the Earle Theater this week, begin- ning this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The “Four Mortons" are recognized as one of the distinguished theatrical families in America, having in the early days been cotemporaries of the “Four Cohans” and of the “Three Keatons.” There have been numerous | combinations of the family on_the - | boards under the name of the ““Four : ; i | Mortons,” younger children succeeding M: ) s & that the Swanee Syncopators will | it the Farle this week is the orlginal, begin a vaudeville tour which will in. | jompPrising Sam, 'Kitty, Clara and clude theaters both in Washington| gaues. T T o A sraSneacbyioitica | The added attraction will be LA JAVA. Matinee Idols,” with Gene Collin: Plerre and Pagie are to be contin. | Brown, the O'Connor Sisters, Alice ued as the featured entertainers at |Kaspar and Nina Bradon in a spright- the La Java Night Club during the |1¥_musical revue. coming week, having scored congider.| Others are John Miller and James in _comedy singing and dancing: Harry Morrisey “The ND—"Danceland.” vaudeville. | Orchestra, with its subdued Another feature stressed by the management is the professional night each Wednesday. On this night those appearing in the local theaters are the guests of the club, when a surprise program is often the result George Jacoby is the host and mas- ter of ceremonies for the club, as- sisted by Frank ' Beach, formerly of the Willard. Spanish Village. Ottilie Corday, New York and Phila- delphia hostess of exclusive night “lubs, will meet the Spanish Villagers Thursday evening in her Washington debut. “Commencing Saturday, she will formally act as their hostess, but not too formally, of course. Ottilie Corda ulated concert voice that will be heard at the G street supper-dance rendez. vous in numbers that, for the moment at least, are popularly triumphant. With a personality as fascinating as her namesake. Charlotte Corday, Ottilie will use her charm of manfer to bring greater gayety to the Village sessions. PI Miss Eddie Mi ngly with Club prano soloist another week Miss Misslitz sings popular num. bers, using her own distinctive method, which has seemingly struck a happy response with Pierre's patrons. Emory Daugherty and the Sangamo 'ncopa- tion, is proving popular with the early diners as well as the later en- tertainment, s R itz has scored so patrons of Pierre's that the charming so- is being held over for possesses a_well mod- i and George Murray in a comedy skit | called *“Bundles.” each bundle packed | with laughs, and “An Arabian Fan- | tasy." offered by “Sheiks of Araby,” a | novel offering with music and dancing. The photoplay will be First Nation- {al's production, “The Great Decep- | tion,” featuring Ben Lyon and Aileen Pringle. The story Is one of mystery and the sacret service. The bill will be completed by house features, including &creen comedy | news reel and pipe organ music by | Alexander Arons. STRAND—"Danceland.” An epic of the prize ring, set in the bold, bad 80s of New York, when | bare fists were in style; taken from Donn Byrne's Hvely story of the voung Irish lad who meets a fasci- nating woman in a New York dive, is the story of “Blarney,” this week" screen feature at the Strand Theater. ! Renee Adoree and Ralph Graves en- act the stellar roles, with a large cast in_support. Heading the vaudeville bill will be Gomez and Winona in a terpsichorean revue, “Danceland,” with Ched Free- born, Verna Shaff and Palmer Young introducing the six dancing rockets. Other numbers will include Frank {Browne and K. La Velle in “Don’t Handle the Goods with songs by Paul Gerard Smith; Mildred Feeley in |a semi-classical and popular song number, entitled “Little Miss Melody"; the Herberts in a trampeline number entitled “Thrilling Comedy Gymnasts" |and others. Short films and orchestral numbers under Arthur J. Manvell will com- plete the program. Tomorrow evening. Tomorrow evening. This aiternoon and evening. vaulleville. This afternoon and This afternoon and evening. his afternoon and evening burlesque. This aiternoon and GAYETY—"4-11.44." Hurtig & Seamon's all-colored musi- cal novelty, “4-11-44," is the attraction at the Gayety this week, beginning with today’s matinee. it was this firm of producers who exploited the famous team of Willlams and Walker and are now doing the same with Eddle Hunter. who started his climb in life by running an ele- vator in a New York apartment house. The book of “4-11-44," the work of the comedian. who teamed with Chris Smith in writing the lyrics, is said to really have a plot that logically fol- lows the meanderings of a colored frenzied financier, Rastus Skunkton Lime, played by Hunter, from Mobile to a bootblack ‘parior.” which is really a Chicago rendezvous for boot- leggers. Ludicrous situations are largely owing to the workings of tie superstitious Southern darky's brain. Much attantion has been paid to the dancing. both ensemble and solo, and there are 30 high-stepping girls in tha chorus. Also there are eight who are called the “Dancing Spade: Lieut. TIm Brymn and tra are sald to get every note of mel- ody and jazz out of the score, some of the hest of the' numbers being “Alabam.” “Tappin’ the Charleston.” Tt Certainly Is de Truth” (a spirit- ual). “Chocolate” and “Adeline.” In the big cast also are George W. Cooper. Gravee Rector, from the Plan- tatfon and Club Alabam. New York; Aurora B. Greeley, featured by George White In “Runnin’ Wild"; Norma Ast. wood, Andrew Tribble, Happy Holmes, Amon_Davis, Duke Charles Victor, Nina Hunter and Leroy Broomfield, a favorite among patrons of the night clubs of Chicago and New York. A special midnight show will be given Friday, October 29. MUTUAL—"Parislan Flappers.” At the Mutual Theater, commenc- ing today, Stella Morrisey will pre- sent, and appear in, the ‘“Parisian Flappers,” a musical concoction put together for the purpose of making people laugh. In her effort to make this a happy show, the producer- star has taken into her assoclation Flossie De Vere. a talented girl, well known upon the burlesque stag Frank Anderson, tramp comedia Maurice Perry. Hebrew comedian: Chickie Wells, Dick Richards, George Stella and a pretty and able chorus. HOLY ROSARY PLAYERS—"The Ghostly Judge. The Holy Rosary Plavers will launch thelr season with ‘“The Ghostly Judge.”-an original three-act mystery drama written by Gino John Simi, a young local playwright. It will be staged Wednesday and Thura- day nights at Carroll Hall, G street near Tenth' northwest, the curtain rising at 8:20, The cast will include Holy Rosary favorites, including Stella Nicro, who has won for herself a name in local amateur circles; clever little Elvida Peerce, Alva Lavezzo, ingenue; Rose Fratantuono, and among the men, Paul Messink, who, besides directing the plece, also plays a role: Frank Mannarino, juvenile: Leo Balducef, Joseph Marcellino, James Ferrara, a newcomer; Michael P. Chiesa and Gino John Simi, the author of the play. This is sald to be the best cast ever gathered hy the club. The play is credited with being well written. It Is not a slap-stick affair. The plot revolves about the murder of an frascible globe-trotter under mysterfous circumstances. The point is to find the murderer. Suspi- clon falls from one character after another until finally the murderer is unexpectedly reveaied. The play has its humor as well as its pathos. Scott Talk on Current Events. Current events lectures will he given this season Willilam Rufus A beginning Mon- v. November 8, and every Monday morning thereafter at 11 o'clock. This is Mr. Scott's second season in Wash- ington. Outstanding events in Con- gress, in the United States and in for- eign nations will be analyzed as usual Her Real Name Is Kerlin LOI'ISE KERLIN, daughter, means life of the average Louise Dresser—well, that's another story, and, strangely enough, the two are one and the same. Miss Dresser, who Is featured in support of Rod La Rocque In “Gigolo," acquired her professional name under most unusual circumstances. It was bestowed upon her at the time, which proved to ba the turning point in her career, when she entered the Chi- cago office of Paul Dresser, composer and music publisher, years ago. Dresser took an interest in M Kerlin, and, after hearing her sing, telephoned the booking representative of one of Chicago's leading vaudeville Fouses and requested him to hook his “little sister, Louise Dri singing act the naxt week. She was given a chance and proved a hit. Thus, through Paul Dresser's agenc: Louise’'s family name of Kerlin was automatically cast aside, and ever since she has been known under her present screen name of Louise Dregser. rallroad man's nothing in the moviegoer, but ‘No. No. Nanette" Coming **N©. NO. NANETTE" will return % to the National Sunday night, November 7, for one week, which, Jjudging from the packed audiences that enjoved the celebrated musical comedy here last season, should be of general interest. The cast this season is headed by the brilliant Louise Groody, who really created the role of Nanette and played it through the long runs in Chicago, Boston and New York, with Hal Skelly, the dainty little comedi enne’s most successful starring part- ner, who will be seen in the part of Jimmie Smith, the happy-go-lucky Bible salesman. H. H. Frazee. producer of the piece, has surrounded his stars with Frank Allworth. Evelyn Darville, Dorothy Waterman, Eva Mae Francis, Edna Whistler, Gladys Yates, Beatrice Lee and Floyd English. (LR r I “The Bar Fly,” by Harry Wagstaft Gribble, will be prodiced next season by A. E. and R. R. Riskin, with Florence Moore as its star J