Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1927, Page 11

HINGTON, D. (. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8 1927. of more mode;n\hlls by Mr. Dal‘y. audience: 1sm‘n hére in some time—|acts with punches that lcav‘a[! 'HltlI: 172‘ Miss Y: a Mr. Pes ck in the | wa ar - thusiastic and insistent | gas vith thy hly interestes OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON | [ i, o s Foc e e o e hefors the car. | soence. 1¢ must e admitted that A| IFM AN NG s L] . . revie or musical comedy tain after each act. the authors have written their humor Jazz THEATERS he orchestra once or twice, per-| Those persons who love their [contrasts where it is needed most, and | haps, seemed a little too heavy for |Shakespearea comprehensively and|in two places, indeed, where it saves | the voices, but most of the time gave | intelligently served will do well to re: [ twno of the actors possible embar NATIONAL—Billie Burke. | management of T. Arthur Smith.| (his really worthwhile operetta score | serve their seats now for the severall ment. On the other hand, there are A vague sense' of something miss- | Jeannie Winston, famous in the 808 | excellently, under the direction of Al- | productions scheduled for the remain- |rather weak places in the plot and included the Inz has heen haunting the theater |25 & queen of comic opera. who if|(red Manning. It is Interesting that|der of the present week at the Audl famong these might be for some time. now making her home quietly in| Charles T. H. Jones, stage director | torium, for, no matter what the bill.|sudden capitulation of a hating. OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT The announcement “Billie Burke | Washington, was present With a box o this production. directed the first | here i ~Shakespearcan talent HAG | ialily fothor, O tHE EED 6¢ Hib Teturns to the stage” explains it all. | PALY of friend | production of *The Black Hussar” in | whatever they may undertake prob.|<on's choice. Even this. however, is She brought her new play apick| The plot of Milloecker's light opera, | America, given fn New York morejably will he well done. One could|a detail, for the romantic element, PAY ON YOUR PAY DAY 2nd span direct to Washington with- | which hasn't been heard in Washing: | than thirty-five years ago. = iake the entire company and well|while there, thankfulls, for once is e QUL hAltIng nr AtAntin o Nain. | ton for mearly a score of vears, is very | 1t is a good show and the audience | heap encomiums on each member, 0 | sketched in' subordination to hatred. XTR R Her pubjic was waiting | sUEht and 1s ensily taken care of In|last night seemed to like it im- |deserving was every one. b NO INTEREST OR E. A CHARGES | the first two acts, leaving the last act | mensely. It wouid be distinctly unfair not to S——t Pr— - open for some latitude In vocal and | ; give special mention to Miss Trhy ergt. Ho, ired. “The Marquise,” hy Noel Coward, |comic tunities of which the new| AUDITORIUM—Fritz Lelber as | Ma for her work as Gertrude k ,g SR o L e inspires the wish io hear and see g rincipals were not slow in | Hamlet. and to Jithel Taylor as Ophelia. They [ Having completed more 176 3 more from him T} stumes and a with most pleasur-| Truly, no other pl were splendid vears of active military service, Mas- ot cightepnth centiiey soncerns a | Sergt. Harry B. Hovt, Medical the studies of eighteenth century 8 v concerns a |speare’s offers so mar | he productions are under the aus. | ter A by . S 1 p - il Dl . ot.” | pices o e 8 sabeat <coeiation | Department, on duty at Walter Read manners are most important in the| Well meaning but very vacillating |interesting problems H: pices of the Shakespeare Association | D) A o i el e e b | egistrate with two pretty daughters | That it is one of the foremos a<|of America. This organization, which | General Hospital, has been transfer s HOME timent in » # el ket | whom he would disguise so as to mllkp!nf the world's. literature is generaliy | is sajd to include the heads of 50 pron red to the retired list on his own ap- Jected frame s lioctors | them unattractive to men. The town Ladmitted. Moreover, whatever may be fitent educational Institutions, plication. OF THE favorite picture | in which they live is in the border dis- ‘said of the other chi < in the | formed primarily to bring e There- is- but o ene: the main | rict where French, Russian and Ger- [ play or of the pl 2 dramatic | tinuous production of - 2 i iving 100m of the (hatean de Vriaae, | Man troups are constantly passing | whole. the characte t him. | peavean performances at prices that Beware of that 2.PANTS is one of th ant old livin quarter The peri <elf is bevond question the greatest | would permit all lovers of Shake rooms with a door in each of | the is in 1512 Eventually f Shake | s desu iR e i ] SUIT three walls 5 o e laincike na <i . 2 member of a small| So liwent interpretation [ great dramatist well W d additional exit .\v:d m»\y:; m,,‘\., doors e n. and his hench-|of the mytind-minded Prince of Den-|capable actors, In this an el'OllS CO . o be imagined i the fnvisibie wal man in this town. a :n:r:onl in love | mark . tra wh n At separates the players from the he younger daughter, ca ! eare 8 ritz, Le 7 § — audience. It is players from the |hoth the hearts of the girl » | pable company of S 2 - BELASCO. Siers ds wison 14 5 town ftself. In the last act the well |ors set themselves at the Washington| When gunplay, murder, Chinese Mmake a change would he to risk the | rilled marching of the conquering | Auditorium _yester evening—and | smuzzling and sundry other offenses B N Moo i, | Hussar troups was a feature that won | succeeded admirably \zainst propriety are the | outbursts of applause and the national| Throughout night's perform-|trade of a drama laid in 1xum at the very end with “America” | ance nothing was lost in the reading | drinking, horseracing Tia Juana, h his | tion appears to have s ers in the east.| (o take the audience to its feet pro-|of the play or in the acting of the |Mexico, the play is apt to encounter 2 yoon nty fragility | vided a stirring finale. players. ‘The magnificence of the | the suspicion of being a ponderous might be told with It requires | There was much fine singing last | poetry, the amazing truth and subtlety | purveyor of low-hung ode Yot cunning cate to prevent the others |nizht. Bertram Peacock, remem- |of the psychology and the intensity fwhen all’ these ill-soundir Who appear as minor characters|hered here as the original Schubert |of tragic emotion—those thingsare grouped in a single ma from seeming rtruders in the in “Blossom Time,” was an excel- | which have made “Hamlet” the most | with shafts of brigl gentle chronicle of old sweethesrt | jant m ate. both acting . and | renowned of English dramas and have | pumor and further d. revived in the second 1 the rols effectively. H. A. |raised it to its pre-eminent position in|of dancing and a dash of Hapy R v from a|Pfie’, as the romantic hero, “The | the history of literature—all were |play is likely then to find audiences newly op e ] Block Hussar” was likewise excel. | there, in vivid human expression. |ho will vote it mond theater enter- The Marquise Eloi este lent. William Mitchell, the student, | Fritz Leiber's characterization of | ainment. And of such is the “Tia Bas had two oy one, Comite [ showed a sremarkably fine, rohust [ Hamlet is distinetly Leiber's. | jyana” which Chester De Vonde and Raoul de Vriaae. the other B N | tenor voice in “The Song of Sengs | While at certain times he sacrifices |idihourn Gordon wove for their cast | ;“ Duco de rsuano. Let interpolated in the third act nzel | some of the romantic elsments t e Belinc o el | ce to say in commenting on the | funtington, the StalUTe I have made other Hamlets appealing e ey commentlis on e | it puies oo omtura Bpfine v inutiie e CL L S | e Sohuito eeiniclte S the title: well known in music circles here, [the Dani: more readily under- |\ywpije ‘the weak members of the ore is something fascinating . in| was a vivacious, delightful heroine | #tood 3 es more quickly | ) 1 () RS the revival of an ancient day With S0 and sang the “Swiss Echo Song” in Fraaped than in the ordinary perform. | {156 the, w Lol i B close .n attention to contributory de-| jnelich charmingly i wce. His interpretation is smooth [y e BEL R a tr that ons_of the past appear ‘“',f_i,' “,.‘h":,'”l"',(',“e’:,,éhfh,',f::m’;,l\' and natur v scholarly, i ::I‘“ . "”}'."”‘“;’j““‘" ';" NEGLECTED. cold often leads to to live again. White wigs, “. | satisfactory Rosetta, also sang with | I'articularly in his reading “”[“"" cqotibtinal Chlef holds. the | Tt serious sickness. Break up that cold flaring coats and rich s ar e . w With | 10('s contemplative soliloquy does Mr. : marked artisiry and her “What's in | °08 €On(EPEA Y 1 [to an admirable Jevel. Perhaps Ired-| before it breaks you up. worn with reful ac At the Air, Today?” in th 2 3 ay e third act, Sl Bt s Sl o sovar 5 suggests the student in the back-|\on ‘an ‘encore of the last verse. She | With the result that h e mlss | orie BT 8 incinet o soyerdo it Father John's Medicine breaks up ground as well the player in the | ayer “ L leivod h b ¢! none of the charming philosophy the | VenECanee obsessed Sprut, though a $ footlight glare. b it i uge bouquet of | pE O A e pressed in this inter. | character who has spent four years in | colds and builds vigor, strength and pc lady dnsists by cunning device on | r exceptionally fine singer | U i Quentin when he's convinced he | physical fitness, Its blended food value HE Suoek guec ! ‘oved herself as an exceptional To each of Hamlet's moods—philos: .+ with n hiss the way Mr. | nourishes, restores and protects the sys- her fyrmer suitors are staving. The : dreamer stinator and B e comedienne was Ann Yago, Canadian L, _ L 5 Spi dic it Sar: | i old love affaiv vecu e | o o, whose resonant tones filled | Cold-hearted misanthrope—Mr. Leiber Sprut did. Fdna Ben- | tem. Pleasant to take and easy to digest. hapnily wed and after 3 whict . nEs ot standi 5 » to carry the hurden of AL ety heh i the sextet of the first act finale BHnge een e rnling e i Wisoeracking vocan. | Help yout body to fight the cold by she chooses her hushand from t ;\.}wm-'xmlx;v.-‘hpml“\:?(:sz;::n:;!_\nf:{@y}::i | Gontrast between the prince's humor ; yole of Marcelle D'Arcy, | throwing off disease germs. Father John's e 1 over the h S cas ably |ANd ma | ateve it & n The role played by Arthur Byron ‘4‘,\[1&'\(\:‘(‘ h:”“’hP'\_;":‘ppfl;“;fl";]“;,“{"‘3 other y | writing of it must he ad ;m"‘lW"hl’ucflmfu‘ucmdc‘“flmfl I that of the successtul thoush be: [ beacock-and! Les Daly. Mr. Daly is | Che. latge audience—inciden [micte A ! De Vonde and | years. No alcohol of harmful drugs. ted suitor. " He plavs 1t well. © |GG N Washington as a | 20 of the latgest Shakespearean' Gordon have ended each of their three —Adverti~ment T Te o msiumes | comedian and he skillfully turned to o O b alemnca they _conver | account every possible quip of the ¥ ald, original score. The interpolation sl U e el a convincing significance to a story which needs the good acting to pre- vent it from heing a fantastic insin e ity. Billie Burke has never appeared to b. iter advants There was a touch of human person- ality in the occasion which needed nt over the foot- e e voens zesn o) | §3 50 Philadelphia The first niEht of _“Thg Marquise' W;!slffn:tu'r\ has 1{\(] fl’:fl m\‘?\'flsge of i 5 goioying in many seoeonss ove of|| - $3.00 Wilmington PHILANDER JOHNSON. SUNDAYS PRESIDENT—"The Black Hussar.” Melodious music well sung, many Noven?ber gv 20 comic episodes done in a manner that Special Tr won hearty laughter, and a_chorus of | Leaves f;flhlnlmn (Union Station). unusually pretty girls and stalwart | 3 i young men, well trained and full of s M L pep, from the outstanding features of | 0:50 AM the' initial production given here RETURNING. leaves Philadelohia the President Light Opera Compan: o b 7 T he “The Black Hussar,” which opened for | 5.05 PM.: Wilmington, a week’s run at the President Theater | e e last night. This first night the large Decesmber 4. 1§ audience included many di tinguished gty people of Capital society, who came to P | R I d add emphasis to the gala opening of | ennsyivania haiiroal this stock light opera group under the Exactly the same as described below, but with double bed instead of twin beds, the price of the complete group of seven picces is $345. 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