Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1927, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13. 18, | mits that he staged the entire produc- | tion. | Bahy" as a title is not e After the first act a | title becomes unimportant. The one i 9| great object of the enterprise is It | rendering unto ~Beatrice Lillie her just desserts as one of the grea funmakers of all time. In personality he's My to take. Miss Lillie is natively serenely high- brow. Her art consists in thoroughly | contradicting that impression and Convicted Woman Abandons |makine triends with the chay, who Lt Yuletide Parly Wllh Son misses the next joke because he to Begin Prison Term. laughed too long at the last one. It is in just such a throng as is assembled on this stage that Miss Lillie is most at home. In vaudeville she held the stage, but her art evi dently is of a social nature and she is not altogether happy when alone. Br the Associated Press MAYS LANDI N. T, December | 1, this singing play e body whosi & singing play everybody whose 13.—Mrs. Marga Thompson Lil- | fo0( touches the stage is a helper and lendahl is “resigned to her fate” and | o’ frjond as she reflects. shac will foregoe a Christmas dinner with her S-vear-old the county jail here in order to start her 10-year prison sentence at the State penitentiary at Trenton. She had planned the Yuletide oh- Alfred, under a prisoner ty and | oomedy so variable that at moments =0n #1 | che seems almost to he somehody else- always somebody who has hrought an honest smile to reward the plain en deavor of the day. In her more ro. bust humor ves a glimpse of Marie Dressier. Then comes the ir- the ruling which allows mer | vegistible ¢harlie Chaplin_ appeal for %0 dnvs ot the place of trial before | wmile, the more irresistible because being . incarcerated in the State|i ¢ so wistful. A bit of burlesque prison. Not until she is taken uncompromising Trenton, however, does the 10-year s anything the 3ail term officially Lesin Duncan Sisters could offex A similar desire to have “it oVeI'l - ypg when she shows a fleetirg with” was expressed by Wilys Beach, ch o .m.mx,«m»»l Jhe Raavee he who with the widow was sentenced |,ygiior suspicious that, after mervance with her hoy to 19 vears at d labor after lh'fi!\\ apparently spontaneous whir ity | conviction for voluntary manslaug’ h- | has been a most adroitly calculated ter in the slaying. of "'“,“::"1-:',“; condescension the public that nd, Dr. A. William Lill “I'm mnocent.” Mrs. Lilliendahl ex- claimed in her cell. “but I'm resigned to my fate. And I'm ready to begin serving my sentence at once, any time the sheriff wants to take me, to- day if he feels that way 4 Sheriff Cimi said he might have the two prisoners removed to Tren- ton this week unless assured by their ecounsel that application for a new triai would be made AMUSEMENTS NATIONAL TI'IF\TEI'; — Beatrice i wants what it ts. The plot is good old pre-war ma- terial. A rich old relative is fond of children. A baby has to be borrowed The Annual And still another circus comes to| town! The resources of modern song and | spectacle are by no means exhausted, | and an odd mixture of English drol-’ Jeries with chat from the sidewdlks | of New York kept an audience l"fltl\-‘ ing with laughter at the National Theater last night. All the signals were set for reliable entertainment. Charles Dillingham presented and a_favorable habit of | thought asserts itself when Mr. Dil- | Jingham is mentioned. 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Brand’s finest fabrics and newest models See Thursday's Star suspicions, and finally the rich relative l";i‘":“’:’l‘_{:‘- produces the much-meeded funds When | eatrice Lill he finds that he is free to surrender Pl to the charms of the household sla which seems qufte all ri ing that the alleged slavey Lillie is Miss | the songs by Lorensz Hart. The (Lorenz) music s a | vivitying influence in the program, and | there is a briskness of chatter rhyming that adds the charm of grammar to its natural appeal Specialties are introduced; not abso- lutely needed: vet fully sufficient to make merry the minutes required to et the stage beyond for some re splendent revelation. Old-time dances are reinterpret ].H\ rn grace and magnificence The ance was once consid- sment on which Shubert-Bela mer in desc The curtain the wedding wristocratic only son of cratie family rudel the sec s m pedestal clog sred a sufficient achie {0 found an individual reputation. Here a group of choristers performs it with grace and precisic By way of no gang which while e legs are not | matrimony in evidence. mag- Place the spe nificence is a re -a type | of your aver of Kiralf: inci- | predicament; a reversion to tights. The shimmer of silk proved a relief to ' eve weary of studyins the | inheriting hi the woman, and takes th marvelous but not of that sm—the hu- s beautiful mecha The hasemblage of so many clever | decides to stick it out and determines | people is in itself a distinct achieve- | to make the best of a bad bargain | Ment. The program lists them all 0o |of his own making. In so doing, he e nirely as one after another sings |wins the heart of his temptress and | she wins his. or dances into great applause, and acts which | then makes way for a kaleidoscopic |change. 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