Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1928, Page 59

| Theater, Screen | and Music AMUSEMENT SECTION he Sundiy St Part 4—12 Pages WASHIN( iTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY "' Motors and oy 1928. DoROTHY NEVILLE- Attractions in Washington Playhouses This Week MUSIC AN NATIONAL—"Diplomacy,” melodrama. BELASCO—*"Broadw: drama. D DRAMA. Tomorrow evening. This evening. POLI'S—"The Smdeni Prince,” light opera. This evening. KEITH'S—Joe Frisco, vaudeville. GAYETY—“French Models,” burlesque. evening. NATIONAL—*Diplomacy.” Victorien Sardou’s great drawing room melodrama, “Diplomacy,” revived mbl distinguished and elaborate manner George C. Tyler to mark the golden jubilee anniversary of the play, now on jts American snd Canadian tour, will open st the National Theater tomorTow night, the third of this producer’s an- B R teacnt of _one week an nt of " proceeds from Washington %, Boston. Chicago. rou:‘wmg “of Mr. Tyler's previous attrac- m}fl‘h“e Rivals” and “Trelawny of the Wells” except that it turns back eastward on the n of Kansas City to arrive at New York the week after Baster. - t Frances Starr, Wil- mmmmnbmwu;nmb Ben-Ami. Helen Charles (Cissie) Loftus. Tyrone Power Gahagan. Coburn. Rollo Peters. O Cohan, Georges Renavent and Antony Holles make up the lustrous ot artists ascembled to do nonor to the French master's greatest This afternoon and evening. This afternoon and | his abdication, will be shown in its en- tirety, also the living rooms of the for- | mer royal family, from which all but | the guests of the Czar were excluded. | The desk on which he wrote his abdica- | tion: his billiard room, which contains many heirlooms: the bedroom with its | numerous ikons: the bathroom and swimming pool. with the playroom of the heir to the throne and many other interesting rooms never before photo- graphed. will also be pictured. For his talk on “Mo.cow” tonight Mr Newman announces a wonderful group of motion and still colored pictures, all of which escaped censorship. showing what is happening today in the Soviet capital. JANET RICHARDS, TOMORROW. Miss Janet Richards, at her weekly review lomorrow morning of public ques- tions. home and foreign, will speak first of aflairs congressional. with special mention of the “greater Navy” program and the grave danger of loose war talk its effect upon Anglo-Saxon peace. | “Pan-American at Havana” and other foreign affairs of interest also | i ! will be reviewed. tionally organized. as an exhibit of the type of theatrical production of extraor- dinary merit which the association is W sy wmwmwvmurm by the Rev. of making equally worthy productions lable as frequently as once a month _roughout future seasons KEITH'S—Joe Frisce. Joe Prisco, late star of “The Ziegleld Pollies,” humorist and dancing come- cian, will top the bill at B. F. Keith's ng, as always ! derby Miss Ada Reeve, famous comedienne will be featured in songs, grave and gay. Otpers include Rosita and Ramon, ex- ponents of the dance, in & series of ball- room snd exotic Spanish dances, fea- wuring thelr famous €l tango Argentine and assisted by Ernie Holst's orchestra under the direction of Al Makon: Ar- thur De Vey and company, with Miss Evelyn Paber, in “The Diplomat,” the cast including Laura Lovelt, a popular Washingon girl; Arthur Millard and Minns Marlin in an act called “College Capers”, Bob and Margie Dupont, com- egians, in their latest bag of steps and tricks, called “Quaint Acquaintances “The Whip King " featuring Burt Shep- pard and compeny, end the Jark Hed- ley Trio, who offer “Winter Bports The bill will be completed witl testures, Aewop's Fables. Topics Dey and the Pathe News film of the GAYETY—"French Models.” Tnis week's United Burlesque stirac- ton st the Gayety Thester s Viola Piisenr, dancer. and ber “Prench Mod- elr which is salé W be new ir has a big cast, including soubrevs ;. George Hart Eayh Bates, ingenue ecoentnic comedian George Manning snd Georgia Grafe Lwo singers with good volcee: the United Buriesque Quaret. and # chorus of 29 peppy Brle v put over the musical and dsncing numbers 1t 48 in two mets with clgborately sleged €00 costumed plenty of speed Lunetul pusic and fast dencly TWO NEWMAN TALK® TODAY Todey at the Nations! Tnester. Mr Newman will offer two lectures of his nertes on Boviet Kussia In lhe after- noon, s 380 sclock e Russian metropole, laningre will be hie subject, and in the evening, ul § 30, le will, W aflord an opportunity W tose Who WeTe uneble U secure tesls L Lhe previvus showing, repest his lalk on Moscow ” Leningrad, built by Pewer tie Great In the swamnpe slong Ui Neve and whic) Be called “the window of the west® was Known Guring the war ex SU Peers. burg end while the confiict wes on b me Petrograd bul s now called res, o bonor of Lenin the 1dol Boviel . Mewman ennounces & complels ored vActure story of the ity ude Uodey which 1 made Uie mome and iteresting because of n’ d-of privileges he wes accorde ograpling scenes Uhst for years Been bidden from public gae koye Seln home of e Crar uni Fdna Bawws vramp comedian Hap Moore The talks are given in the Masonic | Temple. Thirteenth street and New York avenue, at 10:45 o'clock. | EDITH WYNNE MATTHISON FRIDAY. | One of the outstanding dramatic | events of the week will be the appear- ance at American University Auditorium Friday night of Charles Rann Kcnnedy noted plavwright, and his distinguished wife, Edith Wynne Matthison. in his three-character play, “The Chastening.” They will present this drama on the life of Jesus, with the assistance of Miss Margaret Gage. al the auditorium, on | the campus, Massachusetts and Ne- braska avenues, under special arrange- ment with Will Hutchins, professor of art’ of the university, and in connec tion with their new policy of appearing in plays at leading educational institu- tions of the country The occasion will be open, free of charge, to special guests of the uni- to whom invitations are being nd to the public in addition to the limit of the capacity of the big suditorium, which is also used as a gymnasium, but is aizo equipped with a stage. professional lighting facilities and a balcony The return of Miss Matthison o the stage in Washington will be of much interest o the large circle of her ad- mirers who remember her appearance | here years ago with Sir Henry Beer- | bohm Tree, the eminent English actor, | in Shakespearean roles, when she played Queen Katherine in Henry VIII In “The Chastening” Mr. Kennedy | takes the ypart of Joseph, Miss Matthi- | son the role of Mary and Miss Gage the part of the Christ. Of the produc- Yon George Bernard Shaw, the bril- lant Irish dramatist, has said: ““The | Chastening’ is a magnificent play” | M1 Kennedy attained fame with his | The Bervant in the House.” in which | Walter Hampden starred. He came 1o | this country from England with the | Ben Greet' Players, who presented Shakespearean plays with simple out- dour backgrounds and no scenery. Mr. | Kennedy s alw the author of “The Winterfeast” ““The 1dol Breaker” and The Terrinle Meek DE. EMIL LUDWIG TO LECTU RE Emil Ludwig, German historian ana | biographer will delver a lecture on ismark and the German Republic” a1 Musonic Auditorium tomorrow ll!,r_‘h’rm ut 430 o'clock The celebraed German author has been much in the eye of the reading | public during the ear through the | |mp':)l;nly’<;1 his” work on “Napoleon e Man of Destiny " an s Blory of & Pighterr 0 Dmark, the Dr. Ludwig will devote much of his lecture W s caretul analysis of the Ge man Republic and 1 the psychologies ) causes of the chvnge in German minds which culminsted in this liberal torm of wovernment He proposes 1 show the logical line leading from the wimost wbsolute monarchy that Bismark was 50 Important u factor in creating Lo the government of the present day It hss been said that Dr. Ludwig's | popularity is due o the fact that he | Lms written history and biography from & new wnd refreshing angle He has | bumanized history, has taken dry tac snd woven them int tomance. He ha: 0 0 speuk X-rayed the hearts of his subjects thit men may understand the { emotions that prompled thelr aetion: wnd snimated their ves T Arth Dr Ludwigs lixal vish 'mn e mansgement of it prombsee o be one of the notable Suitural events of the year BENCKER LECTURE THURSDAY The Community Institute of Wash inglon will present. as the seventh eves (Continued on Becond Page ) 1 which i | Community Players, “TYRONE POWER- GEORGETTE COHAN- ROLLO PETERS- /\]a'h'onal One-A ct Play. Contest Tuesday. THE second annual District of Columbia one-act piay tournament, sponsored by the Community Cen- ter Department. will open this week In the auditorium of Columbla Heights Community Center, Eleventh and Harvard streets northwest, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights, Tuesday night's plays being “The Mayor and the Manicure” by George Ade, presented by the Temple Players; “Onions,” by Caleb O'Connor, “A Cup of Tea," by Florence Ryerson presented by the Masks, Friday night the plays scheduled ar: “The Girl,” by Edward Peple, presented by the Towne Players; “The Travelers,” by Booth Tarkington. given the Park View BSenior Players; “You America,” by Fred Ballard and Pe Franklin, presented by the Southeast and “The Boy Comes Home,” by A. A. Milne, presented by the Playmakers, Saturday night the plays will “Poor Old Jim,” by W. C. De Mille, pre- sented by the Woodlothian Players “The Jest of Hahalaba by Lord Dunsany, presented by Cleveland Park Players, and “Mr. Sampson,” by Charles Lee, presented by the Wilson Players. The remaining seven plays entered will be given next week, on Tuesday, February 14, and Thuraday, February 10| ..c.o0u0iie v 1 ‘which Helen Hayes of at Columbia Heights Center Three judges, well known authorities in educational dramatic work in this city, will select four of the plays fo: the final contest, which will be held Haturday night, February 2 High Bchool, when the judges who will grade the four plays in the order « thelr general and specific excellence will be dramatic critics of the local press Beventeen dramatic groups are en- tered in this contest Tickets for single nights and for the searon may be had st the Communii Center Department in Franklin School Bullding and at the Willard newsstand ‘Tickets for the final night of the con- | test are also on sale Made From a German plly. *YTHREE BINNERS,” made from German play o which Al Woods Just wequired the American stage rights will be Pola Negri's next Paramount picture, according o snnouncement lust made In Hollywood Miss Negri's last plcture was “The Becret Hour,” won 1o be released Towland V. Lee, who directed Miss Negrl 1 “The Secret Hour” and also ' her vecent highly successful “Burbed Wire, ' will direct her also her new picture The story s helng prepared Tor the screen by Dorls Anderson and Jean de Limur Olga Baklanova, Clive Brook, Tulllo Carminati and Pau! Lukes are an- nounced a5 having Important toles in tilie new A, , In Western | MARY BERKELEY- Rialto EDYTH E BATES- Earle FRISCO- IN THE SPOTLIGHT Notes of the Stage and Its People. ANCY WELFORD has assumed the | leading feminine role in “Rain or Shine,” which 1s scheduled to open in New York this week | “sts, Boom, Barbar later in the season a musical show presented by the O'Connor Players, and | by Jean Schwartz and George Marion jr, will be produced by the authors | clifford Brooke has been engaged as director for the Chamberlain Brown | productions in New York and starts to- morrow night | fense.” with “"Mrs. Dane's De- | Three plays by Hendrik Van Loon have been bought for presentation in be| New York by Paul Kay The first, a | historical romance, s expected to open | early in the Fall | “The Radlo Murder,” a play by John | | Milton_Hagen and Dana Bush, opened It 1s announced that the play will eventually be seen on | In the Bronx last week Broadway this city has recorded an emphatic hit, reached its 100th performance Lt Monday night, with a record sell-out at every performance since the start. | "God's Own Town,’ land T. 8 ter's novel, by John Hunt | I “God’s Own Town " | lncks u director hearsal, Samuel 1| James W. Ellott m about & week will 1 start rehearsaly of Orekow's apoleon, by David Wallace bling. based on the lat- ftallow " and “Wolves,” Booth Robert Milton 15 to direct “Napoleon” and Frank Mer As yet Wolves' | Douglass Montgomery, who attracted attention last season in ‘Crime,” 15 one of the cast of “Kidnaper,' Shipman | Marcin are the suthors | A New York firm annou 8! hus ncquired the rights to - dom of God" adapted by Granvile | sor now In re and Max es that It he King- Barker from the spanish of Martinez Slerra, and “The Love Duel” by Llll!flll,\'lnll and Waller, | Halvaiiay. “These Modern Women," the new ' ngner, aches New York February 13, presents | o play by Lawrence which & household where two women are in confilct over one man. Ch ital Herne tas one of the leading roles and others In the cast are Minor Watson, Helen Norman Wil- lams and Alan Mowbray, B Harrison Grokow, Flint, Camilia Dalbery “Napoleon” 1s shot by James W. Ellott, L] 0 has play roduced wrilten an- whoae ba other play around t. Russta, Nicholas 1II, he late Czar which probably will be produced by David Belasco next season, with Beth Merrill in the lead- ing feminine role. Zoe Akin's pla which Laurette Taylol will_open in New Yol in March is set for February 23 “The White Eagle “The Furies,” in r will be starred, rk the first week The out-of-town opening at Wilmington. closed its New York run last night and Producer Rus- sell Janney is going t company we to England for a London engagement. 0 take the entire in about six Alice Brady, after a succession of appearances in unsuccessful play: appear again soon in Brady will be seen in a sketch, Play,” written by Oliver White the engagement starts this month The put last October, with B vaudeville. Miss Her Intter part of Garrick Players of New York on “The Taming of the Shrew" asil Sydney and A TH pict Harvard University Pat ® pe Colony™ Films. of titling and_editing educatio ures, which is being carried on in agreement wi Inc. is the phot he Exchange, for Harvard back asociated w E latest development in the work “Diplomacy” 313(1 Sardou. ICTORIEN SARDOU had been be- fore the play-going public upward of 20 years and the author of some 40 ramatic works produced on the Paris stage before he was deemed to have worthily earned his armchair in the French Academy. It was the production of hi melodrama, “Diplomacy wrought his title clear to that hon The star of his triumph. however, was not without its malignant aspect. for ex-President Thiers endeavored to frus- trate Sardou’s candidacy. entertaining the conviction. it is said. that the dra atist in creating the character of | Countess Zicka had modeled too closely { the living portrait of a foreign in_which Thiers was deeply interested The spy mania was one of the burn- ing questions of the day when “Diplo- macy” was written. But public interest the play was greatly enhanced by a singular coincidence. Shortly after the first performance there was a public scandal concerning an Austrian baron ess. said to have oeen a Prussian v. d a close friend of the French er of War. The two spies in the the Baron Stein and the the theft by one of them of important papers from an embassy. The real source of the play’s success, however, was its superdb craftsmanship. although its love story was the chi feature that won the favor of the public. “Diplomacy” was written in the days of lax copyright laws. Sardou himself withheld publication. Yet hitherto never was a play more varously adapt- od. Sardou alway. maintained that the garbled translations and the mutilated adaptations of his work in English- speaking countries did him gross in- justice. This can hardly be gaiasaid. considering the history of “Diplomacy.” And vet through all its transformations it remained unmisiakably Sardou's play. On its presentation under the title of “Dora” at the Vaudeville in Paris it to Engli Franco-German T transformed into Anglo-Russian differ- ences; the attempt of German 2cellery to set Europe’s foreign of- andings they interest. and last of all changed. first to “The Mouse then to “Diplomac; Crossing the Atlantic to the United States, the play was affected by furtf sea changes. The mx 2 Treposes in the New Yor published in Chicago in 1893. Again t& title is altered. time to “Dipi mates”: the piot makes much of gu running and Cuban filibuster: of the army officers. one becomes an American na commander. the other an at- tache of the American embassy In Paris: the political netiles turn in an armament race among the great na- spies are still act: ship: and lastly the characier of Lads Fairfax changes into a slangy bee! trust European princeling. The latest and—agreeably to critical opinion in London—the best of these versions is that of Sir Gerald du Maurier. who used it in a year's run of “Diplomacy” in London two seasons 2g0. And this is the script which. by arrangement with Sir Gerald, Mr. Tvier s employing for his all-star revival Returns to the Stage. ’I‘HE return to the Broadwa: of Edith Wynne Matthison, “Everyman.” “The Blue Bird"” and o productions of quality. has been of & »ral theatrical interest: not only because Miss Matthison, a favorite actress. is be- ing seen again. but because she comes a new drama movement. She is appearing for spec performances in a series of plays by Charles Mann Kennedy at the Macdow - Club Theater tn New York As ane of the “Kennedy Players.” she represents y unique dramatic experiment. th Miss Matthison. who as a ¥ 0- actress was a London favorite in Ber- graphing for the first time of the abso- nhard Shaw's best roles, also the leading lutely unique ape colony owned by woman for Sir Henry Irving and Mme. Rosalie Abreu of Havana. Cuba. Herbert Tree—an unforgetiable Port These pictures, which are now being Viola and Rosalind—came to America developed by the Pathe laboratory, will in “"Everyman” and made an tnsta be turned over to the division of an- thropology for editing and titl ng suceess, d was much in the going public’s mind because of N The division of anthropology will use terest in new dramatic movement: these pictures for the two ser of edu- She was leading woman of the cational films which it has in the course Theater and one of the prime movers of preparation. The first series of a of the Actors' Theater Several seasons highly technical nature and intended ago Miss Matthison and b for use in universitids. The second | Charles Mann Kennedy. series is being titled and edited for cor- Servant in the House relation with school courses on social | Meek™ geogTaphy. Mme, Abreu started to collect monkeys | Pararily to devote their time and t and other successful startled Broadway by withdrawing ¢ and apes 30 years ago. and now has to a girls' school at Millbrook, N. Y 130 actual "> | Pathe camera man under the super- | mained viston of Frederick Hulse. graduate stu- | dent in anthropology at Harvard. stmians of 25 different species. photography was done by pnw;r for G‘ood or Ewil. Tll Mary Eilts in the leading roles and | gomething but few people apparently that lles in every motion picture with & modern dress version, expecting | realire. The fan views a film and is impressed pearts and minds of Summer stock pn perhaps & month's ru un. It has been | playing to capacity ever since the open- enson Letlle Faber try to ereate the pri recent production of nlay the part of the forthcoming London production of Willlam Courtenay was at one | production showing Al Jolson i Spider " who came to this coun- role in the magician in the The time announced to head this company Mr Faber Frida “Killer and Howard Merling vehearsal, s Mount Vernon, N, Y., a play by Louls F scheduled Birsh just placed in to open in February 13 and In New York two weeks later. London producers al discovered a plan to o While the Britis! | "Cradle Snatchers ls0 seem to have | vercome the cen- h censor banned the producers, clled n Norma | with 1t ing And probably will finish out the ply some of it gives him a new slant on 1t would surprise him to know that the same reactions are experienced life Parts of it thrill him by a million other fans. n the | Cplays—successtul ones 101" Wil | sands, but motion pictures cater (o mil- Players cater to thov llons. A case In point is Warner Brothers' ' gins about town sans overceat and Juee went back to England last | three ness In the Airst 12 weeks of its run in New York it attracted nearly a quarter of a million people release in 12 key citles It attracted over Th Before this _flm old 1t had been wil a half willion peopl Singer " months ed by over On the first day of i 100,000 people. When it {s finally given a general re- Possi- was The where they established a drama dep A ment. For three seasons they have re- wh course has become no: Mea: SO far as B hastening. cently episode “The Admiral Tided by malefactors.” the author 18 due February in Millbrook, and meantime an astablished Broadway plave: More of Summer Stock. E terrific power for good or evil e THERES snow on the gro there's sunshine and viole ducers, circus folk and the outdon sort impressarios. Fur tnstance, Steve Cochran. founder and manager of the National The is S0 engrossed i plans the 1928 season that he is often to v or = ¢ gloves Mr. Cochran has just returned from New York., where he oblamed opt on 24 plays, of which numbe 20 will be produced the coming season at the National Theater Of this hum- ber, elght are plays which have not been seen i Washington, and the others are except three, productions which have (- le. ts lease—that is, when it is glven to the program houses—there s no knowing - asmuch s it is certain to be booked n | v AL loust 6,000 of these theaters, i many | of which 1t will remain from three days fust how many people will view it Abie” Goes to Havana. BIN'S IRISH ROSE' fs goig to I %7 spread s balm upon the wore | Mitehell, co-author, and requested het | \"\eek, one may get an idea of how or less rufMled waters of the Pan-Amert- o vewrite parta of th vome of the more g Last Monday night “Bauce for the Goone he play, omitting uestionable linee the new vers! ned in London under a new tithe Ira J. La Motte, former manager of the Cayety Thealer, left Washington yesterday for an extended visit to Los Angelea and San Franoisco, Calif. 1a Motte will -raud the rematnder of | ducer he coming Summer on the Winter and the Coast, returning early next Fall, Mr W Washington many people will come under its influ- ence. Fortunately, the fiuence tn this - | can Cunference i Havana Anne Nichols, in Hallywood supetvis- stance fs good, for “The Jass Singer” s 18 the transformation of her famous not only entertaining. but leaves a good taste In one's mouth when its main character fades from view on the sereen — . Robert T. Kane, the only outside pros Potures for First Nas | who eonsidering an | reco Ailon ek Gooll a Hirsi Do Mille it Natlonal unloading? May to the flms at studio, announe that the conference had rvequested “Able” o viui them | immediately ordered the entire arviginal cast 0 Havana, includiog 1da Kramer yed every perfarmance of the -breaking New York run and 13| Bornard Qoreey, Who are the My and L 0vs. Tsaae Cohen of the flm version. \ the Paramount | week for Py nghi No Concert at Fox Today. PHERE will de o Sudday sympdoany concert at the M Theater t @Y. 1t has Deen announced By Manag- g Director & ) Steddina. devause of ihe e of Adolphe 8 Kornspa: duvetor of the Fax Qoacert Oeehesis I consequence the Sunday avmphonies which have deen & feature at ihe Fox silce 11y oReRg. Wit De suspended W defutely Mr. Kornspan loaves Washington this delphia and A ity 0 recuperate flom the offecis of aa felpfent Attack of pleutiay With which he has deen suffering o ihe past Gt~ ¢