Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1928, Page 54

AMU SEMENTS.? In the New York Theaters BY PERCY NEW YORK, December 22. CCORDING to last Sunday's pulpit, the stage is still incor- rigible, despite the punishment it suffered in the case of Mhs Mae West's “The Sugar Man,” whatever that was. Though threatened every now and then with the district| gttorney’s trunk strap, it proceeds in 3is deviations from the path of virtue. Earlier in the season. when the officers | of the law were brandishing their switches and threatening to take cul- prits to the woodshed, there was hope fhat an end, as the saying goes, had | been put the unseemliness upon the boards. Yet here are Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church and Father John M. Gillis, editor of the Catholic World, announcing that the drama has broken its parole and is at present, as much as ever it was, addicted to sinful habits. Dr. Fosdick has made the surprising @iscovery that a vulgar show can play | to $6.000 per night, while a kid glove | art work must struggle to get that| much per week. He, the most per- suasive of preachers, says that this gorry condition is not the fault of the| drama, but of its willful customers. The producers, consecrated to public | rvice, therefore give it to them, be- l"‘\mg that by doing so they do their This function, Dr. Fosdick sus- pects, is that of an innocent panderer, | embitious to be something better. What | he would like to see in Times Square are dramas enjoyable to the church and drama league, whose slogan “Here is a good play; back it uj Father Gillis announces that 12 or 15 of the current shows on Broad- way are as vile as anything that ever npponred in Babylon. Indecent, las- civious relics of paganism, they make the theatrical district Of New York the Teper spot of our city.” Neither he nor Dr. Fosdick mentioned the offenders | by name. to oK K K 1 T is prudent, no doubt, thus to keep | the danger places secret, since ex- posure might tempt the foolhardy to visit them. Perhaps it would be bet- ter if the newspaper Teviewers were to adopt the policy of the clergymen, and when they meet with what they think is harmfulness upon the stage to mention it only in a general way. One persists, however, in being curious | as to which among the current enter-| tainments are regarded by Dr. Fosdick and Father Gillis as malign. Do they frown at “The Front Page” because of its untidy language and at “Jarnegan” for its pollution of the sacred cinema fonts of Hollywood? Is Miss Dorothy Gish anathema as she appears so in- hocently in the unconventional sex- foursome entitled “Young Love”? What, one wonders, is their reaction toward “Strange Interlude’ and to Mr. Harpo Marx’s dime museum display of his person in “Animal Crackers”? Are Mr. Harry Richman’s flirtation with sou- brettes a menace or a blessing, and mre his amorous serenades suitable to HAMMON the cathedrals of the drama? Do they object to the five Godivas in “Whoopee™ as_inimical to moral welfare? Both of the reverend gentlemen might be amazed at the differing opin- jons as to what is wholesome and what is not upon the stage. Many of my most cleanly acquaintances among the drama lovers tell> me that they laugh at nude jokes which embarrass even { me, and that they blush with shame | | every time they see a chorus lady with | | few clothes on. They shudder at | “Strange Interlude” and are warmed y “Diamond Lil.” . What is | one man’s smut is another man's purity, it seems, and I congratulate Father Gillis and Dr. Fosdick for their wari- ness in not attempting to separate the goats from the sheep. | * K ok K R. DAVID BELASCO owes as few obligations to theatergoers as any | impressario of his time. In his long carcer he has given his audiences their | money’s worth, doing his very best to |amuse them. He loves his public with | | a passion unusual to Broadway, hot and reverential. It is startling, nevertheless, that a | man of Mr. Belasco's years and achieve- {ments in the theater should have the energy and ambition to produce a play |of such scenic magnitude as Ference | Molnar’s “Mima.” Without a hope of | retrieving his preposterous expenditures, | he has undertaken the task as a matter of pride, rather than vanity, planning it as an obelisk to his career, built by funds earned and disbursed by himself alone. In what, it is assumed, is his »alcdmlory, he says, in phrases perhaps too gaudy for so sentimental an event, that he is satisfied. “And now,” he writes, “David Belasco gives to the world another of his super-plays—the production which is his gift, his con- tribution to stage art. It is the tribute of an adept of the theater to the gods of the stage, unselfish m\d without thought of personal reward.” The play selected by Mr. Belasco to commemorate himself is another of the antic Molnar’s naive and ingenious combinations of satire, extravaganza, spectacle and grand opera. Hell is its locale, and all the devils are there, formulating new conspiracies with which to damn mankind. The Belasco Theater has been redecorated in Stygian hues and its boxes and galleries re- semble as nearly as possible the scowl- ing battlements of Hades. An odor of suglphur, or, it may be of fresh paint, pervades the auditorium, and the stage is filled with diabolic machinery. This apparatus represents with marvelous accuracy the Red Mill of Gehenna, in- vented by Prof. Magister (A. E. Anson), Satan’s principal scientist, as an engine to expedite man’s ruin. Whereas, it is explained by Mr. Anson, 20 years are required to corrupt the soul of an aver- age New Yorker, the new device will turn the chastest Long Island suburb- anite into a reprobate in 43 minutes. “Let us,” says Mr. Anson, as he begins his exhibition, “let us be informal, though not familiar.” Great Night YMEMBER how, when you were knee high to a katydid, you gathered round in a circle and turned out the lights and told ghost stories? And how | afterward you were afraid to go up- stairs for fear the “bogey man” or some »qually dreadful person might grab you by the heels? Ghosts! Woo-00! Deliciously thrilly, goose-pimply! ‘They are just as popular today, these scares, as they were in the days of the little red express wagon and th2 rubber- tired bicycle. Thrills have lost none of their old tang. They have got to be dressed up differently, that's all. There are said to be thrills galore | In “Wooden Kimono,” called the great- est of thrillers, which will be the at- traction at the National next week. Hidden doors hinged on spooks! Slid- for Murder. ing panels! Voodoos! Murder mys- teries! Last wills! Death warnings! “Don’t you simply love it?” question- ingly whispers the fearful flapper, pull- ing ferociously at her fourth cigarette between the acts of the self-same play. “I'm petrified, my dear.” “If that curtain hadn't gone down when it did I would have screamed,” breathed the second fearful flapper, lighting her third. “These fags steady me a bit. Ooh! There goes the next act! Hurry up, let's not waste a minute.” “T sorta wish we had a man to take us home,” confided the girl with the boy bob to the girl in the tailored suit. “Men!” scoffed ths maid in the tailor- made. “What help would they be? I'd rather trust a ghost.” And thus is heralded “Wooden Ki- mono” by its press agent, who is sup- posed to know all about it. Search fo HOW to get the right voices—that is the problem which the producers of talking pictures nowadays must un- scramble. It constitutes one of the rime questions of the new cinema form, cause so far nothing has been any- where near standardized, to the point of calling on a telephone and having the the proper voice for a leading man or woman immediately arranged for it. None of the voices of the screen and | stage stars, it is claimed, have as yet | been codified and classified. Few of the directors, even those who have worked with screen players in the studio, are really conversant with the real quality of the actors’ voices. They have been concerned merely with their pan- tomime in the past. And no central casting agency has as yet been estab- lished for voices, no casting directory book issued, by ready reference to which the director can tell'at a glance whether a player's voice is “white,” “warm,” “rich,” “cold,” or of “high” or “low” register, that he may blend his cast ac- cordingly. In fact, not even a specialized ‘nrgnn to describe actors’ vocal quali- jes has been devised, though that is looked for as one of the developments of the future. All this puts a producer on his mettle to show proper resources for digging up synchronized talent from all quarters. In this respect, directors are almost back In the early days of the silent drama, when they had to pluck from all manner of unexpected places people who showed the ability to register mutely. Moreover, producers have to develop » keenness of hearing in thus “playing their casts by ear.” with diversified timbre, so that all the conversational tones of the players com- Ing from the screen won't appear to strike the same note and grow monoto- nous. The process of accumulating a roster of players for “In Old Arizona,” the new Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings roduction, as the first all-talking fea- ure by Fox Movietone furnished an ex- ample of the divergent search necessary to marshal the proper array of talent Next Week's photaylays METROPOLITAN — Pauline Frederick in “On Trial.” \I;&;amer Bros.’ all-talking m PALACE Lon Chaney in “West of Zanzibar.” M-G-M sound film. FOX—Janet Gaynor-George O’Brien in “Sunrise.” EARLE—Milton Sills in First | difficulties encountered, They have to be , mble to choose voices of varying range, | r Voices. for dialogue pictures. It was said to be more than usually arduous in this case, because players had to. be chosen who were good at dialect. Some of them had to be able to speak convincingly with the accent of the United States Army and of the Southwest of the "90's, as prescribed in Tom Barry's story. Others had to utter the broken English of Mexicans and yet keep it from being so badly broken that it would enter the ear of the film spectator in unin- telligible fragments. Many were the it is said, be- fore the director was fully satisfied to Not Disturbed. NE of the strangest fallacies of the ages,” says Fay Norman, the young and pretty Strand burlesque star, “is that the girl of today is inferior in every way to the prim young miss of | yesterday. | “It fsn't the fact, of course,” adds the | peppy young woman, who does not lack | attractiveness herself. “It is just a no- | tion of the old-timer, who thinks in hul heart ‘them was the good old days.’ “Girls of today, I believe, are healthier and better looking than those of grandma’s time, who had to have a | | chaperon whenever they were let loose. | | I think they are more independent, per- haps, and certainly they are better able | to take care of themselves, and do so, than the pampered darlings of other days. Il grant you they are more open and frank than their elder sisters, but that's a virtue, not a vice. Th-‘y certainly color better. “I'm preuy well content to be a )oung | girl of today.” Evolution of a Name. E MASON HOPPER, who is direct- * ing the Pathe picture, “Square | Shoulders,” has a name to which his ‘parcms, his childhood playmate and he | himself contributed. His family name is Mason. For | some time after his birth his pnrems could not decide upon his given name. They did, however, agree that Royal would make a good middle name, and in the meantime called him ‘“Baby.” The youngster's favorite playmate was a little girl whose name was Erma. The two decided that he should be “Erm,” and “Erm” he was until he was bap- tized. Thal ceremony over he was Harold Royal Mason. When he decided to become an actor his family opposed it, so he took as a stage name E. Mason Hopper. The “E" stands for “Erm,” the Mason for his family name and Hopper was added as emblematic of the st,age A Hollywoo& Prank ANYTHING is likely to happen in Hollywood, but one of the most curious things that has occurred re- cently was the placing of 20 members of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles in convicts' uniforms. This was done for a scene fiimed for “Weary River,” Richard Barthelmess’ new First National picture. The members of this classical Pa- cific Coast musical organization, it is said, consented to play these roles only because of the novelty of the experi- ence before a motion picture camera. The story called for an orchestra com- posed of prisoners within a peniten- tiary, which Barthelmess, as a convict, | leads. It is said to be one of the most unusual situations ever used in a screen scenario and forms the turning point in the unfoldment of the narrauve‘ A 3 Year-old Star. AVID LEE, the threc-year-old actor | who registered a positive sensation with Al Jolson in “The Singing Fool,” has turned Warner Bros.’ organization topsy turvy with delight. Immediately following his success in the Jolson picture, David was cast with Rin Tin Tin in “Frozen River” and with Betty Bronson and Edward Ev- erett Horton in “She Knew Men,” and these two additional pictures confirmed David's talents so completely that J. L. ‘Warner ordered his scenario department to write a story especially for the boy. A title for it has not yet been chosen. but, it has been made known, it will definitely go into production early in January. Meanwhile, David, along with other ‘Warner players, is enjoying a vacation from studio work until after the first of the year. Esther in N;w Jannings' ilm. ETHER RALSTON, who is now finishing work in “The Case of Lena Smith,” Joseph von Sternberg's Paramount picture, will be Emil Jan- nings' wife in his new Alpine picture, as yet unnamed, according to B. P.| Schulberg, general manager of produc- tion. Gary Cooper will play an im- portant role in the picture also. The story, an original by Victor Schertzinger and Nicholas Soussanin, will be directed by Lewis Milestone. MISS ANITA ZAHN Of New York, who will give a dance recital in Washington, December 28, under the luspltel of the American Association of University Women. Will Entertain Orphans. MONG the very popular activities promulgated through the depart- ment of public service and education of the Crandall Theaters of Washington, have been Harry M. Crandall's Christ- | mas morning parties, which for the past six years have been given in all of his outlying houses to the children of the neighborhoods. This year these partles have been discontinued and in their place the children of the orphanages of the city will be entertained at an elaborate and especlally arranged program party Thursday morning, at the Tivoli Theater. Selected movies, “talkies,” and feature acts will furnish two hours of holiday jollity. ‘The children will be transported to | and from the theater through the gen- erous co-operation of: Black & White Taxi Co., Gray Lines, Red Star Lines, Arnold Bus Co., Royal Blue Lines, Washington Cadillac_Co., Rallway & Electric Co., Capital Trac- tion Co., St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co., and the Red Cross. These companies have furnished transportation ever since the inaugura- tion of this work. Washington | Boy Scouts, under the direction of Deputy Scout Commissioner E. L. Mat- | tice, will open the program with the | Pledge to the Flag, which has been a feature for the past six years of all of | the children's programs arranged by | Harriet Hawley Locher. Troop 30, Girl Scouts, under thelr captain, Mrs. Albert Reid, will act as ushers. Assisting Mrs. Locher will be: Mrs. Mina Church Brann, Mrs. Willlam Wolff Smith, Mrs. H. Moffatt Bradley, | Miss Frances W. Barnes, Willlam Schmucker and Mrs. Ida V. Clarke. | Among the contributions to this | program will be the Washington Post’s Santa Claus picture, which was especially made for the children of | Washington. With Walter Connolly selected for the title role in “Merry Andrew,” that | comedy, by Lewis Beach, has gone into | rehearsal under John Hayden's direc- tion. A Broadway premiere is sched- {uled for the middle of January. Mr. Connolly will be cofeatured with Effie Shannon when the play opens. LEADS THE STAGE SHOW FERRY CORWEY, Star of the stage production “Topsy Turvy Land,” at the Palace this week. YALE PUPPETEERS Y. W. C. A. Auditorium Dec. 27th—2:30 and 8 P.M. Tickets on Sale T. Arthur Smith Adults $1.00 hildren_50c WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM 19th & E_Sts. at New York Ave. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23d Matinee, Evenine, 8:30 P.M. KU!T HE‘I‘ZEL at the piano OTTO F. BECK g0 on. MERRY XMAS EVERY- 80y / I'd be o rived CLA4US THEAT ” :lh my Jolly little pals. ” ORNER | i MAZIE BON- the lovely PRI g PLUM. Then \ ) bush fame (he thinks watch their step. tomboy, reday to start loads of fun. For the ' B somet But wth his terrible FIER Christmas, presto! MELITA, THE QUEEN, and dnd then what do) It turns out that 1 o from old KRIS himself. :his week, DAY, at the SHUBERT-BEI afternoon starting CHRIST- MAS DAY, I'll be here F and his pretty BON, Siilove-rie” SIMON (1 couldn’t get rid of him), not to , { mention WONDROUS WISE, of bramble- and JACK AND JILL, who never COULD With that mischievous little M4 R GERY there's wicked V/ILIUS FUDGE, dealer in black art and .\'rnmd hand curses, keeps interfering, along /"m their evil spells threaten to spoil everybody’s sets , g‘"ls at the console Prices, 25¢ and 50c, no higher. AD MAN ToO- NITE FOR ALL CHILDREN FROM 7 T0 70 HERE I AM! Told you n time. Just ar- SANTA LAND with good Al starting TO- P "ER, and every irst, there’s JACK tm.g sweetheart, t turns out, is S UGAR SIMPLE who, as NCESS 3 he knows everything), DAW, always we’ll have trouble, too. MACHE- 4 along comes CARA- VERY FAIRY everything right. you think happens? am not a gingerbread hing, Y DRAGON. Just as s e 4 s POLI’ SPECIAL CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION Week Beg. XMAS NIGHT, Dec. 25th 3 MATINEES--Usual Thur. and Sat. Mats. SPECIAL MAT. FRIDAY Eves., 50c to $3; Thur. & Fri. Mats., 50c to $2; Sat. Mat. 50c to $2.50. Sull Now The Independent Producing Corp. Presents e Musicar ComeDy Suppaist, Direct Gril L] | [FOR the frst time, | motion picture executive to deliver one | of the Goldwin Smith Foundation lec- J aeroplane very recently to deliver a ME“_ |WELL A Christmas Greeting of Joy, Song and Beauty Forsakes the Marionette. RAGm SEWALL, daughter of the late Rev. Frank Sewall, for 30 years pastor of the Church of the New Jeru- salem, at Sixteenth and Corcoran streets northwest, is home for a brief holiday visit. Miss Sewall will be remembered for her quaint collection of marionettes and for the charming entertainments she gave in this city and elsewhere with them. But the marionettes will have her no more, at least not for some time, for she has forsaken the mimicry of the carved image to appear as one of the living actors of the stage, having be- come a member of the Stuart Walker Stock Co., which she will rejoin after her Christmas vacation in Washington, not even her famous puppet studio and workshop on Connecticut avenue being -ble *e draw her back to marionette art agal Mi.sn Sewall is a sister of Maud G. Sewall, well known organist and musical critic, and of Alice Archer Sewall James, the artist md poez Paul Bem at Comell it is claimed, Cornell University has invited & tures, and Paul Bern, one of the executives of Pathe, made a special trip from Los Angeles to Ithaca by lecture “The Moving Picture Speaks.” The Goldwin Smith lecture fund, established in 1910, provides for a num- ber of occasional lectures at Cornell University in the course of the year by men distinguished in their fields. Mr. Bern has been a dramatist, a director and is now an executive in the motion picture field, watching its development from the small beginning to the gigantic enterprise it is today. Mr. Bern discussed the new develop- ments in the motion picture field and indicated the effects of these develop- ments on the drama generally. Clara Bow's ieading Man. REDERIC MARCH, the' Belasco player, recently signed by Para- mount, will be Clara Bow's leading man in her first all-talking picture, “The Wwild Party.” “The Wlld Party,” a story by Wi ner Fabian, author of “Flaming Youth,” will be the vehicle designed especially for Miss Bow's animated personality. Dorothy Arzner will direct. March, who has been a notable suc- cess as Tony in “The Royal Family” on the Los Angeles stage, was enllgcd by Paramount to play in “The Dummy,” an nl]-talkmlhcomedy, and his splendid work led to the agreement by which he will devote his entire time to pictures. on Conquc s G ondolal. MILTON SILLS has now learned to pilot a gondola, sing a love song and keep from falling overbolrd simul- taneously, according to rej “The Comedy of u(e" Is l-ld in mod- ern Venice, and a good portion of that anclent city was built to order on the First National lot, canals and all, and some very beautiful shots, showing the | star and his leading lady, Maria Corda, were_made on the Venetian set, where the English explorer woos the Italian prima donna. Mr. Sills has now learned all the ec- centricities of a gondola, and can make one do almost everything but stand on its hind legs and beg, but it wasn't so easy after all. Subscription Tickets Now PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NEW. YORK Conductors WILLEM MENGELBERG ARTURO TOSCANINI , 3 Concerts, Tuesdays, 4:30 NATIONAL THEATER Jan. 8, Jan. 29, Mar. 5 Program, Jan. 8—Bach Sinfo a0 ture. Mozart—Symphony My Beepsansereaiy !y- hony ckets, $9. 100, $5.00, $3.50 T. ARTRU! ITH luuu' 1330 G St. in Homer L. Kitt's ver- & LOOK ATTHIS GREAT CAST JACK PEARL FOREMOST CHARACTER COMEDIAN® and ginia Blrrelt — Allan Waterous — Edl(h fith—Edmond Mulcahy —Harold Crane—Veloz & Yolanda—Oleson and St. John STERN ano HIS RADIO O iR HAROLD THE JACK DONAHUE--JOHN BOYLE GIRLS WELL/ WELL/WELV By 3 GREAT AUTHORS OF AMCRICAN HUMOR ARTHUR HOPKINS Presents MONTAGUE GLASF~ Jutss Ecxear GoopMAN end HAROLD ATTERIDGE MURIEL POULOCK end ARTHUR STHWARTZ - are he conpases MAX 3nd NATUAMEL LiEF: —wmie the [yreer e e ereeee———————————————————————————— Next Week — Beginning Monday Night—Mail Orders Now—Seats Wednesday. Hal Skelly end Barbara Stanwyck Original Crllllan of “Skid” Original Rol- -f “Bo Wdh the Entire New York Supporting Cast in the Comedy Success Entitled AMUSEMENTS. (Submitted by his press Bernard Simon.) THOUGH the outline of Eugene O'Nelll's adventures, when he was a destitute tramp and sailor and the‘ black sheep of his family, may be prexty‘ well known, very little is known of the personal side of this celebrated play-‘ wright. People who have been deeply moved| by his plays, and especially those who | were touched by his “Strange Inter-| lude,” have often asked “What is he really like?” Little is known about his | personality because, merely, he is thoroughly uninterested in publicity— shuns it. His shyness is said to be proverbial. | When out of the dark of the re-| hearsal of “Strange Interlude,” when its presentation was first being pre- pared, a brief suggestion came from a quiet man sitting alone, every one was a bit surprised. The man was O'Neill. | He slipped in and out of the rehearsals without any one knowing about it. He | even sat by silent while changes werc being made. When O'Neill is in New York he stops at a& quiet hotel in the Forties and keeps much to himself. He is appreciably annoyed by flattery and attention. One hears few persons call him by his first name. Among those who do are several sightseeing bus announcers, acquaintances of other days; and, of course, no end of wander- ing sailors with whom he has shipped on one voyage or another have that privilege. He is seldom seen about Broadway, even though he was born at the corner of that thoroughfare and Forty-third street. When he was last in New York (he is now somewhere in the Orient) he consented at the behest of coaxing companions to make his first tour of the revues and night clubs. At its con- clusion he announced it would be his last. He likes to go, however, to Madison Square Garden for the prize- fights and six-day bicycle races—a heritage of the days when he used to spend all his time near the old garden just after being expelled from Prince- ton—and one of the few persons he is known to have expressed a desire to meet is Tex Rickard. The few who know him intimately JFepresentative, deny the legend arising from the tragic note of his plays that he is morose and pessimistic. He is, as a matter of fact, d Christmas Show that fills EUGENE O'NEILL, Author of “Strange Interlude.” an entertaining companion and takes delight in recounting droll stories with feeling and skill. He has always had a deep sense of the theater, originating (every one says, of course) in the fact that his father was James O'Neill, who so long and successfully played up and down America as the Count of Monte Cristo. His middle name, which he used to indicate with a “G” in his signature, but which has now been dropped, is Gladstone. ‘The original scripts of his plays are all in his possession, where they re- main despite offers for them reported to be as high as five figures. They are all written in a very tiny and precise handwriting. He is only 40, but his hair is beginning to gray. It is reported that Basil Dean will leave London soon to make & tllklnx version of John Galsworthy's play “Es- cape” for Paramount. M foud noi nd Like. =] ATION A L ONEWEEK ONLY aly thenter in Washing vely American of the first ra BEG. TODAY PLAY STAR'I'S AT 5:30 P. M. Late comers positively will not be seated until the end of the first act. Season reservations for this attraction will be held until the day preceding the performance for which they are assigned. THE THEATRE GUILD OI;I.NEW YORK ary Presents the Most Extrao ver Written INTERLUDE l\ NINE ACTS PAULINE LORD. RALP] MORGA. 3 DONALD MACDONALD. WALTE HUGHES. JAMES TODD. O, MATINEES—CURTAIN, Dinner Intermissi One Week Starting HARRY C. BANNISTER. R VONNEGUT, HELEN ANN ‘lln!m} DURAND AND LESTER PULTIZER PRIZE PLAY Next Sunday Night AT SENSATIONAL PRICE REDUCTIONS Orch., $1.50; Bal PRICES—Nigh and ‘day Matinees. Orch., Saty 75,00 208 5e; 24 00; Balcony, 75 A Symphony of Chills, Thrills, Laughs With MAY WARD, the Charming English Actress and the Original N. Y. Cast Bat” is a Poll Evening Journ, na Play when contrasted with the “Wooden Kimono."— ction is wild and hectic and out-Doyles Conan Doyle.—N. Y. Sun. The “Wooden Kimono” is worth the money, and is getting it.—Burns Mantle. Daily News. The “Wooden Kimono" 1s utterly without parallel in its fleld.—Journal of Commerce WEEK BEG. SUNDAY NIGHT, JAN. 6TH rders accepted. EARL CARROLL’S Newest Musical Comedy COMPANY OF 150 STARRING wed. & Bat. All seats on sale at Box Office, Thursday, Tmmediately Preceding the New York Engagement * LEON ERROL * FANNIE BRICE *LIONE& QTWILL IN A SUPERB VEN FIOR ETIAN ROMANCE TTA Romance of Stage Folk and Stage Life “BURL ESQUE” Behind the Scenes. New Year's Eve, 50c to $3.85; All Other Evenin, to $3.00 Thursday Matinee, 50c to $2.00; Saturday Muln::_' g:: to $2.50 ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!—COMING YEHUDI MENUHIN WORLD FAMOUS BOY VIOLIN GENIUS THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY AT EVERY APPEARANCE—NEW YORK SOLD OUT BY ADVANCE ORDERS POLI'S THEATER, Friday, Jan. 11th, 4:30 Prices, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.85. Orders now filing at Mrs. Greene's Concert Bureau, Droop’s, 1300 G St. Main 6483 ROMILLI by cnl!-u Brooke. DOROTHY I(NAPP EEGIIGE HOUSTON THEO. KARLE JAY BRENNAN and TESSA KOSTA Including G. Davison Clark—Ch ooe arles "?'"'T‘a'x'r I.lleollllll on:hmn Arrmmnu y Dom nico Bavi Lyrica by Grace Setty Ty, fatines | %‘ul-rk Robisison. 21 Lavish Scenes 56 World’s Most Beautiful Girls Chorus of 60 Male Vo Symphony Orchestra From One Year's Triumphant R-n at the Plymouth The- ater, New York. RICES: National’s “The Barker.” COLUMBIA—Paramount's all-talking picture, “Inter- ference.” IIlSII: BY GEEIIEE BAG JOSEPHINE JACKSO] x’v.\n DANCING; single lesson, 1, six $5. Clas s dances Frid {ghts. 9 tn 12. 1636 19th n.w. A f g MRS L A. ACHER srvao Slagses Mon, Fri., 8 to 11 te lessons by s Fr. 8367, Established xono 24 B ALLR NG PRIVATELY taught by youns Widely. traveicd: per | Finncrs “ipecialised: Engitan ta Toreisnere: social escort Lo theaters and supper clubs for yisitors in Washington. Address 20 GIRARDEAT LEGAI('—STMMI xm- piice. 1 private lesgons sle. 3128 ass inst. Friday, 8: orchestra, 9 11 Norin 131> _38% Nightly except Monday, beginniag ghtly i Ll —Prices o $1.50 Tocsd cpday: Wednesday, Thuesday. iy atine 8o (Xmas_ Ma ¢ 2 ”i pointmert. F man at all, but in reality the rightful KING BUNN OF PASTRYLAND. Then JACK and the PRINCLSS are married. and all are happy ever ajter— Charles Emerson Cook's Savoy Musical C.m.‘y C People with the Tchernikoff-Gardner Dancers, Gor Production, Kris Kringle Ballet and Fairy Spectacle. or rather until the next performance.” OPENS SUNDAY NIGHT—BUT NO PERFORMANCE CHRISTMAS EVE 2035 P m e flight’ | PE! LL BTYLES ETAGE, BALLROON DARCING. iudio, 112¢ Conn. Ave. Phoae N. 3323, 1