Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1930, Page 22

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C,” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1930. LAST OF WAR-TIME HOTELS TOBE RAZED Work to Be Completed This Summer to Make Way for Plaza Enlargement. "knockout for flavor ‘The Jast of the Government hotels on( Union Station Plaza during the war will ’bl* torn down during the coming Sum- mer to make way for the enlargement of | 4® § |the Capitcl grounds, it was made known yesterday afternoon by David Lynn, architect of the Capitol. Mr. Lynn said he has written to thr| Federal Housing Bureau, which has | charge of the dormitories, requesting| ".LK CHOCOLATE 2t they be vacated July 1. H The work of clearing the plaza was begun last Fall, when 12 of the tem-| porary structures were removed from the area between Delaware and New Jersey avenues, B and C streets. This, | however, left 14 of the war-time hotels - still standing north of D street. Con-| gress has already authorized the layout | of an attractive parkway between the! Capitol and Union Station, and it is Real Estate Loans expected that the present session will| (D. C. Property Only) [fi! shetet, ot appropriation toward | 6% | carrying f"t .',hfl man.m i ‘» No Commission Charged AMU_ M_ NTS ‘l \’ouflc:n talke 12 ;;ezrs to pay off your loan without the VO 2 It is refreshing | NATIONAL /1 e o] “Sari® wilderness of jazz| expense of renewing. $1.000 for $10 per month, including to happen upon an oasis such as “Sari.” | interest and principal. Larger v "“:”"' loans at propartions Those who have wandered patfently | e rates. and long in the mave of futuristic “hey- ! hey” and have felt a certain tinge of weariness steal over their artistic souls | would do well to hie themselves to the | National this week for that much- needed change and rest. | An appreciative Washington audience | last night displayed its reaction to the | Association experiment in a Establis 3¢ It laughed hearti Largest in est approach to profanity throughout the evening was the single | Assets over $20,000,000 word “damn”—prompted by a table | Cor. 11th and E N.W. casualty involving a sharp fork. It| JAMES BERRY. o e dancing, despite the utter | EDWARD O PALTZ ‘Secrerary lack of suggestive torso twists among | 100 Books at...c.......39¢ the charming ladies of the ensemble. | And it went away humming some of the | 129 Books at.....eee...509¢ good old airs that made Mitzi and her “Sarl” famous before “whoopee” songs | 67 PO were invented in tin pan alley 7 Books a 75¢ The New Suits of Tweed and Sharkskin Are Being Worn Under Winter Coats The Dressmaker, Tailored and Sports Types Are Being Shown at $25 and $39-50 —There is a wide difference between the mannish, heavy tweed walking suit for rainy-day cross-country hiking and the smart, essentially feminine models of lacy tweeds, smooth tweeds, smooth sharkskin and crepe woolens so greatly in favor for | Spring. Nipped-in jackets and flared skirts: semi-box jackets From Our Own Regular Stocks with wrap-over skirts; belted jackets with skirts flared at the hem are the favored styles. 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Romance in one, sentiment in another and pre- war jazz in the third. Emmerich Kal- | n's early compositions are too melodi- {ous to be forgotten. and the younger generation now finds them delightful when inserted in the evening's dance program. Perhaps the younger generation would | not agree to ‘a permanent return to the fanciful romances of the musical operettas of a decade or two ago, but the youthful members of the audience last night seemed thoroughly to enjoy the respite afforded by the exuberant Mitzi and her Hungarian or make-be- lieve Hungarian companions. “Sha-tfee,” as all good Hungarians pronounce it, has no deep plot to worry | the mind—only a story book thread of romance, built around the love of & count for a Gypsy musician's irre- pressible daughter—but it is enough to provide the setting for Kalman's tune- ful score. 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Bank Bldg. leaving out that of Mitz, is Cadeaux, | Kann's—Downstalrs Bookstore and Street Floor. tume dances, but are possessed of a | “revived” at Poli’s, and the pages | UNDER RENTAL CONTRACT | the second act was noble evidence of | showmanship best, in this early musical | definitely to the operetta field. bit awkward in his gestures. There were | Even the most weathered of the three | No. 10 of a Series of Unus ; book might have been less noticeable | a pint bottle, and fill up with plain ||| | what the cast generally lacked was the neutralize the uric acid from which she is not easily dissoci- | Seeklaeisdir: Mos. 1062 Through the Moon Door—Dorothy Graham, s N O el leader, Marybeth Conoly, an exceed- | East of Siam—Harry Frank . ingly pretty young lady with a good | Mountain Valley Water :cice ena & fine igure o st e - Juliska, who is torn between the obli- | gation of accepting the hand of the . 4 -_— lledh hGYFy e i th | Weber & Fields—Felix Isman. er heart as it throbs for his son. s - They Knew the Washingtons—Princess Radziwill, to fall in love with, and vice versa, and | Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure—Robt, Graves. protector of the count's person and bankroll, which falls to Arthur Treach- | Clayton as Plerre ! 0 R_ marked degree of youthful beauty. Their chorus and solo dances furnish & seemed to crackle protestingly as they passed. the Irish-American king’s genius at his o comedy, or late’ operetta, whichever | term the individual chooses to give this work. It certainly lays the obvious | pattern of mistaken identity, coupled | with the alternating joy and sorrow in | the love story of ils heroine, that has been followed religiously by’ all later | lllo G EST 1879 |musical comedies. “On the other hand. o sically, it has so many rich melodic | — S e e An unusually large audience applaud- {ed the baritone-bass for his rendition frequent indications that the libretto had not kept pace with the jazz age| comedians showed surprise when tne | audience clamored for more verses of | quick-acting medicine you ever iving immediate relief, is aston- had the roles been more happlly cast. hing. Eleanor Painter, star of the produc- franulated cugar syrup or strained || | “traditions” of the stage of that period | oney. It's no trouble at all to [l { when “The Fortune Teller” was written, | elimination through the kidneys. Don't |ated. Mitsl 1s Sari and Sari is Mitzi, To the Foot of the Rainbow—Clyde Glucocholm ishing evening dress she wears in the For 75 Years the Prescribed and answering the call of Squires makes a good count for Mitzi | Duane Nelson takes the part of the in- New York in the Elegant 80's—Henry C. Brown..... | Mad Folk of the Theater—Otis Skinner.... | er. Others who play capably include | Mario Alvares and Glorie Frey, as chil- | | dren of the Gypsy violinist; George | Clark as the father of Juliska and Pat | The Albertina Rasch girls are not | beautiful background for the show. 'S Pages in the history of PQ['I S s ten) comedy were ‘The turned backward last night | Fortune when “The Fortune Teller,” There were beautiful settings and such fine musicianship in the | of “Gypsy Love Song” unstintedly, even | nearly so well as the music. 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