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g bt | 7 AMUSEMENTS. SLBPAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 6, 1931—PART FOUR. AMUSEMENTS. Gayety Star BELASCO—The House Beautiful.” | material, broad in scope. He is showr HANNING POLLOCK'S play, | Tunning the gamut from adversity and The House Beautiful” spon- COntempt to recognition and acc sored by the Professional Play. | The scenes of the play are laid in ers of Wask associa- | Whistler's studio on em- m with Gaige, will | bankment in London, where, surround- Sh asco Theater | ¢d by adoring ad he blazed fo ¢ his venom and The House Beautiful” | dubious mmonplace people, Attract qua at of the great artist atudes e R their dwelling situdes in a manner comparable t the i the famous Beau Brummel. He 1 ’ recog or permitted the lack of to dampen his spiritsior to ¢ ail p)( social activities. His fast-grow- lnP debts, at times, ma no impression n his high- \)Hl.!vd character The cast selected for the first presen- for through 30 fight'ng Archie vears Fate mile on tation of this new drama of historical faces. Figh characterization includes Richard Hale Shg ito Dy for b in the title role am Doyle, Diantha house, to buy the Pattison, Reginald Carrington, Donald to keep Randolph, Joseph Crehan, Georgia Lee Doris Birmingham, with Jimmy Lake's espect Hall, J. Malcom Dunn, Frank Hearn, e e a lit- Charles Laite, Tracy Barrow and David | C™D show at the Gayety this week. d better ary Pl Andrada. The play is directed by John Hatiilad oo Hayden, who has a long list of Broad- ) y had been in it way successes to his credit >roshy Gal he p er, has sent oy : = o oy e, e T s (iato af | GAYETY—-Jimmie Lake's Show.” | “Oh Promise Me.' and who appeared | ¢¢ néMIE LAKE'S S}l:IOV\' at the BY OLIVER M. SAYLER, with George M. Cohan in “Gambling ayety Theater this week, with g 2 o and the revivals of he Song and a matinee today, is headed by a Gayety hor of American Theater. Dance Man’ and “The Tavem’ elto|{avorite, Hap Freycr, who needs no [N all my theatergoing in this country in “The Wisdom Tooth” “The Old | introduction : A, Soak” and “Two Girls Wanted”), and | Assisting Freyer is a cast of burlesque 2 4 he o ey James Bell (who scared a sensational artists chosen by Mr. Lake for their eXperienced quite the same thrill as alsoams i "a Lt The all-around ability, including Nadja, | during the first three minutes of the re- Mile” and has bee Russian sensation. who heads the femi- J4s Adariiio i6s slage in nine stars, and is assisted by Doris : SR e e o Birmingham, Tereta Schaeffer, Joe and Theater, Oleveland, afte Ernestine, Gabby Fields, Al Ferris S of retirement. These Frank McConville, Nan Bryant, Boots were minutes of excite- ish, with a number of extra attrac- o ] 3 tions booked especially for this week flood, of lonk; pent Priday will provide an “amateur night.” ased affection, of £ ponse—audience TONY SARG'S MARIONETTES. to player and player to audience. They "HURSDAY. Friday and Saturday | were moments of miracle, & double Tua ot 0 afternoons and evenings of this | miracle, both of them performed by the Barretts of Wimpole | yeqk Tony Sarg's famous Marlonettes— | beloved' artist herself the genuine originals—will give exhi-| I don't suppose any of the other arts ction was staged bY | pitjons at the Masonic Auditorium, | compares with the theater in_oppor- er. who directed “UP | Thirteenth street and New York ave- | tunities for the spontaneous, for the Pops the Devil” and “Five Star FInal” | 0 nder the management of the T. | unexpected. None of them is so flexible This engagement will include Thurs- i UNGer the mana as the theater. Books and poems are day and Saturday matinees For many years these remarkable | Written and published and sent out to the world rigidly fixed even more deliberately released for performar only with the skill of tt bility or infallibility of t little robots ha of fascination o cast their mystic spell the youngsters of \d only recently they orting Canadian chil- high delights of Elystum of their illusions is amaz- ma is NATIONAL—“Mr. Whistler.” JASHINGTONIANS ance of the of “Mr ns, Sarah and ma- ch comes | ing in the portrayal of real drama. the theater's susceptibility tc heater tomorrow eve- | with rpeaking voices and all its ac- | Eive-and-take would be i by cebborios first entry of Maude Adams upon the play derives its name from its “The Rose and the Ring” and “Alice | Stage “_h:fh,f-.d_m t:l her so long cipal character, James Abbott Mc-|in Wonderland” will be their offerings | must have been foreseen by any one who Neill Whistler, the great American|in Washington and it is safe to say A Tecalled the hold she used to have upon etcher and painter, a stormy petrel in | that not a youngster in the entire Dis- | 8l of us——a mystical and spiritual bond the London artistic circles of the Vic-|tfict will miss them if he can help | Outside the range of mere technical torian period. The artist is represented | it, nor will any considerable number | &Kill fl“d_fl(u’md'fl!lmn for it. Modest and the age of 40, when recognition was of the larger boys and girls I-rflamn: 2s she is, Miss Adnr;\s her- ile upon him Seats may be had at the T. Arthur |%¢if ave expected something to cter of “Jimmie” Whistler Smith Bureau, 1330 G street, and at | Pappen. But it is safe to say that provide interesting dramatic | the door before the performances. neither she nor any one in that Cleve- land audience expected to happen what happen. The artist was wholly un- pared for the ovation she received ovators were equally unprepared for the ovation y provided. It all just hi °d out of a clear sky, and the happening curprised and confused, be- wildered and all but overwhelmed everyone involved MAUDE ADAMS-OTIS SKINNER. EVER before in the history the theater has so much en- thusiasm been manifest as there is over the Nation-wide tour of Maude Adams and Otis ander Pushkin. The macabre incident of |15 presented in Englith and is pro- From the proximity of the first row 0- | and with the detachment which I in- nounced the most pretentious ever of- | ygriably carry with me to the theater, fered in this country by the ebulllent | I" had’ an unusual perspective from Balieff. It is gorgeously costumed &S| which to view this extraordinary event well as exquisitely played by a cast of | After the ovation had run its course for 2 w R 14. The balance of the program con- | two full minutes, it became apparent | Skinner in Shakespeare's comedy, "The | i;ins 14 absolutely new features to thet ohe of e AT T ferchant of Venice.” As soon as it . at on wo things must occur Was announced that these greatly be- |COUDtry, &ll of which are promised to| cither the situation must be brought e el be the equal of his former programs. under control, or the returning artist h;;:n:sh:;' to the ita Balieffl has become an inter- | would be swamped under a blanket of ¢ : Lot national character of delicious artistry. | applause and affection, and, though she National i a consummate artist in everything that had returned to the stage, she might for five days be- he essays. His interpretative scope | never speak a line ginning _ Tuesday covers a fleld of achievement ranging | If Miss Adams had broken under that night, December | from the felicitous frivolity avalanche of good-will; kindly but 15, mail orders be- |farce to the profound philosophy of | crushing, the curtain would have fallen gan pouring into Tolstoy. His achlevements along the and she would have gone back to the the box office and { highway of wholesome entertainment | seclusion which had been hers for so the shone rang have been signalized both in Europe long, probably never again to emerge constantly with re- and America by highest commendation. | There were two steps necessary to quests for infor- bring er control this tribute which mation “THE WIVES OF HENRY VIIL" |had gotten out of hand. Miss Adams One must go ORNELIA OTIS SKINNER will be | had to take both of these steps herself. | back to_triumph- seen at the National Theater in her NO one else could help her. First, she ant tours of Booth |new vehicle, “The Wives o0f Henry had to bring herself under control. And and Barrett to find VIIL" Sunday and Monday evenings, then she had to control that vast anything anywhere December 13 and 14 throng and that avalanche of good- | approaching the Miss Skinner, who is both author and | Will. From where I sat I could e warmth of wel- performer, has' made the most of the | that double fact dawn upon her. After | come thus evl- maude Adams. |excellent materials she has chosen to |the briefest moment of hesitation. she | denced 1 the | WOrk with. She picks her incidents Performed the first miracle by the very | The return of Maude Adams to the | i)y "celtets them o that they have | Simple but effectual act of swallowing stage, after a retirement of 13 vears. (il “Toiitaving tne one big moc hard. . Self-mastery was_the result proves thal the people Ol Iy o ovs [ment in the life of each of the six| A the day had been saved, , o phnny et umespested. return | Queens of Heary VIIL HOW 10 periorm.the second miracies N and honor ; X OW. Lo PEriorm s e focuseq the attention of the country “GINGER GIRLS. Words iffice, for words could not upon this remarkable tour, an e of th e i be hear some things speak louder Skinner dean of the American stage trom B o o Rl et then ‘words and Miss Adams knew it hasrbeen Recorfied _hIHAIE ADaEE 0% inrgely itonted: this fweek o <(Gilnger | KON 1usHincHiely et wellRs Ry IExpertc the extraordinary ovation. Everywhere | Girle " with Benny (Wop) Moore, Billie | €1Cc how to speak a silent language these co-stars have appeared they have or unconsciously, T do not Holmes and Bee Cunningham as the met with expressions of love, admira- | cutftanding players. next week, start. she t ated het entire body tion and applause. Editorials have 8D~ | ing with the usuil Sunday matinee ilent mescage. Advancing half peared all over the country and critical | next Sunday bith o emothered and pleaing Teviews of the performance have found e 2 3 toward the audience, | e STd e ity on the front page of old N. Y. PHILHARMONIC DEC. 15. than words ever coul new dign! o Thank you! But please end conservative journals like tt e Bos- A RTURO TOSCANINI, famous lead- | ,Thank wou! T B on [Nl ton Globe and Providence Journal i i e S nd let us e Instanteneously, as if an electric switch had been turned, the avalanche In “The Merchant of Venice” MIiSs | Symphony Orchestra, will conduct his Adams assumes a famous Shakespearean | first concert of the current season in s role, one she has never played before, | Washington Tuesday, December 15, at | foict (The hester a4 oncimian/nined although she has been seen heretofore | 4:30 pm. at Constitution Hall Maude Adams had survived the unfore- as Rosalind, as Juliet and as Viola The orchestra will have as guest |caen ordeal and had saved herself for Now she will appear as the gay, the | soloist Adolf Busch, German violinist, | new s 'and) Sines pareer iy ibe witty, the brilliant and highly intel-| who is especially sponsored by SIgnor | eternal art of the theater lectual Portia, & ¢ more ma- | Toscanini. This will be Herr Busch's | _ i 2 ture, for it is prophetic as the first of | first appearance in Washington, He 5 the modern women. Otis Skinner re- | made his debut in this country turns in a role he first played with |the Boston Symphony Orchestra 2 COLUMBIA Modjeska. His lock has long been |2 month ago and had his metropoli‘an PREWOLIDAY FLSTIVAL OF WIT5 NO.| one of the noted impersonations in his | debut under Tosc he New i o York Orchestra Hall ACE 27 “’EE’“— spporting cast are Jerome | Thanksgiving ni ALL les Francis, Barry O'Neill, | This is the first of three concerts Martin | be given under the management of t MC" Cynthia | T. Arthur Smith Bureau, 1330 G street I"E Alf Helton northwest, where tickets may be h Other concerts will be given Jani anged from | 26_and March 8 re Zarkevich : was WASHINGTON DEBUT Betty Kate Stone PIAN'ST wr DPALAC PRE -HOUDAY FESTIVAL OF NITS Wol foe First Prize, clas: of Norman e PLAYI Frauenheim, 1931 ;0‘“ BUDY v Hall 1 E EO“ F Tiekets now st ‘ene Concert BALIEFF'S “CHAUVE-SOURIS." BA .‘RICH MAN'S FOLLY’ ROBERT AMES- FRANCES DEE GAYETY-BURLESK Jimmy Lake’s Own Show as the Belasco ‘;‘;('w STAGE o AR ith |G valoevine ulzvus B an, flmum 8 century NADJA \ bt @ eres and Y dered the — The famors Italian conductor TOSCANINI will opsn the series of the PHILHARMONIC - SYMPHONY R SOCIETY OF NEW YORK tious smries upon t DEC. 15, JAN. 26, MAR. 8—4:30 CONSTIFPEION as he intreduces them Arturo Toscanini. Bruno Walter, conductors. Adolf Busch, violin soloist o Program—Mozcrt, symphony A major: Bach, violin concerfo A minor; Franck, expositi { the Redemption; Beethoven, violin concerto; Wagner, Oterture Flying Dutghman quaint and hilarious Season Sale Closes Dec. 9.00. $7.30. §5.00, $3.35, §3.00—T. Arthur Smith season h Bureau. 1330 G St. in_Homer L. Kits Co. v by presenti company headed by George Hayes and The World’s Greatest Marie Ault, in the sensational feature “The Queen of Spades,” a fa | ] story in seven episodes, based upon a | fascinating tale in Russian, by Alex- DANCING Miss Ellen Waller Member Dancing Masters of America, MODERN BALLROOM & STAGE DANC N1 T4k BN W, Tel) Adams 2585, AND MRS ACHER, 1127 10th Street Class and dance with orchestra every 3 nd Priday. 8 to 11:30 pm._ Private lessons by appointment. Met 4180. Est. 1900 . MARIONETTES Dec. 10, 11, 12 Twice Daily, 3:30—8:30 MASONIC AUDITORIUM 13th and N. Y. Ave. MATINEES-—-Aligs In Wonderland” 00, B0e. Ine. N PEYTON PENN mfiflo Toom dancing. PHIL HAYDEN” [ Six Dpgont Circle North afpt | % e ! This Week’s EARLE—"“Plantinum Blonde.” aro! LICE WHITE, celebrated Holly- : Pictures i which the plot as selected from er generation of star: revolves, but the Hollywood's | These in w 5 rson, in | YOUr oo ablonde star, in person in | clude Eric Linden of New York Theat Blonde" ' delightful screen | Guild fame, in the male lead; Rochelle Hudson, aturing Jean Harlow comedy featuring Jeal Ailie | Loretta Young and Robert Willlams Robe: Judge, Roberta Gale. provide the stage and the screen attrac- | Quick, Ben Alexander and Mary Kor tions for “Blonde week" now current at | man. 2 3 the! Wathar act s oreatis Are These Our Children?” is an regale her admir- | RIALTO—"Frankenstein.” with her own ma- includes Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae rimba band, com- Clarke, Frederic Kerr, Dwight Frye and | posed of the Pa- John Boles, { | dillas from Guat- The story of “Frankenstcin” was amala, Alice White. written in 1816-18 by Mrs. Mary Miss White's Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, the films were: “Show Girl in Hollywood,” | first leader of the feminist movement “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” ‘“The |#&nd wife of the great English poet. As | Naughty Flirt” “Broadway Babies” & novel, it preceded the mysteries of | “The Girl From Woolworths,” “Harold ; Edgar Allan Poe, In addition, the Rialto offers a short screen comedy, the Universal News ana selected short subjects. COLUMBIA—“The Champ.” Teen," “Helen of Troy” at Midnight.” “Platinum Blondes,” the screen at- i traction, concerns a careless reporter, {who marries a beautiful heiress, who | immediately proceeds to pattern him Y | after the polished fashion plates she | escaped when she married him. He | weel | had never worn garters before he was s ‘m)\ rried, reveled in the informal life the “fourth estate,” doesn't like pink and “Murder main as picture stars a second at Loew’'s Columbia in their latest duction, “The Champ.” le of a father's love for his son grime of a Mexican saloon, “The that it leaves but_little doubt as to who will win the player award Yor the new year. A ‘selected round out the pr Short subjects, an Earle Concert Or- chestra prelude and Graham McNamee talking the news complete the program FOX—"X Marks the Spot.” | THE Fox Theater film attraction this of short subjects gram week s “X Marks the Spot.” de- KOOI AN scribed as a thrilling newspaper drama ot h 5 Cofeatured in the cast are Low Cods THE true story of the degradation as the newspaper editor; Wallace Ford, and torture inflicted upon an in- \as the columnist; Sally Blane, as a Rocent m h gross injustice is | secretary; Mary Nolan and Fred Koh! told in “The Dreyfus Case,” the picture The story concerns a blase yo ow at the Warner-Metropolitan newspape! who is suspected of Theate shooting a Broadway play girl. The| The Dreyfus once ic th dence is all against | echoed from one of | him, when finally succeeds in | the mc rials in_history. | identify the guilty man his code of | The story of his amazing case, his years | ethics “prevents him from turning in |Of exile Devils Island and the love |the facts. A strong love theme has|fOr his wife and children that kept been woven o the stol which was | 8live in him the determination to prove | written by Warren Duff and Gordon | his innocence and reinstate his honor, |Kann and directed by Eile C. Kenton, | has been told the world over. This is | Heading the stage bill is Marjorie | the first time the story has appeared White, famous comedienne of “Happy | o0 the screen | Days,” “Movietone Follies.” “Sunnyside The Dreyfus Case” accents an | Up” and many other Fox pictures, | €Xquisite love story that, while it did Marjorie presents a clever skit. The into the headlines as did | Fanchon - o presentation, “Five Dreyfus' arrest. his trial, Races introduces Frank Jenk: finally his rehabilitation, { clowning comic; the Adams Sisters, was an important factor Chief Clearsky and the Kaffazawa fight to prove his in- Troupe. Les Stevens and the Diplo- ading figures involved ir mats contribute a popular overture | clude such famous people as Emile Zola {and the Fox Movietone News and a Clemenceau, Bertillon, Col |new episode of the “Galloping Ghost” Gen. Mercier, Maj. Paty du Clam. Boisdefre Labori, Mathiew Drey fus and the real traitor, Maj. Esterhazy. A great cast is headed by the famous serial complete the bill. PALACE—“Rich Man’s Folly.” | croft is seen in what is said to be a low- | the bill down on the higher ups. Frances Dee , = the Jate Robert Ames and Juliette Comp- ton are pictured in leading roles, with Bancroft as the gentleman who could buy everything but love On the Palace stage Loew’s Vaudeville Revue, comprising six Loew acts, will | present Buster Shaver and His Tiny bratin { Town Revue, Red Donahue, the Three re 5 | Brown Buddies and others ALICE WHlTE IN TERSON JACK PEPPER And Other Acts e Screen— JEAN HARLOW World's Most Unique Blonde in ‘‘PLATINUM BLONDE" with LORETTA YOUNG METROPOLITAN NOw Fac flwDREYWS CASE With an All-Star Cast Selecied Shortr— LILLIAN ROTH in “Puff Your Blues Away” Comedy News Mer, $2 (s SHUBERT MATINEES oc. MGMT. LEE AND J. J. SHUBERT to $2.00. The Professional Players—Crosby Gaige present CHANNING POLLOCK’S GREAT prAY THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL By the Author of “The Fool” and “The Enemy’ with MARY PHILIPS-— JAMES BELL and APOLLO THEATRE CAST R-K-O KEITH'S—"Are These Our Children?” ‘FAST-MOVING relentlessly real- istic plot” is promised in “Are There Our Children?” Radio Pictures { bid for fame in 1931, at R-K-O Keit Theater this week Not only is the picture the first to The Real | | | MONDAY At 8:30, £2.50 180 and $1 Oreh WILLIAM WALTER WINCHELL says: “Audience cheers the House Beau- tiful “One of the 1| vest plays 1 New York JSgts are changed without lowering the curtal a light seen. Some of these changes did not showed a stagecraft never known before. It ture for speed ' ‘The House Beautiful’ is the best contribution to American drama in five years.” et not a sound Is heard, nor e more than a second. which imost rivaled the motion pic- —The New York Journal of Commerce ORDERS WEEK---MONDAY, DEC. 14TH MAm 2 NIKITA BALIEFF Presents THE MOST UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT IN THE WORLD ABSOLUTELY NEW FEATURES INCLUDING 1 6 THE SENSATION OF PARIS AND LONDON 16 The QUEEN of SPADES In Seven Tableaux With George Hayes, Marie Ault *>® X\¢! \](‘n'rsF“})STh T;}llvul’i; “AT THESE REDUCED PRICES reh., 2 MATS, Thurs. and Sat: Orch.. $2.00; Ses. bi50 Faa, S, Gl foe original story by Wesley Ruggles, who | Alf te, vi- | |\lno\cli “{}1‘.‘; ‘:\1 also directed the picture. It was Rug- | the screen, will gles who created “Cimarron. ST b e ¢« RRANKENSTEIN" is now_entering | danced with her | its third week at the Rialto The- | partner, William ater, with crowds besieging the theater | Moffa. ' She will at every showing for a look at this |also sing two unusual, uncanny and unbelievable | |songs, *“I cCan't thriller, \\hhrrh is h!‘m? hailed as (h(“ e you" successor but superior to ‘“Dracu nHm‘l‘lD .!(\1,\('1\!11( (:,‘]'n:' James W who did '\Vfi‘l‘{'14!(Y‘ Big Brute,” the ridge,” directed the picture for Uni- | latter in harmony versal Pictures, and the splendid cast JALLACE BEERY and Jackie Cooper | teas, stiff receptions, his stiff valet and depicts the struggle of Beery, Stiff shirt. Screams, shouts and laug father, against gambling and | ter are promised in this laugh pro- |liquor, while attempting a comebask to voker the prize ring in order to enable the Loretta Young, Donald Dillaway, boy to have a chance in life { Louise Closser Hale, Reginald Owen,| Washington critics and public have | Edmund Breese, Claude Allister, Wal- | acclaimed this production as a fine ter Catlott, and Halliwell Hobbs are i hievement In. the careets of thess two I the cast 1y fine screen actors, some predicting [UNDER the title of “Jubilee Week,” English actor. Cedric Hardwicke, and | in its pre-holiday festival of hits, | Beatrix Thomson. ! Loew's Palace i presenting George | Lillian Roth, musical comedy and Bancroft's latest picture, “Rich Man's | ille star. a novelty song reel y," this week fl Your Blues Away.” and Para- | "In this production the mighty Ban- | Mount Sound Newsreel will round out i i Held Over | | | | Radio's Wampus star of 1931; Boris Karloff, who is one of the rea- sons why “Frankenstein” is held for another week at the Rialto. [T is surprising how conservative English-speaking people are,” says the famous Nikiba Balieff of “Chauve Sowin” “I receive countless letters asking me to repeat items whiche I showed in England years ago. The | favorite, T believe, is the ‘Wooden Sol- | dlers’ but very few people know its| | romantic history Examining some children's books an old bookstall one day, I discovered | ey i Saturday ni a book of Russian legends in which I found a story of the Czar Paul I, who was Emperor of Russia over 100 years ARC. According to the tale, the Crar was reviewing one of his favorite regi- ments in St. Petersburg, and gave the order to march. Suddenly he was called away to sign an important docu- of St sia until Petersburg and across Rus- they arrived at the Ural Mountains. By this time, says the story writer, the Czar had forgotten his ‘order as' well as his regiment, but the faithful soldiers continued to march. When they reached Siberia their legs and arms were moving just like clockwork, and today there is a forest in Central Siberia which is said to be this regiment turned into wood! “Although my show in London was called ‘London’s Longest Laugh' I con- | fess that, after all my years of experi- ence, I am unable to say what makes | people laugh. Sometimes I think there i3 a microbe in the theater, for the audience never laughs haif at a time | they are always together, and it is spontaneous. | “I like amusing the public, very mu They are hard to 'get going but once you have made them smile | there is no further trouble, and they are generous in their appreciation.” ‘ NOW “ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?” | A drama of young hearts aglow with thc first fires of love, meit- ing together like ma | meteors in the sky. Clark & McCullongh—Pathe Coming. I RICHARD DIX in “SECRET SERVICE" | | b y 3 | American botany two_of whom become ) » ; in Dutch maids than in tu as Hans. give a solo dance, will accompan sing the_tuneful melodies. cal comedy show staged by George Washington University ranoff and Ruth Molyneaux, by Louise Berryman, Mildred Burnham Atherton. Katherine Wessels, William Claudy and Bagranoff, who played the hero in the 1929 Trouba- Joseph Grant Van WESTERN HIGH GLEE CLUB. HE Glee Club cf Western Hi nt the operet! School will pi Tullp Time," by Johnson Morgan a Washington’s Players What Various Dramatic Organiz and Propose to Do. gh ta d in the school audito- rium Friday and Saturday eve- nh’\g with a matinee Thursd: 15. The story deals with a group of more. lips. Christina, The principals are Mary Williams Meredith Smith as Harry McKnee and students in Holland interested Many tragic-comic situaticns arise in outwit- | | ting the professor, who is rescued from | disaster by a devoted Dutch lady. young men also win the objects of their | affection, and Ned aids cecuring a fortune for some supposedly valueless stock. The in as Christina, Mary Ellen Kettler (Priday) and Katherine Kefauver (Saturday) as Katinka; Hilda, Aunt Horace Gingell as Ned and Dick; Walter Pick as Professor McSpindle, Andrew Conlyn as the Burgomaster, and Harry Burgess Beatrice Mullin as Anna will Majorie Grinstead A chorus of 60 will Mrs. Gladys 1. Sanders is directing. designed by the art department. G. W. U. TROUBADOURS. 'HE best cast assembled the Ww. U. by Auditorfym Thursday, ghts, when ““Happy Landings. undergraduates Prida; popuiar Leading the cast will be Bert Danzansky, Dolph Demark WEEK jnill 3np and FINA OF THE DAY € deS MELCHER f74R THIS PICTURE CA¥VOT BE SEEN iz ANY OTHER THEATRE INWASHINGTON THIS YEAR ([PRINCESS s “The Spirit of Notre Dame.” ORGANLOGUE and CARTO) 6th and C Sts. N.E. STANTON pisth, %68, 5 Sruiens Continnous from Matinee 3 P.M LAWRENCE TIEBETT IN “THE OU- —DA¥ IOVE_coNG" = ner Br AMBASSADQR ool Ra"R.w. ‘H)E HARLOW, PLATINUM u Bros.' APOLLO 624 B St N.E. WILL ROGERS, AMBASSADOR ILL." 8 8. VAN DINE MYSTERY. roer Bros.’ AVALON Conn. Ave. and McKiniey St D. C. LAWRENCE TIBBETT _and LUPE VELEZ. "CUBAN LOVE SONG. “Warner Bros 645 P AVENUE GRAND 3 & GRETA GARBO and CLARK GABLE. TEARA ARG 2 M ELODY CARTOON MERRIE Warner Bros CENTRAL #» 5t Bet. 0 ana & JACK HOLT and RALP 3] V! 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WILL_ROGERS. “Ambacs v’““::'fi' > 1 CAROLINA Tits & x-c Ay o PARTY, ) s‘;fi:-f" WINNIE LIGHTNER. d_Butternui Sis. TAKOMA 4, 5, Bz 4th WHEELE) _“CAUGHT ?’GL»XO&'TF‘EILIHD z ASHTON NDON, A CLARENDON, VA. Omorrow-WARNER BAXTER. _ ED- MUND Lo v’i‘ 4nd CONCHITA MON: LAD 0. OIBCO KID." “g"u.- and HARDY Comedy, “COME Ell envelope to Mrs. Wilson-Greene’ %ll!llll I IIIflllllIH|||flHNlllIIIIIINIIIIIIIINIIIIl|INII||||Ilmlll|1|l!liI|II||||I|IWHIIIIII|IIIIIIHII1' " WED., 50¢, 5e and $1. Preszats By P: Hozine, A.E. Thomas Richard Hale Diantha Pattixon Reginald Car- rington Charles Laite Joseph Crehan Traey Barrow TWO PERFORMANCES | ONLY, AT 3:50 P. M. SEATS SELLING Orch., $2.50 Bal, $2, $1.50 & § 2nd Bal,, 5¢: alon Nishts and Sat. Mat.: Orch. Wed. Mat.: Orei.. £2.5): Bal enclose = MAUDE ADAMS ° MONDAY (Eveniag). TUESDAY (Evening). WEDNESDAY (Matinee). . WEDNESDAY (Eve.) (Dn.lltBll) THURSDAY (Evening) . FRIDAY (Evening). SATURDAY (Mat) (Dosble u.u) SATURDAY (Eveniag). Prices, $3.00, Orders accompanied by the school orchestra led by Miss Lucy Lynch will accompany. Dutch costumes and scenes are being Tre colorful G Troubadours in the history of this successful organization of col- ege thespians is promised at McKin- d the 1931 musi is of Bag- seconded ment dour show. “Gypped, in EGypt." is @ “Now . really fine tenor and .a popular radio Now. in the old Russlan army, it)yibit in'his own right. ' Ruth Moly- was a law that no officer, whatever his| newux s one. of ihe accemplsnsd rank, could counfermand an order|young actresses of the city, during the | given by the Czar. So the poor sol.|Pest. three or four years with the St peten By the Gow. B9 e pom eel | LI LS Bl e ethereook Piky diers kept on marching. They marched ATIONAL | NIGHTS: $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00 and 50¢c TWO POPULAR-PRICE MATINEES SAT., 50¢, §1 and §1.50 LAURENCE RIVERS, INC., MRWHISTLER Sazzh Curry and Play 5 WiTH THE FOTLOWING AT Mirfam Dovle Donald Randolph Georgia Lee Hall J. Malcom Dunn Frank Hearn Bertha Belmore David Andrada NEXT SUN. & MON. EVES, DEC. 13th AND l4th CORNELIA . OTIS SKINNER Ia tHe novelly sensation of the season THE WIVES OF HENRY VIII Preceded by selections of Miss Skinner's Cha Few crowded stazes are better worth watehing (han 5 DAYS ONLY BOX OFFICE SALE THURS., DEC 10ih, AT 9 A. M. die:zed 274 stamped emvelope Under the Management of ERLANG COSMOPOLITAN GRAND OPERA CO. NATIONAL THEATRE, Washington, D. C. Week Commencing Monday, January 4th, 1932. -JAN. 4—RIGOLETTO (In Italian) MAESTRO JACQUES SAMOSSOUD, Conductor Orchestra of 35—Chorus and Ballet of 40, MANAGEMENT IIIMA’ WILSON- e.nh\a d ations Are Doing ers, the Drama Guild and other local se Berryman and Mildred o are experienced Troubas Tickets may be had at the Edith Reed Song Shop, 606 Thirteenth street. “BETHLEHEM” TODAY. \VELL known Washington players this afternoon at 5 o'clock will ap- pear in a dramatic reading of “Betn- lehem” at the National City Chris- tian Church, under the direction of the Religious Drama and Pageantry Committee of the Washington Federa- tion of Churches. Elizabeth Gatlin Pritchard will appear as the chorus and Alleen Sanford as the narrator Maurice Jarvis and Thomas Cahill, both of the Washington Readers’ Clu and the Shakespeare Society of Wash- ington, will read the important roles. The role of the minstrel will be filled / Katherine Riggs, Washington harp- ist, who has made the arrangement of music to be used. “ROSE OF THEi PRAIRIE.” ARRY WHEATON HOWARD'S musical comedy in two acts, “Rose of the Prairie” will be presented in Immaculate Conception Parish Hall, at Seventh and N streets northwest, Wed- | nesday, Thursday and Friday cvenings | of this week, b & mammoth cast and company selected by Mr. Howard from singers and dancers of the parish and elsewhere who have won distinction in their own lines, including a corps de ballet and the entire roster of the Opera Players Club. The Grest MARY WIGMAN Germany's Greatest Woman Dancer NATIONAL THEATER, FRL. Dee. 11, 4.30 Mrs. Greene's Concert’ Buresm. TIBBETT BARYTONE, METROPOLITAN OPERA Constitution Hall, 9% X Mon., Dec. 14, 4:30 (IN PERSON) Seats Mrs. Wilson- Greene's Bureau, Droop ' 1300 G st.; Dis, 6403, e"llDflEN's GDIGEfiT By the NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF WASHINGTON. D. C. HANS KINDLER, Conductor Central Hish Sehool. 13th & Clifton St TRURSDAY, DEC. 10. 4 O'CLOCK ickels. 5G-. Now on sale Mrs. Wilson » Droop’s, 1300 G st.; D TICKETS NOW ON SALE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF WASHINGTON, D. C. HANS KINDLER, Conductor CONSTITUTION HALL SUNDAY CONCERT December 13, 4 o'Clock. Prices, $1.50, $1.00, 75¢, 50c Boxes, $10.00 Mrs. Wilsen-Greene’s Concert Buresss 00p's, 1300 G st.; District 6493, MONDAY AND WEEK Mats. Ved. & Sat. “t B. Pord prezess cter Sketches at on which she walks hard MCTUES 9 Bth oMk, DECEMBER = oTls " SKINNER WM. SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY “TheMerchantof Venice" R PRCDUCTIO! Ine. 5—IL TROVATORE (/n talian) 6—ROMEO & JULIET (/n French) ) HANSEL & GRETEL (/n Germen) ) PAGLIACCI (ln Italian) T—FAUST (In French) 8—CARMEN (In Franch) o ) HANSEL & GRETEL (/n English) ) PAGLIACCI (In Italian) 9—RIGOLETTO (In Italian)