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wal Triumphs Scored By Actors and Actresses In Plays of the Year “Work of Mrs. Fiske, Blanche Bates, the Barrymores, Ditrichstein and Bacon Leaves Its Mark. By Charles Darnton. ‘VEIN 2 dull season has its bright memories, and so ft is both a relief ‘and a pleasure to raise our straw hat to the dramatic year. After all, the straw hat marks the end of the season, no matter how fresh | snd new the hat may be. _ A nig.i oF two ago ® man old in theatrical years brought up the name of & manager and asked me: “Do you know that he made a million dollars T didn’t “know” and I didn’t care. To my mind, its what out of the theatre, not the manager, or the producer of | gambler in plays “places his bet” on an author, and | actresses who can “get across.” But the theatrical world who can keep it had no idea of acting in it, as the THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, ‘MAY 81, 1919. TTRACTIONS IN FILM AND VAUDEVILLE NEXT WEEK NAZIMOVA In” LANTERN” RivoLl New Offerings In the : Theatres (Additional dramatic annownoements nae for the coming week will be printed in ii iy lampden's —— that is not ifke- actors and other plays, be said—they proved to be either inter- f g 58 levi i ag : «3 i H a i H H & & Hs 332 rs aa i t i i : I g- j H 835 : ij Be t a"; Fi it “33 i z : ‘hrice a Week on Columbia Green Summer concerts by the New York Military Band, under Edwin Franko Golaman, on the Columbia Univer- sity Green, start Monday evening and There will be ! suit in the gymnasium in case of rain. ‘The opening concert programme wil! include Svendsen's Swedish Corona- tien March”; Thomas's “Mignon,” Overture; “Fintandia”; excerpts from “Madame Butterfly” and “Pinafore”; shorter pieces by MacDowell and Hadley, and Herbert's “American Fantasie.” Ernest 5. aueee per; — iM pl the mat us *Btabat Ma ter.” At Le = Ad 2 BIG COMCCALS /E PERFORMANCE ONLY LAMBS’” AMBOL:- MANHATTAN &cune ; SUN. EVE. JUNE 8 ON THEA, TUES. JUNE 3, AT 3 ‘errace G: for, the first time and Perey ¢ Grainger 1 conduct two of his own compo- Milona The Stadium Symphony Orchestra openg it# summer season of eight weeks the evening of June 80 under of the Music League of the People’s Institute. Monday and ‘Thursday will be symphony nights, ‘Tuesday and Friday opera nights, and ‘the other nights for miscellan- cous music, Arnold Volpe will con- duct the eighty musicians. ‘The Wakorf-Astoria Orchestra un- der Joseph Knecht will give a special concert to-morrow afternoon in De Witt Clinton Auditorium. Mine Idelle Patterson, soprano, will be soloist. Melzar Chaffee has been invited by resolution of tht Board of Managets to be Director of the Music School Settlement next winter. He has been on the faculty for nine years. AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE TABLE D'HOTE DINNER, $1.65 Dancing on » Perfect Floor . caida on ee layed | Chiihood, only to have him turn | “All Wrong” Frida: The Evening World of Monday.) ‘¢ “One of the Finest,” the Goldwyn picture play that comes to the Rialto, Tom Moore bas the role of & mounted policeman. Larry Hayes, son of a former Police Commissioner, lives with his mother and a little girl to whom she has given a home when her father ts sent to prison. His kindness and devotion to the about his undoing when the re; wultor of the girl he loves is to make her believe that the child ig Larry's. Other f tures will be “Men We Have Met,” Sunshine comedy. the Rialto Maga- sine and concert numbers. —— -\ A297 HENRY B,WARNER AND BARBARA CASTLETON INCESS IS HT CONGY \SLAND * | NAZIMOVA AT RIVOLI IN “THE RED LANTERN” Naszimova will be seen at the Ri- voli in “The Red Lantern,” a photo- play based on Edith Wherry's Chin- se story. In this romance of the Orient, Nazimova plays two roles, a Burasian maid and her English half- sister. The Chinese fantasy, “The Glow of the Lantern,” arranged b; Adolf Bolm and with a special eat ting by John Wenger, will again be- gin the programme. The dancers are Helena Hepanowa, Alexander Umansky and Frank Vaeth. A trip through the Celestial Kingdom, [og im soar by the Educational im Company, will be the scenic feature and will replace the Rivoli Pictorial. A ‘Mutt and Jeff” cartoon will be added to the bill. —_—— GRIFFITH FILM PLAY A STRAND FEATURE D. W. Griffith's latest artcraft pro- duction entitied “True Heart Susie” will have its premiere at the Strand Theatre. Susie makes sacrifices for the young man she has loved since selfishly Le5 & vain, oily creature and marry The cast is headed b. Lilian “Shan. A new Outing- picture, a comedy called eWwaitl @t the Church,” the Strand Topical Review, and music will com- plete the programme. eee “THE MAN WHO TURNED WHITE” AT BROADWAY Beginning to-morrow afternoon, “The Man Who Turned White” will LL) i 4 * GRoweN BLOSsSO GEO.M.COUAN THEA! BIG BATTLE SPECTACLE LUNA PARK SENSATION “Smashing the Hindenburg Line” is the new sensation at Luna Park, Coney Island, The production is a Sreat scenic spectacle viewed from a Patented dirigible bajloon. It is an exact reproduction of the fighting along that part of the Hindenburg Line where the 27th Division, New York's Own, under Gen, John F. O’Ryan, broke through. That the battle line might be formed in com~- plete detail the management had Maj. R. T. Moniz, Division Ammunition Officer of the 27th Division, and Capt. Harry F, Sullivan of the 106th Infan- try, supervise the production, At Henderson's Music Hall, Coney Island, the bill will include the U. 8. Jazz Band, Em Halg, Williams and Wolfus, Georgie Gessel, Francis Yates and Gus Reed, Frank Burt and Myrtle Rosedale, the Ara Sisters and Roy Harra, oe PROCTOR VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURE PLAYS For the first half of the week Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre will have Wilbur Sweatman, De Lea and Orman, Berman and Anderson, Har- riet De Mille, Claude and Gordon Mc- Namee and photo plays. There will be a complete change of bill on ‘Thursday, with George Whiting ande Sadie Burt,*Dugan and Raymond, Frances Dougherty, Herbert Clifton, Mullane and Malvey, Mabel Burks be the photo-piay at Moss's Broad- way Theatre, The Sahara desert is the scene of a story of love and in- trigue concerned with an officer whe turns outlaw when he is from the Foreign lon. thse Pil acter is “ay by Henry B. Warner. There ‘be ot! sereen features anda Srosremsna of music, —— BILLS AT NEW YORK AND AMERICAN THEATRES ‘The film attractions at Loew's New York Theatre and Roof will be “For Better, for Worse” Monday, William 8. Hart in “The Money Corral” Tuesda, Nazimova in “The Red Lanterq’ Wednesday, Gladys Brock- well in “The Divorce Trap” Thuys- day, Harry Carey in “Riders of Ven- gence” and Bryant Washburn in Montague Love in “Thro’ the Tol Saturday and Viola Dana in “Some Bride” Sunday. At Loew's American Theatre and Roof the first half of the week the Wheeler and Potter, Mealy and Montrose and othe: film offering in the theatre will be “For Better, for Worse.” With the change of bill on Thursday night will be “Oh, Billy!” a musical com- dy; Pesxy Brooks, Hawthorne and Ear! and Curtis and the film play “The Money Corral,” with Will. jam 8. Hart. “PEEK-A-BOO” IS POPULAR WITH COLUMBIA PATRONS “Peek-a-Boo” will begin the third ‘week of its summer run at the Cohum- bia Theatre on Monday. With Clark and gg tego the principal come- and motion pictures. —_—>— TWO FEATURE FILM PLAYS AT 81ST STREET THEATRE On the screen at the Highty-First Street Theatre the first half of the week will be Mary Miles Minter in “A Bachelor's Wife. This photo-play will be followed on Thursday by Her- bert Rawlinson in “A House Divided.” With the pictures will be vaudeville. inne WOMEN STARS OF SCREEN IN PLAZA THEATRE PLAYS ‘The screen at the Plaza Theatre w Alice Joyee in “The Third to-morrow, Monday and ma Talmadge in “The Moon," Wednesday and Thurs- Gay; Mae Marsh in “Spotlight Sadie” and Charlie Chaplin in “Easy Street,” Friday and Saturday, ——ee BEN WELCH’S SHOW AT HURTIG & SEAMON’S Ben Welch will bring his “Now Show” to Hurtig & Seamon's Theatre. ‘The company includes Pat Kearney, Frank P. Murphy, Billy Wils, George B. Alexander, Eddie Lioyd, Dolly Mor- rissey, Evelyn Cunningham, Ruth PLANS TO CLEAN UP CITY. Campaign Will Be Mapped Out at Meeting on Monday. Health Commissioner Copeland an- nounced yesterday that a meeting of the Clean-Up Committee, in charge of the general cleaning the city is to re- ceive between June 16 and 30, will be held next Monday, when exact dates for the cleaning of different parts of the city will be decided upon. The Health, Fire, Tenement House, Park and Police Departments are co- operating in the arrangements. Streets will be flushed and offices and homes visited by inspectors, who will instruct the occupants regarding their duties. Failure to comply with instructions will be followed by a legal summons. The Department of Education will tn- struct teachers to tell pupils about the compalgn, Clergymen will make June 22 “Clean-Up Day” by sevising. their parishioners to co-operate with the city’s eorts to get closer to godliness. pn net BLIND WILL “SEE” PLAY. Special Perf: Wine Foo! For the benefit of the blind of New York City a special performance of “Three Wise Fools’ will be given at the Criterion Theatre Tuesday after- noon. Red Cross ambulances will con- vey the audience to the theatre and attendants will guide them to their 1d explain the stage settings. eller, deaf, dumb and blind, nt and will thank the com- pany for their generosity. Special pro- grammes have been prepared in the blind alphabet. The prospective ence has asked the performers to wear their costumes just as if their eyes were upon them, and it has also re- quested that the players emphasize their exit by slamming the doo: Jes Bac oat aad ra, Fifth Dies From Oil Blast. ‘The fifth death among the twenty- three victms of the explosion in the can department of the Standard Oi! Company, Bayonne, last Saturday oc- curred yesterday when Michael Sal- loy, twenty-seven, of No, 47 16th Street, tain the Bayonne Hospital. Five other victims are in @ serious condi- tion, PHOTO PLAYS, RRivol Return Presentation of NAZIMOVA In @ Metro Production, “THE RED LANTERN.” BOLM BALLET “The Glow of the Lantern.” MUTT AND JEFF CARTOON! | THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE An Mevegtional Film Classic. Last DOUGLAS FAIRBANKY (ean KAICKRRnOOKEIE BURAROO id ~A~ BOO © bl teat “risers BELGIAN SOLDIER AND FAMILY UNITED BY THE RED CROSS ‘enninntifpeaate Arrive in U. S. After Four Year War Separation—12 War Brides Here. ' The Red Cross has reunited and helped get to America a Belgian footy that for four years had ieen kept apart by the war. The story *as brought with them on the Ryn- dam, which also brought twelve soldiers’ brides, all French The Belg!an family consists of Pri- vate Jerome Carron, his wife and two smal] daughters, When the Germans approached Brussels, Carron was other region. He was woun | in December, 1914, and, on recovery, re- turned to the trenches. In 1916 he was so badly wounded that he was discharged. He was unable to find his family. He came to New Bruns- wick, N. J. where he obtained en:- ployment, When America entered the war, Carron went abroad with the 78th Division, fighting with that organiza- tion in the Argonne. it was not until two months ago, when his unit, the 10th Field Artillery was in a rest area near St, Nazaire, that he found his family, At St. Nazaire he appealed to the American Red Cross to assist him in his search. The Red Cross learned that his family was at Brus- sels. In the reunion that followed, Carron learned that his three broth- ers had died in the war, and that sorrow had caused the death of his father, Private George Koenig, of No. 295 Alexander Avenue, the Bronx, 234 In. fantry, regulars, came back with a French bride, She was a telegraph operator for the French Government when Koenig met her. Sergt. G. 9. Miller of Camden, N, J., 112th Field Artillery, also brought back a French bride—a university graduate, Declaring that he intends to re- enlist the moment he Ie mustered out, Prvt. Joseph McGuire, Company H, old 69th, an arrival on the Ryn. ‘est dam, whose home is at No. 74 100th Street, loudly proclaimed that RJOHN'S MEDIC HE being a soldier “is the only life.” He became ‘li with influenza a few months ago, and was unable to sail for home with his regiment. oe Major Gen. Gorm Panama, May 31.— liam C. Gorgas, former surgeon ge eral of the Univea States Army, aod + @n route to States —_—_—_—_—_—_ 39THST, BEA sind ea HAMPDEN in HAMLET NORABAYES "sii ,W.ot way, Bre tii® Elizabeth Brico w “TOOT SWEET” PHOTO PLAYS. Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston have added their Praise to New York’s in glowing tribute to D. W. GRIFFITH’S art sen- sation, BROKEN BLOSSOMS Still playing to the absolute capacity of the Geo. M. Cohan Theatre, every after- noon at 2.40 and every evening at 8.40, including Sundays, Theatre Cooled by Iced Air with his country's army in an-|. Latest end Greatest Producto: DNR | An Arteraft Picture Outing otind og ‘Strand Topical Review ud Hees yarere STRAND. L RHONY “ORCH. rida tor now lta CONTINUOUS AT THE MD GOT: ‘Near Me 125th St, Third pny Cog BAL. MEN ONLY, aNb' bord Uno 1d Nor ADMIFERD, PLAZA **=ixihigi™ ANITA STEWART EARL WILLIAMS in “TWO, WOMEN ™ sunday atice “ALE Jove ay mabbich Fitoes PHOTO PLAYS. ARIAltO; Direction HUGO RIEGENFELD BEGINNING SUNDAY, | F. Mm. TOM MOORE In a Goldwyn Pictur: “OND OF THE FINEST.” | RIALTO MAGAZINE | Bruce Boente, TAD'S RUMHAUSER CARTOON ‘The Sawdust Trak” RIALTO ORCHESTRA “Buryanthe,” Overture. lest_Time To- —CRARLES RAY in “THE BU! 7 Maftison and the Welch Dancing Girls. 0. 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