The Washington herald., 1907-12-05
COMING ATTRACTIONS.


The latest Chicago New York and Bos-
ton success. ''The Time, The Place. and /
The Girl" 10 be seen at the Columbia |
Theater next week which is described as
a comedy with music and reason" is /
the result of a. collaborat ton of Joseph |
r. Howard. VIII Hough. and Franklin |
p. Adams. whose prolific mill has turned
out The Umpire" THE Girl Question"
as well as other successes. The COM
bining of story that can be understood
with music of the whistly sort and all
done in attractive settings seems to have
been the features of the success. There
have also been developed attractive
'girly" effects ny Ned Weyburn. Arthur
DEACON heads the company. He appears
as a -go-lucky gambler. with
typical and prolific vocabulary. who cor
ners all situations when he finds himself
caught in a quarantned sanitarium.
Other members of the cast are Harriet
Burt, Mary Cecil Violet McMillen George
Anderson. James Norwal William Her
man West, John c. Rowe, George Elmer
William G'Day, and c. c. scribner.
Frederic Thompson. Margaret Mayo,
and Winchell Smith are names 20 conjure
with when the matter OF stage production
is being considered. The fact that Wash
ington playgoers are to witness the COM
bined work Of these three when Polly
OF the Circus" is produced for the first
time on any stage at the New National
next week brings them before Gs more
conspicuOusly than would otherwise be
the case. Miss Margaret Mayo. who has
been intrUsted with the work of writing
story around Mr.. Thompson's frame
work Of Polly OF the Circus" gave to
the American stage the only version it
has ever had OF "The Marriage of VIII
ham Ashe." and provided Miss Grace
George with an adaptation Of "Divor-
cons" Polly of the Circus" viii be the
magnet TO draw many prominent New
York managers 10 Washington next Mon
day night TO see the premiere-one Of the
most auspicuous OF the local season. The
company includes Mabel Taliaferro. Nal
colin Williams, Joseph Brennan. Herbert
Ayling. Guy Nichols, James Cherry, j.
! w Benson, Jennie Ferguson. Jennie
Weathersby. Mathilde Wefhng. Desiree
Lazard. the famous St. Leon family of
John. the circus rider. Some OF the nov
elites of the play Will be the appearance
of Barlow's trained horse Bingo: group
of performing dogs, and other circus acts
Of like character.
/ Mr. Sothern, who will give seven per
formances at the Belasco Theater next
week, will open his engagement with
new play written for him by Laurence
/ Irving, and entitled, The Fool Hath
/ Said-1here Is No God" Mr. Irving's
/ play incorporates certain episodes in
! Feodor-Dostojenski's novel Of student life
/ in St Petersburg. Crime and Punish
ment, and Mr.. Sothern has picturesquely
visualized the crack Drained hero OF that
/ book He sees a case Of misery and ne
runs wild says a sane observer in con-
/ templating Rodion Raskoinikoff. Terribly
wild does he run. evolving a theory that
4 by the drastic process Of elimination
! known as murder. are the undesirable
/ elements in society 20 be removed lie
puts this theory into action. Staying an
/ old wretch who would debase a penuileSs
/ girl. With Rodion's arguments and his
/ decision to act in accordance with them,
| the first act Of The Fool Hath said is
composed The second act depicts his
| surrender 20 the sense Of horror his deed
/ imposes The third gives a picture of
/ Russian governmental oppression indi-
/ rectly, but its principal purpose is 10 re-
store 20 ROdion his belief in the right
| wiseness Of his system. The fourth act
/ is the great act, giving an actual rep
/ resentation Of what Is known in this cOUn-
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method employed by an examining mag
istrate in forcing confession from
/ subject The FUN repertoire is as follows:
/ Monday and Wednesday night THE Fool
/ Hath Said-Thcre Is No Cod Tuesday
/ evening and Saturday matinee IF I
/ Were King and Saturday night. Ham
! let" on Thursday night Mr. Sothern viii
/ attempt for the FIRST time in his career.
| 10 impeTsOnate Lord Dundreary. the char
! acter created and written by his father,
| r. A. Sothern. when the play was known
| Us Our American Cousin
! Chase's next week announce bin COM
posed of Belle Blanche. Mayme Gehrue
and company RosErs Musical Horse.
waldemar Asra. Mazuz and Mazette.
Eloise Bergere, John and Mae Burke.
/ Belle Blanche tmpresses every one with
/ the fact that the stage has developed a
new genius in the presentation OF living
portraitures Of persons famed in the world
OF the stage. Mayme Gehrue viii present
here Edmund Days romance of Southern
/ California, called June" a dainty one
act play with a theme, it is said. very sim
/ liar to the one upon which Belasco's cele-
brated drama, THE Rose of the Rancho"
! is based. Rossfs equine virtuoso. ''Emir,"
will be an attraction that will excite
praise. Waldemar Asra. the foreign
billiard wizard will give demonstrations
! of his astonishing command OF the long
cue and the polished spheres. Mazuz and
Mazette will play "The Tramp and the
! Brakeman" Eloise Bergere will make
the audience do some pUzzling when she
presents her vocal number which is en-
velOped I'm not a little mystery as TO the
dual identity manifested by the fair
singer How Patsy Went 10 War" one
/ Of VIII Cressy's comedies, win be present.
ed by John and Mae Burke.
! Possibly. no comedienne and dancer be-
! fore the public has received a greater
amount of praise from the press and pub
lie than Miss Cecil Spooner, who will be
seen next week at the Academy. in two
plays, one her success Of last year. The
Girl RafIles," and her new play by Charles
/ b. Blaney and J. Searle Dawley. an elab-
lorata romantic musical comedy drama. en-
titled The Dancer and the King" The
play is in four acts. and is laid in the