The Washington herald., 1910-12-18
COMING ATTRACTIONS

John Drew comes TO the New Ma
tional next week. presenting the new
comedy. smith" by ". Somerset
Vaughan. As usual, Charles Frohman
has surrounded Mr. Drew with an ex-
cellent company Of players. II is said
that in Smith Mr.. Drew has found
the most successful vehicle of his ca
reer. His part is that Of an English
man who returns from his farm In
South Africa to seek for wife in
London He finds that the lives led by
his former friends Is the sort OF thing
that appeals TO him no longer and the
women OF his set cannot furnish him
with the sort OF helpmeet he desires.
So his eyes turn toward a parlor maid
named Smith, whence the name OF the
play, and the resulting situations
strike the homogeneous note that makes
the theme for the plays wit AS in all
Mr.. Maughams work. there rs swift
play OF dialogue.
What is said to be the best military
play since Arizona" will be the at
traction at the Columbia Theater
Christmas week, when Henry B. Har-
ris Will produce The Deserters." by
Robert PeytOn Carter and Anna Alice
Chaplin. The play consists OF a pro-
logue and four acts. and serves TO put
Helen Ware forward as a star Miss
Ware. IL will be remembered. was the
original Annie Jeffries in The Third
Degree" and her work in this play
was of such caliber that IL won for her
stellar hcnors. Miss ware has just
completed a three months engagement
in THE Deserters" at the Hudson The
alter, New York, and comes here with
the original big cast and production.
The story OF the play concerns the
tracking down of a deserter from the
United States army by young detec-
tive. Madge Summers She falls in
love with him and learns. after she
has notified the authorities that she
has her man, that he is not merely
deserter. as she has been led 10 be-
lieve but a murderer. The scene in
which she learns the truth is one OF
the strongest that has been evolved in
a play for a long time, and so real
istic and convincing is Miss Ware
acting said to be that il brings a
lump in your throat and keeps the
handkerchief busy. In addition 10 Miss
Ware such weH-known and capable
players as Orme Caldara. Lolita Lin.
thicum. Howard Hall, Frederick Trues-
dell Isabel Garrison. John Charles.
James J. Ryan. Lawrence Sheehan, Ed
ward c. Howard. and Eleanor Stuart
are included in the cast
THE Follies Of 1910, under the manage
ment of Florenz Ziegfeld, jr., begins
weeks engagement at the New Ma
tional Theater on Monday afternoon. De-
cember &c. Harry B.. Smith supplied the
book. while Gus Edwards and others fur
nished the music. II is in three acts and
thirteen scenes. There are more than $50
and Watson, Bert Williams. the colored
comedian and singer; Bobby North. Billie
Reeves, William c. Schrode. Harry Pill
Ger. Quigg and Nickerson. w. Wanna. i'm
perial Russian dancer; Peter Swift, Max
Schenck, Charles Hessong. Miss Lillian
Lorraine. Fanny Brice. Shirley Kellogg.
Vera Maxwell. Margaret Morris. Fawn
Conway, Florence Gardner, Lottie Yer
non, Frances Du Barry, and Bessie Fen
nell During the engagement of The
Follies' there will be three matinees-
Christmas Monday. Wednesday and Sat
urday, all of which will be at special
prices ranging from 80 cents to $50.
Marriage a la Carte" is the clever title
of a new musical comedy by c. NJ. S. Nc
LeIlan and Ivan CaTyll. which is to be
seen at the Belasco Theater next week.
with Emmy Wehien at the head of its
cast. The idea conveyed in this title is
the notion of a lot of young folk who
wish to order their marriages to suit
themselves, rather than have them served
up by their parents in table d hote style.
Mcclellan was author of THE Belle of
New York" 1.-THE Telephone Girl" and
An American Beauty" and Caryll the
composer of THE Toreador." The
Duchess of Dantzic." and THE Spring
Chicken" The cast selected for Mar
rage la Carte" is certainly an excellent
one Besides its fascinating Viennese
prima donna, who makes her first local
appearance in this new piece. having
reached America by way of London,
where she scored successive triumphs In
the title roles of The Dollar Princess"
and The Merry Widow" The roster of
principals includes many well-known
players
rChase's Christmas week bill will over
flow with holiday humor and melody. the
foremost feature being the Broadway IA
yorites, Bert Kalmar and Jessie Brown.
in their amusing success, introducing
May and December" Bugs" AT Mac
Gregors Scotch Highball' ''Dinah,'
That's Right-No-That's Wrong" and
other characteristic blends of dance and
song. The added attraction will be George
B. Reno and company's ludicrOus martial
burlesque, The Misfft Army" with IT'S
ong-and-short-of-it.. high
privates of the rear rank, heralded as the
funniest sketch in a decade Charles F.
Semon, THAT Narrer E'elier," who is sui
generis, will keep laughter way above the
common level Herr Herzog's eight Trak-
hene horses from the Imperial German
stables, in their wonderful riding and drill
ing maneuNers, viii be presented for the
5rst time, and their foreign reputation Of