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Polite Vaudeville Bookings.

Chase's announces the following list of
attractions:
January week-Celebration of Chase 8
thirteenth anniversary, the principal at
traction will be Gus Edwards Song
Revue of 1912, with Gus Edwards him.
self and thirty youngsters. James j..
Morton reinforces the fun. January 10
week-William H Thompson, the char
acter actor. with a splendid supporting
company. in a ope-act play, THE Pride
of the Regiment" Paul Dickey and
share the honors January % week
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. late
stars of the Little Miss Ffx-It.' in a
one-hour musical review. They will be
assisted by ten people Gerald Griffin.
the well known legitimate actor, will be
seen in a play the same week. January
% week-Jesse L. Lasky will present
California" a comic opera, with fifteen
people in the cast. Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin
Connolly in a one-act comedy will be the
second feature. February ) week-The
Four MortonS-their first appearance in
Washington since their starring tour.
The Song Birds Company will be another
feature of this bill. February II week
The HOld-Up," a melodrama, will divide
the honors February 10 week = Nat
Wills. the Washington comedian, and La
Tltcomb. foreign novelty, will head the
Dill. February & week-"Everybody,"
symbolical play, with twenty in the cast.
March week-Jesse L. Lasky presents
THE Antique Girl a musical comedy
with sixteen players. March IL week
The Rock and Fulton Company playing
In Bohemia and carrying a big com
pany, including a Hungarian orchestra.
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The Winter Swimmer.

From the New York Tines.
There used to be a band of hardy
Brtons resident in London 1--WE hope it
is not yet eXtinct) which made point of
swimming every day in the year in the
Hyde Park Serpentine. There is an early
morning hour when men who choose to
battle in that ornamental water are per-
mitted to dispense with bathing suits.
Warm summer mornings there is apt to
be a crowd of bathers. But in the dark
November and the cold winter months
only the members of this sturdy band
would brave the chilling flood. Caesar
and CaSsius, in their famous swimming
match, were fools to these fellows The
Romans wore their mailed shirts and the
Tiber Is never very cold. The water in
the Serpentine is cold in winter. colder
than your sitting room before the fire is
lighted.
Our winter bathers at Coney Island, in
the comparatively mild December spell,
have worn heavy flannels. and salt water
is never quite chilling as fresh. The
first cruel shock. This has been foolish
business, though, and has served no good
purpose. The old Hyde Park band was
upholding cult. Its task it was to
prove the hardness of the race. Prob
ably the bathers keeping up a. practice
which existed in the middle ages. when
the Thames at London was clean and the
Serrentine was only series of water
holes in a bog. But all-the-y ear-round
bathing will not do in our climate.
People who go in swimming when the
teperature of the air is "a degrees and
that of the water 40 prove nothing except
their desire to be talked about. They get
mighty little exercise out of it, and they
are apt to resort to whisky to restore i'm
peded circulation. Whisky drinkers are
always in danger of neuritis. not to men,
ton sciatica and pneumonia. easily de-
velOped in a state Of low vitality, for the
pneumonia germs are everywhere in this
kind Of weather
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Women for Military Service.

From the Chicago Tribune.
English women are endeavoring to prove
that they may be accepted as citizens
even in the military understanding Of the
word. Anna Bird Stewart in an article in
Harper's Bazaar tells Of the organization
of the Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps
which will offer for military service a
body Of trained and disciplined women.
Riding, camp and hospital cooking. BIZ
cycling, home nursing, laundry work. sig
mailing. and stretcher drill are included in
the training" the article relates. rid
ing drills are held monthly after the raw
recruits are first broken into service. The
signal and stretcher drills are practiced
weekly. One week is spent in camp in
circumstances which are made to repro
duce real war as closely as can be-"
1t is the theory Of the women who give
encouragement to this organization that
when the country is in trouble the wom-
ans lot Is not to remain at home, Weep
ing, but to be out In the field doing, sup
plementing the efforts of the military
nurses and the Red Cross and shoulder
Ing part Of the burden of the men.
The military expert would be needed to
estimate intelligently what help an organ
tzation of women trained to field condi-
tons would be to an army. but to the in
expert 1t looks as If the patriotism of the
women were backed by good judgment.
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Song Revue of 1912.

Chases next week celebrates it's thir-
teenth anniversary. The principal at
traction will be Gus Edwards with him
self included song review of 1912. with
Lillian Boardman and thirty players,
three scenes. twenty-three song hits and
forty-fiVe minutes of fun. James j. Nor
ton will tell stories. Another comedy
Offering will be Arthur j. PickinS and
Company i'm a skit entitled Freddie
The support includes Bertha Carlisle and
Vera Johnson Edgar Bixley and Dave
Ierner VIII be prominent. Mr.. Bixley
is a Washington thespian.
Joseph Hart will introduce 1.-The Little
Stranger, a comedy of Dixieland, writ
ten by George Hobart and Frank Craven.
Among It's players are Paul Dulzell.
Percy Plunkett and George Pierce
Maxim Brothers and Bobby will present
European eccentric novelty and the
daylight motion pictures will offer fresh
series OF current International events.
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The Runaway" Is her

tamorrow' night. THE Runaway" Is her
Play this season It is az adaptation of
q French comedy entitled La Canine.
in which the Inflated Lantelme made her
last hit in Paris last season. Miss Burke
has been playing it in New York and last
week was in Philadelphia. The play is
said to provide her with the best role she
has had since she became star.
'Coiette, the name of the character
Miss Burke plays, is an ingenious French
maiden of eighteen Her relatives want
her to get married and. after the French
custom, pick out a husband for her. She
doesn't like their choice and runs away to
Paris The remainder of the play is de-
voted to her adventures in that gay capt.
tai.
The supporting cast includes G. Aubrey
Smith, an English actor; George Howell.
Henry Miller, jr.; Morton Selten. Edwin
Nicander, Jane Evans and nearly dozen
others
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Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The third concert of the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra in the New National
Theater Tuesday afternoon, January 2,
Will be OF particular interest because
Josef Hofmann will be the soloist and
this will be his only appearance here this
season, and probably for several seasons
TO come
Josef H9fmann is conceded the greatest
OF the younger pianists. He comes to
America for the sole purpose of playing
IN series OF concerts with the Boston
symphony Orchestra, which for the time
being mas entire and exclusive command
OF his time. 1t has consented to one re-
cItal IN New York and one in Boston
Mr. Hofmann arrived in America shortly
before Christmas and has been spending
tie holidays on his American estate in
Aiken, S. G.
He was one of the soloiSts with the
Boston symphony last season and made
an extraordinary impression
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CITY BIRD SANCTUARY.
A Rector's Garden in the Heart of
London.
rom the London Standard.

From the London STANDARD
On Saturday morning a water wagtail
few across Queen Victoria street and
spent some hours in the center of the
city. This may sound surprising. Lon
don is not regarded as much of place
for the naturalist who wants to study ma
ture free and not pinned out and stuffed
in museums. He would be regarded as
mad who proposed to study wild life
in Ludgate Hill or to conduct ornithologi-
cal research in Cheapside. Those Cock
neys among birds, the pigeons and the
sparrows, are familiar enough: every
body knows all about them, and there,
most people would say. the matter must
stop.
Yet there Is one naturalist-the Rev.
Percival Clementt4Smith, rector Of ST.
Andrews by. the Wardrobe-who for
twenty-five years has lived right in the
heart Of the city, and who during that
period has obtained unceasing pleasure
from the study Of wild life without the
necessity of going more than ten steps
from his library desk. His back garden
itself a surprising discovery in the area
tar amid which it nes-he has kept as a
sanctuary for birds. and many strange
and surprising visitor has he had.
Thousands every day must pass this
sanctuary unsuspecting: Everybody
knows the church in Queen Victoria
in UNCOVERED terraces. Close by is
Wardrobe passage, a narrow cut between
high walls of brick which leads to a still
higher wall that is whitewashed and has
spikes on top. On the other side of the
wall is the secret garden.
Large cases of fossils and natural his
tory specimens in the hall of the rectory
indicate the tastes of the owner II am
a Cockney born myself the rector a
white-haired clergyman. who has filled
many important civic offices, told our
But I was taken an in
FAINT in arms to the country and there l
grew up and learned every note of the
birds and their methods of flight and their
habits So when ] came to be Gagged up
in the heart of the city 1 was always glad
to see my old friends, and made my gar
den attractive to them One Sunday
a handsome cock redstart drop
ped in on his way to Epping Forest and
stayed an hour or two. l wished 1 could
have gone on with him when he flew
away, but l had to stay behind for serv-
ice. / have often looked out and found
wrens hunting about in the garden for
little insects. Then l have had song
and garden warbler. and
fortnight ago 1 got a water wagtail
This morning another one came and there
have been several redstarts. Once saw
an extremely rare bird, Brazilian bish-
op. not British bird at all, on the EN-
bankment. and YOU may know that
raZorbills were seen on the west side of
Blackfriars bridge lately for the first
time so far as my knowledge goes"
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Was John Orth's Friend.
From the London Globe.

rom the London Globe.
An interesting parsonage has just visit
ed France, and his adventures recall to
our contemporaries those of Robinson"
as they always describe Defoes hero
Born at Nice in 1871, Charles Manzoni
went to Argentina in 1881. and later quail
fed as a surgeon. At Buenos Aires in
1890 he was called to attend ships cap
tain who had been wounded in a fight
with Chilean sailors.
After the patients recovery the doctor
was retained and embarked upon the
Sainte Marguerite. whose captain was
John Orth, the Austrian archduke. whose
fate Is mystery. In the straits of Ma
gellan on August %, 1890. during a terri
BILE hurricane, the doctor was swept over
board by a wave and washed up on an
island. When he regained consciousness
the vessel had disappeared and the doctor
concluded that she and her crew were
lost. For eight months he lived on the
island, subsisting on the eggs of sea birds
and fish, and we are told he was less
happy than Robinson because he had
no gun. Then ship appeared and took
him to Patagonia.
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THE CROW IN LEGEND.
According to Roman Mythology, the
Bird Was Once White.

From the London Globe.
It is difficult to state the average
life of crow, but 1t is certain that
it's tale Of years is much in excess of
its merits, for it can scarcely be said
to attain to a good old age, and even
in its senility 1t is still ripe for mis-
chief. For the crow in all ages has
reached a bad eminence. It is fire.
quently mentioned in legendary lore.
According to Roman mythology its
color was originally white. and it owes
its black plumage to Aesculapius. for
his mother, the nymph, Coronis, had
quarrel with his father, Apollo who
so far lost his temper-probably he
had the worst Of the argument-as to
kill the unfortunate nymph upon the
spot. Apollo had the grace to mourn
his rash act, and he determined that
the crow should mourn, too, and so he
changed it's white feathers into black,
and the crow was made to put on
sullen black incOntinent."
The crow has always been tabled to
have the gift of speech. and 1t was
consecrated to Apollo on account OF its
gift Of prophecy. The Augurs watch
ed its flight as a means Of divinatiOn.
II 1T flew to the right it was a most
favorable omen. while If it turned to
the left 1T was plain indication that
disaster awaited the enterprise. P1iny
also comments upon the long life of
the crow. and states that if it made
its appearance upon the left side it
was happy augury He says that it's
cries We're an indication of coming
rain, and that it's eyes were valuable
as charms. The Latin crow seems to
have been a more worthy and better
behaved bird than his Indian brother,
who is an incorrigible thief and mis-
chief maker, and an unmitigated nuis-
3nce According to DR. BuCkland fu-
neral honors were paid to the crow
and the raven by the Romans and the
Egyptians. and he gives the following
in proof of this statement:
And the Romans performed funeral
rites to the raven, a flute player lead
ing the procession. borne aloft on the
shoulders Of two Philippians. Around
the Marsh of Myris sepulchers Of the
crow and ibis, made of valuable stone,
were visited"
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Flonzaley Quartet Concert.

Inc first OF the concerts by the F1on-
zaiey quartet that for several seasons
past have, under the local direction of
L. Arthur Smith, been charming ad-
plirers OF high-class chamber music in
this city, is announced for Friday after
noon. January IL. in the large hall of the
New Willard Hotel This famous organi-
zation is made up of Adolfo Betti, first
violin; Alfred Pochon. second violin: Iygo
Ara, viola, and Evan d'Archambeau.
cello. The program announced for the
Washington concert includes Beethovens
Quartet in A Major. op. IS, No (four
movements): w Friedman Bachs Son
alta a Ire for two violns and cello
and Dvoraks Quartet in A Flat Major
On
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The "Kilties" Band.

The famous "kilties" Band of Canada
will appear at the National Theater Sum-
day evening, January Z. 1t has just re-
turned from a tour around the world,
during which twenty countries were Wis
tied. The band plays classical and pop
u1ar music. The men wear kits, from
which the name ''kilties'' is derived, and
are all Scotch Canadians. Accompanying
the band Is male choir that sings bal
lads OF the mother country. In addition
to the male choir is the famous xii
tes' troupe of Scotch pipers
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New York Philharmonic Society

The Philharmonic Society of New York.
under the direction OF its new leader Jo-
SET Stransky. is scheduled for its second
concert OF the season, Tuesday afternoon.
January Is. at the New National Theater.
when the Russian violinist, Efrem Zim-
balst, who has been exciting unusual
enthusiasm since his arrival in this coun-
try a few weeks ago. will make his first
appearance in Washington in a Tschai-
kowsky concerto.
The program includes Dvorak's Sym
phony in + Flat (posthumous). new
Beethoven's overture, "Leonore, No. IIP';
Tschaikowsky's violin concerto. with
Efrem Zimbalist, atd Wagner's overture.
'-Tannhaus
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harold Bauer.

a week from Thursday afternoon,
under the local management of T. Ar
thur Smith, the eminent pianist Harold
Bauer will be heard in recital at the
New National Theater, beginning at 4:3O
O'Clock The program will include some
of the most beautiful works of Mendels-
sohn, Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Chuck
SSamta and List. Mr.. Bauer is de-
clared a marvellous genius as an inter-
prefer OF piano music. He Is an English
man, though of German descent, and
first took up the study of the violin. but
Paderswski. whom he CHANGED to meet
in London, urged him to concentrate his
attention upon the piano. At the age Of
eighteen he accompanied Paderewski to
Paris. where he fitted himself for his
career. He has toured Germany. Spain,
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The Test. y

The Test" which comes to the Acad-
envy the week of January S, is regarded
by Eugene Blair as the strongest vehicle
in which she has ever appeared. Jules
Eckert Goodman. the author, is said to
have treated the conditions of today in
a forceful. intelligent and interesting
manner. and woven into four acts of
absorbing dialogue and genuine heart in
tereSt phases of modern life that appeal
TO men and women in every walk.
Although the play is said to deal with
the sex problem. assurance is given
that it contains nothing offensive
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'The Queen of Bohemia"

Following the engagement of the Beh-
man show at the Gayety, Manager Peck
Will present The Queen of Bohemia %
one of Max Speigels entertainments. Mr..
Speigel is now one of the most prolific
producers i'm the burlesque field, his sue
cess having been attained by the presen-
tation of shows which have invariably
caught the public fancy. THE Queen Of
Bohemia" offers opportunity for many
bizarre costume effects and the chorus is
said to be unusually comedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Next Sunday evening DIR. Frederick A.
Cook will deliver lecture at the Column
bia Theater, which he announces will
deal with the facts in connection with his
arctic expedition and the resultant con-
test between his followers and those OF
Admiral Peary. DIR. Cook promises. while
endeavoring to eliminate personalities. ne
will present his side of the case In a
vigorous manner. and disclose many new
ideas concerning the discovery of the
north pole.
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CONVENTION HALL. s 70 LEE

3 Sessions Tomorrow New Year Day..
Ladies Admitted Free Wednesday night.
Every lady accompanied by a
gentleman will be admitted free Mt the
Wednesday night session. All others.
25c. Matinee price, 15c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

You can lead a magnate to an invosti-
cation. but you can't make him remain
ber.-Life.
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Madame Sherry has made a big hit
in Boston, as in New York and Chicago.
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DR.. Cook and the North Pole.

France. the Netherlands, Austria, Rus
STA, Sweden and America.
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Little Memo is to be revived next
month with cast largely composed of
midgets.
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Carrie Reynolds has left John Cort's
Jacinta" company, and will go into
vaudeville
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Cyril Scott has closed his season w
"A Gentleman of Leisure
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James and Wilton Lackaye, both
natives of Washington, are brothers
"Jim," as he is called by his int1mates,
asked recently if he were Wilton's
brother. II am not" he replied. Will
ton is my brother
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Louise Dresser will make a short tour
in vaudeville while she is waiting for
the completion of new musical comedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Lon Hascall, one of the comedians in
The Girl from Broadway" was at one
time a newspaper reporter. II he had
been successful in this field he would
probably never have been tempted to
join the "two-a-day'' forces.
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play of the Maine woods by Owen
Davis, called Making Good. is shortly
to be produced by w. A. Brady. William
Courtenay will be featured in the pro-
duction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Members of the special "Bunty Pulls
the Strings" company are now in New
York rehearsing an American tour. They
arrived from Liverpool last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

The present season of the '"Three Ro-
meos'' is closed. but Dreyfus and Fellner
will revive the piece in the spring for an
all-summer run in Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

George Arliss celebrated the Christmas
season by giving dinner to the stage
hands of the New York Theater where
he is playing "DisraeH.'
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Leon Cavallo has composed the
score of a musical comedy to be called
THE Queen of Roses the story con-
corning the king of an imaginary
country who wooes and wins an
English lady of title. The book is
by Edward Morton. the author of San
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Grace George will present Just to Get
Married" for the first time at the Maxine
Elliott Theater, New York, tomorrow
night She has a strong supporting cast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Henry Arthur Jones, the English
playwright, will be in New York for
about six weeks. He has with him the
manuscript of two new plays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Franz Lehar's new play OF the musical
sort is called Eva" 1t will be produced
by George Edwardes i'm London.
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AL H. Wilson is to have a new play
called 'It was in Potsdam." The new
songs in the piece will be composed by
Mr.. Wilson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

George Alexander BEDFORD. official
censor of plays, has resigned his office.
He says he has read enough bad plays
to give him sOftening of the brain.s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Ola Humphreys. who married Prince
Ibrahim Hassan. cousin Of the Khedive
and master. after several jolts on the
matrimonial road, and is coming back
to this country to return to the stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

THE First Lady of the Land" by
Charles Nirdlinger, in which Elsie Fergu-
son is starring. is to- be made into a
novel,
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Mime. Simone is to appear shortly in
New York in THE Return From Jerusa-
lem" by Maurice Donney. The play has
mingled Jewish and Christian characters,
though IL is not a racial argument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Douglas Fairbanks will be seen ear
in the new year in a new play.
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Harold Bauer the pianist, who is to
give a recital at the New National
Theater Thursday week, is a pupil of
PadereWSki
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May Robson has decided to appear in
repertoire, SO will play "The Rejuvena-
ton of Aunt Mary in addition to "a
Night Out"
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Arnold DAILY is to appear in reviva
of THE Fatted Calf
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Thursday matinees at the Columbia
Theater are establishing a reputation as
professional matinees-mOst OF the i'm
portant members of companies playing
IN Washington being visible in the audi
ence on such occasions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

in The Duchess" and will begin re-
hearsals on a new musical comedy pro-
duction.
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Thomas w. Ryley is somewhat in
doubt concerning the immediate flu
ture of Peggy" It's engagement at
the Casino. New York, will come to an
end in another fortnight, and Mr.. Ry
ley is not sure whether he will send it
on the road or hold it for summer
run in Gotham