The Washington times., 1911-12-10
"KISMET'. TO OPEN
At THE NATIONAL
ON DECEMBER 20
"Mutt and Jeff" Will Be
Next Weeks Columbia
!, Attraction.

Instead of opening Monday night, De
+, cember Is, as originally announced
'Kismet," In which Otis Skinner will
appear, will not be produced at tn
National Theater until wednesda.
night, December 20, owing to the elab
crate detail incidental to the produc
ton which Klaw & Erlanger will max,
manager. This will be its first produc
ton in America.
'Kismet'' is said to be vivid, splen
did picture of the East, with its colol
and its movements its resignation ant
poetry.
The story has 1.-THE Arabian Nights
and human quality Of simplicity. 1t II
told, with ornate and prodigal elabora'
ton.
The next attraction at the Columbia
Theater. following Nat C. Goodwin, will
be Gus Hills $4,000 cartoon play, Mutt
and Jeif," which begins an hilariously
entertaining week with a matinee on
Christmas Day. The Intervening week
the house will remain closed to afford
its employees a needed rest after the
three years of almost continuous serv-
ice. Everywhere this big dramatization
OF Bud Fishers cartoons Is heartily re-
ceived, and Washington is promised the
best Of all the five big companies, the
seen
New York early in the year for an in
definite stay.
At the Belasco Theater next week, t>e
people of Washington will have their
first opportunity of seeing the moving
pictures of the raising, of the United
States battleship Maine. These pic
lures were taken from the United
States Government and copies of them
will be deposited with the Government
and with the Smithsonian Institute.
Last week these films have ben shown
to the Government officials in this city
and also before President Taft.
3. Comedy will reign in musical manner
the week before Christmas at Chase's,
and the leading attraction will be the
popular comedy stars, Claud and Fannie
Usher, in their greatest success, "Fa-
CAMS Decision" q one-act sketch based
upon an unusual theme with two char
acter types Of absorbing interest.
the Five Armanis. direct from the AL
hambra, Paris. France, in their gor-
Night In Naples AL and Fannie
titled "A Little of Everything Laugh
able;" the Bert Harvey-Milli De Vora
trio. including the diminutive blackface
comedian, John Dough; Hastings and
VhoOu I'D He xdu6HttDle LundIlCSs
Mail, Quail and Blaize; Alfredo. the
italian maestro and the photoplane day
light motion pictures will show a fresh
series Of animated replicas of inter-
national events Of recent occurrence.
Richard ]. Jose, the well-known tenor,
will appear in the leading role of
"Silver Threads" story woven about
the sentimental ballad Silver Threads
Among the Gold" at the Academy the
week of December Is. =
Mr.. Jose has chosen this play to make
his return to the legitimate stage, after
an absence from It of several years
For five years he played in the "Old
Homestead" and for many years fea-
tured in big minstral companies, finally
going into vaudeville. In "S1lver
Threads" Mr.. Jose believes he has pro-
cured legitimate successor to "The
Old Homestead
Real thoroughbred horses and real
Jockeys are promised by the manage
ment of the Gayety Theater as a part
of the Ginger Girls company, the at
traction which follows THE Big Gayety
Company" at the Ninth street play
house. The musical extravaganza which
introduces this race track feature is
appropriately called 1.-THE Futurity
Winner" and it is said to be modelled
upon the lines Of that great Drury Lane
melodrama, THE Sporting Duchess"
one of the classics of the stage,