The Washington times., 1912-08-15
ALL-STAR BILL TO
Be PRESENTED AT
CHASE'S OPENING
New Playhouse Nears Com
pletion-Fine Pipe Organ
Installed.

pipe organ IN the promenade lounge
will peal forth its welcome.
program of popular selections,
operate airs, and classical offerings
will be given at 1880 p. M, 1880 p. m.
and during the intermissions daily.
throughout the season. The manage
ment states that there are hundreds of
choice locations remaining for every |
performance, except Monday night,
next week.
First on the opening bill is Mabel |
Taliaferro, former star of Polly Of the
Circus" an other successes fine act
ing company supports her in a unique
musical revue star of the latest
'Follies' company, will offer wholly |
new blend of songs, shat and steps.
Ideal" an aquatic beauty, is listed
with Eddie Foy In over the River
and Ernest r. Ball, the composer, win |
join in a musical morceau.
Florence Modena and company in a |
rousing comedy sketch; Don Fulano, |
the best comic trick horse on two con- |
unents, the Musical Gordon Highland |
be expected.
The box office is open daily, except
Sunday, from $3.50 a. m. until $50 p. m.
The mutual love of a country boy and |
q city girl furnish the basis for that |
romantic comedy, Peaceful Valley"
which the Columbia Players will present |
next week at the Columbia Tneater In |
revival of the great Sol Smith Rus |
sell comedy.
Fred G. Berger, for years the business |
manager, beloved, intimate, and lifelong |
associate of the wonderful comedian, |
will personally supervise the production !,
and give to it all those delicate touches
that Mr.. Russell employed to accentuate
the beautiful pathos and humor Of the
play.
@f,,l
Edward Z. Kidder. In it Edward H.
Robins will play the role Of the country
boy, Hosea Howe.
In the course of the play young Howe
leaves the farm and obtains work as a
waiter in summer resort hotel. There
he meets a city girl, to be played by
Frances Nelson, and the resultant love
at first sight paves the way for one of
most humorously pathetic plays on the
modern stage.
If Mississippi always sends to the
United States Senate men as lovable
as the central character of "A Gentle
man From Mississippi" which will be
presented for the first time at popular
the Poll Players. the State will have
reason to feel proud of it's Senators.
The official name of the gentleman
for. and from. Mississippi. is Senator
William H. Langdon, and every audi
ence that sees him takes him to their
hearts And why should they not? He
DEAR" with a courtesy bred of chival-
~ and with a sense of humor that Is
irresistible.
In addition, he is as straight as a
die and he sacrifices the fortune of his
own children rather than support bill
that would put dishonest dollar into
ey. He sticks to his guns and throws
such a mighty bluff that it is only ex-
planned by his own admission:
SHINY Mihyii yiir poker was invented in Missis-
Mark Kent will be seen in the role of
Senator Langdon. A. H. Van Buren,
comes his private secretary and helps
jewel will Be seen as the Sen Senator'S tors
secretary falls in love.
The strong and significant comedy
i drama, The Volunteer Parson," by
Edyth Totten, is an attractive play III
incident to an entertaining story we'll
told but shows a moral to the public
that the only. way to success Is by the
righteous path.
clean atmosphere of old New England"
throughout the entire play.
1.-The Volunteer Parson" will be the
opening attraction of the new season at
the Academy beginning Monday evening.
with the usual matlnees on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday.
Inc duVdHce safe OF seats ana reSer-
vations for the season started this
morning at Q o'clock. The same scale
OF prices as heretofore will prevail.
The manager of the Cosmos Theater
reports the engagement of Miss Dora
Lyon, an English opera star in an ex-
ceptional offering of song, and Stewart
layton q CO; In sketch from THE
Fossita. who is heralded as the king
of piano-accordeon players" in his own
special musical .1S a, g. number; the Adams
merry roller skating sketch, and Smith
and Valley, in The Volunteer Pianist
Send Is cdsG to be UnGSe in Its
the supplemental features of the bill.
The Pathe pictorial review of import
ant world events is the headliner of the
film features. all of which are guaran-
teed new and entertaining.
The Cosmos Sunday concerts will in
clude several acts of renned vaudeville
and the usual orchestral program.
The welcome accorded the Lyman H.
Howe Travel Festival last Sunday even
ing on the occasion of the return of
that delightful form OF diversion to the
Columbia Theater after an absence of
nearly year. has induced the manage
of program m for % next Sunday evening.
on that occasion one or the best
anced programs of the entire series will
be presented. made up OF entertaining
instructive, and thrilling subjects.
Notable among the latter will be a
terrifying hunt in the jungles of Africa
where only the quick and unerring aim
OF the hunter saves him from the jaws
of the King of the Jungle.
An automobile race on a half-mile
track, MANY visits to beautiful and his.
tor!c points in this country and Europe
and trip through the culver Military
Academy, at Culver, Ind, one of the
most efficient training schools in Amer
lea. will be among the. other subjects.
Manager Peck, of the new Gayety, hal
been especially fortunate in securing al
the opening attraction for the fifth sea
son of the Ninth street house a compan.
of fifty funmakers known as ''Th'
American Beauties" Instead of on,
stellar name in the cast there will b.
three, Cook and Lorenz, the famous fun
makers of The Yankee Girl and Mr.
Hamlet of Broadway" and petite Heller
Byron, the musical comedy celebrity VIII,
made Sergeant Kitty" one of the sub
statial hits Of several seasons ago.
The American Beauties" will be seel
In a tuneful burlesque called Lover
Lane which is said to provide Messrs
Cook and Lorenz unrivaled opportuni
- mir 4, Il. IQxF