The Washington herald., 1912-09-22
NEWS OF LOCAL THEATERS

The Poll Stock Company will close
its Washington engagement October 5.
at which time the policy OF the house
will be changed to vaudeville.
There will be an extra performance
of the Paul J. Rainey African Hunt
pictures at the Belasco Theater this
evening. beginning the final week Of
the stay of these sensational pictures
in Washington. There will be no mat
inees to-day. but the announced after
noon and evening programme will OBJ
tain throughout the week.
The Washington playgoers will find
an important change in The Rainbow"
when II returns TO the Columbia The
alter next week. The character of Dol
ly Winters. the pathetic little charac-
ter who figured in the opening scene
of the story. has been eliminated. This
removes the only incident of the play
to which Washington critics took ex-
ception last season.
Manager Fred G. Berger returned to
his desk at the Columbia Theater We'd
nesday after a most successful and en-
toyable trip to the West.
The Drums of Dude" the special
production which David Belasco has
made for vaudeville, will be in Chase's
bill the week of November IS.
Miss Jewell will be seen at Polls this
week in a role which made Julia Dean
a New York celebrity-Mrs. Brooks in
Paid in Full"
Gertrude Hitz, who was to have been
the ingenue of the Columbia Players
the past summer, but whose extended
tour with Margaret Anglin in Green
Stockings" prevented. is the leading
woman with The Man from Home"
which will shortly be seen at the F
Street playhouse.
Paul Rainey was forced oo endure many
a jibe and taunt at his temerity in TAX
ing his Mississippi bear hounds to Africa
last summer to track and bring down
the lion. leopard. and rhinoceros. But
that they vindicated his complete conf
dence in their intelligence and pluck is
evidenced In the stirring motion picture
history of his Jungle expedition, now at
the Belasco Theater.
Motion pictures have come to stay.
and instead of being a craze" to soon
die out are winning new friends daily
from the ranks of the regular theater-
going public" Nobody recognized this
fact quicker than did the big theatrical
magnates themselves. and TO Paul J.
Rainey's African hunt has been allotted
time in the highest class theaters or
the country. which have hitherto only
housed the big dramatic and musical or
ganizations.
The Lyceum Theater management an
nounces that there are many big sur
prises In store for patrons this season.
including The Big Review, Tiger
Lilies" Miss New York, Jr," World
of Mirth," .'watson's Beef Trust" Sam
Rice" 'Zallah's Own Company" and
thirty-five others.
Arthur B. Benson. for some years past
the press representative of the Belasco
Theater. Is now occupying a similar po- !
sition in advance of the Annette Keller |
mann Company.
The Summer girls" the ''chappies,"
the Annette Kellermans." the dainty
dearies." and the blazer girls" are
some of the names given to the costumed
ensemble specialties in Ben Welch's en- |
at the Gayety this week
The handsome new chairs which have
been installed In the Columbia Theater |
were the subject of much favorable COM |
ment during the past week. They are |
In mahogany and upholstered In
leather. |
Paul Rainey and a party Of friends
have booked passage from London for |
India, and there the young millionaire
sportsman hopes to participate In many
Of the tiger hunts which the native |
princes arrange during the winter
With Mr.. Rainey are his tried
and true American hounds. which, did
such yoeman service during his recent