The Washington times., 1912-08-11
DESIRABLE SEATS
LEFT FOR OPENING
WEEK AT CHASE'S
New Theater Has Capacity
of 1000, With Two Per-
formances a Day.

Chase's new theater is not sold out for
the opening week, beginning at the
Monday matinee, August 49, the man.
agement states, and all those who apply
this week will find desirable locations,
especially for the daily matinees. The
future home Of polite vaudeville, seats
about L9O0, and there are twelve per-
formances week, and It is hardly pos
sible for that immense capacity to be
exhausted SO far ahead.
With men working in day and night
shifts last week, the preparedness Of
the theater became evident. The gilded
lobby, with its 5000 Rookwood pottery
frieze emerged in traordinary beauty
from confusion Of masonry and scaf-
folding. The rough walls Of the mez-
canine floor and the balcony were hid
den under gorgeous red silk tapestry.
The long files of sound-proof stone
foor-rises were filled with the Spanish
leather mahogany chairs. All Of the
floors are absolutely alike in comfort Of
occupancy. Ascending the main stair
way leading from the lobby to the mez:
canine floor and the balcony, the thea
ter-goer, upward bent, after less than
a score of low step-rises, finds himself
at the lowest level of the mezzanine
floor, from whence he walks upward to
his seat This possible avoidance of
stepping downward to mezzanine and
balcony seats will please patrons who
are perplexed by the pitch of a floor.
Keeping pace. with the progress Of the
structure str % are the si efforts to assemble
stars, novelties and artists ever gath
cred in Chases. Only the merest de-
tails are announced at this time by the
management as they are wiling to en-
place of any tentatively secured.
At the present time the bill Is led by
beautiful Mabel Taliaferro, the be-
witching star Of Polly of the Circus"
"Rebecca of sunnybrook Farm" and
gon, the. English comic opera come
dian, who last season at Chases made
the biggest individual hit recorded !:
Ideal, the daring and fascinating sue
cessor Of Annette Kellerman, the diving
mermaid; Maud Lambert, late of Eddie
Foy's last season hit, over the River"
and Ernest r. Ball, composer of Love
Me and the World is Nine" and Flor
ence Modena and company; Don Flu
Many other amusing and interesting
rarities will also be offered.
The management of Polls Theater an
nounces another beat" in the attrac-
ton which will succeed Father and the
Boys" a week from tomorrow night.
It is "A Gentleman from Mississippi" I"
which has never been played in stock
and never played at popular prices II
is one Of the biggest dramatic successes
of the past three years, and II Eas as
great hit in Washington when present
ed here year ago at the " scale of
prices as 1t was in New York, where II
enjoyed a long run and made Thomas s
Wise and Douglas Fairbanks real stars.
Mr. Poll has obtained the right to pro-
duce "A Gentleman from Mississippi
in Washington by paving for II a royal
ty that Is almost prohibitive. but he re-
CARDS week after next rs the beginning
of a new season. and was determined
to open the new season with the strong
The play will be given here with the
original production and with additions
to the regular Poll cast of several mem
bers of the original New York company,
No season OF the Columbia Players
would be complete without the presen-
tation of one of those quantity humor-
Gus comedy conceptions in which the
late Sol Smith Russell acquired his
nationwide popularity. and with the
present present season drawing rapidly to a
Peaceful valley" will be revived Mon
day evening. August 10.
1t is needless to say that 1t is one
of the best of the Russell plays, and,
pen of Edward e. Kidder Aside from
the special adapta bilitv of the COLUMBIA
Players they have the further advan-
tage of the personal assistance of Fred
G. Berger, Mr.. Russelfs lifelong man
agsr and friend, in the staging of the
piece. which will fasc!na'e with its
homely eloquence and thoroughly
natural love story,