The Washington times., 1912-08-18
MUSICAL COMEDY
TO Be ON BILL At
POLHS NEXT WEEK
Cohan's Little Johnny
Jones" Will Be Preten-
tious Production. |

George M. Cohan's enormous success
and the first of the famous Cohan mu-
sical plays, Little Johnny Jones'" is
the attraction announced by Polrs'
Players as next weeks Offering. The
musical play will be produced here on a
lavish scale
TIL management has obtained from
Cohan e. Harris the entire original
production, which shows the Hotel Ce-
Gil, in London, the departure of an
ocean liner from the dock at South
ampton. and a picturesque scene in
San Franciscos Chinatown.
Thirty chorus girls and principals
havh been engaged in New York to
aid the Poll Players in this big pro-
duction and an augmented orchestra
will furnish the music, which Is easily
the most popular that Cohan has writ
ten. Some of the big song hits of the piece
are Give Ny Regards to Broadway
LIES A Funny Proposition, After
All" bad "'Op In Me 'Ansom Cab"
This will be the most pretentious pro-
ductlon attempted by the Poll man
agement since the beginning of the sea-
son, and IT will be the first presentation
In Washington at popular prices, OF the
biggest musical comedy success that
has been seen on the musical stage in
twenty years.
Zelda Sears. fascinating coincidence
who has made hit after hit in the Clyde
Fitch comedies in seasons past and
who played the .leading role in The
Nest Egg," is making a limited number
or appearances in vaudeville, and has
interrupted her New York ENGAGEMENTS
long enough to book with Chase's bill
1oT the week commencing at the Mon
| day matinete, August 26. Miss Sears will
De seen in The Wardrobe Woman" a
he-night-sntand" repertoire satire,
| written by Edgar Allan Woolf. to At
Miss Sears amusing character istics.
Next in Importance will be the Nine
Bells described as Mexicos latest and
greatest musical sensation. just return
60 from tour of Europe The melodies.
music and dances of a national fiesta,
! in the land of the Montezumas, are pre-.
sented in picturesque manner.
,ord Inird on the list will be Lew Fields
former comic adjutants, Dorothy Bron-
ner and Joseph Ratliffe, recruited for
vaudeville from his Never Homes"
company company Their skit 'At the Flower
Miss Bronner's most popular infantile
ditty, My Mamma" masterpiece of
| stagecraft is promised by Joseph L.
Lasky, the Belasco of Vaudeville"
who VIII offer his newest creation Wis
ions Darts" Baby Helen" the juve-
nile comedienne, will sing a la Dock
rendering of "Carissima," and other
wise charm her audiences.
Patsy Doyle, the droll comedian from
Cork; the three Josett Brothers, Amer
icas premier Risley artists, and tho
popular photoplane daylight motion
pictures will end the bill.
Eugene Walters masterful drama OF
the Canadian Northwest The Wolf"
is to be produced at the Columbia The
ater next week by the Columbia Play
ers in striking contrast to the cur
rent offering of Sol Smith Russelrs
Peaceful Valley" The Wolf" is all
contest and conquest and is regarded
by many as the greatest realistic
drama of the century.
1t was originally produced at the
1903, and for the succeeding year was
continuously before the New York and
Chicago playgoers. The play Is redo
lent with the ozone of the great North
west, and vitaliZed with legends of
the Canadian territory.
, One of the earliest and most import
, ant theatrical offerings of the local sea-
son is A. G. Delsmaters beautiful scenic
production of "Freckles." a dramatiza-
ton by Neil Twomey of Gene STRAIT
ton-Porters widely read novel Of the
{ same title.
: "Freckles" will be the Academy offer.
. ing for the week of August 2s.