The Washington times., 1913-05-01
LITTLE WOMEN TRUE
TO ALCOTT'S BOOK
Popular Book Is Gently Treated
in Dramatization Coming to
BeIasco Tneater.

OF Little Women" Louisa NJ. Alcott
wrct2: If it ever succeeds it Will be
because it is true
In Marian de Forests dramatization
of the book, to be seen at the Belasco
Theater next week, almost direct from
its long engagement at The Playhouse,
New York city, this spirit of truth has
been caught and held. And the play
promises to live as long as the book,
for William A. Brady has given it an
excellent production and engaged a cast
of representative players TO properly
and accurately interpret it. 1t is play
that will please girls and boys, men and
women. of all ages.
Forty-five or fifty years ago a wonder
ful group of men lived and gave their
thought to the world in New England.
Longfellow, Whittier, Hawthorne, Thor
eau, Claiming Emerson, and man OF
whom his daughter wrote: Poor father,
he's just about twenty years ahead of
hi slime. Some day the world will real
tze he is a great man." That man was
Bronson Alcott. The world then smiled
At this mans philosophy and called II
God and infinite good, that's what 1t
was-a wonderful and beautiful trust,
even In the face of poverty and mis-
fortune.
Imagine a family of girls brought up
In this atmosphere-living ii, breathing
In great thoughts of great men, be-
sides having as an example a great
mother-a mother who understood each
girl and her faults-who corrected them
gently and encouraged them splendidly
by little notes Of praise, or advice,
slipped under a plate, or in a favorite
beck: Little Women" the play, just
as Little Women" the book, is true
story of this remarkable family, not the
staging of popular juvenile tale.
There are Meg and John Brooke, Beth
and Laurie, Amy, Marmee, and even
old Hannah, who taught them all how
to make plum pudding. And then there
is 10. who is Louisa Alcott herself
Those who have been pleased with the
charms of the Columbia Players lead
ing lady, Helen Holmes. will be posi-
when she will discard the magnificent
gowns of the modern modiste for the
picturesquely beautiful robes of the
Princess ANGELA, the only daughter Of
King Louis VII of France, as depicted
in Capt. r. Marshalrs regal romantic
comedy, "A Royal Family"
BY peculiar coincidence, il was but
four years ago, on the occasion of the
first season of the Columbia Players,
that "A Royal Family was sumptu-
ously produced for the fourth week of
the season, and then, as now, il was
designed to cement the new leadiE-
woman in the affections of patrons.
Next Monday the seat sale for the
entire engagement of the Aborn Opera
Company will open at the box office of
the National Theater. The season
starts Monday, May 10, and during the
time the Aoorns are here the Capital
will have an opportunity to see all of
the old favorites and to hear many of
the best-known and best-liked operas.
At the National Theater, next Mon
day, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights
tie attraction win be Miss Cora B.
-SArexe.s scenic production and -extray-
sganza. THE Palace of Dreams" as
the carnival is entitled, is in three acts
and boasts juvenile cast of 800, the
ties.
Miss Adriene shreve will be seen in
the title role as Venus in Echoes
From the Grotto:" Miss Ruby RAY
Master William Morrison as Prince
Alef, Miss Louise Tebbetts as Spirit Of
, Light, Miss Beatrice Cosgrove as Magic
Queen. and Miss Dorothy Boyd rs the
Fortune Teller.
Special electrical effects will add to
the performance.
The Poll Players will celebrate their
six hundredth stock performance in
Washington next week, and in honor of
the event S. z. Poll has secured the
stocks rights for the first time at popular
prices in Washington, or the American
classic, Way Down East" one OF the
enduring comedy successes of the nine
teenth century. This great homespun
drama has not been seen in Washington
for nearly a decade, and the majority
of the younger generation of playgoers
has never had an opportunity 10 see II,
20 that its appeal will be to curious new
friends as well as TO old admirers.
Three extraordinary attractions will
distinguish Chase's continuous per-
formances next week. On Sunday at
p. m, the great Kinemacolor play
production, Nathan Hale" from the
historical drama by Clyde Fitch i'll
which Nat c. Goodwin was starred. will
be shown with 1900 feet OF film in
three reels, lasting about an hour
Kinemacolor colcrinG is given full
scope in the uniforms. costumes, and
scenery Of the period. This picturesque
colonial drama Will continue Monday
and Tuesday.
beginning Monday next at l D. IN.
the new Edison Talking Pictures Will
be Votes for Women" a representa-
tion of a meeting of the leading AM