Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

The first week Cressy and Dayne Wer
that was way back in the bygone days q
oliver Metzerott, treasurer Of the Co
lumbfa Theater Company, is one OF thu
active members OF the committee tina
forthcoming visit Of the Triangle Clul
or Princeton. University.
William D.. corbett. who will play TIL,
role Of Father Kelly In "The Rosary
at Ppii's next week. it is said, studied
Tor the priesthood when he was 6
young rilah, but discovered his vocation
was the stage and not the pulpit.
For New Year. week the attraction will
be Henry w. Savage's first new produc
ton of the, season. the Hungarian oper
eta i'cailed '.Sssri.' with characteristic
Savage cast and with Mizzi Hajos in thu
title role.
Think and practice, for the one with
out the other is useless is the advice
ing students who besiege him with CUES
tions.: But do not overpractice' is
usually his concluding remark.
An immense copper sign. with the name
of b. f. Keith and of the l1eadliners OF
the week In Illuminated letters, has beer
constructed for the theater here and
will be put UP as soon as the legal pre-.
several Thousand dollars
A film Burton Holmes will present
at the Columbia. Theater tonight shows
Brewster Of the United States Marine
Corps and his mounted marines are
playing In the protection Of the foreign
colony at Pelsing.
At the close Of her present engagement
Jeanette Spellfnan, at the Gayety this
week, VIII fill a summer engagement with
the Belasco and Mayer Stock Company
OF San Francisco. This is Miss Spell
mans first season in burlesque. She
played in stock on the coast prior to 'her
present engagement.
Billy X. Wells, composer of the lyrics
and music of the RoseIand Girls, is one
of the most prolific OF song writer's in the
burlesque field. Besides song hits fol
burlesque. he has written extensively fol
musical comedies and vaudeville sketches
during the last seven years.
An announcement of unusual interest is
the engagement for early in January, al
the New National Theater, of Charles
Dillinghams notable production, THE
cry and Stone. Elsie Janis and hundred
other clever entertainers will appear.
Christie Macdonald, in Victor Herbert
AsN oPeLSi 1o"ectHedTlS, Will De one
OF the early attractions at the New Ma.
tional. Another Of the big offerings SEIZED
uied Is the spectacular Liebler Company
production, Joseph and His Brethren, ;
with the. original cast of $50. Cohan 6
Harris newest farce. stop Thief" also
comes early In the new year.
"Forty-five Minutes From Broadway
George NJ. .,Cohan's successful musical
play. will be revived at Polls in the
near future. A large chorus is being
assembled in, New York for the pro-
duction.. which, after the opening week
In Washington. Will be played for six
teen weeks In the various Poll Tfleatcrs
Of the United States.
The most Interesting performance of
within the Law" during it's 600 nigh Is
On Broadway was that for the inmates
Of the Blind Asylum of Manhattan. on
that occasion the Eltinge Theater was
crowded with an audience which fol-
lowed the play, with breathless interest
from beginning to end, having been
made acquainted with the story and the
characters through the medium of a
raised program.
There will be two concerts at B. +.
keith's Thcater today, one at pm and
the other at 3:15. The attractions will
be jack Wilson. Ada Lane and Jack
Boyle, i'll AN Irnpromptu Revue; Ralph
Lynn and company. with Helen Juiiette
In The Purple Lady: Gertrude Van.
derbiit and George Moore. Josephine Dun
fee. Alberta Moore and Myrtle Young
Eddie Love and Jannette Wilbur Louise
Galloway and company, in The Little
Mother. De Lesso brothers, the Pathe
motion pictures and the pipe organ re-
citals.