The Washington times., 1913-12-25
HUNGARIAN OPERA
COMES TO NATIONAL
Henry W. Savage Will Stage
"Sari" on Most Elaborate
| Plans At National Theater.

As the first of Henry W. Sayage's pro-
auctions for this season, "Sari," the new
hungarian operetta which is scheduled
for presentation at the National next
week, is arousing an unusual amount
OF Interest ''Sari'' was a success OF
extraordinary proportions in Europe
its music especially having been a mat
ter of enthusiastic commendation for
more than a year.
''Sari' will be produced here with all
Of the elaborateness that might be look
ed for i'm a new Henry w. Savage pro-
duction. A casi headed by Mizzi Hajos,
Harry Davenport, Blanche Duffield
and Charles Meakins. and numbering
nearly eighty, along with an orchestra
of more than thirty pieces. makes up
the ''Sari'' organization. After a week
here the piece will be presented for a
week in Baltimore and then taken to
New York for a run
Winthrop Ames' production Of THE
next week. The play Is a dramatization
by Arnold Bennett of mis- novel, Buried
Alive
Its scenes show various phases in the
altogether remarkable career of liam
Carve, the celebrated painter, whose uri-
conquerable shyness leads him to permit
his valet to be buried as himself in
Westminster Abbey and goes to live
quietly in suburb as the husband of
Janet Cannot, with who mthe valet has
been in correspondence through a mat.i-
moniaf agency.
"A special matinee win be given New
Year Day.
Sheridan and Goldsmith will he re-
Nivifed next week at the Columbia.
Wnen ,.afr to. azf,
in-tho with her Old English Comedy !
company. She has added to her reper- /
toire The School for Scandal which |
VIII De reproduced in a Iretentious |
manner. The Sheridan comedy will be |
9ven IN Washington Monday night, |
Tuesday night. Friday night, SATURDAY
nisht and Saturday matinee Oliver |
Goidsniths S.owing comedy of youth |
VIII be offered Wednesday night, New |
year afternoon and night.
Poh's announces for next week Chan /
ming Pollock's dramatizaticr. OF "In, the
Bishop's Carriage" the stage version /
will be presented with the original New
hork production, and cast that will |
not only test the full strength of the /
Poll Players, but include several New
specially for the revival. "In the
Bishops Carriage" is a story of crimi-
nails. but unlike the mary ''crook''
plays of today, it is a drama that pos
sesses both dignity and power. 1t por-
trays the regeneration of a giri-thief
through her love for a man in the
world from which she is an outcast
The ''Spendthrift," by Porter Emerson
Brown, author of "A Fool There Was"
comes 10 the Academy next week. The
play tells the story of the wreck of a
family's happiness through the diverg-
eDce of thought and the different paths
followed in the pursuit of happiness by
n husband and wife. Richard Ward Is
man of working, saving. and home
loving instincts His wife longs for lux
dries, and in his efforts to providerfor
her he is kept toiling under a mountain
of debt which topples over until he is
suddenly bankrupt. While the wife's
extravagance is dominant, II Is brought
about in a great measure through her
endeavor to provide her husband with a
nome LefittIng the pos.tio in life she
believes him big enough to occupy.
When she realizes that he is bankrupt
she borrows money in an effort to save
him. This move on her part leads to
The dramatic situations.
The new year will be ushered IN next
week at B. F. Keith's Theater with an
especially arranged holiday bill, offer
ing Woman Proposes" by Paul Arm
strong, the author of Alias Jimmy VAL
entine. and other successes. 1t is a
satiTe upon the modern feminist move
nent, and will be presented by a COM
pany of eight, headed by Ruth Allen.
other attractions will be Edwin Stevens
and Tina Marshall, in THE Troubles of
2. and j. Sophie Tucker, Louis J.
Ninsch. and Josephine Poore, in a COM
edietta, NO Trespassing;" James Hus-
Sey and AL Lee, in 1.-THE New Chauf-
eur" Loughlin's comedy dogs on the
wheel; Lew Lockett and Jack
Naldron. the Two Booma-laddies:"
Daintee La Crandall, on the live wire;
ne Pathe motion picture review of in
ernational events; the pipe organ re-
litals at interrnissions and evening per- ,
ormances, and the ina tinee dansante"
every afternoon from to o'clock.
THE College Girl,'' another Max
SpieSel show, closely following the lires
Il legitimate musical comedy, will be
The attraction for New Year week at
he Gayety- Two acts with nineteen
MUSICAL numbers by the principals and
The chorus of thirty mediums, show
girls and ponies, comprise this musical {
Entertainment
There is distinct plot to this play of z
ollege life involving the love affair OF j
ne college widow, played by Dolly I
Horrissey, daughter of the college jani- {
or played by Morrie Franklin, and :
reddie, the son OF retired banker, c
AIMED Rosenbloom, played by Abe I
reynolds '
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