The Washington times., 1913-05-04
"FOLL|ES" TO CLOSE
), NATIONAL SEASON
Ching Ling Foo, Oriental SIight
of Hand Artist, To Be Big
Feature of Production.

For the closing week of the winter
season at the National Theater, start
ing Monday. May u, the Offering will be
THE Follies" brand of 1913. As is
usually the case, the Follies is fun of
features and novelties, the most extraor-
binary perhaps being the appearance of
Ching Ling Foo. heralded as the worlds
greatest mystifyer. Fourteen Oriental
entertainers, including his seventeen
year-od daughter. assist him.
THE Palace of Beauty" in whiciFaIl
of the worlds beauties are impersonAted,
is one of the big novelties. Mr.. EieS-
field is bringing to Washington sthe
original New York cast and all.star
chorus of more than $50 entertainers.
names of Harry WATSON, jr., Bert Will
liams, Leon Enrol, Elizabeth Brfce, and
Bernard Granville.
The book and lyrics of the newest
Follies were written by Harry b.
Smith, and the music comes from Ray
mond Hubbell. The work, which is In
two-acts and thirteen elaborate scenes,
has been staged by Julian Mitchell.
The Belasco will have as its attrac-
ton all next week, beginning Monday
afternoon and continuing twice daily
thenceforth, the actual moving pictures
of Capt Robert Falcon Scotts Ant
arctic expedition. with a splendid de-
scriptive lecture on the interesting fea-
lures of the great picturial record.
The entertainment is styled The Un-
dying Record of Captain Scott" and
Animal LN in the Antarctic" and
halls direct from the Coliseum. Lon
don, where 1t was acclaimed the great
est travel film ever produced. The pic
tures run the whole gamut of photogra-
nf ha
exploring party and the, innumerable
forms of animal life encountered on
the south polar continent. There Is
pronounced comedy element through
ont. picturing the comical little Adele
penguins. and one OF the most pathetic
tragedies in the realm OF history
a noteworthy fact in conjunction with
these wonderful films is that they are
the sole property of the widows and
orphans of the heroes who gave their
lives for the enlightenment of science,
and the honor of their country, which
means that the bereaN-1 survivors are
exploiting the pictures in order to Sc
cure funds.
The sentimentally beautiful play, 1.-THE
Prince Chap" will be the medium
IN which Managers Metzerott & Ber-
ger will present the Columbia Players
next week. following "A Royal Family
It is not. as its title seems to imply.
= pay Win TeEdi SuTTOunQingS, Dut
one In which the imaginative mind Of
child creates a fairyland of the studio
OF q poor American sculptor struggling
in the British metropolis for living.
The Prince Chap was the most
the name of Cyril Scott has been iden-
Titled. he having played it for over
two seasons. 1t is in three acts, and is
from the pen of Edward Peple.
other coup when they will present
Tor the first time in Washington, the
big New York success. "The Grey
hound. an ocean drama. The Grey
hound had a long and sensationally
prosperous run at the Astor Theater
last spring, with Henry Kolloer and
I1ita Proctor Otis in the cast Two
OF the scenes are laid on an ocean
liner. greyhound Of the sea-" and
the story is one of many thrills. This,
CT Alias Jimmy Valentine" and SAL
omy Jane" and is said to be in that
dranatfst's most vtrile style. It
abornds in vivid character types.
world.
Real melodrama, full of thrills. will be
the offering by the Academy Stock Com
psny the week beginning May L. when
Manager Rowland will offer his patrons
the sensational bill, THE Convict
Daughter stirring play of the golden
West
For his theme the author has used the
adventures of an escaped convict,
backed up by an unusually strong story
Of perfdy. love and virtue. Ali during
ehe performance interest is kept at
feper heat as sensation after sensation
unfolds, and. at the end,- the audience
has the satisfaction OF seeing virue tri-
umph. even though the ending is such
that the excitement lasts until the final
curtain
Three matinees will be given.
sHeading Chase's continuous bill for
son Talking Picture productions to be
seen for the first time, the most con-
epicuous being the farcical comedy,
"Dobs Serving the Writ" and the
other THE Musical Blacksmiths" re-
garded as the best musical comedy SO
far created for the talking movies"
The usual number of Kinemacolor
plays and scenics and first shown"
black and white picture plays will af-
ford changes in the bin every day
Hary Hastings Big Show. which fol-
lows the "Girls of the Gay White Way"
* the Gayety nett week, is essentially
a dancing entertainment, two big spec
tacuiar numbers being introduced in the
tWo-eet musical farce called The Girl
q Many Husbands. The biggest of
ehese dances is called La Corne Dor"
or "The Horn of Plenty" with the four
seasons, typifed by members of the
chorus pouring forth the wealth of the
world. The costumes for this number
are said to be unusually elaborate and
striking ha design. The comedy element
of the entertainment will be handled
chiefly by Sam Sdman, while Mabel
Leslie, will head the feminine cast. The
turkey trot will not be forgotten, this
branch of the dancing being supervised
Moon.