The Washington times., 1914-03-01
ATTRACTIONS NEXT
WEEK At THEkTERS
Changes of Bills at Local
Houses to Follow Week of
ReVivaIs.

Theatergoers are TO have the oppor,
tunity OF witnessing Lew Fields and
aIarcCs Loe,y S eNJraVaCant production,
TIL, Pleasure Seekers. fIesh from It's
:our months engagement az the New
York Winter GarCen. and wheie II was
aid TO lie the largest production ever
seen IN that mammoth playhouse. IL
Will be seen 1t the Eelasco Iheater
rcNt week.
The crtro Winter Garden cast ana
PRODUCTION is brought here intact with
Out the change of an individual THIS
will again orlng TO tins city the famous
cast OF comedians who created 80 mucn
nerriment in ''HaIky PanFy." when II
apTeareG in this city. and is now known
as the Hankv Panky all-star cast. me
personnel includes those famous come
di1ns. MaX Rogers. Bobby North ana
Harry CooDer. Hugh Cameron. Gay
Smith. Vera Michelena- Flo May, sally
Daly MvTtle Gilbert. Virginia ENans;
Moore. An added attraction is Aifred
and S;sreit Naess. marvellous ice
dancers who We're tEe hits of London $
big revue. over There. The Pleas
ere Seekers is said to be Lev Fields
eminence OF the twelve fun-maklnS
principals the play is en'ivened with
no girls of the famous Lew fIelos Sc
lection.
Henry NJ. Savage will present at the
New National on Monday, Marcn 3. the
Merry Widows Big Maids OF
Athens. This is tine first play which
the autt"rs Of The Merry Widow.
Franz Lehar and Victor Laol, have
written since that extraordinary sue
cess, and was secured by NJ. Savage
because of the amount of money he
paid as royalties. Stupendous as was
the company and production he as
sembei for The Merry Widow it Will
be outdone by that of The Maids
Of Athens There viii be IN orchestra
IF thirty-ScVcn and 4 company Of more
tnan one hundred. while the three acts
o. the Piece will Teguire sceacrg and
properties which viii tax the largest
stages IN the country TO hold.
Nearly Married" which comes TO the
Columbia Theater for the week of March
2. is an amusing light farce that at
tanned a lengthy run and UNUSUAL pop
ularity al the Globe Tneater New York.
II il most capably stage managed. ac-
CorGing 20 report. In this latter element
is seen the skilled hand of George NJ.
Cohan who has injected speed and orig
inality into the piece which is delightful.
In this latter respect two instances may
be mentioned. In the play it IS assumed
that the front Of the stage is the fourth
wall Of a room, containing ina ginary
windows. through which the characters
look into an unseen road. Again on the
departure of the automobile. 4 horn is
footed from the back of the thoater,
while those on the stage are waving
their gCOd-byes.
'Eind.inS," the three-act play by
Charles Kenyon in which Margaret IL
lingtOn starred for three seasons. will
he next weeks attraction at Polls. The
title of the play has reference to the
frail children brought into the slum
world by improperl: nourshed mothers
-"kindlinE is dry as finder and as
helpless in the Spui-Scorching atmOS-
phere into which they are born as with
cred saplingS in forest fire" The
play tells the story OF Maggie Schultz.
the young wife of stevedore. wose
pels her to steal that he can have a
chance in the world" At first her
Jhefts are trInllets for her babys lay
cite. then 4 diamOrd brooch which she
paWns for en0lch money TO lake her
husband and herself to the West. for
Sh" l. ubsessed with the idea that il
would be worse than criminal to bring
child into the EorlG in the crowded
tenement i'll which they lived. She
@lories in her crime. cXCusing il by the
rSnts Of coming motherhood. Inevit-
ably. however, exposure comes. When
the detectives are close on her trail sine
islters and goes 10 pieces. At the end
hp"eEeT. she is saved from prison by
the dramatic Intervention OF 4 settle
nent worker. and she and her husband
Slar1 ouJ for new State where heI
CHl-l VIII nave = 1.ee and equal chance
The week in the B. F Keith Theater
announces. viii be next week, when
vaudeville viii welcome Gertrude Hoff-
nan. with her company of forty play
ers in her new vaudeville musical re-
Vue. In this offering Miss Hoffman has
c"ndenscd some novel and diverting fea-
Jir"s. The dancing sensation of the
yeaE. Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Castle
Americas foremost opponents of mod
ern society dances. will appear in a mo-
ton picture number. The films viii
show the famous terpsichorists in tho
castle Walk the hesitation waltz
he one-stcp, the maXiXe, and the arg, n
tine tango. OtEc- attractions will bt
Dane CIaudiUs and Lillian Scarlet il
'The Call of the Sixties Harry Hay
ward. Frances Stafford and company
in the novel hal-masGue comedy. the
Devil Oucw.tted:" John and Winnie Hen
rings, 'Th" XIII Eare Kouple." of mu
s!cal cCmedy e. entries: Edgar Berger
he comedian, and other amusing in
"lusions among them the Pathe weekly
th- pipe organ re"itals. and the dan
-antes. after each weekday perform
auce.