The Washington times., 1914-04-29

| announcement of the twenty-sixth an
| nual engagement at the Belasco next
Monday night Is almost as welcome as
! the proverbial flowers. The play this
year is called TIE Royal Arms and 1t
| recounts the adventures Of Robert La
Salle a retired Chicago merchant. who,
| with his daughter and adopted niece, is
| travelling abroad, and Is at the moment
stopping in Brighton, England.
In the cast there Is no bright, par
| ticular star. but all are well above the
average. Thomas Hart has the part OF
| La Salle's daughter. and X. G. Morris
! is the adopted niece. The cast also
| includes w. w. Wright, d. a. Heean, l..
r. Merrill. J. B. Mccall. j. b. French.
! p. NJ. Hesser. and Stanley Coar.
The Stool Pigeon" thrilling dra-
matte playlet of the underworld, by
Darlington Phelps, will be the big
headline attraction at the Cosmos
Theater next week. It is presented ~
a capable company of actors from the
leg. .timate stage. The second number
Will be big featur. of the Primrose
and Dockstader Minstrels, known in
vaudeville as the ''Primstader Four y
! Jack Reed and Elisabeth Tuttle vii!
furnish cross-fire comedy, song, and
dance specialt- es. and Friedland and
Clark will furnish acrobatic comedy of
Weekly motion pictures are expected to
depict fuller features of the Mexican
war, and the photocomedies to meet the
standard of the Cosmos. The Cosmos
new score board will repeat in the
minutest detail the score of the Ma
tionaIs' game. Sunday concerts from
to 1880 p. m. feature a splendid oS-
chestra program with this weeks at
fractions.
a,raa, ha nit tA1 ofv1o ~
LAM in n game of polo played on HI
,.ycl2s rs the big feature of tn. Cisin"
Theater bill next week. The lnterna-
tional Polo Team Is to be one contest
ant. Lorraine Keene and company will
add to the merriment with playlet Of
cedence;" Cupero and Spiro. late of the
Campbell show, will present their mu-
sical specialties; the Perry Sisters will
put on their athletic sketch. The 100
Yard Dash.' and other acts WILL be
announced later. The added night at
fractions will include the surprise party
Monday. the country store Tuesday and
Wednesday, the prize dancing contests
Thursday and the amateurs ambitious
Friday.
Special concerts from to 1880 p. m.
will be given Sunday.
A varied program has been an
nounced by the management of Gran
dall's theater as the attraction for next
week. The main features for Sunday
are Another Tale" a Lubin love
drama: The wedding Present" q
George Klein drama. and "The Wreck
ers." For Monday and Tuesday. Be
tween Savage and Tiger, George
Kleine production staged and produced
win vi be the principal attraction. Fo;
Wednesday and Thursday the feature
film will be :'The Riders Of Petersham,"
a Vitagraph play: Friday and Saturday
the main photoplay will be Goodness
taraSious' Slsu direct from its record
graph Theater, in New York.
Nevil Monroe Hopkins will give an IL
Illustrated lecture, The Making OF a
Navy" at the Belasco Theater rext
Sunday night. He will show in stere-
opticon views and motion pictures many
subjects Of timely interest, including
target practice OF our battIesaips at
sea. for the taking OF which it was Iec-
essary to lash the camera and operator
upon "a turret, and proJectIles from
big guns caught III mid-air by scien-
tific, instantaneous photography. DIR.
Hopkins was appointed by President
Roosevelt an expert engineer under the
jurisdiction of the Navy Department.
and for a number OF years worked Upon
many problems which contribute TO our
sea power. He has collected for sls
lecture a wealth of material with the
cooperation of the Secretary OF the
Navy. chiefs of bureaus, and numerous
ofncers in the service and in the big
private corporations throughout the
country.
Washington's thousands of opera fol-
lowers have become so used to the an
nual coming of the Aborn English
Grand Opera Company that it's return
each spring has become one the signs
OF the season. Their stay this year
VIII be month or more in duration,
beginning Monday. May IS. Two operas
will be given each week for four per-
formances each. and the matinee days.
as in former Aborn seasons. will be
Wednesday and Saturday. The Aborn
forces will extend to five or more
cities this spring. In each OF these
cities. the chorus and orchestra will
remain intact throughout the engage
ment. while the principal artists will
travel from one company to another
The repertoire at the National will in
clude III Trovatore." Madam Butter
n.y." Carmen" The Tales of Hoff-
man." Martha, - La Boheme.' Faust"
Lucia di Lammermoor.' "Rigoletto,"
'Cavalleria Rustlcana," and ''Hansel
and Gretel.'