The Washington times., 1914-01-04
TRIO OF STARS TO
Be PRESENTED HERE
Montgomery and Stone and
Elsie Janis viii Appear at
National Next Week.

Montgomery and Stone ), and Elsie
Janis and a hundred other performers
in the three-star piece, The Lady OF
the slipper will be at the National
Theater the week starting Monday,
January T.
This musical fantasy by Victor Her
bert Anne Caldwell and Lawrence Nc
Carly Is promised the. same adequate
presentation here that II had during us
thirty-two weeks run at the Globe
Theater, New York. Montgomery and
fore at the head of their own company,
and the annual appearance of Miss
Janis has always been a welcome event
of the local theatrical season. Inc COM
bination of the three stars IS the most
pretentious production Mr.. Difiingham
has ever had.
Henry W. Savage will present Willis
+. Sweatnam, in Harris Dickson's "Old
Rel: able" at the Columbia next week.
it will be the premiere Of the play.
There are twelve characters in Ola
Reliable" the play made by Harris
Dickson with the action centerins
around the character of Zack Foster,
alias "Old Reliable" There are i've
white men and one white woman-fye
black men and enc black woman. the
white woman Is Betty SpotttsWoode,
fin, flower of n race which longest Of
the Norman-C -Celtic-Saxon blood has held
to that tcreed which we. for lack of
better name, call '.Chivalry," and the
Japanese. more aptly, call "Bushido."
The black woman Is Selma Foster, wife
of 2ack. and to the current of the play
she is Nemesis represented in Nemaean
marble. In making the pIay. Mr.. Dick
son has not followed his %magazine
stories except in the borrowing Of
characters.
Polls Theater announces fer next
week a revival of Mrs. Frances Hodg-
son Burnett's comedy OF OPTIMISM, The
Dawn of Tomorrow Miss Frances
Nelson. who viii appear this week in
musical comedy, VIII have an oppor-
tunity Eext week to show her ability In
big role. She will be seen in the
character of Glad. which was created
by Eleanor Robson and afterward
played in England and the United States
The central theme of the story is
Glad's love for a young man who was
born and bred a thief. The happy ter
mination OF this romance and the re-
generation of the young lovers and their
establishment in a better sphere of life
is one of the good deeds performed by
nobleman who went down INTO the
Slums to die.
Thomas E. Shea occupies distinctive
position on the popular-price circuit for
having devoted his efforts mainly to ap-
pearing in the serious type OF drama.
He has been seen in 'sRicheIieu,"
"Othello," and many, other classics. Al
though he makes many changes In. his
list of plays, "Dr. JekyIl and Mr.. HYDE
and The Bells SEEM to have a per1.la-
nent place in his long repertoire OF
dramas. When Mr.. Shea comes to the
Academy next week he will offer new
play. 1t is entitled 1.-THE Whirlpool
drama in four acts, founded on detec-
tive-police life of New York city, and
was written by Henry Irving Dodge.
Besides THE whirlpool The Bells
and DR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" will
also be presented on special nights.
e. a a--..-
''Neptune's Garden of Living Statues"
an aquatic spectacle, in which is en-
acted the pantomiTnfc drama, THE En-
chante6 Pool" with Carlo Casetta and
Lillian Lestora, and a company of
twenty dancers, divers, models, water
nynphs; and singers, will. be a feature
Of tho B. F. Keith Theater bill next
week. Another offering will be the mus
ical comedy star. Sailie Fisher. The
worlc-famous chimpanzee, Consul, and
Lady Betty, are also listed.
The Gayety will offer Dave Marion
with his own company as the attrac-
ton for next week, Introducing a new
two-act burlesque built on musical
comedy lines, and entitled. The Land
of Impossible" Dave Marion will be
seen in his old role Of ''Sruffy,' the
cabman, but the plot scene effects,
electrical equipments, and costumes are
new.
The company includes Agnes Beehler.
soprano; Phil White, portrayer of Ham,
merstein tpyes: Inez De Vedier, SOU
brette; William Lawrence and Mark
Thompson, vaudeville artists; Mile.
Carrie, danseuse; Max Gordon, Ralph
Watson, and others.