The Washington times., 1914-10-14
PLAYS COMING NEXT WEEK

Lovers Of the Rubaiyat are legion,
and competent critics have declared the
following quatrain to be the most popu-
lar bit Of poetry in the English Ian
guage:
"A Book of Verses underneath tho
Bough.
A Jug Of Wine, a Loaf Of Bread
and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilder
Oh, WILDERNESS we're Paradise
enow!
This and many others Of the most
popular Quatr aims will be spoken by Guy
Bates Post in the course Of his inter-
probation Of the role Of Omar Khayyam
in Omar. the Tentmaker." opening at
the Belasco Theater next Monday even
ing. This attraction. which was the
dramatic sensation of the past season
In New York. is from the pen of the
gifted Californian playwright. Richard
Walton Tuily. The action of the play
covers q period Of nearly sixty years
in the poets life. and Mr.. Post is called
upon to depict Omar at three widely sep
arated periods OF his career. beginning
as a young and ardent poet, progressing
into the rper channels Of middle age
and closing as q white-beared philoso-
pher.
Militant love-making is revived with a
vcnpeance in THE Misleading Lady"
which comes to the New National
ncxt week. In this comedy the man.
stuns by the woman's deceit. decided
to trv wooing as 1t Is done in far
awav Patagonia. He bundles her into
nj. ultnmChNo and drives to his
shooting lodge in the Adirondack
mountains While the man is trying
10 convert the woman to barbarian
Iunatic, escaped from a nearby asylum.
endcavors to convince both he Is
NapoIeon Bonaparte. Lewis S. stone
Is the a5ductor. his victim Is Doris
Olsson and the lunatic is Frank Syi-
vAstor. others are Henry Miller; IT,
Waiter Regan, Frederick Wallace.
George Abbott, Thomas Tracey. Grace
Rarour. Alice Wilson. Alison Skinner
and Daisy Adams.
When Chauncey Olcott comes to the
Columbia Theater next week his ad-
nirers are promised something different
from what he has done before. Each
wear since Henry Miller has advanced
the favorite Irish star greatly, and
when Rachel Crothers was asked to
write The Heart OF fduuy "Hdch ioF
Oicott this season she was requested to
provide a. simple and STRAIGHTFORWARD
story of sentiment and humor which
furnishes roles far removed from the
,nelndramatic comedies Of the usual
Irish sort Mr.. Olcott will play the role
of an JrIsh barrister who finds the easy
current of his life interrupted by the
return Of his ward from college. How
he f,nds also his heart torn between
bis love for the winsome girl and his
dntv to marry her to a younger and
richer man forms the bachelor 8 ro-
nance Edith Luckett. well-known
washington girl. plays the part OF the
pretty ward.
Tho thrilling mystery drama, The
,,aatsr M,nd." which has enjoyed long
r,In on Broadway. will be the Offering
of the Poll Players next week. In this
day OF mystery plays and crime dramas,
The Master Mind" is among the most
encrossinp stage stories. 1t tells the
storv Of a man who. to be revenged
nnon a district attorney. who has done
him q great wrings. elects to become a
criminal. He brings to his art all the
science and skill of master mind.
Luck is with the master mind from the
bepinning. for a young girl falls into
his power He so maneuvers that his
enemy falls In love with her after she
has BEEN educated. Tho whole story u