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The Washington times., 1914-05-10
What's on Program This Week

bury. No. "a. and Harmony. No. II: Wash
ington Chapter. No. . william r. Hunt
Chapter. No. Is. Order Eastern STAR
knights of Pythias-Hermione Lodge. No Il;
Harmony. No. n
National Union-washinston Council, Fra
ternsl Council. Census Council.
Observation-Disclosures Tent No. &
knights OF Columbus-Keane Council.
odd FsIiOws-Columsis Lodge; No; 10 E1-
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Associa-
tion Convention. New willard.
Interstate Commerce Commission hearing
mezzanine floor. New willard
Open House. dancing. games. Home Club. .
p. m.
Meetings. evening:
Masonic-Columbia Lodge No J; Lebanon.
No :: Columbia Commandery No
knights Templar: Royal Arch Chapter
School OF Instruction: Martha Chapter No
I: Order Eastern Star.
knights of Pythias-SSracuslans Lodge. No.
10: Rathbone Temple. No. 5. Pythisn Sis
ters
Odd FeiIows-central Lodge. No 1; Metropo-
lis. No. 10. and Phoenix, No. %: Msgenenu
Encampment. No. 4.
Interstate Commerce Commission hearing
mezzanine floor. New Willard.
Concert. Che Club. Friendly Sons Of 81
Patrick, large ball room. p. m. New VIII
lard.
Dancing. the Home Club, special music
SATURDAY.
Meetings, evening:
National CnIon-Joseph Henry Council
odd Felows-Social and drill, Ratriarchs MIL
itant
Interstate Commerce Commission hearing.
mezzanine floor. New willard.
Barry memorial dinner. large ball room, New
Illustrated lecture on Siam. by Dr. James
n Gore. Home Club. D. m.
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ROCKVILLE.

Members of the Methodist Episcopa
Church at ClarksburC are arranging
to erect a new house of worship at 4
cost Of $500 The Rev. Thomas s
DAVIS is pastor.
The annual election OF Officers Of
Janet Montgomery Chapter. Daughters
of the American Revolution. resulted as
follows: Regent. Mrs. William II. Tai
bolt. vice regent, MIS-. Eden ]. Hart
shorne. recording secretary, Mrs J.
Frank Wilson: corresponding secretary,
Mrs. William {. Beck. registrar. Miss
Marie Talbot: treasurer. Mrs. isrncs:
l.. Bulldrd: historian. Mrs. James -.
LoughbOrough: chaplain. Mrs. Alfred
Ray. parIimentarian. Mrs. Henry 7.
Newcomb: curator. Mrs. David II. War
field: auditor Mrs. charles G. waters;
directors. Miss Margaret Fields. Mrs.
Frank F. Stone. and Mrs. J. Harry
Cunningham.
An entertainment was given at
Gaithersburg last evening by the grad
uatinr class of Gaithersburg high
school The feature of the program
was debate. tn" subject being; Re
solved. That tn" press Is benefit "a
the country Guy N"el and iiaIph
Henry the negative. The affirmative e
won.
Edgar ". Moore. 1"N ma or OF ken
sinGton. has appointed DR.. Eugene
Jones. DR. Thomas 4. Geddes. and Al
ired {. WaTthen members of the ad-
visory commission provided tor in the
law authorizing X -nsinGtOn 10 issue
bonds for the CONSTRUCTION of water
and sewer system Mayor Moore also
has appointed Dr. William J.. Lewis
health Officer. ard Preston p. Ray town
attorney. Ray succeeds J. Dawson
Williams. resigned.
Suits haze been hled in the circuit
court as follows: Jonl ". LAWSON
against Eliza j. Darby. for sale Of
real estate: Nnn ) Wilson against
Charles f.. King. on note. Green
Meadow Daily Compauv agains; Myrtle
&. BrockWay ard Others. attachment
for Sl25: Edmund Is Fox against Will
lam F. Thomas. attachment for $50.
The aLrUal all-.lay meeting C Mount
/iou EaptiS' Church. 1t iIeaHe. L. IN
progress today. This afternoon Rev. r
y. Cav. ~ Washington. IS to preaCn.
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Keeps Pace With Balloon.

The company that occupied this
theater was given a vacation every
summer and it was while on vaca-
tion that Curtis discovered his par
ticuIar talents lay in stage direction.
He was engaged with a stock COM
pany at a pleasure park in Harris
burg. Pa. when this happened. The
regular director happened to be off
for a week or two. There was an
aeronaut at the park. who made
a balloon ascension and a parachute
jump at 4 O'Clock every afternoon.
The company played A matinee every
afternoon. putting on two PLAYS a
week The theater had open sides.
so that the audience could see out
over the park.
Now, the stunt for the director of
this theater was to so time his
matinee that. no matter what the
play. II ended at the minute the
balloonist started his ascension. OF
course. they could have gone on
with the play while the balloon was
rising-but they wouldn't have had
an audience TO play il TO. There
fore ii was necessary TO have one
of the actors watch the balloon.
When it started up, the happy emu
ing must come. no matter what
scene was on.
Curtis took charge of the COM
pany under protest. and, strangely
enough, he so timed things that the
balloon started up and the curtain
down as though they were counter
weights. every afternoon. Curtis
made a big hit with the management
of the mark. and they almost created
a deficit in their treasury in order
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Companies Far
Apart RehedrSe
For the Same
Production.
By BEAU RIALT0.

NEW YORK, May lO-Tom6rrow eve
ming the Frohmans will be able to tell
whether they can hereafter be success
full, in rehearsing two different com-
panies playing two different plays in
two different parts of the country. with
out stopping. the performances OF either
one. with the idea of merging the two
into a third production within four
weeks
Ethel Barrymore and John Drew open
Monday night in Sardou's "A Scrap of
Paper" with Mr.. Drew in Chicago and
Miss Barrymore In Washington two
weeks ago. he playing The Tyranny OF
Tears and Miss Barrymore in '"rante
theatrical followers here said 1t WASH l
possible.
The Frohmans sent those members OF
the company who Will appear In the
principal scenes with Drew. to Chicago
as members of The Tyranny of Tears
company, and those members VINO ap-
pear In the principal scenes with Miss
Barrymore to to washington as members Sers
they respectively rehearsed their
parts. The Drew-Barrymore forces
met last Sunday in Pittsburgh,
and there held the first full re-
hearsal Of "A Scrap Of Paper under
the direction of William Seymour. at
the Nixon Theater. The rehearsal took
all day and continued until midnight.
When Drew and his company returned
to Chicago, and Barrymore and her
company went back to the south where
Richmond. Roanoke, Lynchburg and
Norfolk, Va.
The Scrap of Paper" will be watched
"'Ch deep interest. for one season at
least. 1t will be the first time Ethel
barrymore and John Drew will have
they
Aonday at the Garrick. Miss Barry
more is John Drew's niece.
Wen soon be able to learn what's
in name. Gilbert Mansfield. is. son
Of the late Richard Mansfield. has de-
ciGed to follow his father on the boards
His mother has consented. Young Gill
bert, cIiIbg his fathers lifetime never
was permitted to enter a theater He
mad his second experience behind the
scenes few nights ago when he -afed
with his mother. whose stage name IS
Beatrice Cameron. on Miss Margaret
Anglin, after her performance OF Tam
ing of the Shrew." Miss Angiin IS an
OIL friend of the Mansfield family. She
owet her first opportunity as ''Roxare
in 'Cyrano de Bergerac' to Richard
Mansfield
For the first time in many. many
E1ons an English actor mas invaded
the United States and bene sGcc ceSsfIl
the first season. Prepared to lose
So Ol introducing Cyril Maud2. George
Tyler today is far and away ahead of
the game. and the theatrical game dur
ing the past season and during the sea-
son behind the past one for that mat
ter. has not ben productive Of many
successes. But Cyril Maude's success
was more than merely a financial one.
1t was Il distinct individual achieve
ment, and few there are who. saw
Grumpy who begrudge him a penny
The play, Grumpy" by the way, was
two years on the market before 1t was
produced Charles Frohman had a
chance at il but when he asked j. f.
Dodson to play it. Dodson refused on
the groTnd that he did not believe his
health would stand up under the strain.
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MONDAY.

MONDAY.
Meetings evening:
assonic-Daws son Lodge. No. is. +. {. Stans
bury. No. q: Lafayette. No. ~: Mt. Yer
non Chapter No. 3: Hiram. No. 10; Ana.
costa. No. II; Grand Commandery, Knights
Templar: Temple Chapter. No. Il: CUIum-
knights Of PythIas-Decstur Lodge, NJ. .;
Csianthe. No II. and Equal. No. II.
Knights OF Korsssan.
Odd FelIows-Tnion Lodge. No. IL: Cove
nsnt No. -: Beacon. No. l5, and Lanzdon.
No. %: Esther Lodge. No. ;. Order OF Re
bakah.
National UnIon-Pressm.ns Council. East
Macca bees-NationsI Tent No. l. Mount Yer
non Tent. No. 4. Anacostis Tent No. :.
knights OF Columbus-Potomac Council.
convention National Wholesale Liquor Deal
ers Association. New willard.
Interstate Commerce Commission hearing
\, nez,anine floor. New Willard.
Meeting Home Club. Get Acquainted
night, jackson place.
TUESDAY.
Masonic-Federai Lodge. No. ]: Acacia No
IS; Takoms, No. -: Mount Horeb Chapter
No. 1: Potomac. No. 3: De Moiay Mounted
Commandery. Knights Templar; Evangelist
chapter, Knights Rose Croix. scottish Rite:
Electa Chapter. No. .: Bethlehem. No. q:
Friendship No. II. and Fidelity. y. ID.
knights Of Pythias-Webster Lodge, No. 3:
Excelsior. No. II: Capital, No. "a. and
Myrtle. No. IS
Msccs Tent. No. 5.
Knights OF Columbus-Wa Council.
Odd Fellows-Washington Lodge. No. 6.
Anity. No. q. Golden Rule. No. Il; Fred
ID. Stewart Encampment. No. I.
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Associs-
tion Convention, large ballroom. New VIII
Hearing Interstate Commerce Commission
mezzanine floor and Cabinet room. New
Willard.
Home Club open house, dancing. games. u
Jackson place.
WEDNESDAY.
Meetings. evening:
MssonIc-Grand Lodge. St. John. Mite As
sociation. Potomac Lodge. No. ): Mt
Pleasant Chapter. No IL: Washington COM
mandery. No. I. Knights Templar: Naomi
Chapter. No. g. and Brooklsnd. No. IL. Or
Knights Of Pythias-Mt. Vernon Lodge No.
.: Union. No. p; Columbia. No. Is: Wash
ington Company; No. ]. Uniform Rank;
National Union-Postofice Department Coup-
Gil and Interior Council.
Aacca bees-Golden Rule Tent, No. q
Odd Fellows-Eastern Lodge, No. = Federal
ship. No. I2: Columbian Encampment No. |
National Wholesale Liduor Dealers AssocIa-
tion Convention. meetings small ballroom
luncheon in large ballroom. p. m, New
Interstate Commerce Commission hearing.
mezzanine floor and Cabinet room. New
willard
Meetings of Travelling Representatives Of
New willard ....
Meeting Washington Sunshine Society at t,
p. M. room 12& New willard.
Lecture. Home Club. by Thomas Riggs. jr,
THURSDAY.
New Jerusalem Lodge, No. .;
George {. Whiting. No %; E. A. Stans-
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to pay him $50 extra to take over
the directing job.
Turns Director for Good


When he returned to Brooklyn
that fail he was given chance to
do some directing there. and. with
out the aid Of a balloon or any other
outside help. he made such hit
that he was taken off the acting end
Of the business entirely and made
director.
The business Of directing a stock
company is not all beer and skit-
Ties. as the poet might say. You see.
the director is the man VINO Is re-
sponsih!e for the entire performance.
He is given the manuscript of the
play week in advance ~ its being
put in rehearsal lie must study II.
cast the Earious actors for the parts
best fitted to them, map out the
scenery, arrange a program for mu-
sic and lights. design the settings,
invent - good part of tho action.
and then-in the moments n" hasn't
anything TO dO-teaCh the actors
their parts and how to art them.
Curtis has worked at this fifteen
years with less than fifteen weeks
. vacation in tha: entire time. His
services are in 'leman,I at stock
theaters throughout the country. He
cinnati. Utica. Providence. Cleve-
land. New York. Pittsburgh. Chicago
and most of tn" other places where
good stock companies are to he
found. lie first came to Washington
about four years ago. as director
Of the Columbia Players. lie re-
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Has Produced 1000 Plays.


That is the reason Felix and
were sCinG TO see Curtis that day.
Because he's so dependable. Hes
The kind OF man who doesn't have
TO be told twice what to Do. You
simply hint that you want some
thing-if YOU happen 10 be the owner
OF theater playing a stock COM
Tany-and Curtis goes and does it,
ou see he's one of the most Ell
hcient stage directors N the busi-
ness. He has produced something
like ZOO plays in the last twenty
years. sometimes doing two 4 week
And when the pinch comes he can
;!l9O jump in and act any part I'm
an of the plays
Curtis is native OF Philadelphia
but he doesn't work at il much.
He started out in life to be an en-
graVer. That was in the days when
Ii was necessary to carve things out
in wood and then make electrotypes
of them. Curtis served his time as
an apprentice at his business and
was Just starting in TO earn real
money when the photograving pro-
cess was invented, and his occupa-
ton was gone. There being no open
ings in the boot backing or truck
driving business at that time. he
turned to the stage and went on the
road with Lillian Kennedy in The
DeaconS s Daughter, which Annie
PIXIev once PLAYED.
Curtis played the part OF squire
character part. He thinks Miss
Kennedy was a charter member of
the National Geographic Society.
She was as great an explorer as she
was an actress She discovered more
towns to utilize as one night stands
for her show than all the railroad
maps contain. The company was
out the entire season, and did big
business everywhere.
Curtis made A reputation for him
self with his part. right al the start.
and was offered a job in stock com
panv in Brooklyn shortly after
The Washington times., 1914-05-10
Senator HOke Smith
To Reply to O'Gorman

Senator Hoke Smith has announced
that he will speak tomorrow on the
canal tolls question. He will reply to
the arguments of Senator OGorman,
who recently opposed repeal.
Should the Senate not he in session
Monday. on account Of the memorial
exercises for the marines and sailors
at Brooklyn. Senator Smith Will speak
Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1914-05-10
HYATTSVILLE.

. Carrstions in c0mmemoretion OF
Mothers Day" are very much IN evi-
dence here today. and special services
are being held in the churches.
Tho Rcl. charles J.. belong, ptstnr
Of, the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South. will oTiciate AT both the morn
ing and e.ening services at the Brent
The Washington times., 1914-05-10
'nE, Has plErEor,AHY FAE1s OVER
5000

ward He played continuously in
the Brooklyn Theater for eleven
years, and probably would have been
playing there yet, II il hadn't been
that the theater burned down and
never was rebuilt
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ANACOSTlA.

The Anacostia Federation for Social
Service reported last evening that II
has obtained 600 signatures to the pc
titions which will be forwarded TO the
Excise Board asking that the suburb be
declared a residential one, or that the
LIQUOR dealers in the section be refused
a renewal OF their licenses. The COM
mittee In charge OF the house-to-house
canvass estimated there are about 900
persons in Anacostia over twenty-one
years of age, and eligible to sign the
petition.
The Rev. Martin p Egan. assistant
rector of St. Teresa 5 church, said yes
terday that il had been decided TO hoid
the annual May procession OF ttat
church the afternoon Of sunday. MAY
q Miss Agnes Reagan will be the
queen in the procession. and viii
select her attendants.
Miss Mary 6. Ieapley. who has CON
Quoted q dry goods store in congress
Heights for several years. has sold the
store. ana in June will enter In another
line of business.
civic bodies in this section are 10 ne
busy during this week. Tomorrow even
ing the Randle Highlands association
will meet The same evening the ruD @
lie improvement Association OF on On
gress Heights and the Hillsdale Cit-
zens' Association will meet. "ednes-
day evening the Anacostia associaEon'
and Thursday evening the original "ar-
field bod, will meet
Ladies Of St Teresa's Church are
conducting rummeRe sale TO RAISE
funds TO reduce the debt on the church
school
The annual convention Of the kp-
worth LeaEu" OF the District Is 10 be
held Tuesday and Wednesday OF TINS
week in Douglas Memorial Church
Washington. The Anarostia NJ N. ,tdn r.;
,hare ,omp0sed Of Ralph " william
son. Mrs. q Leroy White. Joseph +.
Marshall Miss Maud" Fowler. mrs
William Benhoff. Frank Tew. Harvey
Townsend Albert y. Havenner, Miss
Pearl Zirkle. and the Rev. 9. Leroy
white. The Congress Heights Ehurrh
will also name a large delegation: I" D"
headed by the pastor. the Rev Mrrrlli
Earl and the president or the local
League HasweIl MagrUder.
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Knows Plays by Heart.

Knows Plays by Heart.
Curtis is a man of average size,
with n strong face and n tremendous
amount of energy. He knows most
of the principals parts in practically
all of the tig theatrical productions
OF the last generation. and could
produce most Of the plays from
memory. He is a quiet. modest un-
assuming sort Of a person when he's
Off stage. and he is personally very
popular with his associates, whom
he rules with an iron hand
But it is as = maker of wars that
Curtis is a particular star. Give him
the raw materials and he'll cook
up a mess of strife that will have
all the gilt and glory and the other
things that make up real war-that
is. all except one. Thcrell never
he a casualty list When General
Sheridan" fell of that stepladder.
Curtis closed his accounts of s;IlIed
ard wounded. ANY soldier under
him that gets hurt now-does so at
his own expense.
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week at Polls. there will 5, 4 couple
of armies lighting. you can depend
upon that
The Washington times., 1914-05-10
SPRING RESORTS.

SIMMER ROARDERS wanted. iarm pro
dm.is. home CUnkinG. rates 81 and s. per
week & II WILSON. T"rrlnSton. II. +. d.
No. .. conn
Hifu
The Washington times., 1914-05-10
Battles All Safe and Sane.

And ~ warned them 70 d" Wy
90 'tul "l their guns. too. H. Gidn
N...1' I" hat,- an, b,dv IUIr Ia his
VA. In fs,r. he expressly stated
th1r IL any one Was hurt he would
Tot he responsible :"r j. IL said
that "n, tine MI on his pa" roll
VIII" WaS trying TO duplicate the
famous de Of General sheridan
from Winchester. fell of the step
ladder with whIrn - was mounting
his huI.e and brol his Log Curiis
rad 20 pa the hospital fees and
doctors bills. Every since 'h.u he's
neen very careful and has made hrs
IeoIl" sign slips iI-.c railroad passes
Icievmy him Of all responsibility.
Iurtis said h." q started tin IaI-
IICular var We SG% hinI rnEd2ad
viii in q \. r. hail amidst tn.
Ilue and the Graz surrountinGs in
order TO get aImOsphers. IisI u:
Watched him several times ~ resu-
lar IehoarsalS | uu1-Ts,oOd. be'.aIr.e
the atmosphere around Gurus tnen
VAS pure blue. without q single
Il Of gray to re eve the monotonN
Of color. An how. Curtis wasn't
satisfied with :he war mt the the
ateT. He had 10 discharge two
armies before ne got one tina. suited
after the first battle. Howevar,
when the curtain rises on the battle
Scsl& 81 TIE Littlest Rebel TINS
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Ladies Of St Teresas Church are
conducting a rummege sale TO raise
funds TO reduce the debt on the church
school
The Washington times., 1914-05-10

Miss Mary s I.eapley. who has con-
Quoted a dry goods store In congress
Heights for seversl years. has soid me me
Store ana in June will enter in another
line of business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
Campaign in Russian
Poland of Interest in
Both Berlin and London
By Associated Press

London, Nov. 20, 1910 P. M.-Both
in London and Berlin the present stage
fthe campaign in Russian Poland is
regarded as highly important; Ger
many's advance in the Warta-N -Nistula
country is being watched with intense
interest. Petrograd. however, while of
course vitality concerned. seems to be
only indifferently interested.
Army headquarters in Petrograd an
nounces that two great battles have
developed along the eastern frnot, one
in line between CZenstochowa and Cra-
COW, apparently extending along the
railroad between these two points and
the second in the Warta- Vistula re-
gion. but Russian observers do not ap-
pear to attach much significance to the
outcome in this latter region.
A general survey of the reports re-
the impression that the German ad-
vance on the Vistula has meet at least
with a temporary check, while the
Russian invasion of East Prussia has
suffered like fate near Angersburg,
where the German defenses. consisting
chiefly of vertical lines of wire en-.
tanglements, are reported to be very
strong
New taxation for Great Britain
which under ordinary conditions would
have taken a generation of the most
bitter political controversy to pass has
to-day been accepted with scarcely q
murmur. The exact figures of the war
loan subscription are not vet known
and they probably will not be made
public until Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer Lloyd George addresses the
house OF commons on the subject
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
VIVID WAR PICTURES
OF PERMANENT INTEREST
Superb Illustrations In the Book
Which We Are Distributing


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They show also the scenes of great
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
GREAT BATTLE IN PROGRESS
Officials State That No Decision Has
Been Reached in Russian Poland

Berlin, via The Hague and London,
Nov. 90. 2.49 A. M.-The great battle
in West Poland is in full progress.
Official reports state that no decision
has yet been reached, but otherwise
no definite details are known here of
this titanic struggle which far over
shadows the conflict on the west front.
The engagements previously reported
eastward of the Mazurian lakes. at
Soldau, Lipno, Wloclawek and Cracow
seem to have been merely prelimi-
naries to general engagement along
the whole line. The German bulletin
mntions fighting northward of LODI.
while the Austrians report the advance
of their army northward from Cracow.
and 1t is evident that the allies and
the Russians are engaged in the center
along a north and south line. Hence
1t seems that the Teutonic allies are
leveling a concentric attack from three
directions against the Russian force.
How the struggle is progressing is
utterly unknown here