The Washington herald., 1914-12-13
Small Talk of the Stage

..The Little Cafe" the musical comedy.
Is to be an early attraction at the New
National Theatet Klaw and Erianger
promise to send the production here with
the original cast Of more than q hundred
people.
George N. cohan. IL Is said. is TO be
seen ln the new Cohan and Harris revue
now being prepared. with him WIN be
william Collier, Louise Dresser. RoEsika
Dolly. and Martin Brown.
An London theaters are advertising
Soldiers In uniform admitted At half
price,
The cast Of Children Of Earth" the
play by Alice Brown, which won the
$4,000 prize offered by Winthrop Ames
for the best American play by q native
author, will include Herbert Kelcey.
Ehie Shannon, Olive wyndham, Cecil
Yspp. and Mrs. Kate Jepson.
Swan Wood. the beautiful American
girl who viii be seen at both the tea and
supper dansants at the Jardin de Danse
as premiere danseuse Of the New York
"AANCA SeANSN
Joseph p. Bickerton. jr.. managing d.
rector Of the New Era Producing Com
pany, has an idea that the fact that
many theatrical attractions are not do
ing as well as they might is due to q
great extent to the cabaret show and the
modern dancing craze.
''The Midnight Girl the musical COM
edy by Paul Herve and Jean Briquet
authors OF adele" will be presented at
the Belasco Theater for an engagement
early in January.
The surrounding players with John
Drew in his new comedy, The Prodigal
Husband" In which he is soon to be
seen here, are Martha Hedman, Ferdi-
nand GottschaIk, Henry Crocker, Clin-
ton Preston, Harry Leighton. Grace Car
IvIe. Helen Hayes Brown, and Rose Win
ter.
The Christmas celebration for the chill
dren OF Washington will be the most
notable event ever staged at Polls. The
members Of the Poll Company are now
engaged in rehearsing the playlet which
they will present for the entertainment
Of their 1900 little guests on the morning
Of December H.
Natalie Ait, who was the hit OF Adele"
last season, has been engaged for the part
of Cora, the young Partisan, in the new
musical comedy, The Girl of Girls,"
which will shortly be seen in this city at
the Columbia Theater.
The management Of the Majestic an
nounces that there will be three matinees
given weekly-on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
Lawrence d'Orsay has gone on a tour
Of Canada, reviving The Earl Of Paw
tucket.''
sensation of the season In the world
of photoplays Is the Universal production
Of Damon and Pythias," the dramatic
spectacle, in six parts, which will be
shown at the Belasco Theater this week.
For the New Years attraction the New
National will have as its offering Adele"
Frankie Rice, with the Globe Trotters
at the Gayety this week. Is Of French
descent, and made her first appearance on
the stage at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
The new series of Newman traveltalks
will be presented at the Columbia Theater
on five successive Sunday evenings and
Monday afternoons. beginning January II
and IS.
Philip Bartholomae Is preparing to pre-
sent a tabloid version of kiss Me
Quick" in vaudeville. Robert Kelly will
be in the cast
The theatrical people are in for another
bump, to be added to the hard knocks
the present season has already handed
them. The proposed raise in railroad
rates will materially increase the cost of
theatrical trafic through the country, al
ready an item OF no small amount to
those companies that boast 100 beauties
count EN-"
Supplementing the weeks engagement
which starts tomorrow night, an eleventh
hour agreement was entered into. under
the terms Of which the wonderful sub
marine motion picture travelogue, Thirty
Leagues Under the Sea-" will be given a
special extra exhibition this afternoon
at the Columbia Theater. starting at $50
o'clock.
ADJUSTMENTS.