Evening star., 1914-12-20

A. H. Van Buren and Miss Dorothy
Bernard. widely known in Washing
ton theatrical circles through their
| connection with the Columbia Stock
Company, have joined the Lubin Film
Company in Philadelphia, and both are
now playing leading parts in The Dis
trict Attorney" which was written by
| Fiske.
| Walter Shannon. who has been
| abroad for two years studying music,
is playing at keiths next week. While
| in the city he is staying with his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew c Shannon
of 1855 Ontario place.
| Lydia I.opokova premiere danseuse of
the Imperial Russian ballet. makes her
| New York debut rs an Englishspeak-
ing actress Wednesday evening IN a
new comedy by Ethel Watts Num-
| ford, called Just Herself. play of
modern life in three acts. Miss Lopo-
kova makes her bow as an actress un-
! der the management of Harrison Grey
| Fiske, by whom she has been trained.
| A series of motion pictures of the
| United States Navy, taken at Newport
r. L. has Just been completed by the
Lubin Manufacturing Company OF
| Philadelphia, and presented to the Sec
| retary of the Navy by Mr.. Siegmund Lu-
bin The pictures show various interest
| ing phra ses of naval activities at the naval
| torpedo station and on submarines
| cruisers and battleships. These. to-
| eether with pictures taken at navy
| Yards in different parts of the coun-
try, are said to illustrate thoroughly the
| work being done by the officers ana
men of the United States Navy
| The January tour of the New York
lSvmphony Orchestra includes a con-
cert at the Columbia Theater, with
Maggie Teyte as the sololst
with the Gay New Workers. wrote the
book of the comedy. Madame, who
Are You?" and several of its song hits.
Margaret Anglin will play Green Gree n.
stockings" Wednesday and Friday
nights and Thursday matinee of New
Year week during her engagement at
1.-THE Columbia Theater.
.rhe Girl of Girls the new musical
lcomedy, will be given its premier at
1.-The Columbia Theater Monday evening.
January T. Oreste Vessella's score and
Edward Paulton's book are said to be
developing satisfactorily.
E. NJ. Newman will begin his travel
talks at the Columbia Theater Sun
day evening. January IT. with Egypt"
las his subject. Season tickets for the
jSunday evening and the Monday after
lnoon courses of five travel talks each
will be placed on sale Monday, Janu-
larry 4.
| Henry Warwick. who will be seen in
'The Yellow Ticket will be remem-
appearance here with Billie Burke in
"'The Land of Promise" Leonard Ide,
who has the part of Julian Rolfe, the
American correspondent, in The iel-
L., L, IL
trict attorney in Romance of the Tn
lderworld, and as the cadet in The
Lure
| The story of THE Midnight Girl"
iwhose three acts are laid in France,
| concerns the gay adventures of Gus
ltave Criquet. young sport who loves
a cabaret performer known as the Mid
night Girl. CriQuet, a name as common
in French as Smith is in English. pre-
tends to everybody that he is Gustave
ICriquet, noted French senator This
! habit leads him into a multitude of
troubles and difficulties.
In THE Miracle Man." George NJ. Co
han is said to have achieved his great
est triumph. The play is one of the
very few so far staged in America that
frivolous the man or woman who sits
under it's SPELL" says the press agent
they will be awed by the power of its
dramatic force. which holds one in a
grip of convincing sincerity, even
while moving to laughter and tears"
Klaw Erlanger will present the
new musical comedy. THE Little Cafe,
at the New National Theater soon
Written by c. Nj. S. Mcclellan. with mu-
sic composed by Ivan CarylI. it is
founded on the French farce, lie Petit
Cafe" by Tristan Bernard, and the
story concerns the adventures of a
happy o-lucky, Albert Lorifian, son OF
an aristocrat, none the less a waiter in
a cafe in the Latin Quarter, who un-