Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18
Baumgardt will be attractions in the
weeks to follow.

Baumgardt will be attractions in the
weeks to follow.
A number of unique mechanical Dc.
vices are employed to secure the strik-
ing stage effects in THE Master Mind,
which will be the attraction at Polls
this week. Harry Andrews, the stage
director, has secured many of the origi-
nal properties" for the production.
| Local admirers of Julia Dean will be
| interested to know that, with the most
exacting role of her career she is be-
| ing credited with a genuinely strong
| bit of acting in George Broadhursts
| new drama. The Law of the Land -
| which is said to be one of the big sue
| cesses in New York
| Nine Olga Petrova. the famous An
glo-Polish star. Is billed for the Be
| lasco Theater the second week in No
Vember in "Panthea." a drama of I'M
usual theme. by Monckton Hoffe. Nine.
Petrova made her initial American APP
pearance in this play at the Booth
| Theater, New York. last spring.
In the cast of The Misleading Lady"
is an old-time actor-Albert Sackett.
He is the father of Julia Sanderson.
the pretty musical comedy star. Mr..
| S3ckett retired from the stage several
years ago and was living quietly at
Y
| William Harris. jr.. succeeded III IN
| ducinS him to act again
| Lewis s. Stone. the featured player
! of The Misleading Lady, was starred
| in the celebrated stock companies in
San Francisco and Los Angeles. He is
| a nephew of Mary Stone. who with her
husband, William Macdonald. was for
| years one of the principal members of
| THE Bostonians" William Harris, jr.,
| has placed Mr.. Stone under a fVe-year
contract which calls for starring
| tour next season.
| The first performance of Omar. the
| Tentmaker' at the Belasco Theater to-
, morrow evening will be given under the
auspices of the Home and School Asso-
for the benefit of athletics in the
school, which suffered much by the fire
which destroyed the school building.
next week. the Belasco announcements
include Kitty Mckay" "Panthea,
Peg O. My Heart" the New York Hip
podrome production of Pinafore' !;
Passing Show of 1914" for the near flu
ture.
Effective contrasting views of College
stroyed by fire March II last, are being
shown in photographs in the windows
at Brentano's They represent a real
calamity which the Wellesley girls and
their friends are trying to soften in
measure with the proceeds of their
moving picture exhibitions here this
week.
Announcement has been made. of the
engagement of Richard Walton Tully,
author of Omar, the Tentmaker," ac-
cording to the New York Dramatic
Mirror. to Miss Gladys C. Hanna,
daughter of Rev. ]. A. and Mrs. Hanna
of Midland, Ontario. Mr.. Tully's first
Gently. was Eleanor Gates, author of
The Poor Little Rich Girl and other
plays.
ly active. His Daddy Long Legs"
company with Ruth Chatterton as star
finished a six-month run in Chicago in
september. and is now running at the
New York Gayety Theater. He recent
~ produced big dramatic spectacle
ana expects to do another shortly
after Christmas He will probably not
act himself this season
Essaying thirty-eight roles in forty
weeks and playing daily matinees at
that is the experience of Doris OLSON
She did this hard work last year when
she was member of the Castle Square
stock company in Boston. In 1.-The
Misleading Lady she has an exceed
ingly difficult role-one for which
forty leading women were tried and
found wanting last season.
kitty Mackay," which is coming to
the Belasco Theater, was one of the
greatest laughing successes that New
ork has seen for many a season. and
ever since its premier early last win
ter the piece has been playing to
crowded houses, even through the hot
summer months Kitty herself is por-
trayed by Irene Haissman, a. clever
little Scotch actress. Others in the
cast are Elizabeth Merson, Reginald
Denny. Bertha Kent. John F. Clancy,
Margaret Calvert and Jack McGraw
Miss Rachel Crothers tried to become
an actress before she took up play
writing. After some experience as an
amateur she Joined the late Felix
Morris company and made her profess
sional appearance under him Later
student in the Stanhope- Wheatcroft
School of Acting. the success of the
short plays she wrote showed her that
playwriting offered a more lucrative
Nora" was presented in New York in
1903
Miss Ada Meade, who as Mrs.
Thorne has stellar part in High
links" is a Kentucky girl, On both
sides of the house her people belonged
to the aristocracy of ante-bellum days
and her social position is the highest.
AS the Kentuckians love to say, she is
Thoroughbred" reared at Lexington,
the heart of the Blue Grass country. in
which city theater, the Ada Meade.
has recently been named in her honor.
Miss Meade's mother, Mrs. Ada NJ. SAT-
farans CT Lexington, was with her i'll
Washington.
The Washington Center of the Drama
League and the Washington Society of
the Fine Arts have announced lecture
November -, at 4:45 pm, by Walter
Pritchard Eaton, entitled THE Amer
lean Drama-an Infant Industry. with
Some Reflections on the Place of the
Theater in Democracy" 1t will deal
with the social aspects of the present
day theater. the ideals of which, in Mr.
EatonS opinion, should be democratic,
appealing to the wide public at prices
within reach.
In one respect only is the FitzGerald
"Rubaiyat" said to differ in spirit from
| the original Of Omar Khayyam, and
| that is in its modified Suf1sm. Fitz-
| Gerald realized he was writing for the
accordingly tempered the "sufistic"
| tendencies of Khayyam. AS Richard
Burton expresses it, "Sufism is the reli-
gion of beauty. whose leading principle
| is that of earthly, the imperfect type,
| of heavenly love. Its high priests are
anacreontic poets; it's rites, wines. mu-
| sic and dancing. spiritually considered.
and it's places of worship meadows and
gardens, where the perfume of the rose