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NATIONAL.

=. This week. at the National ThcatcI
ADlaygoers will be introduced once again
90 juno. her "pappy' and all The pcl-
digereut members of the TolllXcr clan,
Swho made 1t possible for Eugcn" Waiter
r. dramatiZc John FOX jr.s book. The
$Trail of tho Lonesome Pine.
June meets the strangers from the pig
Sity beyond the gap. beneath the 'one'E
s1ine. and while she ia startled to sec
what to hcr eyes Is unusually strange
in the dcmeanor and garn of riiy-Dr"d
men. she in her bare feet, and home
spun of turkey red. is equally Suang" TO
them The interruption of her .'pappE,
with his gun, suspicious OF every
stranger who comes to the gap. the
jealousy Of her cousin Dave, ana IN"
final awakening of her love TOR the
manly engineer. who shows he Is not
afraid of moonshiners o. guns. all con-
snirc to make u pleasing evenings $ en-
tertainrent >.
The role of juno is taken by Isabelle
Lowe, a Young and Nivacious actress
Some Of tho old members ef tho COM
.pany will be seen again. Thc cast m
-clucles James Heron, Jack Pendlcton,
John W. RCunic. Marie Scott, Noah
Beery, g. paul Schwagcr, Marguerite
Nbbutt. and \drian Morgan.
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GAYETY.

Sam Howe brings his well-known
''Lovc Makers company to the Gayety
Theater for weeks engagement to-
morrow afternoon. Howe has been
provided with an entirely new burl-
esuue in two acts and four scenes.
written by EdYin Hanford. and with q
musical score that combines all sorts OF
melodies from the popular ragtime to
the most attractive sentimental ballads.
The story OF the piece admits of pic
turesaue and elaborate scenic sur
roundings Of which Howe IL said to
have taken full advantage. Ample op-
portunity has been afforded Howe to
display his abilities as a Hebrew char
acter impersonator as Sam Piffkc.
An organization of popular performers
has been engaged. among whom are
included Countiss Rossi. Vera Des-
mond. Bessie Rosa. Adelaide Adair, Al
bert Marks. william Wyant, w. Weber,
Wil'iam Arnold and Joe Barrett.
An added feature Wednesday evening
will be the wrestling bout. At Friday
nights performance the usual popular
country stor event will be given.
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COLUMBIA

1.-THE Blue Envelope" brand-new
farce by Frank Hatch and Robert
Homans, comes to the Columbia Thea
ter for its premiere this week as the
initial effort Of Richard Lambert as an
original producer The play is Of the
present, with scenes laid in New York
city and on Long Island.
he story is exceptionally consistent,
and has to do with John Doe. the
sturdy oak from Cohoes. who starts
ostcnsibly for Cuba to look over his
plantations. but in reality has set New
York as his destination. Doe has been
ing vine" whose base Of operations IL
New York. At little dinner the two
are TO meet for the first time.
Near the hour appointed Angel starts
in one cab for the place, while Doe hap
pens to be following in another cab. 4
street fight occurs at a moment quite
unsuited to the plans OF each. Doe be-
comes involved. and Angel rcscues him
and rushes him off to a doctor for re-
pairs. 1t Is not until well into the play y
that Doe discovers who his COM
panion is.
The cast selected for the interpreter
tion of the various characters is an i'm
pressive one. including Virginia Pear
son, creator of the role Of Hattie King
in Nearly Married. Carrie Reynolds,
Dicrdrr Doyle. Belle Theodore. w. j.
Ferguson. originator Of the part Of
Pop" Clarke in The Deep Purple" ="
George w. Howard. william Boyd.
Mark Price, and other players OF no less
note.
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POLI'S.

The Poll Players. will. be seen this
week in one Of the cleverest farce come
dies of recent years. 1t is "Nobody's
Widow" by Avery Hopwood. the play
which David Belasco selected as a
starring vehicle for Blanche Bates for
two years.
'Nobody's Widow tells the amusing
story Of q young American girl who
falls in love with an English noblcman
while travelling in Europe. After a brief
Courtship they are married. On the
honeymoon the bride discovers her hus-
band bidding fond farewell to one or
his former flames. In rage and despair
the American girl leaves her husband
and returns in haste to America. where
she tells her friends her husband died
suddenly on their wedding journey.
What is the brides CONSERVATION
when the dead" husband suddenly
makes his appearance at Palm Beach,
whore the widow" has gone to recu-
perate after her recent bereavement
Thus the husband begins his Courtship
anew. on equal footing with the other
supplcants for the charming widows"
favor
Maud Gilbert will be seen in the role
created by Blanche Bates, and Rockliffe
felloWes will have the equally import
ant role played originally by Bruce
McRac.
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isabelle IOwE
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BAUMGARDT.

Three thousand years ago the shep-
herds of Chaldea. while watching their
focks under the cloudlcss skies. obtain
ed IA far better knowledge of the starry
heavens than has the average college,
bred man OF the present. BY the stars
they werc able to regulate their hus-
bandry and find their way. why this
condition should prevail today is hard
to explain.
The purpose of the lecture An Even
ing with the Stars which B. X. Baum
gsrdt will give at the Belasco this even
ing as the finale of his present season.
Ia to serve as an introduction to an in
telligent study Of the starry heavens
II Is not technical. yet every statement
IA scientifically correct and Is the last
word Of science upon the subject. The
Illustrations are all from celestial photo
graphs taken with the latest giant tele.
scopes.
Mr.. Baumgardt's afternoon lecture to-
day will he on Richard Wagner. the
great composer. With word and pic
ture he will portray the victssitudes OF
the famous artists romantic and
troubled life his youthful aspirations
and struggles for recognition; the bud
ding Of his genius: the early conces-
sions to public taste in "Rienzl"' and
The Flying Dutchman,' and on
through his varied career.
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Correspondent to Tell
Inside" Story of War

r. Alexander Powell. whose illus
trated lecture. Fighting in Flande RS. -
is announced for next Sunday night at
the Belasco Theater, has been q special
correspondent in odd corners OF the
world for years. In 1905 he went to the
Near East for several English and
American publishers. was in the consul
lar service in Syria and Egypt from
1906 TO 1908, and again acted as special
correspondent during the Persian and
Turkish revolutions.
Then came his trip through Central
Asia for Everybody's; into Mexico tor
the American Magazine: in Arabia and
Central Africa for Every bodys in
19lC-ll; the Balkans; the Mexican Revo-
luton in 1913. and finally his greatest
achievement, the SECURING OF the in
side story of the entire Belgian cam
paign. up to and including the fall of
Antwerp.
He represented the New York World
In this great drama. and was officially
attached to the Belgian army as its
publicity agent.
Il had no authority to give orders,
he says in this connecson. but the
courtesics accorded an officer were ac-
corded to me. When the general stan
apopinted me was assigned Ell
armored automobile. Thus l was en-
sbled to reach the real front and spent
much time in the trenches.
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B. F. KEITH'S.

Gertrude Hoffman and hcrhttN comic
confederateq wIll b" the dominating at
tra ctiom III the y. +. hCith Thcut"r bill
this week Her new 'Revu"' Is in
twelve scenes, among them tn" dansc
specta Cles, "ZObcidr's Drcan, 'The
Beautiful Blue banubc.' and ''Plcrrot
at the Moulin Rouge together with
such interpolated novelties al The
Japanese Garden Gcisha Girls, "The
Living Posters" "tl Shrik's Dancing
Girls" THE New York Subway Rush, -
The BEAUTY shop Ladies'" AMI other
specialties. including Miss iiotinan's >
costume limitations and CaricatureS Of
celebrities of the stage,
Other offernSs in the strong support
ing bill will be Paul fonchas, the mill
1ary Hercules IN his fcnts of strength,
as Achilles ard ratrocles;' the former
iTrohman comedian. Harry BerCsford in
Tom BarrN's TwentY-Odd Years Lu-
ellie and "Cockic," the talking cockntoo:
Glen Ellison, The Scot without y
Kilt" and the Dancing La Vars.
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Production of aida" Opens Week of Operatc Rep
ertoire, With Premiere of Blue Envelope"
g. tTrail of Lonesome Pine" and Classic Dancers in
Vaudeville Giving Program of Variety. <aa%..

The which tomorrow night
With the big Verdi produced in elaborate style will give
Washington music for the regular
Carlo includes other
popular compositions produced the style At the Cou
ba Richard Lambert his hand producer with The Blue
Envelope provided unusually proficient cast The
National with promise
the handwo Dramatist Eugene Walter and
Novelist John Fox, ir
Kehs something than
binary vaudeville this has become less
international figure which dancing specaes have cented
during the She accompanied by what promised
to be excellent vaudeville BILL The buee offering a the Gay
and the vaudeville and the smaller arac
tive
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CASINO.

The engagement at the eleventh ho'r
of Jack Corbctts Dream Girls, a new
md sprishtlv aggregation OF musical
players, In a novel extravaganza, iiiled
with lifting melodies and mirthful com
edy. has caused the postpon"ment "r
the return OF the Casino Thoatar to
straight vaudeville. This new company
comes highly commended in the advance
notices for It's show, which VIII run
nearly an -Four
Another big act. will lie the Musical
Levy Family in special program Of
musical cntertainmont. Still another
will bs. Adion and company il a line
exhibition Of comedy ..uSCliIp.
The photoplays will ;ie q feature Of
every performance aud every evening Al
s O'Clock the Casino spccialti"s will he
IN added dttrIction
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ELMENDORF.

Paris will he the starting point of
Dwight Elmendorfs illustrated travel
talk at the New National Theatcr next
Thursday afternoon at 4:3o. This Won
derful treasure house of art. architcc-
ture and romance will be viewed from
all points Of vantage-from the top of
the Eiffel Tower. from the Rue Royal
the Place dc ] Opera, from the river
which winds through it's center, anu
from its historic Latin quarter.
After Paris will come Rheims and
It's once beautiful Cathedral. and then
Switzerland. where stops will be made
AT Berne. 1nterlaken. Lucernc, Geneva.
and Lermatt. "A tour through the beau
tiful Italian Lakes will be followed with
Visits to Milan. Venice. Florence, Rome.
Pisa, and Genoa
Tho return journey to Paris will be
made by way OF Spain. where appro-
pirate stops will be made Mt Ronda.
Granada, Seville. Madrid. and Burgos.
Next week. "Around the United
States will be the subject.
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To Describe Sensations
Under "Twilight Sleep


Next Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock
at the Columbia Theater, two mothers
Of babies born at the city of FreiburE
Germany. during twilight sleep" will
deliver short talks on this subject Of
such vital interest. These mothers will
recount the treatment given that has
come to be known by this term.
At the conclusion OF their lectures an
opportunity will be afforded those nres-
ent to ask any such questions and OBJ
tain such information as they may de-
sire REGARDING Twilight Sleep and It's
effects on both mother and baby. Both
the lecturers were treated by Profs.
TroriT ond Gauss, the orisinators OF
twilight sleep."
Mrs. francis V. Carrody ,nh Mrs,
Mary summer Boyd.s who will sneak
next Wednesday. are both members Of
tho Twilight Sleen Associa tion. recently
formed ir New yCrk. and. which num-
h"rs among its members such women .'s
Mrs Ormc Wilson and Mrs. John Jacolr
Astor, and others Of equal prominence
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about sixteen years old, | think. She
had tho faculty of watching carefully
everything that was done on the stage.
and then doing it herself IN a way that
was entirely different from the ordinary
conception of the act. but which simply
compelled attention. At the beginning
of her career she thought her talents
were for directing rather than acting.
She devoted herself to staging produc-
tions. She staged them in q way that
was entirely different from anything
that had been seen.
Sets Whole Stage to Music.
The stories she heard of the big Rus
sian ballets long before they came to
this country. gave her the idea for the
spectacular dance production. She made
1t the most elaborate thing that had
ever been done up to that time. And
she has been celebrating on the elabora-
tion ever since. There may he other
dancers who nave gained fame and for
tune by setting symphonies. sonatas,
and the like to the caGcnces OF their
nimble toes. but Gertrude Hoffman is
the only one who has set the whole
stage to classic music, and has co-ordi-
mated light. color. human faces, forms,
and feet with the great melodic poems.
Today the people who like to feast
their eyes on the most colorful thing
tioI 10 " NC cCCH oH lIc Std6e VINO
are interested in interpretive dancing in
surroundings that are also interpretive,
such people save their money until Ger
trude HOFFMAN comes along. She
switches her program: she alternates
as a mermaid. as Salome. as Scheare-
zade, as the Spirit of Spring. or what
not-but whatever she does she does In
distinctly HOFFMAN way-a way that
the public has learned to know II we'll
worth whatever price OF admission is
charged to see II.
If Harold could see her now.
The things he would say to the Honor
able Commissioner Newman. who was
most harsh In his comment on the long
lean. lanky chorus girl would sound
like an enthusiastic Russians account
of a particularly hot campaign on the
Nistula.
All Of which brt goes TO show that
you never can tell
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Margaret Anglin Will
Stage Greek Festival

Negotiations which have been pending
for several months between Margaret
Anglin and Prof William Dallam
Armes, of the University of California,
were consummated last week. and what
promises TO be the biggest. and most i'm
portant theatrical event during the Pan
Pacific Exposition is now de-
finitely announced, namely, Miss An
Glins festival of Greek classics at the
Greek Theater, Berkeley, during the
months of July and August
Instead of giving only one play. The
Medea of Euripides," as originally an
nounced. she will present three, the first
Of which will he the 'Iphigenia In Au-
lis," to be followed in weekly interN ais
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GARDEN.

Three Photographic features OF the
highest caliber will comprise this week $
program at Moores Garden Theater.
The principal attraction today is the
Belasco and Lasky production. The Girl
OF the Golden West" featuring Bessie
Wednesday the attraction win be F,drar
seIWynS The Country Boy" with
Marshall Neilan
The remainder of the week will be
HHen over to the first local showing Of
'Rule c. based upon the "Barlevcorn
Stories, which recently appeared in the
saturday Evening Post. The produce
tion is strikingly original from start
10 finish and 1t fairly teens with life
and action.
The special attraction for the week
Will be motion picture views of the
Ihaw. trial In New York. The Garden
symphony Orchestra will provide ap-
propFiate musical aCccmpaniments to
these film features
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COSMOS.

Chris Richards will present The Sum
merland Girls" company of ten.. in a
brief opera. fun Of song germs and
merry coined :. as the big number of the
Cosmos Theater bill this week. The act
brings special scenery, new costumes,
and lighting effects
The Bryants will offer tricks of nov
city interspersed with amusing comedy:
the Rose Valerie Troupe. seXtet OF
four women and two meen. promise one
OF the best exhibitions OF the season
On the wire; Deltorell and Glissando
being good music and comedy diversions: /:
Chain ana Tempeton have daily songs
and dances. and Presto and his vio-
I'm, a novel song revue. A change Of
bill will be made Thursday.
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CRANDALL'S.

program that might be termed "ex-
traol dtnary' has been scheduled by the
management of CrandalYs Theater for
this week. Today the feature il Robert
Warwick in return engagement Of
Alias Jimmy Valentine"
Tomorrow a big double bill will be
shown with "M'liss." from Bret Harte's
tale. featuring Howard EstaLrook and
Barbara Tenant and the first appear
ance as a photoplayer. Richard Garlic in
tho Mary Swan comedy. The Dancing
Beetle.
TUESDAY and Wednesday a special rc-
turn engagement has been hooked Of
The House of Bondage with Lottie
PiCkford ia the leading role The PLAY
was adapted from Reginald ". Kauff-
mans book.
Thusday, FRIDAY, and Saturday spe-
cisl features will be Charlie Chapiu,
in the new Essanay comedy. The
Champion"
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MOORE'S STRAND.

At Moorc's strand Thrater this week,
from Sunday Ia Tuesday. Jesse l..
Tsasky VIII present Wallace t.ddinScr in
A Gentleman Of Ici8urC,' by John
.itapleton and = g. WOodhousC.
Nednesda and Thursday bring u re-
turn engagement of Marguerite Clark in
The t'ruCihlc," i'm which she was seen
with such success earlier in the sea
son.
THE Avalanche" a play dealing with
the New York stock Exchange. written
by Robert Willard aud ". 4. Th"mhyne
and featuring Catherine countiss. will
ne the attra action Friday and Saturday.
4ss Countiss has ro'c that fits her
personality and gives her ample oppor-
tunlty and scope TO DISPLAY her extreme
histriouC ClcVerness
Special musical commandments will
he furnished 10y the Strand ymphony
orchestra
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Read German Classics.

program Of humorous. dramatc
and lyric reading from the works Of
the formost German authors will he
presented at the Public Library neN;
Wednesday evening under the auspices
o: the German Readers Cluu. Included
in the program Is a series of poems thai
come under the general designation OF
"Stimmungs Bilder." which have been
collected by Ernest Gichner and which
deal with the homely human emotions
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w. Mrt and Melodrar1a Offered by the Current Play Bills
TWinkline Stars and a
Satellite or T7vO
BY GARDNER MACK.

before Gavin Harris, who was with him,
.ouid utter sound, Lowe was half way
to the fire.
virginia Pearson believes In trying
again and again IL at first there isn't
a ions run for the piece she happens
TO be IN. Tomorrow night she win make
ner third bow to a Washington audi
ence as an important part Of a pre-
mere performance in the present sea
And this time she believes she has q
There are very few young women on
the stage today whose career has been
more adventurous than that Of Virginia
feafSon. In TACT, her entire career has
oeen adventurous for the simple reason
she ts known as the best adventures on
She came here early in the season
with Charlotte Walker in The Better
srsG My IN IN t.p the part a1 Of the woman who
gave a performance that was one OF the
great features of the piece, and renewed
assurance In her unusual ability as an
actress. A few weeks later she was the
artists model in The Fallen Idol" with
Bruce McRae, and made another hit
with @ part that was played in an en-
tirely different key.
Tomorrow night she comes back with
q purely adventuress type again. and
This time her play is farce. and she
Is giving the audience laugh in place
, Of a thrill-but It is promised that the
laugh is a thrilling laugh
Vaughn Chaser, the well-known stock
, magnate and leading man. was a visi
tor in Washington for a few days. Mr
Glaser has just closed a vaudeville sea
son. and spent a few days hunting tr
| Virginia and North Carolina befors
opening a stock season at the Washing
ton Theater in Detroit.
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with the "Medea" OF Euripidcs. and the
Electra OF Sophocles.
4 distinguishing feature Of the per-
forInanreS will be the musical settings.
which viii be composed by Walter
Damrosch. arrangements for which were
also completed last week, who in addi
ton to composing and arranging the
scores will go to California especially
to conduct the orchestra.
The productions will be staged on a
vast and elaborate scale. Miss Anglin
has engaged Livingstone Platt 10
design the costumes, decorations and
stage effects.
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TODAY'S PROGRAMS.

The final lectures of the Baumgardt
season will be given this afternoon and
evening at the Belasco Theater. The
afternoon subject is Richard Wagner
and in the evening IAN Evening With
the, Stars"
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Harold, the Prophet, and
Long, Lean Gertie
By GARDNER MACK.

Once upon a tlme-when tho .AlcXpn-
driH cars were still running along J..
Ftreet in front of what is now the
District buiding--there lived and work
ed in Washington a sporting editor
named Harold. Likewise there would
shamble across the stage of Frank Al
lens Grand Opera House at intervals
each afternoon and evening the most
awkward, ungainly. and altogether calf
like chorus girl ever seen in captivity.
Frank Allen had just shown what
theatrical genius he was by cutting an
entrance TO Albaughs Grand Opera
House through To Pennsylvania avenue
and opening the place under his name
you can see the letter A yet on the out
side door. He started musical stock
company there in the summer. with
blond conedienne named Mary Marble
a chunky comedian named OTIS Harlan;
and a loose limbed person who called
himself Little Chip. Also he had
musical director named Max Hoffman
Undersized But a Live One.
This sporting editor named Harold
was an undersized person though one
OF the best sporting editors this city has
entertained. He had q keen eye t9r
the future, and he laid the foundation
for his claim to a tablet in the Hall OF
Fame as the legitimate successor OF
Christopher Columbus IN Aliens HEai.o
Opera House on hot summer after
noon. The ghost OF the Hon. OilVer
Peckham Newman was one OF the
party--l say ghost In Difference 10 Ger
tain persons who have set views on tne
subject Of the residence OF Newman IN
Washington because the gentleman look
ed uncoInmonly like Commissioner New
man, wore his name and his manner
isms and wore the same size shirt, put
he lived long time In the house Win
Harold and l. right here In washington
hence it couldn't really have been MI
Newman. ,
Harold had habit OF combating
every statement made in his presence:
however trivial. One OF us retnarkeu
on the shambling. lean, lanky. chorus
] girl-renarked that there was sam
| pie OF a fine dish washer spoiled oy an
ambition to go on the stage HaToid
rose to his full height. which mace mn,
almost as tall as a thirteen-year-oid
| boy-and quite as impressive:
You NUTS give me the Ia.sy.s"o, ,s,w I've
! remarked scornfuIly. contemptuons'!'
| '"That young female Is Max Honman !
| wife and I want to tell you cheap graz
| bag guessers that few years from now
| the whole world is going 10 oe at neI
| feet, Max told me few things ABOUT
her-she is going to be a DIE ohe-'he
| biggest OF them all.
| Harold has gone the way OF all good
| sporting editors-that is he has cons
pletely disappeared into the somewhere
| But
| Gertrude Hoffman is still with us
Stumbled Over Herself.
There probably isn't single individ'
ual who attended those performances OF
the Otis Harlan Company at Aliens
some dozen or fifteen years ago but will
remember Gertrude Hoffman from the
description that was given of her. llei
awkwardness and faculty OF getting ir
her own way under any and all circum,
stances completely centered attention oil
her. She seemed to be hinged in severa
places and to wave in the breeze as she
| walked
Gertrude HOFFMAN practically got he'
start al the old Allen Grand Opera
House. She was . mere child then
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Today at 3 and s:15 p. m, at the 3. r
Keith Theater the vaudeville concerts
will present Valeska Suratt and Other
numbers from last weeks bill with
added offerings for the occasion.
The Washington times., 1915-03-07

Wallace ESddinger in "A Gentleman
Of Leisure" will be the attraction to-
day at Moore's Strand Theater. Auxi-
airy pictures include a keystone com
edy. and the topical daily.
The Washington times., 1915-03-07

Today's concerts from to 1880 ,. m.
at the Casino will present new special
ties and other attractions with a good
program by the orchestra.