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NATIONAL

In response to the preference ex-
pressed by the large attendance at the
performance of two operas of the
higher class. the Aborn opera Company
at the New National Theater this week
will present The Mikado" for six
nights. with Tuesday, Thursday mad
Saturday matinees. The Aborn or
ganization presented The Mikado"
here several years ago. and its revival
doubtless will BE welcome. The array
OF artists for the coming week will in
clude some promising additions. includ-
ing Charles w. Meyer for the leading
comedy character of ko-Ko. in which
he appeared here in the last Aborn re-
vival of this opera. Jayne Herbert for
the role OF katisha, which she inter
preted last season with De Wolf Hop
per and the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera
Company: Richard Bum. baritone
who has formerly been heard only In
grand opera and is now appearing in
comic opera for the first time in the
role of Pish-Tush. and Mabel Andrews,
who has been assigned OF the role OF
Peep-Bo. Those OF past weeks who will
return are Frank Wooley as the Mi
kado, Henry Taylor as Nanki-Poo.
George Shields as Pooh Bah, Helena
Morrill, as Yum-Yum and Edith Brad
ford as Pitti-Sing, with John X. Britz
as musical director and Charles II.
Jones as stage director.
A noted company of Japanese actors
and acrobats, the Kuki Troupe, known
as the Japanese Dolls" will give an
exhibition performance after the en-
trance Of the Mikado in the second act,
when the natives Of the town of Titipu
are celebrating the visit OF their ruler.
In further honor of 1.-The Mikado" week
the theater and lobby will be beautified
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extraordinary this week what Is de-
scribed as "the funniest negroid char
acter act" in vaudeville, "Detectivism."
a trayesty on the Bertillon system for
the detection of crime, by II. o. Steck-
ham and Maverick Terrell, with Joe F.
Willard and Harry V. Bond, well known
comedians, in the leading roles. Will
lard and Bond have well established
regulations as laughmaking comedians,
but with their present Offering they
have climbed into the headline ranks
this season. Another novelty will be
Brindamour. who turns his talents as
handcuf king" and escape artist"
into mirthmaking performances that
excite screams of laughter" Another
act of real merit is the amusing COM
edy, "a Husband Pro Tem." by Edgar
Alan Woolf. presented by Dorothy
Richmond, Walter Fenner and COM
pany. 1t has an amusing plot and
promises laugh line" The Review
Comedy Four. a quartet Of good sing
ers. will present song hits and har-
monies with interpolated nonsense: :
Permaine will offer new musical act
with his concertina and Condor and
Marie. a pleasing repertoire of songs
and dance features. with saucy chaff
that is said to provide fifteen minutes
of good entertainment. Added attrao-
tions will include the Hearst-Selig
weekly news pictures. a series of anus
ing photoplays and. on game days. after
the first matinee, the detailed reproduce
ton Of the National ball clubs game
away from home. on the electrical
scoreboard. A change of bill will be
made Thursday.
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b,FKEITHy

Alice Lloyd. the famous London vaude-
vile star, will appear at the B. F.
Keith Theater this week. Miss Lloyd
was first brought to this country by
the Keith management. under which she
has continued except when she starred
here in Little Miss Fix-It" and "The
Spring Maid" For some years past she
has seldom gone outside New York
vaudeville. In London she ranks as the
daintiest and drollest of the music hall
condolences. Her many American ap-
pearances have thoroughly Americanized
her methods OF mrth. All her songs
are written for her exclusively and have
the Laughing punch. Her ballads blend
both English and American subjects and
she is said TO be happy not only in cos
ter and cockney characteristic ions, but
in Broadway and East Side New York
repiicas as well. With each ditty an
appropriate costume or gown Is worn.
The added attraction will be the Prin-
cess Radjah. who, in this country be-
came famous under the Hammerstein
banner Her two principal efforts are
the Cleopatra" and the Arabian"
dances. the former symbolizing the re-
morse of the tickle queen after the death
Of Antony. and the latter wild aban-
donment to elemental outbursts. Other
novelties will be George Howell and
company. in "The Red Fox Trot," by
Agnes Scott; the Ward Brothers. as
"Bertie and Archie" IN q stly-boy car
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POLLS

The Poll Players will be seen this
week in the delightful Margaret Mayo
comedy romance of the sawdust ring,
Polly of the Circus"
Polly" made her first appearance on
any stage in this city at the National
Theater some five or six years ago,
when Frederic Thompson. originator of
the New York Hippodrome. elevated
his charming little wife, Mabel Talia-
ferro. to stardom. The play not only
established Miss Taliaferro as star
served to launch Mabel's sister, Edith,
on brilliant stage career.
The play tells the story of a little
circus rider who is thrown from her
horse and seriously injured during the
stay of small circus in a village. She
is taken into the home of the bachelor
minister Of the place. where she re-
ceives first aid." but her injuries are
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Children's Musical Comedy.

La Carmencita and the Bower of
Roses" the children's musical comedy
to be produced at the Belasco Theater
Wednesday night. will offer an unusual
opportunity for amusement seekers
and students OF the child mind It was
written especially for children and the
members of the company of seventy
five which presents 1t were trained es-
pecially for their work by Howard
Leslie Holt.
The play is a real play. not Just a
fairy story loosely constructed for the
purpose of Introducing the specialties
of the little ones. Each Of the charac-
ters and the chorus comes on the stage
in response to a legitimate cue to do
something which has definite bearing
on the general story. which is pretty
one with a little dramatic interest
The principals of the company have
been obtained by process Of elimina-
ton. the result being that only those
who can act, sing and dance have been
selected for the main parts. La Car
mencita will be enacted by Margaret
Huss. young lady who has made
something of a reputation for herself
here as a dancer. There will be also a
number of local favorities. including
Many and Doris Eaton, Virginia Porter
and others.
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"The Divorce Question"

The Divorce Question" William An
thony McGuire's startling drama, will
be the offering of the Poll Players next
week, following Polly Of the Circus"
THE Divorce Question" was written
by Mr.. MCGUIRE as an answer to Medill
Patterson's problem play. Rebellion"
in which Gertrude Elliott (Mrs. Forbes
Robertson) starred. Rebellion" was
not a success, but the play which an
swered 1t won its way to the favor Of
the people. for 1t presented its side Of
the case with dramatic and at times al
most sensational intensity. The story
concerns a young married couple who
get a divorce. The wife remarries un-
der circumstances which would seem to
be entirely justifable. but the sins OF
the father and the mother are visited
upon their neglected children. in whom
centers the tragic interesL of the clos
ing scenes of the play.
One of the striking characters in The
Divorce Question" is the priest, who
tries to lead the warning household
back to peace and contentment.
When 1.-THE Divorce Question" was
produced in Washington several years
ago the role of the wife was played by
the distinguished English actress Char
lotte Granville, who first came to this
country with Weldon Grossmith. The
daughter was played by the stage
beauty, Virginia Pearson.
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War Widows.

SsI T seems that the German press IL
u full of matrimonial ADVERTISE
ments-war widows advertisements.
The German war widow. as soon as she
gets news from the front of her hus-
bands decease. advertises for another
mate. Thousands of these advertise
ments appear daily. They show rather
cailous and calculating spirit on the
war widows part"
The speaker was Richard Harding
Davis. lie continued:
The war widows spirit reminds me
of the girl whose sweetheart died. This
girls pastor. consoling her. said:
Remember. dear young lady. other
and better men than George have gone
the same way.
The girl lifted her tear-stained eyes
from her handkerchief anXiously.
But they haven't all gone. have
they? she asked"
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Arcade.

Tomorrow at pm. the Arcade will
offer its patrons of roller skating the
first of a series Of new events. There
will be roller skating matinees daily
from 2 to $50 o'clock. with reduced
prices for admission and skates. To-
morrow night Prof. A. Harrison, who
succeeds c. E. Hunt as manager, will
offer a boys race and an Australian
pursuit race Wednesday night a one
mile race between four well known boys
will be a feature.
Thursday night will be the big night
of the week. when Prof. Harrison will
present his obstacle party" on rollers,
and Lyman Moore will meet all comers
in a one-mile handicap Friday night
there will be a boys (amateur) race
and Saturday night will be devoted to
roller skating.
A change has been made in prices for
spectators as well as patrons.
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Crandall's,

The program of photoplays at Gran
dall's Theater will offer today the sixth
Of the who Pays" pictures. entitled
Houses of Glass: tomorrow and
Tuesday. Albert Chevalier, in E S.
Willards famous dramatic master
piece. The Middleman." with many
scenes taken in London and Africa; +;
menceau Case" with Theda Bara. the
French actress. featured, and a sup
porting cast. including William E.
Shay and Stuart Holmes; Friday,
Princess Romanoff." featuring in the
title role Nance O'Neil. and Saturday
the usual run of photoplays. with con-
certs by Green's Orchestra a feature
all week
Next weeks photoplays will include
Blue Blood and Yellow" of the who
Pays" series; -Four Feathers" featur-
ing Howard Esterbrook; Williamson's
submarine pictures and 'Tncomparable
Mistress Bellairs"
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"Mlle. Modiste." Z"

Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom
evolved the music. book and lyrics OF
Mile. Modiste," q wonderfully mu-
sical and delightfully."- humorous play in
two acts. which will be the attraction
at the Columbia Theater next week.
At the hands of the Columbia Mu-
sical Comedy Company Mile. Modiste"
will lack nothing Of the elements that
made the original production a dis
tinct success, either in personnel or
scenic and costume investiture.
The Partisan millinery shop has been
the motif for striking stage pictures,
but none more so than that In which
Mile. Modiste, alias Fiji, radiates with
a charm all her own. The two acts and
three scenes are abundant in colorful
pictures, ludicrous episodes and music
that has a lifting charm.
Popular -prios matinees will be given
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FWus

time for happy ending. Just before the
drop of the final curtain.
The Girl of My Dreams" has not
only a wonderfully successful name
song, but many big hits and interpol-
lated numbers and choruses, with dance
numbers galore.
Director Frank NJ. Ranger has pre-
pared a fine production. w. J. Nc
Carthy Will be the Count Won Sniggle-
fits; Carl Haydn. Socrates Primmer:
Phillip Sheffield. Pidgeon Williams: Da-
vid Andrada. Gen. Bombastino. a re-
tired South American revolutionist:
Miss Leonore' Lovasio. Carolyn ("Cud-
dle"o Swifton. Harry's sister: Miss
Dorothy Walker, Helen Bonn bastino, the
generals third wife; Miss Lucille Saun-
ders. Daphne Darlington, creator of
creations: Fred G.. Palmer. Phineas
Medders, Lucy's father. and Offee Van
asse Tucker, chauffeur.
Two new and elaborate settings have
been made for this production. and
Musical Director Frank Vaudeville will
preside over an orchestra of eighteen.
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so serious that 1t is impossible for her
to leave when the circus moves on to
the next town. and so she is left be-
hind. But during her convalescence
Polly falls in love with the minister
and he with her. The parishioners are
shocked at the idea and finally they is
sue an ultimatum-either he must get
rid of the girl or resign his pastorate
Polly hears of this. fees from the min
isters home and rejoins the circus. but
here her sweetheart overtakes her and
the romance ends happily and pic
turesquely in the shadow Of the tent
walls.
number of spectacular features are
to be introduced at Polls, the chief Of
which will be a genuine one-ring circus
performance on the stage.
Maud Gilbert will be seen in the title
role and Albert Roscoe will play the
role Of the young clergyman. One of
the most attractive stage pictures of
the production will be the final tableau.
showing the circus caravan vending its
way over the mountain at night.
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Strand.

Thomas Jefferson. Henry B. Walthal
and Mary Alden will be seen at Moore's
Strand Theater today and tomorrow In
the feature photoplay of Ibsen's pow
erful drama Ghosts" Digby Bell, the
comic opera comedian, will be seen
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in
the photoplay. The Education of Mr.
Pipp," dramatized by Augustus Thomas
from the drawings of Charles Dana
Gibson. John Emerson will be seen for
the remainder Of the week in a photo
play of w. Christy Cabanne's dramtic
playlet. The Failure" supported by
Olga Gray, A. D. Sears. Mahneta Han
son and others. Accomplishments are
played by the orchestra. Next weeks
attractions include THE Carpet From
Bagdad," with Kathlyn Williams fea-
tured. and The Lady of Quality" fea-
turing Cecilia LOTUS
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feature; Jack Donahue and Alice Marion
Stewart, in Him and Her; the Gaud-
performing poodles; Juan Cardo and
FRITZ Noll. late stars Of Hammersteins s
Naughty Marietta; Dorothy and Mad
cline Cameron. English ballet artists;
the pipe organ recitals and the Pathe
weekly news pictorial.
In the concerts today at Sand SIS pm.
Nora Bayes and all the attractions Of
last week will appear. At the matinee
the electrical scoreboard will give the de-
tails Of the Nationals Cleveland ball
game today.
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II ~M Me3


Mary Boland is playing with a stock
company In Denver.
Marie Dressler has finished her sea-
son in "a Mix-Up."
Katherine Grey is playing in Ethel
Barrymore's company.
Jessie Bonstelle is to install a stock
company in New York.
The Little Theater in New York is
to be improved and enlarged.
potash and Perlmutter" is to be
produced in Australia.
A new musical farce is to be produced
in the fall called step Lively"
Mrs Patrick Campbell has reorganiz-
ed her company to make tour OF Cali
fornia.
ITS a Long Way to Tipperary" has
become popular with the stock COM
panies as play.
Rolling Stones" by Edgar Selwyn,
Ia tn he oroduced in New York in Au-
gust.
Lionel Barrymore has been adaua a;.s ~ ~
the stars appearing in The Expioits oh
Elaine"
Jac,. Norworth, who is said to be now
an established favorite In Londoh. iA"'
star there in a comedy with songs
The Ben Greet Players are making d
tour of the middle west with lhe|
Buck as the leading woman.
Dorothv Donnelly will not play in
Canada with Arnold Daily, and Hiloa
Snonp has been engaged in her place.
Adele Blood is having a revival OF
Janice Meredith" wit hher stock com
pany in Buffalo.
Peggy ONeill, who has been playing
in peg o. Ny Heart" Is to appear IN ., d
drama called Molly and T. by FRANK
r. Adams.
Mrs. Anne Redmond of this city. who
has been playing with the dinerent
picture companies in New YORK. IS
home for a rest.
'The Sporting Duchess" is to pc
made into f1lm drama Win ~ no5e
Coghlan and Ethel Clayton in the lead
ing roles.
when the Show shop" goes on tour
next season Robert Fraser Will re-
place Douglas Fairbanks in the leading
role.
The Shuberts will this week produce
in Philadelphia a play called Find the
Woman" previously named wild
Game"
THE Three of Hearts," a new play by
Martha Morton, was produced last week
in Atlantic City. George Nash headed
the cast.
Another war play. "Under Fire.. by
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ington today. Mr.. Fossee has made q
large number of friends during his
brief stay in Washington.
Polly of the Circus" is one of the
earliest succe sses of the gifted young
playwright, Margaret Mayo. who also
wrote Baby Mine" and cola borated In
writing Twin Beds" Miss Mayo 10
the wife of Edgar Selwyn.
The ushers and other attendants at
Polls shivered a bit in their COOL
looking white uniforms during the raw
weather last week. but they will be
comfortable when the hot weather sets
in. The uniforms are attractive.
David Andrada of the Columbia
Musical Comedy Company has con-
tributed some of the most notable char
acter bits in the current season OF
productions at the Columbia Theater.
The Runaway Princess" which Miss
Cora B. Shreve will present at the
New National Theater during the sec
ond week N june VIII celebrate the
sixteenth annual carnival of dancing
which she has he'll! in this city. TWO
young terpsichorean artists who have
graduated from Miss Shreve's school
of dancing to the legitimate stage have
secured releases to take prominent
parts in The Runaway Princess" One
is Ruby Raymond u member of the
Columbia Musical Comedy Company,
and the other is Ann Suter, VINO -
filling a successful engagement In
Philadelphia.
The Cosmos Theater is presenting
weekly two complete bills of the best
type of popular vaudeville, including
frequently attra ctions from the higher
realm. Bill changes are made every
Monday and Thursday, beginning with
the matinees. Lately. as an added at
traction, in addition to the Hearst
Selig weekly news pictures and Sc
ries of comical photoplays which are
changed every day. the electrical
scoreboard reproduces in detail the Ma
tional ball clubs game away from
home, after the first matinee on game
days, and without extra charge
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Echo Park yesterday. the first week
of the season starts today with four
concerts, two this afternoon and two
tonight. as the chief OF the free fea-
lures. The Soldiers Home Band, un-
der the direction Of John S. NJ. Zim-
mermann. will present an excellent
program, and trip to the park will
offer pleasant solution of how to
spend pleasantly Sunday afternoon and
evening.
No charge will be made for admis-
sion, and In addition there will be
free features daily. Each evening free
open-air movies will be shown. and in
addition on Mondays and Thursdays
the Hearst Selig weekly. With Howard
Leslie Holt as floor director and Charles
O. Mills Orchestra. there will be dane
Ing in the big dance pavilion. The
Midway will have as it's added attrac-
ton the new ride, "Finlon's Firef1y."
for the kiddies and older ones as well.
An innovation is the new skee ball
game, with competition for prizes Of
fered by the management.
Glen Echo, it Is announced. Will be
run this season on the same high plane
as in former years and all justifia BILE
complaints will be given prompt con-
sideration at the managers office.
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Managerial Change at Polls.

S. q. Poll spent several days in Wash
ington last week introducing the new
manager Of Polls Theater. J. w. Conen.
the successor of Louis j. Fosse. who
has been transferred to the manage
ment of the Poll Theater in Hartford,
Conn. Mr.. Conen, who was born in
Washington and lived here until twelve
years ago, when he went to New York,
where he became identified with the
Stair & Havlin circuit of theaters, as
sumes his new duties today.
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Empress.

At the Empress Theater the first
three days of this week a humorous
photoplay of Harry and Edward A.
Paulton's "Niobe" will feature Hazel
Dawn. The comedy is humorously de-
voted to the difficulties of Niobe. an
ancient Greek statue, when she ic
brought to life, and to the sorrowfui
predicament of Peter Amos Dunn.
president of an insurance company
that has been assigned to Keep the
statue in safety Help Wanted Will
be shown the last three days of the
week, the cast including Lois Meredity,
owen Moore, Hobart Bosworth. Adeis
Farrington, Herbert Standing and LII
lian Elliot. 1t is a photoplay of Jack
Lait's startling play, which. on the
regular stage. had long runs both IN
New York and Chicago.
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Panama Pacific Exposition Views.

An illustrated lecture on the Panama
Pacific exposition will be given by DR..
II. c. Reik at the Columbia Theater to-
night at 8:15 o'clock.
DR.. Reik has laid aside other work
for a time to travel and secure notable
expressions of the Lumiere process of
color photography. a novelty that will
be shown in Washington at the Colum-
bia Theater tonight for the first time.
The system Is said to reproduce with
the utmost fidelity every color or shade
that confronts the camera. DR.. Reik
has secured about zoe views Of the
buildings and attractions at the two
Evening star., 1915-05-23
A Bad Tone.

Sssrs HE old world had grown toe
sybaritic. Perhaps it needed the
stern. hard scourge of war to tone.
1t up"
The speaker was Jerome s. McWads.
the Duluth collectionneur He re-
sumed:
In a French salon before the war
said to a French marquise. with a nod
toward an aged diplomat:
Hes as ugly as sin, isn't he?
The answer of the marquise illus.
trates the old worlds tone before the
war.
mo she said; he's as ugly as
virtue"
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her, follows her to New York and
thence to the little Balkan principality
Graustark, where he learns to his
amazement that she is the reignfng prin-
cess Of the tiny kingdom, who has been
travelling incognito. 1t tells thrilling
story. In the supporting company will
be seen Albert Roscoe, present leading
man at the Poll Theater: Edna Mayo.
Bryant Washburn, Thomas Cummerford,
Helen Dunbar and others. A photoplay
novelty which created sensation in New,
York and Chicago, ''Curfew Must Not
Ring Tonight" linking the speaking stage
with the picture screen. will be offered
Thursday and Friday. Fred K. Weston,
who posed in the leading role, will appear
in person and recite the poem. The Bull
dogs Of the Trail" by Kenneth Mac
Dougall, and featuring Miss Sydney
Shields. will be the photoplay feature
Saturday The orchestra will play ac-
compartments. Next weeks photoplay
feature will include THE Darkening
Trail" with William S. Hart; Hearts
of Oak" Mans Conscience" and 'Lone-
some Heart" featuring Margarits
Fisher.
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Ont Of Respect to Frohman.

The management of Polls Theater
announces that at the matinee Tues
day afternoon the curtain will not rise
until o'clock. The lateness of the
hour is explained by the fact that the
funeral services for Charles Frohman.
the distinguished theatrical producer
be held in New York city at 2:30 pm.
on the 26th, and as a mark Of respect
to the manager to whom the American
stage owes 80 much s. q. Poll has
ordered al his theaters in twelve cities
to remain closed during these services:
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Cosmos Concerts Today.

"Inflammatus" and "Cujus Animam,"
from Rossini's "Stabat Mater: Aliens
idyll, SLEEPY Hollow: selections from
de Koven's robin Hood" Fysher's
vale lente. Beautiful Eyes; Suppe's
Beautiful Galatea" overture. an in
spiriting march by Allen and two new
and lively fox trots by Henry and Muir
ply, will be attractive selections in the
concert orchestral program offered at
the Cosmos Theater concerts today
from 8 to 1890 pm. In addition, new
specialties and other attractions will be
offered, including the detailed repro
duction on the electrical scoreboard.
of the NationalCleveland base ball
game this afternoon. without extra
charge.
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Garden.

At Moore's Garden Theater from to-
day to Wednesday inclusive Francis x
Bushman will be the featured attrac-
ton In photoplay of George Barr
McCutcheon's 'Graustark," pure ro-
nance of wealthy young American,
who accidentally meets beautiful girl
on pullman car speeding to Wash
ington. falls desperately in love with