The Washington times., 1915-08-22

Home coming week would be the ap-
propriate title for Inauguration OF the
new Poll season. With A. II. Van
Buren,, Mark Kent and Russell Fillmore
heading the company. there will be
friends OF the old and the later stock
organizations on hand to give welcome
OF course. there are to be several new
people to look over and approve. but
the main attraction TO the tfIater wiz
Of curiosity TO Zee ail Of the mysterious
things that Manager Cone has been do
ing to the thepter during the past four
weeks and about which he Is keeping
stolidly quiet in as many as seven oil-
ferent languages.
II would be very difficult thing to
attempt an original description OF Van
Buren, or Kent or kiliTore--Tnost OF
the things which people say about ..: &C.
this trio has honestly earned have been
said SO many times in connection with
them that the language has been worn
threadbare; About .,h the nnHS,.1 newcomers one
Florence Rittenhouse. the new lead
ing woman. General Manager Thatcher
says Is the best leading woman IN Amer
the ncE PrftsSe1s aaS1er 3s onS
people among the Poll patrons who have
seen her, and Dick agrees with Thatcher
with enthusiasm
Blanche Friderica, who is to be the
character woman, was seen here with
Guy Bates Post last season. and Mark
Kent, for whom she has been r!ayia*
in Portland. Me. recently, declares she
Is the best he has ever seen. leEgy Cam
eron, the new ingenue Is Described with
rapturous verbiage by young men and
women who have seen her elsewhere
and Raymond Walburn is equally we'll
recommended
The sale Of seats for the opening week
wi y
o'clock The frst performance VIII be
on Monday night. August 50, hut there
after there will be daily platinees. IN
cluding Monday. Tomorrow morninz
erection of the large N.To electric sien
which 1t Is promised will dominate every
other illumination on Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
given Tuesday. August 81. will be the
distribution 0! souvenir albums contain
ing photographs o: A. H. Van Buren,
in his most successful roles.
Years ago when the average New
Workers. idea Of the six or seven best
things in Washingtcr We're leaving on
schedule from the old station at Sixth
and b streets northwest. the police re-
porter of a certain local newspaper was
supposed to drop in at the baggage
the year and note the amount OF bag
gage piled UP from incoming trains.
When the piles reached the ceiling he
was required to nctity the city editor
who would send a photographer TO
nouncinE the end OF the vacation sea
son and showing the piles ct returning
travellers baggage to prove 1t. would
be written for the paper. That was IN
the duty of the drsmatic edi:1r t. look
in Mt thr Belasco IhcGter office every
day or two. When Manager L. Stod-
6ard TaYlCr returns to the city the
vacation period is over.
L. Stoddard Taylor has returned!
Having thus performed the annual
task It might be mentioned that Man
ager Taylor has returned wearing the
widest smile over a larger section Of
tanned face than Manager Taylor ever
exhibited in Washington before. The
tan and the additions to the face are
the result OF very pleasant and health
giving vacation In Maine. But the
smile Is what Whitman Osgood would
cai an extraordinary stellar inclusion
direct from triumphant and eroch-
making soiojurn In the metropolis OF
bright lights" 1t Is just thot. Drop
ping in at the Shuberts' Offices In New
York on his wa" back to WashinG Gton
| Manager Taylor was given a liz Of
some of the attractions llo viii cElcrtHi |
during the coming season. Here is the
way the list reads:
For inc nlOntH or FN'p't'NDe.' / 10
Andraes Dinplc wrestling tournament
week OF September g. September lS.
The Only Girl" by Victor Herbert and
! Henry Blossom. which ran most ot last
season In New York; September -. spe-
cial fe erewcll visit of Peg O. My IIear::"
September 81. f II. Sothern. In THE
! Two Virtues
During the remainder of the season
the attractions win include the San
Carlos Opera Company. In October;
Granville Barker's production of An
droc.es and the Lion and The Man
Who Married a Dumb Wife" "A Mod
nn Eve" Doris Kcanc in Romance "A
| fair of Silk Stockings" Phyllis Nelson
Terry and the all-star cast IN "TrilbN:'
Al Jolson in Dancing Around" David
Warfeld in q new play by David Be
lasco: William Favcrsham in The
Hawk" Guy Bates Post IN Omar the
Fence" The Passing Show of l9l5;'
! ,.M.Id in America :" "!tHnights th.
Louis Mann IN The Bubble Hands
Up;" The Blue Paradise" ~ Last
Alone Joseph Santlev In "Ail Over
| Town" "A Full House, Sinners
Walker Whiteside In The Ragged Mes