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Cosmos.

A unique offering of unusual interest
to women, inasmuch as it is demon
stration of what can be done by wom-
en- in preserving health. strength and
grace by boxing, wrestling. fencing and
bag punching. will be presented at the
Cosmos Theater this week by VIII
Roehm's athletic Girls quintet of
young women, who present a refined
exhibition of their skill and art in
athletics. The act is in no sense coarse
or crude, but has won popularity with
the best audiences in vaudeville. Each
Young woman is an adept in her way.
and surprises sprung continually
through the act make it unusually In
teresting, and give it no moments that
lag. Frank Bush, whose name as
monologist is synonymous for laughter
in the big as we'll as In the popular
vaudeville circuits, will be the second
extraordinary attractions. Specialties
will be offered also by Corrigan
and vivian; singing and dancing
sharpshooters-a real novelty: Sharon
and Wood. in their amusing come
dietta, "Thirty-Five Cents; Wilson and
Lenoir. with an offering of comedy.
song and accordin Instrumentation
BY the boy who made such big hit
at the Cosmos earlier in the season.
and McNish and McNish. dancing aero
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Aida March s.

At the Belasco Theater Monday night.
March s. Aida will be sung by the
San Carlo Grand Opera Company IN
the nature of a benefit performance
under the auspices of the Pierce Guild
of the Washington Home for Found
linEs. The officers of the guild are
Mrs William Hamilton Bayly. presi-
dent; Mrs. W. =. Stafford. vice presi-
dent: Mrs. Simon Wolf, vice president.
Mrs H. C Browning. secretary; Mrs
Guy H. johnson. treasurer.
The San Carlo Grand Opera Company
Is now the only permanent organiza-
ton of its kind in the United States
except the Metropolitan of New York.
and that company will confine it's ac-
tivities mainly to the metropolis this
season. The opera-goers of Montreal
Cleveland, St Louis. Pittsburgh and
others have been entertained by the
San Carlo stars and placed the seal
of Endorsement upon them. both in
dividually and collectively.
Some twenty celebrities are 10 Ice
| heard during the week of opera at
the Belasco. The company carries its
a brilliant singing chorus, many OF
whose members come from the cele
brated chorus schools of Italy. and 4
| beautiful ballet feature. 4 special
train of seven cars will convey the
organization to Washington from Phil
| adelphia.
The repertoire for the week is an
nounced. as follows: Monday. March
| s tPierce Guild night, Nerdfs Aida /.
Tuesday, Lucia; Wednesday (mat-
| inee). Faust" (eveningD "Cavalleria
| Rusticana" and "Pagliaccr'; Thursday.
| 'Rigoletto": Friday. La Gioconda". !.
Saturday (matinee) Martha" teven-
| ing) I'll Trovatore." Three different
casts of principals will appear, and
| another attractive feature is that the
| regular theater scale of prices will
| prevail.
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Elmendorf Thursday.

The second illustrated lecture I'm
Dwight Elmendorfs cycle of travel
talks will be given at the New Ma
tional Theater Thursday afternoon at
4:3O o'clock. The subject will be
trip-"Around the Mediterranean"
Starting at Tangier. with it's medieval
orientalism, the tour is continued to
Algiers, thence to Tunis, Philippeville,
Carthage and Port Said, where a detour
is made into Egypt. After a visit TO
Cairo, the Sphinx and the pyramids
and glimpses of Luxor. Memphis and
KarnaR, a short sojourn in the Holy
Land will follow, before the return
journey along the opposite shore is
begun. This will afford visits to an
cient Ephesus. Smyrna. Constantinople.
the Island of Corfu. the cities of the
Dalmatian coast, including Cattaro.
with it's ford and its forts, Naples,
and its beautiful bay, Sicily. Genoa
and the Riviera. The lecture will close
with the gayety of the last carnival Of
Nice.
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Cosmos Concerts Today.

Massenet's Scenes Alsaciennes,
Sunday Morning and "At the Inn;
Roberts melodie, Tale of Two
Hearts; Suppe's Beautiful Galatea";
overture, LIE There's fantasia. GYPSY
Life; Wendich's intermezzo, "Ragtime
Chimes; selection from Meyerbeers's
.L'Africaine"; Gruenwalds Don Quix-
ote" overture, with many other
beautiful selections, will be included
in the special orchestral concert pro-
gram at the Cosmos Theater today
from to 1924 pm Many other at
fractions are also offered.
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Gabrilowitsch Recital Friday.

Announcement is made by T. Arthur
Smith of joint recital Friday. March
5, at the Columbia Theater by Mr.. and
Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Nine. Clara
Gabrilowitsch, who was formerly
known as Clara Clements. is the daugh-
ter of Mark Twain. She is contralto
whom the leading critics have given a
foremost place among the present-day
Lieder singers. Although her career
before the public has been compare
lively brief, it has embraced a period
of careful schooling that few singers
have been fortunate enough to obtain.
Her voice is described a true con-
tralto of rare richness and she is cred
tied with displaying a deep apprecia-
tion of the artistic significance of her
songs
Mr.. Gabrilowitsch is classed among
the leading pianists of the world and
has long line of achievements TO his
credit.
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Edwin Booth for some years. and for a
time was Booths stage manager in his
New York theater. Mr.. Smith was con-
sidered one of the best actors that ever
played the roles of Friar Lawrence and
Falstaff He enjoyed considerable pros
perity as a result of his stage work,
and was one of the partners that built
the Grand Opera House in New York
city. At one time it was the head
quarters of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk in
their manipulations of the Erie rail-
road.
Mark Smith IT was born in Mobile in
lar first baritone. He created Ravy
in "Eminence," and upon the 3O2d pres
entation of that operetta in New York
Mark Smith III was born.
WEARS 1T SHORT NOw.-Gabrilo-
witsch has discarded the conventional
badge of musicianship-long hair. When
last in America the pianist was 1iber-
ally supplied with hirsute adornment,
but an incident in Chicago convinced
him that flowing locks were source
of danger.
He was standing near a cigar lighter.
| when a scream from the girl behind
the counter and an odor of something
burning made him suspect that some
thing was wrong. Prompt investiga-
tion led to the discovery that his fore
lock was not only singed, but aflame!
Rub it out! Rub it out"' cried the
girl.
Il started to follow her suggestion
says Gabrilowitsch, but suddenly re-
membered that while / readily could
play with burned hair. could not with
burned hands. So l seized a handker-
chief and finally put out the confagra-
tion, without loss of life or damage to
property
Immediately after the blaze I had
my aureole trimmed within the limits
of safety, and ever since then / have
visited the barber at prudently fire.
ouent intervals"
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company. and it's third offering, all of
them different from the others, with
new music, new scenery, new costumes
and new features of merriment. In ad-
dition, the bill will present the inter-
esting musical family of Jules Levy.
the once famous cornetist, his widow,
daughter and son, in an exceptionally
pleasing concert repertoire featured by
song, violin, cello and cornet selec-
tions of classic and popular type. Baby
Ann Suter, the famous little juvenile
who made her debut at the Casino
some time ago, returns this time after
successful professional tour of the
circuit, during which she won high
praise. Her offerings are said to be
vastly improved. Every night but Sun
day night the country store and its
gifts will be an added attraction, and
at every performance a generous selec-
ton of photoplay comedies will be
shown.
The concerts today will offer new
specialties and other attractions and
good orchestral program.
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New York Symphony Wednesday.

Josef Hofmann will be the special
soloist Wednesday afternoon at 4:So
o'clock at the Columbia Theater. Tor the
final concert of the season by the SYM
phony Society of New York. with It's
ninety -odd musicians. under the direc-
ton of Dr. Walter Damrosch. The first
part of the program will be devoted
exclusively to orchestral numbers.
starting with the "Oberon' overture
by Weber, and including the Haydn
symphony in G, and Liszts ''St. Fran
els Preaching to the Birds"
Hofmann opens the second part with
Chopin's Concerto in E Minor" for
piano and orchestra, and VIII be fol-
lowed by two Wagnerian numbers for
the with violin
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tion of the scenes showing the dread
naughts at battle practice with the
latest and largest guns devised by ma
val constructors. which send heavier
shells both farther and faster than
ever. No less interesting are the close
detail views showing the fine mechan-
ism and manipulation of the monster
guns.
Uncle Sans method of Transforming
the wild tribes of the Philippines and
getting them to adopt the ways of
civilization comprise an exclusive fea-
ture. From head hunting to wedding
cake is a far cry. but, the Aim shows
just how it has all been accomplished.
The absorbing process of manufacture
ing machinery more accurate and care
full than human hands or minds forms
another feature of Howe's new pro-
gram.
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Philadelphia Orchestra Tuesday.

The third and last concert OF the
Philadelphia Orchestra here this sea-
son will be given Tuesday afternoon at
the New National Theater. Nine. Olga
Samaroff, who in private life is Mrs.
Leopold Stokowski, wife of the distin-
guished conductor of the orchestra,
will be the assisting artist. The pro-
gram will be as follows: Symphony
No. 5, in c minor. Beethoven: concerto
No. 1. in b fiat minor. Tschaikowsky:
overture, Die Meistersinger," Wagner,
Nine. Samarof.
1t was in Tschaikowsky's first piano
concerto that Nine. Samaroff electrified
London about six years ago. when she
made her first appearance in the Eng
lish capital under Arthur Nikisch.
Nothing in the long range of big piano
concertos eXacts more in every way
from an artist. When Tschaikowsky
composed it he had in mind for it's in
depreciation the great Russian pianist.
Nicholas Rubinstefn. a brother of An
ton, but later he changed the dedica-
tion, replacing it with the name OF
Hans Won Bulow, who was the first to
play the work.
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man has combined this season only.
will present the London Gaiety and
New York Knickerbocker musical COM
edy success THE Girl From Utah." at
the New National this week. Each of
the three stars in this musical comedy
is said to excel previous efforts. This
means that Miss Sanderson sings and
dances better than she did in the not
to-be- forgotten Sunshine Girl; that
Donald Brian is more graceful in his
than in THE Dollar Princess"
The Siren" or THE Marriage Market"
and that Joseph Cawthorn is funnier
than at any time during his long
career.
That Mr.. Frohman has really reached
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GKETY

country. His forebears for generations
have been actively identified with the
stage. He Is the third member of his
family of the same name to have oc-
cupied a prominent position on the
American stage.
Sol Smith, one of the first American
actors to attain eminence in his pro-
fession. was his great-grandfather. Sol
Smith. born 1883. was low comedian.
He Travelled about the country in stage
coaches. and really was sort Of wan
dering minstrel. However. he did ap-
pear in the celebrated plays of the day.
gathering a company of actors about
him in whichever city he CHANGED to be.
He amassed a considerable fortune.
which he invested in a circuit OF the
aters in the south. Among the play
houses he built were the famous st.
Charles Theater in New Orleans and
the Grand Opera House In st. Louis.
Mark Smith / was born in New Or
leans in 1929. He was a famous Shake
spearean actor in the days of the elder
Booth. He was later associated with
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it's name, for a pair of skies decides
the issue between the partners. The
winner of the game gets possession
of the business for year and the
loser becomes his butler. The ensuing
complications are very funny. There
is a love interest and it is the only
girl who finally finds the solution of
the difficulty in which the losing part
ner finds himself.
The cast, besides Mr. Herr, includes
Richie Ling. Mark Smith. Ethel jack
son, Marion Ballou, lone Bright, Mary
Harper, Stanhope Wheatcroft. jr.;
Robert Smiley, Walter Allen. William
Dixon and Edward Mack.
"a Par of Skies" Is in three acts.
The laughs begin the moment the cur
tain goes up and they never end.
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popular dance partners, in the pres
entation of the spectacular dance
series, "The Fires of Life" Accom-
panying them Will be Miss Sawyer's
Persian Garden orchestra from her
dance place of the same name. Trixie
Friganza is again in vaudeville with
her buffoonery under the name of
"Bromides." She is helped by F. B.
Carman and Jimmie Fox. Manuel Quir-
oga, Spanish violinist and winner of
the Saraste prize, Will be another un-
usual attraction, and Marie Nordstrom,
in private life Mrs. Henry E. Dixey
will be seen for the first time in Bits
of Acting" by her sister. Frances
Nordstrom. Other acts will include
Eva Condor, Jack Devereaux and COM
pany in The Same Old Thing" by Roi
Cooper Megrue; Ernest r. Ball, song
Woods and Woods trio in IAN Elope-
ment by Wire; the pipe organ recit-
ais and the Pathe weekly news picto-
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WLUN[BM

Special courtesies were conceded to
Lyman H. Howe to reproduce on films
scenes, incidents. duties. activities. etc,
of life in the United States Navy. The
films will be presented by Mr.. Howe
at the Columbia Theater each after
noon and evening of the current week.
They give the public an opportunity to
get acquainted at close range with
''the bulwark of the nation" and the
glory and pomp of life aboard super
dreadnaughts.
OF . spectacular nature is that por-
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Philharmonic Society March 8.

Tuesday afternoon. March 9, at 4:3o
o'clock at the New National Theater.
the Philharmonic Society OF New York
will give the third and last of its con-
certs in the capital this season.
The soloist for the occasion will be
the great Lieder singer, Elena Ger
hardt. Josef Stransky will lead the
orchestra
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A daily program appearing on lass
page of The Evening Star enables
photoplay patrons to follow the pre-
sentations in their immediate vicinity
of the various movie stars and photo
plays. Mary Pickford. Beatriz Miche-
lena, Marguerite Clark. Alice Joyce.
Clara kimball Young and other famous
screen actresses. or Wilton Lackaye.
Dustin Farnum. Earl Williams. Fran
els " Bushman. Maurice Costello. Max
Figman, Harry Meyers and other
leading actors may be located in films
from day to day by this program.
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bats. with interpolated comedy and
song offerings. The Hearst-Selig
weekly news pictures will give views
of the European war happenings. and
there will also be supplemental high
grade photoplay offerings at each per
formance. A change of bill beginning
with the matinees will be made Thurs
day
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Haron Sokolove Tuesday.

Haron Sokolove. young violinist
who returned recently after period
of study under Cesar Thomson at the
Brussels Conservatory, will give a re-
cital Tuesday afternoon. March :. at
80 o'clock. in the New Masonic Au-
ditorium. He will play a program OF
classics. He won the first prize at Il
contest last spring by playing the
Tschaikowski Concerto and Bachs
Chiconne.
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Casino.

Eddie Baldwin's noted little dramatic
and musical comedy company of fifteen
players, ten of them girls. headed by
himself and including Pearl Reid. n.
H. Lange. Charley Crafts and Pearl
Burns. will offer General Hardtack,"
a military musical farce that runs for
nearly an hour as the big headline Of
fering at the Casino Theater this week.
This will be the third week of this
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b,FKEITnS

At the B. F. Keith Theater. COM
mencing at the matinee tomorrow, Joan
Sawyer will be assisted by Nigel
Barrie and George Harcourt, both
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DANCE DELIRIUM-Joan sawve

DANCE DELIRIUM.-Joan Sawyer,
the originator OF the fox trot, Is re-
ported as saying: Every two genera
lons the world goes dancing mad.
All through history there have been
crazes like this. The directorate in
France was marked by veritable orgy
of dancing The next dancing delirium
reached its height in 1894 and even at
camp meetings they got up from the
mourners' bench and danced. The pres
ent excitement Will subside. IT must,
for il is approximating hysteria. Peo-
pie who cheat on the fine things of life
and shirk their natural duties seek no
excuses to escape the dancing floor.
a beautiful ART. perhaps the most
beautiful We have. is being cheapened
and coarsened by overindulgence.
Dancing should be ceremonious, es-
thetic and exquisitely rhythmic. not a
sake of moving over a floor with some
One OF the opposite sex
MRS. PATS PATTER ON SHAW
Mrs. Patrick Campbell is one Of the
actresses who permit themselves opin- =
ions on matters in general and stage
literature in particular. She says.
naively: Mr.. Shaw is good friend of
mine. but do not care to talk about
him"
However. her views are well known.
She has said his plays are little more
than debates in dramatic form"
Take 'Pygmalion' as an example. and
il is a veritable Punch and Judy show,
with Higgins as Punch and Eliza as
Judy Punch says something and Judy
contradicts. Up and down, up and
down. goes the dialogue. until the end
of the play"
Punch and Judy seems to be a IA
vorite topic with Mrs. Pat" for II is
related she uses these characters quite
frequently in discussing men and plays
Recently Mr.. Shaw was a caller al
her London home, and to the surprise
OF an interviewer. a close friend, who
had just arrived, she used the name
Joey" when speaking of him. After
Mr.. Shaw had left the friend made bold
10 ask who was the distinguished-look-
ing elderly admirer whom she called
Joey
Joey is the name OF the clown in q
Punch and Judy show said Mrs. Pat.
"and is a very distinguished man. You
may have three guesses as to his iden-
tity. That man has the cleanest
quickest mind of his age He moves sc
fast that no one, not even he, can keer
up with II. He has mind that car
simultaneously extract the humor, the
pathos, the political financial. psyche.
logical and moral value from any Incl
dent in life. and do all this so quickly
that he has time to make a joke abou
something else while he is doing it,
HE is q man who can Immediately sx'
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rial Eva Tanguay and the other fea-
lures of last weeks bill will be seen at
the vaudeville concerts at 3 and Sis
pm. tomorrow.
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"Pygmalion. -

The most unusual thing about Shaw's
play, "Pygmalion," which Mrs. Patrick
Campbell will present 1T the New Ma
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Film Feature Program.

solo by Alexander Saslarsky. and Tho
Ride of the Valkyries"
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NATIONAL

Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian and
Joseph Cawthorn, comprising the three
star constellation which Charles Froh-
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A NOTABLE SMITH-Mark Smith.
who comes to the Belasco Theater next
week, is a direct descendant of one of
the oldest theatrical families In this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-04
SURETY CASUALTY
 AGENTS CONFER HERE
Southern Representatives Meet With Leonard Hamman of New York,
 Vice President

Southern representatives of the Na- tional Surety company from states as far east as South Carolina and as far wes. ham yesterday to discuss subjects in con nection with their work.
 Leonard Hamman of New York. vice president of the company. was here tc meet the southern agents, while Wll Love, general manager of the southern department of the company, with head quarters in Birmingham, acted as host to the visitors.
 A luncheon yesterday was one of the entertainment features, and last night many of the visitors were at the News paper club. About 35 were in attendance.
 Among the interesting figures present was Charles Janvier of New Orleans, who that city.
 Vice President Hamman was well pleased with his visit to Birmingham last night at the conclusion of the dinner at the Birmingham Newspaper club. MT. Hsmman who had been shown the resi- dential sections of the city in the after noon had been favorably impressed and was frankly enthusiastic about the fu- ture of Birmingham.
 This city is revelation to me-, said MT. Hamman. "and 1t has impressed me more than any other southern city that l have visited in the past. Everything seems in a healthy condition in this dis tritc and that Birmingham is growing Is well known throughout the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-04
ADDITIONAL JUDGE
 |SSURE, SAYS BLACK
Solicitor Will Be Allowed to Serve Term for Which
 He Was Elected

According to information given out at the courthouse yesterday a third judge is assured Jefferson county with in the next few weeks Solicitor Hugo Black who has just returned from a trip to the capital, Is Of the opinion that a bill permitting the clerk of the criminal court to make a nota- ton to the governor on the needs of an additional judge will shortly be passed. which will promptly be done upon the passage of the bill This in ali probability means that Judge Al ston, who has several times appeared on the local bench, will be called to sit in the city court while a judge from there helps Judges Fort and Heflin in handling the heavy criminal docket this fall
 Solicitor Black also gave out the in formation that bill had been passed which would allow him to finish out the term of his office. This proves a delightful surprise to the friends of Mr. Black, as recently the legislature passed bill doing away with all coun. ty solicitors after January l. 1917 The new bill will give Solicitor Black sev- eral more months of tenure at the courthouse.
 Owing to the fact that several hun dreds of citizens have been summoned for jury duty the opening of the state courts will see a large gathering next Monday morning. The grand jury also convenes on that day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-04
SECOND CALL FOR
 REV. WILLIS CLARK Will Announce His Decision on Going to Asheville To- morrow Morning

The Rev. Willis c. Clark. rector of St. Andrews Episcopal church. has re- ceived a second call to the rectorship of Trinity church, Asheville. N. C. He was called five weeks ago to become rector of Trinity church, the largest parish In the diocese of Ashevlle, and the most inn portsnt parish in the state. being church of nearly 700 adult communicants. com mittee of the vestry of Trinity church came to Birmingham and urged Mr. Clark to accept the call He visited Asheviiis following the call and. it is said, was much impressed with the great opportunity of fered him there and with the personnel of the people, but after a long and earn est consideration of what was right for him to do-to go or stay with St. An drews-he gave his present charge the benefit of the doubt and declined the call
 Two weeks have elapsed since his declination and much to his surprise ths vestry of Trinity church unanimously ex- tended second call to the rectorship of that church. MT. Clark has notified the vestry of St. Andrews and of Trinity church as to his intentions and will mako public announcement tomorrow morn ing to the congregation of St. Andrews. where he will conduct the services.