The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-02

7 better entertainment under native
| auspices
General Look-About.
| There are evident signs of an early
ending of the present theatrical season
| A very large proportion of the theaters
| are playing attractions which have had
| long runs and are already showing symp-
! toms of wane of drawing power. A
| few days of continued warm weather
/ would cause a sudden shutting up OF
\ these houses. 1t is too late in the year
to put on anything of Importance to
take their places so any week is likely
| to see a sudden collapse in the supply
! of dramatic amusenept. The only new
productions on the Horizon are musical
| pieces and a few light plays calculated
to appeal to summer audiences.
Meanwhile. there is no let-up in NOV
, ing picture activities. THE Birth of a
! Nation In spite of the efforts to sup
press it, melting race hatred is still
playing to enormous business. The OPP
position took concrete form the other
night when a white brother from Boston,
seeking to show his championship of the
Colored race, entered the theater with a
supply of ammunition in the form of
ancient eggs. These he began to throw
at the screen as though the photograph
ic figures shown could he affected by
this form of assault He was promptly
turned over to the police and locked up
in the station-house. He had not entire
| ~ exhausted his ammunition and In the
process of arrest some of the eggs were
broken in his pockets. 1t was in the
nature of poetic justice that he had them
for close companions during his sojourn
in cell. In Boston the opposition to
this film has been even stronger than
here, its opponents going SO far as to
seek special legislation in Massachusetts
to suppress it. This has been the sub
ject of widespread newspaper discussion
making tremendous advertising for the
attraction.
That no decline in the moving picture
industry is expected is shown that
real estate transaction has Just been
closed involving the investment of cou
pie of million dollars in land and new
building to serve as New York headquar-
ters for one of the big producing COM
Tanies and its dependent industries. The
site is the old Lincoln Hotel. at the cor
ner of broadway and Fifty-second street
Among other features. the building will
contain five theaters to show new films
to prospective lessees and customers
That number is possible because for this
purpose none of them have to have any
great amount of seating room.
Chatter.
Mr. Charles Frohnan evidently has
faith in the serious German-American
play called The Hyphen'' which New
York firmly refused to find anything but
funny. At all events he is closing 1t out
here to try it out on Boston.
London is certainly growing lot more
tolerant OF the American drama than it
used to be. Two American plays have
Just been presented there, The Road to
Yesterday" and The Argyle Case the
latter with Fred Terry in the role played
here by Robert Hilliard
The next season at the Empire. instead
Of opening with John Drew as usual
will have Cyril Maude for the first at
traction.
Hartley Manners, husband Of Laurette
Taylor and author of Peg o. My Heart"
has just launched new play in London
with the title of The Panorama Of
Youth" 1t is a serious drama with a
very complicated plot. The critics Were
not favorable to il. although it was pro-
duCed at the st. James with Miss Nina
Roucicault. Miss Madge Titherage and
Sir George Alexander in the cast
William A Brady is reliably reported
to have made a quarter Of a million dol
4 W
street The other side of the picture is
shown in the statement that David War
field. in recent venture in the purchase |
of one Of the big Western vaudeville |
circuits. netted a loss Of $4,000
At the first performance OF The !
Lillian Russell arrived Just !
after the curtain went up, and, GORGEOUS
" attlred. was shown to a scat in the !
front row. Then a curious thing hap
to-.
a number Of persons in the audience !
spontaneously gave her a brief round Of
hand-Cla prinS. Perhaps no other Ameri-
can actress could evoke such an i'm
promptu expression Of personal popular
ity.
The little theaters have their innings
this week, the Bramhall launching new
comedy called The Lost Correspond
mt" by Butler Davenport. the theater's
author actor producer ma ger, and the
Washington square players at the Band
box putting on new bill of five play
lets. including "A Miracle of st.
Anthony" from the French of Maeter-
inCk. 1t has never heen done in Eng
iSh or played in America. The other
Tour number new pantomime. For
hidden Fruit" from the French of Oc-
ave FeuillNt: I'm April" by Rose Pas
or Stokes. and ''Ssviors," ny Edward
Goodman.
This is the last week of the existence
VI WallaCk's and Of the Garrick as a
house. Arnold DAILY removes
You Never Can Tell" the last play pro-
iuced there, TO the Park for a contin-
led run.
1sadora Duncan is in hard luck She
vas unable through illness to appear at
he last two performances of her COM
ANY AT the Century and persons in the
audience demanded their money back,
ONE of them going so far as to COM
lain at the nearest station-house that ,
What they had paid for tickets had been
ecured under false pretenses. The or
hestra struck because they had not
cen paid. In addition TIE authorities
made her twenty girl pupils who had
cen sleeping at the Century vacate their
as 1t is contrary to the law to
Sc theater as a lodging house
THE Loneliest Woman"
Maude Adams has been described by