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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-25

huOW ally CulnS ABOUT IT, IGIudpS
they will in time, but l don't think
any woman will ever understand or
admit that spirit of compromise that
is the soul of politics"
laughed. at is perfectly plain
to me, Mr. Holmes, that you know
nothing about the women's clubs.
have seen more expert politics
played in the big woman's club in
this city than men practice in put
ting the president of the United
States in the White House"
81 don't believe in woman in pol
itics," he affirmed decidedly. Mature
has given woman just one thing to
do and it seems to me that of she
would accept this great and glorious
function and turn her attention to
making better and more vigorous
race her work would amount to more
than if she ran around like female
Don Quixote fighting windmills. The
modern woman seems to ignore the
great fact that not only the hand
that rocks the cradle rules the
world but that only by rocking the
cradle can women rule"
Little book, he was trying to i'm
press me in his best platform man
ner, but, unfortunately, being mod
ern woman and just having had my
heart broken by one of his sex, and
having sadly learned that men keep
a special line of talk for women, l
was not at all awed, especially as he
was walking all over my toes in the
most unconscious manner while he
thought he was dancing quite as well
as he talked.
'FYou forget, Mr.. Holmes, that it
has been demonstrated both by ply
sicians and psychologists, who are
mostly of your sex, believe, that
rocking the cradle is very dangerous
to the welfare of the race.
'"The modern mother believes she
L
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12

If there were no exciting music with
the Russian Ballet, II there were no
dancing; II there were nothing but the
costumes Of Leon Bakst, Serge de
Diaghileff's Ballet Russo, now appearing
under the auspices of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, they would present the
glittering spectacle that has set Europe
afire for the last six years, and that now
promises to inflame America in the same
manner.
There are not only the blazing colors
and novel designs in the backgrounds:
but the dancers themselves are robed in
brilliant garments that sparkle AND
glimmer with bright metal and gay hue.
How does Bakst get this flaming effect?
Partly by painting designs on garments;
partly through stencil and the use of
dyes: often-most often-through the use
of metals.
AS prevalent as was the use OF precious
metals in olden days 1t is doubtful II the
Queen of Sheba, Solomon, in all his glory
and his thousand wives, were arrayed
like Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet Russo
in the splendor of their Bakst costumes.
which will be seen at the National
Theater the last three evenings of next
week. For as Bakst, Russia's master
colorist spares neither gorgeous colors
nor exotic designs to Clothe the emotions
at play III lue bdllSIy 81 uOCS lie lldhS
use of metals both common and precious,
with a lavishness that is all but barbara.
Bolm. the Incompatible dancer, who
himself is the Blue God. wears a crown
of gold and Jade, with a crimson rose
painted in the center. while atop the
crown are two golden horseshoes set with
Jade; golden necklace with ebony
pendants, a golden breast plate; the small
skirt and still smaller bodice of mustard
yellow are picked in gold threads.
One of the nymphs in ''L'Apres Midi
DUN Faune" has a blue and white
Grecian robe with checks and scrolls Of
gold.
Bakst does not hesitate to make over
the human skin to suit his color schemes.
A little negro in Cleopatra" his skin
transformed by the artist from black
to inky blue, is a symphony in blue and
silver with his silver bracelets for
wrist, arm and ankle, silver ear rings,
silver tassels and tabs and beading and
breastplate-his entire costume. One of
the dancers in Cleopatra is heavy with
gold; while the Syrienne dancer In the
same opulent ballet wears drapery OF
gold spangles, a girdle of gold beads and
ankle clasps Of heavy rolled gold.
Tho Odalisque in 'Scheherazade'" lit
orally drips gold from her finger tips
while a fan-shped piece of gold forms thu
back OF her bodice, and the rest OF heI
costume is composed OF golden stream
ers.
The famous picture Of the Adolescent
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
Washington SQUARE PLAYERS.

The Washington Square Players are
TO make spring tour. This organization
OF clever people, who for more than. a
year have been playing at the Bandbox
Iheaterp in New Yor. achieving an ar
tistc success which has been the sur
prise and envy of many an oldtime man
aser on Broadway, have entered into a
contract with Charles Emerson Cook.
Inc whose Offices are in AeoIian Hall,
whereby they will be seen, Immediately
after Easter, in practically every large
city between Boston and Chicago. A
part of the tour will be devoted to guar
anteed dates in college towns where there
seems to be a strong demand for the
several plays made famous by this we'll
known organization. The tour will start
on Easter Monday. April "a, engagements
having been booked in the regular thea
ters in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia.
chicago Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit
and other cities. The colleges to be Wis
tied will possibl-' include Harvard, Yale,
Cornell. Smith, Colgate, Ann Arbor and
the University of Chicago
cecil kohlhass has been installed as
the new lngenue at Polls
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
SOPHIE PFLANZ,

in "Scheherazade," with his flaming garb
OF vermillion red and lemon yellow.
shows the coat to be braided in gold and
bronze. while the the trousers are hung
with crystal pendants bound in gold. One
Of the odalisques is CARRIED in a yelling
threaded with silver, with ankle and
toe clasps of the same metal. The Negre
dor. as his name implies, is costumed
in gold and bronze, with but a thin foun-
dalton, while Negre d'Argent, also carry
ing out his name, is covered with silver
designs on a magenta red background.
The Bacchantes in "Warcisse" wears
white draperies, embroidered in leaves
OF gold or bronze,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
Across the New York Footlights
By George Jean Nathan

Valentine" to the Eltinge and within
the Law" and thence more recently up
the block to the Gambler and The House
of Glass"-a theme become as familiar
to the stalls as that OF Cinderella" and
isis Hopkins"
In-this particular case, the fair one
Is fiapper in the tolls Of a lady-killer.
The fair one, in amorous thrau to the
handsome fellow, steals gold to help him,
Is betrayed and is jailed. Upon serving
out her sentence, she returns TO the city
to find the gentleman OF her heart mar
rted to another. The Another learns
presently OF her husbands deceit and
threatens to deprive him Of the money
which, In her will, she has bequesthed
to him. The villain murders the woman
and. when the heroine arrives on the
scene, fixes things so the police will be-
lieYe 1t was she who did the dirty work.
Again betrayed, the heroine Is sent
back to prison. But this time she es-
capes and works her revenge on the
ignoble pantaloon. And the curtain falls
of the actor and his wife. They have
just finished reading the scenario which
the audience has seen in enactmnet and
have decided to play 1t before the NOV
ing-picture camorra-I mean camera.
Misses
Originally intended as q serious nnelo-
drama, the enterprise misses fire IN its
current garb by virtue OF the circum-
stance that, despite an attempt to alter
its mien, II remains still the conventional
Broadway melOdrama. There is no satire
about II. Here and there II is burlesque,
but even so It is no more burlesque
than such Of its prototypes as THE
House Of Glass" similar endeavor to
project an intrinsically silly play over
the footllghts by making It appear to be
a moving picture was attempted several
years ago in the instance Of a piece
called Are You a Crook7'' but after
the first nights experiment the device
was found lawful and was abandoned,
albeit the strategem-whether the one
save the intrinsically barren play. In
the case OF Pay Day." a valid show
shop idea has been permitted to 20 for
naught because Of the belief that a satire
OF melodrama may be achieved merely
by admitting that the melodrama Is a
poor melodrama. Satire is a vastly more
difficult art than this. Irene Fenwick
performs the central feminine role with
her customary adeptness and Vincent
Serrano Is serviceable in the opposite
part. There was material In PAY Day"
for funny exhibit. The which material
has not been realized. James Forbes
should have been intrusted with the re-
writing Of the piece. Recalling his
SHOW Shop" it Is easy to believe he
might have derived an amusing evening
out of these munitions.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12

Copyright. lsl6l
When will the public awaken to the fact
that the New Theater now habltually
alluded to with spoofs and airy shifts
was by no means the sorry enterprise
that our gazetteers have endeavored to
make the great unwashed believe? In
the short span of life that was given
that institution, Ames produced some
noteworthy work in noteworthy manner.
Considering the brief life Of the play
house, he did a fuller share of good
things and did them better than any
brother producer has done in a similar
period Whatever the merits Of some
Of his presentations, no one may say
that Ames produced one single specimen
Of the trashy dramaturgy so common
In the hitherwsrd theaters. And his
scenic inyestiture was far in advance of
the UrbaniZed stages of this later Broad
way day. The single production Of
Strife" one Of the finest instances Of
the modern AnglO-Saxon drama, was suf-
tcient to Justify the New Theater. These
persistent comedians who scott at the
ashes Of the dramatic house in Central
Park west and at its director are the
very fellows who slobber over the pathos
Of such opera as Daddy Longlegs'' and
roar at the high comedy of such things
as Some Baby"
''Pay Day"
At the Cort Theater, erstwhile resi-
dence Of Amy House." the eye is in
triSued by what the playful describes as
a talking moving picture playa satire
Of the moving pictures" by name, Pay
Day" The labor OF Oliver D. Bailey
and Lottie Meaney, we discover here
moderately novel idea ineptly worked
out. The curtain rises on the spectacle
OF an actor and his actress wife de-
batting whether or not the screen shall
capture their talents. The actor, a lordIy
fellow, declares against the flicker
drama but, urged by his wife, consents
at least to read the scenario OF a screen
sonata which has been submitted to him.
As he begins to read the manuscript, the
lights are put out and the motion pic
ture is visualized with the actor in the
villains role and his wife in the role of
the heroine. 1t is the meat OF this film
play which hencefOrth engages the audi
ence.
By means Of titles, subtitIes and flashes
thrown upon the conventional linen
quent enacted scenes Of the play within
the play, said scenes being done upon a
small revolving stage set within frame
resembling the border Of a motion pic
ture. The talking moving picture" as
the program insists upon terming it, Is
Still another version Of the fair one
Wrongfully accuse of a crime, sent to
prison and forever afterward bounded by
the pOlice-a theme that has Travelled up
Broadway from Wallack's and Jimmy
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12

Dwight Elmendorf has made the way
of travel easy. with a selective pho
Geographic trip such as he offers. one
is enabled to talk freely OF the coun-
tries visited, which is, after all. one of
the primary purposes OF travel. At the
New National Theater Thursday after
noon at $3.50. Mr.. Elmendorf Will con-
duct his hearers on a leisurely trip
Through Northern Italy" beginning at
the Simplon Pass and continuing
through the italian Lakes. to the chief
places of interest in the Trentino and
ILombardy, before the journey is
brought to a close amid the relies
of modern and ancient Rome.
The subject of the next and last
lecture in the course will be, South
ern Italy and Sicily"
Amato-Macbeth Concert.
Pasquale Amato. the great barytone
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
PROMISED NEXT WEEK

week in Peggy" Miss Burke's sup
port includes William H. Thompson,
CHARLES Ray, William Desmond, Mona
Thomas, and Gertrude Claire. The
double program on Wednesday and
Thursday will consist of Lillian Drew
and E H. Calvert in The Vultures of
Society" and the fifth episode of
The Strange Case of Mary Page"
with Henry Walthall and Edna Mayo.
On Friday and Saturday Julius SteRer
will be seen in The Blindness of
Love- and Frank Daniels in a COM
edy entitled Mr.. Jack, Hero"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
Grace La Rue in Concert.

The transition from the musical
comedy favorite to the concert singer
was not a difficult one for Grace La
Rue, whose distinctive personality and
unique singing method marked her out
from the first as worthy OF better
things. In her forthcoming recital of
English songs in costume at the Ma
tional on the afternoon of Friday,
March II, WASH Non will have the
first glimpse of Miss La Rue in her
new field OF endeavor. under the per-
sonal direction Of Andreas DIPPED, late
anaging director of the metropolitan
Opera Company. also the Chicago
Philadelphia Opera Company, and no
less a musical authority than Ricordi
and Company. patrons and publishers
ofPuccini. and a host of other celebri-
ties are behind Miss La Rue in her
concert tour.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
CONCERTS AND LECTURES
Boston symphony.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra viii
make Its anal appearance of the season
In the New National Theater. Tuesday
afternoon. of this week, at $50 O'Clock.
For this occasion, DR.. Muck has made q
program OF exceptional charm. The So
loist will be Ossip Gabrilowitsch. the
eminent Russian pianist.
Contrary to the general usage Of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, DR.. Muck
has requested Mr.. Gabrilowitsch to play
two concertos. Both of them are short.
The first Is Mozart's Concerto in .
Minor and the second is Weber's "Con-
certpiece for Plano and Orchestra IN F
Minor"
The program in bulk is as follows:
Schumann, Symphony, No. in B fiat
Mozart, Concerto for Piano in d minor;
Weber, Concertstuck for Piano in +
minor; Handel, Concerto for Strings and
Two Wind Orchestras; Wagner. Over
ture to ''Tannhauser." Soloist, Ossip
Gabrilowitsch.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
.The Shepherd Of the HiII.,p

\ dramatization of Harold Bell
Rright's novel, The Shepherd of the
Hills" will be the Offering at Polls
rheater next week
The story in fiction form is familiar
o thousands Of readers. The play has
maintained all the elements that made
he book nationally popular, and at
he hands of A. H. Van Buren, and
others OF the Poll company a faithful
md picturesque presentation of this
aHOus mountain drama should be as
rured.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
Burlesque.

The New Star and Garter Show will
be seen at the Gayety next week in
heir combination program, embracing
musical comedy, pfesent day bur.
esque, vaudeville and a carnival de
lanse, which Willie Colini and the
discs Williams and Bangor will in
reduce.
A large chorus is said to be one
" the striking features. The cast is
Ieaded by Bert Rose, the Hebrew
Omedian, with Don Clark, James
,Oughlin, Jess Weiss, Walter Wolff
Willie Colini. Margaret Lee, JacqueIine
altman, Shirley Ward, and Ethel
Woodrow.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
Feature Films,

Bessie Barriscale will head the
Ouble bill at Moore's Strand Theater
nnday, Monday. and Tuesday of next
Teek in The Last Act" The aux
liary comedy attraction will be Gin
ers of Love" with the leading roles
n the hands of Chester Conkling,
Iaire Anderson, Mack Sennett and
theirs. On Wednesday and Thursday
bs Wolf Hopper will make his debut
d. W. Griffith's Don Quixotte." On
'riday and Saturday comes a return
Engagement Of Nine. Petrova in The
Oul Market"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12

from the Metropolitan Grand opers,
and Florence Macbeth, colorstura So
prano. from the Chicago Grand Opera
will be heard in a recital at the Ma
tionsl Thester Friday afternoon,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
DiaEhIIen Ballet Russo.

1t is an odd coincidence that the
Engagement of the Serge de Diaghilefr
Ballet Russo, scheduled for the Ma
tional Theater for a limited engage
ment of three nights beginning March
%, brings together two of the most
famous ballet schools in the world.
One is maintained by the Russian gov
eminent, and from it come all the
dancers OF the Serge de Diaghilefr or
ganizatiOn. The other is maintained
by the Metropolitan Opera Company of
New York, under whose auspices the
ballet is presented
In the Russian school the dancers
are taken in at an early age, selected
for special aptitude and willingness
70 undergo the arduous apprenticeship
which is part of their training. At
the age Of IS they are retired on a
pension.
The Metropolitan School gives tut
tiOn free, but when through a girl
must sign a contract to dance the last
three years of her training at SIS per
week for the first year. S1S for the
second and $50 for the third.
passing show of 19I5.n
The Passing Show of 1915" comes
to the BelascO Theater next week
with matinees Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday.
This is reputed to be the best and
largest of all the Winter Garden re-
vues. It comes here intact from en-
gagements in New York, Chicago, Phil
adelphia and Boston.
In The Passing Show of 1915"
will be an array of talent including
George Monroe. Eugene and Willie
Howard. Marilynn Miller, Daphne Pol
lard, Helen Eley. Edmund GouIding.
Clarence Harvey, Ernest Hare, Miller
and Mack, Alexis KOslOff, Sam Hearn.
Arthur Hill, Flora Lea. Margaret
Warde, LYDIA Carlisle and Marie Flood.
These tOpliners will be seen in a set
ling Of nearly a hundred chorus girls.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12
' audeYille

Nora Bayes comes to Keith's as the
aeadliner next week. Miss Bayes has
been mentioning at Palm Beach and
now returns here with all her new
songs. A newcomer will be George
Nash. supported by Julia Hay and
company in The Unexpected" Others
ire Paul Morton and Naomi Glass in
Before and After" Frank Orth and
". J. DOOley in The Fool Detectives"
LEO Beers; the Leo FARRELL company;
Meredith and "SnOozer;" the Oxford
rio; the organ reCitaIs and the Pathe
pictorial.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12

March 81. at $3.50 This viii be Mr.
Amato's first recital in washington. as
he was engaged 10 sing last -rr@@-
and after the entire house was sold
out illness prevented has sppeara.-e..
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-12

billie" Burke will be seen upon the
Green at Moore's Garden Theater
unday, Monday, Tuesday Of next
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