The Washington herald., 1916-12-17
THEATRICAL BRIEFS.

Manager Fred g. Berger, of Polls, has
announced that the seat sale for the
Christmas holidays will begin tomorrow
morning at the box Office. There will be
. matinee on Christmas Day as we'll as
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
General Manager James Thatcher has
telegrsphed Manager Berger of Polls
that he will spend Christmas in Washing
ton.
For the nth concert of the '"Ten-Star
Series" on the afternoon Of January S.
the engagement of the Russian Symphony
Orchestra Is announced. A Russian pro-
gram will be given with Emma Roberts
contralto soloist. Miss Roberts will, sing
The Eagle by Arensky and Keen the
Pain" by Rachmaninoff
Hal johnson, who heads the cast of
step Lively at Polls Theater, is said
to run Julian Eltinge a close second as
one Of Americas most beautiful stage
women"
Attendance at the Gayety Theater,
New York, where Turn to the Rightr'
is nearing its 20Oth performance, has been
30 great since its premier last summer
and So many persons have been turned
away from the box office for lack OF
seats. that Winchen Smith and John L.
Golden have begun a series OF extra
Friday ma tinees. Thanksgiving week four
matinees were given with a complete SELL
out at every performance. This remark
able comedy comes to the New National
New Year week
Margery Maude. Molly Pearson, Violet
kemble Cooper and Ethel Dane, a quar-
tet OF the prettiest and most picuant
young condolences that England has sent
to this country. have a wonderful foil in
Mr.. Aliss, whose ripened art finds ex-
preston in the last act of The Profess
sor's Love Story"
While George ArIiss was playing The
Professors Love Story at the Academy
in Baltimore. the stage was occupied
daily with rehearsals of another Barrie
comedy. "A Kiss for Cinderella" which
Maude Adams produces for the first time
in America.
William Faversham has decided not to
give matinee of Bernard Shaws
Getting Married" on Christmas Day
He has departed from the usual custom
In order to allow the members of the
company an opportunity to enjoy their
Christmas dinner at home without the
worry Of an impending performance. To
satisfy the increasing demand for seats
during the holiday season an extra
matinee OF Getting Married" will be
given on Friday. December g
Upon the termination of his engage
ment as leading man with Anna Held
in Follow Me- at the Casino Theater,
next spring. William P. Carleton will
retire permanently from the musical
comedy field. in which he has won a
number of successes. and will be seen
hereafter in strictly dramatic pieces.
Rose Coghlan Americas veteran
actress. celebrated her ffieth year be-
fore the footlights by appearing for the
hrst time in new sketch by Willard
Mack and Thomas F. Fallon, entitled
Her Realization" The sketch Is pro-
duCed by Edward Small. under the stage
direction of Maurice Freeman. Miss
coshlan was conferred the honor of
presenting Sarah Bernhardt to the
public at the Empire Theater on her
first appeaSance.
la Belle France" has been chosen by
Eurton Holmes for his subject of his
travelogue tonight at the New National.
Although he has often taken his fellow
travellers to Paris and its immediate
vicinity. this is the first personally con-
Quoted journey into the heart of France.
The travelosue will reveal the old
France of reagal splendor and aristo-
cratic traditions-of palaces and fort
resses-Of great eccIesiastic monuments
such as the Abbey Of Mont Saint Michel
Of exquisite chateaux along the Loire
uf wonderful walled cities such as Aigues-
NoTtes and Carca ssO'~e: il will also re-
veal the simple homelike France of quiet
villages and fair landscapes; and 1t will
carry the traveller across the Mediter~
ranean to the beautiful Barbary Coast Of
Northern Africa to reveal the most pic
turssque phases of Colonial France in
Tunis and Algeria
La Belle France" will close Mr.
Holmes series.
Carl Friedberg, whom Fritz Kreisler re-
CARDS as one of the greatest pianists,
will be soloist with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra at its concert in the New Ma
tional Theater, Tuesday afternoon, Jan
Uary = The chief orchestral number
win be the suite for orchestra in D-NIinor
by Tschaikowsky.
Nine. Alma Gluck soprano, will give
her only recital in Washington this sea-
son at the National Theater, Tuesday aft
ernoon, January 9. at 4:3O o'clock.
WincheIl Smith. co-author of Mind
Your Own Business" with which Digby
Bell Is rejuvanescing. also wrote The
Boomerang" THE Fortunate Hunter"
"oficer s66," Turn to the Right, and
''Brswsters Millions" John L. Golden
assisted In the Bell sketch.
Grace De Mar in the Keith bill Christ
mas week is the sister Of dashing Carrie
De Mar, the wife of Joseph Hart who re-
tired from the stage several years ago.