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Torelli's Circus.

While the wonderful Zancigs. with
their mystifying Crystal Globe" an
swers to unspoken inquiries. will re-
main as the chief feature of the Cos
mos Theater bill for the entire week.
offering new features the last half, be-
ginning at the Thursday matinees. the
new bill then introduced will have
some interesting novelties. Heading
the new attractions will be Torelli's
Circus. without the big canvas tents.
but with aggregation of perform
ing dogs. monkeys. ponies and clown
mule to make merriment. Clark and
Roberts, harpist and singer, novelty.
Songs of the Angels: All Ripon. the
Scotch ventriloquist. with his comical
company, will be a novelty: Anderson
and Evans will be seen in an amusing
sketch. ION the Rocks and the noted
Gallerini Four will be heard in new
repertoire of selections that have made
this Italian quartet famous. There
will be the usual news pactures and
added attractions and Joseph Kilgour.
Virginia Pearson and Robert Gaillard
will be the picture stars in the big
five-reel photodrama, The Writing on
the Wall"
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Grace La Rue Friday.

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 New
National Theater. Friday afternoon
Washington will have the first glimpse
of Miss La Rue in her new field of
endeavor, under the personal direction
of Andreas DIPPED, late managing di-
rector of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany,. also the Chicago philadelphia
Opera Company, and no less a musical
authority than Ricordi and Company,
patrons and publishers of Puccini. and a
host of other celebrities are behind
Miss La Rue in her concert tour The
astute Andreas DIPPED has recognized
the growing demand for a better class
of songs by American composers and
Rfcordi has already published goodly
number of such songs and has chosen
Miss La Rue to introduce them to the
public.
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b,FKEITnS

Sam Bernard, who will be the chief
comic contributor to the bill at the b. F.
Keith Theater this week, is a recent ac-
QUESTION from the high-price stage. who
proposes to appear as he was twenty-five
years ago." in the same line of stories.
songs and comment that made him a star
in the former-time varieties" He is a
dialect comedian, and none who have
heard him will forget his feats of twisted
verbiage and complicated ideas when he
was the star of The Rich Mr.. Hoggen-
heimer." THE Girl and the Wizard" "The
Rollicking Girl" "All for the Ladies.
THE Belle of Bond Street" and other
merry successes.
A distinguished feature will be Mrs.
Thomas Whiffen, long with the Frohman
Lyceum Theater Stock Company, the best
then in America, who is now celebrating
her fiftieth year as an actress. with her
own company. in THE Golden Night
Bessie Wynn, formerly of Babes in Toy
land" THE Sleeping Beauty and the
Beast" with series OF dazzling gowns.
will also appear. Among her songs IS a
new pro-peace ballad.
Washington's popular comic opera bari
tone, William Pruette, with Charles Orr
and company, will present "A Holland Ro-
NANCE" a merry operetta, in which Mr..
polates his famous Mile Modesto song
Il Want What I Want When l Want It.
Val Harris and Jack Manion. in Uncle
Jerry at the Opera; PATRICIA and
Myers, The Girl and the Dancing
painters; Merian's Swiss Pantomime
Dogs. the pipe organ recitals and the
Pathe news pictorial are other attrac-
tons.
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Elmendorf on Italy"

At the New National Theater next
Thursday afternoon at 4:3o O'Clock.
Mr.. EImendorf will conduct his hear
ers on a picture 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 Lombardy before the
journey is brought to close amid the
relics of modern and ancient Rome.
Boswell, in his Life of Johnson,
saws: "A man who has not been in
italy is always conscious of an infer
iority from his not having seen what is
expected a man should see" Travellers
in DIR. Johnson's days were compelled
to endure a thousand hardships and
invitations to expose themselves to a
thousand risks. Today. through the in
vention of the travel lecture and the
motion picture camera. one has but ia
sit in comfortable opera chair TO view
the wonders in this sunny land Dwight
Elmendorf has made the way easy.
The next and last lecture in the
course will be Southern Italy and
Sicily"
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Boston Symphony Tuesday.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will
make its final appearance this season
In the New National Theater Tuesday
afternoon at 1870 o'clock. The soloist
will be Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the emil
nent Russian pianist.
Contrary to the general usage of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. DR.. Muck
has requested Mr.. Gabrilowitsch to
play two concertos. Mozart's Concerto
in D Minor" and Weber's "Concertpiece
for Piano and Orchestra in F. Minor
Mr.. Gabrilowitsch played them at his
appearance with the orchestra in Bos-
ton last spring. and it Is said created
the sensation of that season.
For the concert in February. DR..
Muck announced Handlers Concerto
for Strings and Two Wind Orchestras.'
but was compelled to omit it at the
last minute owing to illness of mem
bers of the orchestra necessary to, its
performance. He has placed this on
the program Of the coming concert.
The symphony will be Schumann's, in
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NATIONAL

Andreas DIPPED. grand opera impre-
sario and producer of last seson's most
delightful musical attraction, THE Lii
lac Domino" is sponsor for Princess
Ira la La which comes to the Ma
tional tomorrow night. 1t is described
by Mr.. DIPPED as a waltz operetta of
The Merry Widow" school. which has
been a phenomenal success in CONT
mental Europe. 1t is still running in
Berlin. where 1T completed its sooth
night several weeks ago
princess Tra-la-la" will be presented
here by a cast headed by Miss Phyllis
Darlington, an American stage beauty
and prima donna. whom Washington
remembers for her admirable singing
and acting in Gypsy Love" three sea-
sons ago. Another conspicuous MEM
Der of the company 10 Emmy Nicklass,
who made her American debut at the
Irving Place Theater. New York, sing
ing in German the role which she 10
now singing in the English version of
the operetta. Miss Nicklass' voice 10 a
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Diaghilef Ballet Russo.

The world famous Serge de DiaghileH
Ballet Russo is scheduled to appear al
the New National Theater-in limited
engagement of three nights, beginning
March %, with ballet ensemble OF
ffty-one gifted artists and an orches-
ira of seventy pieces.
The eighteen or twenty bal'ets in the
repertoire of the de Diaghileff Ballet
Russo are compositions created IN the
main by persons who are themselves
artists in the company. and who there
fore understand the peculiar fancy OF
the undertaking in a manner possible
to no one else. The music is by COM
posers who generally have received
much of their early encouragement at
the hands of de Diaghileff himself. and
their contributions to the success of
his undertaking are Whole-hearted TO
an extreme and more than merely
representative. Prominent among these
is the bold harmonic innovator. Igor
Stravinsky, whose intricate orchestra
tions have afforded positive delight to
music lovers in Petrograd, Moscow.
London, Berlin and Vienna, and more
recently in New York. Others are
Berlioz, Debussy, the Partisan Hahn.
the conductor-com Tcherepnine.
and Rimsky-Korsakoff. who wrote the
symphonic suite for "Schehera Zade.'
Highly important. but still in ac-
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Star and Garter Show.

The New Star and Garter show will
be seen at the Gayety next week in an
all-new combination program. embrace
ing musical comedy, present-day bur-
lesque, high-grade vaudeville, headline
acts and a carnival de dance. which
Willie Colini and Misses Williams
and Bangor will introduce. Many dis
tinct novelties are promised. AT Sara
toga Springs" new musical comedy.
is said to be one long laugh from be-
ginning to end. The play has been
lavishly mounted and costurhed. A
large beauty chorus is one of the strik
ing features. Genuine novelty dance
ensembles and song numbers are in
terspersed throughout. The cast is
headed by Bert Rose. Hebrew comedian.
with Don Clark, James Coughlin, Jess
Weiss. Walter Wolff. Willie Colini,
Margaret Lee, Jacqueline Tallman.
Shirley Ward and Ethel Woodrow cast
in prominent parts. The olio is headed
by The Great Deluge," an elaborate
living picture, with Walter Wolff. the
minstrel basso: Ethel Woodrow, the
aeroplane girl" and Weiss e. Tallmau
in scenes from great plays, as supple
mentary features.
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GAIEx

The Gayety attraction this week will
be Harry Hastings big show, with Dan
Coleman, the Irish comedian, starred
and supported by a cast of fifty people.
The company carries a massive scenic
equipment in point of cost and beauty,
and a show of distinct novelty to bur-
lesque, without a dull moment is pro-
nounced. Among the unusual scenic
effects are several transformations. the
largest of which is complete change
of stage settings from the following
scenes, as the story is unfolded: 1.-The
Stage Dressing Rooms" to The Grand
Palace" with triple transformation in
Follow Me-" to 1.-The Bottom of the
Sea-" to THE Land of Mystery" to
1.-The Island of Champagne" This
scenic revue is said to be beautiful and
pleasing. as well as wonderful From
practically a bare stage, the view is
, transported from the first to the last
scene, a massive setting with thirty
living models artistically posed. in lit
tie more than the twinkling of an eye.
There Is a large cast of principals,
singers. dancers and a beauty chorus.
Heart Songs of the Emerald Isle" pro-
vides one of the musical novelties.
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POLLS

Polls Popular Players this week will
present "On Trial. that celebrated
melodrama which had wonderful sue
cess in New York and on tour and to
be shown here in Washington for the
first time in the United States at stock
prices.
The management has spared neither
time nor money in the preparations for
this production. A double stage, to
move on ball-bearing rollers. has been
set up. The company has been aug
mented to fifty speaking parts. A. II.
Van Buren, and Florence Rittenhouse
have been cast in roles that are de-
clared to fit them like the proverbial
glove. The play has the elements of
mystery and crime and form of dra-
matte expression as novel as it is ef-
fective. 1t begins with the trial of the
accused. shows the crime itself, then
the motive for the crime. then the thing
that created the motive, landing back
thirteen years. before the coast is clear
for the triumphant close of the trial in
the solution of still another mystery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12

American stage in the last quarter Of a
century-"The Lilac Domino" Now Mr..
DIPPED is bringing to Washington musi-
cal entertainment which he describes as
a waltz operetta.' And here is what the
impresario has to say about the nomen-
clature of musical entertainments:
THE terms used to designate the light
er forms of opera have been madly mis-
used. especially in America According
to technical definition, the difference be-
tween grand and light opera lies in the
fact that in the one the musical numbers
are connected by various forms of recita-
tive and in the other by spoken dialogue.
The term comic opera has been woefully
abused in this country. Indeed. almost
anything in a dramatic form with incl
dental music. no matter of what kind or
class, is dubbed comic opera.
An accurate classification of all the
existing forms of opera Is entirely feast
BILE. For example, Aida is grand opera :
Carmen is romantic or lyric opera The
Barber of Seville and those operas which
in France are known as opera comiques
should be termed light operas; works of
the Gilbert and Sullivan class. as well as
the Berlin and Vienna operettas. such as
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Passing Show of 1915"

When the directors of the Winter
Garden in New York, four years ago.
evolved the idea of presenting an an
nual revue they did not dream that
these productions would ever reach the
magnitude to which they have grown.
Each year they have grown in point of
elaborateness and magnificence and
also in wealth of entertainment
The latest one, The Passing Show of
1915" which is booked at the Belasco
Theater for the week beginning March
20, for six nights and three matinees.
is the grand elimination of ALL 1t is
combination of musical comedy. bal
let, burlesque. spectacle hipprodrome.
drama and extravaganza. Its trans
portation requires a special train of
eleven cars and two engines. There
are 1875 people engaged in its presenta-
ton. and the chorus alone has eleven
complete changes of costume during
the twelve colossal scenes of the spec
tacle.
Included in the list of stars who con-
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limpid coloratura soprano of wide
range and beautiful quality. George
Baldwin will sing the leading tenor
role, and Henry Vogel. who last sea-
son was a member of Frances Starts
company in Marketable" will have
the chief fun-making responsibilities.
Another discovery" of Mr.. Dippel's is
Yolanda Preszburg, a sixteen-year- old
American singer.
The score of princess Tra-la-la" is
by one of the gifted younger Viennese
composers, Leo Ascher, and the story
by julius Brammer and Alfred Gruen-
valid. with the English version by Mat
thew Woodward. A largely augmented
orchestra has been engaged to inter-
pref the lifting waltz music, and typ
ical DIPPED chorus of seventy voices
will be a noteworthy feature.
The period of princess Tra-la la is
the sos. affording opportunity for pic
turesque costume effects. The events
of the comedy supposedly take place
on the banks of the blue Danube.
There are three love episodes, the
principal one concerning the romance
of a poor young violinist who falls in
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'kAH1USGna@nESSzg

rnarkable people have given exhibitions
of their skill or power or whatever IT
may be called. which have seemed moth.
ing short of marvellous in the line OF
thought transference, mind reading and
the answering of questions. whether
asked aloud or mentally. Three years
ago the Zancigs retired from stage
performances. but through the persua-
sion of Manager Brylawski they have
been induced to appear at the Cosmos
Theater all next week, varying the
last half of the week their program of
the first half. Throughout the entire
week, however, questions of those in
the audience will be answered by their
astonishing crystal globe" which has
been as successful with the unspoken
as with the spoken query.
The supplemental bill will be of
high caliber. being headed by the
noted Gallerini Four. a quartet of dis
tingushed Italian musicians in a splen-
did musical offering. Ed Estes will
thrill with his novel feats of balancing
tables, chairs. dummies. glass bottles
and other things. and Nelson Warning
will introduce distinctive novelty in
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II .& Me7
SPOTLIGHT

| Texas Guinan and Arthur Dunn are
| going into vaudeville.
| Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark
Twain, is giving song recitals.
! Hall Game has written a playlet Of
| thrills called THE Iron Hand
Julia Dean has been having much
success in her playlet, Marie Rose.
Anew war melodrama in London is
called The Soldier Priest"
Maxine Elliott has been doing not
able rescue work in Belgium.
Cecil Kohlhass has been installed as
| the new ingenue at Polls.
John Kline will have the role of the
attorney for the defense in "On Trial
/ Charles Dillingham; is to take the
management of the Century Theater
| in New York.
Louis Calvert. the well known Eng
| lish actor, has taken out his first nat
uralization papers.
Alone at Last" is to go to Boston
| to fill an engagement, after which IL
| will return to New York for an ALL
summer run.
When w. A. Brady produces Little
Comrades" by Burton r. Stevenson.
l
feminine role.
James X. Hackett has engaged
Orrin johnson and Fuller Mellish for
| the production Of The Merry Wives of
| Windsor.
Joseph Hart is managing George
Nash in Keith vaudeville. Aaron Hoff-
man is the author of the sketch.
A new war play is called Trapping
Spy" and is the work of Jack Ryan.
Edna Won Buelow will be the leading
woman.
A new farce called Nothing But the
Truth" is to be produced shortly with
Eva Mae Francis as the leading woman.
Louise Mcintosh will play the role
of Betsy Turner in The Little Shep-
herd of Kingdom Come
w. L. Abingdon is to have prominent
role in Laurette Taylors new play by
J. Hartley Manners. The Wooing of
Eve"
A play to be produced in London
shortly is called "kultur," and the
heroine is an English girl who is mar
ried to a German officer
Ethel Clifton and Brenda Fowler
wrote THE Late Van Camp" in which
Wilmer Walter is appearing in Keith
vaudeville.
Edna Baker. leading woman in ct
Pays to ADVERTISE" has been engaged
by Conan and Harris for the leading
role in new production.
Brandon lyman is to appear in a
scene from Hamlet" in the Shakes
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previous concerts and is a guarantee
of a delightful musical entertainment.
The program follows: Sonata, C
Minor" (allegro-molto ed appassionato.
allegretto expressive ALA Romance.
allegro-animato), by Edward Grieg.
Felix Garziglia and Carmine Fabrizio;
"Ballade, G Minor" by Chopin; "Etude,
c Sharp Minor" by Chopin; La
Cathedrale Engloutie." by Debussy;
"Tarantelle," by Moszkowski, Felix
Garziglia: group of violin solos to be
announced later Carmine Fabrizio
Sonata, Major" tallegretto ben
moderate. allegro. Observation-Disclosures
ben moderate. allegretto POGO mosso).
by Cesar Franck, Felix Garziglia and
Carmine Fabrizio.
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coast. They will be shown at the Be-
lasco Theater for a week, commencing
today at 2:30 and o'clock. They
show the German side of military eff
cheney in actual bayonet charges and
hand-to-hand encounters: the blowing
up of bridges. the battle of an aero
plane and Zeppelin in nidair. with the
ultimate destruction of both: battle
ships sunk in the Dardanel1es, noun
tains cut away and the storming and
burning up of cities. The sultan will
be seen. also. with full retinue of Ger
man generals under his immediate
command
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Nora Bayes.

Nora Bayes will usher in the first
week of spring at the Il. F. Keith The
alter next week with her new song hits.
George Nash. the actor. supported by
Julia Hay and company, will appear in
The Unexpected" Others are Paul
Morton and Naomi Glass. in Before
and After: Frank Orth and w. j.
Dooley, The Fool Detective; Leo
Beers. the Leo FARRELL company, Mere
dith and .Snoozer." the oxford Trio. the
pipe organ recitals and the Pathe news
pictorial.
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cordance with the perennial policy of
the ballet, entirely contributory to the
ensemble, are the line and color of the
famous Leon BakSt. His colleagues,
'Golovine and Larinoff, are represented,
too: but this famous artist, whose de-
signs have been copied the world over
in all kinds of wearing apparel and
decorative objects, has accomplished
brilliantly the major part of the work
Despite the widespread influence of
his drawings in America, he has not
been rendered adequately for just ap-
probation until the coming of the
Serge de Diaghileff Ballet
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COSMOS

psychic phenomenons that have mys-
titled tnquisitive audiences in the past,
none has equaled the fame and the
rank of the wonderful Zancigs. whose
performances long ago were considered
remarkable enough to attract the at
tention of the scientific world. Both
In America and in Europe these re-
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Gayety Today.

At the Gayety concerts today at
and pm, the entire company Of Bob
Manchester's Burlesquers, numbering
more than fifty people, will be seen
with many special numbers in addition
to last weeks hits. Specialties include
acts by Mollie Williams and Frank
flaming. Billy Hart and his -Four
Circus Girls" Beatrice Harlow. Eva
Malvin, frankie Burns, Francis Rey-
nolds, George Douglass and others.
Special numbers will be played by the
orchestra.
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Cosmos Concerts Today.

Keller Bela's Dramatic Overture, =
selections from "The Fencing Master"
by De koven; Tobani's reverie. Sleep
ing Beauty; selections from Puccini's
Madame Butterfly" Osbornes char
acteristic. THE American Tango"
Gardners Chinese Blues" and John
sons new fox trot, Alabama Slide"
will be some of the selections played
by the enlarged orchestra under Ar
thur Maxwell at the Cosmos Theater
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...Shepherd of the Hills"

A dramatization OF Harold Bell
wright's much read novel. The Shep-
herd of the Hills" will be the Offering
at Polls Theater next week.
While this will mark the initial pres
entation of the play in Washington.
the story in fiction form is familiar 10
thousands of readers. The play has
maintained all the elements that made,
the book popular and at the hands OF
the Popular Poll Players a faithful and
picturesque presentation Of this Ia
nous mountain drama is assured.
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Garziglia-Fabrizio Recital

The joint recital to be given in the
New Willard ballroom Thursday after
noon at 4:30 o'clock by Felix Gar
ziglia. the well known pianist. and
Carmne Fabrizio. violnist. formerly a
member Of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra. will be the only event of its
kind this season. The ability of both
artists has been well established in
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Amato and Florence Macbeth,

Pasquale Amato, the great baritone
from the Metropolitan Grand Opera.
and Florence Macbeth. the coloratura
soprano from the Chicago Grand Opera.
will be heard in recital at the National
Theater Friday afternoon, March 81, at
4:3O o'clock. This will be Mr.. Amatos
first recital in Washington. He was
engaged to sing last season, and after
the entire house was sold out illness
prevented his appearance.
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tribute to the entertainment are
George Monroe. Eugene and Willie
lard. Ernest Hare. Clarence Harvey.
Helen Eley, Edmund Gouldihg. sam
Hearne. Miller and Mack. Alexis Kos
loff. Arthur Hill. Flora Lea. Margater
Warde I,yda Carlisle and Marie Flood.
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Today at Keith's.

At and Sis pm. today, at keith's
the bill will include Ruth st. Denis and
company, Mack and Walker. Ernest Ball,
Rae Eleanor Ball. Fred Ardath and COM
pany, and all the other acts in last
weeks bill.
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love with a princess. guest incog at
a fashionable hotel where the musician
has been forced to accept a position as
a waiter.
The cast includes Helen Tyler, Harry
MacDonough, Dorothy Vaughan, James
Hornberger, Alice Gaillard, Leah de
Picon, Max Laube, Lydia Stafford,
Ferne Hollis. Billy Rhodes. Allan Ram
say. Paul Sharon, Leicester Parker
and Angelo Lippich.