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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-27
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Evening star., 1917-01-14
COSMOS

The Joveddah Rajah troupe of In
dian mystics. mind readers, telepa-
thists and musical visionists," in a re-
markab1e exhibition of their several
powers. during which they answer
questions from the audience upon busi-
ness and personal matters. and Bobby
Heath, song writer. composer, come
dian and producer, with a galaxy of
pretty girls. in a revue of his song
hits, constitute the leading attractions
Of the Cosmos bill of continuous vaude-
vile this week.
Besides these are Bianchrs Models
in classic statuary poses, with lighting
effects, including their beautiful cleo
tric fountain: Tom Browns famous
Princeton Five, noted quintet of
high-class minstreIsy; Harry Sidell,
singing comedian, in "burlesque
revue; Freeborn and Mascotte, dancers.
singers and comedians: Dunlay and
Merrill, in a refined artistic novelty,
and Brown and Mccormick. in singing,
dancing and acrobatic surprises, with
the Blue Ribbon Vitagraph production,
THE Price of Fame" featuring Marc
MacDermott and Naomi Childers. lead
ing the Aim attractions. which also
will include the Pathe and the Selig
Tribune news pictures and a laughable
Bray cartoon.
Starting at 3 pm today. Lottie Mayer
and her dancing and diving graces. in
their big water spectacle, will be seen
for the last time with the other attrac-
tions of last weeks bill.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
"The Flame" :"

One of the most remarkable plays in
many seasons. Richard Walton Tully's
spectacular drama about Mexico, THE
Flame" will come to the Belasco The
ater for one week. commencing Mon
day. January %. Tully's previous
plays, especially 1.-The Bird of Para
disc" and Omar. the Tentmaker." are
well known to theater goers. In The
Flame" Mr.. Tully follows the career of
a young American couple who are seek
maelstrom of bandit revolutions and
national turmoils, their material
dreams flicker out one by one. but al
ways the flame of their love burns
brighter. and after having braved
death and worse together they in the
the coming of their own first born.
AS in all Mr.. Tully's plays. the scenic
settings are elaborate and colorful.
The scene showing hurricane sweep
ing through the green jungle is one of
the most realistic settings ever devised,
and thunder. crashing trees and glow :
ering clouds being reproduced with
fidelity. Music plays an important
part in the performance. and is rem
dered by band of Cubans especially
imported by Tully.
let Heming and Peggy ONeil. viii be
brought here intact. Among other
prominent members are Robert Patton
Gibbs. Richard Gordon, Harriet Ster-
ling, Ann Warrington, Helen Carew,
Albert Tavernier. Byron Russell. Will
liam ODay. Frank Jamison, Jack
Kingsberry, Harry Morvil. George LIE
Soir. David Fuller. Van Rensselaer,
Townsend. Fred Pena and La Clavelita.
the Cuban dancer.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Nine. Sumiko of Toxic.

The greatest novelty ever offered at
the Cosmos Theater will be presented
next week in Nine. Sumiko, the Japa-
nese prina donna. with her troupe of
Japanese artists. Misses Shizerko, Fu-
sake, Teruko. Hanako and Tokaori, all
OF the Imperial Theater of Toxic, ia
pan, in unique musical entertainment,
blending the curious songs of Japan
with American ragtime. The act is
equipped with elaborate oriental scenery,
costumes, hairdresses and music from
the Imperial Theater at Toxic. The Five
Musical Hodges, one of the finest in
strumental musical acts in vaudeville,
VINO have just returned from Europe
viii be heard for the first time in five
years. Other acts will include Little
Lord Roberts,, a sketch: Nip and Tuck
grotesque dancing acrobats; Hart and
Haxel. specially Entertainers of high
class; Andrew Kelly. Irish monoIogist
brosius and Brown. skating and cycling
comedians, and Curry and Graham In
songs. dances and comedy
An extraordinary attraction will be
the first public showing in Washington
OF the massive Bluebird production.
THE Eagles Wings" with its warning
blast for Industrial preparedness.
Rufus Steele wrote the story and Her
bert Rawlinson and Grace Carlyle, with
large company. posed for the thrill
ing pictures.
Evening star., 1917-01-14

wrights of the hour. 1t was Miss Kum-
mer's farce comedy. Good Gracious,
Annabelle," a New York success pro-
duced by Mr.. Hopkins. that brought
her recognition as the wielder of a
fresh and original pen. What she has
in store in "A Successful Calamity
remains an uncertainty, as the story
of the play is not being told in ad-
vance.
In appreciation of the fact that a
large share of responsibility for the
success of a play is due to he talent
of the scenic artist. Mr.. Hopkins COM
missioned Robert Edwond Jones to de-
sign the background for "A Successful
Calamity" because of his peculiar dra-
matte instinct displayed in other pro-
auctions.
Members of the cast in Mr.. Gillette s
support are Estella Winwood, Ruth
Findlay. Richard Barbee. Richard Ster-
ling: Roland Young, William Dev-
ereaux, Manart Kippen, Mile. Marcelle.
Katherine Alexander and James s.
Ryan.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
B. F. KEITH'S

Five stellar attractions will be offered
at the b. f. Keith Theater this week
the California Boys Band, William
Gaxton and company. Clark and Ham
ilton. Blossom Seeley and company and
a special added novelty, the new pic
ture showing Mrs. Vernon Castle in
the title role of "Patria." The first
episode of the film, in three parts. viii!
be shown this week. The film will run
fifteen weeks in all, with one episode
each week
Mai. s. $. Peixotto of the California
National Guard is directing the pres
ent world tour OF the California Boys
Band, which is formed from the Colum-
bia Park Boys Club of San Francisco
The band won Tirst prize over ~
bands from all over the world at the
Panama Pacific exposition. There are
thirty eight members of the present
band. Its program covers thirty
minutes of band work, solo numbers
choral songs. folk songs. acrobatics
dancing and other diversions. William
Gaxton and company will present for
edy Kisses Clark and Hamilton
English musical comedy stars. will
offer "A Wayward Conceit," with songs
and dances Blossom Seeley. with
Bill Bailey and Lynn Cowan. viii in
troduce "Seeiey's Syncopatea Studio. y
Other acts are Nina Payne. in charac-
ter dance studies. McCarty and Faye
in Suicide Garden: Harris and
Manion, in Uncle Jerry at the Opry.
aud Donald Kerr and Efiie Weston II
songs and dances.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
"The Birth of a Nation" y

D. w. Griffith's big spectacle of the
screen, ''The Birth of a Nation" re-
turns to the National Theater for eight
days. starting next Sunday afternoon
Never in the history of the theater has
theatrical production attracted so
much attention and discussion. Its
fame is now worldwide, and it is being
shown in the principal cities of Europe,
Asia, South America and Australia
where it is duplicating the remarkable
record made in the United States.
The production will be maintained at
the same high standard Of last season.
with the same symphony orchestra of
thirty picked musicians. Wherever re-
turn engagements have been played
the attendance has been fully as large
as for the first showing. This en-
gagement will positively be the last
in this city, as the Griffith spectacle is
now on its farewell tour. tIHs.
The performances will begin sharply
at 2:15 and S:15 pm. and run until
sos and 1905 pm. The entertainment
is very long, and it is therefore i'm
peratiye to commence promptly at the
advertised time. This Is another ar
gument for buying seats in advance.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Newman Travel Talk Tonight.

f. NJ. Newman begins his series Of
five wonder journeys tonight at the
Belasco Theater, with Japan Today"
This travel talk covers every famous
spot familiar to the tourist. as well as
numerous places rot so well known,
where unusually interesting sights will
be revealed. At Nara, one of the old
est and quaintest towns of the empire
the japanese government gave orders
dismissing school that Mr.. Newman
might avail himself of the opportunity
Of photographing in motion young
Japan in preparedness exercises.
Many vivid scenes are portrayed in
an exclusive original series Of motion
pictures and beautiful colored views.
Japan Today will be repeated Mon
day afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
GAYETY

THE Bowery Eurlesquers." a live ag-
gregation Of funmakers and songsters.
will be seen at the Gayety Theater all
this week. commencing at 3 and pm.
today. in lively farce entitled "At
Lobster Beach," which burIesques the
foibles and failings of the newly rich
at fashionable summer resort. The
cast is headed by Frank Harcourt, an
eccentric comedian in the character of
DIR. j. Hamburger Bone. a street faker.
Others include Billy Foster. Grace An
deI Ison. Pauline PAUL., Billy Jensen.
Mary Seamon and Edna Green. The
burlesque is set in two acts and eight
scenes and the entire second act is laid
in the jail at Lobster Beach, an insti-
tuition conducted for the comfort and
convenience of it's lucky inmates
bu plesque on the Mutual Welfare
League. A selected beauty chorus'' is
a feature of the production.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
BELASCO

Experience" the much discussed
modern morality drama by George "
Hobart. after achieving phenomenal
success in other cities. comes to the
Belasco for weeks engagement be-
ginning tomorrow night. The play had
a run of nine months in New York, OF
seven months in Chicago. of five months
In Boston and five months in Philadel-
phia.
Nothing like the extraordinary appeal
of ."Experience" to theatergoers has
been known In the recent history OF
theatricals. 1t is not only full of COM
edy, pathos, laughs and thrills. but IL
also conveys a strong moral lesson. The
governors of eight states have in
dorsed it, and the mayors OF cities
where it has been presented, have pro-
nounced 1t a great force for good.
Experience" tells in ten vivid and
brilliant scenes of the temptations con-
fronting youth or the average young
the morality plays of 400 years ago
Youth leaves his sweetheart Love in a
little country cottage and goes forth
with Ambition into the great world to
win fame and fortune. At the gates OF
the city he meets Pleasure. symbolized
as a beautiful and fascinating woman
He deserts Ambition, turns his back
upon Opportunity. and goes with Pleas
ure to the Primrose Path. There he
meets many beautiful temptations
among them Intoxication, Fashion
Beauty and others of their set. and be-
comes thoroughly convinced that n life
of pleasure is the best thing possible
Then he drifts into the Corridors OF
Chance, a gambling palace. where he
loses all his money. and Is deserted by
his false friends of the Primrose Path
He finds work in dive. where he acts
as waiter, and meets the dregs of the
earth. He seems bound straight for a
life of crime, when through the memory
of a mothers love and the influence oi
the church he reforms, and goes back
with Ambition, reawakened. to Love
the faithful love, waiting for him iI
the little country home.
| In the strong cast which will be seer
here, under the management Of William
Elliott, F. Ray Comstock and Morris
Gest, are Ernest Glendinning, William
Ingersoll, Frazer Coulter, George T
Mech, William Belts, Marie Horne
Margot williams and seventy-sever
others. There will be bargain matinee
l w cd
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Ruth St. Denis.

AT the B. F. Keith Theater next week
program of manifest superiority will
be headed by the great pantomime
dancer, Ruth ST. Denis. with Ted Shawn
and the Denishawn dancers, in THE
Dance Pageants of India. Greece and
Egypt" Alice Glynn and company will
be seen in the John B. Hymer comedy,
The Night Boat" Others in the bill
will be Horace Wright and Renee
Dietrich, Stuart Barnes, Cen" Ed
Lavine. Raymond and O'Connor. Sim
mons and Bradley. the pipe organ re-
citals and the second episode of
''Patria," the serial romance. with Mrs.
Vernon Castle in the title role. This
and the following episodes until the
fifteenth and last are in two parts.
At 2 and SIS pm. today the final
performances of last weeks bill will
present Fay Templeton. James ]. Cor
bett Valerie Bergere, Marion Weeks
and all the other features of last week.
Evening star., 1917-01-14

the first three acts showing a replica of
the sitting room of the Alcott home in
Concord, Mass. the room where much of
the book was written. To quote from the
book, ut was a comfortable old place.
though the carpet was faded and the fur
niture very plain" The last act shows
the apple orchard at Plumfield on mel
low October afternoon
The players to be seen here include
Mrs. E. A. Eberle, as Aunt March; Mr..
E. A Eberle, as Mr. Lawrence; Florence
Huntington. as 10; Harriet Mcdaniel, as
Beth; Evelyn Yorke, as Meg; Constance
Robinson. as Amy; Adelyn Wesley. as
Mrs. March; Paul Kelly, as Laurie; John
Won Rittberg, as Prof. Bhaer, aud Charles
White, as John Brook.
There will be matinees Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Poll PLAYERS to Return.

The Poll Players will be re-estab-
lished at Polls Theater in February.
The announcement was made yester-
day by Manager Fred G. Berger. The
lease of Polls Theater by the Union
Amusement Company. will terminate
next month and in the meantime there
will be special attractions, beginning
tonight with the production Little
Women.
The Poll Players season was inter-
rupted this fall because of the scarcity
of plays for the company. and it was
necessary to await the release of new
productions, so that Mr.. Poll leased the
theater to the Union Amusement Com
pany in the Interim.
General Manager Thatcher and Man
ager Berger had conference Friday
night planning the personnel of play
ers. scenic artists and other details for
high class stock company. During
the past six months a long list of plays
has been released for stock production
This includes many of this seasons
successes. which will be produced by
the Poll Players during the spring and
summer.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
San Carlo Grand Opera Company.

Washington admirers of grand opera
VIII be interested in the announcement
just made by Manager l.. Stoddar rd
Taylor of the Belasco. that the San
Carlo Grand Opera Company, rich in
singers who have already won wide
popularity in the National Capital and
augmented considerably by brilliant
new stars. will come TO the Belasco in
March for a weeks engagement. with
a repertory of eight operas.
The company, which now numbers
nearly one hundred. is said to be the
most complete operate organization
devoted exclusively to touring in this
country. The war abroad has enabled
Signor Gallo to secure a number of dis
tinguished foreign singers, including
Giuseppe Battistini. an eminent Italian
baritone; Signor Eugenio De Folco,
Italy's rising young opera tenor; Mad
halena Carreno. meZZo soprano and
noted stage beauty; Davide Silva, bari
tone. late co-star with Senior Constan-
tino, at San Francisco: Luisa Darclee,
lyric soprano, late of the Buenos Aires
opera, and others, who will appear in
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Sporting Widows" Company.

Burlesque amusement of the highest
order is promised at the Gayety Thea
ter next week by Jacobs and Jermon's S
sporting Widows" company. headed
by Harry Cooper. Leo Hayes and Abe
Leavitt. funmakers extraordinary, in
"Circling the Globe" in two acts and
eight scenes. Opening in modfste' s
shop. the action is transferred to the
Cafe Carte at San Francisco. followed
by jump across the Pacific to Japa-
nese tea garden, back again to America
to the Arlington and Lexington apart
ments. then to the far famed Garden
of Paradise at Los Angeles. Just a
brief breathing spell is followed by a
cross continental leap to Riverside
drive, New York city. with a short So
iourn there and in a millionaire's II
brary In the metropolis. when the
grand finale Is staged in quarters of
sultan Abdul in Turkey. A connected
story Is unfolded in which mirth and
melody run throughout. Specialties
win be introduced b Ruth Lockwood,
Evening star., 1917-01-14

concerning the spoken dramas
tendency toward frivolous
~ demonstration and a perfume
tory devotion to themes de
pendent upon seeking some new side ol
point to the eternal triangle. The play
wright is strangely oblivious to ths
plots that clamor for expression in the
daily news and even in the more ven
erable pages of our national history
The characters with which the play
wright deals are wholly conventional
| ized: husbands are brutes, wives are
martyrs, criminals objects of patient
sympathy and policemen tyrannica
oppressors of evildoers bent on reform
| All wayward girls are innocent vic
| Tins and all leisurely young men OF
wealth their constituencies pursuers
1t is a most depressing world we live
| in according to the legitimate dra.
| matist who. in threshing out the ole
straw. absolutely ignores the new
! wheat that is growing up in a vast ex-
panse of current suggestion.
With the scenario writer it is differ
ent. He takes no account of time, save
by its passing, and as 1t passes puts
forth his lustiest endeavors to hit the
gong of notoriety and let the hour be
known.
"The Birth of a Nation" which returns
to this city next week, portrays with
vivid realism themes which the speaking
theater had struggled In vain in many
instances adequately to express .Ques-
tions of national defense and economic
policy have been boldly grappled by the
movies and exploited with ring Of
human interest which the talking thea
ter seems unable to evoke from them.
THE Eagles Wings" another of next
weeks film attractions. discusses in
dustrial as distinguished from military
preparedness. 1t is something in the
nature of prophecy foreshadowing
dangers, but at present little understood.
the producer being content no doubt. IL
his early proclamation prevent his pre-
diction from being realized. The nimble
heels of Mrs. Vernon Castle have been
retired in favor of her forehead. from
beneath which has been evolved one of
the most elaborate of film spectacles
dealing with national themes. 1t is
called "Patria, and Will be continued
in our next" from week to week in con-
junction with the vaudeville program at
Keith's.
The approval extended to oliver
Twist" warrants the confidence of the
Columbia Theater management in the
Great Expectations" If Dickens were
alive and had written the story in hlm
form under the guidance of the con-
ventional studio director he would
be merely one of the multitude OF
underworld authors. In fact. he would
not be the Charles Dickens whom We
now know on the bookshelves. But
with his keen perception of types and
situations he would have given the
movie authors a race which soon would
resemble a solitary promenade with "a
crowd in the distance. The public
would surely be quick to accord him
affectionate familiarity. and Charlie
Dickens reduced, of course, from the
pedestal to which literature has as
signed him, would be as popular
movie author as Charlie Chaplin is
movie clown Irreverent as this sug-
gestion may appear. it is not unrea-
sonable in view of the regulations
which have faded from stellar brill !
liancv into the common glare in that |
great leveler Of personalities. the pho J
toplay.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
NEW NATIONAL

William Gillette's new comedy, by
Clare Hummer. entitled "A Successful
Calamity" is to be shown at the New
National Theater this week, beginning q
tomorrow evening. In the play Ar
thur Hoyxins has associated a star. an
author and a scenic artist noted for
unique abilities.
AFR. Gillette needs no introduction.
lie holds a dominant position with his
admirers. His many tricmphs have
made his name known ro two conti-
nents. His visits are events always
commanding the interest Of theater-
Eoers.
Miss hummer, the author. of Mr.. Gil
istte's new play. Is one OF the play
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Virginia.

tomorrow and every day except sun
day the hlm serial. ''Gloria's Romano. ..
In twenty episodes, with Miss Rl,,.
Burke pictured In the title role. win b.
shown at the Virginia Thester. on s,,,
street northwest. This IL the first tim.
this MIN novel OF Mr.. and Mrs. Runer,
hughes mas been shown Continuously.
without the usual weekly wait for sue
ceeding episodes- All who attend to-
morrows performances will be given a
coiored post card of Billie Burke. a.
a souvenir The added features TO th-
news pictures and comedy subject.
each changed daily.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
"The Great Lover" January %.

For the week starting Monday, Jan
uary 20. the New National Theater will
offer THE Great Lover" one of the
most interesting theatrical attractions
of the season. The story is an intimate
and fascinating reflection of grand
opera life on and off the stage, and for
a year it crowded the Longacre The
ater. New York. to capacity, and dupli-
Gated its success in Chicago and Bos-
ton.
Mr.. Dftrtchstein has never appeared
to better advantage than as Jean
Paurel in this popular comedy.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Arcade.

Indoor skating, to the accompaniment
of the large orchestrion. is an attrac-
tion at the Arcade Auditorium. During
the coming week the added attractions
will include exhibitions of skating and
dancing to the music of the Arcade
orchestra, with request" numbers. Mon
day will be free to ladies; Wednesday
the regular mid-week dance will be
given: Friday. Riddles night" and
Saturday, the special weekend dance.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Thurston. the Magician.

Thurston. the magician, will be the
attraction at Polls Theater next week,
beginning next Sunday night.
The scope of the Thurston operations
is indicated by the titles of his mys-
teries. the more notable of which are
Tone" a young lady who mysteriously
floats about the stage: "Pygmaleon and
Galatea." weird playlet, together with
the manifestations of spirits and the
naturalization of ghosts"
Evening star., 1917-01-14
In the Spotlight.

The Belle of New York. is to have
a revival in London.
Amelia SummervilIe is going back
into vaudeville.
An English comedy. The Lodger.'
has just been produced in New York
James Forbes is rewriting "a Woman
of Today for an early production.
Chauncey Olcotts new leading wo-
man is Ruth Sinclair.
John Cort is to produce Mother Ca
rey's Chickens in Pittsburgh shortly.
Marguerite Leslie is to join Laurette
Taylor's company in The Harp OF
Life
has been named by Mrs. Fiske Down
South
Anna Held is to have a theater of her
own in New York. to be erected by the
Shuberts and called by her name.
Mark Murphy. the well known vaude-
vile comedian, died last Wednesday
of pneumonia. aged sixty-two years.
A revival of The Great Divide" will
bring forward Kathlene Mcdonnell in
the part played by Margaret Anglin-
Mark Swan has written play to be
produced by a new firm, Blinn & She's
green. entitled The Little Brown
Men"
The fiftieth performance of Her
Soldier Boy the military operetta,
which was first produced in this city.
was celebrated in New York last night.
play by Robert Edeson. called
His Brothers Keeper" is to be pro-
duced Mr. Edeson intends to devote
his time to playwriting.
Ned Munroe and Charles McNaughton
have been added to the cast of THE
Beautiful Unknown" an Oscar Strauss
operetta now in rehearsal
The golden wedding anniversary OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Eberie of the Little
Women" company will be observed
with suitable festivities in the neal
future.
Hearts of Erin" the new musical
piece by Henry Blossom. has been
played in Cleveland and Buffalo and
goes into Boston tomorrow night for
a five-week stay.
Anna Crawford Flexne. who drama
tized Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" has completed a farce called
"Wanted-An Alibi." which will be pro-
duced by the Shuberts.
Nazimova appeared in New York last
week in a drama called "'Ception
Shoals" by H. Austin Adams. 1t is
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Gerhardt and Zimbalist January %

Elena Gerhardt. the great lieder
singer, and Efrem Zimbalist, the emil
nent violinist, will be heard in joint
recital as the third concert in the ar
lists course Tuesday, January %, at
the New National Theater. Beauty of
voice, art and person sums up in a
phrase Elena Gerhardt.