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The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
CAPE MAY COLONY
MAKES new RECORD
Popular New Jersey Resort Throns-
ed with Summer Visitors.

Cape May, N. J.. Aug. 1.-THE big
fortnight OF the summer season at
this resort will reach its pinnacle
tomorrow at noon. Last Sunday at
noon Cape May had moro people with
In its confines than at any previous
time in its history, unless IL was on
Independence Day this year.
Capt. Charles T. Plunkett, of the
navy. director OF gunnery exercises
and engineering performances, and
Lieut.. Commander William w. Gal
braith, U. S. N. of the Bureau Of
Navigation. are at Cape May exam
lining the plot of ground recently taken
over on the south side OF the Cape
May harbor for the establishment of
q submarine base and an aviation
school. They are also understood to
be negotiating for the keeping open,
under government regulation, the Ho-
tel Cape May, throughout the year
for the purpose of properly enter
tanning naval officers and men who
will be here from time TO time at the
aviation station. The station, which
will cover ten blocks OF property, is
already a beehive of activity. Cramp
and Company, Of Philadelphia, build
ers, have already commenced their
work and have erected a storehouse
and are now building wharves in order
to receive their material for the build
ing Of 100000 worth Of naval quar-
tiers for the air station.
The concert and ball given in the
city pier last Saturday night, by the
men Of the Naval Reserve Force, at
sewelrs Point, was a big social and
financial success, netting over 500
for the club, which has been estab-
lished in the Henry c. Lea cottage,
where the boys may pass a part of
their leave time.
Fifty beds are now being installed
in the clubhouse for the accommoda-
tion Of those who have night leave
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Cosmos-VaudeyilIe.

Beginning with the matinee Mon
day, August 20. the Cosmos Theater
will open its regular fall and winter
season, resuming its regular policy OF
presenting but one bill a week, gath
cred from the choicest acts of popu-
lar vaudeville.
By this policy the management
states it is enabled to secure more vau-
deville offerings of the highest class,
which are unwilling to accept en-
gagements Of less than a full week.
The splendid two-reel, first-run
comedies that have been a popular
feature Of the summer season will be
continued, as also will the big feature
photoplays shown at the matinees and
the Hearst-Pathe News Pictorial, with
its special war section.
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Glen Echo Park.

For those washingtonians kept from
the usual summer haunts by war ac-
tivities Glen Echo Park offers many
attractions. For those who spend a
part Of their Sabbath at the nearby re-
sort there will be a series Of band con-
certs this afternoon and tonight by
Sol Minister'S Band. An added free at
traction will be the special showing of
motion pictures.
Dancing on an excellent floor in a
pavilion that has all sides open to
breezes is one of the leading amuse-
ments for the park fans The derby
racer and gravity provide thrills. while
the carrousel, midway and numerous
other attractions are at their height.
Arrangements are being completed
by the management for another musi-
cal novelty, which. it is expected. will
prove as popular as did the Marimba
Band.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
''OH, Boy PRODUCERS
GIVE COMEDY hints
Declare Little Things" Essential in
Light Musical Productions.


According to +. Ray Comstock
and William Elliott. two Of the most
successful producers in New York.
now more than ever is 1t "ths lit
tie things" that count in producing
musical comedy. These two young
men have to their credit TIE sus-
cess of Nobody Home" "vsry 0ssd
Eddie" Go to It." "Experienss." end
their latest and greatest hia oh.
Boy" which has been packiag ne
Princess Theater. New Yorh, for
more than q year. and with pros-
poets of remaining in its yesesst
quarters for another yea. ~Ob.
Boy" with a special company hSaA-
ed by Joseph Santley at the BslAsoo
Theater for an engagement Of one
week commencing tomorrow even
ing.
1t is to Mr.. F. Ray Comstock we
owe thanks for something new in the
way Of musical comedy-something
worth while. Frequenters Of musi-
cal comedy usually want to use their
brains as well as see pretty girls
and listen to good music with
catchy. lifting strains and 1t was
Mr.. Comstock who first changed the
old-time musical comedy into the
new intimate" type.
According to Mr.. Comstock and
Mr.. william Elliott. his partner.
this new, sublimated form of mus
ical comedy requires the most deli
cate and artistic treatment on the
part of the producer. IL he is to at
tain the happy result achieved at
the Princess Theater. New York.
NJ tfetfa 4ftHe
ment must be exercised in the solec-
tion of the furnishings. the scenery.
the company and the general en-
semble and only in that way can
the intimate" type Of musical COM
edy be a success. Smart society
folks Of New York have raved over
the exquisite beauty OF the produc-
tion of "Oh, Boy" It is a most
delightful musical comedy.
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CoIumbia-BiIIie Burke.

Billie Burke will be seen at Loew's
Columbia next Sunday, Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday in the first of her
Paramount pictures.
THE Mysterious Miss Terry" a
strangely charming production di-
rected by J. Searle Dawley.
This Is the best picture the famous
star has ever done, and in 1t she is
supported by cast of notable actors,
including Thomas Meighan.
Beginning Thursday and for the last
half Of the week Jack Pickford ano
Louise HUH will be seen in "The
Varmint." Readers of 1.-THE Saturday
Evening Post" who remember with
delight the Lawrenceville School
stories, will welcome the "Varmint"
which has been adapted for the screen
from these stories.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
WHAT "JAZZ" MUSIC is.

A jazz orchestra Is a riotous blare
of sound, a slam-bang, knock-'e EN-
down-and-drag-' -'em-out confusion OF
noises emanating from musical in
struments in the hands of persons
who probably seek retreat in a busy
boiler factory when they are in
search of peace and solitude. Jazz
Is a brazen, screaming screeching
confusion of whangbanging. tin-pan-
ming, combined with despairing
means and groans from a saxophone.
Any ordinary ragtime piece can be
jazzed. A jazz band consists of five
piece-drum, saxophone, banjo. piano
and trombone. A jazz orchestra may
substitute a cornet for the banjo, but
the line between the band and or
chestra is so fine that it requires an
expert to detect it, and even he is
never sure.
The bulk of the work falls to the
drummer and the saXophone player.
The saxophone runs wild and does
things that cannot be written in mu-
sic. The wilder it runs the better.
With the drummer recourse is had to
many devices-wash boilers, skillets.
COW bells, tin pans, empty cigar
boxes-anything that will give out
noise when beaten. The other musi-
clans wander off on Independent ex-
cursions of their own in different di-
rections. each trying to drown his
former knowledge of music in instru-
mental dissipation.
The fascination of jazz music lies
in it's wild barbarity. Jazz was first
given to the world little more than
a year ago by five negro musicians
who were playing in a cabaret resort
in a Southern city.-Kansas City Star,
The English government has en-
ployed. a woman to break in the
horses exported from Canada for use
In $50,
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COMING ATTRACTIONS.
BeIaseo-'Teave 1t to Jane,

Leave 1t to Jane" a new musical
comedy with music by Jerome Kern,
and book and lyrics by Guy Bottom
and P. G. Wodehouse, authors of "Oh,
Boy" comes to the Belasco Theater
for a weeks engagement, beginning
Monday night. August %.
The new offering is destined to be
the fall and winter attraction at the
Longacre Theater in New York, and
it has already been successfully pre-
sented in Atlantic City, Long Branch
and Asbury Park. 1t is based upon
George AIDES famous comedy. "The
College Widow" and follows the gen.
eral outlines of that celebrated story
Of college life. There are nineteen
musical gems in the score, which is
said to be in Mr.. Kern's most attract
i've vein.
The strong cast includes many ia
vorites, among them Edith HaIlor,
Anna Orr, Georgia O'Ramey, Oscar
Shaw, and host of pretty girls.
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HEALTH EXPERTS TO MEET

More than 700 members Of the Amer
ican Public Health Association ALL
meet in this city October Is. Is and 81
according to word received here by
Secretary Tom Grant OF the Cham
ber OF Commerce. At the request OF
the chairman OF the local COMMITTEES
on arangements. the Chamber Of Com
merce has forwarded TO the organ
ization a Eumber of interesting pic
tures OF the Capital as well as book
lets containing facts OF general IN
terest about WASHINGTON.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Marshall HALL.

The thirty-third annual tournament
and grand dress ball will be held at
Marshall Hall next Wednesday, Au-
gust Is. This interesting event at
tracts many thousands and to the sue
cessful Knights in thu fitting 800 in
gold is awarded. All knights and
ladies must be in costume and at $50
p. m the queen is crowned. The
Steamer Charles Manchester will make
the customary trips to Marshall Hall.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Strand-TheIma SaIter.

Thelma Salter In Sunderland" and
Emmy Whelan, in Miss Robinson
Crusoe," are among the photoplay at
fractions scheduled for Moore's Strand
Theater during the week of August 10.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Helen Hayes in Film
Seven-Reel Production

Helen Hayes. known to Washington
Stock patrons as Helen Hayes Brown,
has just finished work as the star
in a seven-reel feature film. After a
brief vacation she will return to New
York to begin rehearsals in the title
role Of "Pollyanna," in which play
she will tour to the Coast.
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"Oh, Boy" with Pretty Girls,
Weeks Theatrical Headliner

ular vaudeville 1t will offer a beauty
chorus of distinction headed by Jean
nette Whitley and Tom Aiken.
A musical offering Of real merit will
be presented by the Three MusicaI
Maids, harmony singers, pianists ana
violinists Charles Mack, late Of Swor
and Mack, a big time vaudeville team,
will offer a blackface speciality; Carl
and Howard, a repertoire of classic
songs and dances, with clever novel;
ties and handsome costume creations;
Baker and Rogers. the Millionaire
Hoboes," songs, parodies and patter;
Mack and Ellis, the latest bits from
the Broadway cabarets, and Richard.
Brandt and Martin, international aero
batic comiques, will make their Wash
ington debut.
The big photoplay feature, a Blue
Bird release, will be THE Pulse OF
Life; "A Dog Catcher's Love" will
be the first run Keystone comedy, and
the Hearst-Pathe News will complete
the bill.
The performances will start today at
p. m. and run continuously, present.
ing the Gypsy Singers, the famous
Harmous Spanish Troupe, Harry
Brooks and company in THE Old Min
strel Man" and all the acts of the
closing bill OF last week.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Grenf Falls Park.

This will be "old Virginia Week at
Great Falls Park and many of tire
nearby Virginia communities will be
represented by outing parties. The
musical feature will be the concerts
by the Ladies' Orchestra.
Free dancing in the pavilion over
looking the Falls. and photo plays,
add to the attractiveness of an eve
ming spent at this resort,
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extraordinarily Dalton.

THE Flame of the Yukon" is the
name Of the new film play starring
Dorothy Dalton. which will be exhibit
ed at Moore's Garden Theater today.
Monday and Tuesday. Dorothy Dali
ton appears as a sort OF Alaskan Car
men, queen of the dance hall girls,
known through the Yukon country as
the Flame" She is the trump card
OF Black Jack Hovey. proprietor of
the Midas cafe, the most popular re-
sort in the lively mining town.
One night a stranger comes to the
place, and instead of tricking him, as
Black Jack orders, she finds herself
interested in him and aids him in
making his way on to the gold fields.
After his departure she feels that his
influence over her has been for the
good and decides that that night shall
be her last as a dance hall harpy.
During the long arctic winter she anx-
iously awaits his return and the hap
piness that she knows will come
with it.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day the film feature will be Charles
Ray in Sudden Jim," a story which
is familiar to readers of the Saturday
Evening Post. Saturdays program
will be led by William Russell in
Pride and the Man." a film story of
love. society, business and the prize
ring.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Keith's-YaudeyIIIe.

A double portion OF summer frivol-
ity and melody will next week be
served at B. F. Kelth's Theater with
Amelia Stone and Armand Kalisz in
'Mamzelle Caprice" and Winston's
Water Lions and Diving Nymphs, as
the co-star attractions. A special
stellar feature will be Bonita and Lew
Hearn in their dialect, drollery, and
musical blend of nonsense. Other fea-
lures will be French and Els In their
new spectacular symbolical dance nov-
city; Nonette, the violiniste, who
sings; Charles Kenna as THE Street
Fakie;" Eadie and Ramsden in
Charles VISIT" the Great Aki Kuma
and company of Oriental magicians; !;
the Lelands in "Paintography;" Ar
mold and Taylor: the pipe organ re-
citals; and the Hearst-Pathe news pic
torial and war scenes.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
new PLAY IS BILLED
ATNATIONAL THEATER
The Country Cousin" Will Open
Here August III.

Booth Harrington, Americas fore
most novelist and one OF the most i'm
portant playwrights in this country.
and Julian Street, clever satirist and
short-story writer. have collaborated
in the writing Of an American comedy
which they have endeavored to make
more carefully considered criticism
and reflection of American life than
the crook plays and business farces
which have recently been doing service
on the stage as real American plays"
The new piece is called THE Coun-
try Cousin" and represents an at
| tempt on the part of the authors to
contrast the more wholesome ideals
prevailing in this country a decade
or two ago with the more or less loose
standards now prevailing in certain
sets in certain parts of the nation.
The older ideals are typified by a
young, self-reliant girl from a small
town in the Middle West who is set
down IN a group Of sophisticated and
somewhat jaded pleasure seekers
from New York who are spending the
summer at gay house party on the
shore.
The piece, which is to be presented
at the Gaiety Theater, New York, fol-
lowing the successful run of Turn to
the Right" is to be seen at the Ma
tional Theater. this city. during the
week of August q. Miss Alexandra
Carlisle is to be featured in the leading
role, and other important players in the
company will be Eugene O'Brien. Miss
Grace Elliston. Miss Marion Coakley,
Donald Gallaher and Arthur Forrest.
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CoIumbIa-DouxIas Fairbanks.

Today and continuing for the en-
tire week Loew's Columbia offers
Douglas Fairbanks, Americas great
est exponent Of the smile, in his new
est photoplay, Down to Earth" a
story written by himself.
8ni- Gaynor, a lover of the out
95orz famous Alpine climber and a
mter for big game in Africa, and
Ethci forsythe, a pretty aspirant for
scciAty honors, are sweethearts from
ca1fhscd. Bill asks Ethel to marry
hig lHI go for a trip to the Alps, but
tfs -cEng society bud refuses to give
- f first season" Bill starts on
h.s going first to the Alps and
tteE 30 the Congo, while EthePs life
Gcntinuous round Of bridge par
les elnces, dinners and teas. On
su-Ttlg to this county Bill goes to
fs stern ranch, where he receives
- " thtion TO the wedding of Ethel
- s-ts Aey, one of BiI's former ri
f4i8 as Bill decides to go to
t'aiaa he Receives a letter from a
t1d asking why he doesn't come
nd take Ethel from that boob
- going to marry" and telling
- AIT her health Is boken down
ea4 rat, she has gone to DR.. Jolly
rem sanitarium to recuperate.
Hil 1t once starts for the sani-
tarium in the East and asks Ethel
to marry him. She consents, and a
year later finds Bill and Ethel honey
mooning in the West.
A scenic. a Sidney Drew comedy
and the Hearst-Pathe news are also
on the program.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Gardep-EnrIe WIIIIams

The program promised by Moore's
Garden Theater for the week of
August 10, includes Earle Williams in
a film play, entitled The Stolen
Treaty" and Bessie Barriscale in
Borrowed Plumage."
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
Gsyety-Ben weIch's New show.

Ben Welch's New Show is the at
traction which will play the Gayety
Theater next week. The organization,
as its title implies, is different from
start to finish, and presents a cast
Of ability. 1t also boasts of a large
chorus of attractive young women
who will be seen to best advantage
in many musical numbers and en-
sembles.
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Cosnos-Barney wiIlfams.

Barney Williams and THE Roseland
Girls" will appear at the Cosmos
Theater this week, beginning with to-
morrows matiEees. In addition to one
e< taa best scosntSia cousdians IN pop
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12

sixth OF the earth's land surface, to
protect 1s2,0oo.oo0 souls. representing
sixty-four racial and tribal divisions
and spAaking moro than 15o tongues.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
strand-sessue Hayakawa.

Wallace Irwin's celebrated "Japa-
nese schoolboy," "Hashimura Togo"
will be portrayed by Sessue Hayakawa
at Moore's Strand Theater today,
Monday and Wednesday. Many maga-
zine readers who have followed the
screamingly funny antics of this quaint
and original character will be inter-
ested in the prospect of seeing him
visualized for the screen by this popu-
lar japanese actor.
On Thursday and Friday Enid
Bennett will be pictured in "The
Mother Instinct" Eleanor Coutierre,
the character portrayed by the star.
is a singularly beautiful girl, and her
mother Is determined that this youth
full beauty shall not be prematurely
bHghted by the rough labor required
of a fisherman's life. So Eleanor Is
sent to Paris where many of the in
tense scenes Of the picture are laid.
Jackie Saunders in "Bab, the Fixer,
will be shown on Saturday.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12

Experts estimate the Cuban sugar
crop now under way at 3,175.OOO tons,
which ought, at average prices for the
crop just completed, to bring $50, 900, =
CO., an increase Of s45,O0O,OoO over last
year.
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12

One million eight hundred thousand
women are active farmers aud gard
eosrs in the United States
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
s.yety-TwentIeth Century Maids.


Jim Barton. a popular comedian,
heads the cast of the Twentieth Gen.
tury Maids, the current weeks at
traction at the Gayety Theater. 20.
XXX o." is the title given to the
two-act musical burlesque, the plot
Of which calls for the services of
many odd characters, ranging from
a japanese diplomat and an Esqui-
maux to a detective and lady re-
porter.
The first scene is laid In the
grounds OF the White House in Wash
inston, from which point the charac-
ters are rapidly transported to the
corridor of the Biltmore Hotel in New
York, then to a tea garden in Japan,
back to New York to a popular dane
ing academy, next to the territory of
minstrel land" and then to the frigfc
regions Of the North Pole.
Mr.. Barton is supported by an ex.
cellent cast which includes Jacqueline
Tallman. Florence Tanner, Jack Duffy
and Tillie Barton. A carefully selected
chorus also has a prominent past in
the success Of the production.
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F. RAY CoMSTocK AND
WILLIAM ELLIOTT, youth,
full producers, who have given
something new to the stage in
their idea of the intimate type
of musical comedy.
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Belasco-HOh, Boy"

when "oh. Boy" the fourth and
most successful of the Princess
Theater musical offerings, comes to
the Belasco Theater for an engage
ment OF one week, commencing to-
morrow evening. under the direc-
tion OF the Comstock-Elliott Com
pany, the playgoers OF this city will
see two dozen Of the youngest and
prettiest girls ever seen on the
stage in one production. They will
be new faces. too. because not one
OF the girls in the "Oh. Boy" COM
psny was ever on the stage before.
Another interesting feature is the
fact that each girl will have an in
dividual and different gown suited
and fitted to her particular person
ality.
Messrs. Comstock and Elliott do
not believe in choruses in the old
sense Of the term. Every girl in
their ensemble is treated as a prin-
cipaL Each girl has line to say
and a gown OF color and design to
suit her individuality and PERSONAL
ity. There's a model for the most
fashionable, as well as the most
conservative dresser and the pretty
girls CT the "Oh, Boy" company dis
play them to their best advantage.
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KeIth,s-DonaId Brian.

GrdllIylnB an dmDlIlOn 10 play q
real mans role and forswearing for
a time his rank and fame as the mu-
sical comedy and waltz king, estab-
hshed at the time of his memorable
hit as the table-dancing prince in ''The
Merry Widow" Donald Brian will this
week at B. F. Keith's Theater in
augurate his vaudeville premiere as
the fighting American airman in
Somewhere in Mexico" His support,
which Is unusually large and dis
tinguished for a one-act sketch, COM
prises John Sainpolis and Roy Fair
child with Richard Bentley. Walter
Gilbert, and William Francisco.
Mr.. Brian Is cast as Charles Cor
don. while Roy Fairchiid plays Thorn
as Gordon. Sainpolis enacts Villa, the
bandit The climax Is said to be high
ly dramatic, patriotic and surprising.
The extra added attraction, bringing
the latest ballads Broadway is ap-
plauding, will be Willie Weston. Third
in order Jack Donahue and Alice Ma
rion Stewart. a very big New York
hit Just recently, in eccentric chat
ter and stepping. Those Five Girls
are expected to make a decidedly IA
vorable impression. Other features
Auliy suSldlulnS luS present SUMMER )
high standard will be Hermann and
Shirley in The Mysterious Mas
querader," a surprising comedy nov-
city; the Five Metzettis in marvellous
mid-air somersaulting; Asaki. the Jug
Cling Jap on roller skates; Castellano
and Zardo; the pipe organ recitals and
the Heart-Pathe news pictorial with
films OF our "Sammies" at home and
abroad
Today at and s:15 p. m. at B. F.
Keith's Theater the bill will offer the
Meistersingers, Brenda Fowler and
company, Toots Paka, Bert Swor and
the others who were popular last
week
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WHO'S WHO IN THE PICTURES.

I-Scene from "Oh, Boy" at Belasco
Insert-Joseph San1ey.
a-Roy Fairchld and Donald Brian, in Somewhere in
Mexico" at Keith's.
g. Jim Barton, with "2oth Century Maids" at Gayety
4-Baker and Rogers Cosmos.
5-Dougas Fairbanks, in Down to Earth" at Columbia
6-Dorothy Dalton, in "The Flame of the Yukon" at
Moore's Garden.
7-sessue Hayakawa, in "Hashimura Togo" at Moores
Strand
The Washington herald., 1917-08-12

The English government has en-
ployed. a woman to break in the
horses exported from Canada for use
in the war.