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The Washington times., 1917-07-15
Mary PSckford in
Patriotic Film Is the
Offering at Loev' S

The new Mary Pickford photopIay
Loew's Columbia Theater beginning
: this afternoon, is a study of the inti-
mate phases OF warfare. 1t is called
THE Little American" and pictures
Miss Pickford in the title role. The
film story is particularly interesting
to Washington theatergoers because
of the fact that the early scenes are
laid in his city and the heroine Is a
Washington girl.
The story. beginning Just prior to
the outbreak OF war, originates with
the love Of two men for the same s !rl.
One Is an attache of the French le-
cation and the other a German
American. The latter departs for his
Fatherland when the war starts with
out opportunity to bid his sweetheart
good-by, and she feels that she has
been deserted. She goes to visit her
aunt in France. An old French
chateau is plunged into the midst Of
wars realities. She sees helpless men
oAN SNNNaANANN W NhS
and all the sympathy she had felt for
her lovers country is turned into
loathing. Her sweetheart is a mem
ber of the regiment that captures the
chateau, but she telephoneslback to
the French lines a description that
gives them the proper range, and is
caught in the act by the Prussians
and is at once condemned to death.
This sentence destroys all loyalty
in her lover and he throws down his
sword, renounces his allegiance to the
government, and takes his place be-
side her to face the firing squad. The
timely bombardment by the French
artillery saves the two and a logical
happy ending to the story is pro-
vided.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

Beginning tomorrow night. Mana
ger Berger has arranged for between
act dansants in the lobby Of Polls
Theater, as well as on the top deck
of the porch. Both the lobby and the
porch overlook the White House
grounds. and provide a wonderfully
interesting place for such eeremon-
ials. The same program will be fol-
lowed at matinees. and II Is expected
at It will prove an attractive feG-
ture.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

Earle Williams and Dorothy Kelly
will be featured today. tomorrow and
Tuesday at Moore's Garden Theater In
/ film detective drama, entitled The
Maelstrom." Upon a crowded street
! in a dense fog people are jostling
each other in the murky dimness.
Jimmie Hallett, a young millionaire
clubman, is drifting along with the
human tide. Suddenly, out of the
fog, a young woman rushes to him,
thrusts a package into his hand. and
cries, Take it, and run" Keen for
to the address it bears. is admitted to
a darkened house and then felled by
a blow upon the head. When he re-
gains consciousness the package has
disappeared, the safe IN the room has
been rihed, and lie rinds the body Of
an aged man, murdered. Here is mys-
terry, indeed. and in unraveling the
tangled threads and weaving them
into a net to ensnare the guilty ones,
the young man finds himself plunged
into the maelstrom of the underworld.
Eventually -he mystery is cleared.
ard the criminals brought to Justice,
but not until many tense and excit-
ing scenes are projected on the
screen.
On Wednesday and Thursday Sir
John Hare, the celebrated English
actor. and Peggy Hyland. last seen in
the sixteenth Wife," will be fea-
tured in a film version OF the famous
play. Caste" Antonio Moreno as
sisted by Bell Bruce and Julia Swayne
Gordon, will be pictured on Friday
and Saturday in "A Son OF the Hills"
a drama OF country life in the South.
The story depicts the adventures of
an ambitious mountain lad, who goes
into the world and makes good.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15
JOINS PICTURE STARS.

Another important addition has
been made to the list of stars in
Paramount Pictures by the engage
ment OF Lima Cavalieri. who has con-
tracted to appear in productions of
the Famous PIayers-Lasky Corpora
ton exclusively for a period OF one
year. According to the agreement
Just entered into. Nine. Cavalieri will
star in two pictures. one to be staged
in September and the other In the
spring. so as not to interrupt her
operatic career as the star Of the Chi
cago Opera Company.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

Are Featuredon
BFKefh'sBll

Another dual star bill will again
be presented at B. F. Keith's Thea
ter this week, the two feature at
fractions being George White and
Emma Haig. and Ida Brooks Hunt.
Alfred de Mandy and company.
White and Haig in their repertoire
of dances embody the gay and ar
dent spirit of Broadway, and for
weeks they have been headIining the
brilliant bills at B. F. Keith's pal
ace, Riverside and other greater New
York city theaters. Their assign
ment to Washington is an event Of
much interest to vaudeville patrons.
SartorialIy and scenicaIly considered,
it can be promised they will crafty
the most refined artistic sense.
Ida Brooks Hunt is a prima donna
whose vocal art is heightened by
her personal charms. Her operatic
history covers Woodland" algeria" I"
The Chocolate Soldier" and other
hits OF more recent dates. Alfred de
Manly is an English artist who sang
the leading roles in a long series of
London musical comedy productions
by the famous impresario George
Edwards. With George Halperin as
sisting' them they will present "A
Fantasy OF Melodies"
The extra added feature Is the
new alliance OF popular comedians,
Billie Montgomery, formerly of
Montgomery and Moore, and George
Perry, late of Perry and White. As
Two Bachelors Of Art" they offer a
bit OF foolery principally composed
OF droll songs, odd dances. cross
fire badinage, and a travesty of the
dance premiere, Albsrtina Rasch, that
is pure travesty.
Included in the bill are such high
ly rated features as Ivan Bankoff
and Lola Grille in a group of strik-
ingly original choregraphic. concep-
tions: Percy Brownson and Winnie
Baldwin OF $50 Long Lefty" and His
Little Widows" in "A 1917 SongoI-
ogy;" Nelson Waring, announced as
"A Man and a Piano; Duffy and
Daisy in fun a wheel. and Arabian
Somersaulting: Sylvia Loyal and
"Pterrot' with the clever dog and
the flock OF homing pigeons; the
pipe organ and the Hearst -Pathe
News Pictorial, with a section de-
voted to the United States expedi-
tionary force and fighting at the
European battlefront
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

(Mar-eem-bal is one of the irst mu-
sical instruments of percussion It
has twenty-eight wooden keys. be-
meath which are placed hollow pieces
of wood to increase the resonance. il
is played with rubber-tIpped ham
mers. Accompanying II Is usually =
bass viol, although in South Africa,
when played by the savages. its only
accompaniment Is the syncopated
strumming Of tomtoms.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15
PoGys S to Offer
! Stirring Drama
of the Seaside

The Poll Players will this week
ofer The Girl From Out Yonder.'
stirring tale OF the sea, in which
f7orence Rittenhouss and Robert w,
Fraser will have wonderfully inter
esting roles.
Seventeen years before the time of
the play. the HesDer is wrecked, and
only q dozen lives are saved, among
them q little girl baby, who is car
ried the lighthouse, where q girl
be- he just been born to the wife
mos Barton.
Hhe sea-baby dies and the Bartons
Same their own baby Flotsam. She
is reared at the lighthouse with the
coast guard and the fishermen as her
associates
aaved By FIotsam.
Aparty of New York tourists visit
Hlittle summer clubhouse near the
Hght and one OF the women Of their
fgroup is rescued, while boating, by a
4 child in oiIskins, whom they after
ward discover is Flotsam. She meets
I'd F1r1 Elmer, q rich young nephew
oF ArA Elmer. whom she has rescued,
and q friendship leads to love-
A murder has been committed
lshortly after the beginning of the
lplay on the ship Of which Amos Bar
ton was a sailor. Amos, when drunk,
Is told by the real murderer that Bar
ton himself committed the crime. Be
heving that Flotsam would never be
convinced of her fathers guilt, he
resolves to turn her against him by
telling her she Is not his own child,
and that he is tired of caring for her.
In the third act he sends for Flot-
sam, having first sent word to the au-
thoritIes that he is waiting for them,
RunE4fen follows a wonderfully con-
strueted scene, in which Amos lies to
his own child and tells her she Is the
bit Of driftwood that was washed up
by the sea, that his own child lies
buried near the light.
ExOnerated In the End.
Having driven her away from him.
he calmly awaits the officers, but be-
fore they arrive Flotsam learns the
truth and rushes to her father. He
weakens and confesses that she is his
own child. and he had only lied to
her to save her from sharing his
shame. The officers come and he is
led to prison.
After two years the real murderer
writes his confession on his deathbed,
exonerating Amos, and he returns to
his home and Flotsam. In the mean
time Young Elmer has pressed his
suit, and when the father Is vindi-
Gated he wins the hand OF Flotsam.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

The Central Coliseum is nightly
thronged with dancers OF all ages.
That the various dancing contesrs,
held on Monday. Wednesday, and Sat-
urday nights, are popular, Is proved
by the constantly increasing num-
ber OF entries for those events.
The splendid ventilation and the
many electric fans keep the hail at a
comfortable temperature AMI excel
lent music is rendered by the geven-
piece Coliseum orchestra.
A special one-step contest, for which
a gold prize will be awarded the
couple adjudged the winner, Is an
nounced for tomorrow night.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

Vaudeville and stock motion pictures galore and out-of
this week will provide entertainment for the
Capital Temporarily both the National and the Beasco have
dropped of the running for the brief remainder of the
summer but the curtaed theatrical bill of fare offers chance
for selection that leaves for complaint
B. F. Keths schedule for the week carries promise of
mid merit With two headners and number of Wash
ngon favores capacity audiences undoubtedly will be the
rule again.
The Poll Players to be in "The Girl From Out
Yonder former New York that is having its first
presentation here which will give Poll patrons opportunity
to see their favorites in new roles.
Aurng prospects in store for the phoopay FANS At
Loews Columbia the great patriotic film, The Little Ameri-
can with Mary Pckford starring will be the attraction all
the week. private exhibition given last Sunday Gov
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

ernment officials and other guests and the public will have
its first chance today to this stirring picture
At the Moores Strand the feature film will be interest
ing story of the Virginia hills "Bawbs of the Blue Ridge
with Bessie Barsse the heroine of the romantic story
At the Garden thrilling detective story "The Maestrom
featuring Earle Williams and Dorothy Kelly the main arac
ton on the bill for the first half of the week
AT the other film houses excellent bills scheduled and
all of the Capitals outdoor entertainment full
swing.
The enterprisng management of Glen Echo Park is
sponsibe for Washington having its first chance this week
hear the latest New York fad in music bringing here for
weeks engagement the famous Marmba Band added at
traction to its program of amusements.
Boat trips down the Potomac again the vogue Great
Falls catering to its patrons and Central Coliseum
making its bid for favor with the dancers.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

The bathing season at ColoRial
Beach is now at its height and the
shores Of that resort are dotted with
vacationists. Grabbing and fshing
are in full swing, and for those to
whom these sports do not appeal
there are numerous amusements
available.
The st. Johns is now making four
trips weekly to this resort, leaving
the Seventh street wharves at a. m.
on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sun
days, and at p. m. on Saturday.
Moonlight trips are made on Monday,
wednesday, and Friday nights, Ieav-
ing the same wharves at p. m. and
returning about four hours later.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15

The Ladies Orchestra has been re.
engaged this week as the feature at
Great Falls Park, where free dancing
and free motion pictures may be en-.
A5oyed.
other popular amusemeptE arc pro-
vided for young and old. Many local
organizations have their annual oET-
inEs this year at Great Falls pHrk.
Excellent fishing may be enjoyed and
the tent city. with the chautauqua nre
popular features At Great Falls Park
this year.
The Washington times., 1917-07-15
HAS BRAND NEW DRESS.

When the Gayety Theater reopens
on August ( number of striking
changes in its appearance will be no.
ticeable A concrete floor has re-
placed the old woouen floor. and the
house has been redecorated from pit
to dome. Another novelty which will
greet the eye will be the presence OF
girl ushers, who will entirely replace
the male variety on the first two
floors of the house.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17

He-well. Agnes, guess you won't.
see me after next week.
She-Why Arnold, why?
He Creplying nonchalantly)-I got
my commission this morning; got
wire from Washington to be ready to
leave at a moments notice
She-why, you never said anything
about this beforei
He (yawning)-Oh, didn't think It
would interest you any; it's nothing
much.
She (excited like)-What is il?
He-Oh, I'm to leave for France to
go m the Aviation Corps as a first
Heutenanti
She-all agog, eyes ready to pop out
OF her head, looks at him marveling-
Why, Arnold, how wonderful, you an
aviator? It's so risky, but can't get
over It!
He docking the room over in a
blase way)-It's nothing much, fellas
don't think Of that sort of thing. I'm
built for that kind OF work. I'm just
crazy to start" etc, etc.
Act 2. A month later. Scene, inte-
rior Of an Office Young man named
Arnold Is seen filing letters. Curtain.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17
WILD MEN YOU HAVE MET.

Ali for nice razor blade sandwich
garnished with gravy a la ground
glass. What! You must mean rough
stuff! Them's our intentions absoex-
actly. There's a loon up the road
we're going to feed 1t to or else wipe
on his chin with a double barrel nap
Kin. You're with US when you've lis
tened our warble and you'll furnish a
pitchfork toothpick to wind up the
mean meal. Now, Arnold. haven't you
come tripping up the avenue, at peace
with everybody, gentle thoughts in
your mind, about getting married, or
giving the tailor the tall timbers, etc,
when all Of a sudden there's a re-
port that jars your wisdom teeth into
the kindergarten class and rips the
head OF your ear drums, you eau
tiously heel around to see if aid is
being rushed to the wounded. then
there's another hellabaloo bang and
you come to, it's a goof autoist anus
ing himself with the gas and shark
handles? Or else 1t was by accident
and he tries it again to see If 1t will
repeat.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17

they came around to the house and
dragged me along" ETC., etc. Y'know
his brand-eighteen per week, and
around with millionaire's sons. He's
such a popular canary. Only asso-
ciates with much money lizards. He's
always wilding around with so and
SOS son in his roadster. Wants to be
known as a wild oats finger, etc. >
Oh, well, We guess we've annoy "a
you enough with this series or got
you to thinking Of pests when you're
trying to loosen up with smiles in
these trying times, so, as you pass
out on the left drop a penny in the
box to help buy an isolated island for
would-be sports, four-flushers, etc.
etc. oh, thank you, kind sir, for the
ten-dollar bill.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17
WILD MEN You HAVE MET

And now the final chapter on auto
maniacs. Bill Collier says about a
boob, "if he had twice as much sense
as he already has he'd still be half
witted-" Well, that mouthrul fits the
rummy were going to pen about. like
a coat Of tan, and the only wrinkle.
win be around the forehead because
there's nothing there for 1t to cover.
Inc easiest we could be to this flat
tire would be to hang a flank steak on
the back Of his neck, lower him In a
cage Of panthers, or a treadmllI. and
every step he'd take, would buzz a
klaxon. We're not harsh. When Won
know why, all the cruel stun, you'u
vote for US. It's the squash who
comes sneaking along In bis rattler
and takes special delight ia creeping
up behind one Of us poor hicks. gets
up so close to us he can hear our
Ingersoil hammering. then lets out a
Grrrrroool that scares the tints on
our necktie. then growls. .wakeup-
whatsamattawitcha, Areyasieept
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17

theres q crowd. Especially in hotel
lobbies. His big game is to make
people think he's a guy-much-about-
town. in-on-the-big-stuff, and quite a
rasbo. He talks so others can hear
his bull. So you and me will feel
like couple of squashes. and think,
Gosh. he's some gravy" He knows
everybody that is a big glare, per-
sonal friends Of theirs, y'know. This
rummy just lives to kid himself along
h dream stun and make US poor
boobs stand with open mouths, chin
on-the-chest pose, and saucer eyes,
drinking in his speech that is pur-
posely made loud enough SO wen
get IL all Remember the fable of
the balmy crow who found gay
feather and decked himself up with
II. then went gliding around with
his nose high In the zephyrs until
the other wingers got wise to him
and he had to mooch along to find
other birds to wahoo? Well. the
crow trick Is being did these times.
much heavy.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17

49, , 5ON
swell line. 1t ram
bles as follows
without a stutter
or a blush. Scene
IA parlor. Time,
Is till midnight.
The lights are low.
A youth and a
maid are seated
on the overstuned-
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17

and the 6-horse-
power chin works.
His good morn
ing" sounds like
this: "Oh boy, I'm
all in this a. m.
Didn't get in till 3.
Out with a gang
from the Univer-
sity Club. Didn't
want tO 20 h1It
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17

= 80 POOA oAAlAp 10
roaming around in
a fog. II the boob
would only step
back a pace and
take a look at
himself he'd get
at least a hint
everybody is hep
to him. He four
l s h e s W h e r 9
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17
Within HE Law

Teacher-Why did the whale give
mp Jonah?
Young America-I suppose he had
heard OF the Law against boarding
rod
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17
THE BIG TIME GUY.

This is reckless Ralph, the wolf
with the three-eandle power thinker
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17
THE MUCH DOG" LAD.

Here's old kid -four flush" The
gink who smears on the dog" I"
The Washington herald., 1917-11-17
CANDIDATES FOR "NO MANS" LAND
THE PARLOR PATRIOT.
BY GENE AHERN.

Walk on your "O'Sullivan's," get in
the corner and eat up this birds pre-
luda He's pof a
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The Real Lincoln

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: After studying with much interest the
two Lincolns in Sundays Tribune, ! venture
70 suggest that neither Of the statues rep
resented discloses the characteristic Lincoln,
as he was known Of all men in form and
manner during the period Of his career
from 1860 to 1865.
OF the two, the Barnard statue, justly-if
rudely-criticised for needlessly uncouth de-
tails, will nevertheless convey TO one famil-
lar with Lncoln's presence more Of what
he was than will that OF Saint-Gaudens
Lincoln never looked like the Saint-Gaudens
presentation, which in pose and represented
physique suggests. notably in the lower limbs,
a man of stalwart proportions, such as one
never would associate with the original. His
was a tall angular figure, in dress somewhat
careless, as one absorbed and mind preoc-
cupied, as God knows he was, yet neat in
general appearance, though plainly uncon-
formed to fashion in his clothes, which I
noted were always dark, a frock coat Of
conventional form reaching below his knees,
and the tall, fat-brimmed hat, such as is IA
miliar to us in many Of his pictures
Take away a little Of the air Of hopeless
and forlorn resignation shown in the Bar
rard statue, reform the pose somewhat, in
Guiding the habiliments, and you'll have
more Of the real Lincoln than is shown in
the Saint-Gaudens figure.
As The Tribune has often recorded the
fact, / was present e. the theatre on the
night of Good Friday, April IA, 1865, when
Lincoln was assassinated, and him car
ried insensible across the street TO the house
where he died the next morning. As young
man | accompanied Mr.. Olmsted to Wash
ngton to engage in the work Of the United
States Sanitary Commission, and later en-
tered the service Of the government on the
Notifications in Virginia under the chief
engineer, General l. G. Barnard, L. s. l..
mention this detail because in both services
had many opportunities to see and TO OBJ
serve Mr.. Lincoln, and of these occasions
still retain vivid recollection.
JOHN Y. CULVER
New York. Sept. H. 1911
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Praise for the Barnard Lincoln

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The plan OF the Sulgrave Committee
to erect in Trafalgar Square, London, rep
lea Of George Grey Barnard's statue OF Lin
coin is most commendabe undertaking In
a work so heroic, and one which is TO cause
so much comment, it is essential that those
ignorant of the true Lincoln should be pre-
sented with a real likeness Of the Great
Emancipation In Mr.. Barnard's statue we DO
not find the theatrical pose INDUCED IN SO
frequently by artists to delight an ignorant
public Rather has he interpreted the sim
pie unconventional body of Lincoln and in
so doing mirrored the real Lincoln's soul.
An extract from "The Art World printed
in last Sundays Tribune, criticsing the
raunt pioneer figure seems TO take the view
that democracy should be clothed in creased
trousers and suggests that Saint-Gaudens's
rather aggressive figure should be chosen in
steed. All the records Of Lincoln left TO a
devoted public seem to find expression in
Mr. Barnard's work There is startling
similarity in this work 70 a half-length mega
tive taken in 1860 by Mr.. ". c. futile, St.
Paul photographer Here are the same un-
ru!y mop Of hair, the same long neck in a
line with the slightly stopped shoulders and
the slightly prominent Adams apple. The
features are indisputably from the original
life mask.
Mr.. Barnard has reincarnated the melan-
choly, self deprecatory, noble countenance OF
the martyred Lincoln. 1t is logica! to sup
pose that with such head and shoulders
the hips and knees should be slightly bent.
Surely on such a gaunt frame no clothes
could keep their crease. There is probably
nothing so expressive of Lincoln's character
as the hands, large. competent, the hands OF
laborer, rail splitter, yet the hands OF q
poet. The composure of them is symbolic OF
the patient forbearance and unrufted judg'
ment with which he guided US through the
great crisis
When an artist tries TO improve upon nat
ure he lies. In this remarkable statue Of
Lincoln its truthfulness is its greatness else
all records left Of him are a libel.
CHARLES SUMNER WITHERSPO0N.
New York, Sept. II, 1917.
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Big Tom Foley's Picnic

As hearty and jovial a spook as ever
played hooky from graveyard disported
itself the other night in Harlem River
Park. Not the war nor reapportionment
nor encroaching aliens have sufficed to lay
the spirit of the old Fourth Ward.
Twice has the name been changed; first
to the I'd Assembly District and then,
under the reapportionment act, to the lst
Assembly District. But when the harvest
moon begins to wane old Fourth Warders,
and especially young old Fourth Warders,
begin to think of Big Tom Foleys picnic.
The Sixteenth Annual Summers Night
Festival Of the Downtown Tammany Club"
it was called, but the incarnation that con-
jured the faithful from the four quarters
of the city and beyond on Friday night
was Big Toms Picnic"
Youngsters there were in blue and olive
drab from the battleships of the Atlantic
feet, from the Marine Corps barracks in