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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-09

Big variety in styles and grades for the little folks. Goldstein's Elm. porium.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
BELASCO

The famous romance of the Sahara
desert. The Garden of Allah" by
Robert Kitchens. now being shown for
the first time in moving pictures In
Washington. is a notable production.
full of strange, stirring and picturesque
scenes and with many touches of un-
usual beauty. 1t has already been
seen as a stage production, but the
novel lends itself in an admirable
degree to pictorial presentation. The
novel is remarkable series of pen
pictures of life on the sands and in
the cases, the towns and the cities of
the desert and the scenes are not a
background. but play an intimate part
In the story of conflicting claims of
love and religion. The picture produc-
ton presents a remarkably large part
of the story and the book Is followed
much more closely than Is usual with
novel picturiZations. Helen Ware. the
noted actress. is pictured In the role
of Domini Enfilden and Thomas
Santschi as Boris Androvsky. A great
sandstone in dozen aspects, indoors
and out. in the streets and in the desert.
is one Of the big features of the pic
ture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
B. F. KEITH'S

The celebrated prima ballerina as
soluta of the Metropolitan Grand Opera
Company. the Century organization and
the Havana. Cuba. company will this
week at 3. F. Keith's Theater bid
farewell to vaudeville. Before adopt
ing America as her fatherland Mile.
Resch was premiere of imperial COM
panies in Berlin and Petrograd- She is
still In her early twenties and excep-
tionally blessed with beauty. She will
merry of the imperial Russian ballet
and by IAN octet of coryphees beauti-
full" Her program Is a suite of seven
numbers based on the compositions of
Waldteufel. MERCER. List, Drigo, Suppe
and johnson. among them 'L'Ameri-
caine."
The added attraction will be Doris
Wilson, her sisters Alma and Dot and
company in Making Them Over" In
which the three Hopeful sisters are
granted their wish to become young
and beautiful. Gene Green will appear
ties along original and nonsensieal
lines. Herbert Clifton will return in his
types of feminity in which he scored
success here last season. Joseph f
Bernard and company swill be seen in
who Is She?" the latest query comedy
and futuristic color puzzle, The Edge
of the World" produced by E. Ronsby,
will be introduced by Miss Bettina- Alb
bolt and White. the kanaZawa boys,
equilbrists; the pipe organ recitals and
the hearst-Pathe pictorial with war
scenes section are the remaining offer
ings.
AT and S:15 pm. today the bill will
present Ida Brooks Hunt and company,
George White and Emma Haig, and all
last weeks array of attractions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
COSMOS

The very latest In girl acts, Ted
Reilly's sprightIy and meIodious Offer
ing of living stage pictures, "MarcelIe."
presented by a company Of ten, the
greater part Of them attractive girls
arrayed in the colors of the rainbow
snd each q song warbler and graceful
dancer on her own account. will head
the Cosmos Theater bill the first half
of this week. beginning with tornor-
play has many things TO commend
comedy features The dramatic mum
Der will present Charles De Land and
company in Back TO Buffalo" a Bit of
real comedy. Bernivicci Brothers also
will be a feature in "a Night in Ven
tce." musical Offering introducing
operatic vocal and violin selections.
Other acts will include "The Four
American Beauties' in a chapter of CO.
centric comedy and harmonixatton
Weston and Klein in q dancing number
Of distinction; the Woods Brothers.
Irish athletes. in an Interesting exhf-
bition of acrobatics. and the Fenwick
Sisters In an attractive group of songs
with dance interludes. Antonio Mo
reno pictured in The Magnificent Med
der viii furnish the big photoplay
shown only at 1:15 and 4:45 pm:
-Tactus Nell" frst-run keystone
comedy. will be the funny film, and the
Hearst Pathe news Will complete the
Sill.
Today's performances start at 3 pm.
and run continuously, presenting all
Sne acts OF last weeks closing bill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Coming Attractions
Bottled Bugs

The Messrs. Shubert announce that as
the first of the new plays and musical
comedies which will represent their &C.
tvities OF the coming season they will
present Tor one week, at the Belasco
Theater, starting Monday evening, July
~, an ingenious new farce-comedy in
three acts called Bottled Bugs" the
work of Lieut.. Walter S. Poague. U. s.
NJ T. ~ was written at Winthrop Md
~heFe Lieut.. Poague is in training for
an oincer's commission In the Aviation
Corps. Through the influence of some
or his friends in New York the soldiers
play was brought to the attention of
the Messrs Shubert as soon as it was
finished This was early IN the present
week. 1t was accepted at its frst read
ing and was in rehearsal less than
twenty-four hours later, a cast being
engaged In what Appropriated a rec
ord-breaking time.
Lieut.. Poague Is said to have hit upon
farce and has fashioned q raptdly-paced
consistent and cumulative fun Bot
tied Bugs" taxes its title from the
slang phrase employed by some Of the
characters to describe certain germ
cultures preserved In glass receptacles
by prominent physician, secretly en-
gagged In experim ents to develop a cure
for insanity. The action OF the play
transpires at the Adirondack mountain
sanitarium Of the physician.
Violet Heming, Edgar Atchfson Ely,
Harriet Sterling. Albert Phillips, Peter
Raymond and others are in the cast Of
Bottled Bugs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
First Victoria Cross.
From the Dundee Advertiser.


On June IS, 1857. Queen Victoria. In
Hyde Park. made the first distribution of
the Victoria Cross+nstituted in the pre-
vlous year-to sixty-one Crimean heroes
of all ranks and ages. Forty-seyen were
given to the army, twelve to the navy
and two to the marines. but the nurses of
those days were not thought worthy OF
inclusion In the honors' lists. An eve
witness records that thousands and
thousands Of people, witnessed the cere-
mony in the park
There had been previous distribution
on the parade grounds of the Horse
Guards, on May Is, 1855, of medals for
the Alma. Balaclava and Inkerman to
soldiers who had been invaded home,
The men were drawn up on three sides
OF square. the fourth side being formed
by a dais for the royal party. The sol
diers marched past four deep, and each
man handed to the queen q card bearing
his name, corps, service and a brief
description of his wounds Her ma testv
did not fasten on the decoration. as she
did on the later occasion, but handed the
medals to the men.
When the gallant Sir Thomas Trou-
bridge was brought along In a bath chair
the queen said she would make him one
of her aid-de-camps. IT am amply repaid
for everything" he replied, and every
thing In his case meant the loss of his
right leg and left foot. Queen Victoria
director general of army clothing. and
invented a valise. which met with the ap-
prevail of the leading medical of1lcers
and may be said to have been the
foundation OF the present vslise equip
ment,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Loew's Columbia.

George Middleton's newest hlm play,
| "At First Sight" will begin four
day showing at loves Columbia Thea
ter this afternoon. "At First Sight"
pictures Mae Murray as a girl who
possesses quite as much wit and In
Eenuity as beauty She makes up her
| mind to marry a successful young au-
thor and sets about her campaign with
GOODNESS, nonchalance and quiet deter
| mination. utilizing the expedient OF
pretending to help the man OF her
choice In the construction Of plot
for a romance. The author, however.
is utterly unable to perceive that he
and the girl are the chief characters
of the fiction story. The merry chase
continues until the girl realizes that
the time for coup de etat has arrived
She transforms her pose to that OF the
shy, startled maiden and uses the ola
weapons Of the eternal woman TO IN
spire in her victim determination TO
overcome her shrinking attitude Shs
adds final touch by deluding him
into the belief that his manly MASTER
fulness was responsible Tor her sur
render. Sam T. Hardy impersonated
the obtuse young author. the last
half of the week, a photoplay by Beu-
lah Marie Dix of George Broadhursts
What Money Can't Buy" Will be SHOWN.
The story is laid In small european
principally and has to do with fight
for a railroad concession as well as
contest for a pretty princess hand
Jack Pickford and Louise Hun are
shown In the principal roles ana the
cast mixtures Theodore Roberts, Ho-
bart Eosworth, Raymond Hatton and
Bliss Chevalier. The weeks program Will
|, include, also, single reel comedies. new
news pictures and film presentation
of Pershing's "Sammies" back OF the
firing line in France.
Next weeks attractions are The
Long Trail" featuring Mary Fuller,
Washington girl. and The SquaW
Mans Son." featuring Wallacs helo
and Anita King.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
POLI'S

Inc Man w no Stayed at Home,
melodrama in three acts. originally
produced under the title of The White
Feather will be this weeks attraction
of the Poll Players. beginning tomor-
row night. The story Is now being
published in The Sunday Star in serial
form. and purports to give an insight
German government.
The play proved sensation at the
Orury Lane Theater. London. and was
produced in this country at the Comedy
Theater. New York. by William A.
Brady, where 1t ran a whole year.
Since then 1t has toured the theatrical
circuit, including the Canadian prov
1nces. s 2. Poll Is the first Washington
manager to introduce 1t here.
The play was written by two Eng
lshmen, Lechmere Worrall and ]. E.
Harold Terry. Its action takes place
in the private sitting room of a seaside
a Mrs. sanderson. and her son Carl,
who Is employed In q responsible posi-
ton in the British war Office. They are
really Germans and spies OF the father
land. Living in the house also are
Frauletn Schroeder. an artist, who
poses as governess on a vacation, and
an individual called Fritz, who acts as
her butler. John Preston. NJ P: his
are visiting the resort Brent spends
his time playing tennis and refuses to
enlist in England's army Molly, who
loves him, cannot understand his re-
fusal to fight, and she is heartbroken
when a girl hands him a white feather.
which means cowardice
In vain she and her father urge to
know why he does not enlist. He re-
plies that he has personal reasons. He
is really q secret service agent of the
British government sent down to de-
feat tho plans Of the enemy He does
this by accidentally" shooting carrier
pigeons bearing messages; DESTROYING
the wireless instrument installed by
the Sandersons in tho fireplace, and
ny seeking TO learn their plans by
means OF dictssraph hidden in a
$ardinfere- He succeeds In preventing
q German submarine from blowing up
the British men-of-war In the harbor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Crandall's Savoy.

wild and Woolly," Douglas Fair
banks finn. Is the attraction at Gran
dalrs Savoy today and tomorrow.
Starting in New York and ending in
California, the picture discloses va
riety of metropolitan and western
scenes. Mr.. Fairbanks is seen in the
role of jeff Hiilington, & typical ten
derfoot." whose visions Of life in the
west are based entirely upon the de-
scriptions between the gaudy covers OF
dime novels. which he has been reading
since childhood. When 1t Is known
that he is coming to Arizona his
western friends plan that he shall not
be disappointed. and he is not. Tuesday
Alice Joyce will be pictured in "The
Question; Wednesday, Margaret Ill
ington in 1.-THE Inner Shrine; Thurs
day. Junce Elvidge and CARLYLE Black
well In "The Price of Pride; Friday.
Bessie Barriscals in "Bawbs o. Blue
Ridge; Saturday. Sessue Hayakawa In
1.-THE Jaguar's Claws"
Next weeks pictures include Earle
Williams In THE Maelstrom." House
Peters In The Heir of. the Ages"
Love or Justice" The Brand Of
Beban in "A Roadside Impresario."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Hong Kong Myyteries,

Tho last half Of the week, beginning
Kong Mysteries will head the Cosmos
Theater bill It Is q new offering Of
the black art, chapter in magic which
sab,n pom and Mans,ca ana sn,111s1
sichorean speciality. will be one of the
graceful and beautiful supplemental at
fractions. Bin and Burt will cavort
in comedy acrobatics; Howard Chase
interlude; Frozint, the master piano
cordeonist, will offer a program ofhigh-
class selections; and Wrenn and Wap-
pier will furnish the latest in singing
and dancing teams. The feature
photoplay will be 'The Question" and
the funny film, Charlie Chaplin in Be
hind the Screen" while the Hearst
Pathe News Pictorial will round out
the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Glen Echo Park.

Soils famous Marimba Band Will be
the featured attraction at Glen Echo
Park this week. So numerous were
the requests from the regular patrons
that the management has arranged for
a continuation of the engagement,
starting with concerts today.
Every evening in the dance pavilion
the martmba music will be played for
the onesteps and the foxtrots. alternat-
Ing with the regular orchestra, under
Charles o. Mills. In their native COS
tunes and with their novel instru-
ments. they make an Interesting pic
ture in the artistically decorated pa
vilion. The peculiar deep-toned and
rhythmattc music of the marimba lends
itself admirably to the newer dance
pieces, which the musicians play with
abandon.
Minister'S (union) Band Will also play
a number of selections today. No
charge Will be made for admission.
The regular features of the resort in
clude a good free movie" show to
open the fun each night, and the derby,
midway. gravity and other amusement
devices. all of them on the daily pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Oh, Boy"

''oh. Boy" the smart musical comedy.
which Messrs. Elliott and Comstock
will present at the Belasco August 10,
for an engagement OF one week, is a
delightful example of the type Of song
and comedy introduced three years ago
by this firm and comes with the reputa-
tion Of having had g. highly successful
run of one year at the Princess Thea
ter.
Guy Bolton ana P. G. Wodehouse are
responsible for the book, which 10 not a
modernized version Of q previously pro-
duced farce. The composer. Jerome
Kern. claims credit for twenty lifting
melodies which are said to have q fas-
cinating and pleasing freshness. As is
the custom with Elliott-Comstock pro-
auctions. pretty girls a-plenty and rare
costumes are much in evidence.
In tho cast are Joseph Santley. Ivy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Great Falls Park.

This week at Great Falls Park a,serfes
of popular concerts by the Ladies' Or
chestra will feature arrangement Of
popular and national Russian and
the entertainment of young and old
have been provided. Dancing in the
large pavilion overlooking the falls. and
program of feature photo plays are
free TO visitors to this picturesque re-
sort. which is reached by fast and fire.
quent electrical trains from a6th and
N streets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Poet Gray's Birthplace.
From the London Chronicle.

II tablet is placed on Gray's birth
place" in Cornhill. it should bear record
also that there Is no actual surviving
birthplace of the poet The fire which, on
March 25. 174S, destroyed the house that
Gray had inherited from his father was
reckoned the biggest London confiagration
since 1866, seeing that in 1t 200 houses
were burned down. In very practical
way. one finds the poet summing up his
loss in letter to Wharton: THE house I
lost was insured for 9500, and with tho
deduction of 8 per cent, they paid mo
24S5. The rebuilding will cost ESQ, and
the other expenses will mount that sum
to e650"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Central Coliseum.

The Central Coliseum offers the dance
loving public conveniently located and
comfortable place in which to pass a
few pleasant hours with its system Of
ventilation, aided by many electric fans.
Three special events announced for
this week are as follows: Tomorrow
night, a one-step contest: Wednesday. a
fox-trot contest; Saturday. waits con-
tests. For each event a valuable prize
will be awarded the winning couple.
Music for dancing is furnished by the
Coliseum seven-piece orchestra, and .
corps Of teachers is In attendance to In
struct beginners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Colonial Beach.

pleasant as we'll as beautiful wa
ter trip is the ride down the Potomac
on the steamer St Johns to Colonial
Beach Every comfort and service is
afforded the passenger en- route. The
Colonial Beach season is now at It's
height. and its boardwalk and sandy
beaches are thronged with pleasure
seekers. Its amusements are salt wa
ter bathing. fishing, grabbing, sail
ing. etc.
The St. Johns makes trips to the
beach Tuesdays. Thursdays and Sun
days. leaving the 7th street wharf at
am and Saturdays at 1 pm. when
stops Will be made at Quantico, the new
Marine Corps cantonment. and forty
mile moonlight trip Mondays, wednes-
days and Fridays
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Crandall's.

"A Self-Made Widow" photoplay
with an unusual plot and featuring
Alfce Brady, will be shown at Gram
daIrs today. tomorrow and Tuesday.
Sylvia Smith, an unsophisticated coun-
try maid, becomes infatuated with a
handsome city man and agrees to elope
with him Arriving in New York. she
discovers the man has a wife and sew
eral children. She is determined not
to return to her parents and admit her
error after the many wonderful things
she had told them and her friends Of
the prospective husband, SO she adopts
a method unique and surprising to OBJ
viate this Wednesdays attraction will
be 'The Man Who Was Afraid" with
Of Strangers" a Aim expose OF the
blaokmaillng methods Of expert crtmi-
nails, will be ahowp for the remainder
OF the week. commencing Thursday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
TIMELY ADVICE GIVEN TO
GARDENERS In BULLETIN
Federal Bureau Urges Care for the
Asparagus Bed Now That the
Cutting Season Is Over, /

Don't ignore the asparagus bed. now
that the cutting season is over. It has
given you its food contribution: now
see that it has plant food to make a
good growth of foliage. Fertilize and
cultivate well now to insure that strong,
healthy growth which is essential to q
good yield Of shoots next spring"
That timely advice for gardeners is
contained in a new publication of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, Farmers Bulletin S29, "Aspara-
gus" which deals with asparagus grow
ing both on a commercial scale and in
the home garden. The bulletin discusses
the culture of this vegetable, its vari-
Gus diseases. forcing, canning and also
good methods of marketing.
After the cutting season the ridges
should be leveled and the asparagus bed
thoroughly cultivated" says the writer
of the bulletin. "A good high-grade
fertilizer then should be applied at the
rate of 1000 to loo pounds to the acre.
A fertilizer containing 2 to 4 per cent
of nitrogen. s to 8 per cent of phos-
phoric acid and to per cent of potash
will give good results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
"Who's Looney Now?"

Manager Taylor of the Belasco re-
ceived a wire late last night explaining
that the title Of the play booked for the
Belasco next week has been changed
from Bottled Bugs" to who's Looney
Now? Frank Wilstach, the widely
known author Of a unique book of
SMILES compiled for the use of theatre
cal press agents, Is authority for the
announcement of the Bottled Bugs
title, as well as for the new title. This
fact caused Manager Taylor to ask a
repetition Of the telegram announcing
the change lest perhaps Mr.. Wilstach
had his SMILES in mind when he wrote
the telegram, and the title had not real.
ly been changed at all, Bugs" and
"Looney" being interchangeable in
slang classics.
Children May Act On stnxe-District
Commissioner Brownlow has rescinded the
regulation prohibiting the use Of children
in theatricals in Washington.
Manager Berger of Polls Theater, in a
stage has imposed no hardship upon the
children: it has rather tended to develop
artistic tendencies in youth. And without
the children the stage would be but a poor
mirror of life. at least that pure, sweet
side of life known as the family circle.
There are many plays that require chill
dren for their proper presentation, and 1t
Is only right and proper that they be per-
rnitted to take part In theatricals, pro-
vded, of course. their education is not
interfered with in the meantime"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Preferred for Fertilizers.

"MuEiate of potash and kainit are
preferable to su1phate of potash. Where
the land is already heavily MANFRED the
nitrogen may be left out of the fer
tilizer mixture.
THE fertilizer to be applied should
be distributed broadcast over the bed
or in a strip on either side Of the row
and thoroughly mixed with the surface
soil by narrowing or cultivation. Flat
cultivation should be praclced after the
cutting season.
I'm many sections the asparagus
plants are cut down as soon as the ber-
ries turn red. and after drying sum-
GENTLY they are burned to destroy any
disease germs or insects that may be
present In regions where severe
freezes occur it is doubtful whether the
cutting and burning of asparagus tops
is advisable. The old tops hold the snow
and prevent deep fraezing and tho
blowing of soil. Some growers thor
oughly harrow the bed after the tops
are removed, others throw slight ridge
over the row, but ridging is not neces-
sary unless there Is danger Of injury
by severe freezing during the winter.
Where land is inclined to wash. oul-
tivating and ridging in the fall are OBJ
jectionable."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
Leader.

Today and tomorrow George Beban,
pictured in Tho Roadside impress
sario," will be shown in this city for
the first time at the Leader. Mr.. Beban
will be seen as a roaming italian with
a trick bear performing for the benefit
of the children In wayside towns.
How. while trying to earn money
enough as dish-washer in a restau-
rane to get Bruno. the bear. out of
jail. where he has been incarcerated
for wrecking an apiary, he discovers a
blackmailing plot against the local
candidate for mayor and also finds his
daughter for whom he has been search
ing for sixteen years-au IL. hHeuxiat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22

Florenz Ziegfeld last Thursday in
New York engaged Rita Dane. the sing
er, to appear in the 'Follies." Miss
Dane Joins the organization tomorrow
night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22

Sawyer. Josephine Hartman. Robert
Rendel. Dorothy Maynard. Louise Cook.
Henry Dornton. Hugh Cameron. James
Bradbury. Lillian Brennard. Leonore
Chippendale, Billy Gould and others.