Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-06
"Hitchy-Koo."

Raymond Hitchcock is not only fea-
ture of "Hftchy-Koo." which comes to
the National Theater January 81. but.
together with E. Ray Goetz. is its pro-
Queer. The book and lyrics are the
| combined efforts OF Glen Marlborough
and E. Ray Goetz. Mr.. Goetz also COM
posed the music. and Julian Mitchell and
Leon Enrol staged the play. The com
pany includes Leon Enrol. Irene Bor-
doni. Josephine Whittell. Ingatio Mar
tfnetti, Anes and Winthrop, George
Moore. Mildred Sinclair. Florence
Grips and Teddy Hudson. with fea-
ture chorus.
twenty-one scenes. The management
calls attention to a striving for "artis-
tic simplicity instead of the extrava-
gance which usually characterizes
fact that the United States is at war,
and that lavish expenditures are not
only In bad taste. but contrary to pub
lie policy"
Russian Ballet Lost Forever-Has
the deposition of the Gear of Russia
killed forever the famed Russian bal
let? VIII the priceless beauty and
grace of these, the most highly trained
experts in the dance ever known. be
lost forever? 1t looks that way to
pupils in the imperial ballet schools of
Russia is able to speak as an expert.
The cza.r. like many monarchs of
older days. says Kosloff. was devoted
to opera, music, and especially to the
dance. Ballet dancing was an exotic
with us: 1t came from France, but we
developed 1t to a high degree of per-
lection. beauty and grace. Under the
courts patronage the expense was
enormous. but no one ever worried over
that. The revenues were called upon
without regard to cost.
You may judge Of the outlay when I
tell you that all ballet dancers were
entered ih> the imperial school at six
or seven years of age. that they re-
manned as pupils till sixteen or seven
teen. and that they retired on pension
not later than thirty. and many before
then; this pension lasting through life.
and owing to their superb physical
training they lived very long. What
pense for mere pleasurew
Trench Gossip-"Trench gossip Is a
fearsome and uncanny thing" ssss Ian
Hay (Maj. Beith).
1T usually begins life at the refill
ing point. where the A. s. c. motor lor-
the regimental transport picks it up.
All a. ~ eTSednI mentions CASUAL
ly to a. regimental quartermaster that
he has heard it said at the supply depot
that heavy firing has been goin on in the
channel. The quartermaster. on return
ing to the transport lines. observes to
his quartermaster sergeant, that the
German feet has come out at last.
The quartermaster sergeant. when he
meets the ration parties behind the
lines that night announces to platoon
sergeant that we have won great
naval victory. The platoon segeant. who
is suffering from trench feet and is a
constant reader of "a certain pessimis-
tic halfpenny Journal, replies gloomily:
Wen have heavy losses ourselves,
too. / dooti'
This observation is overheard by vari-
GUS members of the ration party BY
midnight several hundred yards of the
firing line know for fact there has
been a naval disaster of the first mag
nitude Off the coast OF a place which
everyone calls "Gally Polly" and that
the whole of eur division is to be trans
ferred forthwith to the near east to
stem the tide of calamity.
"Still, we must have something to
chat about -