Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

critic. calls Nance O'Neil, as she; acts
in The Passion Flower" in that COM
munity. "a blazing genius in won
derful play"
1t is said the dramatic clubs of sew
eral Brooklyn high schools are send
ing delegates to witness the perform
ances of William Hodge in The Guest
of Honor" His power Of restraint
and the ease with which he delivers
his lines are said to be well worth
the observance of any student Of the
drama. Watching William Hodge"
SAID one OF the faculty advisers. lis
dramatic course in itself"
Ame1ie Rives. the novelist and play
wright. who prepared the stage YER
sion of Mark Twain's delightful phan-
tasy, The Prince and the Pauper,"
for William Faversham. is also known
as the Princess Pierre Troubetskoy.
Miss Rives is an American. the grand
daughter Of William CabeN Rives,
|,once United States senator from Vir-
ginia- She acquired the title princess
in 1896, when she married Prince
Pierre Troubetzkoy. the Russian
The "Ziegfeld Follies'' broke forth
in a blaze of glory at the Colonial
Theater. Boston, last Monday night.
before the largest audience that ever
assembled in that house, according to
a report received. All the members
Of the original New York cast ap-
peared, with the famous Broadway
beauty contingent, "a riot Of pulchri-
After four weeks in Boston. the show
is to visit Washington. Pittsburgh,
Cleveland. Detroit and thence to Chi
cago for the entire winter.
Miss Mona Morgan, Walter Hamp-
=, VIZ
to have made study of feminine in
sanity in her preparation for the role
of Ophelia. Her deduction of the char
acter is that Ophelia is in an adde's
cent state and that her mind broke
under the stress and strain of bitter
disappointments in a big life. Had
she led the existence ordained for her
by her father and brother she would
have been of the clinging vine type
but with her father dead. her brother
in France and Hamlet, her lover, APP
parently lost to her, she sought con-
ISOLATION in her subconsci Gus mind and
reverted to childish songs and games
the ending of "PoIdekin" from a
tragic to a happy one even after the
play had been produced and pre-
sented. Booth Harrington says: "Arliss
just stumped me. He made my cen
trail character something entirely diff
ferent from the fellow 1 had imag-
| ined. Instead of tragic figure,
found gay person full of light
! humors. a character which drove
home more forcibly the ideas I was
! trying to convey. He was the kind OF
chap you just couldn't kill off. One
might as well try to kill off-well
say Harry Lauder. if that, amiabl.
comedian were playing his real sell
in comedy. Audiences just wouldn't
have it." Poldekin is one of a grouI
| of Russian reyolutionists who come tt
America to foment trouble and was
intended sto symbolic bolshevism's
hatred of individualit".
| A special midnight performance a,
! the Gayety Theater has been ar
ranged by Manager Harry o. Jarbo'
for election night. at which the full
| program of THE Flashlights of 1920
| will be given. A special Western
| Union wire will be installed and TIL,
| returns of the national election a
they come in will be announced from
the stage. This also will be featur,
of the earlier performance.