The Washington times., 1920-08-29
DyMz Frances Starr Coming
Polls Last Capital Playhouse
to Swing Into Line-"Mys-
terry" and Broken Wing"
Here This Week, With
"East Lynne" on
Way.

With Polls swinging into line on
Labor Day. offering wild Cherry"
the newest Guy Bolton dramatic
comedy, Washington's theater season
will be under way at full blast. not
10 end until warm days come along
next May. Capital theatergoers
have already had peek at Helen
Hayes in "Bab," flocking to It in
large numbers, too. II might be
added. Next week they have two
more favorites. Frances Starr and
Mitzi Hajos.
Miss Starr. last seen here In "rigerl
TigerI". comes 10 the Shubert-Belasco
ON Labor Day in "one." new play
written especially for her by Edward
Knoblock. II is the third Knoblock
play in which she has made marvel
Gus records, the others being Marie
odile" and Tiger! Tiger"
To support Miss Starr In her latest
play, David Belasco has engaged a
cast of considerable distinction. in
cluding such well-known players as
Randle Ayrton. Philip Desborough.
Martin Lewis. Theodore Babcock.
Marie r. Burke. Clara Sidney, Daisy
Belmore. Lulu Ayrton.
MITZI AT NATIONAL.
To the National is coming dear
little Mitzi Hajos in Lady Billy"
Henry w. Savage's latest musical
romance. And it's just Mitzi this
season. She hls dropped OFF the
Hajos. Probably she found folks
were continually mispronouncing that
Hungarian name and sought the
her much, at that. So it's just Mitzi
this season. and everybody's satisfied.
In Lady Billy" a diminutive. pow
erty-stricken countess stops playing
the family ghost of her ancestral Ru-
manian castle to win fame and love as
boy soprano in New York.
The book and lyrics were written
by Zelda Sears. The music was COM
posed by Harold Levy. a new discov-
cry of Colonel Savage. A distinguish
ed cast included Sydney Greenstreet,
Boyd Marshall. Arthur Uttry, Beatrice
Jean Newcombe, Josephine
.Adair, Charles Gay. and the Col
1enette.
There is a large ensemble Of fascin-
ating girls, the BILLY" quartet. the
quartet, and the Henry w.
Savage orchestra
.wILD CHERRY. HERE.
Still another Comstock and Gest
production Is scheduled to be re-
vealed in Washington for the first
time on any stage, when on Monday
night, September 6, Ruth Shepley will
come to Polls in new Guy Bolton
play, described as a dramatic comedy,
and entitled wild Cherry"
Mr.. Bolton is known to theater-
goers through having been co-author
of Adam and Eva" POLLY With
Past" and The Cave Girl" to say
nothing of long line of musical hits.
while Miss Shepley needs no introduce
tion to local theatergoers, her de-
lightful performances in such sue
cesses as "The Boomerang" and
SAdam and Eva" being still fresh in
the memory.
Messrs. Comstock and Gest have
gathered together a not table cast for
"Wild Cherry" including in addition
to Miss Shepley, Tim Murphy. Ken
meth Harlan, Gilbert Douglas, Will
liam H. Pringle. Eleanor Martin, Ed
win Strawbridge, Rose Winter, Gas
ton Bell, Mary Thompson. Charles
Newson and Arthur Fitzgerald. The
production is being staged by Cliff
ford Brooke.
PREPARE TO WEEP.
Beginning next Sunday night, with
a special holiday matinee on Labor
Day, the Garrickers launch their
farewell week of the season by
grand revival of the ever-popular
EAST Lynne"
East Lynne" is one Of the very
few plays that has stood the test of
time from the day of our grandfath-
ers down to the present, although
Washington has not had an oppor-
tunity to view it in nearly twenty
years. The Garrickers selected it for
their final week, because of the nu-
merous requests that have been made
to the management.
After spending this week in Bal
timore. Jim Jam Jems," with Ada
Mae Weeks as the featured perform
or. comes to the National on Septem-
Der L.. 1T is whispered that this new
John Cort musical comedy savors in
some way of the peculiar drawing
powers of the magazine OF the same
name. Others in the company are
Murray, Frank Fay, Ned
Sparks, Joe Brown, Harry Langdon,
Zoe Barnett, the King Sisters, Parish
and Peru. Press and Lane, Clark Ross
and Virginia Clark.
Edward Oakford, n nephew of r. F.
Albee. the chief owner of the b. f.
Keith circuit, is in Washington per
usual" for his summer vacation,
spent according to custom under the
eagle eye OF Manager Robins. He is
learning the ropes and other para
phernalia from bottom to top as its is
expected to come in handy when
''Uncle Ed calls Eddie to the Albee-
Keith booking front.
Manager Robbins, of Keith's, who
also the Albee building,
formerly known as the Riggs build
ing. Is putting his new acquisition in
the same apple-pie order as the
theater. A big force is at work night
and day cleaning, polishing and beau
exterior and interior through
out.
TWO COMPANIES SHOW
"CLARENCE" THIS SEASON
Two companies will present Booth