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POLI'S-Sotherr-Lar!owe.

Presenting Shakespearean drama ac-
cording to their conception of the
highest traditions of the theater E. H.
Sothern and Julia MarloweN will be
seen at Polls Theater this week. be-
ginning tomorrow night, with a mat
inee Saturday. There will be mp
midweek matinee. The curtain rises
at o'clock at night and at o'clock
at the matinee.
Twelfth Night" will be presented
tomorrow and Thursday nights and
at the Saturday matinee; Hamlet"
will be seen Tuesday and Saturday
nights. and THE Tanning of the
Shrew" Wedn esday and Friday nights.
The staging of the Sothern and
Marfowe repertoire this year will be
marked by a, complete change from
the old traditions The plays will be
set in an impressionistic background.
after the fashion of the new schoei
of stagecraft, which has been making
great strides on the other side of the
Atlantic, but of which little has been
seen in classic drama In this country.
1t is said to give a heightened at
mospheric effect.
the company includes Frederick
Lewis. Rowland Blackstone. Henry
Stanford, Alma Kruger. Lenore Chip
pendale, ]. Sayre .Crawley. Vernon
Kelsoo, Colvil Dunn. Frank Peters,
v: L. Granville, Clifford Walker. NAL
colin Bradley. Ursula Faucit, Frank
Howson and Leon Cunningham. Frank
A. Howson, sr., the musical director.
has arranged special scores for the
plays.
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an independent producer are under
way. for he has q sensational COMEDY
hit to his credit. Now he turns to
his. first love-a musical piece. which
this time will be called THE Geo. NJ.
Cohan. Comedians in The House That
Jack Built" &
The program will tell that Otto
Harbach and Frank Mandel wrote the
book and lyrics, that the melody
writer of Going Up" fame. Lou
Hirsch. furnished the melodies. while
Julian Mitchell and Sam Forrest have
cared for the stage directorship. OF
course, Mr.. Cohan himself will be on
hand to supervise the whole activi-
ties of the premiere. ., Z :,
Adhering to his policy of other
years, Mr.. Cohan is not sending out
much information concerning the cast
and the plot Of the new play. He
likes to give flrst-night audiences sur
prises. However. the names of Geor-
gia Caine,- James Marlowe, Charles
Judels, Fay Marbe. Janet. Nelie. Al
Gerard. Florence Millership. Jack
MCGOWAN and others of musical COM
edy reputation are noted. with Julian
Mitchell caring Tor the chorus.
Mr.. Cohan will remain in Washing
ton during the week. for, in addition
to the new musical show. he will re-
hearse another company Of players
here at the same time. ..,
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ADJUSTMENTS.

Continued on Fourth Page
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B.F. KEITHs-vaudeville.

Elizabeth Brice, the musical show
star. is billed this week at the B. F.
Keith Theater- in, THE Overseas Re-
vue.!'- in three battlefront scenes,
comprising fifteen inserted numbers
of the sort the Fritz fighters were
supposed to rave over. namely, jazz,
chatter, drollery and James. The
book is taken from the larger revue
of the same name. with special lyrics
by Raymond B. Egan and music by
Richard A. Whiting. With Miss Brice
is Will Morrissey, comedian. and in
the company of twenty Broadway
players are Blanche Latell, Mile.
Jeanette Tourneur. Ernest F. Young,
Harold Whalen. Lieut.. MCPHERSON.
Earl Corr and a snappy, lively chorus.
The added attraction will be Percy
Bronson and Winnie Baldwin in a
Jack Lait musical episode. Visions
of 1869" with lyrics by Harry Will
liams and music by Nell Moret. Others
listed to appear are Aileen Stanley.
the girl with the personality: Al
fred Naess. skating champion of Nor
way. assisted by, Misses Ligrid and
Collins, in the presentation of a min
iature ice carnival: Walter Brewer,
the Jolly jester: Eric Zardo. pianist
of concert note; Bobbe and Nelson, in
His Girl" and jolly Johnny Jones,
with Topics of the Day. and kino-
grams.
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BELASCO-"3 Showers"

Mr.. and Mrs. Coburn's new produc-
tion. a play in three elaborate acts
with music, called "3 Showers" will
be the attraction at the Shubert-Be-
lasco Theater this week, opening to-
night.
The play portion of the entertain
Duncan, author OF The Royal Vaga-
bond" "Fiddlers Three" and ''The
Purple Road" The music and lyrics
woven into its action are the work
of Creamer and Layton. who have
contributed eighteen singing num-
berS. - '',
The company includes Anna Whea-
ton, Paul Frawley. Bernard Ferguson,
William Winter Jefferson. Doyce Win
grove. Mildred Mason and Master An
drew ]. Lawlor, with score of sing
ing and dancing girls. and the Palm
Beach Four" a, colored quartet: Inc
production was staged by Oscar Eagle
and Edward P. Bower directs the
dancing numbers. The orchestra of
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{ ocosMos--Yaudeville.

Two brilliant numbers head the
Cosmos Theater- this week-Ma-
rie Hart. the dainty little athletic
.omedienne, and the Saxo Quartet. in
a novel act, and the Zetgler, Twins and
company, a quartet of the dancing
beauties from the ZiegfeId Revue in
pretentious number. They are de-
clared "the real. thing" in high-class
entertainment. Matte Ferguson and
company will help along the laugh
making with her character playlet,
Eggs is Eggs" A quintet of well
known Washingtonians- will furnish
the other features. Zuhn and Dries. in
breezy cross-f1re sketch. Your
Father" and Hunter. Chick and Hun
ter, one of the best singing harmony
trios in vaudeville. Trovato, the famous
eccentric violinist, and Allen and Wal
ton, in a dainty bit of lace work, "At
the Flower Stand" will be other fea-
tured gems of the bill.
'Black is White" Dorothy Dalton's
-Artcraft picture based on
a story by George Barr McCutcheon
and put in picture form under the di-
rection of Thomas H. Ince, will be the
added matinee feature. Larry Sc
mons film comedy. '"The Grocery
Clerk" one of the funniest ever flm-
ed; new angle on Mutt and Jen
CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
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New Stagecraft.-WhenE E. H. Sothern
and Julia Marlowe decided to return
10 the stage they spent several
months studying the work of the
pioneers in new stagecraft and with the
cooperation of Messrs. Unit and
Wickes evolved their present mode of
stage settings.
NThe permanent features Of this method
. are the false proscenium, two column
like sets of draperies on either side of
the stage, a cyclodrama and two sets of
Graperies which are hung between the
columns and are opened or closed ac-
cording TO the requirements of the scene
Tor interior or exterior views. These
draperies. the columns, the proscenium
snd the cyclodrama are painted a neutral
color, which will take on various effects.
according to the light used. Twenty
hve different mixtures of paint were
employed to secure the quality re-
Quired.
To suggest locality. bits of painted
,ecenery are manipulated. as well as
furniture Lighting naturally is an
ail-important factor.
THE present settings" says Mr..
Sothern. grew out of our desire to
restage the plays. While We were
abroad. endeavoring to entertain the
soldiers. Mrs Sothern, Miss Mary
Anderson and myself gave scenes
from the various Shakespearean plays
We were forced to do without scenery
of any kind and with the most meaeer
struck by the fact that this handicap
proved TO be no handicap at all. and
that the plays struck home with even
greater force than ever. No doubt
some OF this was due to the extraor-
dinary circumstances under which we
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HE honest expression of a
cowboys idea of heaven,
with angels" that cannot
be aoused of encouraging
the high cost of clothing,
added to daringly poor judgment on
the part Of a .vaudevillian transplant
ed to the legitimate stage, helped to
make the initial performance of
"Broncho Billy" Anderson's first revue.
'frivolities of 1920" an making
event for the polite but nervous pa
tron who could still recall the pro-
prieties of life. But the press agent
was right. The general public fairly
fell over itself getting to the box Of
flee in time for the second perform
ance. The show sNooped down upon
the town like a blast of hot air from
the wind-swept p-airies of the wild
and woolly west, via the cellulold
route. Yet. when the brakes were ap-
rlied-if brakes can be applied to a
hot blast-the vehicle moved along
with stately serenity and evidently
pleased many. for seats did not go
a-begging throughout the week.
< X
Maybe the old American idea of art
is all wrong. And maybe it is only
they are wrong who try to moderate
Tle geyser that bursts from the native
heath. The nude in art has always di-
vided the opinion of the connoisseurs.
Artists have attested it's beauty when
they supplied the subject. Yet some
art lovers never contemplate it save
with shudder and the semblance of
a blush. There is a school of art, how
ever, 10 which water and the bathtub
seem indispensable, and that school is
predominantly represented in revue
production and the modern comedy.
There are art lovers, too. who will
droop the eyelids modestly with flush
ed cheeks at the sight of the Venus
of Milo. but whose eyes will sparkle
with unnatural brilliancy and take on a
look of unspeakable delight at the
mere suggestion of a bathing suit or
a bathtub. This form of art used to
be popular in the movies. 1t now
finds resting place in the modern
comedy as well. II it be art erratic,
the Americanization process now so
happily under way should incorporate
IN its mission the exposition of what
Is art and who is an artist. The terms
seem to be sadly confused in modern
parlance. 4
We had with US also "The Scandals
of 1872" Seven Days Leave" Tan
English melodrama. in spite of its
Irish-American hero). that had its
touch of art in the swimming race, and
the morality play" SO called. Expert
ence." whose art was only approxi-1
mate. aiming simply to reflect the at
mosphere of the cabaret. Ahead of
us, where Hope always lies. are the
new Cohan musical comedy, with ar
tistic possibilities. no doubt; Three
Showers" also a comedy. with music
and the artistic accessory of water,
Nven though the bathing suit and the
bathtub may be missing: "Oh, Henry"
Bide Dudiey's merry farce. with moth
ing to suggest an attempt at art in
the sense of the term under discus
sion, and Julia Marlowe and her hus-
band. Z. II. Sothern. merely Shake
spearean players. Can il be that what
once was called Art, like little Mabel,
the village beauty. has been lost in
the pitfalls of a great city?
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NATI0NAL-Cohan's Comedians.

George M. Cohan tomorrow night
at the New National Theater Will have
the premiere of the first musical play
under his own management since ne
became an independent producer. Al
ready the activities of Mr.. Conan as
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American theatricals during the week.
One thing is positiye-George NJ. Is
all puffed up with pleasure over the
success Georgette has attained of her
own ton, and for this
she is bound to- get whatever she
wants from her illustrious daddy's
theatrical management.
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-twenty-four instruments will be un
der the direction of Ivan RudisilL
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will present Nine Emma Trentini,
yadie and Gygi and others of last.
weeks offering.
Evening star., 1920-01-29
.BUCKNELL AND HOPKINS
CUNTS HERE TOMORROW
Former to Play Catholic q. and
Latter Meets Callaudet's
Basket Ball Team.

BucknelTs and Johns Hopkins bas-
ket ball teams come here tomorrow
night for games with local colleges
The former meets Catholic University
and the latter Gallaudet. Bucknell
has been here once before this season.
having whipped George Washington
by a big score just before the holi-
days. Hopkins also has a veteran
quint. and unless Downes is in the
lineup for Gallaudet probably Will
defeat the Kendall Greeners.
Both games should be well worth
seeing. Catholic University, under
Fred Rice's tutelage, has been show
ing steady and consistent improve
ment. Bucknelis work against
George Washington demonstrated that
it would be a difficult nut for any
quint to crack. and il would not be
surprising to see another such con-
test as that which was fought out
earlier in the year between Lafayette
and Catholic IJniversity.
Gallaudets quint seems lost with
out the services OF Downes. the big
center. DowneS is the life OF the
team. besides being about three
fourths of its scoring strength. Be
sides the material capabilities missing
from Gallaudet's play. Downes' alb
sence seems to exert a very deleteri-
GUS effect on the morale of the squad.
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ATTACKS ON DEMPSEY
MAY GRAVELY AFFECT
HIS FIGHTING PROWESS
Morale May Be Fatally Weakened, as in Les
Darcy's Case---Nationals Fortunate in
Landing Roth, Rarity in Base Ball.
By DENMAN THOMPSON.


American Legion based fact that it mpel,
battle for the championship the world All this ad
best prospective
so source ct movies The picture are idposd ed
exhibiting real and brand Of the
b his fe n 4 en ias p S % the like
that
is conceivable that the concentration OF the
esonares have deeper effect in permanently
weakening the champions fighting ability As pointed by
0nn s E ns5 may be .y % wftfne I feeling that he
looked parah he III against his
morale will bad if he faces mnge with
cheers their that he will
be beaten Youth close the stand
well with his fellow
In this connection the unhappy Australian Les Darcy
m e Fesaea d wey wa; branded and sRe & shohg ] but BOY
tracd this The accorded here
peey broke his spirit and when illness overlook him. he speedily
PLAYERS OF RoTHs TYPE SCARCE
Bobby Roth the gardener orraed by Washington
fifth he
the type player sought ball right handed
hit by majors welding ability
primary requisite for guardians of the works but casual
closes the that majority
In the american League Cobb Ruth Veaeh Jackson Tobn Rice
popeersabou exceptions being Fagstead Jacob
SON Lewis and tesc unless Clarence Walker and Ping Bode
the National and
a applies to the retrvers however and has painfully
stick seeking stamp
Msnoky Murphy Elmer Smith Ca Barber Acosta Jameson
have been tried OF Charity,
field; Shanks who field
either deprment oro H Gf n % on mot particularly strong
Good ouhelders who WELD their bdgeon
The Nationals only clubs urgently
former answering this description Roth high
expected local patrons of the diamond will
satisfaction.
Evening star., 1920-01-29
WILDE MAKES THIRD BID
| FOR RING HONORS HERE
British Flyweight Champion
Meets Mike Ertle. a Bantam,
in Ten-Round Bout.

MILWAUKEE. January 29.-Jimmy
Wilde. the British fiyweight cham
pion. will make his third bid for fistic
honors in this country tonight when
he meets Mike Ertle. n st. Paul. Mimi.
bantamweight. In scheduled ten
round no-decision contest. Wilde s
opponent is brother Of Johnny
Ertle. who few years ago was con-
sidered one of the. best bantam
weights in the country.
Ertle was chosen to box Wilde after
the Milwaukee promoters had failed
to close a match with frankie Mason
of Fort Wayne, Ind, who is recog-
niZed as the American fiywcigh:
champion. Mason refused the mate h
because. he said. he could get better
Inducements elsewhere than those Of
fered by Milwaukee,
There have been reports that Wilde
may decide to return to England if
he fails to make any impressive
showing tonight. The British boxer
was keenly disappointed because he
failed to defeat Jack Sharkey in his
American contest. but his victory
over Johnny Asher in ST. Louis made
him feel better.
Wilde will enter the ring tonight
conceding about eight to ten pounds
to the st. Paul boxer Ertle has
agreed to weigh IFS pounds at 3 pm.
Evening star., 1920-01-29
DENOUNCES MEDDLING
IN QUEST FOR NEW CHAIRMAN

now than for the presidential nomina-
tions.
One might have believed from the
fact that different club owners are
declaring they will support this man
and are opposed to that one, that it is
the sixteen club owners who will vote
for the chairman of the commission
rather than the presidents of the
major leagues.
1T is true that a joint committee
was appointed to recommend new
chairman. but it's powers were limited
to recommending. 1t is the league
presidents who are doing the voting.
and we are not surrendering that
prerogative.
Il still have an open mind on the
commissionship, and the names Of
some good men have been suggested,
but that is about all. 1 will admit
that this commission business has be-
come most irritable. but ] am thank
full that some progress has been made
when Hermann was induced to re-
sign. 1t is my hope that this thing
can be adjusted satisfactorily in Chi
cago next month. but in the mean
time the situation is not being helped
by everybody running at cross pur-
poses
Evening star., 1920-01-29
BATTLE
Cannefax and McCourt Meet at
Royal Today-Hoppe Here
Tomorrow.

Champion Bob Cannefax and Charley
McCourt will finish their engagement
in Washington this afternoon and
tonight. when followers of three
cushion billiards will have an oppor-
tunity to witness an expert exhibit
tion. Both Cannefax and McCourt are
IN splendid form and close match
is predicted.
Tomorrow afternoon Willie Hoppe
and Charley Peterson will open a
series of four balkline games. All
seats have been sold for these games.
Hoppe is in grand form at present
and worthy exhibition is assured.
Yesterday afternoon Ralph Green
leaf took the veteran Jerome Keogh
into camp at pocket billiards. the
score being 125 to 80, both players
making high runs and the veteran
making the best showing of the local
series. In the night game GreenIeaf
went like a house-a-fire, running of
.he 125 balls while Keogh was garner
lne only IA. Runs of 40 and 43 by the
champion took all the wind out of
keogh's sails and the latter passed
the evening almost entirely in chair
watching his opponent perform.
Evening star., 1920-01-29

WRESTLING RIVALS END
TRAINING FOR CONTEST

NEW YORK. January 29-Earl
Caddock and Joe Stecher. who will
meet tomorrow night at Madison
Square Garden to decide the heavy
weight wrestling championship. will
wind up training this afternoon. Down
at Great Neck yesterday Caddock
went through his usual routine by
jogging over the roads in the morn
ing and doing a little graphing in the
afternoon.
Stecher went through his work at
Bothner's gymnasium with the assist :
ance of his brother Tony and few
huskies training at those quarters.
Stecher arrived here in superb shape,
and says he needs only a little easy
work to put him in his best form.
The selection OF the referee was
postponed until this afternoon. In
all probability George Bothner will
be the third man. Promoter Jack
Curley insists that Bothner is the
right man to Judge the match. as the
veteran is regarded as fixture in
the New York wrestling game and the
fans want him to referee.
Evening star., 1920-01-29
By FREDERICK G. LIEB.

NEW YORK, January 29-While all
of the major league club owners, in
addition to many others who are not
burdened or blessed with a major
league club. have announced their can
didates for the chairmanship of the
national commission. it is well for such
persons to recall just who elects the
chairman of the commission. John A.
Heydler, president of the National
League. yesterday sent out this ad-
monition to the boomers of respective
candidates:
1T might be we'll for some persons
to recall that the national agreement
still is in force. The national agree
ment provides the exact manner in
which the chairman of the national
commission is to be elected. 1t says
he shall be elected annually by the
presidents of the National and Amer
ican leagues.
Every time 1 pick up a paper 1 see
some one else is announcing that he is
supporting Mr.. So and So for chairman
of the commission. There are more
men entered in the commission race
Evening star., 1920-01-29
FOLEY TO COACH AT c. u.
Central High Man to Take Charge
Of Track Team at Brookland
School.

Billy Foley. long looked upon as the
peer of track coaches in this section,
is to take charge of track sports at
Catholic University for the remainder
Of the year. Announcement that
Foley would handle the team was
made by Director of Athletics Moran
last night. Moran has been endeavor-
Ing for some time to get Foley's sig
nature to contract to teach the
Brooklanders how to run and do other
sundry things in that branch of ath-
ietics.
Foley will take charge of the c. u.
squad Immediately in an attempt to
get the men in some kind Of condition
before the Hopkins meet the last Sat-
urday of February. There is some
fair material at c. L.. and Foley may
be depended upon to get the most out
Of It,
Evening star., 1920-01-29
Hank Cowdy, War Hero,
Again Nav Join Giants

NEW YORK. January 20-
"Hank" GOwdy may drape his
lank form with . Giant uniform
this season. The first profes-
sionnl bnsc ball player to get
turned his unsiGned contract to
the BOstOn Braves. accompanied
by n note expressing his dissat-
isfactiOn over a cut in salnry.
IT George WaahinEton Grant
refuses to rnise the ante G0wdy
will he lost to the big league,
unless he In traded to Mc<srnw.
I.nnk Hank positively will not
sign at the terms offered, but -
willing to he transpfanted to .
Giant uniform again.
GOwdy was n member OF thr
Giants for several months some
years back. He came here from
the Dallas club OF the Texas
League during the winter OF
1910 aud cnuGht several games
for McGrnw in 1911, before be-
ing traded TO BoatOn. along With
Al BridweII. for Charley Hersog.
In 1912 the Braves sent the
war veteran to Buffalo under an
optional agreement. but he re.
turned in 1914 and got into the
world series against the Ath-
letics. being the batting hero OF
that struggle. He Hema1ned VIVA
the Braves as hr1t-st1ng
catchcr until he volunteered Tor
active service in the Army In
July. 1917.
Evening star., 1920-01-29
To Abolish All Freak
Pitching. Saws .Johnson

CHICAGO. January 2g.-Prrsf-
dent JObnson Of the American
League today said, "AI freak
deIiveries, spftball, shine ball
and doctOrfnE the bail in any
way will be eliminated by the
rules committee next month.
The public has been clamOrinx
for more hitting for years. and
we nre going to give It to them
BY eliminating all freak deIiv-
cries. The opinion seems to be
that abolition Of the spitbnII
and shine ball will give the
fans the sort of batting they
destrr. We are going to find
out whether It Will.
II do not expect any trouble.
The American Annexation had
NO dfmculty In stopping Its
pitchers from using 1t, and,
therefore. I do not believe the
umpires I'm the majors will ex-
perfcnce any trouble I'm stop
ping the pitchers from using
either the spitball OF shine
ball. There will he specftic
rules fQ govern both and they
Will be enfOrced."
Evening star., 1920-01-29
TECH FIVE MAKES GOOD
Manual Trainers Trounce Episcopal
High School Quint at Alex
andria, 27 to 12.

Techs basket ball team made good
Episcopal High by trouncing that
quint. 81 to H. The Manual Train
ers displayed the same good form
which has so far carried them through
their high school series games with
out defeat.
Loehler at center and Hutchinson
at forward were the strong points in
Techs lineup. 1t was the accurate
shooting and good all-round moor
play of these men which enabled
Tech to get it's wide margin of vic
tory. Loehler shot six goals and
Hutchinson four.
Evening star., 1920-01-29
,;,|EW SCORING MARK SET
Central High Runs Up GA Points
in Basket Ball Against 4
for Friends.

Central High set new high score
mark for the year for scholastic
games by defeating Friends School
81 to yesterday in the Central GYM
naSium. The Blue and White found
no difficulty in holding its opponent
and tossed the ball into the basket
itself almost at will
Lemon. Walker and Wood did most
of the scoring for Central. The first
mentioned dropped the ball through
the net ten times. while Walker got
five goals and Wood seven. The gen
eral work of Lemon was nothing if
not brilliant. even considering the
weak opposition.
Friends got a lone goal from the
floor and Rivers made that on a
rather difficult shot from near the
side line.
Evening star., 1920-01-29
U. S. Crews to Olympics.

PHILADELPHIA. January 29.-Four
crews will represent the United States
in the Olympic games. if plans of the
board of stewards of the IntercolIe-
giate Rowing Association go through
The rowing branch of the Olympic
committee is to be asked to pick the
winner of the Poughkeepsie regatta.
the Yale Harvard race. and the two
best eights in the national regatta to
represent this country.