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1405 Eye st. Main 4752
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new brick house OF 6 rooms and
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HOUSES ron SALE
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nne corner residence, containing
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CHEVY CHASE.
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HOUSES FOR SALE
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CLEVELAND PARK SECTION

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il Of brick construction, having
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ate possession.
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McKEEVER GOSS
1+o5 EYE ST. MAIN 4752

CHEVY CHASE
Beautiful detached home in this de-
sirable section; seven rooms and bath;
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MckEEVER & GOSS,
1405 Eye st. Main 4752.
SAUL'S ADDITION
Beautiful detached home on large
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electric lights; hardwood floors: front
and double back porches; sleeping
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McKEEVER & GOSS,
1405 Eye St Main 4752.
$500
Near Naval Observatory: attractive
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improvements: hot-water heat;
electric lights; immediate possession.
Terms can be arranged.
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50 b00

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GEORGETOWN.
$500.
Located on Cambridge pL; contains
rooms and bath; furnace heat: gas
rage, and rear alley: house In excel
lent condition. immediate possession.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
CiIda Varesi Says Managers
Should Cast Actresses i'm
Role Fitted by Training

To Gilda Naresi Enter Madame"
ways must mean something more than
the attainment OF a leading role and
"arr.vaN as playwright. To her it
means artistic emarc patton, end she
declares that the success OF what she
has done may make it poss: Bic for
other women OF the thcater to gain a
new freedom.
"Ail my life I have been compelled
to play the part which the manager
selected for me-" Miss Naresi said ro-
Gently. always have been required
to play the part as the manager and
playwright wished it, And never have
been permitted to play a part which
appealed to ne and created in me an
unconQuerable longing for that part |
played in a number Of pieces where the
character ass gned to me always was
Of well defined. general type. And |
found myself catalogued and neatly
lied away IN the manager's pigeon
ments which would give me a change.
Blu you cannot play such part the
manager would say. You never nave
That was his argument. | could not
because ] had not
Il must not accuse the manager of
wantonness. Play producing IS a com
mercal enterprise. The manager in
vests large sums Of money. He cannot
experiment except within certain linn
its. lie is not likely TO hire the ac-
tress who has appeared only as an
adventuress for a love role, no matter
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Iilealer Exerts Vital
Influence Since War.
Declares Lily Calill

"Iho appeal Of the theater," SAYS
Lily Cahill, who is contributing an ad-
m lrable performance to Opportunity, ;"
the Owen Davis mclodrama at the For
ty-eighth Street Theater, "was never
more potent than now The last year
has been, believe, the most successful
IN the annals Of the American stage.
The war demonstrated the tremendous
value of the theater in our national
life; it proved its place among the ne
ccssltles, and as result we are be-
coming more than ever a nation of
playgoers
after all, the theater is the castle
of Imagination. the tent, so to speak, Of
dreams, in which, and through some
character in the play, we see ourselves
ldealized in our minds eye A man
sees himself as he was, or possibly as
he lmagines he was, in the heyday of
his own romance, and the sight is pleas
ant. His companion in fancy sees her
self as the heroine across the foot
lights, and for time, at least, the
sometimes weary road to reality is de-
serted for the little travelled path of
romance.
so it is with the youngsters. They
see in themselves the particular char
acters in the play who have aroused
their admiration. They say to them
selves: 'Ah, if opportunity ever comes
my way that is what will do"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Charles McNaughton
Store Mind With
London Street Studies

People who have seen Charles Nc
Naughton as the swaggcring cockney,
Jimmie Gubbins, in "Three Live
Ghosts or as the joyous philanderer,
Bert, in "The Better Ole" have Won
dcrcd vaguely where he picked up his
nannerisms-h his shrugs, his constant
and comical Tipping } his eyebrows,
and the inevitable and expressive
gestures Of his open hands.
The tceming streets, the favOrite
schools of Dickens and OF Dumas, were
the classrooms in which McNaughton
learned his art. During his early boy
hood in England, when all the world
would be going to school or to work
young McNaughton would mingle with
the crowds and follow them to and fro
until o'clock thinned their numbers
and left only a few stragglers to be his
companions. 1t was from these strag
glers (school meant little to Nc
Naughton) that he learned most of his
lessons The loafer with a red hand
kerchief about his throat who leaned
comfortably against Il wall and held
forth on the affairs of the empire; the
barmaid under the chin and leaned
confidentially across the bar to talk
with her; the cabman who spoke to his
horse in accents only the horse seemed
10 understand; the pugnacious coster
that spat on his hands and squared off
to any one that dared to cross him
these were the classics into which
Charley McNaughton delved, and he
studied them as in a book. From each
of them he got some trick of the eye,
or the mouth, or the shoulders, or the
hands.
Perhaps MeNaughton studied these
types unconsciously, and for no other
reason than the interest they held for
him at the time, but they live in all
his ceckney portrayals to-day as vital
and as finished as when they walked
the streets of London in the actors
boyhood.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Theresa Conover, of
S'Honeydew,' Was Held
AS Military Suspect

Theresa Maxwell Conover. who an
pears in the role of very much sophis
ticated mother-i law in Zimbalist's
musical comedy, "Hone eydcw," at the
Casino, WAS held a prisoner of war by
the Italian authorities at Turin for
thirty-two days as a German spy sus-
pect.
at was really my own fault" re-
marked Miss Conover, smilingly as she
stood in the wings the other night
awaiting her entrance cue. you see
| had been in and out OF Venice before,
to the evident annoyance of the mill
tary authorities, who had drawn the
lines with the utmost severity at that
time, during the second year of the
war. Well, when l went sailing heed
lessly into Italy a second time and
then just as airily started to depart,
after exploring every part of Venice
and refusing all injunctions to stay in
doors during air raids and at other
times, the military authorities evident
ly concluded that ] must have some
mysterious enc IN view.
"Thc result was that | spent a full
month in confinement as prisoner of
war. The Imprisonment itself was not
SO much of hardship as the dreadful
uncertainty as to just what they might
decide to do with me. | suppose some
nervous women might have spent the
nights in slccpless fear that the firing
squad might come at daybreak, but
refused to let it ruffle my nerves and
silent sOundly and we'll"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

what her demonstrated ability as an
adVenturess. For all the manager
knows-or ever will know-thc adven-
turess may be a greater actress in a
love role than she ever has been as an
aaVenturess. The manager merely fol-
lows the dictates of a theatrical sys-
tem' which says an actress is pat
termed TOR all time for a certain piece
o. work and the pattern cannot be
changed. 1t is this sitting which |
nave endured, in common with tholbs-
ands or other women of the stage.
winch has made my present appearance
IN piece in which | had something to
say great eXhilaration.
Il speak m behalf Of the other wom-
en- OF the theater, as a woman who has
spent her life on the stage. | ask that
the managers and producers, purely
from the standpoint Of financial gain.
turn 70 the women of the stage for
ihelr plays. For in what drama can an
actress, granting sincerity and GER
tain amount of ability, rise to greater
artlstic heights than IN a play which
shc herself has written, or in which she
mas collaborated? And what woman is
there, worthy of a place in metro
polltan production, who in her years Of
toll IN the theater has not lived
through and known experiences that
would make great play? And through
whom is the greatest artistic success
possible, the playwright who has I'M
aglned what he has written or the
actress who has written what she has
lived ?"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Story of The Prodigal Son.
Woven into Comedy sBab.'
Makes Interesting Play

The story of The Prodigal Son is one
Of the most perfect plots ever invent
ed, according to Edward Childs Carpen-
ter, whose comedy "Bab" has just been
successfully launched at the Park, with
charming Helen Hayes in the leading
role.
81 could write twenty variations of
1t, each one of them different in action
and treatment" said he the other day.
NO story has ever been written with
more human interest, more dramatic
possibilities than The Prodigal Son.
Mr.. Carpenter is we'll qualified to
judge the merits Of this plot, for "Bab"
is not the accidental success of a be-
glnner. For twenty years he has been
studying playwritlng, and Bah" is the
seventh play Of his that has been pro-
duced. A curious thing about Mr.. Car
penter's plays is revealed in the fact
that for number of years he was the
financial editor of Philadelphia news
paper, and yet no hint Of the Stock Ex-
change, no touch of HIGH finance, is al
lowed to creep into his plays. Instead
OF Grass business he prefers to write
ABOUT romance and to dissect the souls
of delightful adolescents like Bah.
i" PiaElnahlhg MT. carpenter has the
advantage of varied viewpoint. After
he finished his high school course.
every subject of which he loathed, ex-
cept English, he met an actor who told
him that if he really wanted to write
plays he ought to go on the stage and
learn the practical end of the craft.
He Immediately acted on this sugges-
ton and went on the road with a small
stock company.
few years Of transforming was
tried and then he found young and
inexperienced capitalist who wanted to
put out company in Shakespearian
repertoire. This was like mamma in
the wilderness to Carpenter, who was
starving his heart out for a chance to
act Hamlet, and he began career of
stage manager, producer and actor.
The venture lasted three weeks. The
experience gained was an immense help
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

to Mr.. Carpenter, however added 20 his
long service as a newspaper man.
One thing told by Mr. Carpenter
illustrates the difficulties encountered
in producing a play. Frank Bacon
autnor of "Lightnin'.' one of the most
successful plays ever produced ia this
country, had small part in one Of Mr.
Carpenter most successful plays.
The Cinderella Man Daring the re-
hearsal Mr.. Bacon changed his lines
frequently, and finally MIR. Carpenter
demonstrated with him
81 wrote the play" he said. and
want my characters 10 say certain
things. You" have to stop intcrpolat-
ing"
Mr.. Bacon said he'd been in the
habit Of doing that for long time and
that authors hadn't objected before
very much. 1t looked as if there
would be serious trouble The actor.
however, solved the difficulty by re
marking the next day:
I've changed my mind. guess III
read your lines. read yours and
mine to my wife and she likes yours
better. so I'm going to stick 10 the
book"
The dramatization of "Bab" was
made nearly three years ago and Mr.
Val Pe'sNcI NA!leu patiently. after as
posing of the play TO Arthur Hopkins
for Helen Hayes to create the leading
role. He felt that she was the abso-
lutely inevitable actress for 1t and
when he disposed of the play to Nj.
Hopkins it was with the insisience
that she play the part.
But she's tied up with George TYLER
and you may have TO wait Tor two
years" objected MIR. Hopkins.
"lll wait five if necessary" replied
the playwright "No one else can pos
sibly do it quite SO WELL
AS matter of fact he waited more
than two years until Mr.. Tyier's pre-
arranged plans for the young actress
had been carried out These included
her appearance in Dear Brutus" and
her creation of the role of the ire
pressible Cora Wheeler in Booth Iaik
ington's "Clarence.'
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Keep 1t
By Circulating 1t
Is COhan Formula
Continued from page one)

Write the story the way you please.
The whole question is answered in my
speech in the last act"
The gist of the speech, which is
good enough to be offered and VIII be
offered as separate entity in forth
coming issue Of this section, is that
happiness is the most important thing
in life and that the way to get it is to
create it and the only way to keep ii
is to spread it around.
Leaving the question of happiness,
Mr. Cohan talked of "Mary," his musi-
cal comedy production which came into
town go successfully last Monday eve
ming.
Il think Mary is liked because it
has such an appealing. human story
In Boston and Philadelphia people
came to see it five and even SIX times,
and you know repeaters mean much in
the success of production More
people are going to the theater to-day y
than ever before Business has never
been so good with any of my attrac-
tions. All seasons are poor seasons
for poor shows and all seasons are
good seasons for good shows. Give the
public what it wants and it will fiji the
theatprS
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Joseph singleton's Acting
Impressive i'm Tourneur's
The Great Redeemer'

A portrayal which will go down in
photo dramatic history as one of the
most impressive is that Of Joseph Sim
gleton, who has the role of con-
demned murderer in THE Great Re-
deemer," the Maurice Tourneur produc
ton, which will have its first showing
at the Rivoli during the week of Sun
day, October "a.
Singleton is not a star-in fact, he is
little known so far as national repu-
tation is concerncd-bu it is predicted
that after "The Great Redeemer" has
made it's debut much of the praise
which will be bestowed upon the pro-
duction will be for Singleton's acting.
There are but four names on the
program House Peters in the role of
a train robber, Marjorie Daw as his
mountain sweetheart, Jack Macdonald
as a two-gun sheriff and Singleton as
condemned murderer. Scores more of
players appear in the picture, but these
four keep the central theme flowing
Singleton pictures the transforma-
tion of one of the most vicious slayers
standing in the shadow of the gallows
into dignified and patient being who
goes to his death with measured tread.