The Washington times., 1920-09-26


~ Having mentioned Sam Bernard.
enc might well have something to
say OF Harvard Lang. who comes win
Louis Mann to Polls next week in
Undesirable Friends" which, by the
way, is to have its name changed TO
The Unwritten Chapter" for its met
{, ropolitan showing at the Astor Thea
ter. october IL. .
Two years ago Lang was stage
( manager of Friendly EnemieA' In
! which Bernard and Mann were star
! ring at the Hudson Theater. New
! York. One day. while rehearsing =
road company, Lang endeavored to
/ show an actor how to play the Louis
| Mann part. At that psychological
| moment-as the r street boys phrase
| it--A. II. Woods happened along and.
| Hiking Lang's performance SO well, he
| engaged him to play the part In Lon
don.
In London Lang was q pronounced
4 nit, and last season had the principal
J role in '"The Ouija Board" with his
reputation hrmly made after a walt
OF twenty-eight years In "Undesir-
able Friends" LAng's role Is second
only to Louis Mann's.
The new comedy has a prologue.
three acts, and an epilogue. and Is
7, the OUTPUT of Samuel Shipman and
Victor Victor.
A COMEDY WITH DRAMA.
"Foot-Loose," which will have Emily
stevens and Lawrence Grossmith in
Its leading roles. II said to be . mod
ern society comedy. with a touch
here and there of tense drama" Miss
Stevens, who has just completed thir-
' " weeks in New York. playing Foot
Loose" in twenty-five of them, plays
the part Of a marQuise OF dubious
antecedents who attempts to black
mail an English family residing IN
Rome. The comedy 10 the wor. o.
Zoe Atkins, and its dialogue IL said
to possess much Of the flavor of Miss
Atkins other triumph. "Declasse.
Now that Hermann and the great
Kellar have gone on. Thurston re-
mains alone to hoodwink the cock
sure. The Shubert-Garrick should
have no trouble in hlling its seats
during his engagement. for there are
% many OF US who love to be mys-
titled before our very eyes. THUR
ton does that little thing.
But before these approaching on
tertainments are here, Washington
has much to occupy it's attention for
Tonight opening In all its glory OF
i. revival, is "F1orodora, at the Shu-
bert -Belasco; Clarence" Booth Tar
kington's latest vehicle of mirth, at
the National. and over at Pohs.
z sMom," by the author of that bit OF
brilliancy, Mammals Affairs To-
morrow night another new play
1ebuts at the shubert-Garriok. Tho
open Book" featuring Evelyn Nesbit.
.HEAyEN WILL Protect
Those Of N who flock to 500 and
hear .Florodora" tonight will be re-
!. ~aied with many famous favorites OF
melody, but three members Of the com
many, Katherine Oakes, Joyce Cooper.
and Vera Grover, have written the
words and music of song they all sing
in their dressings rooms 1t may De
unfair to let you In on 1t, but we're
going to, and right here
The Actors Equity Union scale OF
wages for chorus girls II SAB a Week
II Is needless to remark that the ~Floro-
dora" beauties receive moye, much more.
than that. So the three girls have fitted
the following words to raStine:
con thirty-five dollars a week.
On thirty-five dollars week.
We have to buy dresses. silk stockings
and hats,
PAY rent for otn ffatn,
"A
We ride In automobiles,
And at the Ritz We take most Of our
were wearing Russian cables and other
Injuries,
nnd still we are able to pay for all Of
these
But you can't see through 1t.
Can't tell how we do it.
on thirty-five dollars week.
(Refrotn)
oh. heaven will protect the working girl
/ on thirty -fve dollars a week"
lust remember this chorus tonight. or
any n,xht this week, while gazing at
PFlorodora," friend Of your youth
HAS nxCELLENT COMPANY.
A truly excellent company 10 to be
b>en in "'Clarence," opening tonight at
the National. Alfred Lunt began as "a
I Aery dragon" in an extravaganza with
' the John Craig stock company in Bos-
ton. He attracted Booth Tarkington's
. = ttentson while with Eugene o'Brien in
s~The Country Cousin" and Ia now In
| ~C1arenceL"
Phoebe Foster has been seen IN
Tho Cinderella Man." "Under Cover"
~1'he Gypsy Trail" and First Is
Last" playing leading roles in all
81 them.
Mary Boland's reputation As lead
Yrr woman with John Drew. Dustin
Farnum. Robert Edescn and Francis
Wilson requires no efnbellishment.
Glenn Hunter began with tho WASH
9nGton players in Tho Clod" and
SRushido" He played n boys part
lin Magic and 'Pollyanna" before
entering the army to come out and
Do nd with Clarence"
John Flood has been leading man
with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Maxine
5glliott and Henrietta CrosemAn.
while in more recent years he has
played important roles In Adam And