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OF circumstances lands her

ton OF circumstances lands her
there.
But she doesn't progress in her
dramatic career further than q job
rs singer in q third-rate cabaret
Her boss is a crook and plans to
fleece a young man of his wealth
by using Mary Ellen with her big
innocent eyes as a sort of milk-fed
"vamp" to lure his victims pock-
etbook. OF course, Mary Eflen's
nerve fails at the last moment. she
confesses, they love at first sight.
and all is peaches.
Miss Gish, of course, walks away
with the part of Mary Ellen. and
the picture itself has more plot
than the usual Gish production. 1t
is delightfully."- supplemented with
novel and appealing array Of added
hits.
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don't miss it. A burning barn is a
burning barn in this picture. They
don't use red flares and leave the
rest to your imagination. A feud-
ist battle is a real battle and not
q couple of shots heard off stage.
and when the noun n girl on
horseback leaps the brosen brid9s
over the yawning chasm to save :
man threatened by a dynamite blast
she leaps a chasm worthy OF iker
name
These exciting moments ere jiast
a few, however, of tbs many exeit-
ing scenes with which the picture
abounds. 1t is avowedIy a thriiisr
depicting as 1T does = T-cst exciting
and soul-stirriae story. ysJ tui. OF
heart-throbs, la-ghs ina romance, a
story which never sseTns 70 grow
old In the minds of the country's
playgoers
The musical setting as arranged
by Arthur ,. Maxwell, director of
the Stranc Orchestra, is worthy of
special meEtion. The overture for
the week is Lamecnik's ole South"
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Folly Theater.

Headed by Harry S. Levan. the
Jewish comedian. Charles Bakers
"Sport Girls" at the Folly Theater
this week measures UP to the best
traditions of the American wheel
The entertainment is a side-split-
ting musical farce and Is replete
with tuneful music and comedy
situations. Levan employees Original
methods in provoking laughter and
has come to be regarded as a com
edy classic.
Marie Grenier displayed a pleas
ing personality and handled her
song numbers capably. Others in
the company include Eddie welch
Frank Mallahan. Doroles Clayton
Sam Bachen, and Lou Levine. The
chorus is pleasing. while the scenic
effects and costuming are striking
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plays more characters than any
other actor in the play. deserves
credit for her ready adaptability.
Observation-Disclosures Days
Leave.

Theatergoers seem to have grown
a bit tired of war plays ''in these
piping times of peace" At least
the audience at Shubert- -Garrick
last night failed to respond to
Seven Days Leave" as they would
have done a few short months ago
The play involves an ardent and
patriotic young American serving
as a British officer. a young Eng
lish girl of title, and a pair of Ger
man spies, one OF them, of course
a young and attractive woman. To
serve the country under whose flag
he is fighting and to save a trans
port bearing some thousands Of his
own countrymen to France the
American relinquishes the girl. in
volving himself in a series of plots
and counter plots that keep every
one-except one fire-eating old coll
onel-guessing.
AS the gallant young American.
Walter Sherwin, showed that an
American can wear an English uni
form quite as dashingly as a native
con OF John Bull. and Lillian Lee
Anderson made SO attractive an
English girl that one wondered at
Maj. Fielding's fortitude.
Clay Cody kept the audience
snickering with delight over HIS
portrayal of the young English no.
bleman whose influence had earned
him the post of TX. p" for his COL
onel, but who could not forget his
monacle even when overcome with
emotion. NJ. c. Dale, as the Tom
my" whose gallantry had won him
recognition by the nobility was al
most as popular with the audience
as Cody.
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FoRTNIGHTLY sOIREE
OF THE FRENCH CLUB

Mr.. Y. e. Yang. of the Chinese
Legation. and Mr. Dixon L. Merritt,
the well-known writer, will be the
guests of honor and principal speak
ers at the fortnightly soiree of the
French Club of the Washington Sa-
lon at its studios in the Mclean
Building. 1917 H street. Thursday
night. DIR. Yang Will speak on What
Confucius Says" and Mr.. Merritt
will give a talk on Funny Stories
and Various Verses" Mrs. Charles
B. Maynadier. of Baltimore. will give
a number of soprano solos. accom-
panied on the piano by Mrs. Helen
j. p. Starr. The president of the
club. Mr.. De Zapp. assisted by the
board of governors. will make the
presentations. Miss G.. Louise Phil
lips will preside at the punch bowl
and will be assisted by Miss Leona
Shields. Miss Bertha Denny, Miss FL
len NJ. Hussey. Miss Garnet Snow
berger and Miss Anna C.. Gault.
There will be refreshments and
dancing. and the discerning public
IL invited
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Moore's Garden.

Mae Murray made a smashing hit
in the 1915 edition of the Ziegfeld
Follies but with all her beauty, pep,
grace and vivacity, she never made
greater hit in her past career than
in washington in the George Fitz-
maurice production. presented as
Paramount-Artcr Special, "On
with the Dance" which opened Its
fourth consecutive, and what is an
nounced as fnai week. of showing
at Moore's Garden Theater yes
terday.
There is a east in which the WORK
of Alma Tell. John Miltern. Robert
Schable. Ida Waterman and Zola
Talma is Of q brilliant orer.
Much enjoyment is added to the
showing through the excellent or
chestral setting provided by Mr..
Claude v. Burrows. conductor Of the
Garden orchestra. The overture for
the week. Selections from Chu
Chin Chow" is exceptionally well
rendered.
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Observation-Disclosures,

George v. Hobart's drama, "Ex-
perience," has lost none of its pop
ularity. even though in its sixth
season. judging from the capacity
audience last night at the Shubert-
Belasco.
Experience" is a tale that will
bear telling many times. 1t is an
|age-old story-a combination of the
story of the prodigal son and an
emphatic recitation on the stability
of the law Of compensation.
F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest,
producers of Experience" have
chosen q red-haired Youth" Don
aid Scanlon, for the leading male
role. In the character Of "Expe-
rience." the constant follower of
Youth" Albert Andrus carries his
part with remarkable fidelity.
'Tptoxication," as PLAYED NV
Maude Gage Files. has always been
one of the features of Experience" :"
and SO well does the actress por-
tray that character that only a
few in the audience recognized her
as "Frailty" in another episode.
The Crouch" as played by Will
D'es IN the house OF Last
Resort" is a perfect impersoRation
OF a real Crouch. Beauty" the last
to attract Youth" on the "Pfim-
rose Path" is played by beautiful
Ida Howell. However. in attract
iyeness. she shares honors with
Pieasure." played by Betty Frew-
en-. Both women were hapdsomely
gowned.
George B. Miller, who portrayed
both Crime" and "Makeshift,' did
very. good work. especially in the
former. Blanche crossman, who
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PoII's-aFrlvellties 81 1s9o. >

Just as Mr.. whites .scandaisv
represented step below the Zieg-
field standard in girl-and-music
stage revues. and Just as a Pass
ing Show usually rates under both.
just SO does g. M. Anderson's FRI
volities of 1920" take a position
subordinate to all three. with the
possible exception of Its perfectly
frank disregard of the conventions.
The show IL original in many
ways. No attempt has been made
to carry a plot through the vari-
Gus numbers. and stellar roles have
been omitted. Rather. the piece is
built on the activities OF a number
OF artists who please.
"Frivolities OF 1890" is actually a
glorified burlesque show. In form,
however, II is vaudeville, the re-
vue gown display giving place to
a dancing speciality. which in turn
gives way to q monologue by Henry
Lewis. all three being displaced by
black-face speciality. The same or
der Is then repeated.
While the piece savors of the
burlesque. It has plenty Of pep
and snap" The gowns displayed
show q marked attention to novel
ideas as presented in American ex-
Itravaganzas. In many respects the
show resembles "The RIVERA Girl"
which, played the season OF 1917 in
New York.
The piece yields, during it's first
act, nothing in the way of music
that seems to rival this seasons
hits. Henry Lewis, late of vaude-
willie and later OF several musical
shows, banters through several
numbers
Lewis is. made the center of the
production and brings some new
banter and quips to the Capital
City which were well appreciated
by the audience last night The
only possible criticism of Lewis
work Is the last number in the Sec
ond act, when he appears as a
sailor. This scene is weak and lacks
the comedy which has been carried
through the entire show.
william B. Friedlander II respon-
sible for most of the music. Nellie
and Sara Kouns are the chief prin-
civals who assist Lewis in support
ing the production.
The closing Is probably the most
gorgeous of the whole production
Here the marriage OF the nations
Is depicted with every member OF
the cast making his and her entry
by way of a winding set of stairs
on either side OF the stage. Both
the chorus and the principals are
dressed In snow-white satin.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses
saying.
Speak unto Aaron and to his
sons. that they separate themselves
from the holy things of the children
of Israel, and that they profane not
my holy name in those things
which they hallow unto me: I am
the Lord.
3 Say unto them. whosoever he
be of all your seed among your
genefations, that goeth unto the
holy things, which the children OF
Israel hallow unto the Lord. having
his uncleanness upon him. that soul
shall be cut off from my presence
1 am the Lord.
What man soever of the seed
of Aaron is a leper; he shall not eat
OF the holy things, until he be clean.
Or whosoever toucheth any
creeping thing, whereby he may be
made unclean, or a man of whom he
may take uncleanness, whatsoever
uncleanness he hath;
6 The soul which hath touched any
such shall be unclean until even,
and shall not eat of the holy things.
unless he wash his flesh with
water.
And when the sun Is down, he
shall be clean, and shall afterward
eat of the holy things: because II
Is his food.
That which dieth of itself, or
is torn with beasts, he shall not
eat to defile himself herewith: I
am the Lord.
9 They shall therefore keep
mine ordinance, lest they bear sin
for II. and die therefore, if they
profane IL: I the Lord do sanctify
them.
10 There shall no stranger eat
of the holy thing: sojourner Of
the priest. or b hired servant, shall
not eat of the holy thing.
IL But IL the priest buy any
soul with his money. he shall eat
of 1t, and he that Is born in his
house: they shall eat Of his meat.
~ II the priests daughter also
be married unto a stranger, she
may not eat of an Offering of the
holy things.
.
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NationaI-George whites "seandals
Of 1917

II has been some months since
George White made his debut as
q producer. and In the interim his
jazzy revue has established a repu-
tation for shattering box ONCE rec
ords. The repeat visit to Wash
ington which opened at the National
last night finds the glorified vaude-
willie performance running much
more smoothly through judicious
elimination. but with the speedy
tempo maintained and the "shimmy''
maintaining its prominence through
out the action OF the two acts.
The 1919 scandals" was construct
ed to please the eyes and the ear.
with no attempt made to tax the
intellect through the intricacies of
Of entertainment those who prefer
oughly satisfying.
Dainty Ann Pennington is an
eyeful herself and upholds the
honor accorded by the first night
experts of being the acme in
feminine shapeliness. While she
makes no claim vocally. her I'm
a Jazz Baby" scored one of the
evenings hits and her dancing
numbers met an enthusiastic re-
ception.
Lester Allen, Lou Holtz and
George Bickel handle the bulk of
the comedy. Holtz. who works in
blackface. breaks the stage waits
by a series of miniature mono
logues and a comedy song. while
Allen. graduate of burlesque,
displays a routine of low comedy
tricks that brought fully as many
laughs as IL offered at Mr.. Jarboe's
playhouse. Bickel has his big
scene wherein Long Islands pro-
pensity for unwritten law murder
trials is travestied with the Judge
directing the comedy
The Scandals" abounds in dane
ing. Everybody is doing ii at some
time or another throughout the
evening. and George White shows
the talents which have brought him
fame on Broadway, and in the two
a-day, both early and often. La
Sylphe Is the only one in the cast
to forsake the shimmy and the jazz
AOE HiOTe CidSSlchl eIIOrI, ana ner
solo numbers stood out as a con-
sequence. Nobody is in Yvette Ru-
gels class vocaliy. so capturing the
musical honors was an easy task
for her. Moran and Mack intro
duced a clever blackface comedy
act that registered q full quota of
laughs.
Every vaudeville act on the stage
today seems to have a supply of
prohibition jokes. SO that the quips
In the dialogue. which runs
much to Barleycorn, suffer fire.
,quently through decrepitude. The
music by Richard Harding, Herbert
Spencer and Al Gumble is mostly
of the syncopated type designed to
score through the action that fits
the strains.
A capacity audience appears to
find George Whites initial effort as
a producer the kind that will keep
Ziegfeld moving, and it's evidently
headed for a prosperous stay in the
capital.
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COUNTESS DE KORZYBsKA
VISITING IN DETROIT.

Countess Skarbek de Korzybska.
who lived in Washington for a year
or more, Is now visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Julian Harris, in Detroit. Coun-
tess de korzybska is better known
as Mira Edgerly, the noted minia-
ture painter. She will sail in a few
months for Warsaw. Poland, where
she will join her husband, whom
she married in this city about a
year ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Har-
ris resided in Washington during
the period of the war.
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Gayety-.star and carter show

While The Great Star and Garter
Show" the current attraction, at the
Gayety Theater, would easily pass
muster on previous laurels. 1t fur
ther added to it's prestige yesterday
at the Gayety. Not only is the or
ganization larger than ever before,
bat there are half a dozen names
numbered in the cast, any one Of
which would be sufficient recon-
mendation for the average burlesque
chow.
There are also two musical bur.
lettas with farcical plots, La Belle
Paree" and Putting 1t Over" to ex-
plcit this aggregation of talent. with
good array of novelty ballet dances
and song numbers. AS good meas
ure, the individual members con-
tribute clever bits as specialties at
intervals throughout the perform
ance.
Ray Read. a comedian with an un-
usual reputation for attracting the
elusive laugh, is featured with
Charles Burns and William Fowls.
Heading the feminine contingent is
the beautiful Australian Songbird, -
Florence barley, who is assisted by
Chubby Drisdale and Pauline Hall.
Howard Paden and Bert Hall COM
plete the list of principals. And
that complement of all good bur-
lesoue entertainments-a large cho-
rus of girls fair to look at, each of
whom is endowed with marked tai
ents for singing and dancing and Is
sumptuously costumed, - is very
much in evidence throughout the
performances. There are twelve
scenes in the production.
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Loew's Palace-Elsie Ferguson In
SHis House In Order.


The last time Washington saw
Elsie Ferguson was in person at
the time she scored that distinctly
noteworthy success at the National
in the stage version OF Arnold Ben
nett.s Sacred and Profane Love"
and at that time, IL was increasing
ly manifest that Elsie Ferguson Is
a star that the playgoers Of future
years must reckon with, notwith-
standing her long list of stage and
screen triumphs of the past.
Miss Ferguson came back to
Washington yesterday afternoon
but this time 1t was in photoplay
appearance, in an adaptation OF Sir
Arthur Wing Pinero's His House
in Order" which formed the chief
feature of the program at Loew's
Palace yesterday. The program,
while dominated by the Ferguson
Pinero production, is delightfully."-
supplemented by L compelling ar
ray Of added hits, including the
latest Mack Sennett laugh-pro-
ducer. Gee Whiz" and a striking
overture number. Prince of Pill
sen." by the Palace Symphony Or
chestra.
The story of "His House in Or
der" relates the troubled adventures
that befell a Vivacious English girl
who entered the home of a member
Of Parliament as a governess and
afterward became his second wife.
The discovery that his first wife
was not exactly the paragon which
he thought her and the insults to
which the heroine Is subjected by
the relatives of the dead woman.
lead to a highly dramatic situation
which Is worked out in an enter
tanning manner
The action has been portrayed
against a background that is thor
oughly beautiful from a natural
standpoint. The English countryside
has been reproduced with strik-
ing faithfulness and the whole pho
toplay has been mounted upon a
thoroughly dignified scale. This is
In large measure, of course, due to
the talented star.
Miss Ferguson is thoroughly at
home in her portrayal Of the gov
erness. 1t is a part that calls for
considerable versatility as we'll as
emotional talent, and the beautiful
star meets every occasion adequate
ly. She is supported by Holmes
Herbert. Vernon Steel. and other
excellent players. Hugh Ford di-
rected the picture
The Washington herald., 1920-03-22

The Senate Finance Committee
yesterday ordered a favorable re-
port on the tariff bills to give pro-
lection to the TUNGSTEN. zinc and
pearl button industries.
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Sohpie Snyder, Elizabeth Mitchell.
Master Merrott Cootes, Joseph Free
linghuysen, George McLanahan, En-
nails Waggaman and Henry Rogers.
Mrs. Vance, Mrs. Heron and Mrs
Bowen will be h6stesses for the last
indoor ride of this season, which
the club. 1t will be a gala night
with many added features.
MIR. AND MRS. w. III. TAFT
HAVE GONE TO GEORGIA.
Former President and Mrs. will
liam Howard Taft have gone to
Augusta, Ca, for an extended stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Rogers and
Miss Millicent Rogers have come to
Washington to take possession OF
the residence on X street, which
they occupied last season.
Capt. w. Pitt Scott has Joined Mrs.
Scott in Atlantic City.
Sir Charles Gordon: of Montreal,
stationed with a British mission in
Washington during the war, is now
visiting in New York.
Lady Astor. of London, will have
her sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Glib
son, as her guest during the spring.
Mrs. Gibson plans to sail for Eng
land tomorrow.
Mrs. S. Percy Thompson enter
tanned party of nine at the tea
dance at the Cafe st. Marks, Satur-
day afternoon.
Lady Herbert, widow of a former
British Ambassador at Washington,
and an American woman, who has
been visiting sin New York, sailed
for England. Saturday.
Former United States Senator AZ
bert ]. Beveridge, who has been at
Hot Springs for several weeks, has
left there for New York, where he
joined Mrs. Beveridge. who went
there from Washington, the end OF
last week, to join Mrs. Marshall
Field.
Capt. Cary Wilson is spending the
weekend in Baltimore. as the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Congreve Jackson.
Walter s. Andrews, of this city,
will go shortly to Newport, where
he has been made a member of a
commission in charge of Freebody
Park Recreation Field.
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Moore = RiaIto,

The grouchiest mortal on earth
couldn't resist laughing at some of
the situations brought to light in
the First National attraction, IN
Search of a Sinner" a photoplay
adaptation of Charlotte Thompson's
story Of the same name, with Con-
stance Talmadge in the stellar role.
which opened a weeks engagement
at Moore's Rialto Theater yesterday.
John Emerson and Anita Loos, who
are responsible for the scenario,
have given us a comedy of infinite
Jest and sparkle.
The heroine role of Georgiana
Chadbourne suits Constance Tai
madge in every detail. A merrier
young madcap widow never existed.
The story concerns a handsome
young widow in search of a good
time, who comes to New York,
where she resides with her brother
in-law. Jeffery. and his wife. She
flirts with Jack Garrison in the park
and afterwards entertains him in
the Jeffery apartments, posing as
Mrs. Jeffery. She believes Garri-
son to be the real wild" man she
has been looking for. Her attempts
to beguile him are ineffective, how
ever, and he telegraphs his friend
Jeffery. to come home and watch
his wife, at the same time endeav-
oring TO escape from the supposed
wife by indulging in an orgy with
a sportive Broadway woman. The
arrival of Jeffery from his country
home brings about a crisis, Garri-
son learning that the girl has SIM
ply been experimenting in a quest
for a man who was not too good, and
the happy wedding follows.
/ The star is fortunate in her sup
port. Radcliffe Fellows. her lead
ing man; Lillian Worth, Corliss
Giles. Marjorie Milton. William Ro-
selle and Evelyn Caring all ap-
pearing to good advantage.
Short features are shown consist
ing of a gorgeous Prizma color sub
ject. Magic Clay" World Current
Events. the Topical Digest and a
Rolin comedy. The musical score
for the week, under the direction
CT Daniel Breeskin, will be Victor
Herbert's overture, The Fortune
Teller"
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Loew's CoIumbia--Dorothy Gish I'm
MARY Ellen Comes to Town" :

Disturbing Dorothy Gish is at 1t
again in her new picture, Mary
Ellen Comes to Town" at Loew's
Columbia Theater for the fore part
of this week. This engaging little
Coincidence. with her seemingly in
exhaustible energy and always a
new bag of tricks. Is welcome Wis
itor in these worrisome. days. The
film, as usual. is diyerting as a
small boys visit TO the circus.
Prohibition has evidently cut into
the rank of the movie stars. too.
and Miss Gish. as Mary Ellen. Is. a
soda dispenser at small Southern
town drug store, However. play
ing checkers. with the farmers in
her leisure end mixing nut sundaes
during working hours aren't excit-
ing enough for Mary Ellen. She
longs for career on the stage In
the Big. City. Finally, q combina.
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Moore's strand.

Amid a thunder OF galloping
hoofs. and real horse hoofs at that,
guided by real live jockeys, the
clarion music Of what sounded to US
like q regular racetrack band
brought in for the purpose. and
finally the ringing cheers Of an au-
dience wrought up to the highest
pitch Of enthusiasm. Queen Bess''
yes, the same beautiful Queen
Bess Of our childhood days as we
remembered seeing her I'm Old
Kentucky"-won what roughly
should be her millionth race, at
Moore's strand Theater yesterday.
where the First National Exhibitors
are presenting ell this week
Marshall Neilan's thrilling photo
dramatic production of this Ameri-
can classic. with popular Anita
Stewart in the role which 90 many
successful stars have graced in
years past. that Of Madge Briefly.
II you are looking for thrills.