Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-25
VHEATER- GOING Washington
has barely settled itself down
for a summer vacation when


it is startled into activity by
announcements of the opening of the
new regular theatrical season. Even
the Garrick Players, at the Shubert-
Garrick, not to be outdone by the
regulars" have taken a fresh grip
and with Irving Cummings, the mo-
ton picture star. as the new leading
man, and list of attractions in
Guiding "A Prince There Was" The
Boomerang" The Very Idea" The
Great Divide Daddy Longlegs" and
Tea for Three" have girded them
selves for a sumptuous preseason
splurge that is notable in stock pro-
duction. Much is being said of Mr..
Cummings in advance, and. il only
half be made good. those who love
to blend the dolce far niente with
theatrical thrills and romance will
not find a shortage in amusement
whatever the prospect may be for the
winter coal. L. Monta Bell, who pilots
the players and is responsible for
their productions, is a live wire in
his business, and Washington already
has had ample evidence of his ire
pressible art Summer stock has al
ways been popular in Washington.
and the records of past seasons for
the stock players will put to the
blush many of the road attractions
which have been sent here with the
blare of trumpet and the flourish of
the press agents pen.
The regular season at the Shubert-
Belasco. according to Manager L..
Stoddard Taylor. will open August
three-act comedy by Frederick aNd
Fanny Hatton, authors of Years of
Discretion" The Great Lover" up
stairs and Down" and Lombard,
Ltd" 1t is being produced by F. Ray
Comstock and Norris Gest, with Cliff
ford Brooke, who has recently staged
East Is West" in London 1t will
be followed a week later by Spanish
Love-" a creation of Avery Hopwood
and Mary Roberts Rinehart, authors
of "A Thief in the Night" which the
in Washington. If vaudeville and
motion pictures can run all summer
and the big theaterS" can make
try at IT in August, Manager Harry
O. Jarboe evidently thinks why not
announcing throngs with the state
ment- that the Gayety. after Wig
orous overhauling by carpenters.
painters. sculptors. etc, etc. ETC.,
will throw open its doors" with The
Social Maids" as the allurement. to
gust Z. Now let 'em all come and
may success attend their efforts, pro-
vided always their efforts are such
in character and quality as merit sue
enough of 'the glooms." Let the
joys" now enter and reign with an
unending reign by all means
Mrs. Jimmie Thompson" a farce
hilarious. which delighted Princess
Theater audiences in New York last
season. will drift in with the Novem-
Der tide and find its domicile at the
Shubert-Garrick for a brief season.
T. Arthur Smith. as local manager
for William Morris, the New York
theatrical manager. announces that
Tom Burke. the famous Irish tenor,
introduced by Nine. Media in the
Royal Opera Company. Covent Gar
den, London, will give his second con-
cert in this country at the National
Theater in Washington, Tuesday art
ernoon October 5. He will make his
American debut October 8 at the New
York Hippodrone-
Manager Harry o. Jarboe OF THE
Gayety returned to Washington last
week to resume his official duty after
a vacation spent in the west, where
he went with Almas Temple to the
Shrine Imperial Council session at
Portland. Ore. in June, returning via
San Francisco, Los Angeles, New
Mexico, St. Louis and Pittsburg. after
having vacated" in travel more than
nine thousand miles.
Since the upheaval wrought by the
world war and the actors strike IN
tected new vigilance and activity into
the managerial fold some wonderful
things have been brought TO nght.
Morris Gest has discovered proo-
igy in a girl singer of eighteen years
old. Hannah Toback by name, OF Rus-
sian parentage, who, besides oeins
beautiful and very clever actress. Is
found to have a voice OF marvellous
sweetness, purity and power one -
to be exploited in Mecca, by G ,1
stock and Gest. at the Century me
ster New York. in September. Gest
declares she is the greatest operaeic
discovery in a dozen years
Eugene O'Neirs wonderful play,
..Ravond the Horizon" which had a
long and successful engagement IN
NV York and evoked much discus
sion, is to be published In DOCK iorni'
Mercedes Densmore, VINO reCentiy
achieved personal success in "Hedda
Gabler'' and THE Master Builder IN
New York is to appear the coihdne
season in Three Live Ghosts She
fas been invited also to appear In q
series of Ibsen performances as "eh-
Boyd Agin, associated with Rachei
Barton Butler in the promotion OF tne
Childrens Theater, in New YORK, Is
best known to the stage as Booth nd
gin He recently returned from over
seas and will play in the new play oy
Thomas Dixon, whose story concerns
the life of Lincoln
While the roller coaster is yet JOY
in the land and the Old Mill race Is
drifting troubled amusement seekers
to unknown delights. the management
of Glen Echo Park is out with an an :
nouncement of Improvements 10 De
made in preparation for next season.
Lumber and materials have Deen Or
dered for a new dancing paViiion.
with the largest space and the pest
dancing surface in the south. inciuo-
ing every feature found in New YORK $
dance palaces" and a new carrousei'
fresh from Philadelphia. where car
rousels first came to light. so 1t has
been said, that will embody many
new features and be housed in glass
case supported by outside posts only.
The gravity is to be sped up" and
possibly a new pavilion erected for
outing parties. Like our base ball
club. Gee. Glen Echo will be great