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The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

Paul Wilstach, the author of Her
Happiness" at the Garrick this
week, once attracted the attention
of Richard Mansfield. who engaged
him to make the stage version of
Moliere's The Misanthrope," Shake
speares King Henry W" Schiller's
Don Carlos" and Ibsen's Peer
Gynt."
Other Of wilstach's plays which
have been successfully produced
were "A Gay Deceiver," Polly
Primrose" "A Capital Comedy"
RUFUS Riggs" The Poor Rich"
"Keegan's Pal" What Happened at
o." and his dramatic version of
Anatole Frances "Thais."
Emma Dunn's ability was first
noticed by Mr.. Wilstach when, as a
girl of twenty, she played Peer
Gynts mother. 1t was impressed
on Mr.. Wilstach's mind and when
he wrote Her Happiness" he had
Miss Dunn in mind for the role of
Maria Merillee.
When Marga Waldron, daughter
of Col. A. E. Waldron. Engineer
Corps, U. S. A., decided to take the
stage in search of a dancing career.
her parents registered strenuous
objections. A family conference
was called to consider the matter.
THE stage" advised father War
dron. '"is not the place for you. It's
life is hard. taxing. and very, very
few of its aspirants really arrive"
"Yes, I know" agreed Marga,
but I ought to, at least. have an
opportunity of proving to myself
whether I can win success"
1t was decided that IL Marga
should not find success in he.
chosen profession at the end of
four years she should return home
and prepare for college. With that
agreement sealed and signed she
left Washington during the war to
try her terpsichorean luck. and a.
the end of two and a half years
she blossomed forth a Keith and
Orpheum vaudeville headliner.
Her appearance this week at
Keith's will give her Washington
friends a taste of artistry. real and
distinctive. To watch her move
ments one would little dream that
every one had been studied, timed
and rehearsed for weeks and In
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01
-Four PIayhOuses
. May Offer Drama
Before Christmas

Coincident with the announce
ment several days ago that the
Capitol Theater was to be
opened for repertoire produce
tions on October Is comes the
additional news that Polls is
positively booked for an after
noon engagement on October 81,
while work on the National Is
progressing at a rate that in
dicates an opening AROUND No
vember 1 at the latest.
Polls was leased for a con-
cert matinee on October Is, but
already this engagement is prac-
tically cancelled. as 1T In certain
that the theater will not be in
readiness by that time. A week
later, however, may see its
opening.
So while October finds
Washington struggling along
with only one theater devoted
to drama of the legitimate
type. November 1 may find no
less than three in the fed, with
the possibility of a. fourth.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01
Building the Chateau DIFF
Problem in 'Monte Cristo"
Director Flynn. Found an Ideal Location in
Santa Barbara Channel, Off
California Coast.

A solid wall of masonry rising
from the waters of the Pacific
Ocean to a height of more than 100
feet forms but one angle OF the
motion picture set representing the
famous Chateau diff. the terr. BILE
prison in which Edmund Dantes,
later Monte Cristo, was imprisoned
for twenty years.
This magnificent monument, an
elaborate and costly set, gives a
general idea of the care for detail
with which Emmett ]. Flynn. the
director, handled this latest Will
lam Fox spec al. which today begins
its second week at Crandalls Met
ropolitan Theater.
For weeks Mr.. Flynn and corps
Of assistants searched the west
coast of California for the proper
location of the famous rock prison
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

latiRg a fortune by catering to the
popular fondness for this type of
drama, Mr.. Carter retired from
active work, bought a large farm in
Indiana and settled down to lead a
contented, retired life. He decided
the American public was through
with melodramas. There were no
more thrills he could think of, for
he had used them all, but the
movies found him out.
Tempting offers were made to him
to turn his melodramas into photo
dramas. And so the gentleman
farmer and playwright, with a
luxurious and bushy beard, such as
ono would expect from Kankakee.
has emerged from his seclusion and
at the age OF 5S is about to aid in
the transition OF his melodramas
into screen spectacles
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01
SIDELICHTS ON THE WEEKS new OFFERINGS

promising dramatic career the
classics. Born in Pennsylvania
village Of a family that claimed
descent from the last of the Scot
tish chiefs, Angus Macintosh. Miss
Stoddard prepared for the legiti-
mate stag. and played most of the
feminine roles of Shakespeare.
While appearing IN Seattle circum-
stances gave her peep at Vaude-
willie payroll, and, to quote herself.
II gave her a headache She went
home and evolved a type which she
presented in vaudeville and which
was the foundation for her present
Offering, a series of caricatures OF
various classes of entertainers in
which the latter are mimlced In
ridiculous way that Is entirely free
from coarseness or vulgarity, yet
which brings storms of laughter.
1t is burlesQue done with eXqU site
finesse.
when women treat rouge as
part of themselves and not as mural
decorations, then will the rouge
habit lose much of its popularity"
This is the wisdom of Irene
Castle, noted screen player who ap-
pears in ''Slim Shoulders" at
Moore's Rialto Theater all week, be-
ginning today. Through many
years of stage and screen successes
Miss Castle has learned to know
rouge and the Pandora Box" dec
orations which are now in common
feminine use. and she is firm in the
belief that facial expressions must
change with rouge, if rouge is to
be used, or the decorated one mere-
ly makes a garish addition to the
scenic color scheme.
The melodrama on which the
fathers of the present generation
used to feed has been crowded out
by the motion pictures, and the
public which goes to the theaters
nowadays wants either lighter or
a much more tragic form of enter
tainment. Eddie Shubert, the come
d an of The Flashlights of 1928"
at the Gayety this week, is author
ity for the statement, and Shubert
ought to know, being one of he
men In the theatrical business who
have given much time and study
to the production of melodrama.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01
Current Amusements
At a Glance.

GARRICK-Emma Dunn in
"Her Happiness"
KEITH'S-Vaudeville.
BELASCO-Vaudeville.
COSMOS - Vaudeville and
pictures.
STRAND - Vaudeville and
pictures.
GAYETY - Flashlights of
1928"
COLUMBIA-Cecil B. De-
Miles "Manslaughter."
METROPOLITAN - Second
week of Monte Cristo."
RIALTO-Victor Herbert in
person and Irene Castle in
"Slim Shoulders"
PALACE-"Tht Fast Mail"
CRANDALLS-Dustin Far
mum in "The Trail of the AK"
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01
Soldiers Entertained.

Through the courtesy of Manager
Ira ]. LaMotte of the Belasco the
wounded veterans at Walter Reed
Hospital who are unable to visit the
theater as the guests OF the man.
agement at the matinees, a show
made up of performers from the
Shubert vaudeville unit IL given at
the institution weekly.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01
Irene Castle at Polls.

Irene Castle with her company
and orchestra will be seen in dances
and fashions of 1923 in one per-
formance at Polls Theater on Tues
day afternoon, October 81, at $3.50
o'clock. She will be seen in settings
that enable her to exhibit the most
beautiful gowns ever seen on the
stage and wore as only Irene Castle
can wear them.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

Marie Stoddard entertains while
she puzzles music lovers. In the
singing speciality which she will
offer at the Belasco this week she
reveals voice with a range from
bass to F, above high c, with a
vocal feat that would destroy the
voice OF most performers.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

which IN the Dumas novel Law off
the south coast of France in the
blue waters OF the Mediterranean.
The California coast was carefully
combed and then the islands of the
channel, but nowhere was the To-
catior an exact duplicate. Since
the entire story of Monte Cristo"
is based upon the ideas formulated
by Edmund Dantes while in this
prison. Mr.. Flynn decided that It
was of great Importance to produce
the scenes of the Chateau DIFF in a
big and impressive manner.
After weeks OF search, the proper
location was found on Anacspa
Rock, a huge mass of stone that
lifts Its ugly and threatening head
from churning waters of the Santa
Barbara Channel off the coast of
Ventura County. Upon this rock
was constructed the mass of stone
that so aptly duplicates the frown-
ing fortress described by Dumas.
Some of tn escenes Of this set equal
the most beautiful ever produced in
pictures. The wall of the fortress
was built in such a way thar its
outlines were fairly bathed in sun
light at the hour when the sun
drops below the horizon Of the
Pacific. The result is a superb series
of pictures that may be sid to rival
the painting of the old masters
1t Is from a balcony Of the Chateau
diff, just at sunset. that Edmund
Dantes, who has managed to sew
himself up in the shroud of the dead
| Able Faria, is carried by the
soldiers of the fortress and tossed
into the waters below.
This scene alone surrounded as II
Is by the gorgeous beauty of the
setting sun, is one Of the most i'm
pressive and thrilling ever given to
the screen.
William c. Ewing, Crandan STAFF
artist, attached to the publicity de-
partment of the Crandall enter
prises, under the direction Of Nelson
b. Bell, left the Capital last Fri
day for a ten-day vacation at the
home of his parents in New York
City.
Wearing cloth-of-g gold train
about fifty feet long and sitting IN
uncomfortable juxtaposition to
couple Of Bengal tigers are only
two OF the things Leatrice Joy was
called upon to do in filming Cecil
u. DeMille's production of Man
slaughter" at Loew's Columbia to-
day.
Eileen Percy, former leading
woman for Douglas Fairbanks and
prominently featured in THE Fast
Mail" at Loew's Palace today,
wears a silver button presented to
her by the Catalina Island Tuna
Club in token of her battle with a
ffty-pound yellow-tail which she
landed during a recent visit to this
fisherman's paradise of the Cali
fornia coast.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

-HE subterfuses encounters In the
theater are manifold, but none
dror to the initiate as the log-roTng
L spirit-the you tickle me and III tickle
you" motif-that dominates the business from
gsrret cellar.
As an Institution the entire theater seems
committed to a gigantic conspiracy Of self
praise and any actor but three weeks on Broad
way will bite his tongue of rather than tell
another actor just how rotten he thinks he is.
In private of course there lie q vast amount OF
inordinate slander but out in company the actor,
the producer and even the stage-hsnd 30 9 per-
feet stickler for the footIight ethic To q large
extent this underies the conEenital inability OF
the theatrical worker to understand even
appreciate ethe necessity for criticism in the
abstract-criticism divorced from private and
personal motives.
Quite the most amusing Instance OF Broad
way log-rolling turned up in Washington last
week when Walker whiteside broadcasted. in
his advertising OF The Hindu" a quotation
from David Belasco in which Mr.. Belasco pro-
fessed himself thrilled" by the play, of which
he enjoyed every minute"
The absolute insincerity, the utter absurdity
of such a statement-if Belasco ever made it
becomes apparent to the merest novice. To
begin with, Walker Whiteside admitted. before
ever the play opened that The Hindu was
hokum of the twelfth magnitude and that he
cared not who knew IT. Secondarily imagine
anything mechanically trite as The Hindu"
thrilling" a master OF stage mechanics like
Belasco is to imagine Stenmetz the electrical
wizard. thrilling" the performance Of
electric wafhe-irOn. To say. Furthermore. that
he enjoyed every minute of it" is for Belasco
to say something that is not only msnifestly
untrue but. for man of his theatrical sophisti-
cation, something impossible well.
No: for once they've spread 1t on too thick
They might have obtained a similar statement
from George V. Hobart and occasioned par
ticular scoffng. can imagine. additionally, so
great artist Walker Whitesde enjoying
every minute" of The Hindu" which he clearly
h,Nr hNnH 9Irfk.
Mr.. Belasco's enjoyment of any particular
ming to The Hindu" or to make that respon-
sble for even Belssco thrill is quite a bit
too much.
Mr.. Belasco il he said IT, may have
done of friendship. Perhaps some cum
ming sweetie approached and asked what he
thought of it. There millions Of reasons
why Belasco might have said such a thing n
he ever said II at all. but a tingling spine and
q riotous evening were not among those million
reasons.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01
Plan Underway
To Make Capitol
A Stock Theater
Belasco Players Promoters Would
Convert Avenue Playhouse
To Repertoire.
By EARLE DORSEY.

-vHuE Garry hcGArry, the stock i'm
wv pre,srio. wa. b.mO.nins the fate
\AI that deprived him OF the Garrick
w Theater at the very time that bis
summer stock was yielding autumn harvest
and while theaterdom svid1y speculRted over the
future Of the Capitol Thester. at Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue northwest two enter
prising gentlemen step forward and announce
plan to reopen the Capitol for repertoire pro-
ductions.
The behind this movement are Arthur
Leslie Smith. who started the Gsrrick company
last epring and who later took his producing
activities to the Belasco. and Henry DUFFY. .
member of the same Belasco company who. IL 10
revealed, was more than histrionicany In
terested in the success OF that Undertaking
Their plan 10 at once daring. ambitious and
interesting.
It embraces the formation Of Q resident
stock company the Capitol and the presents-
tion there of series Of plays which are either
now current on Broadway which have just
their plans presuppose a certain theatrical hun
ger wsshington's part for new fall drama
which, by of the thester shortage pre-
vanng, has passed Washington BY.
Among the plays they mention for produc-
ton are "Abie's Irish Rose" the work Of Mr..
Duffy's wife. by the way, and The Cat and the
Canary" the super-thriller of the season. II Is
limited that the Introductory bill will be some
thing a bit familiar, perhaps, but current
manuscripts of proven popularity will form the
basis Of their production efforts
Here indeed, is undertaking which, II
successful, will do much to change the theatri-
cal complexion of the city. The most daring
element in the whole plan is the attempt to
revise popular sentiment toward a thester which.
for many years. has harbored burlesous OF the
deepest dye.
The Capitol, however, Is q changed theater.
Completely ruined by fire few year, and
scraped clean and rebuilt from floor to cell
ing was beautihed that time a fashion
that would quite astOnish those familiar with
its former aspect
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

GAYETY-Jacobs and Jermon will present
their Flashlights of 1923" at the Gayety this
week. featuring a timely revue called Amer
leans Abroad" Abe Leavitt wrote the book,
William X. Wells and Jack Strauss the lyrics,
while Melville Morris and Ruby Cowan are the
composers. Jack Callahan. Eugenie LaBlanc.
Eddie shubert. Sarah Hyatt and others appear
in the cast.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

STRAND-The st. Clair Twins stars of Mary"
headline the Strand bill this week. beginning
today. in music and dances. Other attractions
Miss Jeanette and the Norman Brothers in
flying feats, Manuel Romaine and company, Eddie
Heron in The travelling Man" Frazer and
Bunce in Similarity" and the photopIay The
Beauty Shop" with Raymond Hitchcock. Billy
b. Van, James ]. Corbett. Louise Fazenda and
others.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

CRANDALL'S L'S-For the first three days of this
week at Crandals, beginning today. Dustin
Farnum will be seen in The Trail of the AK"
with Larry Semon in Golf" added. On Wedncs-
day and Thursday all-star will be seen
in The Song of Life with "One or Cat" the
added feature. On Friday and Saturday The
Isle of Doubt" will be featured with the Christie
comedy. That Son of a Sheik"
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

Garry hcGarry, the stock i'm
N.Y. presario, was bemosning the fate
M that deprived him OF the Garrick
w Theater at the very time that bis
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

COSMOS-At the Cosmos this week. beginning
tomorrow, The Sidewalks of New York" with
six youngsters and Felix Bernard and Jack
Duffy will be headlners. Other acts include
Henry b. Toomer in The Wife-Saver," Case and
Mayne in fun, the Five Petrovas. Dedrick and
Devere. singers and dancers; Elaine Hammer
stein in the new photoplay. Under Oath" with
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

RIALTO-Moors's Rialto this week. beginning
today. offers double bill, featuring Victor Her
bert in person conducting the Rialto Orchestra
three times daily in selections his own
compositions also the photoplay attraction,
slim Shoulders" starring Irene Castle written
by Charles K. Harris. the composer. and directed
by Alan Crosland. with Rod LaRocque Warren
Cook. Marie Burke and others in the cast.
The Washington herald., 1922-10-01

GARRICK-Emma Dunn will begin weeks
engagement at the Garrick tomorrow night in
Paul Wilstachs play of New York life entitled
Her Happiness" Miss Dunn was formerly lead
ing woman for Richard Mansfield. The sup
porting cast of Her Happiness includes Sydney
Greenstreet, Mono Kingsley, Don Burroughs,
w. A. Norton, Helen Strickland, Edwin Barry,
Joseph Baird Clement oLoshlen, Marion Dyer
and others.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-07-25
Ice Cream Cones Aid
To Farmers Prosperity
Desire of Small Boys Helps Keep l.
100000 Cows Busy Giving Milk

The urchin who eats an ice cream
cone, and all others who consume this
frosted sweet, are doing larger share
than is generally known in restoring
prosperity and happiness TO the farm:
according to Guy H. Hall, director OF
the National Institute of Progressive
Farming.
when l was a boy" said Mr.. Hall,
ice cream was holiday treat. Nov
it seems to be an everyday commodi-
ty. learned recently that 100000
Of the 23,OOO,OOO producing dairy cows
in this country are, so to speak, in the
ice cream business.
Perhaps the dry law has something
to do with it, but i'll any event this
increased farm revenue is even now
reflected in increased sales OF farm
lighting plants, tractors, power driving
implements, automobiles and the like,
which are doing so much toward max
ing farm life more agreeable and pros
porous. And the sweet tooth OF the
public is doing its bit in this direc-
ton"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-07-25
SCIENTIST TELLS OF
DEADLY BARRACUDA
HUGE FISH THAT KILLED
FLORIDA GIRL FREQUENTS
SOUTHERN WATERS.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The barracu
d. which is reported to have caused
the death of a girl swimmer, is well
known to fishermen in southern wa
tiers. Anglers like to fish for it with
rod and reel and have caught several
large specimens.
"There seems some question" says
Tohn T. Nichols, head of the depart
ment of recent fishes at the Museum
of Natural History, "as to whether the
swimmer who recently bled to death
from an attack by some large fsh at
a Florida coast resort was or was not
victim of the great barracuda. AS
the assassin was not captured 1t would
seem that its identity can not be es-
tablished with certainty. 1t one were
furnished with an accurate description
of the wounds, however, it should be
possible to be reasonably sure. here
are not many monsters OF the deep
that could or would have made such
an attack, and the barracuda are at
first thought the most likely
Swimmers can dive with lmpunlty
among the general run OF southern
sharks, though we are of the opinion
that an occasional individual OF the al
wavs rare white shark, perhaps an IN
dividual not larger than its harmless
associates of other species, is an inten-
tional maneater, and that the white
shark is the most dangerous denizen
Of the sea"
The barracuda is very common
fish in those warm southern coastW1se
waters. Tourist anglers find much
pleasure in its capture by rod and reel
in the winter time 1t is an active, vo-
racious fish reaching very large size.
The barracuda has long jaws like a
pike and several very large isolated
lancet shaped teeth near their tips, also
thoroughly efficient set OF smaller
teeth somewhat further back IN the
mouth. The barracuda's teeth would
make deep cuts in the flesh, whereas
the more uniform rows OF sharks
teeth would take out pieces clean. :,
The barracuda family is not related
to sharks, but is placed in the order
with the fat mud eating mullet and the
little silversides or spearing, the COM
mon bait for snappers near New YORK
in late summer and fall"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-07-25
Progress of The Black Race In
Dixieland During Last Sixty Years

1t is now close to 90 years since the
negro of the south became a free man.
President Lincoln's emancipation proc
lamation was issued in September of
1862, though it did not become effect
i've till Jan. |, 1868. Thus by the stroke
of the presidents pen bondage was
struck from upwards of four millions
of black people. What has the negro
done through the years following his
release from bondage?
Certainly the flight of more than
half a century has brought about a
considerable change in the character
of the negro as we'll as in his condi-
tons of living. The old-time negro of
the south, with his dignity, his cour-
tesy, his gentleness and his devotion
to his white people has almost entire
ly disappeared Only here and there
does one now come upon one Of the
old mammaS NEGRO women) about
who still fingers the charm, the at
mosphere of the quality" negroes of
the old plantations.
Two generations of negroes-of the
new" negro-have appeared upon the
close of the civil war. So, too, they
have arrived to meet far different con-
ditions to those surrounding their an
cestors in slavery days. While thous-
ands of the new" negroes have real
lied their opportunities and eagerly
seized upon them other thousands
have not, showing an apathy, shift
lessness altogether unaccountable save
that it must come from an inherent
strain running back to the old days
of childlike dependence. Yet the facts
show that never has a race made
greater progress mentally, economical
ly and spiritually in half century than
the negro people of the south in the
years since freedom was given them.
Events have demonstrated clearly that
the uplift, the salvation of the negro
has lain in his recognition of educa-
tional, industrial and religious advant-
ages, and his readiness to lay hold 'up-
on them for knowledge.
Thirst for knowledge has been mani
tested in the attitude of the negro of
the last two generations. Not only has
he sought to obtain an education for
himself, but has eagerly seized upon
every opportunity to have his children
educated. Negro children do not have
to be persuaded or driven to school;
they go eagerly. 1t is rare that there
is truant among them. They may be
seen in the rural as we'll as in the city
sections on their way to school like a
flock OF joyous, chattering blackbirds.
The statistics show that the illiteracy
of the negro race has decreased at