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The Democrat-herald., 1923-02-09

The doctor and Mrs. Chase
were married twenty years ago,
and have one daughter who was
also present at his bed side when
he passed a way.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-02-09

What has happened at Ael
Rouge and other places shows
that this brute in man was to
the front in those Ku Klux cas-.
es, just as it develops in other
cases of mob law.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-02-09

What is wanted is an organiza.
tion that will demand laws that
will put a crimp in lawyer,made
long drawn.out trials, instead
Of reeorting to lynch law.
The Democrat-herald., 1923-02-09

There are q whole lot of peo-
pie but little removed from the
savage state-with no con cern
in any case except to see some.
one get it in or around the
neck-and in all mob cases this
element will be found at the
front.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Mary Roberts Rinehart.

THE rise Of Mary Roberts Rine-
hart, author of "The Breaking
Point" which is to have its premier
at Polls Theater tomorrow evening,
was most casual, both as a novelist
and a playwright.
AS a girl Mrs. Rinehart lived in
Pittsburgh and started her activity
in life as a trained nurse. 1t was
not until after she had married DR..
Rinehart and her children were past
the need of much care that she
turned to theory work.
When Mrs Rinehart began writing,
with short stories. she and DR.. Rine-
hart submitted them to the editors
of local newspapers. who merely
ed that she stick to nursing.
stories, after polishing them a little,
to magazines, and with more success.
1t was not long before they began to
attract attention by their originality
and she was sought by publishers,
rather than having to seek them. To-
day Mrs. Rinehart is said to be the
richest and highest paid writer oman
or woman) in the world.
Lincoln A. Wegenhals read one of
her stories and. after completing it,
he rushed into the Office of his part
ner. Collin Kemper. with the an
nouncement: Here's a story that
would make a corking play"
Within a week Mrs. Rinehart was
In consultation with the producers.
She confessed Ignorance of stage
Evening star., 1923-06-24

writing and Avery Hopwood was
brought into the arrangement. The
result was Seven Days"
For ten years Mrs. Rinehart was
content with novel and short story
writing. Frequently she accepted
commissions from the magazines and
also turned out a few motion picture
scenarios. She had about given up
the idea of stage writing when
Messrs. Kemper and WaEenhals
visited her home. in Pittsburgh, just
prior to her taking up her perma-
nent residence in Washington. They
suggested that she and Avery Hop
wood turn out one more play and
they did better than that. Mrs. Rine
hart and Mr.. Hopwooi leased a suite
of Offices and together turned out
The Bat" Between times. while
working on The Bat" they adapted
Spanish Love-"
with all this success Mrs. Rinehart
had a secret longing to go * all alone
for the stage. She had been merely
q co-author up to now. Both Mr..
aged her in her desire to make
result is THE Breaking Point"
In her past stage work the critics
have agreed that the stories of the
plays were by Mrs. Ripehart and the
construction by her co-author. IT is
fair to assume that in dozen years
about the theater and motion picture
studios her mind has mastered dra-
matte construction.
The result of her first stage work
alone is Icing watched with great
interest Ly the literary world.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

7 EONORA ALLEN. the American
l. concert singer, believes that the
American public, despite it's leaning
to syncopation, jazz atnd the lighter
forms of dance music, Is really appre-
ciative of the best music of the
classics.
"Down deep in his heart the
American-and I meah the average
American, Of course. twho feels the
call of music-has an admiration for
the more dignif1ed musical FORMS,
says Miss Allen.
"The so-called canned music me-
ciiums have really contributed to this.
and with them many have been edu-
Gated to opera and concert music who
had scarcely even heard. 1t before.
"The player-piano aid the pho
noeraph have won with selection or
song of some famous artist many
who now only await tine opportunity
to hear the artist in person. Musi-
cal artists are within .the purse of
every middle class American. and con-
cert and even vaudeville managers
are constantly -offering-thenA on -popu1
Evening star., 1923-06-24
E.. F. Albee Siignally Honored.
ALICE BRADY-Rlsde

enced st. Stephens College faculty in
comforting the degree on Mr.. Albee,
1t was explained, are things he has
accomplished in behalf of the pic
torial, musical and dancing arts in
the theaters under his control. The
ethical side of these artistic enter
prises include masterpieces by the
worlds foremost painters collected
and placed on exhibition in the lob
bies, vestibules and art galleries of
the theaters of the Keith circuit.
To the theatrical profession an in
teresting aspect is that the college
which has thus recognized the serv-
ice of theatrical manager is a theo-
logical institution of learning. At
the same time that Mr.. Albee re-
ceived his master of arts degree. de-
grees of doctor of divinity were con-
ferred on Rev. John A. Staunton for
his missionary work among the saw
age tribes Of the orient, and on Rev.
Wallace ]. Gardner, rector of St.
Pau's Episcopal Church. BROOKLYN.
because of his preaching from the
pulpits of both st. PauFs Cathedral
and Westminster Abbey, England.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

MOTION picture studios at Los An
AA geles. within the last few years,
have taken on the dignity of insti-
tutions Of learning. competing. one
might say, with leading colleges and
schools of the country, according to
Mary Pickford.
Scarcely a week PASSES" says Miss
Pickford, "but students from some or
the big educational institutions apply
for admission to one of the bigger
studios to study styles tof architecture
or modes of life and customs OF some
foreign country which is being fea-
tured conspiouously In photoplay.
Students from the architectural de-
partment Of the University of South
ern California recently. spent an
afternoon at the Pickford-Fairbanks
studio making sketches Of the sets In
Miss Pickford's production made un-
Evening star., 1923-06-24
"THf PAsTIME OF ETERNITY" !"

THE Pastime of Eternity" the Per-
sian play by G. A. Lyon, which is to
be presented by the Arts Club of
Washington, Tuesday evening of this
week at $40 o'clock on the lawn at
the Chevy Chase School, Connecticut
avenue and Shepherd street, Chevy
Chase, Nd, is the true story of the
friendship and fate of three men
all famous characters in the history
of Persia = Nizam VI Mulk. the
statesman and benefactor; Hassan
Ibn Sabbah, the corrupter and slayer,
and Omar Ell Khayyam, the poet and
mystic. And of the three, Omar
as the greatest, for he truly wrought
for the good of mankind, while
Nizam wrought for the state and
Hassan for. none but self alone.
The play is in three acts, the first
scene transpiring on a spring morn
ing, in the year 1040 AID, in the open
space before the school of Imam
Mowaffak, at Naishapur, famous
master and teacher of equally ia
nous and fortunate pupils. where the
one another's future greatness. The
second scene shows the audience
chamber in the palace OF the sultan.
at Merv, on the day of the oath.
twenty years later, where two un-
known wanderers come to claim the
fulfillment of his vow from the powerful
vizier Of the great sultan. The third
act, ten years later, reveals the same
chamber in the palace, but with a
new sultan seated on the throne. still
counseled by the faithful Nizam and
taught by the wise Omar, but sur
rounded also by the intrigue and the
treachery OF Hassan
THE Pastime of Eternity" Is being
directed for the dramatic committee
of the Arts Club by Denis e. Connell,
who plays a leading part in the play,
as will also Maurice H. Jarvis. Arthur
~. White, Theodore Hardy and Maud
Howell Smith. Others In the cast in
clude j. Martin Scranage. j. e.
Veitch, William Cross, w. Frank
Sunny, Edward H. Watson, Conrad
Young. Osgood Holmes. G. A. Lyon.
Marie Moore Forrest and Jean Farnum
/ Petersen.
Real Persian costumes and settings
will be used in this production,
through the courtesy Of the Persian
minister. who also has assisted in
the arrangement for incidental Per-
sian music. Oriental dancers and
wrestlers. pupils Of Caroline McKin-
ley, will appear before the sultan,
Malik Shah. In the third act. Special
lighting has been arranged by Marie
Moore Forrest, chairman Of the dra-
matte committee Of the Arts Club
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Competing With Colleges

der the working title of ''The Street
Singer" and sketching the sets in
Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood"
as we'll as those being built for the
new Fairbanks picture, The Thief or
Bagdad."
The Architectural Club Of Los An
geles sent 200 members down to the
studio the next day, and, according to
the secretary Of the club. they got
lot of valuable information. The
largest party to gain admission in
cluded 500 honor pupils from the
Pasadena High School.
In addition to these, requests are
received almost daily for permission
to photograph sets with stereoscopic
cameras in order that the pictures
obtained may be included in the his
torical courses of high and upper
grade schools. ALI of which. Miss
Pickford- thinks, add a new dignity
and a hitherto unexpected value to
motion pictures.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
AGNES AxREs Columbia

At the graduation exercises Of st.
= Stephens College at Annandale,
n. Y, E. F. Albee, president OF the B.
F. Keith vaudeville circuit, was
awarded a diploma for the degree of
master of Arts, 1t being the first
time. it is said, that an American
theatrical manager has received such
honorary degree from an empowered
seat of learning. In conferring the
honor on Mr.. Albee, DR.. Bernard Id
dings Bell, president of st. Stephens,
said 1t was Gin recognition of twen-
ty-five years Of service in regenerat-
ing and improving artistically and
esthetically a great enterprise for
the healthy amusement of the Ameri-
can people and also for the founda-
tion in the National Vaudeville Ar
lists of a great cooperative service
agency uneQualed in the history of
the theatrical profession"
Other considerations which inf1u-
Evening star., 1923-06-24
KEITH'S-Allan Rogers-Leonora
Allen.

Allan Rogers and Leonora Allen,
who made their appearance last week
in New York. come to Keith's this
week as sole headliners. assisted by
Charles Lurvey, pianist They are
concert artists who have just COM
pleted. a concert tour of the United
States and Canada and are in vaude-
The Sewali Sisters, Cissie and
Georgie, will contribute a dancing
fantasy, "The Throne of Terpsiclore,"
by, Neville F1eeson and Albert Won
Tilzer, with Lucille Fields accom-
panying; Harry Stoddard and his or
chestra come fresh from triumphs in
New York, where the troupe was ac-
claimed one of the finest jazz COM
binations in the country; William
Kent, remembered as the chief comic
IN "Good Morning, pearie," returns
to vaudeville with Elsie Shaw, In
"Shivers," by Bill Grady. assisted by
Lester Elliott.
1.-The Young 'Uns"-Dennfe O'Neil
and ICY" Plunkett-with their fun
guns loaded and their laugh masks
on will offer a mixture of everything
that beEets humor. With her Miles
of Smiles" and her jazz personality,
Florence Brady arrives to punctuate
the bill with syncopation. Direct
from Belgian music halls and known
es 'The Belgian Wondere." Louise
and Mitchell will bring ease. grace.
skill and daring. and Ann Butler and
Hal Parkers in Don't Make Mo
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Automobiles
IN THE OPEN
Glen Echo.

Sharing honors this year with the
fast coaster dip and the giant derby
racer. Glen Echo Park offers the new
shooter" two-seat, electrically
driven motor car, controlled by the
driver, who can steer as he feels
inclined. The ride Is said to be fool
proof" harmless and comicaI. afford
ing as much pleasure to the onlooker
as to the rider.
The derby racer, combination of
airplane and Twentieth Century ex-
press. is another thriller for young
and old. The old mill furnishes
quieter entertainment, and the mid
way new funmakers, the rocking
pigs" make you rock with laughter
and wiggle with JOY.
The ballroom. with it's smooth floor
and music produced by, the Glen Echo
Orchestra, is attractive to the
dancers.
Admission to the park is free and
the car service excellent.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

trip to Europe. When she returns in
October, Mr.. iegfelds starring vehicle
will be awaiting her.
There are three Marion Davies en-
deavoring to make good on Broadway
at the present time-one in the movies.
one in the Passing Show and one In
Earl Carroll's ''Tanities of 1929"
Edward Clark has Just completed the
book and lyrics of new musical
comedy called Sugar Baby
James j. Mulholland and Wife. q
play by Alice Leal Pollock, Will be pro-
duced in New York around October |.
Ann Mason and Alphonz Either will
head the cast.
rSwanee River" Edward Lockefs
new play. will have its first hearing at
Asbury Park, n. J., July 9.
Queenie Smith. following her sue
cess in "Helen Of Troy, N. z" has
been placed under an eight-year con-
tract by the producers Of that piece.
Morosco will stage two musical
comedies by Clifford Grey in the
autumn. - Mr.. Grey wrote Lady But
ter1y,'' last seasons success.
Dorothy Russell, daughter of the late
Lillian Russell, has recovered from her
accident of seven years ago, and will
return to the stage this week at Keith's
in New York. She is using a sketch
entitled MY Evening Star"
Evening star., 1923-06-24
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

HTIN GODS" by William Anthony
MCGUIRE who wrote six Cylinder
Love-" will have an early fall produc-
tion.
Eva lie Gallienne will be the star of
Molnar's THE Swan" which the
Frohmans will present late next month.
THE Minglo Shaibal." the Japanese
marionette show, which has just nm
ished a phenomenal run in Nippon, will
come to Broadway next season.
A. H Woods has, returned to New
York after one week in England look
ing over the English amusement field.
A revue called THE Newcomers will
be produced in New York in a few
weeks by VIII Morrisey. Mr.. Morrisey
and Joe Burroughs are the authors.
MarsaIo Gilmore will Join the cast of
'YThe Devils Disciple" at the Garrick
Theater, New York, tomorrow night.
She will succeed Lotus Robb, who is i'll.
'.Playthings.' viennese comedy by
Rudolph Lothar and Hans Bachwitz.
will be produced in the fall by Carl
Carlton.
A European novelty act, wild West
and McGinty," win be seen in the
''Follies," starting tomorrow night.
Mary Eaton is planning to leave the
"Follies' next month to take long
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Steamer st. Johns.

The steamer St. Johns. the largest
excursion steamer on the Potomac,
leaves 7th street wharf every even
ing at 7:15 o'clock, except Saturday
and Sunday, for a trip down the river
twenty miles and return, with dane
ing on the decks to Sokolovs or
chestra. as a feature.
The st. Johns also makes regular
trips to Colonial Beach, leaving the
7th street wharf Saturdays at 2:30
pm. and Sundays at 8 am, return
Ing to the city about IL o'clock Sun
day night. At the beach there Is
saltwater bathing, fishing, grabbing
and boating. and, to those who do not
care for the water sports. dancing at
the riverside pavilion.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Chesapeake Beach.

Warm weather has no terror for
excursionists at Chesapeake Beach.
Washington's saltwater resort. with
its boardwalk and picnic grounds.
A free dancing pavilion is open to-.
ward the bay on three sides and built
out over the water, as are all the.
boardwalk amusements
Great shade trees make the picnic
grounds cool and inviting. There Is
also bathing in salt water.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Le0nOru Allen on Music

lar programs, so the opportunity
comes often.
jazz and the more barbaric types
of music are merely temporary. The
public will cling for a few months
to a naive OF novel tempo. a pretty
phrase or suspended aria. THESE
pass. giving way to a newer form of
syncopation, and the lover of rhythm
will follow after them. But for the
big moments the classical forms
come into their own and they are
gazing firmer popularity every day In
the work of the artists of the con-
cert and operatic fields"
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Chevy Chase Lake.

Chevy Chase Lake offers for dew
otees of dancing two Meyer Davis
bands that hold forth on the upper
and lower pavilions and delight lovers
of the modern jazz melodies.
Every Wednesday night Is novelty
night" Last Wednesday night the
eccentric dancing stunts of Jerry Ripp
attracted large audiences. He per-
formed on both the upper and lower
pavilions. Manager J. w. Wood prom
ishes Lou Worth, in the newest song
and dance numbers, as an extra-special
novelty this week.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
sTRAND-"The Girl From Delft. i"

The Strand Theater announces for
next week Lucy Gillette and COM
pany in delightful skit. The Girl
From Delft; musical novelty. en-
titled Hidden Voices; Herbert Den
ton and company, In "Poughkeepsie";
Nelson and Parish. In laughmaker.
"The Rube and the Ruby" and one OF
Washington's popular Quartets. the
Kee Tow -Four, known as harmon
ists OF the orient" There also viii
be-. photopIayieatures.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Great Falls Park.

Great Falls Park is now at the
height of its beauty The magnif-
cent waterfalls. especially at night,
when illuminated by the rays OF
search light, furnish the principal
scenic attraction. Various forms OF
outdoor recreation are available. in
cluding the open pavilion. where free
dancing prevails on week days. after
noon and evening, and free concerts by
the Great Falls Ladies' Orchestra
Train service to and from the park
from 36th and NJ streets northwest
has been provided by the manage
ment
Evening star., 1923-06-24
POLI'S-"The Breaking Point"

At the Polls Theater this week,
beginning tomorrow evining, Wagon
halls and Kemper will offer their first
Breaking Point" by Mary Roberts
Rinehart. 1t is described as "a
thrilling human document, telling in
vivid fashion a story of intense inter
est" and played by a cast which in
cludes Mckay Morris, Jane Houston,
Regina Wallace, Frederick Burton,
Zeff1e Tilbury, Stephen Maley. Lucille
Sears, Robert Barratt, Robert Vaughn,
John Morrisey, Marie Valray, Maurice
Darcy.
wagenhals and Kemper. it is an
nounced, return here with their new
play, seeking public appreciation.
Here it was that they first offered
each of the successes that have been
theirs in the theater world, for here
was given the premier of paid in
Full" of Seven Days" of Spanish
Love" and, most recently, of THE
Bat" one of the greatest successes
ever produced in any theater.
THE Breaking Point" comes here
heralded as being different" in that
1t follows no set standards; 1t is
bound by no hard and fast rules Of
what shall be or shall not be. The
story itself is simple. 1t depends
condolences to make 1t understand
able. It is a straight-away tale Of
people who live in the present and
whoN might be some few of your
neighbors fighting out a problem
which suddenly confronts them. It's
reality. II is claimed. will give it an
appeal that will prove universal.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

Cashier holds the long experience
record among directors, having start
ed in the movie business more than
twenty-four years ago when Paris
lures notsmore- than two hundred-feet
n.10HRths-s 4
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Current Attractions

Year" is a delightful evenings enter
tainment, the Belasco Theater's ice
devices for the cooling of air and
double batteries Of electric fans make
the Lafayette Square playhouse one
of the coolest playhouses in Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
BELASC0-eThe First Year" !"

Frank Craven's famous comedy.
"The First Year. will open it's Sec
ond and last: week. at the Belasco
Theater tonight
It Is unnecessary to tell Washing
ton theatergoers that this delightful
play. Of American life is the outstand-
ing hit OF the modern. American stage
It ran more than 700, consecutive
nights in New York last season and
the season before, and 1t is being
presented tn WashingtonHfor the first
time at popular prices
When the revival was staged here
last Monday night, the Washington
newspapers were. a unit In agreeing
that the play is being presented here
just as effectively as during it's rec
ord-breaking New York run. As a
matter OF fact, the majority of Wash
ington critics went on record with
the assertion that Fred Raymond, jr.,
in the stellar role; John DAILY Murphy,
Miss Luella Gear, Wallis Clark and
Miss Ann Sutherland approximated IL
they dfd not surpass the original in
depreciation OF their roles Liela Ben
nett. the exceedingly amusing maid.
vas . member of the original New
York cast. = :. :
: Aside-frcnf -ths- s-fect-tha First
Evening star., 1923-06-24
STRAND-"Songs and Scenes"

Songs and Scenes" the featured
act to be presented at the Strand
Theater this week, beginning today.
has been hailed in other cities as an
artistic endeavor that merits high
consideration. Vocal art is presented
in beautiful scenic settings by Miss
Olga Boehm, Harold Mexwell and
other gifted vocalists.
Ecko and Keyo. sons OF Nippon,
will appear in Oriental Pastimes"
Louis London, in "a Breath From
Western Plains; Elizabeth Barry
and the Nelson boys, in "A Melange
of Variety Bits" and Jim and Betty
Page, as 1.-TWO Pages of Comedy"
Just Like Woman" the photo
play, Is the work Of Miss Grace Has
kins, the youngest woman producer
in the picture field. Marguerite De
La Motta. George Fawcett and Ralph
Graves are it's featured players. The
story concerns a girl with two maiden
aunts, who are generally opposed to
her on the grounds that she Is the
daughter of an actress.
An excellent selection of short fea-
lures is promised. with special or
chestral numbers.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

and, Harold Snyder of the Associa-
ton of Theater Arts. Additional cos
tunes and properties for the play
also are from the Association Of The
ater Arts
Tickets are now on sale at the New
willard newsstand and at the Arts
Club, 2017 street.