The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-18
NEW PLAY
ON LEGIT
STAGE
'The Green Scarab" Has
Premier at Garrick Next
Monday Evening.

coming to the Shubert- Garrick
Theater next week, 10 that, an.
tiquities from Egypt may be 80
valuable that criminals will make
it their special business to steal
them. The scene is laid in New
York today, and the chief figure
of the play, Captain Markee, is
a distinguished gentleman whose
hobby is the collection of rarities.
All of these are valuable, but one
in particular, a green scarab, is
supposed to be priceless, and the
plot revolyes about this.
How valuable such things may
be is impressed on the public
mind just now by the recent dis
coveries at Thebes. Here In the
valley of tombs of the kings,
Howard Carter, an American, has
dug down to find the tomb Of
King Tutankhamen, and in the
first chamber excavated, the only
one opened so far, the material
found is said in newspaper dis
patches to be worth $4,000, at a
conservative estimate. And GER
tain objects unearthed are said
to be priceless.
Accordingly the author Of THE
Green Scarab" John Stapleton,
will have the advantage right at
the start that the audience will
realize he talks of facts when he
says Egyptian rarities are valu-
8 able THE Green Scarab is
presented by James Shesgreen,
who takes it from here into New
York for q run. In the cast are
H. Cooper Cliffe, Violet Kemble
Cooper, Victor Morley, Lillian
Walker and others.
NATIONAL-There is consider.
able curiosity regarding "DuIcy,"
the new comedy which is to be
made known at the National
Theater for the week beginning
on Monday evening next. which il
manifested at the opening Of the
advance sale of seats that began at
8. o'clock this morning. The
presentation will introduce in Miss
Lynn FOntanne new featured
player from England, who has
already established herself az q
favOrite with American audiences,
and it will make known the first
effort of George s. Kaufman ard
Marc Connolly as pIaywrights.
"Dulcy" is in three acts, and one
of its charms is said to lie in the
dizziness with which its characters
are drawn. It's chief character is
type that is ~universal. Dulcy Is
said to be a familiar figure in
many homes, and yet no one can
remember just when the type hes
been used before for stage mr..
poses. Miss Fontanne is called
upon to depict q young woman
who has4nO tact, a shalIow-pated
matron who is forever laundering.
At one point, realizing the trouble
she has caused, she promises her
husband to reform. He tells her
that he doesn't want her to
change, that he wants her to re.
main her own dear self, and she
invests the role with so much
charm that the audiences feel the
same way about her.
POLIS-Beginning Sunday, jan
uary Fl Washington audiences
will again have an. opportunity
to see Julia Sanderson, queen of
musical comedy, in "Tangerine,"
which is also the greatest pro-
ducing triumph Of earle Carlton.
youthful American producer whose
first production, Irene" set q
new mark in the realm of must
cal plays which has only been
excelled by the "TaAgerine" COM
pany which opens at Polls.
The same identical company.
which with Miss SandersOn, her
prince charming, Frank Crumit,
and her kingly jester, Frank
Lalor, reigned supremely at the
Casino 'Theater, New York city,
for two seasons, and there broke
every Broadway receipt record.
will be present. Not content with
it's Broadway record this company
is smashing all local records
wherever it appears.
PRESIDENT - The President
players, under the direction Of
Arthur Leslie Smith and Henry
Duffy, will again eclipse all
AHO"H LOHB-Euu TSCOTuS III the
Washington theater by present
ing, beginning next Sunday night
at $3.50 o'clock, the ninth consecu-
tive weeks engagement ofs"Abie's
Irish Rose" the sensational Anne
Nichols comedy success, in which
the President players have
achieved a veritabIe sensation
since the play opened in Washing
ton during Thanksgiving week.
The phenomenal popularity Of
"Abie's Irish Rose" continues at
a mark that makes inadvisable it's
termination for at least another
week, although the cast under
Director Harry Manners has
weekly rehearsed the next attrac.
ton Of the players, "Buddies," by
George V. Hobart.