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Evening star., 1924-04-20
Gayety-"Le Let's Go.

Let's Co. the attraction at the
Gayety this week. is reputed 20 be
one of the most elaborate shows on
the Columbia burlesque circuit this
season. 1t is in fifteen scenes, di
vided into two acts, with large and
talented cast, headed by Nanny King.
a young character comedian, who, in
addition to portraying Hebrew char
acter, is violinist of merit. Kitty
Madison is a lively dancing SOU
brette; Burton Carr, straight man
with a pleasing tenor voice; Nan
Palon, the prima donna, with a. fine
voice; Florence Kane, ingenue and a
jazz singer: Joe Barrett, character
man, and Mile. Flamita, a classical
dancer who appeared last season with
George Whites Scandals" There is
host of pretty girls for the en-
sembles, who have been trained in a
manner of dancing that is said to
duplicate the famous London Tiller
Girls. Every member of the cast
will offer an individual vaudeville
speciality. An added attraction will
be two vaudeville acts, Sonny Thomp-
sons syncopating seven, one of the
greatest aggregations of singers,
dancers and musicians in Columbia
hurlesque, who will play jazz and
dance jazz, and funny little Jim, the
wrestling bear. who will meat all
cOmers
Evening star., 1924-04-20
The Dance Shop -

THE Dance Shop" a terpsichoresn n
revue featuring Kasha Forova and
Marin Young, will head the program
of vaudeville offerings at the Strand
Theater for Easter week. beginning
today. Flora Patterson. Mildred
Haas, Olive Vernell and Mickey Do
Ian appear in support of the stars.
completing an entertaining company
of dancers and singers.
Clark and Roberts, self-styled
Dealers in Soaps, Sponges and Tow
els: Kerr and Ensign, in skit. en-
titled Fiddle Up; Sammy Duncan,
in original Scotch characteriZations,
and Dura, Cross and Renee. in Snap
by Doings," will complete the first
half of the bill.
Wesley f'Freckles') Barry. the
star of the photoplay Offering, proves
the old saying. boys will be boys" in
his latest production, The Printer S
Devil"
! The story concerns Brick Hubbard
a young printers devil for the Briggs
Vile Gazette, a small-town news
paper. who gets his full share of fun
and enjoyment out Of each day S
work
Harry Myers. Katherine Mcclure
Louis King, George Pearce. Ray Can
non and Mary Halter are prominent in
| the supporting cast.
Short film features, including COM
edy and news subjects, will complete
| the bill
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Dancing Mothers.

"DanCing Mothers" the new Sell
wyn production, described as draw
ing room comedy, which comes TO
the Relasco next week. is announced
as; a delicious bit of drollery, enter
tainingly narrated. played in good
taste and acted with fine regard to
its contrasting hilarious and modu-
lated situations Edgar Selwyn and
Edmund Goulding are the co-authors
and the former directed the re-
ne carSalS.
The dancing mother of the play is
no relation to the artificial, jazz
struck grande dame who recently has
become a popular subject with the
cartoonists and comic artists. She is
the mother who spends her entire
time thinking of home. When she
Rad devoted her best years to her
task she suddenly learns that her
husband is gay old boy, inclined
to rowing, while her idolized daugh-
ter has developed into a most un-
lovable slave to gayety.
To restore conditions to the proper
state mother transforms herself. She
gives them a liberal dose of the old
fashioned homeopathic kind. The
result proves, in this case at all
events. that like cures like.
In the cast are John Holiday, John
Craig, Mary Young. Frances How
ard and Eleanor Woodruff.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
National" Cherry Blossom
Time.

Cherry Blossom Time" the new
American comic opera with music, by
Rollin Bond and libretto by Genieve
Farnen, will be given its premiere
performance at the National Theater
tomorrow night at $40. 1t is tale
of political intrigue and social life
in Washington, and is said to have
unusually fine scenery and costuming
we'll as catchy melodies and clever
dance numbers.
Those singing the leading roles in
clude Mrs. Alexander q. Bentley,
dramatic soprano: Evelyn Gribben,
lyric soprano; Helen Marie Koontz,
contralto; J. Frank Duggan, bass
Lawrence X. Downey. baritone, and
Everett Sterns Hardell. tenor.
Others in smaller roles are: Juliette
Francey, Elsie SchulZe, Dorothy Will
son, Marguerite Petit, Galye and
Gladys Hunt, Eva Fridell. Joseph
Cogan, H. r. Hendley, Eaward Hal
bach, g. Larry Zuch, Wesley Peck
ham, Victor Russell and William F.
Raymond.
The new opera will run throughout
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Keith Nellie and Sara
kouns.

The national vaudeville artists will
hold forth this week in all Keith
houses, this being the week when the
funds are Swelled with which to carry
on the benefit work for the perform
ers of the two a day.
The bill will be topped by the
''mirror-voiced sopranos" Nellie and
Sara kouns. who only a few years
ago made their way from Topeka,
Kan, to New York to win fame as
concert singers: After an enviable
record singing in France during the
war they returned to the concert
stage and only recently reappeared
in vaudeville.
The bill will be supplemented with
surprise acts and impromptu stunts
will be turned over for dancing at
each performance. The climax will
be reached Friday, when a special
midnight show will be given with a
galaxy of vaudeville and legitimate
stars Supplementing the regular bill.
The great English comedian, G.. S.
Melvin. will be featured during the
week in oddities eccentric and real
istic." with changes to demonstrate
his true ability as a character actor.
Lloyd Ibach's entertainers return
with the latest fad in syncopation.
Mr.. Ibach will bring one of the snap
pieSt of jazz combinations supple
mented with a clever eccentric dane
er, Kendall Caps, and a young Saxa-
phone VirtuoSo. Allen Quirk. The
four Camerons will offer sixteen min
utes of entertainment, Like Father,
Like Son." written by Jack Baxley,
followed by battling mystery called
Miss Terra" who has been. called
1.-The human clock"
Three clever acrobats, Les Kicks,
will present what has been called the
wonder act, 1.-The Enchanted Forest"
and laughs gags and music a-plenty
will be supplied by the two musical
dudes, Charles Sargent and John
Marvin.
Aesop's sFables. Topics of the Day
and the Pathe News Weekly COM
plete the bill.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Poll 's-Grihth's S America

FOR those born in another land
much interest, excitement and in
formation are promised in d. w.
Grifith's patriotic romance America y
which will be shown at Polls Theater
beginning Monday evening.
This picture shows the sacrifices
which the early Americans made that
this should be a country of the free.
To present this most dramatic of
stories in an interesting way, Mr..
GrlHith has arranged an impassioned
and romantic love story, with the
events of the war of I776 as a back
ground.
The dramatic critics of New York
and Boston agree in their comments
that it is one of the most thrilling
and patriotic motion pictures ever
made. Mr.. Griffith, among directors,
possesses eminent ability to present
the delights of first love. and build
driving suspense through his stories
to make them moving and hold the
interest.
In this picture the theater goer is
first fascinated with the love story of
the beautiful daughter of the Vir-
ginia aristocrat and the handsome ex-
press rider from Boston. Then comes
the deeper thrill of the patriotic
movement, when the Americans were
oppressed by taxes to pay the war
having any voice in their government.
The scenes of conflict are over
whelming in their excitement. They
were taken with the aid of the
United States Army and are upon the
places of the actual conflicts
More than 10000 actors were used.
Carol Dempster, Neil Hamilton, Lionel
Barrymore, Lucille La Verne, Louis
Wolheim and Charles Mack are some
of the cast.
1t is announced that the picture
viii not be sho@,r--+-r ANY other thcis-
Ter here this year
Evening star., 1924-04-20

has the art OF being all things to all
audiences He has usually compli-
mented Washington by giving US a
Hamlet distinguished by sincere
reading and intellectual reposc.
K = = i
His Romeo was distinguished by
these same qualities; which fact
does not convey any guarantee to
my mind that he would not be
capable. if he thought the taste OF
the audience demanded, OF playing
the balcony scene in the key OF a
caveman courtship. He is not a
boyish Romeo. but he is an ardent
and poetic one. Is it necessary for
a successful Romeo TO have all the
attributes OF juvenility? Some of
our leading multimillionaires say not.
Whenever Julia Marlowe inter
rupts her playing the fear promptly
asserts itself that she intends to
retire and enjoy the freedom from
care which circumstances would so
easily permit. The rumor has never
yet come true, and will probably
be repeated often-perhaps with a
touch of qualification to rivalrous
aSpirations-yet every theater lover
will hope its Authorization may be
long delayed. The usual speculation
arises as to what Mr.. Sothern's S
plans would be- He would hardly
be content to give up a career in
which his every interest and in
clination are bound One thing is
certain, his previous programs
would give him wide range of plots
and character types from which to
make selection.
The Cat and the Canary" decided
to remain still another week.
Maurice Greet, the company's man
ager, near relative OF the famous
Shakespeare producer, Ben Greet,
spent most of his evenings at Polls
Theater; admitting that while his
own production had the most thrills,
those of the Bard OF Avon still gave
him the greatest personal salts
faction. Nobody is telling how the
plot comes out; but no secret is
made OF the fact that the company
will come out several thousand
dollars ahead on the Washington
engagement.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Central High Vaudeville.

The Central High School Alumni
Association, which boasts many tai
ented individuals among its member
ship. is producing tomorrow and
Tuesday evenings d vaudeville show
at the Central High School The pro-
ceeds from this performance will go
10 the various memorial funds which
the association supports.
Among the offerings will be the
Meyer Davis lie Paradis Band in the
same act as produced at keith's, the
Carolina Mckinley dancers, the I'm
perial Four in novel act, AT the
Club" Eddie O'Donnell and his uke-
lele. Tom Chapman and Eddie Carr in
a black face dancing act, assisted by
Orchestra. and several other acts.
Reserved seats are on sale at
Spalding's. 1888 G. street: Pearlman's,
iii G street. and at Central High
School for both nights
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Tivoli-New Stage. Screen
and Musical Features de

Crandall's Tivoli will offer in cele-
bration of Easter week, beginning
this afternoon at 3, q special de luxe
bill of stage, screen and musical fea-
lures.
The ballet advertisement will be
an Easter fantasy, conceived by Mile
Sesiree Lubovska, bearing the title
OF THE King Hungers at Eastertide."
Isabella Fosta, coloratura soprano,
will offer a cycle of songs and the
Loos Brothers, harmonists, will be
heard in vocal syncopations. The SYM
phony overture for the week win be
The March of the Toys" by Victor
Herbert
The photop1ay features will COM
bine the Mirror of the Living
World" nature study; '"Tivoli
Wanderings" and the swift-moving
comedy drama, Sporting Youth"
featuring Laura La. Plante and Regi-
nald Denny.
The action centers around an auto
mobile road race with thrills and add
ed suspense and their bearing on a
budding romance.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Mask and Wig April %.

A game of mah-jong, played with
human tiles" emerging from a huge
gilded Chinese box. marks the open
ing of the second act of That's That"
the unique offering Of the Mask and
Wig Club of the University of Penn
sylvania. which will appear at the
Shubert- -Belasco, April %.
The tiles" characters, bamboos.
circles, winds and dragons are shut
fed. the wall is built. the dice" are
thrown and the game is played
through during the course of the
-jong ball in the Chinese solarium
of the leading Palm Beach Hotel. The
mah-jong number. danced to Chin
Chin-Chinaman,' the music by Charles
Gilpin, is one of three important mum
bers. The others are the Bandit
Blues" descriptive speciality, and
THE Books in My Library" in which.
from within the pages of huge vol
ume, appear characters from ''Scara-
mouche," THE Covered Wagon"
Blood and Sand" and THE Lost
Lady"
The book of '"That That" has
vein Of comedy, executed by James
II. Prothero, jr., who will play in
Mask and Wig for the last time. OtaeT
veterans OF previous productions whu
will be seen in the cast are Eugene
C. Felt and Edwin r. Cox, jr.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

big glas stank on the stage; Muir
dock and the kennedy sisters, re-
Gently with broadway Brevities.' in
a fine Offering of up-to-date songs
and eccentric dancing, and Johnny
Hyams, vaudeville author, who will
preset an original monologue, play
ing Franks With Webster" which
has been called a comedy gem.
James Cruze, who won fame with
'rrhe Covered Wagon" also directed
THE Fighting Coward" which will
be the photoplay for the week and
which features Ernest Terrence. Mary
Astor and Noah Beery. in the story
of A Quaker-raised youngster. who
outlived his mildness beneath the
taunt of cowardice and came back
like a young wild cat to vindicate
himself. Jimmy Aubrey, in THE IIu-
natic," a screen lunacy. and the In
ternational News Weekly will be add
ed attractions.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Belasco-"The Cat and the
Canary"

Tonight will open the farewell
week of the most mystifying and
thrilling play OF the season, The
Cat and the Canary" at the Shubert
Belasco Theater. Matinees will be
given on Wednesday and Saturday.
The company presenting "The Cal
and the Canary" in Washington in
cludes Sydney Reynolds, Virginia
Howell, Florence Huntington, Clara
Verdera, Walter Regan, Harold Hart
sell, Edmund Elton, Carl Eckstrom
and Franklin Fox. It has been to-
gether for over two years and a half,
and next Wednesdays matinee will
mark its 750th performance. The oc-
casion will be celebrated by dinner,
at which the entire company will
gather, after the matinee that day.
During the past two weeks engage
ment of 'The Cat and the Canary
tWenty-four thousand delighted pa
irons have crowded into the theater,
q local record hard to beat.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Laugh. Clown. Laugh.

David Belasco will present Lionel
Barrymore in Laugh, Clown,
Laugh" by David Belasco and Tom
Cushing, at the National Theater next
week. following an engagement in
the BeIaSco Theater. New York.
Mr.. Belasco and MIR. Barrymore are
associated for the first time this sea-
son in Laugh, Clown, laugh
Mr.. Barrymore's characterization
of the leading role has been ac-
claimed the finest performance of his
istinguished career. Associated with
him is Miss Irene Fenwick, who has
won new laurels by her portrayal of
the leading feminine role.
In Mr.. Barrymore'S support will
appear the original company ssso-
ciated with him during his New York
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Pickford Films Split.

THE twenty-one pictures produced
L by Mary Pickford for Famous
Players Film Company and Aircraft,
some years back, and owned Jointly
until now by Miss Pickford and Fa-
nous, have been divided.
Famous Players selected the follow
ing ten productions: stella Maris,
"Hulda from Holland" "Amarilly of
Clothesline Alley. THE Little Prin-
cess" Little Pal" "a Romance II the
Redwoods." capt. Kidd, Jr.,' "A Gtrl
of Yesterday" The Eternal Grind
and How Could You, Jean?
Miss Pickford selected the follow
ing eleven: "Rebecca OF Sunnybrook
Farm" The Pride of the Clan" LESS
Than the Dust" The Poor Little
Rich Girl" The Pounding. Rags,
Madame Butterfly" Johanna En-
lists" The Little American" Miss"
and Poor Little Papina-"
AS noted, the pictures are now
owned in their entirety by each party.
Film Daily.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

NATIONAL"Cherry Blossom Time comic Opens
BELASCOThe Cat the Canary mystery play Performance
this
w.
evening
KEITHS-Ne1e opens with
TIVOL-New and musical features Open this
evening.
COSMOS-Wil and Nat
opens with
STRAND-"Th Dance Shop. vaudeville Opens
GAYETY-"Iet's Co burlesque. Opens this afternoon
HOWARD (Coored-"Folow Ne" revue Opens this evening
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Coming Attractions
Polly S Pearls

"Polly's Pearls" a musical farce,
featuring George Taylor, the Rogers
Sisters and Julia Dunbar, is listed az
the feature offering at the Strand
Theater next week. Others appear
ing will include Caulfield- -Ritchie and
company, in "A Boy and Girl Revue" I;
the Three Founders, exponents OF
harmony and humor; the Bells Duo,
spectacular novelty gymnasts, and
other acts to be announced later.
The screen offering will be a pic
ture built about Cameo Kirby" the
lovable Mississippi River gambler.
novelized by Booth Harrington and
Harry Leon Wilson. with John Gill
bert as Kirby. and Gertrude Ohm
stead as the belle of New Orleans.
The usual program of short film
subjects and orchestral numbers will
complete the showing.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
lack and the Bean Stalk

Jack and the Bean Stalk" a fairy
pIay. will be produced at the Shubert
BelascO Theater Friday afternoon,
April rs, at 2:15 o'clock.
The play has been dramatiZed by
Mrs. Goring Bliss and will be follow
ed by a advertisement of dances by
the pupils of Miss Hawke, who di-
rects the performance. The program
consis of such well known dances
as the swan, the dragon fly. the Rus
sian mazurka, the Scotch sword
dance, the pompadour waltz, the gyp-
sizes and a number of solo and en-
semble numbers, concluding with a
floral ballet in which eighty children
appear.
The performance will be handsome
ly staged and costumed. and lighting
effects and music will add to a most
program.
Sests ar7 on sale at 1871 Q street
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Howard" Follow Me" ="

Follow Me-" a colored musical at
traction, with Billy Higgins and Cliff
ford Ross as its featured funmakers
and a large selected cast of clever
entertainers, including Ernest Whit
man, Rogers and Rogers, late stars
of Shuttle Along: Billy Gum, Alice
Gorgas, Julia Moody, Edna Davis and
Susie Sutton, the Follow Me" -Four
and a chorus of thirty men and
women, will come to the Howard
Theater this evening for a weeks
stay.
Among the female contingent are
several we'll known singers who have
helped to populariZe canned music
including Julia Moody and Edna Tay-
lor.
This attraction promises whole
some, clean fun, music and clever
dancing, and a wealth of new and
beautiful scenery and costumes.
Natinees Tuesday. Thursday and
:, r''s.. - e-rrci"t iGiiSht shoF7
Evening star., 1924-04-20
New Easter "Toss. "

NEW Easter togs are not confined
to the fair sex. Moore's Rialto
Theater will step out today with a
new stage setting that is typical of
Easter and the spring season
Light silver blue is the predominant
ing color, with pink and rose-colored
floral designs. Proscenium curtains
and graceful side drapes, gorgeous
cyclorama masking in the entire
stage, with additional exit curtains
and the smaller screen curtains, all
carry out this color scheme. The gen.
eral effect is one of dainty lightness,
GOODNESS and restfulness to the eyes.
The color scheme and the material
1t is said, lend themselves to un-
usually beautiful lighting effects.
The Rialto has every reason to be
proud of its new spring dress.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Voice Gave Him Job.

BECAUSE his voice was endowed
with the qualities of a foghorn,
Antonio Moreno got his first job in
motion pictures
In 1912. at the New York Rex stu
dios, a two-reel "super-feature'' was
being made called The Voice of Mil
lions 1t contained a big mob scene,
and the director wanted man with
a deep, detonating, penetrating voice
to lead the mob into the cameras eye.
There were Voice tests And Moreno
got the job.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Young Washington Scores

MO more fiattering notice could be
bestowed upon the really great
than the New York critics gave to
the recent performance of young
Richard Dupont, as William Sylvanus
Baxter. in the professional stage
children's production of Booth Tazk-
ington'c Seventeen" at the Henry
Miller Theater. AS young Dupont is
a native Washingtonian, the National
Capital naturally feels proud to know
that it has added one more to the
long list of fine actors and actresses
that sprung from its hearthstones.
Alexander Woollcott, the well
known critic, was really enthusiastic
Miss Airline Blackburn, who played
the part of Jane, and the other
critics also waxed warm with their
ommendatiou
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Pictured Poem Scores.

(WHICH SHALL 1T BE?" pic
w turization of the poem of Mrs.
f. L. Beers, published in the Fourth
Readers of the public schools twenty
Eve years ago, created a sensation
at it's premiere in a neighborhood
theater in New York city recently.
Renaud Hoffman, the producer and
director, heretofore unheard of in the
cinema field, by the simplicity and
artistry with which he has treated
the pathetic old poem. was hailed as
a director of unusual talents, who
has accomplished something new and
really worth while in the production
field Willis Marks, Ethel Wales,
David Terrence and Paul Weigel are
in the cast.
At the close of its engagement at
the New York theater the name of
the production will be changed to
mot One to Spare" the title of the
poem from which the picture was
adapted - .-+--~----y >-.--.- 1000
Evening star., 1924-04-20
"Whirl of Girls. =

The "Whirl of Girls" at the Gayety
next week is claimed to be a show,
of beauty in costumes and stage
settings. providing much laughter in
fast-moving, colorfuI entertainment.
The two principal fun-makers will
be Vic Plant and Fred Binder. Others
in the cast are June LIE Veay. George
West Flossie De We're and Hite and
Reflow, with a chorus exQuisitely
gowned. A special feature will be
June Bobbie and her Jazz Babies.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Estelle Allen In Recital.

Estelle Allen, who is well known
in theatrical circles. and who since
her retirement from the professional
stage has been living in Washington.
will give a dramatic recital Thurs
day evening at 8 o'clock at the Wom-
ans City Club, under the auspices of
the dramatic section of the club and
for the latter'S benefit.
Miss Aliens readings will be of
scenes from plays like THE Littlest
Rebel" Looking Forward" and THE
Bachelor Romance" A one-act play
by six members of the dramatic sec
tion, coached by Miss Adelaide Rohrer,
will also be given.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
"Cymbeline April 80.

The Shakespeare Society VIII pre-.
sent condensed version of Shakes
peare's "Cymbeline'' in the Emerson
assembly room of All Souls Church
Harvard and 18th streets northwest
Wednesday, April 80, at Sis pm
The condensation of the play omits
entirely the two minor plots. Most Of
the. costumes have been designed and
made expressly for this performance.
Walter w. Beck will appear as
Imogen, Elton B. Taylor as Posthu-
Iachimo. Mabel Owens Wilcox as
mus and James Otis Porter as Gym
beline. Others in the cast will include
Z. V. Wilcox, Karl Pearson, orme
Libbey. Il. NJ. Monroe. Emma Ware
Anderson. Arthur j. Rhodes, William
Il. Bryant, Charles e. Bennett and
Rosemary Arnold. ---.---.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Cosmos-Will Stanton and
Nat Martin $ Orchestra.

One of the delightful music, fun,
song and dance novelties Of the sea-
SON, "a Cabaret Cocktail" presented
by Will Stanton and company, along
with Nat Martins Jazzicians, will
headline the Cosmos Theater bill. this
week. 1t is zippy and melodious and,
withal, has a plot that carries the
audience back to Broadway night life
in pre-prohibition times. 1t is her
aided as a sure cure for the blues.
1.-The Quakers," one of the famous
acts of vaudeville, will be presented
by Sam Hyams and Clara Louise
Evans, both artists who have had the
experience to present the story of
back-stage life and to put over the
surprise climax.
Others will include "Niobe." a pret-
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Evening star., 1924-04-20
S. S. Leviathan Orchestra

The wonderful musical organiza =
ton of Americas greatest ship, the
SIS. Leviathan Orchestra. assembled
by none other than Paul whitemar
will top the bill at s. F. Keith's mex
week. This clever musical organiza
tion that has charmed Europear
travellers throughout the past season
presents its program in settin-
! that brings the audience apparently
aboard the greatest of all ocean go
ing vessels.