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Evening star., 1924-04-06

INA COOLBRITH. the poet laureate
of California, who went to the
west in a covered wagon in 1852 and
who was the friend of Bret Hartc,
Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, AM
brose Bierce and Prentice Milford,
went last week in New York to see
the picture "The Covered Wagon"
The reaction experienced by the
aged poetess to the stirring scenes
which she knew as a girl she found
extremely interesting and Indicative
of the marvellous accuracy with
which James Cruze has pictured the
pioneer life of an earlier and half
forgotten period
AS scene after scene passed she
could not resist wondering at their
reality. The little girl in the picture
brought back q like tragedy OF her
own.
MY doll had lost her head. too"
she said. 'Only we buried her on
the plains, and I used often to Won
der if the Indians had dug her up
again. And her voice shook a little.
Again she whispered: "Oh, these
scenes are so real, so like my own
experience, that it isn't like seeing
a picture. 1t is like waking up in
the morning and seeing old familiar
places.
"We had just such a man as that"
she said, pointing to Ernest Tor
renee. He used to drive the mules.
He swore terribly. MY mother was
afraid he would bring down the chol-
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Poll s-Bertha Kalich In
The Kreutzer Sonata

Bertha Ealich is reviving The
Kreutzer Sonata" by Jacob Gordin.
adapted by Langdon Mitchell. at
Polis Theatcr this week, opening
this evening.
The summary Of Nine. Kalich's
career is threaded with the names
of DISTINGUISHED dramatfsts and with
unforgectabIe dramatic herofnes Sar
dou's Fedora" MaeterIinck' Mon
ma Wanna Zola's "Therese Raquin,"
Percy Mackay's "Sappho and Phaon, :"
Guimera's Marta of the Lowlands," :"
De Grassec's Cora" Dickinson's THE
Unknown Road" Jensen's The
Witch Samuel Shipman's THE Wom-
an of Today" Dymon's THE Victim"
Eschagary's "Marienne." Carina Jor-
don's Rachel" Mrs. Fiske's "The
Light of st. Agnes Jacobys The
nard ShaW,s adaptation of "Jitta's
Atonement." These represent her
repertoire on the English-speaking
stage.
on the stage Of continental Europe,
where her career was begun as an
opera singer and later as the particu-
lar star of the Jewish stage in Poland,
Hungary, Russia, Austria, Rumania
and still later of New York's East
Side, Kalich has sung and acted more
than 100 roles, in five different Ian
guages, ranging from the light, frivo-
louS heroineS of Offenbach's operas,
in which she first appeared in Bucha-
rest, to the somber tragedy of Ham
let" which she played in New York.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Belasco-" The Cat and the
Canary.

"The Cat and the Canary, the
exciting melodrama that mas peeH one one
of the dramatic sensations Ior Two
years, will be seen at the Shubert-
Belasco Theater this week, commence
ing tonight.
The weirdness of the midnight as
semblage of a small group OF people
reputation of being haunted, the
superstitionS and predictions or
West Indian voodoo woman, and the
strange, unsolvable happenings OF the
night lend an indescribable, creepy
atmosphere to the story that John
Willard has embodied in The Cat
and the Canary" The plot reVolves
around a young girl, heiress or a.
large fortune left by misanthropic
old man, who hated all his relatives
and when dying left d will that was
to be read twenty years after his
death at midnight in the room where
he died.
In pursuance of his request the six
surviving relatives gather at the ap-
pointed hour and the executor reads
the will which gives the estate to a
sooner has the document been read
than the diabolic occurrences begin.
Men vanish into apparently solid
walls, a maniac of homicidal tend
encies and> with catlike claws prowls
about, a hand with fingers like condor
talons reaches out of the air and
snatches a necklace from the neck of
a sleeping girl, a murder is commit
ted and various other ghost1y epi-
cession. There is fun also, for every
thrill that the play gives is matched
with hearty laugh.
The company. practically the same
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Cherry Blossom Time.

Cherry Blossom Time" the new
American comic opera, satirizing the
National Capital. is announced to ap-
pear at the National Theater for its
premier Easter week, beginning Mon
day April 81. Cherry Blossom Time
with book and lyrics by Genevieve
F'arneu and musical score by RoIIin
Bond, is said to he a light opera on
standard lines. Senators, congressional
secretaries, feminine bootleggers.
revenue officers, motorcycle cops and
jaZzerS vie with the fiapper for hon
orS in singing. dancing and laugh
making. according to the press agent.
The company boasts a comic opera
chorus, a double ballet, gypsy and
oriental; a jazz band, and an assem-
blage of feminine pulchritude, youth.
beauty and Zest. Stellar roles are
played by Mrs. Alexander G.. Bently,
Helen Marie koontz. Evelyn Gribbin.
coloratura soprano; Juliette Francey.
J. Frank Duggan, ]. Lawrence Dow
ney, Everett Sterns Hardell ana
Joseph T. Cogan. A double sextct
is q feature.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
The Covered
Wagon.

This evening at the National "The
Covered Wagon" will open it's Sec
ond Washington engagement within
a short period, to remain one week,
with daily matiness, commencing to-
morrow.
Since it's notably successful visit
to this city the latter part of last
year this picture has been shown in
various other Important cities and it
is said, Invariably to full houses"
This may be accounted for by its
general appeal, as all the elements
that tend to populariZe the film are
to be found in it.
Emerson Hough's story, 'The Cow
cred Wagon" upon which the picture
narrative is founded,\ has taken its
place among the few masterpieces
of fiction dealing with the develop
mcnt of America. The screen version
amplifieS and magnificently visual
ICES the scenes that were in the au-
thors imagination, but that lay be-
yond the province of the pen TO por-
tray. 1t was this Legitimate ampli-
fication as we'll as the fidelity OF
the picture to the original story that
caused Mr.. Hough to express his en-
tire and enthusiastic approval OF the
screen version of THE Covered w aS-
on"
The musical score arranged for TINS
production by Hugo Reisenfeld and
played by an orchestra of twenty
under the direction of II. H. Ham,
ilton is a feature of the entertain
ment,
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Keith 's-Singer's Midgets.

Singers Midgets take the spot
light at Il. +. keith's Theater the cur
rent week There are forty-two tiny
thirty ponies, four elephants, eighteen
dogs. and three carloads of scenery,
present production in twelve scenes.
1t is announced as a show in itself
embracing features from the circus,
eNtrava ganZa, musical comedy, the
concert stage, wild west the prize
ring and the fashion forum. \ display
or military maneuverS closes the act
Joseph Urban designed the settings.
Manager Robbins will surprise the
children attending. the matinee to-
morrow, Monday. with a souvenir in
connection with the midgetS.
Elizabeth Brice is featured in a
new act by Neville Fleeson and Al
bert Won Tilzer. "On the Banks of
Vaudeville" Miss Brice needs no in
PRODUCTION to Keith fans. She has a
rol1icktng group of songs delightfully."-
presented
Following Miss Brice will come
new comedy act, Jack McLallen and
known as expert roller skaters. They
have combined this talent with their
comedy ability, making an unusual
Offering.
Wally Bradley and May Hennessy,
both clever at singing and dancing,
Dance" Their songs are the likable
kind and their dances a clever and
varied assortment of steps.
Following is George Lyons, former
ly of Lyons & YoScoe, temporarily,
ar least, this popular team has sepa-
rated and Mr.. Lyons is presenting
Music and Song He uses his harp
both for solos and to play the ac-
compartments for his lifting lays.
Claude Anderson and Ieona Yvel Of
fer. Trying to Please" This roller
skating team has received the stamp of
approval everywhere,
The usual house features, Aesop's
Fables, Topics of the Day and the
Pathe News Pictorial, frame the bill.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

Washington new passion play, 1.-THE
Holy City" at the President Theater.
1t will be presented throughout the
week. 1t is presented under the aus
pices of the Knights of Columbus of
Washington, with the sanction of the
Archbishop of Baltimore and the CO.
operation of the Catholic churches of
the diocese. The proceeds. will be
given to the mission churches of Vir-
ginia and Maryland.
1.-The Holy City, is in three acts and
eighteen scenes. Rev. Francis ]. Hur-
ney is supervising director of the pro-
duction. The Aloysius Players.
Georgetown College, Trinity College
of Catholic University, the Catholic
Daughters of America and the Play
ers' Club are represented in the cast
of $50 persons, and Walter Reed SOL
diers will appear in the ensemble
scenes Those in roles of prominence
include Estelle Murray, Aileen Mize,
Maurice Jarvis, Mrs. James A. Hart
nett, Royal Foster, Ralph OBfien, Dan
McGrath, James Chamberlain, John
Morgan, Harriet Murphy, Alice Cush,
Denis L. Connell, Alfred La Forest
and Arthur White. Airline Alcine will
direct, assisted by Denis r. Connell.
Marie Jones, Jean Lally and Madeline
Baker.
There will be matinees Thursday
and Saturday, with special prices for
two performances at the Auditorium
Theater, Baltimore, next Sunday for
the benefit of the Gibbons Day Nurs-
ery.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
A Wilson Normal PLAY.

THE Wilson Normal Players will
present A. A. Mines THE Lucky
One" Thursday evening at o'clock
in Wilson Normal School Auditorium.
This is considered one of Mines best
plays, affording opportunity for act
ing talent in lighter as well as in
more serious lines.
The Wilson Normal Players are
said to be keeping pace with the best
in amateur production in the United
States. Only first-class plays are put
on, and the Interpretations have been
commendable. In the two years since
the company was organized they
have given nine oneact plays,
among them THE Slave With Two
Faces" "Arai Da Capo" and Sup
pressed Desires" Jerome K. Jerome's
Fanny and the Servant Problem"
was presented a month ago and won
many new friends for amateur dra-
matics.
May Is another group Of players
viii give that delightful comedy. Mr..
PIN Passes By" Mrs. Aurora NJ. Z.
Poston is director of the players.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Strand-"In and Out of the
Movies

A triple bill is announced for the
Strand Theater, beginning today and
continuing throughout the week.
Arthur Ashley will appear as head
liner number one on the vaudeville
portion of, the program, his offering,
with the assistance of Miss Helen
Clement, being a series of artistic inn
pressioas presented under the title
''In and Out of the Movies"
AS feature number two Eddie Davis.
supported by quartet of feminine
assistants, will present a "song and
dance revue" while the. third head
line Offering will bring Emerson and
Baldwin, 1aughmakers, in a skit,
what Fools These Mortals Be-"
others listed include Ben Nernard
and Noah Ferris, in character
sketch, Il Wanna Sing" and Alex
ander Patti, announced as the worlds
greatest upside down juggler."
George Randolph Chester, short
story, "A Tale of Red Roses which
has been picturized by vitagraph
under the title of MY Man." will be
the main photodramatic attraction
for the week. Patsy Miller of .'The
Hunchback- of Notre Dame" fame is
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Cosmos -" bohemian Life" "

The Care-free and roaming life of
the gypsy is portrayed in a carnival
of song and dance OF Romany land by
sextet of talented players in an act
entitled Bohemian Life" the stellar
attraction of this weeks bill at the
Cosmos Theater. which opens tomor-
row matinee. 1t is announced as a
picturesque and colorful offering. The
scene is a camp at the side of a road
at evening, where the travellers have
stopped for the night.
Another act that promises unusual
entertainment is to be presented by
Peggy Byron and Billy Haig, under
the title, '"The Book of Vaudeville"
The stage setting includes a large
book, the turning of the pages of
which is the signal for the perform
ers to exemplify the dances and the
story, which they do lin a different
way"
Other vaudeville numbers are Dan
CFeedon and Viola Davis in 'T Could
Smash You"; Grace Aver and Billy in
a song and patter act; Sim Moore and
Frank Mitchell in a new number of
comedy, song, chatter and acrobatic
feats, and George Kirby and Dorothy
Klaiss in "A Quart and Pint of Nom
sense"
"The Next Corner" a Sam Wood
production, is announced as the pho
toplay feature. A two-reel comedy
and other short picture subjects will
round out the bill,
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Celebration ofN.V. A. Week

the r. +. Keith circuit. Marcus LoeU.
Harold r. Franklin of the Famous
Players Lasky Corporation, Edgar Al.
len Of the Fox circuit, the Interstat"
Amusement Company, through Kari
HobIitzelle; Wilmer and Vincent anu
allied interests, the Fred ]. Nixon
Nirlaneer theaters, Mark Heinan OF
the Orpheum circuit. w. ;. Butter
field of the Bijou Theatrical Enter
prise Company and representatives OF
all of the vaudeville and importan
motion picture companies. this weeh
are sending out letters of instruction S.
to all managers to unite and cooper
ate in the celebration of National Nau-
deville Artists week, April 20 to .,
inclusive.
At the n V. 4. Club resident and
visiting artists are also engaged il
formulating plans for special observ-
ance of the annual week of festivity
Secretary Chesterfield of the club has
enlisted a staff of correspondents to
aid him in advising the theaters OF al.
circuits what the touring artists have
to offer by way of added and special
attractions for the week.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
St. Patrick's Players.

with the presentation of '1The slopes
of Calvary" a Lenten drama. Orig
inally booked for three nights at the
President Theater, it remained for
four more longer More than $4,000
was netted for the mission churches IS
of Maryland and Virginia. They fol-
lowed this later with "A Broadway
Prince" which was taken intact to
Baltimore and presented at the Audi
torium Theater in that city for the
Gibbons Day Nursery.
The Holy City" which the players
will present this week under the
auspices of the Knights of Columbus,
is said to be their most ambitious ef-
fort
Since organizing more than 800
young men and women have taken
part in the various productions and
more than a score have graduated TO
positions in the profession. They have
given more than fifteen beneft per
formances for posts of the American
Legion, in addition to presenting the
receipts of number of performances
to the Welfare Association of the Dis
trict government employees.
Rev. Francis j. Hurney PICKS the
casts, selects the plays and frequently
writes many of the sketches i'll which
the thespians appear. He has an en-
thusiastic assistant in Dennis e. Con-
nell.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
To Play in "Cytherea.

MRS. JAMES VAIL CONVERSE.
A'A wealthy New York society lead
er and daughter of Henry Hays
Morgan, former American consul in
Brussels, will play a small role in
"Cytherea, Goddess of Love-" directed
by George Fitzmaurice.
Mrs. Converse, who was Thelma
Morgan. before her marriage, is a
twin sister of Mrs. Reginald Wander
bilt. Miss Morgan recently caused a
sensation in New York circles when
she wrote and published what pur-
ported to be a revelation OF inner
secrets Of New York's elect
1t has been said that besides pos
sessing a dark type of beauty, Mrs.
Converse has the important woman's =
secret of knowing how to dress well.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
E. H. Sothern and Julia
Marlove.

Julia Marlowe and Z. II. Sothern,
after two years absence, will appear
at Polls Theater next week, begin
ming Monday, April IA.
Twelfth Night will be acted on
Monday night, Hamlet" on Tuesday
night, Romeo and Juliet" on We'd
nesday night and Saturday matinee,
The Tanning of the Shrew' on Thurs
day and Saturday nights and THE
Merchant of Venice on Friday night.
Playgoers are urged to note that
the plays begin sharply at 8 o'clock
at night and o'clock at the Satur-
day matinee. After the curtain rises
no one will be seated until the inter
mission.
Mr.. Sothern and Miss Marlowe were
the first to bring to Shakespeare the
changed mode of stage decoration.
They have combined the simplicity of
the Elizabethan stage with modern
methods of impressionism. Their en-
deavcr has been to create the mood
of the play, the locale and the period
and to sustain this illusion, but not to
let scenery stand between the poet
and his audience.
For many years Sothern and Mar
lowe have maintained nucleus of
able players which made their COM
pany, it is claimed, the only perma-
nent' organization in the American
theater. In the company are Fred
erick Lewis, Lenore Chippendale,
France Bendtsen Albert S. Howson,
V. L. Granville, Z. q. Bailey, Thomas
Holding, Vincent Sternroyd. FIorence
Fair, Frank Peters, Frederick Kauf-
man, Milano TiIden, H. Fisher White,
Eugene Webb, Forbes Dawson, Mil
ton Stiefel, j. Ramon Abrams, Sarah
Fishman, Christina Affeld, Verne Col
Inns, Maurice Robinson, Constantine
Zazzali, Loretta Healy, Lillian Gray,
Leone Wood and Lillian Walker.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

THE artists associated on the pro-
gram of the New York Hippo
drome held meeting last Tuesday
for the purpose of formulating plans
for the observance of vaudeville's an
nual carnival week. Pat Rooney, Ma
rion Bent, Victor Moore, Emma Lit
tlefeld. Arthur DEACON. Marga Wal
dron. Andrew Downie. Billy Bouncer,
Charles Sargent, John Marvin, the
four Camerons, Albertina Rasch and
her corps de ballet, the sixteen Hippo
drome girls. Earl Reynolds. Nellie
Donegan and othterS participated
Most of those assembled will be wide
ly scattered during \. V. a. week, but
they agreed on plans for special
stunts, no matter where they may be-
and at once proceeded to advise man
ayers along their itineraries as to
their schemes for enhancing the value
and Importance of the \. V. A. week
performances.
General Manager J. J. Murdock of
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Ancestor Worship.

IRON the banks of the Missouri to
the Pacific coast was the journey
of the pioneers of 1s4S, which is pic
tured in The Covered Wagon"
Here was a trip of 1000 miles at
tended by every known menace-fre,
food, sickness, Indian attacks, inter
nal dissension and food shortage
and that all obstacles were overcome
and the wagon train, with its more
than 1900 men, women and children,
finally reached the goal set out for
is one of the best arguments for an
cestor worship that America can
boast of
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

Kach "The Kreutzer Sonata" drama Opens
this
NATIONALThe Covered Wagon phooplay Opens this
BELASCO-The Cat and the Canary mystery play Opens this
KEIFHS-Sngcrs Mige vaudeville. New show opens
PRESIDENT-"The Holy City
COSMOS-Bohemian Life" vaudeville opens
afternoon.
STRANDIn and Out OF the Movies vaudeville Opens
GAYETY"Brevties OF 1928" burlesque Opens
Evening star., 1924-04-06

cast in the leading feminine role, the
leading male role being in the hands
of Dustin Farnum. Niles weIch, Mar
garet Lands, George Webb, Edith
Yorke, Violet Palmer and William
Norris also appear in important roles
Subsidiary film features. and or
chestral numbers, the latter arranged
by Director Arthur J. MAXWELL, in
cluding as overture DonaldSons s
Mindin' My Business and as exit
march "Chili-Bom- Bom," by the same
composer, will round out the bill.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Arcade.

A quaint "grab-bag" party, with
GIRL" will be the special attraction
for dancers at the Arcade next
Thursday evening, while the regular
dancing program will be in effect
from $3.50 to 1z the other nights of
the week.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Ted Lewis.

Ted Lewis, with his original and
popular jazz band, is the headline
announced for the week commencing
April "A at B. F. Keith's Theater
Sybil Eane, the Welch prima donna
is featured Other acts include Jack
Osternan, Fortunello and Cirillino
Fern and Marie, OakeS. De Dour and
Moore, Glenn and Richards and tn
Four AdlonaS.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Coming Attractions

songs, girls in gorgeous costume
and smart comedians. The featured
players will be Frank Harcourt and
Al Hitler. John Grant, Hazard and
Spellman, Rose Henley, Jessie Reece
and Babe Healy will be among the
other favorites in the cast Twenty
chorus girls and Valecita's leopardS
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Gayety-" -"Brevities of 1928"

A promise of fun, melody, fair
womanhood, attractive stage settings
and costumes is the attraction at the
Gayety this week, the title being
"Brevities of 1928" In the cast are
Miss Lena Daily, Jack Smoke" Gray,
Harry Peterson, Thelma Carlton and
Alma Arliss, Fred Reeb, Milton
Frankford and Charles and George
Southern. Specialties will be intro
duced by number of the principals
and there will be chorus numbers to
interrupt the burlesque bits and show
the girls in bright array of costumes.
Mt. Blanc, Switzerland, and "The
Birch Forest are scenes with snow"
and rain falling to lend realism to
the picture. The Dentists" will be
recognized as realistic horrors"
There is a domestic sketch that Gre
ates comedy out of the simple ingre-
dients of a modest meal Sunny
Spain" brings into view some bur-
lesques on the pastime of bull-fght-
ing. "Brevities of 1928" is said to
make a special appeal to the fair sex,
as we'll as the men, by it's dazzling
array of the latest feminine fashions.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

that appeared at the National Theater
in New York last season, includes
Sidney Reynolds. Virginia Howell,
Clara Eerdera, Florence Huntington,
Percy Moore. Edmund Elton, Carl
Eckstrom. Walter Regan, Franklyu
Fox and Ryder keane.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Almas Temple Fashion
Revue.

Favorites of the stage and screen
are announced to lend additional in
terest to the Almas Temple Mer-
chants Exposition and Fashion Re
vue at Convention Hall May to 10.
Ned Weyburn. New York producer,
is to stage a revue in miniature, for
the cast of which he has drawn on
the Music Box Revue" and "Zieg-
field Follies."
Baby Peggy Rice and Mildred Ryan
will represent the movies, while
Edith Helena of the Metropolitan
Opera Company will have u prominent
position on the musical program.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
President-"The HOLY City

The st. Patrick Play yers this even
ing will stage for the first time in
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Runnln Wild.

A new attraction comes to the
Gayety next week. The title is de-
clared to be an index of its style
"Runnin' Wild with speedy dancing,
Evening star., 1924-04-06

And there will be still more
Shakespeare, under the auspices
of the Sothern-Marlowe company.
The popularity of the Bard OF Avon
has become SO great that Shake
speare instead of Spelling ruin" is
now recognized as the life-saver of
a theatrical season.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-01
WHY RUBBER HEELS?

Why wear rubber heels? They do not look as we'll as leather ones, yet people go right on paying four bits to the repair shop to have them put on.
 Women in the home physics class at the University of Washington know. Paul Higgs, physics demon strator which shows that the blow to the backbone delivered by walk ing on battleship linoleum is at the ratio of twelve pounds for leath heels to five and five-tenths ponds for rubber heels. On ordinary linoleum it is eleven pounds to five, and on a leather and felt combination, nine and five-tenths to three. On anything as hard as the pavement the blow would be approximately greater.
 This bit of information is ex- plained by the incomprehensible for mula, force equals mass times ve- locity divided by the time of stop ping, which merely means that since the rubber heel, being slightly elas- tic, takes a longer time to "stop," the blow delivered is less than with the other.