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Evening star., 1924-03-30
Coming Attractions
Bohemian Life" !"

A carnival of Romany life, songs
and dances of the gypsies, picturesque,
colorful and unique in it's character.
under the title bohemian Life" will
be the outstanding feature of the bill
at the Cosmos Theater next week.
Six clever and talented players will
present it against one of the prettiest
backgrounds of the season.
THE Book of Vaudeville" another
new offering from the Keith booking
offices. presented by Betty Byron ana
William Haig and written and staged
by Claude Bostock, is described as a
production showing the most original
is a large book, whose leaves unfold
its varied and delightful surprises.
Others will include Creedon and
Davis in comedy skit with songs
and chatter; Moore and Mitchell. who
call their act Worse a-Tile Come
dians" TO cover offerings of patter,
songs and steps featuring the difficult
"toe-catch"; Kirby and Klaiss, in "A
Quart and a Pint of Nonsense" and
Grace Ayers and Billy in a resplen-
dent surprise far from the ordinary
The photoplay, The Next Corner"
will feature Dorothy MacKaill and
Conway Tearle. while Lon CLANCY,
Ricardo CorteZ and Louise Dresser
are important members of the cast.
Settings in Paris. Spain and South
America, with a dash of Spanish char
acteriZation. are interesting elements.
a first run two-reel comedy and the
Grantland Rice Sportlights will be
other attractions.
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Junior Rams Headers.

JHE Junior Rams Head Players re-
organized last Sunday at the
Rams Head Playhouse. 1s2s1s 18th
street.
The purpose of the organizat ton is
TO encourage amateurs in all branches
OF the theater arts, each branch to be
supervised by the directors of the re-
spectiye departments of the senior
Rams Head Company, and to have a
working group for the senior players
to choose from for parts in their
productions.
The general supervision is to be
under Robert Bell, director of the
Rams Head Players: the directing
under Robert Bell and Walter Beck:
stage settings and costumes under
James Reynolds and Robert Byrne:
play reading under David Mearns. and
making of scenery under Cecil Wei
man.
Mr.. Bell outlined a general course
of lectures, which he believes will be
or value to both groups of players,
on the history of the theater from
the time of the Roman, Persian, and
Elizabethian theaters, through the
different periods to the modern pres
entat1on of plays; dramatic art, seen
cry, both in the planning and the
execution.
The juniors will have directors
from their own groups also to lead
the work. 1t has been thought ad-
visab1e, however, to limit the number
of members.
Officers elected for next year are
as follows: Elizabeth Cullen, chair
man; Thelma Castle, secretary; Teddy
Tenley, treasurer; Miss Tams, Mr..
Weller, Miss Lehman, forming a MEM
berShip committee
The next meeting will be at the
Rams Head Playhouse, Tuesday, at
pm. Try-outs will be held Monday
March 81. 1924. at pm, at the
Playhouse.
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David Plays and Writes.

DAVID HIGGINS, who has a role in
Thomas Meighan's picture, THE
Confidence Man." was one of the
principals in Welcome, Stranger
during it's long run in New York city.
He starred in one of the first hve-reel
motion pictures ever made, His Last
Dollar" in 1913, made by the Famous
Players Film Company, from a stage
play written by himself over twenty
years ago.
His Last Dollar" was a famous
old-time melodrama and Mr.. Higgins
made the title role so we'll known
that the expression Here goes my
Davy Higgins is still used by many
people when spending their last dol
lar
David Higgins is also the author of
'Piney Ridge" another melodrama
produced by. him at the American
Theater, in New York city, in 1897,
with Frank Bacon, of "Lightnin' "
fame, as its business manager The
American at that time was the only
theater on 42nd street. Mr.. Higgins
is still writing. Two of his plays
were recently accepted by well known
producers
Evening star., 1924-03-30
The Theater as a Highly
Standardized In nstitution
By Ph;1ander Johnson

triumphant precedence with many
far more pretentious musical crea-
tions vainly waiting to be tuned in.
" X X x
The President Theater closed its
doors after long struggle to con-
vince playgoers that they were be-
ing wholesomely disciplined for lin
gering tendencies to prudery. Some
first-rate work was done by the
players who appeared at the Presi-
dent, and a glimmer of hope was
given that William A. Brady would
make it a propagating plant for new
plays. Mr.. Brady, however, turned
from this playhouse when he offered
Chains" which was also in the ma
ture of standardized drama-which
is different from standard drama.
Like most of the current offerings, it
with touch of Freudian relief. Mr..
Brady said he was undecided wheth-
er he would select Washington or
Philadelphia as his center of pro-
ducing operations; his decision de-
pended on the reception accorded
Chains" | am afraid Philadelphia
wins.
There is no serious pessimism to
be feared in a frank contemplation
of the American theater, as, for the
moment, difhdent enterprise, will
ing to employ people in more or less
humble capacities, to take chances
on public opinion, but not venturing
bold experiment on its own account
The season begins to e6D and it is
almost time to be talking of that
institution of annual promissory
pleasure, the summer stock COM
pany.
* x *
The business of the stage as now
organized confronts crisis in its
affairs, with actors and managers
both declaring with declamatory
fervor that things cannot possibly
go on as they now are When ad-
justment comes there is every rea-
son to expect an atmosphere of
greater calm and a spirit of larger
sportsmanship, which will play the
game with the blue chips of big
ideas. In the theater there is no
recognized leadership. The appoint
ment of a dictator" was decided
upon by the motion picture inter
ests as complexities arose which
threatened to overwhelm the genu-
inc service it rendered to the public.
The speaking theater at one time
considered the appointment of a
supreme king" or something of the
kind, but has not yet found its auto
crat. When the members of the Pro-
ducing Managers Association decide
that it is time to do something they
are still unable to get any further
than to send out notices of another
board meeting. 1t is but natural to
expect that when this state of af-
fairs is corrected, as it must be be-
fore many months pass, the theater
will throw away the bandages, stretch
its arms and fegs and amble jocundly
at its wonted pace.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
A Soubrette With Ambition

DOSE DUFFIN, soubrette with Cain
and Davenports Columbia bur-
lesque Dancing Around" is another
claimant for the honor of having the
best figure on the American stage.
Miss Duffin is only twenty-one and
a native of Brooklyn, n. Y. At the
age of nine she appeared in a child
part with Corse Payton, and three
years later in stock. Rose then Joined
a road company and played the part
of the blind girl in The Two Or
phans."
In San Francisco, it is said, a prom
inent artist was so impressed with
the child's beauty that he persuaded
have little Rose pose for picture.
They stayed there, for three years,
then returned east.
In New York she posed for several
magazine covers and also for the
statue of "Galora," by f. Sothern
Hipp, sculptor, Of Lake Hopatcong,
n. j.
Miss Duffin's next theatrical ven
ture was with the Follies, in New
York. An opportunity to become a
principal presented itself and she
joined the Stone and Pillard COM
pany as soubrette. While with that
company she made Eta Pillard, now
a featured member of Artists and
Models a New York revue, her
model and it is said has been ac-
claimed the successor of Miss Pillard.
Miss Duffin wants to be featured
with Broadway revue.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Strand You d Be Sur
prised"

The Strand Theater announces for
this week, beginning today, the Belle
Montrose Revue, presented under the
title, You'd Be Surprised" with Mil
ton Francis, Claire Carroll, Martha
Shelby and Dorothy Pemont in the
cast. 1t is a well staged and cos
TUNED song and dance revue.
Others will include Alton and Allen
in a laugh provoker, Home Talent: {:
James Kennedy and company in a
humorous domestic wrangle, The
Squire; Paggy Brooks, late of the
Zeigfeld "Follies," in Cycle of
Character Songs" and the Leach La
Quinlan Trio, naarvels of strength
and endurance, in sensational
Doings."
The photoplay will be a film ver-
sion of David Belasco's stage play.
The Governors Lady; a William
Fox special production, made by
Harry Millarde, who made over the
Hill" and IF Winter Comes" From
the pen of Alice Bradley, it is story
dealing with all the romantic growth
Of man whose wife was slow in
adapting herself to his rapid devel-
opment.
The cast includes Robert T. Haines,
Jane Grey, Ann Luther, Frazer Coul
ter and Leslie Austen. Short films
also will be shown,
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Keith s - Blanche Ring,
Blossom Seeley.

Blanche Ring, high priestess of the
gospel of smiles, will share the honors
of the bill this week with Blossom
Seeley, queen of jazz, at B. F. Keiths
Theater. Miss Ring will appear with
Charles Winninger in a song comedy
1t has been some time since Blanche
Ring has honored the boards at the
local Keith house.
No less a doctor for the blues is
Girl Who Glorifies Syncopation," is
said to give her the best opportunity
of her career. With her is Bennie
Fields, delineator of coon songs;
Beatrice Herford, the popular mono
logist, will be. featured in her own
original monologue, full of human
peculiarities, from her own pen.
FRITZ Ridgeway, popular heroine of
many photoplays, has left the screen
for a short time and will appear in
burlesque of the pictures by Frank
Condor called "a Wife's Honor" 1t
lis a typical melodrama, done in black
|Bakaleinikoff. The first scene is done
in normal speed and the second re-
|peats the first in slow motion. The
last scene repeats again as if by a
rapid speed camera, the acting, music
subtle satirization and was originally
done by the Screen Writer'S Guild in
Los Angeles. Others will include Will
Mahoney with his merry motto, "Why
Be Serious?" as a monologist; Ted
Lorraine and Jack Mimic, in a beauti-
fully staged miniature revue, includ-
ing Mile. Marie Andre, premier bal
let dancer, in an adaptation of Moth
and Flame" with special music by
lyrics by William T. OSullivan; the
Keller Sisters and Lynch, with a har-
monious fifteen minutes, in Spirit of
YOUTH" musical treat, and Will Nor
iris, a silent comedian of the Joe Jack
son type, in a pantomime, "Just
Wheels" with Aesop's Fables, Topics
of the Day and the Pathe News.
Evening star., 1924-03-30

Francisco with Mr.. Millers stock
company. The season of 1905-6 Miss
Anglin was starred, under the man
agement of the Shuberts, in a drama
tization of Wilke Collins 1.-The New
Magdalen," called "Zira," which ran
at the Princess, New York city, from
September until the middle of jan
uary, and in Boston until June.
The fall of 1905 she co-starred with
Henry Miller in '"The Great Divide" {"
which opened at the Princess Theater,
New York, October 3. The play ran
through the season of 1906, 1907 and
1908. Since that time Miss Anglin
has played in Green Stoekings; "a
an of Bronze. and "A Woman of No
Importance" all of which were pro-
dueed under her own personal super
For several summers Miss Anglin
has produced Greek plays on the Pa
cific coast; also she produced Joan
of Arc"
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National-"The Great Lady
Dedlock."

Tomorrow night at the National
Theater Margaret Anglin will play a
dual role for the first time in this city.
Paul Kester, author of Sweet Nell of
Old Drury," "Beverly's Balance" and
dramatiTer of when Knighthood
Was in Flower and THE Woman of
Bronze" Tin which Miss Anglin ap-
peared here last, season., is the au-
thor of her new play, The Great Lady
Dedlock," drama in four acts and
six scenes, founded on Charles
Dickens novel, Bleak House. Lady
Dedlock is the leading character.
Paul Kester has used the element of
suspense and made the efforts of Mr..
Inspector Bucket of Bow street, in his
tireless detective work on behalf of
feature for the mystification and sur
prise of auditors.
Margaret Anglin has directed the
entire production, as is her custom.
The stage settings show the home of
Sir Leicester and Lady Honoria Ded-
lock in Lincolnshire, and the streets
and slums of London. Tom-All-
Alone's court, where the dashing and
handsome lover of Lady Dedlock lies
buried, a victim of narcotics and pow
is true to the old London of 1850. The
scene at Chesny Void, one of the
stately homes of England, has been
beautifully staged by Miss Angiin.
The tradition that ghOSt or long
dead Lady Dedlock walks when shame
or disgrace is coming over the proud
old family still reigns and is be-
lieved.
Miss Anglin, as the Lady Honoria
Dedlock, is as proud as the ancestress
who is wont to walk the terrace. 1t
is told of her that being in sympathy
with King Charles enemies, she was
found in the stables one dark night
by her husband disabling the horses
on which the Dedlocks and other gal
lants of England were to ride out for
their king. Crippled and disabled she
walked the terrace of the Ghosts
Walk for many years, but never was
heard to open her lips to her husband.
With the help of q stick and the stone
balustrade she walked in fair wealth
er and in foul One day her husband
saw her fall and went to her aid. She
repulsed. him as he bent over her,
and, looking coldIy and fixedly at him.
said: "I will die here, where I have
walked; I will walk here, though I
am in my grave. l will walk here till
the pride of this house is humbled,
and when calamity or when disgrace
is coming to it, let the Dedlocks listen
for my STEP"
There comes night when music is
played, cultivated voices are in con-
versatiop and there is the sound of
ceaseless, rain falling on the loaded
terrace, and through and above all
those sounds Miss Anglin. as Lady
Honoria Dedlock, hears an ominous
and terrible sound. 1t is the fall of
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Sothern and Marlowe
April Ia.

Edward H. Sothern and Julia Mar
lowe, Shakespearean co-stars, will ap-
pear at Polfs Theater for the first
time in two years the week of Mon
day. April IA. This is their last visit
to Washington for at least two years.
Twelfth Night" will be acted Mon
day night and at the Saturday matt
ness: Hamlet, Tuesday night; "Ro-
meo and Juliet" Wednesday night; !;
THE Tanning of the Shrew," Thurs
day and Saturday nights; The Mer-
chant of Venice" on Friday night
In the company are Frederick Lew
is, Lenore Chippendale, Florence Fair,
Albert Howson, France Bendtsen, V.
L. Granville, Frank Peters, T. G. Cal
ley, Milano Tilden, Thomas Holding,
H. Fisher White and Vincent Stern
royd.
Mail orders will now be received.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
The Cat and the Canary.

The Cat and the Canary" the
weirdest and spookiest of all melo-
dramas, will bring its store of thrills
and laughs to the Shubert- -Belasco
Theater next week. For intensity in
dramatic action. weirdneSs of atmos-
'phere and wealth of hearty laughter
1t is credited with being the foremost
in the list of mystery plays. of the
present day at least, and is warrant
ed to keep the audience on the edges
of their seats for the best part of two
and half hours and then send them
home laughing heartily.
kilbourn Gordon. Inc. the producers
or the play, promise most of the ia
vorites of the original cast for the
performance here
Evening star., 1924-03-30
The Covered Wagon
Retl1rnS

Several weeks ago at the Criterion
Theater, New York city, THE Covered
Wagon" reached a run of a full year
of two performances every day, in
cluding Sundays. On several holidays
morning matinees were given. This
constitutes a record for pictures, and
1t is still running. Previous to the
holidays it had a Washington run of
some weeks.
1t is now announced to return to
the National the week beginning sun
day night, April G.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Harvard 'Hasty Pudding.

The Harvard Hasty Pudding Club,
with its annual musical comedy,
Who's Who" will honor Washington
with visit in April, appearing at the
Shubert-Garick Theater.
The Harvard Hasty Pudding" ig
one of the celebrities Of university
life. 1t is said that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge in his time was a
player in the "Hasty Pudding show.
His grandson, ]. d. Lodge, is one of
the. bright lights of this years COM
pany. Other boys well known N
Washington who are in the aggrega-
ton and contributing to its fun and
melodies are A. Mackay-Smith, E. G.
Lowry, jr.; S. G. French and j. Y.
Ricketson.
After it's premiere at Cambridge,
the company will play at Hot Springs
and viii .mal-e ats thirt' appearance In
Washington at the Shubert-Garrich
Wednesday, April It,. .,
Evening star., 1924-03-30
N. V. A. Week.

G z. POLL, head of the big circuit
Of theaters which bear his name.
has rallied all his forces, managerial,
artistic and financial, for the big cam
paign to make a success of N. V. A.
week. April 90 to 81, in every tow,
and community where there is 4 Poi
theater.
The heads of all the vaudeville in
stitutions, keith's. Orpheum, Loew's,
Proctor's, Moss, Fox, Poll, Santahes.
Southern, Wilmer and Vincent, Harry
Davis NJ. Shea and all of their affil-
lateo houses, likewise have Joined is
sues with the artists of Vaudeville o
throughout this country and Canada
to make N. V. A. week of 1924 an his
toric event
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Singers S Midgets.

Leo Singer will present his won
derful galaxy, 1.-THE Singer Midgets,"
as the headliner at B. F. Keith's
next week, commencing April Z. This
spectacular production, so This Is
Lilliput," brings together a company
of wonderful tiny men and women,
thirty ponies, four midget elephants,
eighteen hunting dogs and three car
loads of scenery and electrical
effects. The show is divided into
twelve beautiful and thrilling scenes.
Many new scenes have been added
since the last appearance of Singers
Midgets in Washington
Evening star., 1924-03-30
"Brevities of 1923"

Next weeks attraction at the Cay
ETY., "Brevities of 1928" is heraIded
as one of the best offerings on the
Columbia Burlesque circuit. Heading
the cast are Lena DAILY and Jack
Smoke" Gray, as chief funmakers,
while others include Thelma Carlton.
Milton Frankford. Alma Arliss, Harry
Peterson. Fred Reeb and Charles and
George Southern.
"Brevities of 1929 promises a su
perb scenic array of twenty-one dis
tinct stage settings. To each of these
settings is allotted gorgeous gowns
and costumes worn by a choru of
eighteen comelS misses
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Janet Richards Tomorrow.

Miss Janet Richards, by request
of many of her patrons, is giving an
extra talk, following the regular
winter course, tomorrow morning, in
the nature of interpretive review of
the most startling developments in
the worlds work for the past week
The lecture begins at 10:40 and is
given in the New Masonic Temple
18th street and New York avenue.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
In and Out of the Movies

Next week the Strand Theater will
present the stage and screen actor,
Arthur Ashley, late in THE Man Who
Came Back" assisted by Miss Helen
Clement, in series of artistic i'm
pressions offered under the title I'm
and Out of the Movies"
Others will include Eddie Davis in
"Song and Dance Revue" with a fem
mime quartet; Emerson and Baldwin
in a comedy skit, What Fools These
Mortals Be-; Alexander Patti, upside
down juggler, and others to be an
nounced later.
The Strand will also present spe-
cial photoplay production, with
shorter film features.
Evening star., 1924-03-30

footsteps on the terrace and the beat
of stick. Tulkinghorne, the family
lawyer, and the evil and revengeful
French maid Hortense are plotting
her downfall. The lawyer has pos
sessed himself of a secret which
means disgrace and ruin TO her Then
follows a scene of intense human in
terest - thrilling, gripping and alb
sorbing.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Cosmos Hong Kong
Follies,"

The Cosmos Theater this week has
gone to far-off China for it's head
liner, The Hong Kong Follies," a
quaint contribution of mirth and mel
odies presented by Ming Toy, the Lee
Twins, Helen Long, Pauline Sing and
Wop Toy. far-east aggregation Of
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Arcade.

A friendly warning to watch your
step" has been broadcast by che man
agement of the Arcade to it's dancing
patrons on the "All Fools day" dance
Tuesday, when faVorS will be diStrib-
uted and fun Will reign supreme
Evening star., 1924-03-30

In the competition for the advance
royalty prize Of $1,000 offered by the
Musical Comedy Guild for the best
book and lyrics of musical comedy
received up to May 1, Col. Willard
Helm, director of the guild, has re-
Ccivcd three manuscripts in Italian,
al Russian and one in French.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Gayety-" Dancing Around

Dancing Around the latest offer
ing of Cain and Davenport, will make
its initial appearance at the Gayety
Theater this week, opening this after.
Evening star., 1924-03-30

Irene Trfesch, the German trage-
dienne, will make her last appearance
of the season in New York tonight in
a program of dramatic interpretations
from the Bible and Goethe.
Evening star., 1924-03-30
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week


BELASCO-Mrs Fske "elenas Boys comedy
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Angln The Lady Dedloc
Opens tomorrow
POLTS-I Say She Is musical Opens this evening
KEITHS-Banche RngBlossom Seeley, vaudeville New show
afternoon.
COSMOS-"ong Kong FolEe vaudeville. New show opens
afternoon.
STRAND-"Youd Be Surprised vaudeville Opens
GAYETY-"Dancing Around" bursque Opens
Evening star., 1924-03-30

Nor was Irene" sustained in
fluenee of glorious gladsomeness.
Once Irene" was it; but it is no
longer. Upon what subtle quality
its extraordinary popularity for SO
many seasons was founded is to be
explained by the phrase "undefinable
charm" 1t had no novel appeal, but
It found public attention precisely
adjusted to its wave length and held
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-08-08
800 WOODMEN COMING
TO MEETING AUG. 2S
District Meeting Modern Woodmen
Comes for First Time to
This Section

About 300 Wo0dmcn are expected
10 attend the District Ileeting of
the Modern WOOdmcn OF America
which will bc held In Elizabeth City
on August -. The visitors Will be
guests Of Evergreen Camp No. I7s
The district meetings are held
two or three times year at dif'
fcrcnt towns In the District. The
last meeting was held ut Alexander
In BERTHE County. Ii was at that
meeting they decided to make Eliza
beth city their next meeting place
The District Il composed Of 1O
Northeastern Carolina counties
This IL the first time that such a
meeting has been held north Of the
Allemarlc Sound. according 10 i. l.
Turner. of the local lodge. .,..
\. q. Kiff of Ahoskie Is. the Dis
trict Deputy. He will be In Eliza
beth in II few days and make prep
arationS for the meeting. Several
entertainment features have been
planned 10y Ia" local camp for the
guests. including large luncheon
and excursion on the river.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-08-08
GOES TO THE DEAD TO
SELECT A POLICEMAN
Keeper OF the Graveyard Is New
Might Officer Selected by
s. Chief Gregory

The solitary life of a cemetery
keeper fits man admirably for
the Elizabeth City police force. ac'
cording to Chief OF Police. Charles
A. Gregory. who has selected Louis
Alexander to fill the place Of A.
II. Davenport, resigned. Mr.. Alex
ander was formerly keeper Of Holly
wood Cemetery and his lonely life
probably has developed him into a
less valuable man that officer Tark'
lngton who was dropped from the
force. after he Is alleged to have
said "the bootleggers Of Elizabeth
city had police protection"
Mr.. Alexander Is expected to be
able to lend considerable afd In ap.
pretending moral offenders Of this
city. for as keeper Of the cemetery,
he should have n wide knowledge
Of the people who have used the
cemetery weeds for spooning places
firing OF n job for which the city
allows only a meagrc $50 a month
he was ready to take the better Of
fer of $40 ON the police force.
Davenport has gone with the
Richmond Cedar Works ut Gum
Neck.