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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-05

And there Isn't "a man or woman.
who will fail TO sympathizc and
thrill with the merry. dashing Duke
dc Chartres with all his amours and
all his nghtsl Verify. II - role tina,
Valentino plays 10 perfoetlon'
A. for the supporting cast. & may
well b. sct up as standard of *.
celicncc. Including a. Il does. Bebe
Daniels Lois Wilson. Doris Kenyon.
Lowell Sherman. Ian MacIarcn John
Davidson, Paulctte Duval and many.
many other, famous on stage and
screen,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-05
Hooded Men Brand
Reporter; Claim

wooNSoCKET. II, l., Aug. g.
Lucian San SOUGHT, reporter on the
Tribune, a French publication, was
branded with large letter X on the
forehead and the left wrist when he
was listening In" on secret meet.
ing near Blackstone, Mass. last
night, according to story published
In tho paper today,
san SOUGHT was lying in field
when three men, wearing flowing
white robes, ovetpowcrcd him In a
few minutes he was surrounded by u
score of the hooded figures,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-05

A N ENGAGEMENT extraordinary
\ at the Colonial Wednesday and
Thursday win be the personal ap-
penrance OF the famous Belgian
police dog, King D." one Of tho
best trained dog in motion pictures.
king d" has played with and
doubled for both Stronghold and
Rn-Tin-Tin' The big dog will mp.
pear on tho stage both afternoons
and evenings In conjunction with the
stronghoart picture, "Thd Love
Master" thrilling love romance
which tronspIros in the land OF ctcr-
nal snow.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-05

LoST--Leather coat Saturday. with
keys. Call RIA nier-l56s or Eliot
2s47.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Keith 's-Nelson Keys.

Nelson Keys, member of Andre
Charlot's Revue, before 1t left New
York for. a road tour, who will head
line the bill at B. F. keith's Theater
this week, is d graduate of the
London music halls, comedian
whose characterizations are said to
be brilliant, forcible cartoons of
human nature. He calls his premier
vaudeville offering, characteristic
Impressions" and he brings with him
Charlot's Revue, in Miss Irene Rus
sell, dancer and a singer who has
an enviable reputation abroad.
Gordon Dooley and Martha Morton
will be featured in new comery songs
by Clarence Gaskell.
One Of the most delightful dance
offerings in vaudeville today is prom
ised by Elizabeth Brown and Sedano
in Dances Modernes ct ClassiQues,'
assisted by a string quintet.
Others will include George Kelly
whose ons-act play called "Smartys
Party" will be presented with Nine
Besson under the direction of Miss
Rosalie Stewart; q comedy novelty
that instructs as we'll as amuses, by
Charles and Madeline Dunbar, called
"Animalscandals"; Boyd Senter, the
"Jazzologist Supreme" with Jack
Russell, in an instrumental concert
on many instruments; a pupil OF Pau
CinQuivalli Torino, the master Jug
gler, and Palermo's CANNES. a troupe
of almost human dogs featuring
Bessie" with Aesop's Fables. Topics
of the day and the Pathe News.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Mordkin Returns.

4 FTER an absence of 13 years
1 Mikhail Mordkin. the noted Rus
sian dancer. has booked passage
across the Atlantic, and will be seen
with his own company, ballet, roper
tory, costumes and scenery, as a special
feature of the Greenwich Village Fol-
lies.
In addition to this appearance
Mordkin will be actively associated
with the newly founded International
Studio Of Stage Dancing. which will
amount to the reopening on American
soil of his school of the dance which
he has conducted in Moscow and Tiff
lis ever since he returned to Russia
from America in 1911, and from
which have been graduated some of
the leading ballerinas and dancers Of
the younger generation in Russia.
Through Mordkin's first visit to this
country in 1910, in association with
Pavlowa, America had It's first oppor-
tunity to see the thrilling beauty of
the dance as practiced on the modern
Russian stage, and the memory OF
that engagement will undoubtedly In
sure him a welcome today.
Among the members of his company
are we'll known Representatives of the
Moscow ballet, including Lydia Sem
yonova. Bronislava PoZhitskaya and
Mikhail Arshansky.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Cellini IN Modern Drama.

PENVENUTO CELLINI is the CEN
II trail figure in THE Firebrand,"
new play at the Morosco Theater in
New York, says the Boston Tran
script. The piece is romantical
farce, or turns out to be so by the
time 1t is over. The first act seems
now sentimental, now ironical COM
edy. But the second act from the
start is farce and the farcial Tilt of
the final curtain.
THE Firebrand' is not a matter of
history, but makes the character of
Cellini and the mind of his time serve
for the joyous purposes of the play
wright. 1t is Edwin Justus Mayer s
first play, and though it is not always
on the same spirited and inventive
level by any means, it is good enough
in situation and in writing to do him
credit. But after you had heard one
of Cellinfs contemporaries bidding
another to make himself scarce and
had heard even great Medici talk
about wishing" some one on the
King of France, it dawned on you
that even a superficial distoricity was
no part of the playwrights ambitions.
You would not have been surprised to
hear the duchess cry out: You've
gone cuckoo, my lord" Nor WINGED
had a strain of jazz music foated
through the gardens. Nor greatly
cared
The play is a boisterous entertain
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Gemier and French Theater

EIRMIN GEMIER. one of the great
figures of the stage, actor and di
rector Of the historic Theater Ma
tional de FOdeon of France, and the
company from this theater, are max
ing their first American appearance
in New York City, at Jolson's Fifty
ninth Street Theater. in 'L'Homme
qui Assassina" (The Man Who Killed..
by Pierre Frondaie from Claude Far
rere's novel.
This is said to be the first instance
in it's history that France has per-
nfitted national theater company to
come to America. 1t is the first time
that a great French company has Of
fered it's repertoire here in precisely
| the same manner in which 1t is given
| in Paris. not with a few stars only, but
with that perfection Of ensemble
which rests upon the traditions of
generations
The invitation to M. Gemier and the
Odeon was extended by a committee
of prominent American citizens upon
tho Joint initiative OF the honorary
president, Otto II. Kahn, and the
honorary executive secretary, Jam es
X. Hackett. Recalling that the
French government invited James K.
Haokett to appear at the Theater Ma
| tional de rOdeon in Paris, the Ameri-
Evening star., 1924-11-16
With " the Boys"

ELSIE JANIS, who is known to
l. members OF the American expe-
dictionary forces as THE Sweetheart of
the A. f. F." rejoined her wartime
comrades to celebrate with them the
sixth anniversary of the cessation of
hostilities. With her mother and Mrs.
II. H. McCluer, national war mother,
accompanied by representative dele
cations of members of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars from the States of Mis-
souri, and Kansas, she went to Excelsior
Springs, Mo, in an automobile cara
van made up in Kansas City of more
than 100 automobiles, where they
took part in the Armistice day pa
rade and the dedication ceremony at
the opening of United States Veterans
Bureau Hospital No. 90.
Adj. Gen. Henry G.. Lawson and
Past National Commander-inCh Chief
Warner karling called on Elsie and
her mother at her hotel and made ar
rangements for her participation with
her comrades in the Veterans OF For
eign Wars on the anniversary Of Armi-
stice day.
Miss Janis is an honorary member
Of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
more than 20 posts in the organiza-
ton lay claim to her membership,
because Of her services overseas and
at home among the disabled and
needy.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Standardization and Rooney
LIGHTS Club Orchestra.

The Strand Theater this week, be-
ginning today, will present Walter
clinton and Julia Rooney and their
famous Lights Club Orchestra as
topliners of it's vaudeville bill.
Walter Clinton has a fine reputation
as an entertainer and Julia Rooney
is the daughter of the late Pat
Rooney and sister of young Pat, who
comes backed by a family reputation
and popularity not surpassed In
vaudeville.
Others include Emile Casper and
Dolly Morrissey in a comedy, song
and dance act, "Nobody's Fool; AL
Rickard and Ethel Gray in an un-
usual skit by Andy Rice. called
Hush Money; Gormley and Caffery
in Getting Over" and The Arleys
in sensational perch and tumbling.
Daring Love-" the screen version
of Albert Payson Terhune's story.
"Driftwoed," will feature Elaine
Hammerstein. Daring Love" is a
story of the romance which came
into the life of an entertainer in a
tawdry little cafe. The cast includes
Huntley Gordon, Walter Long, Ger
trude Astor, Johnny Arthur, Cissy
Fftzgerald and Morgan Wallace.
A selected comedy and tho Fox
News, with orchestral music, round
out the show.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Janet Richards, Tomorrow

Miss Janet Richards will give the
first talk in her course on Public
Questions, Home and Foreign" Mon
day morning at 10:45 o'clock in the
New Masonic Temple, 18th street and
New York avenue.
The course this season will cover,
in addition to the usual weekly re.
view of outstanding world events, the
results of the personal observations
of Miss Richards when visiting in the
important capitals of Europe last
Summer.
In her talk tomorrow she will speal:
particularly of THE General Elec-
tions in the United States and Great
Britain and Their Underlying Causes
and Results; also on The Reactions
From the So-Called Japanese P-o:o-
col" The talks are given every Mon
day morning throughout the season.
Evening star., 1924-11-16

Napoleon and the Archduchess Maria
Louisa of Austria.
A big cast of players has been as
sembled in support Of the Rams Head
Players guest star, including Richard
Elwell as Metternich, Maurice H.
Jarvis as Flambeau, Arthur ]. Rhodes
as Baron Won Cent?, Leona Roberts
as Maria Louisa, Ann Ives as the
Archduchess Sophia Of Austria, Eliz-
abeth Gardiner as Fanny Elssler,
Ruth Harrison as Countess Napoleone
Camerata, and Josephine Hutchinson
as Therese.
James Reynolds settings and cos
tunes are said to be colorful and
distinctly document Of the period"
They are likewise distinctly Wash
ington production" as the Rams
Head Players make all their own cos
tunes, their stage settings, and prop
critics in their workshop in the
theater, under Mr.. Reynolds direction,
with Mrs Anne Castle in charge of the
making of the wardrobe, and Robert
Byrne of the scenery and costumes.
Robert Bell has personally directed
the production of "The Eaglet," with
the supervision of James Reynolds
and of Basil Davenport, the trans
latOr
Evening star., 1924-11-16
THE Eaglet" C'L'Aielon' }
1.-THE EAGLEr" t"LAielonr tells

tTTHE EAGLET' CLAiglon"D tells
a fascinating story of the strug-
gle between force and frailty, the
melancholy combat of son of genius.
Powerful yet tender, passionate yet
for author Edmund Rostand, the great
French author. Strangely enough. It's
presentation by the Rams Head
Players follows closely upon the
heels of his Cyrano de Bergerac.
Like Cyrano also, 1t Is new trans
lation, done by Basil Davenport of
Yale, a young poet who Is said to
have brought marvellous freshness
to his work.
1t has for its hero-a captive eagle
Francis Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
Duo de Reichstadt, son of Napoleon
and grandson of the Austrian en-
peror, Francis It has for setting a
royal palace of Austria, Schoenbrun,
with it's gay drawing rooms, Its
moonlit park, it's somber lacquer
chamber, and then the Wagram bat
| tlefield, with it's lost souls watling
out their agonies and triumphs-souls
| whose blood has stained Napoleon's
| battlefields.
"LAiglon' is regarded as one OF the
greatest plays the world has ever
| known. THE Eaglet" as translated
| by Basil Davenport is new and vivid,
a true American version Of the great
| French classic. William Kirkland
will be the first man who has ever
appeared in the role.
Evening star., 1924-11-16

ment, made festive by its pomp of
old costumes and made amusing b.
some genuinely comic situations. The
play relates an exploit of the men
daciouS sculptor in an effort to eX
tract one of his lovelier subjects
from ducal arms.
In his reckless exposure Of himself
within the very gates of the ducal
palace, Cellini is put in such peril OF
capture that he must needs take ref
uge in the duchess chamber, where
he is cordially received. All very
Florentine, and ever so renaissance
although we are assured by the au-
thor that he made it up himself and
relied hardly at all on the famous
Autobiography.
The most felictously written part
is that of the vague, amiable and
slightly lecherous duke, since 1t was
capital notion of Mr.. Mayer to have
this character typical "Oh, l say"
Englishman, stepping into old Flor
ence right out of a hundred English
comedies.
The part of Cellini himself IS in the
hands of the handsome and stormy
Joseph Schildkraut, an actor of rich
endowments, who has been moved in
this play to give one of his mora
fiorid performances. He is not at his
best in drolleries, anyway, and some
of the humors of the famous Floren-
tine liar he does hammer home rather
violently.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Gayety-" Happy Go Lucky

Hughey Bernard and Sid Lorraine
producers of Happy Go Lucky" this
weeks revue at the Gayety Theater,
in a show that will contain all new
entertainers and ideas, present Miss
Jean Mccoy and Ralph Walton as
featured soubrette and principal COM
dian, who come from vaudeville for
their first season in Columbia bur-
lesQue.
With the exception of Emily Keller,
singing and dancing ingenue, all the
other principals will be new to Co
lumbia burlesque patrons. They in
clude Turner Brothers. singers, dane
ers and atrobats; Willie McCabe,
comedian; Dubert Armstrong, Nell
Gilbert and Hober and Atlas, in a
singing, dancing and acrobatic act,
with a chorus Of new faces recruited
from New York and trained in the
latest and most intricate dance steps
by Jack Mason.
There are IS dancing numbers.
most of them requiring the assist
ance of the chorus. Scenically Hap
py Go Lucky" is equipped with a
dozen gorgeous stage settings, in
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Has Vision and Energy.

NORMAN BEI-GEDDES, the man
~ who transformed the Century
Theater in New York City Into 2
cathedral for the production there
of "The Miracle" also designed the
scenery for Quarantine" the new
comedy which comes to the Shubert-
Belasco Theater this week.
Mr.. Geddes Is ono Of the interest
ing young men in the theater today.
He Is said to combine terrific energy
with other unusual gifts. In addition
to designing for theater productions,
he has also designed several Of the
most unusual Of the productions made
by the Metropolitan Opera Company.
He conducts each year q class in
stage design, not only telling his
pupils what is right, but correcting
their work much as q painter does
his pupils.
Evening star., 1924-11-16

can Government took approving
cogniZance of NJ. Gemier's proposed
visit and honored the undertaking by
conveying the committees invitation
to the American Embassy in Paris
for transmittal to NJ. Gemier through
the intermediary of the foreign Office.
At the first performance in New
York the United States Government
was represented by Assistant Secre-
tary of State j. Butler Wright and
the French government by Ambasss-
dor Jules ]. Jusserand.
A season of three weeks will be
played in New York, after which pos
sibly Philadelphia, Boston and Mon
treal will be visited. If arrangements
can be made, Washington and Chicago
Will be included in the brief tour
The repertoire for the American
season includes Un French) lie
Bourgeois Gentilhomme." by Moliere;
LIE Marriage de Figaro" by Beau
marohais; lie Marohand de Venise"
by Shakespeare; Tho Tanning of the
Shrew," by Shakespeare; 'L'Homme
ct Sos Fantomes," by Lenormand; lie
Procurer HallerS' District Attorney
Hal ers). by Henry de Gorsse and
Louis Forest from Paul Lindau's
novel; ''L'Homme Qui Assassina" and
Monsieur Beverly" by Georges Berr
and Louis Verneuil.
Evening star., 1924-11-16

group has proceeded with an earn
estness that now enables them to
make their offerings before larger
auditorium. While not adventurous
in the selection of material, first
rate foundation of popularity has
been laid by preliminary work. and
the opening performance of "L'Aig-
lon," in addition to having the bene-
fit of recently revived attention to
Rostand, will carry the prestige of
patiently earned personal popularities
among the players and a sense of
thorough artistic conscience in the
direction. 1t is to such enterprises
as that of the Rams Head people
that theatergoers seem likely soon
to turn for some of their most sub
stantial footlight enjoyments.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
National-Lenore Uric ir
THE Harem."

The National Theater. will offer
this week, beginning tomorrow night,
Lenore Uric in David Belasco's pro-
duction of THE Harem," a new COM
edy by Ernest Vajda, adapted by
Avery Hopwood, Immediately preced-
ing her New York engagement.
THE Harem" is a comedy of the
present day in three acts, and tells
an amusing story.
Miss Uric has role that Is said
to afford her unlimited opportunities
of revealing her unusual versatility
in an entirely new light. Her char
acterization promises to be a worthy
successor to her triumphs of the
past
Mr.. Belasco has especially engaged
William Courtenay to support Miss
Uric, the other members of the nota-
BILE company including Lennox
Paw1e, Robert Fischer, Virginia
Hammond, Marjorie Vonnegut and
Arthur Bowyer.
The play has been produced under
the personal direction of Mr.. Belasco,
who will be hero during the engage
ment.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Belasco-Helen Hayes II
''Ouarantine." .

Helen Hayes. who with Sidney Black.
mer is featured in "Quarantine," the
new comedy which has its premier al
the Shubert-Belasco Theater tomorrow
evening for a weeks engagement, is a
Washington girl who has mounted
mounted steadily, but ever higher, on
what the press agents term "the lad
der to fame"
New York City gave their annual re.
vival Of famous old play, they chose
"She Stoops to Conquer" and chose
Helen Hayes for a conspicuous role
This year the Theater Guild of New
York, which already is almost Us
famous as the Players, announced
that when it revived Shaw's Anthony
and Cleopatra" Helen Hayes was te
play Cleopatra. And already this sea
son Miss Hayes has given one highly
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Rams Head Players" The
Eadlet."

When ''The Eaglet," new American
version by Basil Davenport of Ed
mond Rostand's powerful play.
'L'Aiglon," is presented for the first
time on Tuesday night by the Rams
Head Players in the new Wardman
Park Theater Robert Bell, director,
will break a long established pre-
cedent in placing, not a woman, but
a young man in the title role. Will
liam kirkland OF Theater Guild fame,
will play the captive eaglet. son OF
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

NATIONAL-Lenore Uric "The Harem," comedy Opens
evening.
BELASCO-Helen Hayes in Quarantine comedy Opens
evening.
POLTSThas My Boy" musical comedy Opens this evening
KEITHS-Neson Keys, vaudeville Opens this afternoon.
STRANDCnton and RooneyLghts Club Orchestra vaudeville
Opens this afternoon
RAMS HEAD PLAYERS-The Eaglet Opens Tuesday evening
GAYETY-Happy Go Lucky burque Opens this afternoon.
MUTUAL-"Cudde Up" burlesque Opens this afternoon.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Arcade.

Old time favorites with up-to-dats
novelties viii form the special at
fractions at the Arcade this week.
Tuesdays Offering will be a ladies'
gala night, when hundreds of pretty
girls will be guests of the manage
ment for old-fashiuned Paul Jones
dances. Friday night will be given
over to "one good time" at the big
dance, under the auspices of the drill
team of De Molay Cumnandery.
No. 4. Knights Templar. when the
outstanding features will be a Pat
ent Leath hair contest for the
men; a bobbed hair contest for the
fair sex and Balloon Dance" for
all.
Evening star., 1924-11-16

cluding street in Hindustan and
the wharves of Paris and the color
full Partisan Moulin Rouge.
Hughey Bernard and Tom Howard
| wrote the book, and the lyrics and
| the music is by George Armstrong, Jack
Gilbert and Hughey Bernard.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Mutual" "Cuddle Up.'

The Mutual Theater announces
"Cuddle-Up," a new burlesque attrac-
ton, will open this afternoon with
a matinee at 3. Shorty McAllaster
is one of its finest comedians in d
company of supporting players that
Is considered one of the best on the
Mutual burlesque circuit.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
More Little Theater.'

THE Washington Junior Players.
whose aim is to foster and de-
velop talent in young play writer's,
are preparing for the presentation at
the Wilson Normal Auditorium sew
eral children's plays and sketches,
many of which have been written by
children themselves. Dickens, Scott
and Thackeray will be drawn upon
for material for these plays.
Angela Frances Small is the director
of the organization.
Evening star., 1924-11-16

selection for the typical "Sunkist"
beauty of the Golden West, the dan
seuse; Duree, her partner. and a
Broadway cast will assist Karyl Nor
man. The Eight-cylinder Syncopa-
tors, band and orchestra, travel with
the company.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
WHITE
Mutual
Premier of High Tide. "

T LAWRENCE WEBER announces
~ that his new play, High Tide"
a tragedy by Eleanor Holmes Hink
ley, will be seen for the first time on
any stage the week starting Monday,
December Is, at the ShubertB elasco
Theater. The play will open at the
Longacre Theater, New York, Christ
mas week.
Mr.. Weber is keeping the names of
those in the cast secret.
Evening star., 1924-11-16
Poll That's MY Boy. ''

That's Ny Boy" a musical COM
edy-drama produced by Joseph M.
Gates, will open at Polls Theater
tonight for a weeks run, with Karyl
Norman, youthful character artist and
singer, in a dual role which presents
opportunities for tho display Of his
impersonations and a voice that can
sing soprano and baritone.
The play, by Edward Paulton and
Karyl Norman, deals with q youth
who Is too full Of red blood and hap
piness to seek vindication by re-
venge. With the assistance Of his
life pal he creates an operatic SGT
ting to inform his hometown people
that he is not thief. poor and un-
known, but honest, prosperous. ia
nous and worthy OF the girl whom
he has loved since church-choir days.
1t all happens in a year-frst in the
door yard of New England's Wood
Vile, later in a hotel and on tho con-
cert stage,
The production Is most pretentious,
with high points of dramatic exhil-
aration and full OF laughter, and 1t
is extravagantly staged. The cos
tunes worn by Karyl Norman alone,
as Nine. Geraldine. include seven
gowns loaded with fur and Jewels
that cost $4,000.
Mile. Nina of Russia, California s
Evening star., 1924-11-16

successful performance in a highly sue
ceesful play-the part Of the fiapper in
Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Goulding' 9
Dancing Mothers one Of the most
popular plays Of the season.
Mr.. Selwyn. who Is associated with
Charles L Wagner In producing
Quarantine" has loaned Miss Hayes
to this production because-well, it is
announced, just because there Is no one
else who can play it quite 50 delight
fully as she. Sidney Blackmer Ia a
featured member Of tho supporting
company.
Mr. Selwyn has staged Quarantine. !"
which has been given a fine cast and
has been mounted by no less an artist
than Norman Bel-Geddes himself.
Others in the cast include Beryl Mer-
GER, A. P. Kaye, Percy Ames, Kay
Laurel and Olga Ollonova.