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Evening star., 1924-03-23
The River End"

Daniel kusell's dramatization OF
The Rivers End" the James Oliver
Curwood novel. will be presented in
Belasco Theater tomorrow evening
and continue for the week
The Rivers End" is a story of
love, adventure and primitive pas
Sions in the Canadian northwest,
hundreds OF miles from civilization.
wher" John Keith. accused Of murder.
is caught by an officer OF the Royal
Mounted police after chanse OF
nearly five years. ON their way back
to a human habitation the pursucr is
stricken with q fatal malady and
the fugitive nurses him with tender
care. wins the friendship of the Off
Ger and convinces him that he is
innocent OF the crime. The two men
bear a striking rcSem hlance and the
officer, realizing death is at hand,
perSuadeS Keith to return to head
quarters in his place, assuring him
that no one will recognize the de-
ception after five years of hardship
and privations.
Keith returns and passes the in
spector's examination. But there is
They belong to Shan Tung. a
Chinese secret service man attached
to the post. Instead of unmasking
the supposed criminal, Shan Tung
decides to use his knowledge for
other ends. Another obstacle stands
in the way. The officer had not told
that he had a young sister in Eng
land and when Mary Josephine ar
rives and claims the impostor as her
brother the threads of the story be-
come deeply entangled. In the end,
however. all ends happily.
William Boyd, who has been lead
ing man with Maude Adams and
Ethel Barrymore has the role Of
.Tehn Keith, the fugitive and
rnaSquerader. Shan Tung is played
by George Probert. George Mac
Quarrie is Inspector MacDow Dod-
son Mitchell has the role of Andy
Dugan, Mary Brandon is sister and
the role of Miriam KirkstoDe is
played by Mona Kingsley.
The play is presented in three acts
and seven scenes. all from the
studios of John Wenger.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Dad s Girl.

& SIX your favorite stage star who
helped her. to success. and the
answer is always the same-"My
mother" But Mitzi--elfn and ador-
able little Mitzi-gives the credit all
to her dad.
ASK dad; he knows she invari-
ably says. And the story of this
daughter and her dad has in it al
most as much magic and romance as
the Arabian Nights fantasy unfolded
on the stage in The Magic Ring" in
which MitZi now comes.
My mother relates that I was an
unmanageable infant" Mitzi confides
IN telling her story of father love.
No nurse in the city of Budapest
could discipline me. When l was
three my mother resolved to put N
completely in my fathers charge. He
was state official and very busy
man, but she felt that something had
10 be done about me. And my father
proceeded to do il.
He smuggled me under his over
coat into the theater-sometim to
Evening star., 1924-03-23
World Full of Melodies.

"THE world is full of melodies"
says Frank Crumit. but it's what
happens to the melody that either
makes a song which sings its way
around the world, or a dusty manu-
script forgotten on the shelf of some
music publishers Office
Unusual orchestration. the intro
duction Of novel harmony and rhythm,
the setting of the song and the singer
all spell success or failure to the lit :
tie melody, which left TO itself would
perish. according to this writer and
singer Of popular melodies.
sweet Lady" contains al the fruits
of Mr. Crumit's college experiences in
the University of Ohio. where he
wrote the foot ball songs and yearly
musical show and sang in the quartet
of the glec club
Gold hunting has nothing on song
writing for feverish excitement, ac-
cording TO MIR. Crumit. A good song
is worth anywhere from twenty -tve
10 a hundred thousand dollars. And
the world is fun of teasing melodies.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Poll Irene

Irene" returns to Washington to-
night for another engagement of one
week at Polls Theater
The book is by James Montgomery,
Harry Tierney wrote the score. which
contains a number of popular hits,
including Alice Blue Gown" and
Castle of Dreams" The lyrics are
by Joseph Mccarthy, and the staging
was done by Edward Royce, of the
Gaiety Theater, London.
No light opera in recent years has
been more successful than has Irene"
Musical comedies that have gone be-
fore Irene" have had, many of them,
much to recommend them. Some
have been notable for melody, some
for novelty, some for character draw
ing, as in the case of Sally" few
for plot and here and there one for
some combination Of these merits. 1t
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Keith 's-Nance O'Neil and
Frank Crumit.

r. i. Keith's for the current week
announces two well contrasted stars
twin headIinere. Nance O'Neil.
sometimes called the Bernhardt of
the American stage comes in a com
edy drama, "All the Worlds a Stage"
by Alfred Sutro, known for his The
Laughing Lady" in which Ethel Bar
rymore starred, and which is dra-
matte in theme yet satirical in treat
ment
Frank Crumit. the co-headIiner."
comes in what he calls the "One-Man
Introduction His song, Sweet Lady"
and his work with Julia Sandersop
in '-Tangerine" have made him friends
from coast to coast
The unusual dance creation offered
by Kathleen O'Hanlon and Theo. Zarn-
buni, who have been starred at the
New York Hippodrome for several
weeks as "the greatest of all Euro
pean character dancers is called "A
Cabaret in Cuba" and is elaborately
decorated and supported by the Ar
gentine Orchestra and a real daugh-
ter of Spain, Senorita Gressi.
Jessie Maker and William T. Fed
ford will offer one Of the seasons
novelties. Rolling Stones,' by Paul
Gerard Smith, with special scenery
and electrical effects and presented in
two scenes. For the Runaway Four.
who are said to have been circus
clowns at one time, a laugh is prom
ised in every second Of their appear
! ance. The singing marine. Harry
HoIbrook, who appears through the
courtesy Of the United States Marine
Corps, was a singer before he en-
listed, and during the war he supple
mented lighting with the Devil DOGS
with singing in the hospitals and
aboard ship. Schichtl's Royal Won.
hard to believe they are made OF
wood and wax and manipulated SO
cleverIy that they appear human, VIII
delight grown-ups as much as tne
kiddies and the Royal GascolEneS;
who balance a pyramid of chairs and
tables, among other things. will also
feature Teddy, the balancing dog.
Aesop's Fables, topics of the day
and the Pathe news pictorial are IN
cluded in the house features.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Ram $ Head Players Closing

WITH August Strindberg's Easter"
the second season at the Rams
Head Playhouse will come to an end
Saturday night. Robert Bells players
will open early in the fall in their
new playhouse under construction at
Wardman Park.
Easter" is often called the pas
sion play" of Sweden's greatest dra-
matte writer. 1t constitutes one of
the many remarkable dramas which
Strindberg produced at the beginning
of this century. A play of his ma
turer thought, it is typical of the man
and the genius-with its pathetic.
poetical scenes. "It tends to show
that there is a hidden meaning in all
human suffering and that ray of SUM-
shine can find its way even down to
the darkest abyss of the despairing
heart.
Special music arranged from Hay
dn's Seven Last Words From the
Cross is sung during the entr ractes
by voices directed by August King
Smith. The setting of the one scene
by James Reynolds is entirely Nor
dic'' in character and color and is
symbolic Of the mood of the place.
The lighting too symbolizes the
changes in the lives and character of
the family of Frau Heyst as Easter
day dawns and dispels the gloom of
Passion week.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

House. Her talent and ambition soot
brought her to the attention of the
powers that be. and she was permit
ted 10 make her debut in the ballet o
'Travata 1T the age of thirteen
She was still SO little that she 1ooked
scarcely ten and was called The Bal
let Baby of the Met" She appeared
also in Aida "Cocq dor 'Samsof
and Delilah" and many other Metro
politan productions with the grea1
est operatic stars of the time
Dancing to her was SO easy tha
she was not surprised when she was
chosen to alternate as premier witt
Rosina CALI. About this time Cecile
received also u tempting offer TO ap-
pear at the London Hippodrome II
the Christmas Pan tonime, and il va
here that she met Harry Walters
who became her future dancing part
ner. When Col. Henry w. Savaee
formed his revival of THE Merr>
Widow he engaged them as an add.
ed feature for the Maxim scene, ane
after it's New York run Joseph NJ
Gates placed them under long-terH
contract.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
The World dLoves Little Girls

WHY does little woman or girl
get so many favors and kind
nesses heaped upon her, while her
taller and larger sister must help
herself?
Cause she takes so much less
space" responds Miss Dorothy Kane,
herself one of these little" women.
Miss Kane plays the part of Eleanor.
the ingenue Irene"
cot course, it's kind OF difficult, you
know. to be handicapped at a foot ball
game or a parade, because you can't
see over some giants black derby or
through Il wide expanse of blue serge
shoulders, like your larger and more
imposing sisters, but being tiny has
its advantages. For instance:
Little women have all the best of
IL. declares Dorothy. "Everybody
wants to be kind to petite creatures.
"a large woman may be just as
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Gray Eyes Barred.

GRAY ewes. dull and without a ghnr
~ or tint Of blue or green, ar"
hopeless eyes for the motion picture
screen. according to George Melford
the director.
Gray eyes" continued the pro
ducer. simply will not register. When
filmed they do not record Il SInEi"
thought or emotion for the camera
They look ghoStlike and even eerte
F,yer-y once in a. white | find a man OF
woman who appears to be a wondel-
full type The closer scrutiny reveals
eyes Of that desolate mouse-gra\
tone. ThereNis only one thing TO do
forget that man or woman.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

AT the IheaterS 1 MS w eek
BELASCO-"The Rivers End meodrama Opens
NATIONAL Mtz THE Magic Ring, comedy with music Opens
this
POITS-"Irene" musical comedy. Opens this evening.
kEITHS-Nance ONeil vaudeville New opens with
COSMOS-Cen Jazzers
with matinee tomorrow.
STRANDrkansaw Valentines vaudeville Opens this afternoon.
GAYETY-immie Coopes burlesque afternoon
RAMS HEAD PAYERS-"Easte"
begin Wednesday evening
Evening star., 1924-03-23

timid and need help and attention as
much and more than little one, hut
will she get it? Not much, says /
The little woman has the advantage
every time.
'T suppose another reason that We
small unS have more kindneSses
heaped upon US is because it is less
trouble, on account of the space We
occupy. AS an illustration of this
the other day l was coming out or =
railroad station in Philadelphia. jus
ahead of ne was a tall. handsoUf
woman. She reached the heav&
swinging door as a big man ap-
preached from the other direction
He politely stepped aside and ie,
her push the heavy door open hersel5
and pass out. Then he saw nc ap-
preaching and. placing his hand oI.
the door. held it open while l passeu
under his arm and went out withou
stopping.
The tail woman could not hays
done that"
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Arcade.

The Arcade Auditorium Tuesday
will provide a ladies night" when
the fair sex will come as guests, and
when several oldfashioned Paul
Jones" dances will be thrown in for
good measure. Friday Silly Dale
known as the great A. l.. +. jug
gler," will perform some of his best
''juggles" for the delectation Of those
present.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

has remained for Irene" to encom-
pass all these qualities and to have
marked up 70 its credit one more
class. There is class in the story
class in the musical numbers. class
Importance. class III the company.
The titlc part Will be played by
Dal" Winter. who has sung the role
in Washington before. Her assist
ants comprise Mary O'Moore, Gladys
igle, Dorothy Kane. Henrietta Hou-
sen, Dorothy Lamar, Howard Free
man. Jere Delaney. Henry Coote
George Collins, Eddie MARI and
George Mantcll
Evening star., 1924-03-23

tions, Home and Foreign" with a
comprehensive review of the progress
made in Congress, both in legislation
and in the pending Investigations;
the conditions in Europe resulting
from the recovery of the franc as re-
flected in France. England and Ger
many, and other subjects of vital in
terest in the worlds work.
The talk is given in the new Ma
sonic Temple, 18th street and New
York avenue. and will begin at 1G:40
o'clock.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

liam de Miles latest production,
Don't Call II Love" features Agnes
Ayres, Jack Holt Nita Naldi, Theo-
dore Kosiof and Rod La ROGUE in a.
drama of tangled hearts, social splen-
dor and wonderful love making,
whose tension may be lightened by
Jimmy Aubrey in "A Fishy Tale"
one of the minor offerings of the bill.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Janet Richards Tomorrow

Tomorrow morning Miss Janet
Richards will give the last talk in
her winter course on Public Ques-
Evening star., 1924-02-20
nson Be Carefully Gooned Fpo- Wills Go Hangs Balance
WALKER AND LYNCH
@. K. IN N. Y. AGAIN

NEW YORK. February 20.-The
boxing situation in New York was
clearer today through the blank ct res
toration to good standing Of all eX-
cept two boxers, their managers and
the management of Madison Square
Garden.
The chief restorations were of
Mickey Walker, worlds welterweight
champion, and Joe Lynch. world
bantam weight champion. The latter
must. however, agree to some condi-
tionS before he is back in the full
graces.
Walker, who was suspended twice
last year. will remain barred until
tended recognition to him of the
right to his world title. Lynch, who
was suspended last August. must. it
was understood, agree to meet Abe
Goldstein of New York in title
bout or his restoration will be re-
called.
The commission ruled yesterday
that all the boxers in the stables OF
Charley Cook and Frank Churchill
could not fight in New York until the
sixty days suspensions Of their man.
ayers had ended. Cool, was sus-
pended because George Marks. his
fiyT-eieht boxer. was four pounds
overweight when he met Pancho
Villa. managed by Churchill. Marks
was suspended for being overweight,
and Churchill was suspended for not
accepting the weight forfeit Of Sl,2oo.
Evening star., 1924-02-20

expensive seat u few rows from the
rinsside. He had no chance at all.
1t was Il great affair."" he told me
afterward. but [ never did see any
part Of the fight. When the big ex-
citement started people crawled all
over me. With my lame leg I couldn't
compete with them. | simply sat
there. helping to hold up the boys
who had gone cuckoo. I always will
regret not having seen that fight"
Dempsey Got Real Blow.
There are some who insist to this
day that Dempsey was pushed out of
the ring. Others declare he was hit
a terrific blow that actually lifted
, him off his feet and over the ropes. I
am inclined to lean to the latter opin-
ION, especially after my talk with
Jack Dempsey. There is no doubt
about Dempsey having been hit
For years to come 1 suppose the ar
Sument Will continue as to whether
Dempsey got back into the ring him
self or whether he was assisted by
newspaper men into whose laps he
had fallen. The Firpo adherents now
claim that Dempsey should have been
disqualified because he didn't get back
in the ring without assistance, give
it up. l don't know. What's more. I
don't think anybody else knows. do
know that Dempsey scrambled back
again.
dempsey himself has no'clear idea
as to how he got back To him the
rest of the fight was a blur, perhaps
even the victory.
nave not Dempsey's word for it
that he did not know he had won
the night until told about it in the
dressing room-but / understand that
a newspaper man was present when
one of Dempsey's secondS remarked,
patting the champion on the back:
Boys, that was fght.' !
The daZed champion is said to have
asked his second: "Who won?"
According to the story, Dempsey
had a kind of haIf-conscious feeling
that the championship was slipping
away, as he took that header out of
the ring. 1t, is said that he fought
instinctively, and that he was still
uncertain about things when it was
all over.
Evening star., 1924-02-20
NOTED SPORTSMAN
WINS $4,000 SUIT

SAN FRANCISCO, February 90
Judgment for s13.o10.4S against the
Investment Registry Company of
America, q New York concern, was
awarded in superior court here to
George Gordon Moore. wealthy sports
man of San Mateo. Calf. and Detroit
The judgment ends litigation ex-
tending over two years. involving d
stock transaction and damage suit
during which twenty-five polo ponies
in Moore's stables at San Mateo were
attached by the eastern company.
Moore originally was sued for $40
900 in stock deal. but he obtained
a verdict in the New York supreme
court on a cross complaint. The judg-
ment here decides suit subsequently,
brought by Moore.
a 100000 damage suit flied by
Moore for malicious attachment,
charging that false affidavits damag-
ing his credit had been mailed hy
the company. still is pendin.
Evening star., 1924-02-20
DECLARES RICHARD
AIDED SPECULATOR

ALBANY. February 90. - Grave
charges that Tex Rickard. noted fight
impresario of New York turned over
a. block OF the Dempsey -Firpo fight
tickets. worth $4,000, TO a ticket
speculator named Jacobs were made
yesterday by Tom O'Rourke, veteran
fight promoter, at a hearing before
the assembly ways and means COM
mittee On the Lord bill to repeal the
Walker state boxing law.
'In the fight between Dempsey and
Firpo." said O'Rourke, 81 represented
the Polo Grounds. On the day of the
fight our office telephoned to Madison
Square Garden and said they had only
200 tickets and that there We're many
persons in line. We were told that
Garden. After that | heard that
Jacobs. the speculator, had driven up
TO 15Jth street and Sth avenue with
wagon and was selling tickets there
with police protection. We could not
get any tickets. although we had all
the facilities for selling them.
That night: usual, we started TO
count the tickets at the Polo Grounds.
l insisted that the tickets should not
leave there but ! was overruled. and
were counted there and no member
or representative of the boxing com.
mission was present. Finally s135,0oo
worth of unSold tickets were re-
turned by Jacobs for Tex Rickard.
IF you go to the Garden for. any
big fight now you cannot get ticket
nearer than the sixteenth row, even
on the day when the tickets are re-
turned from the printer"
Assemblyman Lord Of Chenango,
sponsor of the repeal bill led the at
tack Walker law He declared
that the advocates of his bill We're
not opposed to boxing, but, on the
contrary, favor it under proper con-
troll and when glory and not financial
results are contended for.
Lord sd id that when the youths of
today read of the fabulous purses
which prize fights bring for few
minutes work, as compared with
what they earn working from morn :
ing to night. it obviously has bad
effect 1T makes the worker un-
easy" he said.
Evening star., 1924-02-20

Never yet have L found boxing
enthusiast who did not say that was
the greatest thrill of his life as a
fight fan.
The whole thing burst Oh the fans
before they were prepared for it. In
stead of trying each other out, pro-
ceeding cautiously, these two men
waded into each other like cave men
swinging stone axes. There was no
fine art. no entertaining exhibition of
skill. 1t was sock, sock, sock, and
devil take the hindmost.
1 had expected Firpo to put up a
better fight than many others had
predicted. / never dreamed of any
thing like that, though.
know very well that I completely
lost my bearings. Thrills came so
hard and fast that there was no time
for analysis. Right near me sat a
veteran fight reporter. For an hour
he had been pecking away on a small,
portable typewriter. SUDDENLY there
came a knockdown. The fighter got
up and, swinging from his shoe
strings. fiattened his opponent. Again
and again this was repeated.
Some say there were seven distinct
Evening star., 1924-02-20
EUROPEAN RING TITLE
is TAKEN BY LEDOUX

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. February 20.-CharIes Ie-
doux last night defeated Edouard Mas
cart on points. in a twenty-round match.
winning. the featherweight champion
ship of France and Europe.
Mascart's showing was a keen disap-
Dointment. The veteran Ledoux won
fifteen out OF the twenty rounds The
fight was a slugging contest throughout
The defeat of Mascart probably will
cause him to forego his proposed journey
to the United States. He had intended
TO leave for New Yorl. i'll March.
Mascart was awarded the feather
weight title of France in December. be-
cause of the failure of Eugene Criqui.
the champion. to meet him. At the
time it was stated that Criqui was in
bad shape physically and unable to box
MaScart.
Evening star., 1924-02-20
DEMPSEY-GIBBONS FILMS
CAUSE SUIT FOR DAMAGE

SEATTLE, Wash, February re-
James A. Johnson, mayor of Shelby.
Mont. has filed suit to. stop Greater
Fea lures, Inc. from exhibiting pic
lures of the boxing contest between
Jack Dempsey and Tom Gibbons, in
Shelby. last Fourth of July.
Mayor Johnson averred that a pic
ture Of the fight had been made un-
der his direction and that it never
was Intended to be shown outside
Montana. He complained that Jack
Blair, manager OF Greater F'ea atureS.
had obtained two prints from the
plaintiffs negative and brought them
here. .
/. The mayor asks an accounting of
profits from exhibition OF the Demp-
sey-C1i bbonS pictures so that DANA SeS
could be fixed. and destruction of the
unauthorized films.
Evening star., 1924-02-20

nection with the club suddenly was
ended
about Johnson. He has at all times
been regarded as one of the hardest
workers on the club and ever willing
to tackle any job assigned to him.
In this way he has proved a fine eX-
ample to younger and less famous
athletes who could with poor grace
grumble over the amount OF toll al
lotted to them. but there, is such a
thing as player being 90 willing,
and it is to this that Johnson's in
expectations of last year are attrib-
uted. 1t also explains why his train
ing, both the preliminary part of it
in Arkansas and the intensive drill
ing here that is to follow, will be
carefully checked
Johnson is expected to emerge from
his eighteenth season i'll the ma jors,
this year. with colors again flying, but
II he tails 10 do so. il will not be be-
cause he has heen overWorked, VOL
unfairly or otherwise.
Doing Only Light Work.
Little knowledge of the potential
camp here can he obtained from any
thing they have done thus far. The
daily drills are compa ra lively brief,
only lobbing OF the ball being per-
mItted in the warm-ups. Besides ses-
sions of fielding bunts and the per
spira inducing jogS around the
! track. nothing much else is on the
program now. 1t will be different
about week hence. when Trainer
Mike Martin gets his new inffcld into
shape. with the aid Of the huge steam
roller he has commandeered from the
city, and the hurlcrS begin to bear
down a bit
n' Of i1ss Sss5fan OF df .i IT IN roy ,:
getting into uniform and scamper-
ing around in the field under flies
propelled by Altrock. then went out
in the afternoon and. with the aid
OF one of the scrihes. gave Nick and
Grlfi q neat trimming on the links
Evening star., 1924-02-20

knockdowns. Others say more and
others say less. I am of the opinion
that nobody knows
AS If raised by some force beneath
US. the whole crowd was suddenly
lifted to its feet. Two men landed on
the somewhat rickety table on which
the reporter had his typwriter. In a
! second the typwriter. bent and twist
ed. was hurled across the benches
and beneath the ring. Men were walk
ing on each others heads and shoul-
ders; The seconds were yelling and
In what is the regular press box of
the Polo Grounds we had seated q
number of the extra newspaper men
writer's for whom there was no space
Immediately at the ringside 1 han
pened to glance over that way.
There is wire screen in front of
this press box. Even in the wild ex-
citement I had to laugh. Dozens of
newspaper men-fellows who seldom
show excitement-hadc climbed up this
screen. BY their fingers they were
hanging and scratching, trying to get
a better hold.
One friend of mine, a regular box
ing enthusiast. who Is lame, sat in an