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Evening star., 1924-10-26
StrandEIack Wilson.

Jack Wilson, the Broadway clown,
who mimics in black face the entire
vaudeville show before him, will head
the program of stage attractions at
the Strand Theater this week, begin
ming today, in a "Nonsensical Revue"
Charles Forsythe, Ruth Wheeler and
Willie Ward are in the cast.
Others on the bill are Emily Earle
with Charles J. Adler, offering En-
tertaining Episodes" with AL Schenck
at the piano; George F. Howard and
Kittie Ross, in a musical number,
1.-The Evolution of the Banjo" twenty
or more instruments being used in
the act; Rich and Banta, in songs,
talk and comedy, and novel animal
act, featuring Hector, a trained dog,
with a troop of lesser dog stars"
The photoplay attraction will be
Trio Productions Empty Hearts," a
society drama presenting a triangle
of a novel situation-a woman's
struggle to win the love Of her hus-
band against his love for first wife,
A comedy, "a Deep Sea Panic; the
latest Fox News and Director Maxwell
and his orchestra round out the bill
with overture and exit marches, the
first number being Reber's Charles
ton Cabin" and the latter, Herbert's
Glad Eyes"
Evening star., 1924-10-26
"Lollipop" "-November 9.

HENRY w. SAVAGE will bring his
IL new dancing star, Ada-May, in
"Lollipop," to the National Theater
the week commencing November O.
Broadway liked "Lollipop' with
Ada May so we'll that it stayed at the
Knickerbocker Theater from January
until July. Col. Savage promises
Washington the original New York
cast and production.
Ada-May is well known to theater-
goers of Washington as Ada Mae
Weeks. Her dancing triumphs in
The O'Brien Girl" brought her for
ward for her present stellar role, as
it was in the Cohan vehicle that Mr..
Savage and Zelda Sears, the author
of "Lollipop," saw her and decided
she was the actress who best fitted
their needs.
Philadelphia both have welcomed her
as an addition to the musical COM
edy stars, for Ada-May has undoubt-
edly arrived"
The production is declared one of
Savage, noteworthy from the fact
that this producer has turned from
voice to dancing as the magnet for
the throngs. A large company, in
cluding Gus Shy, Mark Smith, Nick
Long, jr.; Florence Webber, Leonard
Ceiley, Marie Stagg, Evelyn Bennett.
Daisy Belmore. Walter Craig, Rita
Townsend, William Bold and William
Gordon, with a big ensemble contain =
ing a new unit of London Tiller girls.
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Poll The Potters."

1t used to be said of some Of Clyde
Fitch's plays that they were photo
graphic representations of many
typicaIly American homes.
In THE Potters," J. p. McEvoy's
comedy, which opens at Polls to-
night, the author is said to be equal
ly as realistic.
The social and financial status of
the Potter family is lower than the
plane on which Mr.. Fitch's characters
moved. Its members are just as hu-
man. however, in their virtues and
weaknesses and in their personal re-
Iations They are just as typical of
their class and what they say and do
so reflects their natures dispositions
and attitudes toward life and their
surroundings that the play can be re-
garded as skillfully wrought vi
gnettes of American character and
domestic relations.
Pa Potter. the head of the Potter
family, is not good provider, in the
estimation of his wife. Indeed, the
famiIy's small income irks all Its
members In striving to make both
ends meet. Mrs. Potter becomes irri-
tated and resorts to nagging. Made
desperate by her grumblng. Potter
invests his small savings in oil stocks,
which threaten to be worthless paper
on his hands. Eventually they turn
out to be so valuable that he realizes
a small fortune.
The play comprises II scenes of
steadily cumulative interest.
Walter Perkins heads the cast as
"Pa" Potter, and he is assisted by
Adelaide Hibbard, May Pendleton,
Viola Frayne, Hal Thompson, Mir
lam CoughIin. Lizzie Mccall, George
LIE Soir and Wilbur Cox.
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Belasco-Walker Whiteside
IN "Maverick"

Walker WhiteSide will begin a
weeks engagement at the Shubert-
Belasco Theater tomorrow evening,
in a thrilling story of the Mexican
border. entitled Maverick a play
by Lutte H Johnson a well known
journalist on the Denver Post, which
deals with the life which the author
has known Intimately during a long
sojourn in the West.
In Maverick" Mr.. Whiteside has
found a stellar vehicle which permits
him to lay aside his Oriental mask and
appear as a virile, red-blooied Ameri-
can, an engineer who has done big
things the world over, and who seeks
the arid wastes of New Mexico search
ing for new worlds to conquer.
Chance brings him to the tiny town
of Maverick, where his advent is not
looked upon with favor by the deni-
zens of Petes gambling house and
saloon. The girl Kate" welcomes
his appearance with unconcealed in
terest-and from that point a love
story of flaming intensity ensues. A
series of thrilling adventures, pune
tuated by characteristic music of the
border. is said to make Maverick a
most absorbing play.
Miss Sydney Shields Will head the
big cast of 80 players to be seen in
the stars support. Others are Bran
don Evans, Harold Vosburgh, Paul
Doucet, Sam Sidman, Howard Merling,
David Balbridge, Pauline Jennings
Margaret Barnstead, Orilla Smith and
Allen Behr.
Colorful scenes of the sun-kissed
Southwest will be exhibited during
the action of the play. Special music
has been composed for Maverick" by
Allen Behr. all of which is said to be
typical of the region.
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Little Theater DeveIoping

through the Summer, make the Broad
way market always a potential one.
1T is becoming more and more diff
ficult for stock companies to get the
services of featured players. Then
there is the cost of things, which
really is as important. With labor
and materials SO high, the unit of one
weeks playing makes the stock ven
ture more precarious.
These little theater groups have
interested me greatly. / see posi-
bilities opening up for them. Given
a good director and some one who
has a good background of art and
literature associated, the group has
good plant for the development Of
players.
IF the group is kept on an amateur
basis, or at least semi amateur, the
play will be the thing, the financial
result only secondary | look to the
| little -theater for the development
! also of many plays that would not
find expression through the too timid
comm nercial stage"
Evening star., 1924-10-26
INEZ de YERDIERo
GaYetq
Along Comes Ruth.

CCARCELY any actress of the
- American stage has had a more
interesting and successful career than
Ruth Chatterton, the lovable young
star whom Henry Miller will present
at the Poll Theater, Washington, Sun
day. November 9, in ''The Magnolia
Lady
Perhaps her most delightful role
was in Barries Mary Rose" though
the real humor of her spirit is said to
be best revealed In The Magnolia
Lady" which permits her to sing and
make life a bright lark. Her other
successes include La Tendresse,'
Daddy Long Legs" and Come Out
of the Kitchen"
Richard Gallagher, Ralph Forbes,
Muriel Stryker and Evelyn Martin.
with a ballet and beauty chorus, are
among the notable features of the
bright song and dance story that
Anne Caldwell and Harold Levey have
created in The Magnolia Lady"
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Chemica al Touch Of Art.

in a front scene, John Steel, the tenor.
sings the appealing song IAN Orange
Grove in California" The scene
changes, and a grove, with trees laden
with oranges, is shown. Sixty OF the
chorus girls and boys, attired as
workers in the grove, come on while
Miss Ruth Thomas. the prima donna,
and Mr.. Steele continue the song.
At the very finish the house and
stage lights are dimmed and tiny in
candescent lamps from within illu-
inmates the thousands of oranges on
the trees. The effect is strikingly
beautiful, but to add to it the scent
of oranges is waited from the stage
out into the auditorium by means of
concealed elecric fans. This is where
the perfume, orange extract comes in.
1t was one of the delightful sur
prises given New York last year
The credit for it is given to Ed
ward Mendelsohn. the stage manager
of the Music Box Theater, who is a
graduate chemist and suggested the
novelty.
Evening star., 1924-10-26
To Have Premier Here.

WILLIAM HARRIS, JR., who has
w made no productions since the
actors strike last Spring, has announced
that he will make as his first produc-
ton, "Of a Sunday" a comedy by
Homer Miles.
The play has been put in rehearsals
under the direction of Lester Lonergan
and will be ready in about two weeks
It's American premiere will occur in
Washington November 3, and after
brief out-of- town tour the play will be
brought to New York.
"Of a Sunday is a comedy OF Ameri-
can life and concerns the happenings
of a family and their neighbors one
Sunday morning.
Its players will include George Gaul,
II. M Kerrigan, William Harrtgan,
Thomas Mitchell, Louise Randolph,
RAYMOND Hackett, Tom Findley, Lillian
Herne, Media Harrigan. The settings
will be executed by Livingston PIatt'
one Of the foremost stage designers
in America.
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Biography of a Prima Donna

% UTH THOMAS, the prima donna of
~ the new Music Box Revue" is
young, pretty and talented, with a
voice of unusual quality. She is a
Southern girl, born on her grand
fathers plantation at Deeson, Miss.
She is of Irish descent and her mother
was a Hurley.
When the time came Miss Thomas
was sent to a young ladies' academy
at Blue Mountain, in her native state,
and then, to finish her studies, at Cox
College Atlanta. After graduation
she studied voice at the Atlanta Con-
servatory of Music, where she began
to attract attention with her fine So
prano voice. She was pupil OF VIII
ford Waters. While still in her teens
Miss Thomas moved with her family
to Hot Springs, Ark.
On several occasions she appeared
in concert, and one day Silvio Helm,
the composer, heard her and strongly
urged her to take up professional
career 1t thus happened that she
came East and her first appearance
on the stage was in the revue, Look
Who's Here" and later In another
revue called "Snap Shots
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Keith 's-Alice Brady.

A thrilling story of human derelicts
is the basis of the new playlet in
which Alice Brady, star of stage and
screen, will headline a bill of song,
dance and art at B. F. keith's Thea
ter, beginning today at pm. The
playlet is called Cassie Cook Of the
yellow Sea-" 1t was written by John
Cotton, author of Rain" in col
laboration with Daisy r. Andrews.
1t is a miniature tragedy, but filled
with situations that make possible
Miss Brady's best acting. Her cast
will include Charles A. Bickford, Eda
Won Buelow, William G. Leith and
Frank Warner.
Belle Story, who has been called
Americas foremost coloratura," re-
turns this week with Eric Zardo,
concert pianist, in program of de-
lightfu1 music.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry will
bring back their rural comedy,
Scandals Of Heusfoot Corners" and
Evening star., 1924-10-26

John Giuran and La Petite" Mar
guerite. late of The Last Waltz"
and Honey Dew" and stars of Choos'
! Realm of Fantasy" will present a
unique dance revue.
Others will include Harry Holmes
and F'lorrie lie We're, singing come
dianS, in n novelty comedy Skit.
Themselves; Ernest Hiatt. come
dian who demands a laugh a minute,
in Nothing Serious; the Innis
Brothers, in THE Men About Town.
and John and Nellie Olms, who mys-
tify with watch illusions
Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day
and the Pathe News Pictorial will
complete the bill
Evening star., 1924-10-26

"THE Girl From kelly,s'" musical
comedy, in which George Jessel
will have the leading role, Will open
about November IS.
Max MARGINS Silence" with H. B.
Warner as it's star, will open in
Stamford tomorrow night and will
reach New York in few weeks.
THE Rising SUM-" by ]. C. and
Elliott Nugent. will have its first pres
entation tomorrow night in Albany
by Marc Klaw, with the authors in
the cast.
A musical version of "Old Heidel-
berg" with book by Dorothy Donnelly
and music by Sigmund Romberg, will
have its first hearing this week at
Atlantic City, with cast of $50.
princess April" recently tried out
in this city, will have TesSa Kosta
in the star role. Newcomers will in
clude Robert Woolsey, May Boley and
James, L. Sullivan.
Florenz Ziegfeld will begin re-
hearsal of Louis the Fourteenth" in
which Leon Enrol will be starred,
shortly after the opening in New
York of Annie Dear"
us That SoT a play by James
Gleason, will be produced soon by
Donald Gallaher, hitherto known only
as an actor. Mr.. Gallaher, who will
also appear in the play, will be re-
membered here as the leading man of
the Belasco Players the past Summer.
:The Show-Off'' reached it's three
hundredth performance in New York
last week, with an English produc-
ton of the comedy at the Queens
Theater, London, opening about the
same time of the anniversary over
here.
Walter Catlett has been engaged
for the cast of ''Black-eyed Susan" a
Bolton-Gershwin musical comedy,
now in rehearsal for Alexander A.
Aarons and Vinton Freedley.
Dancing Mothers" according to
the present plan, will be produced in
London soon after the holidays by
Daniel Mayer. Edgar Selwyn will go
over to stage the play
Congreve's "The Way of the Worl6
will be produced at the Cherry Lane
Playhouse. New York, during the
week of November 3. Gertrude Bryan
and William S. Rainey will head the
cast.
Howard Marsh, who has appeared
with "Mitzi'' and in "Maytime." will
have the leading role in the musical
version of "Old Heidelberg" which
the Shuberts are producing.
Nine. Simone began her Franco
American season at the Henry Miller
Theater. New York. last Tuesday
Evening star., 1924-10-26

CTOCK companies are passing, the
- repertory theater is impractical
BILE and the little theaters are COM
ing into their own, according to Les
ter Lonergan, general stage director
for William Harris, jr.
Il have spent many years directing
stock companies" says Mr.. Lonergan,
some of them the most successful in
the country, and from my knowledge
of the business conditions of the last
few years l believe that the stock
company is doomed to give way to
the smaller theater of the semi-ama-
teur type.
There are several factors that will
make this change. Firstly, most
players of reputation cling more and
more to New York. The majority of
them today would rather take pot
luck at a chance of employment there
than TO go on tour with their original
role. And the breaking down of the
old limits of the theater season in
New York, the successes running
Evening star., 1924-10-26
New Shepherd Of Lambs.

THOMAS MEIGHAN was elected
shepherd Of the lambs at their
annual meeting held last week. This
is the first time a motion picture
actor has held the Office of shepherd,
that post having been filled for the
last fifty years by famous actors.
stage directors and widely known
persons in professional life.
The Lambs is the oldest and per-
haps the most notable theatrical or
ganization in America. Founded in
1874 in the blue room at Delmonico's
(then at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth
street,, following a supper given by
George H. Mclean, the club attract
ed to it's membership practically all
the stage celebrities of the later
nineteenth century.
It's first shepherd was Henry j.
Montague. Subsequently that post of
honor was held by such famous char
acters as Lester Wallack. Harry
Beckett, John r.. Brady, Clay M.
Greene, De Wolf Hopper, Augustus
Thomas and. more recently, Wilton
Lackaye, William Courtleigh, r. H.
Burnside and Albert o. Brown.
Meighan's election was unanimous.
there being no other candidate to op-
Jose him.
Evening star., 1924-10-26
In the Spotlight.

night and a packed house gave her
a warm greeting. Her opening play
was "L'Aiglon."
Ina Claire, who in behalf of Ga
American players cabled greetings to
Firmin Gemier before the Odeon COM
pany sailed from France has received
reply. Gemier agreed to give matt
nees in New York Tuesday and Fri
day, that the Broadway actors may
see the performance.
The ShubertS will present here the
English success, The Street Singer"
and Lee Ephraim, the English pro-
ducer, who, in association with the
ShubertS, presented Havoc" in New
York, has arranged to show Cobra"
Little Jessie James and other plays
abroad
Ruth Urban, the soprano, who has
been singing for two years at the
Rivoli, New York, and also to many
radio fans, graduated into musical
comedy last week with the Marx
Brothers in I'll Say She Is"
Besides opening Coincidence" in
New York last week. Henry Baron
has in preparation another play, THE
who also wrote Tiger Cats for
David Belasco, which he will shortly
start rehearSing
Nine. Pillar Norm. French actress,
who appeared in this country under
David Belascos management, has
written play that will soon be pro-
duced, with the first rehearsal start
ing tomorrow in New York.
Lionel Barrymore, with Irene Fen
wick again associated with him.
started second season last week at
Stamford, Conn, in Laugh, Clown,
Laugh!'
Violet Kemble Cooper, recently
seen here at Keith's in a short sketch,
will play Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan"
which opens in New York Novem-
ber 8.
FRITZ Scheff will try out the merits
of her new play, alias Mrs. Pepp."
tomorrow night at Waterbury, Conn.
1t is a comedy by Edward j. Paulton,
and if the star finds it fits the mood
of an audience in her home town
she will produce 1t in New York.
The cast of THE Magnolia Lady"
a Forthcoming musical piece, will in
clude Ruth Chatterton, Richard Gal
lagher, Ralph Forbes and Muriel
Stryker.
MY Woman" by Ieta Vance, will
have it's first production in Stamford.
Conn, November z, under the direc-
tion of Joseph Howard, the well
known vaudevillian. The. east viii
be headed by John Nicholson
Evening star., 1924-10-26

ONLY a dumb theatergoer would
~ not concede that the Music Box
Revue" abounds in entertaining
novelties.
But, this year, it has feature never
before used in any musical or dra-
matte show which the average audi
tor would never guess.
If, however, he was of an 1nvesti-
eating turn of mind and happened to
be around the stag door during the
engagement he would come across
a clue that might lead to a detection
of the mystery. He might catch the
stage doorman sign for one gross
bottles of perfume, rare and costly
and obviously not intended Tor the
doorman's personal use.
What becomes of it? Here is the ex-
planation.
One of the exquisitely beautiful
scenes of the new Music Box Revue"
is called AN Orange Grove in Cali
fornia." 1t was. perhaps, more talked
about during the years run in New
York than any other number First.
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Gayety-"Best Show in

Brandell and Travers' Best Show
in Town" book ed for the Gayety The
ater this week, opening this after
noon, is credited with being one of
the best in Columbia Burlesque.
There are two acts and twelve novel
scenes, one in which the audience is
shown the construction of a bungalow
built by the members of the chorus,
another a mammoth purse which
opens allowing the chorus girls to
issue forth garbed in appropriate
gowns, and still another, the same
girls in colorfu1 costumes of various
nations singing folk songs and dane
ing native stepa.
Frank Hunter is the star comedian
lConinued on Second Pagel
Evening star., 1924-10-26

tions, the American comedy by Lau-
renee Eyre, "a Steam Roller" only
added a tremor Of trepidation. A. H.
Woods has ruthlessly sacrificed
splendid abilities in casting the play.
Bruce McRae, beau ideal of suave,
instructive chivalry, comes danger
ously near being figure of COM
monplace middle age. The title role,
depicting lady of overwhelming de-
/ termination, merely serves to remind
the observer of all the disagreeable
women he ever knew, all rolled into
one. The delineation is uncompro-
misingly brusque, with no hint of the
delicate subtleties by which reso-
lutte feminine will of higher type as
serts itself.
The lengthy stay of "The Ten
Commandments" together with the
| earnest assurances of the chambers
of commerce and realtors associa-
tions relating to the, growth of
Washington, should soon dispense
| with the zone week only" label with
which most of the shows modestly
present themselves. The present
system of theatrical bookings is
based on the statistics of 20 years
ago. Since then there has been time
for Rip Van Wrinkle doze Wake
up, oh, Abe Dillingham; and Charlie
Erlanger and Morris Belasco and
Dave Gest and Arthur Shubert and
Jake Hopkins and the rest of you
who have merged your identities into
commercial insignifcance which
makes one name sound like another
wake up and realize that the Capi-
tai of the U. S. A., no longer to be
classed with Stamford and Scranton,
offers welcome and reward for the
best you can offer.
The legitimate drama will assert
itself in competition with the films
as a vehicle for classical themes
when Walter Hampden presents
"Cyrano de Bergerac" in this city
The big idea has turned to the
camera, and, with Shakespeare, .Ros-
/ tand is one of the few great authors
who still address US through the
spoken word
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

At the Theaters This Week
BELASCO-"Maverck comedy Opens
POITS-The Potters,' comedy. Opens this evening.
NATIONAI"The Ten Commandments, phooplay Shown this
afternoon and evening.
KEITHS-Aice Brady, vaudeville Opens this afternoon.
STRAND Jack Wilson, vaudeville. Opens this afternoon
GAYETYIhe Best Show in Town. Opens
MUTUAL"The French Froc burlesque Opens
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-23
SAYS AMERICAN JEWS
FLOCK TO PALESTINE
Chairman of Zionist Organization
Declares Many Colonies
Are Established

JERUSALEM, November 80 (Jewish
TeleGraphic Agency Jews
are arriving in Palestine in increas
ing numbers, to settle in the country.
This was the impression Of Louis
Lipsky. chairman Of the Zionist Or
ganiZation of America. who has just
concluded his first visit to Palestine.
Many new colonies have been es-
tablished by the Palestine Foundation
Fund, and it Is the conclusion of Mr..
Lipsky that the whole country can be
reclaimed by the system of co-opera-
tive colonization, as well as indi-
vidual ownership.
g. Palestine is now prepared for in
tensive colonization, and it is the in
tentton of Mr.. Lipsky, who left for
London today on his way to New
York, to urge the leaders of the
American emergency committee on
Jewish refugees to direct the refu-
gees to Palestine. which is at present
highly suitable for immigration. This
achievement is due TO the work of
the Palestine Foundation Fund and
the Jewish National Fund. the two
main instruments Of the Zionist or
ganization in the rebuilding of Pal
estine.