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Evening star., 1924-12-07
Gayety-Mollie Williams

The Gayety Theater this week
promises rare treat in the Offering
of Mollie Williams and Her Snappy
Revue, in the hope of tempting fur
ther feminine patronage.
This year Miss Williams is Offering
an unusually large show of % scenes
and multitude of exquisite cos
tunes, with musical equipment of
20 catchy numbers William K. Wells
is the author OF the lyrics set to
music by Malvin Franklin. Mr.. Wells
also wrote the book for comedy and
speed and Francis Weldon, producer
of many Shubert revues, staged the
show.
Under the personal direction Of Miss
Williams, who heads her own COM
pany, assisted by Fred Harper, prin-
cipal comedian; Bobby Wilson, Bebe
Almond, the soubrette; Ray King,
straight man; Morton and Mayo, char
acter actors; John Mack, dramatic
man; Lillian Pearl, a. singer of blues,
and Ella Corbett, ingenue.
The dramatic offering is called ''The
Slave Dealer" promising 20 minutes
of exciting and sensational drama
Mail Girl" special incident which
scored last year, but different this
season. will be given also.
Evening star., 1924-12-07

tion and the fatness' OF the parts
finally reacted against the plays
popularity. There are records OF
those who decried the passing OF
Richard Burbage. the first Hamlet.
and maintained the play would never
be acted as well. That sort of thing
continued down through the heydays
of David Garrick and Edwin Booth.
And by this method a traditional
Shakespeare has been built up that is
far from the original conception.
Each actor strove to pile more thun-
dering voice on the character he
played and to recite his lines in
more operate fashion.
"A young actor who dreams Of
some day bringing patrons to his the
ater to see Shakespeare because they
find it entertaining and comprehen-
sible is faced with the problem OF
convincing the established audience
of Shakespeare patrons, who have
learned to love the sound and oratory
and ignore the plot because they are
so familiar with it.
Shakespeare was one of the first
scenarists, and if Romeo and Juliet
and 'Othello' could be renamed Loves
Moment or 'Smothered Wives they
would make the best of movies
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Poll s. Betty Lee.

Betty Lee" the musical comedy at
Polls Theater this week, beginning
this evening, has the distinction Of
being a musical comedy that has a
real story. Otto Harbach has based
the story of Betty Lee" upon the
play Going Some" which was writ
ten and produced by Paul Armstrong
and Rex Beach, and was, in fact.
founded on the famous novelist's yarn
of the same name.
1t has a Southern California locale
the home of a well-to-do rancher,
whose cowboys have been inveigled
into putting their principal treasure,
a phonograph. as a stake in a foot
race. Their champion had lost their
all. wallingford Speed, college cheer
leader, then appears. Smitten with
the charms of Betty Lee, Speed finds
himself in the position of being
forced to run race with the opposi-
tion champion, despite the fact that
he knows he Is nothing but a yell
err" with no other claim to athletic
prowess.
Joe E. Brown, last seen as fea-
tured comic in the Greenwich Village
Follies, is Speeds trainer" while
Gloria Foy, late star of up She
Goes" has the name role of Betty
Lee. There is a large and talented
company and a lively dancing chorus
of 40.
Irving Caesar wrote the lyrics
with Mr.. Harbach Louis Hirsch and
Con Conrad are responsible for the
music. The dances and ensembles
have been staged by David Bennett,
and the production, under the spon-
sorship of Rufus lie Marie, is said to
be gorgeously mounted.
Evening star., 1924-12-07

Herne could not pay. so Belasco beat
his way back to his family in San
Francisco.
When % he was made stage man
ager of the Madison Square Theater,
in New York, but conditions wers
unpleasant and he resigned.
Later he was appointed stage man
ager at the Lyceum Theater. He
taught Mrs. Leslie Carter and re-
hearsed her in "The Ugly Duckling."
The theater directors stopped her re-
hearsals and he resigned. Her tour
closed in Chicago, and he was left in
debt and out of work. A long search
found a producer for his Heart OF
Maryland" with Mrs. Carter as the
star. The opening in Washington
and Baltimore was a failure, money
was borrowed to get to New York,
and there the production succeeded,
running for two years.
Then followed the successes OF
Blanche Bates and David Warfeld
and many other stars and a great
number of his plays. Today he is
considered the dean Of American writ
ers and producers and is respected
as one OF the great men in the the
atrical world.
Evening star., 1924-12-07

you do what you choose. In small
town you do what public opinion
tells you that you ought TO choose.
''In my opinion. this provides the
motion picture industry with the
only kind of censorship that can ever
be effective. Official censorship by
appointed boards of review has been
called unconstitutional. un-American
and a lot of other things. 1t is
quite likely that this is true. The
main objection to censorship, in my
opinion, however, is that it is i'm
practical. No board of officials can
be selected to tell folks what they
ought to think. Leave them alone
and they will do their own thinking.
Take it by and large, the public
opinion of any American community
is sound and right-where it has
chance to function. And it functions
to the limit in the little town.
Every one connected with pictures
realizes that the theaters in the big
cities are more or less show win
dows for the display of our wares
to theater owners in smaller com
munities. The real profits of all pro-
ducers come from the sticks"
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Belasco Thurston,
Magician.

Thurston, magician and illusionist,
comes to the Shubert-Belasco Theater
tomorrow evening for one week with
matinees Wednesday and Saturday,
on his nineteenth annual engagement
in this city.
In the performance of Thurston, 1t
is announced, one can. see all Herr
mann and Keller, masters of magic,
did, and a great deal in addition that
is infinitely more battling. Thurston
provides many novelties that are not
only mysterious, but uncanny in
character, such as those which deal
with the after-world, where ghosts
! and spirits dwell.
Thurston promises new produc-
ton, abounding in gorgeous scenes,
which furnish background for many
beautiful girls who lend charm to the
performance. The program is large
and varied, including the greatest il
lusion ever built-the vanishing of
Beauty" Thurston's snow-white
Arab horse, while standing on a
swinging platform on a fully lighted
stage; the phantom Princess" who
floats here and there over the stage
to the orchestra and then disappears
into nothingness, and 1.-THE Mystic
Follies," in which five pretty girls
are used who leave the audience in
a quandary as to just what has be-
! come OF them.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Makes Faces at Himself.

TOE E. BROWN, the acrobatic CO.
- median, who has made millions
laugh, and who Is coming to the Poll
Theater in Otto Rarbach's musical
comedy, Betty Lee" is deep stu
dent of the psychology of laughter. In
every city he visits he haunts the
public libraries hoping to find some
new book or ancient print that will
give him new ideas on the psychology
of making people laugh.
If you should happen to see a
smartly dressed young man on F
street making faces at himself at a
mirror in a furniture store don't be-
come unduly excited and call a cop.
For Joe Brown loves to mingle with
the crowds and carries a small hand
mirror with him in his never-endtng
search for new facial contortions that
make his audiences roar with hearty
laughter. And If you should happen
to see a big -mouthed young man
arguing with a traffic cop you will
know that Joe has found another
comedy type" he is studying. Joe
first makes his subjects mad and then
gets 'em laughing.
Joe had to give up shaving himself
because he would forget the hirsute
growth, the waiting breakfast and
the patient Mrs. Joe, who finally told
Hlm tnaI sne ndd loSt -FOUR perfectly
good maids because he delayed their
meals by making faces at himself in
the mirror Joe retorted that if he
didn't make faces at himself to get
some new laughs neither one of them
would be able to eat.
Joe says this is the age of psych-
ology, but the science of laughter Is
one art not yet extensively taken up
by our big universities. although he
smilingly admits he gets many good
laughs from some of the high-brow
professors Of the colleges. He holds
the degree of c. L. G., meaning
champion laugh getter. which was
awarded to him in the old school of
experience, and he has done pretty
well as the foreman OF the fun foun-
cry before the footlights.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Burton Holmes, Today.

THE Italian Alps" the third
Travelogue of the Burton Holmes Sc
ries at the National Theater this aft
ernoon and evening, reaches to the
heart of an Italian Switzerland, in
Guiding some OF the most glorious of
Alpine scenery as found by Mr..
Holmes last Summer in Italy. A
photo journey through the pictur-
esque mountain regions of Northern
Italy. includes famous mountains and
passes from newly discovered and un-
familiar points of view, and the re-
verse side of the Swiss Alps as seen
from Italy, brings a new thrill.
Mr.. Holmes colored stiil-views also
are of surprising beauty, while a
large number of motion pictures re-
late to Winter sports and the ascent
Of the Matterhorn by aeroplane.
The lectures are given this after
noon at $3.50 and again this evening
at $50.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Shakespeare Society To-
morrow.

The Shakespeare Society is pre-
senting King John" tomorrow and
Tuesday evening in Emerson Assem-
| bly, OF All Souls Church. This is the
seventh play in its repertoire.
king John" is one of the plays
of Shakespeare that professional COM
panies avoid because of the large
number of actors required and the
complicated plots. The society's
| method is Ito play in curtains" con-
! centrating of the main theme. The
| themes used are the stories of King
John and Prince Arthur and of Philip
! the Bastard
| King John is played by James Otis
| Porter; 12year- old Prince Arthur by
Ada Louise Townsend, and Constance
Arthur's mother, by Mabel Owens
| Wilcox.
Philip is the unifying character of
the play, and his caustic humor and
irony furnish the lighter spots He
typifies the English race and speaks
for the English heart. Philip is
| played by Walter W. Beck.
Others are: King Philip, John
McInerney: Dauphin. Emmett lie
COMPETE: Cardinal Randulph, Leslie
Waudby; ChattiIon, Fulton Lewis;
Duke of Austria, T. w. Harvey
| Prince Henry, Mortimer Morehouse
| Queen Elinor, Sarah Morrison Smith
Lady Blanch, Lulu G. Adams; Hubert
William e. Bryant; Earl of Pembroke
| Theodore Tenley; Robert Faulken-
bridge, c. Z. Ruebsam; Citizen of An
| giers, E. NJ. Monroe. At the meeting
| of the French and English kings be-
fore Anglers the drummer is Wayne
| Read: the trumpeter, Arlen Stephens
| and the chimes of Anglers will be
! played by Z. B. Donnell.
| Medieval costumes and chain armor
| will give the atmosphere of the thir-
| teenth century.
The condensed arrangement of the
play was made by Mabel Owens Will
| COX.
Walter W. Beck is the dramatic di-
rector
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Wardman Park. The New
York Idea"

The New York Idea" continues
at the Wardman Park Theater for a
second week, beginning Tuesday
night. 1t is a comedy of manners,
portrayal of the easy road to di-
vorce.
Cynthis Karslake, a fascinating d.
vorcee, is played by Josephine Hutch
inson, with Leona Roberts appear
ing as her rival the likewise di-
vorced Mrs. Phillimore. Albert Parr
is excellent as the august judge Phil
ip Phillimore, and Ranald Savery as
Jack Karslake: Richard Elwell, as
Sir Wflfred Cates-Darby, and Robe TT
Bell. as the worldly Clergyman, are
all well cast.
Others appearing are Anne Ives, as
Mrs. Phillimore; Ruth Harrison, as
Grace Phillimore; Honey Campbell,
as Miss Heneage: Paul Messink, Ruth
Russell. Roy Hare, Vinton Haworth
and Arthur J. Rhodes, as Tim Fiddler,
the horse trainer.
James Reynolds has provided the
settings, which have been executed
by Robert Byrne. The production is
staged under the direction of Richard
ElWell
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Keith s-Grace La Rue.

Grace La Rue, golden throated
songstress," who returned from Lon
don during the past Summer, will
headline the bill at B. F. Keith's
Theater this week She returns with
a new program of song hits and her
old style OF putting them over" She
Will appear twice on the bill, offer her
single act, appearing with Hale Ham
ilton in a new sketch, MT. and Mrs.
Mason" by Vincent Laurence, author
of Dangerous Advice"
A. Robins. known as "The walking
Music Store" will return with humor-
Gus limitations of almost every musi-
cal instrument known. Others will
include Charles O'Donnell and Ethel
Blair. late of the "Follies," in a new
skit. THE Plasterers": Andre de
Prang, violinist, and son Of the former
Princess Barstoff and A. De Prang,
Russian imperial counselor of state.
The Jansleys, risely equilibrists; the
Griffin Twins in picturesque, unusual
number and Mile. Lucille's remark
able cockatoo, Cookie" with Aesop's
Fables: Topics of the Day and the
Pathe News.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Unpopular Shakespeare.

4 NY young man who contemplates
"A setting up in the business of
Shakespearean acting has a rough
road ahead of him." says Fritz Lei
Der, in the Kansas City Star.
Patrons have been driven from
Shakespeare playhouse by the high
brows, and it is going to be long,
hard struggle to induce them to come
back. When the Bard of Avon pack
ed the pit of the Swan he had no
highbrow reputation, and the roister-
ing audience would not have been
there had he possessed one. They
came because they saw what they
considered good shows.
Shakespeare made a fortune from
his plays because he was Snowman.
1 am convinced that in The Tanning
of the Shrew' there are local wise
cracks such as vaudevillians put into
their skits today. The 'Shrew' prob
ably was produced by the A. H.
Woods of the writer's day, and / have
no doubt were Shakespeare alive to-
day Mr.. Woods could obtain from his
pen a rollicking farce in the most
modern manner. Shakespeare was
always the business man.
THE greatness of the plays as lit
erary works, the beauty OF the die
Evening star., 1924-12-07
National-'Ladies of the
Evening.

A Belasco premiere is the important
announcement made for the National
Theater this week. David Belasco
will present Ladies of the Evening"
a new play by Billion Herbert Crop
per. The premiere here will imme-
diately precede the New York engage
ment, which Is scheduled for the holi-
days. The time OF opening here.
however, is withheld
While it is Mr.. Belasco's policy to
divulge little in advance concerning
a new production. it may be said that
Ia dies of the Evening" is play of
today and concerns itself with time
ly subject treated in an unusually
interesting manner.
The company selected by Mr.. Be
lasco to appear in Ladies of the
Evening" embraces James Kirkwood,
Robert f. O'Connor. Vernon Steele.
H Dudley Hawley, John Carmody,
Bernard J McOwen. Thomas Rey-
nolds. Jose Yovin. Beth Merrill Edna
Hibbard, Kay Strozzi. Allyn Gillyn.
The play will be produced under
the personal direction Of Mr.. Belasco,
who will be here for the premiere
and all the subsequent performances.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Small Towns and Risque
Shows.
Shows.

THE drama of suggestiveness and
innuendo hasn't long to live. ac-
cordinG to Mack Sennett, the comedy
producer.
Many of these dramas made with
wink and a shrug." says Sennett.
ARE based on a MISUNDERSTANDING of
American life and American opinion.
In large degree they are made by
men OF genius who have come here
from Europe without a fair chance
of knowing where the heart of Amer
ica is located.
They will discover that the big
cities are not the test of American
opinion. The real acid test of what
America thinks-the real gauge of
our prejudices-is in the small towns.
"A great national advertising
agency, in feeling out public opiu-
ion. regards Des Moines, Iowa, as the
sample of what. America thinks. Per
sonally 1 should say a smaller city
or town would be a more accurate
criterion. This is parrcularly true
concerning the prosperity of a sug-
gestive or risque play.
People in small towns are ruled
by public opinion. In a large city
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Had Belasco Weakened.

DAVID BELASCO was born in what
was practically a cellar in San
Francisco. He was years old when
given a part by Charles Kean, but
forgot his lines and spoiled a big
scene. He attended school in Victo-
ria. B. c., then a monastery, and ran
away from it to join a circus, where
he became a bareback rider and min
iature clown. Taken i'll. he was left
in a country town until his father
found him.
When 16 he recited in San Fran
cisco saloons and passed the hat.
Given small part in a theater, he
was recognized by companions in the
gallery, and they made such a DEM
onstration that the star had him dis
charged. Then he became a hick
writer of melodrama, a vagabond act
or, a peddler at fairs, secretary to
actors, call boy, super" and finally a
stage manager.
A benefit gave him $4,000, and with
James A. Herne he started out with
Hearts of Oak" went broke, made
the play succeed in a Chicago beer
garden hall, then in New York, and
sold his interest to Herne for S1,500.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Realism In Seven Arts. IS

Starry Young of the New York
Times will lecture in the auditorium
of the Central High School, under the
auspices of the Washington Society
of the Fine Arts, Thursday evening
at Sis o'clock. His subject will be
Realism in Seven Arts" Mr.. Young
is southerner by birth, and has held
instructorships in several colleges
Lately he was professor OF English
at Amherst, which position he re-
signed in 1929. He has written a play
or two and is associate editor of the
Theater Arts Magazine.
This is. the second lecture in a
course on literature.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Janet Richards, Tomorrow.

In her talk on Public Questions
Home and Foreign" tomorrow morn
ing at l0:45 o'clock, in the auditorium
of the New Masonic Temple, Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue,
Miss Janet Richards will review the
Presidents message to Congress, and
will give some Of the pros and cons
on the proposed child labor amend
ment to the Constitution, in addition
to the usual weekly survey Of i'm
portant world events.
Wednesday evening, December 10,
at o'clock, she will talk on Europe
as I Found 1t in 1924 in the Church
of Our Father, Thirteenth and L
streets
Evening star., 1924-12-07

Rosalie Stewart, who is sponsoring
''The Show-Off," is said to be having
a profitable season, in spite of the
fact that this comedy did not go so
well in London. Three companies
headed by Mary Boland, Mabel
Brownwell and Virginia Zolman, are
all doing good business in the South
and West.
Evening star., 1924-12-07

containing many novelties, plenty of
jazz and Lee Hickman is the featured
comedian. The chorus comprises 20
pretty girls, who can sing and dance
The cast includes Harry Harrigan
Mile Valeska, Viola Spaeth, Grace
fremont, Tom Faircloug and Jim
Waters,
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Mutual Maids From
Merrvland"

maids from Merryland," the latest
example Of the girl and music type Of
entertainment, is promised at the
Mutual Theater this week, commence
ing with a matinee today.
It is an offering of the revue type,
Evening star., 1924-12-07

by the local connoisseur as merely
one of those "road shows" AS so
often happens, the laugh quest found
it's most abundant reward where re-
ward was least expected.
Evening star., 1924-12-07
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

1T the Iheaters Ihls WEEK
NATlONAL-'Iadies OF the Evening" Belasco comedy.
POITS-"Bey Lee musical comedy. Opens this
BELASCO-Thurston, magician Opens evening
WARDMAN PARK-"The New York Idea" comedy Opens
day evening.
KEITHSGace La Rue, vaudeville Opens this
STRAND-Arturo Bernardo, vaudeville
GAYETYMoie Williams Revue burlesque
MUTUAI-Maids Merryland burlesque
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