The Washington times., 1925-03-21

tion's superb perturbation Of Har
old Bell Wright's great adventure
romance, ''The Mine with the
: Iron Door," with Pat O'Malley,
Dorothy Mackaill, Robert Frazier,
Charles Murray and others in q
real all-starI cast.
GAYETY Advance estimates
have it that clean comedy and
much in the way OF comedy has
been supplied with a generous
hand in 'Step This Way" the
offering at the Gayety for the
new week beginning tomorrow
afternoon. I. B. Hamp, long a
favored comic on this circuit,
has the stellar role, impersonat.
ing Swede character. Fred
Binder is his chief support.
Other principals include AL Col
den, Arthur Young. Gertrude
Beck and the La Van. Sisters.
One of the strongest features of
this attraction is its vaudeville
flavor contributed chiefly by the
Six Rockets; song by Bernice La
Barr; singing and dancing by
Fox and Vanetta, and several
musical interludes
MUTUAL-Al Reeves, one of
the merriest minstrels in bur-
lesque. heads his own show at
the Mutual, beginning tomorrow
afternoon. Reeves has been in
the game long eonugh to have
celebrated his fortieth anniver-
sary on the stage racently at the
Prospect Theater ifl New York.
Reeves has surrounded himself
with a scintilating cast includ.
Ing: Stella Morrissey. Charles
(Bimbol Davis, Jack Ormsby,
Miss Bobby Dixon, Mark Thomp-
son, Miss Jackie Mason and Miss
bebe Montclaire. as well as an
unusually interesting chorus, six
members Of which engage in fast
and spirited boxing bouts, q real
feature of the performance.
Leo Feist and Harry Won Til.
zer have contributed most OF the
musical number for Reeves at.
traction.
PRESIDENT-The fourth week
of the sensational success, Rain
begins tomorrow night at the
President. In reality this makes
the fifth week for this success
ful drama as the first engage
ment was at the National q few
weeks prior to the productions
return to the President. The
story Of Rain" must be quite
familiar because few stage pieces
have been awarded so many
columns of precious newspaper
space as has this dramatization
of Somerset Maugham's story
since its opening in New York
two years ago. A lady Of the
evening. trying to beat back
to respectability; her persecution
by a fanatical minister, her con-
version and her recapitulation to
sin when the man she invests her
faith in, proves to be her seducer.
That's the story of Rain" and
1t Is played with tremendous force
and effect by q cast headed by
Kathryn Hayden.
COLUMBIA-aenry King, the
distinguished director who has
given the screen such film sue.
cesses as 'Tol'able David" "The
White Sister and "RomOla." has
contributed "Saclxcloth and Scar
let," the new attraction at the
Columbia commencing tomorrow.
Alice Terry is the star and sup
porting her are OrviIle Caldwell
the young Apollo and Dorothy
Sebastian, a beauty who can act
and who has demonstrated this
since her departure from the Fol-
hes and the Scapdals. A story
Of two sisters-one a headstronR
lass, impulsive and wilfull; the
other, an example OF patience
and lofty motives. The man in
the cast appeals to both. OF
particular appeal to Washington
patrons will be the sequences
calling for Washington scenes, as
come OF the action revolves about
Congress. Supplementaries IN
clude another installment Of the
Van Bibber stories with Earle
Foxe, International Newsreel Of
important world events and spe-
cial music.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Stills
and Viola Dana-it's hard to
imagine a stronger combination
for popularity-occupy the Met