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Evening star., 1925-05-03
CORNELIUS PODDY
prec1dent
Frances S Starr.

DAVID BELAs SEQ has loaned
Frances Starr temporarily to
vaudeville while he searches for a
new production in which to feature
her.
Miss Starr's most recent success
was in 'Shore Leave" a seagoing
comedy of last season, and Rose of
the Rancho The Easiest Way"
THE Secret Marie Odile," Tiger.
Tiger" and 'One" are unforgettable in
her career.
light. entertaining sketch.
"Colette." by Miss Jean Archiba Id
however, supplies her vaudeville We
hicle, and is proving most success
full.
Miss Starr says she finds vaudeville
invigorating mentally, artistically and
physically.
1T is like a road tour she declares
"and / not only have always enjoyed
touring the road. but 1 believe that
every legitimate actress should have
at least one tour a ason.
II realize that the ma jority of ac-
tresses look upon a road tryout as
they might upon a workhouSe SEN
tence. Paradise for theatrical people
lies in the vicinity of Forty-second
street and Broadway, New York, n. Y
But L find that on the road one has a
chance to become acquainted with
life from new angles. A tour accept.
ed philosophically will give an actress
a much wider perspective, such as
couldn't be acquired in half a dozen
years of metropolitan experience"
Evening star., 1925-05-03
In the Spotlight

A new firm of producers, Riskin
Brothers, have acquired The Mud
Turtle and rehearsals started last
Monday in New York. Helen Nickel
lar is TO play the leading role, and
Guthrie McClinic will direct. The
piece will open at Atlantic City
May IS.
Tea Dansante" is the title of new
revue to be sponsored by a new firm
of producers. Sacha Beaumont will
have the chief feminine part. Earle
Fox will stage the dance numbers.
Vincent Youmans is composing the
music for a Night Out" which AL
fred +. Aarons viii present in this
country in association with Edward
Lourillard, the London manager. This
play, which has been running in Lon
don for two years, will be seen here
about the first of August.
Carl Reed has been approached by
representatives of London mana gers
for the rights to the love drama, "Alo-
ma of the South Seas" However, Mr..
Reed has rejected all offers and de-
clares if the piece is ever presented in
England he will do it himself.
1t has just been announced that
Fannie Brice, the well known come
dienne, is going in for production and
may leave the stage. She has been
taken into the Charles K. Gordon firm,
which hereafter will be known as
Charles K. Gordon and Fannie Brice
Productions. Miss Brice owns a large
slice of rs Eat So.' and the new play.
The Brown Derby" soon TO be
brought out.
Mordecai Gorelik has been commits
stoned to provide the scenery and cos
| tunes for The Subway by Elmer
Rice, which will be produced next
| Fall by Miss Irma kraft's new inter
national Theater. New York. Miss
| Kraft is now looking for a director for
this play.
| Bobby Heath has been the comedian
| of nearly every form of revue. those
that require an entire evening to un-
| fold and those of the thumb-nail va
riety, such are as popular in vaude-
vile. The Bobby Heath Revue at the
Earle this next week requires but 16
minutes TO unfold
A portrait of Ernest Truck as John
ny Quinlan, the character he plays in
The Fail Guy" is being painted by
Jacques Layalle, the noted French
artist. Mr.. Lavalle is preparing a
| series of paintings of representative
actors of various countries in char
acteristically national parts, and has
chosen Mr.. Truck in his present role
because both actor and part are typi-
| callV American
Evening star., 1925-05-03
National Players Leading
Man.

1T isn't often that a repertory com
pany in Washington offers a new
play each week with a resident cast,
headed by a Broadway leading man.
For the opening here of the Ma
tional Theater Players in THE Nerv-
Gus Wreck" at the National Theater,
May Is, Minor Watson will essay the
leading male role, the one played by
Otto Kruger in the original company
And it will be his duty to serve in a
like capacity for the ensuing series of
Broadway play hits to be offered to
Washingtonians during the early Sum
mer months.
Minor Watson has bfg-town repu-
tation, and is already famous. This
season he has appeared on Broadway
three times in three totally different
plays. Though they We're found want
ing and were Withdrawn after rather
short runs, Mr.. Watson received
glowing personal notices for distinct
contributions to each in purely his
trionic way.
THE Magnolia Lady''-made into a
musical affair from Come Out of the
Kitchen suffered from so many de
fects that even the charming person
ailty OF Ruth Chatterton failed to act
as a saving grace. "Mismates" failed
because of treatment of theme. AND
Two Married Men" was withdra wr
by a manager. who became irked with
the play before it's merits or dement's
were definitely established. But in al
three Minor Watson had the honor o.
! having his work commended by critics
who could denote little to praise In
| the plays themselves.
| Aside from this. Mr.. Watson has
spent number of years in success
| full runs in Philadelphia, Chicago
, Boston and San Francisco.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Ruth S prince of Wales.

play the part of the Englishman in
the musical comedy The Magnolia
Lady" in which Miss Chatterton was
starred
Mr.. Forbes and Miss Chatterton be
came acquainted during rehearsals
and then began the romance. which
ended in their marriage several weeks
later. When. ater in the season, Miss
Chatterton revived The Little Min
ister," Mr.. Forbes. of course. was
selected for her leading man, and now
he is again her leading man in
Women and Ladies'" Cosmo
Hamilton adaptation of Louis Yer
neuil's famous French comedy.
When the Prince of Wales was
visiting on Long Island last Fall. Mr.
Forbes, then playing in New York, it
is declared. was frequently mistaken
for His Highness and once, as he was
leaving the Ritz Hotel after luncheon.
| he had to be rescued by the police
| from the crowd which surrounded
| him.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
KEITH'S-Frances Starr.

Miss Frances Starr. the distin-
guished Belasco star. will make her
vaudeville debut at B. F. Keith's The
ater this week in a one-act splay.
"Colette," written by Jean Archi-
bald and staged and directed by Mr..
Belasco. This playlet. which was
first presented at the Palace Theater.
New York, is said to provide Miss
Starr three roles, thereby offering a
wide display of her histrionic ability.
Marjorie Gateson, of musical COM
edy fame, will be heard for the first
time in series of the best of her
old and new numbers, assisted at
the piano by Robert Farley.
others will be 'Ledova." with DAN
ny Dare and Rudolph Malinoff, in a
dancing revue, including the Ware
sisters, presented by George Choos
Flanagan and Edwards, who played
the original "Hallroom Boys in the
movies. and will now appear in their
laugh producer. "Off and On: Bobby
Randall, monologist, who heralds
himself as p better man than Gunga
Din; the Hasquan brothers, three
Evening star., 1925-05-03
BELASCO-Ruth Chatterton.

Ruth Chatterton will appear at the
Shubert- -Belasco Theater this week,
beginning tomorrow evening, in
Women and Ladies'" an adaptation
by Cosmo Hamilton of a French COM
edy by Louis Verneuil.
Heading the cast is Ralph Forbes.
one of England's most popular young
in America was in the imported war
play. Havoc" which was presented
in New York last season. After that
Mr.. Forbes was seen in support of
Miss Chatterton In 1.-The Magnolia
Lady and in her recent revival of
THE Little Minister" In Women
and Ladies' Mr.. Forbes again has the
leading male role, that of LIE Due de
Clichy, whose Summer villa at Nice
is the scene of the action of the play
Auriol Lee, a popular American
leading woman, is the only feminine
member beside Miss Chatterton in
the cast. She was last seen in Wash
ington in THE Merry Wives OF
Windsor" Others In the company
are Frederick Perry. Robert Rendel
Ernest Stallard and William Leith.
Women and Ladies" is in three
acts. Its central figures are LIE Duo
de Clichy and Michele. a little
peasant girl who works i'm the dues
garden, played by Miss Chatterton.
NATIONAI-"The Family Upstairs.
Sam III. Harris will present another
of his new manuscripts in 1.-THE
Family Upstairs" by Harry Delf, a.
the National Theater this week, com
mencing tomorrow evening.
The family that gives the piece its
being is described as the Hellers. al
upper Manhattan fiat life group. Ths
play is a comedy of character, ac
cording to announcements, with thu
paternal Heller, a type common L
his section; the mother, comicall,
ard-pressed matron desirious for th'
| happiness of her three offsprin--twf
grown, a youth who won't work ant
| a daughter who goes to business, thi
| third being an adolescent miss SUI
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Played Topsy and Juliet.

pOBERT WOOLSEY. comedian of
1.-The Dream Girl" has had the
unique experience of playing Topsy in
Uncle Toms Cabin" as well as Ju-
liet, in Romeo and Juliet" The lat
ter was during a tour of Australia
with q stock company.
Romeo and Juliet" was billed for
the opening night of the engagement,
but al the last minute the leading lady
was taken violently ill. and Woolsey
was the only other member of the
company who was up in Juliet s
lines. He also had the advantage of
a diminutive figure. He got away
with it alive. which, after all, was
something.
Topsy fell to his talents during a
tour of the small towns Of New Eng
land with a repertory show, and he
managed to play it a long time with.
out having the audiences discover his
sex.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

fering from the rigors of enforced
pianoforte instruction and other hard
ships that budding femininity must
endure, where parents are deslrous
that their daughters take shining
place in society.
The author of the play is said to
have lived close up to the people
and the zones he depicts.
The cast will include Ruth Nugent,
recalled for her performances in
"Kempy"; Walter Wilson. Theodore
Westman, Lillian Garrick Harold
Elliott, Enid Gray, Jerry Devine, Her
mine Shone and Clair Weldon.
The play has been staged by Sam
Forrest.
POLFS-Hassard Shorts Revue.
Hassard Shorts Ritz Revue, which
appears at Polls Theater this week
will open tonight. Il is the first IN
dependent, production to be made by
Short. who staged the first three "Mu'
sic Box Revues."
In introducing his newest OF revues
to the public. Short shows a scene IN
a boudoir, with a huge bed, whose oc
cupants are all the popular revues
One by one these appear to bow De
fore the public, and one by one they
are sent back to bed, leaving only
Miss Ritzie in possession of the stage
Charlotte Greenwood is featured
Lefty Of other days, Miss Greenwood
is well remembered in this city In
, her present role she has many songs
and sketches. OF the latter "Hel
Morning Bath in which as movie
actress she tries to make the neces
sary preparations for a perfect day
| is outstanding.
| The cast includes Hal Forde, star. OF
"Oh, Boy" and "Honeydew'';; Jimmy
Sayo, wistful clown of expressive eyes
and quaint manner; Jay Brennan and
/ Stanley Rogers, accompanied by
Marge. famous as the great absentee
from the stage: William Ladd, youns
| Juvenile: Jackie Hurlburt. new
! dancer; Dorothy Brown, prima donna
/ of last years Music Box Revue
Floyd Jones. the Cherokee lndiar
tenor; Jane Overton, Elmer Brown
| Sunshine Jarmann, Joan Franza
Ethel Allis, Helene Gardner, Jane1
Evening star., 1925-05-03
PRESIDENT-"White Cargo"

Commencing tonight at the Presi-
dent Theater, white Cargo" will
enter the last week of it's run in
Washington. Capacity audiences
have been the rule at all perform
ances, it is announced, and the play
could run on indefinitely if a further
extension of time could be arranged.
Booking contracts, however, are such
that White Cargo" must close it's
engagement in this city next Saturday
night.
The players of the white Cargo"
company all have been accorded
praise by critics for their excellent
work, especially Cornelius Roddy in
the part of Witzel.
The last week of white Cargo
promises to be a gala week. Monday
night many members of the League
of American Pen Women will be pres
ent to honor the writer of the play,
Miss Ida Vera Simonton, who is now
in the city attending their convention.
The seat scale for the last week has
been materially reduced, the evening
performances to range from 30 cents
to $3.50. At the matinee Thursday
all seats will be SO cents, and at the
Saturday matinee SO and Is cents.
This is the first time that White
Cargo" has ever been played at these
prices
Evening star., 1925-05-03

4 LTHOUGH the Prince of Wales is
many thousands of miles away,
Washington is promised in the near
future an intimate glimpse of what
His Royal Highness might look like
if he were really seen on the streets
of Washington.
1t won't really be the Prince of
Wales. but a young man who so
closely resembles him in stature,
mannerisms and facial expression that
he has many times been mistaken for
Englands heir, even in the heart of
London.
The young mans name is Ralph
Forbes. leading man, and, incidentally,
the husband of Ruth Chatterton. Mr.
Forbes has been in America less than
a year. He came over here last Fan
to play the leading role in the i'm
ported war play Havoc" which ran
an entire season at the Haymarket
Theater in London. When Havoc"
closed, Mr.. Forbes was engaged to
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Winters and Grace Robinson, with a
gay chorus of girls and boys.
Those who contributed songs, lyrics
and sketches are Martin Broones,
Frank Tours. w. FRANKIE Harling, Jay
Gorney, Kenneth Webb. Roy Webb,
Werner Jansen. H. NJ. Tennent,
Norma Mitchell, Ralph Bunker, Anne
Caldwell and Harold Atteridge.
There are several spectacular scenes,
such as 1.-The Sun Girl" THE Crystal
Wedding Monsieur Beaucaire" and
1.-The Red Ladies' There are two
ballets, "Springtime" and "A Midsum-
mer Nights Dream Augustus Bar
ratt, composer of several musical
comedies, leads the orchestra.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Carroll $ Next.

EARL CARROLL'S first production
for the new season will be an in.
innate revue called who Cares?" II
is issscheduled to open in New York in
June for Summer run. Bernard Lob
muller. art director for Mr.. Carroll
has completed the designs for the prin
cipal scenes. Max Welde. the French
costumer. has designed the wardrobe
No announcement has been made as
TO the authors, or the names OF the
principal players.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Maddock's 1.-The Rest Cure" and the
Casting Campbells.
Al Christfe's stop Flirting" with
Wanda Hawley featured, is said to
be a delightful comedy photoplay.
The added features. which have
grown to be part of the Earle pro-
gram, include Floyde Wheeler's Or
chestia. which will be heard in two
numbers: Arthur Flagel Offering
"F'lagellisms'' at the organ. the news
reel and a short comedy.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Ann Suter.

INN SUTER is coming home for a
week, and while here will enter.
tain the patrons Of the new Earle.
Miss Suter, who Is the daughter OF
a prominent Washington physician
can sing much better than most sing.
ing soubrettes, but her singing Is but
the smallest part of her success. It is
her knowledge of showmanship that
has put her where she is today.
Miss Suter calls herself the Cir
with the Southern Personality She
has enough pep and ginger, wivacity
and animation to supply Virginia and
several other States besides.
Evening star., 1925-05-03
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

BELASCO-Ruth Chaerton, Women and Ladies" comedy
evening.
NATIONAI-"The Family Upstairs comedy. Opens tomorrow
evening.
POLTS-Hassard Shorts Revue. Opens this evening
PRESIDENTWhite Cargo drama Performance this evening
KEITHS-Frances Starr. vaudeville Opens this afternoon
vaudeville Opens this afternoon
STRAND-First alsar b vaudeville Opens this afternoon
GAYETY-"Go It," burlesque. Opens this afternoon.
MUTUA-The Meymakers buresque Opens this afternoon
Evening star., 1925-05-03
sTRAND-First "AIIstar Bill."

The Strand Theater announces that
beginning today the first all-star bill
of the season will be presented this
week.
Forrest S. Chiffon will present his
musical skit of domestic lottery, en-
titled Ideals" as one of the ma ior
features. Warren Warren, Frank Du
Fra ne, Dorothy Byrne and Elsie Chill
ton appear in the cast.
Ward and Bohlman. described as
the chaps with the aristocratic
walk, in After the Banquet" will
take prominent part in the festivi-
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Evening star., 1925-05-03

unusual athletes. in spectacular and
difficult hand balancing, somersauit-
ing and other forms of ground ara
lofty tumbling; kurtz and Gully.
better known as salt and Pepper.
who were discovered by Karyi
Norman in a Midwestern cabaret.
and the Billy Lamont Trio, live wire
steppers of 1926 with Aesop's t,a-
bies. Topics of the Day and the Pathe
News Pictorial.
EARLE-Ann Suter-Bobby Heath.
Ann Suter. a vaudevillian from
Washington, heads the Earle Theater
program this week. She styles her
self as "The Girl With the Southern
Personality" and will be heard in
new songs, which she sings I'm her
own eccentric way
Sharing headline honors Is Bobby
Heath in his revue, styled Hits and
Bits of Vaudeville"
Other offerings include Joe Rome
and Lou Gaut. in When Extremes
Meet: Bob Cook and Dot Oatman.
in "Deiineation From Sonsland" !;
James Coughlin and company. In
Evening star., 1925-05-03

"THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS" by
Harry Delf, had it's first public
performanc at Atlantic City last
week.
James Gleason will stage The
Brown Derby" new musical play
which is to be produced by Charles X.
Gordon.
o. p. Heggie and BeryI Mercer are
to appear in the Players Club revival
of "Trelawny of the Wells"
Gus Edwards, the we'll known pro-
ducer and actor. has placed in re-
hearsal a new revue called East Side,
West, Side"
Stanley Ridges will play the lead
ing role in THE Bride Retires," in
" hich Lila Lee soon will be seen. The
play previously has been known as
THE Charming Bride"
Lester Allen. who has been in the
cast of George Whites Scandals" for
several seasons, will be starred next
season in a new musical comedy by
Earl Carroll.
| Frank Conroy, Walter Kingsford
and Violet Kemble Cooper have Joined
| the cast OF Love Tor Love IN New
York, taking over the parts of David
Tearle, Walter Abel and Adrienne
Morrison.
"A Very Proper Lady" by David
Karb. has been accepted for produc-
ton by Crosby Gaige and will be given
trial presentation by Robert Nc
| Laughlin's stock company in Cleve-
| land this Summer. Ruth Gordon will
| play the leading role.
! Helen Gahagan will play the lead,
/ ing role in The Straight Shooter,
/ bv Winchell Smith and George Alb
bott which will be produced for a
brief tryout by John Golden next
| month.
Sophie Treadwell is to produce her
play of the life of Edgar Allan Poe
entitled Poe" next Fall, according to
announcement in New York last week
H. B. Warner closed his season in
E"Silence" last night in New York. He
is to tour the country in this play next
season.
Lester Lonergan, well known actor
stage manager, is to direct the produc
ton of Trouble Island" for Kilbourr
Gordon.
| Philip Barrison of the cast of Pigs
is writing a musical version of this
comedy. 1t is to be presented at q
private performance after the plays
300th performance in New York.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

o. p. Heggie and Berry, Mercer are
to appear in the Players Club revival
of "Trelawny of the Wells.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Lester Lonergan, well known actor
stage manager, is to direct the produc
ton of Trouble Island" for Kilbourr
Gordon.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

James Gleason will stage The
Brown Derby" a new musical play
which is to be produced by Charles X.
Gordon.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

H. B. Warner closed his season in
L"Silence" last night in New York. He
is to tour the country in this play next
season.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

tTHE FAMILY UPSTAIRS" by
Harry Delf, had its first public
performance at Atlantic City last
week.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Philip Barrison of the cast of Pigs
is writing a musical version of this
comedy. 1t is to be presented at a
private performance after the play
3O0th performance in New York.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Sophie Treadwell is to produce her
play of the life of Edgar Allan Poe,
entitled Poe" next Fall, according to
announcement in New York last week.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Gus Edwards. the we'll known pro-
ducer and actor. has placed in re-
hearsal a new revue called East Side,
West Side"
Evening star., 1925-05-03

Helen Gahagan will play the lead
ing role in The Straight Shooter" :"
by Winchell Smith and George Alb
bott. which will be produced for a
brief tryout by John Golden next
month.
Evening star., 1925-05-03

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Evening star., 1925-05-03

Stanley Ridges will play the lead
ing role in THE Bride Retires," in
" hich Lila Lee soon will be seen. The
play previously has been known as
THE Charming Bride
Evening star., 1925-10-10
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