The Washington times., 1925-09-02
GUESSINGGAME
TO FEATURE
NEW PLAY
Audience Will Want to
Know Who's Who in
Political Drama
By JEAN ELIOT

when Augustus Thomas play,
Still Waters" is produced next
Monday evening at the Belasco
Theater. For-whisper tit has
leaked out that many Of the char
acters OF this play OF political life
in. the Capital are by way OF being
portraits of real personages.
We are being invited to meet
the Senator, who is, gather, the
central figure of the drama, his
fiaficee, a beautiful young d.
yorcee"-coHfessed by the author
to be drawn from life-the British
embassy attache. the fashionable
bootlegger, the Canon-in whom ~
personifiCd the element which is
determined on rigid enforcement OF
the Blue Laws-and many other
familiar figures. They are all IL
volved in q playa melodrama pre-
n11n,ably--in which an effort TO
hIacln1aiI the Senator into backing
= huge appropriation for prohibi'
fion enforcement furnishes the key
note Of the plot. And what q
guessing game there viii be as
fhe drama unfolds and those who
know their Washington begin TO
recognize the types-or to tnlnk
Not only is Augustus Thomas q
master Of stage craft, but he knows
washington and he has nimseI
been no small power In politics.
consequently the play should have
considerable punch. especially here
on its home ground. The scenes
are ali laid in q room in the Senate
Office Building.
Those who have had a prelimi.
nary glimpse Of the play describe
IL a. q hard.hitting, straight-from-
the-shoulder protest agatnsts plue
laws and the pass to hich-accord-
ing to the playwright-they are
bringing the United States. A num-
her OF soIons are interested In the
production and Congressman Jonn
Phiilp HfIl is said to be tremen-
dousiy enthusiastic over It.
National Also Promises Gals
Opening On Monday Night
since the presentation Of still
waters on Monday evening marks
the opening OF the autumn tneatrl-
al season. and since the play has
This special interest for us here, II
Is safe to predict that there WIN pe
e. the National Theater. which
win also have it's formal, opening
on Monday evening, there WIZ pc an
attraction which bears the MADE
in England trade mark. Tne pay
Il Noel Coward's THE Vortex
which has the seal Of London's ap-
prevail and which Is written by Z
Young man whom all the American
critics are watching with lnIerest
a. the most original and brilliant
OF the newer British playWr1gn
THE Vortex" was first put s.oIlsae
the Everyman Theater someWnere
on the. outskirts Of London, where
princess Bibesooss play, the
painted Swan. !" was afterward pre-.
sfnted. and for weeks the little play.
house was crowded despite the long
and depressing journey into the
s'country' which was necessary.
Although interest in the new sea-
son is keen. playgoers in Washing
ton are loyal to the stock company
Al the National which has provided
"a much excellent entertainment
through the summer and every night
during this, their last week. tns
rllavhouse has been crowded and the
players have been accorded an ova'
ton individually and collectively.
ARGENTINE ENVOY
HAS GUESTS
The Ambassador Of Argentine
and Nine. Pueyrredon will reach
town tonight from New YORK,
where they went to meet their
son-in.Iaw and daughter, NJ. ana
Mn7e. Juan Carlos Lurc. who ar
rived yesterday in New York from
Buenos Aires. They will be &C.
companied by their guests and by
their daughters. Miles. Pueyrrdon.
The Ambassador and Nine. Pueyre.
don and their daughters have re-
Gently completed a stay of sew.
eral weeks at Newport. 49,
SECRETARY AND MRS. JAR
DINE HAVE YOUNG GUEST
Mrs. Jardine, wife of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, who Joined the
Secretary at the Mayflower on Tues.
day. was accompanied by her neice,
Miss Rita Hume, of Manhattan,
Kans.. as we'll as by her two little
daughters. Miss Hume will spend
the winter with Secretary and Mrs.
Jardine.
TO RETURN TO
MOUNTAIN RESORT
The Minister Of Greece, Mr..
Simopoulos, arrived today from
there again Friday. The Minister
and Nine. -Simopoulos, who have q
cottage there for the summer, will
not come to Washington permanent.
~ until the end of September.
n
The Minister Of Colombia, Doc
tor Enrique Olaya, has again joined
Mime. Olaya in Deal, N. j.. where
they will remain until the latter
part Of September. when they will
return to Washington.
DIPLOMAT RETURNS
FROM SOUTHERN VISIT
Frederic Nano. charge d'affaires
Of Rumania, returned TO Warrington
today after a brief visit with the
Hon. and Mrs. John Francis Am.
herst Cecil At Biltmore House. Bit.
more. ~. c.
MRS. SWANSON IN TOWN
son To ENTER COLLEGE
Senator and Mrs. Claude Swan
son have returned 10 their home
~ Washington from New York
where the Senator went TO meet
lie wife on her arrival from
abroad DuFinN her a0iouFn In