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Do Not Reflect Stage Life.

NEW YORK, December II R)-
Rehearsals, whether Of opera. musical
comedy or motion picture, are engross-
ing work, lacking the glamour that
audiences associate with stage life.
They are businesslike affairs. dur
ing which the artists and directors
apparently forget all else. Even
noises Of mechanical activities that
give the stage the appearance OF a
workshop are little needed. except In
the opera rehearsal, when ears are
attuned to musical notes that must be
faithfully executed.
Visitors are distracting and there
fore barred. But here Is an idea
of what takes place.
In the center Of stage a comedian
Is going through his business" Sud
denly a cue Is given and a young man
starts pounding a melody out of a
piano. A dozen girls in working
clothes-dresses, bathing suits or cos.
tunes that look like rompers-dance
onto the stage, followed by the chorus
men, automatically smiling, and begin
singing. Soon the music stops. the
chorus smiles its way out and the
comedian picks up his antics and pat
ter where he left of.
It is a musical comedy company
hard at work. The members of the
cast are seriously alert while they are
are on the stage, but when awaiting
their turn in the wings they appear
bored.
Property men and mechanics mean.
while are moving scenery and ham
nnering away at some bit OF carpentry.
The few who asp intent upon the re-
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What Price Glory
Coming

NEW YORK has taken to the
motion picture Of What Price
Glory" Just as 1t did to the play. Pro-
duced with a fine cast by Fox and
directed by Raoul Walsh, it jumped
right into the lead OF show business
and Is in for an indefinite stay at the
Sam H. Harris Theater.
Road companies are being organized
and 1t will be seen in Washington
after the holidays. It will come here
as a regular theatrical organization,
with enlarged orchestra. stage crews
and all the effect and auxiliaries that
go to making up the presentation of
q master picture.
In the filming of What Price
Glory" the director has made grim
war his background and thrown
against it in high and hilarious COM
edy all of the play and humor that
came to the men along with the hard
ships and CRIME of the soldier. It is
crowded with laughs and thrills and
the love interest has been made ap-
pealing with more sentiment than in
the play.sVictor McLeaglen IL Capt.
Flagg and Edmund Lowe the Sergt.
Quirt, while Dolores del Rio gives
wonderfW charm to the part Of Char
maine.
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Bad Stage Diction.
BY OTIS SKINNER.

TO say that the diction Of the pres
ent generation of actors and
actresses is lamentably bad Is merely
to give utterance to recognized fact.
have recently gone on record for
the statement that the modern stage,
modern acting and the productions Of
today are equal and often superior in
thoroughness and artistic perfection
of detail to those of twenty or twenty
actors Of yesterday, 1 frankly ac-
knowledge that they were masters of
diction. They not only understood
how to use their voices, but they had,
at the same time, a metrical sense
which enabled them to carry to the
audience the full beauty of blank
verse lines.
Nowadays the stage is devoted al
most entirely to modern dramas
Blank verse plays are indeed rarities
The one point required of the actor
is that he shall appear natural-that
he shall seem on the stage what he
the street; heroics are out of place,
to elocute is the unforgiven sin.
Consequently, while we have many
actors of great talent and absolute
knowledge of technique. the speak
ing on the American stage Is about as
bad as 1t could be. Your modern
actor mumbles under his breath. his
infections are wrong; his use of his
voice ignorant and careless: your
modern actress, no matter how
clever she may be, is affected to the
last degree in her speech. The sue
cess of some women Of genius on the
stage straightway inspires a school
Of imitators, and the worst faults are
more carefully aped than the best
qualities of this idol.
Then there Is a growing tendency to
cultivate British accent. Instead of
being satisfied with our own high
standards Of pronunciation of Eng
lish words, many Of our young Amer
ican actors affect a hybrid pronuncia-
ton that Is ridiculous in the extreme.
And our actresses-particular some
of our leading women-offend even
more grievously through their willful
neglect of the rules Of pronunciation
and enunciation.
In blank verse and poetic drama
this defective elocution is absolutely
fatal The actor. who can speak
Shaheapeare's words is almost as ex-
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NATIONAL-Ziegfeld's "Betsy."

Tuesday evening, December 21,
Florenz Ziegfeld's new musical COM
edy Betsy" with Belle Baker playing
the role of Betsy Kitzel will open at
the National Theater.
The Kitzel brothers will be portray
ed by Jimmie Hussey. Ralph White.
head and Dan Healy. Others in the
cast are Allen Kearns, Evelyn Law,
Madeline Cameron, Bobby Perkins,
Barbara Newberry, AL Shean, Phil
Ryley and Vanita La Nier.
The book, based on life Of the East
Side of New York. was written by
David Freedman and Irving Caesar,
with music and lyrics by Richard
Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The pro.
duction is staged by Sammy Lee and
the dialogue by Bertram Harrison.
Betsy" is produced under the per.
sonal direction of Mr.. Ziegfeld,
Evening star., 1926-12-12

MAY BoLEY, one of the come
Ava diennes Of Miss Happiness" Is
another Washington girl who has reg.
istered a success with the big COM
panies. With Ina Claire Miss Boley
proved prize pupil under Prof.
Coruana at his dancing school on r
street near Tenth, where many Wash.
ington children attended. and from
there she made her start in the chorus.
Miss Boley chose comedy for her line
and Miss Claire the drama. Miss
Boley's first chance came while in the
chorus with Alice Nelson's THE For.
tune Teller" While playing in Mil
waukee Violet Gillette, Miss Nelson 8
leading support. was taken III, and 1t
was thought the show would have to
close. Miss Boley offered to take the
ance was a success. Miss Boley was
the first one signed by Miss Nelson
for her next sea ason's tour.
Helen Hayes, the petite star Of
What Every Woman Knows Sc
cured considerable publicity for the
start of her engagement in Boston.
Fifty men had been advertised for to
make up the mob scene in the play
and 500 applica nts responded. Many
Of the applica nts were students and.
OF course. foot ball tactics were used
to get nearest the door of the theater
on the principle of FIRST come. first
served" The result was a riot. and
over hundred policemen were called
out and thousands rushed TO the scene.
The result was a front-page story.
Miss Justine Gray. the auburn.
haired soubrette of the permanent
Nampany at the Strand. appearing in
o "Whirl Of Variety" has visited this
cry several times with the big shows.
ahe appeared as Lilly O'Day in 'The
0fnRham Girl and was quite hit at
che National in her brother-in-law's.
George w. Lederer, show, Angel
Face" Miss Gray's father was the
musical director Of the first four
Ziegfeld "Follies," which doubtless ac-
counts for Justine's early start on her
stage career.
Manager Cochran of the National
reports q big sale OF tickets for the
benefit performance of Willie Fowler q
widow tomorrow night. but says he
would like to dispose Of a couple OF
hundred more. Besides offering his
services Ctis Skinner has been a big
contributor, as has Mr.. Rapley.
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Attractions In Washington
Playhouses This Week
MUSIC AND DRAMA

NATIONAI-Ot Skinner Of the Family" romantic
drama. Tomorrow evening
POIFS-A Joson Big Boy, musical comedy This evening
BELASCO-Sam Abramovh," romantic drama Tomorrow
ming.
KEITHS-"The the Fox vaudeville This afternoon and
evening
EARLE-uan Halls Entertainers vaudeville This afternoon and
evening
STRANDThas IT, musical presentations This afternoon and
evening
AYETYBlack White Revue" This afternoon
and evening
MUTUAI-The Temptrs burlesqu evening
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tinct as the dodo. the buffalo and the
Irish wolf hound.
He had his faults, did the old-time
Shakespearean actor; he would often
tear q passion to tatters, but he had
this one virtue-he was invariably dis
tinct, his words would always be
heard and his training gave him the
power of expressing the beauties OF
blank verse.
1 recall three men who never have
been equaled on our stage for the
splendid significance and full value
they gave to the lines of Shakespeare.
They were Edwin Booth, James e.
Murdoch and E. L. Davenport. It
must not be supposed that they were
mere ocutionists-mellow, well-toned
monographs. They were not only
masters of diction, but they gave the
impress Of their personality to the
character they assumed.
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hearsal, however. are oblivious Of the
noise.
Some blocks away grand opera Is
being rehearsed under different con-
ditions. On the stage a duet is being
sung. Workmen are shifting scenery
and properties. arranging the lights
and performing other mechanical
tasks. But their movements are quiet
and the noise of their labor is muffied.
"Shhh! Shhh"' the stage director
misses and the indiscreet blows Of q
hammer cease. Then the director
turns dark look on the chorus
crowded in the wings and the under
tone OF conversation in several Ian
guages subsidies. Artistic tempera-
ment is not ruffied by any unneces.
sary disturbances.
Across the city scenes are being re-
hearsed In a motion picture studio.
A small orchestra of stringed instrs:
ments Il playing a throbbing piece.
The villain walks onto the set And
harnesses the heroine. In different
parts of the studio carpenters are
working industriously and noisily.
Just or the set are actors and extras
waiting to be called. They, too, find
1t irksome business as they talk in low
tones. read or stroll about aimlessly.
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Has the Swede $ Dialect

IRWIN B. HAMP. who tops the per-
manent aggregation appearing in
Victor Hyde's musical comedy presen-
tations at the Strand Theater, is one
OF the very few comedians who use
the Swedish dialect and do 1t well.
This is only one Of Mr.. Hemp's talents.
for besides doing clever elow-motion
dances. using funny dialects. and
creating comical costumes, he IL the
author Of all comedy dialogue which
Is used in the musical comedy presen-
tations. A
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The Biggest Star

The biggest star in pictures appears
in "Spangles," the Universal-Jewel
special.
The star is feminine, her name Is
Sultana, and she added to the already
"weighty" cast just about Ave tons,
or ten thousand pounds of flesh and
dermic hide of an elephant.
Sultana has an acting" role in the
picture, but 1t is freely predicted that
her popularity will never equal that
Of two other stars who appear-Pat
O'Malley and Miriam Nixon. "Spang-
loa'. .sas directe2spy Frank O'Connor.
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BETTY
DELMONTE:
Gsqetq
Coming Attractions.

with 10 scenes that are said to be new
and different. Victor Hyde supervised
the production and his staff includes
Leo Stevens, stage manager, and Irwin
B. Hamp, author of the comedy dia-
logue.
The three chief testers are Earl
Root, Lew Lewis and Irwin B. Hamp,
and the Follies Bergere Girls will
again be seen in snappy dance num-
bers and acrobatics.
Norma Shearer will be the screen
star in !.Upstage," in which she is
seen as a frivolous vaudeville actress.
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WILLIAM RUFUS SCOTT
Tomorrow.

High points In the Presidents mes
sage, the outstanding work Of Con-
gress, leading events elsewhere In
America and the session Of the League
Of Nations Council will be covered by
William Rufus Scott tomorrow morn
ing at IL o'clock In his weekly cur
rent events lecture at Rauscher's. The
Conference on the Cause and Cure Of
War also will be reviewed.
Evening star., 1926-12-12

A paragraph from Berlin paper, in
discussing the current production of
Wedekind's "Erdgeist" in New York,
dwells with some horror on the YER
sion which translated the tragedy as
THE Loves Of Lulu" This will ur-
doubtedly make Wedekind impossible
in America for years to come" Il
adds, sadly.
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JANET RICHARDS TOMORROW.

Miss Janet Richards will give her
usual weekly talk on public questions
tomorrow morning at 1850 o'clock
In the New Masonic Temple, Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue.
In these weekly reviews Of the
vital questions Of the hour Miss
Richards touches upon the high lights
in the worlds work for the preceding
week, clarifying many knotty ques-
tions and illustrating the geographic
settings of great events by the use
Of large maps.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
MIJTUAI-Stone and Pillard.

At the Mutual Theater next week
Stone and Pillard, comedy team, we'll
known in the musical comedy and
vaudeville fields, will be featured in
their latest burlesque attraction.
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GAYETY-'Black and White Revue" !"

Jimmie Cooper brings his BLACK
and White Revue" to the Gayety
Theater this week. opening today. with
10 players-divided equally between
white and colored. with Jimmie
Cooper in person. dispensing his line
Of sales talk" aided by Chuck Will
son.
Others in the first half are Betty
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Delmonte, prima DONNA: Mildred
Steele, soubrette: Jack Ryan. leading
man; Jack Willis, dancer. and Sandy
Ackland and his Royal Scots.
The colored folk will be led hy
Butterbeans and Susie. phonograph
recorders: the Five Crackerjacks, ath.
letic dancers. including Florence Par
ham. Octavia Summler. the Tiger
Lady from Harlem; Louisiana Gulf
port and George Brown. comedians.
and Eddie Heywood's Hot Five, in
strumentalists.
Scenes incident to the action OF the
coiored program will be Uncle Toms
Cabin" In burlesque; THE Cave OF
Innocence" and demonstrations OF the
new dancing craze, "The Harlem
Stampdown."
A special chorus Of singing and
dancing girls will appear with the
entire ensemble. and elaborate scenic
effects will be a feature.
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STRAND-"That's It."

Beginning today the Strand The
ater's permanent cast of % will ap-
pear In musical comedy entitled
That's It." produced by Victor Hyde,
with the cast headed by Irwin B.
Hamp, comedian.
Specialties will be given by Beatrice
Jameson. in solos: Earl Root and JUS
tine Gray, in comedy bits; Lew Lewis,
in slow motion dances. and Rush and
Butler. in poppy songs and dances.
The Follies Bergere Girls will intro.
duce moro snappy dances, catchy
tunes and aerial feats.
The screen attraction will be Span
gles." Nellie Revell thrilling story Of
the circus. The cast includes Marion
Nixon. Pat O'Malley. Hobart Bos-
worth, Gladys Rockwell and the en-.
tire AL q. Barnes circus, composed Of
wild animals, acrobats, lions, tigers
and clowns. The picture is said to
truly portray the thrills and glamour
Of life under the "big tops"
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KEITH'S-Eddie Leonard.

Manager Robbins announces as his
headliner at B. F. Keith's Theater for
Christmas week. beginning next Sun
day, the famous minstrel Eddie Leon
ard, who will be surrounded by his
new band of musicians, singers and
dancers.
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GAYETY-"White Cargo"

white Cargo" Lewis Talbot's
production Of Leon Gordon's gripping
drama, will be next weeks attraction
at the Gayety Theater, opening with
Sunday matinee. Christine Cooper
will have the role of the half.cast
girl. Tondeleyo. and Robert Burns will
be- seen as Witzel.
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MIrTUAL-"The Tempters."

"The Tempters" is this weeks at
traction at the Mutual Theater, begin
ming with a matinee today.
Ed Jordan. comedian, and Elsie Ray
nor, dancer, are the featured members
of the cast, which includes Babe Brad
ley, Phillis De Rita. Beth Henderson.
Art Mayfield, Leonard Kramer, Joe
Mathews and Griff Williams.
The production has 2 acts. II scenes.
IL episodes and 6 diversions, with a
chorus of 16 pretty girls.
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BURTON HOLMES Last Lecture.

Burton Holmes will offer as the final
topic In his course at the National
Theater. Thursday afternoon at 4:3o
o'clock, THE Great World Cruise" In
which he Is to take his auditor.spec-
tators zigzagging up and down both
hemispheres, touching all continents
and following the Southern Cross to
New Zealand and Australia
Leaving New York. his cruising
passengers" will stop first at Ber-
muda, thence to Havana, Panama and
several South American ports. After
a brief visit to Los Angeles the cruise
Is continued to. Hawaii and finally to
Japan. Following the visit to Japan
will come Korea. China, Philippine
Islands. New Zealand, Australia. the
Straits Settlements, India. Burma.
Egypt and Italy before returning to
New York.
Burton Holmes has been around the
world five times-always camera in
hand. Thus he Is able to present by
means of his still and motion pictures
the infinitely varied scenes which de-
light the globe trotter who makes the
great world cruise" in this new way,
Evening star., 1926-12-12
GONZAGA COLLEGE THEATER--
"a Celebrated Case"

The Dramatic Association at Con-
zaga College, Tuesday evening at Sis
o'clock, will present in the Gonzaga
College Theater a revival of the ia
nous old French play, "A Celebrated
Case" by dEpnery and Cormon, as
translated by A. r. Cacaruan.
It is a drama in a prologue and four
acts, laid in the period of the Restora-
ton In France.
Many years ago It was given q no
table presentation at the Union
Square Theater in New York, with
Charles Coghlan and Agnes Booth in
the leading roles. Later It was pre-
sented on the road, with Edward Sui
Ivan and Rose Stahl.
The present production IL sponsored
by q notable list Of patrons and pa.
tronesses, including the Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasini- -Biondi, the papal le-
gate to the United States; Archbishop
M. j. Curley Of Baltimore. Bishop DIR.
Thomas j. Shahan, rector Of the Cath
olic University Of America, and Right
Rev. Mgr. DIR. C. F. Thomas, Baron
and Baroness de Cartier de Marchi.
enne. Senators and Representatives
in Congress. with Georgetown Univer.
sity, Georgetown Preparatory School.
Notre Dame Academy and Trinity Col
lege.
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EARLE-Iottie Mayors Diving Gil

Heading the bill at the Earle
Theater next week, beginning Sun
day afternoon, will be Lottie Mayors
Diving Girls. 1t is known as the
Ballet Disappearing Act" and comes
direct from the New York Hippo
drome, where 1t has been an outA
standing feature of the bill.
The photoplay attraction will be
Priscilla Dean In West of Broad
way"
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EARLE-Julian Halls Entertainers.

Theater this week, beginning this aft
ernoon, will be Julian Halls Enter
tainers I'm a novelty revue. Addition
al vaudeville acts will include Hall
and Dexter in a novel turn. a sketch
entitled Haunted" alive with COM
edy, suspense and mystery; the East
ern Charleston Champions and Bond
and Leon in songs.
The bill will include the customary
house features with orchestral over
ture, under Floyd c. Wheeler, and
pipe organ accompaniments by Alex
ander Arons.
Wives Only" featuring Marie Provost
and John Bowers.
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STRAND-"Steppin' in Society"

The Strands permanent cast Of "a
will appear next week in syncopated
Tmusical comedy, Iteppin in Society,""
Evening star., 1926-12-12
NATIONAI-"The Honor Of the
Family"

Tomorrow night. that excellent
actor. Otis Skinner, will appear at the
National Theater in the Charles
F'rohman production Of THE Honor
Of the Family" The play IL romantic
in character, and Is ca pital vehicle
for the display of Mr.. Skinner's
talents.
Here Is a meager outline Of II: An
old bachelor. Rouget, is dominated by
his attractive housekeeper, Flora. so
entirely that she compels him to per-
NIT the presence in the house OF Max,
a young man of whom. she is enam-
ored. She is on the point OF getting
the old bachelor to make over to her
the most of his property-and she
plans to marry Max and flee to Paris
when Philippe, the bachelors nephew.
appears. He Is a Bonapartist hero,
who has served at Waterloo. Philippe
admires Flora and proposes to her
that he kill Max. while she marries
the old uncle, who has not long to
live. This Is agreed upon and Max
is slain in a duel by Phil: but Flora )
love for Max is so great that she en-
ploys a servant to assassinate Philippe.
The latter, however, Is too agile. He
slays the servant. expels Flora from
the house, and is finally the maker Of
the establishment.
Charles Frohman promises an inter
esting performance and an elaborate
production. Assisting Mrs. Skinner
are: Robert Harrison, Courtney White,
Harry Burkhardt. William /. Clark.
Wilson Reynolds, Albert Berg, Edward
Butler, William F. Granger. d. v.
Deering, Jessie Royce Landis, Eugene
Woodward and Julia Shaw.
KEITH'S-"The Bee and the Fox"
The B. F. Keith Theater bill this
week. starting this afternoon. will pre-
sent two headline attractions.
Harry Fox. popular comedian. with
Beatrice Curtis and a company OF six
attractive girls, will present THE Bee
and the Fox" written by Willie Col
lier, with Harry Gray at the piano.
Rosalie Stewart will present Renee
Robert and Jay Velie. with Violet
Bache and Louise Blackburn. in
"Terpsichore and Troubadour," with
music and lyrics by Richard Rogers
and Lorenz Hart.
other attractions will include Bobby
Folsom in STORY Songs" written by
Blanche MERRILL the Four Camerons
in Like Father Like Son.; Carr and
Parr, English eccentrics, In a dance
novelty: Charles Sargent and Burt
Lewis in Laugh Lyrics: the -Four
American Aces and Queen In a flying
exhibition and the Kanazawa trio OF
Japanese equilibrists, with Aesop's 3
Fables, Topics of the Day ana Pathe
News.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-30
Newspaper Corrects
25-year-0ld Mistake

Minneota, Minn., Aug. 30.-LP9-
The editor of the Minneota Mascot,
local weekly. believes in setting It
right" even II the error did occur
. quarter Of century ago.
In It's current issue, the Mascot
publishes . correction on . name
which appeared August 80, 1901, and
which has just been called to its at
tention.
The Mascot runs ''26 years ago"
column and the other day Mrs. Carl
Christianspn called on the editor to
ask that her. name be spelled cor
rectly. The Mascot Rad the story of
the 1901 confirmation class Of the
Norwegian Lutheran church here.
At that time the name was given a.
"Hannah Marie Pearson" II should
have been "Anna Marie Pearson" her
maiden name,
$50 this week." says the Mascot.
Ajust Is years after the error was
made, We publish the correction;
verify, the mills Of the gods grind
slowly, but they grind exceeding
fine"