The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-24
TIE STAGE AND SCREEN
FORCE Asst

WARDdAN PARK HoIy week
brings to Wardman Park Theater
the successful religious drama.
s.The Servant In the House, = by
Charles Ram kennedy, Il piece
appropriate to the closing of
Lent. It Is symbolic, and It's
basic theme is hypocrisy.
Parker Fennelly will again
have the lead. Ruth Harrison.
Ruth Russell, Leona Roberts,
Arthur Rhodes, Rana1d slavery
and Robert Clear give their sup
port.
GAYETT-A show filled with
laughs. pretty girls, slightly
scenery and tuneful songs will be
seen at the Gaydty Theater next
week, beginning with matinee
Sunday, with Lewis TaIbot,s
Wine, Women and Song" Harry
Shuttle LaYan and Nate Busby
divide the comedy leadership and
the beauty delegation, employing
a score of singing and dancing
girls win be headed by Helen
Kennedy, Dotty Bates, Pearl
Smith and Alma Montague.
MUTUAL Promising 4 rousing.
" good real burlesque show.
Erin Jackson and the Girl
Friends company to the Mutual
Theater next Sunday for weeks
stay. Mr.. Wakefield has brought
together cast Of principals In
support OF Miss jackson, the
most prominent being Ruth
Mayer, a character soubrette and
dancer: Abe Sher, an eccentric
{ comedian: Mabel Gerard, ingenuc
who is also a capable vocal
list: Roy Naples, comedian and
dancer: Harry LaToy, the jug.
Cling humorist": Billy Earle and
Jeinle and Jarvis, vocalists. The
chorus is composed OF young and
pretty girls who have been Sc
lected because Of their dancing
ability.
AUDIEOR1UM-The Mask and
Wig Club OF the University OF
Pennsylvania will present their
3Sth annual Easter production on
Friday evening of this week,
March rs, in the washington
Auditorium, with q cast composed
OF leading members of the club
recruited during the season from
the entire student body at the
university.
a Sale and a Sailor or
Glory, What Prices was writ
ten by an undergraduate Albert
g. Miller, jr.. who is himself a
prominent member OF the cast,
with a musical score by Charles
GiIpin. and two undergraduates,
Boland and Zoob.
"A Sale and a Sailor has for
its background the little fishing
village Of Nantucket, during the
struggle of the colonies for indie.
pendence, and contains unique
cast Of characters Of which the
leading men will be George
KunkIe, Charles w. Boeckler,
q. c. Magee, Raymond de s.
Shryock, A. q. Miller. jr.. Ed
ward s. Lower, jr., and I. l.. w.
Gloninger. Francis /. Curtis,
Harold Roy, Harold E. Merrick,
and B. A. Towel are the leading
ladies. .
PALACE-Bebe Daniels, the
piquant and nischevious star.
viii be seen at the Palace for
the new week in revised edi-
ton of the stage success, re-
titled Miss Brewster's Millions
Warner Baxter and Ford Sterling
support. Bebe is cast as a young
lady whose day-drAans picture
her In ravishing gowns. dining at
the Ritz. the object. of all eyes.
In reality she eats at Childs',
scr1mps for pennies and wears
made-over clothes Suddenly she
actually does become an heiress.
required to spend a million In 90
days in order to get $1,000. 900
more. And how she does. George
Baff McCutcheon wrote the orig.
maj story. The Paramount peo-
pie have taken large and credit
able liberties with 1t and the re-
SUIT is said to be winning. A
comedy newsreel and special
music round out.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ar.
lens first direct effort FOR the
screen. 1.-The Dancer of Paris"
opens at Crandall's Metropolitan
Sunday afternoon with Conway
Tearle and Dorothy Mackaill in
the leading parts, with support
from Robert Cain, Henry Wharf
and Paul Ellis. TIE dancer Is
young American girl who has cap
tured the adulation Of all Paris.
She is pursued by a roue who.
finding his affections unrequited,
attempts to mar both her happi-
ness and her features. In the
background of the scene hovers a
husky and heroic male who, also in
love with the dancer, imposes her
guardianship upon himself. The
villain is thwarted OF course, and
a pity II is that such a villain Us
Robert Cain portrays isn't done
away with altogether. Miss Mac
kali is put to a. test in the dancing
scenes. and these she does well.
Not many remember she was once