The Washington times., 1926-01-21

KIAkJIU--ErnSt LuDlICn 8 latest
effort as director, Lady Winder.
mere's Fan bows on the Ratios
screen for the new week com.
rnencing Sunday This picturiza-
ton of Wilde's comedy adds
further to Lubitsch's credit as a
director and certain Cosnlop olItan
reviewers have united in calling
him the one director who has
batted 100 per cent with every
American picture he has turned
out. Irene Rich plays the beauti.
full sophisticate. Others in the
cast are Ronald Collnan. May
McAvoy and Bert Lytell.
COLUMBIA - Adolphe Menjou
and Florence Vidor combine an
ideal duo In Alfred Savoir's sthge.
play THE Grand Duchess and
the Waiter q film adaptation
OF which comes to the Columbia
for the new week beginning Sun.
day. Savoir, it will Be recalled,
authored the successful stage play
'Bluebeard's English Wife. Nal
ST. Clair has directed this story
which finds Menjou cast as 4
wealthy Partisan boulevardief ana
Miss Vidor as a fascinating
duchess. with q boyish bob afd
the equivalent Of q producing eoid
mine in clothes. a new Ealph
Graves comedy, Internat ional news
reel OF world events and special
music will round out.
PALACE-The much talked-of
comedy. mike. comes to the
palace for the new week with
newcomer to the screen, Sally
O,Neill. abetted by William Hainee
( charlie Murray, Ford Sterling
and others. The piece Is dual IN
appeal with the two Youngsters
supplying the romance and Ster-
ling and Murray doing the
comedy. Marshal Neilan directs
This tale, of an Irish lass VINO
lives on the railroad siding with
her father and family. She falls
IN love with a disgraced tele'
graph operator who fell asleep
81 his key and through him
learns Of wreck plot. a
fhrillinr sequence 10 provided
through this last scene. Mack
Sennett's Dangerous Curves BE-
hind" will supply the comedy.
shorter films include Pathe News
and Topics Of the Day. -
special music.
METROPOLITAN--Cor inne Grit.
fifth lately called the orchid of
tEe screen" bows in at the Metro
nnIitan next week In "Infatua-
ton" an adaptation from Sonler-
aat Maugham's stage success,
.TaAaar's WIFE Percy Mar
mont. Malcolm MacGregor. Warner
GLAND and others are in support
In this recitation of the young
wife Of a British army man who
trnaoines side filtration to be
fine love OF her life, but wins
finds. upon Introduction of I'M
usual situations, that she ID smit-
ten with none else than her hus-
hand. Al death plot she illustrates
nrovides a thrill and an unusual
climax to the story. Shorter
features include one OF BOolh
Tarkin1ton's Van Bibber stories,
with Earle Foxe, Metropolitan
News Survey. Also special music.
AUDITORIUM - John McCcr-
mack. the famous Irish tenor,
whose scheduled evening concert
in washington under the manage
nnent of Mrs. WilSon-l CT EaEIe, az
the washington Auditorium last
saturday evening. Was postponed
through the sudden illness OF the
singer. will fill his Washington
concert engagement at the Audi.
toriuI11 next Saturday evening,
January %, at $50 O'Clock Seats
sold for the concert Of January
is will hold good next SATURDAY
evening.
No change is contemplated ~
Mr.. McCOrmacl's program which
win include three OF the irish
folk songs which he has made
famous as well as seleetlons
from Handel, Sanmartihi, Peri,
HAYDN, Schubert. Schumann,
Rachmaninof and others. Nc
Cormack's concert is the fourth
in Mrs. Wilson Greene's series OF
Saturday evening concerts at the
Auditorium this season. this fifth
and final concert being SEIZED.
uled for March 20, when Nine.
Erieda Hempel viii appear in
her Jenny Lind concert Seats
6Or DOTH aILFdCI1OIIS saFC now OlA
sale at Mrs. Wilson Greene's Con-
cert Bureau in Droop's, 1900 q
st. N. W., and VIII be on sale
for the Mccormack concert at
the Washington Auditorium next
Saturday evening.
The third opera OF the Washing
ton Opera Company's season Of
five will be given next Monday
evening at the Washington Audito-
rum when Americas greatest con-
tralto, Nine. Louise Homer and
Paul Althouse, one OF the finest
of the American tenors, are to
head an all-American cast in
Samson and Delilah." They will
sing the title roles. Fred Patton,
a noted concert baritone. and
Charles Trowbridge Tittmann,
Washington basso, will sing the
other leading roles.
An elaborate ballet has been
prepared by Paul Tchernikcff.