Evening star., 1926-12-01
Attractions in Washington Theaters
Next Week

Carlyle, James F. Kelley and Dolores
Sardou take the lead In a score of
actors-with one lone woman In the
cast.
MCTUAI-"Frivolit Of 1921"
Al Singers "Frivolities Of 1927"
will he the attraction al the Mutual
Theater next week. opening with
Sundays matinee.
The cast is headed by Harry
Meyers and Helen Davis with tbs
supporting company including thD
Buffers. Alice and Roy: Zee Ben.
Danny Jacobs and Arthur Gardner.
Feature nights commence with n
musical contest Wednesday, followed
ny an amateur contest Thursday,
and Friday, wrestling.
BURTON HOLMES-Thurstlay
Holmes will present his picture fea.
ture, Holland and the Dutch" at
the National Theater.
1t will be literally two quite differ
ent pictures of Holland. There will
be the picturesque and familiar one
Of windmills and dikes. smiling girls
With pretty lace caps, and small boys
with baggy trousers: and there will
be that less familiar picture of the
Holland OF the merchant. the artist
and the scientist-a country teeming
with industry. capturing Nobel prizes
and administering a vast colonial em-
pire without the use Of large mill
tary establishment
For that which we call local color"
says Mr.. Holmes. no country can sur
pass Holland; such places as Marken
and Eolendam are full of it. almost
to the extent Of comic opera" set
ting.
Mr.. Holmes has arranged his itin-
erary to include Amsterdam. with it's
canals. steep ga bled houses and sturdy
old churches; the Hague. Hollands 8
royal city, and its neighboring gay
beach resort Of Scheveningen: Edam
and Alkmaar. the famous cheese mar
kets; Doom, where a certain former
ruler is in retirement: Rotterdam. with
its ma agnificent fort and many of the
other "!sights" that lend so much
charm to a trip through Holland.
CLAUDIA MUZIO-TodAy.
Claudia Muzio. italian soprano of
the Chicago Civic Opera Co.. will
make her concert debut in Washing
ton at Polls Theater this afternoon
in Mrs. Wilson -Greenes artists
course.
Nine. Muzio has selected a delight.
full program, including two arias,
Pace. pace miO Dio." from Nerdis
LA Fora del Destino" and Mia Pic
cirella," from "Salvator Rosa" by
Gomez-in addition to selections by
Veracini, Mozart. Pergolesi, Donaudy,
Franck, Staub and others.
Charles Lurvey will be at the piano.
NEW YORK sYMPHONY-Tuesday.
The New York Symphony Orches-
ira, Walter Damrosch, conductor, will
play at Polls Theater next Tuesday
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock under the
management Of Mrs Wilson-Greene
Nine. Ernestine SchumannH Heink.
who Is now making her golden
jubilee" tour Of the United States,
will appear as soloist in an all.Wag-
ner program.
Nine. Schumsnn-Heinkw will sing two
OF her most famous Wagnerian num-
bers in this program-Erda's Warn
ing" from "Das Rheingold" and
Waltraute's Narrative" from act one
of "Gotterda ammerung." The remain
der Of the program includes selections
from "Tannhauser," "Siegfried, The
Flying Dutchman," Die Meister-
singer" and Tristan and Isolde"
COBINA WRTGHT-Decembe 10.
Nine. Cobina Wright. sopra no, who
sings In Washington under T. Arthur
Smiths mana cement Friday. Decem.
Der 10. at 4:30 o'clock. in the National
Theater. Is one of the few fashionable
women who has been able to keep up
her social connections and at the "a me
time make an international name for
herself professionally.
Nine. Wright. the singer. has had
an interesting career. She began the
study of vocal art with the under
standing that she was not to be
professional. Her parents made this
stipulation. But her~ambition was not
to be thwarted. Despite protests. she
made her debut in Mainz in Der
Zauberfloete. She undertook further
study with lombard and Lamperti
and subsequently worked with Jean
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