The Washington times., 1926-03-06


: film, Free to Love. Shorter
features round out.
WARDMAN PARK-"Miss Lulu
Bett," for two seasons a success
full vehicle for Carol McComas,
will be done by the Thomas Her.
bert Players for the new week,
beginning Monday night. Ruth
Harrison will essay the title role.
iona Gale wrote. Lulu Bett and
by doing so, chronicled herself
among playwrigfts as an expert
at drawing characters.
GAYETY-The newest version Of
sliding" Billy Watson,s Big
Fun Show" is scheduled for the
Gayety next week. Reports have
it that this season THE Slider
is sponsoring a corking entertain
ment, peopled with versatile play.
ers and with funny material
Sliding. Billy viii be, of COURSE,
the comedy mainstay; Little Anna
Propp, stageland's tiniest daugh
ter, is featured. AIfretta Symonds.
is the youthful prima donna; Mia
Bernard the ingenue. David Lon
don, Bernie Green, Frank MALTA
han, Freddie Ford, Philip White
and Sylvia Noir are other primer
pals. The Whirlwind Four, a
group of three colored men and
colored miss, dc q speedy dancing
interlude.
MUTUAL-VioIa Elliott tops the
French Models" burlesque enter
tainment, coming to the Mutual
for the new week. A chorus and
half dozen principals are promi-
nent in the action.
METROPOLITAN Ere a nor
Boardman and Conrad NageI.
supported by a smart-looking
cast will be seen at the Metro.
politan for the week commencing
Sunday afternoon. A featured
attraction on the stage will in
troduce Jack Smith, 'the whisp.
ering baritone" who records for
the photograph. Further sup
plementaries include a new re-
lease in the Helen and War.
rem" series of domestic comedies.
titled "A Business Engagement
news survey and special music.
Memory Lane" predicates itself
on the romances of two boys and
one girl. Mary married the
other" boy because she thought
the one she really loved didn't re-
spond. A series of events in
later years. fraught with comedy
and sentiment, convince her she
married the right one. The eli
max Of the picture will split the
audience into thinking her way
and the opposite way. A picture
with novel twist. William
Haines, Dot Farley, John Step.
ping and frankie Darrow are in
support.
COLUMBIA-Norma shearer. the
beautiful young Metro-Goldwyn
star of 'He Who Gets Slapped"
"A Slave of Fashion," His Sec
retary' and other recent hits,
finds a fitting role in another
story of circus life, 1.-The DEVILS
Circus" which, with Charles EN-
NETT Mack. Carmel Myers, John
MILAN, Claire Mcdowell and
others will be seen at Loew's
Columbia next week. 1.-The Devils
Circus Is the first American pro-
duction OF BENJAMIN Christian
son. whose film drama is famous
abroad. Miss Shearer is cast as
an orphan refugee seeking her
mother, who is member of a
criminal banM Her Innocence ap-
peals to member Of the same
gang; he shelters her until car
ried off to Jail, = leaving her at
the mercy of an INSCRIPTIONS
lion-tamer. The war intervenes,
and when the lovers are again
united, the girls miraculous re-
covery makes possible their hap
piness. The Juvenile comedy,
Sea Scamps," International
Newsreel, overture and other
features will supplement.
PALACE-Alice Joyce, Conway
Tearle. Clara Bow, Donald Keith,
Dorothy Cummings, Elsie Law.
son and Norman Trevor are fea-
tured In Herbert Brenon's YER