The Washington times., 1926-01-23
GOINGS-ON
.ountenances you see pictured above.
At the ThenterS.:


never tire, comes to the Mutual
next week, beginning Sunday in
Round the Town" Helping Mr.
White are Charles Pagan, Mabel
Lea, Billy Kelly, Gladys Clark,
Henri Keller, Jacque Forbes.
Blanche White and Jim Benson.
Singing and comedy are promised
in abundance.
RTALTO Ernst Lubitch's latest
effort as director. Lady Winder-
mere's Fan" bows on the Ratios
screen for the new week COM
1nencing Sunday. This picturiza-
ton of Wilde's comedy adds
further to Lubitsch's credit as a
director and certain Cosmopolitan
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 Colman, May
McAvoy and Bert LyteIl.
a special prologue has been az.
ranged By Mischa Guterson. VIII
liaTnS Myers viii sing a new song
written by Frank Baer. local news
paper man. Raoul da Costa, vlo-
linist, viii also appear. A COM
edy and International Newsreel
will round out.
COLUMBIA - Adolphe Menjou
and Florence Vidor combine All
ideal duo in Alfred Savoir's stage
play 1.-THE Grand Duchess and
the Waiter" a 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
wealthy Partisan boulevardier and
Miss AVidor as a fascinating
duchess. with a boyish bob ard
the equivalent of a producing eoid
mine in clothes. A new ralph
Graves comedy. International 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
a newcomer to the screen, Sally
O'Neill. abetted by William Haiues
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 who
lives on the railroad siding with
her father and family. She falls
i'm love with a disgraced telo-
graph operator who fell asleep
at his key and through him
learns of wreck plot. A
thrilling sequence is provided
through this last scene. Mach
Sennett's Dangerous Curves Be
hind" will supply the comedy.
Shorter films include Pathe News
and Topics of the Day. Also
special music.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Grit
fifth, lately called 1.-The orchid OF
the screen bows in at the Metro
politan next week in "Infatua-
tion,R an adaptation from Somer-
set Maugham's stage success,
Caesars Wife" Percy Mar
mont, Malcolm MacGregor, Warner
GLAND and others are in support
in this recital on Of the young
wife of a British army man who
irnagines a side filtration to be
the love of her life, but who
finds. upon introduction of un-
usual situations, that she is smit-
ten with none else than her hus-
band. A death plot she illustrates
provides a thrill and an unusual
climax to the story. Shorter
features include one of Booth
Tarkington's Van Bibber stories,
with Earle Foxe, Metropolitan
News Survey. Also special music.
ACDITORIUM-Th third opera
of the Washington Opera Com
panys' season Of five will be given
Monday evening at the Washing
ton Auditorium, when Americas
greatest contralto, Nine. Louise
Homer and Paul Althouse, one Of
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,
,, with Elizabeth Gardiner as pre-.
miere danseuse. Jacques Samas-
soud will conduct
TTVOLl - Betty Bronson wifi