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Evening star., 1926-05-02

TOHN GOLDEN. owner and origi-
- nal producer of ''Thank-U." has
this to say about the American taste
for clean comedies and the American
contempt for the nasty line:
"The wit and humor of this play
fThank w, it's observations of life and
philosophy and it's whole story are
products Of the same soil. where po-
tatoes and wheat for your bread come
from. That's the formula followed
in all the comedies which I have pro-
duced and will produce.
my comedies are clean, like the
earth they come from, and 1 have
made a religion Of never letting an un-
clean line creep into my plays. It's a
rotten civilization that has to be filthy
to be amused. Winchell Smith, who
wrote 'Thank-C' with Tom Gushing,
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Started With a Still.

lust to be different, John Griffith
Ray started 1.-The Gilded Butter
fly" the motion picture production
starring Alma Rubens and Bert Lytell,
with "still picture
Director Gray claims that this Just
happened, although there Is more than
q suspicion that it is just another of
the superstitions that surround the
first shot Of q new picture.
Some directors scrap the first scenes
on general principles to insure sue
cess of their production. Others will
never take the first scenes in the
script first, but start in the middle
and work toward both ends.
In fact, there are just as many ST.
perstitions about starting a picture as
there are directors and cameramen,
although most Of them will assure
those who question closely that It
really oN " happened that way.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Golden on Clean Plays.

goes on record with me that the
American people want cleanliness.
And here's the proof from the docket
of our comedies:
Lightnln. three years and one
day in New York; Turn to the Right.
sold for a record sum to the movies,
after touring this country for seven
seasons: The First Year, two years
in New York and 72 weeks on the
road. Three Wise Fools, "Thank-U'
and Seventh Heaven are all of the
same birthmark and clean escutcheon.
"And, remember, we are not asking
people to go TO Sunday school. Not
much, for 'Thank-U' and these other
comedies are famous for fun and
laughter. Your face will grow red at
this play. but from laughing, not from
blushing"
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Where Are the Ginghams?
THE hardest article to find in stage

THE hardest article to find in stage
i costumes in these modern days, is
L gingham apron. according to Thomas
Herbert, director of the stock company
at Wardman Park Theater.
Mr.. Herbert appears as an effemi-
nate house servant in Weak Sisters" "
and. according to Lynn Startling, the
authors directions, he wears a ging-
ham apron. With more important
things on his mind, Herbert failed to
hunt down that apron of the species
until the day he needed it. He failed
to find the old fashioned variety in
the stores and asking residents of
Wardman Park Hotel for the loan of
one, brought chilling results.
So while the overture was playing
on the opening night, Ruth Russell
sewed feverishly on a piece of check.
cred cotton which Herbert, tied around
his middle while dashing IN the stage
Evening star., 1926-05-02
CHEVY CHASE LAKE.

The opening of Chevy Chase Lake
is booked for May 10, according to
plans of the Meyer Davis offices.
Many new features are promised
for the Lake this year \ full re
furnishing OF the resort is now III
progress and will be completed within
the next 10 days.
The Peck Mills Orchestra has been
engaged for the season and will play
on the upper pavilion. This orchestra
is a noted dance music organization
and has Just completed a vaudeville
tour of the Atlantic States.
a Meyer Davis band will hold forth
on the lower dance pavilion. In
cluded in the lineup will be Ben
Levine. banjoist and singer, and
Drummer Comedian Ray Kendrick.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
In the Spotlight.

Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein, I'd,
for a musical comedy which they will
produce together in the Fall, with
Oscar Shaw in the leading role.
Kathleen Kirkwood is casting THE
Milk Kings" a three-act play by
Claude Habberstead, which is sched
uled for New York next month.
Laura Hope Crews is writing a
series of articles for magazine on
the late Henry Miller, the actor
manager, with whom she was so long
associated. Miss Crews played Polly
in "The Great Divide" in which Mr..
Miller scored his first national sue
cess.
cast Of I'VE Americans" Sam II.
Harris play, now in rehearsal for
opening May IT. at Atlantic City. Miss
Adler is a daughter of the late jacob
p. Adler. Her brother, Luther, is also
in the cast.
Archie Selwyn will bring over "The
Ghost Train" now a hit in London
for his first Fall production. His
second will probably be another Fred
eric Lonsdale comedy. 1.-THE Ghost
ram 10 DCill6 pay "ASAA
Claire. Richard Bird and G.. II. Mul-
caster as the leads in the London
thriller.
Director Clifford Brooke OF the Ma
tional Theater Players goes In for
double duty this week at the National
when he will play one of the principal
roles in white Collars"
Little Old New York" was the most
expensive production ever put on by
the National Players either last sea
son or this Not only did the play re
ouire three different sets, but 10
extras. a number of solid properties
and period costumes; also the services
of off-stage musicians.
Thus far this season the National
Theater Players, in four weeks, have
played to nearly forty thousand pa
irons. This Is a tremendous start for
their second annual engagement. re-
1t,ennbering that last year at this time
Aay had not ocensd.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

business on Broadway tomorrow night.
Sam II. Harris has purchased
Loose Ends" which opened recently
in London, and will present 1t in New
York in the Fall with Dion Thither-
adge, the author, in the principal role.
Walter Hampden closed his revival
Of "Cyrano" last night. and tomorrow
night he will put on THE Servant in
the House" and play the role of Man.
son.
1.-THE Sport of Kings" will be pre-
sented in New York this week by Carl
Reed. 1t is a comedy by Maj. Ian
Hay Beth and has been running in
Chicago with o. P. Heggie art the head
of the cast.
Producer Sam H. Harris has OBJ
tained "Sister Three" by John Will
ard, who wrote "The Cat and the Ca
nary" for presentation next season.
Richard Herndon has started re-
hearsals Of a play by Frederick and
Fanny Hatton. tentatively titled East
Side" Allan Dinehart and Genevieve
Tobin will head the cast.
The new play by Jeanne Eagels to
Follow her long engagement IN Ram
is "The Half Way Girl" by Owen
Davis. Miss Eagles In Rain" is now
headed for the Coast and the new
piece will be given a try-out in Oc-
tober before going into New York.
A. II. Woods denies that Lowell
Sherman will be seen in 1.-THE Spider"
and says that he will present him
next Fall in a play called "a Woman
Disputed Among Men"
Raymond Hitchcock has returned to
New York after q successful Southern
tour with a special Greenwich Viii
lage Follies" company.
Sam II. Harris and Arthur Ham
merstein have contracted with Otto
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Current Attractions.
At the Theaters This Week.

NATIONA-"Whie Collars" comedy Opens evening
WARDMAN PARK-"Weak Sisters Opens tomorrow evening.
KEITHS-Ruh Chatterton vaudeville Opens this afternoon
EARLE-"Danceland vaudeville. Opens this afternoon.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
NATIONAL PLAYERS-"White Col
IarS -

white Collars a play that ra,
dates home, love and happiness, IS
the new weeks offering by the Ma
tional Theater Players, commencing
tomorrow night. Added interest is
given this tale, which ran for 116
weeks in Los Angeles and a season In
New York, by the announcement that
Director J, Clifford Brooke will play
an important role. That Brooke is an
actor as we'll as director was evil
denced to all who saw him do the Cyril
Maude role in AREN'T We All?' last
season.
white Collars" is a story of the
middle classes. of just such class as
compose the bulk Of Washington's
working population. 1t concerns fam
lily life, but not in the sneering man
ner Of Main Street" In a remote
sense it resembles J. P. McEvoy's
camera Of the American home, THE
Potters." It's plot centers about the
efforts of William Van Luyn, worth
millions, to overcome the caSte-bound
prejudices of the family of his poor
wife, Joan Sawyer.
At it's Eastern premiere here at the
Belasco white Collars" presented a
splendid cast, including Clarke Silver
nail, John Marston, Mona Kingsley
and Cornelia Otis Skinner. John War
ner, now leading man at the National,
took over the leading male role last
Fall and played the piece on Broad
way and on the road.
WARDMAN PARK-"Weak Sisters y
The success of last weeks produc-
ton, Weak Sisters" by the Thomas
Herbert Stock Company at Wardman
Park Theater, has caused the manage
ment to continue this comedy for an
other week with a performance to-
morrow night.
Lynn Startling, author Of Meet the
Wife" and other laugh successes, has
built plot upon hypocrisy. The min
lister, preparing for mission work in
the Kongo, wishes to clean up the
little home town first. He also wants
to marry Faith Corey, the daughter
Of a social worker, who has given her
heart to a young stranger. After q
raid on the towns house with closed
shutters. the inmates are taken to
Faiths home for supper and a ser
mon from the minister and thence t.
depart.
Parker Fennelly plays Siegreid
Strong, the missionary: Ruth Russell
the part Of Faith Corey; with Ranald
Savery as her lover. Thomas Herbert
director, is cast in an effeminate role
as house servant.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
GEORGE WASHINGTON TROUBA.
DOURS,

comedy will be presented Thursday
and Friday nights, May and 7, at
Evening star., 1926-05-02
KEITH'S-Irene Franklin.

Irene Franklin. comedienne. the ia
nous "redhead." headlines the bill at
B. F.. Keith's Theater next week.
Featured will be Long Tack Sam,
supported by a company Of the most
talented girls from China. Mehlinger
and Williams will offer comedy
sketch, 1.-THE Teacher and the Pupil.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

T EW FIELDS, producer of 1.-THE
- Girl Friend" is to present revue
for Summer showing in New York.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
EARLE-"Danceland."

The Earle Theater this week offers
George Choos' gorgeously mounted
musical revue. "Danceland," pro-
duced, it is claimed, at an expense of
$4,000, with Muriel Kaye featured,
and supported by Is gifted singers.
dancers and comedians, in six kaleido-
scopic scenes, with a striking terp-
sichorean novelty by the Eight Dane
ing Rockets" "Danceland" comes d.
rect from the Keith Hippodrome Thea
ter in New York.
The added attraction will be con.
tributed by Jack Goode and Rags"
Leighton, two veteran minstrel men.
in a form Of entertainment that has
been neglected Of late years.
Others will include Eddie Barto and
Mae Mack, funsters, in a laughable
skit, ''The Milk Bandit; Harry Lee.
monologist. as 1.-THE Manager; the
original Erich Phillips company Of
triple forehead .balancers. and others.
The photoplay will be Producers re
lease. Rocking Moon," a romantic
adventure drama of Alaska, present
ing Lilyan Tashman, John Bowers,
Rockliffe Fellowes and Laska Winters.
Regular house short-reel features and
an organ recital by Alexander Arons
will complete the bill.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
NATIONAL PLAYERS-"Thank-U.' ;


"Thank-U," one of the plays which
brevetted Producer John Golden as
the theaters first champion of
"Komic Klean" plays. will be present
ed by the National Theater Players
next week. beginning May 10.
"Thank-U" ran for eight months at
the Longacre Theater IN New York.
and had further prosperity on the
road. Washington being one OF Its
stops. Metropolitan and Washington
critics praised it, the New York World
reviewer saying: Even DIR. Stratton
might exClaim Amen to "Thank-C
which so bravely and outspokenly
comes to the defense of the submerged
nine-tenths of his cloth"
Thank u is bright and. at times,
poignant comedy reminiscent a little
Of THE Fool" and of "Lightnin'." I"
The scenes are laid in Connecticut
village and concern a rector whose
salary of $500 year is so meager that
he must depend on donations from his
parishioners. He thus becomes a
thank you man" or a ''yes man.
which so disgusts his niece visiting
him from Paris that she starts a new
code of conduct. menacing the pas
tors Job and involving him with gos-
sip, but which eventually leads him
out of the wilderness of sycophantry.
Winchell Smith and Tom Gushing
are the IlthOrS
Evening star., 1926-05-02
KErTHS-Ruth .Chatterton.

The first week of May will be ush-
cred in at B. +. Keith's Theater by an
Evening star., 1926-05-02

unusual event, the debut into vaude-
vile of one of Broadway's distin-
guished young stars and delightful
personalities, Miss Ruth Chatterton,
in "The Conflict" playet in one act
by Vincent Lawrence, author Of
Spring Fever" and Two Fellows
and a Girl"
Harry Roye and Billee Maye will be
featured in a new and elaborate pro-
duction. La Fantastique," supported
by a large company.
London's music hall favorite, Bert
Enroll, will return after a long alb
sence with his clever impersonations
in Modes and Melodies"
Others will include Mullen, Francis
& Co., in a sketch called my Hero" "
by Jerome Schwartz; Robey and
Gould in a new sketch by Andy Rice,
Education Will OUT; the famous
phonograph record artists. Bezazian
and White, in musical moments, in.
Producing Miss White, the famous
trumpeter; the Chevalier Brothers,
with their clever bits under the title
of Entertaining Entertainers; Ethel
Shattuck and Ward in ''The Flower
Shop" and the sixth and last Charles
ton" lesson, Aesop's Fables. Topics OF
the Day and the Pathe News Pictorial
will complete the bill.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
EARLE-Clara Kimball Young.

Clara Kimball Young. emotional star
of both stage and screen, will appear
in person at the Earle Theater next
week in an act entitled THE Eternal
Barrier" 1t is d dramatic playlet
unique in that it employs but one char
acter, that played by the star.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

"Kitty's Kisses" opened last week
in Newark and will probably start
business on Broadway tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
WARDMAN PARK Woman. the
Beast and Virtue"

A play from the Italian of Luigi Pi-
randello, called Woman, the Beast
and Virtue" will be the offering Of
the Thomas Herbert Stock Company
at Wardman Park Theater next week.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

GLEN ECHO OPENS MAY Is.
Glen Echo will open for the Sum-
ner on Saturday, May Is.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

Raymond Hitchcock has returned to
New York after q successful Southern
tour with a special Greenwich Viii
Evening star., 1926-05-02

Sam I'll. Harris and Arthur Ham
merstein have contracted with Otto
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06

Hundreds of pieces of antique furniture fill the store rooms, Many of them are reproductions, or steals" as the property men call them, but many are originals, For example there is a fourteenth ccn- tury Italian mahogany and chest with oil painted panel, It has a history that has been lost. The piece, bought at auction. cost about s700. Ii would take $500 to repro duce 1t In the carpenter shop.
 Other of the studios treasures include Spanish tapestries. bought at an auction in Paris, Venetian furniture, and an old Chinese lac quer hatch with complicated brass lock and hardware, which sold un- der the hammer in San Francisco.
 The studio arsenal houses flre- arms of every description and pc riod.
 Besides being Of use In pictures, the collection also is source of revenue. For instance, Gaby Des. ley's bed recently was under rent to another film company.
 The collection will be assembled in the near future and established in a central museum.
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06
Italian Music School
 For Americans Aided

Tivoli April 6 OPl--- The Italian government has granted a partial subsidy 10 the Master School of Music for Americans" in recogni- ton of it's work towards strengthen ing the cultural ties between Italy and the United States. The Master School. which holds Its classes during the summer months at the famous Villa d-Este, is de- voted entirely to the musical educa- ton of Americans by corps of dis tinguished Italian professors. They are headed hy Mario Corti, who is Q professor at the Royal Musical Academy of Santa Cevilia and is con sidosed the greatest living violinist in Italy.
 Courses are given in singing, piano, violin. harp, composition operatic coaching and Italian Ian Guage and history of art. Each pupil is given direct and individual in. struction.
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06
RELIGIOUS BOOKS
 GROWING POPULAR
Moving Up Into Ranks Of
 Best Sellers

New York, April R-Reli- sious books have increased their po- sition within the ranks ot best sellers to a conspicuous degree during the last several years, the gain being at tributed by publishers to a greater demand not only from church mem bers but from persons without def nite ecclesiastical affiliations.
 A glance over the list of the ten best sellers In non-tiction last year shows Bruce Barton's The Man No body Knows' and Giovanni Papini's The Life of Christ" well toward the top. Demand for these and other books on religion Is reported even greater than in 1925.
 When some one refers to the greatest book in the world, the book tr.,de thinks Bible as quickly as do churchmen." said Frederic c. Mel cher, editor Of the Publishers Week ly. Its sale beggars all other to- tals of production and has since printing began.
 But though the. field of religious books has always supplied the book stores with their best sellers, this seldom has been as conspicuously so as during the last two or three years. Just now the high peak of church activity emphasizes this interest An other interesting feature is 1t has been characteristic of recent de- mands that they have spread far be- yond church boundaries"
 In addition to the books by Bar ton and Papini, Mary Austins "The Small Town Man" and Robert Lynde Hartt's '"The Man Himself" have at tracted wide reading. Much inter. est is being shown in William Lyon Phelps "The Carpenter of Nazar- eth" Sales on 3 series of Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick's sermons have gone beyond the million mark. New translations of the Bible have been another out landing feature.
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06

cause they write novels, articles for popular magazines and go about in cars.
 The old art life, however. Is gone No more do the inhabitants of the art colony sit around in shabby cafes, smoking cigarettes and shun the work-a-day world as they did even up to five or six years ago Most Of those who are left of the old colony dress well. play golf and do things for money.
 Perhaps it Is because tho general public no longer takes Bohemian ism" seriously. IL was not long ago that a colony down the poninsu. la announced that they would never permit tho progressive spirit to invade their district. They would not have paving, concrete walks curbs. lights or anything else be- leved to be essential 10 "a real estate boom" In fact they would not have a boom, but a boom and the inevitable "subdivisionists" in vaded them. Then the newspapers said the "anti-progress" of the Bo- hemians was simply press agent ry."
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06
RUBBER CRISIS CAUSES NO WORRY
Thomas Ward, Tree FanCier,
 Has It Growing in Yard

Carbinterla, Gal, April CD --. Thomas W. Ward, 9l year old tree tancier, is not worried by the rub Der situation.
 An immense rubber tree with branches and trunks fairly oozing rubber. stands in his yard. It Is seventy feet high and has foliage so dense that it is almost impene. trable.
 The yard about his home is a field for scientific study. Many rare varieties of shrubs and trees thrive there. Unusual species of trees are an Australian She-Oak, a Beef wood. a Norfolk pine seventy-five feet tall and Lagunaria, which when loaded with pink bloom, at- tracts veritable swarms of hum mingbirds.
 Notable in the tree collection is a Torrey Pine, 100 feet tall with a circumference Of twelve feet at the base. Mr. Ward planted the tree in 1890 when it was only six inches high.
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06
MOVIE MUSEUM OF STOREH0USE RELICS
Universal Pictures Corporation
 Has Great Collection

Universal City, Gal, April 6 OP-- Universal Pictures corporation, which for many years has been gathering a collection of rare old relics, has just been presented with the first stage coach 10 penetrate the almost impossible country be tween San Diego and Sacramento in the gold rush of '49.
 The old coach takes It's place along with many other treasured antiques, among them the bed of Gaby Deslys, actress, and of Gen. eral Pic Pico, the last Mexican governor of California.
 Driven by "Gumho" Jack Savage. lank Texan who handled the reins on the six horse team, the coach made a record trip which has become matter of California history. Jack accumulated fortune in fares, and after he had com pleted three round trips he retired and opened Jacks" saloon, one of the high spots in the early days Of Los Angeles.
 Acquisition of the old coach re- calls the effort the studio has put forth to build up it's collection. For years a representative of the prop erty department has attended all most every large auction in the world. Hundreds of original an- tiques have been acquired. AL though 1t costs more 10 buy origi- nals than 1t does to reproduce them, the studio feels that it has been compensated If out of an en- tire audience there is in 1t one who recognizes the furniture, tapestries or firearms used in the picture as genuine work of the period depict ed.
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06

There will be contests in piano, violin. organ, cello. and the four voiccs-soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
 state and group states elimination contests will be held prior to the final hearing November II, 1928, in Philadelphia.
 The national federation has been holding contests for ten years and will use the same organization for the celebration competition.
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06

railroad car several pilots of the air mall service have learned.
 A new malady has visited the pill 'ots who traverse the Rocky Noun talns in daily fllghts-"air bump .itis" Its effects are bruises and spralns Of the back and often the limbs.
 Recently two pilots after flying through q heavy wind and rough weather over the Continental d. vide were obliged to go to bed for a rest. The bumps. produced by air currents from dssimiar terrain, probably are worse over the Rocky Mountains than in any other section of tho transcontinental mali route.
New Britain herald., 1926-04-06
SAN FRANCISCO IS CHANGING RAPIDLY Bohemian Life of City Passing
 Away

San Francisco, April P>-- Bohemianisnl. of the Munger yari- ety, has all but passed in San Francisco where once it claimed rank with Greenwich Village. Pro- hibition and the war have been blamed or credited with this as they have with many other things,
 There are still art colonies here, but as one of their denizens re- gently said, 'They have become ra- tionalized."
 On Telegraph hill, overlooking San Francisco bay. clusters one .group of artists" Some Of them are civil engineers, some newspa- |per people, one runs a circulating library and several others work for a living al trades 6r as clerks.
 Over on Russian hill is another grcup but one of the artists living there says there is not an easel on the hill. A few designers and com m mercial artists do some work at home and one young man does odd iobs of decorating. He is noted To- cally for having done the interior |pf q once famous cafe. He put a Jew weird sketches on the walls and took 1t out in food and drink. 1The place went down before pro lhibition raiders and more elaborate night clubs.
 Across the bay in Sausalito is au- other colony of 'intelligentsia.' ' Down at Carmel Is more formida- |ble gathering Of writers, painters, poets and a sculptor or two. The hill groups here often refer 10 the Carmelites as Rabbit artists be-