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Evening star., 1927-05-08
VINCENT LOPEZ Earle
Plymouth, w., in Movies

DLYMOUTH, VT, which first gained
conspicuous attention when Cal
vim Coolidge's father gave him the
oath as Chief Magistrate of the Ma
ton under a flickering old-fashioned
lamp there, may be put into the
movies.
The very room, the very lamp II
self, wifi be sought for atmosphere
If present plans of Robert Kane are
carried out.
Kane is at present making Dance
Magic" Clarence Buddington Kel-
lands novel of a girls revolt from the
bigotry of her New England home
and her subsequent triumph as a
dancer in mad Manhattan. kelland
laid his plot in Ripley Bridge, VT, a
mythical town near Rutland.
A newspaper story in the Phlla-
delphia Evening Public Ledger some
months ago has furnished another IN
spiration to enhance the "atmos'
pheric' side Of the show.
II appears that a waiter, "Charlle
Mullin, in an oyster house at Thlru
and Walnut streets, Philadelphia
bears singular likeness to the Presl'
dent, a picture of him run in the
Ledger, with the story, looking eN
actly like the President.
Edward Halperin will negotiate with
Charlie" to join the cast of Dance
Magic" and when the company goes
on location in Vermont several scenes
depicting the Presidents life in Ply,
mouth may be used as local color
Evening star., 1927-05-08
SPRING DANCING FESTIVAL
FRIDAY,

The second of Miss Hawkes. Spring
dancing festivals will be given Fri
day evening at the Shubert- -Belasco
Theater for the benefit of the building
fund Of the Episcopal Home for Chill
dren.
The program will be similar to that
OF the performance given under Miss
Hawkes. direction last month.
Beneath a Circus Tent" the play
let written by Minnie Saxton Bliss,
will be repeated with a cast of local
favorites. including Ruth Shaugh-
messy. Marion Mccarthy, Audrey Sci.
Der, Virginia Trullinger, Rachel Mer-
rift, Edna Lee Unruh, Helen Dick,
James Thornton. Wilson Tolford. Mar
garet Thornton, Constance Harre1l,
Carol Wall, Dan Gilmer, Shirley Sci.
Der and Pasha Slayin.
Among the advertisements will ba
a Gypsy Group. Dance" including
30 children; a Powder Puff" dance
by Miss Edna Lee Unruh: Nursery
RHYMES" a Persian Ballet" a Red.
White and Blue Dance" finale and
many others,
Evening star., 1927-05-08
NATIoNAI-New Stock Season Opens

The third Summer season OF the
National Theater Players opens tomor-
row night at the National. The play
Is "Laff That OFF, a farc~ depending
entirely on complications, background
ed on the World War, for its laughs.
A seasons run in the Metropolis at
tests promise of the merriment ahead.
The full cast of the National Players
ia as follows: Leona Powers, leading
lady, who has played from coast to
coast, including Washington; John
MacFarlane, known in stock and in
production and here two seasons ago
for six weeks, leading man; Kathryn
Givney. Dorothy Tierney. Romaine Cal.
lender. Adelaide Hibbard, Billy Phelps,
Charles Hampden, Karl Nielsen ana
Percy Winter. Aside from the two
leads, all the others are stock fixtures
in Washington. Clifford Brooke re-
turns as director and t. business
management remains under 5. r.
Cochran.
The story of "Laff That Off" is bet
ter seen and heard than told. Three
impressionable young men offer their
lodgings to a stranded young actress
who sorely needs help. Suspicious
each of the others they agree TO view
her with only extreme platonism. And
then they all proceed to iall in love
with her. The best man wins. but
only after the World War has Indirect
IV lent it's aid
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Should Be Authentic.

EDUCATION, as we'll as entertain
IL ment, were the ingredients mixed
for the story of the Rockies, ne"
comedy by Metro.G .Goldwyn Mayer.
The story, a farce by Byron Nor
gan. was prepared, it is claimed, with
the assistance Of number OF Army
officers detailed from the Regular
Army to the citizens military train
ing camps held annually. who. gave
technical advice TO the author, tnough
they had nothing to do with the Weav'
ing of the comedy romance against
military background.
These same officers also acted as
technical advisers during the mining
of the picture at the training camp at
Del Monte, Calf, and at the balloon
aviation fields and the studio where
it was directed, so that every screen
foot of military life depicting the ac-
ton of the citizens military training
camp should be the real thing.
Army aviators, balloon pilots and
observers were utilized, regulation
Army pack parachutes were used for
the perilous jumps and the balloon
sequence, filmed about the clouds over
Hollywood, was taken while the great
gas bag wa under the supervision OF
competent aeronauts with Govern
ment licenses. Soldiers from Fort
Macarthur &and other military reser-
vations TOOK part and the Del Monte
training camp site was used as q
locaIet
Evening star., 1927-05-08
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

A musical version of Just Mar.
ried," produced several seasons ago,
is announced for June production by
Jules Hurtig.
| Helen Menkin will go to Rochester
| late in the Summer to appear as
guest star" with a stock company.
She will act Rain" among other
plays.
| Katherine Renwick, who has been
appearing with the Hudson Guild has
been engaged for The Big Pond" "
which Edwin H. Knopf will produce
next season.
George Leonard has sailed for Lon
| don to present his act, The Gallop-
| ing Major in the British music halls.
On his return he will be in the Chicago
company of MY Maryland
Frank Craven's new comedy, in
which he will take the leading role
will be known as THE Nineteenth
Hole" 1t is due to open in Atlantic
City, May 80.
Edward Selwyn will be back from
Europe this week. bringing with him
| tic HldHuSCTIpL OIL hOO1ITISe, Hun
garian play he has acquired.
Louise Carter and Lyons Wickland
will be in the cast of He Loved the
Ladies" which opens tomorrow night
in New York Lillian Ross has the
leading role in this play by Herbert
Hall Winslow.
A budding musical comedy is en-
J1I tt.
completed by J. Fred Coots in collabo-
ration with Dorothy Fields, daughter
of Lew Fields.
"Oh, Ernest" the first example of
an Oscar Wilde play made into
song-and-dance entertainment, opened
in Baltimore last Monday night and
is reported to have scored a hit. 1t
opens in New York tomorrow night
for an expected long run.
Merry Go Round will be the name
of Richard Herndon's successor TO his
Americana" intimate revue of last
season. Allan Dinehart is rehearsing
the revue and it will probably open
May 30.
Harry l.. Cort and Clark Ross will
produce next season, THE Brigand,
a new pay ny raul r On duu ITeOI sc
Tilton. They will also present
veneer" by Hugh Stanislaus STANCE.
and a musical comedy, called "The
Radio Girl" by Harry l.. Cort.
Ethel Jackson, the erstwhile beauti-
full Merry Widow" will be in the cast
of zone For ALL" This is the piece
by Ernest and Louise Cortis which is
scheduled to open in New York.
May IL.
Ed Wynn sailed yesterday for a
vacation in Europe and will return In
time to begin rehearsals for George
Whites Manhattan Mary" which
will likely open in New York the latter
part of August.
Eugene Walter, who wrote ''The
Easiest Way" has written a new play
after a silence of several years. 1t is
called Different Women" and will be
presented in Chicago the latter part
Evening star., 1927-05-08
National Players New
Lead

THE new leading man of the Ma.
tional Players, who begin their
third Summer season tomorrow night.
is John MacFarlane.
Mr.. MacFarlane will be remembered
as having succeeded Minor Watson
as lead for the Players during their
first season. The impression he made
with patrons then is declared suf.
flcient to call for his return.
< MIR. MacFarlane is tall, dark and
rather broad. Leona Powers. new
leading lady, is small, slender and
very much titan. The contrast at
once asserts itself.
The new company has been re-
hearsing ''Laff That OFF, for the last
week at Wallack's Theater in New
York. 1t arrived in town last Thurs
day to complete rehearsals on the
National stage. An entire car on the
Congressional Limited was reserved
so that rehearsals might continue
Ell route.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
Thinks Pathe a Rooster.

EDDIE DOWLING'S cleverly devised
Pathe News scene and repartee
in Honeymoon Lane" are said TO be
a hit at every performance.
This is how the pioneer news reel
is brought into the musical comedy
success:
Toward the end of the first act
Pauline Mason, as Mary, says to
Gordon Dooley, who is toting the news
camera:
go on, Mr.. Pathe, tell me some
thing about the movies"
Then Eddie Dowling, as Tim Muir
ply, says to Mary:
Did he tell you he was Mr.. Pathe?'
Dooley, as Mr.. Pathe retorts:
Yes, what about it?"
Whereupon Eddie Dowling turns
and says to Mary:
Don't you believe him, Mary; Pathe
is a rooster"
This author and star claims that
Pathe News is his favorite screen
news reel, and that the rooster is the
one trade mark that predominates in
his mind.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
Movies and the High School.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May New
faces brought to the films by so-called
screen preparatory schools are hard
to find, but the movies have drawn
heavily upon several high schools.
The Girls Bayridge High School,
Brooklyn, contributed Clara Bow and
Iris Stuart to the movies; Erasmus
Hall High School, also of Brooklyn,
can claim Anita Stewart, Norma and
Constance Tadmadge and, more re-
Gently, Ruth Dwyer.
Los Angeles High School sent
Louise Fazenda. Marie Provost, Bessie
Love and others, while Hollywood
High School is always adding another
name to the list, which includes Car
melita Geraghty. Alice and Marceline
Day, Barbara Kent, Patricia Avery.
Gladys Mcconnell. Mary McAlister,
Kathryn Mcguire, Fay Wray and
June Marlows
Evening star., 1927-05-08
Photographer Now Director.
KARL BROWN for his direction Of

K ARL BROWN for his direction Of
stark Love" has been signed as
a director by Cecil b. De Mile.
His Dog" a story by Albert Pay
son Terhune, will be Browns first as
signment. Olga Printzlau has already
completed the adaptation and camera
work will begin at once.
Karl Brown has had most inter
esting career. AS early as 1913. while
still going to school. he worked in the
laboratory of the Kinema-color Co..
where he gained his first contact with
motion pictures. Later he Joined ID.
w. Griffith as an assistant camera
man, working in that capacity with
Billy Bitter, Griffith's famous cine
photographer. through such pictures
as 1.-THE Birth of Nation" and I'm
tolerance"
Upon returning from France With
the American Army. Brown became
chief cinematographer for James
Cruze. He photographed all the Cruze
pictures, including 1.-THE Covered
Wagon" and THE Pony Express.
until he induced Paramount to let
him make "Stark Love" a story or
his own, among Americas hidden race
in the mountains OF North Carolina
and Tennessee.
Evening star., 1927-05-08

OF this month with Helen Ware.
Frank keenan,, Joseph Sweeney and
Helen Baxter in the cast.
The program of Schwab and MandeI
FOR next season now includes two new
musical pleces-that one once known
as 'Rah, Rah. Rae" but now called
Hold En-. Helen" and a later piece
tentatively called 'Beppo."
A. II. Woods. now in Berlin. has
acquired The Second Life" a Ger
man play by r. Bernauer and r.
Oesterrefcher, the authors of The
Garden OF Eden,'' which Arch Selwyn
promises for next season. It has not
yet been decided who will make the
English adaptation.
"Colonels' Ladies'" a comedy by
Fannie Heaslip Lea, is announced for
production early in the new season by
'The Greatest Thing in the World.
play by Melanie Kohl. author Of
The Lady Of the Streets" Is now in
rehearsal under the direction Of Edwin
Maxwell. II will have its opening I'm
Chicago with a cast including Helen
Holmes and Alan Campbell.
Edith Fitzgerald. a member OF the
cast of Chicago" now playing in New
York, has completed a play which she
calls These Three" Her first play
The River" will be presented early
in the coming season.
rs That NIECE" a musical comedy
adapted by Anita Loos and John
Emerson from Frederick and Fanny
Hattons play, upstairs and Down"
on the score Of which Irving Berlin
has been at work. is completed. and
casting and rehearsals are expected
to start next month. Production is
scheduled for the latter part Of
August.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
STRAND-"Arabian Nights"

arabian Nights will be the mu-
steal comedy revue at the Strand
Theater next week, starting with Sat
urday's matinee of this week. with
novelty scenes and catchy musical
numbers interpolated throughout the
production, which is directed and orig
mated by William Grant.
On the screen, starting Saturday,
will be seen THE Demi-Bride." with
Norma Shearer and Lew Cody, and
starting Wednesday, running through
Friday, Tiffany Productions THE
Cheaters," with Pat O'Malley and
Helen Ferguson.
Arthur Manvells music. comedies
and news reels round out the program.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
DE GRANGE PLAYERS-May u.

Lenore Marie de Grange Players Of
Washington will present the play
Ten Minutes by the Clock and
other specialties a, matinee Saturday,
May ID, at O'clock. at Pierce Hall.
Sixteenth and Harvard streets north.
west
This makes the twentieth perform
ance and twelfth production of the
children players, an organization
active in this world movement along
civic and educa tIonal lines, to give
children clean, wholesome. artistic en-
tertainment
Evening star., 1927-05-08
EARLE-Vineent Lopez and Or.
cheStra.

The headline attraction this week,
beginning this afternoon. at the Earle
Theater will be Vincent Lopez and his
Casa Lopez Orchestra in a handsomely
mounted act never before presented in
the National Capital. Vincent Lopez
is recognized as a foremost modern
conductor and a pianist of interna-
tional repute His organization, the
Casa Lopez Orchestra, has frequently
been heard in this city before. Both
constitute the most costly offering in
any bill during the current season at
the Earle.
The program to be offered will en-
brace adaptations of classical numbers
as well as the latest compositions of
the writers of popular song and dance
hits.
The companion attraction will be
Joe Keno and Rosie Green in "An
Hilarious Hodge-POdge," written TO dis
play versatile talents. Mr.. Keno, in
addition to being a comedian of ability,
is an eccentric dancer of the first rank.
Miss Green has been associated with
him in all his outstanding successes
Others on the vaudeville bill will be
Evening star., 1927-05-08

with the opening Of the base ball
season. In the list OF plays none IS
too heavy. Th:y are selected IN the
light OF successful experience in es-
timating just the degree Of ponder
Gus thought the Summer playgoer
requires. Manager Steve Cochran
has enlisted the cooperation, both
in acting and in directing, Of experts
who have qualified in preceding sea-
sons as we'll as number whose rep
utations are we'll known, though not
made under observation here.
The Summer stock company has
stepped into place of higher i'm
portance than it used to enjoy. 1t
is recognized as a means Of develop
ing a theater which can be both
clever and conservative and limited
to material which must not make a
player ashamed to face the auditors
he may be at any time compelled
TO meet on terms of fellow towns
manship,
Evening star., 1927-05-08
KEITH'S-Will Mahoney.

Headlining the bill at b. F.
Keith's Theater this week, beginning
this afternoon, is the supreme comic
VIII Mahoney. whose characteristic
slogan is why Be Serious.
Vaudeville's youthful producers,
Jeanette Hackett and Harry Delmar.
also will be featured with their sixth
annual revue, 'Luxuries," the cast
including Betty Webb, Nita Johns,
Irene Griffith. Mary O'Rourke, Pris-
ella Thompson. Edna Norris. Billie
Sedore and Betty Rieman and
Margie Hallick.
Others include the musical comedy
highlights,- Sidney Marion and Gene
Ford, in advertisements; Johnny
Hyman in one of his own sketches
entitled Playing Franks With
Webster: George and Jack Dor
monde in pantomimic offering
called Scientific Nonsense" and W.
b. Groh and his "Piano Hounds" with
George La Rowe in a novel act.
Color Poems" and Aesop's Fables.
topics of the day and the Pathe
News Pictorial will complete the bill.
Evening star., 1927-05-08

Jackie Collier and sister in a Distir.
guished Style of Terpsichore, Carol
Racine and DOrothea Ray on Cook s
Tour" assisted by Fred Lloyd in an
amusing travesty, written by Eugene
!. w. Conrad and Cleveland, and
"Downey" in a satire Of present-day
conditions. by Harry c. DanfOrth.
The Paramount phOtoplay produC-
tiOn, Love En- and Leave En-"
starring Evelyn Brent. Lawrence Gray
and Louise Brooks. offers a plot char
acterized by speedy qualities. Don't
Fly" starring Bobby Vernon. and the
kinograms also will be shown.
The house features will include Vic
tor Herbert's "Eldorado" played as
the orchestral overture. and Go Wash
an Elephant" with Alexander Arons'
pipe organ contributions
Evening star., 1927-05-08
STRAND-"WOrld Dancers. "

"World Dancers" is being offered
by the Strand Players this week at
the Strand Theater as their musical
comedy revue. with Irwin b. Hamp
heading the cast. aided by Lew Lewis.
Earl Root, Billie Lamonte, Rene Win.
cent and other favorites
Among the musical scenes and en-
sembles led by Mary Deery and
Tereta Sheaffer are: "The Charity
Bazaar" "In Tulip Time" I'll Come
Back Home to You" by the Strand
orchestra; II Need Lovin.'" and the
final also by the Marvel brothers. en-
titled World Dancers"
Specialties, including waltz clog.
ging, toe dancing and acrobatic nov.
elites, will be offered by the chorus,
and Lew Lewis. the singing comedian.
will render Give Me Smile" with
words and music by o. j. Ratio Of
Loew's Palace Theater
The screen attraction is Universal T. =
Jewel production, Down the Stretch, I"
a story Of race track life by King
Bagot, with Marion Nixon and Robert
Agnew in the leading roles.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
FARLE-Bert LyteH & Co.

The headline attraction at the
Earle Theater next week will be Bert
Lytell, screen star in person, sup
ported by an admirable company. in a
playlet entitled The Valiant"
Others will be SnooZer, jr., and
Ruis and Bonita.
The photoplay attraction will be
THE Little Adventures, a new Pro.
ducers' release, featuring Vera Rey-
nolds. Victor Varconi and Phyllis
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KEITH'S--Blossom Seeley.

Blossom Seeley, with Benny Fields,
will top the bill at p. r. Keith's Thea
ter next week. The screen favorites,
Mickey" Daniels and Peggy" Eames,
known for their work in the Hal
Roach "Our Gang" comedies, will ap-
pp4w in DerS0n
Evening star., 1927-05-08
COMING ATTRACTIONS

production are well known in local
dramatic circles. having previously
played with various companies. The
players have enjoyed a most success
full year. This production with the
enlarged cast is expected to prove to
be the most entertaining thus far
presented
Evening star., 1927-05-08
ROBIN HOOD PLAYERS.

The Robin Hood Players, under the
direction of Paul, Meesink, will
close their season with the comedy
success, Tanning Charlie the pres.
entation to be given at st. Mary's
Hall. Fifth and G streets northwest,
on May %, "a and %.
The members ef the cast for this
Evening star., 1927-05-08
Attractions In Washington
Playhouess This Week
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

NATIONALNationa Thatcr Players IN Iaf That OF comedy
Tomorrow evening
KETHS-n Mafoney vaudeville This afternoon and evening
EARLEVncen Lopez Orchestra vaudeville. This afternoon and
evening.
sTRANDWorld Dancers musical This afternoon
and evening
Evening star., 1927-05-08
NATIONAT-"The Enemy"

'The Enemy" which has not been
seen in Washington, will be the second
offering of the National Players third
Summer season.
1t is announced that THE Enemy"
is not war play, although it deals
with a love story closely connected
with the great war. It's scenes are
laid in one room and there are no
trenches or battles. 1t is described
as a protest against the futiIity of all
sorts Of hatreds, racial and religious.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
n r X y

Available will be Hackett and Del
mar. Marion and Ford, Johnny
Eymans George Dornond. William
Evening star., 1927-05-08

Besides a number Of stars who
have signified Willingness to make
the trip from New York to con-
tribute to the occasion, the players
engaged here for one of the most
interesting weeks OF the season are
ready, each and every one, TO volun-
teer. One OF the Alpha luminaries
noted on the star map is VIII Ma
honey. He returns after compare
lively brief absence, in response to
a widely expressed wish from pa
irons who enjoy a good, hearty mod
ern lzugh. Vincent Lopez and his
orchestra, whom the Earle brings
as a top-line attraction, is another
They command the interest OF al
who have heard their playing, and
those who have not are probably
ice bound in Arctic snow beyond the
reach of radio.
Evening star., 1927-05-08

With the large group of theater-
going fans the arrival of the Summer
stock COMPANY at thk National The
ster takes rank in Importance almost
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10

Sunday, May 90, the stork
brought Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Bittin-
ger of Tacoma, dear little daugh-
ter.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10
Work in Locomotive CAB

Account was kept recently Of the
effort exerted by the man at the throt.
tie and the fireman In making run
OF less than 200 miles. On that 200
mile trip they perform 5,128 individual
acts, which are divided up as follows:
Steam throttle is operated S2S times;
the whistle, POS; brake valve. 90;
blower valve, 10; air FIRE door. o45 /;
bell ringer. 200; leech, so: right In.
Iector. 7Co; left injector, 80; water
gauge tests, 30; and equalIzing brake
md discharge valve, T02.
In addition to all these activities,
there Is the road to watch with all It's
signals functions, highway crossings,
passenger stations, bridges, culverts
and tunnels Taking all this physical
and mental work into consideration II
was estimated that 3s foot-tons Of eff
fort are everted In making the round
trip In question.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10
Monk Not In0enfor of
Egusicol ScaIe Notes

What Is tie origin of these syllables,
Do, Re, Nj, Fla, So. La, 81, rs names
FOR the seven notes of the musical
scale? In histories of music their In
vention or discovery IS attributed to
Guido d'Arezzo or Aretlnus, Bene-
dictine monk who lived near Ravenne
ltaly, in the first half of the Eleventh
century IS music teacher of his
fellows in the Pomposa monastery ne
was credited with the production OF
teaching of music which gave imme-
diate results in singing that before
him could scarcely be attained in ten
years.
GuiGo went to Rome to teach Pope
John to sing and ne met with com
plete success by means of his new
syllables; after but one lesson the
pope was able to find the tone of an
antiphoD and to sing it. Guido called
his system solmisatlon; 1t consisted in
part of the use of the now well-known
syllables.
But a deeper search into the history
of these syllables or kindred ones dis
closes that they were used by the Hin
dus long before. The earliest mention
OF the musical scale Che seven notes.
occurs in the vedangas, the Chandas
and the Siksha. This early notation
preceding the Christian religion
passed from the Hindus to TIE Per
SLAMS, from these 10 the Arabs and
finally. in the time of the Crusaies,
to Europe. There is no doubt that
Guido dArezzo did not invent them,
but his Is the honor of introducing
them into European music.