The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-16
ROSE MARIE And.
AIN OPUS FROM
BRAZIL

NATIONALrA drama Of the
Brazilian plateau, with native
songs and instruments interminel-
Ing with the action, opens Mon
day night at the National ander
the title Lost. The play is
tIramatization ~ the story.
'.Home" BY George Agnew Cham
berlain whose last serial III the
Saturday Evening Post was THE
Silver Cord" The theme deals
with an exile's longing for home,
offset by HIS love for a native
girl. Ramsey Wallace. the pro-
ducer. has supplied the following
cast, including himself: James
Crane. Mona Kingsley, zita 10
ham. Harold Hartsell, George
Henry Trader, Edward Van Sloan,
Louise Macintosh. Ellsworth
Jones, Barbara Ramsey and others.
POLLS The return to Polls
Sunday night Of Rose Marie
will find cast new to Washing
ton in that the incoming company
= distinct from that appearing
here before. Paul Donah win sing
the leading male role and, in sd.
dition to voice and acting ability,
he is especially endeared to Wash
ington by reason of his having
appeared here In stock for sev-
eral seasons. The Hammerstein
offices have kept the production
constantly under the same slim
ulus that characterized its open
Ing weeks in New York. Settings,
costumes and personnel are metic-
ulously guarded against tour
WEAKNESS. The name song, Rose
Marie, I Love You" and the
Totem Pole number continue the
outstanding musical divertisse-
naents.
BELASCO-A return engage
inent Of one week for the Khan
show, The Awakening" begins
Sunday night at the Belasco. The
previous engagement did, in its
latter days, a Runaway business
and for the full week crossed a
considerable amount. The pro-
dlction is novel in that the dra-
matte sequences, depicting the
South's awakening after the Civil
War, are sandWiched in between
modern revue entertainment,
dancing. singing and instrumental
specialties. Several hundred semi.
professionals from washington
and vicinity take part in the ac-
ton.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., the Polish
screen and stage star who mas.
tered speaking English within
four weeks after her arrival on
these shores, a dozen years ago,
tops the incoming bill at Keith's
In new playlet, "A Woman Of
the Earth The story is that Of
q gypsy girl, with Edgar Allen
Woolf as author. Coram, English
ventriloquist, with his wooden
partner, Jerry. will be featured.
Other acts include: Odafi Careno,
operate soprano, who returns for
her second seasons visit; Billy
and Elsa Newell in comedy, songs
and dances; "A Revue for Two"
with James Kelso and Belle De
Monde; the Two Harlequins In
flexible stunts. Other acts to be
announced later.
STRAND--A 12-scene revue,
''Joyland," finds the Strand Play
ers In a new style of musical re-
vue for the week beginning Sat
nrday. The cast has been
strengthened by the addition OF
four performers, Bud Brewer, Ivy
Stevens, William Grant and Ruth
AtIire. The film features will
split the week. Exit Smiling
TO be shown the first half and
'There You Are, the second
half. House features. also.
EARLE-A musical COMEDY in
miniature tops rhe new Earle bill.
Five principals are featured in this
w1irf of dance. song and comedy.
The featured attraction has Allan
Rogers, late Of Rose Marie" In
''Songs the People Love to Hear.
Other vaudeville numbers: the
Sarattos, gymnasts; Jim and
Betty Page in a comedy, "Off the
Ice,' assisted by Piatov and Ma
tale with their orchestra. The
film feature viii be the Fox pic
lure, Woman Power" with Ralph
Graves, Kathryn Perry, Lou Tel
legen and others. House features,
too.
GAYETY-A white AMI colored
aggregation of burlesquers in a
piece called "Rarin' to Go" books
into the Gayety for the new week
under Ed Daley's auspices. Ethel
Moses tops the colored side Of the
cast. The opening half features
white entertainers, headed by
Frank Harcourt. Sammy Wright,
Lew Denny, Ruby Pilgreens Midgie
Gibbons and others. A midnight
show win be given Friday night.
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