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The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Jazz Singer May
Keep JOlsOn on
Screen

One of the idioms which has
lately crept into the language is
that certain thing is natural"
Coming out of the sporting world
it means that a particular event
is bound to happen because it In
a logical or natural sequence.
In other words, what Is natural
is bound to happen.
The triteness of the expression,
appealing to Broadwayites. ran
up and down the Great White
Way whenever reference was
made to AL Jolson in THE jazz
Singer" prior to the comedians
debut in the picture. Long be-
fore the premiere OF, the picture
its success was discounted. ."oh.
that's a natural" was the in
variable remark, meaning that no
ifs or butts stood in the way
of its success. It Is to be said
of AL Jolson's appearance in The
Jazz Singer" that never in the
history of the theater was any
work touted so strongly as was
this one. 1t was fore-ordained a
success from the time it was first
announced by Warner Bros.
While there is supposed to be
many a slip twixt the cup and
the lip there was none in this.
JoIson may be said to have
scored the biggest hit of his
career in THE Jazz Singer" which
opens at the Metropolitan today.
There was some Gun iosity re-
garding the comedians screen
technique, but he showed that he
had mastered it under the tutelage
of Alan Crosland, who is given
credit for the direction of the
picture.
Jolson loves the stage and he
now admits that he loves the
wonderful opportunities afforded
him on. the screen. His success
in THE Jazz Singer is such that
it looks as IL the screen Will soon
claim him for its own.
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
DeMille Triumphs
Over Delicate
Theme

The greatest story known to
men--the story of the life and
passion of Christ-was sure to be
told by the screen. as it has
been told in all the arts. Cecil
DeMille was the director who
felt he had a vocation--he could
hardly have proceeded on less
authority-and his product. The
King of Kings" now entering its
second and last week at the Ma.
tional. commencing tomorrow
tomorrow afternoon, is his justifi-
fation.
Just as the artists who painted
the religious masterpieces, just
as the juggler of Notre Dame,
for that matter. laid on the altar
of the church the materials with
which they wrought their pro.
fame works, Mr.. DeMille has
placed on that altar all the
technique which the motion pic
ture has acquired in it's short
life.
The King of Kings" is one of
the great pictures. 1t is lavish in
its uses of masses and of mas.
sive sets; it experiments with
color and is generally better than
the comparably pretentious cx-
periments that have been made
by other producers.
With all the resources Of the
screen at his command. Mr.. De.
Mile has not been tempted to
stray from the story of the New
Testament and of the church
traditions. He has yielded to no
temptation to furnish his picture
with miracles possible to the
camera and because he has re-
sisted the temptation he has made
the greater and more convincing
picture. His marvellous array of
acting ability has been most
successful.
1t would be impossible 10
imagine more convincing Gaia.
phas than that of Rudolph Schild-
kraut. Joseph Schlidkraut is an
other outstanding figure, while
Henry B. Warner as the Christ
could not be improved upon. The
entire cast is excellent and in
cIudes many notables of the
screen and stage, among them
being Ernest Terrence as Peter,
Jacqueline Logan as Mary Mag.
dalene; Dorothy Cumming as
Mary Mother; Robert Edeson as
Matthew; Victor Varconi as PLATE,
Mickey Moore as Mark, William
Boyd as Simon, Sam de Grasse,
James Neill and 5000 others.
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Cupid Makes One
Act Out of
Two

All the world loves real ro-
nance upon the stage and de.
lights in these lovers of every.
day life who also entertain in the
land of make-believe. Such
pair admired from coast to coast
are Maryon Vadie. dancer, and her
husband, Ota Gygi. violinist. CO.
headlinging at B. F. Keith's next
week. They are a supremely
happy couple whose careers join
in the same orbit of the stage.
Miss Nadie is a Los Angeles
girl still in her teens, who began
the study of ballet dancing at the
mature age of six years in the
Italian school in her native city.
She became so proficient that
she was sent abroad to study
under skilled ballet masters. After
learning all that the classical
schools could teach her she took
complete course of the I'm.
perial Russian Ballet from Ed.
Guard kuryle. ballet master OF the
Imperial Russian government the.
aters in Moscow. Warsaw and
Petrograd. He later became the
dance partner of Anna Pavlowa
Adeline Genee, and Lydia Kyasht.
1t was Kuryle who first called
Miss Vadie THE American
Genee." Returning To this coun.
try she toured with her own or.
ganization, and later on signed
contracts with f. F. Albee to
headline in Keith-Albee vaudeville.
and later with Martin Beck for
the Orpheum circuit.
For several seasons she travelled
with her own company of dancing
girls in the big vaudeville
houses. Many times there an.
peared on the same bill with her
dark-eyed young Spanish violin
list named Ota Gygi. who had been
court violinist to the King of
Spain.
Nadie always stood in the wings
and drank in Gygi's music. and
the musician in turn watched
Vadie's dancing. The result was
a wedding. and one act less for
vaudeville. because they have been
teaming together for a number
OF years.
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Christmas Dream
Legend Thrice
Next Week

DIR. Henry Van Dykes world
beloved Christmas legend. "The
Other Wise Man. will be pre-
sented for the third consecutive
season at Luther Place Memorial
Church by the Chapel Players
on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day evenings of next week at
$50 o'clock.
Denis E. Connell, one of Wash.
ington's best.known and most.
popular players and directors. will
appear in the leading role, that
of Artaban, the other wise man
who saw the star in it's rising and
set. out to follow it yet did not
arrive with his brethren in the
presence of the young child.
Jesus.
Van Dykes beautiful dream
legend has been made into five
short acts by Bess Davis
Schreiner. following closely the
original narrative. and making use
of the actual lines of the story as
written by DIR. Van Dyke. The
five scenes in which the tale Is
told include "The Dwelling 0f
Artaban, the Median," Outside
the City Walls" "A Home in
Bethlehem Of Judea," can OBJ
scure House in Egypt" and "At
the Damascus Gate" which last
scene occurs SO years later. at
the hour of the Crucifixion.
The public is invited to attend
this, play in celebration of the
Christmas season. There is no
admission fee. An offering is
asked for the necessary expe6 ses
of the production.
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Am bilious to Do
The Classic
Pieces

rive years ago at the Longacre
Theater, New York, a slip Of a
girl with braids down her sack,
walked up the aisle to receive
her diploma on the graduation
exercises of the Professional
Children's School.
Today, at 10, she Is leading
woman on Broadway. In her
short career she has appeared
with such celebrities as Marie
Doro, John Barrymore. Lionel
Barrymore, Henry Miller, Ruth
Chatterton, Maclyn Arbuckle,
Blanche Yurka, Basil Sydney.
Ernest Truck and others almost
as important She is now play
ing an important role in "The
Spot On The Sun" by John Hast
Ing Turner, which will be pre-
scented at the Shubert Belasco
next week by Edwin H. Knopf.
Miss Chandler made her stage
debut at 8. She escorted a girl
friend to a rehearsal of Bar
bara," which Arthur Hopkins
was presenting. The producer
noticed the wistful little girl, and,
despite the fact that Miss Chand-
Ter had never appeared on the
stage before. he gave her a role.
Among the parts she portrayed
Is that of Little Hedvig in "The
Wild Duck" which remained her
favorite role up, to now, and it
had to give first place to the
Irresistible part of Mary Patrick
in "The Spot On The SUM-"
Players so easily fall into a
rut," says the young actress.
"They score hit in one type of
play and are classified the rest
of their lives as one type
player.
II hope to play a number of
distinctly different roles. What
/ would like to do next is Romeo
and Juliet New Workers have
seldom been given a Juliet who
approached the age of Shake.
speare's heroine. l should like
to play this role while / am still
young. Another play in which I
should like to appear is Rostand's
celebrated classic, 'L'Aiglon.' A
favorite wish of mine was filled
the season before last when
played Ophelia in the modern
version of Hamlet"
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Versatile Worker,
Then the Camera
Found Him

Actor, director, rubber sales.
man. and suthor-these are some
of the varied callings Of the
many.sided John Gilbert, whose
career. perhaps. is the most diver.
sified of any man on the screen
today.
Perhaps this accounts for the
remarkable adaptability of the
actor in any role into which he
may be placed. as, for instance.
Immediately after his staggering
role in Twelve Miles Out" he
changed to the polished Russian
officer and nobleman, Vornsky, in
Love-" current at Loew's Co
lumbia Tehater, and was just as
convincingly natural in one as in
the other.
Gilbert and Greta Garbo, the
exotic Swedish charmer, play to-
gether in the new picture for the
first time since their sensational
hit in Flesh and the Devil" Ed.
mund Goulding directed the new
production.
GiIbert's entire career tends to-
ward versatility. The son Of
well-known actress. he travelled
with his mother as child. and
was then placed in school in the
Hitchcock Military Academy. near
San Francisco. On graduation,
he took to the stage, playing in
number of stock companies, then
decided TO he business man. He
joined the sales force of the Good.
year Rubber Company. and was
some time on the road for this
firm. then went into films, as a
director and sceatrist. He began
acting in his own stories, then
gave up directing entirely to ap-
pear before the camera.
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Southern Songs

Southern melodies will vie with
Victor Herbert's tuneful ditties
for acclaim at the Fox Theater
this new week. A special over
ture. with vocal interludes and
compiled from the favorite songs
of the Southland will be played.
Besides a choral ensemble, Miss
Muriel La France. soprano solist.
will sing Garry Me Back to Old
Virginny,"
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Kreiselman Tunes

Gertrude kreselman's Sunday
organ recitals, preceding the open
Ing performance, have proven
very popular with patrons of the
Rialto. On these occasions it is
customary for Miss Kreselman to
Inquire of the audience popular
song or number they would pre-
Ter hearing and then plays it in
response to the demand
This Sunday the program will
consist of Christmas Carols. How
ever. the "Kreiselman Intimate
Concerts" will again be in vogue
the following Sunday.
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Cash Girl!

To get the correct atmosphere"
for her new 5-and-10-cent store
picture, MY Best Girl" Mary
Pickford took a job as salesgirl
in big Los Angeles nickel.
and-dime' store shortly before be.
ginning work on the production,
Although she had several narrow
escapes from being recognized,
no one definitely identified her
as the famous star during the
affair. Her experience. she saws,
was of great value in making the
film realistic.
The Washington times., 1927-12-24
OLIVE AGNES HILL

OLIVE AGNES HILL
WASHINGTON GIRL whom
sickness shunted out of the cast
Of the new Ziegfeld show,
'ROsalie." Miss Hill will spend
her holidays in Garfield Hospital
and another girl has her role in
the Marilyn Miller show, which
gives prospects of running long,
long while i'm New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24

Two hundred and fifty thousand
petitioners have appealed to the Bel
gian government for a modification of
the laws relating to liquor prohibition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
TWO MORE women
"A ACCUSE JACKSON
Mrs. DoIas Mcknight and
Mother-in-LaW Say Negro
Held Them Up.

Two women last night identified
Philip jackson, colored, who confessed
to assaulting Mrs Daisy Yelling in
the Capitol grounds Friday night, as
the man who held them up and robbed
them at the point of a pistol in the
Capitol grounds the night of last
October 5.
Identification was made by Mrs.
Dolas Mcknight and her mother-in-
law, Mrs. Sarah Mcknight, of 102 Il
street northeast, as Jackson was be-
ing put in a patrol wagon in front
of police headquarters after grilling
by detectives last night. Although
several feet away when they first
caught sight of him, both women rec
ognized him Immediately as the man
who held them up, police stated.
Served Jail Sentence.
It was disclosed today at police
rested on March 16, 1925, for the al
legged robbery of a pocketbook from
Samuel Bailey a blind colored man,
who was rooming with him at 23l
Third stree, northwest. but the charge
against him was changed to petit
larceny and he was given 30-day
Jail sentence.
In addition to his confession in re-
gard to the attack on Mrs. yelling,
who is in a serious condition at Provi-
dence Hospital, Jackson is said also
10 have confessed to knocking down
and robbing Mary c. Cochran, 2O26
q street, former employe of the Vet
Grams Bureau, in the Capitol grounds
the night of December 16.
Tells of Attack.
In this confession, Jackson is said
to have told how he obtained stout
stick and trailed his victim from Four
and-a-Half street and Pennsylvania
avenue 20 a point within the Capitol
grounds where he felled her with two
blows on the head, dragged her from
the sidewalk and took her pocket
book. Finding it empty, the alleged
confession states, he tossed it on the
ground by her PROSTATE form and
made off,
Detectives today were continuing
investigations int other assault cases
which have occurred within the past
year in the territory which Jackson
has admitted freGuenting-the vicin-
tty of the Capitol and the Union
Station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
LAUDS NEWSPAPER WORK
Miss Elizabeth Poe Gives Inspira-
tional Talk to Students.

Every newspaper worker hopes to
write the great American novel," said
Miss Elizabeth Poe, music editor of
the Washington Post, in an address
before the journalism class at George
Washington University, yesterday
afternoon, and she added that she
has an idea that the great American
novel will be written by newspape.
man or woman, because of constant
contact with the real life Of the
people,"
The speaker called the responsible
ity of the press very great one, be-
cause of enormous power and the
effect upon public opinion of published
statements. She advised that "a
scoop is not so important as the ques,
ton Of running life or a cause"
The importance of esprit de corps
and morale in the profession was i'm
pressed on the students, with the
admonition that in dealing with per-
sons of all kinds they should bear in
mind the necessity for keeping faith
with those who were assisting them in
their news gathering.
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gardens, with tennis courts and similar
amusement facilities. while i'm front
tall iron fence will be broken by four
gates leading into and out of the chan.
celery and the embassy along sepa
rate paths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
ANCIENT RACES TOPIC.
DR.. Kidder to Tell of Americans
Who Lived 1900 BIC.

The vanished American races that
lived in the southwestern part of the
United States 1000 to 1900 years b. G..
will be described in an address by DR..
Alfred v. Kidder, chairman of the di-
vision of anthropology and psycho!o-
gy of the National Research Council,
before the joint meeting of the Wash
ington Academy of Sciences and the
Anthropological Society of Washing
ton at the Cosmos Club Auditorium
tonight.
DR.. Kidder was the leader of Pea
body Museum expedition that discov-
cred the basket makers, ancient Amer
lean aborigines, who antedated the
prehistoric cliff jewellers. The remains
of this ancient race which disappeared
long before the time of Columbus were
unearthed in Arizona. DR.. kidder' s
address also will present the latest re-
searches upon the cliff jewellers. His
address will be Illustrated by lantern
slides. The public IS invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
M U SIC
NINE. Won UNSCHULD'S
RECITAL.

Nine. Marie Won Unschuld, who has
been associated with local music
circles for many years and is recog
nized as a leading exponent OF the
piano, gave the initial recital In a
series of musical morning programs
planned for presentation at the carr
ton Hotel under the auspices of the
department of music of the Washing
ton Federation of Women's CLUBS
Yesterday. The audience filled the
patio recital hall and was unusually
appreciative.
Nine. Won Unschuld called her pro-
gram "One Hour with Musical Nina
tures,'' and gave short explanatory
remarks preceding practically every
selection. Sometimes these notes
were based upon comments reported
to have been made by the composer
of the work; more frequently the
notes involved the pianist's own idea
of a mental picture suggested by the
composition about to be played. Inc
comments were interesting.
This uianist a Is noted for her facile
technique and unusual volume OF
tone. However, it was in the delicate
and comparative simplicity Of kreis-
ler's Fair Rosemarin" and the other
Viennese melody of Godowsky's, Alt
Wien that Mime. Won Unschuld
seemed at her best and most individ-
ual. Her reading of the Brahms Ike
trospect" Gntermezzo from Sonata In r
minor) was original and very pleasing:
Her scales were clear and ripping ana
her glissandos, used in several selec.
tons. had varied color and sustained
srnoothness. One gets the impression
that Nine. Won Unschuld studies her
compositions and interpretations by
phrases, for there are times when the
comnosition does not have a single,
unified effectiveness, but rather the
effect of a continuation of varied pic
lures placed one after another. This
pianist can Command either the softest
nianissimo as employed in the. Schu'
mann "Warum?" or the ultimate Tor
tissimo which bombarded forth from
her ARRANGEMENT of the List Thir'
teenth Rhapsody" Due to the length
of the program, two List arrange
ments were omitted. n. r.
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about the embassy property private
owners either have built or plan to
build fine homes.
The chancellery, which will be Joined
to the residential section of the EN-
bassy by a port c0chere, will stand
well back from the street, overlooking
a park across Massachusetts avenue.
The Ambassadors Office will be stu
ated above the port cOchere, where he
will have ready access to both portions
of the building.
The entire structure will be unmis-
.akably i'm the English tradition. 1t
will be of red brick with white stone
trimmings, and will be surrounded by
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able in the solo "Inchin' Along"
sung very softly and with much ar
tistry, by Julia Culbreth Gray, con-
tralto.
Other solo selections presented dur
ing the evening included: ooh, Didn't
1t RAIN" by Elvina Neal Rowe, So
prano; "Steal Away to Jesus" as ar
ranged by Fisher, by Thomas Leef,
bass, and Burleigh's Were You
There?" sung by John L. Mitchell
tenor.
There were n in the choir last
night, all of whom sang with fine at
tention to the directions of their con-
ductor. 1t is announced that this
choir, the Mount Vernon Chorus. has
been engaged to present the same pro-
gram at Trinity Church, Baltimore,
next month.
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NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROGRAM.

The department of music or mount
Vernon Place NJ. E. Church South
presented an entire program OF negro
spirituals last night, under the direc-
ton of r. Deane Shure. The musical
entertainment was attended by an au-
dience that filled the church to ca
pacity both on the first floor and In
the balcony-an audience that listened
with close attention and seemed to en-
10y every number very much. This
music is always lovely to hear, and
has been featured on several pro-
grams in Washington during the cur
rent season, one of the most notable
being the performance given by the
members of the Hampton Institute
Choir. under their leader, and an in
ternationally noted authority on in.
depreciation of these spirituals, Ma
thaniel Dett.
The choral numbers last night in
cluded an arrangement of dig My
Grave" from the Henry Krehbiel col
lection: Burleigh's arrangement OF
| Deep River which was sung ca
peIIa: the same composers arrange
ment of I'm A-Rolling," N. Clifford
Pages arrangement of Swing Low
| Sweet Chariot" Dett's Listen to the
| Lambs" sung at an unusually slow
tempo, but with effective handling OF
the short a capella passage near the
end of the work and Of the final chord
and Arms Fishers arrangement OF
| Cooling Home" Edith Gottwals
plaved the Accomplishments on the or
gan with excellent taste, so that the
instrument never dominated the
voices. This was especially notice
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Upper, front view, and lower, side
view, of the new British Embassy, to
be located i'm the center of a triangu-
lar piece of ground, bounded by Mas
sachusetts avenue on the northeast,
by w street on the south and by
Thirty-secOnd street on the northwest.
The United States Naval Observatory
will lie to the west of the structure.
Two adjoining lots, ITO by 200 feet
each, have been acquired on the Mas
sachusetts avenue side to provide for
the main entrance. Another lot, front
ing on the circle, will give ample room
for a service entrance. Elsewhere
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CONCERT BY PUPILS.
Powell Junior High School Orches
ira to Set Precedent.

The Powell Junior High School
Orchestra, under the direction of
George z. Hurt, organizer and man.
ager, will give a concert at the school
the evening of March 4.
This will be the first concert ever
to be given in the District of Columbia
by junior high school orchestra. The
orchestra has been built up by Mr..
Hurt since Thanksgiving and is COM
posed of about 80 boys and girls from
the age of IL to Is years. The pur-
pose of the concert is to demonstrate
what can be done with pupils of
junior high school age who are in
terested in the study Of musical in
StrumentS.
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Given Position in China.

Granville o. Woodward of California
has been appointed assistant trade
commissioner for the Commerce De
partment at Shanghai, China. He has
served as vice consul at Tientsin.