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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
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"The Honey Moon" John Tobin's
charming comedy of a hundred years
ago, with its sparkling dialogue and its
eternal problems of youth and love, will
be presented by the Community Drama
Guild of Washington Friday and Sat-
urday nights of this week in Mckinley
auditorium.
This delightful revival of one of the
popular successes of other days, on both
sides of the Atlantic-in the Old Drury
Lane Theater in London, and in the
famous old Walnut Street Theater, in
Philadelphia-has been made under the
personal direction of Miss Alma Kruger
of Eva La Gallienne's Civic Repertory
Theater of New York City, with set
tings devised by William F. Baker of
this city.
Shakespeare's famous characters walk
the boards in new guise in this Tobin
masterpiece, for Tobin was the great
bard's most ardent admirer; and in
The Honeymoon" will be found a
Katherine and Petruchio, Viola and
Orslno and others of the stages most
beloved characters, all in new guise, but
with the charm of the heroes and hero
ines of the Elizabethan stage. Incl
dental dances and music, the former by
the Tchernikoff Gardiner Dancers, di-
rected by Lisa Gardiner. and the latter
from Walter Hollis guitar studio, add
in making a good show now of what
was a good show in 1905, when THE
Honeymoon" was given for the first
time on any stage.
Tickets may be had at T. Arthur
Smiths Bureau, 1880 G street; Willard
newsstand and of A. A. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
FOX-"Happy Days"

Lavish settings, gorgeous costumes,
colorful ensembles, beautiful girls,
thrills, surprises, new music and catchy
songs and glorious romance are all COM
bined in Happy Days" which is COM
ing to the Fox Theater next Saturday.
with a special midnight show Friday
night.
Featured in the picture are stars of
the stage and screen that include Will
Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell
Victor CcLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Walter
Catlett, FL Brendel, Warner Baxter,
Sharon Lynn, Tom PATRICIA, Ann Pen
nington, Marjorie White. Richard
Keene, J. Harold Murray, Whispering"
Jack Smith, Frank Albertson, James j.
Corbett, George MacFarlane and others.
The entire music staff of Fox Movie
tone City, it is announced, was en-
ployed on the song numbers, including
l.. Wolfe Gilbert, Abel Baer, Conrad,
Mitchell and Gottler, James F. Hanley
and Joseph Mccarthy. The picture was
directed by Benjamin Stoloff, the
dances were staged by Earl Lindsay,
Walter Cattlett staged the dialogue and
George Olsen and his orchestra fur
nished the musical accompaniment
On the stage Alexander Callam will
introduce Fanchon and Marco idea,
'.Screenland Melodies" with a cast of
entertaining stars, and Leon Brusiloff
Will provide a new overture based on
the famed works of DYorak Fox Nov
tetone News also will be featured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
RIALTo-"Dames Ahoy!"

DANES Alloy" a talking comedy. will
open weeks engagement at the Rialto
Theater Friday. 1t introduces a new
face to motion picture fans in Helen
Wright, who comes direct from the
stage for the faminine lead in the pic
ture, which stars Glenn Tryon. Others
are Otis Harlan, Eddie Gribbon and
Gertrude Astor.
The picture deals with the amazing
adventures of three mountaineering"
sailors on shore leave, who dedicate
their vacation to the job of extricating
buddy from the clutches of vampire
All they know about this woman is that
she is blond and has birthmark. The
search develops a lot of screamingly
funny comedy, and the three friends
get into all sorts of embarrassing sit
uations. In trying to help their friend
out OF the sea of matrimony all three
eventually fall in themselves.
A great deal of the action of the pic
ture Is set at a famous beach resort
William James Craft was the director
In addition to the feature. the Rialto
bill includes The Evening Star-U niver-
sal Newspaper Newsreel, with Graham
McNamee announcing; a comedy, 1.-The
Big Jewel Case: special featurette,
"Steeplechase," and Benny Rubin in a
talking and singing sketch from Broad
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
"oLD NOBODY" at Central High.

A comedy of thrills and mystery, by
the author of "A Servant in the House. y
will have its first performance in Wash
ington tonight when the Community
Institute presents the author, Charles
Ram Kennedy, with Edith Wynne Math-
ison and Margaret Gage in "Old No
body" at Central High School audito-
rum. The action of the play is con-
tinuous and it will be played without
the usual intervals between the scenes.
1t differs in many other respects from
the conventional type of drama.
Mr.. Kennedy will appear in the role
of "Old Nobody" while Miss Mathison
and Miss Gage will play the parts of
two gypsy women, with whose delin-
quencies odd Nobody and the plot are
concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
BENJAMIN. GIGLI-Friday.

Beniamino Gigli, leading tenor of the
Metropolitan Opera Co., will give re-
cital. under the auspices of Mrs. Will
son-Greene, at Polls Theater, Friday
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. This is the
fifth attraction III the artists course.
Gigli will have Margaret Shotwell
pianist, as his assisting artist. The
tenor will be accompanied by Miguel
SandoVal at the piano.
Gigli's repertoire includes Aria. una
furtiva lagrima," from "L'Elisir
d'Amore" (DonizettD; 20 bel MIDI
d'Amore" (Donaudy); "Liebestraum"
words by Mr.. GiglD (Liszt); I'm
"Lohengrin" Wagner; "Then YouIl
Remember Me-" from THE Bohemian
Grip (Balfe); "Tormento" Ode Curtis)
Motto Veneziana" &C. CurcD, aria.
"Dalla sua pace" from Don Giovanni"
(MozarD, and the aria "Quando lie sere
al placido," from Tulsa Miller" (Verdi)
Miss Shotwell will play "Segiridillas"
(Albeni2l, Berceuse Chopin, Marche
Militaire Schubert aussig) Liebe-
stratum niszD and Blue Danube
Waltz" (Strauss).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26

''Babes in Toyland," Victor Herbert's
tuneful fantasy, comes to Polls Theater
next week, beginning Monday evening.
A special performance for children and
parents will be given Saturday morning
at 1890 o'clock, in addition to the
regular $3.50 O'Clock matinees Thursday
and Saturday.
Babes in Toyland' is Just as much
q whimsical fantasy as Peter Pam -
The Blue Bird" or "Alice in Wonder
land" The story of the adventures of
the Il children of the Widow Piper in
Toyland has all the extravagant char
acteristicS of the English pantomime,
and is embellished upon this occasion
with many of its mechanical surprises,
its colorful embroidery, its beautiful
stage settings. bewitching dances and
tuneful melodies of the great Victor
Herbert.
1.-THE March of the Toys" with its 20
participants. who maneuver with mill
tary accuracy; the exquisite doll dance,
the wrestling bears. the giant spiders
den, are reflections of happy school
days. The songs Il Can't Do That
Sum-" Barney O'Flynn," "Toyland,"
"Rock-a-Bye-Baby, Go to Sleep" and
1.-THE Jolly Tars'' are popular airs,
splendidly sung, that bring us back to
our youth.
Barry Lupino has never given a finer
expression of his artistry than as Con-
zorgo, who does everything-sings
dance, acrobatic, representations. etc
and he is excellently supported by Edith
Scott, Betty Byron, Jayne Waterous
Marcella Swanson, Margaret Byers
Ethel Lynee, William Balfour. Rupert
Darrall, Frank Gallagher. Chester Her
man and an unusually large contingent
Of singers and dancers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
CoLUMBIA-"Anna Christie"

The sensation of the year, Greta
Carlo, in her first talking picture, Eu-
gene ONeill's anna Christie" will re-
main for next week at Loew's Co
lumbia. Marie Dressler, Charles Bick-
ford and George F. Marion appear in
the cast of the -Goldwyn- Mayer
production.
Anna Christie" is the story OF a girl
who at an early age is sent to live with
relatives. Her father, the captain of a
coal barge, receives letter from her
years later announcing that his daugh-
ter is coming to visit him. He rushes
| old Martny OF the barge, so that his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
JUNIOR CIVIC THEATER--"PenrOd"
and THE Ivory Door,"

Because of the many definite requests,
the Junior Civic Theater viii again pre-
sent at the Shubert-Belas Theater, at
matinee performance Saturday after
noon at 2:30, Booth Tarkington's ia
nous play for young folks, 'Penrod," a
four-act comedy, whose action is con-
hned to day and evening around the
Scofield household and concerns Pen
RODS gang" trailing and exposing a
hashy commercial salesman, a new
conner to town, who. through trickery,
involves the family and makes love to
Margaret, Penrod's attractive sister.
The cast consists of Charles Batson,
Sd; Preston Dawson, Clifford Adams,
Mason Hcrdy, William S. tombstone.
John Shellie, Charlsey Reid, Mary Sin
clair Betty Beeman, David Fisher, Ruth
GuitermaE and Phillip Jerdine.
In the evening, at 800 o'clock. "The
Ivory Door," by A. A. Milne, will be re-
peated by request. 1t is one of the
most charming of the Junior Civic The
ater's repertoire. The story has a me-
dieval setting, is of whimsical tradition
and concerns young King and a prin-
cess, who test their love through the
magic of the Ivory Door to finally meet
and live happily ever after in a world
devoid OF pomp and royal formalities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
LITTLE Observation-Disclosures
Rhapsody"

Lii Dagover, famous continental &C.
trtss, who appeared in a number of
films with Emil Jannings before the
great German actor came to America.
will be seen in one of the two leading
feminine roles of Hungarian Rhap-
sody,' which comes to the Little The
alter next week, beginning Saturday of
this week
AS the young and flirtatious wife of a
pompous old general, she cuts a wide
swath through the hearts of all men
who make her acquaintance.
The picture is a panorama of love,
youth, beauty and rugged peasant life,
vibrant with human emotions and
heart interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26

Mission for the benefit of the Children's
Emergency Home and the mission Fri
day night at $50 o'clock in Constitu-
ton Hall. Owing to an error, the copy
in Sundays paper mentioned the Will
lard instead of the new hall as the
place for this event.
Assisting Mr.. Melton will be the a
capella choir of the First Congrega-
tlonal Church, Ruby Smith Stahl, di-
rector.
A varied and colorful program has
been arranged for this occasion and it
promises to be a success in every way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
GAYETY-oHigh Flyers

A burlesque show of the better grade
that won its spurs last season over the
Mutual circuit, High Flyers" is booked
for the Gayety Theater next week. Two
side-splitting sketches, Molly" and
WANTED, Lawyer" are said to be up
toariously funny.
Mike Sacks and Frances Farr are the
featured entertainers Cuddy Krieger,
George Brown, Madeline Boland, Billie
Hall, John Pagan, David Whalen, JAG
Queline James are others of a company
wherein no favorites are played.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
COLUMBUS PLAYERS-satnraau

Saturday evening, at 8:15 O'Clock, in
st. Paul's Auditorium, 1425 v street
northwest, a farce will be presented by
the Columbus University Players in
three acts, entitled THE Whole Towns
Talking" by John Emerson and Anita
Loos, directed by Alfred A. McGarra-
ghy. The cast will include Robert Tap
pan, Alfred McGarraghy, Tom ODon-
nell, Angelo Gamma, 1. Lichtenberg,
Mary Kane, Helen HUM, Catherine
Stafford, Katherine Powers, Irene
Bontz and Mary Hurley The Night
Hawks will present dance music after
the show.
The play is considered one of the best
obtainable for presentation by amateur
organizations and is a fast-moving COM
edy of the laughable kind. It is being
presented for the benefit of the Skip
per- the official school publication. 1t is
also the initial performance of the CO.
lumbus University Players, several of
whom have been prominent in local
amateur dramatic societies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
R-K-O KEITH'S-"The Case of
SerRt. Grischa."

''The Case of Sergt Grischa," adapt
ed from Arnold zweig's noted story and
starring Chester Morris and Betty
Compson, comes to the screen at R-K-O
Keith's for week, starting Saturday
Chester Morris, star of "Alibi." and
Betty Compson star of street Girl
have the outstanding roles.
/. Arnold zweigIs novel, THE Case OF
Sergt. Grischa," is said to have been
transformed into an epic picture that
lives and breathes. II is a book of many
moods. each different from the others
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
JAMES MELTON AT CONSTITUTION
HALL

James Melton, tenor, who is a radio
and concert favorite, will be featured in
the concert given by the Central Union
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
PALACE-"Dangerous Paradise"

Dangerous Paradise" featuring
Nancy Carroll, viii be shown at Loews
Palace Saturday. 1t is Paramount
talking picture, with Richard Arlen.
Warner GLAND and Gustav Won Seyf-
fertltZ in the cast
The locale of the picture is a South
Sea Island, where Alma is a member of
woman's orchestra. The owner of the
band and Shomberg make advances to
Alma, who, frightened, hides aboard the
boat Of one HeySt, who takes her to his
private island, where he has been liv-
ing, because of an unsuccessful love af-
fair. In the meanwhile, Schomberg and
the owner of the. band quarrel, each
thinking the other has the girl. One
of them is killed. His henchmen, told
by the murderer that Heyst has an is
land of gold, after killing their in
formant, make their way to the island,
where Heyst is forced to fight for him.
self and the girl he has come to love.
On the stage an Arthur Knorr pro-
duction, produced for Loew, under the
direction of Louis K. Sidney, Land of
Syncopation," will be the feature, with
the Calgary Brothers, Europe's famous
comedians, in the limelight. Ken Whit
mer, versatile musician, acts as guest
master of ceremonies. Serge Flash,
ball manipulation, and the Chester Hale
Syncopated Steppers are others in the
cast.
The Palace Orchestra, the Hearst
Metrotone News and short subjects will
complete the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
NATIONALS tratfOrd- Upon Avon
PLAYERS,

The coming of the Stratford- Upon
Avon Festival company to the National
Theater next Monday night for week
of ShakeSperean repertory is likely to
awaken wide interest among Washing
ton theatergoers,. since the engagement
will mark the first visit to this city of
the notable organization from the town
Of Shakespeare's birth.
Many WashingtonianS have contrib
uted to the rebuilding of the Shake
speare Memorial Theater at Stratford
and many more have visited the little
WarwickShire town and have there seen
these distinguished players in their own
environment.
The performances here, as there, will
be given under the personal supervision
of W. Bridges Adams. the director; the
roles will be played by the same actors,
and all of the elaborate scenery and
costumes used there will be seen in the
presentations at the National.
The repertory for the week follows:
Monoay evening, Much Ado About
Nothing; Tuesday evening, Romeo
and Juliet; Wednesday matinee, Julius
Caesar; Wednesday evening, The
Merry Wives of Windsor; Thursday
evening, Hamlet; Friday evening,
Twelfth Night; Saturday matinee, "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" and Satur-
day evening, Macbeth"
The box-office sale will begin tomor-
row. While the mail-order sale has been
exceedingly large. it is announced, there
still remain good seats for nearly all of
the performances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of the Gods. !"


Richard Bartholmess in son of the
Gods" the First National Vitaphone
production at the Metropolitan The
alter, will remain for a second week.
If crowds are criterion, Son of the
Gods may be said to be one of the
most popular pictures in which Bar
thickness has appeared in recent years.
1t is the story of boy who believes
his father is a wealthy Chinese mer-
chant. Snubbed at college and in So
ciety because of his supposed Oriental
birth the Son of the Gods goes to Eu-
rope, where he meets and falls in love
with a wealthy American society girl.
It is based on novel by Rex Beach.
Constance Bennett is Barthelmess'
leading lady.
Selected short features, including
Vitaphone Varieties and NewSreel, COM
plete the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
NATIONAL HIGH ORCHESTRA
SATURDAY..


One of the most brilliant audiences
ever assembled for a musical event viii
gather at Constitution Hall Saturday.
at $3.50 pm, for the Washington debut
of the National High School Orchestra.
This organization is composed of high
school musicians from all parts of the
United States. Prof. j. E. Maddy, or
ganizer and musical director of the Ma
tional High School Orchestra and Band
Camp, at Interlochen, Mich, is the con-
ductor.
Elizabeth Vandenberg, daughter of
Senator and Mrs. A. H. Vandenberg of
Michigan, will be piano soloist. Four
Washington high school musicians will
play instruments in the orchestra Sem
ator and Mrs. Vandenberg have invited
more than 1000 guests from all walks
of Washington social and Official life
Seats also will be available to the public
The concert, which is under the man.
agement of Mrs. Wilson Greene, will
offer three outstanding numbers, in
Tschaikowsky's Sixth Symphony" (the
Pathetique), Griegs Concerto in
A-Minor" and Ernest Bloch's epic SYM
phony, America"
ARTURO OSCANINI-Tuesday.
The great italian conductor Arturo
Toscanini will lead the New York Phil
harmonic Symphony Orchestra in its
final program here, March 4, at Con-
stitution Hail. The event is scheduled
for 4:45 pm. 1t Is sponsored by T. Ar
thur Smith.
The program is announced to include
Symphony in D Major" Mozart;
"Rondo Veneziano." Pizzetti: SVenus-
berg Scene" from Wagner's Tam
hauser," and "Bolero," Ravel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26

innocent young daughter will not run
afoul of her kind. Anna arrives, and it
happens Marthy is the first to meet
her and to discover that Anna is not
the kind of girl her father thinks her
While on cruise the coal barge picks
up some shipwrecked seamen. Matt, one
of them, falls in love with Anna and
she returns his love, but refuses to
goes of to get drunk and forget, but
repents and returns to claim Anna for
his wife.
The Hearst Metrotone News, short
subjects and the Columbia Orchestra
complete the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
EARLE-"The Laughing LADY I"

"A woman VINO could laugh at death,
deception, shame and betrayal-thats
The Laughing Lady" an unusual
character, in the screen play of the
same title, which comes to the Earle
Theater for next week. beginning with
the Friday midnight show this week.
Ruth Chatterton, gifted and beauti-
full stage and screen star, enacts the
title role of this romantic comedy
drama. She is supported by Give
Brook and a fine cast which includes
Dan Healy, Nat Pendleton, Raymond
Walburn, Dorothy Hall and Hedda
Harrigan.
THE Laughing Lady" is described as
powerful human drama in ultra
modern settings, presenting a problem
of unusual depth and interest 1t is
based upon the play of the same title
by Alfred Sutro, in which Ethel Barry
more appeared several seasons ago. 1t
concerns woman divorced by her huS-
band on circumstantial evidence. The
husband is awarded custody of the cou-
pies small daughter The aggrieved
wife, having lost husband, home, child
and reputation through no fault of her
own, plans a unique revenge upon the
lawyer, whom she suspects of having
conspired with her husband. The out
come of her plan is surprising-and
gratifying.
The Earle will present also The Eve
ming Star Universal and Pathe News
reels, Vitaphone Varieties and music by
its orchestra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26
Attractions in Washington Theaters

by the faintest line of shading. It's
characters spring from the soil. Its es-
Sential quality is humanness. 1t is rife
with pathos, but through it run the
grim realities of life.
Brenon is said to have brought all of
this to the talking screen with tense
degree of realism-Grischa' escape
from the prison camp in Poland, his
experiences in the forest with the out
laws, his romance with Babka, Rus
sian refugee; his amazing adventures
in Mervinsk, occupied by the Germans;
his unconscious influence on his mill
tary superiors, resulting in a dramatic
clash between two German generals
and his eventual resignation to the die
tateS of fate.
Herbert Brenon assembled an impos-
ing cast for his first Radio picture, in
Guiding Alec B. Francis, Gustav Won
Seyfertitz, Jean Hersholt, Leyland
Hodgson, English stage star, who makes
his film debut, and Paul McAllister.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-26

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New Britain herald., 1930-08-28

fl, from the Herreshof yard; where many former defenders took the!r initial dip in the brine. On the same day, Shamrock V slid down the ways at Gosport, England.
 Enterprise was designed by W. Starling Burgess for syndicate headed by Vanderbilt and including Vincent Astor. George Baker, Jr., F. L. Carlysle, George Whitney, F., W. Clark, sherman Hoyt and W W. Aldrich. Mrs. Aldrich broke bottle of champagne over her bow and be- slowed the name of a little navy schooner which taught the Bey of Tunis lesson in international eti- quette many years ago, She is bronze plated and carries a hollow mast, She has q greater sail area than any of her three unsuccessful sisters and her dimensions are closer to Shamrock V than the others. Her afterguard or the amateurs who will sail aboard her are Vanderbilt. Aldrich. Hoyt, George V Haver- meyer and Burgess, her designer
 A comparison of defender and challenger may be found in the fol- lowing figures: Gn feet and inches unless otherwise noted)
New Britain herald., 1930-08-28
EXPERIENCE TELLS IN
 W0MEh'S TOURNAMENT
Only Two of the Dozen Youthful Golfing Stars Remain in An-
 nual Western Play.

Kansas City August 2S [F-Ex- perience, for the most part, had demonstrated its worth, as the tVenty-eighth annual Womens vest ern golf tournament reached the quarter final. .stage today.
 Only two of the dozen youthful golfers who set out to dispute their elders right to tournament remain cd. Thcy were Miss Betty Bruen. facing Mrs. Gregg Lifur, Los An geles, runner up in last years tour nament. and Miss Florence Beebe, Of Chicago Miss Beebe was pitted against Mrs. C. ". Tyson ot Kansas City. Mrs Tyson won the national in 1927.
 Four cities, from the Pacific to the Great Lakes. furnished the eight entrants remaining in the tourna- ment.
 Today's pairlngs:
 Upper bracket:
 Mrs. o, S Hill vs Mrs Lee Mida. Chicago
 Miss Virginia Van We, Chicago, vs. Miss Dorothy Page, Madison, Wis
 Lower bracket,
 Mrs. Gregg Lifur. Los Angeles vs. Miss Betty Bruen, Kansas City.
 Mrs G. W. Tyson. Kansas City, vs. Miss Florence Beebe, Chicago