Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-09

out what 1t was SO eager 10 COM
municate to me. The feeling of this
strange presence, however, faded in
a moment or two, and / turned and
rejoined my fellow actors feeling
considerably upset and shaken by my
experience.
Il am not very SuperStitious and
I don't believe in ghosts, but I do
wish that some day may have
believable explanation of my ex-
perience."
Without attempting to pose as an
expert in such matters, one might
suggest to Miss Robson that she has
the explanation in her current ex-
perience as the star of Ladies in
Retirement" mystery play.
X X
Thanks to Harry Macarthur, a
department which is not too GER
tain about its explanation of the
great Robson mystery, still is able to
explain about the mandolira. 1t
goes:
Dear j. c.: You, too, may have
heard about the new music by the
Andrini Trio at the Roger Smiths
Cafe Caprice, music which fea-
lures a mandolira. And you. too,
may have wondered what in the
world would prompt one to take up
the study of something called the
mandolira. Well, the answer is
that you don't take it up, you in
herit it. The one Lawrence Andrini
plays belonged to his grandfather,
has been in the family for more
than a century.
Nov if you are thinking of re-
futing these statements by going out
and taking up the study of the
mandolira, you're going to have
heck of time. Mr. Andrini has
toured for years in vaudeville with
out finding another like it. Thought
he had at one time in San Francisco,
but it turned out to be a fake, just
like all those fake Stradivarii.
THE authentic mandolira, in case
you ever should run across one,
would be one of Is made in the 18th
century in Venice by fellow named
Calace, who seems to have been the
Stradivarius of the mandolira bust
ness. He also was apparently
lad with the instincts of a Luther
Burbank.
THE mandolira is what you might
expect, a cross between a mandolin
and a Tyre. 1t even looks like a
cross between a mandolin and a
Tyre Lawrence Andrini, however,
does not look like cross between
a mandolin player and a Grecian
maiden playing Tyre when he plays
his mandolira at the Cafe Caprice.
The Andrini mandolira has seen
a bit of drama since it immigrated to
this country. When young Lawrence
arrived here at the age of 13, &C
companied by his mother, it was
the mandolira that got them into
the country. For couple of weeks
they were forced to remain at Ellis
Island, unable to locate a brother
in San Francisco. Then one day
a man came up to Lawrence, asked
him if he'd like to play at a con-
cert. Sure, said he, glad of
chance to get away from conflne-
ment for a while. The upshot was
that mamma explained their pre-
dicament to a chatty woman sitting
next to her at the concert, and
next day they were on train for
the West. The woman was the wife
of the immigration commissioner.
The Andrini mandolira also
worked in a picture-one Of the
Gish sisters held it for two hours in
a film called "Romola.' It's salary
for the two hours was 5000. HIM"
These Rooney pictures! How
they upset precedent Strike
Up the Band" now at the Capitol,
for example, is a good bet to 60
into the Palace tomorrow :. 1t is
only the third picture in its career
that the Palace has inherited from
another theater After the
Thin Man" was the first Boys
Town" was the second . And these
Durbin pictures! Deannas
eighth, Spring Parade" is the
eighth straight Durbin picture to
be held over at Keith's They
don't even wait until the last minute
to make the announcement as In
the case of most followers.