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MsmsmsmsmKSmSSmmWmSmyf tilM8S hm limWWiWIWWWMIMMIIl It i tjm i 1 idTrf6er7z HMKm Wv HHBHeffineiHHra 7 7e vyiV 1 ilt VJSW VWBSSSHlster oou SiHu vajo yvjr abs yiMBahAatijgaaaswtsajgii jtLsSEik 1m r3v fr Mjarnlet LnnPaaaeSS CsvggWWPay venient Intervals over the United nHHft fcl i 2 77e AveiQl19 I States It Is reliably reported that New ialttsE SEt Vfer9cerzte Trail ft Jtn mooTo Jrf 77 rL Vprk never experienced such theatrl HSHk Cfrfc JTt rr Jua8n Elftt9i al Monday as the one on which the or IWtSEKM ytfeveff sJffSSMMMumflrmiii P5 tTSnrmX der took effect It is said that there iHH3re JmxsbW CwMrJ wkati0EHHSSK2PittBJ2aw was not a theater on Manhattan Isle wBmkMm YcM Ml IMsteW HfeiaylHSCs i niBEnr nrr i rr mjim iTiflmriffff or resteraw mmmmmmmMmmji 1 1fMi5 pgytwp a ii MPfy i rr cg teiaTOiiM ilKrL ji By FRANK MORSE was only a question of time of course when producing managers I lashed into a frenzy by the appalling play shortage would adopt truly I desperate remedies The war has cut off all theatrical importations from Berlin and Vienna and cut down to a mere dribble the flow of drama from Paris and London Therefore thte men who deal in amusements have turned absolute bolsheviks and are flooding theatrical reviewers with loquests for material to engage the energies of the actors and the interest of the playgoers The situation has become so critical that no critic can be reasonably sure he will not have an advance royalty check thrust upon him some night when he is exposed to danger by the requirements of his avocation Only a few weeks ago one of the more shameless producers persuaded the gentleman whose pen name is Alan Dale to dash off a dainty little thing called The Madonna of the Future It was scheduled for production in Washington At the last moment however the management weakened and shifted the premiere to Baltimore The reviewers in our neighboring city rose nobly to a sense of duty and exhausted their stock of denunciatory phrases on the new comedy It was withdrawn from shellfire in the Monumental city and advanced to the first line trenches in New York the sector from which the author with the camouflaged name has long sniped at established playwrights A rush of Washington theatrical activities caused us to miss the Broadway comments on The Madonna of the Future but a hasty glance at yesterdays advertising columns in a New York contemporary assures us that the production was on exhibition at the Broad hurst Theater as late as last night Word now reaches us that neither coast of the United States is properly fortified A telegram from Los Angeles states that Marys Way Out written by two newspaper men is at once a box office triumph and the talk of southern California A redeeming feature of the incident is to be found in the fact that only 50 per cent of the authorship was provided by a dramatic desk Ashton Stevens who will collect one half of the royalties has been putting pieces about the theater into San Francisco Chicago and New York papers for a dozen years or more but his less sophisticated associate in the venture is Charles Michelson heretofore respected newspaper correspondent and at present the head of the Chicago Heralds Washington bureau There is it seems little hope of keeping the new play quarantined on the Pacific coast Our fear is based on the following diagnosis pronounced not by a registered dramatic critic but by Charles Van Loan the magazine contributor Marys Way Out he westernunions is straight over the Rockies to Broadway Many a winner has traveled farther on less It is a great big American play done in a great way It handles a tremendous subject in a masterful manner handles it without an unnecessary line or a padded situation It is the sort of play where the spectator dares not turn his head or cough for fear of missing something There have been in past years sporadic attempts by reviewers to drown memories of the passing show by perpetrating essays at drama on optimistic managers These activities however were isolated outbreaks that brought only qualified reproach on the craft Now unfortunately the producers are hunting the reviewers from their lairs and urging them to fresh attacks on communities that are not after all compelled to read comments on what they pay to see in the playhouses We have witnessed this year a number of pen children by actors who grow weary of waiting for new writing by professional dramatists Now apparently the reviewers refuse to abide the leisurely output of drama from accepted sources and are determined to provide with one hand subjects one which their other hand may pen those discussions that furnish their raison detre There is consolation of course in the thought that the war cannot last forever EUsm rtlrrt fihCX J3mesCovghLin Distinguished Encomiums i THE Country Cousin the play by Booth Tarkmgton and Julian Street which 0 returns to the National Theater for an engagement of one week can claim a distinction which has been the lot of few dramatic productions in the history of America It has been publicly praised by two Presidents President Wilson and former President Theodore Roosevelt President Wilson saw the play in Washinerton several weeks before it went to New York for an extended run WHERE TO GO TODAY NATIONAL Mme Bappold and Irma feeydel la joint recital tonight BELASCO Newman TraveltalL Our West Indies 3 oclock Over the Top muscal revue tonight at 8 20 KEITHS Last presentations of lat weeks vaudeville acts at 3 and 8 13 POUS Last performance of A Knight COSMOS Last times of last weeks Taude wlle bill Continuojs from 3 STRAND Jv Warren Kerrifan in A Mans Man Film OAKDEN The Gun Woman starring Tesas Guinan Film PLAZA William Russell in In Bad Film CBANDAXLS Love Letters Dorothy Dal too the pictured star Film KNICKERBOCKER The World for Sale Conway Tearle featured Film SAVOY Marguerite Clark In The Seven Swans Film APOLLO Marguerite Clark la The Seven Swans Film AVENUE GRAND Stolen Hours Ethel Clayton the star Film AMERICAN William Hart in The Silent Man FUm LOEWS COLUMBIA Pauline Frederick pictured in Madame Jealousy Film GAYETT Great Star and Garter Show Burlesque 3 and 8 MA80NIO AUDITORIUM Her Second Husband prtoturtag Edna Goodrich Film kind Mr Moore is so he challenged Fred Swindell one of the members of the party and a well known local attorney to 72 holes a day rain or shine and was accepted before the train was boarded in this city The scores have not begun to trickle back to the Capital as yet Possibly they wont for 72 holes a day is a fairly large order Translated Into dancing that would after which Charles Dillingham gave her a line to speak in one of his musical shows She spoke it so well that the producers of Oh Boy gave her five lines to enunciate and now she is a star There has betn invented in Italy a new process of night photography specimens of which have been viewed at private showing in Washington The effect is most remarkable and the pictures are taken instantaneously with no further illumination than the natural night lights reading lamps gas A complete list of the attractions announced by the Washington theaters for this and next week will be found on page this section HB operation of the fuel order wrapped In blankets for the night directing th closing of all lik a lot ot children some Cruelty So cnrecungr tne ciosmsr oi ail cJfttjf nut cQmtg round nd wants to places of amusement on each find some reason for lookln me up for successive Tuesday for ten treatln em unusual Qv a tkuvt Compared to the rest this her weeks has it seems done anything but compan rm 1Ike tne Dutchman and Ms work a hardship on the deeply annoyed dog When the dog died he was simply theatrical managers scattered at con dead but when the Dutchman died he naa to go xo some piace yet All the glad stuff around this company is with the folks that have the soft Jobsv You dont see any beaming smiles on my face that did not enjoy a capacity matinee aare to say can boast of such extensive and turn hundreds of prospective exnerience in the articulate drama as patrons away after i the available can Bessie Barrlscale who makes her standing room had been exhausted debut a a Star in Paralta plays In the While the night performances were elaborate plcturlzation of Harold Mc not raided by such armies of amuse Gratha secret service classic Madam ment seekers as were engaged in the Who at Moores Strand Theater this afternoon drive all playhouses never week Olas Barriscale made her first theless gave shelter to standing room appearance on the stage in her native audiences city New York at the age of 5 years as In Washington much the same con a member of the company supporting dition existed Extra performances James A Heme in Shore Acres Dur 1 wArft AnnnunAAri nmA of whtori hftv lng the next Ave years she appeared in since been abandoned by the way but a lon Ht of child roles of which her not through lack of patronage and most notable was Little Lord Fauntle box office harvests were reaped It ry Among her early experiences was is as it should be This enthusiastic a through the West Indies Trlni support of theatrical entertainment on dad Jamaica the Barbados and south the part of the public certainly Indl aB far Demerara th a theatrical cates a desire to elude the perplexities company Returning to America she of the day and the depressing effects entered school and immediately upon of the war and the means of accom utlng returned to th stage as pushing that end should not be de SI J16 company then nied And It might be remembered flm if ti0 ltT too in this connection that on each fj nf 11 Tj1 ticket of admission to a theater the ZLlJ government receives its bit In the lJZiLJl Jl form of the ubiquitous but none the Barriscale played the role of les Phoprfniiv ni5 1 war to a Love5r Mary Upon her return from less cheerfully paid war tax And England 8ne oecame the 8tar of the lltt huVtentay 8peakln every Alclzar Stock Company of San Pran i mue du neips cisco One of her most pronounced trl Tnntl Tirrr umphs was her creation of the role of Booth Tarkington has written two 01 TCltllffW plays which though very different in Barriscales screen debut was made In aui tuttitttici uuia sutnu cieiui cut rural types of character against more or less debauched city types Both at tJ Vh n3r7 nlavs have crftflt tr mt atT An ths city is The Unbeliever encircle an average sized ballroom 738 or electricity Indoors moonlight street meant to say was that some may be times Figure it out for yourself Justine Johnstones career has been somewhat unusual At the age of 15 she was stage struck and was given employment in a musical comedy because of her attractive appearance After a brief period she went back to her books and as a pupil of a fashionable boarding school in Troy Justine studied diligently making a specialty of languages and music After leaving school Miss Johnstone became a model and posed for the best illustrators in the art world She dinary photography will soon carried her posing into the Follies played to the public in the Capital lamps auto headlights outdoors The detail Is reproduced perfectly and all of the tone values varj mg depths of shadows arrd an effect of third dimension obtained The new process is said to be one that is adaptable to motion pictures being applicable either to plates or film and steps already have been taken with a view to marketing the invention in this country The in entor has In his possession short reels of night fighting on the Italian front that are said to surpass anything that has ever been accomplished even by daytime photography under the old method Examples of this extraor young but It must be fat was essential that all ii ha3 been marked by a steady Increase SwniPrfl qnlnVImit ln Psition prestige There has PhiTSftJ Pin faJy been notMnS Pectacular or extraordl Phlladelphia in the late 0s In this nary about the route musical comedy there was introduced stardom it has been slmolv th rtwJS An early booking at the Strand The fLTr tMc nltw 1 flTVt TT hll aiama M4U U1J XUQ UilUBllQVer DO JXLn a rtriAtAnla TtrVUU UI1I i a nIZ iVih1 iYlam t8 Belgium as background and alS SSTt JS and tb be th legitimate successor of The ETi Cousin which comes to the Blrth of a Natlon ln polnt of mgiZ National Theater the week of February tude and plot interest 11 has done the same thing for Alexandra Carlisle George Broadhurst has placed ln re When Miss Carlisle was first seen ln hearsal a new play by Lillian Trimble this piece last spring she was not a Bradley and himself called The star though she had been regarded as Woman on the Index a player of stellar qualities by discriminating playgoers for several years John Cope has been loaned to Alf Miss Carlisle has been in this country Hayman by David Belasco for the Ethel for only seven years Her first ap Barrymore production of The Off pearance was made on this side of the Chance Atlantic with Joseph Coyne ln The Mollusc From that time her career for the first time what Is technically as dancing chorus The song which first introduced this moving chorus had as Concerts and Recitals is lecnnicauy ftf nnri wrT ontno i vuiiaiauLi i ii ii Known as tne moving otherwise mri nf Amtt Th fli i ww uAwub yai to Mwh NVitbd Ul IjUULOILB lu uh I I The Flappers of 1880 THE 1 ion of the choms says DeWolf Hopper one of the many stars In the annual Winter Garden revue The Passing Show of 1917 which arrives at the Belasco Theater next Sunday evening February 17 direct from its New York run from the far off happy days of Lydia Thompsons British Blondes bewitching Alice Oates and The Black Crook down to the present hour might well be inquired into The time is auspicious In former times the front rows were occupied by the so called bald heads His Own Story is announced to lee a Polls ture here soon at the Belasco Theater argument for universal military training All of the men in this play including George Tewksbury Reynolds would have been better men had hey shared the same dog tent with each other and eaten the same food I want to congratulate Mr Tarkington and Mr Street for havinc written The Conn try Cousin and the actors who capably fact that he is one of the youngest men but are now fllled up with unwhipped present it that ever occupied sucn a position in cubs ot conditions otherwise the silken Washington and certalnlv th mnnt sons of dalliance nurtured in nleasures Private Peat author ot Private Peat talented that ever plied the paint brush flowered lap In the good old days when Alice Oates the Rentz Santleys Female Minstrels or Fanrrv Louise It lQ rflTlfjk tVA fkfnnr rwr A rtir 4 Private Peat whose book has brought take a comedy that haabeen a BUJcceB8 him into sudden fame was a member OT1 thn rtrmtm ntDt or i He it through the performance with of the first Canadian contingent to go a muaicai comedy That is what Ren Obvious pleasure and two days later overseas and because of this he wears nold Wolf did when he wrote The Miss Alexandra Carlisle received an on his shoulders the now coveted blue Rainbow Girl the piece that Klaw autographed letter from him on White shoulder straps that were part of the Erlanger will produce at the Na House stationery as follows Insignia at the time the Canadians tional Theater on Monday February The White House went over He enlisted on August 24 18 The comedy he U8ed was Jerome 25 August 1917 1914 and was in France in time to be Jeromes Fanny anu the Servant Washington in the first gas attack ever made by the Problem It mi hr wh if VMy Dear J1S3iVHV1iTi PX iiun i nose were days of veritable hell was originallv produced in London and gotten amazonian march When our SUSr Steuure you and your associates bu Ts Canaan comrades Pri lt made another when It was done In forefathers occupied the front rows SSfi1 firs Wilson and me the other Yate Peat hun 0IJ day after day At New York under the title of The New unashamed the chorus person was not CferTYJfi in the admirable presentation last he got his and after a long Lady Bantock The heroine of the considered much of a warmer unless tv fimmtry Cousin time in a military hospital returned to torv is a musical romoriv nrimo she possessed limbs like barrels and wim a spear in nana waddled about ttA Dfao irtkx1 iwrf aim uca sue auivcs iti nr niiRHRnn Vwhlch you Piaa 3dUI LOi back with a ereat hie smllft nnH it i i ZZZTS fatinir part May i noy congratulate hMJlllt nf tr ItT cloe wMl LiSwnun doing so aamiraDiy wen a imng ea uy a ouuer wno is ner uncle ana ifeSSs yOU uo hl arnyty Anintr Well Slu on his faps thf TlPnnlp am StTheplaywas delightful and yob played growing to love this slight youth of cousins And then the play oes on JSAit otipf tart in making it so Sin the first contingent how hh 0t SlIyrOUOODROWWlLSON High upon a paTn bridge of Polls fouJcefuloJni wlT iKSPTha night that the play opened in Theater there works a young man who sJtfewxorK xonner jriv voccik wuujuuih impuiui pan oi tne Tom Moore president of Moores AAAitniPn Duwto nizedibetween the acts iB tc Burkingham came to town the callow youth hid in the far reaches of the gallery out of siglit of paterfamilias who was comfortably occupying a front seat Indeed times have changed With the disappearance of the old time bald head and his place usurped by the sometime sickly youth there was a sudden vanishing of the gargantuan chorus lady and the never to be for fTvot rrzTzi Zi i vi inxTd narnruiiLiiY oaaajau iuc iju inLieLLLii wilu uiik luiihr trnnfl nn rn nrhM wv4a nH SsiSLitW lncerity and dignity with hls rlfrht arm 11HlM ZlZ00U L7 7Z 7 ZTT itVhvnu nlaved your own very Inter ZTivZ71iriZ ttu wcc ttrves nusDana rBtJ 7 lu uul umuij jiciu sway Fanny Louise Buckingham say 30 years ago was the idox of the hour When her huge mass of flesh in fieshlings was strapped to a white horse in that dear old delight Mazeppa our daddles aown In the front rows enjoyed themselves as never tpffr np slnrA ThAT wao wiiia iC3occupled Stage box He was recog weekly bills of the Poll Musical Com Theaters Corporation operating the lot to Miss Buckingham And when me to sPn mt wUhf tv 1 Z71 TJ Tr A 0 ttau 7Z1 iuiss ariisie second enraeement in criven on altrnor finndiv introaucea tnis moving cnorus naa as this rmmrrv wa in aW as refrain 3eel and toe away we go FleXnors he MarHact cr WlU be elven ln the National Theater awa7 we SO came The Money Makers the last nISht under the management of Ar Previous to that time the only piay of Charles Klein In succession Ur Gren he soloists will be Mme movement that the chorus made was In followed nrim rr wt Marie Rappold dramatic sonrano of be dis the srand old Amazonian march or the ton Rosemary with John Drew and the Metropolitan Opera Company and tal swinging of the arm and the tossing all of last season with Sofhtrn rma SeydeI be young Boston violin oi tne neaa irom one side to the other in David Garrick The Two Vir wno8e Playing has been character in unison With the dancing chorus tues and In his revival for a war lzed extraordinary fn technique came the charming young girl able to charity of If I Were Klne th tt round tone and spiritual In lnterpre sing and dance moU8 romantio character comedy tatln Only the other day a manager wj facetiously remarked that his drove of Betty Howe diminutive costar with E1as Breeskln violinist and Flor danclng divinities were the finest sing Edward Earle in The BHnrf av enco Macbeth soprano of the Chicago ing chorus in the world from the hips ft Bllnd AdveiJ Grand Oner Comnanv wmM down that they punctuated each nole re th version of Earl Derr PhiwdaV erncon with a kick and were able to reach Baggers etorjr he Affony Column at at tf clock In thVNational Theaten high without straining a tendon Moores Garden Theater this week is The following program will be given a New York girl who since her gradu Symphonic Etpagoole Allerro modnto AiJ Julian Eltlnge is in Keith vaudeville ation from the Cappaqua Seminary in teT Bondo 2tofuM fiSSSklafSSSu It or 15 weeks after which it Is report Chatauqua has made her home inVfifhnSITL iS ed he will return to Los Angeles for 7 Kn t0 her work JSSs frfa Sftfi fi more picture productions Ten seasons 0 he fensn Sr WZr lS have passed since Eltinge was last here height has brown hair nA Bf1 MIIammr IlUby awr2Si UfX SSSi Fonfofutdoo crt SffiSE tltZi he hishest Drlced fe Miss Howe is an adept at swim SSler Mnetf PMSenuSSSa artist in the two a day mtng and rialns dancing Indillhrg a Wh Ells Brewldn Betty Pierce is one of the prominent snfl as nonufJ1 mt0r dy BrloIinist wiir lie the personages in the Shubert i Over the Top at the Belasco career in pictures has been worked out National Theaternext Friday afternoon this week Betty specializes in dain exclusively under Vltagraph direction at 430 Wk Bfc Broro taSt 2 ty schoolgirl types blushing in She began her work in the Vitagraph stranger to Washington music lovers genues and coy young damsels No studio and has never appeared under havlner played here last season In Joint actress on the stage it Is said can any other trade maTk upon the screen recital with pronounced success The better depict a demure country maiden programfor Friday the iBtb will be as than Betty Pierce It Is a fact that pessimist Is a man who has Just follows Miss Pierce know nothing whatever come rom a long conversation with Sonste ia xatJor Adstfo csnUhlls Allerro about the country She Is a born and an optimist writes Brander Matthews Xsrtlnl Concerto AUero aoito bred New Yorker knows the White eminent critic and professor of dra OtloUechf aSSfr Way thoroughly loves the stage and matic literature of Columbia Uni Brown GmtTr fMkowrtT OrteSui devotes all of her spare moments to versity Cnl Eonao Ptptgeao Erntt voice culture anddanclng coSStS PeciVSranL HempeL wTo for the last five Warren Kerrigans second picture ker domTinGomranlof Kthe IP lyric under the Paralta management to fol the Pollyanna company when he Vl 0ftJe Metropolitan Opera Corn low A Mans Man will be called heard the fStSnenT lfuS ex SS Vhe Na The Turn of a Card and will be re Plained that the Sodoms and Gomor FebSa 21 It tf t0 leased during the early part of this rahs are thedogs and cats used in the manmment of Mr wnl month play camouflaged In the verbal disguise SSSelE treat i Ti hn which Pollvanna hvm thm mA empeia great beauty is more than Robert KeanT in the Keith bill sattPearrfgan tteLwn OSlS this week is the comedian who re In theatrical circles as the most con SSfllSSt 1 fllwV5 Wh a lyrC placed Raymond Hitchcock in Miss Armed grouch the world ever knew iuay mai is nawjess Manhattan in London and made an All this glad stuff gives me a Mrs Wilson Greene announces ihat unprecedented hit for an American It Pain continued the man who Is Alma Gck unrivaled American ml will be remembered that he made the closest to the glad factory If Pat Jrano will be head In rtll in the stirring appeal for funds during dona CoJIinge would come and watch me National Theater on Thursday Febru TMfr4tJ fVfttlfA Av UaVm P5F Jifl urrnncr iil The dog that appears in several of the in em Into her baskets I dont see how nrraj rt cr Z7WZir scenes in The Sun Woman ln which she wouldJiave the heart to tco out on GGKTY UDCjE VeiKr itomed earnestness he rlitvrrr tESxrJZZ 7 Cousin is a flrst nu vt aili8u it woum oe 01 several weeks in Florida The first ud the mountain oath with safety In negging the question to say that he is stop called for by the carefully com those eood old far off davs evervhorfv iia Wb ua aVJSSO MWULl bM7 OVagCfi Siir JTOia JLa 7A 1 tr r1 AiiBin 1 nisi zi rnmincr ht tit i ti i mnBiPQi sv ti a iai i iW75tXaTilay ft emphasizes the reviewers are Unanimous in their i where heTe Taio SLt ZZZr5 LUr fled Sfrpolee in 7Ae During th engagement of the Chicago ther lulme forSe flm vlvlotmsnce Wclass American play It ewers are unanimous In their ver where there is said to be a very sporty Yes indeed the dear old days of MKlessonthat have been trying toteach ct that he has arrived and this is golf course that tries the skill of even the Kfralfy extravaganzas have jrone Mlntuch a long time It Is a splendid all the more remarkable in view of the the most seasoned player That Is Ihi never to return SSrSXr tlrrlf in lfortsdcb mmm t5g f3 TeSZiSteL iag CV i A Wise Husband Texas Guinan is to be seen at Moores the stage and pull all that Klad bunk ring on the telephone drew the Garden Theater today and tomorrow is Why dont hardly escape the ewee ooy 1 the pet of the Triangle plant at Culver blamed animals a minute As soon as Lady to talk to you sir said he to CUy Hla crowning triumph in effl the play Is over every one goes home the senior partner dne of those delectable entertainments clency was achieved recently when JDI but me I have to feed the stock and senior partner took up the re who could enter a stage door without rector Borzages Assistant shouted the see that thevr Tiut im nmnr an celver land stood at the nhone for sav ing in sideways was considered vsrell known xalL All of Mr Borzages we get In a new townhalf the time on ra minutes Then he laid the re i consideration fhot Wltr fn infn f4 rf nv 2 fiT ar miMaivi Klralfy show was announc at a dead rtm and was Ot flr tnrirh ft i pv A 5 Tfifr ed managers were wont to look at the staee four nrnMMmnf rn tJ 1 hnno i ifc i i Jnen It Wa8 wflnvp thv n1aa 4i mn fl nirfntr a fTifr In ifmn tftr tVi lrt Tupffiitinn Tramr1rlfAM i ir i zn rr rr it yjB1tu oc OF Wuwbuv I11D JVAlllH IUU UUCIA some are old and some are young and House in New1 York Marguerite 8ylva Xve sarrftTSBi i i Sllkt if fegjNcjr SiA ftij453S wiE fT t3SOJi fSJl sli6 5airiC iSfegf3 2 A Vs wA ftSAt rife A55eiyjiAfSSsl3 SiiTSi a iif feS i fsgSSSSsaggsts r3ixS6ifa5iTT ir fJ iiQss Psafs wamn caancts to oneaiter was suutaiKing aoout the things she pent half a dy trylntoKet some warited forChrlstmas and hadnt iwciiijr ml uc wiu oo neara viieopawa tmnto leed ta srltters and have missed tmeiF PearsonsiWeekly a I sofeltJrfAx Af4li Stir Ft4 JSi iifiSftfeKsal glSPigiE SSWW4.