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THE NEWS, MONDAY, SIARCH 22, 1920. GRIFFITH'S LATEST, "THE IDOL DANCER," 'WHAT'S IN A RESEMBLES POETIC VAUDEVILLE DELUXE ROUND OF WEDDINGS WILL RIVAL SOCIETY GAYETY FOR APRIL "FIND VISITING Clarine Seymour Is Big Hit in Griffith Film Princess, Once American' Girl, Is in Washington VISIONS SOUTH SEA "WHAT'S IN A NAME?" A revue presented at the Marine Elliott Theatre by John Murray Anderson. Principals: Rosalind Fuller; Allyn Kearns. Alice Hegeman, Kd E. Ford, Honey Kay, Mary Lane, PhU White.

Olin Howland, Frank Parker, Gloria Foy, Beatrice Hertord. Herbert Williams. By ANGELA A PRIL, which is less than a fort-night away, is to be a month of weddings, also of much gayety. Easter comes on the fourth of the monjh, and from then on until the summer exodus to seaside and mountain resorts begin there will be. a succession of festivities.

The week to come tiromises "THE IDOL DANCER." Produced by D. W. Presented at the Strand Theatre. Vary Clarine Seymour Ian Barthelmesa Ker, 'ranklin Klythe. George MacQuarrie Walter Kincaid.

Hale Mrs. Kate Bruce I'ouaM Thomas Carr The HIackbirder. Randolph The Kev. Peter Porter Strom? Old Thomas. Heroert Kuteh Wantio Flack Slave.

Pansy Florence Short Native Boy Ben Grauer Native Musician. Walter Kolomoku 1 i I I 4 V. mmm By McELLIOTT. JT'is good to be something of an optimist when one's faith in the taste of the pee-pul is justified by the sort of gay and imaginative entertainment presented last Friday night, after various postponements, by John Murray Anderson at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. "What's in a Name?" is by way of being a de luxe variety show, if anything so ragilely lovely and poetic as the Dresden shepherdess number has ever been projected on any vaudeville stage.

This is. doubtful. But it is a pardonable comparison, in that the various bits are unrelated by any pretense ol story-telling; they are strung rather, like bright unmatched beads on a thin chain. Mr. Anderson indicates in hisj prologue that he has woven the chain for the weary man of business.

He pretends the offering is an impromptu affair built of youthful fancies and budding talent. For its projection he has chosen a galaxy of alert, comely young people who can dance and sing and wear extraordinary costumes with an air. The costumes, by the way, are beautifully bizarre and fanciful. They are of an order to make even your most jaded optics widen with pleased astonishment. You are, in a manner of speaking, in one broad gasp as the splendid mannequins parade them before you, behind a tantalizing mist of gauze curtains.

Allyn Kearns, an energetic youth whose imitation of George M. Cohan must vastly amuse that gentleman (so like it is, or seems to me, at least), is one of the unheralded and very competent principals. Then there's Olin How-land, the tall and very lean, in various guises, from a one-man playing of all the characters in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to the tragic figure in Dunsany's The Guest." The latter is a part of S. Jay Kaufntan's pithy sketch, titled "Highlowbrow," which, one hears, was first presented within the sacred portals of the Lambs Club. It is an artfully artless insertion of much more weighty material than that usually bound up in AMUSEMENTS.

much for both young and old. There will be two "varsity shows, in cluding the annual production of Columbia at the Astor and the annual Yale show at the Plaza. The same night brings a dance at the Ritz, the second of the Colony- dances, to which most of the col lege men will he taken. On Satur day evening Mr. and Mrs.

James Speyer will open their house at 1058 Fifth avenue for a musicale. at which Fritz Krfiisler.will play. NEWS ABOUT MOVIES Madge Kennedy will bein work on "The Truth" at the Goldwyn studio tomorrow. The picture Is an adaptation of Clyde-Fitch's play of that title. Douglas MacLean and Doris May, with the company supporting them in "Lucid Intervals," are 1n San Diego, where ten days will be spent taking nautical scenes for the film.

Marshall Neilan plans to produce pictures abroad. He will sail shortly for foreign shores, taking with him an entire company, in cluding Miss Marjone Daw. Marcus- Loew is to arrive in Nashville, this morning, marshaling a party of picture and stage stars who are to be his guests at the opening of a new theatre there Doraldina, June June Caprice, Anna Luther, Mae Murray, Claire Whitney, Lillian Walker, Rubye de Remer, Anne Luther, Taylor Holmes, Conway Tearle, Carlyle Blackwell, Juanita Hansen and Jack Clifford are among the party. Governor Roberts of Tennessee is to dedicate the new playhouse. The Hippodrome is adding two new circus scenes to its programme this week.

They- are "At the Circus" and "Inside the "Hippodrome." "Monsieur Beaucaire," at the New Amsterdam, will close its engagement on April 3, to be followed on Monday, April 5 by the Ed Wynn Carnival. A second company of "Shavings" has been organized by Henry W. Savage, to be put into re hearsal as soon as an actor can De found for the role which Harry Beresf ord plays the original cast. The Theatre Parisien company closed its road season at Montreal on Saturday, and will arrive in New York tomorrow. The players are to sail shortly for Paris, but will iturn next season for a long engagement.

AMUSEMENTS. MAnrcnit caddpn1 RiNGUIIG BROS Ar-iO BARNUHsBAILEY THE wOHDER SHOW OF THE UNIVERSE SURPASSING IN SPECTACULAR NOVELTY AND STARTLING ORIGINALITY ALL CIRCUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF PREVIOUS YEARS! Giarantlc Zaa. of TVeaks. Admiaxion to Everything, including eats, 60c to J3. according to location (WAR TAX Children under 11 At reduced prices, all matinees, except to $1.10 seata over BOX OFFICE OPENS TODAY.

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Mr. Griffith has gone and done it again! Twanging upon the harp of life with all his might, he has made a pictorial love story of the tropic seas, visioning romance there as a languorous and heavy scented flower. Some of the sub-titles, I think, are overheavyi with moon madness and mawkish sentiment. They can-vef to yoa the effect of overanx-iety on the part of the producer to "pub across" the atmosphere of the picture. Richard Barthelmess and Clarine Seymour are the players featured.

Miss Seymour, who is of a dark, accented beauty, fits very well the role of French-Samoan-Javanese AMUSEMENTS. (EMPIRE SL -M I Uuiim IV'nL Ml. tit inri. in Z4tK Flay BARRYMORE DECLASSEE rNKKlRBIKKFK, lfwar SHta Ht. E.

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is the latter city with her husband after having spent some time here. Since her marriage into the Italian noburty the princess has lived in Italy. She came to America last fall, called here by the death of her mother, the widow of General Draper, onetime American -Ambassador to Italy. Prince Boncom-pagni joined his wife here. The princess is noted for her beauty and vivacity.

fche has been presented at most of the European Courts. (By Barrett, Rome.) music comedy. The "Bridal Veil" song, charmingly sung by Miss Rosalind Fuller, introduces the loveliest pageant of the evening, a slim? stately procession of brides in period costumes. With real melody in place of "jazz," with vivid and graceful dancing instead of the atrocities which are being performed in most revues this season, "What's in a Name" may be hailed as a pioneer. We are wishing it the best of luck! Ruth Chatterton Play Ruth Chatterton will begin, during Easter week, rehearsals of a new play by AE.

Thomas, titled "Just Suppose." This will necessitate Henry Miller's changing his plans for daily matinees of "The Famous Mrs. Fair" at Henry Miller's Theatre. Only a special Easter Monday matinee will be given that week, in addition to the regular Thursday and Saturday afternoon performances. AMUSEMENTS. A CARNIVAL OF FUN AND MUSIC.

IVOLI I Wallace Reid St- RiVOLI ORCHESTRA JIALTO DOROTHY eiSH in "Mary Ellen Cornea to Town." bar lie Chaplin RIALTO ORCHESTRA TIMES SQUARE CAPITOL B'way at Slat St. ETHEL CIATTON Vootti Mrs. Wln-throp" and Grand Opera. "Paolettai." CAPITOL ORCH. OF 80.

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Roof 1 A. If. MAE MURRAY, "On Witk die Daacc' Loew's Amer. Roof "THE NEW LEADER." "HEARTS AND FLOWERS." HENRY AND MOORE aad Six Otker Bit Acts. All Saata BROADWAY FRISCII.I.A PEAN ia "VIRGIN OF STAMBOUL" Today.

Aeolian Hall, 3 P. M. 3d Frederic Warren Ballad Concert Uuoii at Hamlin Piano. CLARINE SEYMOUR, who plays the vivid, flowerlike heroine of "The Idol Dancer" at the Strand Theatre, is evidently a D. W.

Griffith "find." So far as we know, this is the first picture in which she has been starred. Her stellar honors sit gracefully upon her. maid dances wild, strange dances to her "devil-devil," and who wears a sort of super-Hawaiian costume in preference to the staid ginghams which the white missionary offers. Some of Richard Barthelmess's earnest devotees will bewail the fact that he is in this a crude, unshaven creature, but they'll surely not find fault with his playirig. He seems to me to have added several inches to his histrionic stature and is to the life Dan McGuire, beach comber, torn by the many emotions with which the director (or the scenario writer; one never knows) endows him.

"The Idol Dancer" tells a story that is purely theatrical, but it gives, and Mr. Gnthth takes, many opportunities for the sort of grouping and the effects he manages so very well. There's a rather doubtful element of comedy in the person of Florence Short, as Pansy, a little South Sea flower who grows wilder hour by hour. The audience or optience at the Strand yesterday afternoon was vastly amused by her curious wrigglings. AMUSEMENTS.

D.W.GRIFFITH again triumphs- with The Idol Dancer, his radiant romance of the South Seas, now at the STRAND THEATRE. THOUSANDS UNABLE TO SECURE SEATS Programs today at 12.45, 220, 420. 535. 7.45. 9.45.

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