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Gossip of the Stage and Screen
-Plays and Pictures Talked About in Amusement Circle
Cn9?</?>//?
Manager Jarboe, of the Gaye t y
' Theater, reports that this Is the
first time this season that the sale
of tickets started two weeks In ad
vance. Requests are already coming:
in for reservation? for John Bedini's
"Peek-a-Boo."
Frank Young;, treasurer of the
I ?ayety Theater, ha.* been confined
to his home for the last two weeks
with a severe cold.
A BRIGHT LITTLE THING
Miss Dright ia the vivacious lit
'tle person whoee performance Is
one of the "brightest" things In
"Every Little Thing" at the. Be
lasco this week. Washington has
?een her delightful performance
in "?Seven Chances," and she ha?
a long list of successes to her
rrfdit. having appeared in "Cousin
Lucy" at th?? Kiting*? Theater in
New York, with William Collier
at the I,rOngacre. with the "Lady
of the Slipper." "I Iai*c You" and
many others. Born in California,
in a Sierra Nevada mining ramp.
to be exact, she later removed to
San Francisco with her parents
and received most of her school
ing there.
Girl-like, she womiwd what lay
over the mountain p.-ak.?? and. deep
down in her heart, she cherished
a longing to see New York. "?11
things come to those who wait."
she said, "but I knew New York
would never eorne to me. m I just
packed up and came to New York."
If she ever had cause tt? ree ret
it. her cheerful laugh did not be
tray the fact. personality is an
asset of inestimable value in an
. actress, and Miss Bright radiates
personality.
I For the first time in theatrical
history George Washington will be
presented as the principal figure of
a play?on Washington's Birthday.
AMUSEMENTS.
POLIS THEATER
M?ida). Pet?. IS. n.rtn
Cai is? ?* Only Rirai.
BONCI
and BROCK.
4?wl?r. Fes. 22. ,1i30.
EMMY DESTIKN
Mareh 8. 4 ?.an.
EUGENE YSAYE
Hare* 1?. 4i30
LOKZALEY QUARTE
Joaeph Ikev-laar. 1'l.nlat
Mareh SX ??SO.
MME. LOUISE HOMER
MISS LOUISE HOMER
?arch 2?. 4130.
TITTA RUFFO
All tlrkr??. Si t? (3. new aw sale
at I??! r ?t. F?"?r lala TUST,?
* V Mil M IM. A
CONCERT
EXTRAORDINARY
Oa the Iflemooa at
SUNDAY, FEB. 29
4 MASTERS ?PIANO
LEVITZKI
ORNSTEIN
ROBENSTEIN
GODOWSKI
Taritela Il ?Un asa?? .,
AITH? JORI) A ?? PIAVO
CO_ lath aas* ? eta. IV. w.
The place will be the Shubert-Be
laaco Theater and the portrayer of
the great First American will be
Walter Hampden. The piece wilt
then have its first presentation on
any stage and the event wil be one
of quite unusual moment, apart
from its direct dramatic interest.
Percy MacKaye is the author and
his work is in three aots. with a
prologue. The play was recently
published in book form and Is cred
ited with having aroused a country
wide interest, not alone fnr its his
torical quality and its inevitable pa
triotic value, but also for the novel
form. Not a few of the book-re
viewers have expressed th? belief
that Mr. MacKaye has evolved a
?lramatic style likely to have revo
lutionary effect. The play la spec
tacular and will call for a company
of seventy persons headed by
??eorge Marion, while the settings
have been designed by the masterly
Kobert Edmond Jones. Mr. Hamp
den will appear in the quality of
?.-tor-manager in this production,
following thus closely upon his re
markable triumphs of last season
and the early part ?? ...is in "Ham
let.'?
AMUSEMENTS.
THEDA MAKES A STATEMENT
Apropos of Theda Bara** appear
ance in person under A. H. Woods'
direction in the spoken play, "The
Blue Flame.*? at Poli** tomorrow eve
ning, Miss Rara has the following: to
say:
"I have been so long identified with
the screen that I am sure everybody
will want to know whether this is a
motion picture. 'The Blue Flame" Is
not a motion picture.
"My first vampire part on the screen
was in a picture called ? Fool There
Was.'
"I don't care to divulge my private
life. I do not see that it heightens
the interest in an art ist'p work.
"I consented to appear in 'The Blue
Flame' b?-cause I think it Is a good
play, and because I hope I <an do as
v.-ell on the stage as I did on the films.
**I have never given advice lo young
girls who want to go on the stage or
who want to act before the camera.
I don't intend to begin now. Advice
never made a career. It may have
spoiled many.
"As to who I am and where I com*1
from. I am Theda Bara, a resident
of the I'nited States of America, an
actress by profession, circumstance
and irresistible inclination. That is
all one need know to enjoy the play."
Kitty Gordon recently took the stand
in her own behalf last week in her
suit ?gainst the World Film Com
pany for Sin.OOt}. Her suit is
based on Injuries she says she re
ceived while making a picture on
May *7. PUT.
Pinna Xesbit also figures in this
courtroom drama as the nurse in
the case. She was the one whom
Miss Gordon set out to rescue, ac
cording to testimony, and in doing
the rescue act received injuries.
Miss Gordon said on t he stand
that there had been no rehearsals
and she was supposed to rescue
Miss Nesbit. who In private life is
the wife of Frederick Kruger. a
brother of Mrs. Rodman Wana
maker. She did not know thcr*1
was to be an explosion, but when
she went over the top and found
the wounded Red Cross nurse with
her golden hair streaming over her
shoulders, reflecting the last rays
of the shimmering twilight, she
soon discovered an explosion was
being presented. The light blared
all around and in a second she said,
shr* w%? forced to do real rescue
AMUSEMENTS.
??IHHHaffH^HaMHHSMCSawaBwa-wta
E O ? W9
PALACE
-TODAY-ALL THIS WEEK?
THEATRR
WALLACE REIB
"The be?t-looking
?asa ia pictures."
AY
By J. Stewart Woodhoase.
A motorini romanee with Cupid at the
wheel thai takes all curves on ^gh and
sends two youthful hearts across the line
to happiness. Wanda Hawley, Tully Marshall
and Theodore Roberts have prominent roles.
PaALACE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
?????? Jo?*?? Clisas.Dissetar
Overture - . - * "Geme of the Sunny ?South"
work, extinguishing the sparks that
found lodgement in Ml?*-. NVsbit'?
hair.
Then, according to the testimony
presented, there was another ex
plosion. This time It gave Miss
Gordon a boost skyward, she said.
burned her limbs and eyelashes
and sent her to the hospital for A
time. She declared on the stand
that she received permanent inju
ries.
George Cowl, the director who
staged the picture, was a witness
for the defense. He told the story
of the preparation for the battle
scene in which a number of smoke
bombs were used. Miss Gordon, he
said, had to come out of a shack
after t*he had sent two men to
rescue Miss Nesblt. who had been
shot and was lying in "No Man's
l,and."
He said Miss Gordon followed the
action to the point when she
gathered Miss Nesblt in her arms.
The bomb was then lighted, but
not before Miss Gordon was told
it was behind her. The electrician
shouted "misfire!" and started an
other explosion to the right of
Miss Gordon. This evidently
startled her. for she stepped back
and the first bomb, which had thus
far failed to explode, blew up and
the girls were hurt. He said th?
bombs were placed from six to
eight feet from a performer ?}?.
? void possible Injury and there
would have been no difficulty If
Miss Gordon had not stepped bark
Klaw and Krlanger's stupendous
production of "Ben Hur" is to be
presented at the New Nations!
Theater the week beginning Mon
day, March 1. under the direction of
nt A. L?. Krlanger. This might ?
drama is now in its twentyjfirsl
year and ha.? been witnessed by
more than 10,000,000 people. When
it was first presented at the Broad
way Theater. New York, on Novem
ber 29. 189?, it was conceded by
critics to be the most wonderful
achievement of the American stage.
AMUSEMENTS.
CALIFORNIA WINS PAULINE
Paulin? Frederick, the (loldwyn
?tar, ha? decided to make her per
manent home In California. Just
after she completed her latest pic
ture. "The Pallser Case." which was
directed by William Parke, and
which will be shown for the first
times In Washington st Crandall's
Metropolitan and Knickerbocker
Theater?, beginning today, she went
to New York on a flying trip.
While In the. East ?he ?old her
beautiful country home In Con
necticut, per riding horse? and other
impedimenta > too cumbersome to
send West by freight. She ha? re
turned to California with her choic
est books and bric-a-brac and pur
chased s handsome home In Bev
eerley Mills, s fashionable suburb of
Iao? Angele?. It look? very much
a? though Pauline Frederick mean?
to desert the legitimate stage for
a few years st least, and devote all
her talents to pictures.
The Los AnKele? ?tree, car strike
of last August and It? sympathetic
tatl-plece. a tie-up of the Incoming
transcontinental ?team trains. Inci
dentally, temporarily held up the
production of "The Pallser Ca?e."
Warburton Gamble, the well-known
Kngllsh actor, who was cast for one
Of the principal roles of the .Irama,
was on his way West from New
York City when his train was de
tained st Albuqueniue. It was
suggested that If he weighed lea?
than 1G.0 pounds the maximum
weight allowed by the parcel post
law. that he might do himself up
in a Christmas package and come
Into Laos Angele? In a mall sack.
A really practical plan was to have
the studio airplane fly over the
borders of the State In order to
pick up the missing artist. How
ever, (?amble says that Just when
he was standing In a passengers'
bread line In the crowded little
N?w Mexico city the strike w??
amicably Mttled. ?nd locomotive?
were brought I? to h?uJ th? People
from the hot desert.
D?Tld Bciasco. ? few ye?rs ?go.
referred to Elsie Ferguson as one
of th? three most natural actresses
on the American stater-.
Her? are Miss Ferguson'? view?
on naturalne? in acting:
'There i? no such thing as actual
naturalness on the stage." she said.
"On* ?cerne natural, that i? all."
''I hoc? 1 can make that clear. If
a woman quarrel? with her huaband
or her sweetheart in her drawing
room there is a scene in some degree
of course, iahe (probably raises her
voice a key or Two ?nd she move?
about the room. Or she may grant
herself a few gestures. But that
scene would be quite lost In a
theater. She must at least doubl*,
her Intensity, maybe triple or quad
ruple It. That depends upon the
aise of her theater. But that ?he
must speak twice as loud, that her
gestures must be twice as strong,
and definite, there is not the slight
est doubt.
?To be natural she must be simply
her every . day self. Hut if she did
only this she would receive an
early and inexorable notice from
her management. She mu?t weigh
her speeches, read some slowly,
some quickly, determine Just what
emphasis to ?rive to a certain word
and Increase the weicht of emphasis
if needed.
"This so-called naturalness Is a
mere matter of mathematica. I
suppose I am what Is termed a
natural actress because I have al
ways liked that style of acting. A?
J ?at in front and studied the
methods of established players ?
foun* myself admiring Intensely
those whose manners were nearest
to fhose of twentieth century life. I
came to understand .that in small
theater? of today what we tern?
naturalness Is necessary.
"When I play some tat my scenes
AMUSEMENTS.
* RECULAR 60Y"HAS
ROLE OF HUCK ???
IN SCREEN VERSION
Hucklebery Fino, were he Ib the
f.e?h today, would probably approve
of the youngster who Impersonal??
him In the aereen version ot Mark
Twain'? boy hero, which open? Ita
i.eeond cons?cutives week of showing
lit Moore's Oarden Theater today.
The cinema Huck Finn is In real Ufa
lacwis Sargent, whose past career re
tiemble* In many respect? that of
Huck himself. Young Sargent I? II
years old. freckle-faced and red?
headed, and he has been acting la
pictures for three years.
He vu one of a family of eleven
children. HI? parent? were not well
off and Lewis went to work helping
hi? older brothers collecting rag?
und bottles almost as soon aa lie
?lonned short pant?. A year at Oil?
and he had enough saved up to buy
a lawn mower, with which he went
into business on his own hook, trim
ming the neighbors' lawns. He
abandoned this for the more lucra
tive and exciting game of selling
papers on the streets of Los Angelea
The day when he went to the Lanky
studio and secured a lob as an "ex
tra" at a dollar a day was the luck
le?t In hi? life, as it started him on
hi? film career.
In "Sacred and Profane laove." per
son? in the front row are npt ?tx
feet away from me. I must ?peak,
or scorn to be natural. Ih the days
when actors ' played across a big
apron stage in a large house, they
might speak more slowly, might de
claim and use broad, sweeping ges
ture?."
AMUSEMENTS.
MARDI GRAS BALL
4 nr.lv.I of the ???.on? far
XelghaorBood Hon.?
IIIMIU FEBRl'ARY IT, 10 ? .
HEW WILLARD HOTEL
Fancy Dreaa If Paaalble.
Paa-eaa? Maria 1??*?
Ticket?, *.?>. in? indina
On aale lloirl seswIaUi ?r
I ranklln ?X?X
TWIN HEADUNERS
TAMEO KAJIYAMA CO. THE UTTLE CAFE
Famoui Handwritng Expert A Romance of Grecawick VilUje
A marvelous exhibition of manual A bit of New Tork'a Bohemia
and menial dexterity. First time at brought to Washington. Comedy,
popular prices. Songs. Romance and Beauty.
GOULD & ALLMAN
The Two Black Laugh?
?Ine *f Vaudeville'? Fannie??
RIsrLI.cr Te????.
MOLLY DARLIN
With Gardner. Dohj;Uj ft Co.
A rlever < aaaavedy Sketck. A Capable
' ??i ot Pasar.
THOS. POTTER DUNN W. S. HARVEY & CO.
In Comedy Characters and Songs "The Room Upside Down"
MIUS&MORLEY^
la Bits of Chatter and Patter
THE ROAMING BATHTUB
A New Rex Sunshine Comedy
Special Matinee Feature Fimi at 1:15 and 4:45 Only ,
McLEAN & MAY IN "WHAT'S YOUR HUSBAND DOING?'
?:W'^..';,'i.;"
COLUMBIA
TODAY AND ALL WEEK
ENGAGEMENT EXTENDED!
The tremendous public enUi'usiasm which manifested itself all in.?'
u>eek t'n capacity amdienca at Ixiew's PALACE Theater requins
a triumphant extension/or one more week of the supreme cinema Ut?
The winsome genius America calls "sweetheart"
The glorious, girlish queen of the photoplay
realm who has put the greatest acting
of her brilliant screen carter into
POLLYANNA
?the smashing story suc
c?s* of the new generation
?the "glad girl" tale
that millions have
read?the picture of
sunshine, char m
and tear*?1910' s
supreme screen
offering?
Th? "Rulliti lb??" will op?? fer A cable ??.????-? ka? ap?arta?1 ?ka?
. w?ek'? raa at th? B?lraont The?? Salara? ot th* fact tkat ??>? fi>r,
or. New Torti, ?? February 1?. Tkr**" la a kit at tke Hay*?
UsTsr? Borowsky head? the caart. Loadoa.
AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS.
TODAY 2:M P. M.-ALL WEEK 11 A. m 11 P.
l'irsi National Exhibitors Present ? ?
a Data.soHCT_T<!_TsMe nn ami an
I Tre ve<j- s ariosi.
re&vjtifui Photooiey
\ Katherine
Mao Donald
i ?? ? Str.fv *yy
;*. RoD*rt vv Chambers ?
>,MThe
Turning
k*Jlll
y. .' ale romance o?
. > ? ? woman? sei1
.-?\ ." Sccrifice ? ?
BOWK OF TklK NOftT
???G?G?G1. *CK)VK? A ?TO
?jan-rixji? KVKR
FHOTOKsUrBED
<? ' . -
^??'?
PADDED PBAITBBt:
Rialto Symphony Orchestra, Daniel BrresUn, Conductor
Overture: Selected Comedy.
Selections from "Fernst" Current Events.
Violin Solo, "Alice Bine Gown." Topical Digest.
MOORES
MwIMCI
TODAY 230 P. M.?ALL WEEK 11 A. M. 11 P. M.
/. .s'iner? Blockten Presents am
ORI?.INAI . KOVBL, 8I*1CV. mm LATI?. HOPAalT.
"Respectable By Proxy
Will aTLVIA
Orchestral Keaiarv?
laut aa? KORt:iii a.?am.ai\
Itimut Attr

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