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The House of Fashion Beautiful Dresses, $32-50 to $60 Values Cantons, Satins, Roshanara and Tricotines Tremendously Reduced 1115 1117 F STREET Again tomorrow this exceptional opportunity will be available in Emphasis should be placed on that word "Quality"? especially tomorrow?for to the remaining Frocks of the purchase?we have added many taken from our regular stock?within the same price limits? $50 to 585 Grades Smart street models. Superb afternoon models, v Splendid evening models. Special dance models. Made of the highest grade weaves?designed by leading artists?made by the most skilled workmen. All Ladies' and Misses' Sizes! 1 About a Piano Sale I Pianr^ They are used Pianos?but that shouldn't de / # tract from your interest in them. They have been % of highest used?but not abused?and proper use helps % Reputation rather than hurts a good make of piano?such as ? these are?makes I handle because my experience 1 Kranich | tells me they are the best. Bach They are $450 and $500 Uprights / Emerson and I am going to sell them for almost half off Lindeman 5 Sons 2 5 ?for which I 6 am sole agent 2 here. arranging the terms to your convenience. You cannot appreciate what it means until you have seen these Pianos and heard the quality of their tone. i Victrofas and Records I shall be glad to demonstrate any of them, Worch Building $1000 to $35.00 NATIONAL?"The Intimate Strangers." ^Old Washington" turned out en ! masse again last night to welcome her na(ive daughter. Miss Blllie Burke, in the premiere of her new Booth Tarkington play. The Inti mate Strangers." It was not Mold j Washington' in the sense of age, but | the Washington it used to. be a few short years ago, before burlesque en tered into our social life and discord ant jass had set .the brains of our young folks awhirl. It required such en audience to fully appreciate the charm of a little actress, who had long ago won the affectionate regard of those who are proud to call her their own and ?he delightful play that America's great dramatist had provided for her. The National Theater this week is not the place for grouches or for "nigh brows," or, indeed, for those who live in the mad whirl of modern ideas of enjoyment. But for those who love tne poewy of life it will be the mecca of the week. It wi/uid be sheer impudence to at tempt to describe Billie Burke or how she wins the rippling laughter I and the enthusiastic applause from | her audience. It cannot be done. She | is a creature unto herself, unique and i exquisite. Her new play fits her per ! t'ectly, even though it was originally written for that other delightful ac j tr?ss, Maude Adams. It sparkles with i wit,* it enchains with a double ro ! mance which contrasts the girl of i today with the girl of yesterday, and ! it leaves only a feeling of pleased contentment even to the old idiot who still loves to indulge in the dreams of the adolescent. Beginning with the girl of yester- | day and a lawyer of uncertain age who are virtually stranded hi an old railway station, half starved and ab solutely uncertain as to the future, because a hurricane has wrecked rail way hopes on both the main and a branch lines, it carries the audience ! to the homo of the girl, where, with the most delicious high comedy, the blase lawyer is tortured into utter submission, after he has dared to doubt the age of the girl whose hand he had reverently kissed the night before In the station with a "Good night, dear," and aroused hopes such ,a proceeding might justly provoke. Meanwhile, having expressed a rath er sharp opinion of "brazen young huzzies in breeches with pints of home-made gin in their hip pockets," he is subjected to the storm siege of a young woman "in breeches," but tninus the gin, who longs for a seri ous adventure with an elderly man before she decides as to exactly what I she wants. i The lines of the play are delicious i and the situations amusingly delight ful. It is not one of those plays I where physical "action" breeds storm centers, but where mental action sparkles with the suddenness, fre quency and brilliancy of lightning in ! a thunderstorm. A bit nervous at the outset. Miss [Burke quickly regained the mastery I of herself and afterward was her own inimitable self throughout, with all her cleverness of old and those inde scribable bits of personality which have established her ineffaceably in the hearts of her .admirers. Alfred Lunt presents a difficult and a deli cate characterization of a lover more often found, it is believed, in the novel than in real life, and this, in ??rLte ?* ***e fact that as Johnnie W hite, who adored the modem young girl, but was willing to take a chance on an older one, whom he could "look op to," Glen Hunter's work as a young lover almost ran away with Frances Howard is ideal as the giddy "young thing in breeches," erratic, but wholesome and lovable, and Charles Abbe, as the station mas ter; Elizabeth Patterson, as Aunt! alien, and Clare Weldon, as the maid, with Frank J. Kirk, as the. manser- j vant, complete an adequate and ex cellent cast. SHTJBEBT-GABBICK?"The Mad Dog." In prehistoric days man lived in a cave. His only weapon was a club, when he went forth in search of a mate, it is more or less reliably as serted by the historians, he took his club with him. When he found the woman of his choice he Carried her off, using the club, if necessary, to subdue her. Whether such matings were happy is only a matter of con jecture today. This "cav? man stuff" is popularly reported to be still effective?with some women, at least. In "The Mad Dog. a new play, by George Scar borough, with Conway Tearle In the title role. which was presented at the Shubert-Gatrick last night, is found the cave man in the ninth degree. He commits a crime against a young and innocent, girl, which leads sometimes to lynchings in this countrv. The audience is asked to believe that, ten days later, the girl finds herself in love with "The Mad Dog." The program, quoting Philaster. has it that "Nature loves not to be ques tioned why she did this or that?she : has her ends?and knows that she ?ioes well." Whether an American girl of today, removed by so many generations from her qave grand mother. would react to this character of wooing, as the playwright would have the world believe, is also a matter of conjecture. | "The Mad Dog," in its theme, at ? least, follows closely "The Great Di | vide" of fifteen years ago, which , Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin, largely by their marvelous acting, made a classic of the American stage. In fact, the incidents pictured foliow rather closely those of thp older play. But there is a rawness about "The Mad Dog" lacking in its prototype, a baldness of statement and action that tended to make tt still more difficult for the auditor to believe that love will develop under such treatment. A little left to the Stylish New Mesh Bags Distinctive shapes, expressive of Fashion's latest tendencies, mark the new styles in mesh bags. The graceful contour and the dainty, soft, silklike mesh make these costuihe acces sories a thing of beauty admired by all women. I imagination might make the story I appear more probable. I The Had Dog, pictured by Con way Tearle, is an escaped convict. ; Be Is on his way from Colorado through Arizona to the Mexican bor der, when, seven miles this side of | the line, he enters the old San Pablo ! Mission. He finds the girl, Maria, ! alone. She feeds him, bathes his | wounds and seeks to Influence him I to repent his former crimes. In re turn, he drinks the sacramental wine and assaults the girl. The following i day the Mad Dog returns, to make payment, he says, for what he has done. He urges the girl to shoot him, but she will not till he threat ens her again. Throughout the long day Maria watches the man who has wronged her writhing In pain, crav ing a drink of water, which she de nies him. In the end. in his de | llrium, the Mad Dog tells the story | which brought Ulm to the Colorado ! "pen" as a "lifer." He, too, had suf I fered. The girl relents. Ten days ! later, apparently with the consent of the old priest who has been the girl's guardian, they wander off to 'gether on the trail to Mexico, Just escaping the sheriff. Conway Tearle is convincingly the Mad Dog?at least In the tlrst two acts. The conversion of such a man to better ways, shown in the last act, is difficult to imagine, more so to portray. Helen Menken is cast as Maria. Her acting for the most part is admirable, though occasional ! ly the effect is spoiled by a touch too much of "maddogishneBs," par ticularly while she is bent upon let ' ting her assailant die. | Attempted relief from the tragic i element is provided by the introdurr tion of Blue Quail." an Indian girl, played by Margaret Knight, who dif fers from the proverbial cigar store wooden Indian only In the fact that she speaks a kind of broken Kng lish. Padre Falcon, a kindly old man \ hose comments upon life and nature arc Intended to give the key to the solution o'f the problem arising from the first act of the play, is well played by Charles Kraus. Others In (Continued on Page 23, Column 3.) THE BEST ?Is always the cheapest. It is especially so In our cast*. Onr fur work is the best?our prices are the cheapest. Furs remodeled exclusively. MARTIN WOLF, SO-33 Florida Ave. H.W. . THE LOTOS LANTERN 733 Seventeenth St. An Attractive Place fat Luncheon and Afternoon Tea The Tea House With the Open Fire * . ^,3p for young folks and . [YOUTHFUL APPAREL FOR ?VERYWOMANy At Tenth St? SUITS?DRESSES?CO A TS At Prices Unprecedented So Early in the Season In this sale you have the Opportunity to buy the garment you need and .want at the very time when you can get immediate service from it. -SUITS All suits to be sold at off This includes our finest Fur - trimmed Garments as well as the strictly tailored styles. Material* Are? Duvet de Laine, Velour, Moussyne, / Tricotine, Poiret Twill. Colors? Navy, Black, Brown, Sorrento, Beaver. All at a Vi Reduction COATS Of Bolivia, Yllama, Marvella or Moussyne; Fur-trimmed or plain throw collaife. at $49'**? No greater proof that normal prices prevail than this opportunity to buy coats such as these at a price so low. Coats for Girls, Juniors and Flappers Sizes 13 to 18 The swagger sport models ? full length or three - quarter length; plaid - back mackinaw cloth or dark polo mix tures ; also plain colors; models for school, dress motoring or hiking. 1&J29-50 ?DRESSES? Our Dress Department adds Its quota to this sale. Every dress?no exceptions? 14 off Our entire stock of street, afternoon or even ing gowns (and you girls and women of Washing ton know the reputation Kafka's own. for wonder ful dresses) is offered in this sale for Tuesday only. $100.00 $75.00 $59.50 549.50 $35.00 $29.50 Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses . $75.00 . $56.25 . $44.63 - $37.13 . $2625 ..$22.13 A 25% Discount Fashion With Value New clothes are the central thought in every woman's mind at present ?therefore she will be interested in the many splendid features which are now being offered throughout our little shop! Fashion with value?in every part of it. Women's Dresses Quite unusual to get dresses like these at such very low prices, but we were fortunate in securing three special purchases at considerably less than regular cost, and this saving we pass on to you. The styles represent the very newest style tendencies, in the most favored fabrics and colors. Lace Dresses Silk Dresses Coat Dresses Would Sell Regularly Would Sell Regularly Would Sell Regularly at $35 and $37.50 at $35 to $45 at $45 to $50 We were fortunate in- A most varied collec deed to secure this group tion of smart styles, in of lace afternoon gowns such favored new mate ?a manufacturer's small rials as Roshanara crepe, surplus stock?at a very1 Canton crepe and crepe de substantial price conces- chine. Bloused and fitted sion. Made of satin and 'bodices, tier, panel and Canton crepe, in soft pointed tunics, bell and blouse and basque effects, wing sleeves, braided Graceful panels. Spanish vests, ribbon rosettes, silk draperies and iridescent tassels and chenillc fringe and jet beads add to their are some of the features effectiveness. To be had displayed. Colors: Black, in black, navy and brown, navy and brown. 'Twould be a pity were you to miss this sale of coat dresses. Really splendid values, hand somely tailored of fine tricotine. Several styles, including double-breasted, tuxedo and panel styles, with self straps and flat braiding or embroidery; some have duvetyne vests. In black, navy and brown. Famous Centemeri Gauntlet Street Gloves Clever New Styles in Dress Hats That Represent Fashion Plus Value at $19.50 to $40 fVith social functions in full sway. there will be much need for one of those charming new dress hats now dis played In our Millinery Section. They are of gold and silver tinsel cloth,' cleverly com bined with fur and ? other trimmings; also dashing Spanish effects ornamented with lace or ostrich. Women's Smart C/J CA Two-strap Pumps, *0* |i It is only due to a very special pur chase that we can offer you a value like l \ PunlP5 are of dark brown V. \ kid. with French heels and hand-turned gSst a( 1 soles. The assortment is broken, but 1 I your size may still be hertl Sorosis Low $Q.OO Shoes?Now ^ The name "SOROSIS"'on a shoe speaks volumes for its qual ity and its style. Here are some especially attractive models: Sorosis 1-strap Pumps?Of brown calf, with full <[A round toe, straight tip, low flat heel and welt soles...., Sorosis 2-strap Pumps?Of brown calf; have me- (a dium narrow toes, straight tips, welt soles and low flat or Cuban heels Sorosis Oxfords?Of tan Scotch grain, with wing f A tips, .Cuban h^els and welt soles . Sorosis Evening Slippers?Several superb new models have just arrived. Petticoats and Bloomers These petticoats and blotters are examples of the splen did values that prevail daily at this busy little shop: Silk Jersey Petticoats, splendid quality, with fine plaited flounces; black, navy, purple, brown, taupe, green $9.95 and American beauty...^ - ? Silk Jersey Petticoats, with fancy colored pleated flounces; some ribbon trimmed. Also jersey top with satin $3.95 flounce. All the most desirable shades Jersey, Taffeta and Radium Silk Petticoats, in choice variety, including fringed styles. Also tailored satin petti- JP j coats. Splendid values at ?? All-silk Jersey Petticoats, of superb quality, in straight line styles; some with deep fringe, others in fine tAgJ radium silk, with fancy scallops and motifs. ? Bloomers, in silk jersey, Belding's satin and tricolette, with elastic waistband and shirred cuff; black, navy, $C.Qt taupe, purple, green, delft blue and brown v Bloomers, in satinette and sateen, shirred ouff ? and ruffle styles, black, navy, purple and J1JJ5 to $9.95 delft blue ????..*.??????? A Y\l V 1 Last year JJ I \| these gloves l\ A V so'^at ^a Lfl 0 \ 1 1 W I pair?now we g X oK# _j have marked wSra lijft them at $2.35. They are \ f strictly first J I quality, v with I strap wrists, I to be had / " in tan and I \ gray suede, f I with embroid r*' "Xj ered backs. P.X.M Strap Wrist Gloves ?of washable capeskin, PC AA in tan, brown. New- *"?vv port and cafe au lait. ' Fur and Fur Trimmed Hats $12.50 to $25 A presentation of distinc tive new combinations of velvet with Scotch mole, squirrel, Babi-Lamb' and seal. Many rich, soft ef fects that will delight yt>u. Ike New Vests With the new suits and coat dresses you will want one of these new vests of Bolivia, with Peter Pan or square collars; a row of tiny buttons runs down the front a&4 piping of contrasting color is used. Long Gloves ~ White Pique Glace Gloves $4.00 and $4.85 Of splendid quality, in 8 and 12 button lengths. 20-Bntt on-Length Gloves $7.00 a Pair Pine French glace. In tan or black, with white embroidery and ?$ ;