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> ,. ;"V'« v i i 2 Sfte . aid ** Betf ry «, 1921. SumU;, Ftbra. JJasl}jmgi0t* v /. PLAYS AND PL;WERSOIF THE EARLY FEBRUARYISTAGE /. . y * 0 % ' ; > --vv.. iii \ Has uV .ji*r-1, J ,-s t in Saddle The Griffith .% fT=HBHHI -mi.*_ Comedy OfBiograph Days Among New Plays Really Returned? Of Current Week "Way Down East" Shows Many "Cognac" at Bel&sco Awaits DHl ... Glimpses of Style that Made Broadway Verdict.Victor Screen Genius Famous. Herbert Hit Appear*. the By EARLE DORSEY. Although exigencies booking «"r»ngemeat» have ts something always hilariously funny in resulted, apparently, in the temporary elimination THEREthe spectacle offered by the usually sane analyst of the Garrick from the list of open playhouses, the three of the drama the moment he undertakes a critical discussion of some major product of the D. other legitimate theaters of the city offer an array of W. Griffith camera. attractions that should meet with general approval. Given, as a rule, to the orderly assembly and calm restraint of his adjectives, your average critic 'ICognae," a new Shubert comedy-drama, opens a will, nine times out of ten, tosa. his circumspection week's run at the Belasco tomorrow to the night with a cast winds, blush with an Incoherent, school-girlish ' hysteria and give himself over to a semi-maudlin of sizeable and talented proportions, while at the delirium of superlatives which rise, months the week will be devoted to an exposition of-theNational, to hiss gleefully at his embarrassed memory.afterward, :£l ^ % ' Personally speaking. I have never yet won a ' charms of Victor Herbert's musical comedy success, against the suffocating dynamics of Griffith'sbattle 5, > ',.. Sff "The Girl in the Spotlight." D. W. Griffith's "Way style and I'm not alone a shot- It makes |--1f by long little difference how contemptuous or low-spirited 0-3 Down East," whidf had an attractive opening at Poli's toward the current dramatic scene your critic \ last will continue at Monday night that theater for may be. set him in front of a Griffith screenhabitually another week at least. snd instantly he lets out a wild, hoydenish whoop, Vaudeville bills of charm and are glorying in his own seduction and praising Heaven, novelty announced as a for no ymm at B. F. the Cosmos and the rule, greater weakness. 'H Keith's, Strand, while the Generally speaking, there may be less raving over ^HLb Gayety announces something a little different in the Griffith's "Way Down East" than is customary. Part burlesque opens a week's of this may be due to the fact that Griffith's "Way line."Jingle, Jingle".which l>own East" comedy is sufficiently Sennett-like in run this afternoon. spots to restore one's faculties and one's orientation; ( but it is more than likely due chiefly to the fact that the human race is getting used to Griffith's "CofMc" BeUKO. artillery, just as it gets used to beingemotionalin The Messrs. Shubert will present "Cofnac." a love or paying income tax. in ^firee art#, at the Shubert-Belcomedy-dramaa»c«> In some quarters, Griffith has unconsciously started Theater tomorrow night. This company ha* been a fault especially organised for Broadway where it will be dissenting cult whose chief doctrine is to And . with what he does. There's some reason in that seen following its engagement in this city. It OliTe Tell. Tom Power*. Edith madness. A man who can intelligently Andapparent ZE&g fpgl King. Jam**includes fault with Griffith's work within two days of seeing Seeley, Sylvia Field. Leonard Doyle. Marie Hay. Cyrus it is a superior person indeed and the very act of Wood. Harry Hamalainen and Harry Humphrey. ia in three acta, the putting up a struggle againat the Griffith hypnosis "Cognac" time present, the local# a small in Vermont. Tom denotes a superior quality of mind. Tillage Towers Elmer Stubbs. a who haa returned I make no doubt that legions of new disciples of doughboy, justimpersonates this cult will Down East" full of holes in In the Pictures. Today's Amusements. from overseas with a French war bride. Another pick "Way who has also returned from the course of time, but I prefer to rave on through the doughboy front, Pnira.1"Wi* D#m> East,** D. in Marcelle none other than a years, calling him the greatest of them all and Olive Tell, one of the "Cognac."discovers members of the cant that W. ( rifl'k'a film produrtioa. famous French cocotte whom he had met at Bordeaux blithely ignoring the smart alecks who are prominent will Interpret "(ojfmacr tke new Natloaal *Olrt la tkr This creates a commotion, but finally, Marcelle finding a 50-cent picture that has Griffith Vkt»r H«rbfrt,i nrw constantlyShubert comedy-drama, wklck >p*tUfht." proven herself such an admirable wife, Tom having stopped by a city block. a week's run at the begin* nuromrdy. her her past and they live happily ever Generally speaking, thst universal tendency of tomorrow night, prior to Ita «, who Mra. Ward. I adaptation. It's not the comether of Beiasco, with his the role In Hunpkrr* late of "The Night Boat" and formerly of "FiddJers it's play* leading Da air a genius for minutiae; not all due to sweeping Down Rlnlto.Bfbt la "Sfcf Three" MFlo Flo" and other big musical hits; Mary climax development, nor yet to subtle "Way Eaat," whichGriffith'* Coolda't Help It," ky Miriam it's that odd, unduplicated and Intangiblecharacterization;begin* the aecond week of Ita I Milbum a new prima donna who has won a name as local ran at Poll'* Mlckelaon. than that occasionally is defined "perspective"somethingor today.Above Uardra.Makloa Hamlltoa aad quicker probably any other prima donna in stereoscopic quality".a qualitv as distinctly a part at right. years; Minerva Grey last seen here in Angel Face;** of the Griffith camera style as D. W. s nose is a of Betty Rlytke la "Tke Traaat part Dorothy Jardon, headllner Eunice Sauvain. and two score other entertainers. of the Griffith physiognomy. / the vaudeville bill at B. F. Huaband.** Mr. Herbert s score in this Keith'* thl* week.Below at left. Knickerbocker."loobel.** wltk piece, consisting of Jack Fairbnnkn, featured In Bonae Petera aad Jaae ISovak. numbers, fairly bubbles over with melodyseventeenand /,irrAY Down East", is remarkable first for its Craadall*».Dorolky la several of the numbers are hits Mr. Victor tke vaudeville bill at the Coamo* .- .«I Pkllllpa song lesson in I went " YJyTT object adaptation. into that "Once ta Every Woman discussion a week ago but a further thl* week.Below In center. Herbert will conduct the augmented orchestra tonight. is in order. It is hard to get rid of thereferenceidea Both Dwyer, In "The Stealera," Criterion-.**Tke Safe Hea." that the evasive Griffith.a man who is not above at the Strand.Below at right. Eaapreoa "1 p la Mary'a Attic." beseeching you to try to remain awake through the second part of his picture.has practised an "Way Down East".PoK's. sly and excessively practical joke on theexcessivelyfilm D. W. Griffith's "Way Down East" will enter upon fraternity. This particular desk has been flooded its second week at Poli's Theater with the matins* for more months than I care to remember with a of information the brilliant Bj today at 3 o'clock and evening performance at R:15. species concerning effort Next Week's Shows being made to comb the language of two hemispheres Edith Was a The Birth of a Nation." Griffith has stories and work Appear for new screen while the goes on, turned to a success of the stage for his material. This reaches out and an Griffith grabs old hlck-h'lster GARRICK.Doris Ke&ne In "Romance," time he has taken a plav that has withstood the tides and knocks everyone cross-eyed with the finished the Edward Sheldon drama of a great product. Before She Saw a Theater love, supported by Basil Sydney and In New Draima by Ibanez of time for more than a score of years and enjoyed This new Griffith film must be seen for its climax A. E. Anson. an unusual appeal. Griffith has utilised it to bring for no development, if other purpose. With broad, forth the story of a womans* soul and thus bars natural strokes, Griffith works up his tension to NATIONAL.Charles lsy easy Dillingham's truths as urban as and as universal as the a point where a climax of terrific force is not only operetta, "Apple Blossoms,'' popularwith Broadway possible but absolutely necessary to sustain the Ndw She'd Rather Be Known as an' Actress John Charles Thomas. Wild* Bennett, Famous Dramatic Star Will Continue for skies. The orchestral aocompaniment is to be dramatic proportion of the thing. And what a Feroiral Knight, Fred and Adele the most pretentious yet attempted in connectionsa^d with in its concentrated Edfar Norton, Ruth Lee, Edna Greater, probably, intensity,climax! Than a Mere iArtist's Model. Astaire, son in Pre a photodrama presentation. than even the ride of the clansmen in "The Birth of Temple, Marie Berne. Maurice Darcy, Play. Seaaent a Nation;" greater by far than the Frank Snyder, Thomas fttrpatrick, episode in "Hearts of the World;"Siegmann-HarronGishvastly more Brenxa Dilston, Dorothy Haighton and than anything in ''Intolerance," though perhaps Miss Edith King:, who is 1 to New York. From the station she a chorus of distinction. Otis Skinner, it is said, will stead of Mr Williams, will be the F. ». intense ordered a to to play| So, Mr. Vaudeville.B. Keith no greater, proportionately speaking, than the in "Cognac" at the Belasco taxi take her the in Ibanez's gladiator when the producer. too, Barrymore pig-pen feud in "The Battle ofWalHhall-Reid-Aitken appearingoffice of David Belasco. Her BELASCO.Guy Bates Post "The "Blood and Sand*' reachesdramatizedthe has dropped out of the scheme of The vaudeville bill at B. F. Keith's thin week will Gulch!" night, is fortunate enoughtomorrow Maaquerader," by John Hunter Booth, include Jardon. star of and the El'derberry beauty was exactly what the l*his fact was revealed a few things, leaving the way open for Dorothy Brand opera A new one? By no means! a very good of brunette founded on Katherine Cecil Thurston's stage. Simply to be well known in two fields producer wanted as a oontrast to same name. < a Mr. Skinner to a concert stage; Masters and Kraft's with old one.a Biograph two or three-reeler. But novel of the days ago .by chance interview with play Spaniard Revue. "On I have the title wrong. No matter. Walthall endeavor: in the studios of famous Frances Starr,- who at that time Mr. Skinner in Detroit, where he Presumably Mr. Skinner will the Dance," described as a radiant novelty displaying perhaps was C0SM08.Twelfth anniversary week; was "At on tour in "At the Villa was a psalm-singing, sharp-shooting, tobacco-chewing artists and on the stage. Miss King playing in "Marie Odile." He appearing in the Villa Rose"continuea clever cast, bewildering costumes and bewitching "Clothes, Clothes, Clothes!" featuring this season, and be seen mountaineer villain whom you loved with an was the moAel for Howard engaged her at once and gave her La Berenicia; Lutes Rose." "Blood and Sand," ft will be in New girls; Harry Tig-he, the "You-All-Know-Him" end that the Initial a Raymond Loftus; York some time next In the at the eclipsed intensity Christy's masterpiece, "Water Part in the play. Her next Brothers, armless wonders; "Adrian;" remembered, was originally year and Edna Leedom. in "Tidbita of Musical of your hatr. A story, friends; a story! Chandler was "Within the and Moore; Oliver and Lee; nounced for Lionel an-1 Ibanex play. comedian room for hard in intensityLilies," and for his illustrations of Uw."HengagementRyan Barrymore. Thomas and M. There's thinking that reference Then came "Good Gracious Reid in "The Charm School;" was to F. Swift Helcei Kelly, popularComedy: but before it one David Graham Phillip's "The Story Wallace Sheldon supposed have.Edward to Biograph, considering might "The "You'll Be Surprised," and other The annual overseas our farceura. in "Gum Props." as well as the usual house well say that Griffith has built up a sharper, more of Susan Lennox," and Jack Boomerang," Annabelle,""The been dramatizing the story, and] trips of features. additions. at S and 8 m . Pearl Mason compact and concentrated power in the climax of "The Little Lady of the London'sBig Pipes of Pan," "Daddies'" and "My John D. Williams was to have made, producers arc beginning early this Today p. Regay. "Way Down East" than in any picture of his I've House." Lady Friends." After that she B. F. KEITH'S.Vaudeville. V the production. year with the departure of Arch and Keeler and last week s offering will be seen for seen since the Biograph era. He strung out the "But says Miss leading woman for Lou became But those plans are all changed. Selwyn for foreign parts. The new the last times. Birth" over an extensive it is annoying." in "The period, as in "Blind Youth." Early Tellegenthis STRAND.W. B. Friedlander's Not Mr. Sheldon, but one Tom booking alliance of the Selwyns. with the ride of the clan and ending with climaxthe King, "when one is known only the Pesci Duo: Johnny Murphy beginninga season she was with Helen Hayes "Sweeties;"Cushing, has Written the play, and Arthur Hopkins and Sam H. * the rescue model. It is pleasant enough, of 0 Hara s forcible entry of clansmen to Lillian Glsh. and Tom Powers (now also in and Bob Plant in Neal the Charles Frohman Company, InHerbertmakes Mr. Selwyn's trip of Harris There were practically four climaxes in "Intolerance" course, to be sought as~a model by Joe Weston and Grace Eline;"Secrets;" Vandeville.Cosmos. in "Hearts of the World," Von Stroheim artists and painters; "Cogrnac") in "Bab." the Deach Walliu Trio; Will Rogers potential importance, sinceconsiderable and distinguished. he travels as the representative of Friedlander's big musical comedy, "Extra Dry." ed his amorous devoirs over a comparativelyprosecutflengthy but a model, after all. is only a in "Water, Water, Everywhere," and period. Even in "Broken Blossoms," the Chink's lay and from physical 6ther acts. to Conduct all three of those Arms. Although with book by Harlan Thompson and music by L was held in figure, apart been understood to be an p sharp, satisfying revenge anticipated a 1,000 Letters a it has B. Friendlander. will be the feature at the CosmoaWilliam for an appreciable interval. The rescue of attractiveness It doesn't require Day GAYETY.A1 Reeves' "Joy Belles," National Orchestra for Preserve great deal of with "Snitx" booking purposes onlyallianceTheater this week. It features Jack Fairbanks. Sua Lillian Gish from the grinding ice of "Way Down talent. p Fair "Mash" Mail Harry (Heine) Cooper, it is that some f in its ambitions are all in the other Moore, Lew Christy. Millie Valeska, At possible joint Parker. Jeannette Lawrence and I-aw renee Ackeriand. East" on the contrary, is unanticipated "My Opening Tonight will emerge as a result, and shockingly forceful in its consummation, direction. I am anxious to succeed For Griffith Elsie Huber and Pauline Harris. productionsOthers will V the Marconis. accordeon wixards; manner Star Victor snd these are quite likely to be esse on the stage and it's a bit PALACE.Billie Burke in "The By special arrangement, He and Wilaon In "The Bandmaster and the Coon:"Wilson to Richard Barthelmess has won the Herbert will conduct the augmented will go into importations. have people popdisconcertingup of Elisabeth," her latest Education to view a musical comedy Robert Henry Hodge in'"Bill Blither®. Lawyer;" Leon getting back to the Biograph idea, Griffith has you think have noticed title of "the world's greatest love symphony orchestra for the Germany Down East" a (when they starring production. Paramount »hich Mr. Harris and Irving Berlin and Mitai. acrobatic funsters; Lawler and Little. in given us in "Way picture happily something particularly good you did dol through no other channel of performance tonight andopening BUTbereft of propaganda Griffith attempts to twist life than the cinema screen. Fruit," Cecil of his latest and are thinking of acquiring. He will songs; Roscoe Arbuckle's big picture. "The Life of the on the and 'Oh you COLUMBIA."Forbidden night, tomorrow into a semblance of moral evangelizing but stage) say: yes, B. based also penetrate Italy to witness a and the L his theme were the model for so and so's We have heard much about the DeMille's special production, musical sensation, "The Girlgayestin Party," Sennet two-reeler, "Ttio Firesida r it never gets past the first caption and the whole thing, "matinee on «He story by Jeanie MacFherson the which is to be film entitled "The World Upside Brewer." start to finish, is a story. There may be painting of something or other.' As idol." He has been legion Theodore Spotlight," l^rom in the theaters of the world. But and featuring Agnes Ayres, at the New National presentedby Down," and will arrange for its Prround in the assertion that Griffith has not scrupled I have remarked before, I have no Roberts, Kathiyn Williams, Forrest American if it is all that the wealth of hokum in which the Parker as a he was circumscribed by the and others. George W. Lederer, with the showing Ito retain objection to being pointed out 8tanley many its claim for it. script abounded but it is a softened, model, but I'd much to be of the theater and Its conventions cast and production intact.original, sponsors 'original of hokum that prefer Chaplin in as it was seen the Vaudeville.Strand. species gracefully slips past known as an actress." ^ tlons until the screen of limlta.silver ^METROPOLITAN.Charles jusf. during past without its number-tags showing. And how it minimised opened up new worlds to "The Kid." summer at the Knickerbocker Cortot to Be Heard. Beginning tomorrow and continuing through next the of climatic interest in a Miss King was born in White conquer. to development contributes And so it comes tn-tbe twentieth and New York City. Theater,Alfred the distinguished Sunday, the photodramatic offering at the Strand thing that is sheer story.! Haven, Pa., and was never inside KNICKERBOCKER.Sunday While "The Girl in the Cortot, tendency is m )ia» a theater until she was 14. That century that Richard Bartbelmess Charles Chaplin in "The Kid;" French pianist, will be the artist Theater supersedes the vaudeville That sheer story-telling lhail more Baail Monday, one of the funniest pieces*of its attractions, unfinished Biograph manner so one visit settled as far as her receives love missives and Tuesday and Wednesday. King's Spotlightis at the seventh concert of the Ten as it does for the first time in V ashington. Griffith's cWightnu her and Friday, kind, as it does three presenting He is today, a far greater story teller thaa he evfr future was concerned. She decided words of poetic endearment than "Earthbound;" Thursday employing Star series under the management "The Stealers." William Christy Cabanne's powerful that counts is the fact that lhe any other man upon the Dorothy Phillips in "Once to Every leading comedians, whereas most the New was t#ut the thing for the stage immediately and when mimicking Woman Saturday, Maurioe shows it of T. Arthur 8mith at human document. An augmented orchestra will give has one* again, told a story to tell a story1 and hot stage or silent screen. are satisfied with one, Theater afternoon at is or tttat she was old enough, took a train "The Last of the Mohicans." and Friday Nationala special interpretative score at every performance to convince someone that prohibition silly* Up at tire great Griffith studios on Tourneur'snevertheless possesses class 4:30 o'clock. A delightful program or that the Hun Is a beaatlor and Mr. Herbert's score night and day. A humorous farcial oddity by Howard - nsorshiD is prudish Flagler Island, oft Orienta Point, at CRANDALL'S.First three days. Irvin distinction, announced and will include has its drawbacks. He has, in -Way the is said to be the most tuneful and is Clark entitled "Nine o'Clock," presented Frank ?h£t priestcralt of the snort and Mamaroneck, L. I., there comes to 8. Cobb's "The Life of Party." Choral and Fugue (Cesar by n«wn East." a tale free evangelist's MacManus to Talk. the Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle; popular'since, his well-remembered Prelude,Davis, will be the feature attraction of an all-star ''Way Down East" means a definite return to the postofflce a sack of mail dally starring In Franck); Caraaval (Schumann) tf The "Evening of Irish Stories" never less than Ave Wednesday. Wesley Barry "Mile. Modiste." vaudeville bill. Other numbers Include Wilbur and Riotfraph manner.amplified, glorified a/id polished. which ia be containing Marshall MeiUn's "Dinty." beginning A loveliness (Schubert), Leggerem and Litlany is to see screen and no mistake. to given by Seamus and many more brigadeof feminine Walts in bounds and Edah rh.. one pictures MacManus next mornings hundred.than is but Mr. Lederer wishes (Llsjct), SeguedillasMephistoLyke songs, sayings. Delbridg* odd about ''Way Down East" Saturday, at the a thousand promised, There is 6ne thing New letteM addressed to it be (Albenls). Cathedrale enfcloutie and Tobe Greemer in song; Hart and Helea*, unique nd that Is its comedy. Much of it is very near to Willard, promises to be a really Richard Barthelmess. to distinctly understood that Bourree, for left hand the obsolete unusual none of the rank as alone,(Debussy);exponents of music; and Billy Bernard and Charlotte lanstick. Somewhere along the line, "treat" for all story-tellers. These missives contain young ladies Etude en Forme de Valse of "Way Down East" must have overcome, Mr- MacManus will devote the invariably Orchestra. chorus girls; they are termed by and Meyers, funier than svsr in "The Cabby and The effort at modernisation, foratmn«ohere phrases of the wildest adulation, Cleveland (Saint-Saens). Jimoorarlly. the Griffith to Irish stories, most of themeveningwhile the for "his heart OrcKestra will five tiim sub-principals. Fare." tn (as well as at certain points of the proposals The Cleveland Hal its comedy original, taken from some of the and hand" are Skelly, Paul Burns and development) the old b'gosh thriller grins countless. Praise for its first Washington concert at the Dunn are the three Gibbs to Lecture. Jfcaracter 1870 However, one many lovely books whicfc he has his heroic work in such' Griffith leadingJimmie Through in all its trappings. on Tuesday comedians. was last seen in Sir Philip Gibbs, the Enrllsh Y-Vi riot die hard over the comedy, for the tension written, among them "The Lad o' as "Broken Blossoms"productionsNationaf Theater Skelly "Jingle Jangle".Gayety. raw meat and Griffith ° "Donegal ' Its. conductor is Nikolai "The Night Boat," and previous to will visit Washington duringauthor. need of comedy * Fairy Scarlet "The afternoon. in « IdoL i nuts one **In Days," Dancer" that was the "Fiddler's his second American tfnir and will Herk'a musical burletta, "Jingle Jangle" la the throws it at one by chunks and hind-quarters. Chimney Corners" and 'The Love Flower" and how Mishel Piastre, violinist,Sokoloff. feature of that comes 'TThe Red StoJjS*' his Three," Mary is the new at Poll's Theater Tuesday at the Oayety Theater this week, beginningattraction \oother slight disappointment only Poacher." of will be the soloist. . Milburn speak is decline from the characterization David Bartlett who a at 4 o'clock on "What today. It marks the ftrat appearance of thle an afterthought the definite In "Way Down East" Is legion In prima-donna, created afternoon r-rffflth standard of the captions. The beat captioning Kreisler sensation in New YorkveritableAmerica Means to the World." 8lr here. Ma* Field and Frank Anderaon areorganisationthe on a Grifflth was done in "The in Recital. these letters. At the Arcade. Others said to be not one of i0K ev»r done picture Frit* the prominent' in the cast ar*L Philip is only featured comedians with the Morriaaey Staters.Stella Hirth of a Nation." There's nothing In "Way Down Kreisler, great violinist, Poems are written about him and The "features" announced for this Eunice Sauvain, John Hendricks, the the best Informed authorities oa the to that former epic and its will be heard in recital for the ever the request that he send and "Dimple".heading the feminine contingent East" to eotnpare ' Ais week at the Arcade are an exciting: well-known basso; George, European situation, bat his recent lost at one: time this season, at the Nationalsecond to Cileries Other members of the cast Include O'Neal. though I nearly equipoise "The autographed-picture the Spot" dance on Tuesday, a popular juvenile; two very writing's on American affairs and Harry of Napoleon," In which an old grey marecaptionsTheater, Thursday, February 17 at which he tries to. do with Loretta Ahearn. Fannie Albright. Morgan Beck and Temptation 4:30 slghitimaiden, those quaint, old time and clever young dancers,beautifuland 'the position of the United States o'clock, under the management the aid of * secretary, e«!s dances on a have attracted PYed" Trust. Several Important vaudeville (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. ustfally Jones" Thursday, Evelyn Grief, who is safd to be as worlJl power apaualista the romance. M* * .'feiddies- Night" on Friday. Mrs, Vernon Castle, anotherwidespread attention will constitute gu»»le»enlar) feature*. ? v M s - - . ~ . -«*-