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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1923
Page
2
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The Belasco Theater repeats Alfred Savoir’s farce Blue Beard’s Eighth Wife beginning Sunday night as demand grows. George Marshall’s staging adds Broadway polish with Frank Conroy Hazel Dawn and an all notable cast in a lively Washington presentation. The program also features The Gold Diggers at President and The Heart of a Clown at the Avenue, plus ventriloquists and musical acts to follow.
The Whole Towns Talking a modern farce by John Hmerson and Anita Loos opens at the Garrick theater Sunday under Marshall and Wooda personal direction. John Cumberland leads a Broadway cast including Sileen Wilson with John Daly Murphy and others.
Fred Clark's late go comes to the Gayety theater next week with a youthful lineup led by Clark Marty Collins and Jack Pillard as comedy chiefs. Mac fanese and a cast of singing and dancing girls promise a brisk burlesque revue with a fast moving show.
Heralded as the great dance drama of the theater Marion Morgan leads next week's Keith bill Helen of Troy in tour scenes The plot centers on the kidnapping of Helen wife of Menelaus sparking a clash that ends in Troy's fall George McKay and Ottie Ardine join with The Night Watchman an added feature presenting a symposium of performances
A Danville Virginia reader touts Dr Pierce remedies Favorite Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as rapidly easing indigestion gas and heart pain. The testimonial notes personal recovery and mentions obtaining these medicines locally or by mail from the Dr Pierce’s Invalids Hotel in Buffalo NY.
Bobby Higgins a top vaudeville comic with Betty Pierce and company presents 35 minutes of laughter titled Oh Chetney. Carl Rosini and company dazzle with a 20 minute magic act. Also featured are River and Arnold in Chickens and Dreams, a posing act by Frankie Richardson, and Alden Weems and Adair in a terpsichorean fantasy. The bill includes a photoplay The Prisoner with Herbert Rawlinson and Eileen Percy, plus Movie Chats and International News.
Norma Talmadge leads the film Within the Law at the Metropolitan as Mary Turner. A shop girl wrongfully jailed seeks revenge after release, delivering a standout performance that contrasts the innocent girl with a vengeful figure. Also features a two reel Funny film Fold Tight and a new World Survey issue with added rests and orchestral embellishments.
The Central offers Ralph Connor tale The Man from Glengarry with river rivals clash and a dramatic log jam dynamiting scene. Featured cast includes Anders Randolph Warner P. Richmond and Pauline Garon. Also billed Fighting Blood series drama and Kino program with Mr Thompson pipe organ recital. Thursday to Saturday adds The Pilgrim and Wonders of the Sea with Lulu McGrath.
Rex Beach's The Neer-Do-Well features at the Palace for a full week starting next Sunday afternoon. The story follows a virile American collegian who ends up at sea after a college celebration and Panama. it includes romance with a Canal Zone official's wife and a Latin American heroine, with a dramatic arc and fatherly disapproval leading to a belated recognition. The film stars Mr Meighan with Lila Lee, Gertrude Astor, John Miltern, and others, filmed in Panama to match the tale’s setting.
Columbia screens You Can't Fool Your Wife as its chief attraction for the week. Lew Stone leads a star cast including Leatrice Joy, Nita Naldi, Pauline Garon, Paul McAllister, Joan Daly Murphy, Julia Swayne Gordon, Tom Carrigan and Dan Pennell. The drama follows a contented couple nearing middle age drawn into trouble after the husband’s flirtation and the affair’s fallout. The film, directed by George Melford, portrays the dangers of romance after forty within a marriage.
Crandall’s next week opens with Vengeance of the Deep a novelty South Seas drama filmed on Hawaiian waters off Oahu starring Ralph Lewis Virginia Browne Faire Smoke Turner and Maida Veale. Also on the bill Bus t er Keaton in Day Dreams and Good Men and Bad. Joe Rock delivers Ditte Red Robin Hood while Grace D Armond and Mahlon Ham ylten star in The Midnight Guest with Pop Tuttle as the detective.
Baron Fersen of Moscow Russia will lecture next Monday and Tuesday at 3 15 p m under Lightbearers auspices. The first talk in Central High auditorium will be on Science of Being with an organ recital of Russian music. The second talk on The Divinity of Man will be in the Raleigh hotel ballroom. A four session course on Refence of Being will start Wednesday in Highlands ballroom.
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