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r - - ,v v "',,.,.7v v ':'1' yv J v-- - "-: v,c:i TEN - , . . , .TOE WILMINGTON DISPATCH, SUNDAY MORNING; JANUARY 13, 1916 - - - -GETEN Plavl: D)1 yep: ipo O , ... O o o O i o o I o OS - - - - - - - - i m : AT THE ACADEMY v 3t-trayI Festival, which will be :Q3t ;them in Lyman H. Howe's ,1 rayel Festival, which will be bf red'.at the Academy of Music at (! rly jlate., . . , . .. " . feature of the new program-Is a -tifui and entertaining Alaakan 2s which, among other . things, v 3 spectators on a salmon fishing .' Salmon return to the places of rebirth, scientists have found, a fl our years to spawn and die. Oft hey travel 20,000 to 30,000 miles lifetime. Mr. Howe has secured a ; very Interesting pictures the t remarkable ever taken of sa) i leaping against Ktxe powerful cur t up, falls. They freauently work r way up falls 20 to 30 faet his?. th vray inland to spawn, r.; Howe's tour of Alaska al30 re 13 the old and new method of flsiw c4BhowJng how; huge nets aato Ically ' trap thousands of salmon 7 hour- for canning. Salmon are - tiently'so thick in river pools that r; can be caught with bare hands. ) Of Mr. Howe's pictures shows a ' sman reaching into the water and ing a huge salmon with one hand. is Alaskan tour, which is one of. heacainers of the new Travel Fes 1,' also - presents the birth of an 5 ;erg in the North Pacific. The im i '.30 mountain of Ice was caught in : nopaent of breaking from a glacier fcraslifaig into the: sea. The pic ) was made, from an open boat at danger ta the photographer. Ot 1 leatares of the Howe program . ws TJnele Sam's gigantic caterpil .'war raotora in spectacular action, ; 37ul day and night at Coney nL a fascinatinfi: tour or unina, ' the thrilling capture of a wild Jjniain lion. Amusing animated icaturee and film novelties, $he itlon of Mr. Howe's own artists, p:-1e freely interspersed through 4 the entire entertainment. :i 'A new Standard Set Tosnderfully conceived, wonderful- ;,ittTOSted, wonderfully produced by ..t -gemua ox toe pnoiooramauc air, 1 a 'Weber, who has given to the : rid such, sensationally successful ;Jitonlava as "Idle Wives," "Where - -MV .mindren." and "The 'Dumb .L of Portlci," a triumph of artis- never before equalled in the pho ilay, comes to the Grand for Mon- ' ft l Ioi3 Weber's most powerful ci- r matographic achievement, , "EJven i:Xou and I, a powerful drama of is at bay. ! .'JJven As You and I" establishes a : standard of artistic (achievement ver before equalled in photoplay - ;Dduction.? Scenes of rare ubeauty, Vnes: in which the human form of ; (man-divine figures prominently, presented in. auch a highly artis 1 1Tmanner that it is as if one were inking 'at a perfectly carved piece f marble. The thing is placed upon high plan, so that nothing can be 1 Vgestive. , It . is the most, sensation- j-the most beautifully artistio and - pping allegorical cinema spectacle world , bas ever seen, in seven .ojctacular. reels. . . A; cast that was ' personally select fo play each individual part en ts the leading role's. No stars- are iiured -The Birth of a Nation," wbrld's greatest photoplay, fear red''xrbBtars; yet there were cer tl ':' actors and actresses' who won dying fahie 'through- their inter atationfr; in this cinema drama. So is with "Even as You and I." Each laf fits ao perfectly . . that It , will ematthat this alone, required the 5rk Qfft genius. . This, notable production will be saeated fcwV.days and the second will.'.be . the day , on which the ay wiU,reet capacity audiences. It 1 "jiaYe "them' Monday; but it un ubtedly jwill' on Tuesday. i, ' .... . 7 i -A Friend Coming. That; Wilmington theatre-goers will .v the --pleasure within, the near ture : of welcoming the return of UmingtQn'e greatest favorites, the ckert Stock Company, for a week's sagement ' pf . popular priced stock one.of. the most welcome hits of eatrfca! news of the entire season. For many years the Pickerts played I'ilmlngton regularly every season, it have passed it by for the past two ;ars, . Consequently their old friends 111 be more than glad to see thero -ck again for a week. This season e Piokerts have the greatest aggre .tipn of artists they have ever car 3d itbj"OUgh the South, and they are esenting nothing but the highest ass Royalty plays, among them be g snch well known successes as e Feathers," by Eugene Win- rs; Alma, Where Do you Dive," rhe Little Princess," Willard Mack's msattonal , success "Kick In." "A air' of ' Sixes," and the Cohan and arris Nw York success, "The Only on.. ' . . The Pickerts is the best known opular priced stock organization on xe Toad, and always has played to ipacity business in Wilmington, cnsequently theatre-goers may be n : to ; whet their appeties for . a csk of genuine entertainment. '..'ce Racing Circuit ' - Cleveland, O., Jan. 12. America's :t Ice horse racing circuit is ?che Isd to begin business at the North ndall track next Monday, when the : tain will ' bo rung up on a two is : meeting. Similar -meetings ill followat: Mount , Clemens, Mich:, r several other points in Michigan IOhldl' : More than half a hundred is ss, have .been in training, for .the races and if the weather conditions : I good a successful season, is ex- a- - mm J f ik if IB -' v , A Strong Scene from Lois Weber's FAMOTW THF ATRIPAI lUfAlVIAr-CD QrmmWM No actor 13 ever to old to learn in New York late in January. A re lYlUN AVilLK 0 1 KIlRJiLiN Hellen Evily. the Irish comedienne, . , . , . ,ir" .rT., vival of "Everyman" will also be giv- New York, Jan. 12. The older gen- eration of American playgoers, as! n a tha TnATTiW. nt thA thtrinoi . profession throughout the country will gneve to learn of the sad plight of Marcus Mayer, now confined in a local hospital suffering from a para-; lytic stroke. In view of the patient's aarancea age ue x s m uis autn year and the further fact that he suffer- ed a previous stroke of paralysis sev-, erai years ago, mere appears to oeack" leaves the Loop. mue ground ror nope of ms recov- ry. Mr. Mayer is tne oldest theatrical manager in the country, and in his day, was the most prominent. He brought many famous actors and ac- treises to America, but his great boast, was that he was the first man to ride the pony express out Westl'flrOPvwho aharerff with Guv Bates Post Riding the pony express, was a feat iu. wwB iui wo tiuoi yt,u along as fast the his horse could car- ry him, making lightning changes of horses en route to hasten delivery of the precious mails. i When Charles Kean and Ellen 1 Tree made up their minds to give productions in British Columbia it was Marcus Maver whom thev sous-lit aa their manager. Lawrence Barrett induced Mr. Mayer to take charge oi his; interests. He was also manager French. 13 proor tnat such statement is true. for; Rose Eytingo and later for Fanny Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, has lost i Wallis Clark, who came to the Davenport. He took Sarah Bern- hip imperial dancers. Eduardo Can- United States many years ago as' a hardt on her first tour of this coun- sino, of the celebrated Cansinos, danc- vaudeville headliner, remained, and try, managed Adelina Patti on herprs to His Majesty, who. is now win- 18 now one of the best character ac first trip to America in 1881, andwasjning high terpsichorean laurels in tors on the stage, promises to make with Edwin -Booth for two seasons. New York, is to remain , in this coun- some vaudeville productions this sum He introduced Mrs. Langtry to thelF with his sister. Last year they rcer for notable players. Mr. Clark ATArirar, nnWic in lass snfl in ih were the added feature of the Anna, was one of the first to produce effec- same season he also managed the af fairs 6f Christine Nilsson. After that he was manager for Henry Irving and the Italian grand opera company. In 1S86 he was manager for both Patti nd Bernhardt and closed up their tours in 1887 in a blaze of glory. An Old Favorite. For the coming week the Royal will present one of the oldest musical com edy organizations on the road, a com pany that has played every city and town of importance in the .United States, and is the best known tabloid company now in the South, Will's Musical Comedy Company, presented this year under the auspi ces of Wally Helston, is one of the pioneers in the popular priced musi cal comedy field, and this year they have a company of 12 performers and artists and are said to have the best show they have ever presented before the American public. This company prides Itself upon pre senting the most up-to-date musical comedy plays of the season always, and for the Wilmington engagement they will present three bang-up new bills, beginning with "Two Old Cro nies," their most famous bill, to be sented on. Monday and Tuesday. The company carries an elaborate line of specialties and vaudeville acts which will be changed three times .during the week completely. The opening bill is one with elab orate scenic vesture, being in. two acts and two scenes, with the first act showing a scene on shipboard, being the most elaborate set of scenery ever seen on the Royal stage. STAGE CHAT. "One friend in need," Charles Comp ton assures an expectant world, "is more desirable than two needy friends." Jane Boss has a young nephew. Ho wants to go to war so bad that he has offered to caddy for any General who needs him. "Lots of men outside as well aa in side the thoatrical business never had a show." RoBamond Carpenter assure Sensational Allegorical Cinema Spectacle Grand Monday and Tuesday. an interested Scribe. tco young to realize it." While awaiting the reconstruction of "Arabian Nights," which was triad in Boston and found able to stand im- provementBf Elizabeth Patterson will jtive into vaudeville in a character Bketch. Plav tM aro Interfistinir.- Harrv A&hford sends from Chicago an item which tells that "The Man Who Stay-,cess ed At Home", with which he appears. remains, while "The Man Who Came ' jane Ross, the stage comic, is re- (hearsing a new play which is to be done in New York within a fortnight. 1 She will introduce a new American 1 character with a penchant for up-to- date slang and an abundance of wis- dom. 1 Louis Calvert, the brilliant Enelish the honors of "The Masquerader " has retirea rrom tne-r cast oi tnat piay to conclude his labors on a new book, "The Problem of the Actor," of which he is the author. "Divorcons." the French comedv otJthis. "Plays are considered as a ton divorce, which is acted everv now and then by emotional comediennes, is to to revived in New York this year bv, the distinguished Franco-American actress, Madame Yorska, who has been seen in the role in her native Held show, Gareth Hughes, formerly distiu- guished as the best actor ever sent to this country by Wales, is changing his spots to become an Irish actor, having been selected for the stellar! iole in a new Irish comedy which he Tscently acted surreptitiously while testing its artistic merits. Now it is deemed of Broadway quality. Jane Houston, the statuesque Texas oeauty and brilliant .Broadway actress, holds a commanding position in the cast enacting at Wilmington this week was rated a theatrical failure. Two "The Indestructible Wife.'i by the fa- years later it was revived by a reper mous Chicago playwrights, Frederick tcire company in Boston and ran fi-r and Fanny Hatton. The play is dos- tventy-six weeks, and by another rap tined to shine in Grace George's rep- ertoire company was acted ten weeks ertoire in New York. Jin Pittsburgh. Harold de Becker, acting a leading! Film lovers of this country will role in "The Willow Tree", and for- have an excellent opportunity to vent merly a subject of George V, has late- their antipathy towards the reigning ly substituted the President of the United States for the King of Eng land, and is now a full-fledged natur alized citizen of the country in which he has won artistic laurels for the past ten years. t Lester Lonergan, according to cur rent rumor, is to head an imposing group of players in a repertoire com pany, which will find lodgment on Broadway late this or early next sea son. Mr. Lonergan has just flnisheo an engagement in "The Torches" which was notable for the brilliancy of the acting and the dramatic power of the play. The interest of Metropolitan play goers was aroused last week by the revival of "Camille", enacted by Ethel Barrymore and a competent company. This play marked the first production of Idene Payne for this brilliant Amer ican artiste and is the first of an in teresting group which Director Payno will prepare for her repertoire season at the Empire Theatre. "Types," according to a New York manager, are necessary. Whereupon Maclyn Arbuckle appears to have shifted from the "typical American" to the "typical English" type, now appearing with William Favershem as Bracazon Tudway In "Lord and Lady Algy", surely not the "type" ntr.de familiar by him in "The Count! v Chairman," "The Round Up" and lika plays. Elsie Herndon Kearn3, who ha-? teen a valiant producer of the splays of Shakespeare in New York and throughout the country, is ' to act in a group of such plays with Edith 'Even As You and I," at ths Wynne Matthison at the Cort Theatre ien - Miss Kearne as well as Miss Mat thison, have played successfully the title role in this morality play. Whitford Kane, who has long bore tho reputation of being an excellent Irish actor and whimsical comedian, 'has' placed upon his brow a laurel wreath indicating further fame as an author of a new play which won sue- when given a preliminary canter : adjacent to Boston last week. "Dark Rosaleen" is later to have a change to run for the Metropolitan playgoers according to managerial rumor Feme Rogers, who has not sung in New York since the successful en caeement of "The Princess Pat" save for the brief preliminary engagement of "Furs and Frills", will gratify her present musical comedy season. She is to have a dainty comedy embellish edaWith opportunities for the display ber well1 trained andij;lmelodi6u3 voice. Marc Klaw declared that the play goers of the present wapt licht en tertainment, ana tne "roaa' proves ic-'" Charles Compton, the "Oh, Boy, Juvenile player, tells an interviewer. ana tne most efficacious play is the ruoet successful play." The clever comedy with musical setting with vhich Mr. Compton is now identified tive dramatic and comedy playlets in vaudeville. He is now enacting the rle the aged Major Duquenois with John Barrymore in "Peter Ibbetson." times they found former bankers and With. Harry Ashford, a brilliaat English comedian in the role former- ly acted .by George Giddens. "The Man Who Stayed at Home," started on what promises to be a successful season at the Chicago Playhouse last weeic. rnis piay, nrst produced in New York as "The White Feather, of German autocracy when Ambas sador Gerard's book of experiences aio finally filmed for presentation. This film will be the most sensational arraignment of . the Hohenzollern mon archy to be developed during the pres ent war. Earl Schenek, a well known film actor, has been selected for tho role of the Crown Prince, and ye who have hisses to hiss may prepare to hiss them when he acts. "The 13th Chair," a piay of mystery, which has leen unusually fortunat-a in securing the services .of four of the most, interesting actresses on the international stage, for the leading role in four active companies, won the unique distinction "the week be fore Christmas" of turning in four sat isfactory profit sheets. Katherin-3 Grey heads the Pacific Coast company vhich is one of the most successful, and Margaret Wycherly and Annje Russell had" the others. 'Mrs., Camp bell Is the head of the London com pany. In the revival of "Lord and Lady Algy," now a brilliant Broadway suc cess, there are manifold features of interest besides Mr. Faversham's re-v turn to the part in which he is so fav orably recalled as Lord Algy. Thero is Maxine Elliott, more beautiful and artistic than ever, and there is Mac lyn Arbuckle, furnishing the most unc tious comedy creation of the present season. Mr. Arbuckle i& easily one of the best comedians on the native stage, ind .'the" present role, which never before was considered . of etek la r value, is well Justified by his fe licitous handling. NEW YORK DAY-BY-OAY. (0. O. Mclntyre.) . Special Correspondent of the Dis patch. New York, Jan. 12. Chivalry did not sink into oblivion wen Walt Raleigh (permitted Queen Lizzie to French heel It over his' brand new salmon pinjc cape. Oh, my, no! Just because most women have to battle for a strap in the subway most people believe chivalry is as dead as Naci eses.the Second. Not so, not so. Jersey City is now entertaining a gentlemanly hold-up man, who is such a sticker for fair play that he al- ays notifies the Police Departmer. when he is about to remove a rope of pearls, a lump of sugar or soc.e other valuable. He set out with the intention cf holding up twenty persons, and he now has seventeen . to his credit. Three more to go. When he lands bis twentieth he is going to shake the dust of Jersey City from his feet and beat it for some other city. The highwayman has done more for humanity than he thinks he has. He revived chivalry just when it was staggering at the count of ten. He may abolish seatless days for women in the subway by his thoughtfuinesrt Wouldn't it be nice If janitors would take the hint and stop spool ing us and tell us frankly that the radiators were placed in flats only lor ornamental purposes so that th3 tenant could prepare and import a cargo of bear hides from the Art'o during the winter? Or it might be that the price rais ers will see the idea and tell us just when the price of food, was to jun-.p about ninety points, so that th3 ulti mate consumer could get used to straw as a diet when the crash came The Jersey City Galahad is said to bo a demon for style. Like all hit ilk he wears a silk hat, a fur coat and the conventional pearl gray spats. And almost forgot Iho smokes cigarettes and carries a mon ocle In his optic. Sometimes one wonders where those Jersey City re Iorters get their hop with the war going on and everything.- Harry Kemp, the tramp poet from Kansas, is going to start a theatre of his own so he can produce his own plays. He wants to revolt not only from poor old Broadway but from all the little theatres. He says his ac tors will not be bullied against their belter instincts into certain arbitrary notions and intonations of voice by managers, or directors Or any of, that breed. Insteal each group in the play will work out their own tmsiness spon taneously. He expects that this frce dow will result in an enthusiastic suc cession of comedies, tragedies, pan tomimes, tragi-comedies, interludes, pastorals and the like. There was a real Kris Kringle in New York around Christmas time. A toll slim clean shaven well dress'ed man, from his beaver hat to his pat ent leather shoes walker up to the desk of the Hotel Majestic and wrote hie name on the register. The clerk looked and saw: "Kris Kringle, Tuscola, 111. "My you have vhanged. said the clerk. "Changed what do you mean?" "Well er the last time I saw you when I was a boy and you were stout and had whiskers." "Ah, yes" said Mr. Kringle "gimme a paok of cigarettes." "Yes" said the clerk handing hira a pack of Paresia III "and you were smoking a pipe then." Then Mr. Kringle smiled and order ed a taxicab to take him to the thea ter. His real name is Kris Kvingia and he is a stock raiser in IJlinoJs. i And he has a lot of fun out of his real name around Christmas time. There is a hard-boiled patriot in New York who has never given a cent to war charity but he has decided to turn over all his Xmax cigars to xhe boys "Over there." 0 EVEN YOU AND AS jswifwussm.iuu"snsysasMr ' ' HIGH HEELS DOOMED BY VARS DEMANDS United States Will Follow the Lead of England and France Washington, Jan. 12. High heels must go! High shoes also! j They are going by government ed ict in France. They will go by gov ernment request in the United Stat es. They have gone in England by common connent. Thus will women be brought down to 'man's level in the war to make the world safe for democracy. By demanding low shoes with low heels from their dealers, they will get them. Maryland women do. i And the idea of It all is to save, leather for the lads who are larrup-, ing the Hun. j There will be less leather in shoes generally, too. That goes for Eng land, France, Italy and the United States. England has a drastic law regulating the height of footgear. The Commercial Economics Board of the Council of National Defense is trying to eliminate high shoes in America, particularly milady's high-laced boots. i On this subject an editorial trans lated from Le Matin, Paris, by the tiMiiniiiiiKiiniititrininniiiHin s : MOT A WALLY HELSTON PRESENTS WILL'S COMEDY COMPANY One of the Oldest Musical Comedy Organizations On the Read Presenting Real Musical CQtnecfy Plays 3 .Company of Twelve Performers All Yitvr Bills Never Before Seen In Wilmington Special Scenery and Electrical Effects Opening Bill I "TWO OLD CMIESi 8 - S Presented In Two Acts and Two Scenes Most Elaborate Scenic Equipment Ever Seen on the Royal Stage Matinee Daily at 3 15 'and 20c Nights 7:30 and 9 20 and 30c GRANP' LOIS WEBER'S MOST POWERFUlON AMOTO GRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT A POWERFUL DRAMA OF SOULS AT BAY A TRIUMPH OF ARTISTRY Wonderfully Conceived, Wonderfully Directed, Wonderfully Invested. Wonderfully produced by the genius of the photodramatlc art, Lois Weber, who has produced such epoch making photoplays as "The Dumb Girl of Portlcl' "Idle Wives," -Where Are My Children." ESTABLISHES A NEW STANDARD OF ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT NEVER BEFORE EQUALLED The Most Sensational, Artistio Beautiful and Gripping Allegorical Cinema Spectacle the World Has Ever 8een, In Seven Reels. Direct From Two Weeks Run at New York's Rialto Theatre at Prices Ranging to $1.50 Show Start: 11, 1, Matinees 15c Wbmen's ..Foreign New Bureau cf the Council exclaims at the dispro. portion between the heighth of hoots tfor French women, and the ecarcity of leather for military purposes . The writer complains - even more sharply, however, oi the heighth of the heels,.. declaring that tis is no time to deliberately undermine health and usefulness hy such a fashion. If, he says it were a fash ion to carry the nose several inches further forward, he would have noth ing to say, though it would be as unlovely to look at, were it raised to this unnatural angle. But seven out of ten feet subjected to high heels are tortured by being throvm out of balance, the toes turned, the heels are treacher-asly thrown out of line, and soon worn over. And when) one htinks that two cemi . meters less of heeling would end all this, and restore normality, one is obliged to reflect "like feet, liks head." A few days alter the editorial peared, the writer admitted that h had received many letters from wo men saying that they would gladly wear better shoes, but they must buy whatever there are in the stores, and that those who uiake the styles should be scolded, not they. Supply is regulated by demand, and demand is iargelyj guided by education. Manu facturers will co-operate with women rho demonstrate patriotism Dy cou tinually asking for conservative styl es which save leather for military uses. - . . a ALL 1 THIS! WEEK I 2 MUSICAL s 5 X a a 3 i 5 3 Monday and Tuesday 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8, 9:45 Additional) Nights 25c 3 si 3 g s - t - - - - -T- , . ' - -V - ' - - ' .
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