Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1921, Page 57

XMUSEMENTS. i : DEAN { I 7 . &JRilto The Y SION,” the photoplay, has come and gone. The attendance to see it during its two weeks’ stay, according to the thratAeK authorities, broke .all previous records. The general 'verdlct seemed to be that it was a masterpiece the like of. which had not been seen in Washington before. Admiration of the picture as a wonderful chaper of the world’s history transplanted to the screen _has been mixed with protest from some quarters. Anonymous communica- tions have not been infrequent, and some of them displayed a profoundexj familiarity with motion picture literature of the day thar? knuwlex.ige of the world’s history. Some of them were based upon misconception of the fact that The Star is not the champion of any product of the stage or of the motion picture industry. The aim of its reviews always‘ is to acquaint the public of the merits or the demerits of a p}ay or a picture disinterestedly. It should not matter who made the picture or where it was made, if it is a picture of great merit. “Passion,” in the blcauty and realism of its settings, in the masterful manner 1n which the pl ?y'crs presented its story, and, especially in the delicacy of treatment of im- portant incidents in its theme, is beyond question a magnificent motion Those who found fault with it because they believed picture production. ! b ; elieved ermany had the unquestioned right to refuse to pa i Thou it ¢ at work of theatrical and picture art it. Those who viewed in it a great wor! at i had an equal right to do so without abuse or criticism. | It is not con- ducive to the world’s welfare to mingle mock heroics with a judgment of art. [=4 * X ¥ X CNAIDSUMMER MADNESS,” an American product, hailed as one of the season’s “best pictures,” was also weil patronized, and aIAso had a divided audience. There was probably more reason to fear its effects upon the public morals than in the case of “Passion.” The two pictures presented a concrete contrast of delicacy in the treatment of an unpleasant theme. It used to be the fashion to blame risque things in art and in the theater on the French. America appears to have re- lieved France of that burden. Indeed, there were many, during the run of the so-called German photoplay, who expressed the belief that the future possibilities of the moving picture scemed to rest with the for- eigner rather than with our own producers, notwithstanding the remark- able achievements of the latter. Even “Way Down East,” David Wark Griffith’s masterpiece, has not escaped the caustic criticism of the min- istry for its frank presentation of an obnoxious feature, yet thousands have hailed it as a master work of the highest picture art. Some of our picture men seem to be tainted with sex madness, and utterly lacking, if they really care to°dd so, in the ability to handle delicate and difficult matters affecting the sexes it a waythat will take them at least out of the limelight. The producer of “Passion” veiled the full wickedness of Mme. Du Barry. Had he unveiled it probably he might have hidden be- hind a not unusual theory that it is best to tell all, to show all, to make the world better. It all depends upon the way one views such things. * * * ECIL B. DE MILLE'S newest production, entitled “Forbidden Fruit,” has inspired 2 New York reviewer to say that “The mind and hand of a genius combined in turning out a cinema play that for sheer beauty stands as the peer of the stason’s dramas of the screen.” That play is Mr. De Mille’s production with the ugly name. This critic compares it with “Way Down East,” “Humoresque,” “The Inside of the Cup” and sev- SHIRLEY MASON trand CLARE ADAMS Criterion Photoplays This Week eral others. Each, he says, has its merits, but of the De Mille produc- tion he says “Beauty is ifs stock in trade, and as a gorgeous and lavishly gmxed film, it cannot be equaled by anything seen here in the past. oreover, it is a most absorbing story -of love and sacrifice.” It is the old story of the wife of a wicked man falling in love with another man. * X ok RICKARD BARTHELMESS, who is pictured in “Way Down East” and other Griffith picture productions, will play the role of Youth for the production of “Experience,” on which work has been commenced at the Long Island Studios by Géorge Fitzmaurice. N ETHEL CLAYTON is to have a Cosmo Hamilton story for her next photoplay following “Sham.” * LLIAM DE MILLE is making a picture at the Lasky studio from METROPOLITAN—“Peaceful Opens this afternoon at 3 ocl COLUMBIA—“The Inside of the o’clock. RIALTO—"Outside the Law.” O GARDEN—"813.” Opens this aft CRITERION—“The Killer.” Sho * X % LEADER—"*The Confession.” PALACE—“The Rookie’s Return,” Opens this afternoon at 3 o'clock,:* AT PHOTOPLAY HOUSES THIS WEEK. Valley,” featuring Charles Ray. lock. Cup.” Opens this afternoon at 3 pens this afternoon at 3 o’clock.- featuring Douglas McLean. ernooh at 3 o'clock. . wn this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Opens this afternoon at’3 o’clock. ii an original story by Edward Knoblock, entitled “The Lost Ro- mance.” “Peaceful Valley.” Charles Ray will be the picture star at Crandall’'s Metropolitan Theater this week in First National's film ver- sion of the late Sol Smith Russell's play, “Peaceful Valley.” In the role uf :Hosiah Howe, Mr. Ray is said to have one of his finest opportunities to ewnpl hompely wit and manly vir- tue.” “As the country youth who goes to the city to protect his little sister, he portrays an authentic American type—the type that. won the war; and as the young bumpkin who falls in love with a beautiful girl from the city. he 18 delightful in drollery. Ordinary scale of admission charges will pre- vail “The Inside of the Cup.” “The Inside of the Cup,” Albert Capellani's photoplay of the novel by ‘Winston Churchill, a Cosmoploitan pro- duction for Paramount, will be shown at Loew's Columbia Theater, this week, beginning this afternoon. This story reveals the efforts of a powerful pastor to cleanse his church of gilded hypocrisy after one of his rich parishioners has attempted the rufn of several weaker associates. A love story is interwined. “The Inside of the Cup” is declared to be one of the really great screen pro- ductions of the year. A Mutt and Jeff animated cartoon, the Stlznick news pic- tures, and other films, with an orches- tral overture and score, are announced also. * %k % % IT is not generally known, but Tyrone Power, the distinguished stage and screen star, now supporting Florence Reed, is a painter of pic- tures of considerable merit. His “Sunset,” one of the best of his paint- ings. has just been hung in the Ferrigil Galleries on 5th avenue, New York. H - TETE KK ARSHALL NEILAN is glven as authority for the sfatement that the report that the present lull in motion picture production was brought about voluntarily by the producers in’order to bring down the high sgal aries of stars and players is;absolutely unfounded. “For the past four years,” he says, “the large pfoducing concerns have tried to outdo each other in quantity output, with the idea of getting, as near as possible, their product into theaters 365 days in the year. This gave the theater owners a chance to pick the_best pictures from an overcrowded market and let the weak ones slide.”. As this meant financial failure, something bad to be done to correct it. { Filmmograms Sir Glibert Parker, the Englifh au- Baker production, 2 thor. is now working at :;ne}lul:yltnfl Comedy. Tho” Haunter o o wit rge_Melford—not_in | will be the rel writing, but in_ “directing” “The |ruary. RO teD O e Money Master,” his own story, writ- D “The Offshore Pirate,” ten at the studio. 5 |12 DDana, is based on Dorothy Gish is said to provide a |gerald’s magazine story. Jot of comedy in “The Ghost in Kh!| e Garret” her new burlesque mystery | The Colonial Film Company, motion picture. tpicture producers in ‘Wahington, an- |nounce that Tom De Baryshe, the New Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle will have | York film man, has been secured to Lila Lee for his leading woman in his|{Manage their production department. new picture, “Three Miles Out.” (He was formerly with the Universal i and with Truth Productions. Gloria Swanson's stellar debut wlth[ Paramount is anounced in Elinor Glyn's “The Great Moment.” now be- ing filmed under the direction of Sam It is her first individual star| icture. featuring Vio- Scott Fitz- “Outside the Law.” Priscilla Dean will be seen at Moore's Rialto Theater all this week, beginning today, in the first cinema offering in which she has appeared here within a year. Tod Browning, who has directed Miss Dean in her screen successes, wrote “Outside the Law” _and supervised its production. Lon Chaney, who is featured with Miss Dean, will be seen in two char- acterizations. One of the roles is that of an_evil genius of the underworld. The identity of the other role is kept secret as a challenge to screen pa- trons. Mr. Chaney's makeup is satd to be impenetrable even by his per- sonal friends. ‘The story concerns the struggles of W. W. Hodkinson, head of th, corporation bearing his mame former president of Paramount, says: h:t;)l‘a:ylge fim industry needs for evelopment § fid i constructive criticism s C PIctire 1s Harvey O'Higgins. author of David Warfleld's play, “The Grand ~Army ; Samuel Merwin, author of “The Citadel,” “Anthony. the Absolute” and other stories, including “The Passion- ate Pilgrim,” which has been flimed for Paramount, and Edward Sheldon, author of “Saivation Nell,” are now writing for and asisting in the direc- tion of Paramount pictures. A colored producer of 18" about. to ‘start a “Colgrmy aEton Screen Service,” patterned after tho Pathe News, which s designed tg show the progress of the darkes races of the world ard especially the negro race. J. Williams Clifforg, for- merly an officer of the 367th Infantry and ‘a representative of the colored soldiers and sailors in the bureau of war risk insurance, is said to be the head of the movement. selves from the shackles of crime and Nazimova' ext photoplay will be live the life they desire. In this they n “Camille,” Alexandre Dumas’ famous classic of the stage. Rudolph Valen- a little group of crooks to free them- are thwarted by a revengeful member | who' resents respectability. in_the | background, and yet the dominant | personality ‘of this drama, is an old heathen philosopher who metes out unsanctioned justice: Subsidiary features will include a lcomedy and the Fox News, with an orchestral - program. .including “The Elephant-and the Fiy," introdycing a gacgEfor piccolo and trombore. ‘The Rookie’s Return.” Douglas MacLean, whose screen tri- umps include “Twenty-three-and-a-Half “What's Your Hus- Let’ “The Jailbird,’ o featured at Loew's Palace Theater today and all the week in a new 'Thomas H. Ince-Paramount pro- ductjon, “The Rookie's Return,” de- THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 30, 1921—PART 3.’ Linian GISH and j LOWELL SHERMAN - Polis "Wepdwoop NOWELL Garder. one except her dog, Miss Marsh is said to give a brilliant performance. In the supporting cast are Kathleen Kirkham, Tully Marshall, Charles Meredith, Herbert Prior and George Bertholom, jr.. Short subjects and or- chestral features will complete all showings. Knickerbocker. Today and tomorrow, Charles Ray will be pictured in Sol Smith Russell's former play, “Peaceful Valley”; Tues- day and Wednesday, “The Forbidden Thing” will be shown, with the com- edy, “Sand Witches”; Thursday and Friday, Select's Ralph Ince produc- tion, “Out of the Snows,” in which Mr. Ince and Zena Keefe both are cast, with “Tea for Two,” a_comedy, and Saturday, William 'S. Hart, in “The Testing Block.” and the comedy, “Edgar, the Explorer.” Crandall's. Marion Davies and Carlyle Black- well are the principal players in the Cosmopolitan's picturization of this story by Robert W. Chambers, which will be presented for the first three days of this week. “ The Restless Sex” is said to possess the briskness, interest and heart appeal characteris- tic of Mr. Chambers’ work. Wednesday and Thursday the pri- mary feature will be supplied by Frank Mayo, in 'he Marriage Pit,” a fllmization of Frederick Isham’s novel, “Black Friday.” The support- ing cast will include Dagmar Godow- sRy, daughter of the pianist. The con- tributory feature of the bill will be Mack Sennett’s “My Goodness.” For Friday and Saturday the bill comprises Eva Novak in “Wanted at Headquarters,” and the new Tooner- ville comedy, “The Skipper's Treas scriged as 2 gallop of sheer fun and mer} ent from one end of the pic- turefto the other. It tells the story ot former soldier's return home fromgithe war and his refusal to live with a wealthy aunt because of her demand that he become a bank clerk. Wheén book peddling fails. he falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful girl, only to discover tnat his aunt has left him'a fortune with a string to it. A Sunshine comedy, : “Pretty Lady” the ‘Pathe news pictures, Topical Tips. and other films are promised, with an orchestral overture and score. «8137 A combination detective-love story, in which Wedgewood Nowell appears in the stellar role, will be the attrac- tion at Moore's Garden Theater the first four days of the week, begin- ning today. The film is an adaptation from an Arsene Lupin novel, by Maurice Le- blanc. As Arsene, Mr. Nowell is said to have one of the fine vehicles of his career for character depiction. Kathryn Adams plays opposite. To the element of mystery which per- vades the story fs added special stage settings and unusual effects, Beginning Thursday and extending through Saturday the Garden will present Mae Marsh, in her first Rob- ertson-Cole picture, “The Little *Fraid Lady,” a_cinema version of Marjorie Benton Cooke's novel, “The Girl Who Lived in the Woods.” As the young artist, world weary, and trusting no The newest Wallace Reid picture Is T tino, who had the principal male role entitled “The Lo Special,” and in ‘““The Four Horsemen of the Apoc- (AR (T uer Garden.” The story unfolded in “Wanted at Headquarters” concerns a $10,000,000 holdup, and the manner in which the scheme is frustrated. Each daily program will be com- pleted by abbreviated camera subjects and special pipe organ accompani- ment. “The Killer.” The-Criterion Theater announces “The Killer”_as the feature for this week. 1t is a Benjamin B. Hampton-Pathe pro- duction, adapted from Stewart Edward ‘White's novel. As a novel “The Killer” attracted much comment and interest, because of its story, the unique and daring central figure and the virility of the piot. “The Confession.” Hal Reid's stage play, “The Con fession,” made into a mammoth mo- tion picture of eight reels, will be shown at Sidney Lust's Leader ‘Theater this week, beginning this afternoon. Apollo. Today and tomorrow, Wesley Barry, in “Dinty”; Tuesday and Wednesday, James Kirkwood, in “The Forbidden Thing.” and comedy, “His Four Fath. ers”; Thursday, gehe Daniels, in “Oh, spun’ Hero stone, in “Edgar Gets Rich Quick”; Pauline Frederick, in “Slaves of Van- (Continued on AT IR alype,” will be pictured in the role of Armand. Metro is to have a motion picture week February 27 to March 5, con- ceded. according to its announcement, in response to a spontaneous desire on the part of the exhibitors for such a demonstration. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle is said to be at work on a new and very funny screen comedy which he calls “Crazy to Marry.” *“The Greater Claim.” originally en- titled “Mother Lovi featuring Alice Lake; “Without Limit,” a George D. shows the popular screen star as a railroad engineer. It is adapted from Frank H. Spearman’s “The Daughter of a Magnate.” Agnes Ayres and 'l"heodorg Roberts have roles in the story. Dorothy Dickson, the vaudeville and musical comedy dancer, makes her first screen appearance i -l n “Paying the || LOEW’S TODAY AND Corinne Griffith will b “The Corespondent,” h.a:dmn::ld l: magazine story by Helidore Tenno. fidnolnble Sceng Will be the heroine' ream palace,” said ot SRt aid to be a rare bit Presents the fun-frolics as STRAN AT D STREET N. W. Continuous Daily From 12 lu‘l‘:’ Noon MONDAY AND ALL WEEK PRESENTING THE POPULAR AND TALENTED TEXAS COMEDY FOUR Singing Sizzling Songs LING & LONG THREE WALTERS Twe Extremes in Comedy and Acrobatic Feats Frem the Realm of Melodics Baliads and Bunk ROSE GARDEN GRACE & EDDIE PARKS And Her Trusty Pia In “A Bungalow of Beauty” Premier Photodramatic Pressutation—All Performances—Wm. Fox Offers MISS SHIRLEY MASON In a Caarming Characterization “FLAME OF YOUTH” Buj Palace Symphony drilliant Ince comedy star of ol ““Twenty-TAree-and-a-Half Lzave,] “What’s Your Husband Doing?” “Mary’s Ankle,” “Let’s Be Fashionable” and “The Jailbird” DOUGLAS MacLEAN —THE WASHINGTON BOY— ed by Doris M 4 tale of @ doughboy who” came home. to sell books and found i ns and—in love! I;:a_zu THE ROOKIE'S: RETURN THOMAS JOSEPH GANNON, Director. Overture—“Hawaiian_Fantasies” Lake PALACE ALL WEEK suoh ours’ Reir to Orchestra AMUSEMENTS. ZEENA KEEFE - Knickerbocker ~ DoUe1AS Mag.;;@ema Doris Max Fox and the Films. WILLIAM FOX, the head of the Fox Film Corporation, has proved that New York, where the first mo- tion picture was:made, can be the center of this great industry. For just a year he has centered the work of his corporation in" the metropolis, not in the state of in the suburbs, but right in the heart of the city and ten minutes’ walk from the blazing white light district. A year ago he built an enormous studio and plant at 10th avenue and 55th and 56th streets, with a studio floor, where a dozen companies could work at once, where there was cen- tered the whole staff and working outfit on another floor, with labora- tory in the basement, so that every. thing from the writing of the scenario to the turning ‘out of the finished film was done under one roof. In other words, he gave to New York un- der one roof what the moving picture industry has glven to southern Cali- fornia. , That the plan is more than success- ful is shown by the building at pres- ent of an addition, while an entire block recently ogcupied by the Kelly- Springfield Company has been pur- chased by the Fpx interests for the extension of the blant. Of course the.Fox studios at- Los Angeles continué, but William Fox's pride is the moving picture city he has built and is operating right in the heart of his ownNew York. For Fox is a born and bred New Yorker. He started there with one theater, and now, in addition to his great motion picture plant, he has thirty-eight theaters in “vatious parts of the United States. ¢ Breathing Life BY PENRHYN STANLAUS. N the artistic world we have two kinds of artists, creative and in- terpretative. A creative artist spends half of his life teaching his brain to do creative thinking; the other half teaching himself to express the thoughts created. An_interpretative artist takes tHe product of a great creator and re- produces it in another form of ex- pression. Naturally, the creative individual, ‘with his ecially trained brainm, is the most to be envied—as he brings something entirely new into the world. And the man who has learned to create is not limited to one line| of expression. So it is that Michael- angelo and Dante, Gabriel Rossetti, great artists, wrote sonnets that en- thralled the literary world. And the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini is even greater than his prowess as silversmith, goldsmith or sculptor. Paderewski, Kubelik and the mezzo- tint artists of the eighteenth century are our great interpretative artists. “But how,” 1 hear some one asking, “does this all apply to motion plc- tures?” : It applies in this way: We have come ‘to.think~of the motion picture director largely as an_interpretative artist, interpreting thé story of an other man. But is he? We can understand the wonderful work of a Paderewski be- cause he had something concrete to interpret; a wonderful score which gave him the sole and single duty of placing in proper terms of finger technique and touch. ‘The script the director however, is not a concrete thing. represents the nearest possible proach to a written reproduction of a photoplay—but it is impossible to make such a presentation real in writing. The reality is breathed into it by the director, who visualizes in is Kive;l. t Larry Semon,4he Vitagraph come- dian, while lyifg in bed with a sprained back, e to strenuosity in his work for e Hick,” wrote the complete contimyity for his mnext TR OPENING , THIS AT 3P M. 0 ADAPTED BY @G. DU- BOIS PROCTOR. PER- SONALLY DIRECTED BY ALBERTCOAPELLANI WITH A CAST OF EX- OBPTIONALBRIL- LIANCE T H A T IN- CLUDES WILLIAM P. CARLETON, MARGUER- ITE CLAYTON, DAVID TORRENCE, EDITH HAL- LOR AND JACK BOHN. HIGH PLACES, WHICH TURED FORM, MILLIONS! Do You Remember— The ezquisite charm, the breathless, poignant thrill this famous 1oriter breathed into his firat great novel “Richard Carvel’—a tale that ranks as one of the greatest of all American novels of Colo- nial luzury and sacrifice! Can you forget the sweeping force and power that he éncorporated into that deathless tale of the comguest of a continent beyond the Mississippi—the story he called “The Crisis?” Here is another—a newer—an even greater—Winaton Churchiil epic of modern Awmerican life, of the cynical hypocrisy that uses the church for a shield and jves lesser souls to shame and ignoming, fig‘:’;ltkfld by the figure of a twentieti ury crusader of the ol A snttahing lyrio love-tals of the world and under-world! ‘ADDED PROGRAM NUMBERS COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA . LEON BRUSILOFF, DIRECTOR Overturc—"“Overture from ‘William Tell'” (Rossini) Symphonic Score of Popular Belections. SELZNICK CAMERA NEWS OF THE WORLD—ANIMATED AMENITIES OF 7Quartier of Paris. —BY— WINSTON CHURCHILL AUTHOR OF SUCH FAMOUS NOVELS AS “RICHARD CARVEL” AND “THE CRISIS” AND WHOSE POWERFUL AND SENSATIONAL LOVE STORY OF HYPOCRISY IN CREATED A PERFECT FURORN IN AMERICA AND EUROPE WHEN IT FIRST APPEARED IN HEARST'S MAGAZINE, WHERE IT WAS RBAD BY Into a Script actual mind-pictures the action of the characters. The director of trained creative mind will visualize impressions above and beyond those which can be placed in typewritten form. The director of interpretativa mind will reproduce only the plain and more or less un- adorned script. The majority of the directors of the future will be interpretative. The smaller group of the industry, the big giants who are to do the coming masterpieces of the screen, will be creative. The Wagners, the Shake- speares, the Balzacs of the silver sheet will be men who can take an idea out of thin air and weave it into something wonderfully beautiful. "When We Were Three." A DOZEN vears ago Arnold Bennett, the famous British author; Pen- rhyn Stanlaws, the eminent &merican artist, and W. Somerset Maugham, noted English playwright and novel- ist, were “pals” together in the Latin Then unknown to the world of art, they lived:& happy- go-lucky bohemian existences Recahtfy .S gilst anad Em.m 2, P: transform- met again in a) ed to the -back- lot of thé Lasky studio, Hollywood. - And Arrold Ben- nett was with them in spirit i mot in person. For it was on a Latin Quartier set of Bennett's story “Sac- red and Profane Love.” William D. Taylor's Puramount production sta ring Elsie Ferguson, that Maugham and Stanlaws rencwed their, old-time acquaintance. 4 “It brings back fond memories, wistfully remarked Maugham as he glanced toward a typical wineshop, a counterpart of the famous cafe in the - Avenue de Clichy, which he so car fully described in his “Moon and Six- - BIA L SEASON'S TWELFTH SUPER- PROGRAM IS SHOWN HEREWITH IN PIC-