Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1921, Page 49

AMUSEMENTS. 5 a2 1 : “XMUSEMENTSV Ao THE. SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FEBRUARY .20, 1921-PART 2 sementq me PHOTOPLAY ? ESCRIPTIVE adjectives and siperlatives having been exhausted: ‘on “super-supreme” pictures which. have preceded it. Lhar.hc Chaplin’s best piceture of his career, “The Kid.” must be demedl * the adulation which those who have seen it would be only too glad to bestow upon it. But even so. the great human throng that poiired into the theater during the past week gave mute testimony that thie attraction was at least “super-popular.” One little girl of twelve years of experience’in the world took the trouble to call at The Star office to express the hope that we would say something nice about ™ he Kid,” although she reluctantly admitted “that some parts of it are al- | most ‘naughty.” It was the discriminating and critical opinion of a child, | but it carried higher praise than a volume of words, words, wolds. L * k k¥ WHICH is a reminder that somewhere in the' motion picture industry there reposes the notion that mere words in_ abundant quantities are good advertising. although probably millions of dollars annually are expended in_brief, snappy advertisemen:s that, go directly to the point they seek 1o convey. Many experienced advertising men agree that the man who understands the finer meaning of the words he employes is a much better advertising agent than the fellow who carries an inexhaus- tible vocabulary around with him. The man who can create the mental effect he is seeking without the use of adjective, native born or specialiy constructed, is much more apt to faithiully describe th¢ merits oi a -thing than the monster with super-supreme adjectives. The realization | i this fact' would help materiaily, also, in destroying the space-killer, who is the bete nbir ot the editorial desk. . * % ok % / LLEN DALE thinks very well of Marion Davies' new picture, Treasure.” 2 * ¥k 8 . 8 . 3 NEW' YORK critic says “The Saphead,” in which William H. - Crane, the iamous old actor. and Buster Keaton share the honors is “gently entertaining throughout and lusciously humorous in spot It is a Winchell Smith story, which. the critic Says. falters for gas once in a while. . Suried - " * ¥ k¥ THE EASY QOAD," adapted from Blair Hall's story by Beulah| Marie Dix, now one of the leading film attractions in New York. teaches the lesson that a wife should let her husband alone work out his own destiny, especially if he has to write for a living. The picture is devoid of “wild emotions and nauseous vamping,” the reviewer states. % k Kk X > NE of the reviéwers says that Mary Pickiord's new O creen “meller- : i | R - ; Ry rama™—his la e ted— b doesn't jell.” H s A . B W g e fee el som oy doot joi He sl e s e ; - Poas : mierion 5 Karserive. Mae DONALD Li'gl:l' is on;-qnd:sut melodrama—m:lodrama that is not overly original in story or in incident.”" s “ K s A : : Crandalls . Strand. . Metropolitar THE Baltimore Federation of Churches is planning to send letters to [ 3 ; , federations of churfhes throughout the country asking them to urge ' 2 3 : 7 l - producers to make higher types of motion pictures and to offer,to pledge their maral support to the National Board of Motionr Picture Censors in a campaign for higher-grade productions. Dr. L. W. McC v, executi 3 ; : R plcture,. “Love, Honor and Behave” 1 ! " secretary of the pahifi‘urore f';_defltion: is quo!ed“as !:une;“ ':\\;C:'n:,\,: ; . [ | iz not a retitied photoplay. but & new Griffith: Clan to Gather. complex problem is before the American people than this one of movies. [ O Qp ays ls . ee LD ens Shosislpnadaction, THE management announces a NEXT WEEK'S PHOTOPLAYS. Mary Hay Barthelmess. Metmpolitnn. o » ITTLE MARY HAY.” as she is known to all her friends, at last me into her own in the role of Kaié H wster in the Griflith production of | “Way Down ‘East.” 4 | a the roof tops of the But co. ration between the church federatio vi i ? i ert- | ns will bring about an un- “Payi i ” riffith night” at the Shubeért- < - = : b i aying the Piper. AEht]sat the ) Shubart- ||l ‘Aetrom spect ducti LD GOODWIN, 3 3 . % e the purpose of bringing togéther all| Dana. RO! OODWIN, whom' Fox has just elevated to pictur: the Washington - residents named | = e Griffith in honor of David Wark Grif- | Knickerbocker. gere, Will be the attraction at Moore's AT PHOTOPLAY HOUSES ALL THIS WEEK i jGarden Theater this week; beginning bt o a ro A “star- s dofi” go;;l.‘f iorTl-fu 'vIvork in bis first picture. a comedy. in which Tod tod Th rowning and Fa: incher appeared, in whi il = g = . o oday. e ‘thought it co ' ~ | vmkouic“boy_y ppeared, and in which Goodwin played the [ | METROPOLITAN—“My Lady's Latchkey.” Shown today at 3 pm. | 'that in the mad I ite VoY o®| 6th. the producer of “Way Down' Matro's photoplay, “The Off-Shore < theaters. She came from s - * % & % PALAC Polly With a Past.” Shown today at 3 p.m. n;o{:!le ‘are blind to the finer things| East. }l::;, 2 {y-;:r&n_x.: \‘;olah Danz.l;'“"“ the Zicgfeld lock Revue,” 3 5 4 . | Tl S 5 o ; and mal o B 3 " = . K oung. in “Hush.” an oug- e % NIAL has been made by Fox authority that Wiliam Farnum is| | RIALTO—"Prisoner of Love” Shown today at 3 p.m. Ll S iacs i aditiat posacanloi docalnot, B0 BUTCRRG 4: Do S start- | 5| oD, in Huan i and Doks | atop of ths ew Awmsrerdii TAPAIEE %oing to Europe tq make motion pictures. ; | CRANDALL'S—“Love, Honor and Obey.” Shown today at 3 pm, | | tentment. e : S e e 3 Rt gy 2 * % k¥ 3 | o e s e = > : | The story. is said to haye. many; an ashington, T Nor was this all GOME finc 0ld house and table decorations of civil war days are to be |- | e L e e | e et ol elopment. O B s S Crandalls o e e R R shown in “The ‘Heart of Maryland.” the Vit k ¥s s IA— lorbxdqen Frui Shown today at 3 p.m. | 1.1t concerns Barbara Wyndham,{nes¥ management. of “Way Down rma_Talnradge. in_Select's leer in the “IHun” dugou! in Hearts * on the famous Belasco play. Nearly all the ;catil;asp“:::d!:i!exgn_ba:,:d [REEADER S orcil Shopaitedayiaiginn, J Toates e 5 ine Cavates | L22t" | Among the 300 persons| siur- ) Srama Chhe Way of 4 Woment; e e T e s Sy 3 Y C % in the . onaire, product of. the ivorce = lace Reid. in “The C S chore ary Iay was her first south, it is said, andsouthern women- took a lively interest in ths pro- - e Courts who aries Larry Grahame, | named ‘Grifith who have agreet to| G It e Hay, i Peatetul Vahio | work before the camera, but she prof- “Pquy With a Past.” y whose wedding gift from her husband ited well by the training recetved then ductiofh .. : _ in order, as she says, to be able to|participate in the event are many £k ¥ x : was a blue diamond which, ohly a|Eet'a divorce as other members of | People of prominence. from Mr. Griffith. That was back ia ARLE WILLIAMS has begun a new pict b % Ina Claire, the Belasco stage star,| short time before, had been stolen |her set do. A Wall street crash leaves| . The Griffith family was one of the des 4 : Martyn" v “Th. § W picture based on Wyndham | who achieved her first big footlight | from*her uncle. This stolen gem pre- | the two penniless, and they-are forced | ¢3rly Virginia settlers, but David's: o atest 2 In the interim Mary got very bufy, \ artyn’s story e Secret of the Silver Car. E ! cipitates a succession of exciting |to lead the simple li branch moved into Kentucky two'i . 0T in her latest produc- | and the casting bf actors for ! - gt s < T IR % B success in the Belasco production of | CIPItAles & succession of «xcitinglio lead the simple lie. == | gCiciitions befare he was born. and -Uon. “The in the Garret unique; quaint, homely roles in A NOVELTY in pictures is to be produced at the Strand Th .| “Polly With a Past” the romantic|one of tremendous appeal. Rod Le Roque " Alma. el { &t a time when: Kentucky wasnt; : e [ Down East” Griffith was mude York. during:the showing of “Black Beauty.” the f h""'" New | comedy by Guy Bolton and George _A. néw Toonerville -comédy, aorse Fa‘:vm“ “;"m;"s R ey ‘\3‘1;1«1] sll}(i)da)'.r dac\r\wh Wark Grif-) Columbia. ;:v]‘r-x“h- 1;— hru.";x. .-x' »,rfu‘!\, firey 1 ewell : ." the fam, i s S ‘8. Ni 3 t er 1 & ; en | fith, the Yather of D. W., Was a gen- 5 i tle Mary Hay and ent.for her io play by Anna S ous horse story.| Middleton, will be pictured at Loew's Skipbers Nurrow Escape’ and other {j, jmportant volds. Orai. in-the Cotifedcrate army in ihe | “The Gilded Li featurinz Mae | Kate. That she geis all there.gs but A efl cross-country race : 4 lifted and theé ‘Bicture s St tae hirst:, . the screen will be A comedy,' the latest Fox News and/| civil- war, and earned. the titie of | Murr {'0f the part and more fun Han-enting Palace Theatér today and all " thel ‘,‘.:’,i';v,';fcgc;;';;!,;i;‘;ms;;n""m1 Beauty >nd Lightnis 2 S, representing Blagk | week in Metro s screen version of the sty orchestral music complete the attrac-| ‘Roaring Jack Griffith” because of | - sweet pickles in ber love making with b ix“Ben-H‘:,:" ng, raceiof treads exactly as in the famous chariot | play made under the personal direc- “Pri = | tions. his trait when leading hi# regiment ||~ 730 the professar 10 be tohe on- ) = s tion of Maxwell Karger and directed |~ risoner of Love. A Sl into - action .to: fafge. bis voice. to a | T Navy ¥ard Band. doved o Y . - - y Léander de.Cordova from. a scen- S gt o 5 s pitch heard above #hé din of battle. | D2 {18 | "My Grimith has placea hir how on = H {-rlo by June Mathis, Alded by the dzi‘;yr;‘r’"‘“'}":"";;t‘::;-']“"f s Forbidden Fruit. Gen. GriMih's Wife Was a member | HE Washingion Navg Yard Band is r Staff a3 one of ihuse few 5% stage direction o asco himself, r yal o “Forbidden Fruit,” :il B. de|of the Oglesby family of Georgia, and T Al A ST that are n “. but ¢ 3 \ the producers of “Polly With a Past” | Rdse, in “The Miracle Man." is pic- | 3ime oamen rroat (16 Cecil B d¢|hack of her were the Shiriey and belugycrotifdovith; siisking Soepn : {heimess O ’ ams \ have made a fllm version of that fa- | tufed at Modre's Rialto Theater today | Mlle screen study of modern Mar-ycurier families, all of good Georgia jderful progress within the past year. also has a contract with thawitractive 1 < mous stage story that is regarded as| in, “Prisoners-of Love,” a Dpicture|fiage and problems incident. thereto, | stock. ~Eight children were born toboth musically and an organization. | little woman - > . la revelation becausé of the wider|stdged by herself. It is adapted from ]lw:r"n,s ll_‘ghsecond‘rptk 'm Loew’s 003 Gen. and Mrs. Grifith. - They were{ Charles Benter, the bandmaster. is | > range of opportunity afforded by the | a story by Catherine Henry, and con- cater this afternoon a Mattie, William Wark, Alvert: Lyn-| [0ories Jon Cn 0 PSRRI ] niece of Chief Lintle Fether, who = | screen. cerns Blanche Davis, a girl born of{ 0'clock. The cast includes "Agnes |den,. Annie, Jagoh Wark, jr; V Ahe restrictive force | Shares directorial honors with ""l The story conéerns Polly Shannon of | wealthy and cultured parents, who | Ayres, Forrest Stanley, Kathlyn Wil. gini, David Wark and Ruth. cians as well as for their organization s one of the most famous of the d training. In addition to being an } Crow warriors, has b .n securd for {cxcellent musician, he is said to have | the cast of the Greenwich Vil'agze Fol- Adam and Eva” [the qualifications ‘of leadership and | lies, 1920, now pl. at the Shubert --Tmmnol that prevents bold exploration | ® into prigital dramatic flelds. “Is the| Announcément is made th curse._under which the budding au- | Rockett Film Corporation wil f thars-of today are laboring,” accord- | Stall censorship b; tar. East Gilead, Ohio. left alone in the | possesses in an unusual degree th ms, ‘Theodore Roberts, Theodore —_— world to stave off starvation, who be- | charm of “physical attractiveness” | fosloft and Julla Fay. TL.PreSeRt| puitip Tonge of tiie m aid in the apartment of two vho is loved by en, e problem of a wife's duty to a : e 3 e {5 4 vampire to enabla the flancee of one|hood,” a scemic, and the Fox News,|of worth. honor and wealth offers her |his stage debut in the presence ofgree. 5 5 retta Morgan. and is considered one of of them to save hjm from a real vam-| with an orchestral program, com- | Eenuine love. the late King Edward ‘and_thel A prominent naval officer declares | the beauties of the comy = : .|royal family. He has played with|the morale of the members of this the . ore- ¥ _censoring its own 1A to Oliver Morosco. = scrivs before fhey are sent to the di- e om 9 . E = rectors, and that sex pictures will be | Pire,%, clufehes. but really winsibin0ljte tha bl iy, | 4 5 . ‘IS Henry Irving. Sir Johnston|band is remarkable. They are well dis-y Al Jolson will open his engugement arred from production by the cor. | t0F herself. 3 = Love. Forbes-Robertson, Charles Hawtrey |ciplined, show excellent’ spirit at all [here at the Shubert B Buster Keaton is reported as sayin ; . ; “ ” amuster Keaton In reorted 23 #2310 | poration. President R. R. Rockett sp- 5 o+ Love, Honor and Behave. s R B s oI Sy e Peally he’ me Oof the first. if pot “My Lady’s Latchkey. *Crandall's Theater announces for all| n movies. r: ma; : . . 0 T i . . i i ay; Ma S -t . TOyies. iaelr marriage is expected | that this is-the rational form of sz | My Lady's Latehkey.” - featuring | thlS Week, beginning today: Mack Seh- { yeex. “Love" is Wesloy Ruggles’ sec-|were plaving “Beckett” and Tonge cans. pumbering fifty-six in ail [ New York Winter Garden N lh}"‘!hl_fl that needed and if con.| Katherine MacDonald, the Am";"rafl ett’s latest five-reel comedy, “Love.|ond production made for Associated|was cast in_the role of Prince Geof-| This band is =aid to rank high as a | 2 Bayasd Vefller. chf¥f of production | "Clentiously carried ‘out will put an|b28Uty. will be shown for the firsi) Honor and Behave, featuring the en: | Producers, under J. Parker Read, jr's, In this’ country Philip Tonge {concert band. as it produces the best| D. W. Grifith emploved a bird tr at Metro's west coast stadion de seoniend (o other forms of censorship in “'"T}:"-“‘Y'“‘! Crandall's Metropoliy| tire roster of Sennett comedians and| personal supervision been - associatéd with ~Charles |in music, its instrumentation is well ,er and also an animal irainer to get Vinced that the slump in’ pleture] 311 Probability. | e he miost baffling mystery. | beauties. 1t is a_burlesque of the! : Frohman. the Leibler Company. Klaw | balanced’ and "the lone is perfectly {the unusual effects of the pigeon fir- making is about over and that it has! = = | O on that has ever found its way | iodern divorce court. The stor. st Knickerbocker. and Erlanger and Comstock and|blended in the effects and coloring of j ing upon the shoulder of Lillian Gish P radices (han to the DIt ore tabie with B IO e st man To The aitver sheer, It 1s adapted. from | dhe form of a reeitil by a judge of | 1, iherine MacDonald, the American | .- = Saved only by the best of concert be petied by Richard Bt theimenn o atheymictunes public 5 in “Mile. Modiste,” | “The Secona Latchkey,” by C. N. and | the experiences which almost wrecked | | 28RETRE 0 PRI J00 CILEN S Joneph Cawtborne closed his season | bands il e R B e 0Y e e | peanty. I Ay Ly L neion ! | in “The Half Moon™ two weeks ago.in| The band will play at the benefit | filming “Way Down East™ Over 3,000 2 Chicago. Next Saturday he will sail rt to be given for Dobbs School | fect of film were taken in order to wsicians who lovemration week. Febr: v they are a young |tal travesty, “Sinbad"—a delicious ¥ famous English ac- | times and are all "Vtors. He, was with Sir Henry Irving | their work. Off du be shown at the Leader this|the night he died at Bradford. They |and cheerful lot of 100 per cent Ameri quet of laughter from the famous and most of the He thinks. however, that it has|frst appeared in pictures in a pro- v Na-| his early married life, when a youth- caused an “increase ia the quality of | duction called “Tn'the Tarkish Gar- | Aorti wolmormor The tory eomcerns | o1 bride and bridegroom appeal to ! the picture made.” den” “with Mary Pickford, Ethel|a young woman. who, through a com- | him lo grant them a decree. 1t i j bocker Theater today andtomorrow. | om ®Xaw York for Burope for a Cogtinental Memorial Hall | obtain the amusing sco . {Grandin. George Poane Tucker. King | bination of circumatances, becomes the | claimed that nlany unique tricks of t 5 4 thrilling mystery-romance {rom New . ik po) b e i i Alice Lake, after spending two | Baggott and Owen Moore. He is cast|victim of a band of jewel thieves, and photography are introduced in the (Continued on Fourth Page.) weeks filming Snow scenes for “Un-|as a Russian count in the Rockett ~ charted Seas” at Flagstaff, Ariz.. has | pictyre. “Keeping Up With Lizzie returned with s cold and ‘a sprained | ankle. Her director Wesley Ruggles. | Gevrze Randolph Chester, rditor-in- . had & rib fractured from a fall on m«tcm»r of the Vitagraph Company. with y th "EEK #nd other members of her com-!\rs. Chester. left recently for the 1 A ”::ih:'r'u:“;:‘: bml;glu un: sprains. | Hollywood studio to begin prelimi- Other Da; [} as” ought to be g0od. " | yary work on the filming of “The Son 2 n d"S . : _lof “Wallingford ch. it i - A In e Right of Way” it is said iians s < sequel 2 Bert Lytell had to consume depress- |, previous Wallingford stories, but .ng_quantities of tea, as make-be-! 0 Frovions Wallingford ¢ * lieve eamera liquor. and now in “The — Man Who” Ji is called upon to con- | At F St., Near 7th . DIREOTION MESSRS. BHUBERT. - 7th and, F Sts, N. W. - || s e sume. enormous quantities of jce cream. Mr. Lytell appears to be en- e e Tten v i PROTECTION FOR THEATER PATRONS series. i | : N e |1 . Metro's picture, “Big Game,” gets a i =ar Al s | boost from John Steven McGroarty. | [Hi ’ | o : the laureate of California. The “arti effort expended upon eyen the o 9 - " i - smaHmt details, he says. is a m‘"fi-{ I —will be paid to party finding means to prevent the unlawful manipulation of tlon e Wi - tickets for the ergagement of— D. W. C TIFFITH'S Take F or 7th St. Carn 0 _SECOND TRIUMPHANT WEEK— 7 In & desire to comoly émplicitly with the wishes of its distinguished clientele, the.management of Loew’s Columbia Theater begs to announce the continuation, for another week, beginning this aftermoon af $ o'clock, of ‘a photoplay production that oan be enthusiastically in- dérsed as one of the most sumplu- ous offerings of the season. =T IS CECIL B. DeMILLE'S Gredtest of all acreen classica—a picture that 4z warm with the infoxicating lure of real women and real men—a 20th cemtury atory of modern marriage, its duties, its.lures and its temptations. An epic mastexatale that coinbines the spiritual beauty of DeMille's “Something to Think About with all the sithy flare and fashion of his own opulent story, ~Why Change Your Wife?” A pic- Ture that will be remembered always.” Thats “FORBIDDEN | ~FRUIT” By Jeawe MacPherson—A Paramount Picturs WITH S -AGNES AYRES : KATHLYN WILLIAMS SIS “rge Migh Sign,” the seventh of lhe' Bmc‘ X;tol comwu'. wil) dlsdo:; | 5 an emtirely new supporting cast, wi the sald exception of Eddie Cline, who | I “Wfl’ Down East” Has The Garrick Has Al Good Seats Giving Clear Cow Rayalty in Films. 4 COW was needed for some scenes in “Way Down East." and word | went forth that a gentleman farmer . naméd Henry Lyons, near White Plains, Westchester county, New York, had some prize. stock. The property man of the studio jouraeyed to negotiate a loan of the! dairy behuty. “Tou want her for,a movie." quoted [ Mr. Lyons. ot that cow. She is 4 [ = the daughter of Lady Aberyswyth s Washmgton Hattie by Monarch Fahrenheit. His 5 ancestors are prize winners for six | generations. I am not intereste and he turned away. for Its But _the property man having been trained in disappointed interviews, * mentioned excellent care would be wonferred. | “Care; it isn't the eare I am worry- ing about. It's that [ don’t want that She is Secared the Ideal - Theater of View of the Screen. . One Balcany_ A hand seized the gems around her neck—ana her husband branded as a thief. atece Showing. e e e iy Comes in Its Entirety to This Theater trom Its 3 Weeks Record Run: at Poli’s - | FORREST STANLEY . CLARENCE BURTOM afibn:’" g 5 oty Must Continue to Accommodate the Crowds THEODORE ROBERTS THEODORE KOSLOFF “Well, I saw some pictures he had By Request of Thousands Who Were Unable to Secure Seats. e The run at Poli’s eould not be extended owing to unalterable contracts held by dther attractions Nights and Saturday Mat., 50c to $2—Other Daily Mats., 25c¢ to $1 No Teléphone Orders. Good Seats for All Perfoymances Available in advance in the early. morning hours, thersby avoid- WARNING 7t i Ver ofiee late in the day. A of French cows in ‘Hearts of the *World, " came the response. “Is thix jcture like that” : “Jgst as big if not bigger. Twelve TCHKEY" I’P‘lg and very elaborate. i « “What's the name of It™ 4 First Natiemal attracMon by “COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ' LEON BRUSILOF—DIRECTOR OVERTURE—+Poet and Peasant” Von Suppe ~Way Down East’" C.N.and A M. Wi . _“Well, my cow iz better looking o iiamacn than mu;.?r.elach cows. I guess you —;thw Toonerville — ean take her along. And, say. I've got “The Skipper’s N. ’ X oalf you ought to put in there with ey Eacsne er.”