Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1921, Page 55

~ AMUSEMENTS. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 27, 1921—PART 3. __ AMUSEMENTSY o — ”—‘——\ TCH is belng 8aid and written about motion picture censorship. 1 Large and representative bodies of our citizens have met. dis- cussed and'resolved upon the subject. Our public guardians. a, aroused by umI | - 5 the Commissioners of the District of Columb tempest, are gravely considering the application of a re edy of the gen- erally assumed evil by placing under supervision an entert is patronized probably by nearly every man, woman and National Capital—with power to act. * N prescribing a remedy for an evil two things are indispensable: a thorough and exact knowledge of the evil itseli: secondly. the knowl- edge, with reasonable certainty. that the remedy to be applied will cure, or abate, the evil and without itseli creating another evil. # * * 7 Ix 2+ agmitted that far too many motion pictures are suggestive, vbscene | and demoralizing. and that some iment that child in the »i them inspire the young to admire ! the ways of the bandit. the highwayman and the persist notwithstanding their makers and their | i the olfense they give. Instead of remedying and attemp? to imitate crook. These picture exhibitors are fully aware o - = the evil themselves. these picture mak and exhibitors pe t in their é Sfec.c. biiause it i desmicd prohtable actually fuwult public in- Tom. WAY DOWN EasT” Shubert . <7 The e telligence with the claim that “the public Wamt§ such pic retort oi the outraged public is said to be. censorship will remedy t evil may. But there seems to be two things which should be seri- ously considered before that drastic remedy. if it be @ remedy, is applied. | * ship is open to the dange not the law first be mvoked i being arbitrary and Why not enact a NASMUCH as censc tyrannical. why ma pla iair, comprehensive law forhid, the making as well as the public exhibition of pictures such as those to which objection is raised, making the alty for its violation not o a money fine that might be | eficctive. but following that up with the annulment oi the license of a picture exhibitor for a second or a third offense, and punishing the x ©f such pictures in that case by forbidding the cxl on of any pictures ! made by him for such a period as might be determined necessary to ef- D hiect bt hianlati cofisr ihe advagtazs o this conrseitics| in giving the police power to suppress summarily a picture about there is no deubt, and in leaving the cour f law to determi pictures about which there may be a doubt. The picture producer whose | product faces the danger of being banished from the local screens will hesitate to make objectionable pictures. The exhibitor threatened with the annulment of his license will hesitate to show such pictures. In all cases of doubt the judge of a competent court will pass upon and adjudi- caté the question, the same as is done with all questions that divide men’s opinions in matters of right. 3 hich | MOURRAY ~ Columbia o> o RA GORDON - Strand S * % % % 'HOSE who are closely familiar with the subject know that wherever censorship has been set up there is vigorous and insistent protest, not alone from'the picture maker or exhibitor, but from many who have felt convinced that it was being unfairly and unjustly administered. Wash-| | ington patrons have witnessed and delightedly approved pictures that| | have been utterly condemned by censors elsewhere. The habit of con- demning the bad engenders a disposition to pick flaws in things that are not-bad. Censorship should not be adopted unless every other available Priscna DEAN- Garden Vit | PSSR s——— | |Winter Garden No Hothouse y “The Ghost of Filmograms | Ra Tt erally agreed that the most difficult to motor into a st entertainment in which to score a hit find the villagers i AT PHOTOPLAY HOUSES THIS WEEK. | GARRICK—*Way Down East." Shown toda ROPOLITAN—"“The Off Shore Pirate." at 3 p.m. Shown today at 3 pm. | vd up over= remedy has failed. S > -1 B - S is one of the elaborate acular | P . " - =r s 3 o s | a tale of gho wunied house EALAGE Blie Ghose fit thieGarcel Y Shown foddviat 3ip musical productions that made | ipping story from the | But you may be doing it svon if the | and discovey it o RIALTO—"The Plaything oi Broadway.” Shown today at 3 p.m. the fame of their birthplace, the New | 5.0 of Maxwell Smith, which aroused | burn dance of this name inven production fo CRANDALL'S—“The Way ot Woman.” Shown today at 3 p.m. T o el oo Paseing Show | Wide interest when published in the | {1, Lie VoM Dana \Doratny; fiiei GARDEN—"Outside the Law.” Shown today at 3 p.m. of 1918,” now playing at Poli's. | Saturday Evening Post, will be pro- | starring in a picture \Dorathy fisle gu: in y P 5 along 1 of New tuff.” and among the in; ashioned barn dance tation combines the tremor of th shimmy, the burlesque of the oid fashioned cake walk and the grace of the waltz, “"”,,'Lnfii"."’),fr?t'}.'“ fa!:n”- ed I"j:‘:" duced, with May Allison in the prin- acco fund, she said. “This is my | cipal role. t appearance at the Winter Garden. I am scared to deat Only those actors COLUMBIA—“The Gilded Lily.” Shown today at 3 p.m. Her aday | Photoplays This Week| near . the vi . and when v from the The “Mothererafy" photoplay just completed 4t Vidor Village has been afa. Husband.” starring Betty Blythe and | pictures only in order to meet the in which the; Mahlon Hamilton, will be the piece!demand for a return booking of this the h orous touches “The Plaything of Broadway. and actresses plot_abounds. o) etette ot the: Kildiembockes| Drbmalicl coituntas ase! depletaal i | Chow a CORIN L a r San| o) Testatance oT the kerbocker | underworld epi SotIAS lextantintic iiaheteiarin seraen i um ol v s Y c ed 10 it in the hop: g deple: S s Mr. e kdhninE e e s s n the t| retitlea “Children Well and Happy las “The Plaything of Broadway,” Star-|a_hunting in the orient. where ne| ogl Thursday and Inauguration day. | ith Lon Chaney, seen in two ofl\worid are ever seen in Winter Garden S0 Jane Atherton. uthful sereen "Of finding an ide 4 new fllm > This entertaining | photoplay s a | the strangest characterizations of his| \ioductione, The financial outiay en- | May Bliss Dickinson. founder of the | JA00 “CAmO% (00 SOV I ST Instead of sts, however, © ring Justine Johnston, which is pre-|encounters all manner of adventures.|1j iety ¢ ¢ wri - A ’ Z st 2 3 .| light _society comedy written by Al-|career, co-starring. the cture at- | g 2 . 2 - sented for a week's engagement De- | including jousts with the entire Turk- | bert Pavson Terhune. and is said (o | aincd enormous bopulariiy ‘when origic | thied i (he lavish scale on wh R Tum Emessency. House' by | 150 army, eacapades with the beauties | be the most artistically produced and | nally shown here. Combired with s lav- | s M3NCOTE FEVEED SR, SRETAves B o N aat iotars of the sultan’s harem and various| best dressed screen offering of the |ishness in production and the remark- | o sre stagedcompel the mang ey Moxman, P jungle encounters. Added film fea-| current son. The comedy “Mr.|able xclusively to engage artists & | national Mothercratt leaving for New York this week to |pear in complete releasing rund her own proverty man su doing here?” she in- May Allison's supporting rrangements. lw-mpany for her mnew uction “Dated.” from the Saturday Evening T. Daniel Frawley, who has staged | Post story by Maxwell fixing up thess co unded central figure a ) = s e e acting of the principals, the ong s i v i ;:‘a‘::‘ih:‘!flsyo?;g “sl:nner‘who‘ piqued | Lures and special musical settings will | Fatima" will supplement the major {story depicted is replete with many | {0 e L D O e v [ mome of the most notable successes of | niece of Gertrude Atherton ghosts for “The m complete the exceptional bill. feature. tensely thrilling scenes. Aside from gelens the speaking stage in the last quarter | fame. Miss Atherton d Tie picture he men- §l when told of 2 man she could not en- going public; the Winter Garden has was_Miss s new On Saturday only will be shown |the two mentioned, Wheeler Oakman, of the century, has become a member | as devoted to her particular work for pter- snare, sets herself the task of ac- : b ot the time or place for a hothopse > i _— " » the latest starring vehfcle for Wash- | pg . . . Ci 0 e Place. 8 fod 3 's West C« a al | the film as much as aue! i ' complishing his moral downfall. In “The Way nf a Woman.” i 0 o alph Lew E. A. Warren, Wilton vhich te nut| of Metro's e oast directori e film o her gifted aunt is Ting pro on. 4 "ml:m‘ Ged’ tisntien (CLLhE Duny ington's own star, Douglas McLean, | Taylor, Melbourne MacDowell and | n Which to nurture budding talemt.] g, ., to her literary pursuits. i . . In order that inaugural visitors to|“The Rookie's Return,” i 3 ; 7 i = —— — surgeon who gives his spare % - little Stanley Goethals comprise the B s AL a wit Tome o The poor in the slums, she in |the capital may be afforded the great- === [ cast. "fa_program selection of added scregn| From early glimpses of the finished | _Eva Novak's next feature will be “The i turn is.regenerated and begins life,eSt possible variety of screen enter- “The Gilded Lily.” Thursday, through Saturday next,|and musical number: print of “A Message:From Mars.” the ‘1!3 ck Cap.” a: story by Madsworth anew. Miss Johnstone is supported |tainment. Crandall's Theater this will bring to the Garden screen tal- mew produgtion starring Bert k mp., which _récently. .received much there is offered ajmple confirmat | favorable commient when it appeared in the judgmént displayed.- in casting | Collier’s Weekly. - Harvey © Gates & ary Louise Beaton in_ the part of |3dapting this popularisiory for the ! e Jones. g destituts wife. | eczeen: ¢ Thé public will S00n.7B6. able 10 | e Hraat 4ra0 is acclaimed as udge for themselves of the effective- | American stage. was the wemer ot L. s8 of King Vidor's coloring process. | ir.ction when she appeared one “The Pilot” will probably be |jast week at the annual .| week reverts to its uspal custom of | Mae Murray, the star of such screen | cnted Corinne Griffith in her latest uford Kent. Claude Cooper, George |Providing thre¢ specially selected | dramas as “On With the Dance” and | Vitagraph production, “It Isn’t Being g:rf Mrs/ Charies Willard, Lucy|Ehatoplay features for ~successive | «The Right to Love," is the featured | Done This Season,” a thrilling melo- Parker and_Gertrude Hillman. under |Prefentation, beginning this afternoon | gtar of inaugural week Loew's | drama of rapid action, in which Misa acing car, doing stuntswith Daniel Breeskin and his uvnsemzation . ] | Columbia Theater, beginning today, |Grifiith has excellent opportunitie 5 2% o eloiste @ wonderful inierpretatice | The outstanding feature of the bill | Yhere ahe hegins an axignded screen |for the display of her powers of ex- | wiu, Of his horse Tony and leaping. 8 score is premised. including as over- [arranged for the firsi three days of | angagen.2nt in Robert Z.- Leonard's|pression. as well as the wearing of | i’ e pand“or a pretty girleis the ture. . Hi ‘s “Zampa.” and as an|the present week is “The Way of a|paramount special production, ‘“The | wonderful gowns. Many of the scenes | aiteaction at the Criterion Theated, by Macey Harlam, Edwards Dav friterion, in_the saddiz, at'the wheel P erection of her s bem + girectly op- © de Mille’s hom one of the p ol added féature a saxaphone solo, “f{Woman.” Select's fine camera version | Gilded Lily.” which will be offered|are laid in Smyrna, and the oriental e i % i - ) L : ear You Calling Me.” by Mr. johnof Eugene Walter's successful slage | Washingion screen patrons for the | baskgrounds furnish a contrast for v tmenis Jatest William TgX|gelcased for public presentation some [sillc Show held in New York. Aies ! Gooding, late of the London Sym-|Play. “Nancy Lee.” in which the stel- | grae time. the exquisite fashions of the Star.| Tnis thrilling, speedy comedy of§ ¢ " March. | Brady looked charming 18 a black crepe Touls © “"\."'““.‘“‘ e . 3 i soe in Ar m New York io s Phony Orchestra and a recent addi-|lar role ia played by Norma Talmaiige. “The Gilded Lily” was based on an |Short subje meteor dinner gown. with panels of jet | and special orchestral{western life is declared to be t tion to the Rialto Orchestra Seldom in the history of silent drama | original story by Clara Beranger, |features accompany all showings. ot A0 Ted: Lo you danoe the “wiggle-wog- [down the front and back. She com- i the Oliv k compan Subsidiary subjects to the main at-|has so distinguished a cast been as- | and Director Leonard has brought josa M nesimade T whidhiis Sayir Of course, you cam't, not vet. 'pleted her costume with large biack =~ (Conimued ¢ Page N traction will include a multiple reel|sembled for a single picture as ap-|to the support of the Star a cast of X Star 3 i gins by swapping his horse (not Teny. ot Y Comedy _ entitled — “Holy | Pears in Miss Talmadge's support. Fore- | tfotoplayers that includes Lowell «w i " Wap] Mermal! an educational and an ex.|most among the contributory players are | Bierman: who will be remembered for The Gl.mtt in the Garret. s coursestonia "t‘l"-"(‘]‘.’“'“‘}‘,’" auto._on clusive showing of the latest Fox|Conway Tearle. Mae McAvoy, Jobyna | pis exceptional work in D. W. Grif-| A double inaugural bill of romance, | e GESett and, Anding the steering News. FLLCRE T T Gg;_’;gewl; fith's “Way Down East”; Charles|comedy and mystery is offered by |ii " And then i L sulde g T tion dean A et A g::r:’-l'{;!‘:’a Robards, Leonora Ol-|loew's Palace Theater, beginning this| The pace set in the opening scen story breéathless in its suspense. Sup- Tt is a brilliant and intimate pic- |afternoon, in which Miss Dorothy Gish |Is maintained throughout the picture. r.——-'—-fl ,“————- seeciar - 9 SEASON INAUGURAL WEEK OFFERING i ! “le DTV; East.” = N eraenting Ehe War e ameys ant a 2 , 2 c p1Others in the cast are Charles K. i The fifth week of D. W. Griffith’s|P 2 ¥ ture of Broadway night life and the | will be seen as the featured star in her | o hcrs in BTH super-picture,:“Way Down East} will },‘c‘){},)‘f&’r;v, the laughable comedy, | intense craving of a girl of this night French, George Hernandez, Lloyd Bas SUPER- latest independent Paramount produc-|con. Sid Jordan, Charles Arling, Har- Ein with today's matinee at the|“QUUADIAILE © L llife for a home, a husband and a s Ghost bLiRe Girrett sisi| o)l Cosdr s i e ATlinE AR X = i PROGRAM hubert-Garrick Theater. There will 1 We > baby. Miss Murray is seen as a|UON 000 : e another presentation tonight at 8 |dall’s will present a double bill. “The | Broadway dancer. Who is hostess | plemented by Buster Keaton in his ',“'fl;«‘(;_al-'- Lynn “F. Reynolds wrote | TODAY AT 3 P. M. “clock, to be followed with two per-|Charm School,” starring Wallace Reid | and entertainer at the Cafe Roval, & ljatest comedy h: The Haunted | M4 directed the mary. t ormances daily at 2 and 8 o'clock, 2nd Mack Sennett's latest two-reel | rich, exclusive night club. Although |5 ., o = iz e e The simple Story of love and lovers in | ‘amera farce, “A Fireside Brewer.” In| greatly desired by Creighton How- )00 s ¢ Apollo. 4n amacng sicture tural New England, upon which the |this bill will be found in generous|arq anqa John Stewart, two cynical The Ghost in the Garret” wh _ 3 Momhattan—its ‘madnc Fhectacie is evolved, is taken from the |Meastre a combination of all elements | men, she gives her heart to a boy |offers Miss Gish one of her most f Today and tomorrow, Wallace Reid siamor play “Way Down East,” by Lottie|essential to complete mental relaxa-|from the country. who, in the fasci- |Naling roles. was adapted from the in “The Charm School” and Mack Grifiith selected this |tion and perfect screen entertainment. | nating glare of Lillian's personality, |Of the same name by Wells Has Sennett’s “A’ Fireside Brewer'”: Tues- Blair Parier. ¢tory because of its human appeal and the fact that it is typically remindful of a passing era in American life. In camera drama and comedy will be af- Another distinctive combination of forded by the program scheduled for has forgotten the country girl he left behind. The dramatic climax of the picture would be marred by previous revelation. {and her supporting c: ng: t is studded wit! s William_ B. Park. Down- Mrs David Lan- nd many others. such players Maurice Tourneur’ ohica Prince Mae Marsh “The Last of ity Fair Gir Wednesda; Lit 'Frai the new art form his command he | Presentation on Inauguration day and steps beyond the limitations of the|Saturday. Charles Ray will be the|” The management of the Columbia stage and its encompassing prosce- | fOTemost star of the week end holiday | has provided an exceptional program Piam arch and calls into play nature|Dbill in First National's filmization of | of ndded sereen and musical attrac- covering the period of four season’s|S0l Smith Russell's beloved stageltions us a background for this splen- in the play’'s duration. He has ideal-! Peaceful Valley." Ray has | did featured offerin taed its imaginative possibilities, Il.:0ne of the most congenial roles of his i Justrated its surroundings with a|carcer and the Vanity Fair Girls will “QOutside the Law." g hungles a theft and involves Delsie in)and comedy, “Nobody's Wife. cilla Dean returns to the sc the crime. S realism that is fascinating at times|contribute engaging supplementary 2nd overwheimingly dramatic in itijamusement in “Frince Pistachio.” Pri reat storm and ice floe climax whie R of Washington today in the s uspecting the man, Delsie follows Knickerbocker. showing of what has been stamped [him to a supposedly haunted house, Avenue Grand. | as the finest production of her career, | where the crook meets associates. The| Today and tomorrow, Roscoe | | . as Delsie O'Dell, an im- | La poverished young miss, goes to live, Thursda with an aunt and an uncle, who receive { | her coldly. Her uncle's secretary falls {in love with the new ar and his Hope T ection is zeturned. Delsie's aunt's|and comedy, “One Best Pet”; retary, however, . and he | day, “Alice Joyce in londes Bennett in “Her Hus and Toonerville com- ‘s Narrow Escape mpton in “The Bait and | he Skippe has proved to be the dramatic :‘ens:l-' tion of the year. H Crandal Knickerbock ok 2 i % alls: ickeRbacher, heater | «Outside the Law.” Universal- | presence of the girl is discovered, and | (Fatty) Arbuckle in ““The Life of the 4The Offshore Pirate.” onaunted Guodal X’hfl'ol?lx_\;) features | yowel special attraction, written and | it is only by masqueradjng as a ghost { Party.” and Harold Llovd in “Num- . & cea| this afauguration week. beEInnIng |directed by Tod Browning, the pres- | that she is able to keeg® the criminals | ber. Please?’ Tuesday, ‘Allan Dwan's EnsUSTEAtion wosk will be.observed | Lo, AESEEROD & For Sunday and | .ptation being made at Moore's Gar-|at bay until her sweetheart and the . The Forbidden Thing," and comedy, | at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater by | Monday a double feature bill will be | Gun' Theater and continuing through | police rescue her: “A Domestic Knockont”: Wedoenin) first Washington presentations. be-j Drosented for (he first time in the |<wednesday mext, the management of| Bugter Keaton's latest pictur “The | Maurice Tourneur's “Deep Waters, ginning today at 3, of a double-fea-| capital. ng of Viola Dana. in| (ye theater departing from a hitherto | Haunted House,” is a super riot of|and Vanity Fair Girls in “Prince Pis- o - ‘tion will| Metro's screen versi &G - i i ture bill. The foremost attraction will} Metro's screer on of ‘The Off-| ynbroken policy of showing first-run laughter that is backgrounded against (Continued on Fourth Page.) be Viola Dana's latest starring v--i Vitagraph's 1 ‘3""‘ l‘,arry Sltmfln. in.| hicle for Metro. “The Offshore Pirate, '8 latest {wo-reel super- . 5 == = = - - — . 2 camera version of F. Scott Fitzger-| comedy. “The Sportsman.” In both 1000t ST oot OO ald's Saturday Evening Post story of; Subjects' their ‘respective the same name, in which the vivacious pihe most fruitful oppor- star is admirably supported Jack ROR them before the ra in re nd Wedne nt months. Clara Kimball On_Tues- Mulhall and a specially selected cas the secondary feature, Larry Semon’s’ Sl o : 3 newest Vitagraph comed “Thel i, e G T Sportsman.” in which he is said tol . Hush. - Whichs steon DOUBLE COMEDY BILL---BEGINNING TODAY strong d by LOEW’S PALACEQ‘ l ave departed from his usual vein roles are portra, ontributo. and provided u Fenuine novelty in( Nk Glendon, Ern o Sizty-five minutes of hslarious merriment, cinematographic farce. | Bextram Grassby and Beatrice La mystery’ and romance - chietly merriment “The Offshore Pirate” relates thel Plante. The story of “Hueht io one Dorothy Gish's greatest laughing it! experiences of a rich young debutante| that deals with who of adventures by new angle of the and reaches subjected to a startling variety | domestic probl youthful admirar | max of genuine who hires gunmen to keep the ob-|which provides t Ject of his affections in constant jeop- | “big moment ardy in order that he may appear| feature of t to effect a series of daring rescues.|amusinz comed The story is pictured in keeping with| Pathe's film Based on the story by Wells Hustings. Directed by F ard Jomes I iy F ST. AT TENT, 2= This Week’s Twin-Star Hits “51 VIOLA DANA a Delightiuvl Fiimiz | Roherf 7. Leonard's emthralling screem dramatization of Clara Beranger's tale of a Eroadway dancer and her dramatic fight for love. for home and the things that make life sworth whsle. With MAE MURRAY Supported by LOWELL SHERMAN, of “WAY DOWN EAST” on of F. Scott Fitzgerald's “THE OFFSHORE PIRATE” And a2 Comedy Companion-Feature That Is One Long Laughable Series of Oriental FEscapades. Starrir LARRY SEMON In His Latest $100,000 Super-Comedy Riot “THE SPORTSMAN” Palace Symphony Orchestra—Thomas J. Gannon, Director Overture—'‘Selections from “The Spring Maid"— (Rinehart) COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leon Brusilaf, Director OVerture. ....oovvernseneaanasnnnnn....“Barber of Seville” »~ o & » ] P