Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1921, Page 53

) : AMUSEMENTS THE * SUNDA W, D. (.. MARCH Y ' STAR, HINGTON, 20, 1921— PART AMUSEMENTS " Amusement.s The Photoplay LL man’s educa formed from pictures. writing. or speech. Every one can see a picture and interpre 4 it his way. “All ideas of duty, Tuxury, beauty. all ideas concerning the goal of life, which are now being jormed in the minds of your children, are ideas implanted by the movies and these same ideas will, in turn, produce the men who will be the | Do you think the spiritual nourishment which is America of tomorrow sow being lavished upon them will make the sort of men you wa This is not the ipse dixit, nor the inquiry. of a dramatic e nt itoria sanctum, with undeveloped intellect, or atilicted with the spirit of the irom no less distinguished an | “narrow-minded Puritan.” They emanate 5 . authority than Maurice Maecterlinck. the great Belgian writer and play wright. author of “The Blue Bird!” who has contributed to the Apri issue of Photoplay an : demand serious consideration. R. MAETERLINCK. who came to America probably in connection with the proposed conversion of “The Blue Bird” to the screen. | “aiter a sort of professional study of “*he movies” for two months, (lur-! v ing which 1 saw about one hundred films.” reaches the conclusion that 1 “the great defect of the American film is the incredible weakness of the scenario. The stage.” he adds, “a_better source of material, is quite ., Darren in Americ Only four of the great number of pictures scen by the famous author. he thought were worth while. One of them was a pictu and is even now He fou dull, heavy, cldmsy, monotonous, boring parson, without invention. without grace. situations forced and maniiestly absu and silly.” considered a great popular success and a great picture of the sermon ion. all his thoughts and sentiments, are really Pictures are much more powerful than justice. love, right and wrong. happiness, honor, rticle that will attract wide attention, and should that had earned its promoters more than three million dollars, 1 it “neither badly acted. nor badly mounted, inordinately long a country | without beauty, its numerous | 1 t 1 1 1 1 o T HE great favor bestowed on this picture which Mr. Macterhnck lam- basted harder than would have a malicious newspaper critic. he states. “"throws an interesting and highly creditable light on the Ameri- man mentalitys—its religious enthusiasm. its aspirations to something higher than the material | But it is regrettable that such noble, fine, praiseworthy sentiments and desires, which are more intense and more ¢ widely held in this country than in any other. should have to be satis- fied with such cheap. incoherent and tawdry realizations.” Maeterlinck Delieves that “this demand for itleals. for a “message.” as the phrase here i, this ardent pursuit of new truth, or new light. this aspiration toward . the heights * * * which the producers of pictures try awkwardly to| satisfy, is commendable.” but that it is thwarted by a practice which re- quires that before a scenario can reach the production stage, must be | submitted to the judgment of “representatives of the seventeen thousand | distributors, or agents, who hold the entire picture industry in the hol- | i low of their hands." which judgment, he fecls certain, is not always | LILL1AN that of the pictare producers. S @ i : * % ok % WILSON E g J18H- PTHESE arc but a few of the thoughts of Maurice Macterlinck aiter Low b UGENE OBRIEW Mavy MCAvOY Crandslls THomas MEIGRAN Palsce Shubert-G: his_ survey of the motion picture field in California, in the cffort to Columbia Strand arric. ascertain why the elite intellectual, the artistic and social circles of New ! > ¢ York disdained the photoplay. 3 Bk ARt / { - Crandall's Knickerbocker Theater. lout that 1 am an old woman. Put BN DAL e Kt ciian Gotic i s reccbts riiien "ot “The Faith . L SR Shimor " Rims. and musical - ac JUMPED FROM CRADLE TO STAGE. Cmiphasis on the fact that T Jumped Healer.” a George Melford production, said: “It seems a pity that 0l0 avs lS COIG sy iz the cradie (o the stage. and the story could not have been told without so much that was perfectly | tionar's Al rhe Devil's | o 3 ; : D L + unnccessary.” He adds “that the genuine beauty of the idea was marred Gazden o M Powdars | *THE dark seerets in the past life to the lurid drama. and when . A AN AR et by the materiality of the picture. To enforce such an idea as that con- - featuring the Vanity r Girls-and of Alicé Hills, the character | Wi§ s¢ Wl“\_“'r‘:_',’l T e thaaed look the fact that T got solid experl- tained in ‘The Faith Healer' there should be spiritual appeal, a_com- > £ & 2y DD Bola. ERs = ctress of “Take It From: Me. Writes Gug for the three or four vears that | Sk work® in nons Ser plete get-away from theatricalism and entirely different tactics. But it | T s el o 3 = e B - e ,,,,_.'"hf' Batchelder, have been kept! followed she drew tears the | tigen and Bumral thos may be urged—without these adjuncts such a picture would be quite im.- | AREHOTOREAVIHOUSESIALL NHISWEEKR ‘ Eom Uls MU g S publ e e L o e e e B possible. Good. So be it. Why attempt the impossible?” “Somehow a e tect Grime™ S 3 jrv” cnough, so herc goes—the Whole e A eq o). | amassed a total of 175 character fm- . % story like this told with a wronged lady of usual stage vintage and a RIATTO e 8 {c”.“‘ Crime Sl atay e 5 ! Elizahetn, [ blooming story. true in all its multi- | Jains. llvlli;::l‘“lz:roxn»ssl“ ke tions ielone SI SOnTERENES SO }wav:" \-hlllam of the most virulent type, lacked charm.” Otherwise, he METROPOLITAN—"The Greater Claim™ Shown today. at 3 p.m. COmEs rious detail and dare-devil heroe: : ound the cast excellent, the various scenes of : ABCEWIsC,Lhe ol 5 EF £ Starerl iShow L i 3 “Alice Hills is @ person. | “Ah!__Those were the good old —_— : ful. Tt shoald be sdded that “the Fith f_; °l' the film genuinely beauti- | | PALACE—"Frontier of the Stars.” Shown today, at 3 p.m Garden. | but inasmuch as she r taken “The Wolves of New York! Bayes closed her prolonged % § e e Fai ealer” is not the picture that| | CRANDALL'S—"The Truth About Husbands." Shown today. at “ 3 | the mad storm and into Kidnapers, “The Queen of W York engagement in “Her Fam- 1 was so severely criticised by Maeterlinck, 3 pm A love story. with a fight for ever¥ 'the sea of matrimony and she is an | Chinatown.” I mited Mail' and jily T last night. and will go on o2 : 2 io S £ e is promised in “All Dolled Up.” | old-timer, Il bet she is not as old | “The Dairy Farm’ were some of thela tour of the larger castern cities. i COLUMBIA—*What Every Woman Knows.” Shown today, at 7 G4 Tatior sons think fine and topsyturv hatrospl t 4 3 3 St e s e te) as a lot of persons think. inc and topsytu hair-splitting, | ; S S : “Here's sccret 1: She comes | nerve-racking, heartbreaking dramas | Frank Bacon reached the 1.100th = clone Blise”” Showdeaday: at 3 Moore’s Garden Theater. beginning | rrom the old Gilliss. the home of the | of the “good old days.” {performance of Lightnin'” in New clone Bliss. own today. at 3 p.m. this afternoon. Gladys Walton is|old and hair-raising » melodramas—| . “aAlice Hills survived th | York last Wednesday night. the house { o e 2 Do 18 = L by e i e ae AT Qu shop | that’s one of the places she comes | but, take it from the vetrean stage | being packed to the doors e c Magsi , i < Yaces. s ; v & A 5 o) i from. but she comes, in fact, from |carpenter. her life, throughout each - > A Perfect Crime. of this gay voung blade rebounded|girl. whose fairy prince comes st | GOt ot platess eason of forty weeks, was just ons | _Alice Delysia, star of “Afgar.” now . o " ; o his disadvintage through a serieS| i, yime to save her from a man who “Going back earlier than the melo- | derned narrow escape after another. |showing in New York. is to entertain ti < At Mcoreias RIgle JEESaiEn ihis | ofibdugcolioldences Involvingaa s [hes T | drama ddy, Alice Hills did her dodads | “They do thosc things now in the |members of her company and other NEXT Sunday evening the Racauet |pis” has apoeared in 189 photoplats. | weck, beginning fodgs, a film com-{ with the same initials and 2 Baccha- leads her into a situation from which | {ARE SN s Cabin, and, as Little | pictures.” she says. “and i ot Hiriends at a farewell party at her 3 e S b | being Oliver Morosco's * edy entit A Perfect Crime. nalian revel in u cafe in Rom: she has to fight her w st id istently for )| as te “use d -ave | home, following the closi erform- - Club of Whshington, in the first | Half Breeq : o C @ ) ¥ agair va, $he did consistently for 1,000 |a< temder as 1 used to be. T leave |home, fo I » 2 Allan Dw oduction, will be th - !ierrific oads. “All Dolled Up: was . Al i e : 55 : sl Abosdpsada il anis ; i — Fitean describe. z s > ted’ Up was consecutive nights. | the work to a vounger generation. |ance ‘of the nlay Saturday evening. i is - |approximately 1.200.000 fect of film. | phjlos Which provides ple - g : » Hursdayfand | — - 3 ing of William Fox's sereen: version |or a ffdction ov aniles Tainatn | Doy osophs ey 2 2 ot el e g i T T T e, : A | ts 7 s &th, | romance, humor and pathos a cial be pict srine Lawton, a lii TR i T Il Tt : of “Will Carleton's mmortalts poem. | 4re “shot” weekly in Los Angeles. | omanCShe ‘Imnortance of Sir e terin Bematituny | T o T TR T O : “Over the Hill,” for the private en-| Doris Deane, who f ently, if onc must Wiison and immed. latest productio. which | [y : [ s ne, who is said to have| on Carl Clausen's magazine i on th Adams | t tertainment of its members and an | ‘Marion Morganed” her w: % is based on Carl Claus 3 il o dam: 1 sty e be- ¢4 Freg T ii A " her way to danc-|giory and Monte Blue, Jacaqueline rd Bennett, will continue atl tween ctter nature and her | exclusive list of guests from w.un-;‘,:"!o’n‘e"‘;»'""'g’;h':l‘:::‘.\u breaking a rib| oy n. Stanton Heck and Hardee olumbia Theater this week. Tove of 1uxbry.A Minor films and:or TEES 2% A = ington's official, diplomatic and social | was so successful in lvzr’fir::'%n‘f’."'! KiEiland are pictured in the princi-| Miss Wilson is = otch’ girl | chestral features will complete the | § 2 H 1 sets. fance before the'camera that Lho o |Dpal roles. A film comedy. scenic and | who is marrie of her i prozram. | 4 f at she ap-| P2l ent features also will be|brothers, to a young member of parlia- : z peared as leading woman in her sec. | WOrid cvent feat A0 2 e e motion picture is magnified more than it an i score, selec pATES ErniLil ] B G el : Bty Syt : 2 : family. Almost immediately after the | T, 35.000 times. ciSolonial Eilm Compans. Tnc., which | TOm e ihe mirriage the voung politician bezins to | e In her first picture for Rockett|producing o‘;gan“izg;',‘o"“vm'h": lv;:;;*:_:», Furr, the last number toda e ‘;:;r}:::x s spesthes | lTu‘ A(; - Filme, it _is claimed. Enid Bennett|iory in Washin a- — g Fmafo @ esday 3 o : 3 gton. scored a nation- " but which w < a i has been “turned loose and permitted | wide scoop . ! I g it Wednesday, Katherine MacDonald, —_— to g0 as_far as she lkea" in being|Service with ohe'jearinogram;News| ‘‘The Frontier of the Stars. il By “My Lady's ~ and Larry 'S herself. The picture is called “Keep- | Before 10 uration Views. | gy Meighan will be featured at|f-¢ W HE mon. in “The Sport&éman”: Thursday p.m. on inauguration d. the truth is k inz Up With Lizzie” and Miss Ben-!had fortr-five prints on the rails deo. | Loew's Palics Theater this “Other feature | Bryant Washburn, in “A Full Hou 3 nett has an established reputation as|tined from Texas to Minnesota, {“The Frontier of 1he § i the orchestra and comedy. hy ’.\n\.»s In” e : oy & comedienne. { — : + . iMeigne's screen version of the (Langey). with in the louse, = The briglant Paramount 4 no ui star &1 a #i e Tl cava thelat dh:atar l‘j is announced that William Fox's{Albert Payson Terhune i a S i Sennett’s -, S star, wto scored such a tri- s siome noweriul story of an i say e fir -star | spectacle depicting “the worlds grea:. | the regenoration of a man who is a to- [\, sntinued on Fourih Page = seb agniliniedtl Al 5" shown in motion pictures in- i est love story Hr ol CIElBh b T save the seamy side i e o pony L) L”'”"’I‘"’ P Sl T e e aded himself, Eisie Janis and Aub-|of Sheba,” finished. In it the 1of existence. In a ¢l with the au- = i, L 4 iracle Man” and in pic- cratio rowah the murity rey Boucicault, who were filmed in un | tions are kept to. the front ar i | thoriiies he is driven to-the roof of Cyclone Bliss. Shubert-Belasco ;:‘,‘,"_"",‘:";""{! tures like “Male and Fe- and ianceence of an East sutomobileof ihe vintage of 1904, and | times. with love paramount temement. where he me. s be Respnate Iy & -M. alor why ! Change Yous : ehose Ratiledvy iving the ¢ ha! ha! tc ed by « il of the Ghetto, whom |, S L i, o ! ? giving the merry hat hat to a Mo e friended by u girl of (he Ghetio, whom | o¢ tn his weei. Jack The Howard Players 4 Wisers «ihe Prince Chap” of live tainted as a This picture, he sa; a new Shirley M e but the and the innocent kb e A With = and “Conrad in Quest of His fiowe —ua story of smashing tween the prologue The story ix by Maria S, Cammine | hestra will play seleetions from | nd Lol onl e ! Youth,” comes asain to the |l episodes, of soimnant and of “The Vanderbilt Cup.” ey e picture wus made under Ch l screen in anmother ilassic W i-eainless romance—a : Clara Kimball Young has just com- the Toian rI::'rl::";‘hr'nlzfl:z Irene | T el supervisio e B nAWIISON diidiig aries Gl pln i the vhn:om:; et IrMZ){ B ture oz gri-ving @ teted He Beon Patis & stors | more. than twio' years; has' been sor| “The Greater Claim. et e e 5 in i he is snlendidly yunported by Miracle Man~ and even more Ly Sad which deals with an |Zaged 10 play a comedy role in a new ! Metro's special production. “The 3 2 i| Faire Binney and an ercep- hrimming with the lure of humble milliner and a wealthy aristo- | Pearl White picture. | Greater Claim,” an. griginal story by | Knickerbocke “The E J ” Howcly Tatowten Gt Sove G mitcERrag | ireater Claim,” an ol story = g s ove and advewtu L G double | Goswip for thase who like it says | 1Z0la Forrester and‘Mann Page. fea- s 1c °“ : o e Lmperor Jones i et t Natalie Ta e lie SaYS| {uring. in the camera version Alicc! . Lake in Metro's production | " i ary Srailtsssen gl St e der &in | ke will be the attraction at Cran- | . Greater Claim.” will b the | Tieketx on Sale at the Theater March | |5 I ™ e Honty-seven | than Norma. and that Doris Mav. whe | 4ayy’s Metropolitan Theater all this toda¥ and tomorrow at 22, and at Howard Universits. | IEn F and i tiius fwas eighteen years old last year, has| Week. beginning this afternoon with Vears obl. accarding to the in.|®dvanced a year in her age. - has o iried list of minor films and auiry department of Associated First| oo o T it A Conadins ] T BY ALBERT PAYSON A CHARLES MAIGNE ational Produce ne Kathry ckey. featured sta i e e’ i NS i National Producers. In [ James BT fickey: featured star wilh | youni actress whose marriage to (he i TERHUNE PRODUCTION Woman's Problem.” a nmew |atl the Gavety Theater this wock, has | 500 0f a wealthy man 'if,"}’","": by | 18th St. at Columbia Road. i | tyre ms its star Dorothy Davenport.|mer work and will devoie the hot | 200, 8 s 5 ettty TRE__“ ¥ Whom everybody docs mot Know is | Wearher period o studving weronantics | LKEA slepk to cause the marriage 1o i PALACE SYMPHONY OVERTURE—“HITS Falluce ¢ |a o1 a U i . | be pted 2 LEOIY 7 T o sy Wwal id ?“\'7.. ul:p?x.lwl‘:nm: 3.: ;ln : ur‘:w ver, with the aid of an adventure lc.' ORCHESTRA. FROM ‘SALLY. 3 L 3 a e eatened - | who subseauently pretends to be the ontinuity.” w¢ times than th cerage |\ . g5 % « e a gement o 5 = wife, introduces her complica- t ment of use of her admiration for | tane with inte rexulis | MATINEES SUNDAY AND SATURDAY AT 2:30 basis fa be it from her to| = ies and sut - the laws. but when | o rranged Fa fiving e the emme | “The Truth About Husbands. B§~TODAY—MON." %% sidle up close to the e S e Metro Presents a Vivacious Star in a Fascinating Play a young s 4 peck at the beginning this afterno The Truth » “handsomit bout Husbands,” the film version of “nad _techniguity i [Eir Arthur Wing Pinero's play. “The | 5 3 — ! Profligate,” a First tional attrac Os¢ has been e ¢ v | tio will be shown. The story con- DANCING " ged by | tion, will be sh story ¢ : = or an important role| cerns mistaken identities, and the 3 CATHERINE BALLE in Bl llis | Unpleasant consequences of Dunstan | o : T 740 9th St. N.W. Franklin €506. gew mus comedy production. | Renshaw's worldlin before his' Supported by @ Brifliant Cast, Including Mischiseous Liltte Rickard Wiy was antey al80 Deen added | mar ¢ flirtatious tendencies in a urization cf 12oka Forres'cr and Mann Fuges ton . We produce resaits. Ba to the cas | — < il Romanceoria. ORore SOid's Canauest of an lcy Hourt | SECOND GREAT WEEK A endays, 8:30 to 10. Hours. 1 m._23 A s ] % 99 MISS CHAPPELEAR 1.5 & pay m de irom Stephen e o] THE GR 4 PRESE FOR ANOTHER GREAT WEEK AS THE DOMINANT Frivate lessons taught by appontmeat. | Pitced in rehearsol by i 4. FEATURE OF ITS FIFTEENTH SUPER-PROGRAM. THE BRIL North 8197. 1718 CONN. AVE. | with Robert Wade in the leadin, ollTA" : T ? CERRION OF THE S DI = “W ) “— Irole. The piece was tried on the road 4 Photodrama of Intense Human Interest, Admirably MJANT PARAMOUNT SCREEN VERSION OF THE FAMOUS MAUDE arren several years a by Cyril Maude. —F at 10the— 3 Kupplemented by WDAMS-RICHARD BENNETT STASE TRIUMPH. OFFERED AS A— “ren : = T ! i s | ver vox by casmo ytami- | 757 THIS WEEK “% COMEDY — NEWS SYMPHONY -— TOPICS e da - e produ in New York in -, TRt Iy T 2 nam. Mr. Faversham himself will - Tues.-Wed.—Lionel Barrymore in “The Devil’s Garden’ . pot apmeas i the cast, which wil E 2 VANITY FAIR GIRLS IN “PAINT AND POWDEER" Je_headed by Lawrence Grossmith rivate lo s s 2 e e S = % Nowth 673 Eatabiiahed 16 . . TS 5 MILLER Thurs.-Fri—Vicien Martin in “The Song of a Soul” | Lessons in dancing given at any hour. 431 11th St N.W. Phone T. 1576, = " DUPUN L ave<es i STUDIO OF DANCE, i __No. & Dwpost Cirel Ph. Fr. 1433w, | * DAVISON'S: | CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Central High School itorium Seach 00 ity priraie, Bay Boue 3. Hotman and Mrs. H. L. Hoti | Today at 3:30 SALON OF DANSE. i Now Jocated at ‘:2? :;::“ A Lel‘lefl Success Y LR Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson's THE SUNSET N 10 BAUMER & WEBSTER | PASSION PLAY SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION, DANCING | “The Upper Room” All-Star Cast of Washington . Players ¥ M Class in Moden Dancing. Satarday. Carroll Hall M. DANCING CLASSES FOR CHILDREN i Banquet Hall for 924 G Street N.W. Exe - Flonzaley Quartet Monday Evening, March 21, 8:30 P.M. ALICE LAKE With strong susport i of ' 'that in hfe sohich 1" mmve powerful than passion and which is finer- evew than love. - THE GREATER CLAIM De Luxe Added Attractions HARRY POLLARD in “MAKE IT Sat.—Billie Burke in “The Education of. Elizabeth” . VARIED SUBSIDIARY FEATURES—SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA B ALL THIS WEEK9Wg First National Presents a Fiery Drama of Vivid Fact “THE TRUTH ABOUT HUSBANDS” The Last Word in Dramatic Piqguancy—Titles That Ripple in Sunny, Sparkling_Cascades- of Clever Dialogue, While the Action Sweeps ‘orward With Freshness and Charm, Stirring the Soectator With the Iiving Warmth of the People of the Story, Flawlessly Imper- sonated by May McAvoy, Arthur Rawkin and a Disinguished ALL-STAR ENSEMBLE SNAPPY” ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW Ninth' at E m I WHAT EVERY WOMAN —KNOWS— “BY SIR JAMES M. BARRIE LOIS WILSON o CONRAD NAGEL COL! A UMBIA SYMPHONY ORCI OVERTURE—*‘FROM THE HIGHLANDS”—(LANGLEY) PARAMOGUNT PICTURE WITH TRA Prelude—"Liebstroxm”—(Liszt)