Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1921, Page 51

5 o= =i AMUSEMENTS. C.. MARCH 1921—PART 3. Amusements’ - The Photoplay 't least one picture of the week presented a moral and a civic les- | “son, devoid of sex problem and free from the taint of the average | movie of modern times. It was nott playcd'up as a big f;alure: and vet to the children of Washington it carried a meaning ol greater significance than anything photodramatic or theatrical which | bas been shown here in years. It was the picture of Washington's play- | grounds, the work of a local film-producing company, inspired by ten Jocal business men and firms. There was romance in the picture, but not | that of the threadbare love story with its close-up kiss. It was ‘h? um_u- L ing romance of child life and its necessities, a romance that receives far | too little attention from the powers that plan and do things in this work- ‘ aday world. Its theme carries many matters that deserve more thought | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, e han is “usually accorded them. Broad, spacious, well regulated play- grounds mean health and disciplinary education that count in the citizen that is ‘to be, as much in their way as the education of the schools, and with all our love of boasting there is much to be desired, much to be done | to make both what they should be for the capital of these United States oi America. * % k ok i T i IME was. in the long ago. when the boys and girls of America read and wept over “Black Beauty.” the wonderiul story of the horse by Anna Sewell. And with the coming of the story also came widespread interest in the beautiful animal which is fast being reclegated to the background, perhaps to extinction, by the “tin lizzie” and her more pre- tentious associates. Not only that. but there was generally a_deeper interest in dumb animals which resulted in societics and organizations that at least aimed at their protection from cruelty. This story has been @ transierred to the screen. and will be one of the interesting attractions the current week. of * k kX NOTHER new picture that seems to invite attention is the Fox pro- duction. “Over the Hill," suggested by Will Carleton’s “Farm Bal- Jads.” It too. is a story of mother love, the mother love that takes up the burden when the father dies. or neglects his duty, and leaves the making of the home and the rearing of the children to the great home preserver of the world—the mother. The stage might be filled with drama, real drama. based on the lives and struggles of these noble women — only there would rot always be the happy ending which is considered indispensable by the modern picture maker. And this suggests the thought that liie. life as it is lived everywhere, is the soul of drama, and not the nightmarz of the cabarets, the dance halls and the underworld, which picture producers have so oiten mistaken for the real thing. = % R T ivided the sen- HEY are still making faces at “Passion photoplay production which drew the crowds, but diment of the picture patrons of Washington not so long ago. But the jace-makers are largely the, picture producers who vent their spleen in harrowing cartoons and their wrath in poor English at the idea of a joreign” film pressing their own product to the rear. “It,” a publication devoted to photoplay matters and published in the heart of the screen colonies of California, in answering a sharp criticism recently, which declared that the sets for “Passion™ are crude, the costuming faulty in places. the lightings bad and the “props” simply “awful,” retorte: “The development of dramatic art for the entertainment of the public is the only justification for the existenge of the photoplay. Without this purpose in mind we had better confine ourselves to scenics, travelogues and slapstick comedy. * * * Dramatic art—the one and only great ¢ worth-while el¢ment in the photoplay—is the one we have utterly ?cglected above all others. ‘Passion’ might have been photographed in ront of unpainted drops and it would still remain a notable production. Lighting. photography. scenery. mechanics are all secondary. * * * Cameramen and carpenters and electricians and scene painters and cabinetmakers cannot create dramatic art. * * * Actors are needed, and we have negigcted to develop or to encourage them, and when we do get them, they must not be discouraged or humiliated by being subordi- nated to studio favorites, and, in many cases, worse than that.” * ¥ ¥ HARLES McCLINTOCK, who sometimes writes entertainingly about 4 photoplay art, says the millions who patronize motion pictures often witness what amounts to genuinely brilliant acting on the part of little children, but probably seldom give a thought to the work of the photo- play director who trained the tots for it. “Children,” he says, “are apt in catching ideas. and it is also true that their natural childishness often covers a multitude of screen faults.” He finds, too, that the child is more tractable in the hafds of a stranger than with its parents—“perhaps be- cause familiarity breeds contempt™—and proceeding upon this theory some directors will not re-engage a child who makes a screen hit. Some directors roar and rave at them, but find it a poor policy, for often the youngsters, asserting their American rights, either balk at the pro- cdure or go away never to return. Others sought to bribe them with games, candy and other treats, and even this course was not wholly successful. The final solution of the problem was reached, he says, by Harry Millarde, a Fox director, who appealed to their intelligence and sccured excellent results. AH of which goes to show that the American child, like his elder, knows when to be temperamental and why. * k k ¥ ICHARD BENNE' whose greatest success, perhaps, was made in Damaged Goods,” and who was seen hert in Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon,” has abandoned the stage to become a moving picture director at Hollywood, Calif. iy & * * k % ENJAMIN B.HAMPTON, who has been writing much in the move- _ment to *clean up” the photoplay, is now warning fooligh girls against the impulse to become screen players. Many will be saved heart- aches, if nothing worse, if they take his advice and stay away. * % ¥ % M\lRY PICKFORD'S next picture is to be “Little Lord Faunt- eroy * k % % C*NJAZIMOVA is neither Irish nor German, as has we are informed. “She was hoi cated in Zurich, Odessa and Geneva.” * X ¥ % . E THREE MUSKETEERS” is to be adapted to the screen for Douglas Fairbanks. Filmograms ARIS had thé shock of its existence | are designed for educational ar as been intimated,” rn in Yialta, Crimes, and was edu- b Wwhen the suggestion was offered | Doses, The company also Ras just . 1o exhibit photoplays at the National | {omP ‘},’,flor‘n':‘c’u";o': on_ “The His- Academy of Music and Dance on the | Red Cross, wh € American Wwhich take in the his- b the wonderiul historical ANN FORREST Babea T HAMMERSTEIN ~ Strand Photoplays This Week _‘ AT PHOTOPLAY HOUSES ALL THIS WEEK RIALTO—"Black Beauty.” Shown today at 3 p.m. GARRICK—"Over the Hill.” Shown this cvening at 8:20 o'clock. PALACE—“The Faith Healer.” Shown today at 3 p.m. | METROPOLITAN—“Nineteen and Phylli Shown today at 3 p.m. COLUMBIA—“Brewster’s Millions.” Shown today at 3 p.m. length pictures and orchestral music are other attractions. “Over the Hill.” William Fox's production, “Over the Hill,” founded on the immortal poems | of Will Carleton, the poet of the soil, a | photographic production which has been | one of the notable attractions of Broad- Knicke;bocker. Charles Ray, as the pictured hero of “Nineteen and Phyllis,” will be featured tions of Broad® |at Crandall's Knickerbocker Theater . « ‘shown at Y o A N Nk [today and tomorrow, whero also $ thero will be special musieal features beginning this e ng, and twice daily | thereafter. It is a simple and appealing | story of a mother's love. There is a ! boy who has been picked out as the | black sheep of the family, but he event- ually proves to be the one of all who | holds most strongly to the mother love. | ~ and minor films, including “Fellow Rom- ans," starring Harry Pollard; Tuesday and Wednesday, Louise Glaum will be the pictured star, in “Love.” a Louis Joseph Vance stor iday “Black Beauty.” “Black Beauty,” kfiown and loved for forty years wherever books are read, has come to life on the screen, and the picturized version will be the featured attraction of the Easter Goldwyn's production of | with the Jazz Heart,” starring Madge Kennedy, and Saturday, Enid Bennett, in “Silk Hosiery." Garden. The first four days of Easter week at Moore's Garden Theater, beginning ““Th ! today, Edith Roberts will ictured week program at Moore’s Rialto|in “The Unknown Wife’ o melo Theater, beginning today. drama of everyday life, tinged with The wonderful horse, Whose auto- | the influence of the underworld: biography was recorded by Anna|Thursday through Saturday, Eva Sewell, will be pictured in action, and | Novak will be featured in her latest his life, through all its changing| Universal photodrama, “Society Se- phases of playful colthood, early! written by Helen Christine pleasures, trials and fears; its con- tact with the lives of other horses and humans; its hardships, dangers and triumphs, will be unfolded. All} the charm and the pathos of the story, it is said, have been retained in the screen version, including the thrilling _story Woven about the “humans.” in which Black Beauty participates without being aware of its nature, but always in aceordance with the conduct and the mental processes of the most famous horse Bennett, as a magazine story of a fashionable New York girl, who edu- cates her flance's small-town parents up to a social leyel acceptable to her snobbish aunt, and by her sincere democracy teaches the children of the old folks a bitter lesson. Short films and musical numbers will be included at all showings. Crandall’s. The first three days of the week, ‘";rm?xid Mrs. George Randolph cd'“““fi Chaplin in his six-reel com Chester wrote the “inside story”!g(¥s ;","1,0“;“3 i etinenday, .ané formed of events gand situations )y 'y y Soldwynis production, he Which Black Beauty could not ob- | Man Who Had Everything.” featuring ve and many of the thrilling|Jack Pickford, a story showing how 3als 3 g a wealthy father made a real man of scenes of the book have important bearings upon this story. Jean Paige is pictured in the leading feminine h spoiled son; Larry Semon's farc The Sportsman”; Friday and Satu Madge Kennedy, in_Goldwyn's chestral accompaniment, ineludin and the Vanity Fair | rls. in “Running Wild": Thursday and role. . T 1 With the Jazz Heart,” and Entertaining and amusing minor | [The Girl With the Ja. it features will be shown with an or- | Forehy 3 el a s Bewell idrord & the Law"; Tuesday, Gladys Walton, in “Poor Girl. Ridh Girl”;" Wednesda fother, I Need Yod"; Thursday, M)ar" Ou Miles Minter, in A Virtuous cast.” and Saturday, All-comedy night. New Stanton. Toda Fanny Hurst's “Humor- esque”; tomorrow, Thomas Mgighan, in “Civilian Clothes”; Tuesday, Cecil B. De Mille’s “Something to Think About,” featuring Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson and Theo. Roberts: Wednesday, Mabel Julienne Scott and Milton in “Behold My Wife"; Thursday, “Heliotrope: v, Ros- coe (Fatty) Arbuckle, in “The Life of | the Party,” and “Fire Bugs” r day, Mae Murray and David Powell. in “Idols of Clay": matinee only, Charles Hutchinson, in “A Double Adventur Revere. Today. Robinson-Cole production. “The Stealer: tomorrow, Buck Jones, in “Two Moons'": Tuesday. Louise Lovely, in “The Little Gray Mouse”; Wednesday, William Russell, in “The Cheater Reformed”; Thurs- day, Shirley Mason, in “The Girl of My Heart"; Friday, George Walsh, in * and Saturday, specials, on of Tarzan.” umber including “The Savoy. Today—Vivian Martin, in “The Song of the soul,” and Vanity Fair Girls, in “Running Wil tomorrow, Jack Pickford. in “The Man Who Had Ev- erything,” and Harry Pollard, in “Make It Snappy Tuesday and Wednesday, De Mille's “Forbidden Fruit”; Thursday, “The Scoffer”: Fri- day, Viola Dana, in “The Offshore Pirate,” and Saturday. Billle Burke, in “The Education of Elizabeth,” and “Toonerville's Fire Brigadel’ Today, Mae Marsh, in “The Little Fraid Lady”; tomorrow, W. Grif- fith's “Broken Blossoms”; Tuesday, Viala Dana, in “A Chorous Girl's Ro- mance”; Wednesday, “West of the Rio Grande”; Thursday and Friday, Vera Gordon, in “The Greatest Love," and Saturday. Gladys Walten, in “Poo sirl, Rich Girl.” . Today and tomorrow. Douglas Fair- in “The Mark of Zarro”; Tues« v, Sidney Mason and Dorothy Green, in “The Good, Bad Wife"; Wednesday, Irma Harrison and Kempton Greene, in “The Daughter of Devil Dan": Thursday. William Russell, in “Bare Knuckles,” and_Sunghine Comedy, “Don’t Tickle"; Friday. Gladys Wal- ton. in_“Rich 'Girl, Poor Girl." and | I. Ko Comedy, and_ Saturday, Charlie nizhts when the opera is not sched- toric spots around Cumberland. Hoe. C g - o Shaylin Uil g i S Fee Cu . Har- | gverture, “Creme de la’ Creme. Chaplin, in “The Kid.” and episode uled—this to meet a big deficit and Bt FErTy and vieinity. Great Fails, | * s Anollo. | six of “Son of Tarzan™ i ;o pr(scml the ballet from quitting Potomac down as far as AT “The Faith Healer.” ; u;_q;ljfl:;;::;:;u:;d ‘The Inside | York. Fecaune lofiRrednced ,“""‘"“ The out e “The Faith Healer.” George Mel-|ipaving the Piper” and Mack Sen-| Today, Bebe Daniels. in oW reucrtissates) shar tielonewos | Soiwopol ford's production of William Vaughn “Bungalow Troubles”; Thurs- | Couldn't Help It and Mack S tion probably will not be adopted. playPopular are the American photo- | Moody's drama of the same name, Bebe Daniels, in “She Couldn’t | netts “Movie Fan<"; tomorrow, Kath - WWest Indiea "% in the islands of the | featuring Milton Sills and Ann For- Ip It,” and Vanity Fair Girls, in|erine MacDonald. " in *“My Lady E. Mason Hopper. who has been qive wines o )8 8aid, that the na-|rest, will be shown at Loew's Colum- | “Paint ‘and Powder | Latchkey.” and Larry Semon, in * Airceting the serias of two-recl come- mhigNOMeN are mow beginning tolbia Theater this week, beginning this | stance Binney, in | “The Sportsman”: Tuesday, “The dgs of boy life by Booth Tarkington, dramatie wearer or2fs With ali’ the | afternoon. 1t is the tale of a shep- | ferent,” and “comedy. “Movie 'Mad.” | Truant Hushand” and Harry Pollard ¥ heen re-engaxed by the GoldWYR the West Indis h ‘0 the tropics in|herd of the hills, aflame with a holy |and Saturday, lestones,’ and |in *“His Rest Girl"; Wednesday. Yictures Corporation £aid.to resemble o wns. Trinidad is|ca), who abandons hix flock and | Harry Pollard,’in “His Best Girl.” “Milestones,” and comedy. “Moon = tare siudic € & great moving pic- | comes to civilization to exercise a = shine”; Thursday and Friday. with It is s the t for the screen - whn = | strange and mystic healing power. Avenue Grand. lnfl(ln‘;‘rs t'm:r ava, (’\hn'rl»‘,; rm(q n, ersio 5 ma Rupert Hughes, ! His fame, which_spreads like wild: o oy |in *The Kid,” and Saturday. Con- ession EalaE nimdtiof) caper¢ chukes, frin ODe of the scenes of “A Message | fire, is e g Ty e wiid- 1 Today and tomorrow. Katherine | afance Binney. in ~Something Differ- Ereatest ever assembied for motion | with sther Shiose®eacee: Showing. [of ihe world with whon ails tn ) MacDonald, in lady's Lalch-)ent” and “Toonerville's. Fire Bri- : 5 tat B things, young par- | on. picture interpretation. rots, the director’s assistant lll"‘(ied[ and Wednes- - or three days 1o make £ t + lara . in Mrs. Tom Moore, hout -gmake the parrots|gyires healing in a far different el Young Rene Adoree, as s now known in private life, | sy sister to Mr. Moore in est picture, “Made in Heaven." i*s, but without “succe: The pre- umption was that they were of the is lat- | same sex. - . ated.” Mayv Allison’s latest pie- The newest undersea picture | ture deals with a myaterion: noic: drama. “Wet Gold.” made by the Wil- 1 ger,” with curcumstantial evidence Jiamson Submarine Film Corporation. | pyinting to an innocent man was written by J. E. Williamson, and . “D; way. and Harry Pollard, in “Make Snappy”; Thursday, House Peters and Marjorie Daw, in_ “The Great Redeemer,” and Vanity Fair Girls, in “Running’ Wild": Friday, “Some One Minor films and musical sel will complete the bill. “Nineteen and Phillis.” # wia to rival ordmary cinema- ~-graphy for clearness, for variety of scenes and for human drama. It was made around and near the Bahamas, and its story concerns the efforts of » castaway to vanquish submarine pirates. Director Thomas J. Gannon of the Yplace Theater Orchestra will cele- Tate Easter's advent today and all this week by contributing “Easter Fantasies” to the musical program as «n overture. ginia Faire. who was the winner | of the fame and fortune contest re- | cently conducted by several motion | picture magazines, will play the lgad for the film version of Kipling's “Without Benefit of Clergy.” Marguerite Clark. the gossips say. 18 four feet ten inches in height, h. Vr®wn hair and eyes, and—is married, but not to a “professional.” After a year-and-a-half rest from photoplay ‘work, Elsie Ferguson is 10 be seen in “Footlights” u story by Rita Weiman, Twenty two.reel comedies are to be produced by Mermaid and released by Educational Film Company dur- | ing its second year. These will be made by three groups and two dif- ferent producing unmits, but at the head of each group will be the men who have made the Mermaid come- dies popular. | Who Lost Himself. Martha Mansfield. the screen star. ! thinks if a girl really loves a poor man and wants to marry him, she can help both his and her chances by taking an interest in what he is doing and spurring him on to great- er endeavor. 1f he is the right type of man he will grit his teeth. put his shoulder to the wheel and. when success comes. remember the girl who pointed the way. “Gilded Lies,” Eugene O'Brien's latest picture, presents him as a young explorer. who is given up for dead by his fancee Conway Tearle's next starring photoplay, will be “The Man of Stone,” an East Indian story by John nch and Edmund Goulding. The Selznick picture, Kill Love has for its star Hedda Hopper. who in private life is Mrs. 1 Volf Hopper. ~She appeared with William Faversham, in “The Man “You Can't “Young America First” the pla ground picture shown at Loew's lumbia Theater all last week. at- acted groups of prominent persons the Columbia during Calvin Coolidge. wife of the Vice President; Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the Secretary of Commerce; Miss Mabel Boardman, former District Commissioner, and many others at- tended. A delegation of members of the League of Ame can Pen Women and another delegation from the Dis- The Natlonal Pictorial News, Craw- ford & Carter, producers, a local film- making concern, is now running a new line of films for local showing that cover industrial matters and ’ trict Federation of Women's Clubs witnessed the showings. Friday morn- ing, 1.000 school children attended in a body. the week. | . n the House” and “Toonerville’s Fire Easter week at Crandal Brigade,” and Saturday. Mack Sen- tan Theater will mark ths nett’s “Love, Honor and Behave.” ington presentations of ey = Phyllis,” featuring Charles Aay. It i is a First National attraction, produced Lyf-m. R . by Arthur S. Kane from the original [ Today. George Walsh, in “Dynamite story by Frederick Stower tory of | Allen”; matinee only, Eddie Polo, in jadolrscent love, which finds its conflict [ *King of the Circus™; tomorrow and in the rivalry of Andrew Jackson Cava-| Tuesday, Tom Mix, in “The Road naugh, an $18 per week clerk, and Jim- | Demon”: Wednesday and Thursda my Long, Son of a wealthy father. for | “Good, Bad Wife": "Friday and Sat- the hand of Phyllis Laurin, village heir- | urday. Mary Pickford, in “The Love ess. Andrew is seriously dicapped | Light by being thin, poor, minus that badge of New. social pre-emin craved in every : | small town, ““a dress suit.” and is other-( Today and tomorrow, Priscilla wise impeded in his conquest of the —_— heart of Phyllis, while Jimmy, on the other hand, fat, jovial, owner of evening DANCING. clothes, proud possessor of a snappy roadster and proprietor of a bankroll that does not hesitate at the purchase of a $500 diamond engagement ring. Andrew, however, has ideas and a taunchness of purpose which, when put 0 the test, proves equal to unusual emergencics, Minor films and orches- tral features complete the bill. Millions.” Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle will be pictured this week at Lo ‘s Palace Theater, inning this afternoon, in Henabery' adaptation of ster's Millions,” by George Barr utcheon—a comedy romance cen- tering about the grandson of two wealthy old men whos fforts to out- do each other in providing for the boy furnish the main theme of the stery. When one grandfather pre- sents him with a million dollars. the other counters with a proposal to give him $5.000,000, provided he is absolutrly broke at the end of a year. The effort of the boy, Monte Brew- ster, to meet the requirement: vides amusing cntertainment. “Brewster J. J. Hoffman and Mrs. H. L. Holt SALON OF DANSE, Now located af 1808 Kalorama road, 2 blocks south of 18th and Columbia road. Phone, stu- dio, Col. 761-W. Haliroom and all branches of stage dancing correctly taught PR ND M i STUDIO, 1127 10th st. o, Monday and Friday, 8 to 11 pm. Private I by appointment. Phone_North ished_1900. 310 CATHERINE BALLE 740 9th Bt. N.W. Franklin 6508. Why waste time with people who waste yow time? We produce results. Beginners' elass, ¥ 8:30 to 10._Hours, 1 to 10 p.m, 7¢ Pi 1SS CHAPPELEAR rivate lessons taught by appointment. T el & . CHILDREN DUPONT ADULTS STUDIO OF DANCE. No. 8 Dupont_Circle. Ph_i'r. 1335w, DAVISON’SEPr1329 M n.w.Fh Season’s mew dances Cat Step.” Resillent ‘Teach you to dance correctiy in Strietly private. Any hour. " Normal course foi teaching. Class dance Sat. Eve, with orchestra, T LAST CONCERT THIS PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA LEOPOLD STOKOWBKI, Conductor TUESDAY, 4:30—NATIONAL Boloist, MME. OLGA SAMAROFF LAST (O RT THIS SEASON TEN STAR SERIES FRIDAY, 4:30. PAUL KOCHANSKI VIOLINIST ~ Who achieved a unique’ triumph in his American: debut. Tickets, $2.50, $2.00. $1.50. $1.00, Office T. Arthur Smith, 1308 G St. NOTE.—All tickets dated Jom. Tth (the postponed concert) hold good for this concert. Arthur Smith Announces SON i ! Special—Return Engagement NINA TARASOVA The Russian Singer of Songs TUESDAY, APR.5 }iy1ovar 4130 Tickets, $2.50, §2.00, $1.50, §1.00, Office T. Arthur Smith, 1306 G St. MADGE KENNEDY Crandalls and Knickerbocker o Shubertt. - Gar\'r'lck.a Dean and Lon Chaney. in Outsidew‘ NEXT WEEK'S PHOTOPLAYS. Metropolitan. George Arliss in Associated Ex- | hibitors” film version of Franz Mol- nar's play of “The Devil. Knickerb;cker. {. George Arliss, in "The Devil": Ho- bart Bosworth, in “A Thousand One”; Jack Pickford, in College,” and Doroth Ghost in the Garre Crandall's. National's production, with Sylvia Breamer Richard Dick in leading roles. Palace. Metro’s production, From Mars,” featuring Bert Lytell. | Maude, in “The School for = HAS BEEN ACTING years and the fruits of seven years before the camera. Aiken was born in Edinburgh, Scot- Louis Calvert in England. Arriving in America, he pecame a member of Augustin_ Daly’s famous famgliar figure on Broadway and at the @heatrica] clubs. en met D. W. Griffith and began hisbreen work in the chief charac itorrale in “The Birth of a Nation' #nd other big Griflith productions. late years he has played import- an&parts in many successful features. The Magic Touch. ‘HAT is the magic touch that Lift: merely an idle tale and into a breath- {!nz. realistic, cross section of human- 'Norris, the magazine writer, now writ- ing for the screen. f “There is no magic about it the i célebrated author replied. *It is a ques- tion of concentrated effort and untiring attention to details, “When success first came to me it was truly a surprise. I wrote simply about the folks I knew, and found that they were like the folks that other people knew, and there was almost an instant demand for more of my stories. *The problems of everyday life are of interest to everybody. But you must love vour fellow beings before you can ulndpr and them and write about them Mrs. Norris was born in San Fran- cisco and did not begin writing_until lafter her marriage to Charles Gilman | Norris. —_— Marion Brisco, from Knoxville, Tenn.. said to be well known in south- ern social circles. has gong on the under the name of Mona South. and is to make her debut in a small in “The Little Girls in Blue. v musical comedy by Fred. Jack son, to be produced by A. L. Erlanger. CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT National String Quartet Knickerbocker Theater 18th and Col. Rd. ‘Monday, April 4th, 1921, at 4:30 P.M. Tickets, $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c At Office of T. Arthur Smith, 1306 G St. Brown University Musical Club Concert New Willard Hotel Ballroom Saturday, April 2, 1921, at 8:15 P.M. Dancing Tickets, $1.00 War Tax Included Tickets on Sale at Office T. Arthur Smith, 1308 G St. N. | “A Message | pocketbook. For, I thought, with the THIRTY-FOUR YEARS | had become such as tq insure me POTTISWOODE AIKEN has had a|ner departed with the proceeds, with stage experience of twenty-seven|the Tesult that I again looked the land, and began his stage career with | ‘Aunt Jennig, ‘The Joy of Living’ and S_American| yp in a comedy role with ‘Miss Dolly company and for many years was alpollars’ and made such a hit that 1 5| Charit a story right out of the ranks’of | ¥ ity?"” This question was put to Kathleen | up my past as a serious actor, and as | Ralph'Hes: and Comedy, | RALEH HERZ, wholls appearing in | “Blossom Time,” states that he | hasacted seriously, actor-managed | semi-seriously and managed disas- | trously, and, what is still more as-| tonishing, prepared for anything but comedy by a highbrow course of the | most indigestible studies at Cam-| bridge University. “It was many years before I was able to live down my university prep- aration for life,” says Mr. Her began by playing a role with < andal,” b, which I do not wish to cast an¥ a: persions on my alma mater. That was in 1900. My success went to my head, with subsequent consequences to my experience I had, 1 was quite capable of producing plays myself. However, 1 showed more discretion in choosing plays than I did in choosing a part- ner. Just as the proceeds of ‘Divor- cons! which was the first venture, Peace with my creditors, my part- footlights in the face instead of in the back. “Back 'to “acting again, I came to America with Mrs. Pat Campbell in “The Second Ms. Tanqueray.’ In fact, just as straight drama was about tu[ claim me for its own, I got mixed was unable thereagter to secure any- thing but comedy roles. “After a period of bitter disillusion by finding myself a comedian instead of an exponent of the serious drama, I recovered my vanity by finding my- self a success in a series-of comedies Among' these were ‘The Tourists,’ “The White Hen’ ‘Mile. Modiste, ‘Lola From Berlin; ‘The Soul Kiss. “Madame Sherry,” ‘Dr. De Luke' “The Girl' “The Whirl of the World, ‘A Pair of Sixes' and ‘Hands “Really. 1 think I have played in enough comedy roles to quite cover far as the stage 1s concerned I firmly believe in uplift by lifting peopic out of their seats with laughter.” | — s H Roland Reed’'s 61d farce, “Lend Me Your Wife,” would scarcely know ! it=elf in its screen form and new | title, “The Chicken in the @gse.” UNUSUAL STORY MADE INTO FILM CARCELY one out of each ten thou- sand boeks published in the nine- teenth century is read or remembered by the pre but thos that popularity are firmly affections the public. Time cither effaces mem ories of books or hallows them. Fo this reason, stories that have stoo the test of time are assure of ex traordinary popularity, it is claime: when put into motion pictures The complete story of Black Beaui Ginger. Merrylag: r Oliver, Duche and the other equine characters written by Anna Sewell in the ear seventies, now has been told in pic tures, together with a thrilling sto: of the lives of Black Beauty's hum friends and acquaintances. —_—————— Ton Chaney has been engaged play the leading role in the n version of Gouverneur Morr! nal story, “The Ace of H. is soon to be commencos City. nt generation, retained th fixed in the have The Level Club's DANCE Scottish Rite Cathedral. 34 E_Stx. N.W. April 1, at 7:30 0'Clock REFRESHMENTS FREE Admission, 55 Cenmtn. Armies Navies )Mnn Bigger Taxes Bigger ( Easter Mass Meeting To urge interantional comferem.c on werld disarmament. Representative Frear Mrs. Ida Clyde Clarke Edward McGrady of the A. F. of L. Nat. Theater, Easter Sun., 3:30 P. I, Stop gun toting by nations! == —LOEW’S TODAY AND SUNSHINE COMEDY- OVERTURE—“EASTER FANTASIES. ALL WEEK PALA E | HE SLICKER ! ——BEGINN Paramount’s amazing shepherd’s love, by Wil | -LOEW'S COLUMBIA- Faith Healer production of the mighty drama of a simple A GEORGE MELFORD PRODUCTION —WITH— | IMILTON SILLS AND ANN FORRESTJ and_splendid screen liom. Vaughn Moody. ADDED PROGRAM HITS