Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1922, Page 55

AMUSEMENTS. il YS PHOIO The ITH the consolidation of the big theatrical interests of the coun- ! try into one compact organization direcfed by one common pur- pose. it may be expected, with other things, that the photo- play is going to receive all the attention that-a dangerous rival ought to expect. We may learn now all the deiects both of the industry and of its product. Giited writers will point out just how impossible these photoplay people are. They will again bring into prominence that the characters in a picture have no voice, that they have no ears and that there is nothing more ridiculous than to witness what ought to be aun animated scene in conversation summed up in a line or two of subtitle.! irom which the audience is supposed to guess the remainder. The faults that may be pointed out are well known; indeed, they have been harped | upon time and again by antagonistic press agents td kill off the movie | and to boost the “spoken play.” But what will the public do in the matter? | - ¥k kX KL N minds engaged in the prodiction of the photoplay long ago dis- covered that the screen needed a language, and this language had to be expressed in action. In other words. the screen is pantomin enter- tainment and its success 'must be measured by the perfection in the art of pantomime attained by the players. A story that might easily b'r dramatized for the stage is not adaptable to the screen because of this very fact. When the necessary action in playing it is lacking, the action of language in dialoguc is invoked to redeem it. and, therefore. a stagc play that lacks action is made to shine with the brilliancy of its lines m order to detract attention from a weakness which is just as vital in a} play as it is in a photoplay. The language of the screen being action and not speech. therefore, the fact should serve to develop the art of acting itself, and if only the writers for the screen can be made to apprehend the chief need of the pictured drama, we may expect a development of the art of pantomime to the highest degree, and both the stage and the | screen, and certainly the play-loving public, will be benefited thereby. | The art of acting is said to be on the decline. The rivalry of the stage and the screen ought to revive it. and the keener the rivalry, the sooner will come the consummation devoutly to be wished. i y ¥ ok kK i CRA.\D,»\LLs Metropolitan Theater, having passed through the neces- | sary ordeal, it is announced, is to receive the indorsement of com- | petent_engineering skill that it is, like Caesar’s wife, “above suspicion.” | ]uv_esugauol\‘s such as have been made of our local theaters may bc! trying to their owners; they may seem even to be prolonged beyond the i time necessary for the purpose, but Washington has just passed through the greatest tragedy it has ever known, and solely because the care and attention now given to make its theaters absolutely safc to life and limb } were not given when they should have been. Individual loss and incon- venience cannot for a moment be considered above the imperative neces- sity” of rendering all places of public assemblage safe to every person who may enter them. W.H. L. i Tribute to William S. Hart. THUE following letter to William S.| of the Riverside papers and. fortu- Hart was recently received from nately. noted among the Sunday ads an attorney of Riverside, Calif.: ‘William §. Hart, in “The Testing “Since I do not believe much in the | Block.”* Thereupon I phoned the| custom generally practiced of throw- | folks at home to come down and go ing houquets after a fellow has pass- With me to see my favorite artist. 1 over the ‘great divide' and, there- | Well. do you kuow. when I took my fore, not on the receiving end, so as giasses off ‘to wine them.’ along about | to notice such little compliments, this | the last of the picture, when ‘Nellie | communication is written at this time | Gray' was being played to soothe the for the express purpose of transmit- | little boy to sleen, I naturally glanced | ting to you a ‘bouquet’ in the nature |around to ascertain if any nearby igh and deserving compliment | theater patrons might be watching | xcellent work on the Amer- | me—and I discovered two other big. | can screen. for vour high ideals and | cvergrown ‘boys’ just like myself. ! vour splendid interpretation, always. | ‘wiping their glasses.’ ! of just what a ‘real red-blooded | It makes a fellow sorc at himself. ! American’ is (sometimes {t_ seems!of course. but. nevertheless, it i there are so few left) and for the |Jjust this ‘American spirit that touches z00d, wholeseme examples constantly | the hearl.’ once a man gets it in his displayed in all your parts. bloed, that is calculated to make of | now it will do you good when{us bigger and better Americans—and | I relate my experience today, just to|we sure need lots of them. ¢ illustrate the extent of good example, | “Some occasional news stories touch- | nd to whom it will reach: Turning | ing on Hollywood and the screen pro- for a moment’s diversion from a very | fession generally further prompted ! iflicult case in my office today (Sun- | my inspiration to drop vou this com- | day), the writer glanced thiough one | plimentary letter.” T 1 i i Washington’s Foremost Picture actual work has been going on less than carried out. additional margin of safety. far beyond the demands of safety. ' tial in the world. i MM A OO | e m Concerning the Reopening This Week of CRANDALL'S4_j - Street at Tenth ) Although the Metropolitan has been closed a month, This Theater has been minutely inspected from cel- lar to roof by the Most Expert Army, Navy and Civilian Engineers in the Country, and all repairs, alterations and changes suggested by them have been The entire roof structure, including the steel fram- ing, has been checked and re-checked, and sufficiently strengthened to insure not only stability tut a great Every dead and live load has been accurately fig- ured, every stress computed, every bolt and every rivet tested, all truss and beam bearings examined and reinforcements, where suggested, have been made Probably no Theater in America ever has been sub-: jected to so thorough and so rigid an analysis, brick brick and inch by inch, as the. Metropolitan, and . now that we have met every suggestion of the numer- ous consulting engineers—the work having been done under the personal supervision of Thomas Lamb, the Foremost Theater Architect in America—it is safe to say that the Metropolitan is not only one of the safest : Theaters in Washington, but one of the most substan- z The bills will continue the finest to be had, and the . public is earnestly requested to view for themselves a house which, refurbished, redecorated and rejuve- nated, will more than ever deserve to be known as - “The Theater of Recognized Preeminence.” HARRY M. CRANDALL. GRS THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 19, 1922—PART NEXT WEEK'S PHOTOPLAYS. | Columbia. | “The Sign of the Rose,” with George Beban and members of his company, | in person. | Metropolitan. Anita Stewart in Bargain.” “Her Mad, Cm;d:ll's. ' Pauline Frederick in “Two l\'indsl of Women,” and Conway Tearle in the Selzni: production, “A \\'idel Open Town. i aude George revived her “Foolish | Wives” character of Princess Olga for one evening at_the famous Chu Chin Chow ball in New York, where | she appeared as the personal guest | of Alexis Kosloff. Miss George isi preparing to go into vaudeville with | a sketch. IR MABEL NORMAND Palace :Easy Life in the N[‘ovies‘z 'HE climax of “Molly O," Mabel; ' Normand's latest picture. is a | scene in which the kidnaped beroire jis being taken away in a “blimp” !and the herg glves chase in an aero- | plane. The ecenes were taken in Pe sacola, Fla, and while the “blimp"” was in the.air for the long shots a | heavy off-shore breeze sprang up. i blowing so stiff that the commander { of the dirigible did not want to take the chance of turning and permitting_ the breeze to strike broadside on thes| big bag. | The engines were kept going. hold- . ing the ship almost stationary against | the breeze, and then the fuel ran low Before it- was completely exbausted | the commander stopped the engines and the big bag was carried by the breeze almost In a direct line for: Cuba. When the wind died down to a point where the commander thought it safe to fight it Cuba was much closer than the Florida coast, and be- cause of the fuel shortage the land- ing- was made there. The tanks were replenished and the ' commander was ready to start back. But Mabel Normand, Jacqueline Lo- | | gan, Ben Deely and others of the Sen- | e Theater they came back by steamer. i cati wh half that time. ———ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW, (CRANDALL'S THEATER NINTH AT E= ¥ TODAY—MON.—TUES. T RICHARD - | BARTHELMESS Has never done anything to equal’ his Jirst starring picture, TOL'ABLE DAVID Directed by Henry King. Adapted from . Joseph Herges- : heimer’s “Set- - urday Evesting tea AMUSEMENTS. ~ 3 BEBE DANIELS Strand A notable list of cow-punching ex- | nett company had had enough and|perts was formed at the Arizona lo- | that the accomplishment of the Pathe fifty miles scenes for ion, from Phoeni: ere of the bareback world; m roping champions of Arizona. Special Film Features RAPHAEL Oth at O Street N.W. EAST” GIRL FROM GOD't “Val of Paradise’ |were taken, among them Red Eagle. | theaters recently the wedding cere- | great-grandson of the famous Apache 'mony of Princess Mary of England | chief of that nahe and now champion “bull-dogger” enne Chey- riding champion of | timely Arizona, and Pearly and Tom Morris, | afte¥ the big event. will agree it was TODAY, TOMORROW and TUESDAY, D. W. GRIFFITH’S “WA ) DOWN Humanity. ASKED what he considers the great- est thing in motioh pictures, D. W. Griffith replied “Humanity.” “We think things are beautiful,” he | went on. “If-we associate them with humanity in a beautiful way, they are. There is nothing artistio in a thousand articles unless they are as- soclated in some way with human | emotion. n ‘Orphans of .the Storm,” my latest picture, I show.- among count- | less other things, a close-up of a gigantic roast of heef. One sces the rving knife cleave through the | crispy “outside fat and a large julcy slice fall into the heavy.gravy. But 1 didn’t have that taken to show the slice 'of roast beef falling. It illustrates the plenty to which one clars was accustomed, while those without the gates were starving. In that way the roast beef rises momen- | tarily to the star part in its relations ! with humanity. It means something.” | | TALMADGE Crandalls The Pathe Exchange, Inc. feels x,| News Service in showing the people | of Washington in some of the local a feat worthy of note—and those who saw and were interested in the pictures, so promptly shown ‘indeed something to boast of. | s;'l). EY LUST'S St. at E LEADER HAROLL SATLOR-MADE FAIRBANKS, in “REGGI £Q St N.W. i N. Capit: [TRUXTON (- Gepjtora 2 Se 2w the Queen of Emottonal Phot A | FLORENCE REED, 1:“"1*1;1-:o 3{3‘3"- ANTHER'S CUB.” Matinee at 2. CONSTANCE. | lPhotoplayé This Week AT PHOTOPLAY HOUSES THIS WEEK. L PALACE—Mabel Normand, in “Molly 0.” Will be shown thiy afternoon., . 5 RIALTO—Marion Davies, in “The Bride's Play.” this afternoon. COLUMBIA—“Turn to the Right.” ‘ CRANDALL'S—Richard Barthelme Will be shown in “Tol'able David.” Will be shown this afternoon. { METROPOLITAN Wi H E] Will be shown this afternoon. i : | ? —Norma Talmadge, in “Love's Redemption.” be shown, starting Tuesday. | 0 in | the first three days of this week at Normand in [ Ut e ey It is the story of the youngster of a family of hardy. God-féaring mou: taineers, who longs for the day when screen star of Mack Sennett’ 4‘110 will attain man's estate and be able to “drive the mail coach” like his Mickey” and featured in many other (140 "% oiher, whom he idolizes, but noted screen productions, including ix always snubbed with the admoni- some by D. W. Griffith, will be pic- | tion 1o go slow, becausc he was “jest tured at Loew's Palace Theater all h}“"n”u";y\\, (Em Up.” featuring this week, beginning this afternoon. | orgun iecompaniment Wil complere in “Molly O Mack SennetU’s latest| ne hill. Wednesday and Thursd full-length comedy-drama of smiles{jack Holt, in “The Call of the North. and heart throbs, personally directed % Fazenas i Rura) Cin- by Mr. Sennett. The picture ix de- © Tatert Mack Bennott Bro- seribed as a serious, compelling creen | g aad. Friday and Satindes elaboration of the Cinderella theme, | ¢ Talmadge, in “A Pair of and as devoid of farcical element i i e shown The cast includes Jack Mulhall, Jacqueline Logan and others. 5 : Miss Normand has the role of Molly American. O'Dair, her mother's chief assistail| -rodas wnd tomorre in the O'Dair famfly laundry work. | Today aud tomorrow J { Her father has selected as ler mate [ SO0 and Mahlon Hamilton, ir {in life a yousg man helper in the,the Lash”; Tuesday, Tom Mix and ! cleaning line, but Molly has higher | Novak in Tri Wednesday . jideals and proceeds to fall wadly in [ Thomas H. pun love with a young doctor, a million- | Folks"; Thurs wood aire. who is devoting his_skill and |gna Eddy, ““The Forbidden i money to alleviating the céndition of | Thing”; Fridus. “The Wife" s the poor. i and amateur night | The action of “Molly O ranges|“Why Girls Leave Home from broad comedy to the decpest | pathos, and from a supper in the ten- Apollo. tomorrow. PALACE—Mabel “Molly 0.” | Mabel Normand, the eharming little Gloria Swan- ements to « grand ball in the most fashionable hotel in town. | | An overture selection und score by | ithe Palace Orchestra, under Thomas S |Joseph Gannon; the Pathe news, | Tuesday and Wednesday ! Literary Digest's “Topics” and a first | Mille’s “Saturday irun Mutt and Jeff animated cartoon |Pola Negri, iu ln—m be added attractions. and Mack 1 z da. {COLUMBIA—*Turn to the Right.” | {301y, Fotiard, in “Tie Bow Wou 5 John Golden and Marcus Loew 1 Days to Live” and Gaylord Lloy present at Loew's Columbia Theater. | A Zero Hero.” this week, beginning this afie the | fereen version of Winchell Smith and | | John Golden's play, “Turn to the Right.” iwhich has been mude by Rex Ingram. | i producer of “The Four Horsemen of the The cast headed by and in “The Betty Conp- Law and the Woman"; Cecil B. De Around Avenue Grand. oday and tomorrow, W. 8. Hart White Oak,” and Harry Pollard, in The Bow Wows”; Tuesday and Wed- 'urn to the Right.” ssful | nesday. Betty Compson, in “The Law istage play, it is said, was purchased jand the Won Thursday. “Just ifor screen production at a cost of | Around the Corne Friday. Pola 00. 1t is a gripping. enthralling | Negri, “The Last Pavment.” and story, frequently melodramiti though ' M K inett’s “By Heek'; urda: Tove ! Viola Dana. in !tinged with a high vein of romant, N and comedy. jinterest. | The story ourteenth Lov ure and Simple.” Joe Bascl for concerns tcountry vouth, unjustly : i a pr ‘sentence. who Carolina. cquainted with two crook Hope Hampton r iwhen the three are finally fre s : {returns home 1o find his omorrow, Milton Theo- | humestead about to be sold to satis toberts and Charles Ogle. ‘n v a mortgage held by the village|“Lula Bett kintlint. With the aid of his prison Tdle Joe invents a scheme to cir-{ ent the miser. and is not only, ¥ ful, but brings his two prison ' Thursdas to contact with Joe’s mother. | Biood and vhose kindliness and motherly spirit turn them from the path| Bert Lytell. in dnesday, June Feathers™: Pathe Digest Topirs: 3 | Lake. Owing to the unusual length of this T great Metro production. the usual) minor features will be curtailed. Circle. Today tomorrow. Hope Hanip- ton, in Dust”: Tuesdar, x | Linder, in My Wife": Wedn: av. Bert Lytell. in = Idle Rich’ Thursday, Barbara Montagu Love. in 3 Friday. Alice Brady, in “Hush Money ‘. Thomas Jefferson, Bride's Play. Marion Davies, mopolitan picture. “The Bride’ ¥ IWill be the feature this week at i Moore's Rialto Theater. beginning to- | day. The picture is described as u.el iBIALTO-—l{ntion Davies in “Thc; | i i last word in gorgeousness and beaut of story. Youth. beauty. love, folk lore, legend, nature in ail her glory. | ancient casties—al! are said to be ele- ments of the picture, with Marion| Today, Davies in two roles, first, as a dark- | Trac {haired Irish girl, and later as a fair- | haired girl of years ago, in a legend | Muso: jwhich is unfolded with all the rich- | nesd; iness of a fairy's dream. E isti medy. *“Oh eal Burnes News and special orch: including ~ Flotow's overture, with Whiting's “When Shall We Meet Again. added attractions. Dmb;m‘.on. dies Must Live™: n “Little Miss S Charles Ray, in Marion ~ Dav will be | Elite. | Today and tomorrow. Anita Stewart, [in “Playthings of Destiny Tuesday., | METROPOLITAN — Norma Tal- | Moreno. in “A Guilty Con- nce’”; Wednesday, Gloria Swanson madge in “Love's Redemption.” “nder the Lash”: Thursday, Bett son. i ' of Lowve': Norma Talmadge will be the pictur- 4 . in “The Mys- ed star of this week's reopening by and Saturday, Hope {at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater tar Dust.” . Love's Redemption.” her latest First | = Xational production. according to an- . {nouncement by the management Empire. i "Love’s Redemption” was adapted' Today and tomorrow, for the screen by Anthony Paul Kelly T rl From God's ¢ hits : Tuesday and outar’s novel. “On Lddy It unfolds a fascinating . guerit otte. in “The Ter S ife in the picturesque West Iigllar R: : comedy; Thu Indies and in the yashionabic haunts Catherine Calvert and Herb jof Lonion's aristocracy., concerning 1 “You Find It Every-j ! Ginger. orphaned daughter of a Span- “Grifuno, the Man of: {ish opera singer and an English so day, Marie Prevos: dler of fortune. The only person in on't Get Personal”: also “The iJamaica, where the pivotal scenes of Wire.” and Saturda the drama are laid. who takes the in “Pardon My Nerve"; slightest interest in the girl is an| Sunshine comedy, “Piease Be Care-f old sea dog, who exercises a strict t |guardianship until called back to | England. Ginger refuses to accom- i i | Rid Hampton, in hipman, untry”§ Wednes< and Mar pany him and declines also to permit Liberty. H him to transfer the ownership of his| Today and tomorrow, Charles Ras.. plantation to her. Instend, she takes |in “H. & V. i R up a new life as attache of the|xfason, in “Jackie”; -Harold Lloy Planters’ Club, with its motlex list| sbeote 15 {0teat news: Wedneadas of Rentlemen, renegades. rascals and | fne o il in Allas Ladyfinger rogues. Her affection finally centers e in_Clifford_Standish, Eng.|and smuteir ulght: 7] e ustn a young !lishman, who,-addicted to drink, has become the easy prey of all. The re- mainder is interesting romance. A new Mermaid comedy. “Free and Easy”: a Prizma natural color study. {the Pathe News and Topics of the Day, with a concert overture, Lake's “The Evolution of Dixie.” by the or- Leader. ichestra, will be added attractions. g today; \he Teadee Thixte H has arranged a {CRANDALL'S—Richard Barthel- | very attractive program. the feature . . 3 e being Harold Lloyd, in his latest and mess in “Tol'able David. A Sailor Mude Man.” anl 5 V : ; ction, Douglas Fai - “Tol'able David,” First /National's T G i picturization of the story by Joseph Bekie Midea i Sl { Hergesheimer, and Richard Bar- gl thelmess’ first indrvidual starring ve- nhis | hicle, will be the feature of the bill in latest news and Mutt and Jeff: Fi day, Viola Dana and Gaston Glass, 11 “There Are No Villains,” and_*Toon {erville Tango”: Saturday. William$ Farnum. in “The Stage Romance.” tinued on Fourth Page.) SthaN. Y., % PPODROME J22% 14752 POLA NEGHY, in “GYPSY BLOOD.” 180 | TODAY AND TOMORROW— H ‘R. 8. V. P. CHARLES RAY, in Post” stofy, ¥ and interpreted by @ support- HAROLD LLOYD COMEDY. EW THEATER 3% % FIGHTING MAD." “PINCHED." WM. DESMOND, HAROLD LLOYD, OLYMPIC 14tk and U st in TODAY AND TOMORROW— in| PEARL WHITE, in “A VIRGIN PARA- DISE." Matine¢ Todsy 3 p.m. ing ensembdle of unusual atrength. REGENT HAVEN, “MARRY THE POOR GIRL." 18th and You Streets MR. AND MRS. CARTER DE CRANDALL’S METROPOLITAN F Street at 10th REOPENING ATTRA( NORMA TAL- MADGE. in ZXTRA ADDED ATTRACTIO) HARRY POLLARD HOME 1230 C Street N.E. SPECIAL PRODUCTION, “MISS LULU BETT." In Hig New Comedy Scream “BLOW 'EM UP” PRINCESS %2455, 10; “LOVE'S - REDEMPTION.™ Aud COMEDY, FREE AND EASY.” |CRANDALL’S ™enter, 5th 2 E Sta. TODAY AND TOMOR- K_fl“ RICHARD --BARTHELMESS, 1o T BLE DAVID.” And HARRY POLLARD, in “BLOW 'EM UP." CAROLINA HOPE_HAMPTON, in “STAR DUST." 11th & N. C. Ave. S.E, | . DAILY: 3 P.M. SUNDAY. TOMORROW ~WILLIAM 8. ITE OAK.” And HARRY | _SAVOY THEATER In.a Vivid Romance of the Snows BE CALL OF THE NORTH LYRIC 14th and ,MH‘O:O'-‘NNI:'W Y AND T LOUISE GPATM and MAHLOY HAMT TON, in “GREATER THAN LOVE. o : $OL0. in “DO OR DI Also Sundax Matinee Quly—EDDIE POLLARD, in *THE HOW WOWS. CRANDALL’S ‘YESUE GRAND 645 Pa. Ave, S.E, MATS, 2 P.M. DAILY; 3 P.M. SUNDAY. TODAY AND TOMORROW—WILLIAM 8. - HART, in “WHITE OAK.” And HARRY POLLARD, in “THE BOW WOWS.” Louise Fasenda in “A_ Rural Cin- derella’ - LFFRL—SAT. T CONSTANCE - NEW STANTON,, ANNA Q. NILLSON n the Great Human Interest: Drama, “Why Girls Leave Home” 6th & C Sts. N.E, ntinuous from 3 p.m. cm m:s APOLLO THEATER 24 H St N.E. MATINEE SATURDAY, 2:30. TODAY AND TOMORROW—BETTY COM! SON. 1n *THE LAW-AND THE WOMA! TALMADGE In Her Firat Natignal Hit A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS Bobby. -Veruon in YA Barnydrd Cavalirr: - 00O A nd R. L. 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