Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 5

Amusements 0—Charles Purecell & Co. Heading the bill at the Shubert- elasso Theater this week is Charles urcell, musical comedy star, with company that includes two excep: lonal dancers and “syncopators” of nerit. The production was well re- eived-by-a large audience last night nd merited the repeated applause iven. Purcell is very pleasing in his enditlon of new and old songs, While flubert Kinney and Martha Shelby Qisplay graceful abllity in excep- lonal dances. Le Roy Smith's color- d “symphonic” orchestra .was recall- d_for encores several times. The bill opens with Joe Fanton nd company, in “Seconds of Sus- * caused by clever flying ring pecialties, several of which they do vhile blindfolded. Benn Linn, billed The Nimble Nymph, arries considerable weight, sings pleasing _songs and _endeavors to fance. His singing was well receiv- d. W. E. Ritchie, who has been ere before, returns with “Bits and Pieces,” a bicycle act that fyrnishes nuch amusement. Frank Matthews nd Ada Ayers present a skit, “Hard Roiled.” which has some good jokes, :nd Homer B. Mason and Marguerite eeler, in “Married,” have a bedroom arce with amusing incidents, _A. Robins, “the Walki tore,” who also has been ore, has not lost any of his popu- arity, and -made a hit again last ight. . William Horlick and the Farampa Sisters offer a dancing num- Jack Strouse, in “Over the Phone.” has an act which bears un- istakable marks of unedited bur- esque. - News pictures and animated ‘omics complete the program. BTRAND—L. Wolfe Gilbert & Co. L. Wolfe Gilbert., composer of many pular songs, including “Waiting for e Robert E. Lee”” “Hitchy Koo” and "My Little Dream Girl,” heads the trand bill this week. He is assisted by Riley and Fritzie Leyton, “the song " The act is well presented and ncludes snatches from many of the omposer's old and new songs. Ethel Gilmore and comrany, a sextet f pretty girls, introduce “Dance Origi- alities™™ and are well received. Marie tussell and “Sambo,” in “At the Cabin Por,” do well in their black face com- dy, ‘and Brown and Elaine in “The atal Wedding Day” are also pleasing. he act including comedy, dancing and inging. Will and Blondy in an acro- atic performance complete the vaude- ville program. Pola Negri, the foreign film star. is eatured in a_Paramount photoplay en- itled “The Red Peacock.” The act- eSS is seen as a little flower.girl, who s forced by her draonken and cruel step- father to leave the dingy home and ake her own living as fate directs. As he play unravels. it would seem better f she had staved with her stepfather. plinor films complete the program, CAPITOL—“Baby Bears.” *Baby Bears” under the personal rection of Arthur Laning. opened a eek's engagement at the Capitol heater vesterday afternoon. The roduction is all new except the title, nd yesterday's audiences seemed horoughly to like it Tte show is in two acts and seven cenes. The first. “Honeymoon Inn, s full of ridicu situations and aughable material. The second, call- d “The Statue.” brings the show to a hirlwind finish. Joe Mack-and Charlie McNally-are he comedians. They are assisted by \rthur Laning, Sarah Hyatt. Jessie IcDonald, Fritzie Harper and Stella awn, ingenues, with a big and borigatly chorus. Phaotoplays. RIALTO—“Orphans of the Storm.” Washington is likely to have two pinions of David Wark Griffith’s atest-film masterpiece, “Ofians of. ho Storm,” based gpen mnery Id melodrama, “The Two Orphans, hich ‘Kate Claxton made famous ore than a generation ago. In adapting the old play to the creen, Mr. Griffith has laid its story n the time of the French revolution, kpparently for no other purpose than o intreduce the spectacle and thrills hich otherwise might be lacking. ['here is a strong guggestion of “The Birth of a Nation” in the frenzied tde-of Danton and his followers to ave Henriette from the guillotine, nd there is also the suggestion of a duplication, - but in Mr. Griffith’s nimitable way, of the revolutionary cenes of “Passion.” he profligacy of the nobility is flisplayed in lavish pictures of the ighest photographic art, and there s, of course, a young noble. who pides withhi the common people and ho becomes the afflanced of Henri- tte. Danton amd Robesplerre are ividly pictured and splendidly char- cterized by the players assignéd to he roles. far-off view is given also f Louls XVI and his courtiers. The romance runs along the lines f the old play. Henriette and Louise, he one a daughter of commoners and he other an abducted daughter of a voman of the nobility and a com- oner, who is murdered by her fam- ly, grow up as children and sisters f 'a commoner’s family. Louise is tricken with blindness, and it is vhen they both go to Paris in the ope of regaining her sight that they re parted, Henriette being abducted y a lecherous noble, to be after- ard rescued by another, who genu- nely falls in love with her, while but who | Loutse, the blind sister, falls into the lnnnd. of an old hag, Mme. Frochard, Wwho utilises her for begging purposes until they are ultimately reunited. After Henriette's rescue and the fury of the French revolution has [bursc upon Paris, both she and the iman who has saved her are ar- rested, he for being a returned aristo- crat and she for harboring him. Both | are condemned to the guillotine, but | are saved by the eloquence of and a mad ride to the scaffold by Danton. Mr. Griffith has evolved some won- derful pictures, - especially of the revolution, in the mob scenes, the tribunal scene, the scene at the guil- lotine and the mad revelry of the j common people when they had come to feel that all law had been abol- | ished. - A subtitle reminds the spec- | tator that it was a bad government which was overthrown by the French revolution and injects a caution to the would-be anarchist and modern bolshevist against using that revolu- tion as a justification for overthrow- ing good government. The picture carries the suggestion of the dinger of the fewA trying to impose their ideald and prejudices upon the many, and the reflective and disgruntled may be disposed to insti- tute compariso of the French tyranny which brought on the revolt of the people with what some are disposed to call the tyranny of the present day in some things. Ap opinion which will be held by many is that Mr. Griffith has not.in- creased - the fame hs won - with “Fhe Birth of a Nation,” “Intoler- ance” and “Way Down East” al though-there is ample reason for br lieving that others will like “Orphans of the Storm” and will believe that it is another of Mr. Griffith’s great film masterpieces. Mr. Griffith has embellished his pic- ! ture with an elaborate interpretative | musical score, which many may ad- mire. W. H. L COLUMBIA—“The Sign of the Rose.” “The Sign of the Rose,” a drama- union of film and footlights, with George Beban as author, star and supervisor, was presented at Loew's Columbia Theater yesterday. before capacity audiences ~throughout the afterncon and evening. The novel combination of pictures |and personalities doubtless ‘accounted for its share of the crowded attend- ance, but there was also the presence- value of an actor who has earned very real distinction on the stage— and thanks fo the wisdom of a press agent who refrained from baring plot-details to a point where interest becomes shopworn, there was the freshness of successive surprises in the unfolding of the story that had something of the thrill that comes from cutting the leaves of a novel whose ending will be a mystery until the very end. | “The story, which opensasa picture, merges into stage form, with the same actors carrying the plot forward in person until the closing scenes, which return to the screen. It is a simple, everyday story of human nature as expressed by the rich and the poor. with circumstance as a golden link that binds the two together. The tale has nothing to do with an old English n, as the title rather suggests, but S0 new as to have for a first and poignant feature the death of a child by a skidding automobile—Wwith New York for its setting, and for hero an Ttalian emigrant; a pathetically ideal characterization of laughter, tears and soul-splendor that the star has made to stand out, Saul like, in type portrayals of the stage. Beginning on Christmas eve, the story visions two tiny girls, each joy- ously impatient for the coming of Santa Claus. The Italian brings a tree to the banker's home, and then goes to his tenement room to carry happiness to his bit of a daughter. The rich child is kidnaped and the father, susrecting the Jtalian, rushes his car to’the slums to find him. The streets are muggy; the car skids and kills_the Ttalian's Jittle girl, who is playing blind -man’s buff on the céb- bles. - I This much of the plot is revealed because of the stage act, in which the stricken father goes to a florist's to buy a rose for his little one's grave and is seized by a plain-clothes man, who attempts by every terror of the third degree to make him confe: to the stealing of the rich child—a scene played with such energetic realism as to warrant the hope that it was over- done. It is in this scene that the star, assisted by Helene Sullivan, as the| mother of the kidnaped child, and by the excellent actor who plays the| part of the detective, steps from, screen to stage. The scene between ! the two gives a tense understanding of the agony of helpless innocence when subjected to the power of a law so perverted as to make of its crime. For twenty-five minutes the actors carry on the story in stage form, when suddenly the theater is dark- endd and the camera takes up the drama fto its end. It is a “happ;" “Many men of many minds” can al- ways be relied upon for arguments of many kinds, but it seems a safe thing to predict that the average intelligent Jover of good acting and motion pic- tures can ask nothing more enter- tainingly worth while than the fine acting and attractive picturing of George Beban :in “The Sign of t Rose.” The spirit of the play has for sym- pathetic undercurrent the soft meiody of an orchestra so appropriate in its| representative a figure of legalized = understanding as to Intensily gome of it nt scenes, notably Tostis Farewell” as the father realizes the death of hjs child and with duzed, objectless gestures packs: her bits of belongings, which, with her rag doll, are that a kindly" but “business first” second-hand man will allow him to take away. PALACE—“At the Stage Door.” “At the Stage Door,” with “Billle” Dove featured, presented yes- terday Loew's Palace. The pic- ture was directed by William Christy Cabanne. The story, by Fannie Hurst, is based on the successful struggle of an actress for fame without losing any of her self-respect. Heartbroken when her sister wins from her the {o‘ulhlfiha lo':'leT al’ll throws herself nto e whirlpool of Broadway’ theatrical life., i The usual crowd of “Johnnies”. be- slege the stage door, but she suc- cessfully wards them off. One night, however, one of them is more per- sistent, but the hero, seeing that she is being annoyed, steps in and accom- panles her home. During the follow- ing days, though engaged to a wealthy girl who {s in Europe, he falls in love with the actress. Later, after his promising to marry her, the wealthy girl returns. A re- ception for her is given by his mother on the night on which he has prom- ised to bring the ring to the actress. He writes to the actress, explaining, but she fails to receive his note. In desperation she accepts an invi- tation to an after-theater party, and he, seeking her, sees her dancing on a table In a restaurant. Everything is ultimately explained and all ends well-for the actress. J The play is notable for its beauti- ful setting and its realism. Thursday it will be replaced by “A Homespun ‘Vamp,” featuring May MacAvoy. An overture by the orchestra, a comedy and a new film complete the program. - METROPOLITAN—Anita Stewart, in “The Mad Bargain.” . Anita Stewart in “The Mad Bargain™ is the attraction this week at Crandall's Metropolitan; large audiences being present yesterday both in the after- noon and at night. Miss Stewart is one of the best emo- tional actresses appearing at the pres- ent time in screen work and in “The Mad Bargain” has many opportunities to display her talent. The play is in- Y5 teresting but lacks the thrilling and tense. situations 8o dear to the heart of the average movie patron. ‘The .story concerns a young girl brought up in luxury as an adopted child, who upon the death of her bene- factor Is turned out upon the world without the knowledge put up a strong fight for existence. . After stroy herrelf and is caught in the act of throwing herself from a window by the hero, an artist and philosopher, who bargains with her to -give her $50,000 and at the end of the year she is to destroy herself and he will col- lect $75,000 insurance on her life. Of course, he Is only testing her, feeling that in a year’s time she will realize that money is not necessary -to hap- plness. By the time the year rolis around the man is in love ‘with the girl, but she agrees to go rough with her bargain. He finds her in a hospital where she has given a waif a chance to live through offering her blood in a transfusion operation, and all ends happily when he tells her he was only working out one of his theories. Larry Semon in “The Show”; a colored scenic production of Arrow- head Lake in California; Pathe pic- tures; Current Topics and a good misi- cal program complete the, bill. of CRANDALL'S—“Two Kinds ‘Women.” “Two Kinds of Women," the screen version of Jackson Gregory's novel, “Judith of Blue Lake Ranch,” with | Pauline Frederick In the title role, is the feature the first three days of the week at Crandall's Theater. It is the first time this interesting drama has been shown in Washington and in it Miss Frederick has a role which adequately permits a proper display of her charms and talents. Besides this romantic drama the bill §s enhanced by the inclusion of “A Charmed Life,” a particularly amusing two-recl comedy with Jimmy Aubrey as the principal funmaker. “Two Kinds of Women" has an ex- quisite love story .and the blood- curdling excitement of a series of hair-raising adventures. First is seen the magnificent woman of the draw- ing room, and next the self-reliant woman of courage living tn the open. In these characterizations Miss Fred- erick is convincing and sympathetic. In her support are the well known screen players, Tom Santschi, Charles Clary, Dave Winter, Eugene Pallette, Otis” 'Harlan, Jean Calhoun, Lydia Heamans Titus and Clarissa Sel- wynns. The old fashioned stationary engine is running yet because of a solid foundation. Thousands of extra-troubleless motoring miles:may be credited to this old fashioned Cadillac frame. quality of permanence in the Space 25 Auto Show | 5“ The Washington Cadillac Co. 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