Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1923, Page 18

" AMUSE smnmmseo—m-m ; “'White and Others. Sines the Shubert vaudeville wheel has abandoned the unit aystem as far as the Shubert-Belasce is concerned, entertatnments at this playhouse have |, - been on the decline. This week the offering is saved from mediocrity by tite prezence of Frances White. With the ible exception of the Mason and Keeler kit, “Married,” there is little to be said in favor of the rest of the dill. Mise White, who returns to \‘tvde-| ville after a musical comedy fling. is as preasing as ever. The delighttul | singing comedienne renders her “kid" | songs in — inimitable manner, and scores heavily as a “grown-up” in her very own “Village Shelk™ She is the bright spet of an otherwise dull program. Margaret Keeler, Homer Mason and An unknown strive to please with their sketch that tells of t.he troubles surrounding vietims of drink and amnesia. Their efforts are worthy of a better vehicle. The Temainder of the program con- sists of the Skating Hamiltons, the Musical Johnsons. Keating and Roff, the Washineton Follies and Townes and Franklin, PRESIDENT—“Abie’s Irish Rose” There was another night of jollity at the President Theater last night when "Abie's Irish Rose” entered upon its eleventh week. The original cast was present, including fleen Wilsen, Henry Duffy, Leo Hoyt and Guy T’Ennery. The favorites were all heartily greeted by the usual large Audience, and as usual the laughter was almost continuous. In a little curtain speech Mr. Duffy dealt in come detall with statistics concern- fug the plays long run. He said that 181,000 persons had seen the play in Washington. This, he asserted, broke all records for attendance on any play in any city, in proportion to popula- tion. He said he knew of one person who had attended thirty times. He also referred to a couple that had heen present at every matinee. He had no doubt that many persons had ing the play’s long run. = He sald that voiced the gratitude of the company for the cordiality with which it had been greeted and promised an enjoy- able performance of “Buddies” next He trusted that as many as le would be present at the closing performance Saturday night. STRAND—Vaudeville. From the moment Harry without makeup, strolied ~on Theater stage Adler. the house was kept continuous uproar for thirty minutes. The two popular entertainers top an extremely well balanced vaudeville ill at the theater this week. nia Baraban and Charles Grohs. Jonathan Haw. in a pantomimic dance spectacle, give the artistic touch to the program. Miss Baraban and Grohs are masters in their particular line of dancing. and their efforts were enthusiastically received. Haw is the possessor of a fine singing voice, which he uses to advantage in_several numbers. Barr, Mavo and Renn have a ique’ coraedy offering in their skit, “She Cares for Me.” written by Frank v. and the trio were the recipients f wuch applause aurice and Girlie. in “The Tn. ected.” a combination of music and Dalancing feats. open. the Ml and are followed by May McKay and sisters, three likeable Scoteh revue, As the featured motion picture pumber. Clara Kimbail Young and Flliot Dexter, in_ the picturization of the famous Broadway success, "Enter Madame,” is offered. The story of the picture winds around the love of 2 temperamental grand opera prima donna and her husband—how it is lost and regained. Special orchestral plete the bill. laseies, in a jovial numbers com- Newman's Travelogue. Newman completed his travelogue Journey across Africa last night at the National Theater with a pictured de- iption of the last stage of the tour 1dan to Cairo.” Starting from the northern chain of and lakes which form the Nile, the andience was given a motion picturs introduction to a new and strange type of the hundreds of tribal varie- ties, slender giants of queer habits and dress whose skill as bowmen could give pointers to Robin Hood. For those familiar with the defeat of “Chinese Gordon.” a glimpse of “the CGiordon tree” under which he waited for relief that did not come, save poignant realixm of the death of Britain's great soldier, a tragedy intensified by the neighborhood of the tomb of the triumphant Mahdi. The archaelogical theory that Egypt had her civilization bafore Rome was manifested itself in a wonderful pil- grimage to the Cliff Temple, Abu Simbel and other mighty monumeats of an inscrutable past, some of them submerged under the waters of the Assuan dam. Thebes, whers the nnited science of America and Eng- ‘and I8 now resurrecting the tombd of a pharach who reigned 4.000 years ago, §s shown in illuminating views, and’ those other handmarks of archi- tects who builded better than they new. ~The Temples of Luxor and | Karnak were shown in review, a| wonder-pageant of a dead past into | which science is today putting the pulse of life, A trip to the pyramids and through the now familiar streets of Cairo, with a speclal regard for Shepheard's. where all tourists like to stop. ended with a backward slimpse at the “Hinterland, the dream of Cecil Rhodes fulfilled.” ’ There was the usual motion ple- ture collection of animals and bird fe. both of the African jungle and | the lake district; an interesting fea- ure showing the weaver bird weav- her nest, and another picturing urious animals to be found only along the Nile. Arrival Port Said meant the end of the five-week jour- ney from “Capetown to Cairo”—and the close of the lecturer's season for the present year. Photoplays. COLUMBIA—“Robin Hood.” Elevanth-hour decision by the mana- £er of the Columbfa Theater to break the meason’s long-run record by show- ing for the fourth week Douglas Fairbank's great atarring vehlcle, “Robin Heod." was justified, It yester- day's crowds can be taken as a eri- terion of those which will swarm to view the picture the remainder of the week. It is announced that this week posi- tively will end the run of the offering at the Columbia. “Robin Hood” is a drawing card, not alone because of the domination of the play by the active and ever-popular “Doug,” but be 1t presents = gorgeous plctur; n of the England of castles, knllhlhood fair ladies, court intrigue and romance. ~ The photographic background for the ca- vorting of Fairbanks In the role of 1he Earl of Huntington and later of the gallant outlaw, Robin Hood, is remarkably elaborate and artistic. The imterior views of the royal castle in which King Richard. he of the “lion Leart,” ruled happily. and in which his designing brothi Prince Johm, plotted to usurp throne, were of almost staggering beauty, and the scenery “shots” show- ing Robin Hood’s rendezvous in Sher- wood Forest were equally attractive: Fairbanks lost no opportunit: | indulge in all manner of acrobatic Jeaps to castle battiements, rising draw-bridges, galloping steeds and what-not, alwavs spurred on by the fair vision of Lady Marion. An ap- propriate musical core by the Col- umbia. -orchestra heclps the action along, fs Falrbanks' foremost eff: Nli! “Robin Hood,” and none shouls migs secing it. : PALACE—“All the Brothers Were MENTS Valiant.” ‘The Palace this week has.a photo- Play that iives up to its title. There's Ssomething satisfying In walking out of a theater with the feellng of hav- 1! on board a whallng vessel for more than an hour. during which time one almost catches the scent of the bomn( whale fat being rendered into It m.v be on account of the appro- priate title or the name “Lon Cha- ney” on the billboard; or because of apt direction, or the humanness of the characters; or possibly because jthe worid still loves romance and melodrama of the sea; or it m‘ly prodbadly be an accumulation of all these causes that resulted in the Palace throwing open doofs to oca- pacity crowds last mxht and hanging out the "S. R. O sign when the remiere of “All the Brothers Were aliant” opened and promised & week's full-house run. Ben Ames Williams—who I8 so sea- worthy himself that he probabdbly leaves an incrustation of salt around @ fresh-water tub aftera bath—wrote | The theme of the Blay. . Lon Chaney,| Billle Dove, Malcolm McGregor and their supporting characters iived it. Photography is excellent—with the exception of a spouting whale with flipping tatl that gives just a hint of artificiality. And, most important of all, véry, very little of the play is overdone. Irvin W. Willat deserves W. & J.SLOANE THE _EVENING vast credit for his diréction of the film. To be sure, it is not on a plane with an Ince masterplece or a “Birth of a Nation” but it has & ploiy - of its own that should be efalnently satis- factory to those sweet ladies wi love Kknitting and pirate storfes, to those settled home-men who love siippers. pipes, &rmchaira and salty melodrames, and to youngsters who ilke anything red-blovded—and that Covers the gamut of theater-goers. Even though the old hokum creeps in and holds sway In many scenes of the piciure, it's & good piece of work. And the publioc must like hokum, for|La it generally gives it the appiause of app %ou l|lll! attontion has been direct- ed to the originality and imgenuity displaysd by Paul Terry in ocartoon- ing modern Aesop’s tables. For in- stance, last night, when one saw a little cat devil having white-hot arrowhead welded to its tail by a lit- tle dog-devil bluckemith In hades, and when one smiled at a burlesque on aerial gliding which sent & pig througn the heavens with an electric fan propelier strapped about a Sow In Bight eupported by a balloon attached t. horns and one xo knotted tall, more than passing ‘Tention sesmed to be In order. In its way, the one-reei cartoon film is as good as anything shown, and it has been so conelstently original and excellent that it now just sits up and yells for attention. CENTRAL—“The Woman Who Fooled Herself.” “The Woman Who Fooled Herselt,” in which May Allison yesterday was screened as star of the bill arranged ho [the island of Porte Rico, STAR, WASHINGTOX, for nu first four days |¥ the present wedk At the Central Theater, is & photodrama of Tove and ‘business in- trigue on the equator. The troplcal scenes are convincluf by reason of the picture's having been fitmed on which al- thoush not equatortal s in no sensc iuMlvp!cu ® exterior view, which 1 part in the development ory hlvlnl’ to do with vast gar and tobacco plantations, are marked by a more luxuriant tropi- cal verdure than even southern Cali- fornia ¢an wupply. The companion th‘ of the early week program is Semon’'s buriesque, “The Coun- ter Jumper,” which concerns the ®d- vertures of a young olerk in the gen- eral store of a small town on the westery_frontier. "The Woman Who Fooled Herself” affords May Allison one of her most fruitful _opportunities camera. 8he Is cast as a chorus giwrl, who sucoumbs to the lure of “double ®alary” to_ncoept an engagement as dancer in the Cafe Real, a: the equa- tor, in order to “v pp large land holdlnn away from Fernando Pen- Ington, grandson of 8enor Don Cawa< Dlancon, 1and baron, who has arouscd the antagonism of ‘the Equator Trad- ing Company. Eva Lee, dancer, exe- cutes her mission a0 thoroughly that she is taken Into the home of her supposed _victims, where she falls in_love with the man she has been hired to dupe. CRANDALL'S—“Lorna Doone.” In Maurice Tourneur's picturiza- 'Uon of Blackmore’'s “Lorna Doone,” feature of the bill arranged for yes- terday and today at Crandall's Thea- ter, is a fine demonstration of how deftly supreme artistry and flimbuoy- 1508 H STREET, N.W. (Opposite the Shoreham) . T, MONDAY, “FEBRUARY %, 1923 before the | | ticated flapper who is convinced that ant melodrama can be a diréctor to whom beauty 8 as im- portant a factor aus wotion.’ The pie-. :.ur:u‘hlu &lrtlfly been uvhwd at en ese columns. Harry Pollard hueeu the comedy | note into the proceed in & new Hal Roach Nlum. 'he Newly Rich” -~ The program 1s rownded out by ahort-reels and plpe organ accom- paniment. RIALTO—“The ~ Beautiful: and - Damned.” Any one_ interestéd In the exétic’ variety of ‘American flapper and her| masculine counte will find en- tertainment In tl produetion o( F. Beott Fllll‘r‘ld’! novel, Beautiful and Damned,” which is l'hh feature picture at the Rlaito Theater this week. l:tne Prevost I8 n.ut‘1 factory ms the extra Gloria, and Kenneth l(“fin to look quite natural In the ) role ot the bored soclety “womk.” These two | portray the typical Fit: and heroine qullo Y mp The entire we Tully lllrlhl" Il w0 d cynical as the old mililonaire only wishes ha appeared in mors scenes; ho glves the impresslon of being ®ble to Talss & most exciting row if proveked. . Loulse Fazenda, long familiar In “Sis Hopkins” type of characterization, in a semi.-! -opm--. she Is an irresistible vamp. Clarence‘ Burton, @s the corrupt theatrical mant and Harry Myers and Em- mett King are good. The story. is as old as clvilisation and_the accumuiation of wealth. It (Continued on Tw rat Page.) 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