Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1923, Page 58

AMUSEMENTS.’ The Shakespeare fim'ztp “TWELFTH NIGHT” Friday, 8:15 P.M.—April 27, 1923 Gonzaga College Theater 39 Eye St. NW. Walter W. Beck as Malvolio Mabel Owens Wilcox Betty Farrington Arthur J. Rhodes Lulu G. Adams E. V. Wilcox Clarence E. Ruebsam Walter Berrs, James Otis Porter, IKarl G. Pearson, W. J. Mil- lard, W. Cameron Burton, T. W. Harvey, Smith E, Weller, Harold Slater, Kermit Gridner, musicians. Directed by Walter W. Beck Tickets, $1.00—Plus 10-Cent Tax Adunce Sule, 7 nho\ 301 5oulhbrook Court meLtesf American and Foreign- Successes at ‘Popular Pnces-n-v-n BESTSEATS $l‘2 WHY PAY MORE TONIGHT 8:30 TONIGHT *SENSATDNALWEEK | ’ PA'AVE-AT 11th — MAIN 667 Theatre inWashington Offering ESIDI:N'I' THE MILE-A-MINUTE COMEDY 54 WEEKS IN NEW YORK wWith WANDA LYON 2GEO.BARNES MAT.WED.25-50¢%.MAT. SAT 25-50-75¢% Beg Next Sun.Nite-Geats Now GOLD 'DIGGERS The Famous Bdasco.flage 3 e ALK MMDMHMBLEAMWSWEWSCREEM PAULINE FREDEPICK: (W PERSON) IN HER FIRST SPOKEN DRAMA IN SEVERAL YEARS . THEGUILTY ONE MMLMM&&IRM M/wvss 5074 #2.50 MAT: TR 654 507 %150 BEGINS NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT MAIL ORDERS NOW TS THURSDAY lmems SHUBERT PRESENT In the new musical comedy BAIITO" IN THE MOONLIGHT World's Greatsst Dancee Incomparably entertalning. nell, ‘Marcalte’ Swi Frank HUl Hodgron. And a Chorus of Dancing Divinities PRICES—{tois: Sal Mir oo to 43 ™ Fred Hejder, Joan ranson, Alice Brady, Deuny Dare, Clara Beuncer of the Bluss ANOTHER WONDERFUL SHOW A First Run Super Photoplay at Every Show “THE LOVE LETTER” Startling—Romantic—Powerful Climax ?—Should a Girl Confess Before Marriage? Featuring GLADYS WALTON And a Qreat Cast V UDEVILLE EXCEPTIONALS “THE LA PETITE REVIEW” A Gorgeous Scenic Interlude Songs and Dances by the Fastest, Jazziest Broadway Bunch KEENE & 5| ““A Roadside Flirtation' ‘‘Chiness Novelty Fantasy™ BEEK & BAYNE “‘Her Guardian’—a Delightful Comed; Deinty Musical Offeri: Different But So Likable A 2-Reel m& and News THE SUNDAY STAR, Filling a Dead Man’s Shoes. STRANGE things oceur in the world of the theater, and none is stranger than the recent death of Clifton Craw- ford, @ho starred in “My Lady Friends.” He created the role in the Nitray comedy, when first produced in this country, and later, when the play was oftered in London, Craw- | ford went abroad to play his original role. pened: He had been living on the fifteenth floor of a London hotel. The eleva- tion, he contended, was conducive to long, peaceful slumber. Apparently he was enjoying the best of health. One night in spring he retired im- mediately after arriving from the theater, ‘and at 7 the next morning London' was amazed to learn from the dailies that during the wee hours of WE PLAY LOEW'S VAUDEVILLE STRAND Then the queerest thing hap- BEGINNING TODAY—COMPLETE NGE OF BI DOORS OPEN TODAY AT 3 P M, _The Strand Offers the Best Eatertainment ot Popaler Pricesl at Popular Pricea! VAUDEVILLE Breath of BERNARD & LEON. “The Cabby and the HARRY MASON & CO, In “Getting the Moeney” PAUL & GEORGIA HALL “‘Character Impressions™ RAYMOND PIKE “That Kapering Fiend” KINOGRAMS—COMEDIES—ADDED FEATURES—EXCELLENT MUSIC 3% TWO SHOWS FOR THE PRI Mats. 10c. 310_Nights, 3¢c, S0c—Sat ¢ B 5Y EUROPE'S | GREATEST WILD | ANIMAL DISPLAYS a0 CONTINENTAL |- HORSE SHOWS . MORE THAN: 200 TRAINED EQUINES | MARVELS | 1500 PEOPLE G HERDS | \ PERFORMING 1§ 70 GREATEST RIDERS MANY NEW FOREIGN ACTS PACHYDERMS 100 CLOWNS Doors open at 1 and 7 P. M. 'Performances at 2 and 8 P. M. . PRICES—(Admitting to the Circus, Menagerie and General Admission Seats): Adults 75 cents; Children, Under 12 50 cents. Tax included. Reserved, 4Numbered Seats, 75 cents Aa.m.f"" Beglaning Thursday Ticketx on Sale April 26 at Lansburgh & Bro.. Tth Street Between D and E SHUBERT-BELASCO oS 2M mlsy"ggum w&ifi erset Maugham /?auz “*The Cizrcle’ &.. wiTH IIAl[l DAWN. - A S'UPERLATIVE- CAST OF 25 SR SHOESTra Au'maumso%‘ze- mww‘»fie o NEXT WEEK -SEATS NOW BIUEBEARDS EIGHTH WIFE ¥ BEST 122 SHOW IV TOWN.. GEORGE MARSHALL'S COMEDIANS IN AVERY HOPWOODS* BRISK FARCE— "V GIRLIN THE LIMOLSINE ALICE HEGEMAN AND A NOTABLE CAST ALL NIGRTS, 80 to §1; MAT, WED,, 80s; MAY. SAT. 5o aad 7he. 'WASHINGTON, D. C., 'APRIL the morning Clifton Crawford had waiked, in ‘his sleep, out of the win- dow of his room and hurtled into the busy street below, “My Lady Friends” was compelled to close. 1923—PART 3. Why the Megaphone? EL ANDREWS of Thomas H. Ince's staft of directors, who is now directing “Judgment of the Storm,” AMUSEMENTS.” Current Attractions That strange happening, however, brought Jack Norworth into the story. Norworth had played several cgley resembling that created by rawford in “My Lady Friends” and when the initia' Palmer photoplay, made the first official explanation cf the use of a megaphone to a rather cynical layman the other day. hy do you fellows have to shout airections. through & megaphone to a couple of actors in a parlor scene at ten-foqt range? Looks like af- fectation to me!” this worthy d clared. . Andrews explained gently “No director uses a megaphone if he can avoid it. Of course, in any scene In which there are many people, its purpose is obvious. In a non-emotional scene directed at close range. no one uses it. But in a high- ly emotional scene, the actors are more or less deaf to all that goes outslde. They are living the action of that scene so strongly that nothing but megaphonic orders, even at close range, can break into the Mttle world of imagination they have built around themselve LT T T TOMORROW aAn = NATIONAL v FINAL WEEK OF THE SEASON Matinees Wednesday and Saturday Only Washington theater offering exclusively American and foreign stars of first rank JOHN GOLDEN PRODUCER OF “LIGHTNIN’,” PRESENTS “AMERICA" llA'rl:s'l‘ ‘COMEDY” “Year A COMIC TRAGEDY OF MARRIED LIFE Bvan FRANK CRAVEN With RPHY, JAMES ‘)ID Olllfl-AL oo#rml INCLUDING Tm,{v Illcu]’A‘flng{ F o, QIDMZ W" the production returned to America for a road tour, Jack was sought by the producers as the lead. Of ‘course, he ultimately accept but “stepping into a dead man's shoes” /gave Norworth a rather creepy feeling when the proposition was first put up to him. he says. “I knew Clifton and I couldn’t retuse to play in ‘My Lady Friends,’ but the fact that Crawford had met end in such an uncanny manner gave me a decidedly creepy fecling. For the first few weeks I couldn’t seem to et him out of my mind. Every time I went on in the first act 1 visualized poor Clifton wandering around in his sleep. It was ghastly, and it was only by practicing Coueism that I finally elmiinated the lingering vision. lllllIIIlllllllIIIIIIIIlllIIII|IlIIIIIllllllllllllIIIIIIlIIlllllIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIII EMIDALV Today, Mon., Tues., Wed. MILTON SILLS ALICE LAKE Supparted ¥y ax Escep tional Cast im One of - Most Engrossing Fiim Plays of the Year. ENVIRONMENT —Eztra— George O'Hara ° “Pighting Blood» No. 4 Einograms MAGNIFICENT PIPE ORGAN MR. W. E. THOMPSON AT THE CONSOLE AL THEATER TH, BET. D AND Thurs., Fri, Sat. MILTON SILLS ANNA Q. NILSSON Pauline Garon, Eliiott Dex- ter and Theodore Kosloff in Ceoil B. De Mille's Colorful Soclety Drama, »~AM«G— Kinograms n Pige Of!an Recitals ALWAYS A HIT e CRANIIAI.I.'S 'I'HEATE _] AND Today, Mown., Twes, Wed. SECRETS OF PARIS With Montagu Love, Gladys Hulette, Lew Cody, Dolores Casinelli and an ALL-STAR CAST Hurd Cartoon, “Chicken Dreasing.” Eztras PIPE ORGAN DE LUXE A L, Thurs., Fri, Sat. THE DARLING OF THE RICH 4 Plamboyant Sooiety Drama in Which Montagu Love and a Great Cast Sup- port Beautiful BETTY BLYTHE —Comedy— Dorothy Devore In “Babice Weloome™ (Continued from First Page.) Sacha Beaumont, Joseph Crehan, Ches- ter Morris, Louis Haines, Jerome Ren- ner and George Ertell Benefit for Colored War Veterans. Mrs. Virginia Quivers, one of Washington's pleasing ‘soloists, will appear in a benefit performance at the Republio Theater Friday evening, in addition to the regular picture. Half the proceeds from the sale of each ticket will go to the benefit of the colored soldiers now confined at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. . This benefit is given under the auspices of the Wiefare Club of the office of the register of the Treasury, Dr. A. J. Harris' section, and the club earnest- 1y solicits support. Performance 6 to 11 p.m. Baron Fersen, Tomorrow. “If the crocodile is just in its prime 0 years and the octupus is at the ght of its strength at 800 or 900 ears, it looks as though man ought equl"\ as \xell with his tures on_“Man's Lment Powers and How to Develop Them,” at the City “lub on Monday and Tuesday even- ngs. Old age is a disease caused by WwOrry, a species of jazz thinking that isintregates the harmony of the body vibrations and causes the body o begin dying from the skin Inward, he says. We have within us the power o overcome the conditions that cause death; to renew the cells of the body, and by right living and. harmonious hinking live as long as we please. Shakespeare Socxety. ht A College Theater. The person- the company has not changed Several members » of professio: Irington as Maria dnd Arthur Rhodes as Sir Andrew Aguecheek. ington began her stage ca- vashington, and rapldly rose woman in stock compani . Toronto and elsewhere. Mr. Ben Greet's leading man v seasons, playing a great riety of roles and alternating with Mr. et himself in the character of Si s Adams, who plays Lady Olivia. already won laurels 3 sica, Hero and Juliet. E. will appear as Sir Toby “Twelfth | | department G. Pearson, the sea captain, Antonin, has been chosen by competition by representatives of all the high schools to play the part of Shakespears in the high school pageant to be given in May: Mabel Owens Wilcox, the rols of Viola; Clarence Ruebsam, the jest- er's role, Feste; James Otis Porter, that of Duke Orsino; Walter Berr:. that of Sebastian, aud W. Cameron Burton, that of Fiblan. The play is being directed by Mr Beck. Let Well Enough Alone VALE\TI\O 'S revolt against appear- ing in a long list of screen vehicley which he deemed unworthy of his talents may be looked upon in soma quarters as a reflection of the av. age director's willingness to let well enough alone. When the public's taste has onee been struck there is a strong temp- tation to repeat, as nearly as pos- sible, the achievement that won suc- cess. It was for this reason that the late Wallace Reld was ocoupled for many months in a prolonged suoces- sion of zutomoblle romances, and to the same cause, perhaps, may be a: tributed the fact that more than on- of the silver sheel's most competer stars, both male and female, are per- mitting thelr portrayals to be robbed of all semblance of versatility. It is a notable fact that the di- rectors who refuse to restrict them- selves to a fixed type of photodra matic porduction comprise that small coterle of veterans of the craft who have developed the industry from its nception to its prseent high point of rtistic attalnment. Prominent among these is Thomas H. Ince, who, with D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett, ma be said to have ploneered the motio - | picture from the very beginning of its history in this country. I Of Interest to Scenario Students STUDENTS of scenario writing, or those interested in the technica! g | side of the motion pictures, will bLs interested Storm.” in “Judgment of It was written by a hithe the Far-| unknown author, Mrs. Ethel Middleton of Pittsburgh, who trained herself in screen technique in producing,_Corporations educatio The production w filmed to prove to the world fn eral and to the motion picture i try in particular that “the story writ- ten expressly for the screen is the thing.” —_— shington boys. Tommy der and Sam Green, wiil be & “The Follies of the Day” at the ety Theater this week. owug Exclusvve!y the Worlds Best eville ina Beautifl] Piayhouse of R efinement at 2:15and 8:15, Sunday Mat.at3 & Sensational & Baffling pith HOPE EDEN & FRES(DTT" Better Than"The Bat” Pride of eldon, Ball lagtme G Heft CILLE ANI The Dancing Girl and H«T\w&nfnends Vincent O‘'Donnell - 9 P 7 Extraordmary Features Share Headline Honors fl Favorite Returns-"That Wise 0ld Owl” 7 JACK * NORWORTH New Songs of His Own. 3 7 Asgisted g rothy Adelphi Washin — . Thebrid ton MEYER DAVIS’ LEPARADIS BAND BranaNewPr ram Es ecnal Arranged this Engagement Genvge Kellys New Comedy Show Off Fred Sumner Heras & Wills - Aesops Fables-Pathe Pictorial News- Topics of The Day. Extra Added Attractior “The Little RUBY To Day -Two Sh EVA SHIRLEY - Bfi Star of So6 N OWS EMMA HAIG - 3and 8:15 OQLSEN & JOHNSON & GREAT BILL BUY SEATS EARLY- PHONES-MAIN 4484-4405an06823 TWO YEARS OF ADVENTURE SQUEEZED INTO TWO HOURS OF THRILLS TODAY, 2:30 P. M. R I V A LTO DAILY, 11 TO 11 The Great Elephant Chatge/ ~HASNOW'S HUNTING BIG GAME 'm g il h . Presented by Universal A PRODUCTION THAT THRILLED NEW YORK FOR THREE SOLID MONTHS AFRICA'S WILDEST HAUNTS MADE AS INTIMATE AS OUR OWN GARDEN COUNTLESS THRILLING AND SENSATIONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH WILD BEASTS A THOUSAND AND ONE BREATHLESS MOMENTS AND HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES THE SENSATIONS OF A HUNDRED PICTURES CONDENSED INTO A SINGLE MARVELOUS ENTERTAINMENT---NOTHING LIKE IT! B NO ADVANCE IN PRICES " . MELOpY BOYS