Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1923, Page 19

AMUSEMENT'S BELASCO—“Captain Applejack.” “Captain Applejack,” which is held over for the second week, at the Belasco Theater, is a delightful en- tertainment and will vie with the €olorful evening parades planned for tho Shriners. On the surface, the play would appear simply a well- @rranged melodrama with a _plot gomewhat similar to that of “The Bat” Between the lines, however, for those who wish to make the ef- fort, many sly bits of satire are pianted that add a relish for the Inore sophisticated theater-goer. This three-act play was written by Walter Hackett and. like “The Bad Man,” may be classed as a satir- fc-melodrama. 1t is really melodram: with a P. T. Barnum flavor. for the #pectator has strong suspicious throughout its unfolding plot that the playwright is laughing up his #leeve all the time and making his characters do so, too. Fred Raymond, jr., sketches the in- dolent young Englishman, who has Jived a calm existence and longs for rdventure. Margalo Gillmore makes the conservative British heroine a sharming young girl and Fania Mari- voff offers fine contrast in her in- terpretation of a sensational dual role. Frank Conroy. Anne Suther- John Daly Murphy, H. Dudley v, Wallis Clark, Mildred Le Gue and others round out a we balancy cast The story tells of how adventure id romance are swept into an_or- British household on the Cor- t with a night's storm. A fantastic dream of the hero's causes it all. Few people have not at some time, ‘especially in childhood, yearned to have lived in the days of Capt. Xidd. This play amply fulfills that Yearning. PRESIDENT—“Abie's Irish Rose.” “Abie’s Irish Rose,” Anne Nichois' Celtic-Hebrew comedy, which kept ‘Washington laughing for twelve con- |« tiuous weeks, is back again to make its Shriner visitors take up the key- note of mirth and good nature, and to wear off “that tired feeling,” which is likely to be largely prevalent dur- week. Irish Rose” is a simple story of how Abie Cohen married Rosemary Murph nd what followed. There fsn't a jar, not a discordant note, in the whole play, but there is a fund of, enjoyable humor, sparkling wit and delightful comedy that involves the audlence in an unaccountable way and provides a truly novel situation in the theater. Kay Hammond, the little beauty from the Pacific coast, is_an ideal Ros mary, and George Barnes an ade- Quate Abie, but there are a number of clever and amusing characteriza- tions provided by an entirely com- petent cast. STRAND—Newman’s Orchestra. The Strand Theater Is presenting a Shrine week bill, headed by Sig New- man, saxophonist extraordinary, and his orchestra of jazz playing college boys, in “A Marriage of Comedy and Music.” Sig throws in a little chatter mow and then and introduces all thed boys, but the main thing is the music, and these boys can pla numbers ning Wild” especially. Mr. ) saxophone solo, “Sleep Baby Sleep” is a dellght. Charles Leonard Fletcher, character impressionist. is an added feature, in an act in which he makes up on the stage and impersonates in voice and gesture Mark Twain. Henry Ford and others of note. Myrtle Boland and Mabel Knight _are good singers and dancers. The Pickfords, acrobats and jugglers, with a good, mew act, and Amoros and Jeanet, in “Mon Chapeau” are clever in song, comedy and in- strumental music. The photoplay, Her Accidental Husband,” features Miriam Cooper, Forrest Stanley, Mitchell Lewis and. Richard Tucker, a story of thrills, with many powerful moments and as realistic storm at sea. Completed pictures of the “screen) tests,” made on the Strand stage lastj week by Edwin August, are shownl also with minor film comedy and news, subjects. Arcade's “Dance Derby.” With “track” in perfect shape and all entrants “champing at their bits,” the drop of the flag is all that needed to at the Arcade, 14th street and Park road, tomorrow night. Elaborate preparations have been made for the introduction of this latest outgrowth of the recent marathon craze, and. according to the management of the big uptown auditorium, visiting Shriners will have ample opportunity of seeing in action some of the most: notable endurance dancers east off the Mississippi. The “Dance Derby.” while requir~ ing a certain amount of endurance of the participants, is entirely dif— ferent from the nerve-racking spec- tacles beld in the and, according to Manager Willard, of the Arcode, there is nothing in thel city several weeks agoy new form of amusement that will of= | fend any one. | The idea is more on the cross+ country form of racing, with the dancers striving for distance rathert than staying prowess. A track sim- flar to those used for horse race: with judges’ stand, barriers and all, the usual paraphernalia, has been erected in the mammoth hall at the Arcade, and each night from. 8 until, 11:30 competitors will whizz around the inclosure with the object of at- taining the greatest number of laps. ‘The first three to cross the wire with the most distance to their credit will be awarded prizes each night and be | eligible to enter the “Grand Derby" to be run off Saturday night. Photoplays. ) i V \ METROPOLITAN—“The Shawl.” I Bright] “The Bright Shawl” began its lec-, ond week at the Metropolitan yester- 1 eyed, start the big “Dance Derby ‘ L] featured at the exhibitionsi! || ~ Joint-Lase f day before audiences which forgot the full emjoyment of the story of Span ish terrorism and Cuban plus one- man American intrigue some seventy-odd years Cuba of the early fiftie go. performance, great care evidently for character portrayal. Eave sent an emissary to America to obtain funds greatly needed to fur- ther a secret campaign for national libenty. The young patriot returns without the money, but youth who is seeking adventure, and Cuban freedom from Spanish oppres- sion . ith the aid of La Clavel dancing girl, he becomes a spy and soon .is enmeshed in a plot that ‘there seems to be no wa La Clavel's gorgeous shawl s0 daconsequentially that it is a nej ligthle factor throughout. With al her cleverness, La Clavel is tricked by the [Spanish military chief, and trag- edy ‘results. But tragedy seems to be the keynote of the story, save for the ‘final defeat of the young Ameri- can in a duel of swords and his ban- ishment from the island on the same ship which iIs carrying the sister and mother of his Cuban friend. Charles Abbott, the young Ameri- n. is dramatically done by Richard Barthelmess, and the extremely short rt of La Clavel is cleverly acted by Dorothy Gish. Mary Astor makes a «charming Cuban lass, and Jetta Gon- ‘dal figures as a Chinese vampire on sthe Spanish side of the game. Span- ish music adds to the atmosphere of Hme production. . “Take Your Cho a Christie comedy. with Boby Vernon. and the news features are added attractions. éCOLUMBIA—"The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse.” Once again the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” ride their mighty steeds into the conscious vision of the capital and drive home their frightful lesson of “Corquest,” “War," “Famine" and “Death. . Public demand has brought the pic- ture back to Washington after a lapse of nearly two years, and it is being fea- tured at the Columbia Theater, as a | Shrine week offering. When Vincente Blasco Ibanez this story it was hailed as a master stroke of literary genius. Then Rex In- gram touched it with his magic wand and, behold, a screen production of a splendor so stupendous that it appals. The story opens at a time when the old world” is seething with political hatred—the Europe of 1914, which is just ripe for the stalking horseman of St. John's prophecy to sweep into de astation. The new world is a haven of political peace and prosperity, with no thought of the unleashing of the four horsemen of destruction. An old Span- ish emigrant of lowly birth has become a man of great wealth in the Argentine. Fate has bequeathed him two daugh- ters—but no son. One daughter ha married a Frenchman, and the other a German. Three sons have been born to the latter, while in seven years no child has been born to the former. Then there is a hope, a child is expected and the old Spaniard, who intensely hates his German son-in-law and his “glas carrot-topped” . children, prays that the child of his daughter and fav- orite son-in-law will be a boy and so it is. All the devotion which he would lavish on his own son the old man gives to Julio, to whom also he promises to leave his vast estate. But he dies sud- denly without making u new will, and out. wrote | the entire estate is divided between the | | two daughter: Straight to the fatherland hies the | German with his wife and sons, | where they may learn culture and |ho\\' to fight for their country. The Frenchman and his family go to Paris, where Julio. sick with disap- Jpointment over the failure of his Erandfather to keep hi ord, spen | No. 3 z A fine nine-room and two-bath brick house, lo- cated on 18th street near R: modern improvements and an excellent buy at $14,500. W. C. & A. N. Miller REALTORS 1119 17th Why They’re Using for Burning Feet Just because it is now known | that painful, sore, aching, swollen feet are caused by the many joints in the foot and Joint-Ease soaks right in and gets to the seat of the | trouble—the ~cartilage and liga- t ments of the joints. 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Constructi ' z Company \C '7ncor7v9mted . 450K Stroag N1} Main 4190 Real Estate: Department A small group of Cuban patriots | cation with an American{ ed who promptly adopts the cause of | alization to a|acquits himself figures; Huns of the first order. " THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1923. his time in excesses which the old man has taught him are the joys of existence. He falls in love with the wife of an honored and prominent Frenchman. And then comes at Serajevo. i8 engulfed the assassination The whole of Europe in a conflagration of heat and gave themselves up to a|frightful war; guns roar and literally miles of manhood march to the cry “They shall not pass,” but not Julio. in Havana | His studio empty of pupils, and Mar- This { guerit is made | aimle; realistic in architecture, costume and | chance meets a mystic stranger who gone to the nursing field, he 1y spends his time, and by lives on the floor above his studio. having been taken In the gelection of | The first awakening in Julio’s con- the onst to secure just the right types | science of the fact that there is a point to life other than the gratifi- of the desire for pleasure comes through this kindly stranger, so intense in his visualization of things unseen by others. Julio fol- lows Marguerite and finds her nurs- ing her husband, who has been blind- in battle. Renunciation of love for duty to her husband brings re- the youth that he is a slacker, and he joins the colors and aliantly on the bat- tlefield. The three German cousins thick | have been in the fight from the be- ginning and have proved themselves Tt is in face one of Julio's both are killed by a to face battle with cousins that shell. Dominating the whole picture are the four horsemen and the stranger, to believe that they would call him “the brute.” but the adjective “abys- mal” seems a little out of focus. Howsoever “The Abysmal Brute,” as shown in picture form at the Rialto Theater this week, is a crackerjack prize-fight picture—in plain “Ameri- canese.” Large audiences, .including many Shriners, thoroughly enjoyed it yesterday afternoon and evening. The story is of the sport world of San Francisco, to which the hero, a red-blooded American of the- north- ern mountains, comes to secure a job. His success in his first fight lays the foundation for a meteoric career. Then he meets “the girl” a-gently bred young soclety girl, who abhors the sport of prize-fighting. Although she loves him and has promised to marry him, she is horrified at his profession, and almost marries his rival, a igan of her own soclal strata. The hero, however, proves just as in trepid in love as in the prize ring, and the story ends with the “happily ever after” trade mark. Mabel Ju- lienne Scott and Reginald Denny are “beauty and the beast” and the re- mainder of the cast is adequate. Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” presents one of the funniest of the their many amusing short reel comedies. One ‘looks with interest for each ap- pearance of Farina, the toddling lit- tle colored girl, her ambitious broth- er, the mischievous towhead.of the “gang"” and the two “freckles.” These children are delightfully natural and bullding a dam in India, he hol interest of his audience sven when the action of the picture Is a trifle slow. “The Tiger's Claw” | turesque scenery and depicts a story of natives in “the hill country.” After thefmanner of Rudyard Kip- ling, the tale is unfolded, with the triangle made up of this man, a haif- caste woman who has saved his life when he was bitten by a tiger, and 2 Dlonde British heroine. e is formed by the love of a native Jouth, who has received an on in ’ Buroj the half-caste S S seems the hero had left the Brit- 1sh hergine. plaved by Iva Novak on the “tight little isle” back home, with a misunderstanding. Out of gratitude to the beautiful. native girl Wwho saved his life, he marries her. Then the native lover, played by Bertram Grassby, returns to marry the native girl. The British girl also comes to Indla and things become ex- ceedingly complicated. ~The ancient Indlan fraternity of murderers known as thugs is organized to revive the craft of “thugee” to avenge the na. tive girl's jealousy on the white girl and the hero. " Erom this point swift -arries the sto conclusion. et s Miss Alleen Pringle plays in a re- alistic manner the role of t full of pic- A double | caste Chameli, wife of Santell and sweetheart of Rah Singh. “Once a Mason,” one of the Sidney Drew short comedies of married life, has been revived and is as funny as it was in 1918, in spite of references to sugar shortage and doughboys. Many “nobles” in the audience evi- denced keen enjoyment of this ap- propriate feature. The Shriners were especially hon- ored in the musical fantasy prepared by T. J. Gannon. director of the Pal- ace orchestra. It comprised Egyptian /music and the popular “Gallagher and Shean”” A new back-drop was used, which bore the pyramids, the sphinx and other Egyptian things and the Shrine emblem at the top of the pur- ple desert sky. The news reel com- pleted the program. CENTRAL—“Why Women Re. marry.” Crandall's Central Theater the first four days of this week is presenting as its foremost feature “Why Wom- en Remarry,” with Milton Sills, Ethel Grey Terry and a notable cast. “The Knight That Failed,” of the “Fighting Blood” series, based on short stories by H. C. Witwer, and featuring George O'Hara and Clara Horton; the Kinograms, a “Dippy-Doo-Dad” com- The Watchdog,” with animals for its uncanny leading players, are added attractions. There are many reasons evidently “Why women remarry.” Four of them are set forth in the picture. The prosecuting attorney’s wife chose a second mate because her husband was completely out of sympathy with her, settlement work; the gambler's wife married the honest cop because her husband was a brute; the wife of the man who shot the gambler married again because she hated a criminal and loved to dance, and the cop’s sister selected a new helpmate because her first hated children. The chief charm of “Why Women Re- marry” lies in the clever way in which the life threads of all the characters become entangled through the agency of a single event. CRANDALL'S—Pola Negri, “Bella Donna.” Pola Negri, internationally pop- ular as an emotional actress, is the attraction at Crandall's Theater the first half of the week, in the star character of “Bella Donna,” her first American picture play. Her support includes Conway Tearle and Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou, Macey Har- lam and Lols Wilson. The_storv. bristline with romanc in| the latter symbolizing a grieved and sympathetic Christ over the awful horror which has befallen the world. Nigel de Bruller makes a striking appeal as the mystic stranger, and Rodolph Valentino js an actor of merit as Julio. Alice Terry is a charming Marguerite Laurier.” Others in the cast are Alan Hale, Joseph Swickard, Stuart Holmes, Mabel Van Buren, Virginia Warwick, Pomeroy Cannon, “Bull" Montana, John Sain- polis and Wallace Beery. RIALTO—"The Abysmal Brute.” Even though Jack London said so, it is difficult to believe that the men of the sport world at any time would call a champion prize fighter, an mal” brute. It is easy enough the short sketches so full of human “business” that the audience is con- stantly roaring with laughter. Elias Breeskin, the skillful vio- nist, accompanied by the orchestra. gave “Zigeunerweisen” (gypsy airs) ard Drigo's “Valse Bluette.” The Melody Boys enlivened the news reel with jazz airs. PALACE—Jack Holt, in “The Tiger’s Claw.” Jack Holt, would make almost any picture popular with an audience, and in so thrilling a story as that of “The Tiger's Claw” he has the widest opportunity. ~As Samuel Santell, a young British engineer in charge of P I il N WASHINGTON o g SIDENTS exceedingly handsome volume published with the thought of presenting in an artistic, accurate and interesting manner the prominent monuments, memorials and public buildings of Washington. Replete with excellently double-tone sepia printed pictures from selected photographs by Harris & Ewing, suitable for framing. The pictures of the Presidents, with the exception of those of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harding, are from photo- xraphs made from oil paintings that hang in the White House. From cover to cover, a care/ully executed and highly desirable souvenir that will be treasured alike by the visitor and friends at home. Price, boxed for mailing, $3.00. 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