Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1923, Page 59

WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1923. Part 3—12 Pages R. JOSEPH JEFFERSON.O'NEILL, a member of the forces of Will H. Hays, in a metropolitan journal.very recently devoted two columns to the fact that most of the folks whose photoplays have been roasted in the newspapers and many more who have wcen exploiting them in publicity departments are former newspaper men. A close perusal of the story almost tempts the belief that the photoplay industry has fallen into the hands of journalists who have gone wrong. While this may account for many of the improvements noticeable in the newspapers, at least, it is rather a sad thing to attribute the goo}l luck of the daily papers to the bad luck of the movies. It must be possible to explain matters more satisfactorily from another angle, and, perhaps, for the present, it would be wise to leave matters for that solution. . W ok kK HERE is, however, an unescapable fact that demands attention in con- nection with any solution of the troubles oi the motion picture. We are all familiar with the old saw about the cobbler sticking to his last, and it is most apparent that geniuses that are born to adorn a mercan- tile life are nor miways precisely the kind of geniuses required to elevate the drama or to improve the photoplay. The condition of the American stage today has been attributed to a disregard of the old maxim about the cobbler. Why, thereiore, may not the present be a good time to change the experts in the theater, especially in the producing department? 1t is generally conceded that money and brains working in combination can accomplish wonderiul things, but they ought to work in combination. Money alone will not do it, and it is also doubtful if brains, without the aid of money, tan accomplish much. A big diamond ornamenting the front of a gaudy shirt does not necessarily indicate that there is a suc- cessful horse-race bookmaker behind it, nor, is it imagined, is such adorn- ment a guarantee that the man behind the shirt is a competent theatrical producer. And vet, we are told, there are oodles of diamonds adorning shirt fronts in h places in the metropolitan theaters * k¥ K ’I’HE fact that the theater season is pretty well sewed up at the present writing may, perhaps, pardon an indulgence of ideas concerning the photoplay, which, like the poor, is always with us. In the very closing hours of last week, after the dramatic screeds had been sent to press, a story of vital interest to the photoplay patron was flashed over the wires, for information, not for extended comment. It told that Mr. A. L. Erlanger, whose name, in association with that of Mr. Marc Klaw, in the vears gone by was connected with some very worthy dramatic enter- prises, likewise with a theatrical trust which did not leave many happy memories, had effected a combination with “the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert,” the trade mark of an institution which has constituted a rather temarkable figure in the American theater, in the interest of a grandilo- quent photoplay enterprise. “The Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert.” which has bought up or bought out valuable theater properties in nearly all the big cities, and Mr. Erlanger, who is said to own a healthy block of those which “the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert” did not get, are to set apart certain of their properties for the exclusive exhibition of the “super- productions,” or extraordinary photoplays, and the cream oi photoplay production hereafter will be shown by them at a greatly increased cost of admission. In other words, the holy object of the combination is to elevate the photoplay—as the American stage has been elevated—by charging more, very much more, to see it. Thus we find the same benign influence which virtually controls the American theater aiming, in the same old way, to control the American photoplay. For some time past it has been charged that a gigantic trust has been formed in the photo- play distributing world, and the names of some, at least, of those who figure in it can be found with very little difficulty in the galaxy of names whose benignity has blessed the exhibition department of the American theater and now is being extended to photoplay exhibition. *® ok ¥ % E “repertoire season” at the President Theater, which started out so auspiciously with an unparalleled run of “Abie’s Irish Rose,” and then lapsed into a somewhat hectic condition for a time, lags waningly on the eve, apparently, of going to sleep for a while. This would leave George Marshall and his Belasco Theater “repertoire” in undisputed control of the \Washington theater so far as “the legitimate drama” is concerned. The vaudeville season:is still floating with the tide at Keith’s and at the Strand; burlesque has gone back for its second nap, and photoplay entertainment w have a chance to recuperate. Washington also has a wide expanse of wooded country, green fields and good roads, and the summer parks, the “beaches” and the dancing pavilions again come into their own, or will, if something can be done to regulate that recalcitrant Guli stream, or the spots on the sun, one or the other of which has been trifling with our brand of summer weather. * % k% E announcement of no less an authority than Mr. Florenz Zieg- feld, jr., the lady’s husband, assures those interested that Miss Billie Burke will not appear next season under Frohman management, and that the rumor that she was to become a Belasco star is also without founda- tion. Florenz will find a play for her himself. * ¥ % % T. JOHN ERVINE, the Irish dramatist, informs us that America is altering the English language through the movies, and that now Eng- fish children understand, even if they do not use, the vigorous and startling slang which is so characteristic of American speech. Mr. Ervine, also, it is said, has ideas on American drama and American dramatists that can- not be repeated here for fear of starting a hot-weather discussion, which would be unfortunate. * % %k % ILLLIAM A. BRADY, JR, it appears, is not to have Miss Margalo Gillmere in the leading role of his first effort as an independent pro- ducer. “The Earthquake,” by Theodore Liebler, jr., therefore, must be content with Miss Ann Andrews. Miss Gillmore, it is reported, would have none of it. * ¥ ¥ ¥ HE musical comedy combination, Bolton, Wodehouse ‘and Kern, it ap- pears, has reformed for a new effort in behalf of Comstock & Gest. * * X Xk EVERAL unproduced plays by Ella Wheeler Wilcox are to be staged as the result of a little theater work put into operation by Miss Mat- tie Keene, a friend and companion of the late poetess, who says she is simply carrying out a plan dear to the heart of Mrs. Wilcox. * %k X % ERCY HAMMOND, the New York critic. stamps the new “Passing Show,” which has just been presented in New York by the Shuberts, as sadly in need of adornment for “its acreage of dimples, discolorations, blemishes, beauties and defects.” * Kk ok ok ST'HE GINGHAM GIR!.." a surprise of the last metropolitan season, because of its charm, its simplicity and its irrepressible spirit of youth, was the first ambitious offering of two youthful producers, Lau- rence Schwab and Daniel Kusell. It is said to have broken the scason’ record for musical comedies. W. X. LANDVOIGT. | to control “first-run” motion picture theaters, thereby suppressing com petition and restraining interstate trade and commerce. Vitagraph de- clared it had been injured to the ex- tent of $2,000,000. and under the Sherman law asked federal court fer thrice that amount. The suit w brought last November. Suit Withdrawn. The $6.000,000 suit brought by the Vitagraph Company of America, Inc., agalnst the Famous Players-Laskey Corporation and other defendants has deen withdrawn by the latter firm. Effgrts of Will H. Hays, director gen- arai ot the motion picture industry,| The Federal Trade Commission for were sald to have been Instrumental |some weeks has been investigating in g about an agreeme! the Famous Players-Laske; m"“‘%n*h Sompany ‘E‘fi tion In &n effort 1o deterrmiye whother that Pam ired the company constitutes s trust, v ETHEL - BARRYMORE ~ Rejths evening. row afternoon. STRAND—“Hollywood Frolics,” vaudeville. BELASCO—“Lawful Larceny”—! “The First Year.” | The Belasco Theater, by special ar- rangement with Mr. Lowell Sherman, vill give a final performance of Lawful Larceny” this evening. This, it §s announced, is in response to the | demand of those who were unable to | see the Shipman play during the past | were made to hold the play over for a second week, but this extension was impossible, due to r contracts which Mr. Sherman | s compelled to fulfill. | “The First Year” is to be produced, for the first time at popular prices, at the Belasco Theater tomorrow night. It is the unique success of | the modern American stage. It was | produced nearly three vears ago In| New York and ran for more than two | years without an interruption. It is| a comedy, written by Frank Craven,! and has been presented in less than' half a dozen American cities. Wash- | ington, however, has the distinction of being permitfed to present it for the first time at popular prices, al- thought it will be given all next « a- son elsewhere at top prices. ¥red Raymond, jr.. will appear in ths :2ad- ing role Miss Luella Gear, John Daly Murphy, Wallis Clark, Joseph Crehan, Anne Sutherland and Leila Bennet who was maid of the original pro duction, will have the other im- portant roles PRESIDENT—‘Abie’s Irish Rose. “Abie’s Irish Rose” the Irish- Hebrew mithquake by Anne Nichols, will be presented for ity fifteenth week at the President beginning to- | night. The chief roles being played by Ann Brunough and David Herb- | lin, supported by Lew Welch, Robert Lowe, Guy D'Ennery, Harry Shutan and Henrletta Vaders. The story centers about the secret marriage of a Jewish boy and an| Irish girl and their efforts to keep | under cover thelr respective raclal | identities. KEITH'S—Ethel Barrymore. ¥resh from her triumphs in “The | Laughing Lady." n _which e starred on Broadway, Ethel Barry more, the dramatic star. opens her summer Keith tour this week in “The Twelve-Pound look by Sir James' KEITH'S—Ethel Barrymore, vaudeville. AT THE THEATERS THIS WEEK. “Lawful Larceny,” with Lowell Sherman, tonight only. irst Year,” comedy, opens tomorrow evening for the Performance this New show opens tomor- Opens this afternoon. M. Barrie, as the headliner at Keith's. In this, one of the amusing and subtle of the shorter plays by the eminent king of whimsicalties and fantasies, Miss Barrymore is sald to have'a role that fits her like a glove, and with it she brings to vaudeville an_ artistry and talent of the highest quality. “Artist, gentleman and scholar” is the description given of Tom Smith, who comes as the added feature. Smith probes for laughs, and he never misses one however deeply it may be imbedded In a gloomy disposition. Others are: The Wilton Sisters clever and charming singers and en- tertainers, seen recently with Al Jol- son in “Bombo:" Thomas Swift and Mary Kelley in “Gum Drops,” Ernest Anderson and Marjorie Burt in “The Dizzy Heights,” the La Pilarica Dan ing “Trlo, starring Viela Victor! Margaret McKee, the California mocking bird, and Berndt and Part- ner together with Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and the Pathe News, pictorial decorations. Karyl Norman, the “Creole ion Plate, Victor Moore and pan; Powers and Wallace, Helen Stover and the rest of last week's bill will be the attraction today at 3 and 8:15 pm. = Fash- com- STRAND—*Hollywood Frolics.” Spice from the motion picture | Studlos of Los Angeles and Holly- wood, as the world thinks it Is, promised in “Hollywood Frolics.” a pretentious and gorgeously staged number at the Strand Theater this week beginning today. John Yule, Irene Richards, Miss Barbette Benta and the Wallace twins will step from the environment of motion picturs life into the glitter of the theatrical stage in an enter- tainment above the average. Fagg and White will be in an added attractfon in a skit typical of the southern negro and said to be amusing and laughable. Others will include Lou and Grade Harvey. in “Harmony and Hash": Harry White in a humorous monologue with songs, “The Matrimaniac," the boy hercuules, Orville The feature photoplay will feature Clara Kimball Young in the Metro production. “Cordelia. the Magnifi- cent.” an adaptation of a fascinating story of New York society life by Le- roy Scott. is Mary Roberts Rhinehart ARY ROBERTS RINEHART, au- thor and playwright, whose new play, “The Breaking Point” is to have its premier at Pol's Theater next week, began life as a nurse In Pittsburgh, and it was not until after her marriage to Dr. Rinehart, and her children were past the need of a mother’s care, that she indulged a natural desire to write. She began with short stories, and when she and Dr. Rinehart submit- ted them to the local newspapers she was advised to stick to nursing. In- stead, however, she polished up her | stories a little more and sent them to the magazines. One of them attracted the atten- tion of Lincoin A. Wagenhals, who brought it to the .notice of his part- ner, Collin Kemper. After a consul tatfon with the author, who confessed she knew little of stage writing, Avery Hopwood was called in, and together with Mrs. Rinehart the very A Cat Story. (OME seasons back Joseph Crehan of the George Marshall Players, at the Belasco, went to Australia, and in Sydney, one afternoon, attended a vaudeville theater, The headline at- traction was bllled as the most mar- velous aggregation of trained cats extant. There were twenty-two of them—toms and tabbles, and they were good. their trainer said so. As the curtain rose there appeared before their eves things they had never seen, even at night—3.000 faces that were new to them, and then there were the footlights flashing in their eyes, Born, reared and trained in the out- doors, the cats made (orhxhe great open 'spaces right through a sea o ORcos “Tn the orchestra: When the turmoll finally subsided twenty-two cats were missing and one cat trainer. —_— Haroid Atterilge wrote the book and lyrics of “The Passing Show of 1923,” while Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz composed the music. J. C. Huffman is staging the produc- tion and Allan K. Foster is arranging the dances. The company includes Walter Woolf, Joan Hay, George Has- sell, George 'Jessel, Helen Shipman, James Watts, Roy Cummings, Jose- phine Drake, Barnett Parker. Bob Nelson, Olive Ann Alcorn, Nat Na- zarro, Jr., Flmu{ln and_ Morrison, Louise Dose, Hal Van Rensselaer. Libby and Sparrow, Vera Ross, Wil- liam Pringle, Jack Rice, Jean Steele, Frank Bernard, Andrew Joachim, James Hamilton, Trado Brothers, Tom Nip, Dorothy Bruce, Perle Germonde, Bob Gllbert and Helen Herendesn, 7 successtul play, brought to light. Mrs. Rinehart continued her novel and short story writing for some years, and just prior to her change ©of permanent residence to Wi ton the same theatrical ain suggested that opwood collaborate on another “The Bat” followed, and today, said. Mrs. Rinehart Is the rich- est and highest paid writer, man or woman, in the world. With Mr. Hopwood she adapted “Spanish Love" for the stage, and its artistic success was but a stimulus to her fond desire, long cherished. to go it alone. Her dozen vears about the theater and in the motion picture studios and in scenario writing gave her confidence and increaged the de- sire to_present a play all her very own. Her refreshing story, “The Breaking Point,” gave her the op- portunity, and its dramatic presen- tation is being watched with much interest both in the literary and the theatrical world. “Trilby™ as Played. RTY years ago, “Trilby” was easily’ the most popular plece of current flction. It was written by an Inhabitant of the famous old Quar- tier Latin, and with its score of in- teresting, well drawn characters it hit the popular fancy with a ven- geance. The various dramatizations also met with success. The cast which first presénted the story on the stage was particularly notable. Virginia Harned played the title role; Wilton Lackage was Svengall, 'Richard _Ganthony _the Laird and Burr McIntosh Taffy; Gecko was impersonated by Robert Peyton Gibbs: Robert Hickman play- ed Little Blilee and Leo Deitrich- steln was Zouzou. Agnes Evans, who married Wilton Lackaye, was one of the original can-can girls. Another company, in which Tyrone Power portrayed the role of Sven- gali. toured Australia. Power's wife, Edith Payne, appeared as Trilby: in stlll another organization Ruben Fox played Svengall and Blanche Walsh the title role. In London Sir Beerbohm Tree made a great success of his interpretation of the Svengall role, with Phyllis Neilsen Terry of the famous Terry family in the name part. The Tuylly screen production is to be presented with a cast including Andree Lafayette, Creighton Hale, Arthur Edmund Carew, Philo McCol- lough, Wiifred Lucas, Francis Mc- Donald and Gertrude Olmstead. —— After a transcontinental tour of forty weeks, Walker Whiteside has closed in “The Hindu,” and is on vaca- tion at Hastingx-on-Hudson, “Seven Days” was P - |marked the high spots | Belas¢o pEHCY MACKAYE'S “The Scare- crow” will be translated into Rus- slan by Dr.. Serguis Berntesson of the Moscow Art Theater. The opening of “Helen of Troy, N. Y.” at the Selwyn Theater, New York, has been postponed from to- morrow night until Tuesday. Ann_Pennington, for many vears one of the features of the “Foilles” | will return to that organization for the remainder of the New York run and also for the road tour. Charles Somerville. a former port of Herbert Gorthell and Mona Kingsley, in “Adam’s Apple.” by Test Dalton, to be produced in New York in about six weeks. Phillp _Moeller, director of Theater Guild, has sailed for Europe to spend some time with Lenormand, whose play, “Les Rates” will be given by the guild next season under the title “The Fallures.” with Jacob Ben Ami in the iead “Mary, the 3ard played its one hundredth and fiftieth performance at the Thirty-ninth Street Theater, New York, last Wednesday night and still going strong “Kempy" has been producsd suc- cessfully in China T. Daniel Fraw- ley, who is managing the players in the Orlent, cabled last week to friends in New York that it most popular play in their repertoire. S. Jay Kaufman has written a play- let. “A Lesson for Wives,” which will be presented for the first time on the Keith circuit this week in New York. Pansy Maness, the “Follies” girl who was nearly drowned in the swim- ming pool at Palisades Park, York. last week, has recovered and returned to her station in the Zieg- feld line. The preliminary season of the Bon- stelle Stock Company, in New York, has not proved the success expected and will close this week with “Call The regular season of dara- | matie critic, will appear in the sup- | the | s the | New | Wanted Furs Like Other Stars AURENCE TRIMBLE, who is di- recting “The Phantom Pack,” Strongheart’s next picture, uses & valuable silver fox fur in his ple- ture. It is supposed to be stolen in the story. During the filming of scenes, the fur really disappeared and the plc- ture was held up while a frantic search was made of the entire studio. When hope was almost abandoned Trimble walked over to tell his troubles to his pal, Strongheart. There, wagging his tail proudly over his bride, Lady Jule, and their five pupples, the royaity of dogdom, stood the wonder dog on guard over his sleeping family. And there also was the silver fox fur, a fitting rug for Lady Jule and the pups. Strongheart had ‘“borrowed” the i fur for a bed for his family. A Good Eye Test. FILM inspector in the Chicago Rothacker laboratory lays claim to the movie-sceing marafhon title. After a print is made from a star's | negative it is his job.to project it on a miniature screen to make sure the scenes and titles are in proper order and to watch for fllm defects. He constders viewing forty reels, or 40.- 000 feet, a fair day's work. In his twelve vears as inspector he figures he has seen 150,000,000 feet of movies. In point of service he is the oldest inspector in the business—and does not wear glasses Current Attractions IN THE SPOTLIGHT. this organization will start early in | the fall. | The Frohman company will produce | early next season the Budapest suc- | cess, “Four Men in Dress Clothes, | by Ladislas Lakatos. | “Sweet Nell of Old Drury,” now showing at the Forty-eighth Street Theater, New York, will continue its | run, originally announced for four weeks, until the end of June. | roline” will be re-opened in | Philadelphia on Labor day. Edward | Do Laney Dunn, the young author, gave a farewell party on the stage of the Ambassador ~Theater. New York. just before sailing for Europe. Maude, who is_appearing In | New York in “Aren't We All?" has | received a letter from Frederick Lonsdale, iondon, author of his new starring vehicle, saying he expects to | visit America in July. Cyril Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Gould- ing have completed a play called “Dancing Mothers,” which will be seen for the first time in New York early in the autumn. The Casino Theater, the new B. F. Keith vaudeville house on the board- | walk at Long Branch, will open next Thursday night. Edwin Milton Royle's new drama, “The Conqueror.” will be given its }flrbl presentation tomorrow night in | Pittsburgh. The author’'s two daugh- ters, Selena and Josephine, will have the principal role ; ! Ethel Barrymore. who opens her summer vaudeville tour as the head- | liner at Keith’s this week comes di- | rect from an all-star revival of | Sheridan's “The School for Scandal,” in which she played the role of Lady | Teazle. Char! Dillingham _ will present John Galsworthy's ‘“Loyalties” on tour during the coming season, ac- cording _to an announcement made in | New York—'Loyalties” will visit about thirty representative Ameri- can cities during its second season, which begins Labor Day. It is re- garded as the most successful of the | Galsworthy plays. Movie Catastrophies. HU\\‘ the producers of photopla manage to secure photographic records of cataclysmic disturbances for camera dramas has long been a source of mystery to the layman It stands to reason that film di- rectors, workers of magic that they are, cannot at will command a devas- tating flood, & consuming conflagra- tlon or a terrific storm at sea. Yet all these appear regularly on the screen and lend tense melodramatio interest to photoplays that would be pointless, more or less, without them. Giant dams bursting and setting free vast volumes of water, railroad trestles belng washed away by vio- lent torrents pouring down out of the mountains into the valley be- neath, and even real forest fires, have in some of these mensational picture dramas. Eplsodes of this character, which have come to be one of the essentials of picture making. have served to create a new occupation followed largely by women, known as “dis- aster scouts.” Thomas H. Ince was the first to appoint such an oper- ative as a permanent membér of his organization. : Several months ago Ince realized that he needed some one to keep him constantly posted as to the pictorial possibilities of the happenings of the A clever newspaper womian was secured to scan the newspapers of the country for announcement of events that might be worked up into feature thrills. By means of a tele- phone, telegraph,” radlo and news- paper clipping bureau this woman Is Kept informed of all sporting events, fires, impending floods and other things that portend disaster. | If she learns that a certain town is threatened by flood she immediately | communiotates the fact to the Ince executive staff, and if the town ls | not too far distant a corps of expert photographers and technical men is dispatched by motor car to film the | most_exciting _action that develops. | The photographic record is then filed for future use and becomes valuable “library stuff,” available for instant use. | During the filming of “Scars of Jealousy” the script called for a great forest fire. “Shooting” had been de- layed for a considerable period, when Glen Echo. AW, Glen Echo during cool weatMer the public is finding the large ballroom and other amusements enjoyable. Special announcement is made that Monday and Tuesday ladies will be admitted to the ballroom free from § to 8 o'clock and all who enter on either of these two evenings up to 9 o'clock will be presented with a souvenir by the management. Danc- ing will run from 8 to 11:30 o'clock, :vlth music by the Glen Echo Orches- ra. . The derby racer and the coaster dip vie for popularity in the matter of thrills, and the “skooter” affords pleasure for the onlookers as well as the riders. Chevy Chase Lake. Attractions at Chevy Chase La will be augmented next Wednesda: night by eccentric dancing by “Jerry Ripp, a local amateur, who will dance on_the lower pavilion at 10:20 p.m. and will perform on the upper pavilion at 10:40 p.m. | the c and the delight- rustic here of the lake will be other magnets in drawing the crowds. Steamer St. Johns. Week-end trips of the steamer St. John to Colonfal Beach are made from the Tth street wharf every Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and Sunday morning at 9 o The return to the city GREAT actresses, it is clalmed, even | if they are enjoying success in| strong, interesting plays on Broad- way often feel a bit like kicking over | the traces and invading the two-a-| |day. They seek to test their popu-| |1arity with the masses instead of with/ a chosen few | Ethel Barrymore, the dramatic star. | it is sald, can remain in the so-called legitimate theater just so long, and then, obedient to a mood, swings into eith vaudeville for a few month: Coming A POLI'S—"The Breaking Point.” “The Breaking Point.” Mary Rob- erts Rinehart's great story, with a long cast of Broadway favorites, will | make its bow at Poli's Theater next week, beginning Monday under the management of V and Kempe “The Breaking Point" is decl something new in the way of It is a stralghtforward tale ) Rinehart has to tell. She has chosen the persons of her story with one eye to the interesting and the other to| the unusual. They are real, living characters but not stereotvped or drab. The men are of the full-| | blooded American type. who have | made America what it is. And the| women are as skilled in the feminine | arts as the men in the masculine intrigues. So much and no more is| vouchsafed at this time. The cast includes McKay Morris, Jane Houston, Regina Wailace, Fred- erick Burton, Zeffle Tilbury, Stephen Maley. Lucille Sears, Robert Barratt, Robert Vaughn, John Morrisey. Marie Valray and Maurice Darey. 1 KEITH'S—“Throne of chor | The Keith bill for next week will | bring to Washington a double head- liner _that includes Allan Rogers and Leonora Allen, noted singers agenhals Terpsi- AMUSEMENTS IN THE OPEN made about 11 o'clock Sunday even- Ing. At the beach salt-water bath- ing, fishing, crabbing and sailing are featured, with the large dancing pa vilion located over the water. __From Monday through Friday even- ings the steamer makes forty-mile moonlight trips, with a jazz orches tra to furnish musi Chesapea—ke— Beach. The full summer schedule of trains is now in effect to Chesapeake Beach Washington's nearby salt-water re sort. Week-end trips have a par- ticular lure. Autoists are taking ad- vantage of the excellent roads, whic afford a ‘delightful ride of just forty miles. An orchestra furnishes snappy music for free dancing, and fish are said to be still biting off the ne: balf-mile pier, while the dancing waves invite the bathers. In Amusement Wonderland thera Is a giant derby racer that speeds uphill and down over the water. All the amusements are built over the water Great Falls Park. It is a pleasant ride to Great Falls Park on the electric trains that leave 36th and M Streets northwest at fre quent intervals, daily and Sunday The attractions at the pa are varied, almost every form of outdoor recreation being ~ avallable. Fr dancing on week days and free cor certs on are featured Swings, slidin nd sand pits are provided for the children Do Vaudeville Why Actresses usually in the heat of summer It means, of course, a change of scene new andiences and new admirers. As Miss Barrymore puts it: "It is fine to see all of the theater, not half of it. And it is fine, too, to find ou just how far one has developed over a period of months. Staving in one rut in the theater tends to make one narrow, self-centered and egotistical That's why I try to get ba vaudeville every vear. It is a glori- ous adventure from which I inv: arn much that T ought to kno ch that will aid me in know ltractions dancers by Al and Fleeson Tarpsichore.” The will_be Henry Stod- and his famous or- 1z the program ition to the regu- jal features. William star, with ill_and “Uns" Miles the Bel- aud Parker and the Sew supreme, in bert von Tilz “The Throne o dded attraction dard. the planist chestr: Complet there will be, in ac lar Keith a Zian w in “Don’'t Ma and Scenes.” " claimed to ba hest class mus- d the program or next week . It fantasy in three a quintet of vocalists Olga Boehm and Harold one o ical at the is a pretentious scenes with featuring Maxwell Others will be Jim and Betty Page, “Two Pages of Comedy”; I Barry and N Melange of Variet Keyo, in “Oriental Pastim another act to be announ The photoplay will b Woman." A feature is presented by Miss Grace Haskins, the youngest female producer in the motion picturs field, with M erite De Motte, George Fawcett and Ralph Graves ap- bearing in the leading roles ison Bits’ Plays That Earned Fortunes. ]ONLY once in a blue mocn is a play | produced that takes the country | by storm and makes the producer wealthy. ' To recall phenomenal suc- | ccsses during the past decade, how- | ever, is not difficult. | ‘There are probably some theater- |Boers who may remember ‘“‘Hazel Rirke,” which made the Mallorys | wealthy_and brought their Madison | Square Theater in New York promi- | nently before the entire country. Looking backward only a few | years, it is easy to call Lo mind “The {Bat,”” “Lightnin’,” ““Friendly Ene- | | mies,” “Turn to the Right,” “The | the “disaster soout” learned that the | United States forestry service was {about to clear a wide area of dead- | wood and scrub growth timber. The |company was rushed to the scene |and, with the aid of 2,500 gallons of | kerosene ofl and gasoline, a great |forest fire such as the scenario re- quired was speedily promoted. | Many startling climaxes which the piotures have revealed have been | traceable “directly to the yigilance !and discernment of the ‘“disaster |scout.” This is a new type of work, | but one to which the feminine mind is said to be peculiarly and intui- tively adapted Russian Princess In Movieland ,RINCESS VALDEMAR, Russian ref- ugee, who has suffered more in her twenty vears than most persons of sixty, has found peace at last in Los Angeles, where the beautiful aristocrat is now appearing in mo- tion pictures. Her father executed before her eves, Her mother thrown from a prison window to die while she watched. Her husband of two hours hurried away to service in the navy to be drowned before she ever saw him again. Arrested with her moth- er and brother by her father, a Cos- sack colonel, and imprisoned in Si- beria. Released, half-clad, from pris- on to wander through the snow to a railroad station. Penniless, alone, in three years of wandering through Russia and the Orient. This, in brief, is the story of Prin- cess Valdemar, gifted. it is’said, with marvelous grace and beauty, the heritage of a long line of aristocratic forebears, who soon will be seen on the screens of America in Maurice Tourneur’s. “The Brass Bottle.” - “Her mother was a political revolu- tionist; her father a colonel of a Cossack regiment of the imperial guard. Early in the world war the family was broken up by the arrest of her mother and herself by her father. Her husband, Prince Valde- mar Valkonsky, had been drowned but a few weeks before. Then her father joined her, converted to the cause of the revolution, Horror stricken, she was compelled to watch his execution. Two months later she escaped, bribing the guards of her prison with jewels and clothes until she was left nearly naked. Undaunted, she trudged a score of miles through the snow. Friendly hands smuggled her to Viadivostok. There she obtained an engagement with a Russian grand opera company as a dancer. The en- gagement was short lived and she was compelled to wander alone best she could, finally reaching Ame: ica_and Los Angeles. Through friends she met Mr. Tour- neur, the French director. Her work has ‘been found highly eatisfactory and a bright movie future is predicte for her. . Happy Though Married ACK PICKFORD and Marilynn Mil- ler, his bride of almost a year, are today cozily settled in a Hollywood bungalow for the summer. Miss Miller arrived in the film colony recently, following the closing of “Sally,” the Ziegfeld musical show in which she has been starring for several years. She expects to remain in the west until the new Ziegfeld show Is ready for rehearsal. “Much to my regret” said Miss Miller. “I will be unable to make a film while on the coast. I had hoped to co-star with Jack in one picture production this summ: but the terms of my new Ziegfeld contract prohibit my appearance on the screen.” v Fortune Hunter.” further backward, in P a The Music Mas- er,” “*Way Down East,” “The Pit “In Old Kentucky he Old Home stead,” “The Count of Monte Cristo.” which made a fortune for James O'Neil, and Joseph Jefferson's “Rip n Winkle." Now, it claimed, Channing Pollock's play, is likely to fall into this class. Only a few thou- sand dollars, it is said, were required to put It on the stage. It was pro- duced and backed by the Selwyns with all of thelr resources In moncy and theaters. They believed in it Al"nd"vterc prepared to back it to the tm Paid “The Fool.” The Inherent Power of Virtue 'HE strong and irresistible under- current of uplift that has been | running its course in the photoplay | world for some time, showing here | and there effects in the lessening of the number of objectionable pictures, 18 now manifesting itself in unmis- takable efforts, quite as sporadic, to {build up really better pictures. That is to say, an effort, rare in many vears, to constructively contribute to the betterment of the world, is being shown in many pictures of late issue. | There are very few photoplays of the quality and type of “The Miracle | Man.” There have been many to borrow success by imitati the pictures themseives have lacked the ~iInherent virtues of George Loane Tucker's famous picture, which not only directed the thought and | heart aright and gave opportunities for winning fame to its players, but which was withal excellent entertain- ment, the kind that grips and holds a | large audience and makes the people | |and is attracting wide attention. | and 'love for his fellow man, feel afterward they have bren entertained as well as taught a good moral lesson LA plcture that resembles George Loane Tucker picture, “The Miracle Man,” has recently been re- leased from the William Fox studio 1t Madness of Youth'™ @ promising young that the is called “The and John Gilbert actor, 1s its star. Its striking virtue is a remarkable lesson, and that lesson is that virtue will win its way and exert an irre- sistible force of itself, just as much 0 as evil. if given but half a chance. “The Madness of Youth” is a unique crook story, in which a young man, by assuming the virtues of piety sought to gain access to a household in order to steal a valuable collection of jew- els. It Is excellent entertainment thiroughout, but its wonderful climax in which the young thief finds him- self_conquered by the very virtures he had assumed, is its outstanding feature. The picture is on exhibition in this city tms week. Has Big War Scenes. I¥_Enemies of Women," Vicente| Blasco Ibanez’s romance, although | not the dominant factor, the world | war itself Is woven through the story | and many of the scenes in the plcture | reveal the patriotic fervor of the gay | boulevardiers as they swarmed to the | protection of La Belle France. Paris, Nice and Monte Carlo all be- ing locations for “Enemies of Wom- en” tha Cosmopolitan Corperation sent the entire company making the | plcture to Europe fur six weeks. Of | | these two weeks were spent in Par during which many Parlsians relived ! the days when the war cloud settled over Europe. In order to get the proper atmos- phere, Director Alan Crosiand sent out a call for hundreds of “extras” to appear in the Paris street scenes. In- cluded among those who responded were acores who had seen service dur- ing the more than four years of war, bringing with them the uniforms which distinguished the French troops in the early days of the war. Mobilizatlon bulletins were posted and scenes “shot” around the most fa- mous places in Paris, including the Champs Elysec, the Bois du Bologne and the world famous Montmartre. “Enemies of Won is sald to con- tain the most st ing “shots” ever made of Paris. It Is also embellished with the natural scen:c beauty of the plcturesque Riviera and gives Amey- fcans a new “close-up” of Monte Cari and its ino. BT Mr, and Xrs. Charlot left New York for London last week. after spending two weeks in the big city. They will veturn in December with their “Lon- don Revue of 1924 which the Sel- wyns have contracted to present on New Year's Eve. Gertrude:Lawrence and Beatrice Lillie will head the com- pany, which Js now playing success- fully' in the British capital.