Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1923, Page 61

AMUS EMENTS. ements [IA ql PHOTOPLAY AT THE PHOTOPLAY COLUMBIA—“Only 38, screen own this afternoon. METROPOLITAN—"Scars of Jeal Shown this afternoon: PALACE—"Fog Bound,” featuring Dorothy Dalton. afternoon. RIALTO—"Enemies of Shown this afternoon. COSMOS—"“The Madness Shown this afternoon. ‘Women, of Youth,” HOUSES THIS WEEK. version of A. E. Thomas’ play. lousy,” a Thomas H. Ince picture. Shown this featuring Lionel Barrymore. featuring John Gilbert. CENTRAL—"What's Wrong With the Women.” Shown this after- noon. . CRANDALL'S—“You Can't Fool noon. F all the world really feels in the “to see oursel’s as others see us," Your Wife.” Shown this after- mood of Bobby Burns in the desire " why may not a thought in the way of constructive suggestion to some of our local photoplay houses be in order? Warm weather taxes iolks cross, and, as misery loves col other folks uncomfortable as well. the Treasury Department down, sa some dispositions sorely. It makes mpany, they seem to want to make A walk the length of F strect, from to 9th street, almost any warm after- noon or evening, will provide a sight that is calculated to ruffle the com- vosure of the most serenc. It is the picture of great crowds of warm and weary people, often of very tired-looking women, waiting patiently, like n one or another of the theaters to! it is perfectly obvious that when the ' herded sheep, for a chance to get i see its photoplay attractions. Now demand for seats overtaxes the cap: and wait. But isn’t it possible to d acity, somebody has to stay outside evise some system whereby patrons may purchase their seats in advance so that when they arrive at the theater they may at once be admitt congestion now so often observable. ed to them, thus avoiding the pitiful For instanc ts might be issued for the performance at a certain hour, and at that hour be available to | the holder, who need not appear at the theater beiore that hour. would be an casy matter to stamp sold. This method ought to help. coming in late and then lapping ov would also prevent some who, to g two or more showings of a picture, —2 who now have to wait an hour or then, perhaps, to stand until a chance offers for a seat. It the hour upon the ticket when it is True, it would prevent persons from er for the second exhibition, and it et their money's worth, sit through but it would be a blessing to those more in order to get in the theater, It might help also considerably in increasing the patronage of those theaters that adopted the practice, for doubtless there are many now who do not go to photoplay theaters solely on account of what has been herein stated. W. H. L. Photoplays This Week METROPOLITAN—*Scars of Jealousy.” The Crandall theory that it is fully as possible to provide screen enter- tainment of the highest type during the summer as at the height of the regular theatrical season, it is an- nounced, will be borne out by the premiers presentation this afternoon of a triple-feature program arranged for the current week at the Metro- politan Theate. The foremost feature will be Thomas H. Ince’s drama of the Cajan of the Alabama hills, who proved that he inherited the stal- wart_manliness of the best blood of old Franc 1d the young southern istoy who proved himseif ne, §e until regenerated by despie-d Biilsman. It s released A First National attraction, the title of “Scars of Jealous auxiliary film offering will be tor Keaton's new two-reel Fi tional comedy. “The Love Nest' tale of the bounding main, in which Buster invites the captain to haul in a whale and thereby starts more than he can finish. The third attrac- tlon will be the debut of Daniel Breeskin as solo violinist at the Metropolitan, in a two-part num- ber comprised of “Canzonetta,” by, Ambrosio and “Serenade,” by Drigo. with piano accompaniment for the first number; harp for the first move- ment of the second and muted orchestra | for the closing. In addition the bill will include the Metropolitan World Survey, a beauti- | ful scenic subject and a specially ar- | ranged overture, “Songs of the Pa by the Metropolitan Orchestra of thirty. COLUMBIA—“Only 38.” For the first time in Washington,! ‘William De Mille’s screen version of Mary Rvyan's famous Cort Theater triumph, “Only 38, will be shown at Toew's Columbia Theater this week, beginning this afternoon. = “Only 38" is the play by A. E. Thomas which was based on a short story by Walter Prichard Eaton and| established itself a season ago as one of the outstanding stage hits along Froadway. Mr. De Mille has greatly | broadened the action and interpreted the incidental development of the play with a beauty impossible on the Etage. He has gathered a cast of stellar caliber that includes Lois Wilson in the role Mary Ryan plaved on F(uad—l May MeAv. Elliott Dexte George Fawcelt and Robert Agnew. yaul Dickey, who prepared the sce- narifo, will be remembered the au- thor of “The Broken Wing. “Only 38" reveals the problem that faces a woman of thirty-eight, when her hushand, a narrow-minded minister of the most Puritan ty dles and leaves her with two children, | nearly grown. and a new love for a college prafessor. looms in sight. A new Christic comedy, Circus Pals”; an Urban scenlc subject, “Si ver Salmon Fishing”: the Interna tional News and overture by the Co- jumbla Orchestra, under Leon Brusi- Jof, will be added feature: RIALTO—"Enemies of Women.” “Enemies f Women,” the Cosmo- politan-Goldwyn production of the Vicente Blasco Ibanez story, with Lionel Barrymore and Alma Reubens I 1 Richardson, William Ella Miller, Willard David and Warren Steamship;" the Pathe News pictures, the Topics of the Day and overture | by the Palace Orchestra, under Thomas Joseph Gannon, will be added attractions 8 { | CENTRAL—"What's Wrong With the Women?" | _“What's Wrong With the Women?* Daniel Carson Goodman's film on the | ubiquitous fapper and the craze for ijazz, will e presented for the Arst jtime in Wy hington, the first four days of tnls, week, beginning afternoon, at Crandall's Central Thea- 1. together No. 8 of the Fighting Blood,” two-reelers, based on stories by H' C. Witwer and fea- turing George O'Hara and Clara Hor- ton. Added will be the kinograms and pipe organ recitals by W. E. Thomp- son. “What's Wrong With the Wom- en?” is gorgeously staged and_its cast includes Wilton Lackaye, Bar- bara Castieton, Rod La Rocque, Hunt- ley Gordon. Montagu_ Love, Mrs. Dq Wolf Hopper, Paul McAllister, for~ mer Washington stock favorite, Ju- lia Swayne Gordon, Baby Helen Row- land and Constance Bennett. “Fight- ing Blood" traces another chapter in the life of the young pugilist in order to consummate a lilting romance with the belle of the town, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Harold Lioyd's seven-reel nerv wrecker, “Safety Last” will be shown, together with the Pathe Re- view and pictured news events. CRANDALL'S—"You Can't Fool Your Wife.” Leatrice Joy, Lewls Stone, Nita Naldi, Pauline Garon, Paul McAllister, Julia 'Swayne Gordon and Tom Carri- gan are pictured in Paramount's pro- duction of “You Can't Fool Your Wife,” the feature for the first three days this week at Crandall's Theater. The story is one of domestic mis- understanding and intrigue, approach- ed from an entirely new angle. Harry Pollard in Hal Roach’s latest laugh- maker, “Before the Public,” short reel features and pipe organ accom- paniment will complete the bill Wednesday and Thursday, Norma Talmadge will be pictured in Se- lect’s production, “The Secret of the torm Country,” as the belle of a squatter village on the shores of Lake Cayuga, who clandestinely mar: ries a young_divinity student. Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven will supply the comed: “Borrowed Trouble,” and Saturday, ~Gladys Wal- ton, as a daring young telephone ope- rator, will be the pictured star in Universal's new release, “Crossed Wires,” supplemented by Johnny Jones, in “Supply and Demand. COSMOS—John Gilbert in “The Madness of Youth.” A unique touch is given what is commonly called the “crook play” in the new Wllliam Fox production, “The Madness of Youth” in which John Gilbert is the star, with charm- ing Billle Dove as his chief support, and which will be shown at the Cos: mos Theater this week, together with supplementary features, including a farce-comedy, the Urban Movie Chats, in the leading roles, will open its second week at Moore's Rialto The- ater today. Alan Crosland was the director. and Joseph Urban designed the settings, while many of its scenes were taken In Monte Carlo, Nice and Pa It is a gorgeous production not surpassed, it is claimed, even by “When Knighthood Was in Flower.” 1t is a drama of regeneration of man and woman, laid in the back- ground of Russian high soclety life ind shifting to Monte Carlo and thence to Paris. 1ts cast includes Pedro de Cordoba, Willlam (Buster) Collior. jr.; Gareth Hughes. Paul Panzer. W. T. Thomp- iladys Hulette ‘and Marlo i1l be made today promptly at . 5. 7 and 9 p.m., and during the week at 11 am. and 1, 3, 5. 7 and 9 p.n., with an interpretive orchestra score. PALACE—"Fog-Bound.” Dorothy Dalton will be the star at leading educational features, and the International News pictures, with ‘music by an enlarged orchestra. To carry out his design of stealing a valuable collection of jewels, Jaca Javalle, a mere youth, assumes the character of a plous, gentle and high principled young man, almost fanati- cal in his desire to do good. By this means he gains access to the home of their owner, a man whose family is torn with dissension. and his influ- ence works a marvelous change, even reforming a girl crook who aiso was in pursuit of the jewels and who had been his former partner in crime. He secures the combination to the safe in which the jewels are deposited and, after three years of planning and’ the most careful work, just as the treasure is within his grasp. something happens to give not only the story but his own destiny a miraculous twist—he finds himself conquered by the virtue which he had assumed. It {s a most unusual story and it is told upon the screen with all the art Loew’s Palace Theater this weex be- ginning this afternoon in “Fog- Bound.” her latest Paramount proe- duction. “Fog-Bound” Is based on a maga: zine story by Jack Bechdolt of the emotional crisis that confronted a beautiful girl when ehe made the dis- covery that the man she loved and had protected from the pursuing minions of the law was the man who was suppoted to have killed her father in & revenue raid on a Florida 4nn. The manner in which the girl uncovers the real truth of her father's death and exonerates thc man she Joves makes interesting entertain- ment. It features beautiful outdoors Hettings In Florida, showing soclety at its revels. It was directed by the noted Irvin “wWillat, and {ts cast includes David Powell, Martha Mansfield, _former “Follies” beauty; Maurica Costello, of stage settings and photography by a cast which includes, In_addition to . Gllbert and Miss Dove, Ruth Bovd, Donald Hatswell, George K. Arthur, Wilton Taylor, Luke Lucas and Dorothy Manners. The plcture was directed by Jerome Storm from a scenario of George F. Worts' maga- zine story by Joseph Franklin Poland. American. Today and tomorrow, “My American Wife”; Tuesday “Missing Million: Wednésday, “The Stranger's B quet” Thursda ‘Java Head"; Fri- day, “A Noise in Newboro”; Saturday, “Dark Secrets.” Apollo. Today and tomorrow, ‘“Fou Cai Fool Your Wife,” and “Roll Alon Tuesday. and..Wednesday. “The Go- Getter” Thursday and-Friday, “Soul “Roaring Lions on a | this | Lois WiLson Columbia RUBENS Raalto sees the completion of four of the season’s ambitious productions. The last shots will be taken of Norma Talmadge's feature made from the novel “Ashes of which is tentatively called Pride.” This will be a ten-reel cos- tume play of the time of Catherine de’Medici. At Universal C v the cameras have work on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Final shots have been made of Mary Plckford’s “The Street Singer, I hor first big picture under the direc- tion of Ernest Lubitsch. And out at United, photography has | been wound up on Constance Tal- madge's_“Duley."” Miss Pickford's next feature will be “Dorothy Vernon of Hadden Hall," with Lubitsch directing. Conway Tearle, who plays the lead for Norma Talmadge in “Purple Pride,” will re- | ume work in a fortnight opposite Constance Talmadge in “The Dan- gerous Maid” a film sion of “Barbara Winslow, Rebel” Norma Talmadge will begin work within a few ks upon “‘Rose of All the World” & film built on a South American novel called “Dust of De- sire.” talled production program which will rest of this year. There will be eighteen Warner Brothers films made under the costly program. Of these “Tiger Rose,” “The Gold Diggers” and “Deburau,” already announced, will be filmed’ under the personal super- vision of David Belasco. Other features on the schedule are George M. Cohan's “Little Johnny Jones;” a Wesley Barry feature as yet unnamed, Owen Davis' “Broad- way After Dark,” which will co-star Marie Prevost and Monte Blue; Eli- nore Glynn's “How to Educate a Wife a film version of the stage play ‘ornered,” Kathleen Norris' “Lucretia Lombard;” Grace F. Lan- drau's “Being Respectable,” Harriet T. Comstock's “The Tenth Woman," John Hobble's “Daddies,” John Bar- rymore in the Clyde Fitch version of “Beau Brummel,’ Sinclair Lewls’ ‘Babbitt,” Edith Wharton's “Age of For Sale” and “The Watchdog” Saturday, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” and “A Hula Honeymoon.” Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow, “The Go-Get- ter”; Tuesday. and Wedneaday, Can’t Fool your Wire,” and Along”; Thursday, “Why Women Re- Marry,” and “Wintér Has Came”; Fr! dey, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” and “Fighting Blood,” Round 8. Baturday, “Masters of Men,"” and “The Watchdog.” Carolina. Today and tomorrow, Norma Tal- madge, in “Within the Law"”; Tues- day and Wednesday, Allen Holubar’s “Broken Chains”; Thursday and BT day, “Down to the Sea in Ships” Saturday, Pola Negri, in “Mad Love, also Pathe News and Aesop's Fable: Chevy Chase. Today, “The Leopardess,” “Rob 'Em Good,” and Urban Movie Chats; to- morrow and Tuesday, “The Prodigal Daughter” “Hot Water” and Inter- N Wednesday and Dangerous Age.” “Fightin No. 5, and Inter- ional News; Friday, “Single Hand- “For Art's Bake,” and. “Orego No. 14; Saturday ohe Impertect Lover,” and “Plunder, No. g Latest Gossip From Hollywood By HALLETT ABEND. LOS ANGELES, June 8.—This week Vengeance,” | “Purple stopped grinding_after five months' | Warner Brothers announce a de- | entail an outlay of $5,500,000 for the | DoroTHY DALTON Palace Innocence.” Clyde Fitch's “Lovers’ Lane” and Pearl Keating’s “An Un- loved Wife.” Rupert Hughes, novelist, who is writing and_directing for Goldwyn's, has returned from New York and is busy prepari a_seript for “Law | Against Law a feature film to be! based upon the conflict of the divorce | laws of different states. | George Arthur, the Britisher who | co-starred with Mae Marsh in several | |films made in England. has begun | | work at the Powers' studio in “Life Liberty and- » The Chester M. Franklin film ver- sion of “Wolf Fangs," just completed jat Warner Brothers lot, has been re- |named and will be released as “Beasts | of the North.”" | Alfred Austin has been signed by |Lou Anger to direct the series of | Clyde Cook comedies. Hereafter there will be only four Individuals starred in thelr own pro- ductions by Famous Players-Lasky. There will be Pola Negri, Gloria | Swanson, Thomas Meighan and Doug- las Fairbanks, jr. All other Lasky stars will be used in all-star casts under the new Paramount production {program, which calls for fitty-two fea- ture films a year instead of eighty- four program productions. | There are rumors that Gloria Swan- | son is considering a fat contract with Tru-art, but she says she has no in- tention ‘of leaving Laskys. Thomas Meighan denies reports | that he is to give up acting and di- | rect. . Ruth Roland has returned from a | trip to the east and south. Frank Keenan has arrived after a season in stage plays in the east. | Bull Montana in “One Wild Day” | | has a supporting cast which includes Vera Stedman, Jimmie _Clemons, Florence Gilbert and Laura La Vernie. Viola Dana's next Metro releas will be called “The Girl Who Dared." Baby Pegggy will start work soon in Frances =~ Hodgson Burnett's "Editha’s Burglar’ at Universal. Norma Kerry, Claire Windsor and Richard Travers will have the main parts in “The Acquittal.” Chuck Relsner has been signed by Universal for a series of one-reel comedies. yrtle Stedman has been signed for the next Frank Borzage production. She will play opposite Frederick Truesdell. (Copsright, 1028, in United Gtates and Great Britata, By Notth Ameriag AT = Sy e All rights Circle. Tuesday, “The Leopardess’ nesday, “Over the "Hil and Friday, “Monte Cristo’ “School Days.” Dumbarton. “Stranger's Banque ‘Conquering Woman day, and Wednesday, “The Christian"’; Thursday and Friday, “Within the Law"; Saturday “Stepping Fast.” Elite. \ Today and tomorrow, “A Comnec- ticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Cour Tuesday, “As a Man Lives”; day, “The Nth Commandmen Thursday, “The Stranger's Banque Friday, “The White Flower"; Satur: | day, “Brass Commandments. Favorite. Todey, “Hunting Big Game in Africa”; tomorrow. “Her Only Way” Tuesday, “The Buster” Wednesday, “The Fiirt”; Thursday, “The Midnight t"; Friday, “Poor Men's Wives"; Saturday, “Crashin’ Thru.” Hippodrome. "Today and tomorrow, “Down to the |*“The Nth ' AMUSEMENTS. ] “The Ten Commandments’ Cecil B. De Mille BY HALLETT ABEND. LOS ANGELES, June 8.—When I boarded the train bound for Camp De Mille, near Guadalupe, I knew I wi going to watch Cecil B. De Mille at his work of directing a feature film called “The Ten Commandments.” I knew I was bound for a desert coun- try, with 2,600 actors and extra peo- ple encamped there, and that 4,000 animals were used in the-big spec- tacular scenes. Plety had not been a pronounced characteristic of any camp of motion- plcture people or location that I had over visited, so as the train rolled northward I thought up some sen- tences about plucking flgs from thisties. Instead of hosannas I counted on hearing jazz. The thun- ders of Sinal, I felt sure, would find a ‘clicking modern substitute in the roll of dice after every dinner hour. The first surprise was the desert itself. The site chosen for the big sets showing the city of Rameses where the Jews were held in subjec- tion by the Egyptians is at the very mouth™ of the Santa Marfa valley. Inland lfe the green and fertile fields, but for a stretch of two miles near the sea, beach sands have been blown and drifted into great barren vellow hills which roll and dip gradually toward the ocean. But this desert, instead of being hot, is swept day and night by cold winds from the sea. There is much fog 2nd lfttle sunshine and when the wind sweeps across the sand at fifty miles an hour the coarse sand sweeps with It a knee-high cloud that stings and bites bare legs and sandaled feet. On the crest of the highest sand hill is the big Egyptian set built for “The Ten Commandments,” a set about two and a half city blocks in length and 160 feet high, showing the walls and maln gate to the treasure city of Rameses. Sphinxes Line Approach. The approach to the city is a wide avenue flanked by twenty-four im- Lioyp HucHEs Metropolitan mense sphinxes. From baiconles gay : tapestries are flung to the winds. Over the tops of the lower walls show the fronds of tall palm trees. When i this set is shown upon the screen it will seem to shimmer under the heat of the valley of the Nile, and the theater patrons will not suspect that the actors whom they see bareheaded, bare of leg and arm, were wrapped shivering in Army blankets and bath robes until the moment when the trumpets sounded for the camera to start grinding. When I arrived late in the after- noon I did not go at once to the tent city where the immense company lives. Instead I was taken to the edge of the sand belt and there boarded a sand sleigh. Automobiles are useless in the desert and even wagons of modern width of wheel sink to the hubs in the sand, so all transportation is in sand sleighs or on the backs of burros or horses. For nearly two miles 1 drove slowly across the desert, the wide runners of the sled making a gritty, sighing little music as we toiled along. Then, at the top of the last rise, at a point where the sand became broken into hummocks and _sloped unevenly to high tide llne, I came upon a screen of humanity and horses, tripods, cameras and scores of large silver mirrors. Edging my way through the throng of assistants and aides who spread out fanwise from Cecil De Mille's place of van- tage, I suddenly obtained an unob- structed view of a memorable sight— the encampment of a people on the march. CrARA KIMBALL YOUNG Strand Next Week's Photoplays. PALACE—"The Snow Bride,” a Paramount picture, featur- ing Alice Brady. RIALTO—"Lost and Found,” written by Carey Wilson; directed by R. A. Walsh. METROPOLITAN—“Wander- ing Daughter NTRAL—"Has the World Gone Mad?” a Daniel Car- son Goodman picture. CRANDALL — Rupert Hughes, “Souls for Sale.” Wishes Tully Luck. rom Sir Gerald Du Maurier, son of the famous novelist and himself a jprominent London actor and proprie- tor of Wyndham's Theater, Richard Walton Tully has received the fol- lowing cablegram: “My warmest good wishes to your- self, the director and the entire cast of “Trilby” for the success of my father's novel on the screen. I am very grateful to you personally for your splendid enthusiasm. With kind- est regards ERALD DU MAURIER.” The Alarm. For nearly half a mile it spread in straggling disarray in all directions, this camp of the Jews beside the Red sea. Tents and camels, men, women and children, sheep and goats and burros and geese and oxen, carts and litters. It seemed to be early morn- ing and the smoke of a hundred BILLIE DOVE [/ Cos'mos* ¥ C ELEASED in April, 1922, the As- soclated Exhibitors’ feature, “Silas Marner,” continues a popular attrac- tion, in heavy demand not only in theaters, but for showings in schools, churches and other non-theatrical in- stitutions. and high schools throughout the country are using it in thelr English literature classes in connection with % the study of the classic. BarBarA CASTLETON Central Sea In Ships”; Tuesday, “Above All Law”; Wednesday, "“The Prisoner’; Thursday, “Bronze Woman": Frida; “The Impossible Mrs. Bellew”; Sai urday, “Don’t Change Your Husband. Danfel Mannix, formerly musical rector at Crandall's Avenue Grand Theater, has taken charge of the music at Crandalls Apollo Garden, being commended for his scores and the proficiency of his orchestra. Nightly concerts are given, weather permitting, beginning one-half hour prior to the first-night showing of the feature picture. The Metropolitan Theater has put on its summer garb of cretonnes, and the orohestra and house attaches have gone into palm beaches. Mrs. Harrlet Hawley Locher, ai- rector of the public service depart- ment of the Crandall theaters, re- turned Tuesday after a week in New York at the Authors' League confer- ence for the betterment of the motion plctures, to which she was a_dele- gate, representing both the Wash- ington branch of the League of American Pen Women, of which she is president, and the Crandall the- sters. While in New York Mrs. Locher had a number of valuable con- ferences with executives of the Will H. Hays organization and others in- terested in the line of work which the Crandall public service and educa- tional department is pioneering. Paul Dickey, the playwright, whose Broadway stage success, “The Brokeh Wing,” was seen here at the National Theater last season. has deserted stage writing for the screen. He is preparing stories for Paramount, his “G! Tully says he feels that no small part of the credit will go to the Younger Du Maurier, whose whole- hearted co-operation has been most valuable, especially during the months of research work conducted by Tully during his recent trip abroad. Not only has Gerald Du Maurier approved of the selection of the young French actress, Andree Lafayette, for the titlerole, but also of the other lead- ing members of the cast, most of whose work was known to him, and of the continuity which Tully has fashioned from his father's novel. Home, Today and tomorrow, “Grumpy”; Tuesday, “The Second Fiddle”; Wed- nesday and Thursday, “Prodigal Daughters”; Friday, “The Man From Glengarry''; Saturday, “Quicksands.” Liberty. Today and tomorrow, “Glimpses of the Moon”; Tuesday, “The Nth Com- and Thurs- irump: ‘Quicksand”; ay, “Soul of the Beast.” Has NO Summer Season THERE 1s no such thing as a “sum- mer season” in the conduct of the Crandall Theaters. The popular be- lief among showmen that entertain- ment values must necessarily slump during the hot months is not subscribed to by Harry M. Crandall and his staff. As an earnest that the quality of the bills at Crandall's Metropolitan The: ter will not be permitted to retro- grade during the heated term, it is announced that bookings already made include James Young’s produc- tion of “Wandering Daughters,’; Strongheart, the dog-star in “‘Brawn of the North”; Katherine MacDonald in “Money, Money, Money”; Douglas MacLean in “A Man of Action"; Allan Holubar's “Slander the Woman,” with Dorothy Phillips; “Penrod and’ Sam a sequel to Tarkington's ‘Penrod,’ With Ben Alexander, Budde Messenger and a cast of kids; Sylvia Breamer and J. Warren Kerrigan in Edwin Carewe’s “Girl of the Golden West"; Constance Talmadge in “Dulcy” and Jackie Coogan in “Circus Days.’ & There_will be no “summer season at the Crandall houses. Had a Sense of Humor. 'T has been often said that Indians have no sense of humor. That ,.however, was shattered as far 0he ouls B. Maver Studlo was concerned_by a little incident that occurred during the making of Reg- inald Barker's picture, “The Master of Woman.” A number of Indians had been se- cured for one of the ploneer street soenes. The assistant director, in 1listing the copper-colored actors for paychecks, came to one big, fellow who_towered above all the dthers— a full-blooded Apache, who responded, “Big Tree” when asked his name. The Indian next to him, & wisened 1ittle shrimp, tightened his blanket about him, glanced up at his neigh- bor, and almost snorted: “Huh, me Litfle Stum da; Baturd: Today, “The Cub Reporter’: to- morrow, “Java Head"; Tuesda; “The Power of a Li Wednesday, “Glimpses of the Moo Thursday, Commandment”; Friday, “Midnight Guest”; Saturday, feature and comedy. ing “Fog-Bound,” the magazine story by Jack Bechdolt. Thomas Joseph Gannon, director of the orchestra at Loew's Palace Theater, will return from New York this evening with a new budget of Broadway musical hits that he has been gathering along the Rialto for the past week. Mr. Gan- non, by the way, is claimed to be the only Washington music director who recelves the complete Paul Whiteman Olympic. Today, “The Ninety and Nine”; to- morrow, “A Front Page Story”; Tues- day, “What Fools Men Are”; Wednes- day and Thursday, “Grumpy”: Fri- day, “The Light in the Dark”; Satur- day, “The Challenge. Princes: Today and tomorrow, Pola Negri, in “Bella Donna”; Tuesday, “The Nth Commandment”; Wednesday, “Poor Men's Wives”; Thursday, Bebe Dan- fels and Nita Naldi, in “Glimpses of the Moon”; Friday and Saturday, “Grumpy.” hits. ‘While Cecil B. De Mille's pecullar forte in photoplay production is color A Star’s Joys. DOROTHY DALTON has ridden horses down mountain sides, swam rivers and been shipwrecked at sea, but never, it is sald, has she experienced such thrills as she did when In the swamps of Florida mak- ing scenes in “Fog Bound." ‘For ten days we wandered around in the swamps néar West Palm Peach,” says Dorothy, “and all the time I was scared to death lest I be bitten by a cotton-mouthed mocca- sin. Talk about thrills! I had plenty of them. Scorpions and bugs of all kinds were around and just be- _|fore we went to take the scenes I was told that two men had dled only & few days before from poisonous | snake bites. T was almost afrald to take a step for fear of stepping on one of the venomous reptiles. If any one ever asks me.what my most thrilling ex- perience in making motion pictures was 1 shall tell them of my ten days in. the Florida swamps.” -Most of the “Fog Bound" scenes were taken along the Loxahatchee river; - twenty-two miles from . West Palm Beach. Raphael. Today and tomorrow, “What a Wife Thursday, “The Prodigal Daugh- “Westbound Lim-~ Today and tomorrow, ‘“The World's Tuesday, “Heroes and ‘Wednesday, Friday, “Making a Man": “The Impossible Mrs. Belle: Savoy. Today and tomorrow, “The G ter”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Can’t_Fool Your Wife” and Along”; Thursday, “Why Women Re- marry”; Friday, “The “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” and “'Fighting Blood,” round 6; Saturday, “Masters of Men” and “The Watchdog. Truxton. Poday and tomorrow, ‘Till We Meet Again”; Tuesday, “The Bl -af the Ozarks”; Wednesday and Thursday, “Forsaking “Skin Deep’ Saturday, “The Tents of Allah”; Saturday, ‘De-: termination.” York. Today and tomerrow, Harold Lioye. i oBitety Last: Tuesday and Wednesday, Thomas Meighan, in “The Ne'er Do Well"; Thursday, Pola “Mad Lo and Buster “‘Day._+Dreams” Friday nd Limited” and “The turday, Viola, Dana, in Newboro,”-and “Babl | Many colleges, academies | latest piece of continuity writing be- | orchestrations of new Broadway music | 's Screen Version small fires rose from before the many tents as the women busied themselves with the preparation of food. It was a happy camp, the camp of a liber- ated people bound for their homeland. Here and there a lookout lounged. Then, while the whole colorful scene was fresh to my eves, quick action began. Two of the lookouts discovered the advancing war chari- ots of the Egyptians, for Pharaoh had broken his promise and had sent his army in purusit of the Jews. At once the camp was in wild confusion. Archers dashed to posts of vantage and_waited, bows drawn. Screaming mothers sought their children; sheep, goats, camels and cattle charged hers and there and trampled tents and the inmates, while frantic men and women cried for Moses to lead and advise and command. In the prologue to the De Mille production the biblical story will be followed with fidelity through the days of wandering in the wildernees. Moses will receive the ten com- mandments and will then destroy the golden calf, which the faint-hearted, led by Aaron, have set up to worship. The golden calf is dissolved into dust and as the dust settles the camera: will fade in upon the opening scene of the modern sequence of the play, an American mother in San Fran- cisco reading the Ten Commandments to her two sons. Moses Based om Painting. And then Moses strode across the sands and climbed the rock—a truly patriarchial Moses, who bore a strik- ing resemblance to the Moses whom Sargent has made famous in olls. It was Theodore Roberts, garbed and made up after the Sargent painting. Detached, statuesque he stood with folded arms, looking out across the water—brooding, it seemed, upon the fate of his people. A crowd gathered around the rock. Old men and striplings, mothers with babes in their arms; grandmothers with wrin- kled shrunken faces and stringy white hair were jostled by strong voung men who had come to revile Moses for having led them into a trap. Aaron, the doubter, pushed his way through the supplicants and pointed to a distant hill down which Pharaoh's chariots were rusing in vengeful pursult. The women walled while the waves washed higher. Just then the clouds cleared. It was almost sunset and the nearly level rays of the sun made a halo around the figure of the prophet, gave a atartling radiance to his face. He looked down on the throng with pity . and human sympathy, ignored the rantings of Aaron. gave one scorn- . ful glance at the advancing Egyptians | and then raised his arms in a prayen of faith. One rock fs thrown. then another. then a hail of them filis the alr. Tha prophet is being stoned—but still he Pravs. The miracle happens then. The pil- lar of fire cuts off the paths down which the Egyptians are coming.[ Moses opens his eves, and with a look." of thankfulness and pride and faith justified. turns to lead his peopls” dry-shod across the bed of the sea, A Scene the Camera Misses. = But still the men and women kneel in the sand praying even while the incoming tide sends a wave over their feet and knees. And it is mot all acting either, for real tears are streaking the makeup on many cheeks. Then the light falled and the long trek back to camp was begun. Over the sands in all directions the peopls and animals streamed in the twilight. Sand sleighs there were by the score. men on galloping horses, oxen voked to heavy carts of ancient pattern camels with their swaying howdahs and even several hundred men toil- ing across the sands afoot with blankets or bath robes huddled over their costumes. That was one mem- oruble picture that the cameras did not get. (Copsright, Great Allfance.) 1823, in Tnited and ., by North American Newspaper, Filmograms and magnificence of settin, his | brother, Willlam De Mille, is said to | specialize on screen versions of cur- rent Broadway stage plays. William | De Mille was famous as a stage pro- | ducer before screenland ciaimed him, which may account for this tendency. With Bernard McConville's screen version of “Cape Cod Folks” now icompleted and ready for filming, ations are being gotten under way by Irving G. Thalberg for the | making of this old New England | classic as one of the bLiggest ses i spectacles ever attempted in motion | pictures. It will be a Louis B. Mayer | special and will have a carefull: | selected cast ot stellar caliber. It is | understood the title, “Cape Cod Folks,” {8 to be discarded in favor of “Women Who Wait" The bureau of fisherfes in Washington, it is said. has offered co-operation in making the scenes. How much is vour life insured for? Can you imagine, then, insuring a dog's life for a quarter of a million~ dollars? This is what J. H. Hutty, business manager of the Trimble- Murfin Productions, is doing for Strongheart, star of “The Silent Call” and “Brawn of the North.” The Selznick Corporation is to re- lease soon Robert W. Chambers' fa- mous novel, “The Common Law," which has been done into pictures under the direction of George Arch- ainbaud. Its cast includes Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, Elliott Dex- ter, Hobart Bosworth, Bryant Wash- burn, Doris May, Harry Myers, Miss | DuPont, Phyllis’ Haver, Wally Van and Dagmar Godowsky. The story | was adapted to the screen by Edward J. Montague. Kenneth Harlan has appeared in more films this_year than any other screen actor. There's a real test of | popularity Ventilation. 'EW theaters in the country surpass those of Washington in the mat- ter of providing comforts for the patrons. Little has been said in the past for the Strand Theater along' this line, and vet its management declares that none of the houses that boast of boing “20 degrees cooler inside” or “so many thousands of cubic feet of alr are changed every minute” sur- pass the Strand. “The proof of the 1pudding is In the eating.” it is as- serted, “and it has been left to Strand patrons to spread the good news.” The ventilation system at the Strand, it is announced, was installed about two years ago. Great cool air chambers, kept immaculately clean, extend under the entire house. Air is forced into these chambers from the front, rear and side of the house and it is distributed by large ducts throughout the auditorium and then drawn off by exhaust fans on the roof. 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