Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1923, Page 57

HE man who tries to start a row In warm weather is not popular, excep with those who exemplify the truth of the adage that “misery loves company.” But Basil King, the novelist, is taking The Sunday S, WASHINGTON, D. C, a chance.” In some way he has been drawn Thto the cohtroversy | between the Drama League and the author of “The Fool” This is what he has dared to say: “So long as the spiritual idea is put forward impo- tently, as in the majority of the churches, the materia!isgc world has nothing to say. But once the spiritual challenges boldly and triumphant- 1y, the whole gang of those who don’t believe in it set up a howl * * * The fanaticism of our small, provincial, intellectual set is as intense as that which set up the inquisition. * * * It must not be forgotten that in our present stage of development the materialistic mind has possession of all the newspapers, of, most of the magazines and of nearly every other method of expressing opinion.” It would be unreasonable to expect a poor, struggling Christian of the newspaper gang to quote more of Mr. King. The whole mess, however, seems to establish what a splendid advertising man Mr. Channing Pollock might make, if he ever fails as a playwright. BUT the world is not altogether shrouded in darkness. From the Shu- bert press department comes the gladdening intelligence that one of “the M to be exact, “Mr. J. J..” has saile8 for Europe, accompanied by Al Jolson, the Winter Garden star. The news story tells all-about the trip to the pier in “a new Rolls-Royce.” etc., etc, etc., but the joyful tid- ings are all inclosed in the second sentence of this paragraph. It doesn't much matter why Mr. ]. J. has sailed—the report states that “getting new plays is his prime reason.” * k k% 8., * % ¥ % ROM the offices of Charles Dillingham comes the positive announce- ment that “Loyalties,” John Galsworthy's play, is “definitely booked for your city.” It is pleasant to anticipate its coming, for all the world knows the worth of John Galsworthy as an author and a playwright, and his pla oyalties,” ran for an entire season in New York, following a brilliant engagement in London. The critics have called “Loyalties” an ideal play, one of universal appeal and tremendously interesting to theater- goers—and acted by “the most precisely balanced cast brought together on Broadway during the entire season.” The entire original company is promised here. QPRL IDENT -HARDING has been invited to attend the American His- torical Revue and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition at Los Angeles, Calif,, July 2 to August 4. Some of its attractive features will be a tableau depicting the primitive life of the American Indian before Columbus, Kos!off's ballets, “The Fall of the Aztecs,” “An Easter Night in Russia” and “A Ballet of World's Nations,” with characteristic dances. All the activities will radiate from the Court of Honor, which, “massed with flowtx'n situated between two glittering Aztec towers. “Monte- The Fall of the Aztecs,” will be the most spectacular feature, new coliseum, which will seat 80,000 persons. ] . Sk K. MCDO.}ALD. a new figure in the world of photoplay production, ¢ has won from Booth. Tarkington what all his brilliant predecessors led to do—a telling indorsement and a brilliant send-off for his first cffort, “Penrod and Sar Mr. Tarkington's letter to the young producer for Associated First National Pictures, Inc., declares that “your film told a truthfully human story of children and grown folks, in a humorous and pathetic way, with the humor rightly more in evidence than the pathos, which was, nevertheless, very true and moving.” He added that this was not because the producer had kept closer to “my own story than other films may have donc,” but that “the picture is immensely skilled in pro- ducing an incéssant run of action which is so varied that the spectator must be either laughing aloud, or chuckling, or fee'ing touched and sym- g:t;::ta:rc',_lcor‘:;‘mudously,f" It is s}?iddthc picture is one you can laugh over 2 artily the day after as the day you see it, and, v. material is ncedgd in the world Yoy HxSdcrknornrtcy * %k *x }i‘ the most sympathetic admirers is likely to falter in the as “The Breaking Poin ing as it may be, % ok % % * iicers of hMr}f' Mary Roberts Rinehart 1e assertion that she has written a great play i It |]s ‘fi‘l?:b‘l‘;m{ too, that her latest efi’orgt‘: emfni xl: s it rival e Bat” as a money-maker, Lc?vuglt is authority for the statement that the perier gof "’?l‘-‘: glr::;fié Point exceeded in money value that of “The Bat” by thousands of dol- lars. Think of it! He declares that Monday evening’s audience brought more than $3,000 into the box office; that he could easily have sold the seats filled by passes—about 100tin ali, and that “The Bat,” on its opening \ night, drew but a little more than . Last Monday evening was one of the prize winners in the heat competition that Washington has been cnduvcxlng recently. The assertion has been made that “The Bat” has f;rne l:ar its authors, Mrs. Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, more money lmar'x T;u_y play that had ever been };mduced, Mrs. Rinehart’s share, prob- ably, being in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. Who wouldn’t be 2 playwright and take a chance? HICAGO, for its t k: *f* e { , for its ten weeks of civic opera, “dropped” about $350,000. C Nobody but the cashier and the stockholders, probably, kxwfits how ronuch nf:ore it paid o'ut fm; Cl;lc nperlz. It really looks as though grand pera, from a monetary standpoint, e by i point, is much more costly and much less o ok ¥ % - Nanow, :ivatl;‘m as it is, Mrs. Wallace Reid has come with a drug cru- sade—an e women are giving h 1 3 i hold her for a while, and then,g;nay e, fi'::h’i:x:;{.wme New torkowil * * ¥ %k “A ilZOhTEI::l'IdA%LY j‘vi‘niaryrival to the Shubert-Erlanger combination” eralded from New i ilfi coRbIAt o A I:; ork in the form of a twenty-milfion-dollar There must be money in it. MWood, Sam H. Harris and Archibald Selwyn. " E PR P il o Cosmos Theater, which closed down a week ago, already is an- Aug\;\;}mcmg the reopening of its vaudeville season the latter part of ® % K % 'I'HE gmh-erskies are making John Drew, fhe distinguished actor, a x verx:}z:ble‘thermomrtel of learning, adding degrees almost daily to’ fit the weather. / B M ok ok S*JJELEN OF 'I_‘RO\',' NEW YORK,” is winning smiles and praise. It 4 has a plot in which a girl in a collar factory triumphs over a vil- lainous efficiency man. They say it is :riginal and quite amusing. * * ok E Ziegfeld Follies is boasting of a singing Venus from Vienna as its ~ prima donna. She is Ilse Marvenga, twenty- i ‘with a personality resembling that of Milu".w i y%r:e*‘bm avd A Chip of the Old Block. 'ARRY FOX, @ product of three generations of theatrical stock; fs the great-grandson of the famous George L. Fox, the original Humpty- . Then he took the chief comedy hon- ors in ‘“The Honeymoon Express,” and served to keep fun going with the late Gal Deslys-in *8top, wnd Listen,” by Irving Berlin, months in pictures, and he was again ical comedy, this time in “Oh, in which he introduced “I'm ing Rainbows,” one of song hits of the past t came vaudeville, and Wil see him this week. Likes Her Role. MAmA MANBFIELD, who sup- ports Glenn Hunter In “Youth Cheaters,” has the time of Ber life as Lois Brookes, the sophisticated ”lflonvn: 'l..f“n- accordt t lever before, In Miss Mansfield, has she played sich & varied part, which called for all man- Der of acting and drew much. upon her stors of versatility. One of the most artistic as well as important scenes in the production is f & masqueradp , the kind - At tha « _ Harry's grandfather and father ad- | Washington g:gfl loAr!'l;‘e l(l}ltln:lle'. Nlfl lb!:g er, ur_ Carringford, pla; opposite Kate Claxton in The’ 1‘10 Orphans” in the palmy days of the old Union Square. Ha ‘was to have been reared in 5 father went ar as to get him a job as clerk in a store, but Harry longed to stay rv nights rathér thin to get up early n the morning, and so it L ne day Har unnoticed, and joined 8. He clowned a bit, then joined a medicine show, Spending his morn- ings mixing swamproot and his aft- ernoons spellbinding the crowds. | that of Later, as a clown, he was featured at | that is usually give: ew York’s the Velvidere, a' varfety theater in|exclusive “460.” spent J5an Francisco, for two years. The|hours b o dn:c‘?fix for earthquake ended his. cogst career, and be et east Ln “Follles of the 5 prim > & burlesque show. and trying new ways of wear her ngu\a-flenn- didn’t lu-r him lo& 'm fresl; b g'.h nter Garden' lfi was starred with Nosa . HARRY FOX - Keith's ping | Barkhec. e STRONGHEART - METROPOLITAN AT THE THEATERS THIS WEEK. BELASCO—“The First Year,” tonight; “After the Rain,” comedy, the remainder of the week. KEITH'S—Harry Fox, vaudeville morrow. . New show opens at matinee to- STRAND—Kee Tow Four, vaudeville. Opens this afternoon. BELASCO—“The First Year'— “After the Rain.” ‘The Belasco Theater once more will depart from custom tonight and retain for a final performance, Frank Craven's fascinating comedy, “The First Year.” This step has been decided upon because the incoming attraction, “After the Rain,” requires & production far more pretentious than the average. This production has been built in George Marshall's ‘Washington studio, and will be com- plete when the curtain goes up to- morrow night. Incidentally, the performance tomor- row night at the Belasco will be a premiere. “After the Rain" is vne of A. H. Woods' productions for the season of 1923-24 on Broadway. It was written by Le Roy Clemens, an American dramatist, and Lynne Over- man, actor-author. The result of their collaboration is said to be an inter- esting comedy of American life Into whicl e Interwoven atmospheric in- cidents of the race track. It is de- clared to be “superbly iridescent with the joyous spirit of youth.” The cast tomorrow night will include in addition to Fred Raymond, jr., John Daly Murphy, Wallis Clark, Joseph Crehan, Anne Sutherland, Dorls Moore and Bennie Sweeney, & new- comer {n Judith Anderson, who gave a notable performance in the leading role in “Peter Weston” during the season just closed. KEITH'S—Harry Fox. Harry Fox, who first gave the pub- lic the song success, “I'm Always Chasing Rainbows,” and star of many musical comedies, Will come to Kelth's this week, beginning with to- morrow’s matinee, as the headline feature. Mr. Fox has always been a great favorite in vaudeville, although he has recently confined his talents to Broadway prodactions of a pretentious nature. American baritone, lane, who, in assoclatfon with | Charles Grapewin, is offering an elaborate act, touching on the op- eratic. ker, a charming dancer, a woman | violinist and a male pianist. Others on the bill are Helen Good- hue and a company of seven in the &my Tully George MacFar- h’ in “Laughics of the Day”; Arms, feature” (n last years dals,” in “A Cycle of Song Types” Gertrude Barnes, in “A Gale of Mirth, Melody and Fashion” by Bianche Merrill; the latest of the ' George | Choos productions, “A Ring Tangle,” featuring Jack Henry and Edythe Maye, and Bert Ford and Pauline Price, in ‘“Dancing on a Silver Thread,” together with Aesop's Fi bles, Topics of the Day and the Pathe News Pictorial. At 3 and 8:15 p.m, today Allan Rogers and Leona Allen, the concert singers, and others of last week's | bill will provide the entertainment. STRAND—Eee Tow Four. The Kee Tow Four, “Harmonists of the Orfent” will headline the il at the Strand Theater this week, beginning today, with special songs, comedy numbers and popular hits in “close harmony.” Others will include Lucy Gillette and company in “The Girl From Delft,” a novel juggling act; an oris- inality, entitled “Hidden Voice: Herbert Denton and compan: i tast-moving comedy skit, “Pough- keepsie,” and Chester Nelson and Ruby Parish with a_mirth-provoker, “The Rube and The Baby.” The photoplay will feature Glenn Hunter and pretty Martha Mansfleld In a picturesque setting of wealth and jazz entitled, “Youthful Cheaters,” a comedy drama of New York's ex- clusive “400.” Minor films also will The added feature will bring the 'be howfl: Blanche Ring and Bruce McRae. 'HEN Bruce McRae's name goes up in electric letters above the title of Avery Hopwood's new comedy, “The Alarm Clock,” which George Marshall, in association with A. H. Woods, will present shortly at the Belasco Theater, another great favor- 1te cognomen, Bruce McRae, will flash from the same sign. Blanche Ring had only to read the soript of. Hopwood's adaptation of the Parisian hit, “La .Sonette d’'Alarme,” to make her decide that the one thing she wanted to do dur- ing the coming months was the fole of Mrs. Susie Kent, the leading female comedy part. Miss Ring has arranged to discon- tinue the long #un of “As You Were,” the musical comedy in-which she has been playing for the past year,. in order to prepare at once for the forthcoming rehearsals of “The Clock.” y —_— “The Dancers,” the Gerald Du Mau- in which he and Tallulah are playing in. London, will be presented In this country the com- oo e e A e A Public Service. HARRT M. CRANDALL, through the instrumentality of the public serv- | fce and educational department of the Crandall Theaters, Mrs. Harriet Haw- ley Locher, director, has givems the use of his residential houses to the Feder- ated Council of Churches in the conduct of its summer school classes. The five weeks' course will be inaugu- rated at Crandall's Apollo Theater, northeast, tomorrow afternoon at % o'clock, with Mrs. H. Moffatt Bradley, Rev. C. R. Stauffer and Rev. A. C. Ridgew: This work will Protestant dall pictures of the cl nhox. ‘The new $4,000 camera with all modern attachments for gtering fadeouts, telescopic shots and slow-mo. tion photography will be used for this purpose. Special holiday matinees will be given In all the Crandall theaters Wednesday of this week, the 4th of July. This observance of Independ- ence day, however,” will occasion & change of schédule .at Crandall’s ‘Apollo and York theaters only, the o] onthe With him is Margaret Wal~| ROY STEWART —CRANDALLS chiefest business of the cinema, | according to our ides, and the heart can best be taught by pre- senting human interest storfes from real life—life that has really been | live@—in the form of dramatized his- tory, & form.that not only instructs but entertains.” This. is the an- nounced conclusion of the Rocket Lin- coln Fiim Company. “There s no end to history. It is as old as creation and eternally in the making. There are 10,000,000 storfes to tell and more making every day. There need be no fear that the supply will run out. “In the crusades alone there are a thousand picture plays. The story of the Medes and Persians, the Assy-, rians, the Egyptians, has never been attempted. Who will be first to tell n eginning of the story of Alexander the Great? What has the screen shown of t! anclent Greek immortals? What have we offered in relation to_ the phllosophers and teachers — Confucius, Lao Tze, the Buddha, Zarathustra, the Aryan sages, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras and the host of lesser ones? “The story of the Prince of Peace: has yet to-come to the screen in a convincing way, and the stories of the early Christian fathers, the saints and the martyrs are still untouched. “Who has told the wondrous stories of Charles XII, of Charlemagne, of John Sobleski, of Peter the Great, of SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1923. e Glen Echo. In anticipation of a record break- Ing crowd at Glen Echo Park July 4, the management has arranged for special car service, and everything the resort has in the way of fun pro- viders will be in operation. Among the special features will be & matinee dan Wednesday after- noon from 4 to 7:20 p.m., and another session In the evening from 8:30 to 11:30. Music will be furnished by the Glen Echo Orchestra, under A. E. Ochlmann. The big baliroom 1% o= {cated at a high point of the park, overlooking the upper Potomac, where there are breezes, and the hall is en- tirely screened in, with numercus the duncers. ‘The new “skooter” is winning new friends every day. The blg coaster dip, with 4,000 feet of thrills, equals | |Coney lsland's hair raiser, and the Derby Racershas been improved and | enlarged this season, and has had ‘two eighty-five foot drops added to its long ride. The carrousel, with many new music selections for its big organ, and the O Mil 2cd wiip ai holding their own. The big midway, with its scora< of fun features, nus become the kiddies best bet, while the !blg pienic grounds are in splendid | shape. The car ride to the park af- | fords a magnificent view of the Poto- MARTHA MANSFIELD STRAND History as Film Material. instruct the heart 1Is the|Brugo. Savonarola, Luther, Hypatia and 10,000 others? What of the riches ot Rome, of Carthage, of Venice, Flor- ence, thé middle ages and the renais- sance, of the world discoverers and ploneers? “There is one charmed book of the east that has 150.000 stories in it of pure historic fact, more Interesting than the ‘Arablan Nights’ and-there is in Siberia and China an unworked and inexbaustible mine of cinema wealth. “In the history of England, Scot- land, Wales and Ireland there are mighty stories to be told in plctures. But why continue? The list I3 &s long as the Bible text “Also, nobody seems to be inter- ested in presenting the amazing story of the rise and spread of Islamism. There 15 a story—or, rather, a thou- sand stories—of Incomparabie drama, romance, human Interest, poetry and pageantry, work for many a great cinematic gentus. “As our own special fleld we have, chosen American history as being ap- propriate work for American pro. ducers, and also because the storie of our history are constructive and more applicable to our present-day problems. “The whole world seems to be cry- ing out for help, and what is more logical than to present to the sick world as an antidote for its ills the story of the life and times of Abra- ham Lincoln as the symbol of tri- umph over almost overwhelming odds, as a story of.the triumph of freedom, of union, of the brotherhood of man, and of love and gentleness over ha- tred and force?” An English Viewpoint me A. TILLEY, editor of the Kinematograph Weekly, & lead- ing English film trade journal, is quoted in & recent interview in Chi- §280, in part, ag follows: “From the artistic standpoint Sweden leads the world today. But given the same amount of production money elther England, France, Italy or Germany could put out pictures artistically far superior to the prei ent American product. “América might not like these pic- tures, but the real art would be there. America might prefer to continue on its present menu of silly stuff. Amerioa |s youth mad, American fans would rather see a pretty school girl or handsome young male pose through six reels of emptiness than view a film with a serfous thought énacted by pérsons who have been on this earth |~ (, long enough'to have learned some- thing about acting. “Censorship abets this youth mad- ness in- keeping your photoplays to thelr present level In America it is métther mice nor permiesible to be woven into tremendous photoplay themes. “It has been fondly supposed by many in this country that American movies are Americanizing the world. But America s not imposing its cul- ture on the world in - this manner. ‘The culture exemplified by your aver- age photoplay is too shallow to make a lasting impression abroad. . “It has been quite the fashion for visiting Englishmen to criticize. I am simply giving you the facts, Roth- acker—not criticizing. I am for my country the same as yoli are for yours and therefore, as a Britishes, I hope American producers will continue as they are, beoause the day is coming when it will be economically possible for some other ocountry to cut in on 85 per cent. The rest of the world is wearying of its monotonous dlet of predigested American photo- plays, uflless Uncle Sam serving up more red meat another chet will get the business. —_— 1 Maude, who is actifig in New York, will celebrate his fortieth an- niversary as a player this autumn. Mr, Maude made his theatrical debut in Denver with Daniel Bandman, the German actor. The company stranded on the Pacific cosst and Mr. Maude ret: east on .an_ emigrant-train. His salary for his-first engagement was §35 & week. {will mac, and cool breezes from the river make the trip well worth while. Steamer St. Johns. Washingtonians who expect to spend the week end and Independence iday at Colonial Beach, “Washington's Atlantic City,” will find, in addition to the Saturday and Sunday trips, a speclal schedule arranged for the Steamer St. Johns. The big vessel leave the 7th street wharves Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., arriving in Washington in time to take the holi- AT the recent International Con- | gree on Motion Picture Arts” Iuys Clara Beranger, “I sat through a lot of speeches and discussions by members of the Authors' League (of which I am a member) and of various other professions. One glaring fact struck me—the almost unanimous presupposition that all authors of books and plays are good and all authors of screen plays and workers for the screen are bad. “There are many bad pictures and many poor adaptors of novels and plays for the screen,” continues Miss Beranger, “but_there are also pienty of good ones. Equally true it is that many of the books that are published —most of them, in fact—are bad. Of the plays that are produced each year possibly 5 per cent are good, and yet these authors—and It is usually the bad ones who cry the loudest—pick on pictures every chance they get and prociaim how rotten and commercial the whole industry is. “I have yet to hear any one con- nected with pictures who does not frankly admit that most of them have not yet reached a standard that could be called art. But I have yet to hear an author or‘a playwright admit that the majority of books and plays are as bad as the majority of pictures. If you stop to think of the mass of junk publishcd every year as literature and the number of bad plays produced every year (for the very same reason that the pictures are so severely crit- icized—their commercial value) you will, in all fairness, have to draw the same line between good and bad au- thorship in those fields of literary e | deavor as you do in the fleld of screen } writing. “Most of the writers who air their grievances and declare \that the screen s a business—that the pro- ducers think only of making money— are only too willing to sell whatever they can to the picture producers for a flat sum of money and make no stip- ulation about working with the adaptor and director in translating their work to the screen. “I happen to know that almost every one of the picture companies welcomes the co-operation of the suthor In the development of the pio- ture, and it is always possible for an AMUSEMENT. INT electric fans to add to the comfort of | E OPEN day crowd down for the 4th of July, salling Wednesday morning at 9 am. The steamer will leave Colonial Beach at 6 o'clock Wednesday, returning to | Washington about 11 p.m. St. Johns |also_will make a trip down to the | beach on Thursday morning at 9 a.m. At Colonial Beach the salt water | bathing, fishing, crabbing and boating |are said to be fine. A large pavillon |and good music are provided for the | dancers. | The regular forty-mile moonlight trip wiil be made on Monday and Fri- | day only this week—the boat leaving at 7:15 pm. Music and free dancing are features. Chesapeake Beach. The Fourth of July, it le announsod, will be & large day at Chesapeaks Beach, ‘““Washington's breeze-swept young Coney Island.” There will be practically continuous train service all day long, with trains leaving the District_liné as soon as they are filled. Traffic officers will be on hand to aid in parking cars. Excursionists carrying their lunches will find the | spacious picnic grounds a delightful place for a spread in the open. Free dancing, sait-water bathing, fishing, boating, boardwalk prom- enading. touring amusement fairy- land—will be other features of the day. | Great Falls Park. Great Falls Park, fourteen miles trom the city, for the warm summer days, offers wonderful shade trees, lovely walks and the inspiring scenery of the falls. The cool pavilion, here free dancing abounds on week days, afternoon and evening, is always popular, while there are free concerts | on Sunday for lovers of music. Fre- Quent trains leave 36th and M streets ! northwest. b “The Worm Turns” author to gel} clause In his contract | giving him the privilege of sitting in on the scenarlo conferences and on the final cutting and editing of the picture. “But what the author wants ls money! He is not wiiing to give up his time. Dear, artistic creator—he would always rather take the money than give any further time to pro- tecting those delicate brain children from the cruel hands of the picture doctors. It is €0 much easier to wait until the picture is finished and then set up a howl about how terrible pic- tures are and what ignorant, Inar- tistic commercial people work in pic- tures! “Talk !s cheap--time is expensive. and so_these authors, most of them as medlocre, or more so, than the screen workers, talk, talk, talk, and never take unto themselves their pre- rogative of helping to make good pictures out of their literary master- Dleces. “Just @s authors and playwrights are divided Into three classes—good, mediocre and Wad—so are screen play- wrights and directors (who are mos responsible for the finished picture) divided into three classes, good, medi- ocre and bad. There is one type that starts out with the hypothesis, ‘How much of my‘own can I put into this? and there i3 another type that starts out innocently and sincerely with the desire to maintain not only the plot of the original book or play, but the psychology and the subtler values. “This business of making a book or play into & picture is frequently a difficult job, requiring much thought to translate wdrds into visible action. After we writers for the screen have spent weeks and weeks trying to keep the spirit of the thing which we are adapting, it rather gets our goat to have authors cry out, without any distinction or discrimination, that all plcture writers are butchers who get 2 savage joy out of mangling their works. “Let them give us better books and better plays and we will see what happens to the screen. Or, better still, let them give up some of their val- uable time and learn sercen tech- nique, 8o that their self-admitted crea- tive ability can express itself direct- ly n terms of the screen. If they are as non-commercial as they admit, let them stop writing mediocre plays and books and try to learn how to write really good pictures.” Cosmopolitan Announcements COCIIOPOUX'AN PRODUCTIONS will furnish: “Little Old New York,” starring Marion Davies, adapted by Luther fieed from Rida Johnson Youns's drama, directed by Sidney Olcott; *“The Daughter of Mother McGinn," from one of Jack Boyle's “Boston Blackie” stories, adapted by Frances Marion, and directed by Miss Marion and George Hill, and *“ from Arthur Stringer's novel; “Under " from Starley J. Wey- Alan Crosslan: Luther Reed from the novel by Charle Major, author of “Wh Knighthood Was Flaming Forest,” m Oliver Curwood story; “Allas the Zone Wolf,” by Louls Joseph Vance; “The Temptress,” from the Vicente Blasco Ibanez story. Bayard Veller is writing the scenario. ‘The Country Beyond,” by James Oliver Curwood; ¥A Gentleman of nce,” from Stanley | Weyman's romance, and “Alice of Old Vincennes,” by Maurice Thompson. From Distinctive Pictures Corpora- ftien: “The Green Goddess,” adapted by Forrest Halsey from Willlam Ar- cher's play, in which George Arliss 1 for three seasons; ““The Weav- ers,” Gilbert Parker's Egyptian novel; “Selome of the Terne~ ments,” from Anzia Yezierska's novel* “Life and the Lady.,” from I “The Inheritors”; " by Gerald Mygatt; " from Clarence Budington Kelland's story. From Achlevement Films will New Takoma Park Theater' 'AKOMA PARK'S latest amusement institution, the Takoma Theater, will have its premiere Monday even- ing, July 2, at 7:30 p.m., the attrac- tion being the Paramount picture, Thomas Meighan, in “The Ne'er Do Well" - The fixed policy of the house will be to show all ’roll‘lml for two days, the features to be those only | that have been shown at the big F 'ltr-el theaters. The second attrac- tion will be Sir Hall Caine's “The Christian.” The theater will be artificlally cooled, and the organ, said to be one of the finest in Washington, will be played by W. G. Weist, with A. F. Brooks of New York city as guest organ soloist, as a special feature for the opening week. This theater is said to represent the last-word In safety and comfort. o ——— “The Hero,” by Gilbert Emery, was rated amo: the best s of 1819 and the pi e best films for 1923, 1 come ‘“The Magic Skin,” adapted by Charles Whitaker from Balsac's novel. Jesse D. Hampton has produced *“The Spol'ers,” adapted from Fex B!‘)‘:h‘s novel of the Klondike gold- nsh. | Coming Attractions BELASCO—“The Alarm Clock.” Avery Hopwood's adaptation of = French comedy, “La Senette d’Alarme,” under the title, “The Alarm Clock,” {s about to be produced at the Belasco, with Bruce McRoe Iin the stellar rols, by George Marshall in assoclation with A. H. Woods. 1t is sald to have not only a plot, but a theme, in addition to a divert- ing story. e “alarm clock” is a bad attack of gout which descends upon one of the leading characters to warn him of impending trouble if he doesn't discontinue his high manner of living, & sort of “writing on the wall” thet comes to those whom na- ture would chide gently before really punishing. Into the life of the man who Is so warned descend two coun- try relatives—mother and daughter —who plan to “take care of him.” How the swift pace of New York soon makes it necessary for him to take care of them d to be one of the amusing twists of Hopwood's ! KEITH'S—“The Cherry Tree.” Harry Green in “The Cherry Tree.” with Florence Johms, In which Mr. Green glves his famous characteriza~ tion of George Washington Cohen, and Stella Mayhew, the cheerlest com- edlenne, will split headline honors on the Kelth bill for next week; Miss Mayhew returns in exclusive songs by Paul Gerard Smith and Billee Taylor. Ruth Budd, ‘the girl with the smile,” will contribute the added fe: ture,. Miss Budd {s primarily an aerialist, but her hazardous feats are given in a way that stamps her as a real artist. Completing the bill will be Ben- jamin Ratner, one of Washington's youthful plano prodigies; Harry J. Conley in “Rice and Old Shoes,” with Roami Ray; Marle Walsh and Frank Ellis, “The Yes Boy and the No Girl:" Harrison and Dakin “The Three of Us,” with Billy Hogue, and Van Cello and Mary in “Foot Feats” together with Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and the Pathe News Pictorial, regular Keith plcture featurss. James Barton, star of “Dew Drop Inn,” is still interested in burlesque,