Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1923, Page 59

"AMU SEMENTS." Photoplays This Week AT THE PHOTOPLAY METROPOLITAN—Strongheart, this afternoon. RIALTO—Betty Compson, in Shown this afternoon. COLUMBIA—Dorothy Dalton, in this afterngon. PALACE—Viola Dana, in “Her F noon. CENTRAL—"Masters of Men.” CRANDALL'S—Harold Lloyd, in noon. METROPOLITAN—Strongheart in “Brawn of the North.” Vast expanses of the frigid arctlc form o background for thrilling ac- “tion in “Brawn of the North,W the| “rew First Natlonal picture in which | ongheart, the best trained police | in the world; Ivene Rich, Lee| Shumway and ogpers will be seen for | the first time here at Crandall's Met- vopolitan Theater this week, begin- ning this afternoon. The comedy | Looked for the week presents Liovd | tiamilton In his late® two-reeler, “Uneasy Feet.” Other features wili| be the Metropolitan World Survey, liort reels, and a muslcal program | arranged by Daniel Breeskin, con- | ductor of the Metropolitan orchestra, including as overturé gems from | “Lucla dl Lammermoor.” | “Brawn of the North” unfolds a, dramatic story of tangled human destinies, varled from the usual formula for conventional “snow stufr,” | with many episodes in which the principal actor is Strongheart, Wwonder dog. “Brawn of the North” presents a beautiful group of natural settings, photographed with artistic skill. RIALTQ—Betty Compson in “The| Woman With Four Faces.” Melodrama handled withkid gloves! { Buch is the picture “The Woman | With Four Fac Paramount’s latest Herbert Brenon production starring Betty Compson and Richard | O which will be shown for al week's engagen®nt =t Moore's Rialto ‘Theater, beginning toda: bd Adapted frew a story by Bayard Veiller, it concerned the efforts of a district attorney to bring to book a ring of dope traftickers, men of wealth apd power. The district attorney re- signs his position und seeks the aid of & clever girl crook to open a safe, which contains a paper incriminating the drug trafickers. The girh tells him there is but one man who can do the trick, and he is in prison. An es- cape is effected by means of an aero- “The Woman HOUSES THIS WEEK. in “Brawn of the North.” Shown With Four Faces.” =\ 4 “Law of the Lawless.” Shown atal Millions.” " Shown this after- Shown this afternoon. “Safety Last.” Shown this aiter- series of short stories by H. C. Witwer, the. Kinograms and pipe organ music. The cast of “Masters of Men" in- cludes Earle Williams, Wanda Haw- ley, Cullen Landis and Alice Cal- houn. The story deplcts the struggles of a lad on his way to man's estate against overwhelming odds and to win the love of a beautiful girl. It is said to have powerful climaxes. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake will be seen as co-stars of “Nobody's Bride” a melodrama concerning a | man of wealth and a band of crooks led by a mervy girl. Harry Pollard | will be pictured in “Where Am 17 and the Kinograms Graphic also wi and 11 be shown. CRANDALL'S—Harold Lloyd, in “Safety Last.” Harold Lloyd's great seven-reel thrill-comedy, ““Safety Last,” will be shown at Crandall's Theater the first Screen the | three days of this week, beginning| this afternoon at 3 o'clock. with laughs and prolific in hair- raising incidents. this picture story of a young man's desperate attempt to win a thousand-dollar wager in order to wed the girl back home has been proclaimed throughout the coun- try as one of the best pictures of its kind ever made. The adventures en- countered by the hero in a climb up the sheer face of & twelve-story sky- scraper s nerve-wrackingly demon- strated. Mildred Davis Lloyd, Anna Townsend and Noah Young are mem- bers of the large and proficient cast, The Pathe Review, with its beautiful natural color scenes, and the Pathe News will be added attractions. Wednesday and Thursday the major feature will be Universal's “Burning Words,” starring Roy Stewart with Laura La Plante. It is a_ stirring story of the Royal Northwest Motnted, in which the hero makes a great sacrifice for the sake of a youngster who Is accused of a capital crime. A new comedy, “A Jungle Romeo,” will be shown. Mary Miles Minter and Antonio Moreno, with Ernest Torrence sup- Packed “lane, but the crock, believing the|porting, will be plctured Friday and district attorn girl's love, refuses his go after the paper by different tac- tics. It becom the center of a mad struggle for possession, and a series of startling climaxes are piled one on top of the other. The cast includes George Fawcett, Joseph Kilgour and Charles A. Steven- son. . Snub Pollard, in his latest scream, “The Courtship of Miles Sandwich Bruce scenic nature story, “Mixed Grails” and the Fox News will be Shown also. fusical offerings will include se- lections from Thomas’ beautiful opera 'Mignon” as an overture. COLUMBIA—Dorothy Dalton in “Law of the Lawless.” A photo play that is said to lift sDorothy Dalton into the rarefled leights of screen drama, “The Law of ihe Lawle a romantic siors of th Ruman ube Tartar and gypsy life, will be shown at Loew's Columbia Theater this week, beginning this afternoon, for the first time in Washington, although it is declared it already has scored a great success as a Broadway attractiqn. It represents a magazine story by Konrad Bercovici, one of the promi- nent writers before the American)| public. It was acquired for the screen by the Famous Players-Lasky ‘orporation and was directed by Vi tor Fleming. Its cast includes The- odore Kosloff, Charles de Roche, the Jrench screen star, and Tully Mar- shall. Miss Dalton appears as the daugh- tor of a Tartar tribesman. who is coveted by the tribe money lender, All, to whom the girl's father Is deeply indebted. She is placed on the auction block to satisfy her father's debts, but the money lender is outbid by Costa, a gypsy chief. whose treat- nent of ‘the girl is such that regard for him soon turns to love. The Tartar sweetheart plots to re- gain her, and in a pitched battle ba- tween the two tribes, both the girl and her gypsy husband are captured. {This, however, merely paves the way for a series of thrilling and hair- raising adventure episodes. is trying to win the! d. Then they | Some Pine. turday, in “The Trail of the Lone- A new comedy, “Falling for Fanny,” other films and pipe or- gan music will be added. Apollo. Today ahd tomorrow, Alice Terry, in Rex Ingram's “Where the Pave- ment Ends,” and Paul Parrott, In Tuesday and Wednes- filton SHis and Anna Q. Nilssohn, The Isle of Lost Ships,” and mateur Night on the . “Mary of the Mov- al Burns, in “Be Your- Friday, Jack Holt, in “The Tiger's Claw,” and Harold Lloyd, in “Haunted Spooks”; Saturday, Walter Hiers, in “Sixty Cents an Hour,” and “Our Gang,” {n “A Pleasant Journey. Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow, Milgn Siils and Anna Q. Nilsson, in “The Isle of Lost Ships” and Aesop Fable, ‘Spooks”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Mjyrtle Stedman and _Cull Landis, in “The Famous Mrs. Fair,” and Paui Parrott, In “Fresh Eggs”; Thursday. Jack Holt, in “The Tiger's Cla and Jimmie Adams. in “Hurry Up Friday, “What's Wrong WIith th Women?' and round 7 fes” and Harry Pollard, And 1 in here Todaw and_tomorrow, Thom ghan, in “The 'er-Do-Well,"” Snub Pollard, in “Dig Up' Tuesday Alice Brady, in_*The Leopardess. also a Harold Lloyd-Bebe Daniels comedy; Wednesday and Thursday, Gloria anson, in “Prodigal Daugh ters”: Frida: Maurice Tourneur's “The Christian” Saturda; Emory Jolnson’s “W e st bound \ Limited, Pathe News and Aesop's fables. Chevy Chase. Tomorrow and Tuesday, Thomas Meighan, in “The Ne'er-Do-Well,” and Aesop's Fables, “Springtime,” and Fox News; Wednesday and Thursday (matinee Wednesday, 3 p.m.), Chaplin, in “The Idle Clas: Rogers, in “Fruits_of Falth" A new AL St Joun comedy, “A Tropleal Romeo™; the International News pictures and music by the Columbia Orchestra, directed by Leon Iirusilof, will compiete the bill. PALACE—Viola Dana in “Her Fatal Millions.” Viola Dana, the charming Metro screen star, will be pictured at lwoew's Palace this week, beginning this afternoon, in “Her Fatal Mil- iions” which will be given its first ‘Washington. presentation. “Her Fatal Millions” is the screen version of story by William Dudley Pelley, directed b; Arthur Statter, a new dircctor of Viola Dana picture: who is credited with remarkable ap- titude for visualizing screen comedy and remarkable ability to turn to the [best account Miss Dana’s talent as & comedienne. The cast includes Hunt- Ay Gordon. Allan Forrest. Peggy Brown, Edward Connelly, Kate Price and Joy Winthrop The story reveals Miss Dana as a mall-town girl whose former swee heart, apparently rich and married, is about to visit her. Determined to make a showing, she “borrows” a $5,000 necklace, magnificent furs and « limousine of the richest man_ in town. Thus equipped, she meets her old admirer and acquaints him with the startling fact that she's the wife of the limousine's owner. All goes as merry as a wedding bell until ‘the chauffeur is hit in the eye with a ball and the car skids into a ditch, when complications develop with startling rapidity. Buster Keaton in a revival of “One Wgek.” the Pathe 'News plctures, fcs of the Day and orchestral musle under the direction of Thomas Joseph Gannon will be added attrac- .!ons, = +CENTRAL—“Masters of Men.” “Masters of\ Men," Vitagraph's | thrilling screen version of Morgan Robertson's tale of the sea, will be shown for the first time here at Crandall's Central Theater the first tour days of the weck, beginning this afternoou, together with the |ninth | installment of the “Fighting Blood" T is not at all surprising that a screen player with an earning ca. pacity of approxfmately $1.000,000 a year should be Insured for a sum ap- proximating the income he is able to command. * There is such a player, however, upon whom no insurance at all can be writ- ten, and this fact becojjes the moro Temarkable when thought is given to the amount that might reasonably be expected from this actor's earnings du ng. the five years that represents the ‘averager span of a star's greatest popu- larity. z « Not even $100,000 ‘worth of insurance can be secured on the life and continued welfare of this exceptional performer, it is sald, for he is Strongheart, the won- der dog, and although reputed to be the most perfectly lr;:lned police dog In Hamilton, in “The Educator” O'Hara, in “Fighting Blood. . 6, and Fox News; Friday, Mary Miles Minter and Antonio Moreno,~n :The Trall of the Lonesome Plne”; Phthe comedy, The Watch Dog,” and Ore- comedy, “The Watch Dog,” and *Ore- bert “Rawlinson, in ‘“The Prisoner”: Baby Peggy, in “Taking Orders,” and Pear] White, in “Plunder,” No. 12, Circle. Today _and tomorrow, Hughes' “Souls for Sale”; Tuesday, Katherine MacDonald, in “Refuge’ Wednesday, “Wonders of the Sea” Thursday and Friday, Richard Bar thelmess and Dorothy Gish, in “The Bright Shawl"; Saturday, Mary Miles Minter and Antonio Moreno, in “The Trall of the Lonesome Pine. . Rupert Elite. “Monte Cristo”; tomorrow, Henry B. Walthall, in “Gimme” day, Norma Talmadge, in “Her Only Way"; Wednesday, Rodolph Valentinor in/“The Sheik”; Thursday, Katherine MacDonald, in “Refuge”; Friday, Alice Brady, in “The Leoplrd‘ Spots.” Fagorite. Today, Charles Ray, in “The Girl I Love”; tomorrow, Herbert Rawlin- son, in “The Prisoner”; ‘luesday, “Wonders of the Sea”; Wednesday, Ralph Lewis, in “Westbound Limit- ed’; Thursday Frank Mayo, in ‘The Bolted Door”; Friday, Pola Negri, in “Mad Love”: Saturday, Willlam Ilus- sell, in “A Self-made Man.” Tod: Home. Today and tomorr Roy Baines and Seena Owen, in “The Go-Getter” Tuesday, Fithel Grey Terry, in * Wives Wan ‘Wednesda. Dana, “A Nolse in Newboro" day, Mary Alden and Elin Has_the World Frank Mayo, in_“The Bolted Door” Satyrday, Earle Willlams, in “Mestors o en.” Fair, in New. = Today, “The Sheriff of Sun Dog" tomorrow, Alice Brady, in ‘The Valuable Dog a Big Risk. rasp the importance of own physi- cal well being. and without the reason- ing power, even so Intelligent an animal In an impulsive moment might get into gorious trouble and even eacrifice hls e. ‘There is said to be no known basis upon which insurance premiums on the life of & dog actor might logically be predicated. Jane Murfin, who collaborated with Jane Cowl in writing “Smilin' Through, is the owner of Strongheart, and Larry Trimble, whb directs -which the dog appears, hat trainer. Both have a great' deal at stake In'his welfare. R 1t « fatal accident were td befall the dog during the filming of & picture In which he was the central figure, the money loss would be beyond salvage, because no understudy could be pressed Into service ito finish the pict the world, he un!o\rlunn'#y does mot Came Here With Chaplin LONG train of memories was awak- ened by the recent announcement that Alfred. Austin had'been signed by Lou Anger Comedies to direct Clyde Cook, former Fox comedy star. Austin’s name Is closely linked to that of Charlie Chaplin. His name recalls the old “Night in an English Muaje Hall,” which Nrought Charlie |to this country on a Vaudeville tour from London. Austin was a member of the cast in the souse act which | Chaplin made immortal. 1 { When Chaplg went into pictures | Austin went with him. For four years he co-directed with Chaplin in i broducing comedles, both for Mutual and First National. “Shoulder Arms,” “A Dog's Life” and_“The Kid" bear mark of his co-operation. After a varied career since leaving Charlle, Austin has taken his megaphone over to the Buster Keaton lot and is well under way with the first two-reel comedy Cook {s making under con- tract with Anger, who Is essaying Lo make his own comedies. Leopardess"; Tuesday, “Monte Cristo’ Wednesday, “Footlight Ranger”; Thursda; Adam and Eva": Friday, Gloria Swanson, in “Prodigal Daugh- ters”; Saturday, feature-comedy pro- gram. Olympic. Today and tomorrow. Do-Well'"; Tuesday, nesday, “The Scarlet Car”; and Friday, “The Go- day, “The First Degree. Wer rsday : Satur- Princess. Today, Mary Pickford, Hoodlum™; tomorrow, Fy: num, in “The Ralders": | “The Go-Getter": Wednesday, Lewis, In__“Westbound Limited'; Thursday, Katherine MacDonald, in “Refugee”: Frid and Saturday, Thomas Ince's “What Wifa | Learned.” H. | Raphael. ! “Today, Thomas Melighan, Ne'er-Do-Well’ tomorrow, Darmond, in he Midaight lTuesday, Gladys Walton. Town Scandal”; Wednesd. Dean, in “The : Thur! day, Mary Miles Minter, in “The f the Lonesome Pine”; Frida Barnes and Seena Owen, in ", Saturday, Frank Muyo, “The irace Guest in “The Priscilla tn in Today and tomorrow, Barbara La Marr and Ramon Navarro, in “Trifling Women”; Tuesday, Hope Hampton, in “Light in the Dark"”; Wednesday, John Barrymore, in “Sherlock Holmes' Thursday, Madge Bellamy, in “Lorna Doone”;" Friday, WIill “Rogers, in “Doubling for Rome Saturday, Pauline Frederick, in “Madame X." Savoy. Today and Tomorrow, Milton Sills and Anna Q. Nilsson, in “The Isle of Lost ips.” and Aesop Fable, “Spooks”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Myrtle Stedman and Cullen Landls, in’ “The Famous Mrs. nd Stan Laurel, in_“Pick a day, Jack Holt, in * and Harold Lloyd, in “Haunted Spooks”; Friday, “What's Wrong With the Women?” and “Fighting Blood,” Tound No. 7; Saturday, “Mary of the Movies,” and Bobby Vernon, In “Take Your Choice. York. Today and tomorrow, Richard Bar- thelmess and Dorothy Gish, in “The Bright Shawl, and Aesop's fable, on the Ark"; Tue and St. John, in Dumb’ Wednesday, Anna Q. Nilsson and Frank Keenan, in “Hearts Aflam: and Mutt and Jeft cartoon, “The Chewing Gum In- dustry Thursday, “What's _Wrong | FOR a good many years the practice of high-salaried photoplay stars of employing a physical “double” to take the risks of motion picture mak- Ing has been steadily encouraged by the cinema thagnates. This lessens the possibllity of damage to the star. and it also practically guarantees punctuality in carrying out the pro- ducing schedule—a very important item in plcture making. While it is regarded as quite ethi- cal for a famous star to let some one else take the risks for which the star gets the credit, the “doub is al- ways photographed at a safe distance | to prevent the deception from being discovered. There s, however, a_certain group of stars in the industry who dislike to yield the stellar part to some one else, even when otherwise high degree of danger threaten: Disinclination to use a “doubfe” put Dorothy Dalton temporarily out of | With the Women?* and Paul Parrott, in “Fresh Eggs"; Friday, Barle Wil- liams, in “Masters of Men," and Jim-| mie #Adams, in “Broke”; Saturday, gnes Ayres and Richard Dix, in “Racing Hearts,” and Dordthy De- vore, in “Winter Has Came.’ "qut Perfect Profile. I HE Adriatic, arriving in New York on July 2, will bring & new motion- picture star to the United States, Netta Westcott, possessor, it Is said, of “the most perfect profile in Eng- land.” She s on her way to Holly- wood with a contract to play fei tured roles in Preferred Plctures. The work of this brilliant voung actress Is famillar to the dramatic world, although she has never ap- peared before in pictures. Miss Westcott's stage career abroad has been sponsored by Alfred Sutro,| the noted playwright, who after! watching her in a semi-professional performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, engaged her for the lead In his play, “The Perplexed Hus- band.” She was then chosen for the revival of Ibsen's “The Pretenders.” which did much to establish her first popularity with the British public. Dion Boucicault, famous playwright- actor, with whom she played two sea- sons, believes her the most gifted young playeron the Lnglish stage. She has specialized in portraying the heroines of Pinero and Barrie, but this season she has been appearing in the current revue at the London Hippodrome. New Sketch Presented. A SMART 1ittle vaudeville sketch en- titled “Stage-struck,” was pre- sented recently at the garden fete at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bidwell, 3901 Wisconsin avenue, for the benefit of the Thomas Jefferson memorial foundation. Those taking part were Mrs. Min- negerode Andrews, who made an in- troductory speech; Mrs. Chester C. Mayo, who sang “My Beautiful One, accompanied by the Navy Band; Miss Estelle Allen, who gave a ‘burlesque of the “potlon” scene from Romeo and Jullet, and Mrs. Willlam Jame: Black, dressed, as a man, who_told Irigh and Scotch storles. Mrs. Black and Mrs. Mayo also gave one of the “quarrel scenes” from the “School for Scandal” and Miss Allen recited “On the Way to Mandalay” to band ac- companiment. The play was a vehicle for pre- senting various specilties, written by Mrs. Black, with suggestions from Mrs. Mayo and Miss Allen. Miss Helen Barbee sang “Our Coun- try’s Flag," by Mary Sitz Parker, and the Navy Band played. :; 'HE history of mankind is largely the history of a few great men in each age—men who have dared to dream and fought to make their vis-; fons real. By the light of their achievement the world marches along the highway of time. Of this glorious company is Chris-! topher Columbus, the Genoese mari- ner of long ago who defied the ter- rors of the untraveled seas—rent the | veil of darkness—and revealed a new world. The story of these events were woven into an historical drama called “Columbus, and the Discovery £ America,” by Dr. Francis Treve- yan Miller and produced as a ten- reel spectacle ilm by Crusader Films Corporation. National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures, Inc., now announces the re- lease of the Ralph Gervers preafhta- tion of this subject to - schools, churches and other institutions out- side the regular amusement theaters. This photodrama was made on the exact historical locatlons in Spain, Portugal and Italy made famous by the intrepid adventurer over 400 ears ago. Scenes taken in the Royal | ce and Gardens of the Alhambra were officially authorized by his maj- esty Alfonso, King of Spat The early struggles of Columbus, his éhildhood ~dream of new worlds to conquer, his early voyages, his con= viction that the world is round, his appeal to the scientists of his day for recognition, his audience with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Dorothy Dglton, in “The Law of the Lawless”—Columbia. Dorothy Had Her Own. Way. the running during the production of her new picture, “The Law of the Lawless," which fs shown in Wash- ington today. The action of- Konrad Bercovici's story requires the heroine to be im- prisoned In a mosque during an ex- citing battle between warring fac- tions. At the climax of the fight the mosque is set afire and the star makes her escape by dropping from a mina- | ret to a neighboring housetop. Director Victor Fleming consulted with Miss Dalton with a view to em- ploying a “double,” a woman closely resembling Miss Delton, who was ithin call, and he strongly urged Miss Dalton to let the dare-devil go through this portion of the scene. Dorothy decided to do the dropping for herself. She did sucsessfully negotiate the drop from the mosque, the Suppos- edly dangerous part of the scene, but in her flight across the property housetops she lost her footing and fell into an areaway and had to be put to bed for the next twenty-four hours. Christopher Columbus in Film Spain, his wanderings, his seventeen|Barton in “Dew Drop Inn” and of |in a white satin w: ears of poverty and privation try- ni to raise money and equipment for the voyage that resulted in the birth of a new world and & civilization that | York last week for James W. Lederer, | walied. I thought at once of a frontis Tow takes its place as the leader in|Who Is at present ill in Philadelphia, | plece in a copy of he affairs of the world all are de- | Mears. NEXT WEEE'S PHOTOPLAY! RIALTO—Rex Beach’s “The Spoilers.” PALACI®"The Fog,” featur- ing Louise Fazenda and other screen celcbrities. METROPOLITAN—Katherine MacDonald, in “Money, Money, Money.” COLUMBIA—"Divorce,” turing Jane Novak. GENTRAL—“Mary of the Movies” and\Ethel Clayton, in “The Remittance Woman. CRANDALL'S—Jack Holt, in “The Tiger's Claw.’ fea- New Burlesque Record ARNEY GERARD'S “Follies of the Day,” in which “Bozo” Snyder is prominent, as- burlesque’s only pantomimic eomedian, was headed for London when the Columbia “Wheel” season closed in May, but the call of Boston prevailed. It played seven veeks last summer at the Boston Gayety, and a run of seven weeks this summer at the same theater, lately terminated, in addition to two weeks during the Columbia *Wne regular season, within the past two years, it thus established a new rec- ord for burlesque. - “Bozo” and the new edition of Bar- ney Gerard novelties will open on Broadway July 14, and “Follies of the Day” wiil again play the Columbia circutt, including the Gayety Theater in this city. In the Spotlight. THE Frazee Theater, New York, will open early in August with “Tweedles,” a comedy by Booth Tark- ington and Harry Leon Wilson. Gregory Kelly and Ruth (jordon head the cast. “Wise Youth” {s the name of the play to be produced by John Henry James Drydenforth, Marian Mears and Theodore Westman, ir., all nov{ln “Not So Fast,” will be in"the cas Orlo B. Sheldon of the cast of ‘Swance River,” to open July 8 at Asbury Park, was operated on’last Friday and will not be able to play until the plece reaches New York. “Red Light Ann by Sam Forrest and Norman Houston, with Mary Ryan in the title role, will open in New York August 20, It will be produced by A. H. Woods by arrange- ment with Sam Harris. Miss Gallagher and Mister Shean are golng to star upon the screen for ‘Willlam Fox in a feature film called “Around the Town. Sam H. Harris announces that he intends to present ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin” as = Wusical comedy next sea- son. Henry Alnley, known as the John Barrymore of London, Is to play in this country in Drinkwater's drama, “Robert E. Lee.” Phillp Goodman has engaged Luella Gear for “Poppy,” a musical show, in which Madge Kennedy will star. For his new musical comedy, “Take a Chance,” Harold Orlob, author-pro- ducer, has engaged Miss Alison Skip- worth, recently in “The Torch Bear- ers” and “Lilles of the Field. “Connle Goes Home,” a comedy by Edward Childs Carpenter, was pre- sented for the first time in Atlantio City last Monday night. While in London J. J. Shubert will arrange for the presentation of James. the musical play, “Blossom Time." The benefit performance in New it s reported, proved very successful, picted. Finally he sails from the port | both artistically and financially. | of Palos, Spain, midst the execration and abuse of the populace, who called him murderer, feling sure that he and his men would never return from the sea of darkness. The committee of well known club National Non-Theatrical Motion Plc- tures, Inc., it is declared, was ynani- mous in commendation of the Colum- bus picture. Mrs. Clinton B. Smith, chalrman of motion pictures for the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs, said in her report: moments. faith and great moral influence.” Miss Edythe Totten, president of Drama<Comedy Club, pronounced the picture “exceptionally fine. I consi er this picture w as; It certainly giv in_that_direction. of the Women's Forum, shid: picture exceeds anything of historical nature that has been presented on the screen. as strong moral lessons. “The Human Postage Stamp” E was once called “the Buman postage stamp.” But this was not Intended as humor, for when Joseph Kilgour, appearing| in Herbert Brenon's Paramount pic- ture, “The Woman With Four Faces."| dld the part of Gen. Washington in “Captain Barrington,” at the old Manhattan Theater, in New York, he earned the sobriquet by reason of his marvelous make-up and rendition of the role. Joseph Kilgour is one of the real artists of the‘screen, as he was of the stage. In 1895 he started his stage career, but prior to that he had done much amateur theatrical work. He is a native of Ontario, but was edu- cated at Kent, England. He went to Calcutta with a jute trading firm, but after & time rgturned to America and made his professional start in “Niobe." Later he went on tour with Katy Putnam in “The Old Lime Kiln." Saw Herself As Others Will. T was Dprobably George Jean Nathan who remarked that th real lure of the movies for actresse: and actors -lay in the ability of the movies to let actors.and actresses see themselves act. However true this. may be, Viola Dana, the Metro star, frankly admits that her favorite actress 18 Viola Dana, and that she loves to watch Viola act, even if she has to do dt in bed. Miss Dana's latest picture, ‘“Her Fatal Millions,” had not been finished ten days before the star was sud- denly stricken with appendicitis and was rushed to a Los Angelos hospital | for an operation. By the time she ad attained the convalescent stage, Her_ Fatal Milllons” had been cut and titled and was ready to be shipped east for distribution. There was no way for Miss Dana to reach the Metro projection room, and the projection room itself was too large to be sent to the hospita], but Metro_officials were anxious 'that Miss Dana be given an cpportunity to gee her néw picture before it left the coast. Sg " with the usual in- genuity of the movies, a shect was stretched across one wall of her room in the hospital,” the shutters were drawn, a portable projection machine was up in one corner and Misx Dana admits that seelug her .picture ! Ithe ¢ast before the picture 7 had a great deal to do with her darly ecovery. “The only thing I missed,” she said, 'was Huntly Gordon and his paper- and-comb orchestra toggive us a little music while the pictufe was running ofs.” Zane Grey's Methiod. TO what lengths some picture pro- ducers are willing to go to get the spirit of an author's story into the film version Is illustrated by the methods employed in filming, “To the Last Map"” in the Arizona mountains. Zane Grey. the author, accompanied the movie troupe into the mountains and began working with them from the outset. In a presonal chat with was started he strove to imbue them with the romance of the story and intro- duced the actors and actresses to many of the primitive settlers in the onto basin. The story concerns a feud in the late eighties which was fought out literally to the last man. The back- ground, some of the most rugged bits of cou in uo America, is the ‘same as descr] in_the e very cattle and m“h 1t is said, are these mentioned In the ‘original tale. Then came “The War of Wealth” son at the Alcazar, San Francisco, a trip to England, where he played the heavy in ‘“Arizona” at the Adelphi. Deemster in James O'Néil Barrington, Brockton in “The Easiest Way. first Paramount picture was End of the World.” Belasco sent for him to appear in the revival of “The Easlest Way” for a thirty-two-week season. Then a comedy flyer, “The Manxman” His keeps this time. —_— Twenty-four featurs pictures made by the Triangle Filmy Corporation, which had much to do with making the popularity of Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Charles Ray, Norma and Constance Talmadge, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Dorothy Dal many others, are to be rel new editions’ during the coming sea- son. - MIGHTY magnet is the movie studlo of Los Angeles, which brings to California aristocrats from foreign empires, sons of American millionaires, sheiks from Arabla, prize fighters frain New York, wres- tlers from Italy, daughters of middle west farmers and society debutantes. | All enter the movie studio on an equal Séeks Big Feature. | EPWARD DARLING, the booking manager, left June 23 for Europe to scout for European novelties for Keith vaudeville. He will interview Duse, Europe's greatest actress, with a view toward getting her signature to & contract calling for an American tour via®the Keith route. Ida Rubenstein will be approached with a similar pro- . Heretofore Ida has~ repuised vaudeville managors, but Barling hopes to_win 'her over. He will seo also D'Annunzlo, the faggous soldier-poet, to conclude nego- tiations for an American tour as well as for the production in this country of several of Gabriele'’s one-act. plays. _ Barrle, Shaw, Thomas Burke, Gals- worthy and Granville Barker will be in- {orviewed also regarding sketch ma- er! e Keith | omen which reviews the releases of | o 1 be a tremendousythe chief comedy role in teaching Americanization. | Inc.” us our first lesson|have the leading role. and then the creation of | Parents. holes with a score of 63. I on ea™1a | petition for long-distance driving on | fure. |and fortune. Thomas Wilkes, the San Francisco manager, will bring east next season two plays, “The Valley of Content"” and “The Untamed.” Five American plays now holding rth in London are sald to be thriv. ing notably, “So This Is London, “From Dover to Dixle,” “Anna Chris- “The Music Box Revue” and ‘Partners Again. “The Outsider,” one of the most talked-of dramas of the late London.| “This picture 13 | sanso of great value, both educationally and | nert wintee by "W imar Herris Cix artistically, and has many dramatic{The plec 1 bomveys 5 1easen” o¢| Ihe plece has for its central figure | the cast of The theme s said to be of the melancholy variety. Flora Finch, well'known to patrons of the movies, has been engaged for in “Brains, in which Robert Ames is to Its author is Edward Laska. The title may be Mre. Jessle Hoyt Higging, historian|changed before the play is eent fo “This | New York. Bert Savoy, well known female im- was struck by lightning Brighton last week. Two compan- fons were knocked unconsclious but were not seriously hurt. A cable received last week from Parls stated that Adrienne Morrison, wife of Richard Bennett, is recover- ing rapldly from her recent motor ac- cident and will return in August to “Sporting Life,” and, following a sea- | start rehearsals In a new play. With the fire of Spain, the unbri- difed abandon of the habanera and the vivacity of youth as her heritage, Mr. Kilgour created the part of the|I’earl Regay has become one of the with | foremost Then eame “Captain |though born in Madrld of Argentine dancers of = America, She is American only In the sense that she achleved her greatest ‘At the |Success in this country, Alex Morrison, American trick golf champion, who is appearing in “The Passing Show of 1923,” will compete and i - in the American open golf champion- | twenty-seven. finally pletures again—possibly for|gnip, which is to be held July 9-14 at the ' Inwood Country Club, Long Island. Mr. Morrison, who was the golf professional at the Los Angeles Country, Club_during the seasons of 1914-15 and 1920-21, is one of the most famous golfers in this country, it is sald, having established a record at Los Angeles of making eighteen In a com- the Paclfic coast he drove a ball 770 yards. _ Films Play Strange Tricks plane, but frequently they come out on the cellulold in characters th: offer striking contrasts to their for- mer lives. 7 An lllustrious example of this wa: recently disclosed at the United stu- dlos in Hollywood. ,On oneland the same day were engaged Princess Val- domar, formerly of the late czar's household and & Russian refugee, and Hazel Keener, daughter of an lowa farmer, Both had come to Hollywood seeking new opportunities for fame Both were engaged to appear in Maurice Tourneur's First National picture, “The Brass Bottle.” The former princess proved the ex- act type of -an Egyptian slave girl, which_the scenario called for. The farm daughter of Jowa, With a beauty offering & striking contrast to that of the princess, fitted the part of the gyptian prihcess as if it had been written for her. When “The Brass JBottle” is re- leased. strange turnabout, typical of the movies, whi be evidenced. The haughty princess of real life will pear as the humble slave, such as she on ght have commanded to do her ds. The humble daughter of the farm, like Cinderella, a princess vernight—just as she often dreamed about in her father's barn. And both are now on the road to succesa ‘with an equal chance to reach~her goal. Such is the:power of the movies. - 1 AMUSEMENTS. LATEST MOVIE GOSSIP FROM HOLLYWOOD lCansrtamv:e Talmadge on Her Hopes and Ambitions BY HALLETT ABEND. LOS ANGELES, June 28—The first time I interviewed Constance ! Taimadge the hour was first delayed, and, when it arrived, Targely de- voted to—green silk pants. She was then completing “East Is West,” and the green nether garments were mysteriously missing, so I had to wait outside #er dressing room while every one from director to property i man’s lowest assistant joined in the search. That was a year ago. When I interviewed Miss Talmadge the second time (this was last | Saturday), much of the time was given to the discussion of the black satin breeches which she was wearing, for she was in the boy’s costume which | she will don for a great portion of the footage of her next picture, “The Dangerous Maid,” a play of eighteenth century England, which has been { adapted from “Barbary Winslow, Rebel.” “I can scarcely shake hands, my wrist is so weak,” said the blonde one of the Talmadge sisters, as she gave me a hearty handclasp, which gave the white fib to her words. “You see, I've just come from a fencing lesson one hour long, and I'm not only weak, but almost too breathless to talk.” Whereupon she talked fascinatingly about everything but herself. Constance Talmadge has just c@mpleted “Dulcy.” It is now in the hands of the cutting and titling department, and within a fortnight I shall see it at a projection room preview. About this next release she did not talk at a]l, but she is enthusiastic about “The Dangerous Maid,” the finst | scenes of which have just been taken. . The last few days have been unluck for several film players and the bad luc! has run the gamut from injuries in acci- dents to arrests and divoree sults. First Pola trying®to catch | stipper thrown from a coach during th filming of “The Spanish Dancer, | proved that she would be no good be hind the bat. She did not catch th slipper in her hands, but her Tight ey caught jt. It is still black and blue. = N farie Mosquini, leading woman Rogers, drove her car into a . She was badly cut on the right nd six of her front teeth w loosene Then Monte Blue, during the filming of a Peter B. oty at Laguna Beach, jumped from a lifeboat. He jumped just ahead of a.big comber and the wave dashed the boat into his side One rib broken. Another affalr is the suing of Mar- garet Landis Bracken, sister of Cullen Her husband, Bertram C. is demanding a divorce on of desertio And_then | there was also the arrest of Tyrone Powers, nd screen actor, on com- plaint of his former wife, who charged Lim with fs o provide for his two | children, nine and seven years ol What Others Are Doing. Ernst Lubitsch, who has just com- pleted the direction of Mary Pickford in “The Street Singer,” has signed a long- term contract with Warner Brothers. His first_production under the new ar- rangement will be “Deburau.” The cast | has not yet been selected. Douglas Fairbanks, jr., aged thirteen years, has arrived hére for work under s Lasky contract. His first play prob- ably will be ““Tom Sawyer.” Marshall Neilan has completed filir ing of “The Rendezvous” for Goldwyn and has gone to New York to confs about his next production. The film i be cut and titled auline Freder few weeks at her home in Beverly Hill will not make a picture here this sum- mer, but will soon leave for England | where she will make several photopla | for_the Sterling productions. | “Herbert Rawlinson has discarded h | pugilist clothes and has completed the | flming of “The Victor” for Universa! | The photoplay is an adaptation of **Tw Bells for Pegasus,” a magazine sto erald Beaumont. n Ackdr, former wife of Rodolph Valentino, confirms the réport that she t rry Marquis Luis de Bazan ¥ Sandoval. have wanted a céstume play for | {a long time,” she sald, “and this par- [iticular play will be my first depar- ture from the comedy parts I have | been doing for so long. Next after this I shall probably make some mod- ern pictures, and after that I'l do “Madame Pompadour.” Will the pub- lic like me in that kind of a part, do you think?” I think the public will like her in | more serious roles, and told her o with great frankness, and I added that just because one has a gift for comedy is no reason that e mus do comedy all the time. When Con- stance Talmadge takes into her sle der graceful hands a frothy part she tosses it about with such joyvful assurance that it takes on the look of an irldescent bubble, but, as an artist, I am_satisfied, she can handle things less fragile than bubbles I told her so. The sot of her cves, the sensitive lines of her lips, which can quiver as appealingly as they can smile, the chin which can be either plquant or appealing—these features are marvelous assets for that kind of a part which swings from grave to gay. 1 think the public will welcom in_parts which tug at the he strings. Ten years hence, if she able to disguise her beauty, sho will be admirable in What Every Woman Knows." But, meanwhile, there are parts in plenty of similar texture Too Fat or Toeo Thint “Am I 100 fat for these clothes™ she asked In all sincerity, as she pirouetted before me in a boy's brown wig, a white linen shirt open at the throat, satin breeches and high boots of black un- dressed kid, At my assurance that s was boyishly slender, she sighed. “If you but knew,” she exclaimed. While I was doing ‘Duley’ the director thought I was too thin. After every ne I found some one at my elbow with a_glass of cream. Then I was put Into_these clothes and 1 stralghtway hired a Swedish masseuse, a Valkyric sort of person. She would poise herself and then swing, with both fists. ery time her fists came down on poor me stretched on a marble slab she left a dent—positively.” The boyish looking star disappeared into an inner dressing room. In fifteen minutes she was back, transformed. Gone the boy's wig and in its place her own fine spun blond halr dressed in the fashion of a century and a half ago. And_under the low bangs the large brown eyes looked forth demurely. The slender shculders and tor: were clad it wl h continued | in white panel to the hem of the s Over each hip were blue pan: heavy brocade which rustled as Negri, s has begun work upon pictures with V which stars e Ploneer.” The feature film be versal starring four. Dean has been named * | started as “John of the (Copyright, 1923, fn U. §, and Great Britain by North Americ Alliance. All rights reserved.) FILMOGRAMS E B the outdoor life and the types|duction i .t to be portrayed It was necessary to|Gan ‘gaier C ain, mueater. TPenrod George Melford to pick some of the|with Ben Alexander as Penrod S biggest men In motion pictures for field. and-has been lauded extrava- alomy Jane.” Thirteen | 820ty bY Booth Tarkingtogy members of the cast are over six| Nat Glaser, manax feet tall. Maurice Flynn, six feet Yrrvrkh'rh': g nd chief mechaniclan kL 2 ._|of the Crandall staff, returned tour; weight, 200 pounds, is the big-| Washington last weck from a hurrie® gest. Others are Jack Padjan, N\ ing which ho feet one, and George Fawcett, Wil- notion pletu Ham Davldson, Charles Ogle, G. Ray e mond Nye, Clarence = Burton il Thomas Carrigan. she Janice Meredith, which 1 read long ago. Then she was off for a screen test and stills. Newepaper premiere of his first independent pro- duction, {Penrod and m," at Cran- er of Crandall's Threa of the most popular fo; It is as drametic as any- | personator, who has appeared here|exhibition dancing will be shown in|came thing that has been done, and yet it|at Keith' carries great historical facts as well|and instantly killed on the beach at|duction, “Lawful Larceny,” by three Allan Dwan's new FParamoumt pro- | this of Broadway's Gilde Gray, orence and Alica Malson. favorite dancers— O'Denishawn | ¢ 5508 of four comedles f It was his Rupert of Hentzau, in|the1923-24 season. “The Prisoner of Zenda,” that brought | Ramon Novarro into the lenslight. “Where the Pavement Ends" seems to assure his definite stay. to make a new seri Vitagraph for Appealing close-ups in several Gri fith films gave Ben Alexander world-wide reputation. He has sin grown up, however. from a yellow- Feaded mite into a sturdy schoolboy He is now playing Penrod in Fir: Natlonal's “Penrod and Sam.” ) though his hair has grown darker | bis features haven't altered. A movement has been started b native ifornfans to honor Carm. vers, now playing in “The Magic Skin’" She is the only well known picture player born in California. Patsy Ruth Miller is only nieteen, and she is one of the few flappers who didn't arrive via bathing girl| comedies. Gareth Hughes Is twenty-three years old; Harrison Ford is not mar- ried. Cullen Landis is married. Eileen Percy is about twenty-two and mar- rled. Agnes Ayres is twenty-four and not married. Igla Lee is twenty one and unmarried. Lois Wilson is about twenty-four and Irene Rich Nelther is married. Eleanor Boardman, called “The Cin- derella_of the Screen,” who ,played the leading role in “Souls Fof Sale.” the Rupert Hughes picture of Holly- wood life, will be seen next in the feminine lead of “Three Wise Fools."” This was directed by King Vidor. “What would you do if you got letter from the Ku Klux Klan?” Owen Moore asked a member of the negro orchestra piotured in “The Silent Partner. “I'd read It on the train,” was the swift reply. Pola Negri has changed her coif- She has worn her hair bobbed and usually with a band about her head ever since coming to this cou try, but in her forthcoming Para- mount picture, “The Cheat,” she will wear it high on the head. Preparations afe nearly complete for starting James Cruze's next Paramount picture, “Ruggles of Red @ap.” The story has been .adapted from Harry Leon Wilson's novel by Thomas J. Geraghty. Ernest Tor- rence has been assigned the leading character role of Cousin Egbert. “Red pletur fo be Lights, to by thrilli In the cast are M Lake, . Raymond Walker and Lionel one of Goldwyn's released soon, Is sald” mystery melodrama. rie Prevost, Alicg Griffith, Johnnie Belmore. Evelyn Walsh Hall, British classic and Shakespearian ress who came here to play Queen Elizabeth in John Barrymore's production of “Richard IIL" has been engaged by Charles J. * Brabin for one of the principal roles In “Six Days.” the Elinor Glyn story he is directing for Goldwyn. Miss Hall has appeared in several fllms in England. In private life she is the wife of Claude King, the noted Brit- ish actor, but in the pleturs they have tho relatfon of brothér and sis- ter. “A Gentleman of Leisure,” the screen story adapted by Anthony W. Colde- wey from the Stapleton and Wode- house play, had fully one hundred extra players in an eéxact reproduc- tion of the Waterloo station, in Lon- don, Opening the mail of fans' selections for “Ben Hur” Casting Director Robert McIntyre of Goldwyn found a “round robin’ for Thomas Meighan. It con- tained fifty-seven votes for Meighan, all in the same handwriting, with the note: “I got my friends’ names, but wrote them in my own handwriting, so you could reed them!" e / Tour famous character actors, Ho- bart Bosworth, William V. Mong, Sam de Grasse and Luclen Littlefield, play prominent roles in “In the Palace of the King.” Emmett Flynn is direct- ing. % Max Pugatsky, successor to Daniel Breeskin, as conductor of the or- chestra at Crandall's Savoy Theater and Garden, and a gifted resident vio- lin virtuoso, is gpid to be making an tmpress fupon the Savoy's large clientele. His rendition of the *Med- itation” from “Thais” by Massenet, Jast week was hailed as a genuine musical treat, From 1914 to 1918 Gaston Glass ac- tuaily achieved a war record of his ; own as distinguished as that he as- sumes In his recent plcture, “Tte Hero.” s “Faint Perfume,” Zona Gale's pop- ular novel, will be filmed in the near future by next winter will be presented as a ‘ Broadway play by Brock Pemberton. The idea of synchronizing thematia music to films was first conceived bv Vetor Schertzinger, the composcr- director. J. K. McDonald, one of the youngest e producers of motion pictures and re-| The highest price paid this year for cently affiliated with Associated First|screen rights is the $100,000" that B National, was a visitor at the Cran- | P. Sculberg, president of Preferred dall executive offices last week, | Pictures, has given John Golden for : where he conferred with Mr, Cran-|the privilege of filming Frank Cra- dall and his staff on the carly!ven's play, “The First Year.” Praferred Pictures and |