Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1923, Page 53

AMUS EMENTS. Photoplays This Week' AT THE PHOTOPLAY RIALTO—"The Spoilers,” Goldwy: story. Shown this afterncon METROPOLITAN—Katherine COLUMBIA—"Divorce.” Shown HOUSES THIS WEEK. n's new production of Rex Beach's and evening. ¥ £ h MacDonald, in “Money, Money, Money!” Shown this afternoon and evening. this afternoon and evening. PALACE—“The Fog,” a Metro production. Shown this afternoon and evening. CENTRAL—“Mary of the Movies featuring Hollywood celebrities. Shown this afternoon and evening. CRANDALL' noon and evening. RIALTO—“The Spoilers.” Excitement and thrills, and conflict are said to be crowded into “The Spoilers,” Goldwyn Pic tures production of Rex Beach's fa- mous novel of Alaska, which will be the attraction at Moore’s Rialto The- rater this week, beginnifig today. The book, as many will recall, was & sensation {n its day and when ten Years ago Selfg made a film of that, too, was a big success. The 1923 “Spollers,” however, is said to surpass the original screen version. The cast, headed by Milton Sills, in- Cludes Barbara Bedford, Anna Q. Nilsson, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Robert Edeson.- Mitchell Lewis. Ford Sterling, Rockeliffe Fellows, Robert McKim and Sam de Grasse. “The Spoilers” was written by Beach from actual observation of the turmcil that followed in the Yukon when crooks jumped the claims the miners and looted them of their gold for months before justice was estallished. Y The supplemental a beautiful scenic re est Fox News, with or directed by Claude V. Burrows. dur ing the vacktion of Georze Wild, di- rector of the Rialto Orchestra. METROPOLITAN — Katherine MacDonald in ‘“Money, Money, Money."” The bi suspense features include ew and the lat- hestral music, ranged for this week, he- ginning this afternoon. at Crandall’ Metropolitan Theater, will inclu Katherine MacDonald, ** the Americ beauty.” in “Money, Money, Mon Larry Semon, in his Vitagraph comedy. “The Barn with Kath- Ivn Meyers. al numbers. under the direction niel ¥ Kin—Tobani’s “Creme i Crem *a potpourri of the w greatest musical gems, including * et Alice Ben L Moszkowsk Serenade. Weber's “Invitation to the Walt; Liszt's ond Rhapso and the Pizzicato TPolka. with “A Perfeet Day.” by Bond: the World rvey scenic short reels “Money. ten by L ard,” P and other Mo Money™ w rr E n and is a mple tale Of small-town Americans—one mily rich, the other in moderate renmstances—picturing the star in & plain gingham frock, into whose n of a city manufac. who has tried for rs to buy sut her father without suec The age banker, however, thinks he * Bees a way to turn the trick by means that are decidedly shady. The man- ner in which Priscilla Hobbs salvages the family fortune and puts the quietus upon the un: upulous banker comprises the crux of the play. COLUMBIA—"Divorce." Loew's Columbia The week, beginning this afternoon, Chester Bennett's dramatic n- went of the divorce evil and attend- ant marriage problems, “Divorce, will be shown. with June Novak fea- tured in a strong cast and supple- mented Mack Sennett’s late comedy starring Ben Turpin, “Wh My Wandering Boy This Bven the International News pictures and orchestral musie, under the direction of Leon Brusilof “Divor: deseribed and amazing :tudy of modern matri mony, is bascd on an original sto Ly And ennison. It was di rected b nett, and its cast, headed b ovak, includes John Bower rrigan, Edythe Chapman, Margaret Livingst man Wood, George Fisher and De Lacy. It concerns the domestic affairs of rising voung business 1 with an adorable " wife and their child. The wife's father, who is also the hus- Land's_employer, offers him tion. The increate in income involve him in an atmosphere of s writ- At ter this as a dynamic ppe —Jack Holt, in “The Tiger's Claw.” it | of | Metropolitan's | promo- | Shown this after- | domestic irresponsibility that the way to trouble and divorce, until the wife, in desperation, prevails upon her father to discharge him, and lat one stroke of g pen he is reduced |to poveriy and thade to face actu- alities. paves PALACE—"The Fog.” version of “The | v shown at Loew's Palace i | screen [ new of 3 the Ae | Ur | der the direction Gunnon. Mildred Harris and Cullen Land have the leading roles of “The Fog, which is an adaptation of the original | story by Willlam Dudley Pelley, di- ¥ Paul Powcll $279 cast includes Lo Louise Diesser, Marjorie I | May, Ethel Wales, Cullen | is, David Butier, Frank | dward Phillips. | is a_dramatic treat of the theme that when two humans are born and destined to mate fate will bring them together though they are half a werld apart. The story [#hows how two individuals, a man and a_ woman, fight the good fight for fortune and aanpis witn uniy @ poem as a link between them. and meet years later in the certain knowl- edge ‘that cach is necessary to the other's happines CENTRAL—"Mary of the Movies. Forty of the | picture_colony in_Hollywood 1 “Mary of the Movies, th piay to be shown at € tral Theater the first thre this week, beginning this afi The title role is played by Marion Mack, a newcomer, who is t a girl from a little town in Arizona intent upon winning fame on the sil- | ver sheet. Her experiences are said to be typical of the life of the players who assist her in the film and to Present a true picture of Hollywood as it actually is. The comedy will be Harold Llo Haunted Spooks,” in which Mildred Davis, now Mrs Lloyd, appears. The Kinograms, shopt reel rgan music by Messrs. T 1d Linn will be added attraction and Thursd. “thel Clayton ill be pic- tured in “The Remittance Woman," the romance of a young heire nt by her father to China to live on an llowance. Rockliffe Fellowes, Tom Wilson and Kimball re drs. er De Haven a en in It with Diumonds.” Friday and urday Kathlyn Williams, in 1 versal’s new production, immed in will be the attraction ith Chaplin in “Sunnyside,” 1 pipe-organ inter- of Thomus Joseph Landis, Cu rent celebrities motion- ppear phot all's Cen- days of rnoon. will be CRANDALL'S—Jack Holt in “The Tiger's Claw.” \ Jack Holt. as Sam Sandell, young Amefican engineer, clawed by a tiger, stricken with fever and nursed bac to health by a half-caste native girl in India, in’ “The Tigers Claw.” will be the feature the first three days of this w at Crandall's Theater. Complications set in as soon as it is revealed that the girl's father thug chief intent on terminating invasion of his native land by wh The cast includes Eva Novak, tram Grassby, Afleen Pringle, Stockdale and Robert The edy will be Christie's Pa Sexes. Walter Hiers. in “Sixty Hour,” will follow on W Thursday. The story adventures of 300 po of Jerker” who nurtures a warm des 4 the daughter of the villag Cart - [ roof Cents an nesday and The Movies Do Move HOSE whose interest in motion pictures extends back to that re- mote period when David Wark Grif- fith had just originated the up” and screen acting consisted argely of a succession of unreal e travagances ,terminating in the in- Jle cross-country cha have reason to feel a degree of satisfaction in the artistic development of th. new form of epression which grown in a decade and a half to present eminence in American amuse ments. The quality of acting on the screen ,today n the finer pictures will stand comparison with the bhest that is available in the theaters. A few of the stars of the speaking stage have a0t registered well i gitatin, bt the great majority have given gen- erously of their talen Lo 1 sheet, 'here are, also, a few photoplay luminaries who have never trod the boards—Norma Talmadge, for example. This gradual expansion of the scope of the pictures and the stendy broadening of the powers of the actor for the camera are really worthy of note. Not a few of the followers of the films had come to believe that Theodore Roberts had permanently adopted the blustering father. tilted cigar type, as his life work when he BHrought & “Grumpy v rus ~ci .. pluced the stamp of greatness upon him, Norma Talmadge, also, after having produced a series of spectacu- Jar dramas A3 “elose- s Ereat has | | in her characteriz ner, the p. the' Law. tirely el ation of Mary Tur- athetic shopgirl in i Such ve shatters the industry’s earliest £ that one player must necd ad- here to one type to be successful, The most Tecent manifestation this, it is said, is to be found in Katherine MacDonald's work in “Mone: Money, Money which will be shown here this k. This trees, who has posed nificent scenes in many pictures de- signed largely to accentuate her beauty, comes down to earth and of- fers now her most convincing char- acterization as a small-town, ging- ham girl, accustomed to the kitchen and capable of making wonderful doughnuts. Given a chance to be hu- man, Miss MacDonald, it is said. proves herself a very much m capable actress than Wwas ever sus- pected. | ven more surprising is declared tional character study offer- rl Stockdale, as the plodding manufacturer, whos social graces were not sufficiently conspicuous to | command the admiration of his fam- | Mr. Stockdale, previously, had | appeared almost exclusively in parts of such deep-dyed villainy that no adequate notion was ever obtained of | the real interpretative power of the man. Now he is said to offer an ad- mirable piece of work in his sympa- thetic drawing of a patient, kindly old man. Producers and directors evidently have finally begun to study their take nothing for of | bus and How Styles Are Born. TYLES, like stories, originate from suggestion, aided by imagination. A story writer sees or hears some- thing that arouses curiosity. From this curlosity he builds a story which thrills the werld. The fashion de- signer sees a peculiar dress that arouses his imagination.. Immedi- , ately he sets to work and evolves | _The second is a taupe gabardine | strect suit with a jacquette designed | in the loose-fitting Russian style, | with sleeves bound at the wrists and a slight sag at the shoulders. For the last of her three creations Miss Chaffin adapted the broad band circling the hips. still clinging to tl loose-fitting blouse and straight lines. She also “borrowed” the swag- ger stick, although not quite so large as that of the Russian miss. i something new to delight the hearts of the women of the world. When Gloria Swanson was fitted for the beautiful gowns she will wear in “Bluebeard's Eighth Wife” Director Woog gave orders to Ethel Chaflin, chief fashion designer of the Paramount west coast studio, to originate something new—some- thing that will make women glad. For several days Miss Chaffin stud- jed for new ideas, but was at a loss. Just as writers Sometimes get into 5 slump and cannot grind out story ideag, so do fashion designers fall into the throes of non-imaginative- ness. Then Thals_Valdemar visited the studio., Miss Valdemar is from Rus- sla. pon her visit she wore the Russian street garb to be shown in the picture. Upon seeing Miss Valdemar, Miss Chaffin’s imagination was at once aroused by the quaint Russian cos- tume, so she at once set to wsork and gevised three unique gowns, all of hich will be worn by Miss Swanson in_the picture. The first is a beige gabardine cape coat, into which she worked the straight Russian lines, the loosa Viouse and somewhat tight fur col- Jur plece of raccopn. being | Zaza's Love Nest. | (QUT on the W. W. Buhrmann estate in Douglaston, Long Island, at the headwaters of Little Neck bay where, ninety-five vears ago, small craft used to put in for supplies from |the general store, a little bit of | southern France has been translated for scenes in “Zaza,” Allan Dwan's production of the famous French play, with Gloria Swanson in the title role. The old general store, which was built in 1828 by Benjamin P. Lowerre, has been transformed into the quaint- est French home imaginable. It is Zaza's love nest. The gristmill where the farmers used to come in the early days to get their grain ground and a demijohn of rum, has been made into a thatched building by the art department, and the old barn which stood next to the store has been fixed over to represent a Itypical French barn. All these buildings stand on the edge of the beautiful lake. “This location is one of the most picturesque I ever have seen,” Mr. Dwau commented, .1 The play is one in which McRae fs THE SUNDAY STAR, | . . |Actors' Fund of America THE Actors' Fund of America is for | % the purpose of caring for and sup- porting the unfortunate actors and actresses of the dramatic profession. A home is maintained on Staten |1sland, where the aged actors and |actresses who have given the best {years of their lives to entertaining | the public are cared for. \ Great actors and actresses of the past decade are there—those whom |you all loved to honor by going to | see them in historic roles in Shakes- | pearean and other great plays. Now these pecple are old and_infirm, and |are cared for by this Fund. ' Two doilars will make you a member, and | all are invited 1o join and help along this good work. The actor is gracious and liberal in ving his time and talent when any catastrophy is in evidence, or in fact where any great charitable work is {undertaken. He can always be found working for the cause. A recipro- |eation of this generous consideration on his part would be much appreci- ated. Checks or money orders should be made payable to the order of Actors’ Fund of America, and sent to Mr. Daniel 701 Tth Bruce McRae to Star. { BRUCE McRAE, the English actor ! who during the entire past sea- | son has been Ina Claire's leading man | in the Frohman production of “The Awful Truth.” has signed a contract to star in_“The Alarm Clock," an {adaptation from the French by Avery { Hopwood. to have since seeing on abroad, feeling not only that ts leading part, that of Bobby Bran- | {don, & smart man about town, is one to which he could do justice, but also that the general theme of . which has to do with the of the present age, is une that will arouse general interest. The ‘alarm | clock™ of the play, from which it de- rives its title, the silent signal of gout, which is supposed always to give fair warning to its victims that the time has come to cease living quite so “high.” icorge Marshall, in association with A. H. Woods, will present ““The Alarm Clock™ at the Belasco immediately fol- lowing “Why Men Leave Home.” A distineuished cast will include Blancne Ring and Marion Coakley. Has His Old Cast. ARRY GREEN, who comes back to Washington again with his first success, “The Cherry Tree,” in which as the role of George Washing- ton Cohen, a little Jew, who, like the father of his country, could not tell a lie, has been abroad for several vears, during which he played the sketch in the English provinces be- fore presenting in London the full Iength Aaron Hoffman play, “Wel- come, Stranger,” which ran for al- most a year before he carried it to the provinces and even to Scotland. On returning to America, however, wanted to play “The Cherry Tree" again, and with the original cast, many of whom had other engage- nts in which they were achieving ore or_less suce Its members in- cluded Walcot Allen, Denis Auburn. George Parks and Flsrence Johns He secured them, but it cost him mething.. Miss Johns alone, who had been playing in “Abraham Lin- coln,” the Galsworthy play, cost him : graven tablets, the children of Israel five times her original salary, he|preak out into a revel before a calf says, but he wanted her and was hap- (of gold. when he got her. This will be the closing = the prologue before the picture fades into the modern story. w fille and a huge com vaid terest Iy had great personal in- it in the origi i Cullen Landis and Mild HAT crisis in the wanderings of the children of Israel from Egypt to Canaan’ when they turned to the worship of the calf of gold at the foot of Mt. Sinai is being put into wood. It is ume of the final spec- tacles in the biblical prologue which Cecil Be DeMille is making for his Paramount picture, “The Ten Com- mandments,” the story of which was written by Jeanie Macpherson. It was neces: to resort to the scene painter's » secure realism, nd Francis McComas, famous water- color artist, was commissioned to su- pervise the construction of a canyon that would make it possible to film that portion of the story of the book of Exodus where, after Moses has scended Mt. Sinal to receive bank president, with Harry Carey, in 1 drama of the west, “The Betty Compson, in Silk,” will be shown Friday and Sat- urday. with Buddy Messenger in a new comedy, “Don’t Get Fresh.” The Rustle of Apollo. Today and tomorrow, Betty Comp- son and Conway Tearle, in “The Rus- tle of Silk. and Buster Keaton, in “The Love Tuesday and Wed- nesday, Bfbe and Antonio Moreno, in “The Exciters,” and Bobby Fernon. in *“Take Your Choice"; Thursday, “Success.” and Dorothy De. vore, in “Winter Has Came”; Frid Ethel Clayton, in “The Remittance Worn- an” and George O'Hara, in “Fighting Blood.” No. 7; Saturday, Dorothy Dal- ton, in “Fog Bound.” and Stan Laurel, in “Collars and Cuff; ¢+ AFTER making many plctures of life in the rugged and primitive west,” says Victor Fleming, “I am be- companies suffer much more hardship than the people they imitate. Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow, Bebe Daniels, in “The Exciters,” and Bobby Vernon. in “Take Your Choice”: Tuesday and Wednesday, Betty Compson and Con. way Tearle, in “The Rustle of Silk,’ and Buster Keaton, in “The Love Nest”; Thursday, Dorothy Dalton, in og 'Bound,” and Stan Laurel, in Collars and Cufts”; Friday. “Success, and Dorothy Devore, In *Winter Has Came”; Saturday, Walter Hiers, in Sixty 'Cents an Hour,” gnd Harold Lloyd, in “Haurted Spooks.” ccording to the stories of oldtimers themselves, they suffercd for the lust of gold and the spirit of ad- venture. Motion plcture people climb mountains, sleep in the open, and un- dergo a multitude of inconveniences S0 that the American public can { entertained.. They suffer uncomplain- llm{l)'. always hoping that the finished picture may be an epic of the screen. “In the making of my present picture, }|'To the Last Man,< which has been adapted for the screen from Zane Grey's famous story, I feel sure that we outdid the primitlve Arizona cattlemen in the strenuousness of our lives, “All luggage had to be brought into location by pack horses over thirty miles of steep rock-strewn trails. By this route, too, came all messages from the outside world. For two whole weeks we climbed each morning from 2 our camp to location 2,500 feet above. Chevy Chase. Tomorrow and Tuesday, Jack Pick- ford. in “Garrison's Finish”; Aesop's Fables, “The Burglar Alarm.” and Kinograms; Wednesday and Thursday, Leatrice Joy and Jacqueline Logan, in “Jaya Head": Lige Conley, in “Hold Tight” and Kinograms; Friday, Tom Mix, in “Stepping Fast”; Stan Laurel, in “Pick and Shovel” 'and “Oregon Trall,” No. 17; Saturday (open 3 p.m. Frank Mayo, in “The Bolted Doo Century comedy, “Hold O and Pearl ‘White, in “Plunder,” No. 13. Elite. Today and tomorrow, Senna Owen, in “The Go-Getter”; Tuesday, Charles Richmond. in “Has the World Gone Mad?”; Wednesday, Marlon Davies, in “Adam and Eva”; Thursday, Helen Chadwick and Richard Dix, In “Quicksands”; Friday, Gloria Swan- son, in “Prodigal Daughters”; Satur- day, “Mary of the Movies.” Olympiec. Today, “Trail of the Lonesom Pine” ; tomorrow, “The Love Letter” Tuesday, “The Woman of Wednesday and Thursday, Fool Your Wife"; Friday, Sea’ Saturday, “All ‘Were Valian Bronze”; Friday and Saturday, Rich- ard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish, in “The Bright Shawl."” Circle, Today and tomorrow, Ralph Lewis and all-star cast, in “Westbound Limited"; Tuesday, Estelle Taylor, in “A Fool There Wednesday, Madge Bellamy oul of the Breast”; Thursday and Friday, Mary Carr, in “Silver Wings"; Saturday, Agnes Ayres, in “Racing Hearts.” Carolina. Today and tomorrow, “The Go Get- ter”; Tuesday, Ethel Clayton, in “Can a Woman Love Twice?” Wednesday, “Has the World Gone Mad?" Thurs- day, “Wonders of the Sea”; Friday, Priscilla Dean, in “The Flame of Life"; Saturday, Johnnie Walker, in “The Fourth Musketeer.” Olympic. Today, “Trall of the Lonesome I Pine": tomorrow, “The Love Letter": | Tuesday, “The Woman ‘of Bronze": : " | Wednesday and Thursday, “You Can't You Can't pogl Your Wife"; Friday, “Toll of Toll of the | 11" Sea”; Saturday, “All the Brothers the Brothers ihe Sea’: Satur - Raphael. ; and tomorrow, “The Bright {arnois “Puesday, “What's. Wrong | With the Woman®; Wednesday, Lulu McGrath, in ~Wonders of the' Sea”; | Thursday, Reginald Denny, in “The Abysmal Brute”; Friday, Gladys Wal- tom, in “Gossip": Saturday, Hoot Gib- son, in “Dead Game Savoy. Today and tomorrow, Bebe Daniels, in “The Excites and Lige Conley, in “This Way Out”; Tuesday and Wed- nesday, Betty Compson and Conway Tearle, in “The Rustle of Silk,” and Buster Keaton, in “The Love Nest”; Thursday, Dorothy Dalton in “Fog " and Neal Burns, in “Be Your- Friday, “Success,” nd _Stan in “Under Two Jags' Satur- day, Walter Hiers, in “Sixty Cents an Hour” and Harry' Pollard, in “Whera m 17" £ Home. Today and tomorrow, Elinor Fair, in "Drlzcn ; Tuesday, Gladys Walton, jin “Crossed Wires' ‘Wednesday, Mary Miles Minter, in “Trail of the Lonesome Pine”; Thursday, Marian Mack, in “Mary of the Movies”; day, “What's Wrong With the Wom- ten? ol e A Saturday, Agnes Ayres, in “Racing Hearts." Viola Dana, in “A Cosmo Hamilton and Leslie Stuart Newboro”; Wednesday, | have collaborated on a comic opera York. Today and tomorrow, Milton Sills and Anna Q. Nilsson, in “The Isle of Lost Ships,” and Aesop fable, “Spooks”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Rupert Hughes' “Souls for Sale,” and Jimmie Adams, in “The Dude”. Thurs- day, Jack Holt, in “The Tiger's Claw,” and arold ~ Lioyd, in “Haunted Spooks"; Friday, “Mary of the Mov- and George O'Hara, in “Fighting Rlood, 0. 7; Saturday, “The Famous Mrs. Fair,” and Stan Laurel, in “Col- lars and Cuffs” . rfow, Gladys Walton, in “Gos- ; Tuesday, Herbert Rawlinson, in ‘Nobody's Bride”; Wednesday, Dorls May, in “The Understudy”; Thursday, Norma Talmadge, in “Secret of the Storm Country”; Friday, Ethel Gray Terry, In “What Wives Want”; Sat- urday, Hoot Gibson, in ‘Single Handed." Has Won Stardom. Impressed by the enthusiastic re- ception accorded Doris Moore in her portrayal of Le Roy Clemens’ stage- struck infant in “After the Rain, George P. Marshall has commissioned Mr. Clemens to write a full-length comedy of youth for her. Takoma. Tomorrow and Tuesday, “Glimpses of the Moon,” Mermaid comedy and Kinograms; Wednesday and Thurs. day, Pola Negri, in “Mad Love,” Snub Poliard comedy and Topics of the Day; Friday and Saturday, “The Go Gette: Christie comedy and Kino- Princess. onders of ' the tomorrow, “Has Mad?" Tuesday, in TY Sea™; the “World Gone Noise “Hun; Favorite. Hearts”; Thursday, Clara|named “Nina.” It will be produced Kimbal Today, “Has the World Gone Mad" Young, in “The Woman of Lin-the fall, _... 3 red Filming’ Ten Commandments motion pletures this week near Holly- | the | scene of | Outdid the Pioneers. coming convinced that motion picture | these | { | Harris—Loew’s Pal ace. ,Pany were at Guadalupe making the | scenes showing the Egyptian cap- tivity of the children of Israel, Theo- dore Koslofft was at Hollywood train- ing a group of 300 dancers for the revel scen More than 1.200 other players take part in this scene After quitting camp Guadalupe Mr. DeMille took his iy tof Muroe, Calif., wh were | taken on the ise dry | lake In the Mofav howings | the headlong dash of 250 ptian | chariots after the Israelit This | will cut in with the art of the charfots | at Guadalupe and will be one of the | most spectacular scenes of the pro- duction. Scenes de at Portuguese Bend | represent opposite sides of the F sea and show the Israelites just afte crossing. The scenes at Anaheim landing again brought the chariots into play and showed the onrushing vehicles stopped by the pillar of fire | just before the camp of the Israelites | was reached. | From now on Mr. DeMille will con- | tinue with the modern story, show- ing the relation of the commandment. brought down from the mountain b M to the life of toda at com et | \In places, this trail was so steep that the horses had to be practically drag- | ged up by their halters. W brought | timber forty-two miles over rough | roads for the construction of c:thlnsi used in the picture | “In making the sequence showing | the clff dynamited to close the e trance to a secret canyon, w man h 1o climb to the precipitous face ‘The Rim." I am sure p | faced & more nerve-racking experience | than the photographers who filmed the result of that explosion from positions hundreds of feet below. i “We had to get a picture which the | American public would enjoy. The scenes must be made to look real and thrilling and vet no lives could be en- dangered. Fearful undertakings must be attempted and their fearfulness must register on the screen. “I have just read the story of a trek across the plains by our forefathers L don’t want lo belittle their courage, | but as our cavalcade trotted through | the mountain defiles of Arlzona back toward civilization after the completion of the picture, 1 wondered whether | these imitators of the old heroes of the | west should not be immortalized. Likes “The Spoilers.” HEN Col. Sellg, one of the pio- neers of the motion picture game, | produced Rex Beach's epic of Alaska, | “The Spoilers,” more than ten vears ago, Willlam Farnum played the lead- ing part, that of Roy Glennister, The picture was a world-wide success, and so was Farnum, Theatergoers still talk of the fight tn “The Spoilers” between Farnum | and Tom Santschi. Farnum, a glant of a man, sat next to the producer | during the screening of the picture reproduced recently by Goldw: eral Umes as the audience applauded loudly he gripped the producer by the hand. < His emotion was plain to be seen as he watched the picture that, when first produced, brought 2im fame and fortune. Upon leaving the little theater, the actor seized Milton Sills, who inter- prets the role of Glennister in the S‘nxdwm version, and congratulated m, “Marvelous, immense,” he sald, “It is the greatest picture I have ever seen. 1 would have given ten years of my life to have played the part again.” | Seek Summer Diversion THERE will be a general exodus of Crandall executives from Wash- ington, beginning about the middle of the present month. Harry M. Cran- dall, owner of the Crandall theaters; Mrs. Crandall and Misses Mildred, Olga and Dorothy Crandall; Joseph P. Morgan, general manager, and Mrs. { And some {sclected for relssue are the best we | have and have heen re-edited and re- !the stridés made in shipbuilding dur- | ater ocean liner until |and accompanied the huge WASHINGTON, D. €, JULY 8, 1923—PART 3. NEXT WEEK’S PHOTOPLAYS RIALTO — Alfred Lunt and Edith Roberts, in “Back- bone,” Clarence Budington’s magazine story. METROPOLITAN — Douglas MacLean, in “A Man of Action,” an Ince production. PALACE—Jack Holt, in “No- body’s Money.’ 5 COLUMBIA — “Children of Jazz,” Penrhyn Stanlaw’s roduction of the Harold / righouse story. 3 CENTRAL—Henry Hull, in “The Last Moment.” CRANDALL’'S—Jack Hoxie, in “Don Quick Shot of the Rio Grande.” Paramount to Re- Issue Comedies LD favorites among the Mack Sennett comedies are to be seen again as a result of the decision of Paramount officials to reissue twenty- five of them, beginning August 5 and running through the season of 1923-24. “In reissuing these comedies,” S. R. Kent, general manager, stated, “we believe we are rendering a service to exhibitors and the public. Accord- ing to reports, there is a shortage of short subjects. Many of the come dians who formerly appeared in one and two reel pictures are now mak ing them four, five and even six reels. of the companies which used to handle comedies and short subjects have cut them out entirely. “The twenty-five comedies we have l titled. Featured in them Turpin, Charlie Murray, Marie Pre- vost, Louise Fazenda, Charles Lynn, Chester Conklin, Ford Sterling, Kalla Pasha, Jim Finlayson, Vera Stead- man, Myrtle Lind, Harriet Hammond, Allce Maison, John Henry, jr.; Mary Thurman: Teddy, the great Dane; Pepper, the cat; Phyllis Haver, Tom Kennedy, Bert Roach, Harry Gribbon. Al McKinnon, Billy Armstrong, Eddie Gribbon, Baldy Belmont and others. are Ben Clermont Pays Homage to Leviathan OBERT FULTON'S Clermont steamed down the river to pay Lomage to the S.8. Leviathan, the new queen of the American merchant ma- rine. The Clermont, an exact replica of Fulton's historic first steamboat, was designed and built especially for the filming of Marion Davies' new ple- ture, “Little Old New York.” Tts first trip constitutes one of the most in- teresting episodes in the photoplay, and Robert Fulton is seep as one of the principal characters. The reproduction of the historic Clermont _is now docked at pier 84, and affords a graphic illustration of ing the last centu The unique craft was stationed ose to the mon- the Leviathan set out on her first formal trip since her reconstruction. The Clermont acted as an escort to the Leviathan vessel down througn the Narrows. Smoking Flappers of Yore. IGARETTE-SMOKING fiappers of | today are only mild imitations | of the girls who used tobacco 400] vears ago, when instead of merely | braving the frowns of the old people | in those days, the glirls faced the ter- rors of excommunication from the church and the death penalty. And instead of the delicate, fragrant cigarette of modern times, they in- dulged in husky whiffs from pipes. Th modern study of the ways of flappers of olden times was made re- cently at the Paramount West Coast Studio, where Herbert Brenon is pro- ducing “The Spanish Dancer,” with Pola Negri in the stellar role. Being a screen adaptation of the story. “Don Caesar de Bazan,” the time is that of Philip IV of Spain. Tobacco had been introduced into Spain only few years before and its use had be- come widespread, both for smoking and in the form of snuff. Needless to remark, Pgla Negri has had some special kind of imitation snuff made for the picture. “Up She Goes."” OMI of our lighter set who find the music in the plays like ¥Blos- some Time” and “Springtime of Youth" | a little too high-brow and insist upon | more dancing and snap may like “Up | She Goes,” a perfectly clean and first- | rate musical play, which will have a _ AMUSEME LATE MOVI NTS. E GOSSIP FROM HOLLYWOOD Hope Hampton in “The Gold Diggers,” Finds She Likes Comedy. yright, 1023, In United States and rGeat n, by ‘North American Newspaper Alli- “All rights roserved.) | BY HALLETT ABEND. i LOS ANGELES, July 5.—It must be | all of ten years since, in the Pacific | northwest, 1 saw Nazimova's stage | production of “Comtesse Coguette. That was the only time I saw Nazimova in a comedy on the stage and I enjoyed her work to the full, hut until yesterday I had not thought of the performance for several years. Yesterday afternoon, nowever, as I stood In the dusk of the big stage at the Warner Bros.’ studio, just out- side the glow of many lights trained upon a lavish set, T remembered one of Nazimova's most effective en-| trances. | It was Hope Hampton who stirred | the recollection—Hope Hampton as she swept on to the set before the | camera, her chin in the air, the flash | of anger in her eyes. Miss Hampton was enacting a scene from “The Gold Diggers” and she was doing it very well. Even Harry Beaumont, who as | a director Is highly critical, was sat- | isfled with the one rehearsal and or- | dered the cameras to grind at once. While the scene was being photo- graphed I passed the time by inspect- ing the other persons on the set, and decided that “The Gold Diggers” has been admirably cast for type. Louise Fazenda was there looking her part and doing the sound work which she | always does. And Johnny Harron, | tall and almost too graceful, was in | evidence, The others I did not know by name, but they all looked thelir | parts. | Later, while Harron and some dark, short flapper were having & scene of | their own, Hope Hampton and I sat | apart in the semi-dusk and talked. | “The Gold Diggers” is Miss Hamp- | ton's first comedy. Do you know. mensely and my (Ce Brit ance. I'm liking it im- king surprises me, she said. “Just at first I demurred at doing this part. I admitted the play was fine, but 1 doubted ever suc- | ceeding as a comedienne. Now that I'm well into the work, I like it even better than the kind of roles I have | handled in the past.” The public will soon have an op- portunity to judge for itself the kind of part in which Miss Hampton ex- cels. Her next release will be “Does | It Pay?”” in which she plays the part | of a straight v Her second rve- leage will which she plays the young wif emotional part. Then will come Gold Diggers.,” in which she will be seen as the comedienne. | My guess is that the last of the three will win the largest public, for Miss Hampton has. I think, the equip- | ment for handling polite comedy | parts. In the first place, she can put on to the screen her vitality, which seems to come from an inexhaustible | spring. Then. too, she acts from her | ankles up—all of her supple body is put into play. So many people who try comedy use only thelr faces and | forget that a body line, a shoulder, an arm, even in repose, has a tre- mendous value. I commented on these elements of her method “Do T do all that?" she asked. I do it is instinetive. But from the smile in her eyes and the serious bend of her lips T wonder if she was really in earnest. | What Others Are Doing. Kenneth Harlan, who has just com- pleted a one-year contract with R. P. Schulberg for Preferred Pictures, has been signed to a three-year agree- ment. e Mary Miles Minter is considering o vaudeville contract offered by the Keith syndicate. Louis’ B. Mayer announces a pro- duction program calling for an out- lay of $3,000,000 within the next twelve months. The first of the new films will be “Vleasure Mad,” and Regi- nald Barker will direct ft. Edmund Lowe, now playing oppo- site Blanche Sweet in “In the Palace of the King,” is being considered for the title role in “Ben Hu; Anita Stewart writes from New York that she will not return to Hollywood this summer, but will re- main in the east and play in a film version of H. C. Witwer's “Cain and Mabel.” “After that she will probably ®o to England. Preferred Plotures has purchased the screen rights to Zona Gale “Faint Perfume,” which was pub- published in the Century Magazine. After three changes, Viola Dana's ew photoplay has finaily been named ‘The. Soclal Code.” Mary Thurman and Riley Hatch have been added to the stellar cast supporting Gloria Swanson in the Lasky production of “Zaza." Camille Deslys, sister of the fa- mous Gaby, is in Hollywood and will probably try out in the films. She is just elghteen, she says, and is a dancer. Priscilla Dean's next Universal pic- ture will be “The Storm Daughter. Charles Ray's “Courtship of Miles Standish” will be handled as a road show, as was Griffith's “Birth of a Natlon.” Universal will make “Ivanhoe” late this year, and King Baggot will prob- ably direct. Nazimova Back to Stage. Mme. Alla Nazimova, who is spend- ing the summer at her Beverly Hills villa, will not make any fiim plays this Year, but will put on a new stage play in New York in the fall. Wallace MacDonald and Doris May (she is Mrs. MacDonald) will make a trip to New York as soon as they complete their co-starring venture cali- ed “Why Do We Live?” At Universal City work has bcen begun on three new films. William Desmond took the opening shots of “Sentenced to Soft Labor’: Gladys Walton began in “The Wild Party and Reginald Denny started on round 6 of the third series of “The Leather Pusher: Denny has a new leading woman in Velma Connor, forme beauty of the “Pepper Box Review Universal also announces that when Denny completes the present “Leath- er Psher” film he will be made a Uni- versal Jewel star and will make only four feature films each yvear. The same ranking has been given to Mary Philbin, who achieves re- markable success in “Merry Go Round.” Finis Fox has started work upon the fourth of his independent fea- ture films. It is to be called “Bag and Baggage” and has a cast which includes Gloria Grey, John Roche, Paul Weigel, Wadel Farrington and Carmelita_Geraghty House Peters has been signed by Metro for the lead part in “Held to Answer,” an adaptation of Peter Clark McFarlane's s Here’s Anofller Thrlller! N interesting phase of the picture | business came to light recently, | iwhen the Los Apgeles office of a big | international insurance company re- fused to fssue an accident and life policy on Percy Hilburn, chief camera- man of the Reginald Barker company | at the Louis B. Mayer studio. The reason given was that his work | placed him in the extremely hazardous class heretofors occupled almost ex- clusively by aviators. This is the first | case on record where personal indem- nity was ever refused a cameraman on the grounds of his occupation. | Citing Hilburn's activities as head photographer of the coming Metro re-J lease, “The Master of Woman,” as the cause of this decislon, the insurance | company particularly based their reason | on the great risk incurred by the Filming Novels. J¥ a recent pamphlet isstied by the national board of film review, com- mitteé for better films, a startling | | the cameraman in photographing the thrilling rapids episode in the picture. According to the story, a canoe carrying Renee Adoree and Earle Wil- hams “shoots” a dangerous river rapid: running through a narrow canyon, finally capitulating near the head of a Wwate) 1 The Sevmour canyon rapids near north Vancouver, never before conquered by a boat, were used for scenes. In order to record this thrill in its full value, Hilburn got most of his close shots from an improvised cage suspended over the waterfalls by a trolley line. The long shots were secured by lowering the cameraman down the canyon wall by means of & rope, and here, with his camera set on a jutting rock, a hundred feet from the top of the precipice and a bare twenty feet above the rushing water, he registered the canoe's wild trip through the rapids n a way that leaves no doubt of the aring reality of the scene. Pola and Scencry. 'WO dozen ostrich plumes, some trailing on the ground, were used in making a unique fan carried by ghowing here next season, according to | fact was published regarding its re- | Pola Negri in a scene for “The Cheat,” Willlam A, Brady. This piece, he says, proves conclu-| sively that light musical shows do not need girls in tights, incessant horse- play, double meaning comedy, ‘“‘wise cracks,” immodest dancing and sug- gestive songs. There is not one line or | part in the entire gay that a perfectly good Christian eould take objection to. “Much of the bright and amusing dialogue is a cred® to the book, by Frank Craven.” The music, by Harry Tierney, is of the same type as that of his former success, “Irene,” lyrics of which, as of “Up She Goes,” were done by Joseph MecCarthy. It tuneful and danceable. The settings are like those in “Irene” and “M a type of “love nest” being quite similar to that in the latter play. Of the tunes the best is “Journey's End. Lady Luck Smile on Me” has a pleasing lilt and “Bob About a Bit” has excellent dancing music. “Confederate Bob.". HE “Confederate bob,” which really not a bob at all, but looks like one, has suddenly become popu- lar in Hollywood and vicinity. Leat- rice Joy began it. While the new hair arrangement seems new to the younger people it really dates back to civil war days. It is produced by drawing the tr close in tightly curled tendrils be- hind the ears and at the back of the head. Loose ringlets at the top, en- tirely exposed ears, and a forehead partially covered with ~a curled frisette are features of this 1861 issance. "“Miss Joy wears this new. hair ar- Morgan, and John J. Payette, assist- ant general manager, are planning a month’s frolic at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Upon their return, Nelson B. Bell, in charge of advertising and publieity, will depart for the vast open spaces, and Willlam C. Ewing, staff artist, will make ‘a bee-line for New England. > Balked at Getting Wet BONUS of fried chicken and watermelon was the inducement used by Director John Griffith Wray to get a number of thrilling scenes in “Her Reputatiom,” a Thomas H. Ince production. A big Mississippi Tiver flood that destroys several river bank villages carrles one of the “punches” of the picture. The flood scenes were fllmed at Ypma, Ariz., and to get the negro population for his river settlements, Director Wray had to send all over Arizona. Five hundred finally were signed up and shipped to Yuma. Re- hearsals for the scenes, however, got no farther than explanations. When the negroes understood they really had to get wet, no amount of money | offered looked big enough to them. It took the promise of a big dinner | of fried chicken and watermelon— all they could eat—as well as a cash /bonus to lick them into shape, rangement in “The Silent Partner.’ Some Weep. WWHILE the thermometer in New ¥¥ york was breaking heat records of thirty yeags, Gloria Swanson set a record for sustained emotionalism in a scene for “Zaza,” which Allan Dwan is now producing at the Paramount Long Island studio, Miss Swanson, it is sald remained in tears constantly during five hours of one of the most dramatic scenes of the picture. So far as is known she established a record for work of this kind that has never been reached by any screen tar. = ““Tears rolled from Miss Swanson's eyes throughout the entire sequence. When the electricians were changing the lights for new photographic an- gles of the action she sat in a corner and cried softly, keeping in character from the time Director Dwan started the scene until he finished it four hours later, without a break except for necessary technical delays. “She is ome of the most remark- able actresses I have ever seen on stage or screen,” declares Mr. Dwan, “her work in this picture has been amasing. There seems to be no limit to the 'deapth and variety of her emotions l is catchy, lgortainment value of “adaptations.” | search into the entertalnment value|in which she stars. of various photoplavs, conducted in twenty-seven cities. One of the pic- tures, for example, “The Sheik,” was an exceptionally popular film adapted | from a widely read novel. { It was found that persons who had | read the book were disappointed in | the picture, while those who had not read it were much pleased! This upsets the established theory | concerning the advertising and en- but it may account for many things that have been puzzling film pro- aucers. Theatergoers have been disap pointed in pictures without quite realizing why. To_follow the sig- | nificance of, thls revelation it wouldK appear thaf a general dissatisfaction on the part of the book and magazine | reading public will follow the filming of published novels and stories. Barred From the Movies o BECAUSE they didn't look Spanish 200 Spaniards will not be allowed to appear in Pola Negri's new picture, ‘The Spanish Dancer.” ‘When, Herbert Brenon sent out a call for Spanish types to play in this colorful drama of old Spain, he stipulated one thing. Spaniards must look like Spaniards. Out of over 200 applicants only a half dozen or so were able to qualify. Y The question has now arisen, *“When is a Spaniard not a Spaniard?” According to the casting director, the answer 'When he looks like a Scotchman. There was no dearth of Spaniards who were willing to play, but the traditional features were very hard to find. Only after & long and careful search was the casting director able to secure the required number who looked Ilike Spaniards. Lon Chaney as Quasimodo ON CHANEY, who ig said to add a monster creation to his gallory of “character” portraits as Quasimodo, in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” just completed at Universal City, besides studying for months the great French classic to “sense the soul of the mis- shapen man-brute,” as he expresses it, had the ald of the conceptlons of all of the famous French (llustrators who ex- pressed the form of the creature— Brion, De Beaumont, Steinhell, De Rud- der, De Lemud and others. And to the composite of all of these he has added his own conception. The result is declared a vividly im- pressive picture of deformity. It is a mystery of make-up, so far, for he has always been alone when effecting the transformation, and he consumes at times. four hours n the work. i | others dropped from above This fan was made so that one end was composed of short plumes while the others sloped downward till the other ex- treme was reached. They were of a rich brown hue to match the brown velvet gown of fantastic design, with gold cloth applique and collar. The outfit was in keeping with an oriental setting in this Fitzmaurice produc- tion. The setting was one of the most elaborate ever constructed at the studio. It was deslgned by George Hopkins. 3,500 or more toy balloons were used, some as clusters of grapes, in a shower. A fountain played during the en- tire scene and 5,465 gallons of water, approximately, ran through it during the time. The, 300 minor players, all in ori- ental garb, carried Chinese lanterns of special color and design, each with an incandescent light insjde connected by flower-garlanded wires to the main line. The fete scene shows the star auc- tioning a kiss for charity. Cleopatra a Menu Vamp THERE have been various opinions on the vamping methods of Cleopatra. Historians do not seem to agree on just how the famous vamp captured the men. Nita Naldi, one of the best known screen vamps, who has just played the part of Cleopatra in a prologue for Allan Dwan's screen production of “Lawful Larceny,” has opinions of her own on the subject. And, why shouldn’t one vamp's idea of another be just as good as a historian's opinion? According to Miss Naldi, Cleopatra was probably -a voluptuous, red- haired woman who had a marvelous cook and a good wine cellar. “The fact that she spoke sixteen languages is not what fascinated Antony,” explained Miss Naldi, “but the good spaghethti and the wine she served at her table. You can not make me believe that men fall en- tirely for the intellectual attainments of a woman. There is something in the old adage that the ‘way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.’ " _— Ivor Novello, who is D. W. Griffith's leading man in “The White Rose,” is an interesting personality—in fact, a British notable. He was chosen for the “fallen man” in “The White Rose" after some screen experience in Lon- don, where he is prominent as a composer and music publisher. He is the author of “Keep the Home Fires Burning.” the war-time song which helped recruiting so greatly in Great Britain. He wrote six musical shows before he was twenty-six, each of which had not less than six months of performance on the London stage. ’