Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1923, Page 61

AT THE PHOTOPLAY RIALTO—“Backbone,” with Alfr evening. METROPOLITAY and evening. evening. afternoon and evening. RIALTO—"“Backbone,” With Al- fred Lunt, in Person. At Moore's Rialto Theater this week, beginning today, the offering s the Goldwyn picture, “Backbon an adaptation of Clarence Budington Kellajid's story. with Alfred Lunt pictuted in the stellar role and ppearing in person daily at 3:30, 30 and 9:30 p.m. Mr. Lunt is the star of the leglti- mate stage who will make his first appearance on the screen in Wash- ington today, and also appear .in person on the Rialto stage. His stage successes include Booth Tark- ington's “Clarence” and “Intimate Strangers.” Incidentally he is re- puted to be one of the handsomest ors on either the stage or the een toda “Backbone” deals with the fulfill- ment in the twentieth century of a romance which was shattefed in France generations ago.. There are almost as many complications in the lives of the modern lovers and as much mystery and intrigue to be solved, as there were in the lives of the two in ancient times, but they succeed despite all obstacles. Sdith Roberts heads the cast, which includes also William B. Mack, Frank Evan: arion Abbott, George MacQuarrie, Charles Fang and Frank Hagney. Hal Roach “Our Gang” comedy, : “Boys To Board,” with Micky and Farina, will provide reasons for laughter. . Elias Breeskin, celebrated violinist and concert-master of the Rialto Orchestra, will play Kreisler's “The Old Refrain,” with piano accom- vaniment_only, and “The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise.” by Ernest Seitz, and given by request, withefull orchestra accompaniment. A Bruce nature scenic and the Fox News will be added attractions. . METROPOLITAN — Douglas Mac- Lean in “A Man of Action.” Swift-moving, wholesome fun, leav- ened with a dash of mystery and em- bellished with a delightful musical set- ting, is promised for this week, begin- ning this afternoon, at Crandall's Metro- politan _Theater. = Douglas MacLean, former Washingtonian, will be seen in Ince's production, “A Man Lige Conley, in “Three new Mermaid comedy, with n the ball field; the Metro- politan World Survey and minor fiims, “A Man of Act an original screen_story by Bradley King dealing with the adventures of & young million- wire whi betrothed revolted at his utter inabili nduct his own af- fairs and de ly that she would not marry him until he freed himself from the domination of his servants and proved that he tough nephew of briefly how to be suggists that he 1ive resorts on the Barbary ing on this questionable advice, Bruce . MacAllister is mistaken for the *“Chi- cago Kid” and taken into full member- ship in a gang of crooks plotting te rob his own home of a shipment of diamonds worth $500,00 What happens when he job is attempted is said to provide @ siccession of surprising as well as funny episode: Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the Metropolitan orchestra of thirty players will offer gems from Victor Herbert's “The Fortune Teller,” Dvorak's “Hu- moreske,” and an accompaniment baseq on “Love Has Wings,” with “Honey, That's All" for the exit march. @0LUMBIA—*Children of Jazz.” A fascinating study of the modern Jazz era, backgrounded against the se- dute and dignified conventions of the rly fifties, is promised in “Children of drama which will be pre- t time in Washington s weelk, Sented for the fi at Loew’s Columbia beginning today. Proba no greater novelty, it is claimed, has been offered Ly the Washington en this season “Childre reen ver- afon of s London stage play, “Other Tim which has heen brought to the silver sheet under the direction of Jerome Storm, from w seenario by Beulah Marie Dix, with a cast that includes Theodore Kosloff, cen_Percy. Ricardo Cortez, Robert Cain, Irene Dalton, Alec B. Francis, Frank Currier, Drew. The story opens in a burst of regk- modern gayety and concerns a nous adventurer and globe-trotter and Babs Weston, his tentative fiancee, who has announced her en- gagement not to one ntan but two— an aviator and a married man ex- ting a divorce. The globe-trotter hdraws to a southern island, where his father stoutly maintains the cus- toms, manners, traditions and dress of the fiftles. Here it is that Babs, the aviator, the married man and the latter's wife itz Edwards, Lillian 1 are forced to descend while on a prospective trip to Havana. The party set by the crew of a tramp schooner, who want the girl. A battle ensues and the girl comes to a reali- zation of her folly.s Theodore Kosloff trotter, Eileen Per Cortez the aviator the married ma Added screen and musical attractions will include a comedy, the International version of William L¢ Baron's play. PALACE—Jack Holt in “Nobody’s Money.” Jack Holt, the een star, will be seen at Loew's Palace this week, be- ginning today, in an altogether dif- ferent t. of a come- dign—in “"Nobody's Money." the s vegslon of William Le Barron’s play William Le B is the author of “The Very Idea Apple Blossoms,” “I Love You" and other hits. body's Money™ is a Paramount picture, enarized by Beulah Marie Dix and cected by Wallace Wormsley, who digacted “The Street Called Straight and “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom is the globe- y the girl, Ricardo and Robert Cain Directors Are THAT some of the bigger producing “organizations are stifiing the progress of the photoplay by “shear ing=directors of their creative re- spemeibilities,” in the making of Being Curbed pigiiires and producing photoplays by | deprtmental methods, is the charge * ofaurice Tourneur. * ZFhe practice now becoming com- méf- among big organizations, of buying storles, adapting them to sognario form, casting the picture and bullding the sets before the direc¥or is engaged is one that will do more to block the progress of motion plc- tures than anything else,” said Mr. Tourneur. “In some big compunles the direc- e 15 having less and less to say about the picture he makes. Re- Gently a fortune was paid for a story, Zn expensive cast was engaged and Fork on the building of tremendous Sots actually started before the di- Fector was engaged. Then a’ director &5t doubtful talents was placed ‘in charge' of the picture. ‘This is like buying the finest broadcloth obtainable, the best silks and buttons money can purchase, de- slgning and cutting the cloth and then calling a_small East Side tallor to make you up a wonderful suit of cloth m‘"flhel: is the reason,” says }r. Tour- Shown this afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA —“Children of Jazz.” —Douglas MacLean, in “A Man of Action.” Shown this afternoon and ever PALACE—Jack Holt, in “Nobody's Money.” Shown this afternoon. CENTRAL —*“The Last Moment.” CRANDALL’S—“Don Quick Shot of the Rio Grande.” Shown this HOUSES THIS WEEK. ed Lunt, the star,.also in person. Shown this afternoon and g. Shown this afterncon and Come.” Its cast Includes Wanda Hawley, Harry Depp, Robert Schable, Walter ' McGrail, Josephine Crowell, and Julia Faye. | __The story presents the difficulty in whicl two young authors became in- volved hy creating a fictitious char- acter to market their stories without breaking ironclad contracts. which prevent them from offering their out- put to any but one publisher. A book agent Is asked to assume the responsibility of the sins of this fic- titlous character. He agrees, and when he falls in love with the governor's daughter it leads him into a veritable maze of political intrigue, in which he prevents the governor from walk- ing into a bribery trap, finds himself with $20,000 that nobody claims and manages to win the girl. A new Sunshine comedy, “Apple Sauce”; the Pathe News ' pictures, Toplcs’ of the Day and a delightful overture by the Palace Orchestra, un- der Thomas Joseph Gannon, wiil be added attractions. CENTRAL—“The Last Moment.” Which s the Greater hero, the man who faces danger unconscious of the feeling of fear or the physical coward who faces it despite the terror which it inspires? This question is said to be dramatically answered in J. Par- ker Read's production of Jack Boyle story “The Last Moment,” which will be shown the first three days of this week at Crandall's Central Theater, beginning this afterncon. Henry Hull, Dorfs Kenyon and Louis Wolheim, have the central roles In this thrilling narrative of a physical weakl shanghaied aboard a rum runner, cap- tained by a glant brute. When th crisis in his life is reached and it be- comes necessary for him to save the life of the girl by sacrificing his own a thrilling climax is provided “Fighting Blood,” series No. based on the short stories by H. Witwer, with short reels and pip organ music, complete the pro- gram. Wednesday and Thursday, May McAvoy, Elliott Dexter, Lols Wil- son_and George Fawcett will be seen fn William De Mille's screen version of A. E. Thomas' play, the story of a iyoung old lady who found her youth again, and Dorothy Devore in “Win- 10, ter Has Came” will be shown. Her- bert Rawlinson in his Universal re- 1 “Railroaded,” will be shown Friday and Saturday, with Bobby Vernon in_“Second Childhood” and Lyman H. Howe's “Hot Shots." | CRANDALL'S—“Don Quick Shot of the Rio Grande.” Jack Hoxle will be screened at Cran- dall's Theater the first three days of the present week, beginning this afternoon at 3, in “Don Quick Shot of the Rio Grande,” a Universal production, with le along the border of the south- t, where *“bad men” operate and life isn't held as dear as it might be. Much of the spirited action i3 backgrounded exceptionally picturesque natural ttings. James Aubrey, in “Forward March,” and pipe organ music will round qut the biil. ( Bebe Daniels and Antonio Moreno will |be seen fn “Excite Paramount’s film version of the stage play, Wednes- day and Thursday, with Johnny Jones in ing. Fri turday, “The Inner Man," h Wyndham Standing, Doro- thy Mackall and Gustav von Seyffertitz will be the feature. Prominent in the cast is Lulu McGrath, Washington beauty and star of ‘““Wonders of the Sea."” It is a dramatic picture, with much humor and romance. Charlie Murray, in “The Pill Pounder,” will fur- nish the comedy. . American. Today and tomorrow, Pola Negrl, in | “Bella Don: Tuesday, Walter Hiers, in “Mr. Billings Spends His Dime" Wednesday, Pola ‘Mad Love”; Thursda H Wrong. With the Wom ;_ Friday, | Reginald Denny, in “The Kentucky Mary Miles Minte Lonesome Pine. Apollo. tomorrow, “Wandering nd Lloyd Hamilton, in et”: Tuesday and Wednes- © McAvoy, in_“Only 33" and Paul Parrott, in he Uncovered Wagon"”; Thursday, Madge Bellamy, in “Are You a Failure?" and Charlis Chaplin, in “Sunnyside”: Friday, Clara he Trail of and ughters Uneasy M Kimball Young, In “Cordelia, the Magnjficent,” and Jimmie Adams, in “Oncé Over”: Saturday, Miriam Cooper and Kenneth Harlan, in “The Girl Who Came Back,” and Harry Pollard, in “The Courtship of Miles Sandwich.” Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow, May McAvoy, Clliott Dexter and Lols Wilson, in “Only 38, and Paul Parrott, in “The Uncovered Wagon"; Tuesday and Wednesday, “Wandering Daughters,” and Lloyd Hamilton, in “Uneasy Feet”; Thursday, Clara Kimball Young, in “Cordelia, the Magnificent,” and Jimmie Adams, in “Trafic”; Fri- day, Miriam Cooper and Kenneth Har- lan, in “The Girl Who Came Back,” and “Fighting Blood,” No. §; Satur- day, Madge Bellamy, in “Are You a Failure?" and Harry Poltard, in “The Courtship of Miles Sandwich.’ Carolina. Today and tomorrow, “Souls for Sale": Tues: . "What's Wrong With the Women?’ Wednesday and Thurs- day, “You Can't Fool Your Wife"; Friday, Charles Mack and Elinor Falir, in “Driven”; Saturday, “MAry of the Movies,” also Pathe Néws and Aesop's Fables. Chevy Chase . Tomorrow and Tuesday, Bebe Dan- fels, in_“Glimpses of the Mpon" Aesop’s Fables, “The Beauty Parlo: and Kinograms; Wednesday, Milton Sills, in “What a Wife Learned" Famous in Stock. ° actors and character men, One of the most prominent of thes: Kelland. Mr. STOCK theatrical compinies have glven to the screen many slytl(ht is Willlam B. Mack, who plays the part of Bracken In the new feature, “Backbone,” by Clarence Budington Mack was with the famous Manhattan Repertory Company, one | | of the finest organizations of its kind that New York ever knew. The com- pany rehearsed and presented its wonderful repertoire of plays at the old Manhattan Theater, on whose site the enormous store of Glmbel Broth- ers now stands. Minnie Maddern Fiske herself di- rected and produced the plays and she gradually collected around her a marvelous band of players, among them George Arliss, John Mason and harles Cartwright. Mrs. Fiske play- ed the feminine leads as well as di- | recting the productions. Willlam B Mack was with the company for four ing the im- consecutive seasons, tal portant roles in “Hedda Gabler, “Leah Kleschna,” “A Doll's House’ and others. Since that time Mr. Mack has had an extremely full and career. Recently Ethel Barrymore in n Guthrie McClint ‘A Square Peg. ' Tribute to Bill Hart. ose Bern: ESSE L. LASKY, first vice president of the Famous Players-Lasky Cor- poration, Is taking an active interest in the return of Willlam 8. Hart to In commenting on it he the movies. sald: “No announcement of a ster's plans has ever given me as much personal pleasure as this good news that Wil- liam S. Hart is to return to the screen. This beloved portrayer of unique place in the hearts world audlence. His return one of America’s finest characters holds a of the follows nearly two years of insistent demand interesting appeared with and production of from the public for his reappearance. It was this insistence that caused Mr. Hart to reconsider his pre-ious de- cislon to retire permanently from the He is coming back in answer to & popular demand in even finer plctures of the types that won him screen. lasting popularity. Gorgeous Gown; Galore HOPE HAMPTON will be seen in a beautiful gowns in Allan Dwan's latest pro- Never in her motion pictuse career gorgeous varlety of duction, before has Miss Hampton worn such an ar- ray of clothes. She wears ten differ- ent creations, rapging fron exquis- ite negliges to bizarre evenlng gowns. In the character of Marlon Dorsey, which Miss Hampton portrays, she steps out of the role of mother and falthful housewife for the part of the scheeming vampirc in which “Lawful Larceny.” her wits are matched with those of Vivian Hepburn, the other woman in the story, One of ‘the striking gowns is made of peach-colored taffeta—Hope Hamp- ton peach, the exact duplicate of the Bown she wore at the international silk show held some time a<o at the Grand Central Palace—with «n orchid flounce in front and trimined with roses. It has a effect. Another is a sllver cloth gown with an overdrape of orchid chiffon, embroidered in turquols In contrast to this she wear: a black dre: trimmed with ermine down the side. With this Miss Hamp- ton wears a short ermine coat and a white hat with goose feathoers. Stili another of her fetching creations is a dark blue velvet gown, cut low in the back, with a daisy design outlined with’ seed pearls. Holt, in “The Tiger's Claw": Bobby Vernon, In “Second Childhood.” and Kinograms; Friday, Agnes Ayres, io “Racing_Hearts"; Paul Parrott, in “Fresh Eggy’”: last chapter of “Oregon Trail,” first chapter of “The Eagle's Talons”; Saturday, open 3 Gladys Walton, in “Town Sc: Century comedy, “Speed Bug Pearl White, in “Plunder,” No. Circle. Today and tomorrow, Leatrice Joy, Pauline Your Wife”; Tuesday, Milton Sills and Mar- a Wife “Mary of the Nita Naldl, Garon, in Lewis Stone aha “You Can't Feol gurite Learned” LaMotte, in Wednesda: with forty screen celebrities; sday and riday, Meighan “The Ne'er Do What in Well' Elite. Today and tomorrow. day, Mary Miles Minter, in of the Lonesome Pine' Kathlyn Willlamg in Scarlet”; Thursd#, Sylvia Breamer, in “The First Degree"; Friday, Viola Dana, in “A Noise in Newbero”; Sat- urday, Rosemary Theby, in “The Mid- night Patrol.” The Trail Favorite. Today, Reginald Denny, in “The Abysmal _Brute”; tomorrow, Kather- acDonald, "in “Domestic_Rela- ‘Tuesday, Clara Kimball Young, in “The Woman in Bronze”; Wednes- day, Guy Bates Post, In he Mas- querader”; Thursday, Herbert Raw- linson, In “Fools and Riches Helene Chadwick, in “Gimme": day, Roy Stewart, in “Burning Words. Hippodrome. Today, Betty Compson, in White Flowe tomorrow, Daniels, in_“The World's Applaus Tuesday, Gloria Swanson, In_“The Great Moment”; Wednesday, Frank Mayo, in “The First DegreeX Thurs- day, Marguerite Snow, in ‘‘The Velled Woman"; Friday, Agnes Ayres, in “Daughter of Luxury"; Saturday, Lon Chaney, in *“White Paris Sleeps.” “The Home. Today and tomorrow, Lewis Stone, in “You Can’t Fool Your Wife"; Tues- “The Woman Who Fooled Her- ‘Wednesday, “Gossip”; Thursday, Kathlyn Willlams, i{n “Trimmed in Scarlet”; Friday, Betty Compson in “The Green Temptatios Saturday, Wyndham Standing, in he Isle of Doubt. Aesop's Fables, “Spooks” and Jimmy Adams, in “Broke”; Thursday, Jack { meur, “why the larger organizatigns | rarely turn out a masterpiece. They an maintain a certain average of quality in production, but cannot make pictures that will advance the art. The motion picture cannot stay whgre it is. If it does not progress it must stagnate. “The director is to the motion pic- ture what the artist is to the paint- ing. You cannot tell the artist what to paint, what colors to use and what size the painting is to be—and expect a masterpiece. . ¥ “The story, the players, the .sets are to the director what the colors, pallet and brush are to the painter. You cannot dictate €o the director what materials he shall use and how he shall use them and expect to achieve any degree of real success. “The history of the screen conclu- sively proves that pictures are the works of individuals and not the dic- tatorial conglomeration of large or- ganizations. .The real achievements have come from men like Griffith, the late George Loane Tucker, In gram, Nellan and others who have absolute say on_the- production of their pictures. Unless the director shoulders the full respensibilities of his production and is allqwed free rein, it is safe to predict that motion Dlotures have passed their highe peak and are headed on- the down- ‘ward path. Liberty. Today and tomorrow, ‘“‘Souls for Sale”; Tuesday, Bryant Washburn, in “Hungry Hearts"”; Wednesda; “Se- crets of Parls' Thursda: Johnny Hines, in re Fire Flint’ Friday, “Mary of the Movies"; Saturday, Ethel Clayton, in “The Remittance Woman.' Oiympic. Today and tomorrow, Sale” and Jimmi Tuesday, Wednesday, Agnes Ayres in “Racing Hearts”; Thursday and Friday, Jack Londo: “Soul, dams, in * Brute"; Saturday, “Soul of the Beast. Princess. Today, Pola Negrl, in:“Mad Love; also Buster Keaton, in “Day Dream: tomorrow, “What's. Wrong With the Women?" Tuesday, Agnes Ajyres, in ‘Racing Hearts":' Wednesday _and Thursday, “You Can't Fool Your Wife": Friday, Mary Miles Minter, 1 “The Trail of the Lonesome Plne Saturday, “The Man From Glengarry. Raphael. Today, Lewis Stone, in “You Can't Fool Your Wife"; .tomorrow, Herbert Rawlinson, in “Nobody's Bride" Tuesday, Helete Chadwick, in "Gim- me”; Wednesday, “Souls for Sal Thursday, Ethel Grey Terry, in “What Wives Want"; Friday, Agnes Ayres, in “Racing Hearts' tllll'd“’- Jack Holt, in “Ths Tiger's Claw. “Regent. Jin - “Dhe -Ben- tomorrow, temporary modified hoopskirt edallions. tails Thomas . Jack Holt, in “The Tiger's Bebe ONSIDERATION of camera come- dles—not the two-reel “funnies.” but the feature-length productions, whose first purpose is to amuse-- leads to the inevitable bellef that the most satlsfactory elements with which the writer or scenarist can deal are the high spots in lives of the characters in the play. Not a life history, but the brief crises that make or unmake & man. Frequently the period of time consumed in these vi- tal intervals is less than a day. Utilization of this idea always rc- sults in drama with speed and punch and does not in the least outrag: probability. Oil millionaires have bcen made in the twinkling of an eye when a gusher has been brough' in. Stage stars have been made b a single first-night performance; Wil- liam Jennings Bryan made a singl: speech that won him a presidentiel nomination and made him the leadur of his party; Rosa Ponselle sang one scng in vaudeville that caused Gatti- Cashzza. impresario of the Metropoli~ tan Opera House to sign her to a Douglas MacLean, in “A Man of Action”—Metropolitan. High Spots That Win Fame. fore she had reached her dressing room. Mary Roberts Rinehart furnished the screen with one of its most sub. stantial comedy hits when she per- mitted ‘Twenty-thrée-and-one-half Hours' Leave” to be translated into ! lent drama. That picture made Douglas MacLean, a former Wash- ingtonian, and one of the most popu- lar straight comedians before the camera, as a young doughboy on leave one-half hour less than & full day. The same condition is foynd in Mac- Lean's next great success, “The Hot- tentot,” which also consumed only a day in the completion of its hilarious action. It obtains likewise in the case of “A Man of Action,” the latest Ince vehicle for the ebullfent Mac- Lean talents. “A Man of Action” cov- ers one day in the life of a Young man who finds himself compelled to over- come the habits of a lifetime in that brief space. There is no opportunity to pause or turn back once he be- comes involved in the extraordinary complications that Bradley King has packed Into the movement of her lot. . The producer has to take note of these things or the public would pay no heed at all—and then where would contract for grand opera almost be- HARLES QUARTERMAINE, it is, sald, came to the Loyalties com pany after two vears of the mort unusual theatrical experience ever undertaken by an actor. With an English company he playe: through the orient and into Indin, far beyond the range of the ususl| touring companies. He was with the | company two seasons, and played i | eces as divergent in their nature a= ficer 666" ‘and “Othello.” Calcutt in the worst of the hot weather, | where the puiikas could not be use: | because the air currents caused the | lines of the play to be lost, and the British hill station, where the rain oa we o nights? A Really Hard Experience. make themseles heard, were some of the climatic handicaps. The company traveled with native stage hands, and visited for one per- formance a settlement seven miles from the railroad in the hills, where scenery and baggage were trans- ported on the backs of natives. ‘ Quartermaine was at Amritzar dur. g a native uprising. In all the hill stations the company received ex- cellent patronage from the English population. Perhaps the most unusual experi- nce was at Madras, where he played “Hamlet” before the student body of the natiVe college. The students were famillar with Shakespeare from the printed page. But in the entire body of several thousand there was no individual who ever had eeen Shake- the roof during the wet season was o hard that the actors could scarcely | one of the most painted women | of Spanish medleval history—mear- ing, not that she wore the most make up or anything like that, but that her portrait was painted nearly a hundred times by Velasquez. Possibly Velasquez didn’t realize he was doing it, but he made the only-| lasting record of women's clothes of the period. And now, as a result, photographic coples of all of the paintings are lined up at the Para- mount West Coast Studio In the cos- tume designing departmen There's a reason, as the breakfast- food pdvertisements sax: This reason dates back to the time not long ago when Paramount de- cided to film the famous story ‘“Don Caesar de Bazan,” with Pola Negri in he stellar role. It Is to be called 'he Spanish Dancer.” In order to design dresses for the women, it has been necessary to use considerable imagination since none but royal gowns are shown in the paintings of Velasquez. There are 1o [UEEN ISABELLA of Spaln wasSthen. | were speare on the stage. Painti‘ng‘s a Clue To Costumes In securing the effect of the sixteenth century brocades, designs carefull copled on silk by skilléd painters. When these made- to-order brocades are photographed they are ‘®aid to show in the films with all the rich effect of genuine brocades. The period in which “The Spanish Dincer” is placed was an age of gro- tesquerfe. The King of the -Spanish delighted in dwarfs and misshapen human figures. This spirit is reflected ia the clothing of the period and will be reproduced in “The Spanish Dan- ce: It was the one period in history, it is sald, when Spain was essentially Spanish. In most other periods Spain showed the influence of France, or Ttaly, or Austria, or of the Moors. In the reign of Philip IV Spain was more nearly original in_all things than at any other time. This is what makes the reproduction of the cloth- ing and customs unusually difficult Although Philip IV was cotempo rary with Louls XIV of France, the costumes and general dress of the two courts were entirely different. Herbert Brenon is directing the brocades now such as were worn *47HE most photographed girl in the world is appearing in the lead- ing role of “The Ragged Edge.” . That is. the characterization which has been -given to Mimi Palmerl. The photoplay is based on Harold Mac- Grath’s famous novel of the South seas. Miss Palmerj’y.entrance into motion plcture work came about in a way which reads like a fairy tale. She was born in New York city, and went to school there. Then she went to a musical institute to study for the concert stage, byt during a summer vacation two years ago she took up fashion modeling Defore a camera, and soon found the work profitable. {She posed for mearly all the com- mercial studios in New York and thus Came to.be known as."the most pho- raphed girl.” . O e fall day last year, Mrs. Arthur 8. Friend, wife of the president of Distinctive Pictures _ Corporation, “Your Friend ‘and Mine"; , Lan Chaney, in “While Parls ‘Wednesday, Herbert Rawli son, in .“One Wonderful ' Night Thursday, Alice Lake, in “Kisses Friday, Nazimova, in “Camille’ urday, Richard'Barthelmess, in’ “The Bbnd’ Boy. nett, in Tues Sleeps” Savoy. . Today and tomorrow, May McAvoy, Elliott. Dexter, and Lols Wilson, in | “only-38";.and Paul Parrott, in “The iUncovered Wagon"; Tuesday and Wednesday, “Wandering . Daughters” and Lioyd Hamilton, In “Uneasy Feet” i vy, Clara Kimball Young, in :I"Chc‘l‘rrd.sl::. the Magnificent,” and Jim- mie Adams, in “Once Over” iday, Won Fame As Fashion Model picture. hile -looking through a copy of Style,” a fashion magazine, noticed Mimi Palmerl’s portrait on several pages, and thought at the time that the girl was very beautiful and won- dered if perhaps she could not be induced to enter the movies. How- ever, there was no credit line in the magazine—no way to find the girl. For weeks Mrs. Friend attempted to find out who the wonderful model was. Finally, the name was printed beside the pioture, and Mrs. Friend wrote to Miss Palmeri. As a result, Mimi went to see M Friend and to use his own words, “T looked, and then I looked again. And then I said. ‘When can you take your first tests? The next day Miss Palmeri was taken to the studio and there she was placed before the searching movie camera, the end of 5o many hopes. Miss Palmeri not only had what is known as a “perfect camera face,” “ut she turned out-to be an extraordinary- actress. The' tests were perfect in every way. And two weeks later Mimi Palmeri was cast for a leading part in “The Ragged Edge.” Can’t Fool Your Wife," Mermald com- edy and Kinograms; Wednesday and Thursday, John Barrymore, in “Sher- lock Hoimes”; Our Gand comedy and Aesop’'s Fables; Friday and Saturday, Theodore Roberts, in “Grumpy": Christie comedy d Kinograms. . York. - Today, Bebe Danlels and Antonio Moreno, in “The Exciters,” and Jimmie Adams, in “A Good Scout”; tomorrow; Miriam Cooper and Kenneth Harlan, in’ “The Girl Who Came Back,” and Al St. John, in “The Artist”; Tuesday and . Wednesday, Betty Compson, in “The Rustle of Silk,” and Buster Kea- ton, In “The Tove Nest”; Thursday, Tooper and Kenneth Harlan. in M ia Who' Came Back,” and snting Blood,” " No. 8;-Saturdsy, Madge Bellamy.in Y. ‘Are_You:a. Fafl- ure?’ and Charlle Cheplin in “Sunny- side, Dorothy Dalton, in “Fog Bound,” and ‘A Jungle Romance”; Friday, Alice Terry' and Ramon Navgrro, in: Rex Ingraham's, “Where the ivement Ends,” and Paul ‘Parrott, in “The Un- covered Wagon”; Saturday, Walter Hiers, in “ .Igly Cents an Hour,” and “Our Gang” comedy, “A Pleasant Journey.” e ‘Timed His Gas. N ‘the course of "his career as a motion-picture’ director, Jerome Storm, the man'who piloted Charle Ray through the formative period of his screen career, has ‘been faced with manytasks that required a high degree of ingenuity with a strong gift for invention, yet he admits he was stumped on one of the simplest problems he ever encountered when to ‘direct “Children of the screen version of Harold Brighouse's Londop play. “To meet the demhands of the manu- seript,” Mr. Stérm explained, “we had to have two men desert an airplane in flight. Authors, of course, have no regard for airplanes, once their char- acters have deserted the ship, and, as far as’the author is concerned, the whole aerfal contraption can fly right along until it collides with- the equator. n motion-plcture work, however, we really are supposed to keep track of cost, and the cost experts around thé Paramount west coast plant are not men who look with favor on the 1088 of a $10,000 alrplane, when they have directors around to flgure out ways to salvage them. S0 there was a most urgent necessity for devising some way to drop the aviators off, via parachutes, and still save the soaring plane. . “Luckily, the manuscript called for {a flight over water, which did away jWith many of the complications, but he problem of what to do with the drplane afterward caused me at least one worried night. When I did hit on the way to turn the trick, it was so simple I could have kicked myself. It was, merely, to give the plane gasoline enough to carry it to the spot where the aviators dropped off and then allow it to .coast to the water, with the controls lashed, when the gasoline ran out. Of course, we had to do a ot of testing to discover just how much gas we needed, but we got it down to the proper amount at last, and when Ricardo Cortez and Robert Cain dropped overboard in middlr the old plane ust' soared’on out of picture range and settled down to the waves in a curve as graceful as that of a bored seagull.” NCW York‘s Bol‘lemin. MREENWICH VILLAGE, New York's so-called Bohemia, with all its hokum, sophistication and free thought, has been transferred to the Paramount studio in Long Island, where Sam Wood is producing Arthur Train's popular novel, “His Children’s Children.” The scene In which Mr. ‘Wood s working shows a cafe in the village. a composite of the Pirate's Den, the Black Cat and other familiar resorts in New York's artists’,center. Tiny Tim, the candy man, who sells the soul candy, which “stirs the emotions and charms the heart,” s one of the in- teresting figures of the village who is shown in the scene. He peddles his candy to the extras on the set just as he does nightly in the cafes The Get-Togetl!er Idea 1 PRACTICAL means to bring the author and producer of motion pletures closer together were formu- lated recently at an organization meeting of the authors’ advisory board, appointed by the first Interna- tional arts, held June 7 and 8 at the Wal- dorf-Astoria Hotel. The meeting was held at the home of Alice Duer Mil- ler In New York. Committees were appointed to formulate the producers’ idea of how the author can co-operate in the pro- ductlon of his stories for the screen and also to clarify the demands of the authors on producers in the film- ing of their stories. Another com- mitiee was named to select films sult- able for the study of authors, and an executive committee, consisting of George Barr Baker, Eric Schuler, Clarence S. Thompson and Charles E. McCarthy, was named to carry on the work of the board during the sum- mer. The various committees will report at a meeting of the board to be held in September. congress on motion picture Norma Thanked by Princess OYALTY was present in London at the first screen appearance of Margaret Leahy, Ehgland's most beautiful woman, in Bustér Keaton's comedy, “Three Ages.” Miss Leahy, who was brought to the United States through selection by Norma Talmadge in a beauty contest, returned to Eng- land to make personal appearances at the first showing of the picture. In the audlence was the Queen Mother Alexandra. Princess Alice and other members of the royal familv. Princess Alice sent the following message to Norma Talmadge: “I am personally deeply grateful to Miss Norma Talmadge for her kind- ness to a British girl. T shall watch Miss Leahy’s career with interest and hope soon to have the pleasure of personally complimenting Miss Tal- madge.” Lariat a Lifesaver. E movie cowboy is changing from a’picturesque to a useful feature in the motion picture Industry. His lariat, having long hung In disuse from the horn of his saddle, suddenly sprang into genuine utility recently in the filming of “Salomy Jdne" at Boulder creek, in northern California. In the scene showing the pursuit of Red Pete by the vigilantes one of the riders accldentally fell from his horse into the turbulent river. As he rose to the surface a rope sud- denly tightened about his shoulders and he was dragged out of the water by a lariat thrown by one of the cow- puncher riders. The cowboys of the company were later pressed Into use to rope tree- tops in preparation for the holsting of electric arc lights into place, the construction of temporary bridges across narrow canyons and to solve a host of other tricky problems con- nected with location work. “Salomy Jane,” is a screen drama of early days in California. Beauty Joins ‘Passing Show' Fwné:xcm DARLING, who appeared in “The Dancing Girl” with Al Jolson in. “Bombo” in his recent en- gagement at the Winter Garden, has been engaged as general understudy of the young women who take the part of guests in the royal wedding scen®s and who appear as the “best sellers” in the “The Beautiful and Damned” scene. Miss Dariing is well known in art and theatrical circles as a girl of Striking beauty. She is twenty years 014, with red hair and blue eyes. ! Next Week's Photoglays. RIALTO—Three Wise Fools,” a Goldwyn-King Vidor pro- duction. METROPOLITAN — “Slander .the Woman,” a First, Nation- -Allen Holubar production. COLUMBIA—Révival week;'a new. production every day. PALACE—"“Trifling With Hon- “or,” 'a. Universal production. CENT-RAL-—-H:rry-Clug. in _“Desert Driven,” and-F. B. O. production. T g CRANDALL'S —-J. Warren Kerrigan,in “A Man’s Man”; Norma Talmadge, Heart of Wetonah,” -othy Dalton, in AMUSEM right, 1023, in U. 8. and Great Britain by orth American Newspaper Alliance, Al rights reserved.) BY HALLETT ABEND. Bpecial Correspondeice of The Btar. LOS ANGELES, July 12.—Ten years or 5o ago, or “once upon a time"—Iit doesn’t much matter about dates—a slender little girl with bright black eyes and flying brown curls lived a happy and care-free 1;}. as she jour- neyed from town to hamlet and small city in France. She was a member of a circus troupe, always had been, and happy. When she was about eighteen this girl went to Paris, where she had small parts upon the stage. Then, drawn by the lure of Amerlca, she came to New York and became a stage dancer. She married a motion plcture star and came to Hollywood. One, two, three small parts she had, but she achleved no particular suc- cess in any of them. Then (so the fairy story of today continues) she fell into the hands of a director who saw her possibilities. She was given'the major part and the major portfon of the footage in an eight-reel feature production. Lit- tle was ‘heard of her work while the film was in the making, but then a critic or two saw a pre-view of the film and finally a theater pre-view was glven. Overnight she became famous in motion picture circles as the biggest find of the season; not excluding Mary Philbin, The trouble is, this s no falry story, nor is it even one of these impossible stories so often made into film plays at the studlos here. It is, on the contrary, a true story and the herolne is Rene Adoree. Miss Adoruve, now just twenty-three years old, s French. She was for years with a small wagon circus, acted in Paris and danced in New York. Then she married Tom Moore, the screen actor and came west. Eventually, shie was cast by Louis B, Mayer for the picture which Reginald Barker has just completed, “The Man Thou Gavest Me,” which will be re- leased by Metro late in August or early In September. Rene Adoree taday s talked about in Los Angejes, Hoilywood and Cul- ver City, wherever and whenever motfon " plcture people congregate. Her work, supported by actors of recognized ability like Pat O'Malley, Earle Willlams, Barbara La Marr and Josef Swickard, it Is belleved, make | of “The Man Thou Gavest Me” a no- table production. *Willlam S. (Blll) Hart has finally revealed one of his main reasons for retiring from the screen for two years, and this revelation also has an interesting relation to what wil] &e one of the big feature fiims to be made by Hart for next season'ssre- lease. Hart has beeh writing a historical novel based upon the life of Patric! Henry, the man who sald: “But as for me, give me lliberty or give me death.”’ Hart's novel, “A Lighter of Flames,” will he published early this coming autumn. It is illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. The story Is being put into scenario form and Hart himself will play the part of Patrick Henry. This wiil not his first Lasky film under his new contract, but will probably be the second or third of his new serles of productions. Hart has® been_fasci- nated by the character of Patrick Henry for many years and he has done much research work since he quit the screen in 1921. ‘What Others Are Deing. Edwin Carewe is about midway in the task of directing “The Bad Man' for First Natioal. He has Holbrook Blinn, who has played leading roles on the stage for more than threc years, in the title part, but he must finish all of the star's scenes within two weeks, for Mr. Blinn must leave for the east to play a Napoleonic role under_contract. Jack Mulhall and Enid Bennet also are in the cast. Rudolph Friml, jr., son of the music composer, is now acting with the Century comedies units. He is only thirteen years of age, but has already played small parts in Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson features. LATE MOVIE GOSSIP FROM HOLLYWOOD Lit“tle. French Circus Girl Becomes Ceiebrity loved the only life she knew. She did | her small part in the show and was| ENT Dr. Walter G. Hallstead of Pema Yan, N. Y., has had his original pbo- toplay selected as the vehicle for the second independent production to_ be made by the Palmer Photoplay Cor- poration. The town of Red Gap, in the stats of Washington, immortalized by Harry Leon Wiison in “Ruggles of Red Gap,” 18 a place that never ex- isted until last week. Now Red Gap true to the story, exists near Eureka, | Calit., where carpenters have com- pleted work on the sets for the Lasky screen production of the famous story. James Cruse is directing and the cast includes notable names like Ernest &orrence, Loly Wilson, Edward Hor- ten and Loulse Dresser. Gloria Swanxon in “Zaza.” Glofia Swanson's next picture, which marks her departure from light roles, is to be “Zaza.” She now is working on it in New York. Meanwhile, her last light picture, “Bluebeard's Eighth Wife,” has been cutand titled, and I saw it in the projection rooms at the Lasky lot a few davs ago. It is the best: picture in which Gloria has been seen for more than a year. At times it verges on farce. The star has her big emotional moments, but the plot is such a clever web of im- probabilities made upon a loom of impossible premises that it should rank high in the short list of the screen’s farce comedes. Miss Swan- son is at her best both in the lighter moments and in the.emotional scenes. The latter give big promise of the kind of thing she will make of “Zaza. Rod La Rocque, who has recently made “Slim Shoulders otorfous’ and “Jazzmania,” and is now work- ing In Cecil B. De Mille's “Ten Com- mandments,” has been signed for a long-term contract by the Famous Players-Lasky Company. In the De Milie film he w!ll be seen in the mod- orn sequence as the wild and scof- fing son of a plous mother who be- leves in living ‘up to the letter of the Bible. Virginia Valli, now working as the lead in “A Lady of Quality” at Uni- versal, will go to Chicago to visit her mother as soon as the film is com- pleted. Shannon Day, back from New York, is living in Hollywood and will soon resume her work before the camera. It is now considered a_toss-up as to whether Theda Bara or Elleen Pringls will get the lead part in “Three Weeks,” which Goldwyn will produce at once, with Elinor Glyn as an ad- visory director. “Rex, King of ths Wild Horses,” {s the name chosen for an animal picture which Romoh will produce in the wilds of the Colorado mountains, near the head of the Royal Gorge. Gladys Hulette, Davidson and Harry Mestayer have been signed by Uni- versal for leads and featurs parts. Casting Is under way for Priscilla Dean's “The Storm Daughter.” Author's Son to Write Comedlen. Ralph Bunker {s here from New York. where he played in Molnkr's ‘ashions for Men.” He will try his hand at films and may make a serica of comedies written for him by Stan- ley Rinehart, son of Mary Roberts Rinehart. Jack Holt, now working in the Willlam De’ Mille version of “The Faun” and playing opposite Agnes Avers, will soon leave for a month of vacatlon in Oregon, whers Mrs. Ho! is now recuperating after serious illness. _Joseph Schil@kraut is working with orma Talmadge in “Rose of All the World" His wife, professionally known as Elize Bartlett, also is ap- pearing in the same film. Later he may do “Deburau”¥or Warners urider Lubitsch’s direction, Principal Pictures Corporation, which owns a ten-acre studio in Hollywood adjolning the Falrbahks- Pickford lot, announces a building program calling for the expenditurs of $500,000. It is at this studio that Sol Lesser pictures are made, in- j cluding the filming of all the Harold Bell Wright novels. In addition to the usual star pro- ductions, the Fox Film Company is planning on making twenty-five spe- cial feature filmy within the next twelve months. Additional comedy companies will be started on the lot and production will be greatly ex- panded when the new $3,500,000 studio at Westwood is completed. The com- pany recently paid more than $500,000 for the Westwood a DONALD H. CLARKE. ICTOR SEASTROM, the Swedish di- first American. picture, “The Master of Man,” from Sir Hall Caine’s story. He came on thes set in his shirt sleeves. WNo cap with visor shading the back of the neck adorned his head: no megaphone decorated hls mouth; no puttees encircled his legs. He got down to business immediatel. A visitor who had not been in a studio for several years remarked that the distinguished forelgner looked very little like a director. And thus was called to mind of those who hadn’t noticed the change, so gradual has it been, that directors nowadays have given up dressing for the part, An immediate canvass of the : Goldwyn studio revealed that Charles Brabin, then engaged on Elinor Glyn's “S8ix Day: was the only directof who was wearing & cap, and he was wearing it in the ordinary way, instead of reversed. None of the 'directors were clad differently from the other studio officlals. Any one of them might-have stepped in front of the camera and portrayed the role of a modern business man without change of costume. The visitor also noticed something else that puzzled him. Lambert Hillyer, directing ‘The Spoilers,” called “going” Instead of “camer: when, after necessary rehearsals he wanted the camera men to begin grinding. _This he explained: “We noticed that actors were likely to become self-consclous when they heard the word ‘camera,’ which in- HE city of Bagdad—not the mod- ern city, but the Bagdad of anclent Arabla—raplidly is being transported rom “ts former site to the Pickford- Fairbanks studios at Hollywood, where it will serve as one of the big nd glittering highlights in the re- plendent background against which Douglas Fairbanks' new picture, “The Thief of Bagdad,” will be set. Rising from the rim of what is sald to be the most extensive floor of con- crgte that ever has been lald in this country, the minarets and mosque will throw their shadows down on the polished surface of two acres of cement which constitute the plaza or public square. All of the magic and charm of the mystical city which once st06d as mistress of the world, and of which there are now left but a few fragmentary ruins, Is Inherent in the new Fairbanks structures. The impressions of Bagdad that have lived ih ‘the public mind are those imprinted there by the “Arablan Njghts”_tales. Those alluring stories stand as, fenciful memories of & city that.is now 1ost, in oblivion. And it rector, had ust begun to make his | Ancient \Bag’dad Reappears. Revisiting’ a’ Studio. formed them that the picture was being made,” he said. “In fact, some of them were so affected that they forgot the action in which they had just been rehearsed. So some of us adopted the word ‘going.’ I've found that it is a much better signal than the old one. Perhaps some psycholo- glst can explain why, but it starts the camera man cranking just as well and it doesn’t bother the players 80 much.” At about this juncture a hoarse voice called "Griffith! Griffith!" “That's the radio call boy, plained to the curious visitor. “It sounds like Tod Browning calling for Raymond Griffith right now. The radio call boy consists of five loud speakers operated from the executive offices. It covers the sixty acres oce cupied by the studio in a moment. “There's another point that would not be noticed even in a visit of sev- eral days,” the informant continued. “That i3 the unit system of making plctures. The director here has full charge of his production, so that it really is a one-man work, stamped with’ the director’s full individuality. The old system of conferences, with the old criticism that it aroused, sug- gesting that ‘too many cooks spoil the broth, has gone into the discard along with other traditions of the movies.” After this particular visitor had finished a day of sightseeing. he was asked what had impressed him most. was the reply, after a mo- ment’s thought, “what impressed me most here, as n the other studios, wasn't any one of the changes in styles of dressing, or of doing things; it was the contagious spirit of com- raderie and enthusiasm that seems to animate every one engaged in this fascinating Industry.” film-play, which is expected to stand, also, as a new monument in the march of picture progress. The mention of the city of Bagdad brings to mind thoughts of Arabia, and In this connection it is interesting to note that for the first time since this was the queen city of the then civilized world it is again under Arabian rule. Bagdad undoubtedly is one of the oldest cities in the world. Fragmen- tary ruins testify to the fact that it once was a center of vast importance, particularly during the Babylonian period, although none of the ancient Bagdad now stands. The city's great glory came under 'the rule of the Mohammedans, when Bagdad was the chief point of call for caravans and pilgrims plying between India and Persia on the one hand and the sacred citles of Arabla and the Mediter- ranean on the other. Since the crumbling ot Arabian power, Bagdad successively has been in the hands of the Tartars and the Turks. As a result of the recent world war, however, control has been returned to the Arabians, who are backed by the strong arm of the British _government. The present city of Bagdad is now the chief point ot ‘importance in Mesopotamia, stand- ing as one of the prizes resulting is from the fantastic “Arablan Nights" that. Mr. Fairbanks has obtained the color and flavor which dominate the tremendous and gorgeous edifices which are to-grace 'his forthcoming from the British ®campalgn which drove the Turks out of Asia Minor and restored the Holy Land to thae (.‘hxrls!lnn- after centuries of Moslem rule,