Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1923, Page 16

16 AMUSEMENTS BELASCO—"The Alarm Clock.” “The Alarm Clock,” Avery Hop- farcical Amer n version of a s ticking off another the Belasco Theater because uccessful record last week. A fairly larg: Sunday night audience Jaughed in all the right places and a few of the wrong ones last night. Bruce McRae, alw vs popular in | Washington, ambled and limped gracefully through the three acts as fhe pleasure-loving but self-sacrific- | ing_ hero. Blanche Ring, without doubt » of the best comediennes of l became the spatlight of the performance and won the .ulmll‘hu_ Xlttention of her listeners at the out- set with her lent work in_the <atire on oratorio singing. John Daly Murphy save her fine support in this scene. \s the plot ‘of the play was dis- ed in detail in this column last no need for its repe- has the usual Avery rks even if somewha The other mem- are equal to their Marian Coakley, Suderling and Photopld\ s. RIALTO—"Vanity Fair.” William Thackeray's y Fair,” has been according to epeace ed and trimmed, requirements of the motion pie g 1lin. and is pr fashion Itless in m, ninetee: cha heroine makessa ‘Becky that of Thackeray v Other chars Fdent admirers APDrove also are excellen rt Bosworth rl_Foxe's Capt. Dob- r Boardman’'s Amelia, film nt quired principal id wccording to Tha e seems discon- of in history . the battle Luscious Slices For Summer Salads and Desserts . the vagae expectantly because of 15 drawn manner in which the story to a close. The musical setting given by the Rialto Orchestra is splendid. Many of the melodies are of tha Morris dance type and all zypical of the spirit of the picture. | Snub Pollaa in'a Hal Roach com ed and the news reel complete | il | METROPOLITAN—*Children the Dust.” A charaeter that might have stepped |from the pages of Charles Dickens is made to live in Tristram Tuppers !flor\' “Terwilliger,” produced for the jscreen by Frank Borzage. and pre- ented this week at the Metropolitan {under the title, “Children of the {Dust.” The story concerns a couple of clil- dren of New York's fashionable set, whose prestige and social standing permit them to pl on the inviting lawns and gardens of Gramercy Park, and or little outsider, the ragged [and abused stepson of a, drunken driver of a so-called express wagon. It also concerns most intimately the park gardener, who is converted from a contemptible old grouch in lovable old man by the little ri muflin outcast in circumstances not- ably unusual A beautiful sto of childhood friendships and affections is_por- trayed by Josephine Adair as Helen Livermore, the last of her family line; Newton Hal v Raymond, the last of his family lip and s the homeless derable i en to this a hood playtime, dreams one almost h of the film is ing story of child- ad ambitions, th d Johnny with the old Livermores children s ive, and | Lioya Hugh Walker as Te expectations of monds that the tw marry each other stil r- williger desperately i love with Helen, though he as known since is childhood infatuation that she is soclally beyond his rea Then ¢ the great war and the call for men. Harvey goes first, and leaves with the charge to Terwilliger to take care of Helen. Then Terwilliger goes and leaves Helen to the care of the old gardener. With Helen's own emotions torn between her two dearest | friends the parting of three had | been distressingly uncert When the war is over, and b men retmn the best one wins, and the story closes as it ll)l\() with the old gardener telling the story of the young people. production dramat the old gardencr the Play News and R res in- color photc he s the comedy. iel Breeskin musi gram is arranged, with in a cornet solo, and in a violin solo. the | nf’ ind | TTHE EVENIN NG STAR, WASHiIN iTON, MUTT AND JEFF—The Doc Slmuld Have Slipped a Shot of lntegro in Jeff Too. D. ONDAY, Docy You mean To SAY A SHeT of ™A INTEGRO. SERUM WILL MAKE A GUY TELL THE- TRUTH AAD NSTHING BUT THE TRUTHT e PALACE—"The Man Next Door Emerson Hough's new photoplay, *'] Man Next Door,” the ‘at Palace this week, is just plainly and un- assumingly a pretty story, elegantly set and beautifully photographed. It is a story contrasting the bigness and broad- ness of the west with the littleness and and the inability mericans to meet of athetic narrows of the two type; sround nmon sym 'nd polish conside It i 4 for a flim play and Mr. Hough makes the most of it rom ranch life in the wide spaces of ains and prairies the scene shifts to hotel life in the great metrop- olls of the east, windows looking out upon tittle slits of streets crowded with whirling traflic. Then from the hotel the action fs transferred to palatial resi- but didn’t finds that only by pre it on both Which keeps the audlence & Jump ahead of the adds just enough spice proper flavor rom: »pement to the great is alway The rich, cool juice of practically | Farrington | COLUMBIA—"A Gentleman shining, house, MuTT, How ARE You EIXED FINANCIALLY o ANSWER LS THAT ! the cycle of location as well nture. ‘alhoun, James Morrison, D: tion at the | Torrence, Frank Sheridan, Mary Culver, John Steppling, Bruce Boteler and Adele comprise the cast. ~ The was directed by Victor in “The Goat,” i production Schertzinger. Buster Keaton, fered as the com; Topics of the gram, under the d non of s . Leisure. re at L his week. “A Gentle ents Jack Holt umusing but highly capades. As a soclety prin al diversion is the making absurd wagers, which, of course, usually “win When dining with some friends at a restaurant his at- tention is attracted to a pretty girl at a nelghboring table and he promptly bets he will win : from her hin two mipu stoops to pick up her handbas, himself with having e and address of the h is written in ons evening a burglar enters his and inspires him with the idea ELeven Butks AnD THE CHINK . LAUNDRY THREE BUCKS AND TEN CENTS: WELL, T owa My TAILOR JULY .30, 1923, (AND T owe Y LANDLADY EIGHT DOLLARS FoR Roora THAT 'S THe . TRUTH, Doc! INTEGRO 'S 0.K. f “lifting” the picture from the girl's residence.. So he enters into partner- ship with' the crook. télling him he is one of his fraternity, with quite a reputation on the “other side,” and the two speed away on their housebreaking adventure. And then the fun begins, for the girl’s father is chief of poiice, and he has been trying to get some- thing on the crook for a long time, so that he can fill out a suspended five | years' sen Things g0 irom bad to worse for the | man. but he doesn’t | svenfually he wins his wa irl, too—such are movie ro. | nnett ind 4 violin solo, omplete the pro; comedy, news film “Wonderful One," m. CENTRAL—"“The Mysterious Wit- ness.” Crandall’s Central Theater the first three days of this week. is presenting “The Mysterious Witness, a melo- dramatic romanee of the west, f turing Robert Gordon and Elinor Fair, together with No. 11 of the “Fighting Blo 8, featuring George O'Ha Horton and Mabel Van 'Yl‘rur" 2 Jimmie Adams comedy, sterious Witness” is based twist of the mother love | although it has much exciting and many intervals of su concerns a youth who at- | nough money to sup- | mother in comparative lux- |the |doesn’'t know it L(THAT STUFE (3 WONDER Eut,, (Copyright, 1923, by H. C. Fisher. Mark reg. U. 8. Pat. O) —By BUD FISHER_ Poct 1T's HAND, JCEF owe s Mme FIVE BUCKS, ury, and, after numerous vicissitudes, secures ' employment on a ranch where the foreman is interested in the owner's daughter. After saving her life he also becomes interested in her and then a persecution starts on the part of the foreman, in which a false charge of murder and robbery is overcome by the mute testimony of a horse. The pipe organ provides the music. CRANDALL' S—"The Abysmal Brute.” A reiguing society belle ess. and a professional pr figure in the strong love drama of- | fered at Crandall's 9th street theater | first three days of this week. Mabel Julienns Scott and Reginald Denny - are the chars . with Charles French, Craufurd,Kent and | David Torrence in support. The Nay‘ 18 a dramatization of Jack London's | story, “The Abysmal Brute” The | screen veralon preserves much of the author's plot and- the details are | worked out satisfactorily. 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