Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1923, Page 49

HAT: ITH the play houses all closed and our share of the drama silenced by the screen, the floor may be cleared for general discussion, which cannot be suppressed even by the thermometer. Natural- iy, we turn to Gotham to supply the theme, for there are the sages in abundance and likewise the news theatrical. One of the metropoli- tan writers recently, with an overflow story, fortified by facts and figures, particularly the figures, romped all over “one of the foes of the commercial theater” for daring to suggest that there are from 10000 to 40,000 intcl- ligent and sensitive playgoers in Manhattan who like definitely sound, artistic plays. Why, says the sage, there are more than 18000000 who appear to be satisfied with what they are getting. “By what special privi- lege do 40,000 deprive 18,000.000 of entertainment?” he asks. Isn't the logic amusing? The figures appear, however. to be genuine Arabic numerals and they sound overwhclming. Naturally, some of the sensitiv intelli- gentsia in Washington wonder why the man who is simply asking for his share of the meat, and that cooked, should be accused of trying to hog the whole roast. But such is argument when bulwarked with statistics. You <can’t beat it. * * % x T seems singular, in discussing the theater, that there arc always some of these wonders to leap in and defend its pitiful conditions an those who scem to be responsible for them. Perhaps this very fact ac- counts for the conditions themselves and also for the present level to which the American stage has descended. Surely these folks cannot have the genuine interest in the plays and players they should have. Sometimes it almost seems as if their defense of the commercial theater and its promoters was an interested service and not merely a difference due to taste. They certainly do not help plays and players to a higher standard, for, first with cheap humor and then with “statistics and be- fuddled. logic.” they seek to humiliate those who think differently, if not o annihilate them altogether. * ok kK ‘A LMOST shivering, Washington welcomed the torrid month of August, its thoughts, perhaps, more on coal strikes and coal bills than on winter entertainment. Soon, however, very soon, we may expect the an- nouncements of the reopening of the local theaters for the new scason, and we shall learn that some of them probably would never have been closed at all had it not been for extensive improvements and marvelous changes in decoration made necessary to insure the comfort and art at- mospherc to which their patrons are accustomed. “Scores of artists and artisans,” we shall learn, have been busy night and day making every- thing “spick, span and brand-new.” And then the theaters will open and | we shall find little more than the smell of fresh paint to warrant it all, save, of course, in those houses, like Poli's, which has been remodeled. and the National, which really is being made “brand-new.” It doesn’t make any difference. of course, for everybody is, or ought to be, familiar with the custom by this time. = NY doubt that may have existed as to the future oi the President | Theater has been solved by the announcement that it will reopen | Labor day with a series of repertoire productions of the most popular stage hits of recent seasons and at prices ranging from a dollar down. The house has been taken over by a new management, the President Players, Inc., with Arling Alcine as managing dircctor and Harry Manners as stage director. Mr. Alcine is said to have had long and wide experience in every branch of the theater. and Mr. Manners will be recalled as the stage dircctor under the Duffy-Smith management, which is now at an end. The new managers state that their policy will be to produce a new play every week. The players, however. will be made known later. * kR Ok IT IS perhaps a bit too soon for the announcements of the other theaters. attractions to be expected there. Poli's is ready now, and there have been tentative announcements of The New National is a hive of stren- uous activity, and will, perhaps, require all the time intervening between now and its proposed opening in September to give it the beauty and comfort for which Manager Rapley is striving in his new edifice. Keith's vaudeville home is still in the midst of its all-year successful season. At the Belasco George Marshall's management closed last evening, the reins VIDOR ~ Palace Curren‘c Attractions Keith's,'The Meistersingers’ HE Keith offerings for this week beginning with the matinee tomor- row, will be headed by “The Meister- roup of Hostonians who honors in summer singers"—a & have achieved exceptional vaude exclusive engagements The organiza composed of the Harvard, and Weber Male quarte The extra feature, Fr: liams and Jean Vannessie, assisted by Arthur Freed and Jack Gifford, will A Study in Contrasts.” ce Hayes, known in Washington her appearance both in vaude- ville and in the Dillingham musical play, “The Bunch and Judy." returns cith new songs and frocks. Miss Haves is one of vaudeville's big per- sonalities Rubini and Diane linist of note. the second of ability—return in a routi ody and interpretative bit and dance. Davis Darnell last with Lew Fields will appear in “Bird Se an amus- ing playlet with chuckles innumer- able. James Doyle, recently of Dovle and Dixon, together with Eilcen Christie, a dainty dancer, will con- tribute attractive dance motifs Russell and Pierce, “acromedians, and Lawton. the widely known jug- gler, will complete the hill, which also includes Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and Pathe New Last week's bill, headed by Carus, will be presented this noon and evening. HOWARD—"How Come." the Howard Theater this week, a performance this evening £:30 o'clock, will be presented the “How Come” company in a musical comedy which has been crowding this theater for the past twe weeks. The company is a colored organization of note, headed by Eddie Hunter. A creole beauty chorus one of the features of the show during tion™ is Pilgrim an wil- the first a vio- <ongstress of mel- of song seer 3 Emma after- At with being taken up by Manager Fosse, representing the Shuberts. The Gar- rick, which L. Stoddard Taylor converted into “a handsome little, inti-| mate theater beautiful,” as he used so eloquently to describe it, wiil linger | a while longer as a Shubert house, the re-lease of the theater having al-| ready been announced. Much. however, will need to be done to it before | its doors can be reopened. The proposed new Cosmopolitan, at 13th and E streets. has had a setback due to foundation difficulties. Just when it will be completed may not be predicted with any degree of certainty now. | The purpose, however, it is believed, is to push it to completion as rap- idly as proper construction will admit. The Cosmos might open its doors | tomorrow, but it is likely to wait until well into August before making | jts new scason announcements. A vastly improved quality of entertain- ment will be provided there during the new season, it is predicted. The Gayety is always with us, and its new season announcement is pretty | nearly due. * kK ok IR CHARLES HAWTREY, one of the notable figures of the stage, died last week, and the scant accounts of him and his career almost fought | each other with inaccuracy. It matters little whether he was born at Slough or at Eton: that he was educated at Eton, Rugby and Oxford, and that his father was a minister. He himself began at twenty-three and he became an actor of note. He came to this country in 1904, in “A Message From Mars,” under the management of the late Charles Frohman. His greatest success, according to the English was, “Where the Rainbow Ends,” which is revived almost annually in London at Christmas time, but an_ eminent authority states, also, that his greatest success was “The Private Secretary,” which he adapted from Von Moser’s German play, “Der Bibliothekar,” first produced at mbridge, England, in 1883. His last appearance in America was in 1912, in “Dear Old Charley,” in New York. But he had many successes, and the older Washington theatergoer will easily recall him. Sic transit gloria mundi! * K * % ERCY G. WILLIAMS, long one of the successful vaudeville producers and showmen of America, who died recently, made provision in his will whereby the bulk of his fortune, estimated at more than $5000,000, will be used to endow and maintain a home for those who through age, poverty or infirmity have been crowded out of the profession. E. F. Albee, head of the Keith vaudeville circuit, paid Mr. Williams a high tribute. “It was a fine and gracious farewell to the profession he loved so well,” said Mr. Albee. “He had been an actor himself and had known all the varying fortunes of the theater. As a manager he was always kind, generous, sympathetic and considerate. His bequest comes at a time when it is sorely needed.” There are many who will “keep his memory green.” * k kX ROM afar comes the rumor that Otis Skinner will be seen the coming season in “Tartarin on the Alps,” a new play by Edith Ellis. Gilbert Miller, its producer, however, is reserving particulars for his friends in England, so that Mr. Skinner may pl:y there instead of in this country. * * * AUL KESTER’S play, “The Great Lady Dedlock,” with Charles Dick- ens’ “Bleak House” as a foundation, and which San Francisco de- clares a tour de force for Margaret Anglin, seems to be very like the old play of very nearly the same mame, in which the famous Mme. Janauschek used to appear almost a half century ago. She played it in Washington at the old theater at 9th and C streets, known as Berry’s Opera House; Ford's Opera House, the Bijou and by other names. ~Janauschek also doubled in the roles of Lady Dedlock and the maid, Hortense, and she used to present, with her play, the one-character curtain-raiser. “Come Here,” whose title was also its complete text. ‘W. X. LANDVOIGT. Has an Odd Job. ILMDOM'S strangest job is held by Edward Maurice, who poses for pictures and portraits which later find use in motion pictures. He s a make-up artist. When a demand comes for a tintype of an- cestors for use in a picture, the cast- ing department calls on Maurice, who puts on a giddy array of whiskers and sideburns and poses in his stiffest style. The result is a perfect tintype. His latest posing work may be seen in “The Marriage Maker,” the Wil- liam de Mille production for Para- mount. A large portrait in oils, the likeness of an early English lord, appears on the wall of the home of Eleanora Duse Coming N November America will see Elea- nora Duse again. The great trage- Yienne, whom many placed above Bernhardt, but whose American tour many vears ago was a failure, will appear in New York, Philadelphia and Washington under the management of Morris Gest, who is paying her $5.000 a performance. Duse and her company of twenty- two, it is announced for Mr, Gest, will give twenty performances, two each week. She will appear in D'Annun- gio's “The Dead City.” Ibsen’'s “Ghosts” and “The Woman From the Bea™ _l.nd Mario Praga’'s “The Closed tress P at present, however, A midnight performance will be given Friday evening. Strand to Reopen. RILLIANT paint and ing cleanlines cranny,” the trand, shington’'s popular-priced vaudeville nd theater, announces its opening next Sunday, August 12. for the season of 1923-24, with a bill of vaudeville and cinema offerings that promises to set a high standard for the weeks to fol- low. A delightful revue is promised. en- titled “Silks, Styles and _Satin starring pretty and petite Billie Ge ber and a quartet of capable players. The act’is said to be lavishly staged and gorgeously costumed. Alice La Mont and company, “The Steppers of 1923”; Clark and in a comedy skit, “Who and ; Steve McNally, Jack Kelly and Lenaire De Wolfe, in an amusing originality in two scenes. “Making Good”; and Jennings and Mack. in a humorous surprise, “In Our Auto,” will compose the vaudevi Lon aney and Virginia Valli, featured in a Universal production “The Shock,” will be the photoplay. It is a story of that section of San Francisco known as “The Barbary Coas great ecarthquake of 1906, and the manner in which that catastrophe has been reproduced is said to be one of the most refiarkable feats ever ac- complished in stage craft. Col]ege Men in Movies. LLEGE education, it seems, appar- ently paved the way of some lead- ing men to the movies. Goldwyn leading men include Con- rad Nagel, Edmund Lowe, James with a of )1 1 from e new coat ry nook and W | Kirkwood. Raymond Griffith, William Haines, Frank Mayo and Goesta Ek. man. Nagel graduated from Highland Park College of Dés Moines, lowa, where he specialized in elocution. Edmund Lowe received a bachelor of arts degree from Santa Clara Univer- sity, Santa Clara, Calif. Then he took a post-graduate course for a master of arts degree, and won a de- gree in pedagogy. A year of teaching was required in the course, so Lowe instructed a class in English litera- ture for a year. af and breath- | picture | during the days preceding the | | i i | { | | ymembers of the Harvard four were .opyersation ensued. MEGRrAIL and "RINTINTIN Rialto WILLIAM DUNCAN Crandalls America's Passion Play. THE famous “Passion Oberammergau has its counter- part in America, and all the way across this great continent a sincere and pleasant-faced little woman came to bring the message. She had | lite to say of herself save that her name is M. A. Crofts. that her pro- | fession is that of a nurse, and that| she is an earnest admirer of Mrs. Christian Wetherill Stevenson of | Philadelph now deceased, who founded what is called “The Pilgrim- | age Play,” in ich, in dramatic form, the life of Christ. as taken | from' the gospels of Matthew, Mark. | Luke and John, is regulariy’ siaged | annually in the hills near Hollywood, Calif., and whose players suomerge | their names in the great cause which | they hope to serve in the presenta- tion of the play. Miss Crofts savs that Mrs. pent some time in the Play” of Stev- in Hol “The Meistersingers.” 'HE story of “The Meistersingers.” the three quartets—the Harvard, | the Pilgrim and the Weber—is worth | a word or two. | Some six years in the dignified | city of Boston—the hub of the uni-| verse—these three quartets were formed, each a unit in itself. The unacquainted with the members of the Pilgrim and Weber groups. Each | unit set out upon its own career. | Each was purely local. And the mem- | of all of them were either lovers of fine music or vocal teachers who | found it interesting to employ their | leisure in the interest and advance- ment of music. A year passed. A year of great ac- tivity for each of the three quartets. | Innumerable appearances took place | in the course of that twelvemonth— | appearances that brought fame and | | MARION SWAYNE. | Central Land stndying all the places ciated with the life of Chnist she brought back many of the tumes with which to clithe characters of the play. It is she gave her life to the cause. even that she died from the ef of her strenuous service. Her aim was simply to Christ lived and what he ta established by Holy writ. T nothing sectarian or commerc the enterprise. which was the work of Mrs. Stevenson. Miss Crofts also modestly ventures the suggestion that this is but an- other of the limitless testimonials that Hollywood is not the place that sensational writers in the eas: have painted it. “The Pilgrimage Play” unfolds the whole life of Christ as iknown, in- cluding the star of Bethlehem, the visit of the wise men, the manger where the Babe was born, scenes in the temple, “on the way to Jerusa- lem"” and the closing scenes of the great tragedy. asso- and cos- the said and how how zht as e 4 life fortune to the three “fours. Bos- tonians were undecided as to which of the three were entitled to the greatest appreciation, and so all there was left to do was to extend praise—in equal parts—to all con- cerned. Then a funny thing happened. Three members of the Harvard group, quite by accident. encountered in the Copley Plaza lobby one night two members of the Weber set, and a It gave birth | to a great idea, an idea which was placed beforé the Pilgrim crowd, with the result that before the end of the week the three quartets had joined ranks under the title of “The Méister- singers.” Vaudeville heard of the merger, and though a number of the singers are busily engaged in teaching in Boston in the winter months, it was found that during the summer the new organization could conveniently tour via the Keith way, especially the eastern states. *Girl of the Golden West.” STHE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN West” has an almost unrivaled A private denominational college in|gtage history. Grand Rapids, Mich, gave James Kirkwood his degree. Raymond Grif- fith started in on a scholarly career early. He was born in Boston. He attended St. Anselmn’'s College. Wil- liam Haines and Frank Mayo both completed courses in higher instruc- tion at the Staunton Military Acade- my. Goesta Ekman, who comes from Sweden, was graduated from Upsaloa University, the same institution Vic- tor Seastrom attended. Barthelmess' Next. OHN S. ROBERTSON announces that Dorothy Mackaill has been Selected to play opposite Richard Barthelmess in ““Wild Apples,” which follows ““The “Fighting Blade.” ~ As Miss Mackaill was leading lady in that picture, she achieves the distinc- tion of being the first leading lady to play opposite him in two pictures since he became a Star two years ago. The story recountd the struggles of a young man brought up under circumstances calculated to make him a snob, but who finds himselt and achieves his goal in life—the- girl of earte. Produced first by David Belasco, its author, as a starring vehicle for Blanche Bates, it attracted such wide attention that Puccini, composer of ‘Madam Butterfly,” adapted the vivid tale to operatic form. In the mean- time the play was novelized and at- tained a wide library circulation. It now comes to the screen in a new form: as an Edwin Carewe production for First National. Seldom has a single work exerted its appeal to so wide and so varied a public. The stage premiere of “The Girl of the Golden West,” like many other Belasco first nights, was celebrated at the Belasco Theater in this city. Miss Bates, of course, was cast as ‘the Eirl” who ran the Polka saloon and dance hall in the rugged hills of the west_during the gold rush days of '48. Robert T. Haines was the picturesque bandit _caballero. Ramerrez, and Frank Keenan was splendidly cast as Jack Rance, the sheriff, whose obses- sione were honor and “the k’yards.” “In _grand opera. the foremost ~iha New. - York premiere of the Puccini work. Emmy Destinn was heard in the role of “the girl” and achieved a notable triumph and Ramerrez was sung by Caruso, temperamentally and his- trionically suited to the part of the road agent lover. In the Carewe film version J. War- ren Kerrigan appears as Bamerrez, Miss Breamer, the Australian star, who made her screen debut in this country with William S. Hart, 1s “the girl,” and Russell Simpson has the role originated for the atage by Mr. Keenan. In one important respect, it is claimed, the screen version’of “The Girl of the Golden West" surpasses both the stage play and the opera. Both Belasco and Gatti-Cazzaza, im- presario of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company in New York, were restricted to the physical limitations of comparatively small stages in making _ their productions. Mr. Carewe, however, taking his company high up into the Sierras, filmed the major portion of the exciting action upon the exact spots where the events were supposed to have occurred. The pictorial resuit is pronounced a series of majestia landssapea, liax 'Automobiles ) MimM1 PALMIERI Columbia s epye . Longfellow s '"Hiawatha pRL\'(‘H' L PICTURES CORPORA- TION has announced an early pro- duction of a spectacular screen ver- sion of “Hiawatha.” James Willard Schultz, a full- fledged member of the Blackfoot In- dian tribe of Montana, is preparing the story. As an authority on Indian lore, he is regarded without a peer. He has published many works of Indian life. “It is our plan,” says President Lesser, “to emphasize the poetical elements, or rather to attempt to give them complete visualization. This we hope to accomplish by the importance we shall give to the earlier episodes of the poem wherein the infancy and young boyhood of Hiawatha are treated. The poetic essence of the work is what we are after rather than ‘plot-values." *“We believe we shall accomplish the production of a ‘pageant-poem’ that will appeal with its beauty to every class of motion picture patron and every lover of romance and poetry.™ HOW Authors Wr;te. URTON ROSCOE, in his “A Book- man’s Day Book.” tells interest- ingly of the way in which certain well known authors apply themselves to their business of writing novels. Joseph Hergesheimer goes to his office at 9 o'clock in the morning, and dictates the first draft of his stories. He then publishes and re- vises and elaborates until he has satisfied himself that it is the best he can do, which is usually after two or three drafts. Julian Street goes to an office every morning _methodically, though he does not keep to any time Schedule. He confesses himself a slow writer, having spent an entire summer on one especially obstinate short story before he got it to his liking. He cuts his original draft more often than he expands it. Anatole France tells us that he writes sentences and paragraphs on separate sheets of paper as they come to him, and when he is ready to weld them together, he often shuffles them about, out of their original order, putting the tail first and the head last. Booth Tarkington's lock himself up in h municado, until he work in hand. He said to have thus isolated himself for three months while writing “Alice Adams. method is to study, incom- Norma's New Plcture. THT cast of “Dust of Desire” 4 irma Talmadge's next picture, as announced by Producer Joseph M. Schenck last week, will include Joseph Schildkraut, who heads the list. which includes Arthur Edmund Carewe, Earl Schenck, Hector V. Sarno.Laurence Wheat, James Cooley, Albert Prisco and Mario Carrillo, Frances Marion and Chester Franklin are to direct, assisted by David Fischer, Tony Gaudio will be cameraman, Norma Talmadge has the role of a native dancing girl, the tool of a band of Arabs plotting the overthrow of French rule in Algeria. A Dog Story. JDOGS have not been uncommon to the movies. Indeed, one dog, Strongheart he is called, has become famous, so much so that he is ‘now classed as one of the stars of the screen, and there are few, if any, fans who are not familiar with his thrilling pictures. But one dog doesn’'t make dogdom any more than one man makes hu- manity. There are others. Perhaps the most interesting of the other dogs that have claimed notice in moving pictures is the one they cal Rintintin. Rintintin is said to markédly re- semble the wolf in the shape of his skull and jaw, the angle of the ear, color of skin and his size and height. Indeed, it is said that Rintintin in his day actually merged with a wolf pack, and that it was only acei- dent that he returned to civilization. The story of his return is said to be fascinatingly toid in “Where the North Begins,” a new picture of the northern wilds which will be shown in Washington for the first time to- O Glen Echo Park. ANAGER SCHLOSS of Glen Echo Park announces for today a spe- cial free concert by Sol Minster and his band of twenty saxophone play- the first time, it is claimed, of this kind has been given ers, concert in Washington. grams will be given of one hour cach, with an hour of intermission between programs, starting at 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Plenty of seats have been provided for those who attend the concerts. All the popular fun features will start at 1 p.m. Chesapeake Beach. Picturesque surroundings add to the atractiveness of Chesapeake Beach, where a long boardwalk and count- 1 musements are situated over the water, several hundred feet from shore. Shady picnic grounds are well supplied with rustic tables and benches and command a beautiful view of the bay. The bathing beach is screened to exclude foreign objects floating in the Water, and the slope of the sand Dottom it gradual. With no. step-offs into deep ‘water, it is Life guards are constantly in at- tendance. The half-mile steamer pier affords fucilities for Hehihp ahd CPABBING. Mordi Ducllles o Rhlhe and bbb Tree dancing is one of the bim at Chevy Chase Lake. ZL\"P\' tured night at be fea- novelty where blackface jazz will in the Wednesday Chevy Chase Lake, AT THE PHOTOPLAY ROPOLIT! afternoon and cvening. PALACE lice Adams,” afternoon and evenirg. “Where the Shown this afternoon a COLUMBIJA—"The Ragged Edge, CRANDALL'S—"Smashing Barri evening. LEADER—"The Birth of a Nat evening. METROPOLITAN—“The Girl of the Golden West.” The gold-rush days of '49, with all their hardships, banditry and ro- mance, are pictured in Edwin Carewe’s screen version of David Be- lasco's celebrated stage success, “The Girl of the Golden West,” which will politan Theater, beginning this after- noon. The picture was filmed high up in the Sierra mountains, it is claimed, upon the exact spots where the episodes in the fascinating story of the girl who loved a road agent are supposed to have occurred. Ma- jestic natural settings supply a back- ground of surpassing beaut The story concerns the love of the girt who ran the Polka Saloon and Dance Hall for Ramerrez, the bandit who had terrorized the countryside by the daring of his depredations, and the jealous hatred of Jack Rance, the sheriff, whose fetich was truth and “the kyards. Sylvia Breamer is cast as “the girl" who was willing to gamble for the life of the man she loved. Ra- a played by Warren Kerri- Russell Simpson is Rance, and semary Theby, Wilfred Lucas, Nel- son McDowell, Hector V. ar and Jed Prouty are seen in roles. B A Mermaid comedy, “Backfire’ featuring Lige Conley: a new Bray reel and the Metropolitan World Sur- vey also will se shown. The musical program arranged by Daniel Breeskin will include Verdi's “The Force of Destiny” overture, “Little Gray Home in the West” and an interpretative accompaniment for the feature. PALACE—“Alice Adams.” Loew's Palace Theater announces noon, a new photoplay by Booth Tarkington, probably the greatest of American authors, “Alice Adams.” a screen version of the Tarkington novel that won the Pulitzer prize of 1922 as the best American novel of the vear. It was adapted to the screen by Rowland V. Lee and the picture was directed by King Vidor, who has made- many fine productions in his day. The title role was played by the beautiful Florence Vidor. The cast includes Claude Margaret McWade, Harold Goodwin, Vernon Steele, Thomas Ricketts, Ger- trude Astor and Margart Landis. “Alice Adams” is the story of a typical American girl, who, ‘at the threshold of womanhood, finds her father a financlal failure and the social “set” of her girlhood rapidly drawing away from her. In an effort to hide the true state of affairs at home she undertakes to cover up the shortcomings of her father and the tactlessness of her mother by a series of petty deceptions, but her brother becomes involved in a theft and her father collapses. To add to her mis- fortunes her admirer learns the real state of affairs. The girl then bravely starts a career that will make her self-supporting and thereby finds true romance by discarding the de- ceptions which had made her miser- able for years. — CENTRAL—‘Counterfeit Love.” “Counterfeit Love,” a Ralph Ince production, will be shown at Cran- dall's Central Theater the first three days of this week, beginning th afternoon. It is a story of life in the south, concerning a young man struggling to care for a crippled sis- ter and a wealthy renegade. Marion Swayne and Jack Richardson are featured in it. “Boys to Board,” an- other adventure of Hal Roach's “our gang” cutups; the Kinograms and pipe organ accompaniment will com- plete the bill. Wednesday and Thur: day, Jane Novak, supported by John Bowers, will be pictured in “Divorce,” the story of a man who can't stand success, and Bobby Vernon in Christie's_“Take Your Choice.” Fri day and Saturday “Children of Jaz will bring cen Percy, Nita Naldi and Theodore Kosloff, together with Neal Burns in Christie's “Back to the | Woods.” | RIALTO— *‘Where the North Be- gins.” “Where the North Begins an- nounced as the feature at Moore's Rialto Theater this week, beginning 10daye-has-its setting in. vast snowy a| understood. | —“The Girl of the Golden Pulitzer prize story North Begins, be shown for the first time in Wash-| ington this week at Crandall’s Metro- | important | for this week, beginning this after-| Gillingwater, | <AAmusements Ben Levin will hold forth special brand of mingled song. Levin’s method ing a dancing crowd unique, a8, ukelele in hand, he min gles with dancers. The Meyer Davis brand of zippy Jazz continuc upper and lower pavil Great Falls Park. Great in his own omedy and entertain- said to be Four distinct pro-| | Falls Park, | sort located the open-air re- miles from the |city in_a lovely spot along the Po- |tomac, "has for its chief attraction | the falls, which present | sight as’ the water |mammoth boulders and jaggcd re dashing spray many feet into the A special free coneert be | by the Great Ladies’ Orct | today. The | attractions | young folks | dancing and other am | provided ‘for the older | quent schedule of trains | from 36th and M strec | fourtegn spiring an rushes over air, are popu b boatin \ folks mai Colonial Beach. Yesterd stea Johns pleasure day to {water _puing Boating and g Ly FRursaay | Saturdays a |~ Forty-mile | made every Mo Friday evenings Dancing on b | ture ¥ afternoon t carried seekers for a we Colonial Beach tor 230 p.m moon Photoplays This Week HOUSES THIS W West.” =K. Showr 1922, Shown featuring Rin-tin-t nd evening. ” featuring Alfred Lunt Palmeri. Shown this afternoon and evening, NTRAL—"Counterfeit Love.” Shown this a ers.” Shown t ion.” Shown this afternoor wastes, and specifically in a Huds bay trading post, where Shad Gal way, the factor, lords it with an iron {fist " He has cast his eves on you Felice McTavish, regardles | fact that her heart is given to | Dupre. a ¥rench-Canadian Galioway hires a band {to do away with the men carrying furs into the settl Four men have through this band and th en stolen. Galloway Dupre a sum to attempt furs through. He acce enable him to get marricd. G wounded, is saved from the int of the murderers throuzh the | unexpected appe f a wild dos | that has strayed off wh and been raised with a This dog is Rintintin, the policedog. reputed to b most_intelligent animals now living From this point in the story entire action revolves around The wolf-dog first starts to Gabriel in his weakened conditio but for some mysterious reason for bears. The two becc friends together succeed in runnir the gang of crooks in Galloway's em- ploy. Mystery and r outstanding features Rintintin credited intuition and acting human veteran of The late: Our “Giants vs. Yanks!" Farina and the gang | News will be shown a Director Wild and will_give as overture, by C. Lavallee. COLUMBIA—“The Ragged Edge.” An amazing love adventure, back- grounded against gorgeously beauti- ful natural settings and Tevealing high intensity of drama. s the press | agent's description of “The Edge.” the Goldwyn scren v ic the novel by Harold McGrath American novelist, which will | shown at Loew’'s Columbia Theater this afternoon and all this wee | the r fu Zue ance ¢ we h adventure the T with orchestra Rose.” tha “The Ragged Edge” is the story of a missionary’s daughter imprisoncd in her own home by a father who wishes to keep from her forever t meaning of love. It is also the stc of an American youth fleeing from secret persecution at home into the heart of China in the effort to fory Both form threads of this powerful | Harold McGrath romance, which been scenarized by Forrest Hal and was directed by Harmon Wei Alfred Lunt, the =stage star “Clarence,” “The Intimate Stran and others, has the chief mal and his ar is the fasc Mimi Palmeri. In China the boy and the girl mect He has collapsed from the strain and she falls in love with hin Although realizing_the risk of ing the girl's life with his own he marries her after she has him back from the ragged edge the sole idea of being able to her the protection she needs the native element of the South where both have fled, she to avoid t injustice of her father and he avoid the justice he believes to pursuing him. The story from ti point on gives rise to one hair-raising episode after another. Added screen and musical offerin will include an interlude by the C lumbia Orchestra under Leon Brusilof. CRANDALL'S — “Smashing Bar- riers. “Smashing Barrier: photoplay, featuring William and Edith Johnson, will be seen at Crandall's Theater the first three davs of this week, beginning this after- It is marked t consta cal action and punctuated with climax after climax William Dun- can performs his stunts and makes his hair-raising_escapes from peril- ous situations, and Miss Johnson dem- onstrates unusual ability in shootin, swimming, riding and otherwise Larry mon’ Vitagraph comedy “The Barnyard,” with short ree pipe organ music, will round out program. Wednesday Thur. Dorothy Dalton will be seen in | mount’s “The bLaw of the Lawle a drama of Gypsy and Tartar the Danube. with Theodore Ko Tully Marsha!l and Margaret Loomis in_support. and Jimmie Adams. in “The Once Over.” a novel brand funmaking. The Woman With Fo Faces” will be shown Friday u (Continued from First I'age.) - nating rd 13 to be s a Vitagraph Duncar