Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1923, Page 71

AMUSEMENTS. By W. H. Landvosgt. world that loves to be entertained has heard and read much in recent months about “bigger and better” picture The greater part of this propaganda has come irom the publicity bureaus of the producers, it is true, but, nevertheless, the world of art and the world of reviewers have contributed their share to the discussion. The world of “the ordinary, common people,” however, that uitimately has to “dig down and cough up,” in the crude language of the street, 4y the cost of all pictures, has not yet entered very largely into the di that has for its object. ostensibly n of a great in into art as may The di verage producer ciforts aimost exclusively to the diffcrent, especially bad and in- until the youngster of eight who s Was as wise as the veteran of eighty in matters So loud grew the protest against this perversion oi form of eutertainment provided for the “common peo- producers to br bout a change. Like the at once fell i ne for “better” pic- " with “better.” hecause for “bigger” and make up any loss they might ex- picture. The real need was for “better,” The “common people,” with whom. history tells us, naton, wanted more wholesome stories, “cleaner” ¢ underworld and more of the drama of normal life. producer today, however, scems to he rather toward cussion the conver: dustry an art sformation vouchsafed into a kind that may be viewed withont a quiver. tsston was the ¢ result of the apply woman, good, bad to the seaniy penchant of the a and direct picturi patronized the picture of doubtfu! mory of pictures t tion « their and i side of life, a‘ar t the were forced astute business . they tures, b d the word "k pictures p the ld charge mor icnce in # the “bad” “higger. pictur rests the virtue of tie . pictures. I'he bigger less of trend oi t and 1 costly™ pict some say millions iose who wish to see it n people” can afford to the work of art. The just and fair as that of the to hiave the pictures that are made clean. but worth while, and certainly 1 ar i the “com to nre tor 1l within cer and P mea picture erry-Go-Round, Apocalyps aramouche” and “The ent memor ome ai the old rates of nearly n te trebie the old. Now pass all that have pre- ized as one of the great Nation.” and all so weed into comparison 1 discloses the soul of Griffith pretended to Liat people which have of “peaceiul” humanity usurpassed by its pre- ans of those who were born at they should be to deserve Jnave been written in recent “The Covered Wagon™ shows, Americanism is. It pictures » would aspire to right- American. The splendid, wpucied everything to make the he valiant men who gave ight he preserved” and at scems to s v rece I'lie’ Birt 1wve bee drama I vhose birth A struggle of a drama i which i our domestic cmpizsized than t Congre economy was is extract useme PhotoplaysThis Week pla; IA—Paols Neari, it “The Spanish Dancer Shown this | | in “The this At the P COLUM Houses This Week. hoto B Y, ETROPO! : ghting Blade.” i n and evening. RIALTO—"The Day th PALACE afterne AMBASSADOR Shown thi th vi this aiternoon and evening. +a James Cru; ichard tion. Shown this -R Barthe “ighti ” - it Mol e Fizhting Blade. CENTRAL—"The Affairs of Lady Hamilton." noon and eveni i CRANDALL and ev . own this after- Mark of the Beast.” Shown th afternoon h = ing Hendricks respansible, | welght of her popu S is turred Lis inju o1 hier deli she In "The Spanish Dancer’ eathered W ] When Juiie iun blishes « & to promuls ng. Michael ‘Anstell, 1on in love w to further his own weslth wen iebacls her foundation, but doss ; er doctrine, b Bt har e, but boasting it Hendrick s foundation gate his who her, belie New offering Herbert Brenon Dancer” is the that far-famed Bazan.” which opera. litera- and which now | appearance on the | & drama of old Spain, cre and reve ¥, concerning a vho zains the love of a in a serics of gripping ating episode Antonto Morena will role the Don, Wallaco Y as King Philip TV of Spain. and Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Adoiphe Menjoi, Edwird Kiy 1y Charles A pew. have Marie Dix and june the original story for The mansgement p sereen and musical featur I of ni | when rected by screcn version of story, “Don Cesar de ias been presented in vure and on the st a s its first sereen. Tt is Eorgeous in Sng in drama sy beauty *Spanish_dox &nd fasc manity s not y, el ROt vet roady for her great abolishes the foundati, :‘:;\;.lne“ in the love 7)‘; E i Spaper report - inally engaged to exposs and wain pos The latost ‘of Hal Roach's “Our < ’l‘\?fih ;&m:ah"” ';(Dogs of War,” in 4, Micky and th - Fox News and speclal stra numbers will be added a:tr:&‘;:::"dl Palace—' T:he Ladies.” ° the Ladies,” the droll Broadway Stage success by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, which was seen in Washington with Helen Hayes, has reached the movies and will be pre- sen(rtl for the first time here at Loew's Palace this afterncon, to. gether with a Christle comedy, “Fool Proof” the Pathe News, Topics of the Day and Tom Gannon’s Orchestra. ‘To the Ladies,” is th y product of the authors of -‘-’153',2? and “Merton of the Movies,” and {n sereen form represents the latest achievement of James Cruze, who di. rected “The Covered Wagon.” The cast | The story harks back to the time of | Roberts 1o’ the r}t\;l:d;;’ 12%."'1’3.’:3&? ironavell for its period and England | a plano J for its localo—the England of swash- | 11 the ?&:‘;{‘;‘z‘fiegr“ ho/decidenito buckling _aristorrats, knaves who | ager witn that Benoral man- Ynew swordsmanship but not honor, | who mal und women Who were at their mercy. | S0cial Imyession e rnolita it concerns a youns Dutchman, Karl | ner to the Kincald employes "o 910 Yan Kerstenbroock, fine of principle, | —Leonard Beebes one of tha smpl. courageous and stanch n his defense | meets his Waterloo when he giecer: of honorable womanhood. Incurring | ere the speach he had. eoraitsooys the hatred of a gToup of nobles by his | memory from & book: fs peire SHbS fiEht 1o protect a lady's name, e 1s | enunciated Uy the spenker ahesn sF ricked into an appearance of cow- |him. Incoherent with astonishment avdice which lie quickly dispels. He land chagrin, Beebe sess his capars wdopts drastic means to avenge his|little wife ‘rise when his tuir 1o honor. and _unwittingly becomes the | called and announce that her husbang suardian of the betrothed of one of | has been stricken with Tarynmiti ong Jits enemies. Then he joins Cromwell | cannot speak, but that she will Speni And his band of “roundheads” and is | for him. So impressed is the weu assigned to capture the castle of the | With the wife's speach that youns Fourl of Stav . where dwells the { Beebe is practically. khighted on ths girl whom ha and the | fleld, but when the Boss jater discov Ten whom he had fought. From this [ers ‘the duplicity of his employers situation is built a great climax. bivite, Mrs. Kincaid has taken 8 fancy The Metropolitun World Sury ito the couple and the ladles demon. yyman H. Howe “Hodge-Podge,” strate that after all, it is the woman “ & et Mathis prepared | production added }1etropolitan-;ilichard Bar- * thelmess in “The Fighting Blade.” Richard Barthelmess. his new First National production of “The} Fighting Blade.” will be seen for the first thne in Washington at Cran- dall's Metropolitan Th er this we beginning this afternoon. in a an orchesiral prelude, “Pomp and Cir- | who really rules in industry and com- “umstance,” and setting, will be added | merce. ~Helen Jerome Eddy has the attractions. the role of Mrs, Beebe while Louise “wrhe Fighting Blade” will be pre- | Dresser has the role of the manufac- memged &t the Metropolitan’s regular |turers wife. Edward Horton, Z. Wall Lt Covington, Patricia Palmer, Arthur .. . |Hovt and’ Jack Garaner aiso have Rialto—"The Day of Faith prominent parts. “The Dav of Faith” produced by | Ambassador — Richard Bar- Goldwyn Pictures under the direction ey irawning, trom Arehur Som.| thelmess in “The Fighting ers Roche's novel, will be shown this Blade.’ ; Ri. , be- week at Moorc’s Rialto Theater, be=| oo o " po 0 e in “Thel ”i;‘"‘“i S e Fighting Blade,” his latest First Na-{ e aficarde Man: tional release, will be the attraction Bland Hendricks, an idealist, who at Crandall's Ambassador Theater promotes the doctrine “My nelghbor|also today and tomorrow. “The story I pertet e o Mattompted 'to | 18 described in'the reader for Cran. Ppreak into the home of Marley May- | dall's Metropolitan Theater. [Bar- siard when the latter was very ill|thelmess is supperted by Dorothy $ausing his death, His daughter Mackall and & fine cast, Short cam- be comparable to | | be | “ Cke DAY y”TAXTh"" Rialto S WILSON Polis Next Week's Photoplays RIALTO—Marguerite Courtot in “The Steadiast Heart.,” METROPOLITAN — Owen Moore, in “Thundergate.’ CENTRAL—Colleen Moore, “Broken Hearts of Broac way AMBASSADOR — Owen Moore, in “Thundergate CRANDALLS — “Sh Sands.” S DECEMBER 9, POLA NEGRI Columbia A JEROME. I0DY | \Palace MADGE EVANS Straud A Woman’s Opinion . CCORDIN AT version story, “Enem £ Women the Ame; An far beau tiful of face, form and even feet than the French woman. But the French woman is more beautiful from neck to hips than her American rival Miss Rubens, during the stay of the Cosmopulitan company in Paris whi filming scenes for the Ibanez Studied the feminine types about According 1 Miss Hubens, *Fench women ar coust Possessed of Jer to hips. The to Alma Rubens politan’s Blasco in Co Vicente screen Ibane’ woman is m, her the Emart hodie hody our era subjects and orchestrul music will be added attractions. Tuesd: and Wednesday Milton Sills and Virginia Valli will be seen in “A Lady of Quality,” one of the most beautifully executed romances of the geason, and Harry Pollard, in “Fully Insured.” Thursday and riday. “In the Palace of the King” will be the offering, with Lyman H. Howe's “The Cat and_the Fiddle” and Saturd Emory Johnson's “The Mailman,” ‘a drama dealing with the responsibili- ties and dangers of the postman, and featuring Ralph Lewis and Johnny alker, and George O'Hara, in ‘Fighting Blood."” Affairs of Central — “The Lady Hamilton.” ““The Affairs of lLady Tamilton a romantic drama. produced in 1u- rope and released in this. country through Hodkinson, will be shown for the first time in Washington the first three days of the current week at Crandall's Central Theater. The beautiful woman : from whose love story the picture derives its name is played by Lisne Haid, supported by Werner Kraus. The “Fighting eries, instaliment No. 7, fea- 3 ge O'Hara as *“ will be shown also. Wedne: and the remainder of the week Harold Llnyd"n ne\:l six- reel comedy riot, “Why Worry? wil ba shown, with “Capt. Kleinschmidt Adventures in the Far North,” an in- teresting close-up study of wild life in_the arctic. 3 New issues ‘of the Kinograms, short reels and pipe organ recitals will complete each dally bill. Crandnfl'a—"fie Mark of the Beast.” “The Mark of the Beast,” by Thomae Dixon, author of “The Birth of a Nation,” will be shown for the first time here at Crandall's Theater the first three days of this week, be- ginning this afternoon. It is the story of a girl who fell under the hypnotic power of a brutal criminal, not knowing why she obeved h every whim and dedicated her life to his service. The story is punctuated with thrilling climaxes. Robert El- is, Madelyn Clare, Warner Richmond, Gustav von Seyffertitz and IHelen Ware are seen in the cast. Macl'(' Sennett’s “Down. to the Sea in Shoes’ will be shown also. Lionel Barry- more will be seen in the Goldwyn production of “Unseeing Eyes” Wed- nesday and Thursday, with a new Aesop Fable, “‘The Five Fifteen,” and Fridey and Sgturday, Carmel Myers, in “The Love Pirate” and Stan Laurel, in “Roughest Africa,” a bur- lesque of the “big game’ hunters. Short reels and pipe organ music will be dally features. Soviet Picture, "Fifth Year” The Russian picture, “Fifth Year. will be shown at the City Club Fri- day evening. Besides affording an opportunity for education on a subject about which so little {s known here, it is said to provide entertainment of the highest -type. Lenin, whose lives have outnum- film. | fea- Our girls have a vinding in their torsos ning, pulling, pinning—until their figure attain that straight up and down look of b It is a_fashion suited to the popular sport elot of the flapper. figurs that furnished a flat, surface for the draping of sprightly sport searf But. with maturity, sponsible f quentiy urves of this part modest-littie habi it is a non-skid th also re- too fre ing the most heautiful the feminine figure. It is ence between “rench fikures that is n Amcrican steps into s new athy vrinkle purring pleats it i & the whe —pustry bered those of t is shown. not but a is s everyday IMfe. Leon Trotsky and others, with whose names the public already is familla the kiddies riding in the parade floats; the story of the confiscation of the church treasures, the red arm: and other interesting subjects are pl tured. al cat, ndsome hero. “provert h Apollo. Today tomorrow, Gloria Swanson. in “Zaza,” and Stan Laurel, in *'Scorch- ing Sands”; Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Harold Lloyd, in “Why Wor- bl and “Capt. Kleinschmidt's Adven- tures in the Far North”; Friday, Eva Novak and Bryaut Washburn, in “Temp- tation,” and George O'Hara, in “Fight- ing Biood" Saturday, Clara Kimball Young, in “A Vife’'s Tomance,’ nd Lige Conley in “Running Wild. Avenue Grand. Today, tomorrow and Tuesday, Har- old Lloyd, in “Why Worry?" and “Capt. Kleinschmidt's Adventures in_the Far North"”; Wednesday and Thursday, Glorla Swanson, in “Zaza,” and Stan Laurel, in “Scorching Sands”: Clara K Young, in Romanc d Harry Pollard, in “The Walkout ; Saturday, Kenneth Harlan and Mirfam Cooper, in “The Brol Wing,” and comedy, “Three Cheers Carolina. Today and tomorrow. Mae in “The French Doll” ; Tuesday, “Lights Out”; Wednesday, Houdini, in “Haldane of the Secret Service"; Thursday, “The Man Between”:; Friday and Saturday, “Rupert of Hentzau." Circle. Today and tomorrow, “Ruggles of Red Gap,” also comedy, “Winter Has Come”; Tuesday, “April Showers"”; Wednesday, “Tempetation”; Thursday and Friday, Thomas Melghan, in “Woman Proof”; Saturday, Reginald Denny, in “The Abysmal Brute.” Dumbarton. Today, May Allison, in “The Woman ‘Who Fooled Herself" | tomorrow, Doug- las MacLean, in “The Sunshine Trall” Tuesday, “The Famous Mrs. Falr” ‘Wednesday, Constan Bill of Divorcement’ Friday, “The Eternal Struggle day, “The Eagle's Feather.” Elite. Today and tomorrow, “Hollywood"; Tuesday, Madge Kennedy, in “The Pur- ple Highway” ; Wednesday, Leatrice Joy, in “The Bilent Partner” ; Thureday, Jack Holt, in “The Marriage Maker” ; Friday, Viola Dana, in “Rouged Lipe”: Satur- day, Jacqueline Logan, in “Saved by Radio. Murra; ay and Satur- Empire. Today and tomorrow, William Far- num _in Also Al St. John. in “The Tailor”; and Wednesday, Richard Barthelmess, in “Just a Song At Twilight" also comedy, “Wild and Wicked"; Thurs- day, “Barbara Bedford ' and Walter Miller, in “The Tie That Binds" also comedy, “Be My Guest”; Friday, “The Call of the Hill also Charlie Chap- 1in, In “Police”; Saturday, Neil Hart, (Continued on Fourth Page.) Tuesday | SR audalls | QICHARD BARTHELMESS, in addi- { ™\ tion to a fine physique which he | | takes care to preserve, is sald to have an alert and studious mind, and for the past seven months, instead of rollicking about New York and Long Tsland like a plavboy of the western world, he has been called upon to devote his time (o genuine study and research work \ \ There is always a fafthfulness and | authepticity about his characteriza- tions that does not cccur by aecident When he was confronted with the task of playing es Abbott in *The Brighi Shawi” he found it necessary to learn a great deal about Cuban_history, traditions and 1 of living. He was also faced the need of learn W fo fenc sufficiently well to hested by a | superior swordsman without the ap- pearance of its being too easy. All of these things he did and “The| Bright Shawl” was hailed as a fine | achievement. | The preparation for his role of | Karl van_Kerstenbroock in “The | Fighting Blade,” a romance of the | time of Crgmwell and the overthrow | of Charles 1 of England, is sald to ! n t it SRVERY American woman's great- | est duty to herself, to her coun- | try and to the human race today Is| the study of home conditions.” so says Willlam de Mille, whose Para- mount production. “Don't Call It Love,” is a treatise on two kinds of | love. | “Upon women,” says Mr. de Mille.” | rests tho responsibility for happiness | and future upbuilding of the entire world, Women alone can bring about a millennium of joyousness. Men pursue, and So long as women con- tinue to lead a wild chase, men will follow as wildly. Present-day unrest | is an example, for when women take | it upon themselves to smoke, drink and be merry, men are going to ac- | cept them practically —as equals. Heretofore women have been far su- *The Bandolero.” GOLDWYN has bought the picture rights to “The Bandolero,” a romantic, melodramatic novel of Spain by Paul Gwynne.. Toin Terriss will direct it. The bandolero, or bandit leader, is a man whose wife has been murdered struggling against the attempt to ab- duct her by the Marquis de Bazan. In revenge, he kidnaps the marquis’ son and vears later the marquis orders a fresh bull to be introduced into the arena after Blas, the famous matador, has been worn out in previ- ous fights. Blas is gored and almost dead when the marquis learns that the bullfighter is his own son. The action is fast, furious and most melodramatic. Device to Cut Movie Costs JNVENTION of the “Hiliyer one- switch eontrol,” which s expected to effect a large cut in the cost of motion, plcture production, is an- i nourfced by Lambert Hillyer, who di- | thermore Woman' rected the creen version of Rex Beach's novel, “The Spoilers.” - Whereas a dozen or more elec- tricians now are necessary to adjust the lights, only ‘one or two will be needed with the -switch-control de- vice, says Hillyer. The invention, it is claimed, will make possible absolute control of all lights used in the sets from a single switchboard, which can be placed di- rectly behind the camera. 1923 AMUSEME | Hollywood Gossip Monta Bell Announces New Methods as Director. “Broadway After Dark™ to Be His First Production. A lll‘]\;l. Special Dispatch to The Star. 4 LOS ANGELI BY HALLETT loss to filmland. Mr. mong the dozen or fiftesn of the greatest of the di- rectors, and the ranks of great di- Bell, for several stant to | rectors are thinning rather than in Charlie Chaplin and credited swith | Creasing, while at the same time the being film editor of “A Woman of |MecPle uf the motion picture world f “A Woma e realizing more fully that compe- Paris,” announces that he will follow | tent directors are the greatest meed Chaplin’s unconventional methods of | of the dustry today oy e Shakespeare. were he living today aEodactionssndidivechion and commenting on motion pietures, Mr. Bell, who had st nee wopld say: “The director's the thing” before he joined Chaplin, is about to | 2and would give the play second place start on his first_production, “Broad- | A good director can make an enjoy ay After Dark,” for Warner Broth-|able and worth-while play of a trita ers. This Owen Davis play. long plot, but poor direct: will botch stage melodrama of unqualified s a masterple d even competenr cess, will be greatly changed i cannot © a' poorly directed given a theme that was not \ The apparent uneavenness of original pjay. The experiment by Mr.|the work of many of the stars is Bell will be watched with interest, for | dus not to the players themselves, picturedom needs new and | but to changing directors o1s more than it need | sidered a great | Holubar ranked Mouta ¥ film. VIRGINIA VALLL Ambagss dor Allen Holubar not a Chaplin else just now. There are many nor u Lubitsch, but he was exception sailing along on their reputations and |21y able. still in his thirties, and his getting xalaries running from $1,000 | Work showed continual progress and to $2,500 a weok who refinement. He was far from self itly poor producti satisfied_and had hoped to do fine that the producers who employ | things. The fliness which caused his them and pay the bills give them all |death interrupted the filming of “The the money they can use, 1.opu Human Miller” for Metro. His suc expensive storles and casts of able|Cessor has not yet been chosen. players, A'mere expert knowledge cs of production will The sucressful directe £ the me- b loaned by Zisban and his direction film_“The RICHARD PARTHELMESS Metropolitan nd the it ones of t will have to be dramatists the extent that playwriters are dram- [ Mics Danlels as Kate atists, and they will have to have Caldy as been signed to the added ability to see plots in pic | . i Al evasin ture form, to work them out with reasonable ceonomy and to supervise both the cutting and final titling. A Fourth Cruze Success. . James Cruze, who now has “Holly- wood.” “The Covered Wagon” and Ruggles of Red Gap’ running in many parts of the has just completed what will, T am sure. he a | fourth sue ’ ue e the Ladies,” comedy which has ni stderable Shrew.” Norman Ker: play Petruchlo opposite ming will probab! alm Sinned” He wrote d_continuity and will di | < ha he cast fou The ¢ st will fnclude ned by Goldwyn; Cul Trene Ricii, Gloria Murray d Paul Weigel ¢ Norma. Tal each to lian Gish re planning Shakespearear d from N luction will be put piration Pietures Ml film_version of under the title has been re relea “Dor county a light withal emotional 1 went to preview this pro cuction 1 knew it I oniy fourteen days in the making and unnaturally I surmised it might some resemblance to the program pletures turned precis Instead i both delightful and different is pl in the in inti- scenss and There is like play 1t mate -d_for ourti stage imports lamity ¢ Vitagraph etar > another company ork at United 1ton _Tul Flowine married for sbands vice vers pageantry The whose her s Roberts, Helen Jerome Covington and Edward Horton What Others Are Doing. Bradb ¥ 1 building g. has Oreg scre is now Rice r of un Kit has of Foo which Universal inclue Perc Hearne o pl Faged Hoba City ux of Children Othe Hackat Corrigan and Theodore von [ iBarthelmess - Serious Work have requir training. Kers to he the finest try, swordsman to nore rigorous broock is supposed uellist in his coun- superb, and Ba perfect his know- daily workouts the New Yor under the tutelage of structor in the east. Fur- it is declared he plunged stu the period of the to @ true insight into schology of the times to ac- weneral requirements for - assumption of the role Lertson, who has directed as pointed of I b de- Athletic th Club best i into a pleture the psy quire the a cony Barth out th < eh To the top rank of serec it says, acting ability termined by the close-up study of the features of the face but by the player's ability to harmionize his ac- tion with th general trend and at- mosphere ¢ the drama in the long shots where he Lecomes central but none the less integral figure of a considerable panorama. t will be observed by the thought- ful’ savs Mir. Robertson, “that the joyriders are not numbered among those who bring the real art of act- ing to the screen.’” s Duty. perior to men physically. “Before a woman enters into the seriousness of married life. she should understand just what she is about to undertak declared the director. “Too many peovle are wed blindly, with no thought of~ what follows the ceremony. The women of today are lax in household ldeas. Where one woman in 1900 married with no knowledge of cooking, house- keeping or the proper raising of children, 100 wed today with as little thought or idea of what they are to do when they become keepers of the homes of their husbands. It s a condition that cannot last.” POLPS-N MATINEE TODAY, 3 THE Thousands Shagt in every way except gge L.Lag Jack Holt, Lasky star, will appe studio York rented Hills for Long will_remain in She has just at Beverly unt six June sprin, mansion months Robert La Plar versal Mack Sennctt has Langdon and will star Gics. Th be no the productions to be m the former Follies and Orph cuit headliner Luptno Lane. I signed with William Fox under a|for mo contract which will pay him $75.000 | gecure a vear and which will permit hini to | not ¢ return to England every other y for a stage production. will be made in Hollyw The death of H influx into nts with little ber of ids of st the nto - signed Harry Te iy slapstick children, but grown States and Grest Newspaper 1l rved.) Another Pioneer Story. HE par T film Heritage of tie Desert,” by Irvin Willat, the pr by Lee Doyle. one ¢ guides in Arizona, cousisted o than 300 persons. who journeved by horseback from Flagstaff, Ariz., Lees Ferry, in southern Utah Besides those actually engaged in making_the picture there were rep- resentatives of the following voca- tions: Horse wranglers, cowbors, teamsters, blacksmiths, cooks and | Romans Used Shorthand. in the Roman . was reported in ads whic ¥ Tecent storr ges constructed pighways bufll decert. The entire the hardships of o suffered ploneer The H | itage of the Desert” is the atory of a war for water rights of the upper Colorado river fought by pioneers forty-five vears ago. During this intense conflict a whole village was wiped out. famous ate, in 63 rthand Ret tion \URING the making of “The Eter-)ro's : « nal City” in Rome, Italy, Director | 5" George Fitzmaurice did quite a bit of |~ research work on his own account, |r 0 and learned what probably few peo- | {7l Uliny. and the poet Oxid bears ple realize, that. in a different form, | 0t°{jlasa characiers Caosir's politie shorthand was popular in the days of | secrets' were borne far over land and ancient Rome. “The first mention of an abbreviated | | system of writing is made in conne; 1 tion with the Roman poet Qulnlus{ shorthand _wers the works of Cicero, Horace ividence goes to show that the sermon_on the Mount was reported in shorthand by St. Luke. The writ- ing was scratched on tablets covered with of wax. The tablete were teried together at the ¢ wire, thus forming & sort « Snnius, 200 B. C. who devised a scheme of 1,100 signs for his own use,” says Fitzmaurice. “Then we have Piutarch’s statement t Clee- OW--Matinee Daily (rois oc. 1 M. DAILY MATINEE, 2:30 PICTURE SENSATION Turned Away Every Showing Shabers zo=-0coonv -zcoi>m>v > in History of World’s Theaters DO NOT MISS THIS AMERICAN PICTURE PAR EXCELLENCE Washington Papers Unanimous in Their Praise Matinees 50¢, 75¢, $1.00--Nights 50¢, 75¢, $1.00, $1.50--Plus Tax RESERVE SEATS NOW AND AVOID STANDING IN LINE