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AMUS Newsand By W.H. OOD news for the “common from Hollywood. The Unit nounce the inauguration of a the people” which cents, “without sacrificing to accomplish by making and distrib can be shown at admi anything of the cinema quality.” EMENTS. Comment Landvoigt. people” breezed in during the week ed Producers and Distributors an- plan to supply pictures “of and for ion rates as low as 25 This it hopes yuting films limiting the expenditure on a single full-length feature to $75600 as a maximum, and by keeping the cost down, as nearly as possible president and general manager, assure tors and authors; in fact, the best of . to $50000. Mr. W. Wood, vice >s the best in the way of casts, direc- everything. but adds, “We are going to pay only what these elements are worth * * * and we will be able 0 pass a great saving on to the publ L OUPLED with this news, howeve and the public of Los Angeles are extolling Ce production, “The Ten Commandment raphy, theatrical wonder hitherto unr piece thus far of pictorial artistry.” public is trying to content itself with and distributors that worth-while pictures are b distributed for exhibition at rates w shout from Paramount of “a are scattered to the four winds and record- ic.” * r, comes the tidings that the critics ! il B. De Mille’s latest “new splendors in photog- ! evealed, and as the greatest master- | Thus it goes. Just as the dear old ! the announcements of the producers ! ng made and will be ithin its reach, along comes the big | breaker,” and thoughts of economy | But there is both s, for its the seven seas. room and the demand for the costly as well as for the cheaper picture. Both. however, should be masterpieces oi their type finding all the real value in the costly picture and b cheaper picture. try That, it is believed, as well as to the public, and t which would not be good for cither who is the salesmaun for the producer HROUGH the courtesy bi Mr. Silas £ Film Company, The Star makes tiat the company’s masterpiece, “T colin.” is to have its world premier in New York in W shows” of the productio <ton is to be one of those hooked Life of Abraham Lincoln,” the anna might strictly termed an 1 to the Drinkwater stage an uniolding of fhe entire life of the carly a thousand scenes. from the izzard February 12, 1809, to hi civil war, bua rhaps the most wenderful life in h sympathy be on . Opposite does not stress the its homely virtue, its W tragedy two young but idealistic Americans, ducers to film 200 two-reel subjects of birth of inspiration t s and to restore American ideals by popularizing Ame This amt ious project faile svired screen production had not ye necded the enterprise. Two ye the great all th « for t celebrity. and that task also 1. The pi be seut to all the Eng es e screens in the will wor inada Italy. Belgium, Jugoslavia and Czecho a. Siberia, India and Japan, from a ve already received overtures. It a special film of the picture to be presented to the United States govern- ment for preservation in a fitting r niversary oi Lincoln" people of that time. Messrs. Al Rockett and Snyder, a birth, with i the highest government officials. The of deepest interest to Washington is impersonated by a veteran of the | by 1 S 1 panish-American and of the world clius Cole of California, now living arnation of Lincoln * photoplaysThisWeek At the Photoplay Houses This Week. ! METROPOLITAN—"Thundergate. evening. RIALTO—Betty Compson. afternoon and evening. PALACE—"Held to Answer.” W in She COLUMBIA—Pola Negri. in “The Spanish Dancer.” afternoon and eveni AMBASSADOR— evening. NTRAL—"Broken Hearts oi Br and eve ANDALL'S—"Shifting evenin, Thundergate.” nds.” Metropolitan—"Thunder- gate” and "Kidding Katie™ “Thundergate.” Fir National's screen version of Sidney Herschel II's novel, “The Lord of Thunder- | will be presented here for the | tirst time this afternoon at Crandall's | Metropolltan Theater. In it Owen | Maore offers a dual impersonation of Hobert Wells, American born in “hina, and Kong Sue, the ung Lord ©f Thundergate, dissolute heir pre- sumptive to the leadershin of the old regime. Others include sreamer, Virginia Browne aire, Tully Marshall and Robert M Win “Thundergat concerns the temnts of the Chinese rovalists to de- the republican government in its attempt to introduce into China com- mercial enterprises of the western world. Robert Wells is sent to su- perintend railroad activities which | the Lord of Thundergate has bribed hix for an to delay. Wells glven rug that slowly destroys his men- lity. When the voung Lord of Fhundergate. having heen condemned a traitor his father, meets him, cach is amazed at the remarkable re- | <mblance of one to the other. Thun- ergate exchanges clothes with Wells and the American is returned to the palace, after the sudden death of the der lord, to assume the responsi- bilities bf a high-position with which Ic is totally wnfamiliar. From this situation is built a fascinating screen entertainment. Christie’s two-reel laughmaker, “Kidding Katie,” featuring Dorothy Deovore: the Metropolitan World Sur- ey, minor films and a fine musical program arranged for the orchestra will complete the bill, sate, i e ! Rialto—Betty Compson In “woman to Woman" All this weck, beginning today, Moore's Rialto will offer “Woman to Woman," starring Betty Compson, and made while she was in Europe. It is described s “a throbbing, fast moving, gorgeous- Iy staged photoplay, a pleturization of Michael Morton’s stage play. \ The story, set amid the night lifd of Paris and London, deals with the great acrifice of _a dainty little French ancer, the man she loves and from whom ‘she is separated on the eve of their wedding, and for their son. Clive Brook, Josephine Iarle and Marie Ault are other members of the t. Scenes in the Moulin Rouge are shown. The program includes special musical offerings in addition to an interpreta- tive score, arranged by Director George Wild, with selection by Ray Hart, axophone soloist, including Weldoft's Saxophobia,” and Chauncey Olcott's Mother Machree.” Short filn} features whI Include the Fox New will be od ed I's Theate Four years ago. its producers, Messt voung producers began the task of picturing the life of America's sh-speaking countries and to France, On the occasion of a recent visit to this city by private showing of the picture was siven at the Interior Department for the benefit of intimates of the §leat emancipator, | career. The cust includes Grace Car- The danger is inl mediocrity in the would work an injury to the indus- he latter would probably resent it, the producer or for the exhibitor, | Suyder of the Rockett-Lincoln the first amonncement to the pablic Life of Abraham Lin- January, after which sent to the large cities, and Wash- showi he Dramatic for an carly uncement states, “is not a serial, nor picture, it in play, save in its theme, cational nor is any birth of Lincoln during a frightful in the old Peterson n 10th street, in this city. in reels aims to unfold tory, its pathos. its human interest, romance, power, inspiration, Jirtnr'\' Al and Roy Rockett, proposed to American picture pro- American history for the purpose o the rising generation of American an d because the genius which then in- t reached the stage of development s passing away t twelve 1ts @ “The Dramatic : THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 16, 1923—PART 3. 1 | PoLa NEGRI Columbia It is rather | martyred President, running through | Historians In ars ago, still following their dream, | includes the purpose of giving it to | ure, aiter being shown here and in | slovakia, Austria, the neareast, Rus- 1l of which countries the publishers is proposed also to properly prepare eceptacle until the three hundredth nstructions for its exhibition to the a small audience of | Lincoln of the picture in the period war, whom former Senator L’or-i at the age of 101 years, and one of declares “the living, breathing | 1 " Shown this afternoon and oman to Woman.” Shown this | own this aiternoon and evening. Shown this FOUR senerations of writers and constructors are represented “The Covercd Wagon." First, representatives of the actual pione freakish souls who prefer scribbling to hunting gold or digsing r the riches of the’wheat—men of types like Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, the youthful Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twa Another generation temporaneous, but entirely different from the crude spirit of the was thut of the formalistic historfans the Parkmans and other the summied- rrat waves of successive migration The third generation is represented late President Roosevelt in the winning of _the west, and b other writers of like spirlt, who saw the meanings of the migrations far better than they ¢ 1d have been un- derstood thirty years previ 1t #ill remains to transl torical ep into fiction for Iy enough, this t has bee erved for a school of writers & the great pean war. Some- how the vivid e abroad set writers like Emerson Hough, Herbert Quick and others boring into the lif of their own ancestors and the stir- ring times when the rough American conditions were comparable to a de- gree with the ma circles of hell that the merican expeditionary forces traversed in 1917-1918 Somehow or other the war cast off the cataracts that dimmed men's eyes concerning the history of thei own land, Now that America was the greatest of the nations, it was meet to_inquire why? The answer the way to partly co- the W not American Shown this afternoon and vadway.” Shown this aiternoon Shown this aifternoon and | | | | Palace—"Held to Answer.” ; House Peters is picturized in a role | of romantic appeal in Metro's new ; screen version of the novel by Peter Clark MacFarlane, “Held to Answer,” at Loew’s Palace this week, boginning | this afternoon. Metro has given the production a splendid mounting and interpretation. Added screen and musical offerings Il include a new Eddie Lyons com- edy. “Roll Along”; the Pathe News| pictures, Fun From the Press and an | overture and musical score by Tom Gannon and his orchestra Harold Shaw, brother-in-law of Viola Dane, directed “Held to An- swer, It is the story of a fighting parson's successful struggle against o wiles and intrigues of a siren who was determined to wreck his lyle. John Sainpolis, Evelyn Brent, James Morrison, “Bull" Montana, Gale u»‘n‘:) Thomas Guyse and Charles Columbia—Pola Negri : In "The Spanish Dancer" ! (Second Week). The Pola Negriiwho fashes thro { the gripping dramatie episodes of ‘:.“;# third American-made production. “The Spanish Dancer,” and so thoroughl captivated Washington theatergoers at Loew’s Columbia the past week, 1t is announced, has made the-rbtention of the picture for a second week, be- ginning this afternoon, necessary order to satisfy urgent demand. Much of the credit for Pola Negri's triumph in this production, it is said. | ls duc to Herbert Brenon, who di- { rected the famous continental star and who, in addition to surrounding her with a great cast, has made of this romance of old Spain one of the most gorgeously leautiful and dramate ically imposing pictures the local screen has offered in many months. The cast includes Antonio Morano n the role opposite. the star, Kathiyn Willlams, Wallace Beery, Adolphe Menjou, Gareth Hughes and Robert AEhe Spanish D “The Spanis] ancer” is a C = ization of the famous remanes o Castile in the time of Philip 1V, which has triumphed alternately In the fields of literature, drama and opera under the title of “Don Cesar de Bazan. The feature is supplemented with shorter films and orchestral music. 1} | i Ambassador—"Thunder- gate” and “Kidding Katie" Owen Moore, Sylvia Breamer, Vir- ginia_Browne Fatre, Tully Marshall and Robert McKim are members the cast in “Thundergate,” First N tional's film version of Sidney Her- schel Small's novel of “The Lord of {Continued on Fourth Page.) jambition that i slip MACFARLAN Answer.” which is scheduled in this week's photoplay attractions, is a story which reveals, in certaln respects, the peculiarly checkered and fasci g career of for MacFarlane's hero de- serted the stage for a career in the ministry, just as MacKFarlane himsell deserted the footlights to become a small-town preacher. Mac ne's whole early career seems ave been a succession of changes from one line of endeavor to another. Yet always he seems to have had in mind an rly ambition 10 write, which first flared up as a yound man when he sold a story to a Lo Angeles newspaper for $11 Bent at the time on a political career, his success as an author so fired his he ground out, In a single month, a novel of 150,000 words called “The Old M'm Sue” in order to compete for a $10,000 prize offe a Chicago editor for the best stery story. When this novel was finiched Mac- Farlane realized he had no_mystery story at all But what he had con- vinced him he could write, provided he first acquired dge of life. In those da lerkship in a S road® office andf whenever he could away from his work he was teaching elocution, conducting Y. M A. classes in public speaking and ‘h\l)! «m; 1 parts in a local the- High-Salaried Officers. [EMPHASIZING the importance of a general reduction in expenditures in the picture production branch of the film industry, W. F. Wood, vice president and general manager of the United Producers and Distribu- tors, decrease in the salaties paid to high exccutives. He expresses the belief that there will be no genuine economy PETER CLaRK story, “Held to s author, 1 he held Francisco rail- |until those high in authority in the various companies manifest that sort of industrial patriotism which will cause them to begin the house clean- ing of extravagance within their own domiciles. “There can be no question that many executive salaries are abnormal and all out of proportion to sound business principles, especlally the excessive wage to some executives, who are non-productive and who in no way benefit directly the output which shows itself on the screen.’ Mr. Wood says. “There is more than one $150,000-a-year _salary which should be reduced to $50.000, and there are numerous $50,000 salaries which should be cut to less than half that amount. It is claimed the United Producers and Distributors Corporation was or- ganized exclusively by Los Angeles and ' Hollywood business men and bankers, with the Idea of eliminating all waste in the making and distrib- uting of motion pictures, the ulti- mate purpose being to thus bring about an economic condition conduc- tive to the actual reduction of the prices of the theater admissions, “*The Covered Wagon™ on | west, | who wrote | sufficient know- | urges that there be a decided | TAIRE. Metropolitan volved in { revolution merely. nor reunion after 11 struggle, but the actual painful. { sordid and often tragic hike involved | in extending the borders of the oc- cupled United States from the Mis- | ppi and Missouri valleys to th | Pacific coast Of course, all causes are complexes. | The Louisi a purchase of Thom | Jefrer: the Monroe doctrine, the |Lewis and Clark expedition, the Whitman penetration of the north- west in 152 far as Walla Walla. | the note of Secretary Webster to shburnham refusing to give up ims to the Pacific north- d the patriotic determination ressed in the cry of “Fifty-Four rty or Fight!" and finally the con- Quests of the MeXican War were un- doubtedly the causes of our political possession. But that was not made ctual until Yanks and southerners went out and actually occupied the | lands. The lure of gold in California aud the lure of freelands in Oregon | started the biggest wave that began in 1348 and did not subside until both the regions named hecame American state strongly organized as to | resist all disunfon efforts in 1861-1865. The roman travail. massacre, animal enemies, drought, starva- and thirst and all the human of bickering. quarreling upstriving beings were not welded into at fiction or great poetry till more than half a_century and yet course of lterary history and not at all the exceptional thing. It will Le | | after” the event ch is the usual | remembered that the title of the tial Scott novel was “Waverley,” or | *"Tis Sixty Years Since.” The ‘ma- | terfal ‘was there, Lut it required the | vision of later events to set it in perspective Wrot‘e a Story Like His Own bill. None of o | seemea { thirty v | theological course at Barkeley, |#nd for seven years after his g | uation he was pastor of w small church at Alam Calif. | Taking his clerical calling serious- Iy enough, and militant at that, he waged such a relentless war on local {'wrongdoers t a pair of prize- fighters were engaged to beat him up. His six feet of height and 240 pounds of brawn, however, saved him. | Shortly afterward, the lawless ele- nent of the town t d to have him | shot. but he saved himself by a laugh. MavcFarlane thought the whole thing | a joke when the man poked a pistol | at him and his laugh so dincongerted | the would-he assassin that he couldn't | o through with the crime. ] By this time he decided to start on a writing career In earnest. He wrote a story that was promptly jected by one magazine and | promptly accepted by another. When |1t got into print he received .many | bids for stories for other magazines. | | Then he read Rex Beach's “The Ne'er-Do-Well” and a trip to Panama resulted. Here he interviewed Gen.| Goethals, in charge of the Canal, Zone construction work, and this in- | terview was sold to two magazines. MacFarlane is now 52 years old, and he expects to write many more nov- els and stories before he has finished. “Held to Answer,” he has told as much of h own colorful ¢ as Jack London did in “Martin ines fill the e An Old Art. | THE art of the motion picture pla. r is almost two thousand years old. ! “Motion pictures were bound ml captivate the popular farcy because they were simply an elaboration of a form of entertainment which man- kind had patronized for more than nineteen hundred vears,” says Pola Negri. e “The drama was the invention of the Greeks and had held sway for more than five hundred years before j the first pantomine was added to the list of human entertainments. “Twenty-two years before the birth of Christ, two Roman actors' gave the first performance of the? kind. Like so man movements which have had worldwide influence, | its origin was accidental. An au-i diance assembled to witness one of the dramas popular at the time, One of the players discovered his throat was too sore to permit him to speak his lines. In desperation, he and his companion attempted to' convey the lsense of their drama by sheer pantomime. The effort was a great Success and pantomime has never: cince been allowed to die, but it{ waited nearly two thousand years for the invention of .the instrument ! whereby it might reach its greatest popular favor. ——— ‘When asked for a description of his forthcoming picture, “America,” D.; W, Grifith replied: “My Country “Tis | of Thee. | Mafy s Ten Commandrnents S a special concession to the Holly- wood and Los Angeles Chambers of Commerce Mary Pickford is trying to help solve the riddle of “What to do the movie-struc The mayor of Los Angeles re =et aside a “Mary Pickford da the star put away her make-up long cnough to act the city's guest of honor chief speaker at a mass meeting attended by 25,000 persons = main points of Mary's talk mmed up in the following “Ten Commandments: 1. Don't come to Hollywood to tr; the movies unless you have money €nough to carry you a year. . Be sure to have some profe fall back on in case you stenography or salesmanship, for ex- ntiy ] vou are a your mother. be sure She will be inspiration and help. ¢ to gain some stage experi- heéfore coming Have a screen 1 you it - mind. Make every effort to find out if ave camera features. A pretty face is not always a camera face 7. Bring a large and varied selec tion of photographs §. Bring large wardrobe. 9. Be prepared in_tryiug. 10, Be tactful. girl to an test made you may first. change and diversified to spend five years be resourceful, be patient and persistent and above all be intelligent. Only one in every thousand wins—but perhaps you are | It iated that 10,000 persons | invade Hollywood every month seek- ing work in pictures Messalina. IGNOR ENRICO GUAZZONI foremost director of Italy arrived here with print of latest production, “Messalina.” nor Guazzon! will best b membered for his production Quo Vadis?’ which was the elaborate spectacl the first to be £how a is claimed. interest Ly . as well as officials They were con- 15 the building of | and the filming of the scenes, | or Guazzoni preparel own story., directs and sup. the construction of all he time of the story serves only ax a back " ground. It is laid in the vear of 1 A.D., when the Roman empire w at i height, and is a gripping story intrigue and drama. F STREET } emphasize | damning AMUSEMENTS. I v lI"Iollywoi)d Gossi p CoLLEEN Moore Central Defends “Three Weeks.” of her recent the eve departure for England Slinor Glyn made a vigorous and interesting de- “Three Weeks.” as a letter written to The a fense of her nov The immediate cause tacking “Three Week her by a citizen of Los Angeles letter, in part, ran Ever since reading of your return to Los Angeles and the announcement that you are to assist in the filming of ‘Three Weeks,” I have been won- | dering if it would be possible to dis- suade you from abettipz the manity. “As one Weeks,' 1 you have further aiding and demoralization of hu- who has read don’t you done aplenty to that we a race of accidents? I think You have. “So why be a party to an enter- prise that can be 1,000 per cent mor than your book? E: the name of education “Think_it over." Mme. Glyn said “Your letter is ke pleasure in cause it will give Lo suggest u new you and to th ‘Three agk think ready the fact you are reply ere and so swering it be- n opportunity point of view to who think as you “If vou try to control fce in vour mind and Weeks! with no beforehand vou will find that there is not a single sentence or imputa- tion in the book, taken with its text, which could degrade any one, unless jere should be a prurient twist in his own subconscious mind. “It i3 a deep study of a great love. the influence of which illuminated the spirit of a man and inspired him to be a worthy citizen and of use to his_country “The book that bhuman any law they of ‘man “People living narrow gray lives ¢ eir own. without knowledge of t 1 or the characteristics of us or an understanding vast aim, are so apt to paint as spaniels because they them prefer spanicls. An author’s busi is to portra. curately the psyeho logical meaning of each charact while proving that, no matter wh the character may be, the daws of Almighty scheme of thing be broken with impunity wil all was beings break written pay the e it of to show price vd or AT 13TH WEEK BEGINNING TODAY---SUNDAY, DEC. 16 METRO PRESENTS ELD 1O AN EEis ne of the migtiest social dramas ever Screened! The story of an actor turned minister H and caught in the web of a intrigue! Fighting for his own honor, with a young girl’s love at stake! That’s the pulsing romance that thou- sands read and millions will see in photoplay form! . A classic screen: ADDED PROGRAM HITS JOE ROCK COMEDY: PATHE NEWS—TOPICS OF THE DAY A superb picturiza tion of the famous novel by Peter Clark MacFarlane! With one of the best photoplay casts ever assembled. SWER WITH HOUSE PETERS GRACE CARLYLE EVELYN BRENT JAMES MORRISON “BULL” MONTANA siren’s of the “ROLLING HOME” 1! Norma Talmadge Is Sahara Dancing Girl in “Song of Love"—James Young to Make Picture With Camera Said to Give Depth to Screen. BY HALLETT ABEND. LOS ANGELES, December 14.—Nor- ma Talmadge's next picture, made as “Dust of Desire” and then renamed “The Song ¢ Love,” was run for me in the projection room at the studlo. It will be released in the theaters late In December or early in January. Though it is not so costly a produc- tion as her “Ashes of Vengeance,” I like her own warm and vivacious work in the new film better than I liked her handling of the rather cold part of the heroine of “Ashes of Vengeance. There is nothing cold about Norma Talmadge in “The Song of Love.” She takes the part of Noor- mahal, an Arabian dancing girl of the Sahara—and takes it very well. This is, happily, a Saharan play without a sheik lover. There's a sheik in it who wants to be her lover, but he is re- jected and becomes the villain of the Diece. Miss Talmadge's leading man, Jo- seph H. Schildkraut, is not so good on the screen as he is on the stage where e made a pronounced success in the title part of “Liliom.” He screens like a romantic hero, but his acting is not finer than that of the average leading man of filmdom, Ar- thur Edmund Carew, who made a suc- cess us Svengali in “Trilby.” released early last fall, is the ablest of the men of the cast. He it is who plays the villainous sheik, and it is a great relief to see him without a heard. The plot centers around a conspir- acy to overthrow the F ch rule in northern Africa ormahal dances in a gambling d where the spirators meet, and th comes verde, played schildkraut. verde is & government spy, an adept at all the desert tongue and his Arab disguise is =0 realistic that even Noormahal is deceived and falls des- perately in love with him. From then on the plot moves with great ra- pidity and gives fiss Talmadge a range of situations that include com- edy her sister ( tance might envy. As a photoplay “The Song of Love’ would not have a wide vogue without Miss Talmadge, b e the story not striking or strong The star ves it from banality a nak i joyable entertainment New Sterescopic Came James Young has been selected to make the first motion picture for which the newly d George K. Spoor sterescopic era. will be used. Mr. Young the inventor the new ¢ era will give depth and perspective. Wray has begun next. Thomas _ P. be ams Marmont wi parts. Adolphe have a prominent and ng the Ince special, version of Leatrice Joy have the leadin Menjou also w role Danny direct! Shay, Marshall Neila sistant, is to m; f the “Artists now in New Lioyd Hugl of the Rocky his wife are go! the Yuletide ho Laurence Trimm Strongt a new s a voung Vincent, g to New days, 11 3 has found THOSE who hiad the pleasure of see- ing “Enter Madame,” that de- { lightful comedy of operatic tempera- ment, may recall the beautiful cas- Gilda hous Madame, Varesi, in the person of regaled her adoring hold. They may recall also, if th jog their memories a bit, that trills always occurred off-stage And there was a reason, Miss Va- though a fine actress, happen: n to have a voice of operatic cal ber, so it was necessary to provide a volce off-stage to Impersonate th operat star. The voice off-stage wh sang with such artistic per belonged to Miss Helen Stover, brilllant young soprano who is present making a tour of the circuit and who appears in ington for this week And. says Miss Stover, the engage- ment, during which she was “a v in the dark,” was one of the amusing experiences of her brief but lcrowded career. “I had lots of fun that season, the stage, although 1 never set foot n it, actually Once in a while, I wanted Lo g0 to the opera or the tater, T'd send around a substitute to the at y York for | cades of coloratura trills with which | the | ection, | d T learned lots about | He 18 the son of a bankér in Spoka g in Spokane Wash. Mr. Trimmell has signed him for five years after a screen test. Fox Studio Busy. Thero is no production William Fox Studion here. tles.” "The Fool” and “The ome” are storfes just purchase which enter production at onee o Jack Gilbert is starting wre SaY play by the Hattons called away." Edmund Lowe has signed a long term contract and will open his serfes with “The Plunderer.” Maurice Tourneur, wi ork after t the “Loval- Man From “on s “Just departed for < completing “Tor announces that he is going 1 2 play or book with his mext National production. wnd that : will take anything with a strong plot “just 8o long as it is not @ cus- tom story.” 3 s Claim Australia has more theaters for fi fans than any other countey in thy world in proportion to population ays Gee Dickerson, a Mel: bourne theater owner, who is hert to visit the Hollywood studios and make contracts for releases. Thert are mearly 11,000 theaters in Aus tralla and less than 5.000,000 people He says: “F eaters are found at every crossroad and in ever hamlet, and furnish our principal source ' of amusement. ~ Normi Ta madge, ® Chaplin and Dou rbanks are our sure-fire hits, a almost our films are American made, though aily a film mad [ is with success There are no Australian producers though several attempts bees made at production in a small way Ciim and scenery would le themselves to production, but it w be difficult to overcome 'the lead § popularity of American-made motio Dlctures.” What Others Are Doing. Wagner, writer and director. been signed by Roach to direc 10 next series of Wil Rogers com- When Lila Lee and James Kirkwood have completed the two plctures called for by thelr Ince contract the ill appear together on the stage | ew Yorl r he_last t s e n Yort Music Box signed wit irand_Asher opposite El- liott Dexter. Clair Adams will Hunt Stromberg’s “High Dawn.” The Jack Hoxie Compan to Sonora for exteriors for “Drifting. Robert Mc will play the heavt and Robert Bradbury will d to appear play the le Nort Stroletm will cutting and titling of “Greed three weeks. Rupert Hughes' play based upo tiie conflict of state divoree laws w. soon be released in seven reels completr withis T nd, director of Conrad leen Percy in Eilno hree Weeks' used his owr Croslar five years of for the par: son of the queen producer of “The igned MarwCarr and parts in his nex Mail M Johnnie produ me's volce f e evening though peopla never sasw several rather good jobs as ¢ singing off-stage had all her trainin After graduatic v, in_ Oxford at the Cincinnat later going to New the pupil of Byford country Miami U che studied of Musi hecome from the w Miss Stover sang rs. under the auspices Women's W ellet loist with the Cleve Orchestrs alsc Boston Opera she sang, * Acolian 1T rded e thes with the with whom recital in she was by the « Important recent appearance as soloist with the Cinecinnat phony Orchestra. Eugene Ysaye, con ductor ith the n Concert Edwin Tar idman, cor and guest appearances last with the Boston Opera Co She will be soloist with th \d, Oregon, Symphony Orchest 1, husiastic praise we ctor, er Portla ¥ STREET AT BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON --- SUNDAY DEC. 16 2d SMASHING WEEK! POLA NEGRI —IN— THE SPANISH DANCER” Here's the masterpiece that packed With Loew's Columbia all last weeki—A su- perb romance of old Spain, revealing the fiery, dynamic beauty of Pola Negri as a gypsy beauty flashing through the episodes of a story that grips you with TOM GANNON’S PALACE SYNCOPATORS its passion and dazes with its mag- nificence !'—Don’t miss it! Antonio Moreno Kathlyn Williams Adolphe Menjou Wallace . Beery Gareth Hughes