Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1924, Page 47

"AMUSEMENTS Nevvsancl(:or_r_lmen'c| By W. H. Landvoigt. INCERITY is a beautiful virtue, the more beautiful in that it is a rare charm in a commercial world. Columns have been written about the big reform that is going on in the moving picture indus- try. Discussions have been endless as to what is best to make it the nice thing it should be. There has been all sorts of speculation ds to whether ‘it is the story or the player that makes the great picture. And real authors, men and women, who write to thrill the sullen world, have fairly foamed at the mouth at not being asked to help make pic- tures of their stories, whether they understood the screen language or not. and regardless of their ignorance of screen techguquc ven the great Lasky-Famous Players studios shut down production. All that the ilm world might find itseli and get a fresh start on the riglt track. Veast used in the making of bread, the staff of life, works wondrous cffects in the clean. white, %ieavy dough. It puts new life into it and ometimes it helps to make mighty good bread. You have to wait until the baking, however. to tell just how good. And sometimes, with all the iermentation aud warking of the yeast, the bread turns out sour. Close abservers of the photoplay are wondering now what will be the final come of the movie period of reformation. Are we to have sullen, soggy, sour dough. or fresh, light. wholesome bread ok ' HE world of our theater, stage and It is peo ntimenta screen, is primarily commercial. t an endowed institution of the state. But it is a great need of 1f the state will not, somebody must, and so the clear-headed, man has. It is he who is the maker and baker oil the ma lfoai. The drcamer of dreams, the psychologist, the artist, may have his ideas of what the theafer should be. Indeed, books written by ise folk have told us much of what they think upon the subject. But | business man is not bothered about their dreams, their psychology, His thought is how much money is there in it. and he governs ordingly. Critics and reviewers, moralists and mild-mannered may rave at what he does, but he is affected by their arguments only when t strike the box office first. [ENT comes that Lasky-Famous Players are about to re- Ordinarily one might expect something as to what rued during the shutdown which will give promise of better pic- tures in the future. These great producers were trying to find them- selves, they were trying to find what was wrong with their industr; Above all, they wer? trying to find what was necessary to make it what ould be. The announcement of their resumption brings the cheer- ing inf »n that henceforth every item in the making of a picture will be tabbed with the ciosest scrutiny to hold down the cost. It also gives a list of new pictures to be expected, and tells how happy those ! who will makes them are over the new prospects. Some of the stars will | be missing: some of the directors will not direct hereaiter; the cost is ept down at all hazards. But there is not a word to indicate how re of the public for better pictures is to be met. A faint inkling iven that some of the new pictures will be shown at much higher vrices. But it is not ciear which they will be. In the language of the rural poet, ks to a man up the tree as if all that has been done, the miy outcome of the yeasty turmoil in movie picturedom is_the evident tention to make the public pay more for what it gets. There is' no assurance as to what it wi The man who made good resolutions iround midnight Decemb if he be a movie fan interested in finer, ctter pictures, will not he apt to find much comfort for himself or his ike in what Lasky-Famous Players has evolved after all its turmoil. It soks as if a further announcement is due if the public has been con- sider: t all. And the man who made good resolutions needs to keep t steady hand on the brakes, unless he intends to let his patience give way. busine fons. 1 EXICO got made many it mada fun of shown down there. g (G ie of the Pathe Review. it has been announced by Film, the photoplay miagazine, will show the text of the winning sug- cestion of the Bok peace award, and ballots will be supplied by the ex- er approval or disapproval. said to heen <ed to gauge public sentiment on mad i Harold Lloyd's picture, “Why Worry It ef jolly vp this way, but the Mexicans say 1 and their institutions, and they won't let it be c hr matter M otop! and that feature re of in ARCUS 1 , saying that the unsettied condition of the rekult in an acute shortage of new pictures ! have to rerun photoplays already shown or of other 3 ot. whose return to the screen st in the Paramount shops, has had a hich may again separate those distin- wood to film “Potash and Trances Marion, with Alexander Carr e roles, is quoted as saying that a number ciose their Long Island studios and liad been supposed that the driit was from the the industry is still floundering in some of the fine film program mapped out for the week at the loca ought to carry the fan safely over the first lap in the glad N PhotoplaysThisWeek| At the Photoplay Houses This Week. METROPOLITAN—F evenin RIALTO—"The Re PALACE—“The . evening. COLUMBIA—"Fas AMBA theaters, ming Youth.” Shown fhis afternoon and Shown this aiternoon and evening. Life Passed By.” dezvous.” Ma Shown this afternoon and : Row.” Shown this afternoon and evening. ing ¥outh” Shown this afternoon and CENTRAL—“The Virgini CRANDALL'S “Long Li e Comm Shown this afternoon and evening. e the King.” Shown this afternoon and (Colored)— evening. R T S N T S itam e Y . though neither can speak the other's ME"OPOI“GH g Flammg language, they manage to make them Youth selves understood. c Hal Roach's “Our Gamg” comedy. Touth, et A arens At > Rits short subjects will complete the victurs of Warner Fabian's novel, the | The musical program will inciud feature announced for Crandall's|Carl Friedemann's beautiful Slave \etropolitan Theater this week, is|lsche Rhapsodle,” as overture. aid to offer a frank revelation of the American flapper as she really —unconventional, daring in her rev Palace—"The Man Life ationships with men, in love with the P d By." ok of love and perpetually on & sase - rleasure Lunt, but at heart as fine & | A gripping drama of the present e generatiaeT lyed in any age of |day, punctuated with emotfons and ¥ . Much th ris and pitched in a high key is to be jromance, is “The Man Life Passed fqund tn ‘Flaming Youth! scencs|By,” the new Metro production, writ- o velry that show syncopate L i varties at their giddieat heights, but | ton 34 directed by Victor Schertzin- «wthing suggestive or verging on the |#er, which will be presented at! uslagious. Thrilly there are aplenty |Loew's Palace Theater this week, be- ginning this afternoon. It has been described as a perfect and action -that rushes along &t a furfous pace against backgrounds punch-drama that has the spectator “on edge” —constantly, bringing & that are beautiful. Lut these only serve as embelllshments of a love story of dramat orth and a novel | lump to the throat one minute and expression of mother love. the next sending him into thrills, Colleen Moore, us Pat Fentriss, is| Percy Marmot has the biggest role, the star and Miiton Sills, Elliott Dex- |and others include Jane and Eva ter and Phillips Smalley’ have impor- [ Novak, ~Hobart Bosworth, = Cullen Landis, Lydia Knott and George Seig: mann. ' The spectator is taken from tant roles. The supplementary bill will include scenes in the slums to views of the most extravagant kind of rich men's novelty orchestral overture, a new jue 0; ‘I"S )‘Ulligpfl}‘lflln ‘World Sur- voy and Lyman H. Howe's latest re- | homes, and there is oler L PR lease in the “Hodge-Podge” serfes. revel” in the home of the (;‘; ':n :or- l;fl;re all ."1 dreswed or draj 4 “ w|in old Roman costume. The garden Rialto — "The Rendezvous™|is irned into ap arens wihtearasn dias in the center, filled with pretty romance of tragic strength is|girls, and a great st y st 1o Do vontained in B sreat, struggle is en actel lan's latest photopl A new Sennett comed: ¥ vous,” whicn’ will ave ta local pre- | aublect. the Fatne Nows aria in over: ere at Moore's | ture " The Dlece is typically Russian and y_the Palace Orchestra under Mr. Gannon w! b a type of story different from what n Wil be other attraction: Jir. Neflan has handled in the past. ook o E Conrad Nagle plays Lieut. Stanford | Columbia—"Fashion Row."” Announcement is made b: the a young American Army officer in Russia, Lucmeciucll:l-en. glar?ge}»l:; 5 coln, Sydney aplin, Loow’s Columbia Theater that “Fash- Ohatles, and Bmmett Corrigan are|ion Row, the Mas Mrray. stareing MR ortant e e O Ane Ge jald in|Production for Metro, has achieved e setting of the DY ime of the |one of the most successful engage Russia and Siberla in g o ;“,. ver. | ments of the winter during the pEst Onar Nicholas and -after Oron. | Week, and will be held over for & second woek at the Columbia, begin- ning this afternoon at 3 o'clock, throw by the soviet. The story con- erns a headstrong Russian noble who Robert Z. Leonard directed Miss Murray in “Fashfon Row,” which was arries against the will of the csar :":ld is exiled to a harsh Siberian vil- written for her by Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin. = Its outstanding lage, where his young bride dies in feature is the dual role it offers Miss xiving birth to their child. By the time the child is grown to voung] Murray, who is said to reveal an undreamed of force and power as an womanhood the soviet regime is In tull control and the terrible Godunofr, emotional actress. 1t also plctures a 7 (Continued on Fifth Page.) ou Law.” Shown this afternoon “Flaming rst National | ~x~Cossack adventurer, now local ruler of the village, covets here, but she loves the American soldier and, al- MICREY BENNETT- T Lasky Studios Resume. THE Lasky studio in Hollywood yill be reopened tomorrow when Ca'&‘ DeMille will begin the production o “Tridmph,” according to Jesse L. La: Xy, first vice-president of the Famous | 1asky, Players-Lasky Corporation. Complete resumption of Paramount producing acfivities, with twelve companies at work,” will be accom- plished Long Island studios before February 1, Mr. Lasky stated. Mr. Lasky declared that the tem- porary closing of the studio had brought ‘about a system and mental attitude insuring the production of better pictures with less waste. ‘More authority will be given man- agements of our studios,” said Mr. y, “and In the future no picture will be started untll every item has been estimated. During the brief temporary closing of the Lasky stu- dio our directors and scenario writers have been carefully going over the scripts of future productions. Each of these scenarios has been carefully studied with a view to elimination of all unnecessary expense: casts have been carefully chosen, and more time and study bave been placed on every step of production from selection of material up approval before actual photography. “In the formulation of this policy we have had the most enthusiastic support of directors and scenario writers; in fact, the most heartening development has been Valentino Returns. ODOLPH VALENTINO has agreed to return to the Famous Play- ers-Lasky Corporatipn and resume the making of pictures. ~This is the sub- stance of a joint statement issued by the Famous Players-Lasky Corpora- tion, Max D. Steuer, representing the star and ‘the Ritz Plctures Compan which also: has the star under a con- tract that will begin upon the com- pletion of the contract with Famous Players. Mr. Valentilio's first ~picture for Paramount’ will be Booth Tarking- ton’s story and play, “Monsieur Beau- caire,” which will bedirected by Sid- ney Olcott, produger of “Little O1d New York" and “The Green Goddess.” The scenmario has been written by Forrest Halsey. By the terms of the seitlement all litigation between Mr. Valentine- and Famous Players iwill be “dropped._upon. completion of the contract. In the mnegotiations for the set- tlement Mrs Valentino, as attorney in fact for her husband, plaved an important .part. Before sailing for n both the Holloywood and | he original | the final 1 B. | everybody in the studio. | the wititude L. Y. l l COLLEEN Moore 5= - Columbia T TR o \DANGIRO Crandalls | of helpfulness and_willingness of | Some of the most important pro- ductions of this season will get un- | der way with the reopening of the udio. Cecil B. DeMllle's pic- ture, “Triumph.” which wiil mark the reopening of the studio, will feature | Leatrice and Rod LaRocque. Other pictures to be made at the Las- Ky studios are the following: Herbert Bremon's production of ‘The Breaking Point.” by Mary Rob- erts Rinehart; George Melford's pro- | duction of “The Glorious Tomorrow Sam Wood's production of Rita Wel man's story, “Bluff,” co-starring Agnes Ayres and Antonio Moreno; James ‘Cruze's production of Booth Tarkington's play, “Magnolia”; Irvin Willat'’s production of Zane 'Grey's story, “Wanderer of the Wasteland," featuring Jack Holt, which, for the first time in the history of our com- pany, will be entirely in color, Vicfor ~ Fleming’s _ production of “The Code of the Sea,” an original story by Byroni Morgan, with Rod LaRocque featured and Dimitr{ Buch- owetskl's production of a Pola Negri picture, “Men”; and_also a picture Teaturing Leatrice Joy, directed by Joseph Henabery. In the Long Island studlos under the direction of Alan Dwann. G Swanson {s now producing “She Who Laughs Last,” based on Alfred Sut- ro's play, “The uuxhlng Lady.” Wil- liam de Mille is producing “Icebound” the FPulitzer prize-winning play by Owen Davis, ‘and Thomas Meighan has just begin a picture temporarily titled, “Quicksand,” from a novel by Erskine. l Europe recently after she had aMxed her signature to the contract, Mrs. Valentino . sald: “It is gratifying to reach a sati factory conclusion and to see Rodolph } again fn a position to pursue his career under satisfactory conditions. Some sample tests were made while | Wwe were abroad and the results' demonstrate conclusively the char-| acter dovelopment and artistic ad- vance made by him since he previ- ously appeared on the screen. In all respects he is fit and ready for his new tasks.” 2 Adolph _Zukor, president of the Famous Players-Lasky 'Corporation, s “I think the signing of this con- tract 1s an excellent Christmas pres- ent to the motion. picture public. While tbis company has at all times been ready to reach an amicable ad- justment of its differences with Mr. Valentino, those difficulties are now thing of the'past. We purpose giv- g Mr. Valentino the finest produc- tions possible, from the best the in- dustry affords, and I am sure that, with ‘all of us working in harmony, his coming plotures will be the great- est in which he has ever appeared. Metropolitan “The Ten Commandments. ECIL B. DE MILLE'S Paramount production, “The Ten Command- ments,” apparently pleases the re- viewers in New York. Some of the comments follow: Times: “It is probable that no more wonderful spectacle has ever been put | before the public. Nothing on the films is so-utterly impressive as the thundering and belching forth of one commandment after another, and the titling and photography of this par- ticular effect was remarkable.” Morning Telegraph: “Cecil B. Ds Alille has produced a great pioture in “The Ten Commandments.” He welded a tense modern drama to one of the most moving epics of history.” Herald: *The biblical prologue tells ith remarkable clarity and straight- forwardness the story of the book of Exodus. Mr. De Mille and Miss Mac- pherson have built drama of the most enthralling sor! Mr. De Miile has de- d his individual scenes with great We believe “The Ten Com- mandments’ will be popular—enor- mously so Evening Telegram: “Here is a su- perb picture. The parting of the Red sea is an almost unbelievable achieve- ment, and_yet Mr. De Mille has real- ized it. The mad bachanals before the calf of gold are worthy of the great Reinhardt. This first part is surely the biggest achlevement of the cinema. Sun-Globe: “Cecil B. De Mille is a raphic artist, working miracles of gnve-coneevtlol\ and deft execution. Not motion picture actors carefully made up, men and’women across the screen in detail after detai] of Bal zacian fidelity. Photography at & high level of excellence.” To Be Don HE first full-length Paramount picture to be done completely in color will be Zane Grey's story, “Wanderer of the Wasteland." The plcture will be produced in its orig- inal_locale, the deserts of irizona, by Irvin Willat. Jack Holt is the featured player. ' Production will start shortly after the reopening of the Lesky studio. **“The Wanderer of the Wasteland’, said Mr. Lasky, “is Zane Greyv's fa- vorite story and is the most popular of all the books which he has given to the American public. Beoause the scenes are lald in the desert, Mr. . Discovered”’ LEEN MOORE has probably been “discovered” oftener than any one else in pictures. The motion picture potentialities of this young star were first discovered by D. W, Grifith when he was intro- duced to her about five years ago in a Chicago newspaper office, where she was visiting ger uncle, managing editor of the paper. Under Grifith's direction she appeared in numerous roles op- posite the late Bobbie Harron, after having first served a bfief novitiate ing “bit: i Sitarahall Neilan “aiscovered” her and .gave her many {mportant roles, including the part of the young mother- in “Dinty” and the feminine lead “with John Barrymore fn ‘“The Lotus Bater.” - DAVIES Awbassador Next Week's Photoplays METROPOLITAN — Corinne Griffith, in “Black Oxen.” COLUM BIA—Rex Beach’s “Big Brother.” RIALTO — Joseph Hergeshei- mer’s “Wild Oranges.” PALACE—Glenn IHunter, “West of the Water Tower. AMBASSADOR— “Black Oxen” CENTRAL—“Defying Destiny” and “Little Old New York.” CRANDALL'S — “ Alimony,” “The Untamable” and “The Ramblin’ By ™M Evenlng World: “The Years big- gest plcture, ‘“The Ten Command- ments’ is a big plcture in more ways than one. It has a big theme, it has { several big moments, and there's ab- | solutely no gainsaying the fact that the sets are big—the biggest ever seen. The photography was a big un- bigne: Tri the most thrillin; has ever known. it cannot be described. thing yet in pictures.” Evening Journal: “Spectators chesr film—enthusiasm aroused. One of the most remarkable effects ever con- trived for a motion picture is the parting of the Rea sea to permit oses and his followers to escape Pharaoh and his army “In a veritable blaze ‘The Ten Commandments’ opened last night at the George M. |vehement than Cohan Theater and gave every sign |Jane Cowl. a long and prosperous sojourn. ¢ ¢ Marvelous beauty and realis- artistry, ¢ ¢ ¢ The of tic cheers as the spectacie was unfolded before their eyes in a manner which the screen.” Bvening Post “The Bible has In- spired one of the greatest motion tures ever produced. The first of it is & masterplecs without peer i imagination and beauty of story as well as its telling. It is one of the recommended even to th hated ‘movies’ er them an art person who d refused to consid- e in Color. the full value of the story's remarkable wsetting. “In this picture we shall use the technicolor process—the same process which was used in the biblical part of Cecil B. De Mile's 'The Ten Com mandments.” To achieve the result: we expect we are goin, erable expense and trouble, so tha the coloring of the picture wWill be as nearly perfect as possible. A g olal camera Staff organized by he o consia | horrible t: MUSEM ENTS, Hollywood Gossi p *The Man Whom Life Passed By" Realistic and a Relicff The Perfect Lover” mn “The Inheritors"—Fox Western Studios Busy. BY HALLETT ABEND. Special Telographic Correspondence to The Star. LOS ANGELES, January 4.—Victor Schertzinger's “The Man Whom Life Passed By,” made for Metro release, has been run off for me. It is about seven and one-half reels long and ls a modern eity story, with a fanciful | prologue. Percy Marmont, Who popu- larized the abused hero type by his splendid performance in “If Winter Comes,” Is the leading man, and Jane ovak stars with him. The support- ing cast includes Cullen Landls, Tlo- bart Bosworth and Eva Novak. Mr. Schertzinger has had the courage to make a reallstic photoplay with an unhappy ending, and though the pro- | duction does not live up to the ideals | of the producer, it is nevertheless u | gratifying move against hokum-und | screen nonsense and well worth sce- ing by people who are tired of the same old stuff. Jane Novak will be starr an almost simultaneous release of The Lullaby,” produced and directed for f. o. b. Telease by Chester Ren- nett. This film too, is a play of tragic realism, and carries Miss Novak through life from the time she is an immigrant bride in her teens until, Years later, she is a broken Woman, who has served a twenty- year prison term for a murder sie did not commit. Her prison-born baby has been torn from her and the last reels show the broken old mother's quest for her lost daughter. Willlam Haines, called “the perfect lover” by Peggy Joyce, has been ed also in loaned by the Goldwyn Company to | play the romantic lead opp Philbin in “The Inheritors. ‘Bowery Title te Be Changed. | Meanwhile Universal is considering changing the name of Miss Philbin's next release from “Afy Mamie Rose” to Fbols' Highway." The change of name Is unexpiainable. The story has to do with th 's slums about the year 18 Carmel Myers, who has just finished playing opposite John Barrymore in ite Mary | week old | | srhools. Tentative been granted. “This will be an tertainment picture, to be released through Ruth Roland’s usual chan- nels, but will, it is felt, also be sound thrift propaganda. The school thrif: plan has been in operation hers for eighteen months and has resulted i 40,000 savings accounts being startad by school children. Their combined savings total more than half a millio: dollars to date. Samuel Goldwyn, who has been producing independently of the Gold- wyn Pictures Corporation, announce- that henceforth he will make all of his pictures here at the United Stu- dlos instead of in New York clty, and says that the heads of various film companies with whom he conferred ir New York plan to concentrate all pro- ducing activities here and eventualls to_close their eastern plant Mr. Goldwyn, who releases through First National,' will film “Potash and Perlmutter in Hollywood” and next will confer with Montague Glass, the author, and with France. Marion, who will write the working script. . Alexander Carr and Barne: Bernard, who made the Potash and permision | Perimutter characters famous on the | tage, will play the name parts in m, Another production which Mr. wyn will make early in the spring will be Joseph Hergesheimer's “Co therea,” whh George Fitzmaurice d recting. What Othkers Are Doing. Frank Gold . Woods, former supervisor of I"amous Players-Lasky producti and later & member of the Associated Authors, producers, has organized the Frank Woods Productions, with = { capital of 1,500,000, and will produce Independently. Mr. Woods announces that he w ke no milllon-dolla: productions, but will produce pho. toplays of ‘sound dramatic value a reasonable cost Seena Owen, Who has baen in E land making pictures, to_Hollywood Edward Burns, who played the lead opposite Gloria Swanson in *“The as returned fro & has returne Sada Cowan and Howard Higge +Beau Brummel," has been signed by the Schulberg Company to play the vamp in “Poisoned Paradise.” The William Fox west coast studios | R: are now the busiest single tion company in Hollywood. Archainbaud is making “The Plun- derer,” with Frank Mayo, Evelyn Brent and Tom Santschi. Buckingham is directing _th Lincoln J. Carter thriller. “The Ari- zona Expres: Pauiine_Starke, Francfs Ma Anne Cornwall 2nd David Butler in the leading 1 Frederick and Fannie Hatton their desks piled high with man seripts, which they are whipping Into for production after olidays. John Gilbert is complet Just ~Off Broadway"” with Nixon and Jerry Gendron ing roles.” Jack Blyston Buster Keaton director, “Ladles to Board,” starring Tom Mix, and Shirley Mason is midwa: production of “The Moroeco Box. Nellie Bly Baker, who for Years has produ e old = former is_making Wworked in the office at Charlie Chap- | lin's studio, is to have a prominent part in the next Chaplin comedy. 1t was Miss Baker who, without prev- ious experience, enacted the part of the scornful masseuse in Chaplin's “A Woman of Paris." Rogers’ Christmas Cabin. Will Rogers built a spacious log cabin on the grounds of his Vever Hills estate for use first for a Chrisi- mas_ tree celebration for his three children and permanently for guests when he gives big western barbecue Maurice Tourneur has just returned to Hollywood from New York bring- ing with him four possible screen stories, one of which will be his next First National production. Hunt Stromberg has completed “High Dawn,” starring Harry Carer. Irene Rich has been loaned to Sol Lesser by Wamner Brothers and will appear {n Baby Pegsy's “Captain Jan- uary. Betty Compson Is being considered for the lead part in “Rain,” by Pary mount. Emery Johnson's next productior will be’ called “Swords and Plough- shares” and will star Mary Carr, the mother of “Over the Hilla" It will be a story with a mother's sacrifices in war time. Aileen Pringle, summoned to San Francisco a few days ago by the serfous illness of her father, has re- turned to Hollywood. She will play the lead in “True as Steel” the next Rupert Hughes production for Gold- wyn. Starting plans have been upset bécauss of Mr&~Hughes' tragic death in Indo-China. Film to Encourage Thrift. A fllm company headed by Roland, with Wiifred ) Ruth | rth as dire dertaking and the whole affair exudes | tor and Charles Forrester as the au- thur of the script. has applied to the | : “Israel's flight and Pha- | county board of education for permi haoh’s pursuit furnished the story for | sion to use the school property and | & chase the acreen |soms of the pupils for production of a | All of this was done | comedy drama buiit upon the county's in natural color, and the grandeur of [ plan for encouraging savings and The biggest | thrift among the pupils of the public Tom , the | support.- | have been engaged scenario for dith Nicholson to prep: novel, which will b inald Barker’s next production fo B. Mayer. | Ernst Lubitsch is ering film, ing “Manon Lescaut” as his next pic | ture for Warner Brothers. Teddy, the ™ {dog in '3 { Ouida’s “Dog of be released ae Tean Carpenter, i1 be the fiiming of T which wil ‘A Boy of Flanders' child ‘actress, will br and others Lionel Beimore Nell Craig and y Figher, with Viet chertzin ger direoting. Arthur Edmund _Carew played Svengali in “Trilb: ready heen engaged for ray’s Jead in the photoplay being written for her by Vincente Blasco Tbanesz, work ups gun as so Midnight. Maurice Te will be tation of which originall |lee's Magazine. n Ains n.who wrote “Pie 3 >r Thomas Meighar has been engagod 1o writs anothr { eriginal story for the same star. Mack Sennett is considering an o the musical comedy rigl Extra 1" Mabel N vehicle, wh directly for ymand’s last starr was written by him screen. Mary Philbin in Slum Play. I _have been accorded a pre-v of Mary Philbin's first starring pic ture, made as “My Mamie Rose,” and Just renamed for some obscure rea som. Tt be released as “Fool Highway,” but what that title h to do with on the Bowery 1895 no one Aside from the meaningless v » of the pic- ture mo adver foism can b made of the ion, which a triumph Miss Philbin and for her dire ving Cummings Pat O'Malle: Irish bruiser who starts eavy and ends as_the hero, very fine. “Fools' H will disappoint those person: ought that Miss { Philbin’s “Merry-Go- |Round” was merely an accldent. I ! her new picture she indicates thosc who have maintained that she is really a very gifted young actresc Her work Is still spotty. There are great lengths of footage in whicl she s merely 1y sdequate aud lite the produetion kable because backgrounds ar« the acting. directic and beautiful lighting and photog raphy lighten what otherwise would be a somber and pathetic love story (Copyright, 1923, o United States and Gres Britain by North American Newspaper A liance. Al rights reserved.) more | costuming drab and onl Jane Cowl on Censorship. SJT has come again—the matter of censorship—and more fervently ever before,” says everal times recently 1 have been brilliant | asked by the prime movers in various gathering Wwas moved to tears and |flelds of endeavor who have renewed their anti-censorship campaign to stamped the director as a master of | 8ive my opinion on the vital question. “What I really think they want from me is not my opinion exactly! if | They want me ta asree with them that all censorship should not only be lifted, but absolutely removed wvery, very few pictures that could be |from the arts. 'This I cannot do, for I honestly feel that a reasonable censorship is & very necessary thing. One does not have to bend backward with Puritan- ical ideas. I centainly would never do that, nor do I approve of a too rigid or a wholesale plan. A cén. sorship of men and women of intell gence and ideas, who also are pro- grossive, certainly would make an Grey stipulated in his contract ‘that | excellent and much-needed group as ture should be done in colors, {a barrier for certlan Broadway per- as that was the only way to get the | petration: “It is absurd to say that any kind of censorship whatever would hinder thé advancement of art, for it would not. I am all for progress, but I certainly do not see any beneficial results in salacious plays of a certain e that have appeared on Broadway m time to time in the past few years. There were some that ought to be wiped out of the literary world—and certainly off the Technicolor Company will be sent|dramatio stage—in which I fail to from Boston.” Many T imes Rupert Hughes then “discovered” Miss Moore and under his direction mentioned “The Wall' Flower," *“The Bitterness of Sweets,” and. “Come on Over.' Subsequently Oliver Morosco * covered” her, but probably most im portant of all was -the “discovery made by First National that resulted in Mlss Moore’s being elevated to in- dividual stardom under a -long term contract. Her first First National release un- der the mew arrangement was “The Huntress,” a picture which -Washing- ton has already production- is “Flaming Youth, to be so-developed tha itself seems destined. to covery. ake « dis- en. .~ Her newest | hay: a | pla; ct i vhich her rs. are said | ences Do be st developed that. ke publie | peauty and continuity . sreatly . en- see anything to warrant public presentation. “Even as _interesting vehicles for very remarkable actors or actresses I see no excuse for vulgar or crude immorality. No, no matter how ver- satile a comedy actor.or a dramatic interprete a man may be, he need not allofv a manager to give him an ugly means of portraying his ability. “I know the old argument, that the she was featured in several big pro- | right group of censors would be diffi- ductions, chlef among which may be | Cuit to assemble, but this is not nec- essarily true. A standard of person- nel could be found for censors just as it has always been found for any group of people—when nesded—in the right way, at the right time, and in the right place. “The anti-censors contend sorship will' do two things: Hinder the progress of art and crush out beauty — the natural spontaneous quality of beauty that comes from complete freedom and lack of re- straint. I do not believe this, and proved my belief in my own In deléting offensive refer- I have always found the hanced. f course, some of us may differ fn our definition of beauty end but after all that is mere quibblins on the part of the self-styled ultra |modern artist who becomes facetiour | and poses as a super-highbrow ani seys beauty is absolute freedon Beauty may be freedom. but it is not licentiousness, and we must remem ber that there is, and probably al ways will be, a standard of socla conventions against which a certain ugly and immoral freedom should no stand. . “An absolute censorship is un doubtedly basically wrong, but many of the Broadway managers are com mitting a greater wrong when thes encourage the lowest of human emo- tions and pander to the lowest level of intelligence instead of to ghe highest. “The proof of the need of at leas! a limlted censorship iz seen afte plays leave New York. The salacious plays that are often a huge succes in New York city invariably fail on the road. Our American audiences a8 a whole really do not enjoy the seamy side of life, and it isn’t a very fine or uplifting thought to feel tha, our big city managers and actors try to persuade them that they do by first putting on the morally destruc tive plavs here and then trying take them on the road. As most o our big produgtions originate in ana around New Yor responsibllity appears to rest here, where our grour of censors could easily be estai- lished. DANCING. ¢ STAFFORD PEMBERTON, Ex-partner to Mae Murray-Gertrude Hoffme: 8 1o all styles of daneing. !MML& 8! EDW. F. MILLER 8TUDIO. 1220 Conn. ave. Fr. 3587, ed. claws starts Jan. 9, 8:80 p.m. class for couples. Jan. 10.’ (Phone). PROF. AND MRS. ACHER'S STUDIO, 112 10th n.w. Ciass Monday and Friday, 8 & JE i, o T 8% Ph Franklin_5567. Established 1900. 8% Thurs Too Ballet, ., Ohildren's Olay MiSS CHAPPELEAR Private lessons by appointment. Phone North 5197. 1618 19tu St DAVISO Teach you to 2 rectly in & few lesson Prof. Mrs. Strictly privat 1329 M St. N.W. Main 1732, day Evening with 0. tra. New Dances, “Bambaling Fox v’ ‘American Tango.” Al the latest va Catherine Balle, 719 9th St. N.W, - Frank. 506, W teach you to dance (= = tessons. Private and claw.” Reduced rit 5. e a