Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 50

AMUSEMENTS. THE SUNDAY BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JANUARY 13, —_— e e .. — . = ) P, THIS WE 3 | Selma Lagerlof Story. - ilmograms b g me e TR e ot ot Ty B Review rate pleture as highly in “Under the Red Robe.’ quittal”; Tuesday, Alice Lake, in| s pcsus BEACH, famous as the suthor | Brummel” which Clyde Fitch wrote . it has done in the case of “The slori; “The Splder and the Rose; Wednes- | % - T Coi:yi};sli:;flz:; lss‘i:zd“"’on’ day and. Thursday. Corlnne Griffith | Blizzard,” udapted by Willlam Fox stokies for Richard Mansfield and is now 3 o ‘,’fm'\‘l,“” l“d““‘“" storles, has| o0 "o n one. of the subtitles in' the concluded that as and Conway Tearle, in “The Common | from “The Story of & Country Hous: METROPOLITAN — Anna Q. Law": Friday, Gareth Hughes, in “I| 1y sums Lagerlof, winner of the Warner production of the play, in Nilsson, in “Ponjola.” excellent novellst. which John Barrymore is in the title A magazine sent Rex to Washing- 1924—PART AMUSEMENTS. T o e etz [METROPOLITAN Today—Deore Open at 2:30 p.m. Daily, 10:30 a.m. te 11 pom. U ntinued from Third Page.) Saturday, “Enemies of Wom- also “Sawing a Lady in Half.” Chevy Chase. Tomorrow and Tuesday, Seena. Owen and Wilfred Lytell, in “The Leaven- a reporter he's an Can Explain” thirteenth _pisode “In |\’ the Days of Danlel Booma': Satur-|Nobel prizo for lterature. role PALACE —“Thundering day, Virginta Valll and Lon Chaney,| Dirceted by Mauritz Stiller, this . Dawn. 1 to report the convention of the g Brother” movement that was held Yere last summer. When Itex showed he Shock. | plcture was produced by a cast of up In New York he had forgotten all | about the story he was supposed to write fn plotting out a fiction tale tased on the tdea of the movement o/etory Is “Big Hroth The creen will picture it here this week. Famous atlon is @ real Jesse L. Lasky of fthe Player-Lasky Corpe 1 story scout When Hom Croy's West of the Water Towe first 11t b the horizon last spring., with no Yamn sined to it Lasky begged | Ifarpers for the author's name. With- 3 & week he had Croy's name on the dotted line for the screen rights, Hunter announces that he, tou, belongs to that numerous com- pany of young men who slept on i park bench while walting for art to open ats arms. That was a lit- before Zoe Beckley, the newspuper ob sister, took pity on him and got Bim a4 job with the Washington quare Players. and long—oh. quite while—bafors he found himself Witk such roles as “Clarence,” “The Intimate Strangers” and “Mcrton of the Movi (3lenn An fmportant part of the radio con- cert broadcast from the WRC sta- tion of the Radio Corporation of America, 14th streot and Park road rorthwest, last Wednesday evening vas contributed Ly Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the orchestra at Cra aall's Metropolitan Theater, who give “The Swan.” by Salnt-Saens, and two solos for violin sharply con- ac In attempting @ hurried exit down the dark stairway from the executive offices of the Cran theaters T cently, Nelson B. E of the Cra AMBASSADOR — Anna Q. Nilssom, in “Ponjola.” CENTRAL—“Slippy McGee.” CRANDALL’S—“Alimony. Preparations for filming “Babbitt,” the Sinclair Lewls novel, are now under way at the Warner Studlo, in Los Angeles, Thomas H. Inc up & brilliant cas “Those Who Danc: is said to Have built or his new drama, for First National, which is_being directed by Lambert Hillyer. Bessie 1 Warner Baxte John Sainpolis, rt Agnew and dia K have been added to th tured plavers, headed by Blanche Sweet. Two other characterizations requiring “'blg"” talent have vet to be cast. The comblnation of Blanche Sweet and Bes- sle Love promises a production of un- usual interest. starring Lillian Gish and featuring Dor- |d othy Gish. The Gth avenue home of Samuel Untérmeyer, the famous lawyer, is to be the scene of the first showing of the John 8. Robertson production of “Twen- ty-One," sturring Richard Barthelmess, New York cily. Many of the exterior were taken on the benutiful ounds of Mr. Untermeyer's estute, — »ystone, in Yonkers, and he fs anx- Richard Barthelmess is not yet able | ious to see how they look on the screcn. to return to work on the John Rob- ertson production of ‘“The Iinchanted | Cottage,” but his condition 18 said to be showing improvement. He is in the Polyclinic Hospital, New Yurk, where | interesting readings. with mu: an ‘operation was performed upon lim | ¢Umpaniment at the plano by C two weeks ugo. | Ba &t the concert at the Mason! | Auditorfum Thursday night for the b | efit of starving children of central The feature of her numbers in Anita Schade, well known lere as teacher of languages and a fine Don Bartlett, the weil known scen- ario writer, who was responsible for | rope the continuity of Lil h's pic: [be the rendition in Ge n of & ture, “The White Sister,” sailed for | mann’s ¥Schoen Iedwig” which sh Ttaly to join Henry King's Inspiration | has given in English at several recent company, which is making “Romola,” | woman's olub affairs Mistinguett Created Apache vears old , she was playing leading | parts In musical comedles, and when she was twenty she appeared as | star at the Folles Borgere. Next ne her triumphant appearance & the Castno de Paris, and then the famous theat- rical brity, heralded as the originator of the famous Parisian Apache dance, and the wom- an who has the most beautiful legs | MISTINGUETT. comes worth Case'; Show"; homas Meighan and Woman Proof+: B “Plum Craz banks, in Dippy-Do-Dads, in and “The Ghost City, in “Where the North Begins": Charles Murray, In “Wild and Wicked," and The Santa Fe Trall,” No. 12. Today Coogan, in Tuesday, “The Cheat”; Carr, Mildred Power, In Thursday and Friday, Corinne Ath, Conway Tearle and Elliott Dex- cutionist, will glve two groups of | ter The ¥rench Doll”; Thursday and Fri- King"; of Hudson Bay Today, Percy Comes"; Colleen Moore, in Dance . New Banks of the g, In comedy, “Obey the La Larry Semon, in “The Wednesday and Thursday, Lila Lee, in Bobby Vernon, in ; Friday, Douglas Fair- The Mark of Zorro”; the Lovey Dovay,” No. 2; Satur- (open 2:30 o°clock), Rin-tin-tin, Circle. and tomorrow, “Long Live the g’ Pola Negrl and Jack Holt, Wednesday, Mary Harris and Tyrone “The Daring Years’; irif- in “The Common Law.” Dumbarton. ¥, “The Love Pirate”: tomor- “Omar the Tent Maker”; Tues- | and Weduesday, Mae Murray, in | Lady in ackie Cougan, in “Long Live the aturday, Tom Mix, in “North Empire. tomorrow and T Marmont, in_ “If _ Winter Wednesday and Thursday “April Shower: comedy, “Idea M “Back Stage”; Saturday, Hoxle, in “The Desert Tider; ;. William el Trail” No. 1, and in Hippodrome. Today Harla infan’ and . in Owen Wisters Tuesday, “The Green Goddess”; Thomas Meighan and Pauline Fred Thursday, Kenneth Marriage”: | Pauline ken | Adolph Olschansky and Stina Berg, new | il of whom are woll known on stage erlck, in “Sapho” Harlan, Friday, Wing,” serles. star cast, in and “Fighting Blood,” Today and tomorrow, Red Gap"; madge, In “nts of Truth" Sage Jrush Gladys Walton, in Wednesday and Valll, in “A Lady of Quailty day, Buster Keaton, in pltality”; worth, in “Blind Hearts.” Saturday, Toduy Barker's and “Pleasure Mad" Pollard, In “The Big Idea” Wednesday Davies, Olympic. tomorrow, “Temporary Princess. Tuesday, Myers, in reth Satu Trall”; also Half." Raphael. Today and tomorrow. May McAvoy. Reputation”; “The Thursday Savoy. tomorrow and Thursd “Little Old N Friday, Owen Moore, in gate” and George O'Hara, in * ing Bloo turday, Love and * in ‘Dogs of War." George Arliss, “The “Ru Normi 12 The Heart of Wednesduy, “Shifting Sand: 3 “The Hughe Our Hobart and “Thunder- hirley | Swedish performers, many of the scenes being filmed in the exact loca- Cenneth | tlons described by the author. The cast consists of Einar Hansson, in | whom the national board declares i3 Wednesday, | a of Barthoimess and known Furope'; Ablander, combination Valentino; Mary Johnson, he Mary Pickford of Brunius, Teckla land sereen throughout Europe. ““The Blizzard' is & photoplay | which would be outstanding for one episode ulone, if for nothing else: as it is, it abounds in noteworthy fe: | tures of story, acting and treatmen the review of the national Speech for Movies. %! DRACTICALLY all of the French- spenking population of Los An- it is sald, will be drawn upon for tiw tilming of several episodes fn ser's production of ‘Poisoned radise.” Street scenes in Paris, re- quiring hun of men and women, o to be taken with French-Ameri- an players tn order that no words poken within the range of the camera will be In any language other than French. It the illusion of is to be carried out the plavers nly must not be talking English,” weles, comedy and chapter 11, “In the Days of Daniel Boone.” 5 P~ THIS WEEK 9% THE ONE YOU HAVE LONG AWAITED First National presents An Unparalleled Cast in the Most I and Most Unusual of the Smm'a“g'”m rilliant Romances. GRIFFIT Supported by Clara Bow, Kate Lester, Lincom s»fi‘ an, Alan Hole and an FEctraordinary Eusemble Led by the Popular Fovorite, CONWAY TEARLE T T R T T i \ dall staff sustained a compound fras apld_ succession followed re of the right forearn, Takoma. tom ‘oW, Mary K rle, 1 Kerry, in y $ man H. Howe's S Where the North | Go Rou Tuesday and Wednesday, Ralph Lewlis, he lLove Piker”;| Holbrook BElinn, in “The Bad Mau', ' and Leonard Chick, fo the Last Man.” algo Snub Pollard comedy. “Mystery | Kenneth Har- S, Man Thursday " ¥, Thomas | lu 3 ® nes or, in “The Vir- in “W, an Proof”,; s0 ‘Heeza Tdar's Afr Home. £ ams; irday matinee nd | J Saturday Douglas and tomorrow, Claire Wind- ruee Vidor, in “Alice he Mark of Zorro” in “The Ac- ¥ Roach r' in “The Big Idea' rilby”; tomorrow . “Cloud- Name"; Tuesday, “Ruggles of Red| moday and “Where 1Is the | bin and Norman lin the world [ triumps In “Ten ai Marre . | arist «| Rit,” “Paris qui Danse The seaxon for special added at-) Franch ol tractions at the Crandall neighbor-|genr e hood theaters seems to have arrived. | Folies Tor the Saturday matinee. January | gooit o 1y 19, the Apollo Theater wiil present | Amarica, she Praneo, @ se {c entertalner asiin french mus \ Ventriloguist, a ¢ same date | iy FTEOCh, Avenue il Crandall's | 28 hor SR celebrated as siner and Paris d 3 Alice Delvsia, | Douce.” 3 ahie now playing in th . ” a (‘!u)l:un"glrL Mistinguett is declared to be one o cdies. She be.|the most talented musical comedy career when she | actresses in Europe, and she is und appear- | contract for a long term of vears i e orid 8 2 > chorus in a|with the management of the Cax t of birds, animals | \{5{c nall on one of the Paris boule- | de Paris. She has been released to instruments. vards. Imost from the start she|her American manager for a term of was a success. She had personality, | on year. She has never before « good voica for a child_and a figurs | beon to America and her appearance that delighted even thi most blase h jt ‘{5 announced, in “Tnnocent | first nighters | ¥ will mark her American de- Before Mistinguett was A Rehearsal . way thing pro The play reached the cl d act The tone had so exactly that tender no de Paris in piayed for more rada Today sor and Norman Kerry end music: Gertrude Atherton based the title for her story, “Black Oxen" on the following quotation from W. B. Yea “The vears, like xreat tread the world. and . man, goads them on behind. T LOEW’S PALACE THEATE WEEK BEGINNING TOPAY-..SUNDAY, JANUARY 13 seventeen | but Vitagraph announces the purcha of world piec fichts to “The Clean | fTeart.” by 4 1. Hutchinson, author | £ “If Wint omes” It i one of | hie English writer's modern romances. | “The Covered Wi as begun an [ THE i on ment in Paris. rluborate which ar begun. Every-| ty-thre regular theaters New York's boast are | aid to be mot only inadequate to | house the attractions which seek|* Broadway approval, but they don't'igre Ls {te the rehearsals iover, Sidney { for the plays which aspire to qualify | romanc, }xn‘;:~L fe 1o | for the Broadway race. [ e e The use of Rote! bunquet rooms and | that, ~The bLuilet grazed Allan Simpson. MrS-|even formal ballrooms fs not intre- | d e Tin Proctor, Yvonna Hug Wilfred | quent. Thus it happened that “Moon | om0 Donovan, 1 Keefo, Catherin, Flower” was rehearsing in one of the | have been a Coleburn, M Iton and Dorothy | smaller banquet halls of & large New | ment to a re Stokes. York hotel. The scene was lnpres- | were entirely out of proportion for sive. The hall looked fdeal when the | this moonlit scene in Monte Carlo company strolled in. The decorations | in which no gambler breaks the mid were red white, and blue, and as Sid- With even & SIGE and then d just closed an en- where ramouche in “Scara- | It was mercly the pantry getting e Grey the tricolor was | busy preparing ror a luncheon in the Wasteland.” dramu, this decoration | adjacent banquet room i graceful gesture These are just indicalive of the || Burton, the stage director, | difficultles which comp: the | ¢ Irvin W It will be the his seat at a magnificently am- | bullding of & performance. “the final | | eature picture to be produced in this able Leneath the canopy. Hia|rehearsals of the “Moon Flower” are way by Paramount. stant spread the prompt book. ! to he held on the of the Schu- | ~ stage manager arranged the bert-Garrick th That is_why | | Marle Prevost has just completed | chairs to represent the furniture in | the theater is dark Monday and Tues- | her role in “The Marrlage Circle,” |the scene, and to indicate the door-'day, and the openins is Wednesd 1 which Ernst Lubitsch has produced Zor Warner brothers. In Frank Lloyd’s Superdly Staged and Sicili fully Directed Picturization of Gertrude Ather- ton’s Sensational Best Seller of Won Rejuvenation, LACK OXE The Engrossing Story of Love Between a Woman of Sizty Who Looked Twenty and a Young American, Told With a Background of Society’s Exclusive Haunts, the Rendezvous of the Brilliant Literary Folk and Sophisticates and the Most Fashionable Diplomatic Courts of Europe. EMBROIDERY CONCERT PROLOGUE---DANIEL BREESKIN TIOLIN VIRTUOSO SPECIAL WORLD SURVEY—MELODY MOSAIC DANIEL BREESKIN CONDUCTING WASHINGTON'S FINEST ORCHESTRA ([T e ey e ez TS - [AMBASSADOR 18th ST. AND COL. RD.—— MATINEES—SUN. AT 3—SAT. AT 2 P. M. SUN—MON—TUES First National Presents CORINNE GRIFFITH CONWAY TEARLE sd by Clara Bow, Cloire McDowell, Thomas R , Clarrissa Selwymne and a Group of Distinme guished Stars i Fronk 's _Distinotive Camera Rendition of Gertrude Atherton's Sensutional Romence of Rejuvenated Old Age and Youth. BLACK OXEN CHARLIE CHASE in “ONE OF THE FAMILY" SELECTIONS—THE PRIMA DONNA® (HERBERT) Ambassader Grand Orchestra. Halley F. Alart, Conductor WED.-THURS—EDNA PURVIANCE IN CHAPLIN'S ‘A WOMAN OF PARIS” Bew Turpin in “The Daredevi Belectione—/ Mlle. Rosita” (Herbert) FRIASAT~LENORE ULRIC IN “TIGER Acsop Fable—World Fvents Prelude—'The Rose” (Roase) rezents the latest offering of tae splendid young star of “Merton of the Movies”” and Clarence’ ADOLPH ZUKOR OPRESENTS lenn ‘Munte *“WESTofthe WATER TOWER" TROM TRE NOVEL BY HOMER CROX With MAY McAVOY, ERNEST TORRENCE, GEO. FAWCETT, ZASU PITTS Here it is, at last!—Paramount’s Not even the sensational “Man superb dramatization of the great Street” laid bare the soul of a small novel by Homer Croy that took the town as this great story does! A literary by storm last year! A power- youth and a girl who loved not wisely ful, pulsating drama of reckless, but too well and the baptism of fire young love and its appealing conse- that both passed through to attain quences. happiness! LATEST JUVENILE COMEDY—“OVER THE FENCE” PATHE NEWS—TOPICS OF THE DAY December The cast for Gloria Paramount picture. “al," wh beg Island s , Richard Cortez, Mrs. g e my shoul- Tda Waterm Converse, Fraz The clatter was ter- stage noises would onderful accorpani- utionary play, but night stiliness 1on in New Y > expe: pistol shot aln there during Februar proceed directly to A t d in th of the is picture will be mad» entirely in natural colors under the dire “TALES OF HOFFMANN" | Amerioa’s Thros Great Opera Compamice Combined in Owo Production | January 21st—8:15 p.m.—President Theater, 11th & Pa. Ave. Washington Opera Company EDOUARD ALBION, General Director — . MABEL JOSEF mons_famous waying GARRISON SCHWARZ <hould included the tmmortal e R e oa SO Metropolitan Soprano Chicago Opera Co. RALPH ELIZABETH rected against George IV t ERROLLE BONNER rince of Wales, by Beau Brummel and which subsequently broke up the { Chicago Opera Temor Contralto BENOR JAOQUES mous friendship. The saying., which ANANIAN SAMASSOUD is included in all the blographical Metropolitan Opers Co. Conductor sworks concerning the famous dand Box Office President Theater Seats Now was written Into the vla Mail Orders, 1814 G St. N. W. ={ A3 ok g T o Prices: Georgette Leblan 1| LOEW’S COLUMBIA THEATER Distinguished French Singer and BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON—SUNDAY. JANUARY 13 i o 1751 New Hampshire Ave. MONDAY, JAN. 14, 4:30 PM. TICKETS, $2 AND $3 MOORE'S HE story of a mew York 4 gang leader who falls heir to his dying pal’s little brother and wages an amazing fight to iive. téhe ]:vflit: :Iuecel::t chanced picture the gripping power and appealing force of “Humoresque” and “The Mira- cle Man,” while under it all runs a love tale as lyric as a May morning! John Barrymore, who is creating the role of Beau Brummel on the mcreen, has received a snuff box. sald Yo have belonged to the famous andy. 35 & gift from an admirer in | England No ons can blame Irene Rich for becoming a bit snobbish these days. fier portraying the Queen of Spain “Rosita” she traveled over to the r lot, where she immedfately ame the Duchess of York in “Beau srummel.” [T N innmumnmmnmnmmmunmmnummnmmmumu A superb new photoplay by REX BEACH who gave the acreen “The Spoflers” “The Ne'er-Do-Well” and other §OSE” = == = = L AT AR O TODAY 2:20 P. M. DAILY 11 AM.TO11 P, - ~—CRANDALL' CENTRAL ~——NINTH BET.D & E: Today—Mon.—Tues.—Wed. MONTE BLUE IRENE RICH With Stron, n a Story of Bvtarl Fenon Perss: oution, Hard Wom Vindica- tiom and Eventual Triumph in Both Business and Love DEFYIN DESTINY ADDED GEORGE O’HARA IN “FIGHTING BLOOD,” ROUND 9 KINOGRAMS ORIGINAL CRANDALL'S NINTH AND E Todoy—~Mon.—Tuss. HERBERT RAWLINSON Supported by Lawrs La Plante and a Noted Ocat a @ Melodrams of Many Rur- prises and Tense Climaxes HIS MYSTERY GIRL —EXTRA— BOBBY VERNON IN “HOLD EVERYTHING” Adapted from the novel in Hearst's International Magazine, — Directed by the famous AN UNUSUAL PICTURE BRILLIANTLY PORTRAYED BY A CAST FEATURING VIRGINIA VALLI FORD STERLING FRANK MAYO Wed.—~Thurs. GLADYS WALTON In @ Film Ploy Based on Dual Personality, The UNTAMABLE JIMMIE ADAMS IN “DONE IN OIL” Thur—Fri—8at. Srede Con e oosmopoiiian’s l’h-lw:l‘ Adaptation of Rido N kot ts Touth LITTLE OLD NEW YORK VARIED ADDED COMEDY ATTRACTIONS “THREE CHEERS” KINOGRAMS I T Rmemes By e Fri—gat. HOOT GIBSON test Dra: In Hie Lt{'c:f"' TM’M. of the RAMBLIN' KID Q““ o TOM MOORE RAYMOND HATTON EDITH ROBERTS MICKEY BENNETT P~ CONCERT ARTIST—RADIO FAVORITE g MISS GLADYS RICE IN PERSON APPBARING FOR ONB WEEK ONLY, COURTESY MANAGEMENT CAPITOL THEATER, N.Y.C, FAMOUS RIALTO ORCRESTRA—GEO. WILD, DIRECTOR i e - 4 ,_ £