Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 47

,AMUSEMENTS,, 7 ewsandComment By W. H. Landvorge. ITHOUT going deeply into the psychslogy of the public, it may be freely admitted that it is a pity that so many people will| patronize naughty plays and pictures. But there are millions more who do not? Are those millions to be graded with those who do find entertainment in demoralizing things? It may be suggested that managers and photoplay producers cater to those who patronize the theater. But will it not'be a good thing for mankind in general to pro- vide a cleancr, a better theater. Plays liké “Lightnin’” are not wicked. Yet'it has drawn such wonderiul audiences that it has been retained for «nother week. “The Bat” might be cited as another. Photoplays like he Covered Wagon,” “The Miracle Man” and “Scaramouche” of recent date, and “The Birth of a Nation” and “Way Down East,” a little farther back, are not sex exciters, and yet they broke records for attendance. They serve at least to show that all who patronize the theater are not attracted by the lascivious. Therefore, the question, “Is the public to flame for the evils complained of on stage and screen?” is at least, de- batable. What the decent side of the American public desircs at this | me i5 2 fair triat of its tastes in the matter of plays and photoplays, and jt isn't a fair trial to match the audiences that patronize lurid mon- strosities against those that patronize dramatic junk. Good plays and vhotoplays make their own audiences, and the word “good” is not used ) strictly.in the moral sense, although that sense is an element always to be considered. If the minds of the producers of plays and photoplays can be once pricd loose from sex themes, there is little doubt that they | can.find plots and stories for clean plays and photoplays that will fill he'theater. quite as full as the obnoxious ones. B * A COM MUNICATION to The Star advances the following: “What we want is fresh, strong, virile literature in our screen entertainment. Ve want to be able to participate in its creation, as we do with published iterature. We cannot all write for the screen, but some among our mil- ions undoubtedly have that particular ta.ent. Their contributions would supply a new, vigorous literature for that anemic, inbred and parasitic just as others from the masses keep up the viriity of published litera- iure and the stage.” So there you are! Now let the authors get busy on | XhAt‘ur\“ and vigorous literature, but let them keep clear of feminine | troubles when framing their plots and incidents—at least until we have iad a fair trial of something less enervatis & x HE picture critics find much to praise in the screen version of Eugene | O'Neil Anna Christie,” which was made by Thomas H. Ince. One ks a prize for the best photoplay of 1923 should be awarded to it, “hecausc it sweeps you off your feet I its strength and dramatic power. { ! | 1 l R. INCE thinks his new comedy, “The Galloping in which four | _of Hollywood's cleverest “gag” men contributed their funniest, and Louise Fazenda, Syd Chaplin, Ford Sterling and Chester Conklin u unlimited opportunity, is going to be worthwhile also, cspe- o had rather laugh than be sighing. { SYPTHE most widely unknown author in the world press representative of the Palmer Productions, i < a Pittsburgh houscwife, whose first screen pla heralded “Judgment of the Storm.” according to the Ethel Style Mid- y is the widely THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1% D. ¢, JANUARY GILORIA SWANSON 6] 20, 1924—PART -3. ANNA QNILSSON - “THUNDERING DAV Palade , 41d “PONJOLA’ Metropoliteny | Sirand L IJORNBOWERS and MARJORIE. Daw- Ambassador Local Pride Aroused. |Bo.~vrox has Leen getting all the bast of it in the history books. of eight miles a day—; resting as the Mayflower; AMUSEMENTS. Hollywood Gossip Reginald Denny Impresses in “Sporting Youth"—Uniteds Studios President Predicts Busiest Year—'Flaming Barriers” an Example of What's Wrong With dn::’ Movies. i » ‘The fir: Doctor,, by= company, and will produce |ture films starring himself. will be “Thé Country Albegt Kenyon. Percy Marmont will play the parts |of Lady Lou's husband in “The Shoo ing of Dan McGrew,” starring Ban- bara La Marr. 2 \'n(}l:lfl;l‘al. Surratt, now -here jn a" S ! vaudeville act, has purchased o Hol:< of the Universal-Jewel series. |lywood ‘home,” and when her two-uo? His first pretentious picture, day tour ends in April, will retumi’ “Sporting Youth,” which will not be |here to live. She says she will $4% released until February 4, was run |&rried in the early summnier for me yesterday at Universal City | . Goldwyn to Resume. and shows the athletic young man as |y, 0°4Sh detalled production pi: an actor of charm and more than |Goldwyn Company. other. shas: usual ability. lnleugvu of Rupert Hughes' “Trua Denny has the advantage in this [Jioe0, and the fiming of “Ben-1{ picture of the sound direction of | nounced, will ‘soon be returning. G Harry A. Pollard and of an automo- bile racing story by Byron Morgan, BY HALLETT ABEND, LOS ANGELES, January 15.—Reg- 4nald Denny, the young English-Aus- tralian actor who scored In the first “Leather Pusher” series, has quite justified his elevation to stardom by TUnlversal and his new rank as a star of gl | graves has of just sev returnéd ral monthdv William Russell is to be the sts Selznick feature, the n hich bas not vet been announ Alla Nazimova has retur frony | vaudeville and ‘stage ‘venture in th Jl‘.‘hr and is resting at her Hollywootf* home. She expects to make & ple ture here soon Phedn Bara's Pleture. “Madama Satan” will i Satan” Probably the title of the picture which v me &)1 i ‘ ced. the company’s studio at Culver Cir, preparatory to resumption priy” duction activities. et which was originally written for Wal- ' "N 20 a0 NEah oaned to lace Reid. But even when story, and | pickford to direct “Dorothy Ac direction have been discounted, Denny | of Haddon Haller will soon’ b ha himself deserves praise. The scene |at the Goldwyh lot, as will X is laid at Del Monte, a Calfornia Win- | Vidor, loaned to Metro to direct ter resort, and the settings are un- | Lauret lor in “Happiness.” usually beautiful. Victor Seastrom s trying fo . a p and other directors now ERSEiciE Mateut frearn the cast on vacations will soon M. €. Levee, president of Unfted |pack ready for work Studios, announces that contracts al- | Paul Bryan fs busy at Tnive ready in hand assurec the busiest Year | City on the Script for Willlam L1 at his plant since it was built SiX[can's third serial, in which the sta® years ago by Robert Brunton. The |also will act as director. It will b Constance und Norma Talmadge plc- |called “The Free Tradere” It wil tures will continue to be made there. | deal with the strugele betiween legit as will productions for First Na-limate fur dealers in the morthete tional directed by Frank Lloyd, Mau- [and the fur pirates rice Tourneur, James Young, Richard y Samuel Goldwyn, no longer Walton Tully and other directors. ected with the Goldwsn compa. January 15 Lawrence Trimble will [announces that he will male 11 begin the studio work for “Sundown,” | sh Sytheria® i art an_epic of the great cattle drive Stone, Alme Hetubena Lioyd Hughes has been given the and Constance Bennerit part of Lionel Tresselian in Sabatint's alrcady been engaged for partst2 “The Sea Hawk,” which nk Lloyd will make *Potash and Perimur. ™ is now making. 'TFive ships have been|ter” here, with Barney Bernard and s built for the pirate picture and will Carr in . the charactey c sunk in a naval battle in the strait A SOERCE { between Santa Monica and Catalina | 1sland. Helene Chadwick has come off Vi tor after more thun a year of litiga- tion with the Goldwyn Pletures Cor- poration, is now a fre agent. S ith that company for five mber 4, 1919, but in No- vember, 1922, the company amended sme of the minor provisions. - She | sued at once, but the company won in the superior court. Then, while both sides were skirmishing, she worked in Goldwyn's “Reno” under Rupert t before Christmas Hughes, but j filed an appeai and has at last been victorious by an agreement which releases her without liability. Finds Play Inane. One of the m have scen on the screen in a ye that of “Flaming Barriers,’ which George Melford directed for Para- mount—directed under pro 1 fan- cy. The cast, which is a_good one, includes people like Jacqueline Logan that these explorers, who faced the dangers of an Indlan-infested wilder- ness in the unknown west, were equally as brave as those who found- ed settlements in the east; and that the dauntless empire-builders who landed “at the foot of Walnut street” contributed as much to the develop- ment of America as those who landed at Plymouth Rock. When completed, the picture was given first-run showings simultan- mark Theda Bara's return to Lou Tellegen, _after absengd * : n, aftc ned f four Years, teturns to Hollye o ‘Jr\l’ will head his own production w under J. Stuart Blackton, pictures at the Vitagrapi His first photoplay will ion of Robert W Betwee: Friend He ro-ur |cently completed filming “Let No Ma Put Asund playing with Paul As result of .the prominent play th historimns give that city, the little b and little girls in the Hub's schools learn what a wonderful part | Quston played in the of America, and as long as they live| ¢ aré mighty proud of their Bos- | ) : i a ART}*{L[{ DEWEY has been selected to portray the role of George Washington in D. W. Griffith's photoplay of the war of the revolu- tion, “America.” which was made for the Daughters of the American Revgluugu. _Griffith, it is said, unearthed an order sent by Washington to h s tai'or in which he described himself as “just six feet, and of medium build” Dewey, besides having had long stage experience, is said to fit mMmeasurement, exac He also had a revolutionary ancestor. * * LLE. ANDREE LAFAYETTE, WOODRUEF ~ Crat EEIER QARMAN-~ ol 1G an Ceutral { drama : 1 di i " i | itizems of St. Louis feel that they have muck to be propd of. too—only | who was starred in the film version of “Trilhy,” in another American-mad RYNST LUBITSCH, ductions, t Broth and a screen vet lavs, has been e ank of “costar. next pictur s a pseudo PhotoplaysThisWeék‘ At the Photoplay Houses This Weék. RIALTO—Robert B. Ma this afternioon and ev METROPOLITAN—Ans afternoon and even COLUMBIA—Gloria S afternoon and evening. “Thundering Da Q. Nilsson, oon and cvening. NTRAL—“Marriage Morals from today through Tuesdax. CRANDALL'S—Grace Darmon noon and evening. LINCOLN (Colored)—Jackie Coogan. in Showa this afternoon and evening. Rialto—"Under the Red Robe." The colorful days of Cardinal Richelieu, when romance and intrigue wera dominant, will reappear in the claborate and spcctacular photoplay, ‘Under the Red Robe,” which_begins . week's engagement at Moore's Rialto Theater today. TaKen from Stanley Weyman's fa- mous novel, it plctures a medleval romance, with all the pomp and cere- mony, the plotting and intrigue, as well @s the gorgeous splendor of the period of one of the most famous cardinals known to histéry. The pic- ture was nine months in the making and its production is said to have ntailed a cost of a miilion and a half dollars. Thres studios were used and one of the biggest sets ever con- structed In the east was erected. This set, a replica of the Louvre when t was used a8 a fortress in the early part of the seventeenth century, rep- “esents the palace of King Louls XIII. To_interpret the famous characters the Cosmopolitan Corporation secured Robert B. Mantell, John Charles Thomas and Xlma Rubens for the featured roles. Mr. Mantell, America’s zreat tragedian, appears as_Cardi- nal Richclien, a character ho has made, famous on the Epeaking stage; John Charles Thomas as the heroic lover, Gil de Berauit, and Miss Rubens. as Renee. Others in an especlally unotable company are Genevieve Ham- ver, Willlam H. Powell, Rose Coghlan, Mary MacLaren, Jan MacLaren, Otto <ruger, Evelyn Gosnell, Gusta¥ von Seyftertitz, Sydney Herbert, Charles Judels, Martin Faust, Arthur House- man and Andrew Dilion. The picture was directed by Alan Crosland from the scenarlo by Bayard Velller, and Joseph Urban designed the lavish settings. A symphony prelude and an inter- pretative score, arranged by Director Wild, will be orchestral features. Metropolitan—Anna Q. Nils- son in “Ponjola.” The major offering this week at Crandall’s” Metropolitan Theater, be- zinning this afterncon, will be First \atlonal's screen version of Cynthia Stockléy's novel of the South African veldts, “Ponjola,” in which costellar roles are played by Anna Q. Nilsson and James Kirkwood. In this unique talo -of a harrassed woman and a man fallen victim to “ponjola,” the Kafiir name for whisky. other roles ire_played by Joseph Kilgour, Ruth clifford, Tully Marshall, Claire Du Brey and Claire McDoweil. The story concerns Lady Tyrecas- ile, hounded by scandal, who assumes ihe disguise of a man and attempts to take a man’s part in the primitive life 1of a frontier gold scttlement. James Kirkwood is plctured as the victim of drink, who, through the in- spiration : of *Desmond,” overcomes ho bandicaps placed upon him by the treachery of his partner and tho a‘mflul girl e loved. Many splen- ounced that “Tl at John won't te'l his real name, even “The Humming Bird.” Shown this yher identity, “the most beautiful in France,” is soon to be seen Get Married nd other spectacular pro- age Circle,” which he has _devoid of the usual 1 is said to have fore tiie movies have now 2 Gus Edwards protege, Mack Sennett Ke Century Comdies to the h Ja arle, by “John Fate,” so well that it e star. and sent it to the tnarkable thing about it all is that “Under the Red Robe.” Shown son, in “Ponjol Shown this hown this afternoon and evening. in “Ponjola.” Shown this Shown afternoan and evening “Alimony.” Shown this after- “Long Live the King.” - i did photographic effects & with thriliing epigodes. = D o oot liovd Hamilton {s the star of the comedy, “My Friend.” A 86 Jssue of the Metropolitan World urvey and other short films will ¢omplete the bill, which includes also the orchestral overture, “The Dance gg' se Igiml;'s from “La Gloconda,” chielll, and an orchest: for the prinéipal feature. o COTC Columbia — Gloria Swanson in "The Humming Bird." The finest emot Swanson has ev screen 18 pro new pleture, reel onal acting Gloria er contributed to the mised aing this u;e'muon n_this subject, she 1s not Glorla of gorgeous gowng. and leve 3 an’ sh = gled out as a vietlm, lhea hoarfe E,;‘o‘ll' whom sghe is y s: fite oelt ready to' sacrifice even s the story of as “the humming bi leader of o band Apaches in Parts, |5 olice. It s the p, humming bira” &lum cafe for sequently grace "Toinette, known rd." who, as the of Montmartre Dpursued by the ractice of “the to dance nightly in a e}slflors. who are sub- ully robbec gangsters. In search of tniy it comes young Randall Carey,.an American reporter, who, unaware of el falls in love with the Then comes the world w. young American Joi; " Fo Legion, is wounded a; to Parls, while "Toin ed in a theft, is se: whlnll,l she :SCIW& apathy of her gangsters, she I, them verbally, sending them to trs colors, while she joins her soess heart at the home of his aunt. It fs here the_ police find her, but thay come, to decorate her with the croix des‘drum're, ney Olcott, who directeq Qreenfl Goddess” and “Little Ol ;\geh\:' York,” directed this production, The ‘f’{.lf:'[:lm‘é]l“dés Edw:;rd Burns, Willlam ardi, Cesary Nglel;nl. ¢ Gravini and Mario upplemental attractions clude a new short comedy, ‘nv“llcenlc subject, the International News Pic. tures, and music by the under Leon Brusilof. eate the N8 the Forelgn nd brought back ette, apprehend- nt to prison, from Angered at the in- Hive | tital jbut with the he came to ago was to | is ition when Washington fift to be twenty-on welgh 100 pounds. This week he treads the boards here again, his twenty-first bishday many years behind him, and weigh- | ing 175 pounds. | So Charles Evans, the -genial | “judge” in “Lightnin’,” now playing! at a local theater, has seen the transformation of the National Cap- ital from a village with mud stre to a great capital city with practical- Iy half a million gopulation Mr. Evans sought the library of The Star during the week to see himself “fifty years ago in The Star and was rewarded by looking down Upon his mame peering at him from the fiies of 157 | “Niles and Evans” the clear. beau- type read from the slightly yellowed but firm pages of The Star | files for December of that year. | It recalled to Mr. Evans his first visit tor Washington, when h?- w a broth of a lad, playing a girl's part | with his dancin rtner. They appeared at the Theater Comique, now the President Theater. entrance on 11th street Just south of Pennsylvania avenue. It was one =of two theaters here then, the other beinz the National Ford's Theater had been closed for | some tir Mr. Evan times_since. yea 1 been here declares that many each has but {time he comes back he cannot help of today with with its ed one- but contrast the city that of half a century ago, muddy streets and bob: horse cars. He was such little clap then that he had to step mightily on the bigf stones which were placed across Pennéylvania avenue to keep Das- sersby from floundering around in the mud. His partner had chllIlm_D!lon. of which he later died, and Evans be- lleved that he, too. had it and would die from it. That was why he looked forward to living to the great age of twenty-one. It seemed like a hundred to him. As for that 100 pounds he coveted, it ‘was many a year before he reached it, he recalls, telling of one place in his_early show travels when he diked himself out in thick overcoat, | a| a drama of regeneration, Wwith a| Sweeping. tempestous climax. Harry Garson directed it, und the cast In- cludes Tom Santschi, Anna_ Mae Wong. Winter Hall, Georgia Wood- thrope, _Winifred - Bryson, BEdward Burns, Charles Clary, Richard Kean and Herbert Fortler. Lenore Coffee adapted the story for the screen. Its action shifts from Boston's Back Bay district to_the tropics. It concerns a young American who. on the eve of his marriage, discovers his father in financial difficulties and to save the elderly man from the burden of this catastrophe, disap- pears suddenly and thus is’ blamed. Months later, he reappears—in the tropics—and in the meantime his father, financially rehabilitated, tries to bring him home, but he has become involved with a native siren who loves him. 'This is ®he situation that contronts the girl he was about.to marry when she appears on the scene to rescue him. ; 'Added screén and musical features will include @ new Mack Sennett comedy, & scenic, depicting the beauty spots of Washington; the Pathe News piotures and an overture and musi- cal score by the orchestra, under Thomas Joseph Gannon. Ambassador—Anna Q. Nils- i g son in "Ponjola. Anna Q. Nilsson and James Kirk- wood, in First National's film version of Cynthia Stockley's *“Ponjola,” a sen- sational romance of South Africa, will be presented for the first three days of this wéel, including this afternoon, at Crandall's Ambassador Theater, also together with comedy, news and scenic subjects, and music by the orchestra. 2 5 Palace—'Thundering Dawn’ A melodrama-romance, dynamic and thrilling, is promised this afternoon and all this week at Loew's Palace Theater, in Harry Garson's screen version of a story of the tropics by John Blackwood, “Thundering Dawn,” with J. Warren Kerrigan, star of “The Covered Wagon,” and Anna Q. Nilssen in leading roles. “Thundering Dawn” is_described .as b Wednesday and Thursday, ‘Washington Exhibitors’ Film Exchange's produc- tion of “Marriage -Morals,” with Tom Moore, Ann Forrest, Shannon Day, Ed- mund Breese, Harry T. Morey, Tom Lewls and clever little Mickey Bennett, In the cast,' and also Nell Burns. in the comedy, “Fool Proof’; Friday, Frankie Lee, John Bowers and Sylvia Breamer, in Whittier’s “The Barefoot Boy,” and Will Rogers, in “Hustlin' Hank,” and urday, W. S. Hart, Hickock”; George rs old and | | finging | without doing much harm o anybody. | the wires An Old Actor Recalls Washington of Long Ago underwex hat and ¥ E to strilie a pose’ fo pound” aazded Lreathed th Evans of that day. hundred pounds 1 but hopeful weigh bet.” Alas for dreaw He weighed gross Those were fast, furfous day show business in the National ¢ Mr. Evans remembers. There was a sm ent site of the F buiiding called Philharmsenic Hail Across th e and In front of it was stretched u great sareen of wire netting, so that when the actors be- hind it ranted their lines the happy audience might enjoy themselves by vegetables at the spouters now, of avordupois! vesty-siX pounds tha i Offite Department was part of the show, It seems. came armed—ome Wwith & ad eggs. another with a another with potatoes or r product of farm and fleld. ivery one couple of bi cabbage, some ot The actors were hired by a shrewd | management partly with a view to at_absurd absorption of lines of Sh o ke @ pose and 2 mgdom adience would let g0 with its entire artillery, the mis- siles whanging against the screen. 1f an egg managed to get through 1 make 2 hit, the de- light of the audience was beyond all bounds. akespeare great fun in those daye, or at least the dra- matic “fans’ made it so. A(r. Evans remembers his old danc- rtuer of many years ago with and declares that from him many lessons which some | persons~think could not be learned from “actor folk.” He recalls that after they “teamed up” they landed in a far northern city, after he had borrowed $10 from his landlady to” buy his railroad ticket to the town. At the end of the week Le and Niles were paid off. “What a: ir that money?" asked Niles. “I am going to buy myself some underwear,” replied Evans, then thin and small. : “You are not,” retorted Niles. “You are golng to send that §10 back to your landlad; v So he waited another week to buy his underwear. Blood”; installment one of “The Way of & Man'" and, at matinees only, John- ny Reh's Royal Marionettes. Central—Colleen. Moore in l . “Slippy McGee."” “Marriage Morals” will be presented for the first time in Washington the first three, days of this week at Cran- dall's Central Theater. The principal roles apo played by Tom Moore and Ann ~ Forrest, and the cast includes Florence Billings, Shannon Day, John Goldsworthy, Charles Craig, Edmund Breese, Harry T. Morey, Tom Lewis and Mickey Hennett. The tenth Instaliment in the “Fighting Blood” series, featur- ing George O'Hara, will bo shown, to- gether with-short reel features and Mr. Thompson's pipe organ recitals. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Edna Purviance will - be pictured fn *A Woman of Paris, “a drama_of fate” \ritten and directed but not acted in by Charles_ Chaplin, and concerning a young French girl who attains.a life of affluence in Paris only to sink back into obscurity. Adolphe Menjou has the leading male role. Cliff Bowes will be seen in *Oh, Girl g e Crandall's—Grace Darmond £ in “Alimony. “Alimony,” a film play whose char- acter is indicated by lts title, will be shown the firsy thres days of this week at Crandall's Theater beginning ‘this® afternoon at 3. Grace Darmond lieads the cast. Joe Rock will be seen in “Rolling Home.” Laura La Plante will be plctured Wednesday _and Thursday in the Universal production “Crooked Alley,” a “Boston Blackle™ story, in which she is supported by. Thomas (Carrigan, Joseph Dowling and Kate Lester, and the comedy Wil be “Heavy Seas,” in which the “Spat” family appear. ; Crittenden Marriott's melodrama of the Sargasso Sea, “The Isle of Lost Ships,” will be ‘the feature Friday and Saturday With Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Silis Walter Long, Frank Campeau, Aggie Herring and Bert Woodruft 'in the cast. The story concerns an Relress, 2 crook and a New York detective, (Continged on. Fourth Page.) L) photo- § will | il il hat] on the pres- | 1in too mary instances St. Loulsans do i know it. What with the new- | comers, the brief treatment St. Louls receives in_the histories and all, the prideful citdzens were faced Ly fact that to a large percentage of their fellow towns: the words “Laclede” ard “"Chouteau” mean only the names of streets. | To give citizens a n {tion of their own c committee called in_the Rothacker Film Company of Chicago and an {eight-reel historical photodrama was {produced. More than a year in_the making, this picture is the first of its peculiar nature ever made. Now St. Louisans do not i historidns made a mistake in giving “front-page space” to Boston, New | York or Philadelphia. The nation was cradled In the east, and in his- tory's perspective these places shine forth. What St as a histor padition o by cordelle boat up the Mississippl to found St. Louis—pulling the boat up- means of a rope over the of men on the b apprecia- ¥, 4 mayor's that i i i Louis does contend is that, 2l adventure Story EDNESDATY at 4 o'clock Mrs. Har- viet Hawley Locher, director of the public service and educational de- partment of the Crandall theaters, will present a gpecial program for the teachers of the Dietrict public schools in her studio and the private projection room-in the Metropolitan Theater building, 10th and F streets northwest. The program will include ihe screening of films loaned by the | New Netherlands legations, showing Views amd native customs in Juva. to- gether with a talk by Mrs. Minnie Frost Rands on her interesting col- Jeotion of Javanese batique. A na- tive Javanese dance will be executed by Mrs. Rands' daughter, Frances ¥leanor. - i the | the little band that came | ning. episor | flm film | i st | ber ¢ | perie: | gtris nk | their | them Loch ticab| publi cials t typic: schoo | - smaller houses in and receive 1 not a penny more—the profits to be |devote hoo! Louls citizen. sting the more important roles the | producers were surprised at the num- Hollywood or New board will give Senate, binet The Crandall theaters of pgrticular, the {mmigration, District of Columbia committees of the Congress. in three of St. Louis' biggest It Is now being shown in hout St. will be made available plot Tun through it, and the historical des are blended into the conti- in a way intended to make the interesting to a New Yorker as inite roup of production, advancing the cost of the that each should st what he put in and the basis ek ju on d to putting print copies into and free movie libraries. ry actor in picture was a eny it came to the Wi ,f voluiteers who had had real York studio ex- Society leaders and shop- mingled in the mob scenes: ers and merchants submitted flesh to the brush that daubed Indians—and then they had to up dinner engagements because couldn’t get the stuff all off nce. CrandallEducational Efforts Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock Mrs. in _co-operation with the f education of the District, a demonstration of the prac- of visual instruction in the hools befo: members of the House of Representatives, officers and prominent offi- of the District government. are_ said to first in the United States to heir facilities to the uses of 50l authorities in order that tion may be conveyed by means he motion picture instead - of ity through text booke. The class will be al of those held throughout the 0l vear, and, it is thought, will be interest to members of naturalization and Real and False Popularity. you going to do’ with ‘ssPHE popular girl is the natural girl" says Vera Ross of the wpaesing Show,” “hot the glggler who gushes indiscriminately and expresses her artificial ‘jollity’ by labored ef- forks to captivate. This type is popu- lar enough in certain circles, Qut it is ja type tliat does not evolve success- tul wives. “A cynic once observed that, ‘there are (two kinds of women—thase we love and those' we marry’ He Wwas just as wrong a8 a more famous cynic who! remarked that ‘womanfolk were divided into_two.sets—the plain and inted,' " says Miss Ross, is ‘smart, but mere smart- ness s not truth. There are many kinds of .women, and it is just as well ‘that this is so, otherwise how could: the ‘impossible’ men find girls sympathetic enough to pity and mar- ry them. “The popular girl ie of many types. She is first of all tactful, then she i’ possessed of a sense of humor, and she is jolly, though never at the ex- pense of her dignity. There iS some- thing about her which tells the men that,although she is free and easy in her manner, they dare not takelib-. erties. She does not hold herself cheaply,’ and-she does not run down her own sex. * “Men #re very severe judges. They will run wild ‘over the rowdy, un- conventional let-us-have-a-good-time- of-it sort of girl, but when she is gone they will thank their lucky stars that she is not their wite. “It is curious how .often a girl DANCING. Wednesaey - clasi Modern Social Dancing (Pupil of Mr. Miller) 229 First 8t. N.E. ‘Day’ Phone Main 6155 d Lesso 8% Private e STUDIO OF DANCE AND DRAMATICS 8009 14th Bt. Fhone Col. §7¢4-W B Sge uufi" TAY scE.c':ol. _QF' ll):)'rw]ifi Tweltth noar No Appristrsnt Hoquired. " Opes’ 10 Ax 711 Conbecticut Ave. N North =0e2 Katherine Stuart-ucques Lillard Balon of Dancirig New tango, taago-waits, latest fox trots, Fatherine Balle, 719 9th St. N.W. Frank. 6506. We teach you to dance in u feww e Private and class. Reduced rates. * ND MRS ACAER'S STUDIO, 1127 Totn o Claws M and Friday, 8 to 11 p.m. ssons by appointment. Pong Era Established 1900, 23% Private nklin §567. | spect have Mis: eaid. makes thé mistage of accepting false popularity for the real thing. men will buzz around her, she will be invited out, and yet, the tragedy of it, she never simple. ‘The marries. The reason is The girl who is without re- is doomed to old maidenhood or_an unlucky marrlage. “Real popularity is a happy com- bination of comradeship and respect. Men as a rule are chivalrous, and the girl who frankly wishes men to like her should in all things be above sus- picion, - Midget Sets Fashion. midget world has its own gode of_styles. The midgets never accepted the bobbed halr craze, nor-did: they ‘go in strong for short skirts, but—they styles just the same. The queen of the midget - dress- makers woman twenty-seven inches tall, who comes to this city with Rose's Royal Midgets. is Miss Hans! Herman, a s Herman sets the styles for her company. She not only creates-the de- signs worn by the tiny women, but she also makes them. Recently she herself was seen in a daring er “This material cost $7 a yaf uo‘::, &l Then with a twinkle lnfier eve and a broad smile she went on, “But I only used half a yarad for.this dress.” The long. gowns, afternoon frocks and a few creations in boudoir wear will be exhibited by the midgets when they come to this city this week. DANCING. Ex-partoer to Mae Murray-Ge Studto, 1850 Biltmore st. Class and Dance Satu day. Evening with orches. ‘Bambalina Fox Trot” and All the latest varlations N, rtrude Hoffman, Teasons 10 all st5is of dansing. Phone Col., 210 £ Phone North 5197. MiSS.CHAPPELEAR Private lessons by sppoiatment. 1618 19tk 8¢ % TURBERVILLE STUDIOS" DONNA | . MARIA ™ Rent B8 g e Baliroom, Classes ults, Fri, 6 and 6:30 P.M. School of | Batlet Olass, Sat., 10 A, ancing . Private Lessons Any Hour 2508 Ohamplain St. ~ L .4 Near 18th_snd Columbis 3 foreno and |Frederick but even Melford, | Prod directed e Light [Sumed That Failed,” could not save the mon- | k¥ lot * studi, strosity of plot construction. Hollywo after a cessation of film ‘This “Flaming Barrier” a shining |ing lasting over m: ample of what's wrong with the | Eighty-four per It is inept and amateurish jn | pictur every particular, photog- | t raphy, which is Iywood is now r really are paid writing stori that from which i was made. Those d in writing for the screen should see | this exhibit as a shining esample of Rot to | customers " important consumpt t 1 Antonio Players-Las veling that sound mone d_conti ready er coun d the . v of film 1 Canagy; and Argentina lal T purcha: re Brazil, Japan T <, ritish West Indies, Mexico, Cuba, Denmar) Spain. Philippine Islands arn Germany. He’considers China, with) its 400,000.000 peopi pron what not to write it. Rebuilding After Fire. ‘Work of rebuilding will be begun 8t once on the biz stage Universal City, which was destreyed by fire, with a loss of $2350, 0. The fire will not materially delay preduction, for the company was not producing to| capacity, and sets destroyed wilk be duplicated at once on other stages. Meanwhile the company has ample films in its vaults to meet releasing schedules, Jacques Jacquard ha ing “The Days of ‘49 versal lot. Clyde Cook, Lou Anger's comedian, has_ tesporarily .abandoned his fllm work, and has returned to the Hippo- drome in New York. Elaine Hammerstein also has, gone to New York, her Goldwyn contract having expired. Louise Fazenda, ple work in Ince’s “The Galloping Fish, has gone to Yosemi Park for win- ter sports and a ion. Virgin Fox and Darryl F. Zauveck, a script | writer, are to be married. Mack Sennett has signed Madeline Hurlock on a long-time contract to play opposite Ben Turpin. Carl Laemmle, president versal, is seeking an auxil for western locations, and may pur< chase a large Arizona ranch near Phoenix for this purposc. May Allison, who is secking a_di- vorce from Robert Ellis, appeared in court to get her decree only to meet with a_postponement. because: her Miusband had not been properly served with papers. Ralph Lewis has formed his own | l write and low “Half a Dollar BilL” i 0 has_purchased an_ indepensi-s ade film photographed at thaz fax Graf studio at San Mateo, nearT an Francisco, and has made Ho! ood up and take notice by =i ing a private pre-view or two. “Ha begun direct- | at the Uni- having ¢ of “Uni- stutio T a Dollar Bill” is the name of th production and it is excellent. Noti costly nor a lavish production, nevertheless. o sound dramatic and so weil directed, well cut a cleverly titled that it at high rank. Marcus Loew, whe was here from New York, told the purchase and wired no a print sent dowm for 3 | tola hen he thought it a v fine production, and after I had & it run I agreed with him. ssence the piot is all old hokurs,” so frashly treated that ft_ ! conv &, but moving @ William P. Carleton play? h and outshines man better known star. Anna Q. Nils the usual high level of her work £ this season. And Httle Frank Darr about five years of age, vies wi other child stars, no matter wha their fame. W. Van Dike was the d rector. (Copyright, 1024, in Tnited States Dritain, by North American N o Alliance. All rights reserved.) i EXCLUSIVE LOCAL ENGAGEMENT Of one of the greatest novelty orchestras in America—an organization of clevercollegi- ' ates that has appeared with tremendons success in a majority of the foremost thea- ters on the continent. This gifted group of young artists comes to Washington direct from having made ten Victor Dance Records,’ which will add 'still further to the.fame of WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS _-Syncopators de luxe, whose music, while full of 'pep, still possesses a conspicuous quality of refinement and unstinted beauty, .dash and verve. The Pennsylvanians will be pre- sented purely as an extra.added attraction on “the completely rebullt stage for an EXTENDED ENGAGEMENT BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY AT CRANDALLS, fbir B ny METROPOLITAN e P STUAT TENTHS | I ! = UL mfl TR e =