Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 57

AMUSEMENTS." ; N ews anc]Comment By W. H. Landvoigt. popular favor during the “A ‘MERICA'S SWEETHEART” will vie with “America” itself for current week. There appears to be an outstanding rivalry between love and patriotism on the screen, with the hunch given to love by those who guard the interests of the box office. The charming Mary Pickford also has the advantage of additional odds in the royal welcome accorded her in other lands, where, the cable reports, the police reserve has had to be called out: to hold enthusiastic admirers in check. Well, men have died for patriotism, but they also have chosen to do many foolish things while living for love. It is a psychology the soientist must explain. ok k¥ MEAN\VHILE the movement for better films goes bravely on, with the usual ups and downs attendant upon all human enterprises. The individual gives vent to opinions and suggestions in the public press, when he or she can “break in,” while organizations take up the burden, appoint committees and make resolutions, with the censor, all by his lonesome, or collected in boards, seckirg, with the light at his disposal, to guide the screen to safety with the Ten Commandments. In this con- nection, certain thoughts arise. It has long been the notion in the theater that box-office censorship is the best remedy for box-office interferénce. Such is the penchant of the present day, however, that there is but little, if any, commendable censorship of the photoplay shown by the receipts at the box office. Folks rave about wicked and demoralizing tendencies of the movies, but they go to see them and pay their money just the same ~—and the producer points with pride to the fact that his efforts are what the public wants, because it pays handsomely for them. ® % * HERE is but little doubt that the crowning evil of the movies is sex obsession. The world knows this, but though it protests with voice or pen, it pays its money freely for what is offered. So long as this condition exists there is little likelinood that seriously or for any length of time to other themes. the producer will turn his attention Even the great Griffith, in the opinion of many, marred his splendid production of America” by too much devotion to a love episode irrclevant to the great theme of the production. * & * UT people like romance; they like stories of adventure; they like even the stories of patriotism when they bring a thrill or the opportunity for big spectacles. Audiences have been known also to manifest much enthusiasm over pure literary creations in which none of these themes dominate. But, oh, how weary they must be of the senseless display of femininity and feathers, the padded scenes with nothing but gorgeous trappings and stagecraft trickery to commend them, the spectacular wonders that appeal only with lavish scenic and costume effects, the maemurrayesque startlers with never a thought or an idea behind them. B * ON the other hagd, people do not wish their entertainment reduced to the level of juvenile intelligence and scope, or strictly measured with the solemnities of religion, although it 1s believed, notwithstanding the patronage given unworthy pictures, they still delight in the clean and ‘wholesome. however popular that may be They do have a thaught above the matter of mere sex in effecting dramatic situations. There is a side to this situation that seems to be generally avoided. It may be presented in the inquiry as to just why all public entertainment, especially that provided in the evening, should be tempered to suit the very young and unsophisticated. Is there no time when bo: i should be detained at home, simply s for their own good? And for the element a bit older that insists that youth must have its fling, the exercise of a little parcntal authority might relieve the difficulties of the situation. & ¥ S GOOD is not always established by coercion, and evil tendencies need but small persuasion. There is a big field between the child and the adult in the matter of entertainment, apparently, that has not received the cerious consideration it deserves. FIL\I DAILY, which keeps close tab upon the acti * & es of the photo- play world, records the instance of a mid-west city exhibitor refusing to buy any more big pictures, such as are known in the trade as “the $1.50 photoplay.” because they drive away his regular patrons and do not provide new ones to take their places. To those who want to see the best product of the picture industry at the prices charged for the regular run, this might seem to be an argument against the costlier picture. It costs much money to make big, fine pictures, and the producer of sach pictures is certainly entitled to recover that cost with something of profit for himself for his venture. 1f the picture be of a character to warrant the higher price, it would be a most unfair decision to put a ban upen it simply because everybody cannot afford to pay a fair price to see it. If this rule were adopted generally, the picture-loving world would be a serious loser. The rub comes when covetous producers seek to exact high prices for pictures that have nothing to commend them but tawdry garishness instead of real, dramatic worth. The best always comes high. F ok k¥ WHILE David Wark Griffith returns from a much needed rest abroad, after making “America,” Rex Ingram, after completing “The Arab” will sail abroad for the same old much peeded rest. Rest and contracts are always closely associated in the movies. If you haven't a contract, you have to need rest. * k k¥ S*MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE,” the new Rudolph Valentino picture just finished, is said to have cost $500,000. * % k ¥ A PROMINENT Chicago exhibitor is quoted as saying, “We do our biggest business during June,July and August, due to the fact that we give them big pictures and keep our theaters cool” This ought to make the stay-at-homes happy. * %k ¥ % ANXIE_TY born of rumors that have been current for some time should be dispelled by the news furnished by Film Daily that “Production was started Saturday on ‘A Woman of Fire starring Gloria Swanson, with Allan Dwan directing and Ian Keith, George Fawcett, Mario Majeroni and Eklund Gayer in the cast.” * % ® % ERT LYTELL, Claire Windsor and Cullen Landis have started work on “Born Rich,” a story by :lugh Cornell, at the Biograph studios. * ¥ NEWS comes that Mrs. Sidney Drew is going to make a series of four- reel picture comedies based on stage plays, at Hollywood. F kR oR S*NJOVIE CHATS,” a popular feature from the Urban Production Cor- poration, are to be discontinued, at least for a while, the contract under which they were made having expired. *® ¥ * ¥ ARRY SEMON is going to make a feature of “The Girl in the Limousine, % % for Chadwick Pictures. # % AT is said to be a striking picture, “Messalina,” has been made in Rome, based upon incidents in the life of the Emperor Clandius. The chariot race in the Coliseum is said to be one of the most realistic and exciting incidents of its kind ever thrown on the screen The Dream City. OLLYWOOD, accused enigma of the world, has ushered in more empires and kingdoms, more villages and townships than all history has recorded. In the bed of its own little real, centurics come and go. Peacefully, Hollywood sits by and Sees empires totter and fall. It views love in Its justrous bloom; sees hate: knows duty; nurses sickness, sits beside death. It is claimed that picture activities in Hollywood furnish employment to approximately 20,000 persons. And perhaps it furnishes “disemployment” to 30,000 more, for fully that many are swarming around moviedom's lamp of fame, trying to alight with- out singeing their wings. Figures available at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Asso- ciation of Motion Picture Producers indicate that more than $100,000,000 ;s expended annually in producing and distributing film plays. The pay el to the picture folk runs higher han $500.000 weekly. The capital mvested in the motion picture in- wustry is conservatively estimated at $150,000,000, but taking their entire holdings and expenditures into con- mideration, the figure would probably be more than double this amount. There are over 300,000,000 feet of positive and negative film used by the Hollywood studios annually, and more than 500 film plays were made ast year. There are fifty independ- ont companies more or less active at ‘he present. in addition to twenty big corporation studios at which many units are always busy. “We believe that the current year will be the most active in the history of the Industry,” says Carl Bush, Secretary of the Hollywood Chamber ¢ Commerce. “Nearly every studio has something new, something differ- “nt to display proudly. Almost any Dortion of the world may be seen by The wisitor in Hollywood today.” ‘when one enters the film Imost the first question he asks fs, “How about Mary and Doug—what is their studio dotng?” In answer to this, Carl Bush said, Tn _all probability Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks will not be included in Hollywood's production program for 1924, They are abroad now, and I understand they have made plans to be away nine months. Of course, there is always the possibility that they will return sooner. “In _spite of their absence, however, the Pickford-Fairbanks studio re- mains one of the most colorful work- shops in the film colony. I am told that the visitor can travel to Bagdad and back by way of Kentucky, Eng- land, France and Spain simply by walking around the lot and looking at the sets that are still standing. Some of the most gigantic structures ever built for motion pictures are at that studio.” Curlous to verify this statement, the Interviewer hied himself to the place where the king and queen of the cinema realm hold court_ when they are home. Doug’s and Mary's absence, together with the stillness which silenced the sets, made the tour through the grounds all the more romantic and mysterious. He marveled that a place so large could be practically shut down, for with the exception of one or two smaller productions being made by renters, there was no actlvity. It was quite evident that “Mr. and Mrs. Doug” counted on the income from “The Thief of Bagdad” and “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” the latter making its first appearance here t. day, to keep the pot boiling and sup- ply pin money, as it were, while they verified information in the guide books describing Europe. Huge sets tower on every side on the Pickford-Fairbanks “lot.” There is the ancient Nottingham castle of Robin Hood's day: a duplicate of England's famous Haddon Hall; the “Hill-Billy's” squalid shack in the Kentucky mountains; the gigantic Rutland castle, and behind all this the ancient City of Bagdad, resplend- ent in its “minaretted” glory. All manner of ties fairly hurl themselves from these monu- ments of mimicry. They set the L) THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 11, 1924—PART 3. Arcade to Close. The 1923-24 dancing season at the Arcade will come to a finish with a “farewell dance” Saturday evening. Other special events during the week will be a “ladies’ gala night’ Tues- day and a “Scotch dance” by mem- bers of Cora Shreve's dancing class Thursday evening at 9:15. Stage and Screen Alike. (QSWALD YORKE, making his debut in front of the camera in “Mon- sleur Beaucaire,” says that in many respects he finds little difference in studio and stage work. “The only great difference in stage and screen work is in the actor’s make-up,” Mr. Yorke said. “And the reason for t of course, is easily understood. “I was surprised, though, on my first visit to the studio, to find that all the players speak lines exactly as they do on the stage. Frankly, T thought 1 was going to have an easy time of it in this respect. I was under the impression that the players spoke very little during the taking of the scenes, and when 1 found that 1 would have to study Just as hard learning lines for the pic- ture as 1 did for stage work 1 was a bit disturbed. But, the director says, you can work yvourself up to a much Eroater pitch by going through ap- propriate lines than by a mumbling or irrelevant conversation.” T = “Passing Show" Scr;n Test A BURNING ambition to appear on the screen is not confined to high school girls and flappers, it seems. The entire pulchritudinous chorus of “The Passing Show" demanded and got £im tests while playing in Los Angeles The tests were directed by King Vidor, when “The Passing Show" chorus, with Willis and Eugene How- ard, the stars of the show, visited at_the Goldwyn studios. Twenty of the girls appeared be- fore Vidor's camera, and the director told them that if their tests proved them to have exceptional screen pos- sibilities they might expect a call trom the casting office. T “ . w 5 Jackie™ Meets Society. ACKIE, “the talking seal,” whoalso includes singing, acrobatic stants and juggling in her repertoire, and who is featured at Keith's this week, was introduced to society at the home of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, 2d, and it is said she carried off the occa- sion with honors. The visitor received a most osten- tatious welcome when she entered the Vanderbilt mansion. Two police- men and a carriage starter assisted her from her car, and Marcelle, her trainer, followed in her wake as a bodyguard and escort. As soon as she was announced, the dancing in the grand ballroom upstairs stopped and the dancers gathered around for a glimpse of the guest. She shook hands all around, bal- anced a ball on the end of her freshly powdered nose and juggled a piece of wood. Offers to take her to dinner, to bring her punch and cigarettes, however, were refused. “No,” she said, “we girls must keep our figures, and there's many a long, hard season ahead. If you don’t mind, T'll go home to my herring. But be- fore I go I'd like to use some of your powder. That ball nearly made a wreck of me.” “Doug™” and “Mary" With Royalty. MONG those included in the list of invited guests at a week end party given by King George and Queen Mary at Windsor Castle on the 10th are Lord and Lady Mont- batten and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks (Mary Pickford). During Lord and Lady Montbatten's tecent visit to America. they wers lavishly entertained by “Doug”™ and “Mary” at their home at Beverly Hills, Calif., and tkis function further evidences the popularity and_esteem by which these stars are held in England. By a singular coincidence her latest picture, “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” will be presented in Washing- ton ' while our winsome Mary is basking in the presence of British royalty; a veritable concrete example of that delightful spirit of democratic fraternity so generousiy expressed by their majesties to visitng Amerimans. *The Man Without a - Country. NATEAN HALE'S grandnephew, Ed- ward Everett Hale, wrote *“The Man Without a Country,” chosen by Mr. Fox for one of his big forthcom- ing screen creations. The picture will be directed by Rowland V. Lee with a cast includ- ing Edward Hearn, Pauline Starke, Earl Metcalf, Richard Tucker and Lucy Beaumont The Fox offering will be given the advantage of every spectacular element contained in the classic tale. The dramatic story of Philip Nolan, an officer of the United States Army, who became entangled in Aaron Burr’s scheme to form a new repub- lic of the Louisiana and Mexican territory, offers unusual opportunity for a stirring motion picture. There are many moments in the story which should thrill the hearts of the Amer- ican people. The trial scene where Nolan cries out, “I wish I may never hear of the United States again,” will quicken pulses by many beats. There are many other high lights in the story. The sentence of the court-martial that Nolan must spend the remainder of his life at sea, where he can neither see the United States, nor hear its name; the tense incidents during the War of 1812, when he redeems himself as a true American; his meeting with his for- mer sweetheart on shipboard: the slowtorturing of his sould as he ful- fills his sentence. These furnish the tremendous interest that made Hale's story exceptional. No Women Playing. OR the first time in the history of the Paramount studio at Long Islana there were three different com- panles at work recently, with no women players on any of the sets. The Sidney Olcott unit was hard at work on a scene depicting the lodg- ings of “Monsieur Beaucaire” with two male principals and two male ex- tras. On_the lower staze Richard Dix and Joe King, with the assistance of three regular Army men, were mak- ing a trench dug-out sceme in the war episode in ,Unguarded Women.” In another cornmer of the big stage Herbert Brenon, making “The Mountebank,” was taking some indi- vidual shots of Earnest Torrence as the famous clown in the play. imagination on fire. One has but to close his eyes to see Dorothy Vernon tripping gayly through the broad terraced garden which fronts Haddon Hall. And the thief of Bagdad, his naked torso gleaming, skulks through the shadows of the silent city of the east. A queer feeling indeed, to stand in England and gaze into Arabia, less than a hundred yards away. And as the extensively ad- vertised California sun llnnf its last rays against the parapet of Rutland gastle, fancy showed Sir John Man- ners pacing back and forth along the wall, silhouetted against the twillght sky. There seemed to be a tinge of suspense throbbing in the air—a spark of romance walting to be ignited. This is really the spirit of Holly- Jo0d_—romance, adventure, the foel ing that som. ing 'ways just about to happen—many realized, x others just awak- . but each and all products of this veritable city of dreams. Photoplays This Week At the Photoplay Houses This Week METROPOLITAN—*“Lilics of the Field.” and evening. Shown this afternoon COLUMBIA—“MIle. Midnight.” Shown this afternoon and evening. PALACE—“Sherlock, Jr.,” and “Vincennes.” Shown this afternoon and evening. RIALTO—“Beau Brummel” (second week). Shown this afternoon and evening. AMBASSADOR—"Lilies of the Field.” evening. CENTRAL—“Ride for Your Lift evening. Shown this afternoon and Shown this afternoon and CRANDALL'S—“Try and Get It.” Shown this afternoon and evening. LINCOLN (colored)—“The Eternal City.” Shown this afternoon and evening. Metropolitan—"Lilies of the Field." Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle are features at Crandail's Metropoli- tan Theater this week in the film ver- sion of Willlam Hurlburt's celebrated play, “Lilies of the Field.” It con- cerns that stratum of society that “tolls not, neither does it spin,” but still liveh'in the utmost luxury. In- terwoven with it is a vein of mother love that lends the play dignity and impressiveness. A wife driven to the verge of folly by the heartlessness of her renegade husband, deprived of her baby daugh- ter and divorced by her profligate spouse is the central figure. In the cast are Crauford Kent, a the philandering husband; Alma Ben- nett, the youthful beauty, who lures him’ from his wife; Sylvia Breamer, an outc: Myrtle Stedman, Charlie Murray, Phyllis Haver, Cissy' Fitzger- ald, Charles Gerrard, Edith Ransom and ,Dorothy Erock. Orchestral accompaniment and an overture, “Herbertiana,” which im- bodies the song hit from Herbert's “The Wizard of the Nil “The Debutante,” “The Red Mill” “The Fortune Teller,” “Babes in Toyland,” “Mlle. Modiste” and “Orange Blos- soms,” together with short films, will be added attractions. | Columbia—'MiIle. Midnight' Mas Murray, “the screen's butter- fly,” in her latest production, will be the feature at Loew’s Columbia, be- ginning this afternoon. It is a ro- mantic drama of modern Mexico, in which Miss Murray offers at least one striking dance number, which is a radical departure from the Broadway locale so frequently chosen by this actress. “Mlle. Midnight” was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, from a story by John Russell and Carl Harbaugh. The cast includes Rod La Rocque, Robert McKim, Robert Edeson, Nick De Ruiz, Nigel De Brulier. Otis Harlan, John Sainpolis and J. Farrell McDonald. Miss Murray is seen as Renee De s, daughter of a proud and Mexican plantation owner, has inherited from her grand- mother, a French coquette of the court of Napoleon IIT. a curious mid night madness, that occasionaily moves the girl to unrestrained moods of gayety and reckless daring. Her father's ranch i raided by an outlaw, who kills her father and narrowly misses kidnaping the girl. A young American, in love with the girl, discovers that her uncle is in league with the outlaws, and the complications wax furious. A new short comedy, & scenic study, the International News piotures and Mr. Brusilof's orchestral embellish- ment complete the bill. —Ambassador — “Lilies of the Field. “Lilies of the Feld,” a First Na- tional film, also shown at the Metro- politan, will be the feature of the bill for the first four days of the week at Crandall's Ambassador, be- ginning this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Short reels and pipe-organ music will complete the bill. Thursday and Friday will be shown H. C. Witwers “The Great White Way,” the stellar roles played by Anita Stewart, T. Roy Barnes and Oscar Shaw. The action of ths pic- ture reveals interesting studies of many of the most widely known Broadway celebrities Arthur Bris- bane, Irvin S. Cobb, Ned Wayburn, Dasgon Runyun, Bugs Baer and hosts more appear in the picture. The bill includes short films and pipe-organ music. Laura Ja Plante and Resinald Denny will be seen on Saturday in Universal's production of “Sporting Youth,” which unfolds all of the ex- citements of an auto race. “Our Gang.” in “Sunday Calm,” short reels and pipe-organ music will round out the program. &ntlal S "Ride for Your Life.” Hoot Gibson will be pictured at Crandall's Central the first four days of the week, beginning this after- noon at 3, in his latest picture, “Ride for Your Life” in which he is cast as a shiftless young cowpuncher who masquerades as a bandit in order to win a girl who has been fascinated by the courage of an outlaw. Laara La Plante appears opposite Gibson and others in the cast include Harry Todd, Robert McKim, Howard Trues- dell 'and Mrs George Hernandez Bobby Vernon also will be seen the first half of the week in his new two-reel “Reno or Bust” An added attraction will be a scenic study of the city of Budapest in delicate color tones. “The Great White Way,” to_be shown on Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday, has a cast including Anita Stewart, Oscar Shaw and T. Roy Barnes, while several distinguished people also appear, such as_Arthur Brisbane, Irvin S. Cobb, H. C. Witwer, author of the story on which the pic- ture is based; Tex Rickard, Ned Way- burn and Earl Sande. Kinograms, short reels and pipe organ music complets the program. Crandall's—"Try and Get It" ‘The magaszine story, “The Ringtailed Galliwampus,” in screen form under the title of “Try and Get It.” with Bryant ‘Washburn and Billie Dove in leading roles, is the feature for the first three days of this week at Crandall’s Theater. It _concerns a young bill collector who fell in love with the daughter of the man ,owing the bad debt. Lionel Bel- more, Joseph Kilgour, Rose Dione and Edward Horton are in the cast. The short comedy will be *“About Face,” with & juvenile cast. ‘Wednesday and Thursday, “Flowing GoW,” the story of Allegheny Briskow and her father's sudden rise to wealth, with its humor, pathos, thrills, ro- mance and near-tragedy, will be own, together with the new Aesop le, *“The Ideal Farm. Friday and Saturday, Pola Negri in “Shadows of Paris,” will be supplemented with Lyman H. Howe's “The Cat and the Fiddle.” Lincoln—"The Eternal City" Samuel Goldwyn's production, of “The Eternal City,” filmed in Rome, will be the attraction at the Lincoln Theater, U street at 12th northwest, the first throe days of this week, be- ginning this afternoon. Added to its drama is the interest that attaches to many of Rome's famous ruins used as background for the action of the story. Thousands appear in many of the scenes, including even King Vie- tor Emmanuel and Premier Mussolini. The principal roles are played by Lionel Barrymore, Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell, Montagu Love and Rich- ard Benneit. CIiff Bowes, in "Cave Inn” will be shown also. Metro's film version of “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” will be shown Wednesday and Thursday, with Barbara La Marr featured, and Lige Conley in a two- reel laugh-maker, “Neck and Neck"; Friday and Saturday, Jackie Coogan, in “A Boy of Flanders” combining humor and pathos in effective propor- tions, and Neely Edwards, in “Flying Finance,” the two-reel comedy, will be shown. Short reels and music will be dally features. Palace — “Sherlock Jr.,” “Vi “ incennes. Loow’s Palace Theater this week, beginning this afternoon, will pre- sent Duster Keaton in his latest feature-length comedy, “Sherlock, Jr.,” and also the third in the series of “Chronicles of America,” presented by the Yale University Press, entitled “Vincennes,” together with new Aesop's Screen Fables, Topics of the Day and orchestral contributions. “Sherlock, Jr.” based on the joint work of Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell and Clyde Bruckman, presents Buster as a small-town movie operator whoso love affair with the village Negri 1uns none too smoothly because of the town's Beau Brummel. After a partioularly arduous day he starts the evening’s show, “Hearts and 3:6!1"5 or the Lounge Lizard's Love,” and falling asleep he discovers that hig girl and his rival arc niay. ing oft screen the very parts \ ¢ the movio on the sorcen. ~And ther. the fun begin. “Vincennes" of the “Chroniol America” series piotures on. histori detail ~ the dramatic expedition of George Rogers Clark and his Virginia colonials, who penetrated 200 miles through the wilderness in ths dead of winter, caught the British and their Indian allies off guard at Vin. cennes and in a series of olean-cut victories forced the Eritish to per. manently evacuate the iansnil Ohio River Rialto—"Beau Brummel.” “Engagement continued for a sec- ond week” is the terse announcement from Moore's Rialto Theater, where John Barrymore has been pictured for the past week in the screen versi of Clyde Fitch's stage “Beau Brammel= ge play, “Beau Mr. Barrymore impersonates in thi: picture the most AuGaclously reoten; Weau and wit of his times. The three angles underlying the theme of “Beau Brummel” are the fickleness of fortune, the test of friendship, and the instability of popularity. Be- cause of hs intimacy with the Prince of Wales, Beau Brummel is able to influence his creditors and make him- selt the arbiter of English society. Losing that favor, he loses all, buf trembling on the brink his biting wit expended at the expense of the prince lets him down with all the honors of war. The ~ production is gorgeously staged and costumed, and the Eng- land of its period fs faithfully pic- tured. Willard Louls, as the Prinee of Wales. Mary Astor, Carmel Myers, Oren Rich and Alec B. Francis have important roles. An interpretive score by George Wild, which has won favorable com- ment, will accompany all matinee and night showings. Other features are eliminated due to the length of the picture. American. Today and tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday, madge, in “The Song of Lovi “The Steadfast Heart”; “Lights Ou Saturday, Taylor, in “Happiness.” Apollo. Today and tomorrow, Gloria Swan- son, in “A Society Scandal” and Tuxedo comedy, “One Night It Rain- Tuesday and Wednesday, Bar- bara La Marr and Ramon Navarro, in “Thy Name Is Woman,” and Dippy Doo Dad comedy, “North of 50-50"; Thursday and Friday, Douglas Mac: Lean, in “The Yankee Consul” and Mack Sennett's “One Spooky Night”; Saturday, Laura La Plante, in_“Ex- citement,” and Lige Conley, in “Open Wide."” ~Daddies™; Laurette Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow, Jackie Coo- gan, in_“A Boy of Flanders,” and Dippy Doo Dad comedy, “North of 50-50"; Tuesday and Wednesday, Gloria’ Swanson,” in “A Society Scan- dal,” and Tuxedo comedy, “One Night It Rained”; Thursday, Barbara La Marr, in “The Shooting of Dan Mo- Grew,” and S Pollard, in “Cali- fornia or Bust”; Friday, Laura la Plante, in “Excitement,” and Witwer's “The Telephone Girl”; Saturday, Wes- ley Barry, in “The Printers Devil,” and Stan Laarel, in “Smithy.” Carolina. Today and tomorrow, *North of Hudson Bay"; Tuesday, “His Chil- dren’s Children”; Wednesday, William 8. Hart, “Wild Bill Hicok™; Thursday, “West of the Water Tower”; Friday, “A Chapter in Her Life”; Saturday, Zane Grey's “The Call of the Canyon.” Today and tomorrow, Ramon Na- varro, Barbara La Marr, in “Thy Name Is Woman”: Tuesday, Helen Chadwick, Lew Cody, Carmel Myers, George Walsh, in “Reno”; Wednesday. Marguerite Courtot, Mary Alden, Jo- seph_Striker, Miriam Battiste, James De Pew, In “The Steadfast Heart"; Thursday and Friday, Frank Keenan, Barbara, Bedford, Robert Frazer, Renee Adoree, James Dowling, in “Women Who Give” and comedy, “Roughing Iv"; Saturday, “Judgment of the Storm.” Dumbarton. Today, Laurette Taylor, in “Happi- ness”; tomorrow, Helen Chadwick, in “Reno”; Tuesday, Mary Alden, in “A Woman's a Woman”; Wednesday and Thursday, “Way Down East” (time of shows, 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m.); Friday, Nazimova, in “Salome”: Sat: William “Russell, Changed.” in Empire. Today and tomorrow, Genevieve Tobin, in “No Mother to Guide Her,” and comedy, “Jazz Weekly”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Tom Moore and Edith Roberts, in “Big Brother”; Larry-Se- mon, in “Horseshoes”; Thursday and Friday, Gloria Swanson, in _“The Humming Bird,” and comedy, “Felix at the Fair”; Saturday, Big Boy Wil- liams, in “One’ Thousand Dollars Re- ward,” and comedy, “Pretty Plunges.” Hippodrome. Today, “Her Temporary Husband™; tomorrow, “Phantom Justice”; Tues- day, “Flaning Barriers”; Wednesday, “Stolen Secrets”: Thursday, “So for Sale”; ¥riday, “Look Your Best”; Saturday, Richard Barthelmess, in “Twenty-One."” Hmnfi'heater. Today and tomorrow, Pola Negri, in “The Shadows of Paris”; Tuesday, “Hunting Big Game in Africa with Gun and Camera,” benefit Edmunds School; Wednesday, Laurette Taylor, in “Happiness”; Thursday, Kenneth Harlan and ‘Mflfll‘g\r{;lflm ln| "ll“:n- rary Marri "3 lay, Doris n- ;qou and Mv‘fi Sherman, in *“Bright Lights of Broadway,” and twelfth ep- isode “Steel Trall”; Sati , Seena Owen and Wilfrid Lytell, in “The Leavenworth Case.” . Next Week's Photoplays METROPOLITANARichard Barthclmess, in “The En- chanted Cottage.” COLUMBIA—Pola Negri, “Men.” RIALTO—Aileen Pringle, in “True as Steel.” PALACE—William S. Hart, i “Singer Jim McKee.” AMBASSADOR —Richard Barthelmess, in “The En- chanted Cottage,” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” CENTRAL—“Love’s Whirl- pool” and “Sporting Youth” CRANDALL'S—“Galloping Gallagher” and “Borrowed Husbands.” Fiction to Be Filmed. [OSE persons who delight in co- temporary fictoin will be grati- fled to learn that some of the most outstanding successes among current best sellers will be made into plo- tures by Warner Brothers, who have secured the film rights to the follow- ing books: Edith Wharton's “The Age of In- nocence,” Ernest Pascal's “The Dark Swan,” Owen Davis' “The Lighthouse by the Sea,” Dorothy Day's “The Eleventh Virgin” Mrs. W. K. CIlif ford’s “Eve's Lover,” Willa Cather's “The Lost Lady,” Harriet B. Stowe's “My Wife and 1” and others. There will be two Ernst Lubitsch specials, two pictures featuring the trained police dog, Rin-Tin-Tin. “Deburau.” the Belasco production by Sacha Guitry, will also be pictured. in Returns to Screen. ALWAYS popular among motion picture enthusiasts, Lottie Pick- ford, now the wife of Allan Forrest, film star, has returned to screen work after an absence of two and one- half years, her reappearance being In one of the most important character roles in her sister, Mary Pickford's new photoplay, “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall” Beginning her stage and screen career at the same time as Mary, Lottie is one of the genuine pioneers of motion pictures. Possibly her most noted work was in “The House of Bondage,” in which she was di- rected by the late William D. Taylor, and in which William Raussell, Roy Stewart and Irving Cummings also appeared In “Dorothy Vernon” she pnrtr‘u‘s the important role of Jennie Fax- ton, maid and confidante to Dorothy Vernon. In this characterization much of the plot in which the vixen- ish Dorothy resists her father cen ters about the portrayal by Lotti who acts as go-between for Mary Pickford as Dorothy and Allan For- rest as Sir John Manners in their stormy and perilous love affair. Beau's Motto. “LETS be grateful to the lhoug!.JL- : fulness of our Creator in giv- ing us bodies naked, so that we could dress and ornament them as We choose.” ) A little artificial, this sentiment. But not for a soul that is the flow)er rtificiality. Beau Brummel, the ?lfst'vlord in clothes, presenting to the world a smooth sartorial surface. The beau, portrayed by John Barry- more, is one of the most picturesque, vivid figures of English history. How he won the friendship of the Prince of Wales, how women flocked to him, literally throwing themselves at his feat, and the way the beau fell from the heights of popularity to disgrace - es in his career. A P eiaia or 1500, and the London court lifc of that period, lives in the picture. Not enly that, but there ap- pears in some scenes 300 French Soldiers, fifty members of the French nobility, 300 noblemen and women and sixty officers of the 10th Hussars. it is a colorful background for a col- orful romance. Met Mexican Protest. TH.\»: recent protest of Mexico and other pan-American republics against the growing practice of mo- tion picture producers in the United States representing the Latin-Amer- jcan type almost invariably as vil- lainous has borme fruit in the latest Mae Murray production, “Mlle. Mid- night.” The story was accepted by Mae Murray months ago, but, owing to other plans, its production was de- layed. In the meantime, statesmen and journalists south of the Rio Grande had addressed their unof- ficial protest to American film makers. 2 Miss Murray was anxious to_ com- ply with the wishes of our Latin- American neighbors, but the story was already scenarized and pur- chased and there was no real neces- sity for its authors, Carl Harbaugh and John Russell, to change it unless they saw fit. Miss Murray however, asked them if something could be done before production work started and the two authors went into a conference, with excellent results, it is claimed. Liberty. Today and tomorrow, Norma Tal- madge, in “The Song of Love": Tues- day, “His Darker Self”; Wednesday and Thursday, Pola Negri, in “Shad- ows of Paris”; Friday, Jane Novak, in “The Lallaby”; Saturday, Dustin Far- num and Patsy Ruth Miller, in “My Man." Olympic. Tod: t w, Pola Negrl. in s ot ‘Pasie:: ahd Ben Tarpin, in ~The Daredevil™; Tuesday, Lau- rette Taglor, in “Happiness’s Wod: 3 It lue an rel T efying Destiny; _Thursday: “Name the Man”: Friday, “Cause for Divorce” and Witwer's *“Telephone Girl”; Saturday, “The Night Mes- ge,” Our Gang, in “Stage Fright” and “Ghost City,” No. 6. Savoy. Today and tomorrow. Jackie Coo- , in_*“A Boy of Flanders” and Bippy Doo Dad comedy, “North of 50-50"; Tuesday and Wednesday, Gloria’ Swanson, in A Social Scan- dal”; Thursday, Barbara La Marr, in “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” and Sunshine comedy, *“The Weakling” Friday, Laura La Plante, in “Excit ment,* and Witwer's “The Telephone Girl”; Saturday, Wesley Barry, in “The' Printer's’ Devil” and Stan Laurel, in “Smithy.” Takoma. Today, Claude Gillingwater, in “A Chapter in Her Life”; Pathe News and _ Topics; tomorrow, Katherine MacDonal in “Chastity”; Pathe News and Topics; Tuesday and Wed- nesday (bemefit Order Eastern Star), Barbara Bedford, in “Women Who Give”; comedy; Thursday, Violet Dana, in “In Search of a Thrill"; kin- ograms, comedy; Friday, Anita Stew- Hirobrama “Fighiing Blood': Satur: n ghting s r unum and evening, William S. Hart, in “Traveling On"; Fables, comedy, “Santa Fe Trail’ chapter 14. Today and tomorrow, Gloria Swan- son, in “A Soclety Secandal” and Charles Chase, in ~Publicity Pays”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Pola Negri, in “Shadows of Paris” and Sennett's “Ome Spooky Night”; Thursday, Bryant Washburn, in “Try and Get It,” and Tuxedo comedy. “One Night It Rained”: Friday, Tom Mix, in “Mile a Minute Romeo,” and comedy, “The ; _ Saturday, Priscilla Dean, “The White Tiger,” and Juvenile comedy, “About Face.” | rector AMUSEMENTS. Hollywood Goss 1p New Combination Stirs Producers—New Para- mount Pictures—Raymond Hitchcock Will Be BY HALLET ABEND. LOS ANGELES, May 9.—As was anticipated by those in the know in motion picture circles here, the final consummation of the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer mergér is serving to stir all the big producers here to great ac- tivity. Undoubtedly there will be a battle for supremacy not only in the matter of quantity of output, but where quality is concerned, too. In particular is a competitive year look- ed for where the new merger, Para- mount and First National, is con- cerned. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky of Paramount have fired the opening sun by announcing an expansion of production activities which will set a new high level of output for the Lasky studios here and on Long Island. Forty pictures will be released by Paramount between August 1 and February 1, and this year's schedule has been enlarged by the decision to put eighteen more companies to work at the two studios within the next thirty days—eighteen companies more than have ever before been working simultaneously at the two plants. New Paramount Plctures. The list of new pictures to be made by Paramount not heretofore an- nounced includes “Open All Night,” to be directed by Paul Bern: “A Woman of Fire” based on a Mary Roberts Rinehart story; Betty Comp- son, in “The Female": Bebe Danlels, in “Wild Moments": Agnes Avres, in “Worldly Goods"; Rudolph Valentino, in “A Sainted Devil”; Richard Dix “Headlights”; Bebe Daniels, in gentine Love”; Pola Negri, in a Lu- bitch pictures’ not vet named: “The Cave of Fallen Angles” to rected by James Cruze; Gloria Swan- son, in “The Cost of Folly"; Crimson ~ Alibl,” Jacquelin gan and Antonio More George Melford will di guarded Wome: production to be called “Singers in Heaven"; Jack Holt, in “E Hands”: ‘Thomas Meighan in * pering Men"; a Victor Fleming pro- duction called “The Honor of His House™; Bebe Danlels, in “Little Miss Bluebeard”; Richard Dix, in “Manhat- tan” which will be an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradi a Cecil de Mille produc- tion, “The Golden Bed,” co-starring Rod La Rocque and Estelle Taylor; “Playthings of Fire,” starring Agmes Ayres; Pola Negri, in “A Woman Scorned,” and a Wiiliam De Mille production named “A Broadway But- terfly.” Maurice Tourneur has _selected e a novel of European lite by’ Wadsley, as his next story for screen_prescntation. Al- bert Shelby Le Vino, who adapted “The White Moth” for Tourneur, is working on the script. Camera work will be bgun about June 1 Jackie Morgan, who plaved Chester in'the Andy Gump comedies, has begn added to the cast of “Judgment of West Paradise,” which is being di- rected. by Nat Ross at Universal Pola and Rod Deny. Pola Negri and Rod La Rocque have issued a joint denial of persistent re- ports that they are engaged to marry. The rumor seems to have been found- ed on the fact that they are the only unmarried couple appearing weekly at dinner parties which include Mr. and Mrs Tony Moreno, Charles Eyton and his wife, Kathleen Wil- liams, and Marshall’ Neilan and his wife, Blanche Sweet : Pauline Garon has left for New York and sail next week for England. She is to make a picture in_London. Blanche Sweet, who has had no vacation between pictures for two years, will take a_three-month rest starting June 1. She plans to spend most of the time in Franoe. William A. Seiter, formerly Baby Peggy's director, and recently di- of “Daddies” for Rarner Brothers, has signed a contract with Universal. B Hal Roach has returned from New York and will soon expand produc- tion at his studio at Culver City. Hobart Henley is the first director 1o start work at the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer studio following the merger. He is making “Free Love." Fileen Pringle, who played the queen in “Three Weeks," lias been cast in another Elinor Glynn film, “His Hour.” She will play of a Russian noblewoman. Mary Pickford, hotel ~designer— that's a new role for the ar, but Miss Pickford will have the final 0. K. to put on plans for the building and decoration of the new $1,500,000 Al- gonquin_Hotel to be built in Holly- wood. She and Douglas Fairbanks and Frank Case, manager of New York's Algonquin, are the main back- ers of the new venture. The build- ing will be twelve stories high and of Spanish architecture. John Gilbert, who recently refused to remew his Jlox contract and said he would rather be a free lance, has changed his mind and signed for a term of years with the new Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Company. Hitcheock a Caliph. Raymond Hitchcock, stage come- dian, has signed with Thomas Wilkes to play the lead in “The Caliph’ a new comic opera which will be pro- duced here and in San Francisco in idsummer. M aurette Taylor and her husband, J. Hartley Manners, have arrived from New York to start production on “One Night in Rome™ for the new Metro-Goldwyn Company. Willlam S. Hart, returning from New York, made no announcemen! concerning production plans, or a new release contract to follow his break with Famous Players-Lasky. Willard Louis has completed work in the title part of “Babbitt” at War- ner Bros., and has begun work in an untitled feature being directed by h. E'é’.’;;’,fi"é".:fawyn announces that he will have a film version of “Stella Childrens OR a long while patrons of the motion picture theaters have in- dicated a nebulous sort of demand of special consideration for juvenile au- diences. Attempts have been made in Washington to meet this demand, but usually with the result that when th(‘a childrens’ bill was announced the demand for it was found to .be en- tirely imaginary. They haven't been successful, these “children’s mati- nees.” Of late, however, there has been ated to the public service ud"A’.‘.’.fim.;: department of the Crandall theaters a desire for purely Juvenile entertainment at least once a week, and Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher, director of the department, has won the comsent of Harry M. Crandall to offer three experimental proj s for children at the new Tivoll Theater, 14th street and Park road northwest. If the venture proves successful, the Crandall o ganization will make the special pro- for children a permanent policy. be ing with the new season next fal. of these special perform- arine was given at the Tivoll yeste @ay morning at 10 o'clock, and was patronized so generously as to sug- gest the feasibility of making the Saturday morning juvenile programs a permanent contribution to the child amusement life in the Capital. The bills to be offered next Satur- day and the Saturday after. May and 24, are designed to appeal espe- cially to juveniles ranging from six to twelve years of age, but still are sufficlently variegated and diverting to appeal to the intelligence of those above those years. The pictures shown are selected the part | the Caliph. Dallas” ready for release next fall at the same time that Mrs. Leslie Cartes makes her appearance in the titly role of the stage version of the novel in New York. Mr. Goldwyn's filming of “Tarnish” goes into production here May 12, with George Fitzmaurice directing. Dolores _Roushe, another Follies girl from New York who fs trying for film fame, has just completed a small part_supporting Herbert Rawlinson in “Dark Stalrways.” Johnnie Walker has been engaged by Universal to play the lead in udgment of West Paradise,” which will be directed by Nat Ross. Gladys Hulette and Billy Sullivan will also be featured. “Counterfelt” to Be Filmed. Production of the film version of Leroy Scott's “Counterfeit” will be begun by the First Natfonal May 10. Colleen Moore and Conway Tearle will be starred in it. A director has not yet been selected. It is a story of society and politics. Joseph Poland is writing the adaptation. Other manuscripts in preparation for First National's spring schedule are “Wil- derness,” by Marion Orth; the ter- nal Lamps.” by Charies Maigne; Edna Ferber's “So Big" (which will be Miss Moore’s second vehicle) and Kenneth B. Clarke's_comedy drama, “Out Where the Worst ~Begins.” which will probably feature Ben Lyon. )(‘vril B. DeMille has sailed away in his private yacht for the Mexic coast off Lower California. The trip is partly pleasure and partly busi- ness, for he took a cameraman alo to get shark fishing scenes for his next photoplay, “Feet of Clay.” William Farnum, Wallace Worsley his director, and 4 cameraman have gone to Yosemite Valley for a few snow scenes for “The Man “,:'(' Fights Alone. Meanwhile Lois Wil- <on, who play opposite Mr. Far- num, has arrived from New York. The whole company will be ready for work when star and director return to_the studio, > William C. DeMille has gone to New York to supervise the cutting and titling_of his next release, “The Bed- room Window George Melford is at the Lasky studio in Hollywood, cutting “Tiger Love,” which features Antonio Mo- reno and Estelle Taylor. 1t i n adaptation of a Spanish opera, Gato Montes.” Leatrice Joy has completed work in a comedy, “Changing Husbands." Walter Woods has completed the screen adaptation of Harry Leon Wilson's “Merton of the Movies,” and Glenn Hunter, who has the title part, is in Hollywood. James Cruze is to direct. William S. Hart asserts, in a for- mal legal answer filed here to his wife's suit, in which she tries to set aside that portion of their property settlement which forbids her return to the screen, that his wife has ar income from his trust fund of $9,6 a year, that her screen value has de terjorated, and that she merely wants to “commercialize her unhappy do- mestic_difficulty.” Mrs. Hart, on the other hand, says her income is t ®mall for her nesds, and that she now has a standing offer of 3 salary of $500 a week to work in pictures. English Beauty Signed. George Archainbaud, making “For Sale has signed an English beauty and star, Marga Ala Rubia, for one of the leading parts. Miss Ala Rubia was reared in India, her father bei an English army officer. She dro an ambulance in France during the world war. For one season she headed her own company at the Gar- rick Theater, London. Gene Stration Porter, novelist, has purchased a six-acre estate in the mountains betwe Hollywood nd the sea and will make her permanent home here. She fs working at the Ince str ‘o supervising the filming of her ow goks. Max \ T editing '\ taking th return to for hls ne: “Fight,” a) written by C been chosen - nest picture. \lugene O'Bri again be her laading man Olcott, now directing Rudolph entino_in the final sequence of * - sieur Beaucaire” at the Lasky studio on Long Island, will direct “Fight.” Rex Ingram, who is now restng in Florida, will return to his Mooris} palace in Algiers in mid-J] a cording to his wife, Alice Terry, now visiting her mother in Hollywood. Mrs, Ingram will join her husband in New York and go with him to north ern Africa for an indefinite stay. It is uncertain when he will direct an- other picture, she says Mack Sennett has sailed for Turtic Bay, Mexico, on his private yacht for a fortnight of fishing. Pola Applies for Citizenship. Fola Negri, applying for Americar citizenship papers, gave her name ax Countess Apolon Domski and said she was divorced from Count Lugene Domski. Lipno, Poland, was given as her birthplace. She swore to being twenty-seven years of age, gave her height as five feet five inches and her weight as 125 pounds. The Goldwyn studio: mally taken over by officials of the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer morger The usual speech-making marked the turning over of the key George Edward Lewis, director, has left for Seward, Chilcott Pass and the Yukon, accompanied by company which will film *“The Eternal Fron tier” in Alaska this summer. The story was written by Harvey Gates. Dorothy_Devore has finished worls in_“Hold Your Breath.” “dward Everett Horton, who played the title role in “Ruggles of Red Gap,” will support William Farnum in_his next Lasky film. Mrs. Sidney Drew, who retired from the screen when her husband died. has contracted to make a series of five-reel domestic comedies. (Copyright, 1924, in United States and Great Britain 'by North American Newspaper Alliance. Al rights reserved.) working on the final int to New York he will ‘Iywood fo begin castir. sroduction, “Footstep: ariginal for the screen Gardner Sullivan. has Norma_Talmadge's Vi Sidney have been for- Matinees with the utmost care and the Tivoli's full stage equipment makes it possi- ble also to present miniature spec- tacles and fantasies that exert a strong appeal to the juvenile mind Yesterday morning, for example, ‘“The Bugs' Ballet” was staged, to the huge delight of the children, with clever dancers impersonating the various familiar members of the bug king- dom. Another feature is found in the personal appearan: of Peggy Albion the kiddies' “friend of the air,” whose bedtime stories are broadcast over the radio from station WRC of ihe Radio Corporation of America. Mrs. Albion will entertain the youngsters throughout the three test bills. 1f it is demonstrated that an actual demand 2nd not a fictitious one exists for these bills for kiddies, that de- mand_will be definitely fulfilied by the Crandall organization. Jf pub- lic responce does not place the stamp of approval upon the experiment, it will, of course, be abandoned. A'distinguished list of patronesses is lending its_aid to this cgnscien- tious attempt” to plumb the public mind. Colors in Pictures. MPOTION picture players will ap- pear at last before the public as they -really are. Known to millions of people through their screen plays, many players pass unrecognized among the crowds, owing to changed appearance off the silver sheet. 3 The perfection of the color process used in filming a forthcoming pro- duction for Paramount will make it passible fer the public to see its favorites on the screen In colora tru¢ to life.