Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 58

AMUSEMENTS. Concerning D. W. Griffith. D, W: GRIFFITH is a figure in the film world known by name to millions of picture fans, but person- ally to few. He makes few “personal appearances” and his immediate intj- mates are his staffs, at the enormous studios at Mamaroneck, N. Y., and those in his New York-offices. iffith was born in Kentucky, but His residence now is at the Mamaro- neck studios, where he has estab- lished a sca-walled park for picture- making, one of the show places along Long lsland Sound. Here he makes all his pictures, which, eritica say, are unsurpassed for emotional in- tensity, poetic beauty and dramatic 2 Mlth is'in his early fortles: five feet and elsven inches tall, and weighs about 150 pounds. He is alert, decislve in movement. His vitality and endurance are premiums of ex- cellent health and indomitable will. His studio is his home. For weeks ncver leaves the grounds. Up at 30 every morning, he works stead- until from 11 to 1 o'clock every 1t is typical of him that he ns, but never hurries; moves In directing Mr. Griffith first allows the players to interpret the action for themselves, so that their portrayal may be natural. From this basis he improves, suggesting movements and meanings. Only in intensely dramatic scenes does he ever raise his voice, and then only as emotional incentive Whils the action proceeds his face i a pathway for the quick and flowing emotions the scene reveals, reflecting every phase of every character. His attitude toward his players is that of persuasive partnership, first following their original reactions, then sharing with them, gradually expanding the mood so that he leads them in molding a scene for the per- maneney of the camera. He corrects, but seldom criticizes and never denounces, an uncompli- mentary thing he says it to the per- d not to others. His tolerance and patlence are two capital features of his rare ability to handle others. Rex_Ingram, famous director of “The Four Horsemen of the Apoca- lypse,” sald: “We all follow Griffith. He did everything first, and the other directors do them over again as best they can. Motion pictures ows eyery- thing to this man.” : Yet with all his successes, Mr. Grif- fith remains a poor man. Filmograms. ALLAN DWAN is said to be prepar- ing the way to star Gloria Swan- son in an adaptation of “The Queen’ Love Story,” by Mary Roberts Rine- bart. George Mel 'nrd is no" cutting and | s most recent picture, “Tiger | * in_which Antonio. Moreno and Flslellfl Taylor are featured. The VIl Gato Montes,” by uel Penella. Lois Wilson, who had been in the ®ast for more than six months mak- ing pictures, returned last week to Hollywood, where she will soon start work on “The Man Who Fights Alone,” playing the leading feminine role opposite William Farnum. Camera work has been finished at the Paramount West Coast studio on gum.” he declares, “and I hope the next chewing part 1 get will have fried chicken in it Star, a blooded black gelding, which was one of the magnificent horses drawing the chariot of Rameses 11 in ‘'*The Commandments,” is ridden by Antonio Morsno, in “Tiger Love. Rosemary Theby plays the vamp role in “The Strength of Desire,” the J. Stuart Blackton production now in the making in Hollywood. vPagraph s preparing for the pro- duction of another Basii King novel, ‘In the Garden of Charity.” Pola Negri is to become an Amer- ican citizen. She took out her first papers in Los Angeles on Anril 24 and Ben Turpin burlesques to go into production in the near future, one a travesty on “Romeo and Juliet,” which is expected to give critics and Shakespeare lovers something to think about, the other a burl Elinor Glyn's “Three Wi ;_HI be called “Two and a Half eeks.” ‘ Marceline Day, sister of Alice Day, who' waa selocted for the ioad oppo- slte Ralph Graves in his new series for Mack Sennett, been chosen to play the prominent lead for Harry mntdon in his new comedy, “Watch ut.” -~ House Peters has been engaged by Universal on a six-picture contract, the first two pictures being Lincoln J. Carter's famous melodrama, “The Tornado” and Clarence Buddington Kelland's “Miracle.’ The full cast of “Wine” now in production at Universal City, is as follows: Clara Bow, Forrest Stanley, Huntley —Gordon, Myrtle Stedman, Robert Agnew, Arthur Thalasso and Walter Long. Vera Reynolds, who played a prom- inent part in. “Shadows of Paris,” is portraying the role of a modern flap- per plus bobbed halir, restless_eve: and eloquent shoulders, in “For Sfie. ment Mfly in months of all the THEATER, Fourteenth Northwest, as well as Crandall efiiclent ven as to make mmng but refreshing. thought in mind, we have made special provision for the complete comfort during the summer WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 11, now in production under the direc- tion of George A.n:hllnb&ll The serfes title of the ten Dempsey pictures which will start some time g‘n’ early part of June is “Fight and .Ba.h Peggy’s next picture is to be called “The Family Secretor being an adaption from the novel, “Editha’s Burglar,” by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Edward Laemmle is doing a Gerald Beaumont story, “The Flower of Napoll,” in which Herbert Rawlinson and Madge Bellamy will be featured. ‘Walter Coburn's Triple Cross for Danger,” in which Jack Hoxie {s starred, has been changed to “The Fighting Fury.” “Counterfeit,” by Le Roy Scott, is the temporary title of Colleen Moore's next picture, in which Conway Tearle will be co-featured with the young star. ‘The gown worn hy Mary Pickford as Dorothy Vernon in the banquet scene IS of black and gold brocade, with heavy metal lace sleeves, adorned with 100 gross of seed pearls, ‘totaling 14,400 pearls. It took five women two weeks to string the story, “The FRESH AIR HE first essential of comfort and emjoy- the heated term imn Washington is FRESH AIR. Fre- the Capital the humidity is outdoor diversions ‘With this of our new TIVOLI Strest and Park Road those of all the other theaters fn the city. mmoHMMlethlhenm systém ever hmfledh-m By--efl-o{mun- pearls tnlt dneont.a the sleeves. The undergkir gold metal cloth, with pnnarnl cl roses made from pearls, and a bottom tnnn of gold embroidery, set with topaz from Czechoslovakia. Goldwyn has signed Hugo Ballin to direct a_picture version of “The Prairie Wife,"” by Arthur Stringer, which is an up-to-date story of the west lending Itself readily to screen treatment. Mabel Ballin, wife of the director, will play the lendln‘ role. Eduardo Novarro, who recently came to Hollywood from his home in Mexico, has been given a small part in Fred 'Jlblos new production, “The Red L] which his brothgr, Hemon, Dlays the leading male rold Norman Kerry will be seen in “Between Friends,” opening tonight at the Rivoli Theater, New York City. Lou Tellegen, Alice Calhoun, Anna Q. Nilsson, Stuart Holmes and Henry Barrows have the other prom- inent roles. Marc MacDermott, the villian in “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” came to this country from England as leading man with Mrs, Pat Camp- bell, but the lure of the lens was so strong that he abandoned the stage PROGRAM 1924—PART 3. for the screen and became affiliated with the Edison Photoplay Com- pany, with which he remained six yea: All the scenes disclosed in Mary ckford rothy Vernon of Had- were made in America, Ban_ Francisco's n _Gate Park; others Busch Gardens, Pasadens, Calif., and others at the studio at Hollywood. Pre) tions are well und: way for the early opening of the al fresco gardens conducted every summer in conjunction with Crandall's Savoy Theater, at 14th street and Columbia road northwest, and Crandall’s Apol- lo, 6th and H streets northeast. Fred Waring and his Pennsylv. nians, who last night closed thelr en- gagement at Crandall’'s Ambassador Theater and their ninth week in the Capital, last Thursday afternoon gave concert for the entertainment of the 4 hut-ins at the Distriot jall, with a that consumed more than PAIf an hour and brought mueh ple ure to the audience. The Pennsyiva- nians open Sunday, May 18, for an ¢ fonded Fun In New York city: hree of the most impressive photo- plays released by First National are A RIOT OF LAUGHTER That’s the only way to describe the merri- ment that will ensue at Loew’s Palace this afternoon when the famous, frozen-faced BUSTER fun-maker, AMUSEMENTS, booked for early premieres at Cran- dall’'s Metropolitan Theater, with parallel bookings at Crandali's Am- assador. These are Sabatini’s “The Sea Hawk,” with Milton Sills in the name part; Norma Talmadge's pro- duction of "“Secrets” and Earl Hud- son’s “Sundown,” an epic of the pass- ing of the old west. It will be re- called that Sabati from whose story “The Sea } is adapted, was the author of “Scaramouche.” For the first time since the dedica- tion of Crandall's new Tivoll Theater the Tivoli corps de_ballet, under the ection of Mlle. Desiree Lubovska, WiiT ot have @ part in this week' program —-_— The Six, Rockets of Belgium, now making their first tour of America, sing and dance and win from various objects and unusual sources music of the instrumental varieties usually as- sociated with an orchestra. The: special stage settings for t which promi: to develop a novelty in_Columbia burlesque T, The Hoase War Stuff. F any one in the movies confer with Ric! nights Dix crawled wire entanglemen climbed over tren mudholes and ‘Ahflvwv scenes in “Unguarded Women," the j ture which Alan Crosland has just con pieted at the Playe 1 Island studio. ‘I wus havinz o picture—all dressed up in clothes and everythin “until this war stuff came along ar then T paid for all the ease and o fort that had been mine. A small section of no- constructed on th studio for th which were former has the idea that w s soft they shc Dix. For through barbs Ao e ous s lovely time GOIIIHHE GRIFFITII CONWAY TEARLE Supported By Alma Bennett, Myrtle Sted- man, Crauford Kent, Sylvia Breamer, announced that she intended to make her permsnent residence in this coun- try. Charlie Murvay, Phyllis Haver, Cissy Fitzgerald, Charles Gerrard and a Noted Ensemble in a Magnificent Screen Version of William Hurlburt's LILIES OF THE FIELD A Glittering Drama of Ultra-Fashionabic Society and a Bitter Young Woman Snatched From the Brink of Folly by a Great Love—a Worthy Vehicle for the Talents of the Brilliant Group of Artiste Whose E. Fine Perjormances Distinguish a Subject that Is Unusually Rich in the Elements of ROMANCE-BEAUTY- POWER a constant fiow of new air is forced through a sheet of water that can be iced to any desired degreo of cooluess. This fresh, renovated and chilled atr is driven tnto all parts of the theater through specially constructed air ducts that homeycomb the structure. Adaitional exhsust fans continuonsly draw the stale atr out through the roof and side walls, thus & sure circulation of cool, live atmosphere that can be absolutely comtrolled to serve the meed of the moment. CRANDALL'S METROPOLITAN, Amm. DOR, CENTRAL, AVENUE NINTH AND E AND YORK theaters are dnfllfly equipped to insare hot weather comfort. In & few weeks the AL FRESCO GARDENS conducted in conjunction with CRANDALL'S . BAVOY AND APOLLO theaters will be thrown open for their customary summer soasons, thus making the provision for perfect pastiming under mmmploubyhr the most comprehensive i ct. the HARRY M. CRANDALL. hanging lusbands,” a comedy fea- uring Leatrice Joy, which has had two directors for the first time, Frank Trson and Paul Irfbe. KEATON PRESENTS HIS LATEST OCOMEDY “SHERLOCK, JR.” A NETRO PICTURE The latest featurelength comedy sensation of the laugh-genius who gave us ““Three Ages” and “Our Hospitality.” The story ef a small-town movie operator, who wanted to be the world's greatest detective! Mack Sennett announces two new EXCURSION SHENANDOAH CAVERNS Sunday, May 18 Leave Washington * 8:30 AM. Round Trip Fare, $2.50 Dimitri Buchowetzki has begun the filming of a new Pola Negri picture, which is to be tentatively called “Compromised.” The story was writ- ten for the screen by Paul Bern, who also adapted Pola Negri's latest pic- ture, “Men 1..'1"iIllllllllllllllll"llllllIIlIllllIIIIIllIIIIIllIIIlIIlIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllmllllllllIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||lIlIIIIIlIIlIIIlllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIlIlIIIIIIIIIIIInImllllllllllllllllllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIlIIlIlllIIIlIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllII!IIL’IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl!lflllllllllflllflllfllllllmflllllllllillllllIIIlllllllllflllllllIlIlIllillllllllllllllllllIIIE enn Hunter is on his way to the st coast to begin work under the Sirection of James Cruse on the pice ture version of “Merton of the Movies,” which has been adapted to the screen by Walter Woods. As a diminutive tobacco chewer, lit- tlo Johnny Fox won fame in “The Covered Wagon.” ow in support of Agnes Ayres, in “The Guilty One,” Johuny is seen as an impudent gum-chewing office boy. hato tobacco and _don’t like Film Features CAROLINA 1138 X438 Sox s Or Southern Railway System NEW STANTON o & Csta. e 1510 H St. N.W. JAS. KIRRWOODL TV Lf;o m Phones Main 5633 and 7063 In “PONJOLA" Scheer Bros.: RAPHAEL 9th at O St. N.W. N. 9550 TODAY AND TOMORROW —MATI. 3 TODA 2 Ty EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION The Yale University Press Presents “VINCENNES” Third in the famous American patriotic series of historical studies, “‘Chronicles of America.” OTHER PROGERAM FEATURES AESOP'S FABLES—PATHE NEWS AND TOPICS TOM GANNON'S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WEEK Inlllllfl 'l’i:‘li' AFTERNOON SPECIAL METROPOLITAN WORLD SURVEY ANTMATED CARTOON COMEDY OVERTTRE—HERBERTIANA® (Arranged by Breeskia) DANIEL BREESKIN CONDUCTING WASHINGTON'S FINEST ORCHESTRA T e = e == I CRANDALL’S _AMBASSADOR 18th ST. AND COL. RD.™™ MATINEES—SUN. AT 3—SAT. AT 2 P. M. Sun—~Mon—Tuse—Wed. First National Presents CORINNE GRIFFITH With Conway Tearle, Myrtle Stedman, Sylvia Breamer, Crauford Kent, Charlie Murray, Phyllis Haver, Alma Bennett and Charles Gerrerd in LILIES or The FIELD Thars.-Fri—~Star Cast in “THE GREAT WHITE WAY” Special Added Novelty Reel—“Plastigrams” SAT—REGINALD DENNY IN “SPORTING YOUTH” . “Our Gang” in “Swunday Calm” s CRANDALL’: ORIGINAL [ CENTRAL || [CRANDALL “—NINTH BET.D & NINTH AND E Toddeou.—Tuu.—Wed. Today-Mon.-Tues. HOOT GIBSON BRYANT Supported By Laurs La WASHBURN, Plante and Robert McKim With Billie Dove in a Pic- in a Drama of a Cowboy turized Saturday Evening Who Masqueraded Ae a Lot Story Bandit RIDEFOR | TRV.AND GET IT YOUR LIFE “ABOUT FACE” —ADDED— Wed.—Thurs. BOBBY VERNON IN : ANNA Q. NILSSON RENO OR SuST” | MILTON SILLS Thurs—Fri—Sat. And Star Cast in Rex ALL CELEBRITY Ne e FLOWING GOLD _AESOP FABLE Led By Anita Stewart, T. Fri—Sat. Roy Barnes and_Oscar Shaw in o rim Ploy o | POLA NEGRI the Grulvll; Street in the With Brilliant Support in Her Finest American THE GIIEAT SHADOWS OF PARIS WHITE WAY KINOGRAMS LYMAN HOWE'S—“THE IIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIMHIHHHMIHHIlllu—.« v ¥ iTRRs. DAVID BELAGO'S ® “DADDIES. And Comedy. PRINCESS 1119 H St. N.E. L. 2600 TODAY AND TOMORROW — MATI- NEE_TODAY AT 3 P.M. MA! PICKFORD, in “ROSITA." Comedsy. Shaws today at 3, 5, 7 and 9 P.M. FAVORITE 62 H St. N\W. Main 5794 TODAY AND TOMORROW — JaTt WES) BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON SUNDAY, MAY 11 Metre Presents A wonderful, throbbing romance of modern Mexico, pulsing with adventure, danger and love-interest, and [ that gay and colorful butterfly of the screen MAE MURRAY “MLLE. MIDNIGHT” All the resplendent Mae Murray gowns, the exotic ‘Mae Murray dances, the gorgeous Mae Murray set- tings are wonderfully revealed in this breathless screen drama of a coquette of '63 who bequeathed her midnight madness for excitement to a belle of 1924. A dazzling romance youll never forget! WITH A GREAT OAST, INCLUDING MONTE BLUE—ROBERT McKIM—ROBERT EDESON OTIS HARLAN—NICK de RUIZ—NIGEL BRULIER ADDED FROGRANM FEATURES CLYDE OOOK OOMEDY—INTERNATIONAL THIS WEEK TODAY, 8 TO 11 P. M-—DAILY, 2 TO 11 P. M. Pipe Organ Promenade Conmcert, Arthur Flagel Overture—/ Rienat” Wflol:sr). Bailsy F. Alert, ing. “CLOUDS” THE HEAVEN'S DRIFTING BEAUTIES The Tivold's Mirror of the Living World DOROTHY SEEGAR—HENRY WHITE Stars, Respectively, of “Blossom Tims” and “The Gingham Girl,” in “BITS OF BLOSSOM TIME” “THE HIRS‘I'EIIES OF LIFE” A Marvelows| evelaiory Microscopio of Industry of the Ant. Guatamala’s National [nstrument Played by o Growp_of Gifted Native Artists. ANNA Q. NILSSON ml' Baorl Fowe, WA, Cast in o .mb&"‘o’lm Iflw INNOCENCE CoUNTRY s VAMILY | COMEDY, “ROUGHING IT. CRANDALL’S AR e FELD. Added Hit CRANDALL'S ot o 1C METROPOLITAN F Street at 10th 4 B TSICAL. srrx'n('run AND A IObRASATIC FEATURES, CRANDALL’S AMBASSADOR 18thSe & Col, B4 N.w. TODAY AND TOMORRO' ARL E: aod CORINN : CRANDALL S CENTRAL Drh 1T Study ."mn R. 0) ROW_BRYANT, wumxrx\ ¥ 404 BI LIE DOV RY A _And Juvenile Com CRANDALL'S $43°7 2 MATS. 2 P M G. “A'BOY OF FLAND! L Ana mm- "Doo-Dad Comeay " NORTH CRANDA].L’S A\'Ew.z GRAND T : Ave. SE. TODAT AND Tr\l!flnROW »JA (‘ e COOGAN, in ““A BOY OF FLANDERS." And_Dinpy-Doo-Dad Comedy, “NORTH _OF_50.50." Apollo Theater CRANDALL'S 074 W St N5, TOMORROW —GLORTA OCTETY CRCAN: NE NIGHT IT fllll WEEK—rears surrene arristic ACI"IVEISNT—FII.L WEEK DOORS OPEN = nlAlTn == 2 P. M. TOBAY D™ NO ADVANCE IN PRICES “g WARNER BROTHNRS PRESENT AMERICA’S MOST DISTINGUISHED Acron JOHN ARRYMORE AS THE INSOLENT, THE INFINITELY WITTY, SUPERBLY HANDSOME, MOST PICTUI.ISQU! FIGURE 'IN SOCIAI. HISTORY “BEAU BRUMMEL” ADAPTED FROM THE PLAY BY OLYDN FITOR CAST INCLUDES MARY ASTOR,- CARMEL MYERS, IRENE RICH, ALEC B. FRANCIS FAMOBSS RIALTO ORCHESTRA - SPECIAL SCORE - ARRANGED BY QEO. 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