Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1924, Page 49

Pa NILSSON Central The Sunday St ~ WASHINGTON, D. C, BESSIE LOVE ~ Tivol ewsandComment| By W.H. Lamlvm’gt. OVE and the automobile are the high-powered motors oi the mod- ern world. The automobile has fared a bit better, however, in its autocratic position than has love. True, the caption “street acci- dents” has hcaded reports of many wickednesses of the car, in- cluding even murder. But withal the flivver is no more ashamed to show its face in polite society than the aristocratic Rolls-Royce or the Lincoln. The automobile, with all its faults, is not thought of in the list of sins and crimes. Poor love, the most beautiful offspring of the human heart, has not fared so well. As a matter of fact, “its misfortunes.and its faults” are due to misrepresentation rather than to its own action. Mere human “affection” has been distorted by the playwright and the movie producer beyond all recognition—and love bears the blame. But better days are coming. And when they do woman will come back to her own on stage and screen—even in the world where her sex has been so badly ill-used— e not too bright or good n nature’s daily food, ent sorrows, simple wiles, . blame, love. kisses, tears and smile~ I'he reason firm, the temperate will, durance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command.” * ok ¥ ok ITH Wordsworth, the world really wants to get back to the real and away from the sordid imitation. Washington is feeling the impulse, and is responding most happily to its influence. Following the delightful Dreath of song and comedy wafted in at the close of the theater’s regular season by De Woli Hopper's excellent aggregation of singers and come- dians comes the announcement of a forthcoming season of stock plays, none of which is to be even suggestive in text or action. And from the very heart of the great metropolis comes the cheerful, hopeful boast of Sam Scribner, head of the Columbia Amusement Circuit, that burlesque has been made not only clean and wliplesome, but that that branch of 1he theater which has long been regarded with drooping eyelids and amentioned with bated breath is now substantially fit for modest eyes and sensitive ears. This should be of especial interest to the amusement- loving public, for its “high-class revue entertainment” in the big theaters has long drawn upon burlesque for many of its best performers, men and women. * % % % 'HEN the prodigal son reforms certainly the remainder of the family can afford to keep in the traces. Our young and beautiful American girls are too precious to be tainted with the flaming flappers of the stage or screen. They are too much worth conserving and preserving for the real joy of the world to be made the baits of dissipation. And those whose money helps to fill the coffers of the box offices of the country are too vitally concerned to permit them to be, and yet it is they, not the producing manager, who are being blamed for the iniquitous monstrosi- ties that have crept upon the honorable stage and darkened the virgin silver sheet of the screen. A REFRESHING promise of a glimpse of the girls we can really love is set forth in the Keith announcement that a score or more of debutantes and sub-debs of Washington, with fantastic song and graceful dance, will entertain this week in “Keith’s Summer Revue.” It is most fitting, for the late B. F. Keith was the first of the managers of long ago to give his time and money to the experiment that has tried many a man's soul of cleansing and elevating popular entertainment. And his experiment proved conclusively that from the foulest soil the lily can be made to bloom, for from the rank so-called burlesque of days gone by he evolved and established what is now known and loved as vaudeville. #Keith’s Summer Revue,” however, has a mission apart from presenting our girls as they are and theatrical entertainment as it should be. The announcment states that it is going to boost the Roxie fund to provide radio sets for the ex-service man in hospitals throughout the country. Singular how one virtue will g:lhe; othe;s in its train, * * A STAR reader has taken exception to that portion of the review of “The Prince of Pilsen” which credits Jess Dandy as being the creator of the role of the German brewer from Cincinnati. The credit, he thinks, belongs to John W. Ransone (probably John W. Ransome), who is now battling for his life on a bed of sickness. John W. Ransome probably preceded Mr. Dandy. It isn’t material, except to give the credit where it is due, and The Star is alwly; gl:d‘!o*do that. PROI-’. ABRAHAM FLEXNER, educator and scientist, declared recent- ly before the Lincoln School of Teachers College that American vouths entering college this fall will find themselves in the atmosphere | of “movies, motors gnd jazz, the peril of the world’s ization.” i * * k ¥ | by 3 | Detroit on July 14 |to New ¥ [ In the Spotlight. The “Follies” had its opening in New York Tuesday night and was a big success. It is sald the Democratic convention adjourned over till Wed- nesday to accommodate many mem- bers who wanted to see the show “Lady Luck” is the title of the new musical comedy by Daniel Kussel and Eddie Cantor, in which George Jessel will be featured next season. he and that have been running for some time in New York, closed last night. Sacha Guitry's “LiAccroche Coeur” be produced in New York by the wyns next season, probably under e title of “The Two Adventurers, in an adaptation by Arthur Wimpe A play by John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet. based on the life and times of Andrew Jackson, will be produced in New York by William A. Brady on August 10, after a tryout th sie_Bonstelle Company in Phyllis Povah, who has recently joined the cast of “Cheaper to Marry” in New York, has been placed under a lonz-term contract by Richard He:ndon, producer of the play, as he tas iwo plays for the coming season | tor which she is a marked woman. Craig Biddle has rellnquished his idea of becoming a motion plcture star and is going into musical com- edy production. His first venture is to be called “Pansy.” Deems Taylor has completed the musical score of “Janice Meredith," which will open shortly in New York, with Marion Davies in the title role. David Belasco has been invited to Russia to produce two of his play “The Return of Peter Grim and “The Girl of the Golden West. Mr. Belasco has not committed him- self and is awaiting further informa- tion to see if the project can be car- ried out. elwyns will present “Rue de at the Empire Theater in Paris in October before bringing the revue to New York. Raguel Meller, Jean Nash and Ratoucheff’s Russian | midgets will be in the cast. Clarke Silvernail is to try out a by Howard Irving Young in Nashville, which he intends to take k in the fall. Its title is “March On” and its cast includes Ed- na Archer Crawford and Eleanor Martin, in addition to Mr. Silvérnail. Walter Catlett, who left the Zieg- feld show after the try-out week in Atlantic City, has been engaged by Philip Goodman for the principal comedy role in his new musical com- edy, which Genevieve Tobin and Os- car Shaw_will escort into the Selwyn Theater, New York, in September. The play selected for the Initial tour of Joseph Regan under the man- agement of Augustus Pitou is “Heart o’ Mine,” a romantic comedy by Harry |Chapman Ford, in which, as might be guessed from the title, Mr. Regan will sing some Irish ballads. Ada Forman, premiere danseuse at Crandall's Tivoli Theater this week, scored a hit with her “Dance of the Benda Masks” in a recent edition of the Ziegfeld “Follies,” W. T. Benda, the artist, provided a series of un- usual masks, for each of which Miss Forman .devised a characteristic and appropriate dance. “The Green Beetle,” a new play by John Willard, has been put into re- hearsal by Kilbourn Gordon and will open at Asbury Park July 14. Walter Hampden's “Cyrano de Ber- gerac,” will close its New Yor! next Wednesday night, marking 250th repetition of the play this sea- son. Elsie Janis is now appearing with splendid success at the Queen’s Thea- ter in London, in a series of sketches which she calls “At Home.” Miss Janis has always been a big favorite with the Epglish thea‘ergeers. | i s SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE De PASQUALL KReiths ENNY ~ Rialto Current Attractions l‘ At the Theaters This Week. BELASCO—New stock company, in “In Love With Love,” comedy Opens tomorrow night. POLI'S—De Woli Hopper, in “H. M. S. Pinafore,” Gilbert and Sulli- van opera. afternoon. TIVOLI—Stage, screen and musical features. Opens tomorrqw night KEITH'S—Mme. Pasquali, vaudeville. New show opens tomorrow Opens this afternoon. STRAND—"“Tunes and Steps,” vaudeville. Opens this afternoon. Poli's—"H. M. S. Pinafore”| De Wolf Hopper's comic opera com- pany playing at Poli's offers for the| fourth week of M. S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor,” one of th, mous Gilbert and Suilivan cl real comic opera in two acts, with scenes laid on the quarterdeck of her majesty’s ship. Mr. Hopper will, of course, be seen as Dick Deadeye, a character he has played hundreds of times. In addi- tion to Mr. Hopper's regular com- pany, Viola Gillett has been specially engaged for the “Pinafore” week as Buttercup, a part she has played many times. During the intermission after the first act Mr. Hopper will recite his famous “Casey at the Bat.” No mat- ter what opera he appears in, there is always a call for “Cas But he seldom varies from his hard ard fast rule, which is to recite “Casey” when “Pinafore” is given. To hear Hopper in “Casey” is a rare treat. Keith's—Mme. pasquali. A grand opera star, a producer and actor, thirty Washington debutantes and other features make up the bill for the current week at B. F. Keith's Theater, appearing for the first time tomorrow afternoon. Mme. Bernice de Pasquali, who is said to possess the “most glorious voice since Patti,”” was a grand opera star who succeeded Sembrich and who sang with Caruso, shares honors with George Jessel and his company of eight players. Mme. Pasquali will be heard in a special program of operatic selection George Jessel and his players will b seen t ce on the bill, first in “Go Back Home" and, second, in “Mamma at a French Play.” Both acts were written and staged by Mr. Jessel. His cast includes Mme. Ann Lowenworth, Willlam Pringle, Louise Blakely, Jack Rice, Nancy Lee, Jack Hall, Ladas May and Lillian Price. Donald McDonald, 3d. will present thirty talented and beautiful Wash- inggton debutantes and subdebutantes in “Keith's Own Summer Revue.” The revue will take a regular spot on the bill and is presented to aid the Roxie fund for radio sets for the disabled veterans and shut-ins. Teo Beers, vaudeviile's distinctive entertainer, returns with a_mass of new materisl which he renders in a style that has made him famous; Al Kiein and Harry Klein will be seen in_“Jest Moments"; Margit Hegedus, premier violiniste, a pupil of the fa- mous Sarasate, will be heard in a program specially prepared for vaudeville, assisted by Otto G. Schlaaft at the piano; Robbie Gordone, an artist's model of international repu- tation, will be seen in “C phonies and Classics,” and Aesop’ Fables, Topics of the Day and the Pathe ‘News Weekly will complete the bill. its engagement headline Tlvoll (— Ada Formfln afld Company. The bill at Crandall's Tivoli Thea-" ter this week, beginning this after- noon, will be headed by Ada Forman and company, to be seen in a series of dances. Miss.Forman was recent- ly with Ziegfeld's “Follies,” with Whom she met success In her, “Dance of the Benda Mask: An added fea- ture will be Cesar Nesl, operatic ten- or, who will be heard in a series of dramatic vocal numbers. Harry Breuer, wizard of the xylophone and the saxophone, with the use of four sticks instead of two, is said to pro- duce a tone that is almost of organ quality in its richness. The film feature for the week will be First National's release of Maurice Tourneur's “Torment,” a drama that has its inception in the bolshevik up- rising in Russia and its final climax in the recent Japanese earthquake. The story concerns the efforts of a band of crooks to acquire possession of the Russian crown jewels, which an American millionaire is attempting to buy for his wife. The leading parts are taken by Owen Moore, Maude George, Bessie Love, Joseph Kilgour, Morgan Wal- lace, George Cooper and Jean Her- sholt. The Tivoli Symphony, Bailey F. Alart, conductor: Elias Breeskin, con- cert master, will be heard in a con- cert overture and news reels and scenic studies round out the bill. Strand—"Tunes and Steps" The Strand Theater, with the fina showing next Saturday night, July 5, will close its doors for the current | theatrical season, and the farewell bill includes several special features. The vaudeville program is headed by a singing, dancing and musical revue, “Tunes and Steps,” starring five art- ists. Others listed include Rosita Man- tilla and Phil Seed, in “Sense and Nonsense”: Dan Jarrett and Com- in a comedy sketch, “Just a Harry Reed and Perry Mayo, in , dance and musical numbers, called “Vaudeville Moments,” and the Brightons, “Artistic Ragpickers,” who make pictures out of vour old clothes. The rlm feature is Thomas Buchan- an's “"Loving Lies.” featuring Monte Blue, Evelyn Brant and Joan Lowell. The story is an adaptation of Peter B. Kyne's “The Harbor Bar,” and is woven around the adventures of Capt. Dan Stover, a Pacific coast tug cap- tain, who, shortly after his marriage, protects the sweetheart of his first mate in an hour of need and nearly suffers the disruption of his own do- mestic happiness as a result. Short films and Director Arthur J. Manvell's orchestra music round out the bill. Cause of Hart's Defection PILL HARTS declaration of inde- pendence, recently published, has a meaning of 'its own, and Hart him- self isn't leaving it to others to explain. Unfounded rumors had been broad- cast that Bill Hart insisted upon writing and directing as well as star- ing in and producing his own pic- ures. At first he paid no attention to the absurd rumors until he ‘discovered that when he split with Paramount-— for entirely different reasons—that such erroneous impressions were be- ing accepted as facts. Although Hart fs an actor-pro- ducer, he has always had a director. His first two productions since his return to the screen were written by himself and adapted by J. G. Hawks, the writer of the continuity of “The Sea Hawk,” by Sabatini, and it may be said that nine of the biggest suc- cesses Hart ever produced for Para- mount were made from stories from his own pen. - However, the star had spent two years diligently hunting for storles, during which time he discovered four admirably suited to him. These he purchased by outbidding his com- petitors. These he had prepared for the screen by such noted film. writers as Lambert er, J. .G. Hawks, Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin. The Hart offices, it is declared, ve been deluged with offers for he One Man Dog” by Vingie B. , & remarkable iy of Alaska; “The Bull Baiters.” an unusual tale by Gerald Beaumont, the sports and race track writer, glorifying the base ball umpire; “The Miracle,” by Ber- nice Brown, a story of the Minnesota logging camps; “The Storm,” a mag- azine story by Clem Yore, and the screen play of Sada Cowan and How- ard Higgin from Hart's own story of Patrick Henry, “A Lighter of “Flames.” That Bill Hart had these stories in | his possession when the break came with Paramount will no doubt come as a surprise to those who had been led to believe thal he “rolled” his own. rther, Bill Hart had accept- ed -'roF;:—uu of Flame” by the late Peter Clark MacFarlane; “Cornflower Cassie’s Concert,” by Peter B. Kyne, and “Jordan Is a Hard Road,” by Sir Gilbert Parker, submitted to him by the Paramount scenario department in_New Yor! In closing, it may be stated that instead of being gullty of wanting to do everything himseif, as rumored, Hart based his declaration of inde- pendence solely upon the basis of “mutual agreement.” He refused only to be placed at the mercy of in- dividuals who might prove incompe- tent in the making of western pic- tures and without the right to have a voice in the final decision. Hart has been 1 nsible for ‘whatever success more one hun- dred pictures of the real west have achieved. He asks: “Ts it too much to ask e keep faith with the % pablic that made him otion | 29, 1924 LOUISE. FAZENDA Lincoln “FameoeRm DelsMort Awbassador o MONTE. BLUE.. Strand ANTONIC MORENO Columbia Ragpes’ MAY MEAVOY Palace New in Opera. M'SS ETHEL CLARK, the ingenue with the DeWolf Hopper Comic Opera Company, is practically a new addition to the operatic stage. Charles B. Dillingham. the well known manager, gave Miss Clark her first opportunity and she afterward appeared in several of his big pro- ductions. Her last important engagement be- fore joining the Hopper company was in the New York production, “Stop, Look and Liste: She has had con- siderable dramatic experience, and has appeared in musical comedies and light operas. Born, reared and educated in New York, she gained her musical education as a student at the Frank Damrosch College of Music. - o Corning Next Season. HE Lewis Beach play. “The Goose Hangs High," now in the sixth month at the Bijou Theater, New York, is one of the dramatic treats promised theatergoers of this city next season. The story concerns a pair of doting parents who have sacrificed every thing for the two voungest members of the family, undergraduates, irre- sponsible ‘pleasure-seeking young- sters devoid of any responsibilitie: and an elder son, who is ever leanin lon the old folks for emergency a: sistance. A crash comes in_this happy household when their father Eives up his political position, under | pressure, and has no money and no prospects, and- the children awaken from their day dreams to the world of reality. ) ““The Goose Hangs High" is the first production of the Dramatists’ Theaters, Inc., an organization of American playwrights, headed by Ed- ward Childs Carpenter and James Forbes, who have adopted the slogan, “Worthwhile plays.” Sense of Humor. s AN invaluable asset to a motion picture star is a sense of humor,” says William Farnum. pon it, in the final analysis, he continues, “rests his popularity with the public and his ability to portray with a clear-cut fidelity the roles to which he is assigned. “An actor who permits himself to believe that the plaudits of the mul- titude are directed toward the vir- tues which may, or may mnot, be present in his own person, is in grave danger of losing his sense of humor and consequently his sense of proportion. “The most enduringly popular ac- tors and actresses today are those who long since have realized that their appeal to the masses lies i their abllity to lift people out of the space and present to them some of the romance of living. “To do this they must have a sense of humor and proportion. They must sink their own individualities in or- der to make the character live." Watch Your Patch! THE 8irl who wears a beauty patch today should watch her patch, because patches. It was during the reign of Louis XV that the fad of wearing patches came into- vogue and was sponsored by the men and women of the court, hence the name court-plaster. These patches were used not as a mark of beauty, but as a means of intrigue. Every shape has a name and every position a meaning. Round patches were called “assas- sin”; square ones, “coguette,” and if placed at the corner of the eye, the “impassioned” patch. Patches piaced upon the neck meant an invitation; on the chin, “resignation,” and on the lips, a “dare. % There were *mary other signs in this language of symbols, and a lord or lady of the court was never seen without a patch box. The question of’ patches was so important that during the filming of “Monsieur Beaucaire,” which deals with_the period of Louis XV, a spe- clal ‘man,’ Vietor De Linsk pointed just to Took aft worn by Bebe Daniel Paulette Duval and 1 D weipbers of the wumpany. | 7 there is a language of rut of their daily lives for a brief | photoplays METROPOLITA and evening. RIALTO—“The Reckless Age.” COLUMBIA— evening. evening. Rialto—"The Reckléss Age" Reginald Denny, in “The Reckless Age,” his latest Universal picture, will be the first production Mr. Carl Laemmle, president of Universal Pic- tures, has presented at the Rialto since taking over the house. Begin- ning this afternoon, it will continue throughout the week The story, by Earl Derr Digger, originally “Love Insurance.' con- cerns a young insurance agent de- tailed to watch over the romance of a nobleman who has taken out a pol- icy against failure to marry the heir- ess to whom he is engaged. A threatened breach of promise suit looms on the horizon; then a bogus | claimant of the title and a scandal weekly gets the story of his trouble. To cap the climax, the surance man and the heiress fall in love with each other. | Denny stages a fight in the news- paper office, which incidentally is said to be one of his best. The cast includes Ruth Dwyer, Hayden Stev- enson, Tom McGurie, Fred Malatesta, John Steppling and May Wallace. “Our Gang” comedy, “Tire Trou- will reintroduce Farina, Micky, Fats and Ernie lending_a helping hand on the repairs. ‘The Rialto Magazine and other educational sub- jects, with Director Wild and his or- Chestra in excepts from the score of “The Merry-Go-Round,” will complete the bill. Palace — “The Bedroom Window." May McAvoy, Malcolm MacGregor, Ricardo Cortez. Robert Edeson, George Fawcett and Ethel Wales will be seer this week, beginning this aft- ernoon, at Loew’s Palace, in William De Mille's p-oduction, “The Bedroom Window, a comedy-mystery by Clara Beranger, who is said to have accomplished _something “different” in the way of screen mysteries with the current production. The story opens with a murder. A young clubman rushes into the dark- ered bedroom of a New York banker and locks the door behind him. When the police break in they find him with a revolver in his hand and the body [of the financier on the floor. The banker's secretary, a neighbor and a fascinating Russian woman are |also brought into the case, making four suspects in all, when a famous woman novelist is persuaded to un- dertake a slution of the mystery. which she finally accomplishes. |, “His New Mama.” a new Sennett- Langdon comedy, a Grantland Rice sport reel. Pathe News and orohestral music will be added attractions. Ambassador — "Those Who Dance."” Thomas H. Ince's production, “Those | Who Dance,” which is also shown at the Metropolitan this week, will be seen the first two days of this week at Crandall's Ambassador Theater. “pardon U: with Cliff Bowes, and short-reel subjects and pipe organ mu- sic by Otto F. Back will complete the bill, “When a Man's a Man,” Sol Lesser's production of Harold Bell Wright's novel, will be seen Tuesday and Wed- nesday, with John Bowers, Marguerite de la Motte, Robert W. Frazer, Fred Stanton and George Hackathorne in the principal roles. Ben Turpin will also be seen in *Yukon Jake.” Thursday will be shown John Gil- bert in “Man's Mate,” with “Poodles"” Hanneford in “The New Sheriff" and short camera subjects as added at- tractions. Rod la Rocque, in “Code of the Sea,” is announced for Friday, with Lige Conley as comedy subject, in “Wide Open.” Bert Lytell, Blanche Sweet, Bryant Washburn, Lincoln Stedman, Helen | Lynch, Ward Crane and_Carl Stock- To in the cast of “The Meanest n in the World,” to be shown Sat- ble, M " | urday. AMBASSADOR—“Those Who Dance.” This Week At the Photoplay Houses This Week “Those Who Dance.” Shown this afternoon Shown this afternoon and evening. Tiger Love.” Shown this afternoon and evening. PALACE—“The Bedroom Window.” Shown this afternoon and Shown this afternoon and CENTRAL—“Between Friends.” Shown this afternoon and evening. | Columbia—"Tiger Love." At Loew's Columbia this afternoon and the rest of the week will be shown George Melford's picture ‘Tiger Love.” with Antonio Moreno and Estelle Taylor in the featured roles iger Love" i the Broadway play which, “in_turn, was adapted from Manuel Penella's opera, “El Gato Montes,” and relates the love tale of a patrician Spanish girl and a dashing, reckless Spanish bandit. The story of how the bandit rescues from one of his lieutenants a beauti- ful girl and releases her, even though he realizes the hopelets nature of his love for her: of how. later, the same bandit. attempting to raid the scene of a wedding for loot. disco ers that the unwilling bride-to-be is the same girl, and how the bandil steals the girl under the very noses of the wedding party, carries her off to his mountain retreat and marries her, despite the fact that there iz a price on his head, forms an interest- ing and picturesque plot, resulting in an unexpected climax, and happiness for the couple naturally follows. The latest Sunshine comedy, ~He's My Pal” featuring three monkeys. the Topics of the Day, International News and an overture and accom- paniments by the Columbia Sym- Phony @rchestra, under the direction gg“ Leon Brusilof, complete the ill. Metropolitan—"Those Who Dance.” At Crandall's Metropolitan Theater this week, beginning this atfernoon, will be shown the film version of George Kibbe Turner's story, “Those Who Dance.” ‘in_which it is said Thomas H. Tnce has provided First National with a melodramatic sub- ject out of the beaten path, being a Tevelation of the methods of modern ibootleggers. The principal roles are played by Blanche Sweet, Warner | Baxter. Bessie Love, Mathew Bets. |John_Sainpolis, Robert Agnew, Lu- | cille Ricksen, Lydia Knott and Frank |Campeau, the characters ranging |from the king of bootleggers to the innocent girl victim of his poison wares, The story concerns a young man whose sister is killed in an automo- bile accident after her escort has gone blind from bootleg whisky and driven the car over a clift. He dedicates his life thenceforth to fighting the {lle- gal trafic. “Red” Carney, bootlegger, has in his employ a youth who drives his truck. “Red” kills a revenue officer while rum running and at- taches the blame to the youngster on whom his gun is planted. Rose, the kid's sister, endeavors to save her brother and enlists the services of Bob Kane, who has become a revenue officer. The situations that follow are full of suspense and lead to a powerful climax. Mathew Betz, an actor who hereto- fore has been seen only in "bits” is said to etch a convincing and repel- lant portrait of the bootleggers In “Killing Time," Lloyd Hamil- ton’s new two-reel comedy in which he is seen as the driver of a milk wagon, who becomes social secretary to an ‘ex-sheep herder. is an added attraction, and Daniel Breeskin, lead- er of the orchestra, has selected melodies from “The Prince of Pilsen" for the concert overture of the week. film version of ‘The Wild Cat.” Central—"Between Friends' The feature for the first three day of this week at Crangall's Centra Theater, beginning this afternoon will be Vitagraph's film version of Robert W. Chambers’ novel “Between Friends,” in which the principal roles are played by Lou Tellegen, Anna Q Nilsson, Alice Calhoun and Norman Kerry. Alberta Vaughn, Gertrude Short, Al Cooke and Kit Guard are in the cast of H. C. Witner's, “The Tele- hone Girl" series which deal (Continued on Third Page§ L J