Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1924, Page 60

AMUSEMENTS. Filmog’rams AMFS R. QUIRK, editor, cites an instance in a atery in the Photo- play mazazine of a producer telling May A . one of the lovolieat atars of the screen, that she was mot as 2o0d a box office attraction aa <other star beeanse she looks like a ,good woman. 1s the public or the produced to blame for this? From the same saurce comes = story of a male star and a female star, each of whom had diseovered that mature hac made one side of the face better looking than the other. Both had a left side face and the male star remarked with emphasis, “We're g to have a hell of & time -in this picture.” reported that the committe® in New York with which Lou "Tel- legen and Director Gasnier have been conferring on the National Metion Picture Academy project has voted to appoint a director of the enterprise. No name, however, is mentioned in Jthe report. It Beatus, manager of Toew's Palace Theater, and Mark Gates, manager of Loew's Columbia | Theaters, are both enthusiastic con- tributors to the Walter Johnson tes- timonial fund Lawrence Washington is getting its share of big screen successes this fall. With “The Covered Wagon” just closing at Loew's Columbia, “The Ten Com- mandments” at the National and D. W. Grifith’s “America” due next weck, local fans are being flushed with big thin Thomas H. gned a con- | tract with Florence Vidor for two years, in addition to the ane yesr her present agreement with him has yet | to run. The monetary consideration is maid to be the largest ever involved | a contract with & dramatic star. Dorothy Wulte: well known char- | aoter tress of stage and screen, has ‘been given the role of the landlady iin Richard Dix's newest Paramount ipicture. “A Man Must Live,” whiech Paul Sloane is directing at e Leng y1sland studio. Miss Walte was re- ntly seen with Thomas Meighan in The Confidence Man.' Bebe Dantels’ picture, “Dangerous Money.” at t Paramount Long Island studio, is being titled and edited by Juliau Johnson. ve a supporting F mas Meighan photoplay, he part of Clay in “Tongues of Flame,” the ark Macfarlane istory. Mr preared with ‘Meighan nquest of Ca- naan. and Broke, Homew and ‘Pled Piper Malone. “The ( Home Bound” Sidney Olcott's first picture for Paramount under his new contract. 'Salome of the Tenements,” a story of cotemporary life in New York's ighette by Ansia Yesierska, will be made in the Long Island studie next month. Jetta Goudal will have a ‘prominent part in it. 4 The Allan Dwan new Paramount production, “Argentine Love,” featur- ng Bebe Daniels and Ricarda Cor- tez. was adapted to the screen by John Russell from an original story LY Vicente Hlasco Ibanez and has for its background the ancient customs and traditions of old Spain, contrasted ith modern Ideas and American edu- cation. Lillian Rich, who has been called “The Dresden China Girl of the Screen,” and Cullen Landis are fea- tured players in the ferthcoming C. Gardner Sullivan production, *‘Cheap Kisses,” which has been deacribed as i defense of the “flaming youth” of taday. John Ince is said to be one director who does not use a megaphone. His powerful bass volce carries to all parts of the studio and when he calls Aor quiet the carpenters lay down their hammers, knowing there is ne _use te attempt to compete with that Soice. i Douglas Fairbanks, ir, hes signed % long-term contract as an additional miember of the Parameunt stock com- Yany. “Young Fairbanks will be cast n juvenile roles suitable to the type =7 youthful Americanism which he ’-w mplifies,” said Mr. Lasky. He will #egin wark November 1. It took four weeks to train horses $nd men in negotiating the thrilling Thariot race that precedes lsrasl's Wassage of the Red Ses and the en- | 1‘—‘;“““‘“ o METROPOLITAN ’reDAv—a 10 1n e VIRGINIA VALLI ughes, I‘-nm, Tout hlu nun “IN EVERY WOMAN’S LIFE LIGE CONLEY in “Fast and Furious” News—Scenio—Overture aghington's Finest Orchestra ud CIAI.AIJJI | prodyction of Sir James M, | Judge of the | pounds and is proud o | Willium Howurd has been assigned to ! Bennett, | dedicated to Clark Griffith, sUfing ef Pharach's chariots in Ce- <) B, De Mille's epic, “The Ten Com- mandmenta.” men and animals w loaned by the United States overmment from the Army presidio Monterey, Calif., yet it took nearly & menth to qualify for the unusual task, Bather Ralston, who has been signed to u long-term centract with Paramount, is now playing the role of Mrs. Darling in Herbert Rrenon's Barrie Although: young Ralston has had « re- murkably suceessful stage career and has also appeared in u number of screcn productiops. Judge Henry Neil, “fathe:” of the| mothers’ pension movement in the United States and Great Britain, and a humanitarian werker known from coast to coast, has “gone inte the movies,” temporar'ly, however. He| became so interested in Mrs. Wallace Reid's picture, “Broken Law that he voluntecred to play the part of criminal court in the| picture, and, furthermore, plaved it | like @ veleran, to the interest in this picture Qealing with mother love. Clark Ward “Peter Pan." years, Mi Carrie N[[N over 200 She danced | tor hours under hot Kleig Mghts, in | Midsumrme while making scenes or @ new C. Gardner Sullivan photoplay. and never weakened. “Reducing by music,” she called it. Because of his suceess in dire Zane Grey's “The Rorder Legion direct “The Code of the West," sixth Zane Grey made by Paramount in two years The | picture will he made in the Tento Basin, Arizona, one of the least civi- lized spots in the United States. The cast includes Owen Moure., Canstance | Mabel Bullin, Charles Ogle, ! Lillian Lelghton, David Butler, 1id- ward Cribbon, Pat IHartigan und Frankie Lee. the production to be| Following out the acheme cf the heuse, the balcony exits leading down te Tenth street in Crandall's Metrepolitan Theater have been wainscoted with Italian Senna marble and the old floer cover- | ings have been supplanted with gray and black naturized rubber like that on the muin floor of the house. New | crystal lighting fixtures also have | been installed to add to the beautis fication of the exits. decorative The Tivoli Orchestra, under Elias Breeskin, today will play for the first time In Washington a new march composed by the conductor and “Bucky” Harrls, Walter Johnson and their teammates. Mr. Breeskin has entitled his new composition “The Washing- ton Pennant March” and it is said to be as good a march as the Na- tienals are a team. Maurice popular Abrahams, song writers posers of Amerlca, was a visi- tor at the Crandall executive offices last week, where he arranged with Conductor Daniel Breeskin to introduce several of his recent suc- | cessca. M7. Abrahams is the hysband of Belle Baker. who toplined at Keith's last week. Areng Mr. Abra- hams' hits may be mentioned “Get Out and Get Under,” sung by Bobby North Waiting the Robert sung by Al Jolson;| “The Pullman Porters’ Ball” sung by Belle Baker, and “The Cake- walk Ball,” sung by Daphine Pollard in a “Pasaing Show.” John Steele is TIONAL one of the and com- | will | York's Ghetto, THE SUNDAY singing “When the Gold Turns to Gray” in New York. Mr. Breeskin will intreduce meveral exclusive ar- rangements of the Abrahams num- bers. Hobart Henley has been gelected to @direct a ferthcoming Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer production of “Square Peg," the drama by Lewis Beach which played Rroadway last season, Beach is au- thor aiso of “The Goose Hangs High,” and is ene of the group of American playwrights who astartied Broadway seme time ago by organizing “The Dramatist's Theater, Inc. Some eof the mast unusual ever achieved in motion pictyres are eaid to have been utilised by Victor Seastrom in making Andreyev's “He Who Gets Slapped.’ These effects, coneelved by Carey Wilson, who wrote the continuity, and exccuted by Milton Moore, photographer of the big epecial, bring into symbatic relationship the cir- cus which is the buck-groynd of the play and life on carth, represented by a geographer's globe. This globe, in one of a series of curious sequenc dissolves, while the encircling wooden rule turns gradually into a ring of the eircus in which clowns dispert them- sel Lon Chaney plays the leading role. Arsinio Rallon, ton vielin _ virtuose, gaged by Flias Breeskin effects a gifted Washing- has been en- for the first s|string section ef the newly reorgan- | ized Tivoli Ore estra. The improve- ment in the Tivoli Orchestra under Elias Breeskin, himself a concert vio- linist of international reputation, has occasioned much favorable comment, Allan Dwan has started “Argentine love at the Paramount Long lsland studle, with Bebe Daniels and Ricardo Cortez. “Argentine Love’ was adapted to the screen by John Russell frem an original story by Vincento Blasco Ibunez. ‘The tilm play has for its | background the colortul, ancient cus+ 1 and traditions of Old &paiin con- trasted with modern ideas and Ameri- can education. Sidney Olcott's first picture for Farumount under his new contract be ‘Salome of the Tenements," a stary of cotemporary life in New by sAnzia Yeziers Jetta Goudal will role. Mr. Oleott, In planning a fafth- ful production of this story, has becn spending much time on the Kagt Side atudying the characters de- picted in the book. The cast of *The Swan,” the scre version of Molnar's play, which marks soreen, include Tary Deena, a Ru- sian actrees, who appeared in “Peter the Great” under the direction of Dimitri Buchewetski, and who has the role of “Amphirosa” Adolpie Menjou, who plays the prince. Nicholi Sousannin and Michael Sousannin will play “Lutzow," Visaroff will be “Father Hyac George Walcott and Joseph Depew will be the young brothers of the Princess Alexandra. Gen. Lodijen- ski, who made his motion pi debut in Gloria Swanson's “Her Love Story,” has been cast for the master of the hunt. Bebe Daniels and Julia Fave are great pals. Their homes wood back up te each other, and they can talk from one porch to the other. i Submarine on 20,000-Mile Voyage. Submarine K-26 of the British has jurt completed a voyage of 20. the lonzest on record made by submarine. It took eight months to complete the trip and officers and crew lived aboard the undersea vessel all of the time. rerything that was re- quired to sustain the crew was carried on the submarine. ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOP o e SUNDAY MATINEE AT 3 TODAY. EVE. AT 8:30 Twice Daily 2:30—8:30 Second Big Week Mats.—50c, 85c, $1.10 Eves.—80c, $1.10, $1.68 A Triumph Unsurpassed in the History of Washington Theatricals Selling Out_Daily—Buy Yeur Seats in Advance Aveid the Leag Lines Befere the Bex Office BoLYR JESSE THE CECILB. DeMILLE'S MIGNTY TRAMATIC SPECTACLE have the leading lower | {by atio STAR, WASHINGTON, lurge ris sinee given L cording to cable di the Famous | . when she en st press reception tehes re “Lasky Corpor fore thi | 80 representativ {and American new the return of Elsic Ferguson to the | { Crillon. | English and oftic {itors of all the in Helly- | i | l | | 1 Ruests in | Associated Pross | United Press ture [ ternational 'n\n‘r\ul N Laurence Tril bu s of the M the 1ction Am Par: can v and Pari to the P ided Elmer R t Webb Miller Frank Mason « per s in also daili 1n add Hi, . Henry e: Edwin Gloria Swanson, D. OCTOBER 1924—PART ¢ “LET MY PEOPLE GO!” Times: Wilh Herald-Tribu v York Even ‘ i N : what i omplicd when the elev 1| that has Metro-Goldwyn Presents Its Latest Screen Master- piece! FEATURING RAMON NOVARRO ENID BENNETT WALLACE BEERY ROSEMARY THEBY LOEW’S PALACE THEATRE WEEK BEGINNING TODAY---SUNDAY, OCTOB"" & WRITTEN AND DIRECTED By FRED \IBLO— vid, tingling drama and crime in the wless underworld of Paris! Produced by the man who made “Elood and Sand” and otber big bits! With the star of mouche” and * ARRY LGiNGDON COMEDY THE HANSOM CABMAN" PATHE NEWS PICTURES TOPICS OF THE DAY TOM GANNON'S MUSIC love TODAY'S WORLD SERIES SCORE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE AFTER EACH INNING AMUSEMENTS. Baby Buggies “Parked” Now. Perambulators with their human cargoes have become s0 numerous in | xome of the large department stores that checking or parking systems such as accommodate autoists, have been provided for shopping m.others who have to bring their young with them. An attendant gives the mother 4 numbered cheek and takes care of the infants. The cost is borne by the l | be found. Lost Continent Sought. A scienti ¢ expedition lias set to discover the lost continent Atlan famed in story ancient hist in and @ serious way, song. tists have expressed their that there w area in the once Atlantic a not 12 an, mentioned Atla and modern larg ny, ' land far from Gibraltar and that traceg of it maw tcan enterprise. CARL LAEMMLE PRESENTS Kathleen Norris fter UNIVERSAL-JEWEL The Interesting Narrative of a Flirt. SURPRISES HAL ROACH COMEDY ‘RADIO BUGS’ CURTAIN RAISER MINIATURE DRAMA 1 VI'IHWA'I'!D\AI NEWS “REMINISCENCES OF VICTOR HERBERT" Arranged and Comducted By Bailey F. dlart = ——CRANDALL'S [ AM2ASSADOR | [ C 18th AND COL. RD.— SUN.-MON. STAR CAST In First National's Hit IN EVERY WOMAN'S LIFE Ligs Comiey in “Fast and Furious” TUES.-WED. ADOLPHE MENJOU With Eieenor Boardmas u: SINNERS IN SILK 41 5t. John in “Never Again” THURSDAY MARIE PREVOST And Monte Elue in BEING RESPECTABLE FPRIDAY WANDA HAWLEY Wiih Nigel Borrie in The DESERT SHEIK Jark liempsey in 0 the Water Euc SATURDAY. STAR CAST i sirclair Lewss BABBITT Fabie—Info ths Net’ Nao RO PR st A R El Metro-Goldwyn presenta tive FRobt. Z. Leonard Production CRANDALL 2 ENTRAL | = NINTH, BET. D AND E WANDA HAWLEY Nigel Barris and Pedro de Cordaba in The DESERT SHEIK “Our s Admiradly Supporied in NEGLECTED WOMEN Harry Lanodon in Sennstt's “The First 109 Years THIUEE.-FRI JAS. KIRKWOOD Mar Bu ard Adolphe Mo orma Shearer i BROKEN BARRIERS SATURDAY MARY ALDEN And Harry 7. Morey w The EMPTY CRADLE Jucenile Comedy, Teacher “OM, WASHINGTON'S OWN SYMPHONY OF SIXTY Composed of the highly proficient musical organization of the Crandall Theaters and the cream of the Capital's resident musician- The expedition i3 an Ameri- TR il fsement Bergein n--'|||||m||m||||||u|u'- AR A RO it THIEERR R g R A (PAMOUS FLAYERS-LASXY CORPORATION) ORCHESTRA OF TWENTY N WUSO RIESENTILD 'S MARVELOUS MUSICAL SEYTING TIVOLI lm and Pk. B4~ TODAY—X TO 11 P. M, i E ship—organized through the cooperative ef- forts of Harry M. Crandall and the officers and members of Musicians Local Union, No. 161—will soon inaugurate a season of popular Sunday afternoon concerts in Wash- ington's newest, largest and most beautiful theater, under the jeint conductership of DANIEL BREESKIN ELIAS BREESKIN The concerts will begin Sunday afterncons promptly at 2 o'clock and will be comprised of four or more standard symphonic com- positions, scored for an orchestra of “ixty Pleces. 'Mhese programs will be rendered fn conjunction with, and in addition to, the regular bill of screem, stage and musical features and the regnlar scale of prices will include both the symphony and the com- plets bill' booked for the week—an extra- Dldl.lllrf value. SUNDAYS AT 2 P. M. BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY AT TRANBDALL'S: TIVOLI TH EATEII 14TH AND PARK RD. N.W. V BLASCO IBANEZ — T 3 = m : ‘ , The story of a COMPSON [ S : A and then—Here ix VIRGINIA BACON = 5 = 5 N * 7 &Cal R4. N.W. In Le Roy Scott’s Fascinating Tale of a Flirt Who modern temptress ADOLPH MENJOU and L!NCOLN N 5 : 1 the season’s big- EVERETT LLELAN FIRST NATIONAL PRESEV 19th B¢, HPODAY AND TOMORROW-VIRGINIA Was Cought in Her Own Nest who scorned all men until one ELLIOTT DEXTER IN WM. DE MILLE'S U STREBY AT 12TH d oth ‘x Sreac hiin! | best romantio it In's Orsle ot %%“fi‘ 4 smnam COLLEEN MGORE ~ - VAR BOTY BRAT WoaneR "Gk CONLET, in PART “FLIRTING. WITH LOVE” NOVELYY COMEDY, “HOF DOG» W CRANDA!.L‘S oEvTRAL DAY AND TO] anlm""A R AWLHY, MR 7 FAST SET ——v i e gl | CONWAY TEARL | | M= a! l WNDAU.‘S, =4 MATINGE GUN BAYR‘Am 1;;:7 nw—m ST LovE CRANDALI.’S R T AR Sats. 2 T M_DALAS BTODAY AND TOMORROW—COLLEE: MOORE AND CONWAY TEARLE, in LIRTING WITH LV coM- BOARDMAN With Conrad Nagel and Adoiphe Menjou in Hobart Hewley's SINNERS IN SILKS Lieyd Hamfltea in “GOING EAST EIRI.E FOXE'S I.ATES'I' COMEDY—“THE HUNT” From Richard Harding Davis' stories. INTERNATIONAL NEWS---SCENIC--OVERTURE SATURDAY VIOLA DANA With Star Support in a Breery Comedy-Drema “ALONG CAME RUTH"” Ben Tarpin in “YUKON JAKE" CAST INCLUDES JAMES KIRKWOOEL {_/ | TODAY'S WORLD SERIES SCORE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE AFTER EACH INNING l WEEK BEGINNING TODAY ---SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 ~ LOEW’S OOLHMBIA THEATRE B STREET AT 13TH L Vie ‘Theater DAY, (AN ru'fmfi B i R / m [l (i At I ,\/%“}'/ T