Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1925, Page 47

AMUSEMENTS. . MRy s AsTOR Ambagrador News anchomment By W. H. Landvoigt. NTHUSIASM is a wonderful gift in a blase world. ng onr Besides lighten- tasks, chasing away the blues and making sunshine for even the cloudicst of days, it helps one to find good in most every- thin Especially does it temper the keen edge of criticism. If we cultivate it as a companion when we go to the theater we shall find our enjoyment much greater. If we do not have it, we will miss many good things on the stage and the screen while we snarl and sniff at minor defects. The movie is a great cultivator of enthusiasm. This shown » by the millions that daily cannot do without it. It has helped not only to build up a wonderiul patronage, but also to carry the movie from the nickelodeon into the cinema palace and to transform a flickering spasm of toyland into a living, brea‘hing, beautiful spectacle that has become the ration of the world. Humanity has been charged with the weakness of giving too little and expecting too much, and perhaps it is this weak ness which compels us to criticize when the display of a little enthusiasm in the other direction would lend encouragement to those who are trying ery hard to make the movie what it should be. Aiming at high ideals, however, it is a strong temptation, if not a duty, to hurl a brick at an enemy head, especially if it looms too much into prominence. * ok ok ok INCE the advent of the movie into big business it has developed other vices than that of making naughty pictures. Perhaps the most pro- nounced and yet paradoxically the least-talked of is its extravagance. I'his began when it started into the making of “stars” for its firmament. It continued when the ordinary adjectives of description went qut of style and its press agents began a form of literature that would confound * the schools and the doctors of learning. It followed the abandonment of the tin-panny piano for the more costly and artistic “symphony” orches- tra. It showed its highest degree of illumination .when the long, narrow store, with wooden benches, gave way to the cinema palace, With all the art and adornment that architecture in its wildest dreams could suggest. And the villain of extravagance still pursues its victim with a penchant or gowns and jewels that would make an imperial court in the old days Jook like—well, 30 cents, for instance. Who pays for it all? The movie fan, now drawn by the force of habit until he or she is willing to cough up the last 50 cents in the family purse merely for theiprivilege of being packed in hot and overcrowded lobbies, then herded into the theater to stand first on one foot and then on the other, dying for but ever denied a scat, just to see a much-lauded photoplay. This suggests a vice. The movie is ungrateful. E THE people are a tolerant mass of humanity. do remain so under the strongest provocation! But why should they be expected to do so by the movie? True, there has been no visible evi- dence of a revolt. But shouldn’t there be? How can the movie have the “Yheart, with all its extravagance and willingness to spend money in unlim- ited sums for what it wants, and yet resist the direst need of those who furnish that money? Surely they ate entitled to comfort while they are viewing their picture entertainment. If they were able to reserve their seats in advance, they could be saved the necessity of being jammed in heated and overcrowded lobbies, sometimes as long as an hour, and then having to stand during almost the entire time their picture entertainment is being furnished them. The mavie ought not to be ungrateful. & ek NE exhibitor, Film Daily tells us, out in San Francisco has L:ov\cri\'rd the notion that the photoplay houses are too big, too elaborate, too costly to run, and so he has constructed two little theaters, seating 700 each, side by side, and in each he is concurrently running important photo- plays. It is said he is not only making a success of it so far as his public 5 concerned, but that he is now able to give the photoplay exchange from which he gets his pictures more money on a percentage basis than it has cver received before, because his operating expense is so low. Thus, it would seem, the smaller theater, showing but one big photoplay, or a pro- gram of miscellaneous short reels, is not only caring nicely for its patrons « and paying more money for its programs, but it is making money for it- self. Perhaps, some day, the movie will go back to the small theater, without the symphonic overture, etc., etc., and thus meet a situation that now is perplexing. Meanwhile, Washington, it is certain, would be made happy by the adoption of some sort of reserve-seat system whereby the movie patron, especially those upon whom age is beginning to tell, or the ones who are not in robust health, might be assured of a“seat without the present uncertainty and inconveniences. Perhaps the failure is due to is F R ik And, oh, how .long they thoughtlessness. n * ok k¥ ANNY, the Film Daily Nestor, is now calling attention to another shortcoming. With five months of the current season yet to go, and, t is inferred, not yet fully provided for in the way of new pictures, most of the important companies already are stocked up with material to cam- paign_for the new scason. Danny says this is foolishness. The Hays organization, he says, has discovered this and is going to shelve the prac- tice. There may be a method in this madness. What if the big companies had disposed of all their big and important wares and had left for the «five remaining months of the current season only the less important pic- ires? Would they not be likely to do this very thing of which com- plaint is made? Yet it is not to be believed that this is so, otherwise the <hibitor—and the exhibitor is the man who deals directly with the pic- ture public—would be left in the lurch. There are doubtless many excel- ent new pictures ready for the current season, but it isn’t fair that those who have to buy them for public exhibition should have them smothered under intensive press exploitation of pictures for a season five months way. The Summertime is very depressing financially, as a rule, to the exhibitor. Not to give him every possible help during that time is not only foolish, but it is an offense that might be called by a much harsher term. A D now, having wasted a bit of enthusiasm upon some of the faults of the movie, it will sort of balance things to say a few enthusiastic words of things it has done. For instance, along with the news that Douglas Fairbanks’ latest picture, “Don Q,” is regarded by those who have scen it in the 'making and before its release to the public as “a *whale,” which is meant to compliment it in the superlative degree, comes the information that pretty Lillian Gish, who has just been freed from servitude from an exacting producer by the courts, is to appear in a series of pictures the stories for which will be written by George Jean Nathan, the caustic New York critic. And though Universal has abandoned its purpose to make a photoplay of “Napoleon the Great,” the news is her- alded that Gloria Swanson, despite her accession to the French nobility, is to make five more pictures for Famous Players before her present con- tract expires. Indeed, there is a belief in some quarters that as a drawing card for the new season ahead Gloria is to be pitted against Pola Negri— in pictures, of course—and that is why Pola was given such a glorious send-off when she recently left for a visit to her former home in Europe. * kK ok LOS ANGELES writer says: “Flapper pictures, the producers tell me, are deader than last year’s calendar. They came in a wave, but the tide went out. * * * At best, they concern the immature love affairs of children of high school age. Everybody is fed up with flapper pic- * tures, even the flappers themselves.” This, if true, should be hailed with real satisfaction, if not with joy, for the flapper type of photoplay has done more to demoralize the juvenile element than anything forbidden that has crept into the screen. The so-called flapper has furnished much musement to the thoughtless, but with all her cuteness she has proved a vicious type for young girls to copy * K K K “rF'HE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA,” Carl Laemmle’s widely heralded new masterpiece, which already has been acclaimed a wonderful picture, according to a news report, on second thought was found to lack essential comedy, and so the entire cast was recalled to make comedy cenes for the picture under the direction of Edward Sedgwick, the con- fract of Rupert Julian, its director, having expired. All of which shows that Mr. Laemmle has profited by his experience with “The Hunchback f Notre Dame,” a magnificent production that nevertheless drew the “iticism of beimg too somber for the average movie.fan audience. * ok kK v JANNING®-~ Rialto New Paramount School. FLOOD of mail applications, per- sonal calls and telephone calls at the Paramount Long Island studio has followed the announcement of the incorporation of the Paramount Ple- ture School. | thousands. | phone cal studio sw Many of it is said, and the tele- have almost paralyzed the chboard. the applicants want to know what they should do to enter the school. Mothers of small children have written in telling of the qualifi- cations of their offspring, and one woman has inquired whether as- pirants could be married. The number of these inquiries from persons who have not fully under- stood the plans for the school has prompted Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president in charge of production of the Famous Players-Lasky Corpora- tion, to call attention to the fact that applicants should observe the follow- ing 1, rule Men must be between 18 and 30 old; women between 16 and 25 Applications should be sent to the Paramount representatives near- | est the home of the sender. Three photographs—front, pro- file and full length should accompany each application. Photographs will not be returned. 4. Applicants should not phone or call in person. Those chosen will be notified The time limit for applications is May 16. Loses Faith in City Keys. ABY PEGGY, the little screen star, doesn’t think so much of being presented with the key to a city. Hung on the walls of her home in Hollywood are the keys to every prin- cipal city in the East. Some of them are silver, some are gold, some big- ger than Peggy hersel?, some tiny, keys of wood and keys of metal, all kinds. Peggy at first thought it great {(un meeting mayors and collecting evs Mayor Kendrick went into detall on of the key to his city. He told Peggy that she had compiete freedom and immunity from arrest during her stay in the city. Peggy’s eyes opened wide “That's of Philadelphia the significance very mice.” Thank you so much,” she sald. “Qut home the traf- fic cops worry us sometimes when Daddy is driving. I look out the back and tell him when I see a cop coming 80 he can slow down.’ It was at Pittsburgh that Peggy lost her faith in the key as the sym- bol of the freedom of the city. Just one block away from City Hall, where Mayor Magee had given her a huge golden key to the city an energetic traffic cop halted Peggy's party. The driver of the limousine, confused by the crowds about the machine, made a forbidden left-hand turn—The traffic cop promptly wrote out a sum- mons. Peggy w indignant, but she refrained from making any comment at the time. Back in the hotel she scolded prettily. From then on she lost all faith in keys to cities. Gloria in Tears. HEN Gloria Swanson really did come ‘home” to_ the Paramount studio at Astoria, Long Island, a crowd of 5,000 persons welcomed her. Accompanied by a special police escort Gloria and her husband, the Marquis Henri de la_Falaise de la Coudray, with Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky, arrived at the studio to find nearly all of Astoria massed around the entrance. The front of the big studio building was covered with flags and streamers, and when Gloria alighted from her car there was & rush of people that engulfed the po- lice and made it necessary to call out reserves. So overcome was Miss Swanson as she stood on the running board of her car that she wept for several minutes, while the crowd cheered and called for a speech. Gloria was unable to talk, but later, inside the studio, from the porch of her bungalow dress- ing room, she made a brief address to the studio staff in which she told them how happy she was to be back among her friends and fellow work- ers. In the crowd that gave her wel- come were Walter Wanger, T. C. King, William Le Baron, Lloyd Sheldon, Wal- ter Long, D. W. Griffith, Esther Ral- ston, Mary Brian, Allan Dwan, Carol Dempster, Lila Lee, Tom Geraghty, Edward Sutherland, Laurence Wheat, Victor ~Heerman, Forrest Halsey, Townsend Martin, Paul Scofield and Frank Tuttle. “Hoot" Gibson. NIVERSAL has announced that it will film exclusively the Calgary Stampede,” which takes place on July 6 to 11, as one of Hoot Gibson's forth- coming Jewel pictures. The Calgary stampede is to the Northwest territory what the Pen- dleton round-up is to the United States. Indlans, cowboys, trappers, dog team drivers, Northwest mounted police, cowglrls, cattle raisers and princely agriculturists vie with each other in a show which is famous throughout the world. Gibson's progress up the ladder of fame from cowboy extra to Jewel star has been one of the romances of Los Angeles. Fortunately, the tran- sition, the fame, the fortune, the glory and adulation have not turned Gib- son's head. Hoot, the star, is the same as Hoot, the extra, and every body on the Universal lot likes and respects him. Gibson will make six Jewel pictures for the 1925-1928 season—“The Ari- zona Sweepstakes,” “Spook Ranch,” “A Daughter of the Dons,” “Kings Up,” “Chip of the Flying U’ “The Calgary Stampede.” The letters run into the | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, photoplays RIALTO—"“The Last Laugh.” METROPOLITAN— evening. COLUMBIA—"“The Charmer.” PALACE—"Seven Chances.” TIVOLI—"Learning to Love.” AMBASSADOR— ning. CENTRAL—“Dynamite Smith.” LINCOLN (Colored)—“Charley’s evening. Rialto—"The Last Laugh. She he Rag M S Shec S 1 The much-heralded photoplay, “The | Last Laugh.” with Imil Jannings, the celebrated picture star, in the out- standing role, is the feature this week at the Rialto. Mr. Jannings work in “The Last Laugh” created so much enthusiasm when the picture was shown in New York that many of the critics urged other movie ac- tors to see this film and learn some- thing about their own art. Visitors to the Rivoli, it is said, when the pic- ture was on view there could detect the furtive visits of some of the screen stars who were intrigued by the admonition A notable feature of this production is the absence of subtitles, yet the simple but touching story comes smoothly and with great forc It is a human-interest story if there ever was one, acted in masterly fashion and supported by a produc- ing techique which is declared as wonderful as it is revolutionary. The story concerns a plain man of the masses who is brought to the brink of despair, and then is lifted suddenly to heights of which he had never dreamed. This sudden exalta- tion furnishes the happy ending as well as the title, “The Last Laugh On the same program will be “The House of David Band,” whose synco- pated numbers made them warm fa- vorites with music lovers on their previous visit. During this engage- ment they will be heard in an en- tirely new program. The overture by the Rialto Orchestra, Mischa Guter- son, conducting, will be “Tannhauser” (Wagner). Hal Roach's new Our Gang comedy, “High Society,” and the International News will complete the Easter week program. Metropolitan—"The Rag Man." Jackie Coogan, in his latest pic- ture, “The Rag Man,” is the attrac- tion for Easter week, beginning this afternoon at 3, at Crandall's Metro- politan Theater. Added short reels will include Bobby Vernon, in “Don’t Pinch,” and the Metropolitan World Survey, and a special Easter musical program will round out the bill. “The Rag Man" was written express- 1y for Jackie by Willard Mack, well known playwright and actor, and de- picts the adventures of a tiny kid who escapes from an orphanage fire, but is believed by the authoritieg to have perished. Seeking shelter from the chill night he finds himself next morning aboard a junk dealer's wagon, and from this circumstance springs the highly diverting incidents that _culminate in the formation of the firm of Ginsbergs & Kelly, “deal- ers in high-class junk.” There i much fun in the scehes depicting the effort of Timothy Patrick Aloysius Michael Kelly to win the confidence of Max Ginsberg, the elderly junk- man, who had' been swindled by un- scrupulous lawyers, and a strong element of suspense in the later epi- sode, when Tim runs to earth the barristers who had defrauded his aged benefactor. In the role of Tim Jackie is said to be at his best, and an excellent cast, including Max Davidson, in the role of Ginsberg, and Robert Edeson and Willlam Conklin, add to the picture's pocess. e major orchestral numbers for At the Photoplay Houses This Week Shown this afternoon and evening. he Rag Man.” | ¥ D, ‘0.,. APRIL 12, 1925—PART 3. AMUSEMENTS. CLAIRE ViNDLOR_ Lincolw JACQUELINE. LOGAN Ceutral This Week . >wn this afternoon and evening. an.” Shown this afternoon and ownthis afternon and evening. own this afternoon and evening. Shown this aiternon and eve- hown this afternon and evening Aunt Shown this afternon and the week’s program include es,” by Burns Cavalry,” and song hit Doors will o'clock p.m. Columbia—"The Charmer." Pola Negri will be seen in her first | comedy role since coming to America | in “The Charmer,” which will be the attraction at Loew's Columbla this weck, together with added screen and “Smiling Von Suppe’s “Lignt | Mamie,” a current be thrown open at 2:30 musical features. “The Charmer” is a picturization of Henry Baerleln's novel, “Mariposa,” directed by Sidney Olcott, adapted by Sada Cowen, while the supporting cast includes Wallace MacDonald Robert Frazer and Trixie Friganza. Pola Negri is seen as a Spanish .dancer in a Seville cafe, where she meets a wealthy American and is greatly attracted to him. “Discov- ered” by a New York theatrical man- ager, she is brought to America and makes a wonderful success and re- news her acquaintance With the American, who tells his mother that he proposes to marry her. Bertha Sedgwick, a married woman who is interested in the same man,| arranges a party to which the dancer is invited and where she is greatly humiliated through her ignorance of social usage. Later she shields this woman from an enraged husband and in the climax that follows she and the man she loves are brought to- gether, Palace—"Seven Chance The attraction at Loew’s Palace Theater this week will be Buster Keaton, the omileless comedian, in his new comedy, “Seven Chances,” a screen version of the play by Roi Cooper Megrue, which David Belasco produced on Broadway. The cast includes his new leading lady, Ruth Dwyer: Snitz Edwards, recently seen in “The Thief of Bag- dad"; T. Roy Barnes, Erwin_ Con- nelly, Frankie Raymond, Jule Cowles and, it is claimed, 200 of the pret- tiest girls in Hollywood. A comedy featuring Lige Conley. “Hello, Hollywood”; Lyman Howe's Hodge Podge, the Pathe News, Top- ics of the Day and a diversified pro- gram by the Palace Orchestra, under Thomas Joseph Gannon, complete the program. In “Seven Chances” Buster has the role of a stock broker whose generos- ity in the cause of charity has so nearly bankrupted his firm that his partner unknowingly lays himself open to prosecution for passing a worthless check. Then relief comes, when $7,000,000 is left to Buster by his eccentric grandfather, on condi- tion that the young broker marr: that day. With a sweetheart of his own, everything looks easy until the girl learns of the bequest and thinks Buster is merely using her to get the money. Hilarious complications fol- low when the partner inserts an ad in the newspaper stating that Buster will marry any gri who meets him at the church, and when he shows up his own sweetie, who has reconsid- ered, and hundreds of others are waiting there in bridal array to mar- ry_him. How Buster extricates himself from such a contretemps and still man- ages to get married by 7 o'clock that evening' is said to make & racing, breathless comedy. BUSTER KEATON TANC] | sitting up nights thinking out clever Palacer - A\I'MADGL. Tivoli Jannings Born in New York. MIL JANNINGS, the famous actor, | better t the America, known to the screen than stated who inter- to stage in to American correspondents viewed him recently in Berlin that he was interned during the war in Germany as an American citizen He was born in New York City about 38 years ago and moved with his people to Europe 'shortly -after his 10th birthday. His life hua been a series of great struggles with small theatrical troups and great dramatic companies in larger towns and cities. His great struggle, however, in his own opinion, began when he attempted to enter the motion picture field. For two years he bat- tled with casting directors before he succéeded in getting a small but un- important role His success then was immediately assured and journey to the royal heights of stardom was quickly ac- complished >assion,” “Deception.” “Peter the Great,” “The Loves of Pharoah” and now his most startling human vehicle “The Last Laugh,” attest that. New Sennett Bat]’nng Girls. A NEW group of bathing girls has been assembled by Mack Sennett to frolic through his comedies for the next few months. Miss Glad er of the ys Rousseau studio chief design- wardrobe, who is designs for their bathing suits, says the jockey club polka dot, boulevard stripe and cross-word puzzles will be features of the new costumes. The girls thus far selecteg include Lillian Knight, Evelyn Francisco, Lois Boyd, Marion MacDonald. Della Peterson, Dolores Mendez, _ Louise Loftus, Julia Duncan and Carol Wines. Tivoli—"Learning to Love. Constance Talmadge, supported by Antonio Moreno, will be the star of the Easter bill at Crandall's Tivoli Theater, beginning this afternoon at 3'p.m., in “Learning to Love,” which concerns a boarding school girl who falls in love, engages herself to four boys at the same time and then falls in love. genulnely with her guardia Lee Moran, in “His High Horse,” the Pathe Review and pipe organ music by Otto F. Bec will be added Tuesday and Wednesday feature will be “The Beloved a J. Stuart attractions. the Brute,” Blackton production that bristles with gripping action. Jimmie Adams, in “Love Goofy,” and a new issue of the Lyman H. 1Towe Hodge Podge. Thurs- day and Friday, Madge Bellamy and William Haines, in George Barr Me- Cutcheon's “A Fool and His Money Our Gang, in Hal Roach’s “Dog Days,” and in the Secrets of Life series, “The Ant Lion": Saturday, Betty Comp- son, in “Ramshackle House”: “The Plumber,” a comedy, and “Idaho,” No. 4. Ambassador—"The Rag Man."” Jackie Coogan, in “The Rag Man,” his latest picture play, will be seen also at Crandall's Ambassador The- ater the first three days of Easter week, beginning this afternoan; Wed- nesday and' Thursday, “Barbara Frietchie,” featuring Fiorence Vidor and Edmund Lowe, and a new Aesop Fable, “The Housing Shortage”; Fri- day, Reginald Denny and Mary Astor, in Harry Leon Wilson’s humorous story “Oh, Doctor,” Lige Conley, in “Step Lightly,” and the Pathe Review; Saturday, Thomas Meighan, in “Com- ing Through,” with Lila Lee, Wallace Beery and Larry Wheat; Mack Sen- nett’s “The Cannonball Express,” Hodge Podge and “Idaho,” No. 6. Central—"Dynamite Smith." Charles Ray will ba the picture star at Crandall’s Central Theater, in “Dynamite Smith,” today and tomor- row, together with Our Gang, in “Dog Days,” short reels and pipe organ music; Tuesday and Wednesday, Cecil B. De Mille's film version of Wallace Irwin's “The Golden Bed,” with Rod La Rocque, Vera Reynolds, Lilllan Rich, Warner Baxter, Julia Faye and Theodore Kosloff, also Earl Hurd, in “Broadcasting,” a cartoon comedy; Thursday and Friday, Colleen Moore, in “So Big,” and Cliff Bowes, in “In- side Out”; Saturday, “Cheaper to Marry,” with Lewis S. Stone, Mar- PEGGY Straud CrandallThea_ters Expanding’ ARRY M. CRANDALL, owner of the Crandall chain of theaters in Washington and vicinity, vesterday ade public the acqu of the Home Theater, located on C street between Twelfth and streets northeast, as the the chain. The Home is regardec handsomest of the residential picture and i purchase is said to mark but the first | VER since the death Robert Harron nearl b{ Yyears ago, motion picture actors have talked about a Harron memorial Mentfon of his name still brings an odd little hush to the film parties of Hollywood and the East Coast studio group. Everybody who came in con- tact with him remembers his quiet sincere, attractive personality, and everybody agrecs that something should be done to keep his memo fresh. A number of suggestions have been made, but nobody did anything Nbbody except Thomas Meighan Tom made a location trip to a little town called Ocala, Fla., a few weeks ago to shoot exterior scenes of his new Home Week.” As is his gave a benefit for s stay there raising more than $2,500 for the Ma- rion County Hospitaul—enough to completely equip the children’s ward After the benefit a committee of t hospital trustees waited on him and suggested that the new children’s the picture, custom he charity during JORMA TALMADGE is to be pic- tured in the Belasco play, “Kiki in which Lenore Ulric appeared on the stage. Producer Schenck is said to have paid “in excess of $100,000" for the film rights. First National has added Mary Astor. Leon Errol, Robert Frazer, Victor Me- Laglen, Charles Murray vce Comp- ton and Hugh Allen to corps of players. Carl Laemmle is making wonderful promises for Universal's “second white list,” which includes “The Phantom of the Opera,” Reginald Denny, in “Cali- fornia_Straight Ahead”: Samuel Hop- kins Adams’ “Siege made by Svend Gade; Louise Dresser, in “The 00se Woman”; Laura La Plante, in_“The ‘Teaser”; Alice Joyce and Clive Brook, in “The Home Maker; “The Pony Ex- press”; Norman Kerry and Patsy Ruth Miller, in “Lorraine of the Lions, meoln——"charley's Aunt.” ‘Charley's Aunt,” Christie's film version of the popular stage farce, will be the attraction at the Lin- coln Theater the first three days of Easter week, beginning this after- noon at 3, with Sydney Chaplin in the title roie. The story tells of a group of college boys who persuade one of their number to impersonate the wealthy aunt of another, in order that a clandestine luncheon with their sweethearts may be properly chap- eroned, and the complications that arise form hilarious.situations. Other roles are played by Eulalie Jensen, Phillips Smalley, Ithel Shannon, James E. Page and Alec B. Francis “The Volce of the Nightingale,” a natural color film, and the Kinograms also will be shown. Wednesday and Thursday Claire Windsor and Bert Lytell will be seen in First National's “Born Rich,” sup- ported by Cullen Landis, Doris Ken- yon and J. Barney Sherry; also Al St John, in “Lovemania”; Friday and Saturday, Charles Ray, in Thomas H Ince's production of C. Gardner Sulli- van's “Dynamite Smith,” together with Lige Conley, in “Rough and and the fifth installment of Apollo. Today and tomorrow, Reginald Den- ny and Mary Astor, in “Oh, Doctor,” and Jimmie Adams in “Step Fast”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel in “Excuse Me” and Ben Turpin in “The Wild Goose Chaser”; Thursday, Florence Vidor and Edmund Lowe in “Barbara Frietchie,” Aesop Fable and “iodge- Podge”; Friday, Baby Peggy in “The Family Secret” and Mack Sennett's “The Cannonball Express”; Saturday, Mrs. Wallace Reid in “Broken Laws,” Cliff Bowes in “The Mad Rush” and “Idaho,” No. 4. Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow, Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel, in “Excuse Me," and Ben Turpin, in “The Wild Goose Chaser”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Reginald Denny and Mary Astor, in “Oh, Doctor,” and Jimmie Adams, in “Why Hurry”; Thursday and Friday, rits De La Motte and Conrad gol, and Lee Moran, in “His High Horse" Bu Naj Madge Bellamy and William Haines, in “A Fool and His Money,” and Harry step in a policy of expansion which Mr. Crandall and his executi staff | will put into immediate operation. | Since the “opening of the il Theater, at Fourteenth street and | Park road northwest, one of 1 largest and most beautiful t -l jifices in America, the Crandall ganization has been quietly lay plans for the active extension of its | interests n only i » sections of the city of Washington which give! promise growth and deve in which the Crandall circuit is nc 3esides the addition of the Home Theater to the Crandall holdi “ auditor i a seat has T tly 1 pur chas A construction will begin at an early date her plans f the immediate embrace new ! s in Frederick, Md.; Alexandria Va., and Baltimore, Md. The Cra da el is not at present opera in any of the cities named Crandall's Home Theater will be under the house management of Wa ter Cersley, who is transferred from I's’ Avenue Grand Theater Murdock, formerly en cxploitation work, will be ager. Bobby Harron Memorial. ward be named t Wa T and the said, “I memorial—yet But I tell you what I wish you'd do “all it the ‘Robert Harron Ward.' He very dear friend of mine and the finest characters that eve motion pictures.” h the trustees were en- thusiastic about the idea at first when they left they had unanimousl | agreed that to name the ward fo | Harron would be fitting and appro- priate. | A tablet bearing Robert Harron's | name and a brief history of his caree | will be placed in the corridor of the new Marfon County Hospital. And | although Ocala had only a fleeting | glimpse of him on the screen—in the | “Birt a Nation” “Hearts of the World" and a fe r Griffith prc | ductions—his 1 be' kept ive in _this Florida town through Thomas Meighan's thought- fulness FILMOGRAMS which title is to be changed —and William M. Seabury, in Film Daily, says it is only a short while until B land and indecd all Europe will ha chains of first-class, first-run movie theaters, owned or controlled by Amer- ican Rudolph Valentino's next picture will be a story of old California, adapted from a new novel. He is not to appear in “The Hooded Falcon,” production of which has been abandoned. Al Christle, the comedy man, is con- sidering “Kid Boots” for photoplay pro- duction. . a story dealing with the white and black was_reproduced 10 vears the equa races, which o by Thomas H. Ince and is owned by R. H. Woods, Is being revived for exhibition King Vidor has ren with Metro-Goldwyn four new pictures, “Proud Flesh.” wed his contract nd will produce the first being Jesse Lasky of Famous Players, in a recent talk over the radio, advised be- ginners to stay away from Hollywood, but also admitted that the screen needs new faces. It should be remembered that Paramount has just established a schoo! for would-be screen actors. Danny is kicking in Film Daily be- cause producers are getting ready to boost their new crop of pictures for next season, when the average line of product for the current season has not been sold to within 40 per cent of its possiblities. Ven Pelt Brothers, who are produc- ing a series of 12 comedies, have en- gaged Al St. John. Russian Art Players, recently in- corporated, with Laty Floren, 2 Rus- sian director, are to produce “Fire and Ashes,” “Cain” and “Box No. 5.” Youcca Troubetzkoy, the Russian prince whom Carl Laemmle recently signed to a five year contract, will make his first appearance in moving pictures in this country in “Peacock Feathers,” the story by Temple Bailey, which will feature Jacqueline Logan and Culien Landis, under the direction of Sven Gade. The name of Nina Romane, recently announced as supporting House Peters in “The Titans,” means no more to the great American public than the name of Natacha Rambova. It is surprising, though, what an added importance a name takes on when it is recalled that Nina Romano is the wife of Lou Tel- legen. Her engagment at Universal City is the first since her marriage. Universal has purchased “The Radio Detective,” the boy magazine story by Arthur B. Reeve, for use as an adven- ture story. Maurice Tourneur has been engaged by Carl Laemmle to direct a Jewel pro- duction of the famous London melo- drama, “Sporting Life. Kathlyn Williams, for years one of the screen’s most popular players, has been cast as the mother of the prodi- gal son in “The Wanderer,” Para- mount’'s Biblical spectacie, already started in Holiywood under the direc- " {Continued on Fourth Page.) [Continued on Fourth Page.) ¥ [