Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1925, Page 63

AMUSEMENTS /" LEON ERROL and CO LLEEN MOORE ~ Metropolitar. /- PATSY RUTH MILLER.-~ Rislto News and Comment By W.H. Landvofgt. CRY has come from the photoplay world which ought to make the National Capital sit up and take notice. There are no Washington girls who want to be screen stars. And this in the face of the temptation of thousands of dollars in the way of salaries, the op- portunity to wear the most gorgeous gowns and jewels and the promise of nation-wide fame which seems inevitably to attach to screen exaltation. All these, apparently, are as nothing to the thousands of American beau- ties who make their home within the tight little District that long has been clamoring in vain at the doors of Congress for recognition and the right to vote. The authority for this assumption is an official of the framous Players-Lasky organization, which has made screen stars by the scores and which now has established a school for the education and de- velopment of those precious articles, and is putting forth extraordinary efforts to corral the fairest of our American flowers for scréen purposes. “We have had applicants for enrollments from all quarters of the coun- " says this official. “Every big city has already more than its quota, yet Washington, of all of them, has not given us a single applicant.” Con- jectures as to the cause are likely to be wide apart, but there is one thought that will force itself uppermost in the minds of all thinking peo- ple in connection with the subject. [That thought is that the photoplay, after all, has not the irresistible influence for good or evil with which its critics long have invested it. Certainly it has not with the Washington girl. And doesn’t that fact make you love her® * % % % HERE seems to be no reason for doubting that the screen offers as promising a career for young women of beauty and talents as the stage, or indeed as any other avocation open to women. We have long indulged the thought that woman prizes admiration and prominence in the public eye as dearly as she does beautiful clothes and jewels and the money to buy them. The screen, in its bricf history, has made fortunes Yor many of its players, and their fame has extended around the world. Indeed, niany have thought that some of the millions melted into the movies might have been better expended in improving the art claimed for the photoplay than upon favored femininity, which often has given but little in return. Be that as it may, however, the Washington girl will now be credited, at least, with the virtue of cautious judgment and the ability to do her own thinking, especially when her career demands it. Washington has now and always has had beautiful and talented repre- sentation upon the stage, 2nd her pride in her farmous stage girls has run very high. The screen, however, has suffered much from criticism— much of it true, much of it untrue—along lines likely to excite timidity ) those who otherwise might be tempted to take a fling at it for its won- erful rewards. It would seem that the Washington girl needs to be thown, and shown conclusively, before she takes the leap that might bring regret. There is no doubt in the world that she has the beauty that will screen well, no doubt that her histrionic talents will rank with the best in the world, for she is constantly showing it in minor dramatic work in her own home town. But she just wants to be sure before she ‘takes a chance at the movie. And who can blame her for that? * % k % THE views of the critics and reviewers throughout the land.concerning Gloria Swanson’s last impression upon the silver sheet in “Madame Sans Gene” are beginning to arrive from all quarters. Washington, after 2 two-week cxhibition of the picture, doubtless has fully made up YS mind. Never before has a picture and its star been staged in the public cve with all forms of what is known to the craft as publicity as has this one. Gloria started the drama of publicity by marrying a count. The cables brought news of this in the language of fascinating romance. Then Gloria fell ill and admiration of the woman was soon submerged with Ympathy for her misfortune. Her arrival in her own homeland, if press reports may be accepted as strictly true, rivaled the return of the most favored of the World War heroes. otable of American notables, celebrities from all the walks of life, as honoring rather than as honored guests, gave an additional blaze of glory the great metropolis of New York. Then simultaneously in the big cities of the land “Madame Sans Gene” was flashed upon the screen fer {he admiring eyes of the American public. It was a great drama taken in its entirety. But news is just at hand that Gloria’s contract with Famous Plavers-Lasky will not be renewed, and that Gloria hereafter is going to shine in United Artists’ productions. It makes one think, and, thinking, wonder why. * ok ok K ARAMOUNT'’S new “Famous Forty” productions, which are now being heralded for the season beginning in August, will present, according to Film Daily, the trade publication, three Swansons, two Meighans, two Negris, two Daniels, two Dixes, two Raymond Griffiths, one Valentino, one Douglas MacLean and one Betty Bronson. These, of course, are not all, Mut it is to be presumed they are the chief among the productions em- braced in the latest Paramount group of 40. * ok kK HOSE who have admired Emil Jannings” work in “The Last Laugh,” which was recently shown in Washington, will be interested prob- ably in the information that Mr. Jannings is preparing for U.'F. A. pro- duction another characterization in Hans Muller’s play, “Tokay,” which is ow being adapted for his use on the screen. Thus far-Mr. Jannings, it s said, has resisted tempting offers to appear on the American screen. #le is unquestionably one of the greatest of photoplay actors. It has been said that he doesn’t like the American method of making a picture by recipe, like some housewives make soup. ok THE American cinema recipe, by the way, is advanced as one of the reasons why Hollywood lost some of its commanding lead in the photoplay world. Folks out that way are said to make all pictures ac- cording to certain rules, which means practically that all stories are “standardized” by those who prepare them for the screen, and the direc- tors, in turn, are said to follow certain fixed methods in their work.- If a tory doesn’t fit, it is shaped to the model foreordained for it, and that, it i claimed, is why so many howls have gone up from authors who longed for expression on the silver sheet. Perhaps it has been “standardization” hat has been to blame for so many disappointments, and it may be that ndardization is what Mr. Jannings is sceking to avoid by remaining outside the standardizing circle. * ok ok FLEETING visit, during the middle of the week, gave Washington its first glimpse in the flesh of charming little Colleen Moore, who with her husband, John McCormick, Western representative of First National Pictures, is on her way to Europe for a few weeks of rest and recupera- tion. In propria persona and aside froM her screen appearance, Miss Moore is a rare bit of delightful personality, more attractive, indeed, than any she has been required to feign in her picture work—a genuine, nat- al American girl, whose best work has not. yet been disclosed in pic- tures. Her visit to the White House brought her unusual compliments a®d keen delight, and a luncheon in her honor on the Mayflower, supple- mented with another pleasant function at its namesake among the hotels, with the dramatic and motion picture editors, filled her cup of joy to overflowing. And nonc who met her failed to share in her happingss. A mammoth banquet, with the most | RUTH CLIFTORD Tivoh "Sany in the Movies. “QALLY” is now in the movies, pre sented by First National with Colleen Moore as the star.~ | As stage vehicle for Marillyn | | Miller the production is declared to have grossed more than $4,000,000 and | is acclaimed perhaps the most suc-| cessful of all Am n stage hits Not even the John Goiden play. ightnin’.” excelled its rec “Lightnin’,” although enjoyin longer run than “Sally,” fell b the Ziegfeld success in gross receipts by_some $200,000. ew York alone is said to have paid $2,000,000 to witness “Sally” on the stage. What the country at large will spend to behold ““Sally” on the screen is as yet entirely problematical, but it may be guessed that the figures will not be far behind those of the spoken theater. June Mathis, who was responsile for “The Four Horsemen" and “Blood | and Sand,” made the adaptation of “Sally. Colleen Moore brings this quaint and lovable herolhe to the screen with a newness and originality all of her own. Her interpretation is de- clared to exceed in charm and poig- nant appeal any of her past char- acterizations. PE s s A Colleen Moore Visits in Washingmn i Harry M. Crandall of the Crandall | theaters had as his and Mrs. Cran- dall's house guests last week Colleen Moore, moted screen star, and he husband. John MeCormick, West | Coast, production manager for First | National. Wednesday, Miss Moore was the guest of Mr. Crandall at a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel to meet the local dramatic writers. The star and | her husband yesterday embarked for Europe, where, it is hoped, her com- | plete recovery from the recent acci- | dent sustained while filming ‘“The | Desert Flower” may be effected. Those at tha luncheon included Miss | Moore, Mr. McCormick, Mr. McCul- lem, accompanying the visitors from the coast to New York: W. H. Land- voight, Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Morgan, Lee Somers. Jack Connolly, Harold Phil- lips, Eddie Foliard, John J. Dals Nelson B. Bell and, of course, thi host, Mr. Crandall. A specially hand-drawn menu card was .prepared by - Maitre D'Hotel | Venice of the Mayflower in honor of Miss Moore, and on. behalf of the | management he. also presented the visiting star with a handsome corsage of rosebuds. Betty a Terpsich;rean | Marvcl. FOR a number of seasons Betty Compson has been , known to screen fame chiefly as'a bathing beauty and diving Venus of super- Sennett_brilliance. The beautiful ' Betty, however, is to stand forth now as a dancer of no | small renown, her transformation being wrought in Clarence Badger's new Paramount production, “New Lives for Old,” in which Betty was called upon to impersonate a Paris fan dancer whose love of country surpassed her love of career and sweetheart. Theodore Kosloff, however, was called in for her present debut and Betty was starred on a three-week course of spiraling and plrouetting which has borne such fruit that Betty. is now clamoring for greater oppor- | tunity to reveal her new accomp- lishment. wp: % Plga a Hit. ‘*PIGS” written by Anne Morrison and Patterson McNutt and staged by Frank Craven, will celebrate its 150th New York performance the first week of the New Year and uphold the Golden record in a theater which has been the scene of such thoroughly American ‘plays as “The First Year," ite Corner”” and “Chicken Feed.” “Pigs” has attracted much atten- tion because the play-writing and acting is substantially that of newcomers, Miss Morrison, an actress, has written but one other play, while Mr. McNutt | with this play made his first dramatic effort. He Is a younger brother of Wil- liam Slavens McNutt, and at the time the play was produced was a member of the sporting staff of the New York World. He has since retired to devote himself to further dramatic work. Miss Westman at 19 years of age is making her first Broadway appearance and in a leading role. A member of the famous Westman theatrical family, she | was “discovered” by John Golden three or four years ago and was placed in one of his “Lightnin’ ” companies until he should find a play suited to he |sonality. This play was fond In ‘down with Mamije to raise Zander. BIN ALEXANDER_ A%bix’yadof' : PAULINE GARPON Straund photoplays This Week% 1 Tancoln At the Photoplay Houses This Week METROPOLITAN—“Sally. COLUMBIA—"“Zander, the Great.” ing. RIALTO—“Head Winds.” PALACE TIVOLI—“As Man Desires” Shown this afternoon and evening AMBASSADOR—"Sally.” ‘Shown this afternoon and evening. CENTRAL—"Pampered Youth” Shown this afternoon and evening. INCOLN (Colored)—"“The Lad Shown this afternoon and eve- ning. Shown this afternoon and evening Shown this afternoon and eve- Shown t afternoon and evening. | | New Lives for Old.” Shown this afternoon and evening. E METROPOLITAN—"Sall; Colleen Moore, who was a visitor in Washington last week, will be the pic- tured star at Crandail's Metropolitan Theater _this” week, - beginning _this | comes engazed to John Templeton Ar yEas i v or. | n0Md. plaved by Richard Travers. a afternoon in First Natlonal's film ver-1, v 1™ fortune hunter and society sion of Flo Ziegfeld's famous musical | lounge lizard. Tat's two brothers, Sally,” which ran for three,played by Arthur Hoyt and William Teon Errol, who | Austin, realize the folly of their sis- | -d stellar honors in the play with and connive to prevent the mu un Miller, appears in the pic- | riage. Through a simple ruse she i ture in the ~—the wobbly | tricked into marrying Peter Rosslyn waiter opposite Miss Moore, who is [Wwho kidnaps her and carries her off | cast as the serving maid who becomes | to sea aboard his palatial vacht | a famous dancer. manned exclusively by Orienta The Metropolitan World Survey, a | Heading the musical offerings’ is new Aesop Fable, “Darkest Africa’:|Trovato, arl eccentric violinist, who is an animated song reel, “In shadow- [both a musician and a humorist, land,” with visualized lyrics, and a |Plays “popular,” classical and ja: specially arranged musical program |lections. by the Metropolitan Orchestra under | Bailey and Catlett will appear in Daniel Breeskin and other attractions. | Special dance creations, and Mischa | There will be no concert overture, but on, conductor of the Rialto .Or- | instead a brief orchestral prelude to has chosen as the overture the screening of “Sally,” including | ‘Serenade.” by Victor Herbert, and the celebrated “Look for the Siiver|Will also offer a group of Franz Lisat's Lining” song hit of the piece. compositions. Sally” affords the ebulllent Miss | The International News and “The Moore for the first time on the screen | ISle of Vanishing Men,” a picture of to demonstrate her ability as a dancer. |cannibal life in the Dutch East In- Others in the cast are Lloyd Hughes, | 41es, Will conclude the program. Dan Mason, remembered for his fine = work in the ‘‘Toonerwille Trolley"” PALACE—“New Lives for 0ld.” comedies: John T. Murray, formerly a Winter Garden favorite; Eva Novak, A romance of war-time Paris, cen- Ray Hallor, former ‘Washington boy, | tering about a Parisian dancer who sacrifices herself on the altar of Jast with Constance Talmadge in “Learning to Love"”; Myrtle Stedman | patriotism, is unfolded in “New Lives and E. H. Calvert. for Old,” an adaptation of Emile Augler's French drama, which brings to Loew's Palace this week Betty Compson as the star. Clarence Badger directed the pic- ture for Paramount from an adapta- tion by Adelaide Heilbron, .and the cast includes Wallace MacDonald, Theodore Kosloff, Sheldon Lewis and Joseph Dowling. It is the latest re- lease of Paramount’s ‘‘Second Famous Forty™ screen series. Added features are Al St. John, in “Red Pepper,” the Pathe news reel and Thomas Gannon's orchestral music. In- “New Lives for Old" the star has the role of Olympea, famous Parisign dancer and war-time cafe favorite, who, during a brief holiday on her aunt's farm in Normandy, meets and falls in love with a young American captain of Infantry. Re- turning to Paris, the girl joins the French secret service, and, in her efforts to unmask a German spy masquerading as a French major, she submits to his advances, only to be ‘outwitted after frustrating a scheme. for the destruction of her American- sweetheart’s division. After the war the dancer and the young captain are married and go to ‘Washington, where the girl discovers that the German spy of war days, again masquerading as a Frenchman, is about to marry the sister of her husband. To expose him means ruin for herself also, as the German warns, but to permit him to marry the other girl is unthinkable. The course the &irl adopts and the eventualities that ensue make a gripping climax. TIVOLI—"“As Man Desires.” “As Man Desires,” First National's drama of India and the South seas, will be the attraction the first two days of this week at Crandall's Tiv- olf Theater, featuring Milton Sills and Viola Dana, supported by Rosemary Theby, Irving Cummings and Ruth Clifford. Charlie Chase, in “Big Red Riding Hood,” and Pathe Review also will be shown. Tuesday and Wednesday will be an adaptation of a magazine story by | A. M. Sinclair Wilt) It is a love story of solid reality, punctuated with rich humor, and concerns Patricia Van Pelt. who be. comedy and | se- | D COLUMBIA—*“Zander the Great.” Marion Daviés, in a modern Amer- ican comedy-drama, ‘“Zander the Great,” will be the attraction at Loew’s Columbia this week, beginning this afternoon. “Zander the Great” will be recalled as the play by Salisbury Field which proved a successful vehicle for Alice Brady a season or so back. It has been adapted by Frances Marion, with settings by Joseph Urban, while eorge Wiiliam Hill directed it for ‘osmopolitan production, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn. Among those appearing in supple- mental roles are Holbrook Blinn, Har- rison Ford, Hobart Bosworth, Harry Myers, Harry Watson, jr.; George Seigmann, Emily Fitzroy; Richard Carle, Hedda Hopper, Olin Howland and Master John Huff. In “Zander the Great” Miss Davies assumes the role of Mamie Adams, an orphanage inmate, who is intrusted to the care of a friendly woman at Whose death Mamie rigs up the family flivver and starts west with “Zander,” the little boy of the family, to find the latter’s father, last heard of in Mexico. They eventually find shelter at the ranch of Dan Murchison, who is en- gaged in rum-running, and who pre- tends to be the father of Zandex in order to prolong the girl's stay and thus throw the sheriff off the track of his bootlegging activities. The girl discovers his fllicit business, however, and, fearing she will expose him, Mur- chison makes her captive and sends the boy across the border to a friend. Manmie, however, fights like a wild- cat and one exciting incident after an- other occurs until Murchison capitu- lates to the girl's charms, gives up his unlawful enterprise and settles The latest Walter Hiers® comedy, “Tenderfeet,” and the International news reel will be added features of the program. RIALTO—"Head Winds.” . “Head Wipds,” starring House Pe- R | NORMA TALMADGT. * ls. | Willard | in the visit of C All the Way From California E. SNYDER, western press rep- resentative for First National Pic- was in Washington for the cele- n of the fortieth anniversary inner of the Gridiron Club at the He eame all the way from he coast to be present on the occa- ion of the elevation to the presidency the club of his old friend, J. Fred e Mr.” Snyder + interested himself een Moore and ber husband, John McCormick, who paid a fiving visit to Washington, on their way to New York and Europe. making his' headguarters the office of Nelson B. Bell, in charge of advertising and publicity for the Crandall theaters. Betty Wants to Sing. | D as it may seem, ¢ Blythe, D 0] now the star in “ " a Trio production. is not satisfied with hav- ing attained the heights on the sflver screen. She wishes to enter the lists of grand opera and won't be happy until she appears on the stage of the Metropolitan. As time passes it is becoming in- creasingly difficult for the motion pic- ture producing companies to secure Miss Blythe's signature on the dotted tine of a film eontract. Miss Blythe is one of the few suc- cessful picture artists who was born in ‘Los Angeles. She played about the lots of Hollywood as & girl. And by lots we mean vacant lots, and not “movie” lots. She was a tomboy, an ardent base ball player and always a leader in school athletics. After graduating from Polytechnic High School, she entered the Univer- sity of Southern California. Here she specialized in languages and soon was sent abroad to secure vocal instruc- tion from a Parisian master of voice culture. Sennett's “The Beloved Bozo,” ring Ralph Graves) Thursday Friday, Percy Marmont, in “The Clean Heart”; CHff Bowes, in “High Hopes,” and a new Lyman H. Howe “Hodge Podge”; Saturday, Harry Carey, in “Soft Shoes”; Lige Conley, in “Hello, Hollywood,” and the sev- enth’ installment of daho,” present- ed at the Saturday matinee. star- and AMBASSADOR—“Sally.” = 5 Colleen Moore, supported by Leon Errol, Lloyd Hughes, Dan Mason, John T. Murray, Eva Novak and Ray |#ea) Hallor, will be seen as star of “Sally” at Crandall's Ambassador Theater the first three days of this week, together with varied short subjects and pipe organ music; Wednesday and Thurs- day, “Pampered Youth,” a camera version of Booth. Tarkington's story, “The Magnificent Ambersons,” with Ben Alexander and Alice Calhoun; also Lloyd Hamilton, in ‘‘Hooked.” Friday only, Margaret Livingston, in “The Chorus Lady,” a film version of the play by James Forbes, which MUSEM PLON ~ Palace Filmo enes of Charlie Chaplin’s “The THE final long awaited comedy, " have been filmed. “This is the picture I want to be re membered by,” was the comment made the comedian while being congratulated by his staff on the oc- casion of the final fade-out. Nina Wilcox story, “Doubling for Cupid.” will filmed as a starring vehicle for Laura La Plante by b Lola Todd, one of Wampas by stars, has been given her lead a year of prepa work, and will play opposite Hoxie in his new picture Demeon.” ‘niversal has pur ‘hole Town's Talking, drama by John Em on and Loos, which played a long en on Broadway with Grant M the role which Reginald Den portray hased the come zemen Rupert Julian, director of suct tacular pictures “The M Round” and “The Phantom b Opera,” has been recruited to do_spe cial productions for Cecil B. De M under an arrangement which will give him complete freedom of movement. Leatrice Joy doesn't like the new nickname of “Letty” that has been pinned on hes “Tt wouldn for that sor be so bad if it wasn't Long, Letty, " com plains Leatrice. *“It isn't at all appro priate—me with a brand-new con tract with Cecil B. De Mille! Alan Crosland. director of Hair.” the novel by 20 well authors, in which Marief Pre Kenneth Harlan will be fe: completed his cast. which cludes Louise Fazenda, McDonald. Tom_Ricket gan and Emily Fitzro; nes Flood also filled his cast la for “The Wife Who Wasn't the novel by Gertie Went sbhed nown and has ost ured worth Huntly Gordon. Harr Supporting - play are John . June Marlowe, ward Piel me Whitman. Geol Kuwa, Wilfred Lucas, Gertrude Astor,’ Elinor Fair and Don Alvarado. “A Waltz Dream, opera with music by Richard Straus will be Ernest Lubitsch’s next produc tion. Lubitsch will write the scenario and the productipn, it is claimed, will again reveal the director as.a master in scenes. “Bunker Bean,” the novel of a dec- ade ago, by Harry Leon Wilson, has been purchased by Warner Bros., and Putnam's delightful | adapted from the | the handling of large, spectacular | NTS. MARION DA:/ TR Columbia grams | will f for Ma: be ore well known gth 1 mounted on he paint; Pe "hosen to suppe My Old Dutch famous song will producs including ) her company, 175 ) the extreme Mojave Des 1 miniature wn," was one plished by rs of truck of the ng Anita service | Perey | ton wil productio: Men. on a Briar “Th: fith has three stories production after “Mod fhey T readine r ern Madness | After,” Owen Da | Regin | epc | Edna Ferb, Dark Angel” current Broad play, has just been purchased by Samuel Goldwyn for a George Fitz tion, with Ronald Col- man and Vilma Fanky, European ac ress, who will make her American de- but in the picture. maurice produ Made on Ocean Liner. SMALL unit of motion picture workers arrived in New York on board the United States liher Levia- than Monday, having completed a greater part of the scenes in a two- reel comedy “A Fast Sea Knot,” while at_sea on the big liner. The unit, which consists of J. J. Mur- ray and Miss Lee Whelan, who plaved the principal roles in the comed. Rody S. Green. the cameraman, and Leonard Mitchill, who wrote and di- rected the picture, had made the round trip to France on the liner and were gone from New York exactly 18 days, including sailing and arrival da During the 11 days at sea on the Leviathan the company shot scenes in 100° different locations on_the big United States liner, in w Mr. Mu ray portrayed the part of a first cab- in’ passenger who becomes involved in many amusing situations while rching for “the girl,” who, enact- ed by Miss Whelan, is traveling third cabin student tours non, In Christie’s “Great Thursday and Friday, lin, in “Charley’s Aunt,” supported by Ethel Shannon, Alec B. Francis, James E. Page, Phillips Smalley and Eulalie Jensen, also a Lyman Howe “Hodge Podge” turday, “Enticement,” featuring Mary -Astor, Jan Kelth and Clive Brook, and Mack Guns' starred Rose Stahl; also Jimmy Adams, in “Love Goofy,” and a Grantland Rice “Sportlight,” titled “Rough and Tumbling.” Saturday, Lon Chaney in Metro-Goldwyn's production, “The Monster,” together with Mack Sen- nett's “Honeymoon Hardships,” and at the matinee only the ninth install- ment of ‘“Idaho. CENTRAL~—“Pampered Youth Cullen Landis, Charlotte Merriam, Ben Alexander, Alice Calhioun, Wal- lace McDonald, Allan Forrest and Ag- gie Herring are in the cast to be seen at Crandall's Central Theater. the first two_days of this week, in'Vitagraph’s production of ‘“Pampered Youth, screen version of Booth. Tarkington story, ““The Magnificent - Ambersons, also Hal Roach's- “High Soclety, featuring “Our Gang'';. Tuesday and ‘Wednesd: James Kirkwood and ters, with Patsy Ruth Miller, the photoplay at the Rialto this week, Is shown D. W. Criffith’s new produc- on, “Isn't Life Wonderful? d Madge Bellamy, a8 co-stars ol ‘‘Se- Sennett’s “Water Wagons.” LINCOLN—"The Lady.” Beginning this afternoon at 3 o'clock and continuing through Tuesday, the attraction at the Lincoln Theater will be First National's production of “The Lady,” adapted from the play Martin Brown, with Norma Talmadge in the title role. quarter century in the life of a wom- an who launched her career in a Lon- don music hall and never quite at- tained the social eminence for which she yearned. Wallace McDonald, Walter -Long. George Hackathorne, Brandon Hurst, Marc McDermott and Emily Fitzroy are in the picture, which was directed by Frank Borzage. CIiff Bowes in “High Hopes” will be the new comedy. Wednesday and Thursd: Mrs. Wallace Reid will be seen as the star of “Broken Laws,” an F. B. O., sup- crets of tue Night,” and Bobby Yer-| g;:ted by Percy Marmont; also Mack | nngtl’s “Mash of the Water Dlug Sydney Chap-: | By | The story spans a | It is believed that the picture the first ever made on board an ocean liner while at sea, in which prac cally all the passengers and many the ship's personnel appear either extras or in the role of principals. The lightin in the interior scenes as handled by the vessel's elec ans, in charge of Chief Electriciun Cross, with the power being supplied v the auxiliary dynamos of the liner The mera work was accomplished under very difficult conditions at lly during two days of bad weather, when exces sive vibration due to the high sea prevailed Others who took outstanding parts in the film were Purser J. G. Summitt Chief Steward “Billy” Lynn, Chie Officer 1. Higgins d Capt. Herbert Hartley, commander of the Lev who in the comedy perform: at sea—"The Fast name. and a Grantland Rice Friday and_Saturday, Marguerite D La Motte, Victor McLaglen, Williar Russell, Mary Alden and _Stuart Holme Vitagraph's “The Beloved Brut - Conley in “Moto Mad and on_Sat urday No. 8, will added. “Sportlight ; in APOLLO. Today and tomorrow, Claire Wind sor, Bert Lytell and Doris Kenyon, in “Born Rich,” and Charlie Chase, in “Big Red Riding Hood": Tuesday and Wednesday, D. W. Griffith’s “Isn’ Life Wonderful?” ar iff Bowes, in “Merrymakers”; Thursday, Mary As |tor and. Tan Keith, in “Enticement,” Graves, in “The Beloved ¢, Booth Tarkington's | “Pampered Youth,” and Jimmie Ad ams, in “Love Goofy turday, Hoot Gibson, in “Let Her Buck,” Mack Sen nett’s “Water Wagons” and “Idaho, | No. 7. AVENUE GRAND. Today and tomorrow, May {in “The Mad Whirl,” and Lloyd Har ilton, in “Half a Hero”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Claire Windsor, Bert Ly tell Kenyon, in_“Born Chase, in “Big Red