Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1925, Page 53

. Theaters — Part 3—12 P;ges . he Sunday Star WASHINGTC ., SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE BARBARA\ LAMARR, Metropolitar . EWS anchomment By W. H. Landvoigt. ND.what is so rare as a day in June?” sang the poct. But he did not have the movies in mind when he caught the inspira- tion for his song irom the wealth of fragrant buds and rose blossoms that scented the balmy air, the cloudless skies and glories of the nearby Summer. - Yet the movie seizes the season the g - other despite paring the rose. emp to unfold its charms, while the press agent takes up his inspired pen and lets his imagination loose, arranging with rare delicacy and some nterest the world's fourth industry. All seasons are alike to the denizens of shadowland, and topics of what they are doing and what they think are never failing. L Bl degree of airy persifiage of T first let us give a word, even in the month when the Movie is Queen tn her statelier and almost as silent sister, the Stage. The “regular is past and the real theater almost as much of a wraith as the picture playv. The news reports tell of the big stars as touring Europe in search of health and recreation, or climbing the mountainside, or watch- ng the sad sea waves, apparently with indifferent air, while the plans are their new The big halls of the drama have sunk into All save one. At the National Theater. always “the American and distinguished foreign stars,” there is a f excellent players that is rapidly winning its way into the favor sing clientele by that peculiar psychology familiar to the stock TIhree plays have demonstrated not only their abilities as clever ng players. but Have served to show that “the play’s the thing, when the weather might seem to forbid. if only the play and the plavect b worth while. The plays hav® been well chosen and they have been mounted with a care and disregard of cost that would be commend- able in the big road attraction. That they have been exceilently played is attested by all the critics, even the most captious. * X K X hatching season their Summer sleep. home of the best company compa and ple ND now Beauty pictures so before, the Movies not the chief requisite for a successiul career in mo- tion Tom Terris. the Paramount director. Others have said but the movie director and producer have none the less scoured the world for feminine beauty as the one hope of the movie for success, and their finds have been exploited as rare exotics of incomparable cliness. Sounds good. Evervbody likes to look at a pretty girl, except the grouch doesn’t like anything. But Mr. Terris says more, and it opens the door of hope, because he is to be an important factor in the new Paramount movie school, which is going to catch 'em and educate for drama Heart, personality, sensitiveness.” he thinks, “count mare in screen acting than they do on the stage.” These are a few of the natural ingredients for the future movie star. Mr. Terris says that he and the prominent officials who inspected. the photographs of 61 candidates for admission to the school rejected 51 and will give the re- maining 10 sereen tests., “If this school does not develop a single screen star” he adds, “it will have justified its existence. It will do something no other seeks to do. It will develop poise. culture, superior at- tainments. It will make higher grades of its men and women.” If this be done, it will give photoplay drama a rank and a dignity that it does not always possess, M SS GLORIA SWANSON has found her best press agent in Charles G. Sheldon, the portrait painter, who says, up to the time he painted the portraits of Fritz Kreisler and Douglas Fairbanks, that he had seldom seen in a man's face anything worth painting. These are some of the compliments he pays his distinguished woman subject: “She is vivid and she has wonderful delicacy. She has power in the raising of an eyelid, in the faintest pursing of her lips—sensitiveness to an extraordinary degree in her eyes and mouth, the sensitivenes of an artistic temperament—her eyes can be long and beguiling like a gypsy’s, or round and innocent like a child's—her rhouth is very sweet and very expressive; in repose, firm; when talking or acting, mobile.” Gloria, it thus will be seen, is “some girl” the highest term of appreciation that is usually bestowed by the modern fan who adores Miss Swanson. d* ok ok % 2 SUTTHE next step of progress in fotion pictures will be to forget the rules and conventions on treatment, technique, art and esthetics,” according to Allan Dwan. “They have become so much red tape and a hindrance,” he adds. “The only formula for making a good picture,” he continues. “is_sincere work and the use of intelligence—and, of course, a story worth filming” Mr. Dwan believes the screen has revived panto- mime and made, it truly subtle. Further, he asserts that it is developing the greatest pantomimic %ability the world has ever seen. “The screen is giving to acting a naturalness of behavior it has not possessed before.” Mr. Dwan has ventured a number of other assertions about the screen and its achievements which may startle the producers and the players of the so-called “lezitimate” theater. And if all be true, he has framed a pattern for the photoplay which may. mean perfection forzthat much abused article, but which certainly will impose upon its producers, direc- I whe ‘em screen school ¥ ok ok K d rush of Hollywood and its sister localities in pre- | g tare for the Fall and Winter ‘months ahead, as a time. like | § " RCGINALD DRNNY At the Theaters This Week ATIONAL—“Spring Cleaning,” comedy. Opens tomorrow evening. CEI “The Pest,” vaudeville. Opens this aiternoon. EARLE—Maccabee week, vaudeville. Opens this afternoon HOWARD—"How Come:?" colored musical comedy. Opens tomor- row evening. p NATIONAL—*“Spring Cleaning."” 1t is possible that a wave of cordial hatred for Frederick l.onsdale, the author, will be aroused in feminine | playgoers’ circles after that writer's | play, “‘Spring Cleaning,” has been ex- | posed at the National Theater for the k A first time here tomorrow night. The |advance. It will servefto mention reason is that Lonsdale has devised a |merely that the frivolous wite dis new variation of discipline for wives [covers that most games, fllicit or —gentle, but vigorously persuasive. |otherwise are made for two or more After a Winter of discontent, germ- [to play, and she also discovers that inated by his wife's plunge into cir- |the newer order of things s a fur- ,cles that are doubtful, on the outer edges, at least, a young husband de- cides to clean house of the evils therein as a result of the wife's in- discretions. How he accomplishes it is the striking factor in the plav's success, but it must not be told in tors and actors a task such as they never have imagined before, even in their wildest flights. Of course, everybody hopes it is true and hopes also that the Dwan prescription may banish all others from the materia medica of phatoplay compounding. * % X X 3 FROM Greta Nissen, “the beautiful Norse star, who is hailed as the pres- ent-day sensation of the screen,” we learn that “pantomime is the expression of certain moods, feelings, emotions—love, genderness, pas- sion, hatred—through the medium of the body—the use of the hands, feet, eves and mouth. virtually everything except speech. Its two. great re- quirements are sincerity and simplicity.” This lesson Miss Nissen learned during her many years of training at the Royal Opera of Copenhagen. And this, as she understands it, is also the purpose of the screen player. How beautiful beconies the rose of the movies as it unfolds and discloses what even the wonderfully endowed and experienced critic who pans pic- tures every week, or bubbles over with the delirium of delight, has never even suspected. But in all seriousness, it is good for movie stars to shoot high in the heavens, for the higher they shoot the more beautiful will be the spectacle. Yet the sentimental singer will murimur, with a faraway look in her eyes, “The world is waiting for the sun to rise. * kK k i OSEPHINE NORMAN, charming model for Howard Chandler Christy, now a Cecil B, De Mille asset, has been christened in her new job he Pride of the Democrats,” because it was she who, dressed in red, white and blue, led the one-hour demonstration for McAdoo at the Demo- cratic convention last Summer. * ok Kk ok ¥ MRA DE MILLE also claims another celebrity in Rita Carita, a cham!» ing brunette—although beauty doesn’t count in the movies—who is said to have been a Greek interpreter for President Coolidge when he was Governor of Massachusetss. * K kK HERE are some things of the stage, it appears, which are deemed worthy of admission to the sanctuary of the screen. Richard Carle, for many years a star in musical comedy, will play the role of David Fontenay in Rod La Rocque’s forthcoming picture, “The Coming of Amos,” which was adapted by James Creelman and Garrett Fort from William J. Locke’s novel. * ok Kk ok ETTY BRONSON, who achieved her first taste of fame as Barrie's screen ideal for Peter Pan, has scored another knockout. She was crowned “The Golden Frincess of the Hollywood Shrine Celebration™ in the movie demonstration for the Mystic Shriners last’ Tuesdaya ther affront to her there is no attempt at secrec Whereupon retaliation and a climax follow that takes on of heavy, play's comedy Spring Cleaning” had a prosper- ous run of 288 performances at the Eltinge Theater in New York. For reasons that called both Selwyn brothers, the owners, to Europe, it was not groomed for a road tour, and next week’s performance by the Na- tional Theater Players will afford Washington firat glimpse of a plece that has been designated by ew York critics as “Extraordinarily brilliant” — “Amusing and differen and “Subtlely rich in observation.” As In all of Lonsdale’s comedies, there are the two desirable essentials of wit and situation. Though slightly daring at times, the plece is sald to be neither brazen nor off-color, but it is valued for the entertaining man- ner in which the author displays his insight into human nature. For the first time the National Players will depart from strict farce and display to Washington patrons talents of a different mold. Minor Watson, Lenets, Lane, Edward Ar- nold. Katherine Giveney, Billy Phelps. Lilllan Dean and others wiil appear in roles that cannot help but tighten the clamp of popularity they have fastened on the Capital. Matinees Wednéeday and Saturday at “bargain rates” are announced. potent drama, despite the assification as a dramatic KEITH'S—“The Pest. An avalanche of fun is promised at B. F. Keith's Theater this week by James Barton in the biggest scream of the year; “The Pest.” The scene is a cabaret and Mr. Barton portrays the pest, who knows everything and every- body. He is assisted by Lew Christy and Charlot Allen, and himself offers a liberal amount of his celebrated dancing. 4 ;i Featured also will be Meyer Golden's latest production, “The Antique Shop,” “a stupendous fantastic novelty,” staged in a lavish, but artistic man- ner, with an assortment of dancers, beautiful girls, gorgeous costumes and settings. Others will include Jack Rose, the irresponsible comedian, whose chief business in life is “high hatting the blues,” assisted by Jimmy Steiger at the plano; Beatrice Herford, well known for her own popular, original monologue: Meehan's Canines, four- footed athletes that do many surpris- ing stunts; Flo and Ollle Walters, two beautiful girls, in a bit of fun, sol and dance called, ‘““Telling Tale: written by Frances Nordstrom: Ar- mand and Perez, in a thrilling gym- nastic exhibition; Al Striker, who spe- cializes in circus stunts learned from studying the big billl d circus ad- vertisements, and the n features, Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and the Pathe News Pictorial. EARLE—Maccabee Week, * “The Maccabees are being honored . pride because | the complexion | Nl GRITTITH MARGID COATL. - Catle \\_;___ Moorp Columbia American Women's Legion Benefit. | “WILLIAM TELL." the beautiful legend, with scenes taken in Switzerland. a high-class motion pic- ture, with the glorious music of Ros sini’s “William Tell” scored through out the whole picture, will be given its first showing at the Marine Bar racks open-air theater the evening of June 19 undér the auspices of American Women's Legion The music will be furnished by the Marine Band. Dancing in the hall will follow the picture until midnight Tickets may be had at Robinson’s 1308 G street northwest Converted the ManademenL ITH the opening this afternoon of Maccabee week at the Earle Theater, it is announced that the management and practically the en tire personnel of the theater will have become members of this fraternal organization. During negotiations several weeks ago for taking over the theater for the week in honor of the Maccabees the various features of the order were explained to the management. with the result that Manager Fred Hand is Maccabee Ni 3163, General Manager Jullan Bi lawski No. 3164 and “Daddy” Brylaw ski Maccabee No. 3165, in the order named, as part of the 5,000 new members sought prior to the opening of the fraternal convention here in July. This 5,000 class is expected to be the largest of its kind that ever entered a fraternal order at one time. at the Earle Theater this week. this fraternal organization joining hands with the management in preparing a program of vaudeville and photoplay entertainment. The bill is headed by the Volga Boda Boys. an octet of Russian sing. ers recently with Ed. Wynn's “Grab Bag." one of their special numbe: being the famous “Volga Boat Song. “The Maccabeans” arealso featured. They are a group of musicians direct from the tents of the fraternal order, with the personnel made up of _pro. fessional artists. oz In addition will be Donghue and Morgan in “The Long and Short of Margie Choate, known as the Queen of Syncopation; John Marrone and Alfredo L’Acosta, an international combination of comedians, and two ‘Washingtonians, Zuhan and Drels, in a skit having to do with the old- tashioned American family quarrel. "The photoplay will be Priscilla Dean in “The Crimson Runner,” which ad- vance reports style as a stirring ro- mantic tale of old Vienna. “ HOWARD—"How _Come." The latest all-colored Broadway suc- cess “How Come;” starring Eddie Hunter and Billy Higgins, elosing its five-week run in Philadelphia, will open a week’'s engagement at the Howard Theater tomorrow night. “How Come" is declared the best play ever written, danced and sung by colored players. The book is by Eddle Hunter, the musical score by J. Edgar Dowell, the dances have been staged by Henry Creamer, and the crchestra is under the direction of Allle Ross, formerly with “Broadway to_Dixie 1t entertains with a flashy array of specialities, novelties, singers and dancers, scene after scene dashing along in a riot of colors and gayety. There is a cast of 75 people, much dancing, scenery, music and a femi- nine contingent miles ahead of other colored shows, with Eddie Hunter and Billy, Higgins as its king-pins. the | Luncolw - JAMES BARTON- Keithe “Photoplays This Week | At the Photoplay Houses 'This PALACE—"Are Parents People? ning COLUMBIA— evening METROPOLITAN—"The Heart of 2 and evening RIALTO—"I'll Show You evenin TIVOLI—"Sally AMBAS, DOR- and evening. CENTRAL—"Forbidden Cargo.” LINCOLN (colored) Declasse.” Week The Code of the West.” Showr 2 Siren.” Sho the Towr Shown hown this afternoon and evening. The Heart of a Siren Shown this aiternoon gn Shown t PALACE— ty Are Parents People?” Bronson, the 17-vearold gir of Paramount’s screen version of Peter Pan makes her second cir |ema appearance of the season a Loew's Palace this afternoon, | featured with Adolphe Menjou ‘p'h.v--m Vidor. in the central u-ifl’m. “Are Parents, People?”’ an adaptation | e | of Alice Duer Miller’s dainty and de ;f?l_‘)“"f""_‘im‘;',p"“v e | Hghtrul story that origimally appeared | "G5 (TSNS L |in the Saturday Evening Post eipstance S | ‘““Are Parents People?” also Serves|,.; 'y young actress who will be | to introduce a new Paramount direc- |75 B SOARE HELEC | tor, Maleolm St. Clair, formerly a_di. | FEETCrer | rector of Buster Keaton comedies, and |} Lawrence Grey, a new leading man | who is said to give promise of ished reer e st concerns a s who, annoyed by the dissatisfied ten fails to 3 | dency of her parents, attempts to in- |t (G L ct a counter-irritant into the family [ Fote B SERRETOR e traubles by assuming a frightful | (GRERC (0T et “erush” on a male movie star, and | (o} i when this proves futile through the | 80070 o WINEESE ldly reject star’s own disclaimer, she cooks up a wever quiet substitute scheme that not only show e at lur M nstance F Ballir d B five outstanding adapted b and was directed 1 Mabel Charles ( anc e Lucien Hubbard re competent plains. stam hix the |The gentleman. h aD- | forces her, at the point of a gun, in parently involves her in a real scan-| e bonds of matrimony, carries her dal. but badly compromises & YOUNZ|off 1o a mountain cabin and then doctor as well things thrilling begin to happen Che added features will be a - A ‘Raiph Graves comedy, “Breaking * comedy, “Big Town the Ice,” the International News reel Pathe news pictures, Topics of and music by-the Columbia Orchestra | Day and an orchestral overture iy B will anded { #ccompaniment by the Palace Orches:| attractions tra, under Thomas Joseph Gannon METROPOLITAN—"The Heart of a ren Barbara La Marr will be seen in the stellar role of First National's produc- | |tion, “The Heart of a Siren.” this| week, beginning today Crandall’'s Metropolitan Theater. Miss La Marr's| loveliness, however. does not comprise the only \istinctive quality of the pro gram for the week. The comedy | “Curses,” a new two-reel travesiy for nimble Al St. John: the Metropolitan World Survey and a delightful musi cal program by the Metropolitan Or chestra, under Daniel Breeskin, will b added attractions, usilof be TIVOLI—"Sally." {dall's Tivoli Theater and Tuesday in F duction of “Sally Miller was the st National's in which Marilynr musical comedy star Miss Moore is supported by Leon Erral, who appears in the same role that he created others include Mason, John T on and Lioyd the stage Hughes, Dan Murray a Novak, Ray Hallor and Myrtle Stedman. The | Pathe Review and a musical setting by Otto F. Beck, concert organist, and jarold T. P tant, will be aded features Wednesday and “The Heart of a Siren” traces the|ye." to Live wit love adventures of a beautiful young |y rothy Mackaill, F woman through 'the fashionable cen-|xhionio Moreno ters of Europe, 'Men are at her feet)jjon “in “King Cotton in droves. She scorns them all after|; (i o¢ e “Cinema Stars flirtations of varving lengths and de-| ran o Boardman and Will grees of intensity. Finally she mbets T seppe o an aristocratic, but impecunfous Young [ £5h installment of Englishman and -hen the tables are | toheer " 5 oG Slve 0 Hara turned and the siren is treated 10 a|Alherta \aughn, and Aesop's taste of her own medicine. The cli-| % e in leeland”; Saturday. max is reached after -developments|yjix in the new film version Ridors that are intensely inferesting and|or (he Purple Sa B Zars Qs agreeably novel. The setings aye or-| wjth Tgny, the wonder horse: Mabel geous and Miss La Marr's costumes|galiin, Wilfred Iucas and \Warner are declared the last word in pletur- | Grang ERer lveriie? comeny entneiailenfion E and “Sunken Silver The cast includes also Conway |xg » " Tearle as the Englishman: Harry T.| 1Y o Morey, Ida Darling, Clifton Webb and o Heakt Yot s Willlam Ricciardi. Phil Rosen, direc tor of “Abraham Lincoln,” held the megaphone on this picture The overture for the week will be Von Suppe’'s “Pique Dame.” The in terpretative orchestral score for “The Heart of a Siren” will have as its re current theme melody. *'I'm Falling in Love with Some One. from Victor Herbert's operetta aughty Mariet ta.” The exit number will be the new song hit, “My Sugar.” One Pringle, Theby, Thursday Aileen semary Lioyd and also on Alley AMBASSADOR: Sire La Marr Morey Barh | Ha T Darling, | Doucet Conway Tearle Clifton Webh, 104 Florence Billings Paul nd William Ricciardi are in the ¢ of First National's produc. tion of “The Heart of a Siren” to bhe seen the first three davs of this week |at Crandall's Ambassador Theater. The comedy will be Clff Bowes in ‘un’s Fun" and added short reals will complete the program Wednesday “and Thursday Vational's productioh of ymgues” with Percy Marmont. Doris | Kenyon and David Torrence: Lloyd | Hamilton in “Hooked"” and a new is | sue of the screen almanac: Friday Eleanor Boardman, Pat O'Malley and | Harrison Ford in King Vidor's pro duction of P d Flesh the third st RIALTO—"Tl Show You the Town." 4 “TIll Show You the Town™ is the attraction at the Rialto this week, starring Reginald Denny. Itis & delightful comedy concern- ing- the difficulties that arise when Alec Dupree, an obliging young col- lege professor, innocently says “I'll show vou the town” to three pretly |ipstallment of “The Pacemakers.” by women, each of wWhom had press- 3 Witwer, starring George ed him ‘to =act as her guide on and Alberta Vaughn, and a sight-seelng tour of the metropolis. aves -in Sennett’s The Be All would have been well had the|gved Bozo' Saturday anor “affair” ended where it started Boardman and William Russel in Supporting the young comedy star | “The Way of a Girl” and “Our Gang are Marlan Nixon, Edward Kimball, |comedy, sportlight and “Sunken Sil Lylian Tashman, Hayden Stephen- |\er. son, Cissy Fitzgerald, Margaret Liv- A : ingston, Neely Edwards and Lionel| CENTRAL— el “Forhidden Cargo” is announced for Heading the special features is| ' Forbidden Cargor I8 announcer Helen Jane Marr, a popular local| oiyngall's Central Theater, with Eve- dancer, who will appear in an Ori- |, , "Brent the star. The companion ental dance of her own creatlon.) royyre will be the fourth release in Mary Apple; a Washington contralto | (P&t e singer. will be -heard in selected | [N® Tl N songs. The Rialto Orchestra. under 'TAKeTs" starsing (teorge O/Hara un Mischa Guterson, will play for over- | fMUSII% VAnER also, Wamter wiers ture selections from “The Chocolate | \t-oqio g, oMt & Tuestay ant Soldier.” A comedy and the Inter-| v vVirrinia Vali and Lol national News will complete the bill. ol » s 2 Kerry; CIiff Bowes in “Fun’s Fun, and the new sterescopik novelty, COLUMBIA—"Codé of the West.” | “Zowie; Thursday and Friday, Bus “Code of the West,” a romantic epi- | ter Keaton in “Seven Chances,” with sode of the Far West, by Zane Grey, 7 = (Continued on Third Page\ Raly “orbidden Cargo.”