Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 41

- - Theaters g = Che Sunday Star Part 3—12 Pages — WAS HINGTON, - :D. @. UN DAY MORNING, JULY 1925. )y By CIAIRE™ WINDSOR. ~ BeTTY CoMeron . Palace. Newsrand’ Cdmment By W.H. Landuo‘fgr. N the Summer temple of the drama the National Theater Players are adding to their local fame. Even the weather seems to smile pro- pitiously upon their efforts approval with laughter and applause and harmless It is good to have everybody happy, amusement, excellent withal in type and presenta- tion, is making a record at the National Theater that has not been equaled in years in Washington. Here may be found another illuminating bit of is not defiled and that risque entertain- s not the only kind that is assured of successful patronage. It & happy though not a surprise to level-headed common sense that refuses to be stampeded with clamor for the forbidden. e b e ASHINGTON; during the week, had a taste also of general elevation ‘Kiss Me Again,” with its revelation of the direc- torial genius of Ernst Lubitsch, and “The Talker,” with its cfirr(\ne les- son of the evil of idle chatter, none the less a good sermon because thor- oughly interesting entertainment, deserve to rank with the really worth- while pictures of the year. A “Greater Movie Season” is impending, which means a grand exploitation of their wares by the picture producers No industry of magnitude is without its public organ. and the regulars and independents in the movie producing world have theirs. It is doubt- ful if the great mass of movie patrons are subscribers, but from time to time, through the public press, if not through the theater press agent, il filter rare information concerning the doings of both sides, as well as of what each has done in the way of public entertainment. The good will prosper, as it deserves to do, and.the bad will fail. The pictures of- iered for public entertainment must invariably be the crowning argument in the battle for the survival of the fittest. Meanwhile it is comforting to ascertain this early that the producer has been giving sound thought and superior skill to the production of the offerings to come S e OME idea of the daring of the publicity man may be gathered from the English news of how “The Phantom of the Opera” was exploited 1 England. The London agent of the American producer recently ar- rived in Southampton with the print of the photoplay. He insured it for over a million, had armed men await its arrival at the steamer dock and the police were notified that he had with him “something more precious than gold.” An escort of the Royal Garrison Artillery—about 100 men, with a band—traveled with the film to London and then paraded the streets. The military officials claim that it was represented to them that pictures were to be made of the artillery which could be used for recruit- ing purposes. The band blared. The soldiers marched—and then the facts came out. In consequence, military and journalistic E with wrath and indignation. This interesting story is taken almost bodily from Film Daily, “the Bradstreet of Filmdom.” It serves to show, how- the ‘wisdom Davy Crockett’s old adage, “Be sure you're right, then go ahead.” evidence that the general public ment i revelatio in the photoplay. ever, of * Xk X X ATURALLY, with a “Greater Movie Season” impending and with the volumes of publicity that will be let loose already beginning to roll in, movie abundant. For instance, report has it that the Germans have finally awakened to the fact that in addition to art and <kill i e of the the box office sense acutely de- veloped is indispensable. It is the variation in movieland of the law of supply and demand. And this brings us back to the old query, “What does the public want?" The danger of the application of the box office sense to movie manufacture is the mistaken guess as to what the public really Some one once said that any proposition can be proved hy biblical quotations. Figures that never lie can be embroiled in the most colossal misrepresentation of the truth. And so juggling with “what the public wants” by inexperienced or prejudiced psychologists has pro- duced some marvelous misfits in the movies. * X X % AE MURRAY isn't going to be a star of Ufa, the German producing corporation. It has said so ifi~unmistakable terms, and now the rumor comes that Mae is going to make a big picture in Paris Mix, whose manly form honored the luxurious quarters of our local Mayflower Hotel but recently, has adopted Ann Pennington as his-new leading woman. Cathrine Curtis, Phil Rosen, the director of “Abraham Lincoln,” and Mrs. Mary Jester Allen, niece of “Buffalo Bill” are going to Wyoming, unless the earthquakes scare them off, to select locations for the forthcoming photoplay the life of the greatest of American scouts of old, and Wallace Munro, than whom there is no-other, has joined the Curtis organization that the general public may be properly and adequately informed. William De Mille has signed Bessic Love and Neil Hamilton for the leading roles in the film version of Frank Craven's “New Brooms,” and Priscilla Bonner will play the feminine lead opposite John Barrymore in “The Sea Beast.” The famous old melodrama, “The Still Alarm,” is to be screened by Universal, with Edna Marian playing a leading role. Eugene Walter's “original story.” “The Dangerous Game. has been purchased for Hope Hampton. London reports the release of a picture called “Nionga.” produced with native players in Central Africa, On the other end, “The True North.” which has made its appearance in New York made_in unknown Alaskan regions fringing the Arctic Circle H. Young and Capt. Jack Robertson. who lived there ubsisting on game shot with the primitive bow and ar- It high lights include a salmon migration in the Yukon, scenes showing the breaking up of the ice in the river and a flash of the mid- night sun _—_—meee e All Six Busy. Three Hours Daily in Saddle ACK ST ICARDO CORTEZ, already an ac- ties are working side by side at | complished horseman, is spending the Edendale studio, Alice Day, Sen- | p . 8 P AN ons e e he. | tbree hours a day in the saddle in is f playing a doughnut designer in a |Preparation for his part in “The Pony pastry shop, Ruth Taylor is playing | Express.” u flapper in the same picture, Made-| The utmost in hard, swift and trick line Hurlock on the next set is a |riding is demanded in Cruze's story, crystal gazer in a new comedy, Na-|which he hopes will eclipse “The Cov- talie Kingston, not far away, is play- | ered Wagon,” both in plot interest and ing a Spanish dancer opposite Harry | historical background. Langdon, and on the next stage| Pony express riders averaged better Thelma Parr is playing with Ray- | than 10 miles an hour. including all mond McKee under the direction of | stops, over a distance of 1,996 miles, ¥ddle Cline, while Eugenia Gilbert is | and on shorter runs sometimes main vamping her way through the same |tained a spesd on horseback of over BACLUIr S, 20 miles an hour. gossip is most nanufact of movie )lic of Arthur by for tv S super-six beau- and large audiences are lending their | gland is ablaze | Tom | | | MAy Hamirtow Farle | . . o8 Premier Mussolini's Play. N the light of the dramatic_history | 7 of Italy in recent months, in which | he played the leading it surprising to learn that Premier Mus [solini is also a playwright of the role is not The first act of his Begin play. “Gentle men, We which was | pleted 15 ago, recently :hru\lxlu to this country, according to | the New York Herald, by Marie Bazzi, | Ttalian actress, who proposes to pre. | sent it, along with other pl in | New York and coming season. | The story of the Mussolini drama concerns a cacavan of gypsies. The author describes the life of a wander ing orchestra, each player having an instrument that reveals his character As each plays an instrument its sounds reflect the state of mind of the player There is much complicated love in he play - The premier's playwrighting \s described by Miss Bazzi as ping.” It is in three acts. Miss Bazzi, before coming to Amer ica, made a successful tour of Italy in such American plays as “Rain™ “Anna Christie” and “Enter Madame." Her New York appearance is to be an event of the early season, with ‘Gentlemen, We Begin.” one of the first productions scheduled. com vears was effort “grip Paradise for Directors. MO ALIFORNIA,” Christiansol plcture director, European directors “Practically everything the director | lacks in Europe,” continues Chris. | tianson, “is found here in abundance. “The first thing here which struck | me forcibly is the abundance of beauti. ful and varied types of women “Kurope has many beautiful but each country seems to have single type “Standing on the corner of Fifth and B dway, in Los Angeles, 1 have seen more beautiful types of women | in.10 minutes than I could find | Jurope in 10 years. It is the mixed siry of the American girl which gives her beauty and individuality as well as distinctiveness “Another great thing in the favor of picture-making in California is the | great variety of lecations to be found | within. a comparatively small area. | You have here the deserts and palms | of the tropics and the snows and pines of the far North. Also the climate is vastly superior to that of Scandi- | avia, France and Germany when it | come: to the filming of pictures. Perfect studio organization Is another American advantage. Buchnwetzki'sfind. HEY say It couldn’t happen except | in the movies. But stranger things happen in real life than in fiction. In this case it happened right along Hollywood boulevard, Holly- wood, Calif., and the hero, Raymond | Keane, hadn’t even ‘“crashed the gates” of a studio. | Dimitri Buchowetzki, stepping from | his motor recently to enter a shop, | halted In amazement at the sight of |a vouth sauntering aimlessly along He had a face which was a compos- ite of Valentino and Ramon Novarro and a slim, vouthful body like that of the ancient Greeks. | The Russian does not beat around the bush when he wants anything. He stepped up to the astonished boy and sald, “Who are you and where are you working?” *Young Keane looked uncomfortable and hesitated. “I—I haven't been able to get into any of the studios vet," he answered, “but I did come to Hollywood hoping I might get into pictures.” The director grabbed him by the arm. “Well, you're in pictures now,” he declared, as he propelled young Keane into the waiting car and or- dered it to turn back to the studio. Buchowetzki is training the lad to play an important part in the big says Benjamin Danish _motion s a paradise for Zirls its elsewhere during the | production he is starting for WUni- versal, © SRR Prrey MARMONT Rislto Meet the W Robin Hood.” light oper KEITH'S EARLE Olsen and Johnson “Raffies.” vaudeville. Op NATIONAL—"Meet the Wife.” When two who the same consecutively men have married woman meet on common ground, what eventuates | is bound to make an interesting scene, | even if they be deaf and dumb. No two men react the same, of | would | course, though Lynn Starling has en- | deavored to construct a typical reac tion in “Meet the Wife,” a farce hit | of last season in New York and Chi- | cago, which the National Players will offer this week, beginning tomorrow | night . | The first husband, aided by an earthquake to escape the dominance of a shrewish wife, forsakes real es-| tate and becomes a literary light. The second husband, far removed from the | advantages of earthly flssures, so to | speak, has to put up with it all. As | « budding lyricist No. 1 stumbles into the menage of the man who inherited his bad luck. Things go smoothly until the anchoréd one finds he is en- tertaining his wife's first provider 2 calls him a coward for running ‘ away and implies that he (No. 2) is the one who should be enjoying the sweet | liberties of single-blessedness, On the | point of fighting, they realize their folly, combine as two against a com- | mon misfortune and become firm | friends and partners in the business | of tantalizing the hapless wife The piece rocks between farce and | broad comedy. Three younger folks | compose a second group of characters, | contributing the romantic theme, | which is complicated by the ardor of two voung men in_pressing for a | young lady’s hand. The comedy goes | still another scale downward in the relations between a reticent maid an 1 a vigorous butler. POLI'S—“Robin Hood.” “Robin Hood,” De Koven's ever- popular opera, will open at Poli's tomorrow night. Three famous fun-| makers have been engaged as come dians. ‘ Robinson Newbold, whose comedy arts ‘were classic in “China Rose’ Moonlight,” “The O'Brien Girl.” “Mary” and “The Royal Vagabond." will sing "“The Sheriff of Notting 2 NAZIMOVA comedy:. vaudeville. | Music "B LANCHE | SWILT ' ~ Awmbassador Mot the W Natiowal Lncoln l Divorce Court—Movie. unusual stories of floated in fron Here it E of the most | | the yvear has just Paramount sources 3¢ order of the presiding judge. a motion picture was shown in a court recently The pic People?” with Betty Flor- room at Portland, Oreg as a lesson to divorce | ture “Are Parents | comedy of marital affairs Bronson, Adolphe Menjou ence Vidor in the leading roles. When court the filleg with disagreeing al! seeking freedom. When Mor row mounted the bench he rapped for order and then said | “Before the first case is called |am going to have a motion picture shown in t courtroom. person in this room to watch it care. ‘lull\. It depicts conditions which ob. in in many instances of marital troubles. and points a lesson which should benefit every seeker for di Lok The room was darkened and the pic ture projected on a specially con structed screen—the first time in the history of the State of Oregon that a motion picture was ever shown in a courtroom | Judge Morrow said that he intended {to watch carefully for possible re | suits seckers. was, and opened room was couples, Judge is ve Opens tomorrow evening. a. Opens tomorrow evening. Opens this afternoon. in a setting which they feal Knchantment.” Aesops Fables, Topics “Devils-|and the Pathe News hoof” and “Mikado” made hih a|complete bill favorite during the first two weeks | of the Summer opera season, will ap- | pear as Friar Tuck and__ Sol | Solomon. who is familiar to Wash-| . ington from his appearances with|INg today. will headline “Raffles De Wolf Hopper last Summer, will| “escape artist” whose baffling dem be seen in the role of Sir Guy.|onstrations are said to be sensational Sdward Orchard of Boston, yho will | = i S te Bing he! soia: OFETitts IUB e | 0 Darlo s recompanaine Thk irea with the original Boston Opera Com.| 2 skt N Opera Com-| "Dancing Shoes.” a terpsichorean D a1 raswntn’ the @Y | novelty, will be presented by a sex Louis Civic Opera last season snd | (St hAl executes an amazing varlety sang_ the role of Franz Shubert in|°fdifferent dancing stepe. = ‘Blossom Time” for the season. Taher Ieafires Wil ol Sudworth Frasier will sing the | JON€: o Toreamy Jitle role: Helena Morrfll, prima donna)| D o and. te b of othe company, will sing w1815 tropical'song review and Gauthler’s Marian"; Augusta Spette will be|py ,o0mnn Record Dogs, described Annabel, Bleanor La Mance, Alan R E%, described : T s vih |as a distinct noveliy. A Dale,” and Pierre Remington is Will | "y ine Hammerstein and Lou Telle- The gen will be seen in the first showing 407 Mas in Washington of the photoplay Callan, director of the stage, and| After Business Hours which pr poenery from Knight and Martin of | SDts an entirely new angle on mar New York will complete the pro-|led life. duction. ens this afternoon. call “A Trop of the Pictorial Day will ham"; Francis Tyler, whose the EARLE—“Raffles.” * an “Poss” Washington Opera Chorus of firshfleld, conductor; Paul MAYFLOWER GARDENS, The Mayflower Gardens are a fa vorite rendezvous for Washingtori so | ciety dancers, the dance music being presented by the Spencer Tupman Or- chestra. Mr. Tupman is featuring striking saxophone arrangements. The Mayflower Gardens are located deep under the hotel instead of on the roof, and boast of a refrigerated air-cooling system. The resort is also immune from interruptions caused by showers or unseasonable weathe: HOTEL WASHINGTON ROOF. The Hotel Washington Roof Gar- den continues to feature Brooke Johns and his Oklahoma Collegians. Their engagement for the Summer season will terminate in the Fall, at which time Brooke and his orchestra will assume the task of dispensing Jovial jazz for the edification of the habitues of the world-famous Kit Kat Klub of London. The inclosed roof shelters the en- KEITH'S—0lsen and Headlining the bill at B. F. Keith's Cheater this week will be Olsen and Johnson, in their headline comedy act and also in an afterpiece. “The Surprise Party,” in which they will be assisted by all the others on the bill. Featured will be the Russian dancer Karavaeff, and his company, includ- ing Muriel Kaye, Joyce Coles, Edith Mai and Charlotte Carmen, in a pro- duction staged by Theodore Bekefi. Lady Odean Pearse, a titled Erglish woman will entertain on 'her $20,000 violin, the gift of the Shah of Per- sia. She is said to be the only woman who has received the order of Sainton scholar from the Royal Academy of Music. Ohers Bab; Johnson, “Jerry and her Grands in Bits o'Dream Du Calion, “The Loquacious Laddie,” in a delivered monologue, while balancing on the top of a high ladder; Ed. and Tom Hickey, in ec-|tertainment and dancers in case of entric steps; Roger Williams, who |rain. The decorations are distinctive Imitates every known instrument, and |—a cool combintion ‘of orange and Amazon and Nile, who perform stunts ' green belng the motif. I want every | The Earle Theater this week, open- | ave | « | Lady,” 2 JorNPON Rerth LLOYD HucHL.® Central At the photoplay Houses Tl’n’s RIALTO—“A Wom h" Shown t ternoo: METROPOLITAN—" evening COLUMBIA evening PALACE— TIVOLI ning AMBASSADOR Week d evenin g wn this afternoon and “The Crowded Hou oon and Eve's Secret.” Waking 1 Just a Womar EARLE ROOEF CENTRAL evening LINCOLN (Colore noon and evening Recompense.” I The Courageous The RIALTO—"A Woman's Faith.” “A Woman's Faith at the Rialto this week, starrin Mary and direct ok lfish girl with character York and be. ce during the York telephone < T'he Fol- her male partner {and woman who have drunk deeply of tert t. is aided to a place | it . Yot venue aristocrat who s {the cup of dispair. The man, Dona-| .\ Sl van Steele, found the woman who was | phone it s nd entertain the enlists. Here which forms the 2 crime she did | cli st the chance to not commit. Their regeneration and an she selfishiy loves, or the climax of the picture are worked lesires and save a regi out in an impressive and unusual manner. | 'The cast inc | Hughie Mack, . Ros Turner and Clavin Roberts Heading the musical program be Mlle. Vera Ama French-Ame v can prima donni. who has v ty peared in the lirger picture the in New York and Philadelphin. The Rialto Orchest Mischa Guterson | condueting, will play e overture selections from Romberg’s “Blossom me."" A comedy entitled “Wild I International News and other reels will complete the program METROPOLITAN— Crandall's | this week, will_offer is | Rubens and adaptation Miracle in New 3 lan: 8 y in Fra ce Budc Kelland's ~ stor | eny Buddi k Ne | whieh appeared as a magazine seria ) screen of It is a dramatic love story of a man rms of his best to marry him in the £oes | friend. ~ The 1 French-Canadian cused by her uncle « sree Caron, a wrongfully to Graves Nt comedy the “Good International the Day and music are added ing ree Hersh se. Andre William 1t de i ides Jean Zasu Pitts, news Topics of silof’s orchest " s Secret.” Holt are «aptation Moon title of seen this week noon, at Loew's It was directed by ind adapted by Ade. The cast_includes Wil Vera Lewis, Lionel o Carillo. rns a jealous duke. diszusted with women of his own the beauty of her to Paris to wder after play the Palace gy the short ) liam Beln ore and Ma he story conc 1 t a Woman.” Metropolitan Th beginning this afternoon, irst National's film version of Bugene Walter's play Tust tor | Whe . rank, is peasant girl and send: be educated. with the id of marry | Woman,” in_which the stellar r ing her. His reputation as a duellst are portrayed by Claire Windsor and | K¢¢PS other admirers in awe until the Conway Larry Semon’s new |dvent of a voung peasant who has el il Cloud Hopper,” in | Inherited a fortune and who has de. | which he’ is supported by Dorothy | {€Fined to squander it in being a | Dwan (Mrs. Semon), the Metropolitan mlidnive for | World Survey ic of beauty and | "‘" Al a musical program by the Metropoli- |, gthes.© the P Symphony, under Daniel Bree- | Maguzine fasical vro the Palace Orchestra, under seph Gannon, will be added | a wigdon's comedy “Plain reel, the ace nd a tan skin. \ | “Just a Woman drsma, concerns a young wife who | {does much to bring about her hus- i, | and’s exceptional success in the steel | TIVOLI—“Waki | industry, but who, after wealth Jack Pickford | been attained, finds herself the Shearer, Alec |of false evidence a a divor trial | Pryor, Claire brought by her husband through the { will be the | connivance of a stage beauty who!of this | craves a share of the Holton millions. | Theater in “Waking Up the | The manner in which the wife brings | jogether with Om. Gane the husband to his senses comprises | Big Town " the bathe “Topics of the Day" Wednesday, Barbara La Marr and | the crux of the play~and affords an | Conway Tearle in “The Heart of a unusual climax. | The Metropolitan Symphony will | siren,”” Al St. John in “Curses,” and ar-ia new Lyman H. Howe ‘“Hodge offer Belini's “Norma" as its featured its | podge”: Thursday and Friday, “The number, an _interpretative score ranged by Mr. Breeskin, with theme a new melody entitled, “Lovely | Shock Puuch,” starring Richard Dix 5 and the exit march, @ new |ijth Frances Howard, Gunboat Smith Feist hit, “I Miss My Swi; and Walter Long, together with the Larry Semon in “The Cloud Hop- | ajghth installment of ‘“The Pace. per” may be relied upon to create a | mayers “Three Bases Bast,” star state of mind sufficiently gay to suit | .ine O'Hara and Alberta: the season of the year which is PoPU- | vayughp: Saturday, Tom Mix in Wil larly accepted as “the foolish season.” | jjam Jox’s production, “Dick Turpin,” \OLUMBIA—"The Crowded Hour.” | With Kathleen Myers, Philo McCul (g:ble“::r:fls r;l]‘l( Rl ih;:n h. Alun Hale and Bull Montana cludes Kenneth = Har ¥ iy Lot . AR e ot o N Barnes, Helen Lee Worthing; Frank | .gm g, L, SIXth - episode ot Morgan, Armand Cortez, Alice Cha-| ° 3 pin and Warner Richmond will be | seen-at Loew's Columbia this week, | beginning this afternoon, in the Para mount production “The Crowded Hour,” based on the play by Chan ning Pollock and Edgar Selwyn, gram L Thoma an attra engrossing Up the supported by B. Francis, MeDowell and the first Crandall's Town Norma Herbert Ann May 1wo days Tivali Town,"” in “The Review and Tuesday and has vietim sta veek at George ADOR—“Just a Woman." Windsor, Conway Percy Marmont, Dorothy Revier, Eddie Gribbon and_ baby Dorothy (Continued on Third Pagey AMBASS Claire Tearle,