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o) 7 N $- ?v fi Theaters The Sunday Star Automob iles Part 3—12 Pages WA RICHARD BARTHELMESS FLORENCL\ VIDOR Co]umblau . Newsand Comment By W B Baceiaioy. HE season is near at hand when the take caterer to the public taste must an account of stock, examine closely into the cause.and cost of his overhead and coolly and deliberately determine how much further wearied effort must be taxed in the quest for appreciation This is true alike of plays and pictures, even true of the entertainment that is clothed with a concourse of sweet sounds. Aside irom the mys- tery of what the public wants, indeed over and above it all. looms the fact, best expressed in the language of the old the public wants what it wants when it wants it, with the accent strongly the when It is, therefore, on the what and the when that the failure of the idealist and thepractical purveyor of entertainment hangs. Times there are when thosg who strive very. hard, as they belicve, to serve the public interest feel ihe lack of appreciation and complain of public in gratitude. Ingratitude is a favorite virtue of humanity. It is not abashed by public exposure ¢r individual complaint. The ones in amusement production, consequ’ntly, embark upon their ventures with its existence plainiy before them, and rely upon various wiles to win the public willy- nilly. Sometimes they succeed, more oiten they fail. Lady Public is a Jordly lady who wants what she wants when she wants it, and she doesn’t care a rush candle for ideals and the lofty aims of others. Lady Luck seems to be the only personage who is able to cope with her. And Lady Luck herself is a very evasive somebody. * ok ox K EET THE WIFE," which had so successiul a run at the during the week and which was one of the New York the past season, furnishes an illustration of dramatic worth unhelped by the constructive criticism of the sage New Yorker. There was a time when the third act might have been closed to advantage, instead of being | prolonged to leave a rather dubious situation for its audiences to unravel. | | song. on success or wise National successes of The play furnishes laughter and wholesome entertainment throughout. At no time is there an attempt to draw upon the unpleasant to approval. The fact that the final curtam falls on a poor little woman, foolish if you will. but not wicked, yet with two husbands, one walking away from trouble and the other not very sorry that he had | been elected to continue in it, is an inexcusable blunder for some one, es- pecially as it could so casily have been avoided | *x k ok Xk LADY & L JCK evidently has cast her lot with the Najional Theater Play- ers. Each week has found her contributing large and well satisfied | audiences. Each player of the fine company has had, or will have. his or her turn as an ontstanding success Miss Leneta Lane, heretofore spoken of chiefly as The week just closed has elevated | “the beautiful leading lady.” as all that and somewhat of an actress as well. Her role in “Meet | the Wife.” a familiar one in real life, was handled throughout with de cacy and finesse. She scored a real hit. and, in conscquence, the critics | are recasting their judgment on her ability. Over at Leo Lefitt's large and commodious theatrical temple. with a rare and beautiful production of “Robin Hood,” sung by one of the best companics that ever presented the favorite old opera in Washington, the measure of success was limited to enthusiastic applause rather than rcflected in large as well as appre- ciative audiences. “Robin Hood” always has been.a great favorite here. Last year, with De Wolf Hopper, it was one of the really great suc- cesses of the Summer season. ' This year the local endeavor and accom- plishment of surpassing last year's offering.scemed to lack hearty in- dorsement of the kind that encéurages deserving effort, and while meeting | out disappointment to its promoters added the further rebuke of a lean | box office. It is always a matter of real regret when Washington over- | looks its own in this manner, for Washington usually is very proud and | very generous on such occasions. 1t is to he hoped this week's revival | of “Pinafore” will furnish a conspicuous illustration of what the National | Capital means to be toward the heretofore successful and deserving Wash- | ington Opera Company in its honest effort to supply fine Summer musical | entertainment. * Xk kx X | ATER news of the American method of exploiting “The Phantonr of the Opera” in London reveals that the British cinematists also have | methods of their own, and that the abuse of the British army in ex- ploiting the American picture will serve as a very good excuse for at least Jessening American rivalry in photoplay exhibitions, which has been sorely trying the English for some time. Mass meetings, those fatal destroyers of mundane things, are being called. and. doubtless, will be so handled | as to serve the purpose of the British prmlm("r( who, with characteristic British virtue, believe that Britain was made for Britons, especially the British photoplay market . ok Kk the Wall Street Journal, an organ photoplay exploitation, it is learned that Famous Players now owns or controls 358 houses scattered throughout the United States, 10 addi- tional ones abroad and that these are being constantly added to. The Vaudeville Theater, in Paris, one block from the Opera. was bought at a cost of 25000000 francs, it is said, and two theaters are being constructed | in London. one of them, the Paramount, at a cost of 250.000 English | pounds. The purchase of these theaters is claimed to be in the interest of improved picture distribution, because each will be the exhibitor of | Paramount pictures. The “independent producer” cites the purchase as | evidence of a colossal trust designed ultimately to control the photoplay industry. Startling dividends like those declared recently zre the ultimat: prize. Nowhere is there announcement or the slightest evidence that the patronizing public is to reap a benefit, either in the form of hetter pictur or of lower admission costs. win to HROUGH of finance and not of * %k *x X i AMUEL GOLDWYN, who has been a conspicuous figure in photoplay production always, now has shifted his allegiance from First Nationa! to United Artists, taking with him Directors George Fitzmaurice and Henry King. King, it it said, will complete “Stella Dalla<” for United Artists’ re- lease and then take np the production of an adaptation of Robert Hichens “The Garden of Allah.” going to the supposed site of the “Garden,” near | Biskra, for the purpose. I * Xk kX T is interesting to note the intimacy that is growing between Vaudeville | and the Movie. The approach was first made by the Movie in the effort to bolster weak feature pictures with musical interpolations by “guest artist<” supplementing the “symphony orchestra.” Vaudeville met | the advance with aloofness. but now, according to reports from Cleve- | land, through Film Daily, the 3000-seat Keith Palace in that city, for the first time, will take the Movie in its embrace, thus consummating a de- Tightful commercial romance, doubtless engineered by the box office spirit for the public delight. * ok ok X | OLLOWING quickly the announcement of his association with Cath- rine Curtis Productions, which is about to put on the screen a colossal | historical picture with Buffalo Bill as its theme, comes the information that Wallace Munro, whose fine Italian hand has boosted many a play over the top to success. has withdrawn from the enterprise. Wallace has said so over his own signature in a communication to The Star. * koK % VONNE LEVY, a bit of budding genius detected in €entral High School's annual theatrical nerformance, “Twelith Night." a_few short months ago. after a season under the guiding hand of David Belasco, in “The Dove,” is enjoving a brief respite with the home’ folks hefore re- turning to professional work under the same master. Miss Levy un- mistakably possesses theatrical genius, coupled with the determination to patiently persevere in the grueling climh to the heights. That she has won the supporting hand of the great Relasco should make the assarance of uitimate success dophly sure. Many more than her hosts of school and other friends in Washington will follow her climb with pride and’ good wishes, Laad e sl | s | of absence | Russia and permi | of the modern picture producer has set | the | tainiy | tions, Metropolitat MIRLE SYMONDS HINGTON, D. SUN VDAY NG, MORNIN JULY 9 1 1925 Morris Gest Sails. FTER defertiffi"iTé" customary to Europe the latest date matiy Vears, dus to. coraplicated tlations for presenting “The Mirac le n severul Americ: son. Morris Olympie Thursday turn the last week periniend the prepar “The Miracle” out of storage land One of the important rendezvous o Mr. Gest abroad will be that with Viadimir Nemirovitch - Dantchen. creator and director of the Mc ¢ Theater Musical Studio. This meeting will take place in Salzbursg Austria, and Mr. Gest is said to have every assurance that Rus sian regisseur will by n hand the definite Lunatcharsky, minister to the petition signed by American connoisseurs ture and the theater for this trip in n cities. sailir He expec in August Gest s to su the great that time have eply \ of arts fine’ of art, litera requesting leave company from sion for it to come to America under Mr SUs ¢ for two months next Winter L;ughs Wanted. UTY, take a back seat, are wanted in filmdom Agnes O'Malley, who knows how to tell a good story herself, says every big prodycer in Hollywood is engaged in a frantic search for giggles and Laughs tak J tn Cl | | | | | | | thousands of | rection | roars. Problem plays and sizzling dramas are being put away in blankets and emotional stars are being sent on a long, a much-needed rest, from their labors. The movie rights to funny stori and stage comedies are soaring to the skies in price, and s are being ruthlessly their enforced retirement to enjov prodigious salaries, while gag men, | experts in banana-peel slips and cus. | tard-pie collisions, are being tempted with pay roll attention that would muke the eves of a big novelist bulge with astonishment Such is Hollywood’s response to the demand for screen comedy. Not even the presence of the world's greatest dragged from | writers on the scene in search of the mystic wisdom of movie procedure can stay the mad demand. The handy dic tionary’s definition of the word comedy s interpreted by the dramatic wisdom Hollywood afire. The photoplay is going to devote its talents to comedy—and the world at large is wondering. | | { | On Top the Gragt i HE WHITE DESERT,” Regin-| ald Barker's thriller, based on | the engineering attempt {o tunnel the Rockies outside of Denver, and made | on the top of the continental divide in Winter, called for scenes showing | a train plowing through a plizzard to | rescue of a snowed-in construc- tion camp. | It sounded simple enough, but it in- | volved perching four cameramen on the mountain side while a real blizzard raged. The temperature was far be- | low zero, the danger of freezing was constant’ and the difficuities in the way of successful photography could hardly be multiplied. Up at an ele- | vation of 11,500 feet players, direetor | and operators had to live in two Pull- | man cars parked at the top of ghe | divide. During fhe time we were maklng this picture,” says Mr. Barker, asked myself if the best results in the | world could possibly Justify such | hardship and exposure, ~But back in | sunny California we have had ‘a| chance to see the photographic re- sults of the trip and to forget the agony we all went through up on the mflllnlnlns We are beginning to be- | Heve that maybe it was worth it. Cer- I. for one. never expected to bring back the remaikable camera record of those fierce climatic condis | hut we've got them, and from the standpoint of thrills, I believe the picture drama is one of the best I've ever-made.” ! een comedians | S T\WI N feene urrent Attractlonslk;.‘, 'BQDP National At the Theaters This- Week NATIONAI POLIS—H. M ITH'S ~Richard EARLE Twin Bede,” S. Pinafore,” 1 Bennett, vaud NATIONAL—"Twin Beds.” B the laugh festival by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mays, s the National Players' offering this week, beginning tomorrow night Twin Beds” deals with the felici and infelicities of three married ouples and a funny mald. who seek to rid themselves of troublebrewing episodes in an apartment house where proximity breeds anything neighborliness. Harry Hawkins, wed for love and a home, resists his wife's habit of glving partles for her iwquaintances, and, particularly, he objects to a certain Italian tenor and ix Amazon wife, whose tenth wedding anniversary the Hawkins are celebrating at the curtain’s rise disgust finally drives him to move to another part of town, where he is em broiled in situation after situation, Is compromised, pursued and persecuted The plece is a valuable illustration of the kind of comedy that can be extracted from clean dialogue and clean situations. The lines sparkle with good-natured wit and with an undercurrent of slang. The play is peopled with funny, though broadly typical, people. Originally called theatrical gold mine,” “Twin Beds” has become not only that but a distinct bonanza for its authors. Since its original pro duction yvears ago, there hasn't been a season when it hasn't prospered. “Twin Beds POLI'S—“H. M. S. Pinafor “H. M. S. Pinafore” is being pre- sented at Poli's this week, opening tomorrow night This is the fourth of the light opera productions given by the Washington Opera Company this Summer. The continuation of the season was made possible by a generous Washington citizen who wishes to remain in cognito. He selected “Pinafore” for this week because he felt it would be valuable for the present generation to know the charm of this old-time favorite done by the splendid profes- sional company assembled by Edouard Albjon for this season of Summer opera. The productions all will rank with “the best light opera company ever presented in Washington.” Old- timers hark back to the daye of 25 vears ago, and even “the glory remembered things” does mnot dim their enthusiasm. “These operas,” says Mr. Albion, we will undestake to continue as an educational work if the public will glve us the necessary support, but without that we cannot continue indefinitely.” “The. Fortune Teller,” | Herbert, is in rehearsal, and will fol- {low “Pinafore” it the attendance justifies, otherwise the present season will close with “Pinafore." In this week's opera Robinson New. hold will be the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, Edward Orchard is {Capt, Corcorah, Stdworth Frasier is Ralph Rackstraw, Francls Tyler is by Victor 1iDick Deadeve, Pierre Remington is|toward the race track. Bill Bobstay, Helena Morrill is| Josephine, Augusta Spette is Hebe and Eleanor La Mance is Little But- tercup. Max Hirshfield will conduct and Paul Callan will direct the stage. KEITH'S—Richard Bennett. B. F. Keith’'s Theater this week will present the dramatic star, Richard| Bennett, whose most recent SUCCess was as Tony In the, Pulitzer prize pl “They Knew What They Want- ed.” in his vaudeville debyt in a new playlett by Tom Barry, galled “A comedy eville. Bostock’s Riding School but | His banter, | of | Opens tomorrow ever t opera. Opens tomorrow evening Opens this afternoon. . vaudeville. Opens this afternoon Common Man." any main street and Mr. Bennett plays the part of the average modern husband. Toe Laurie, jr.. late “Plain Jane.” and a “Pint Sized [thor Comedian.” will be featured a new comedy act reported to contain 60 langhs a minute, and an ample element of surprise. Meyer Davis’ Chateau Band will make its bow to vaudeville under the direction of Na than Brusiloff in an act that promises amusing novelties, including a South ern dancing specialty, by Rober Wheeler, a 7-year-old juvenile. ' Others will include Albertina Rasch in her dance sensation. “Rhythmic Toes.” with Day and Aileen, and in | troducing Margaret Fallenius, violin ist, and a company of four solo dancers, Ruth Budd., “the girl with the smile,” in gyvmpastic feats, en- hanced by a beautiful voice: Charlie Wiison, “the loose nut.” in “Chuec. kles and Laughs”; McDonald and Oakes in new dance numbers, and Alice Diaz and Harold. Powers in Frolics on a Silver Thread,” together with Topics of the Day, Aesop's Fables and the Pathe News. Au comedian Le Paradis EARLE—V: The headliner this week at the Karle Theater will not be Bostock's Riding_ School, with Lillian St. Loon, that offering having been held over in New York, until next week. C. B Maddock's Eight Hoboes. a novelty singing and dancing company of co- medians will be supplemented with | Billy Du Val and Merle Sy-| monds, in “Her Father,” with music and__lyri by De Val “'Singing.” Eddie Nelson, in his sing. ing monologue: he ' Femologist deville. and Hare and Hare, presenting songs, | steps and smiles The photoplay will present Nazi- mova in “The Redeeming Sin. It is shown for the first time in Washing: ton. Lou Tellegen appears in the cast. Joe Laurie, Jr. | poise one of the clever comedians on the Keith-Albee Circuit, and late star funmaker of “Plain Jane."” No situation ever fazes Joe. With all the confildence in the world, he saunters twice a day into the blaze of the footligh ence. If the audience is frigidi |itself, and squelches with cool indi fence, Joe still remains ®alm and |genial. Nine times out of ten | wins out. | Joe doesn't know the meaning of |the word nervousness. It fsn't as it he was a stage child born and |hred, for Joe's' dramatic career began | lonly a few vears ago. As soon as he was old enough to| toddle he turned his wobbly footsteps When other | boys were riding bikes Joe was riding | ‘horses, Slight, wiry, nervy, he was still in his teens when he had achieved | Unfortunately, | | success as a jockey {it wasn't always possible to ride the winning horse, and Joe's income had a way of vacillating up and down— mostly down. When his fortune was almost out of the picture one of his friends came {to New York in a vaudeville act. and |doe promptly decided he had missed his calling. ~Vaudeville heckoned and Joe flopped. He could make peopls laugh. . He basn't forgotten-the trick, The scene is laid along | in | “big time’ | Alex Melford Trio in a Risley novelty | personified is Joe Laurie, Jjr., ts to chat with the audi- ' he | PA* OMALLLY Dancing on Earle Roof. PONDING to many requests rle Roof management an it_has had a specially pre dancing floor. measuring 2,000 square feet, laid on the roof, and from 111 o'clock until midnight patrons ar |invited dance without additional charge. The final presentation of the feature photoplay, finishing each night at 11. found many patrons lingering on the roof, which is 150 feet above the street, it is stated. to enjoy the | breezes. hence the floor and dancing. Flovde Wheeler's Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Bond Gotta, provides the music. nounces pared [ ANEW YOI"( LIVCB Drama. LLAN DWAN 1is as enthusiastic about New York, the city of his choice, ax a lovesick maiden is about plekles. Like O. Henry, he spent most of his life in the Wes and came to New York without any great hopes of lik |ing the place. But once here he quick- |1y succumbed to the fascination of the city and set to work to learn all there | was to know about it He spent days of exploring the highwavs and by |ways, from the Battery to the Bronx | Night after night he roamed through mysterious alleys or in evening clothes | visited the haunts of the elect Noth- ing that the city could teach him es caped him, from the secrets of the water front to the code of the Tender ojp. And the more I York the more I love it." says the di rector. “You can’'t find such a com bination of mystery, romance, drama |and comedy anyvwhere else in the | world. Walk through the streets for an howr, visit the queer restaurants, the bazaars and recreation places, go to the opera and the amusement dis trict-—everywhere, vou keep vour eves open. you will see the great ‘hu learn about New |and #n intensity that fascinate you. “As a matter of fact, New York un consciously lives in terms of drama. Here lifé is crowded with dramatic happenings that every one, even vis- |itors, is canght in the whirl. Here | peopie feel things more intensely; they {love and hate and scheme and sym- pathize with more concentration and driving energy than anywhere else in | the worfd, and as a result drama is al ways on the trigger.” Short Skirts to Stay HORT skirts are here to stay, despite any rulings from the de. | signers.” This is the opinion of Corinne Griffith after spending several | weeks shopping In New York City. “Long - skirts will not come back re gone forever, 1 continued the star, “must be | served first, last and always. | “Women want to appear young. Grandmothers have discovered that they can at least appear young from {the back view if they bob their hair and clip a few inches off the bottom | of their dresses. “We can blame a lot of the short- skirt propaganda to the movies. The | stars wear attractive clothes on the screen. Their skirts are short, and in | the majority of cases the hair is bobbed. | “Another reason why short skirts { will_remain is that long dresses are cumbersome and uncomfortable. | makes them comfortable and young looking. They will not be dictated to by a group of designers.” | | Countmg the Llughs. |, A good tworeel comedy contains 75 laughs, according to Del Lord, Macx Sennett comedy director. The com- edy that people will talk about has a good laugh every 20 feet. But the | Fustained laugh, the kind the comedy | director strives for, Mr. Lord savs, starts early in the picture, begine with a chuckle. swells to a giggle. gathers force and hursts into what is known in the comedy world as “an abdominal smile,” man drama unfolding with a swiftness | know! | 1! | think women will wear that which | Palace. Photoplays Hn NILTON OILLP i‘«gaarax 1 A )‘VALAQQ Fsrle Roof This Week At the Photoplay Houses This Week METROPOLITAN—"Soul Fire.” PALACE—"The White Des RIALTO—“My Wife and 1." COLUMBIA Me TIVOLI—"T'Il You evening AMBASSADOR EARLE ROOF CENTRAIL- LINCOLN (colored) noon and evening 2t S Show the “Marry Show “Soul Fire.” Tainted Money.” Sh —“His S Shown Shown this Town.” Shown this aftern Heart of a Siren.” iprem this after i ever hown this afters i ever g \ternoon n and ever Shown this eve own this ait e rnoon and evening Moment Show METROPOLITAN—"Soul Fire.” A drama of disappointed ambition tempestuous adventure and finally ec statie love and the flowering of genius is promised on the screen at Cran dall’'s Metropolitan Theater this week beginning this afternoon. when Rich ard Barthelmess will be seen in “Soul Fire,” First_ National's picturization of Martin Brown's successful play “Great Music. he manner of de. veloping this study of a young man trying to find himself is said to be really unique. The action is initiated by the play ing of a new symphony by a vouthful modernist in music. Noted critics in New York are present. Assthe vari ous movements of the symphony are played these critics interpret them to be autobiographic and to disclose in chromatics the tryving experiences through which the composer must have passed. It is the visualization of these experiences that makes the drama on the screen The story is as variegated in locale as it Is in_theme and action. First, we find Eric Fane studying music under an old_master in Italy. Then we see him ‘in Paris, grinding out cheap popular tunes for the cafes as a sort of protege of the Princess Rhea an indigent noblewoman. _Disghsted with this life he drifts to Port Said “the wickedest spot in the world and there encounters sirange adven tures that bring him a little nearer | 10 the goal he seeks—the creation of great music. Forced to flee Port Said, he takes 1o the sea on a tramp steam er, and eventually reaches the South Sea Tsles, where he is cared for by an English girl who had been intrusted 10 the natives when her parents died It is here that he finds his true in spiration. The supporting cast includes Car lotta Monterey. a newcomer to the screen from the stage: Helen Ware, | | Bessie Love, Lee Baker, Effie Shan. | | non. Gus Weinberg. Ellalee Ruby and Walter Long. The production was di rected by John &. Robertson. Hal Roach's two-reeler, with “Our Gang.” “Shootin’ Injuns.” the Metro- | politan World Survey and a scenic will be shown also, while the Metro- | politan Symphony, under Daniel | Breeskin, will offer a prelude with “Indlan Love Cal.” from “Rose Marfe,” as the theme, which will be | emploved also in the interpretative accompaniment. The exit march will be George Gershwin's *“Tell Me More.” PALACE—"The White Desert.” A dynamic drama of ice and snow | filmed atop the Continental Divide, | will be given its first Washington | showings at Loew’s Palace this week beginning this afternoon, in “The | White Desert,” Reginald Barker's latest production for Metro-Goldwyn Mavyer, featuring Claire Windsor, Pat O'Malley and Robert Fraze Adapted by Monte M. Katterjohn from a story by Courtney Riley Coo per, its cast includes also Frank Cur rier, Priscilla Bonner. Snitz Edwards. | Trixie Friganza, Bert Sprotte, Mathew Betz and Dave Dunbar. Filmed against | a background of snow and ice at an | elevation of 11500 feet in the teeth of a raging blizzard, “The White Des- ert” offers not only a wonderful con- trast to Summer weather. but also a series of hair-raising thrills, including | a plunging avalanche that sweeps | everything before it. a finish fight be- tween two construction camp huskies, the pursuit of the heroine along the | brink of a precipice and her rescue by a two-fisted young assistant engineer. | Miss Windsor has the role of a rail- road president’s daughter, whose ap- | pearance in the constructfon camp | the signal for a rivalry between th: chief engineer, Robert Frazer, and hi assistant, Pat O'Malley. 'The rescue of the girl from the brutal boss of the | Wail | and | version of the novel by construction hurl her ove of the picture’'s Pathe's latest sh len maker, “Hold My Baby reel pictures, Topics of the Palace Magazine and a and overture by the Orchestra will compl o greatest attempts furnish one thrills th Day musica ace Symphony te the mirth news RIALTO—"My Wife and " My Wife and 1" the ture at the Rialto this was taken from a story by Harriet her Stowe, deals with the situa tion that arises when a father and sor become infatuated with the charms ¢ a fascinating gold-digger. The beau 1 maturity ils to offse the girl's lure wusband is entangled son, whose spoiled youth knows no restraint, fuses to give her up. Irene Rich has the Huntley Gordon is John Harron pla¥s the spoiled son John Roche and Constance Bennett are seen as the man and woman vam pire types and others in the cast are Tom Ricketts and Claire de Lorez. Huston Ray, who appears as a spe clal feature on the program an eminent young pianist and compogar. Other features will include a dance cred by Elizabeth Gorman and Ted rard, suggested by \ictor Hel bert's “A Kiss in the Dark the Rialto Orchestra, Mischa Guter son, conducting, which will render |the overture “La Boheme." Puc Hal Chase comedy, ““Bad Boy. the International News. we. which of the w which t while Jle of the wife he erring husbhand COLUMBIA—"Marry James Cruze, of ered Wagon,” offers a new al mance in “Marry Me!" a picturization of Anne Caldwell's play The Nest Egg,” featuring Florence Vidor and Edward Everett Horton the fea tured attraction at Loews Co lumbia Theater this week, begin ning this afternoon. The cast includes also John Roche, formerly a member of the Garrick Players here: Helen Jerome Eddy. Fannie Midgley Z. Covington, Ed B and Mel” director he Cov others “Marry Me!” is the story of a New England school teacher's scrambled romance—a romance that went on the rocks when the girl's acceptance of a marriage date, scribbled on an nt to her sweetheart, went astray and after five vears of roman tic silence brought forth the subse. quent message that her sweetheart was on the way and to start pre parations for the coming nuptials. At the last moment, it transpires that the coming bridegroom is really a dys peptic pure food crank, who is suing a cold-storage firm fon selling five vear-old eggs and wishes the girl's aid in_the litigatic Walter Hiers” comedy, “Oh, Brid. get,” will be the added laugh-maker, and, with the International News Reel, Topics of the Day and musical em! bellishment by the Columbia Orches- tra, will complete the bil. TIVOLI—“I'll Show You The Town.” Reginald Denny will be pictured at Crandall's Tivoli Theater Sunday and Monday of this week in the Univere sal-Jewel comedy, “I'll Show You the Town.” which concerns the perplexis ties of a young man who valorously attempts to entertain three girls in the same place at the same time. A new Mack Sennett comedy, “Breaks ing the Ice'; Pathe Review and pipe organ music will be other features, Tuesday and Wednesday, “His & preme Moment,” First National's film May Adington, with_Blanche Sweet and Ronald Cole (Continued on Third Page)