Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1925, Page 45

" Theaters e Part 3—10 Pages Mirton Sius, ostropolitaro bt %uflfl&g %i&f !Aut‘omobiles v WASHINGTO. D BEBE DANIELS, Columbia }fi LOWE, Farle Cf CONWAY TEARLE, CONSTANCE DENNETT. Central. mbassador News and Comment By W. H. Landvoigt. HEN a community such Washington becomes inoculated with what the old-timers used to call stock mania, everything relating to the personalities that compose the stock organiza- tion becomes of paramount importance. The reason for this 3s that with a stock company, as with no other form of theatrical or- ganization, the audience grows more and more familiar as the days go by, and, in consequence, gives out, as it were, more of its interest and sometimes personal regard to the individual players, whose stage per- sonality is revealed from week to week in all the versatility of their tal- ents. Very soon the folks who sit out in front of the footlights begin to discuss the leading lady, the leading man, the ingenue and the character players as if they were members of the same invisible family. This is one of the charms of a stock season, and it is always the reason why the stony-hearted critics assume the virtue of enthusiasm, which really they never have, in discussing stock performances. Defects are smoth- ered out of sight, just as one hides a family skeleton, and virtues are made to shine with radiant splendor. Out front the audience sits smil- ing as it patiently waits for the curtain to rise, sometimes a half hour after opening time, and sometimes a full quarter of an hour between acts. True, it occasionally tries to pep things up a bit with the hint of sporadic applause—and it generally succeeds. But if those who applaud imagined for a moment that they were hurrying a rchearsal scene that \was being rushed to make the performance move more smoothly, they would never, never think of applying the urge. It is all in the family, so to speak, and each member of it, before and behind the curtain, is gladly willing and anxious to help the other out. * ¥k ¥ ¥ UCH is the spirit that has made the current Summer season of the National Theater Players an outstanding success, and that promises to help it onward and upward until the red and yellow leaves on the trees begin to hint that the road attractions of the new regular season are lining up for their turn. To the stay-at-home it has been a real joy. as and there are those who believe that the brown faces and bright eyes of | the returning Summer vacationists in the ever-growing audiences are finding the stock performances a substantial consolation for the pleasures they have left at the seashore and in the mountains. Strangest of all, the automobile and the radio, which have been widely heralded as the ¢ insidious enemies of the theater and of the photoplay, never seem to interfere with the success of the Summer stock season, when the players enter into the spirit of the thing and the plays are the pleasant enter- tainment that has been thus far provided at the National by those genial young impresarios Steve Cochran and Charley Jacobson, to whom Man- ager W. Harriman Rapley confided the integrity of his famous old theater this Summer while he sought the rejuvenation of the New Hampshire hills against the coming of his real work of the year. Sk oK UT stock companies, like all things mortal, have their vicissitudes, and occasionaly a bright light will fade out, only to be replaced with an- wother scintillant evidence of the possibilities of the theater. And so from the National Theater Players has faded the genial face of Minor Watson, whose comedy contributions will long be remembered. And in its place appears a new face and a new name in the roster in John Glynn Macfar- lane, a gentleman of pleasing grace and personality, who, like his asso- ciates, comes with a interesting record of achievement coupled with the desire to please. “Aren't We All” gave a fleeting glimpse of his possi- bilities—and the future is before him. Last week, like its predecessors, lifted another member of the company into the limelight, Dorothy Tier- ney, who rewarded her admirers with a fuller display of her charms and het talents than she had theretofore had opportunity to reveal, and it was a genuinely pleasant surprise. N * ¥ ok k & PTHE Greater Movie Season,” which will have its formal official open- g on the first of the new month, begins by pushing the clouds away this week. Mr. Nelson Bell, the watchful representative of the Crandall chain of theaters, was on the point of filing notice that the big, new attractions are not being held back by his houses, as was generally wintimated in this column last Sunday. but wisely refrained when he re- #galicd that the new scason was right upon him and that it was better 19 The New Tango. A CCORDING to Harry Ro: looks like Valentino and is doing a dancing act in vaudeville this week | with petite Billee Maye, the jazz craze is over. Next season will see everybody in the smart set swaying and dipping to the languorous strains | of the tango. But listen! “Every woman should practice the tango before a fulllength mirror,” says Roye, who was one of the leaders in the modern dance craze instigated | by the Castles. “In jazz dancing, in- cluding the one-step and fox-trot and | all their variations, it has been possible for thousands of persons quite inno- cent of grace or rhythm to ‘get away with it.' As long as they were fairly slim and youthful and refrained from some of the extraordinary positions now prevalent among the younger set, they were not conspicuous on the baliroom floor. “But the tango is different. Tt is the real queen of dances. It has all the fire, all the languorous grace and smoothness of the Latin races, among whom for generations it has been a favorite. It requires consummate grace, and ability to act as well, to be a real tango dancer. Watch the Spanish girl and her partner as they dance. They are one. The response of the one to the other is so instinctive as to be the very perfection of move- ment. One break—and the spell of the dance is over. Rush Call Saved Montagu. MONTAGU LOVE, stage and screen star, went to Santa Barbara for a short vacation. While there he re- ceived a wire from Director Irvin Willat asking him to report at the Lasky studio as soon as possible. The wire was received on a Sunday night st before Love retired. He left a 6 Monday morning, was . hopped in his car and left anta Barbara at exactly 6:30. At 6:44, or 14 minutes later, Santa | | Barbara was hit by an earthquake. The room Love had just left in the|tion to be solved 1s vital. Arlington Hotel was demolished and | What will the, children do? Will the occupant of a nearby suite was|they justify the judgment that the lled. oung ones of today are selfish and ——— NATIONAL—"“The Goose Hangs evening. RLE ive Jolly Cork: NATIONAL—'The Goose Hangs High’ “The Goose Hangs High" a de- lightful comedy of American home life, by Lewis Beach, will be offered by the National Theater Players this week, beginning tomorrow night. The piece’ was the first offering of the Dramatists’ Theater, Inc., a group of well known authors, and it had a New York run of 200 performances. ington glimpse of it. The play deals with the average against itself through the conflict of modern standards and those of a decade or two ago. Father and mother alike are content to scrimp and save, that their children may enjoy the frults of education and of pleasure. Finally there comes a crisis, where a continuation of this sucrifice 1s impoesible, and the ques- utilize space in the exploitation of his first “surprise,” the new Milton Sills picture. The “great” Paramounts, doubtless, will soon be claiming unusual attention, while Universal is preparing to take the center of the stage with its announcement of “The Phantom of-the Opera,” Carl Laemmle's “greatest,” and “The Iron Horse,” the big Western picture story of the Westward Ho of the continental railways. Thanks to gen- erous publicity, nothing is likely to be overlooked which the promising new season has in store for the delectation of the picture patron. Through the quicter days of the Summer, thus far, The Star has been alive to the preparations that have been making to_glorify the movie, and from time to time, with more or less of modesty in the matter of space, it has kept its readers advised of what is to be expected. * ok ok ok A D just here it is permissible to advert to Washington: weather, which has attuncd itself with generous sympathy to the prerequisites of a successful season for plays and photoplays as well as to the comfort of those who thus far have found their seashore and mountains in pictures or in the imagination. Uncharitable foreigners—the District being prac- tically and politically outside the United States—have been wont to refer to the National Capital as a friendly neighbor of Hades when utilizing the weather as a topic of conversation, and while fairly roasting on their own native heaths, especially New Yorkward. It is an unjust insinua- tion that may be properly and abundantly refuted by our climate itself during the current season, a fact.which is commended to our own Society of Natives {nr use as the future may render necessary. Even St. Louis may take notice 'vith advantage, bearing in mind its recent treatment of our | champion bail club, v C., SUNDAY WIS S. STONE an L 5.5 67;1/0/1 KEITH'S—Roye and Maye, vaudeville. vaudeville. Wash- | also has had a previous| American household—a house divided | MORNING, JULY 26, 1925, SHIRLEY MASON High,” comedy. Opens tomorrow Opens this afternoon. Opens this afternoon. self-centered or will they rather dis- close that the so-called jazz age, under its surface, has not destroyed the sterling qualities of love, devotion and crifice that adorned youth in the olden age” of other ds Lewis Beach has peopled his play with real characters. It is the integ- rity of these characters that makes the play valuable as a piece of shrewd and entertaining psychology and as good a survey of the younger- set problem as has ever graced the age. For a while the goose is stretched on lowly levels and the hor has ! so directed the dialogue and situations that one might despair that the fowl would ever be elevated. A novel , however, sets things ship- shape and at the cur 's fail every- thing is lovely, but not improbable. Leneta Lane and John MacFarlane and others of the players have been assigned congenial parts. KEITH'S—Roye and Maye. B. F. Keith's bill this week is head- ed by one of the most popular danc- ing acts on the Keith-Albee circuit. Harry Roye and Billee Maye, with a company headed by Margie Finley and including Evelyn Joyce, Lenore Scheffer and Viola Hegyi, in “Dance, Color and Speed.” One of the newest acts in the two a day to be featured is vaudeville's newest conception of “The Chauve Souris,” headed by Rose and Arthur Boylan and Saranoff and Company, together with Robert Rhodes and th Meryl sisters. William K. Wells has arranged a group of specialties und the name of “Pictorial Flashes,” a lavish and spectacular offering. Cralg Campbell, distinguished Amer- ican tenor, returns with a new reper- tory of songs, assisted by Allen Stu- art. Others will include Al and Harry Klein in *“Just Moments,” with 60 laughs per minute; Billy Wayne and Ruth Warren in a Paul Gerard Smith skit, called “The Last Car”; Evan- geline and Kathleen Murray, two at- tractive, merry girls, in “Songs and Dances”: the Aerial Smiths, bl with clever athletic feau in Current Attractlons At the Theaters This \Veek who | and | “gnes Film of Broadcasters. JNEDITED and untitled prints of the motion pictures recently made in this city of the complete process of | broadeasting a program by the Cran- | all Saturday Nighters, through sta tion WRC, were received at the Ci dull executive offices, Metropolitan Theater Building, last Tuesday from the laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, where they were sent for develop: | ment. The picture is being whipped into its final form by Nat Glasser, chief of th Crandall technical department; Nelson B. Bell, in charge of Crandall advertising and publicity, who pre- pared the working script, and John J. Payette, assistant genes cer of the Crandall Theaters. When com- pleted it will be shown an added attraction in all the Crandall Theaters and elsewhere in the East. Art SchotliE A M Gl dl’efl. 'ALENTED child artists of the movies, child musicians and other infant prodigies are to have an art school in Hollywood, where their education can be completed without | interfering with their chosen pro- fession. This was the statement of Raymond B. Dunlap, in charge of child welfare work in the Los Angeles schools, when he addressed 700 delegates to the International Kindergarten Unlon Conveption at the Mary Pickford Studio recently. More than 5 in Miss Pick children took :part rd’s plcture, “Little Annie Rooney,” and a complete school was maintained on the Pickford lot with a staff of expert teachers for them. Ben Dover, who bills himself “That's Just What He Does.” Aesop’s Fables, Topics of the Day and the Pathe News pictorial will be added attractions. EARLE—“Five Jolly Corks.” A last-minute booking brings to the Earle this week the “Five Jolly Corks,” old-time minstrel men who were stars in their field a generation { ago. The oldest is nearing 80, while the youngest proudly claims 62 years young as his_age. “The Joy Boy of Song,” Richardson, is belng given equal prominence in the “billing” as a singer of popular songs, behind which he is said to put an individuality | that is different. Styling themselves “The Fruits of | Evolution,”’ Will Burns and Jimmy Burchell state their mission is to | create laughter. ‘‘She, Him and Her"” i3 a surprise offering, while Cecll, Mason and Bernie Shai n “All for a Girl” and “Little Jim,” the trained bear, round out the vaudeville pro- gram. Harold Lloyd, in a revival of 'Never Weaken,” 1is sharing the creen with “Her Market Value,” the latter n first-run photdplay featuring Toylor Holmges, Frank =gl Photo plays METROPOLITAN—“The Making noon and evening. PALACE—"Pretty Ladies evening. RIALTO—“The Man in Blue.” TIVQLI—“The Talker.” AMBASSADOR—"The Making of and evening. EARLE ROOF—“Up the Ladder. CENTRAL—"“The Snob Buster.” LINCOLN (colored)—"Soul Fire.” ning. Sh PALACE—“Pretty Ladies.” The new photoplay season of 19 26 will_be formally inaugurated at Loew's Palace this afternoon with the | first of Metro-Goldwyn's productions— Monta Bell’s classic, “Pretty Ladies"— featuring i its cast Tom Moore, Za Su Pitts, Lilyan Tashman, Ann Pennington, Conrad Nagel, Norma Shearer, Helena d'Algy, George K. Arthur and Dorothy Seastrom. “Pretty Ladies” is declared to mark | the greatest screen achievement to date_of Monta Bell, the brilliant young Washingtonian, who made for the silver sheet such pictures are “Broad- way -After Dark,” “The Snob” and “Ladies of the Night” It is described as a drama of laughter, tears and love behind the scenes of the ‘“Follies” and is based on a magazine story by Adela Rogers St. John. One of the most beautiful choruses ever as- sembled before the camera and ex- quisite camera reflections of “Follies” scenes and settings are said to be among its chief charms, with the story of a stage comedienne who could make millions laugh, but who inspired none to love her. Alding an ob- scure drummer to launck a new musi- cal hit, the comedienne sees the drum- mer taken away from her by the prima. donna of the show, who cannot resist a desire to show her power over men. A visual appeal has been given “Pretty Ladies” by the employment of the technicolor process of color photography for all the scenes depict- ling the exotic and gorgeous beauty of the “Follies.” A short comedy, “The Thundering Landlord”; the Pathe News reel and | the Palace Magazine, with the Pal Orchestra’s musical program, will be added attractions. METROPOLITAN—* 0’Malley. Marking the elevation of Milton Sills to stardom under the First National ‘banner, “The Making of O'Malley” will be seen this week at Crandall's Metro- politan Theater, in what is described {as an intensely human and appealing | | story t isclosc ¥ Miiton e Making of [ At the Photoplay Houses This Week Show COLUMBIA—“The Manicure Girl.” Shown this afternoon and evening. Shown this afternoon ard evening. | Survey |a musical p This Wee of O'Malley.” Shown this after- n this afternoon and evening Shown this afternoon and own this afternoon and evening O'Malley Shown this afternoon own this evening. Showr: this afternocon and eve- ! | ! othy Mackaill will be seen in the pri cipal feminine role. s latest two-reeler, “Be- the Metropolitan World 1tiful scenic subject, and »gram by the Metropoli tan Orchestra will be addea attrac- tions. “The Making of O'Malley” is the story of a New York “cop,” who is placed by his chief under the direct orders of a charming young rich girl, who, tired of social frivolities, has turned to tutoring the young. Many of the homes of the district are kept 'in turmoil by the activities of a band of bootleggers. In addition to safe guarding the kiddies, O'Malley decides to round up the gang, and does so with results that threaten the happi- ness of the girl, for whom he has come to care tremendously The cast includes also little Helen Rowland, Warner Richmond, Thomas J. Carrigan and Claude King. The story was written by Gerald Beaumont and directed by Lambert Hillyer. The overturs by the Metropolitan Symphony, with Mr. Breeskin conduct- ing, will comprise melody gems from “Irene.” The theme number of the interpretative score will be “A Kiss From You” and the exit march, the latest Feist hit, “When I Think of You.” RIALTO—"The Man in Blue.” “The Man in Blue,” co-starring Her- bert Rawlinson and Madge Bellamy, at the Rialto this week, 18 the screen version of the story by Gerald Beau- mont, “The Flower of Napoli.” ~ The scenes in the Ita ter of a big city in the Un Madge Bellamy plays an Italian flower girl, whose adm.ration for the young guardian of the peace 18 so great that she defies her father's commands to having nothing to do with the ‘“for- eigner,” and to prepare for her mar- riage to a countryman, a big politica! boss. Among the thrilling scenes is & terrific fight in which the cop resoues from a cafe full of gangsters the girl he loves. The special offering of the program is entitled ‘Jazz vs under the directoin (Continued vn T »*