Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1925, Page 46

A 9 & MUSEMENTS. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Paramount School Opens REVOLUTIONARY step history of motien pict x began recently with the formal of the Paramount Pictures School, Inc, when 18 of fir een possibill se from 30,000 applicants, seq tions of the ( at the Astor Players-Las lasses will Of those ¢ of the school, in ing opening ¥ the ng ssembled Famous where rer ed studio of th: Corporation, held. psen fi which - the first term will last for six months, nin young women be- ween 16 and 25 yvears and nine youths between 18 and 30. First nouncement ‘of the winne n what is claimed to be by far the most com- prehensive search for beauty, per- sonality and acting talent ever be re conducted in America follows: Josephine Dunn, Robert Andrews Greg Blackton, Charles Brokaw, Cr1t1c1zxng Tm:m: is but one standard by which to intelligen aluate and critic a motion picture, accord ing to Ce B. De Mille. “a form entertainment reaching more _widely into all branches and gradations of society than any other. should judged, not 1k At always be ma De’ Mille, eir pe theate ent- age ap; public as None right to sa if the ya of the tick is mevely that of c own surroundings, education, back. ground or pre S “We don’t There are, however, certa tal likes and dislikes w every 1t is quite easy only mildly which would ¢ two, thr fously tainme not be av extent A good motion pic . have & go A good story can make v will ruin one. Most o P amen h appeal to to imagine one person group of u that g shou on either ext but be made to strike a me the greate: tained to the mor question enter numb. ire must, first the recent contest I ran to | idea which resulted in Commandments’ showed o new Ten Claud ' oing \ve the same tastes. greatest | Buchanan, Walter J. Luden, Ethelda Kenvin Palma’ of New York City; Lorraine son, Wilbur Dillon and Laverne \dsay of Hollywood, Calif.; rtley of Culver City, Calif.; Harris of Atlanta, Ga.; uth of Medford Hillside, hy Nourse of Roxbury, Mass:; ma Todd of Lawrence, Mass., and Charles E. Rogers of Olathe, Kans Members of the school will be tau everythir t a finished motion picture actor needs to know. All those displaying suitable ability will be offered eontracts to appear in Paramount pictures. These con- cts will be for one year, but will carry an option for five more year All who complete the course satisfa torily, however, will be given a ce » by Mr. Lasky, which will serve imendation for work with s companies. Goss, John id Mona Marian Harriett Mass. mov the Movie. that the public with merely a butterscotch no longer content perpermint boy and rl love story. More substantial fare is demanded. Photo- plays must delve deeper than the sur- must get down into the souls and lives of real people. I am feeling this challenge with spe | keenness at this moment when I am starting ‘The Road to Yesterday,” my first attempt as an independent filn producer. “Let' me return again, in closing, to that viewpoint I think we should all hold when turning our attention judgment of wtion pictures. | Sonally, T always try to crowd out individual thoughts, and to view ing not as one but one hundred dle, all in Terent walks of life. this idea sometime. &urprised to find how it will alter your opinion as to the worth of a specific bit of entertainment. “Most cer nly we who make mo: pictures have erred in_our ‘pro Jectior " judgments Time after time T have seen pictures which every ures’ in a cold pr room go out and Make a ma One specific is a picture which appeared abo years ago over the prot cent of the officials of the compar concerned in its release. This picture |h ossed to date over $1,500,000. | “There is only ome real judge | pictures—the public. There is one who can always guess accurately { what that strange public is going | do, but we can get closer to thel thought if we make our own judgment |more general and less personally | prejudicial.” roor one classed as * velous succe of Dorothy Mackaill. A FEW vyears ago Dorothy Mac- kaill was a stenographer in Lon- Her roses. is of don. of thousan o week But of her ambition. courage d B was one of poor girls pounding out wage on typewriter key had something many companions in toil lackec This was backed up and willingness to work. she decided to bre way flice routine. She sought a in the chorus of a London show. To her surprise she % she s0 by One from position musical found it She was only 16 years old nade her first stage appe of her companions dreamed t this little slip of a girl would rise to| the heights she has reached. Her am- Dition early manifested A fev of her chorus girl friends planned to when Few at future held out no px-umiw‘ | come to America. Dorothy heard and decided to join them. She was not quite 17 when she land. ed in New York, a rather frightened | little_girl with a_wealth of b ful, | blonde hair. She had to work, so went str t to Flo Ziegfeld and asked for a job in the chorus of his follies, Ziegfeld placed her in the ranks. No girl in that chorus worked hard- an _Dorothy 1. In fact, vorked that a motion oducer in the aud her out as a girl with a ent for her and the re. Dorothy secured a posi tion before the camera. | - Here, again, her ngness to work hard brou 3 nd even n outstanding | be at her best O'Malle e in th Dorothy is said he Making of New Loew Theater Season. HE opening of the new photopl. season of 1925-26 at Loew's Palace Theater this afternoon with Monta Bell's Metro-Goldwyn production, “Pretty Ladies,” is supplemented | with the announcement the reason's ing at Loew’s Columbia next Sunda ternoon with the screen version of “Beggar on Horse- back,” th ming 1tes, will g1 glimpse of every Ly the Famous R rationl and or dhovasof the R oAbk T as well the offer Artists, h will incl tures Ma through the announcement | gton its first | these theaters, o season, whi ter, who has returned from York, after officials of Loew's, Inc that Loew's ( nbia offer such photoplay achieve W. Griflith’s new proc Royle Girl”; Douglas Fairbanks’ sational new picture, “Don Q"; von Strohei production of Merry Widow,” with Jc Gilbert | and Mae Murray; Charlie Chaplin’s| classic, “The Gold Rush” Bronson, star of “Peter Barrie play, “A 1 h confer for | th. Kiss in | Shearer Pan,” | s reen versi | popular DeMille's Gloria Folly o e first of Cecil B indments” The Coast “Wild tion, aid to 1 and a wid included Forty,” Me and the Fall and e of United Art The first v will ace next in New duction featurin Dorothy Gish an share honors w ther ed Wagon,” er pictures mount’s ldwyn’s Pa )- “Pe Winter output Paramount’s hown at Loew’s when Allan lrnest “Greater Pal- Life Dwan prc Torrence, 1 Rod LaRocque w ith the personal Daisy and Violet York icluding Rudolph “obra”; Mary _Pickford's Annie Rooney”; Thomas Meig} Shamrock™; Adolphe Menjou The King on Main Street”; Norma in “A Slave of Fashion" Raymond Griffith in “The Stage Door Johnny Pola Negrl in “Flower of the Night”"; a new Doug- MacLean com not vet titled: w Lon Chaney picture, “The Un- Three,” and others of similar Horse Rode Haxt. HART'S fame as a | imes placed him | in embarrassing positions, as witness the experience which befell the fa mous Western star when, some years ago, he had to go to New York to make scenes for a picture. It was necessary to get a horse with a long mane and tail, and, as most of the equines in Manhattan have thefr manes roached and tails docked, it was mot an easy task. Finally a Kentucky Shiosshiiren \with the necessary qualifications was found by the director. It was a big powerful nd seemed quite gentle. The scene required Bill to chase taxi up Sixth avenue and into Cen tral Park, where he was to catch up with the car and d the villain from the seat without slackening speed to any extent. The cameras ere all ready; Bill mounted the ho 1d kicked once—and only once. “I never went through treet anywhere half so fast,” he says, de scribing the incident. “Came dt- rector and every one were left in the distance. 1 tried every trick known, but 1 couldn’t stop him. I headed him toward the rear end of a trc and that eased him up a bit, but just as soon as he could he got around the car and kept going until we hit the bridle path in the par “When I passed the taxi it w standing still or coming backward— so it seemed. Finally, around Ninety-second street, just as we were | about to emerge into a crowded reet and .while 1 was thinking jere's a fine finish for Bill Hert, e DANCING. A ACHER STUDIO, Jlasses Mon. and Fri. 8 Neatra, Priv, lessons by 8567, Established 1500 TSR, STAFFORD PEMBERTON. Legsons in stage. buck. ballet. toe, Ballroom; and chiidren’'s dancing. Etudio 1830 Biftmore at. Phons Col. 2002, JO eceons. Jesson JILLIAM S. horse as, appointment. Fr. a9e e s P Sonsons: 38, or B 1636 10th st. n.w. Ph. Pot. Ballpoom g Stage Dancing _ n_ Stage Dancing. Dupont Studio, Dupont_Circla. Phone Fr. 1435-W. CLADYSE WILBUR 71 (e | meant a great deal to me, Jowitt, Western picture star, up riding a_horse! tired and slowed “Im to the stopped ond in was saw to get smashed the animal got mediately I was off, hanging on , and at last I got him walked back to Sixty-s where Hillyer was, lead- rse all the way. * Lambert scared to death, but when he I was alive and no bones broken felt better. T turned the horse to the man from the livery bri I street, he over stable. “It only riders meet shows that even their match sometimes." New Lcadmg Man Talks. name is A a very hony Jowitt. He is tall, slim young English- who has t intriguing air of o0 the manner born.” Every one in Hollywoad who saw him dancing at the famous Montmartre Cafe wanted to 5-.nn\\ who he was, The answer came, “That’s Gloria’s leading man in the “Cost of Folly.” en interviewed, nson. He man he talked about was very enthu- “Playing opposite Miss Swanson has said Mr. has been my favorite actress for a long time. I certainly never expected to have this opportu- nity. She is a constant revelation. “Miss Swanson always has time to | tell you some helpful thing. In th picture she knew I was somewhat in. experienced, so she gave me a hundred hints that all helped. “In her home she is one of the most gracious hostesses I have ever seen. She is invariably pictorial. Her con: versation sparkles, and it Is repartee about interesting events, mugic and books and people. “She is and always will be a great example to me of the heights one can reach if one is In earnest.” Violet and Daisy Hilton, the San Anionio Siamese Twins, whose per- sonal appearance on the Palace stage Sunday, August will mark the start of a mation-wide vaudeville Irving | | by her € You will be | In the Spotlight. RLY in the Fall Henry Miller will appear in “Embers,” adapted . B. Thomas from the French of Pierre Wolff and Henri Duvernois. “The Little Poor Man,” Lee, dealing with the life of cis of Assisi, is announced for produc- tion in New York, the first week in August, by Clara Tree Major. A. L. Erlanger will “Lady Liberty,” a new edy, with book and lyrics Caldwell and John E. Haz: music by Raymond Hubbell, by Harry . Fran- soon: produce musical com- by Anna d and Susan Freeman is to play the batht s suit girl in the road company of “My Son,” a part created by Martha Madison, in New Yor! Evan Burrows-Foptaine will have her own musical production on Broad way in the Fall, according to an- nouncement. “The Morning After,"” Len D. Holliste phens, opens in New night. mons, Foster, Buren, Ayles a new comed: and Leona Ste- York tomorrow It is presented by L. M. Sim- with a cast including Donald Kay Johnson, A.~ H. Van Anne Morrison and Arthur vorth. The Rosalno Amusement Corpora- tion has in rehearsal a musical comedy called “A Modern Girl.” Florence Goldenberg, 16-year-old daughter of the dramatic critic of a Cincinnati paper, last week joined the cast of “Gay P: which is soon to be produced in orik. Lila Lee, of % w Y “The Bride Retir had a birthday last week and enter- tained members of her company at eat Neck, Long Island, home. Harry Frazee has signed centracts for the presentation of “No, No, Nan ette,” in Paris in November with French company a Edgar Selwyn has purchased a new as yet untitled, by R Briant Harry Durant, for p early in the new season. | Girl,” ts of 90 per | no ! ce one | | this week, | He rough | | tour, are 16 years old and were born ! joined together. \ d Rosenbaum is to produce a mu sfcal comedy called “The Matinee h book and lyrics by McE ind Bide Dudley and mu H. Grey ing firm, known as Productions,” with and Dr. Alexander announces the pro a comedy of Jewish life by in Septembe: produ scar M. Carter Arkatov behind it tion of Carter ieve in will have the lead in “Salvage,” a new play by Abdullah, which is to be pre Fall under the direction of Day,” a musical play, the which was written by Fran Nordstrom, the by Albert and ics by Neville Fleeson, will be the first productio Mrs. Henry B. Harris this seasor will be a distinct departure from th she has heretofore attempted Je Haskell will direct the dance numbers and ensembles. 1 Ulric pear Kiki r w night un Tom Wilkes and Charles L. ner. Later in the season she w pear in a new play as yet unna von ore ced to ap in in San Francisco to the leading Brooks in “A M Women,” which Mr. Brooks and presented in Stamford, ast week. Miss Roemer was formerly in * n Called Peter,” and followed Florence Johns in ate is woman Among wrote Conn., Pier Roemer for n 1 cast aside 1 James up rt_and play in New York early in the with Lila Lee (Mrs. Kirkwood) in ading feminine role. the Kirkwood has will produce the Fall is Arth new musi Hammer he Gireen Peach comedy which n has on his pr new year.o De /ing in the pany, it chief Rose-Marie' be selected rmond Hitch this week It nter Hus Out in Cleve cock will offer a new designed for use T AsO1 is the work of Charles H d bears the title “Service for There are no vacations at the Na tional Theater this year and busines has been spry enough to warrant en gaging box-office men from aters who wer joying for Clarence Harrls, Poli's and the President wegularly on duty mnow cional, and I Schmid the Belasco Keith's emergency to s cations The at the former] is doin lief, nothing an’s filling in an in addition to his o and two da ties. Kathryn Givney of the National The ater Players was so agitated over Hu' Bryan and Darrow forensics during the evolution trial that she bought a spider-tailed monkey last week and was duly photographed with the new pet last Monday “I'm just keeping- up-to-Dayton,” she punned as the camera shutter clicked. ng to Washington 1l trained bear, pound: one “Little Jim,” con is a we feet tall and weighs 405 roller s ces the turkey trots and does the Indian drills like a soldier and up with a wrestling match v brave” men who volunteer from the audience. He step, ot Long before the hullabaloo down in Dayton, Tenn., Will Burns and Jimmy Bur termed themselves “the fruits of evolution.” In other words they ‘nut comedians,” a brand that vaude- 2l ville patrons are said to demand. Mary on a Bog Farm. RY PICKFORD'S next picture will be “Scraps,” the story of a baby farm in a swamp country. They wre building a four-acre swamp for it t the Pickford lot, bogs, buildings, gardens and everything. A cornfield and a potato patch are needed for the opening shots in pieture. Both were planted as soon 1s the “bog” had been staked out, and the warm weather has been helping to bring the crop along in great shape. But the first scenes cannot be taken until the corn is high enough to hide a baby and the potato plants husky enough to provide a habitation for potato bugs. Herbert Brenon, Paramount direc- tor, who made “Peter Pan” and “The Little French Girl” and has just turn- ed out what is described as another exceptional photoplay, “The Street of Forgotten Men,” began his acting ca- reer at the age of 18 in a stock com- pany in Dayton, Ohio. One of his fondest recoilections is a handshake with the great Joseph Jefferson, then ouring the country with “Rip Van | Winkle.” “The Street of Forgotten Men” fs sald to show up most realistically (and accurately, too) the tricks of trade employed by those who prey upon the tender-hearted. BRENTANO'S WOODWARD & SO THROF "Book DEPT. duction | tF r the management | | here’s “The Best | six | the | Outdoor Attractions. GLEN ECHO PARK. General Manager Leonard B. Schloss of Glen Echo Park announces a spe- clal feature at Glen Echo Park, that all ladies visiting the park tomorrow evening will be permitted to enter the ballroom and dance all evening with- out charge. Men, however, will re- quire tickets for themselves. “Happy" Walker has arranged a special pro- gram of danco music for the evening and will direct his band, “The Golden Pheasants,” for the dancing from 8:30 to 11330 p.m. Pleasure seekers will find at Glen Echo Park a score or more of diversi- fled fun features, thrills and thrilling rides, the derby racers, coaster dips, skoofer, ginger snap whip and frolic, as well' as the caroussel, big midway with dozens of attractions, and the old mill. Shady picnic groves are available for allday and evening out- ings, with ample tables, benches and playgrounds for the kiddies. Admis- sion to Glen Echo Park is always free. A through car service is maintained both to and from the park, with fast and frequent cars CHEVY CHASE LAKE. Carnival evenimgs, {naugurated at Chevy Chase Lake during the last week, will be continued for the bal- ance of the Summer as a part of the regular lake program. The Lutish Sisters, pretty and clever young singersand dancers, will be the feature of next Wednesday's *‘vaude- ville night.” They in vocal numbers of the variety and the most amu of jazz dancing. Tuesday evening is ‘Dixieland night,” featured by the ap- pearance of a half dozen bright little colored juvenile performers in age from 7 to 15; and “Opportunit; night,” Friday, will afford talented juvenile amateurs of the Capital an opportunity to win substantiz 2 PPete Macias and Al Kamons Lake's two Meyer Davis ince music on upper and ns. bands m lower pavil CHESAPEAKE BEACH. Dagmoir Orchestra continues the outstanding attractions at »sapeake Beach, baye resort an ride from Washington, where 1€ in its huge haltf shell it sup- plies snappy music for dancing in an over-the-water pavilion, 1 plays any equest number desired, afternoons and evenings. The singing of the musicians is an other feature They sing college songs, love melodies and comedy hits, including the college songs of George Washington University, Georgetown, Betty on Th HE women and girls of today do understand their mission in Betty Bronson, or at least so quoted. has been reading literature, id, and has made some disco erfes about the status of women in the middle of the last century which we both surprised and amused her. was then preparing for her pic- Not So Long Ago.” across a called of Friendship Danforth,” what he says of the husband and the monareh of that little wearing a crown that heaven, swaying a scepter put into hands by the Father of all, ac knowledging no superior, fearing no rival and dreading no usurper.’ Can vou Imagine a man of today as safe as that about his family? And in th same book a Mrs. rery writes, addressing her remarks husbands metimes yield your She has preferences . and it may be just to vield her choice to 1 it hard to yield to But she evidently ng too far, that 1 of inciting wive their proper to wives: ‘Be sub- husbands. There 1d God wisely vest- at ity in the husband. Let see in you a gentle and submis- spirit, a willingness to give up to t he shall have no fear of The he ing ‘The Token J. N ‘and the He pire, “Do not nst says to your must be a head, him ¥ lNamraHy Proud of Its Own. ] i not often that Washington feels pronounced personal interest in ion pleture, even though it he first showing of a big film cor- poration’s new season product. ‘“Pret Ladies the first of f\h\:rn".n-\w‘ } “perfect series for which open the new |rh'vl season at Loew's Palace this | afternoon, should be an exception. ‘Pretty’ Ladies” is the directorial output of Monta Bell, a_ native-born Washingtonian, who entered news paper work on The Evening Star as a bov nearly 20 vears ago, and who later rose to the editorial chair of | wyn howeve play another Washington daily and \ar!evl{ his editorial duties by inaugurating | Summer stock ons at the Shu- hert-Garrick Theater here during the | war-time period. Washington naturally looks on Monta Bell as one of its foremost representatives in motion-picture vanks, not only because he 4s a na tive-born Washingtonian, but, because his work since joining the Metro- Goldwyn organization has made him ne of the most notable and there- fore the highest salarfed of directors on Marcus Loew's pay roll. To date Bell has turned out around half a dozen productions for that organiza- tion, but “Pretty Ladies,” a drama of the “Follles,” in which all the splen- dor of that famous Ziegfeld musical production has been transferred to the silver sheet, is expected to prove the greatest of them all Another item of interest in this picture is the fact that Lilyan Tash- man, who scored a personal triumph here with?the Belasco Theater Play- ers a season or two ago, has one of the features roles A story comes out of Culver City to the effect that during a lull in produc- tion work on the picture Mr. Bell was chatting with Ann Pennington, and remarked to her: “This may be just another job to you, Miss Pennington, “but it's a real thrill to me. When I used to sit in the 50-cent top gallery of the Na- tional Theater back in Washington— and we had to' get there by 1:30 p.m. on matinee days to get a good seat— watching you dance that solo number that first made you famous, it never entered my head that before very long T'd be directing Ann Pennington in a big motion picture in California. Yet—here we are!” By Daylight By Moenlight STEAMER ST. JOHNS Leaves 7th Bt. Wharf for , 40-Mile col.'n‘»éuu. Moonlight Trlp | . Every Monds; and 8 Vetowtty 620 | $0ms s...,;.,"'"" Friday at 7:15 | 2:30 p. m. FREE DANCING EVERY TRI fi:.‘.:' s el Tutepaes are said to excel | ranging | the Rev. | is a gift from | feeling author- | D} JULY 26, Maryland University and other nearby educational institutions. LE PARADIS ATTRACTIONS. Clever vaudevilie specialties and brilliant dance music by Meyer Davis bands are announced for the Chateau Le Paradis, at Ammendale, Md., and the Le Paradis roof garden for the remainder of the Summer. This s due to the emphatic success registered at the Chateau Le Paradis last week by the bright and amusing harmonies of the Klark and Jacobs vaudeville act. The Chateau Le Paradis Band, re- cently featured at Keith's, is declared one of the finest bands in the Davis organization, while the Le Paradis roof garden band, led by Harry Albert, represents the very newest develop- ments in dance music, with rhythm and melody equally stressed | The wide verandas at the Chateau | are screened in completely and an-| other feature of interest to pleasure | seekers is the fact of the installation by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad of) safety gates and bells at the grade crossing leading from the Washington- | Baltimore boulevard to the Chateau. MARSHALL HALL. The kissing bug and the skooter are this season's newest features at Marshali Hall, and, with the aeroplane swings, the roller coaster, Venetian swings, caroussel, whip and free danc- ing In' the large pavilion to music by McWilliams' Band, make the re- sort a pleasant outing place. Picnic groves are available, with tables, | benches and playgrounds for the kid: | dies, for all-day and evening outings. The steamer Charles Macalester makes three trips daily and Sunday to this popular down-theriver resort, leaving the Seventh street wharf daily at 10 a.m., 2:30 and 6:45 p.m. Sunds the morning trip is made at 10: o'clock. COLONIAL BEACH. | water bathing, a long sandy | beach, fishing, crabbing, dancing in the open-air pavilion built out over | the water and many other attractions are to be found at Colonial Beach, | | “Washington's Atlantic City.” It is located on the Potomac and reached by a 70-mile daylight ride aboard the | steamer St. Johns, leaving the Seventh | street wharf eve Sunday, Tues and Thursday at 9 a.m. and eve Saturday at 2:30 p.mn | Every Monday, Wednesday and Fri day evenings at 7:15 o'cl ler St. Johns makes a |light trip, return: 111 Free dancing feature of every stops at and salt 40-mile on trip. eve | | c | |t en and NOW | | 1 losing his authority, and you will find that here lies a wife's great power over her husband. Be open as the day to his inspection and never make | an effort to conceal from him aught which it is proper he should know.’| Now, there is something for modern | wives to think about “And In Godey's Benjamin asks oratorically *“*‘Where, I may be a: | true sphere of woman? seat of her dominion’ Home! Home, which quently called the highest, holiest | place in which human agency |act. Much to be deplored is cumstance which draws a from this sacred sphere.’ “And here is some more advice of | | that period, which shows how ul | a it is for a woman to even dream of | stepping out of the home. A writer | | of_the time saia “‘Whenever genius indisputably ex ists in a girl, there let parents frankly acknowledge its existence, and on that admission ground a simple but seri- ous inculcation of these doctrines- that to possess intellect is an acei dent, not a merit; that it is by no means a novelty, and that superior | knowledge is worthless without active virtue. Parents must learn to as nothing short of sin all efforts to stimulate a girl's mind for the gratifi cation either of their vanity or hers Stimulate the sensibilities of your boys, but blunt those of your girls.' | “In China they used to have a much | more simple method. They threw the | superfluous girls into the river.” Strand Getting Ready. | (ENERAL MANAGER SPARROW | of the Strand Theater, who has |been making almost weekly trips to {New York during ' the past two | months, arranging for vaudeville pro- grams for the coming mont turned last night with everythin for the inauguration of “the greatest season ever experienced by the pop |ular Ninth street playhouse,” Sun-| {day, August 2. | In the last two or three years the| | Strand has built reputation for . |merit in stage and screen 'ltlr.q"uu'l\\ , [second to none for presentation at| |2 minimum price of admission. Its| | slogan is “two shows for the price of one ™ The same policy as to attractions |and prices will prevail during the | coming season. | The Strand heads the Southern cir-| |euit of Loew Vaudeville theaters and promises only the best and newest| of European and American variety | attractions, some of them such as are | seldom, if ever, surpassed in Wash |ington.” Indeed, no less a stage idol |than Raymond Hitchcock is promised | In the list of stars due for an early visit. The picture programs are said to be | equally promising. The Strand has been thoroughly renovated, cleaned and painted since closing last Spring and patrons will find the same comfortable surround- ings, courtesy and welcome as here- tofore. CHESAPEAKE BEACH BATHING, DA’ WND ALL sEA. SHORE ATTRACTIONS il Round Trin: Aduits, 50c: Children, 250 (Except Sundayi and Holldnys) Tralns leave District Line Station: 5 0. 11:30, 2100, 2: n :30. 10:30. 11:30, “10:00. 11:30. 2:30. Magazine Park | ed, is the | Where is the | My answer is: | as been elo- \ woman | si THE FIVE JOLLYCORKS FAMED OLD-TIME MINSTREL STARS Ask_Dad_and Mother—They'll Remember 192 | first 25—PART 3. Coming Attractions NATIONAL—* ““Cheating C heating Cheaters. caters,” Max Marcin's comic picture of setting a crook to catch a crook, will be the National Players offering next week beginning Monday, August 3. The plece, when mroduced under the direction of A. H. Woods, ran a full season on Broad- way and met with equal success on tour. Cyril Kelghtly was the star of the original production Marcin, author of such successes as “Silence,” and “Badges,” which latter had Gregory Kelly in the Washing- ton production, has taken the old adage “set a crook to catch a crook” ahd woven a furiously funny comedy about it. There are two sets of crooks in the play and the action is concerned chiefly with the antics of one set in outwitting the other. A laughable suspense is maintained through the Gevice of making It appear that vic tory for one group ls almost certain, when a sudden turn upsets the plans and the would-be victims become the would-be captors. The chase through out is merry and fraught with laugh ter. J. Glynn MacFarlane, the new lead- ing man of the National Players, is t in the Cyrfl Keightly role. Op posite will be Leneta Lane, Kathryn Givney, Edward Arnold, Dorothy Tier- ney, Lilltan Dean and Thomas Brower. EARLE—William Horllck. The Earle Theater next week will offer as the headline attraction Wil liam Horlick, who was for vears the dancing partner of the great Paviow: and who will appear with the arampa Sisters in a dance offering. F'ive other ac! of vaudeville w round out the program together with the photoplay, “Bad Company,” fea- turing Conway Tearle and Madge Kennedy. Motor Supplants Handwork. HE gyroscoplc camera, a mechan- ical device which eliminates one of the greatest obstacles to success: ful “trick” photography in screen production, which was imported into America by the Famous Players- Lasky Corporation, was used for the time on this side of the water in filming “The Manicure Girl,” which | will be shown here this week In ture photographing scenes for pic- it is frequently desirable to quic shifts with the camera from one position to the other with sing the operation of the ma- Up to the present time this been accompanied by unpleasant " that are confusing to the and defeat the very purpose recent ciple of the gy picture c however, pplied the prin- 'oscope to the motion mera with splendid results. is said. It used for the first time on a film ma in Germany lled “The I augh,” which was seen here late last Spring. Para- mount has acquired the American rights to this camera and will use it on other pictures in the future. The gyroscopic device, it is claim- ed, keeps the camera steady and up- right throughout, while a push but- ton operates an electric motor that winds the film without the necessity of turning a cran G auease Is Doomed. THE Moorish gallease, the 175-foot ship of ancient design built by 'd for his production of ea Hawk,” has been sent to Davy Jones The pictures at its mo Beach ve hecause navigation Mr. it out to sea gallease had been ing in the channel Calif., for the past of the peril to Lloyd decided to take and dynamite it. Only one of the celebrated “Sea Hawk” fleet now remains. It is the English frigate, which has since seen service in “Peter and will be held in reserve indefinitely for future use. ARLINGTON BEACH PARK —DANCING — AMUSEMENTS W SOMETHING NEW FOR GLEN ECHO i FREE_ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK THE SOMETHING NEW BEING FREE DANCING FOR LADIES TOMORROW NIGHT TO SPECIAL MUSIC BY “HAPPY WALKER” AND HIS GOLDEN PHEASANTS FOR TODAY ALL THE 50 AMUSEMENTS EXCEPT DANCING T RADE 13 SRACTOUS MON. & TUES. NIgHT: “YP THE LADDER"” wirn_VIRGINIA VALLI FRA“NK RICNARDSON 0¥ BURNS and “SHE-HIM- HER" BURCHILL “LITTLE ON THE SCREEN HAROLD | il Uashigtie LLOYD IN A REVIVAL OF “NEVER Market WED. & THURS. NIGHTS TRST SHOWING IN WASHINGTO] x WILLIAM FOX Presents 2 “WINGS OF YOUTH” FRI_& SAT. NIGH FIRST SHOWING IN WASHINGTON “FOLLY OF " VANITY” A_WILLIAM_FOX PRODUGCTION DANCING UNDER THE SKY WEAKEN”| Value” 11 + For Our UNTIL Pabons Wihoot v sc du W in, m, of m of Lo ha o fe to for te G t a M w h k) i F st is a wi hi H F) | | 1 | | | i | | Musicfor*'‘PhantomofOpera Corporation to arrange the musical In addition to presenting a repertor: compositions of his own. here he has constantly fought to place | the opera within the reach of all by the palm for the most prodigious feats of valor-performed single-handed by any soldier in the A. E. F. of ber. ducer. from ment awarding him the Congressional | paper away, that he had a pocketful of glory not the price of his next meal. came to the ea him the role of Mulcahey, ter Players, is in training, experience and that 'hat is to say Mr. MacFarlane com- | ines the physical fication of being able to act; ment that today’'s standards absolutely imperative. uine flair for acting his success on th roles and could never to that happy refuge of many an limited in resource to acting types and characters. cated there for the law, for a stage career. Maude Adams in her revivals of “Pe ter Woman Knows,” AMUSEMENTS. USTAVE HINRICHS has been en gaged by the Universal Pictures distinction chestra in nburg came to this country, opera at the California Francisco, where his a marked aitention. As d Grand Opera House in he introduced Mascagni’s Rusticana” and Leoncaval gliacel” for the first t try, and also made it others to play them fn Americ Later he became director of the Me ropolitan Opera House in New Yor under Conreld. He has waved baton for such famous He | brich, Calve, Minnie H. of | Edouard de’ Resake, ¢ | others. The Opera’ around the production of the historic Paris Opera Hou; of « Ha recting b In first 1870 a ore to accompany its greatest pro- Th action, “The Phantom of the Opera, hich is soon to be seen in Wash- gton. Prof. Hinrichs is one of the fore. ost musical directors in this count ater in P > in this cou 47 operas, he has produced several possible fc He has done uch for the development of grand pera also, for during his 55 years wering the price of admission been a consistent advocate pera in English. During the past w vears he has turned his attention the preparation of music scores r the motion picture. At the age of 18 he achieved the Wa'tr Her ERGT. MICHAEL DONALDSON, | Irishman, who figures in a brz v 3 3 the early part of the play and to whom Gen. Pershing awarded | [he early part of the bl sergeant. You'll have to excuse Mike, red to the ears, “but rated a good light hi been knocked off my or out, even in fun a part I never could In the interest of was deemed advisable son for a role story of “The Phantom of th o in Play is gotng , continue his military career in one the companies of “What Price lory,” the war play which will tour | country, beginning in Septem- | He has just received an offer of part from Arthur Hopkins, the pro- | v No. pl all to ca neerned st Dona “Mike” received | the officlal docu- Recently Sergt. ‘Washington t. Donaldsor edal of Honor. As he tucked theg4by all the a it is said, he remarked | which but | sional This | Hill N, of Arthur Hopkins, | 14, 1918, ho sent for the ex-soldier and offered | chine a fighting | four wounded men to 1 Our New I;eading’ Man OHN GL MACFARLANE, new leading man of the National Thea- he was Medal 288 s Smpire Theat | “Why Men Le: lences has had appearance a modern version of ance with M matinee type which for years in the American theater. ane Shubert-Bela Men Leave Home Mr. MacFarlane's Wi debut was made modestly last week “Aren’t We pa; | which he ha His fir chance to ir ashingtonia comes tom when he w eld sw attributes of with the more important quals the dol ed admira press W rrow evening the comedy ¥ Goose Hangs High. a require. render It is safe to say that if Mr. M arlane were not possessed of a gen MARSHALL HALL FREE DANCING McWilliam’s Orchestra age would have been limited. For it advanced he was born to lead have resorted actor Efther he must have been leading man or nothing. Physically, MacFarlane is a strap ping big chap, clean cut and gifted ith a magically toned voice that has in it the faintest trace of Scotch—with no reference to the beverage intended. He was born in Edinburgh and edu- relinquishing is course, after two years of study, Macalester Street Wharf On Broadway he played opposite Leaves 7th Pan” e w and “The Little Minist s leading man in “What Eve and under Charles rohman appeared at the Morosco and THE CAPITAL’S FAVORITE PLAYHOUSE Round Trip, 50c e Great Artists of the World Fxclusively NEW STARS IN A JOYFUL CLUSTER The BSemsational Dance Hit ~ROYE&MAYE % With MARGIE FINLEY Evelyn Joyce—Leonore Schef/fer—Viola Hegyi DANCE--COLOR--SPEED CRAIG CAMPBELL Distinguished Tenor Billy Ruth WAYNE & WARREN “The Last Car” AERIAL SMITHS Pastimes in the 1'rnvi~ EXTRA ADD ATTRACTION Vaudevills's Newest Conception _of the Chauva Souris ROSE & ARTHYR BOYLAN and SARANOFF & CO. 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A MBLO-DRAMATIC FARCE x | “CHEATING CHEATERS” A _PLAY OF LAUGHS AND THRILLS SEAT SELLIN hington stock " he recting light an ty attracteq ector of the ladelphia llers n was written by Gaston Lerous in rt 10:30 A.M,, 2:30 & 6:45 P.M.