Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 57

i Ticasine hg %unfiag giaf Automobiles Part 3—12 Pages HINGTOX D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGU T 16, 1925 LENETA LANE National > ANTONIO MORENO /, LILLIAN GIsE O~ Columbia . COLLEEN MOOQL GLAD P HULETTE. Strand Me tropodom News and Comm ent ByW.H. Landvcfgt. the alarums of “The Greater Movie Season,” now off LONG witkh cially in our 1 t, and even before an impending coal strike has s harrowing horrors of the new theatrical season. It is always good to know what is going to happen to you, because then you can prepare for it. And it i - 4 A r,r,:c:' was never intended that man should be for the web of fate ; \ Z filled the land w come the announcements uly happy mbolic portent of . Dominating the season’s announcements urled with a chiaroscuro of smiles and tears in s what our lives st eally photoplays T}ns Wee k with a plethoric plenitude that is characteristic, as well as ominous, comes the herald of the Shubert output. Just how much of it will come this ues th It to conjecture, but the recital of the list of plays and 1t have been prepared for use will help furnish, conversation pla for the kative when the topic of the weather begins to pall. The pro- Theater affords a closer conjecture of what spective menu of the 2 pen the atio At the Photoplay Houscs Tlus W eek « really will hag le the sporadic shots from the individual pro- ducer, or in behali of lar stars. will serve to add to the quantity if it METROPOLITAN—“The Desert Flower.” Shown this afternoos does not help to improv ity of the small talk of the community and evening * All hail the new scason on e and screen, and may a watchful Provi- COLUMBIA—"Romola.” Shown this aiternoon and ever dence guide the guests that ipate in the banquet which it will spread G ,L PALACE—"The Street of Forgotten Men.” Shown 1001 e d cvening ;s QIDF[TH ‘LHCOJ]A yrusilla. With a Million.” Shown’ this aiternoon and evening TIVOLI—"“Her Husband’s Secr cvening AMBASSADOR The Desert Flower Shown this afternoon a evening PHE fact that o ofce statistics inform us that wore than 4 quarter | —— — of the population of Washington, in numbers at least, have given s hat ik £ i chipyabidiaEck Teassn il icve Gathmaitihe 08 Dtack Attendance Recorc i voung impresario. provided at the National Theater during the Summer. By the end of the current week starting the middle of May 1 ending right at the door of the regular 2 = season, approximately 16 weeks in all, each with a different production, e seems rather clearly to est population will have seen the National rl iblish the contention that Washington is a ' : T EARLE ROOF—"She Wolves." Shown this evening sood stock town and also that it will patronize good dramatic entertain- | Theater Players in action NAZIMOVA Awbassador Gayet ot S deatihis atter CENTRAL—"Youth's Gamble." Shown this aterr ment. The r s a two-edged compliment. a commendation of Mr. ~Box-office figures obtained last night ¢ Cochran as a good judge of the taste of the Washington theatergoing at the National Theater fix the gross == Syahel public, and a confirmation of the fact that even' Washington knows what | attendance to date at 132 which is it wants a gencrously patronize the caterer when it gets it. The | better than an average of 10,000 week Props and Art. nearness o ¢ offerings by the N s tional Theater Phiyers, it |Iv since the opening late in May ‘ t Att t : .| METROPOLITAN is believed, will pang of regret to many, who will induige the | During the regular season it is un urren raC lonS IR« ety chelj Baransouniis tony Flower. Island Studio, where Herbert ¥ onefourth of the ecity's COLN (colored)—"The Marriage Whirl Shown and evening, “The Desert Eliot’s novel, was proc man who has already ed by the ven the si . ! 1€ usual to encounter such consistenc: r sheet “The te S hope that Cochran's first experience in guessing what the public PR e e e Brenon is filming Barrie's “A K Crandall’s Metropolitan Theater 1his| Y20 liw fee White Sister” and wants here will prompt him to repeat his experiment next year. erica) Of cosnse, e attvaction itselt = [ for Cinderella,” a Jarge statue of the | Week, beginning S e s e L BRomnnla s vooent o o At the Theaters This Weck | o gl € e atue o the| omk PR it aon wih | F 16, samertine e e { < 2 5 R ' attend or they do not. The attraction oy = Sl “props.” First Natfonal's film version o on k at §2 prices and also had lonz HICK FEED .\{m»« them .«hc:\. A ;ugg\]l-\" ~:M of life in 1aturally, changed, chameleon-like NATIONAL—"Kiki.” comedy drama. Opens tomorrow evening The technicalit of photography ?mnal‘l\ s ;_)1«_«]\' \?" Desert ”‘[’;‘lfl‘v :;‘(‘I‘:\_“‘,"f"l;‘ll*‘l' ;“,“h e ~*1“]” >"\- many quarters, doubtless, it served and showed that human nature | with the on-rushing weeks and at KEITH'S—Odiva, “the Water Queen,” v {made it necessary to get a statue | featuring Colleen Moore, supported by 8 iladelphiu and Los Ar - . i & . S diva, “th T 1.” vaudeville. Opens this after- X e ches P at- | geles. s engagement at Lowe's C i s quick to appreciate real humor, even at its own expense. Mr, Thomas | tendance figures fluctuate accordingly i 2 P fter- | | hich was Givided into eross sections | Lioyd Hughes, and as' an extra at:|Eeles. lis encagement at Lowes C W. Gilmer, who has contributed freque ntly to the dramatic columns of A stock company differs in that, be e . 2 . so that part of the lady could be re.|traction. the Stafforc i '_“” “; \mn.m..’ bt at usual Cc o The Stmrs o siways something really worth while—discussing why audi- | Ing an establisnment that endures for | | EARLE—Russian National Orchestra, vaudeville. Opens this atar- [ |moved for ‘closeups and eo forth.| Dancess b & CRYSoRaRt? Colicl| “Miss Gish, the hercine of sucl . ke Gl e . s F ber of weeks, it must have both noon. | When they were arranging the set|Created by Mr. on, | S N oine of ) ences Lmqh at 1es and jokes enacted in a popular comedy, sug- | number of iwecks. \t must have both 5 Al i 5 i [ Just befors the shootin one of the| With a new Aesop Fable, {he Metyo- | memorable pictures as “The Birth o wests tha aughter shows enjoyment, so it is important to know what | {7200 : < STRAND-—Russian Master Singers-Gloria Gordon, vaudeville. Opens prop men was put to work to unerate | Politan World Survey and a musical & Nation.” “Broken Blossoms,” “Way i produces ter. Ordir ortune and stupidity should excite pity,” | '*Nene can say that the National| this afternoon Veit andt aaembl vor | program by the Metropolitan Sy n-‘l)‘:\v‘r]‘l st.” “Hearts of the World i ays Mr. Gilmer, “but in comedy we laugh at them because our superior- | Players have not the personnel in tal-| [ GAYETY—"Rarin’ to Go.” burlesque. Opens with matinee Saturday He tenderly lifted out piece after | Phony, under Daniel Breeskin e o o and Ehe i ity complex is tickled. We have a pleasing subconscious idea that we are ent as well as a repertory of success- | TUAL—“Naugl e es D buieles b aas s piece, and, after much cogitation and | “The Desert Flower,” in its action | FrRite Sister,” will be seen in the rol { : : | | MUTUAL—"Naughty Niities,” burlesque. Opens with matinees Sat- | | seratching of the head, he finally got | is said to abound in infectious humor, | Of @ wistful little Florentine beaut tupid comedian, forgetting for the moment that the |ful plays. The figures cited are quite better than 1 loquacious In attesting to this. comedian is getting rich at our expense. Vanity b much to do with our enjoyment of comedy. The joke is really on the audience, but they — o | who was tricked storm-tossed 1) tion and tramy the man she wed throes of revol d upon by the mob, Sl | her put together. But still he didn’t | romance, pathos and thrills. The cen- | seem satisfied. tral character is the stepdaughter of Something was wrong. He searched | a foreman of a railroad gang work don’t know it.” And there you ; Th N Db NATIONAL—"Kiki. KEITHS—0diva, the Water Queen.” |, SOmieihIng wae wions, e soarched | o formen S fuve Desert. Tnto the | PUt who won' happiness a( the lus * ree P 7 David Belasco's strikingly success- | Heading the bill at B. F. Keith's | case and began to rummage through | box-car settlement one day comes a |With the man she Joved. which made | Theater this week is “Odiva, the |the excelsior on the floor, every now \hobo who seems to be a gentleman “Romol deals specifically witl land then looking at the statue with [out of luck. Maggie Fortune is the a worried expression. Mr. Brenon |only one who perceives his superi- HE photoplay o Movie Seas: that picturesque phase of Florentine the current week, the first of “The Greater “THL LONE EAGLE" will repre- | ful heart comedy “Kiki, hist in _which the vowerful De i to Crandall announcements, all seem at- sent a distinct departure for | Lenore Ulric nous and Mr. Be sent Lillian Gish in “Romola. i sco | Water Queen.” seen in a spectacular ppe— tractive. They N ¢ George Eliot’s interest- | Rudolph Valentino in three important | richer, is the offering this week by Dresentation with the human, seals, | happened to pass him and noticed his | orfty and in return for her many little | Medici family was ousted from con ing story: Colleen Moore in “The Desert Flower.” a production in which | Lecpects, He will get away from his |the National Theater Players, begin- | offered by Capt. Adams. Thisact has | harassed al | Kindnesses he teaches her to read and | trol and in which the reformer, Sa the charming little star nearly lost her life; Percy Marmont, whose con-| ¢, yy0r Latin characterization and |ning tomorrow night {a speclal stage setting which gives| “What's wrong, old man?” the di-| write. Then comes the day when the JoRerelt fet ety ot ke tributions to screen drama have lifted him far above the average screen | jro . s goll e g foxt » the Impression of being out of doors | Fector inquired jealous foreman fires the young man. | Through the courtesy of the Ttalia ' ¢ § o 0 play a Russian, the picture will hav “Kiki" made dramatic history in| S8 1S oors “Well, T don’ 3 - » re. | Later, however, Maggie flees the place | &overnment, Director King was en actor, in “The Strect of Forgotten Men reflection of the old Bowery | more edy than any othe whi with . huge’ Focks - Yor. the- ard ell, T don't know, exactly,” re- er, ho + Maggie flees the place g s e Y | more comed @ 1 g e diving With her small sister and hikes to the | abled to reconstruct, with remarkable = 7ork, and ry Ca as ame 3 étothies of France, and duplicated the pages of in New York. and Mary Carr, who has won fame as the “mother of the | the star has appeared, and in this | (ranSe BRC GO o clcer a8 my | perches and a high waterfall pouring | | plied the prop man. “I unpacked creen,” in “Drusilla With a Million.” These pictures will be carefully | picture he* flees the amorous ad- [y %5 0 thest two countries | into the tank, which is disguised = | that statue as careful as I could. and gold rush town of Bullfrog where she | detail, the settings of the period, and T got her together all right, but, by | becomes a sort of aloof pet in Jack | his cast includes thousands of na gosh, 1 can't find her arms any- | Roval's dance hall. It is here that | tives. where." the developments which lead to_the| Added features will necessarily be reviewed later, despite the tendency of the press agent to jorestall opinion | vances of a woman me, b W0 Logunttlas| b ke T L sdvancemotices. Enotigh is known of them to encourage assufance | ; Hans Kraly sdspied thie story trom |01 1 England verge close onto SiX| ™ yjover Golden will present as the Alexander Pushkin's novel, and Clar- ture his latest production, “Master- | vears. | that none is likely to be disappointing and that the producers are really Mr. Belasco adapted the play from e | effective climax occur and that Miss | curtailed throughout the en 4 ¥ ER reCtoF i taking | - 8 Jelasco ada Y | " . | t gagemer putting their best foot forward in the endeavor to meet the public demand. | ghce, Brown. the director ls Wiing |the French version of Andre Picard. | | JriLsaptamoat costumes ) e [ Moore discloses the wide scope of her | to the International News picture e full advantage of all hi initles | |70 o fessed at the outset that Kiki | 5o e G Gloria Directs. | mimetic abilities. Irving Cummings,and the orchestral overture in making Valentino's first produe- | (1€ CONTeRsed 4f Ce BUREL LIl hat, | Semenova, Martinez. Marr, Sevillia, | Girected the pidture. | ROM the h{ art of the big city to the nnr\h\\.:;'ll comes the announce- | tion for United Artlsta, = e Bl e tion, i et Bolakol ogUanin and Winnell ereq| (GLORIA SWANSON'S first effort) The Stafford Pemberton Dancers, PALACE—“The Street of Forgotten | NEiof the et othets codue < f f Wi ol & n the Russian characterizatio Foush 23 A 4 c vi | - c s Cleanora P v v ment return to the producing field of the firm of Wagenhals & | 7 08 (URECC F T iform that is | Perplexed by her various moods. “In|py Rae Eleanor Ball, violinist, and as a director was staged at On\prxs(;_]nr‘_;;«pr;vrfir\mlh«l’:kevEll)‘:::‘:i;‘ e it :}le‘nm fact,” saild Belasco, season will be I se pr Kemper, wh ductions of “Resurrection,” “Seven Days,” “Paid in | she wanted | her brother, celloist, called. ..quems‘lmbhn Ferry, N. Y., a few days ago| D on the estate of Mrs. Harry de W.| Yeoder, Nina Haynes, June Brandt,|celcbrated at ioew’s Palace his | Fult” and “The Bat” will identify them, this time with “Lovely Lady.” by | icturesaue. = Later in the story fe lknowing.” | Musieal”; oth Bert Gordon and Fulf Tl ill identity them, this th “Le f | becomes a bandit and presents a dash gy .| Musical”; others are Bert Gordon and | {x- b 4 3dna = Jesse Lynch Williams. author of “Why Marry?” which was awarded the | ing apnoartnee in less polite garb. | There are endless facets to Kiki's|company in “A Recital Classique”; | V7 !I02 for a sequence in “The Coast Thats oot WL n pectary SALEd S| meonk, besinning this sfternoon, witt Puliczer prize in 1917, “Lovely Ladys" writes Charles Washburn of the | - Pernaps the, most startling depar. | nature which can be. but rarely are | Fortunello & Cirfllino, Ttalian clowns, | ° OUE" 0 1 | oquction was | lighted adding et ot | ot Drenous Slatest ” photopla Whgenhals & Kemper publicity staff, will make its debut in Washington, | ture 18 in the running away from the | detected at the first glimpse. She Is|in “The Happy Hooilgans”; Haynes |, il the et of thiy Brocuetion WAt} color to 'the program. It will be In|vivid story deafing with the Sowers datnty 1 sort of defi to analysts, and it is|and Beck, unique comedians; Meehan | nads n 3 5 g i b ling with the Bowery s "‘[;:‘p&‘é‘xf' this same cryptic in her makeup|& Newman offering a lively singing,|in California, but it was found impos N{\?:’_fll_fl;fflf?-"ldemc!l‘ns fl;e 29 years|and Fifth avenue of the late '90s i | that lures playgoers to second and |dancing and talking act mounted with | Sible to get a workable automobile of | of ETowth of the motion picture from | adapted from George Kibbe Turner's viewings. -Generally, though, |special scenery, and The Takewa, |the Vintage of 1890 out there. When its inception to this present “greater|magazine story by John Russell, and 5 the company returned East a Haynes | movie season with Percy Ma at Poli's, September 14, with Carlotta Monterey, “who will bring her slick | erotic approach of a coiffure and daring charms” direct from screen to stage. in the title role. | ¢Zarina. played by Louis o e SEficonil b . three wels | who has at’last “found herself” in | that eptember ust about one month off, and that will be three weeks | 0% met 3¢ 00 RS RO o8 ihira before “Lovely I have “its premiere” in New York. | v JPTIDES | iki's is a universal silhouette that |Japanese acrobats, known as . rmont, Mary Brian and | when he refuses her attention. of the |It Was one of those one-lungers that | Screening of the feature picture willl principal roles. Miss Brian will be o | prototypes in every city and hamlet| The Aesop’s Fables, Topic = D e 3 i under | E he warld. i Day and the Pathe News Plotorial |502P the head like a whip when they | be Krelsler's “Caprice Viennols," with | remembered for her we e start—with the emphasis on the| violin solo passages by Sigmund Zie-| Pan,” the Barrie fantasy 3 when. It took three days to drive it | bel. concert master. The theme of the{ ‘‘The Street of Forgotten Men" is A®KNESS and mystery still hover over the Shubert-Belasco Theater,| So there is something new where once David Belasco, prince of dramatic production, was wont | the cinematic sun. fo present his incomparable offerings for their “Washington premiere.” K in “Peter tory is that of a pretty | will complete the bill. girl fired from her | | Parisian _choru i f: hi e with 2 s of Y 1 bl § sl JARLI s .{down from Springfield to Dobbs | interpretative score will be “West of | the story of a Bowery Cinderell Since the merging of his name with that of the modern princes of pro- Masterpiece. job for the very impulses that make | EARLE—Russian National Orchestra. | down pring! : > score wil West y of a Bowery Cinderella and i duction in titling the theater that once proudly looked toward the \’\'[l’fite P her fascinating, Sbe is taken up by| The Russian National Orchestra is|FerTy, and a regular automobile fol- the 0’;“ D“b'ge by P«!Yner:; Ball, and | of a beggar who lost himself to the g 5 ‘ " oy ¥ “ STERPIECE,” Meyer Golden" My - announced by the Earle Theater man. | 1'Ved to push it up the hills. the exit number, “Let It in, Let It) world for love of her. It has been House, Belasco “premiercs” have been bestowed elsewhere. And such ASTERPIECE,” Meyer Golden's |a manager, temporarily at odds with | & 3 2 man. | OYEC . B o P x has S Iasan unusual vaudeville production, | his own girl, first.as a means to in- | agement for the headline attraction |yt Was cloudy the next day in New 5 =k described by some' critics ‘as * The — — —- L constbte ot o vatiaty ‘5t sconcs: ench| cite: riedloliky; usd,. Minelly, undes | this week.. This orchestra.is making|-orx: 0 Mr. Dwnn declded-tiot 20 at COLUMBIA—“Romola.” Miracle Man' of 1925, which it senti t y v . tempt to make the scene. He phoned MBIA—"Romola. strongly resembles in theme, treat < 2 ances o e B a world tour, and has as an additional =15 | presented in a spectacular way, with | circumstances he cannot coptrol. In | & World four. and has a8 o RACIeNAl the “studio and learned the camera-| Loew's Columbla Theater's briliiant (ment and locale. with the remaking of Fanny Brice's | gorgeous costumes, scenery and spe- |the end, Kiki, a cuffed and kicked e had:d ‘ s g > 3 ny c E el B i , ek eparted a half hour before. | contribution to the opening of the| Mr. Marmont is seen as a beggar nose, a most delicate operation, and | cial effects. | gamin from Montmartre, has waivers |Sokolskia and Vladimir Routchkovsky, | phen he phoned Miss Swanson's farm | greater movie season in Washington | king of the Bowery, who promises a Plastic Surgery Drama. LASTIC surgery drama will bring | for the operation on Truly Shattuck,| A few of the scenes are titled “The | on the biggest theatrical entrepreneur | Who offer several dance numbers, ac- = > 3 v % o \ o = P i Slic tormer tMhilo: | which resulted in the removal of 50 |Old Cameo,” “The Hold-up,” “Chinese |in Paris. companied by the entire orchestra. | $7¢; learned she was om her way to | today Wil e N e tp uing yember of the Elliott, Comstock and | pounds of superfluous flesh. Theater in Hongkong" and “In Spain.” | Leneta Lane, leading woman of | Other acts include Wilkins and Wil-| ™4 a6 pour later Miss Swanson|in Henry King's production for Me- | chance in life,” and who lives to fall Gest combine, back into the produc-| Mr. Elliott has opened offices at| There are famous artists in this|the National Theater Players, has kins in “Ignotz’s Tango Lessons,”|ielephoned to him that she was at the | tro-Goldwyn of George Eliot's famous | in love with his little ward, who in ing fleld No. 115 West Forty-fourth street and | company, among them such featured | essayed a great varlety of roles dur- |L.ane and Byron in “On a Side Street,” | ;120 " that the automobile was chug. | classic, “Romola.” with Dorothy Gish, | turn has fallen in love with an ador weeks, begin re-{and well known persons as Lydia |ing her sojourn with the Players in | Fisher and Hurst offering “‘Hats and The announcement states that one | will, within a fev ging, that the camermen were ready | Willlam H. Powell and Ronald Col-|ing young attorney. Rather than ac of his New York Fall productions | hearsals for his first venture as an|Semenova (late dancing partner of [the Capital. Not at amy time how- | Things” and McGood and Lenzen.|and the sun was shining. man in her support quaint the girl with the life of her Wwill be a play, “Still Watch,” by |individual producer. It will be given |that famous master of the Imperial | ever, has she approached such a tax | "Societs Equilibrists. e “Go ahead and make the scene,”| “Romola,” which was filmed en.| mother and her lowly origin, the \ugustus Thomas, based on plastic |an early premiere out of town and|Russian Ballet, M. Mordkin), Bolakoff, | on her talents as Kiki will levy, and | | As this theater’s first picture dur-|ggvised Mr. Dawn. " | tirely in Ttaly against the back- | beggar resorts to an amazing scheme <urgery by Dr. Henry J. Schireson, |taken to Broadway for the | open- | Ruth Marr, Martinez and Sevillia and | National fans are bound to watch her | ing the “greater movie season,” U She did, directing it herself. And | grounds and on the locations of his-|to effectually destroy all traces of her the Chleago surgeon. who is credited | ing. Michael Voljanin, meet the big test with interest, (Continued on Second Page.) it is said it was well done. toric Florence described in George L “ontinued on Third Page.) : 1