Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1925, Page 52

2 AMUSEMENTS. » Coming Attractions National—"Why Ncn Leave | Home. Gildea _company In_ a farce with music; Nich Hufford, formerly of Huf- ford and Chain, and the Major Re- Among the farces and comedies| On the screen there will presented this season by the National | fered “The Lost Lady” with Theater Players have been several| Rich as the featured player. at circled about the family hearth- | e “Chicken Feed,” for instance, up- | hield the affirmative in the demand of wives for wages. “Why Men Leave Home, which will be presented us the final offering of the season, up holds the contention of husbands that e-trotting wives are no prize Largains. Why Men Leave Home" had its| premiers in Washington two seasons azo and from the outset was a pop- ular farce-comedy that charmed not only the sophisticates of Broadway | but the more rationally viewed play zoers .of Boston, Philadelphia and even, Chicago. Why do men leave home’ The reasons are manifold soci- xists might tell vou, but in this instance it's because they have gs be of- Irene st KEITH'S—John Steel. Steel, celebrated American will headline the bill at B. next week with Mabel Staple- ist-violinist. John tenor, | Keith ton, p STRAND—"Radio Revelry.” * The and Theater announces as next week's headline attraction, Frank Bannister in “Radio Revelry,” said to be the last word In smart Summer re- views. Others will be Harry Hickey and Le Van, assisted by Lettie Bolles in a omedy skit, “Mere Nonsense; Jean and Jacques in tion” and other variety The photoplay will Barrymore in “A Man of Iron"” with Mildred Harris opposite. Short films livanting wives whose juunts to the | and orchestra numbers will complete xeashore, the mountains, the Kuro-|the program centers and watering places | ve the poor Benedict in a constant | as ‘to whether he's | In short, men leave home wuse their wives beat them to it. There’'s more to the story than that. Two sets of couples comprise the hub around which the action re- |13 musteal numbers. This s the sec: volves. he piece fairly teems with|ong attraction of the 1925-1926 season heart interest and sparkles with that | of Columbia Burlesque in Washing sort of candid wit which seems to | ton, lave dictated the mood of the ma- | ity of our plays the past two seu-| \tmUAL—Evelyn Cunningham's i . | Show. Tehaly Tane nf‘d J"h’»‘ V\\rnnvtr b ”l] Evelyn Cunningham and “her gang’ seen in the roles originally han- | Sheat B dled by Florence Shirley and John | Will be the attraction a MacFarlane | Theater next week. 3 hurlesque star there will appear ARLE—Vaudeville. « e Leon, Billie La Verne, Harry announced for next Leff, Dollie Barringer,- Will Carleton the Earle include the James and Ed '.',“.f”“' “Paramount Week." 4 acts, bring Lionel pean AVE 1 Club.’ The attraction at the Gayety Thea ter next week will be Joe Wilton's rl Club.”” 'The show, which is said to be new in every particular, is in two big acts with 16 stage settings and Offeri week at i story; “The Trouble With Wives with Florence Vidor, Tom Moore and Ford Sterlinz, and “The Man Who Found Himself,” starring Thomas | Melghan “Flower of RMINATION by the exhibitors te e the public only the best film attractions in connection with “Greater Movie Season, it is claimed, has led 8,000 them throughout the country to band to- gether to book Paramount pictures exclusively during Paramount week, September 6-13. This according to nouncement by the Famous Play- ers-Lasky Corporation More than 3,500 newspapers, daily weekly, will be used in an ad- sing campaign It is customary during Paramount week to review the accomplishments of the past vear and forecast that, which is to come. Paramount did | much to hold the regard of the| movie-going public during the past | 12 months. Among the outstanding films it released were “The Ten Com mandments, “The Covered Wagon, Peter Pan “North of 35" and many others of note. Since then the | ramount fold has heen enriched additions of several notables, amely D. W. GriMfith, the director Harold Lioyd, the comedian, whose films will be released through Para- ount, and Douglas MaclLean, who as a similar arrangement The complete list of Paramount's “Greater Forty” to be released during the coming season follows “Night Life of New York," directed by Allan Dwan; In th Name of Iove” with Greta Nissen and Wallace Beery; “The Lucky Devil” with Richard Dix: “Rugged Water,” di- vected by Irvin Willat; “Beggar on iorseback,” dfrected by James | Gloria Swanson. (ruze; “The Street of Forgotten| Besides these there will be a Thom- Men.” directed by Ierbert Brenon: as Meighan picture, now being made Wild, Wild _Susan with Bebe | Danieis; “Not So Long Ago." directed | “The Imperfect Impostor’ by Sldney Olcott and starring Betty | made from the story winning the ronson: “Wild Horse Mesa,” the [$50,000 Liberty Magazine prize by Zane Grey story, directed by George | James Cruze, and another pleture fea- B. Seitz; “The Coast of Folly,” with | turing the winner of the forthcoming Gloria wanson A Son of His|Atlantle City beauty pageant, Father,” from the Harold Bell Wright | directed by DET of ¢ the Night," will, star | Pola Negri, in the Joseph Herge- | sheimer story; and there will be “New Brooms,” the William de Mille pro- duction “Lovers in Quarantine,” starrin; 3ebe Daniels; “The Pony Expre: directed James Cruze; 'he Golden Princes: starring Betty Bronson; “Seven k s to Bald pate,” starring Douglas MacLean: “He's a Prince,” starring Ravmond Griffith: “The Best People,” directed by Sidney Olcott; “The King on Main Street,” with Adolphe Menjou and a fine cast “The Ancient Highway directed by Irving Willat and featuring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove and | Raymond Hatton; “Sta, Struck,” tarring Gloria Swanson V' ishing American,” a Zane Grey pic ture, with Richard Dix and Lois Wilson, directed by George B. Seitz “Cobra with Rudolph Valentino hat Royle Girl" directed by D. W iffith: “Lord Jim.” from the Joseph Conrad story featuring Percy mont “A Kiss for Cinderella,” with Betty Bronson, directed by Herbert Brenon Crossroads of the World,” with Pola Negri: iard Dix: “Polly of the Ball a ‘William de Mille production age Door Johnny,” with Ravmond Griffith “The Enchanted Hill,” directed Irvin ~ Willat; “Conquered,” Fannie Hurst Wins Again. FOLLOWING the announcement thet Fannie Hurst had wen Lib. $50.000 prize story contest, Lakky has stated that Miss story, entitled “The M ] 000 prize. The judges then commis- | sloned her as an author of national erty's Jesse T. Hurst's in finished serial form. The remain ing $25.000 will be paid her upon the ser Finger a Paramount the sce Although picture by Jamex ario for film purposes millions of persons are familiar with the name Fannfe Hurst, relatively few know the edetalls of the interesting career she hegan when she submitted manuscripts for publication at the age of 14. At 18, 21 of her short stories had been re Jected by one editor alone, but she was gaining experience on the staff of a S Louis newspaper. When she was 19 she went from St. Louis to New York. There, while vainly endeavoring to induce editors 10 buy her wares, she used her leisure |10 acquire the material which has since enriched her books. She llved for a month over an Ar. In the Liberty contest Miss Hurst's menian's tobacco shop in West Broad. entry triumphed over almost 100,000 [way and became by turns a waitress other manuscrips and plot synopsis|in a lunchroom, a salesgirl, an ac. which were sent in from virtually |tress, a nursemaid and a sweatshop every quarter of the globe. .John N.|worker, and even took a trip to Eu- Wheeler. executive editor of Liberty; | rope in the steerage. At the end of Mr. Lasky and Rex Beach were the Judges. Miss Hurst's entry consisted of a synopeis of a plot. For the synopsfs | she received the first half of the $50 £ A@L@li Hart. WWHEREVER . Wesiern pictures are | cinema, forging to the very fore- thought of, probably every man, | front of stardom in Western roles, woman or child recalls the name of | until he became so thoroughly identi- Bill Hart as the creator of the true | fled with these characterizations that Woalern tunsiah the acreon. no one thought of Western pictures William S. Hart's early vears were | Without thinking of Bill Hart. This spent in Dakota and northwestern | fact remains equally true today. Minnesota, among the Sioux Indians. | During the World War he made ere he learned the arts of the|Sirenuous Liberty Loan tours on wilderness; how to shoot with bow | behalf of the first, third and fourth and rrow, how to handle a Tifle or|loans, amassing a great sum of revolver, how to ride, how to throw a | Money for.Uncle Sam at a time when rope, and how to blaze a (rail through | it was most needed. Everywhere he the track: s forest | was hailed with acclaim. Whenever He acquired the “hand talk” of the | he appears in public, in a parade Indians, learned stoicism and bravery | (Such as those recently staged in Los by watching the older men of the|Angeles by the Shriners and for the tribe and companioning with Indian | §7eater movie season) he is greeted Tovs of his own age. He learned, |Vith a marvelous ovation—all testify- 100, the ways of the white man—of Ing to his unfailing popularity. the cowpuncher, and others—and of | Bill Hart is coming back to the the wild creatures of the woods. His|Movies in “Tumbleweeds," for release retentive memory and natural habit | bY United Artists Corporation. It is of observation provide him with a|one of the most ambitious produc- fund of knowledge which has been an | tions he has ever undertaken. unfailing source from which to draw O ducing his later years on stage and| \iliam de Mille's next will be screen s s In the spoken drama, at an ab- | o uy Hoih® Pallet” with Bebe Dan- surdly youthful age, Mr. Tlart played | mmer o MARSHALL HALL leadin roles with ich noted sta 15 Modjeska, Julia Arthur and others. | Then came his inimitable portrayvals | of Cash Ha in “The Squaw | Man,” Dan in “The Barrier," | FREE DANCING McWilliam’s Orchestra Steamer Charles Macalester the title role in Owen Wister's “The Leaves 7th Street Wharf Virginian” and others. These were 10:30 A.M,, 2:30 & 6:45 P.M. the first real and authetntic Western Round Trip, 50¢ Miss Hurst, who has been working at the Hollywood studio with \Walter Woods, scenario writer, is enthusias tic over the possibilities of the story and has been conferring dally with Mr. Woods and Mr. Cruze so that when “The Moving Finger” reaches tha screen it will be exactly Miss Hurst's own story James Cru the man who made he Covered Wagon” and who has just finished “The Pony Express,” de. clares that he feels in Miss Hurst's story he has an opportunity to do something entirely different from any thing he has done before the attention of an editor who per- ceived the author's possibilities, and Fannie Hurst's fight for recognition was won. representations and the public went wild over them In pictures he rapidly 1 of thousand v became the 8 DIO. . C| s Mon. and Fri.. “ith orchegtra. Priv. ‘lessons by S poinbment Fro 8805 Extabilohad 1 appointment Bailroom and Stage Dancing (lnssen In Stage Dancing, =Duponi Studio. Xo. 7 Duvent Circle, Bhene Pr 1430-W. | GLADYSE WILBU R “A Seashore Flirta- | In support of the | Mar- | “Womanhandled.” with Rich- | by | with | Ireland, from the magazine story, ! a pleture | to be| reputation to write her plot synopsis | 11's completion and the production | | 26 months one of her scripts came to | THE SUNDAY SCORED A REAL HIT LENETA LANE of the National Theater Players, who furnished the surprise of the stock son as Kiki. 'Old Thriller--New Comedy. WILL the movie thriller of 1925 be the rip-roaring comedy of 19507 | One need not be surprised, after ob- | serving the way in which “The Great Train Robbery,” which was no end of a thriller back in 1803, now comes to the screen as a comedy subject, ca d | “Thirty Years Ago.’ Thix plcture shows just how much screen art has | improved since the time Iidison masie The Kiss" in In this 1525 comedy noveity »f the audience's amusement is rection of that period in which the | greater part 6f the film was used up in showing the comparatively enor mous amount of time reguired to bind |and gag a baggagemaster. . Inciden: Won Out in the End- HESE are sunny days for Dorothy | Love. Dorothy is a New York girl. still in | her teens, and has always aspired | to become a movie actress. She play-| 0! new leading lady, Douglas | SRR airbanks has begun to think so. |ed small parts in “The Swan" and ince the announcement was made “The Man Who Found Ilmself.”|several weeks ago that Doug Jranted g sje: | & Stately voung lady to play the lea Then she heard of the Paramaunt Plot [ & SCput SATE B cort taote then tures’ school. and tried to gain 8d-| ;ne thousand have applied for mittance, ‘but falied,. She was de-|role. These thousend girls wepe all s t not discouraged. | seen at the Fairbanks casting office, appear with about 175 extras in a|&t all were given an interview. The cabaret scene for D. W. Griffith's| NXL step was screen tests. The “That Royle Gifl.” She wore an eve. | Fairbanks company spent hundreds of ning gown, llke the others. ‘The jamz | (G147 [0 Makink theee, Bvery sirl orchestra flared up under the direction | WIG SRS 1o be dualife L4 }of Harrison Ford. Darting paper A ftor: BURYInE TroiiStion streamers produced a riot of color, the | LY SEETIE L BROGHCUD music wus_intoxicating. dancing be- | G TEE SBEEOUNE SEES SUO e gan. and Miss Love forgot her dis-| i 0o R 86 It T Ret et . appointment. Her eves sparkled. Mi down to three young womer Grifith noted her. It was u rehearsal. tests will he made with the colo He sald to his assistant, “Go down R and tell that blond girl to fush toward Harrison Ford and vamp him.’ girl did. Her hands siid down Ford's cheeks. She threw her wrms around his neck with seductive grace. | The music stopped. Mr. Griffith sum- | | moned the young woman to his chair. | “We have a very good role still un- flled in this picture,” he told her.| “One of the things you have to do is | exactly what you did so well a mo- ment ago. Do you want it?" Miss Love swallowed once or twice. Her voice falled and she nodded. | “'Report to the wardrobe department 0o the- and be fitted in the costyme they have | BATHING, DAN }:h’x"fl LL SEA- waiting,” she was instructed. Rou: #h;'x.g ity 50" ig-‘l ren; 25e It was while passing through the | « o dark areaway to the wardrobe rooms | gsTian® ,':', 30, Trast 4825 that Dorothy reflected that what had 8200, 800, N | just happened to her had launched | Sundays, §:50. 10:30, 11:30. 3:00, 3:00. Carol Dempster, the Gish sisters, | other days: 9:00, 11:30. 2:30. 5:40. 8:00. Pauline Starke and others on the road TFreuent_trains _retarming. to success. credited with being the firat film ever made with- a dramatic sequence and continuity—a film sentence, in other words. ch films as “The Kiss” (1895), d in a Drawing Room' (1888) and et Car Chivalry.” made about same time, are little more than en phrases, to continue the simlile though they have been the much o | first projected. In most of these pictures all properties are painted on the “wall. vet the photography is of a quality amazingly good. considering the tech- ical advances that have been made in the passing vears. the Search for Slim Princess. AS modern Hollywood elvilization completely swallowed up the old- fashioned “slim princess.” who in- spired men to brave deeds After almost a month of searching for sums a of DO NOT MISS The Mohawk Quartet At Chevy Chase Lake Wednesday, Aug. 26 CHESAPEAKE BEACH §Rlius—Rccord Su'm for | Sailors. Thomas Meighan, Paramount star, acting’ as master of ceremonies at a concert aboard the steamship Levia- than en route to England, smashed all records for ralsing money for chari- table purposes, according to a radio- gram received from the ship. He suc- ceeded in coaxing $1902 out of the pockets of the first-cabin passengers | 10 meet the wants of deserving sailors. The report said that considerable excitement prevalled during the con- cert. There were many noted inter- national celebrities present and Melghan proved he is an “auctioneer” ||| Made at Alsxor of o mean ability. Rl7 FAIR Wonderful Exhibition for Farmers Valuable Displays of Improvements for Living and Farming Conditions AMUSEMENTS AND 100 BOOTHS California Frank’s $50,000 Rodeo Pony Show and Races—Free for Children Tuesday Horse Show—15 Classes—Wednesday Dancing and Fireworks Wednesday and Thursday Nights $500 DOG SHOW FRIDAY HARNESS RACES—MULE RACES—EVERY DAY Admission 25¢, 50c, 75¢ By Moonlight By Daylight STEAMER ST. JOHNS Leaves 7th St. Wharf fer 40 Mile COLONIAL Moonlight Trip|, BEACH 'l'luul-yté Thurs- Every Monday | days and Sundays, Wednesday and |9 am.; Saturday, Friday at 7:15 0 p.m. FREE DANCING EVERY TRIP Ample i it wharf. mase st "ttt Wiy YR STAR, WASHINGTON, | tally, “The Great Train Robbery" i@ thrilling | enough .in the davs when they were | lhr! D. C, AUGUST 23, 1925—PART 3. AMUSEMENTS. Outdoor Attractions. GLEN ECHO PARK. ] Glen Echo Park, Washington's free admisston resort, {5 reached by a cool- ing trolley ride along the bank of the Potomac, or by motor via Conduit road. There are a score or more of |to diversified fun and entertainment fea- [St. Johns and the moonlight trip re- tures, foremost being the dancing in |turning to Washington is free danc- the ballroom every week night from |ing to music by Sokolov's Band. The 8:30 to 11:30 to music by “Happy" steamer St. Johns makes four trips Walker's star band. “The Golden |weekly to the beach, leaving the Pheasants,” which he personally di-|Seventh Street Wharf Tuesday, rects. | Thursday and Sunday at 9 a.m. and For thrills and rides there are the |Saturday at 2:30 p.m. derby racer, coaster dips, the frolic, | dnesday and Friday the skooter, and the ginger snap whip. | evening at 7:15 p.m. the steamer St. Other features include the caroussel, | Johns carries pleasura-seekers on the the midway, which houses dozens of |40-mile moonlight trips down the things to delight the kiddies, and the | Potomac, returning to the city about penny arcade with over 100 machines. |11 pm. ' Free dancing is a popular feature of LE PARADIS ATTRACTIONS. ofdhgse tlus Klark and Jacobs, strumming Southland singers, at the Chateau Le Paradis, will appear at Le Paradis Roof Garden on Thursday evenings hereafter in their own really immi- table and informal entertainment. They will also broadcast radio num- bers in conjunction with the Le Para- dis Roof Garden Band. Both the Chateau Le Paradis at Ammendale, Md., and the roof gar- den have drawn throngs of discrim- inating amusement seekers from Bal- timore and Washington. The Chateau Le Paradis Band, led by Director Nathan Brusiloff, and the Le Paradis Roof Garden Band, led by Director Harry Albert, are recognized as among the finest of dance bands, but are totally different in type and instrumental make-up; both emphasize the Meyer Davis idea. The Chateau and the Le Paradis Roof Garden are under the supervision | @Y ionert Bl | Miss Martha Townsend, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. C. O. Townsend of | Takoma Park, will make her debut in A group of effective musical num- | vaudeville on Broadway Monday at bers by the Mohawk Quartet will be | Keith’s Palace Theater. New York the special attraction for Wednes | City. She will play opposite Eddie day's “Vaudeville night” at Chevy Buzzell, the vouns vaudeville in Chase Lake. The Mohawk Quartet|a oneact play, “Compliments of the is one of the most popular local |Season agsregations and it promises new | numbers for its Lake appearance. | | Tuesday evening's “Dixieland night | | with its troop of little colored enter- | tainers is one of the high lights of | the week, and “Opportunity night,”| Friday, will give juvenile Capital amateurs in competition & chance for substantial prizes. Thursday eve- ning’s feature will be a prize waltz competition between the District's | foremost _waltzers, Lewis Sterling | and “Buck” Watson. The Lake will close for the season Saturday, September 12 ing, crabbing, dancing and rides on the ferris wheel and the whip. The skating rink and new pler also pre- sent a number of attractions. A feature of the 70-mile daylight trip ARLINGTON BEACH PARK. Arlington Beach Park is catering from morning until late at night to throngs of bathers, young and old, who seek relief from the warm weather in a_ dip into the cooling waters of the Potomac. Great search- lights at night flood the beach with illumination of like brilliance. The big open-pir dance pavillion, overlooking the river at the south end of the Highw ridge s a mecea for dance “fan: The park has many other amuse- ments, including the roller coaster with breath-taking dips, the whip, dodgem, merry-go-round, airplane swings, ferris wheel, canoeing and boating. Admission to the park is free. A new parking ground, under park management, has been opened Just across the road CHEVY CHASE. star RS. WILSON - GREENE'S CONCERTS POLI'S THEATER—4:0 ARTISTS' COURSE DUSOLINA GIANNINI, Messo-Seprans. Koussevits) Cenduster. MME. -OURCI, -y e A S HILNARMONIC COURSE TITO SOMIPA, Leading Lyrie Tener of the [ GOIIIH. SLER, Vielinist. B ne Frem ths Mec omeat 315 o g’, Coatralte. .y &o OX SYMPHONY OROTESTRA, Serye eeritnky % Bewsen ‘sach of the abeve courses, T0. RS, L, 00, pime war tar WILSON-GREENE CONCERT CHESAPEAKE BEACH. The attractions of a seaside resort tonly an hour ride from the cl {makes Chesapeake Beach a popular| spot for either the one-day excur- sionist or the Summer vacationist. | | Shsge Salt-water bathing and. fishing are | | Jex. popular and the boardwalk offers a variety of amusements, such as the | merry-go-round, derby racer, dodg- em. shooting galleries, bowling allevs, billiard parlors, ball-throwing games, Japanese ball booth, photographic | gallery, fortune-telling tent and pad dle_booths. | There are also shady picnic groves | overlooking the bay. MARSHALL HALL. Reached by a sall aboard the | steamer Chakles Macalester. Wash- | ington’s oldest down-the-river resort, | Marshall Hall, has a number of rid- | ing devices and amusement features | providing _entertainment for young | and old. There is free dancing in the | pavillion to music by McWilliams| Band and among the attractions ‘.\Ill‘ be found the aeroplane swings, roller coaster, caroussel, Venetian swings, | | skooter, whip and kissing bug. Shady | i picnic groves are avaflable for family | outings with the tables, benches and | playgrounds for the kiddies. The steamer Charles Macalester makes three trips dafly and Sunday to Mashall Hall, leaving the Seventh reet Wharf at 10 am., 2:30 and 45 p.m., Sunday at 10:30 a.m. COLONTAL BEACH—St. Johus. Many amusement features are to be found at Colonial Beach, among will this comcert with o them bems salt-water halhinE, fish- “‘wlm “m. PR ! S T R S T | ARLINGTON i T S gl ! BEACH Boascn PARK Orders for all conoert sourses new fled at Mrs. Gresne's C Bureau BATRING—DANCING — AMUSEMENTS 0! P En A SASRILOWITOR, Fianiste a Gershwin's opers. ' ‘Blue etinguished soloists, will Jean: rrSafity K. Y. Symphony Orchestra WALTER DAMROSCH, Conductor POLI'S THEATER Your Tuesdays: New. 10, Dec. March 14. Dec $—GEORGY GERBHWIN. Compo Pianist, will play bis “‘New York Cen " for plame and orchestrs. ¥ M"'fl'l‘ll’lgfiiéx, in- oludiag ons from ‘‘Riensi,' P irst opam. and frem Parsif work, welsists and ohorus e 3 $1s, 1 T s cert Dreep’s. 13th end 6. Pheme Main 6493 STANLEY FIRST RUN SELECTED PHOTOPLAYS CONTINUOUS, 1 TO 11 SUNDAY AT 3 ° BEN MEROFF i HIGH HATTERS HIS A BROADWAY IN 'TION COMER_TO WASHINGTON TREY ARE THE GREATEST JAZZ BAND—ENTERTAINERS FrankHunter &Co. | “MOVING DAYR" ‘I‘; Ray Shannon and Bobby VanHorn ||’ Jim Diamond and __Sibyl Brennan _ Rose Perfect AMERICA'S NIGHTINGALE THE McBANNS —FIRST SHOWING IN WASMINGTON— INA_CLAIRE'S STAGE SUCCESS “THE AWFUL TRUTH” Brought 1o the fcreon With AGNES AYRES The sercen version has enhanced the value of this delightful comedy. COLUMBIA BURLESQU SMOKING PERMITTED IN ANY PART OF THEATER INSTANTANEOUS HIT LAST NIGHT TO A CAPACITY HOUSE ED E. DALEY'S SUPER BLACK & WHITE SENSATION “RARIN’ TO GO” 9014 PEOPLE—88 WHITE AND 381, COLORED 20 EXTRA WASHINGTON GIRLS IN CHORUS Professional Midnight Ramble, Friday, 28 LADIES’ MATINEE DAILY, 25c NEXT WEEK—JOE WILTON'S “GIRL CLUB” Main 4300 Aug. Colonial Beach aboard the steamer | | comedying, and in all the seasons thats have rolled on has never changed his o d or has s ast | character i Lo ey Bt helast He is se. however, in the ev changing niaterial he projects second season finds the rame quip in his fund of humor, and in that, prob. Ably, les ajs continued success Audiences know that Billy Foster will break every known rule of rhetorie but never will hold over a joke for a second vear. ; Title Writing. | AFTER ¢ | scene of a picture and it has been | Pronounced good, in the studio projec- | | tlon room, the services of yet an- | | other axpert are necessary--those of | la title writer. | Louls Sherwin, it is declared hl!‘ | mastered the art of bestowing titles upon a movie which, if the produe. | tion is satisfactory in other respects, | will insure its success | { 'A magazine and scenario writer |and onetime dramatic editor of the New York Globe, Mr. Sherwin, as a re- sult of his varied experience in liter- ary fields and long familarity with | motion pictures, is declared well quali- | fled for his present work. The posses- sion of an excellent sense of humor, with a knack of devising clever and original lines, enables him to write ti- tles that “take.” “The perfect title,” in Mr. Sher- win's opinfon, “is very short—a single word, If posaible. Charlie Chaplin's pictures furnish examples of what he thinks titles should be. For instance, in one of his recent pictures Charlie 14 seen handing his foreman a flower as he comes to work. The accompa- nying title is ‘Late,’ which never fails t0 get a laugh. No Stales Ones for Billy. { BILLY FOSTER, Dutch comedian, who heads the white half of the 4% is a THE AVENUE AT NINTH Twivke DAILY 2:15 & & YOU MAY SMOKE LET'S GOl THE BIGGER AND BETTER SEASON OF BURLESK IS ON “NAUGHTY NIFTIES” IS A GREAT SHOW WITH A CAST OF BURLESK FAVORITES AND THEY'RE ALL WHITE e Everything New But_the Title e 'Tis Old Timey Burlesk!! cast of arin’ to Go,” | opher. He has been doing a Dutch role for goodnese knows how long, but, unlike many comedians who yearn to be tragedians, Billy is content to assume a putty nose, a misfit suit of clothes and emit funny lines in a shattered | dialect. z Years ago Foster began his Dutch philos- | WE PLAY LOEW’'S VAUDEVILLE : Beginning TODAY au w..kD NOTI EXTRAORDINARY ENGAGEMENT DE LUXE George Griffen & Co. in Talented Cast With Sylvia Rich The Latest and Snappiest of Broadway Revues EXTRA ADDED FEATURE TROVATO Frank Eleanor " °si'f!.'in‘.';d'.'.°°' ALBRIGHT & HARTE Comedy Bright Lights of Broadway PIERLET & SCOFIELD in “Helping Hubby” - PHOTOPLAY—FIRST TIME SHOWN - Trio Produetion “THE BREATH OF SCANDAL” WITH BETTY BLYTHE, LOU TELLEGEN, PATSY RUTH MILLER RO A LR AL R R L. lL WS~ ALWAYS BEST FOR LESS—2 SHOWS PRICE OF | —wmm | The Intmlitable Vielin Imitator Eminent Musosl Gentus and Wisard THE CAPITAL’S FAVORITE PLAYHOUSE -AIBEE VADDEVILL: Great Artists of the Horld Exclusively VAUDEVILLE’'S POETRY OF MOTION A The Perfect Woman NELSON SNOW & CHARLES COLUMBUS New Triangular Array of Damcig Drawn_ Prom ~ Ziegfeld’s “Follies” Music Bor Revue’ to Form the Most Entrancing Act Extant. and EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION The Famous Bostonians The Chscriest Comedis: STELLA MAYHEW Jas, MILLER & MACK The v treat i Triple .Quartet In Stirving | REYNOLDS and DONEGAN & Assambly of Champlens LORIN RAKER & Co. in ““The Centradietl GALLA-RINI Geod Orehastra Nites, $1; Mate, ROTH & DRAKE e A Dainty Oddity TOPICS OF THE DAY PATHE WEEALY Phones: Main 4484, AESO®'S FABLES ATIONAL %25 | MAT. WED. 31.10, 85c & 50c | Mat. sat., 85c, 50c “It % & very brave mctreas, Indeed, whe will tempt fate by daring te suppiant a Belesco star, such for Instance as Lenore Ulric, yet, Miss Leneta Lane, at the National Theater, @ld that very thing and got away whh it to & promounced personal triumph.”—W, H. Landvoight, Star. “Miss Lane's Interpretation of the part fully worked out. She is a finished actress.”—Post. “David Belasco himself would beam on this ber- formance of ‘Kiki* by Lemeta Lane.’—Harold Phillips, Times. National Theater Players, Direction, Clitford Brooke, Otter David Belasco's Famous Charaster Study “Has lost mone of its Interest sinoe we first saw ‘David Belasco Presents.’ "—Herald. “ honest, palnstaking study—a laudable ervatien, b ket he' Famin e and blood and oI —R. Palmer, News. NEXT (FAREWELL WEEK) SEATS SELLING For the final week of their summer season the National Thentre Players will offer for your merriment one of the funniest farces of recent years ‘WHY MEN LEAVE HOME” By Avery Hopwood Souvenir programs with autographed pliotographs of every jayer who has appeared with the company will be a feature of l"m arewell week,