Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1925, Page 57

. b ——— Theaters fl The Sunday Stad Part 3—12 Pages WASHING CONSTANC Metropolitar_ Newsand Commentf By W. H. Landvoigt. scasonal year, the theatrical year buds and blossoms | th of_pub! v ceived time for the s glory of the new scason. year's hears learned %o w movie circles w ing the bt HAT ER the Nation ave be o unduly cater t the respect and Miss Lencta Lz have won tha I time. Ma Art Director maybe 1 tha an upward tren patrons. The e to be that i dwi Iater in tt unloaded di expecte have Jearned t de be iorate, assured. This w expected that | this as last wee UPPLEMEN Movie Scasc 8.000 theaters t clusively. Para by the Famous Royle Girl Coast of Folly” Found Himself in “A Kiss for Cinderella,” Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece, “Lord Jim,” and { a host more of menu for the P: land the fans sq; ARRY CRANDALL, from behind the barricade of his millions, sends forth the cheering word that “things are going to go forward in the ers just as before. only on a bigger and better scale,” and Crandall thea Harry is going t <hip.” A pleasan brought this cor own work in be informat better to prosec visual cducation that it has adopt richly deserved. T has become that without the happy ending a picture must fail. this week descri studios which | d impc ling James Cruze's “The Pony ive visit stead of in the Spring. Already its balmy breezes city and its green shoots of productions are being per- form of announcements. It will require further of the blossoms before one can realize the full | Many of the flowers which will bloom in this | den are already familiar, if not by sight at least by | new growth can only be conjectured. The Shubert | is alluring, but Washington never can tell what| when it is sent in this direction. Manager Leavitt is but has a way of landing things most unex- announcement will be needed to guess the Poli \Ma r Taylor, irom the far-off land of Wis- to ex at_ the Belasco, and the presence of ted in Washington very shortly, will con- the information already furnished for the National doesn’t atter, after all, for Washington has long | 1 to investigate for itseli. The intelligent life shown in h respect to the National Capital may do more than any- ¢ Washington to the dramatic landscape of worth-while tance. Until then, we can wait—meanwhile duly punish- ardeners. he antic * ok ok k may be in store for us hereafter, Washington will miss al Theater Players, who bring their Summer season to a | The stock season, in many respects, has been surpris- | vable. With the erratic notion that Washington |~; ause of heat during the Summer, a notion which never ial foundation, but which has been passed on and on by | er than a fact, it must be surprising to | National Players have been “packing them | principally to two reasons—the plays and the players. highly entertaining, without attempting at any time modern trend. The players all have won and retained teem of their patrons, and some of them, notably vard Arnold, Minor Watson and Kathryn Givney, performances that will be remembered for a E. Cochran, Stage Director Clifford Brooke, and Scenic Artist Charles E. Squires— the scenes—also share in the glories of a stock season surpassed in Washington. * ok k ok is keeping faith with the public. The open-| the big photoplay houses are all far above the this time of the year heretofore, and seem to mark d in production that augurs well for both producers and ¢ for the season with the high-sounding name is said irates the practice of furnishing to the photoplay public | yonth or more earlier than they have been pre-| conceded that the better attractions have come | is equally certain that the poorer ones have been | tural season of the year when patronage might be | Producers, distributors and exhibitors of photoplays ! on that it doesn’t pay to let the quality of their goods o th the e Seasc ct It especially during a season when buying is not presumed to By keeping up the quality a better patronage always is | cek’s announcements read well, and, therefore, it may be | ong lines waiting to secure admission will be the rule| k. * % | FING if not furnishing the motivation for the Greater v will come Paramount week, September 6 to 13, when iroughout the land will exhibit Paramount pictures ex- | unt pictures are synonymous with pictures produced | Players-Lasky Corporation. Griffith’s production, “That “xpress,” Gloria Swanson in “The Thomas Meighan in “The Man Who lower of the Night,” Betty Bronson and “Stage Struck, Pola Negri in “The the same dignity and excellence constitute the tempting aramount festival. At this rate the picture theaters will uarely in a movie heaven heretofore undreamed of. * ok ok ok o steer the wheel that guides them under their new owner- t visit from Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher during the week miorting assurance, and also assurance that Mrs. Locher's half of the children and in the Americanization movement Mrs. Locher has just returned from a delightful and to Movicland itself, which was made to enable her the te her work in Washington. Her work in the interest of has impressed the Hays organization to such an extent ed it for generalization as a policy—a rare compliment, and * % X % an unassailable conviction in movie production quarters The advance notices he a picture to be shown here today ts nature take its course and leaves to the intelligence of | Harris, CORINNE. GRIFFIT T ivoll Frohman Attractions. FROM the offices of Charles Froh ham, Inc., comes an announce. ment which indicates that the theater | also may have something out of the | ordinary in the way of delectable en- | tertainment. Mr. Vroon, the an- nouncer for the Froham interests states that two plays by Ferene Molna are in preparation, “The Glass Slippes which will be presented at the The- | ater Guild Theater, in New York, in October, and also “The Tale of the Wolf,” with Wallace Eddinger, Roland | Young and Phyllis Povah in the three principal_roles. Irene Bordoni is to| be seen In a new romantic farce by Avery Hopwood, called ‘“‘Naughty Cinderella,” which is a reminder that | Cinderella’is going to be the fashion in plays and pictures; Marjorie Ram beau in a Melchior Lengved comedy, | called “Antonia,” and Elsie Ferguson | in “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter,” by Alfred Savior. Minor Watson Rerurmng. DWARDS CHILDS CARP. TER, president of the Dramatists Thea Inc., in assoclation with William | Jr., announces he Get- away,” a play of adventure by Charles K. Van Riper, as the next production of this organization. Mr. Van Riper is a California journalisr. who hereto- fore has written film material and short fiction. Reh Is are to begin the coming week with an out-of-town showing scheduled for Washington, September 21, and the tentative Broadway date, October 5. The cast will have Violet Heming, late of “'Spring Cleaning” as its fea- tured player, and includes Minor Wat- son, last seen here with the National Theater players; Eric Dressler, re- membered for his work in “The Goose Hangs High,” Frederick Burt, who acted in “Great Music,” Paul Harvey and Clyde Veau. ter, Current Attractions, ., SUNDAY MORNING, A i3 ST Automobiles 30, 192 EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Mutusl At the Theaters This Week NATIONAL—“Why Men Leave Home,” comedy. evening. KEITH'S—John Stecl, tenor; vaudeville. EARLE—Jimmy Gildea and Co., vaudeville. STRAND—Harry Waimen's Girls, GAYETY— 1 Club,” burlesque. MUTUAL—Evelyn Cunningham'’s afternoon. NATIONAL—“Why Men Leave Home.” That daring adept at Hopwood, will provide the vehicle in which the tional Theater Plavers will ride during the final week of the National Theater stock season, be- ginning tomorrow night. Hopwood's rollicking barrage on gadabout wive “Why Men Leave IHome,” will close one of the longest repertoire engage- ment ever offered in the Capital, with a total run of 16 weeks. Some metropolitan critics have con- tended that this is Hopwood's be 1t discloses his skill, both a: ceur and as a_man with a mes sage, In a distinctly _entertaining brochure on the perils of domesticity, the hazards of unjust suspicions and the risks that wives take when the leave their husbands alone too long and too often. There are several sets of couples, but Tom and Fifi have been chosen to inhabit the center of the stage for the purpose of the moral to be pointed out. Fifi has been abroad for months. Un- like the prodigal, who returned in a penitent mood, she = flies back aburst with impudence and manda- tory airs. In addition she has suspi- Avery a the audience a common-sense and nat ural solution of the scenario writer's plot. The picture is “The Home Maker,” directed by King Baggot. Wash- ington thereby will be able to judge for itself whether an advance has been made or not with this picture. “The happy ending” is the curse of art, as lit has been the curse of the screen, for with it the most improbable stories have been put over and the most improbable conditions up to the great climax of happiness at the end. this. channel, and there are many times when ntroduced to lead “Real life does not run in ice triumphs through the twist of a screen director, which is a bad thing for the impressionable. * % * % MONTA BELL is going to introduce the color process in “The King of Main Street,” which is to be “th Menjou. The viv m-thods of color photography. e first starring vehicle” for Adolphe uniforms, beautiful gowns and the decorations of the from the Universal {monarch's reviewing stand, we are told, are to be prepared “by advanced | Opens tomorrow Opens this afternoon. Opens this afternoon. vaudeville. Opens this afternoon. Opens this afternoon. “Gang,” burlesque. Opens this clons that Tom has been rather gay with other women, particularly one Doris Ketcham. Tears and threats of divorce, with a speech by Tom on the injustice husbands suffer, help to make wh was once a household of happi- ness and devotion something quite otherwise, but there is no tragedy. Tom's introduction of the ‘“other woman" proves one of the surprises of the play. Leneta Lane, John Warner, Kath- ryn Givney and other nationai favor- iteg have all been cast for the fareweil wee KEITH'S—John Steel. Steel, celebrated American tenor, headlines the bill at B. F. Keith's Theater this week. He is ac- companied by Mabel Stapleton, pianist and violinist. Henry Hull, known especially to Washington for his work in Stock here, appears with a cast as a fea- tured attraction, offering ‘“Five Min- utes From the Station,” a skit by Elaine Stern. Others are Mlle. Ann Codee, billed as a French chanson, which in Eng- lish means chic singing comedienne; ‘Walter and Emily Walters, ventrilo- quists whose unruly boy, cute little girl and crying baby they use as fig- ures are remarkably lifelike; Coscia and Verdi, in a musical offering, “Stringing Comedy,” and Van Cello and Mary who turn deft tricks in their number, “Foot Feats." The regular supplementaries round out the bill EARLE—Jimmy Gildea and Company. Jimmy Gildea and company of John will eight, presenting “The Great Lovers,” | will be the headline attraction at the Earle this week. “A New Revue" iz | donna listed ‘as the | however, is “Chevenne Day players the Cox Sisters, Edith Bohl- man, Mooney and Mandell, Ryan and Bardon and Viola Kay. Other offerings will include Nick Hufford, ‘“The Pacemaker of Minstrel Comedians”; Liddel and Gibson, “Just Vaudevillians”; Valentine Vox and Florence Talbot in “Relaxation,” and Meyer Golden's production, ‘Bohe- mian Nights.” he photoplay presents Irene Rich Lost Girl. The Earle News, a Wheeler's Orchestra Aron’s organ recital the program. in comedy, Floyde and Alexander will round out STRAND—Harry Waiman's Girls. Harry Waiman will headline the bill at the Strand this week with his girl band of elght musiclans in a happy conglomeration of syncopation. Harry “Hickey” LeVan, eccentric comedian, will entertain with comedy, songs and planologue, assisted by Lettie Bolles, in a skif, “Mere Non- sense. ean and Jacques, acrobats, present “A Sea Shore Flirtation™; and others are Billy Nelson and Bert Leonard, “Two Speedsters from Jazz-| land,” and Raymond Barrett and Co. | in a comedy skit, “Matrimony,” by George Nagle. The photoplay presents Lionel Barrymore in “A Man of Iron,” sup- ported by Mildred Harris, Winnifred Barry, Dorothy Kingdon, Isobel De Leon and Jean Del Val. It is described as a tense drama of domestic strife, and reaches its climax in a pistol duel that is said to be unique in motion pictures. Concluding the bill will be short films and orchestral selections. GAYETY—"Girl Club.” Joe Wilton and his “Girl Club” will Dbe the offering at the Gayety Theater this week. ‘Wilton assumes the straight man role, weaving in and out of scenes, commenting humorously on the pro- ceedin-s and contributing a song or two. The chief comedy role is played by Jules Howard, Dutch comedian, assisted by Rex Weber, boob co- median, and Wally Jackson, eccentric dancer. Othe are Hazel Alger, Al Ulis and Harry Preston, in a repertoire of songs: Dixie Re: nault. blues singer; Charley Rankin and Bittie Corbitt, juvenile soubrette, who also team in a series of swift dancing numbers, and Gladys Bijou, the ingenue. 3 The big prima nsation of the attraction, novel | at | Mutual Theater this week, ¢ ~” TRANK MENELLI I\ Ne T 1 National £ $ ‘photoplays At the Photoplay Houses COLUMBIA- evening METROPOLITAN—"Her Sister I and evening PALACE—"A Slave of Fashio RIALTO—"“The Home Maker. TIVOLI—"The Marriage Whirl." The Coast of S AMBASSADOR—"Her Sister From and evening. CENTRAL—"Fighting Youth.” LINCOLN (colored).—“The Deser and even S COLUMBIA—“The Coast of Folly." This week's offering at Tumbia will be Gloria Swa production, “The Coast of Folly adapted by James Creelman from Coningsby Dawson’s story, directed b Allan Dwan, and with a cast ing Anthony Jowitt as leadin Alec Francis, Dorothy Cummi Prouty, Eugenie Besserer Hausman and Lawrence Grey. The story reveals Miss Swanson in Loew's Co son’s latest includ man Jed a dual characterization, first as a belle | of a generation ago, who started the tongue of scandal wagging by aban doning her bore of a millionaire hus band and flinging herself into a new world of romance and excitement t lost her to the view of friends nearly 20 years. In the meantime her ughter, also played by Miss Swan son, has grown to womanhood and has become involved in a love affair with a wealthy voung married club man, whose wife, heartless and mer- cenary, declines to grant him a di- vorce, and sees to it that the girl's name is blazoned through the news papers of two hemispheres. The belle of 20 vears ago, reading of her daugh- ter's predicament in the newspaper: hurries across the ocean and opens war on the heartless Wi which starts a battle of wits between the two women, and which terminates in the mother trapping the wife in a compromising situation, and eventu-| ally clearing her da Supplementary featu a Sennett comedy, the International News reel, chestral contributions. METROPOLITAN Pari Constance Talmadge will b Crandall's_Metr this week in F! of Hans Kra Jer ghter's name. es will include Butterfingers''; and or er Sister From al's version spicy and engrossing er From Pari A Mermaid comed; eware,” starring Lige Conley; the Metropolitan World Survey and a musical program by the Metropolitan Symphony under Daniel Breeskin, including Offenbach’s “The Love Song” and Victor Herbert's “My Dream Girl,” will be added features. “Her Sister From Paris gives Con- stance Talmadge her first dual role. She is cast as the browbeaten wife of a temperamental Viennese author and also as his wife’s flashy sister, a gay dancer from Paris who comes to Vienna to fulfill a brief engagement. | Returning to her home, she meets her ster at the railroad station. The ister, a crafty soul, induces the piffed wife to impersonate the exponent of terpsichore and flirt her husband back to a humble state. Ronald Colman is the object of the concern felt by the abject little house- wife and also the object of her deter- mined efforts to establish herself as a boon to male companionship as her gaudy sister from the French metrop- olis. Both are said to give excellent performances in this peppery comedy. George K. Arthur, a comparative new- comer, also has an important role, and ‘direction is by Sidney Franklin. RIALTO—"The Home Maker"” “The Home Maker,” co-starring Alice Joyce and Clive Brook, is the picture at the Rialto this week. is an adaptation of Dorothy Canfield’s story which tells of a and a woman whose roads diverge at the altar and, it is said, should be of par ticular interest to married couples young and old. Many persons are birds of a feather | with Lester Knapp and many are playing in dally life the role of Eva, his wife. The Knapp home might be one’s own. Lester Knapp finds himself daily | plodding over endless rows of flgures, wishing he were somewhere else, but not knowing where and not daring to| leave his desk to go there, even if he knew. The sensation of knowing that an advance of salary is near, and then not getting the expected raise—these little lights and tragedies of dailv life appearance. In it are six bronco busters, four fine horses, a fiery steer and a comedy donkey. ‘“Cheyenne Days” will give a dally parade. The chorus group of Joe Wilton's “Girl Club” is described as an en- semble of youthful misses. MUTUAL— Evelyn Cunningham’s “Gang.” A cast of well known burlesque players constitutes the “Gang” that Evelyn Cunningham is bringing to the mmenc ing with a matinee today. Miss Cun ningham herself is a new star on the Mutual burlesque wheel, though well known wherever burlesque Is pre sented. The supporting cast includes George Leon, the principal corrg #fan; Billie La Verna, prima donna; : Leff, He. brew comedian; Dol Barringer, soubrette, and Will Cg ~ charac added feature and has among its ' Western act making its first stage ter actor. « Arthur | It| This Week : Thgs\Y'eek Shown hown Shown this aft oon and eveni afternoon ho t e the fiber of drama The Newbe Camphe Matt Virginia } fer, Jucqueline We Mary Gordon On the the tion arranged by Mi Scenes from the Bo | e tersc ha G ery T ngs have become a feature of the | Rialto program and are proving most popular. Among those pa ting are MII A te Royak, Camille Little, Alice Tupman and Jerry Ripp. he overture by the Rialto orches. icha Guterson conduct will ions from “Faust,” which, to- with the International News a comedy, will complete the pro- il offer is attraction Norma as ¥ of Metro-Goldwyn's produc: |tion, “A Slave of Fashion,” adapted t Henley from an origin: uth * “Lawful Larceny land other plays. Lew Cody is the leading man and the support includes William Haines, Mary Carr, James Corrigan, Vivia Ogden, Miss Dupont Estelle Clark and Stdney Bracey Described as @ drama of fashion's follies, the story concerns a small town girl who longs for the luxuri of Manhattan and who finally ¢ from home ties ets out 'nquer New York session of le ¢ r. who is absent in Europe. and h also open unlimited channels of credit, which she decides to the meantin: catches the of a young society man, who her to dinne opera and the theater Then, like a boit fro.1 the blue, she learns that her mc 3 maiden aunt are coming to visit and in desperation she p s a.. the wife of her unwitting absent Yost Out of this mix-up order is finally restored when the apartment owner returns and falls in love with the fafr im- | postor. | Mer comedy, news reel rnon’s music e program. for Shearer to ain wreck fancy she ‘Pleasure | Topics of will | iage Whirl."” The attraction at Crandall's Tivoll Theater the first two days of this | week will offer Corinne Griffith {n | First National's film of J { Hartley Manners' pl | Anthem,” entitled [ Whirl.”" The cast includes Kenneth | Harlan, Harrison Ford and | Naldi. 'Companion attractions will b | “Our Gang” in Hal Roach's “Ask |Grandma,” the Pathe Review and pipe organ music by Otto ¥. Beck and Harold T. Pease. | ‘Tuesday and mount’s _production | Horseback.” Mack Hooper-Dyne L the Day’’; Thurs La Rocque, Dorothy Gish and Ernest Torrence in Paramount’s “Night Lifs in New York,” together with the Im- per comedy, ‘P s Darling,” 4 news reel: Saturday, Zane Grey's he Light of Western Stars,” with Jack Holt, Billie Dove and Beery; Lige Conley in “‘Below and a Grantland Rice “Sportlight. Wednesday, Para- of “Beggar on s “Super- 2 Topics of day, Rod nd ero Sister From a dual role suy man in “Her Sister First National pictur traction at Crandall's | Theater the first two week ether with a new Aesop Fable, “Barnyard Follies” and a news Wedne: y and Thursday Daniels, Kenneth Harlan and T Barnes in “The Crowded Hour, adaptation of the play by Channing Pallock and Edgar Selwyn, also Eddie , “Barnyard Follies,” and a news iday Betty Compson and Jack e's Secret,” Mack Sen- “Breaking the Ice,” and a scenic__subject, *Rome’; 'Saturday, Tom Mix in Fox's production, “The Rainbow Trail,” a sequel to “Riders of the Purple Sage,” with Tony, the wonder horse; also a juvenile comedy, ‘Baby Blues,” a antland Rice portlight” and the Pathe Review. will be the Ambas days of this CENTRAIL~—"Fighting Youth." “Fighting Youth.” a romantic | venture drama of the prize r be shown at Crandall's Cent ter the first two days of this with William Fairbanks and Garon in the featured roles. The story is ome of vigorous action throughout and the climaxes are said to be frequent and thrilling. Added ttractions will be Lioyd Hamilton in (Continued on Third Page.) 1 will hea- week iline