Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1925, Page 65

AMUSEMENTS. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. q, OCTOBER 11, 1925—PART 3. AMUSEM ENTS. w Hoot ‘ GIBSON-Anbassador, GRETA NISSEN ~ Lincoln | N }ewsAand Comment' By W. H. Landvoigt. EW impulses of humanity are greater than that to form an opinion of things, and when it is formed to express it. Since the day | when literature first lit up civilization opinions have been formed | and’ expressed, hurt whom they may. And in this wobbly old | world of ours it is difficult to recall anything which has called forth more | opinions, aud so widely variant opinions, as the hapless movie. It was probably this thought that inspired Will H. Hays and his colleagues who are concerned with the manufacture of the movie to promote a contest, during the Greater Movie Season, with the offer of valuable prizes for the most satisfactory answer to the question, “What does thc motion picture mean to me A little circular received in this department dur- ing the week gives the names of those to whom the prizes were awarded— two trips around the wor.d, the choice of two trips to Los Angeles, or to Miami, and two trips to Miami or to Los Angeles, whithever are not chosen by the winner of second prize. The winners were Mrs. Ruth Griffith Burnett, a matron of Indianapolis; Mrs. wrence G. Wood of Tulsa, Okla., who signs herself as “a housewife—that is all that I am,” and C. L. Westerman of Breckenridge, Colo., who adds, “I am an old man, a very*old man, and I have been quite deaf since the Battle of? Vicksburg.” T is not possible, in a column of current gossip, to repeat here all that was said by the winners of these prizes—a cu'tured matron, “a house- wife, that’s all,” and a deaf veteran of Civil War days, but a brief extract from each of the competing essays, at least, is due the movie, which has long been the victim of opinions not so favorable. Mrs. Burnett, the matron, sa “In the broadness of its scope and its capacity for the portrayal 1gs, great and small, the motion picture shows me his- tory, science, art, literature. * * * Because it depicts humanity, the motion picture inspires. lts subtle sermons are abiding. * * * Tt en- tertains me. It makes me glad 1o be Education, inspiration and | entertainment arc what the movie means to Mrs. Burnett. Mrs. Wood the young h ife, say “The movies are practically my only recrea * tion and are zo small factor in securing the happiness which is so nece sary to my wel being. * * * An evening at a good motion picture theater seems to make up somewhat the deficit caused by lack of wealth. T re- member that my husband is the most wonderful lover in the world, and poor as we are, I would not exchange my job as housewife for all the money coined. Th the motion picture helps me:overcome instead of surrender to a drgoness w ich could so easily predominate in my life.” The old veteran, whom deainess almost shuts out of the world, has this to say: “From the early days of onc-reel films to the elaborate roductions of today I have gone steadily and regularly to the movies. With thrilling Westerns I have rencwed my youth. I have laughed myself young with Harold Lloyd. Why, 1 even get sentimental and want to pat mother’s hand every time I sce a period picture with girls in the pretty costumes of Civil War days, just like mother wore when I was courting her. Dur- ing the World War such pictures as “Hearts of the World” made me realize my big boy was seeing a bigger war than our Civil War had been, and movies, more than the things I read, made me feel the world ideal my son was fighting for.” Referring to “The Ten Commandments,” pic- tured by Cecil B. De Mille, he wrote: “No one could see that picture and not be better way down in.” HESE are but a few expressions of what the movie means to the peop'e of this wonderiul country, but what volumes they contribute for the much abused movie. Mr. Hays’ circular states that the Detroit Times turned in 50000 eassays on his theme from the State of Michigan; that more than 15000 were turned in by the Chicago American, and that there were 42 newspapers throughout the country which handled the contest. “The general response was tgemendous.” The judges of the contest were Geor, Barr McCutcheon, president of the Authors’ I .eague of America; Alice Ducr Miller, noted author: Richard Washburn Child, famous writer and former Ambassador to Italy, and Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches—surely a jury upon whose verdict any one might confidently base an opinion.. Added to this, the Legislature of the sovereign State of Georgia passed a joint resolution—“repeatedly guests of the motion picture theaters,” who “found this form of entertainr ot on'y clean and wholesome, but instructive § d educational”” Even the President of the United States is quoted as + commending the Greater Movie Season as a movement to emphasize the desirability of worthy motion pictures as of real public value, and adding: “The progress that has been made in this tremendous enterprise is an outstanding achievement of the opening years of this century.” Mr. Hays' circular forcefully and justly concludes: “No surer proof that the ! “Ancient Mariner” Filmed ]Dllrh' TOR HENRY OTTO has just fintshed fl.ning the allegorical sequences for “The Anclent Mariner,” according to an announcement by Fox Film Corporation. With Paul Pan- zer in the title role and a crew of old salts, the company has just re- turned from Catalina Island, where the scenes described in Samuel Tay- lor Coleridge’s immortal poen: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” were filmed. The story of how the anclent ma- riner shot the albatross, it is claimed, is depicted with thrilling dramatic actlon. The news story adds, how- ever, * that Gladys Brockwell and twenty-five beautiful girls play im- portant roles in the fantasy, into which will be woven a modern love story, which has not vet been filmed. | The Anclent Mariner is a vital figure | in the modern story as well as in the fantasy. “The Ancient Mariner” will be re- leased on December 20 by the Fox Company. este Screen Taxes Voice. A\'T}HM SHORT, who plays a com- edy role in “The Scarlet Saint,” nearly quit the drama of the screen because he had to talk so loud he went home each night with a sore throat! It was this way: Short started his reer, and signed up with a motion plcture outfit that was at- tempting to make pictures in which spoken titles were recorded on a phonograph record and synchronized with the pictures for the showing ot “talking movies. y volce ran out,” says Short. *“At the end of the first day I went home with a“sore throat. You see, v time you spoke a line you had Wow. pictures, thén quit.” Short at first decided to go back to the stage, but later thought he would give movies another chance, so joined the old Blograph Company in Call- T stuck it out for a couple of fdrnia. He has been with the movies ever since. S e Remarkable Talent. RANSBY WILLIAMS, who is fea- tured here this week in vaude- ville, is considered as one of Britain's finest charaeter actors. He s said to be at home also in all lines of business and to be as great a romantic actor as a character actor. A “star” in vaudeville, he also has proved himself a successful actor- manager, having headed his own pro- ductions throughout Great Britain. He toured “David Copperfleld,” doubling the parts of Micawber and Pegotty; and in “Oliver Twist” doub- ling as Fagin, while in “The Lyons Mail” he doubled Dubosc and Le- surques. He is credited also with one of the finest productions of “Ham- let” seen abroad, in which he played the part of Hamlet, having spent two years on the production and many years on the study of the play. He is now bringing to the vaude- ville stage of America many of his famous “‘Studies of Dickens,” an en- tertalnment of great character act- ing and wonderful make-ups. His act is declared the art of the stage at its best. e French Manners. MAN doesn’'t wear his hat in a theater in America. But in gay [ Paree the boulevardier jauntily wears his silk topper to the opera! In the promenades of the great Parls Opera House, on the grand staircase and in the brilliant salons the French- man escorts his brilliantly attired lady always with his hat on. Be. tween acts, as the audience visits among_the different boxes, they also wear their hats, taking them off only during the actual performance. This is one of the strange customs shown in the opera scenes in “The Phantom of the Opera,” the screen adaptation of the Gaston Leroux thriller, starring Lon Chaney. movie belongs to the people, fiterally, is needed.” And it might be added, the peop e oi this country have a way of their own of making things to their liking. * ¥k ¥ k FL'RTHER tribute to the movie is found in the report that the govern- ment of the Irish Free State. through its official registrar, has opened formal negotiations with the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation for'a’ print of Thomas Meighan's new picture, “Irish Luck,” to be placed in | 4 the official archives at Dublin Castle. - The registrar, Mr. Theodore M. Sadlier, is said to be the custodian of all historical archives, manuscripts and relics of Gaelic antiquity, and his special function is, like that of the congressional librarian, to preserve for posterity all §meres!mg material dealing with cotemporary life in Ireland, as well as relics of the past. * kK kK ERFECTION is a state more easily imagined than attained. The movie, like all growing juveniles. doubtless has had, and still has, its faults. The mistake that has been made in dealing with it, perhaps, is t+4. of being too harsh and exacting because it has not attained parfec- tion, a degree of excellence that some of its severest critics, no doubt, re still reaching out aiter. Mass opinion means something. It is quite a different proposition from that of individual judgment, and even the sharp- est critic of the movie, if he s just, will admit that individual judgment V in the form of individual censorship has been a trying and costly experi- ence for the movie. There is no &ubt that, left to itself, without check of some kind, the unorganized movie industry was prone to commit many ‘The opera scenes, audience, a full performance and detafls behind the scenes are an integral part of the new picture and were filmed at Universal City, Calif. “The Plastic Age." PERCY MARKS' widely discussed novel “The Plastic Age"” is to be released September 29, instead of No- vember 6, as first announced. It is said to be unique among ‘‘youth” storles for the screen. Its entire background is an American college— although mnot a single professor or classroom is shown, the emphasis being laid upon the social side, which influences the development of the modern boy and girl. BANKY" tan Metropolt CREIGHTON ™ AN HALR~ $trana PALACE—“Little Annie Rooney.” Mary Pickford will be seen us a title Tole of the screen story based on Michael Nolan's famous song, “Little Annie Rooney,” as the featured at- beginning this afternoo “Little Annfe Rooney !ford’s latest production | hatled by critics as one of the | successzes of M. Pickford’'s caree Its story is by Katherine Henness: and ft was directed by Willlam Bea dine, with Willlam Haines Plckford’s leading man and with a cast as atmospheric as the story it- self. ¥ fs described as a colorful com- edy drama of New York tenement life under the shadow of the Brook- lyn Bridge, in which Mary is seen as the hoydenish leader of a gang of kids in perpetual conflict with nelghboring crowd of youngsters. Us expected tragedy walks into he girl's life when her father, a police- man, is killed in though it is through the little tom: boy influence that this killing, really an accident, does not lead to & flaming gang war through the tene- ment district. The settings are suld to be particularly fine. Owing to the unusual length of the production, supplemental _ features will be curtailed. Director Gannon of the Palace Orchestra has arranged a charming overture and speclal music score. s Pick- being COLUMBIA—“The Pony Express “The Pony Express,” James Cruze's thrilling story of the riders of the plains who linked together East and West in the stirring days of the 60s and hailed as a worthy succes Cruze's “The Covered Wagon he shown this week beginning this afternoon at Loew's Columbia The- ater, with Betty Compson, Ricargo Cortez, Wallace Beery, Ernest Tor- rence and hundreds of others in the cast. Based on a story by Henry James Forman and ‘- Walter Woods, “The Pony Ixpress” is said to challenge, with its dramatic force and thrilling episodes, suprem: in the field Western screen fiction. It combines historical fact with romance, and,al- though its climax is declared tremen- dous, its ending is emotional and beautiful. The story deals with the struggle of the pro-slavery and abolition ele- ments to gain control of California with its prestige in political circles and its enormous treasure of gold. Owing to its unusual length, sup- plemental features of the' program will be curtafled. . METROPOLITAN—“The Dark Angel.” This week’s bill at Crandall's Met- ropolitan Theater will present “The Dark -Angel,” George ~Fitzmaurice's production of e play by H. B. Tre- velyan, releas . by Samuel Goldwyn as a First _onal attraction. It in- troduces u . star in the fascinating Vilma Banky, a noted Budapest beau- ty and emotional actress. Ronald Colman is cast opposite. *‘Our Gang,” in Hal Roach's two-reel laughmaker, “Mary, Queen of Tots”; the Metropoli- tan World Survey, and a musical pro- gram will be supplemental features. A special added attraction, the Im- perial Male Quartet, comprising W. Arthur McCoy, first tenor; George E. Anderson, second tenor: J. Benton ‘Webb, baritone, and.Francis P. Heart- sill, bass, will be heard in an at- mospheric prologue to the presentation of the feature picture. The overture by the Metropolitan Symphony, under Daniel Breeskin, will be a special ar- rangement by Lew Gould, saxophon- serious mustakes in_the greed for money. assing. Men of character and integrity, as well entirely past, is rapidly That danger, however, if not as brains, have been called in to doctor its diseases—and by the movie industry itself. And pious memory recalls the familiar aphorism that “while the light holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return.” Now is the time to quit abusing the movi to make it what it should be a chance, e. Give it and those who are trying saucy, mischievous little imp in the | traction at Loew’s Palace this week, | as Miss | i a gang affray, | of | BARTHELMESY | Central photoplays This Week ist, of many of the lar songs that were durlng the four years of the r and will be called “Songs “The Dark that has the war 10 distant back- ground. It concerns a man who was willing to make a_great sacrifice fos the sake of the girl he loved and a Angel” girl who refused to permit him to| do so. A fine cast includes Wyndham Frank Ellfott, Helen J Florence Turner and harles Lane. The production s declared to be one | of the most Goldwyn has eve screen. impressive that Samuel brought to the The first performance today will be- gin at 3 o'clock. RIALTO—"Thunder Mountain. Madge Bellamy and Leslie Fenton have the leading roles in the Willlam Fox photoplay, “Thunder Mountain,” which 1s the feature at the Rialto this week. 1t is a picturization of John Gold- en's play, “Howdy Fc ascinat- ing story of the crude folk who live high up In the Blue Ridge Mountains. Madge Bellamy portrays a little circ girl who run ¢ from her show and takes refuge among the moun- taineers, while Leslie Fenton is seen as the worst lad on Thunder Moun- tain, who later develops into an ideal man, ambitious to raise his neighbors from poverty and ignorance to pros- perity and knowledge. Others in the cast are Alec Francis, | Paul Pan- | Emily Fitzroy, Zasu Pit zer, Dan Mason, Qtis Harlan, Arthur Houseman and Maine Geary. An elaborate musical program has been arranged headed by Alice Evers- man, American prima donna, former- ly qf the Chicago and Metropolitan Opera, who will be heard in the aria from “Madame Butterfly.” Another notable feature s Elena de Sayne, Russian violin virtuoso, who will play “Legende” (Wienlawskli, Opus 1 Miss de yne is a gradu- ate of Royal Conservatory in Leipzig and received her technical training from Hans Sitt and Otakar Sevcik. The Rialto orchestra, Mischa Guter- <on conducting, will play for the over- ture, “If I Were King.” A news and comedy, as well as the results from the world series base ball game, will furnish the divertissements. TIVOLI William Fo: epic of the railroads “The Iron Horse,” will be the offering at Crandali’s Tivoli Theater the first two days Bellamy and George O'Brien featured. The supporting cast is immense and hundreds of artisans, laborers, a troop of Cavalry, Indians, etc., add to the realism of this sterling contribution to the art of the camera. Tuesday and Wednesday, Lewls S. Stone, Alma_Rubens and Percy Mar- mont in First Natlonal's “Fine Clothes,” taken from Franz Molnar’s play, “Fashions for Men,” also Al St. John in “Fair Warning” and “Topics of the Day.” “Never the Twain Shall Meet,” with Anita Stewart and Bert Lytell in a story adapted from Peter B. Kyne's romance of California and-the South Seas, directed by Meaurice Tourneur, together with an Aesop Fable and Pathe Review; Saturday, Tom Mix in “The Lucky Horseshoe,” an engross- ing drama of an American cowboy lovemaking in old Spain, with Billle Dove, Ann Pennington, Malcolm ‘Waite, J. Farrell McDonald and Tony, the wonder horse, also Charlie Chase in “No Father to Guide Him"” and a Grantland Rice “Sportlight.” AMBASSADOR—“The Dark Angel. Vilma _Banky, Budapest beauty Ronald Colman, Wyndham Standing, Frank Elliott, Helen Jerome Eddy, Florence Turner and Charles Lane have the leading roles in First Nation- al's film version of H. H. Trevelyan’s play, “The Dark Angel,” to be seen ~—. MARY PICKFORD S | scored; “Our Gang” in “Boys Will Be of this week, with Madge Thursday and Friday, e Palaces At the ‘ Photoplay Houses This Week EE ] PALACE “Little Shown evening. Annic Rooney.” this afternoon and COLUMBIA “The Pony Express” Shown this afternoon and evening. METROPOLITAN “The Dark Angel” ] Shown this afternoon and evening. RIALTO “Thunder Mountain.” Shown this afternoon and evening. TIVOLI The Tron Horse” Shown this afternoon and evening. AMBASSADOR “The Dark Angel” Shown this afternoon and evening. CENTRAL “The Danger Signal.” Shown this afternoon and evening. LINCOLN (colored) - “Shore Leave.” Shown this afternoon and evening. New Screen Writers Signed IVE noted scenarlo writers have | just been added to First National's | | eastern _production units at New | { They are Olga Printzlau, John | { Fish Goodrich, Charles Whiaker, Jane | | Murfin and Harvey Thew. Rarely | { has a motion picture company secured | |at one time such u noted group of | screen writers. Miss Printzlau is well known { | playwright as well as a scenarist, and | one of her plays is scheduled to ap- | | pear shortly on’ New York's Broad- ay. ioodrich s writing the scenario of | “Men of Steel,” an original story by . which will be filmed as this Fall, and many origi- | stories of his own from the n, including “Thundering Dawn,” { vtime Wives” and “Capital Pun- s a| | nal | scre I aker wrote the scenarios for | such pic es as “Kismet” and “The Bond Boy" and recently was given one of the prize adaptations of the year | Ly Universal, “The Man Who wighs,” the 'famous Victor Hugo | story ! Jan Whit, Murfin is widely known as & ! producer as well as writer. | Thew headed the scenario depart- { ment for Fox for some time and is | author of the novel “The River End.” One of his latest scenarios was for “sieg e | ut Crandall's Ambassador Theater the | first three days of this week. together | | with an_Aesop Fable and added short | reels. Wednesday and Thursday, Wil- | liam s screen eplc of the days when the first transcontinental rail- | | road was being thrown across the United States, “The Iron Horse,” with adge Bellamy and George O'Brien ading a cast of thousands; Friday, | Hoot Gibson in “The Spook Ranch,”| aiso Lige Conley in “Below Zero,” & v of the activities of the . M. P., the Pathe Review and “Top- ics of the Day'; Saturday, Buck Jones and_ Elinor Fair in “The Timber Wolf,” a rousing action-drama, mented by “The Tourist,” a c | Sportlight and Sereen Almanac. CENTRAL—“The Danger Signal.” “The Danger Signal.” to be shown at Crandall's Central Theater the first two days. of this week, has as its | leading “players Jane Novak, Robert | | Edeson, Robert Gordon, Gaston Glass, | Lincoln _Stedman, Dorothy Revier, Mayme Kelso and Lee Shumway. The story is one of romance and railroads and the rivalry of two brothers who did not know they were related. Mack nnett's “Sneezing Beezers” and the Pathe Review will | “Tuesday and Wi Richard | Barthelmess, supported by Dorothy | Mackaill in “Shore Leave,” John 1 Robertson’s version for First Nat of the play in which Frances Starr | Joys” ‘will be added. Thursday and Friday Richard Dix in “The Lucky supporsed by Esther Ralston, ‘Soup to Saturday, Alice Joyce and e Brook in “The Home Maker,” so the Spat Family in “The Royal our Flush.” | | LINCOLN—“Shore Leave.” Shore Leave,” John S. Robertson's film version of the Belasco play by Hubert Osborne, will be the attraction at the Lincoln Theater the first three days of this week with Richard Bar- ‘helmess in the role of a hard-boiled gob from Uncle Sam's Navy who falls in love with a simple little New Eng- tand dressmaker. It was flimed with the co-operation of the United States Government and the Atlantic fleet. The, leading feminine role is piayed by Dorothy Mackaill and Ted McNamar: a newcomer, as the comic welte elght of the fleet.. “Our Gang” in ‘Ask Grandma,” that deals with the making of a man out of a sissy, and ! the Kinagrams also are on the pro- | gram. Wednesday and Thursday will be featured “In the Name of Love,” a new Paramount release, featuring Ri- cardo Cortez and Greta Nissen, with Eddle Nelson in “Hot and Heavy" and a scenic study of “Italy.” Fridav and Saturday, Paramount’s production of “Rugged Water,” featuring Lois Wil- <on, with Mack Sennett's “Breaking the Ice,” a new Pathe Review and musical embellishment by Louls N. Brown. 2 APOLLO. Today and tomorrow, Lewis Stone Alma Rubens and Percy Marmont in “Fine Clothes, Aesop Fable and Pathe Review; Tuesday and Wednes- day, Virginta Valll in “Slege” and Sennett’s “Sneezing Breezers™; Thurs- day, Alice Joyce and Clive Brook in “The Home Maker” and Neal Burns in “Soup to Nuts”; Friday, Hoot Gib- son In “The Spook Ranch” and Art Stone In “Tame M; and Wild Women”: Saturday, ick Jones in “The Timber Wolf” and the Spat Famlily in “The Royal Four Flush.” AVENUE GRAND. Today and tomorrow, Richard Bar- thelmess in *“Shore Leave” and “Our Gang” in “Boys Will Be -Joys' Tuesday and Wednesday, Lewis Stone, Alma Rubens and Percy Marmont in “Fine Clothes,” Aesop Fable and Pathe Review: Thursday, Tom Moore and Za Su Pitts in “Pretty Ladies” and the Spat Family in “The Royal Friday, Buck Jones in ‘The Timber Wolf,” Neal Burns in “Soup to Nuts” and “Children of Scandinavia™; Saturday, Hoot Gibson (Continued on Fourth Page) . {trying to flatter any one. Washing’ton Audiences pLE.\:-‘!_\'(; Washington theater- goers is tho most difficult task, offering a more complicated problem than is to be found anvwhere el the United States, according to C Laemmle, president of the Universal| Pictures Corporation. Not only are V discriminating i screen fare, but parts of the Capital's popul der the business of purve: talnment to its citizens difticult, thefr choice of lso the component fon ren ing enter- vashington is unique. No other the country boasts o small n population. Nor has any so hizh an average of g eral intelligence. . “The fact of Washington having virtually a 100 per cent American population would seem to indicate Capital audiences would be most re ceptive to the general run of Ameri can motion pictures, but this is not €0, as the average movie—I exclude the superfilms—is produced to peal to the greatest number, not a confession of films lacking art- istry; it is & candid admission that, s “in all industri seeks the greatest u “When I W higher level of intellizen ngton has a e I am It st to reason, however, the population of the Capital, composed almost en tirely of Government officials, skilled office workers and influential persons from all parts of the country, must have a finer appreciation of the worth-while than, say, a manufactur- ashingtonians more | he | producer | ling city composed wmostly of mill hands and factory workers, many of ieither reud, write nor | ishington differs from ot cities in another vespect,” Laemmle decl ‘When a picture {is made at Universal City we can whether or not it will communities, as we know the South likes one type of film, the West another, New England a third. Put Washington's popula- tio: com s representatives of | every section of the land. found a remedy, a means inment needs rd-boiled’ Washington. It cost dexl of time and money, but I think it v it; because in making « picture to please Washing ton and other hikh-class audlences Universal has produced a picture that has go! far to reassure us as to the high caliber of patrons’ tastes. In other words, we have found the aver. age film fan to Le considerably above the average. “In ‘The P 1e entert om of the Opera’ welrd port Lon Chaney, it excels all previous ef forts. It an entirely new atmos. phere, that of supernatural thrill and emmle My T pride people of Washington. I am confi- dent that when the plcture is shown the Rialto next week my confi- nee in_ their discernment will be stified.” ntinued. the Filmo grams S*THE million-do] ready to open in according to authoritative will ctober a vear hence, report. ar theater, The nine - million - dollar National Press Club structure to be erected on the site of the old Ehbitt Hotel will house a Paramount theater, according to Film Daily, which states that the | club will pay a nominal rent for its quarters for 25 vears and then will become the owner of the building. Paramount will operate the theater under 2 25-vear lease. Universal is retrenching studios in Universal City, Cal many employes have been discharged This, it is explained, 1s because the corporation’s activities on iis 1f 5 schedule is so far advanced. Weber and Fields are to make a | picture houses of the | tour of the country, starting month. in Buffalo next Work is soon to be commenced i the Xox studios on “Across the Bor- der,” which i3 to be one of the bix plctures of next season. Fox also bought the screen rights to What Price Glory plcture of the steel mills. W. C. Fields, who is under contract to Ziegfeld, is said to have signed a contract with Famous Players-Lasky, | which will star him in Paramou: pictures. Arrangements to complete the deal are sald to be progressing satisfactorily and Fields will recelve $5,000 a week under the new con- tract. He appeared in “Sally of the Sawdust” and in “That Royle Girl’ Tormer Empress of Zita of Austria- Hungary is not to become uan Ameri can movie star. Her brother, Princs Sixt of Bourbon, says so, accordi to a cable report. Now they are suggesting a Film League of Nations to reconcile differ- ences between the American and for- eign producers which are causing some drastic legislation and action in foreign countries. Richard Talmadge 1s making scen in New York for “The Prince of Pep, his new picture, and F. O. B. gave him a luncheon in the crystal room of the Ritz to advertise the fact— also to do him honor. “Mixing in Mexico,” the Mutt and Jeft film produced for Bud Fisher, the cartoonist, by Association Animated, Inc., is on the screen in New York. “The Volga Boatman” fs to be made into a big photoplay by Cecil B. DeMille. Censorship s tightening up in Pennsylvania. Gov. Gifford Pinchot is calling Jor more rigid enforce- ment. \ Universal, through Carl Laemmle, is pouring ofl upon the troubled film waters in _England and in Germany. He says England has, been good to ‘him—and why not reciprocate? In Bridgeport, Conn., the theater men are providing four films once a month, which are approved by the board of education, for showing to the children of the fifth, sixth, sev- enth and eighth grades, and in turn | the schools are aiding exhibitors by | hoosting pictures of ed: itsioriel vatae lucational and Marion Davies’ mnew picturs, Lights of 0ld Broadway,” will have tts world premiere October 31 at Loew's State Theater in Los Angeles | Ronald Colman is to be Norma Tal | madge’s leading man in “Kiki,” which | wiil be her next picture. nd film actors recent- streets of Vienna as a inst the importation of ‘tures, and then at a mass eting passed a resolution of pro- against American pictures and + deputation to the government | demanding action to make it effect ive. Danny of ¥ilm Daily says the Lasky orzanization bas made a truly picture of “The Vanishing ! ican,” the screen epic on the | disappearing North Ameriean Indian. L. Rothafel. the famous “Roxy vecently returned from a trip of igation abroad, says he found ittle of interest on the continent for 1se In his new theater, save, perhaps, in the matter of lighting. The London { photoplay exhibitors {have filed =« strong protest against ! the principle of photoplay producers |owning photopiay theaters. | Ay o me of the features of the mew eight-million-dollar theater in Xew York will be an orchestra of 100 musiclans, a chorus of 100 and a bal- let of 50 performers. Roxy’s program is matching the price of his play- house. Lloyd George has threatened action | against the producers of the pictur | “The Way to Strength and Beaut: | for picturing him playing golf. The picture in the main deals with the | upbuilding of the German physique. It is a Ufa film. The devotiona of the Oc | Association banishment from the program committeo an Grove Camp Meeting has recommended the of all motion pictures ssociation s auditorfum, | Arthur Edmund Carewe, the sinister Persian in “The Phantom of the Opera,” was born in Trebizond, Ar- | menia. near Persia. Graduating from {a college in Anatolia, he came to | America, and attended the Corcoran School of Art, in this city. His striking appearance soon attracting the attention of a theatrical man, his stage success was prompt thereafter. He is famous for his portrayal of Svengali. Marion McDonald, first of the 1925 Mack Sennett bathing girls to ‘‘grad- uate,” has been promoted to the Sen- nett stock company and has signed a long-term contract to appear in Sennett comedies. Every year the comedy producer assembles a dozen young beauties to romp through his comedies in fetching beach costumes. From these emerge the girls with real promise, to whom _contracts are awarded. Marlon McDonald came to Hollywood six months ago from Bos- ton. She has won several beauty con- tests. A lilting song is_in process of com- position by Louis F. Gottschalk to be used as the thematic number of the speclal Dal core for Henry King's “Stella The lyrics were written by s Marle Campbell, continuity clerk | for Henry King. The song will be titled “Laurel Bud.” AL i Rockett, one of the producers the famous “Abraham Lincoln’ formerly assistant to Rich- Rowland, general manager Ted on Fourth Page. of picture, ard A (Contt