Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1925, Page 61

AMUSEMENTS. Ambagrador™ ™ News and Commentg By W.H. Landvmgh the theater, as it was and as many wish it might It a 0. a sort of piling of Ossa upon Pelion, | on_the heels of a bill last week that not an, but fairly dug out of the mountains of day many to whom amusement had become | am for this week that eclipses in sterling | red heretofore on the local screen. Certainly the and with it Washington's photoplay house man it the National Capital is not neglected in the | matter of the finest scre rtainment, a distinction which, thus far, | has been withheld by purveyors of the theater proper. The dominant te of the current week is the ring of hearty laughter, with Harold l.luyd! and Charlie Chaplin genius of the silver sheet, to supply it.| With them cc - Pola Neari, in wh is announced as | “the best picture of her career.” which announcement, of course, should | be taken “cum grano salis,” as the Latin puts it, or, “with due allowance,” | as we are wont to say it, while > thrills and even the horrors of a story | of mystery laid in the subcellars of the Paris home of grand opera still continues in “The Phantom of the Opera.” There are those who profess to adore thrills, pep, kicks and punches, but by far the greater number, good and bad, take them as they come, are cver loyal in their love of laughter, for honest laughter is one of the real blisses of life. * ok he epitaph of the movie had to be written today, and if those who had ided its career were the writers, its greatest achievement, perhaps, would be proclaimed as its incomparable spectacle. Few will question the | fact that for eye-thrillers the movie has almost entered into competition | with Divine Providence. But to those who give consideration to their en- tertainment after they have had it, it is believed that some of the choicest | tributes in the epitaph would go to “the movic that has made ‘em laugh.” | And yet, save by a few of whom Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster | Keaton are outstanding examples, this rarest of opportunities to spread sunshine in the world has been strang. neglected. Not that we have not | had a_mountain of cffort in the line of slapstick, pie-throwing and other | diversions that startle the risibilities with a gasp and then are forgotten. | But sincere, intelligent cffort in creating wholesome merriment has not yet | stirred in the activities of the screen as it deserves to do. Many of our| moral shortcomings and much of our bad manners are being charged to the | World War, and the great struggle has been to get back to normalcy. | There seems nothing so likely to h to this end as daily entertainment that will take the mind off the sad side of life and get people out into the | world of honest laughter. It will be interesting to watch the development | Its promoters are alive to the need. | rudely interrupted by the audacious movie. terruption, | se v is persistent as it only lured t worry and cares that infest the a stranger, there comes a pro worth anything off movie is up and doing, agers, who are sceing t he comedy 4 1 repressible of the movie in the field of comedy and there is much to warrant the belief that they will find the goal of sat-| isfactory achievement. | R okl o | HE week will bring a new Pola Negri picture, “Flower of the Night.”; Pola’s pictures always attract wide interest, for a great many be- | lieve her to be the greatest of screen actresses in roles suited to her.” The | cry always has been, from her friends and admirers, that her managers do | not provide her with suitable material for the best exploitation of her tal- ents. This is the cry with n ctresses of the theater whose ability is lauded to the skies, whose plays are roasted to a farc-you-well. “Pas- sion” undoubtedly fixed Pola’s status in the world of screén drama, but it | s believed that her case i almost without parallel in the matter of "“'J material since provided for her. There was once a_distinct charge that a ! conspiracy had been formed to submerge the Negri with mediocre screen stories and poor direction, and there were not a few who claimed that th ‘ was becausc Pola promised the only rivalry for the laurels that| had been fashioned for the brow of another noted screen actress. Since | then even the wonderful Lubitsch, maker of “Passion,” has directed Pola. | but with indifferent success. ‘It i to be hoped that “Flower of the Night” | is, as announced, her “latest and greatest photoplay.” ATURDAY morning, with doors opening at 10 o'clock, Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher of the Crandall public service and educational depart- | ment, still conducted under Mr. Crandall's management, but under direction of the Stanley Co. of America, will renew the presentation of “selected programs for children” at the Tivoli Theater, Fourteenth street and Park | road northwest. A new note is sounded in Mrs. Locher’s announcements | this year in the following phrases from her circular: “These are not pic- | tures especially made for children,” and “Please do not get the impression that we are trying to make these programs educational.” The purpose, Mrs. Locher states, is “to supply pictures that will meet the demand of | parents who objcct to their children sceing the regular adult programs,” and, it is added, “our cfforts are not so much for the parents as for the children who are being deprived of the delights of the motion picture.” It is an effort, well sponsorcd, “a sound, constructive effort to cultivate the taste of the youth of our city for the worth-while things that the screen can give.” Next Saturday the program takes the name of a “Peter Pan Party.” It includes an organ recital, the singing of “America” and the Pledge to the Flag, led by the Boy Scouts of America; an Aesop screen fable, a shadow dance by Peter Pan himself, and then the beautiful screen version of the Barrie story. Distinguished patronesses, who will receive in the foyer of the theater in connection with this novel entertainment for children, to link community interests with the programs, include Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph, Mrs. Harry Atwood Colman, Mrs. Thomas W. Sidwell, Mrs. Gerrit S. Miller, jr.. and Mrs. Edouard Albion, the story-telling Peggy of the radio. ny HIE New York picture critics also are taking exception to the recent an- nouncement that Mary Pickford is to go back to the childish roles in which she won her fame years ago. They are insisting that Miss Pickford has splendid talents and ability that should be devoted to material better suited to her maturer art. Perhaps Mary now will find herself in the same boat with Pola on the sea of uncertainty in search of suitable stories | for the exploitation of her unquestioned talents. The Star reviewer of “Little Annie Rooney” suggested that Mary was almost a misfit in that picture. But it is lese majeste to make faces at Mary's efforts in anything. FP'HERE is a large 1 elegant howl going up from the ranks of the 4 independent producers that Washington, the Capital of the Nation, is virtually closed to their product, it being alleged that not 25 per cent of the dates promiseq ihem following the Milwaukee convention have been granted to them. This, if true, probably is due to the fact that the big producing interests have corralled the Washington theaters. Forcing com. | etition by showing yow rivals’ goods is not being done at present. And Vet somz very fine screen productions may be denied Washington picture lovers by this situation * * % ACK PICKFORD is threatening a new picture, probably a Peter B. Kyne story. Pola is to have a new director in Malcolm St. Clair for her Text picture, now tentatively called “The Woman of Mystery.” Gloria has sailed the salty seas in search of recreation and new thrills in France. Lubitsch, after a flying visit to Washington and a pleasant non-productive | hat with the press, has gone back to Los Angeles, and Ford Sterling has | signed one of those “long-termed” contracts with Famous Players-Lasky. | But what has become of little Mary Miles Minter and her million-dollar suit against her mamma? NE of the singular facts recently encountered is that everybody goes 1o the movies and yet nobody knows how many everybodies go, on an | \verage, weckly. Statistics of attendance at the ball games, especially | hose of the world series, are available to the smallest boy who sits in the Jleachers, and yet, with the photoplay house lobbies entertaining hosts of vaiting applicants for admission at almost every performance, no one scems to know positively to what extent the people of Washington are seally interested in motion picture entertainment. ! | biggest THE SUNDAY STAR, Scetie from, Tie PHANTON of the OPERA” Famous Model With *Mayflowers.” {AYO TORTONI, a famous model for newspaper story fllustrations, whose figure hiis been reproduced and syndicated in probably more news. papers and magazines than that of any other girl in the world, will make her stage debut dancer in the forthcoming Stanley-Sawyer musical play, “Mayflowers Miss Tortoni is an American girl with the distinction of having been born in Tokio, raised and educated in Athens, and a resident of New York these past four years. Galsworthy'sPlaysinAmerica MARCH 18, produced by Charles at the Empire Theater, with Ethel Barrymore November, 1909: “Strife.”” produced by Winthrop Ames at the New Thea ter, New York, with Louis A. Calvert A.'E. Anson, Albert g, Thais Lawton, Beverley Sitgreaves November, 1911: “Justice, by John D. Williams at the Sam H Harris Theater, New York, with John Barrymore, Cathleen Nesbitt and 0. P. Heggle. November, 1912: “The Pigeon,” pro. duced by Winthrop Ames at the Little Theater, New York, with Frar Reicher, Russ Whythal, Pamela Gay- thorne. March, duced by Thirty-nin York, with Tearle. Jul. 1917 1907: “The Silver Box, TFrohman v Yor produced 1917: “The i Oliver Morosco at Street Theater, New smily Stevens and Conway Fugitive, h “A Bit o' Love,” pro- duced by Henry Miller at the Columbia Theater, San Fran with O. P Heggie; by the Actors’ Theater in New York in May, 1925 February, 1919: “The Little Man,” produced at Maxine Elliott’s Theater. New York, with O. P. Heggle. October, 1920: “The Mob.” produced by the Henry Jewett Players at the Copley Theater, Boston. In the same season at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, with lan MacLaren. October, 1920: “The Skin Game,’ produced by V Brady at the Bijou Theater, New York, with Josephine Victor, Herbert Lomas and Marsh Allen. September, “Loyalties,” pro. duced by Charles Dillingham at the Gaiety Theater, New _York, with 1922: Charles Quartermaine, Henry Morrell | and Diana Bourbon. September, 1922-1923: “The Sun,” produced by the Triangle Theater, New York. September, 1922-1923: “A Family Man,” produced by the Henry Jewett Players at the Copley Theater, Boston. September, 1922.1923: “The Eldest Son,” produced by the Henry Jewett Players at the Copley Theater, Boston. October, 1923: “Windows,” produced by the Theater Guild at the Garrick Theater New York. December 18, 1924: “Old English,” produced by Winthrop Ames at the Shubert Theater, New Haven, Conn., with George Arliss, Irby Marshall, Cecile Dixon, Molly Johnson, Ivan F. Simpson and Henry Morrell; ut the Ritz Theater, New York, with the same cast on December 23, 1924. December, 1925: “The Foundations,” i produced by the Lenox Hill Players in New York. It is remarkable that Washington should have seen so few of these plays. Some Engineering. EN tanks, each holding 700,000 gal- lons of water: it is claimed, had to be built for the scenes in “The Phantom of the Opera,” in which the five underground cellars of the Paris opera house are flooded by the Phan- tom’s evil trickery. The construction and staging of this flood scene is said to be one of the engincering - feats ever- at- tempted in motion pictures. In order to aclieve successful re- sults, the cellars were actually built underground, in the base of a large hill on the Universal ranch. For the excavation 12 pneumatic drills were worked continuously for weeks, under the direction of a group of mining en- gineers, and a number of miners were brought ‘from the faméus Palisades mine: in the Northern Sierras. When the five tiers of cellars were excavated they had to be reinforced with steel and concrete and completely wired for electric lighting. For the flood scene the tanks were arranged in a circle about half way up the hill, above the level of the ex- cavations, directly over 10 speclally built tunnels leading to the cellars. The tanks were constructed so that at a signal traps in the bottoms were released and 7,000,000 gallons of wa- ter rushed with terrific force into the excavations. A whole battery of cameras and cameramen was suspended on scaf- folds and on rafts in order that the scenes might be photographed with certainty, as it is obvious the scene could not be rehearsed nor taken over again. This was for one of the climatic scenes in “The Phantom of the Op- era. | | | | | CONSTANCE ‘ BLNNETT 1 Tivoli K | WASHINGTON, D. G, 2 OCTOBER AMUSEMENTS. Loyp Metropolitar | | Phot(;plays This Week | At the photoplay Houses This Week. | | COLUMBIA—The Gold Rush.” | | PALACE RIALTO cvening METROPOLITAN evening TIVOLI—"The and evening. AMBASSADOR— CENTRAL LINCOL evening. “Flower of Night. Headlines.” ‘he Wizard of Oz. COLUMBIA—“The Gold Rush.” Charlie Chaplin long-heralded dramatic comedy of the Alaskan gold. rush days, “The Gold which some critics have hailed as his real screen masterpiece, is announced by Loew's Columbfa Theater this week beginning this afternoon. It was written and directed by Charlie himself, who also enacts the stellar role, and is described as a classic of love, tears and laughter that offers Chaplin one of the richest fun- making opportunities of his career and frequently lapses into gripping drama, tear-compelling pathos and sparkling romance. Georgia Hale is the leading woman of the cast, which also includes Mack Swain, Tom Murray and other finished fun-makers. Chaplain _is_pictured a_Tlonely tenderfoot in battered derby, hamboo cane and baggy trousers who worships in silence the divinity who rules over the mining camp dance hall almost unaware of his existence. He makes a bid for fortune with the rest and by a prank of Fate he is swept into a series of dramatic adventures that bring him, almost against his will, into possession of a fortune that means nothing without the girl he adores. A mere outli of the story itself, however, is utl inadequate to con- vey its fine points. Director Brusilof of the Columbia Orchestra has arranged a musical em- bellishment for the picture. PALACE—“Flower of Night. Pola Negri is the star of “Flower of Night,” ‘a colorful romance of the days of '49 in California, specially written for her by Joseph Herge- sheimer, the noted American novelist, which will be shown at Loew’s Palace this week, beginning this afternoon. Adapted to the screen by Willis as a Paramount production, “Flower of Night” enlists in its cast also Jo- seph Dowling, Youcca Troubetzkoy, Warner Oland, Eulalie Jensen, Gustav Von Seyffertitz and Helen Lee Worth- Ing. Added attractions will include the latest Charlie Chase comedy, “The Caretaker's Daughter”; the Pathe News reel, Topics of the Day and or- chestral music, under the direction of Thomas Joseph Gannon. | _“Flower of Night” is a drama of the old Vigilante days in California, when law and order were informal in character, but terrible in execution: Miss Negri is seen as a descendant of the old Spanish dons whose property had been wrested from them by the incoming hordes of adventurers. Fall- ine in love with the young superin- tendant of the Flor de Noche mine against her father’s wish the girl finds herself suddenly caught in a whirl N Goldbeck and directed by Paul Bern | Shown this afternoon and evening. Shown this afternoon and “The Phantom of the Opera.” Freshman.” Man Who Found Himself. Shown this afternoon and e N (colored)—"The Midshipman.” [ | added | novel one, evening. Shown this afternoon and Shown this afterncon and this afternoon venir shown this afternoon and cveni Shown this afternoon and pool of revelry and outls sweetheart turned against her and a cheming politician allied with her to wrest from the young man control of the mine. In a moment of great dan ger the girl suddenly turns back to the support of the man she loves and it s through her efforts alone his life is saved Youcca Troubetzkoy a nephew of the Prince Troubetzkoy, long promi- nent in Washington social circles, makes his screen debut as Miss Ne- gri's leading man METROPOLITAN—"“The Freshman. Harold Lloyd in “The Freshman,” an_eight-reel comedy-drama of col- lege life, has so taken in Washing. ton that the Crandall executives have had no alternative but to continue it for another week. The supplementary offerings re- main the same as last week, with an attraction, and a distinetly entitled “Wild Beasts of Borneo,” in which it is demonstrated that it is mot necessary to kil in order to secure valuable sclentific data. The Metropolitan World Sur- vey will give the latest news flashes and an Aesop Fable will complete the bill. The musical program will include a concert overture, a -potpourri of familiar melodies—about 18 in num- ber—arranged by Fred Stark, mu- sical director, of Richmond, Va., and an interpretative score. “The Freshman,” more than a mere comedy, has been called a revelation of human nature quite as effective in its moments of pathos as in other intervals when tears of laughter course down the cheeks. - The experi- ences of the kid who went to college with ideas borrowed from a movie that purported to set forth the proper way to get along, pursues a course that can be expected to do nothing but convulse the veriest grouch. His antics are supposed to be such as to promote his popularity with the institution. Instead, they serve only to win him the reputation of being the school's official ‘“goat, the perfect “Dboob,” whose every move is laughed at. RIALTO—"Phantom of the Opera.” The Rialto will hold over for a second week “The Phantom of the Opera,” starring Lon Chaney. It is a new type of play—partly filmed in original colors. Lon Chaney is pictured as the Phantom, with the face of a monster—and a hate-warped <oul. Mary Philbin is the opera sing- er, for love of whom the Phantom launches a reign of terror that shakes all Paris. Norman Kerry is her lover and rescuer. Weird shadows—grim figures silhouetted in darkness—and the terror of the unknown surcharge the drama, wry, with her that | N o Gt 44 LORNA DUVEEN CHARLIE. CHAPLIN Columbia | tion period by | months b A Cahfomla VlSltOl’. RAYMOND B. DUNLAP, di of the department of com pulsory education and child welfare of the Los Angeles, Calif., public sche who is to spe Saturday evenir under the of the National League of Pen Women at the as arranged to reach time attend Select Pro Crandall's pices American ham Hote Washington in Saturday mornin & for Children’ Tivoli Theater Prof. Dunlap is especially int in seeing how this work is ¢ in the National Capital. He heard over the radio Saturday night through station WRC in addition to being present at the Shoreham for an address to his visible audience will with the brilliance of a nd grand operas weipals in ibson Gowland Jdmund e contrasted o the | big s the Carew the a fi of mystery: Virginia Pearson as Carlotta the opera singer: John inpolis | #3ernard Siegel and Anton Vaverka Several thousand people take p the scenes and spectacles. musical program arranged and directed by Misha uterson includes 1 from aust,” sung ina Norman N Smith Macker tenor = orchestra by Miss Chicago Operi augmented from Tschaikowsky's vhony. AMBASSADOR—""Headlines.” “Headlines” will be shown for the first time in Washington the first two of thi¢ week at Crandall's Am- | ador Theater beginning Sunday It is a story of scareheads and risked reputations, and the principal roles are played by Alice Joyce, Malcolm | McGregor, Virginia Lee Corbin, Harry | T. Morey, Ellott Nugent and Ruby | Blaine. Among the unusual scenes in the story are several made in and | about the swimming pool on the| teamship Leviathan. An Aesop| able, other short subjects and pipe | organ music will round out tae bill. | Tuesday and Wednesd: “ecll B | De Mille’s spectacle-drama, “The Ten Commandments,” with Richard Dix | Leatrice Joy, Nita Naldi, Rod La | Roque, Theodore Rob nd Estelle | Taylor: Thursday, Norma Shearer and Lew Cody in “A’ Slave of Fashion,” also “High Jinx,” an Imperial comed: Friday, Ricardo Cortez and Greta Nis- sen in “In the Name of Love,” with |Raymond Griflith and Wallac supporting, also Goes irunting’; Semon's production, Oz Charlie Chase in Guide Him” “Sportlight.” TIVOLI—“The Man Who Found Himself.” Thomas Melghan will be seen at Crandall’s Tivoli Theater the first two days of this week, beginning Sunday afternoon, in Paramount's production, | “The Man Who Found Himseli,” a | Tom Geraghty adaptation, directed by Alfred E. Green, with the leading feminine role played by Virginia Valli, The story is one of a prison convict who came back, and was written espe- | clally for Meighan by Booth Tarking- |ton.” Glenn Tryon's “Madame Sans | Jane,” added short reels and pipe or- | gan music by Otto F. Beck and Har- old T. Pease will complete the bill. Tuesday and Wednesday, “The Goose Woman,” adapted from the story by Rex Beach, featuring Louise Dresser, | Jack Pickford and Constance Bennett, also an Aesop Fable, Pathe Review and Topics of the Day; Thursday and Friday, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, sup- ported by Ronald Colman, William H. Powell and Charles Lane, in the camera version of “Romola,” filmed in Italy and directed by Henry King; Saturday, Jay Hunt as “Lightnin’" Bill Jones In William Fox production, “Lightnin,’” adapted from the Frank Bacon play; also Grantland Rice “Sportlight,” and the first in- stallment of “The Ace of Spades, new chapter-play CENTRAL—“The Wizard of 0z.” “The Wizard of Oz," Larry Semon’s film version of the fanciful tale that vas Montgomery and Stone's first ig time” musical comedy hit, will be the attraction at Crandall's Central Theater the first two days of this week, beginning Sunday. The foret most characters in this original con- ception are the Scarecrow and the Tin ndy he Wizard of “No Father to and a Grantland Rice | promising |for {to make a bid for stel |of addi | just the possibility that Max Marcin, | shouldered copy reader or an editor on | Woodman, either of which affords | (Continued on Fourth Page.) H. B. Warnei N S Career NRY BYRON WARNER, star of X Marein's melodram is the son of Charles Wa who was one of the most guished figures on the Engzl during the seventies and He was destined for the the cradle and was given b opportunity in his father’s comj while still’ a small boy. D public school preparat he was drilled dur the elder when he finally left the e was coached for more thar in a number of Kespeare; in which he never appeared in His first appearance « as a_young man was as : his fathe come ing man was in v e ned here ever distin Miss Robson i Nurse M Search of a Hus stag 1 Who Has Ever univers Arm father's D'Artagnan in “The Three Musketeers.” Within another yvear he was looked upon as one of the most juven n the En theater and became associated Arthur Bouchier. He mounting to a position portance on the Londo; George C. Ty agegd s to his was pla er him five or : rves cor ago that Harold Lloyd v rect ¢ t, was two-reelers that could be sccured for ' er tha the largest of the firstrun houses at rentals of only a littie more than $160 the week In those early davs, Bebe Dani was Lloyd’s charming leading worr In fact, it was in this capacity he encountered her first opportu ar Davis, hysterical de anion picture i from any lates When Mildred the present Mrs, Harold Lioyd, took up the t g feminine charm to the Lioy the films began take added footage—three reels, occasion ally, then four and five. During the five-reel era” there were produced such masterpieces amusing situa- tions and honest human nature “Grandms Boy" and “Dr Then they b to get still leases, to on as Jack zan longer A Comedian 3 Story H:\Rl:\' K. MORTON, the comedian he has made distin in “The Love Song,” was born in Decatur, Ala. He had a circus train ing and performed under the “white ops” with his father and mother, who tively his When 1 1s offered an engagement with t reenwich Village Follies™ he accepted with alacrity, because > felt it would open a way ir were performers, when he was only | /le€itimate.” and it did, for his suc While he was still a youngster he was Caldwell billed in vaudeville is the third mem ber of the team of Morton, Temple and Morton. The years that followed gave him wide experience, for it ran the entire gamut of entertainment from dramatic stock to burlesque. His first experience as a featured comedian was In a buriesque produc tion called “The Golden Crook,” and this with another concoction entitled “Queen of Paris,” brought him into | “The the limelight of the burlesque lovers | broad and confirmed him in a certain kind | c was writing ! she saw and Morton's style the foot character in onality, the that she rote a ¥ to fit bis pers Peter I'otie Morton playe N fmportant roles ith Bert Williams i “The Bamboo Tree,” in “Bal Tablarin,” “The Lady rmine,” and other productions. In Love Song” the burden of the co falls upon his amply Dl Later edy pable shoulders. Marcin the Pla;wright IF. on a certain Summer night about | magazines which g0 in for 18 years ago, a certain young man | technically had not shot Stanford White on the | a5’ Ba /i, Madison Square roof garden, there is | length, an ries. 1is av hours al what i “action stuff.” years he wrote 70,000 words in 150 short sto rking day of five ulted in the emer gence ¢ than 3,000 words from his overworked typewriter and frequently the output was as high as 6.000 words. His average was well over 4,000 words a day The sale of the dram one of his storles for sum turned Marcin’s attention to the stage and for the past 10 years he has devoted his nimble pen to playwriting known next three and the author of “Silence,” now being played by H. B. Warner, might at the present moment be either a round- a New York newspaper. On that Summer night he happened to be the star reporter on the now defunct New York Press, and he was sent out of the office on the run the moment news of the tragedy came | gver the wire. From the moment that | . = he dropped down to the street in the R: {. & i clevator until Thaw was constened to| Bid for Higher Recognition the Matteawan Asylum after his two| A NNOUNCEMENT has been made historlc trials this particular case was | £} that Randolph M. Boggs, dean of Mr. Marein’s sole assignment. Tt led | the Bureau of Commercial Economics him into a new style of living and it |in Washington, has secured the Ward produced in him more than any other | man Park Theater as @ preview the one thing that discontent which is the |ater par excellence for distinguished wellspring of ambition. | movie fans and officials of Washing And 8o it came to pass that Marcin | ton and the “who's who™ of the Na took to the writing of short stories. | tion’s wealth generally. He cannot remember the exact details |~ Attendance will bos by invitation of his first, but he does recall that it | on) The Government departments was an embellishment of a police story [are co-operating with Mr. Boggs in he had once covered. A week later | furnishing suitable exploitation sub Marcin got a check for $200 and a| jects, and special music and prologues curt note which requested him to|will he arranged. “please sign the inclosed receipt.” So | Epic of Mount Everest he wrote another story and got an-|derful film ef the Royal other check and then a third and still | Society of London, which r another $200. Finally the editor sent|at the Seala Theater in for him and put him under contract|be presented next to write a dozen stories at $250 apiece. | November 1, He got leave of absence from the!hounced, by Sir Esme Howard, Am paper, lit out for Nantucket Island|bassador from Great Britain 1o the and never came back—that is, to the | United States, and Marcus Loewe, s paper. well as other producers, who have He finished the 12 stories he had|promised their fullest co-operation contracted for in less than three|“Ben-Hur” is another special filn months and found himself developing | which will be previewed at the Ward a really amazing faculty. His yarns [man Park Theater at an early date were largely adventurous, with Some- | The principal object of this is said thing happening every 50 words or %o, | to be (o create a new type of audience, and they made an instantaneous hit ‘nf wealth and influence, to view filsm with the editors of the more popular ' Tt is all to be done frce. tie rights t« a very lar the won ographic an €0 long London, will Sunday evening, sponsored, it is an