Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1925, Page 63

*MUSEMENTS .News &nd Comment By W.H. Landvofyt. ND o we arc to have two octopuses, or octopi. as you will, in the motion picture industry. The general public, which scems to be in- terested in the $hotoplay, rather than in the producer, distributor, scttle down, in all probability, and await ger and better things in the of entertainment. For a long time press, the halls of government and the highways have been. filled 1 the news of the wickedness oi Paramount, Famous Players-Lasky and the Hay s organization generally. That was the first octopus that prom- thing in the motion picture line but the desire to be and Cnited Artists, although probably minus Charlic Chaplin, nis o go it alone, will unite with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and appear to share the honors or dishonors of the latest “we” the gencral or cxhi r, will now way ised to cat up ev to do better. Now who still v ~nother octopus wil nopoly of Mammon. But what do we care, meaning by thlic? For gencrations we have been bitten, eaten, yea devoured by com- mercial monopolics until there is no help fof us. And vet we are still here— bly. but the imp; 1t fact is that we are beyend the peradventure of doubt that movies move with it. kXK le at large show little more than passing interest in the no better and no worse. probal still here. All of the sun do move WH'L battles of which cstab’ishe nd the the pe adividual produccrs, distributors and exhibitors that con- stantly he dumibest of dumdoras is able to perceive prog- ress in the picture It is a progress that is bringing to the screen less objectionab’e than those of a few short months ago. with 1 us, rage aroun not only picture but really a development of dramatic art under the hand famoun stage cxpericnce hefore the the past season h 1 ceded them, and there have heen many more really fine pictures than ever before in a single scason. Ii the octopuses, or the octopi. are responsible for this—then bring on morc of them! * kK shows such unexpected improvement over the general run that it cxcites comment. Without in the least possible way reflecting upon the picture entertainment cotemporaneous with it, “The Merry Widow™ may he singled out as an illustration of the most un- usual. Erich von Stroheim has laid the foundation for many fine things for the screen which the box office has spoiled for him and for admirers of his art. It is considered perfectly all right to “blah blah™ about the cost- liness of photoplays. That is an essential part of the publicity demanded for its exploitation. If you think a thing cost $2.000.000 you are certain to helieve it is twice as good as one that only cost $1,000,000. Von Stroheim'’s insistence that things in his photoplays must be as they should be.vno}v heap counterfeits, brought about his head the wrath of the “economists of the picture world. and Erich was promptly dubbed “the mad Austrian, the spendthrift of the screen.” Mavbe he did spend money, but he was aiming high in his art. Famous Players-Lasky, however, still had faith in him. and he was set to work upon the famous Lehar operetta. Thou- sands of Washingtonians know today what he has done with it. It is “a thing of beauty and a joy forever. And not the least of its charms is the rebirth of “the screen butterfly.” Mae Murray, into a dramatic_some- thing of promise that will cause screen fans the world over to anticipate her future work with cager expectation and pleasure. * Kk kX D this brings us to the conzideration of “blah blah.” Sometimes hu- manity in its desperation is forced to coin a word or a phrase to ex- press its feelings. The dictionary utterly fails to meet the demand. “Blah hiah” is the latest product in this line. It means, in part at least, the ori- ental imagery sculptured into the vernacular to convey an exalted opinion 1f something that isn’t worth shucks. It is a favorite expression in the film world of the fellow who reads praise accorded his rival's work, or that rival's own published opinion of it. It is indigenous to no clime or season. Like the poor. it is always with us. in spirit at least. It springs into being when least expected, and it always feels hurt if it be not accorded a gra- cious reception. “Blah blah” is working overtime this November, and it is volatile, for it creeps in when you are doing everything in your power to shut it out. Like a good subject with a high-powered medium, it can be made to pass throuzh walls of solid masonry without even scraping its cuticle. It gets there of its own volition, and the newspaper world dreads it because of its irrepressibility arti-tic and much more interesting, not always blessed the screen. whom had their screen The pictures of vonderiul improvement over those that pre more heautiiul. morc has directors, man) came into existence, that even of its of <hown OMETIMES a picture L LLUSTRATIONS oiten clarify a meaning when language has failed. An enterprising film magazine that clamors vigorously to have the way spened and made easy of access to pictures that bear the imprint “Inde- pendent,” describes the story of one of these pictures, with a near Riblical name, as a “romantic drama,” whose “punches” are “a fight in a Plrisian cabaret, war scenes and a mobilization of the troops.” It also advises ex- hibitors to invite war veterans and Gold Star Mothers. In its “comments,” in which the truth is supposed to be told, it describes the picture as “a con- ventional stery fairly well acted.” This is what the other fellow calls ‘hlah blah.” * ok ok ok ROM the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offices comes the information that “if you don't understand Elinor Glyn, you can't act in her pictures.” The announcement adds: “It is not merely a matter of wearing clothes that Mme. Glyn exotically describes, but you must undergo a complete ‘Glyn- ization’ before you will even be considered.” It is further explained that the stars in Hollywood who aspire to share in the fame of Mme. Glyn's pictures “must analyze, understand and memorize the phantasmagoric Ii tle world Mme. Glyn lives in, her every feverish line and mental quirk This also may be “blah blah.” but isn't it tough on the players who seek to bask in the fame that halos the hectic Elinor? Vet it is claimed that Lon Chaney has been “Glynized.” * ok K K TH the information that David Belasco himself, in selling the picture rights to his famous “Kiki,” stipulated that no one but Norma Tal- madge should play the title role, comes the news of the death, in California, of her father. while Constance and her mother were in New York. * ok ok * B. WARNER, who was recently seen on the stage in Washington, has gone to Hollywood to star in lence.” under the direction of Rupert Julian, a director who has been called upon more than once to “finish” pictures the direction of which was originally given to Erich von Stroheim. * ok koK EN TURPIN, who has made his millions laugh and largely through his crossed eycs, is reported seriously ill. aiter an operation for appendi- citis; and this following the recent death of his wife, to nurse whom in her last illness he gave up motion picture wor * K kK ATACHA RAMBOVA, or, as she probably prefers to be called. “Mrs. Rudolph Valentino.” in “the interests of zood showmanship, is re- ported to have arrived from Europe with 40 trunks of wardrobe purchasced exclusively in Paris, “from the smartest Parisian couturiers.” and 32 gor- geous Spanish shawls, purchascd exclusively in Madrid, for use in the prob- lem picture, “Do Clothes Make the Woman:" an F. B. O. production. Tt looks as if the argument is to be ex parte. ts Corporation offered $3.000 * %k k A year ago F. B. O. and the Associated Ar “in prizes for a title to the picturization of a Saturday Evening Post ~tarv. “The Man From Ashaluna.” Announcement has just been made that the first_prize of $1,000 was won by a “number.” not a “name.” and the ‘number” an inmate of the Sing Sing prison at Ossining, N. Y., who sug- THE Pal acde The Moving Picture By Robert E. Sheriwood. HOSE who stand in the lobby at a movie theater and listen to the comments of the customers may usually absorb more effective criti cism of the silent drama than they will find in a hundred columns of newspaper reviews. It is a rare op- portunity for enlightenment to those who would hear that loud but indis- tinet uproar which is known as “the public’s volce.” One evening I was planted thus. by the zilded ticket booth in 2 neighbor- hood theater. listening in on the con tions of the audience who were ing out into the night after the show. The picture had been “The Unholy Three,” the mystery melodrama in which Lon Chaney ‘and others suc- ceeded in thrilling the spines of the spectators. “How’d vou like it> man, possibly asked a younz an insurance salesman “1 like it all right,” replted the girl friend. “but somehow or other it seemed kind of sillv—Lon Chaney dressing up like an old woman and all that. T just donT béHeve it could happened.” I was inclined 1o approach the voung lady and sk her, “Who cares”" but T restrained the impulse. feeling that the insurance salesman might reasonably take offense. * ok % ok This same comment was once made in the presence of the late Thomas H. Ince, who stands out as the shrewd. est showman of movie histo: Mr. Ince was showing one of his new productions to a friend. In the lurid melodrama that was revealed on the projection room screen was a scene wherein a culprit escaped from prison by climbing up the wall and seizing a rope ladder which suspended from the fuselage of a passing aero. plane. After the conclusion of the picture, Mr. Ince asked his friend for a state ment of opinion. “Tt was all fine except that’scene of the convict's escape from jail. That was ridiculous. Tt couldn’t have hap- pened.” “Of course it couldn’t have happen ed.” agreed Mr. Ince. “hut it did. You just saw it there—before vour own eyes.” The friend had nothing that. to say to * ok ok o raises the question: How much license is permitted on the screen? Where does logic end and aggeration begin? One could argue for years and never settle this “debate. I myself have complained bitterly hecause the hero of a movie society drama wore a cutaway suit to a foot ball game. I had never seen any one in such a costume at a foot ball zame, and 1 never expect to behold this odd spectacle. And vet T applaud- ed lustily when, in “The Thief of Bag- dad,” Douglas Fairbanks conjured an entire army from the desert sands by merely throwing out handfuls of magic powder. I had certainly never seen any one do this, either. It is a fact that ome may accept miracles in one type of story, and bitterly resent the slightest departure from realism in another. A story that is frank romance, like “The Prisoner of Zenda,” or melo- drama, like “The Unholy Three,” or broad comedy, like “Safety Last,” or pure fantasy, like “Peter Pan,” may stray as far as it likes from the dreary facts of existence. But whenever a novelist or a playwright or a movie director zoes in for realism, he must recognize the terrible limitations that Which S onvention has placed upon art. He must avoid those coincidences which occur so regularly In everyday life, otherwise people will say. It never could have happened.” He must shun the possibilities of luck or fate or whatever you choose to call it, and adhere closely to the most com monplace probabilities. He must _remember, truth is still stranger that you can't actually dramatize that complicated process which is known as life because people would never believe you. » Thus it is that the movies have been most successful when they have departed farthest from realism, when they have gone in for utter absurdity. for sheer nonsense. Mr. Ince was right. The philosonhv of the movie producer should be e pressed in those words: “It couldn't have happened—but it did.” in short, that than fiction— WASHINGTON NORMA TALMDGE HAROLD LLOYD- Cetitral Pora NEGRI Liscoln (e @ M| ard JOBYNA RALSTON - Tivoli Photo plays- At the Photoplay H-o-uses This Week. METROPOLITAN—"Classified.” PALACE—"Tower of Lies.” RIALTO—“Sporting Life. COLUMBIA—“The Merry afternoon and evening. This Week Shown this afternoon and evening, hown this afternoon and evening. Shown this afternoon and evening. Widow™ (second weck). - Shown this TIVOLI—“The Freshman.” Shown this afternoon and evening. AMBASSADOR—"Classified.” Shown this afternoon and evening. CENTRAL—"American Pluck. evening. METROPOLITAN—"Classified.” Corinne Griffith is the picture star Crandall's Metropolitan Theater this week in “Classified,” with Lloyd Hamilton in “Movies. Miss Griffith’s new First National vehicle is declared a splendid film version of Edna Ferher's intensely human story, “Want Ads,” renamed “Classified.” and Mr. Hamilton's of- fering is a two-reel cloudburst of laughs bearing the title of “Movies’ The Metropolitan World Survey will be among the shorter films, and the musical program will present the Metropolitan Symphony, Daniel Bree- skin conducting, in Von Suppes “Morning, Noon and Night” and a pleasing series of interpretative ac- companiment scores, as well as a special added attraction, Nell Paxton and Milton Davis, pipe organists, in a group of pipe organ and piano duets such as they recently played with the “Crandall Saturday Night- ers” for broadcasting. Mrs. Paxton will be at the organ console, and Mr. Davis at the grand piano. “Classified” concerns the experi- ences of a girl emploved in the want ad department of a New York news- paper, who possessed a tremen- dous urge to taste of the luxuries of life. She was an audaclous little fiirt, who frequently rode to the office in a smart car driven by a total stran- ger. This habit of “picking the soft spots” led her to meet a wealthy voung roue and a hard-working young automobile mechanic. And here comes the conflict that leads to the stirring climax. at This is said to be by far Miss Grif- | fith's best picture. Unexpected twists of plot enable her to appear in a succession of rich gowns and evening wraps. Jack Mulhall is the young mechanic, Ward Crane the rich young roue, while Charlie Murray is cast as “Old Man" Comet, and Edythe Chapman as the mother. PALACE—"The Tower of Lies." Lon Chaney and Norma Sheare under Victor Seastrom’s directio: will bring a powerful dramatic stud: of a girl's wrong step in “The Tower of Lies” to Loew's Palace this week, beginning this afternoon. “The Tower of Lies” i= a picturized version of Selma Lagerlof's Swedis} ovel, “The Emperor of Portugallia, dapted by Agnes Christine John- stone. Maines. Tan Keith, Claire McDowell, David Torrence and Edward Connelly. The story reveals Chaney as a horny-handed tenant farmer who knows nothing but toil, but whose wrath at the birth of a daughter soon changes to an almost fanatical devotion. Grown to womanhood, the girl faces the problems of the world —_—_— e gested the title “On the Fatal Stroke.” | called “On the Stroke of Three.” | picture story in itself. | Pascal, leit the prison November 14. * % The picture had been tentatively Right here is excellent material for a A note states that the “number,” Vincent de * ok is reported that the Famous Players-Lasky houses on the Pacific Coast {11 1 will not exhibit the new Cecil De day,” as "a form of reprisal. * * Mille picture, “The Road to Yester- * % S Theda Bara comes down to star in Hal Roach tworeelers Neely Edwards soars up to play five-reelers for Joe Rock. Such is fame. o \ The cast includes William | Shown this afternoon and evening. LINCOLN (colored)—"Flower of Night. Shown this afternoon and in dangerous innocence, and when she makes a false step the faith of her father never wavers, though his reason does, while there remains waliting for her the sweetheart of her vouth, steadily offering her a blind love. Added offerings will include the latest Our Gang comedy, the Pathe newsreel. Topics of the Day and orchestral embellishment. RIALTO—"Sporting Life." The attraction at the Rialto this week is “Sporting Life.” an adapta tion of tke famous Drury Lane melo- drama. It is a Maurice Tourneur pro- duction, with a cast_headed by Bert Lytell and Marian Nixon, supported by Paulette Duval, Cyril Chadwick, Charles Denal George Seigmant, Kathleen Ciifford and Ena Gregory. The story concerns Young Lord Woodstock, gay. handsome, rich and reckless, wild gambler with thorough- | bred horses, cards and women's hearts, | until he fell head over heels in iove | with pretty Nora Cavanaugh. Danc. | ing thoroughbreds and gay stage beau- ties in exotic Paris gowns, the fast night clubs of London, a vengeful | woman plotting against her rival, hruising prize fights, all are shown in this favorite old melodrama. Mischa _Guterson has arranged a unique offering entitied, “A Fashion Show and Fads of the Day.” introduc- ing a dozen girl models, with Camille Little heading the specialties. Doro- |thy Burr and Helene Devereau will |dance the national Polish mazurka: | Tereta Schaeffer and Blanche Leh- |mann will appear as exponents of American terpsichore. | The overture by the Rialto Con- cert Orchestra, under Mischa Guter- son, will be selections from ‘The Merry Widow.” The “Life of Schu- bert,” with a musical setting of his |own compositions, and the Interna- | tional News will' complete the pro | sram. | COLUMBIA—"The Merry Widow." | Erich von Stroheim’s masterpiece, | “The Merry Widow," featuring Mae | Murray and John Gilbert, will con- tinue this week at Loew’s Columbia | Theater, due to popular demand. Based on the famous Viennese op- | eretta by Franz Lehar and featuring |a large cast that includes Pully Mar- | shall, Gorge Fawcett, Roy D’Arcy and | many more, “The Merry Widow" has | proved itself the big, outstanding Metro-Goldwyn attraction of the sea- son. Miss Murray enacts with charm and force the role of the little Amer- ican actress’ who, stranded in Middle Curope, attracted the attention of a prince, who later was forced to aban- don her for state reasons, later mar- ried the country's richest man and |on her husband’s death became the | open quest of the prince, whose royal parents had previously forced him to | break with her. Owing to the.length of the featured | attraction, the added features ‘of the program have been omitted, though | a special musical score containing ex- cerps from “The Merry Widow' music will be played by the orchestra under Director Brusilof. TIVOLI—"“The Freshman.” Harald .Lloyd will be seen at Cran. dall's Tivoli Theater the first three MARION NiXON Rislto June Ma!his. New Art. A NEW art, the expression of ideas by symbolism in a series of mov ing plctures, is being credited to June Mathis, writer, scenarist and super visor with First Na nal Pictures Corporation. “With the release of ‘“The Viennese Medley’,” Miss Mathis is quoted, “you will see’ a new method in the expres sion of ideas, so far as motion pictures are concerned. 1 say a new method as far as motion pictures are con cerned, because it has been practiced before in varfous forms of art, includ ing the stage. This method to which 1 refer is that of expressing an idea— a thought—by means of symbolism “In ‘“The Four Horsemen' I used a suggestion of symbolism, but not to the extent T have used it in ‘The Vien nese Medlev.' In ‘The Viennese Med ley’ vou will'see an entirely new meth od in the use of symbols and symbolic characters to express both thought and the reaction of though aroused by the action in a situation “I believe we have something in this picture which will stimulate a new interest in motion pictures. — Origin of Screen Technique. *NJO doubt it will surprise the mo tion picture fans to know that the methods emploved in acting for the screen antedate those of the spoken drama by a thousand years s W, Shallenberger, president ot Arrow Pictures Corporation. “It i a far cry.” continues Dr Shallenberger, “from the day when | theatrical entertainment was given at the bottom of the foothills that marked the northern boundary of In dia, and the performers were Chinese monks, who had traversed the dis tance between their country and ‘The Ind.” over mountain peaks, snowclad and icebound, to carry their religion into 2 new land “Not speaking a common language understcsd by both, these Chinese mis- sionaries resorted to pantomime in order to convey the tenets of their faith and thus bring about a conver sion to their religion of the Hindus They did not act 4 drama, but in place thereof, they went through the cere monies which were part and parcel of the ritual of their church, and thus by first appealing to the eye and then the mind they were successful in the object of thefr visit. “The techique they emploved in — ally preacher,” vert the E: wood. “There tween th he said. be of mutual and to humanit “Hollywood city, neither know has st place to live in Rev. $3.000,000 ter, N. ¥, for that ter = titled taken up with rect Players-Lasky “ronnd table sociation the part of trade papers, papers, that Ufa erties. There French Amer tions made pictures nd “Nana.' filming Strogoff.” The generation of high-pressure pantomimic acting is the same that holds good in 1925 in every motion pic- ture studio in the world. It the sroundwork. the foundation, from which pantomime. or silent acting. was evolved. until it arrived at the high state that obtains today “Twenty-four hundred yvears passed since the Chinese es Dby gesture, facial play®and body mo tion the primary principles on which the art of the screen rests.” The banned the public school have ] “Proud Heart,” ablished “Common Baron days of thiss week, beginning today. in" “The Freshman,” his feature length comedy of college lfe. In| this hilarfous subject the star por- trays the college “zoat"—trying hard to be popular but defeating his own purpose by his utter artificiality Then “the girl" tips him off, and he comes through a hero. Playing op- posite Lloyd is Jobvna Ralston, in a delightfully ingenuous part, and Pat Hartigan 18 seen as tha hard-boiled foot ball coach. The bill will be aug- mented by a Pathe Review and spe- cial pipe organ music by Otto F. Beck and Harold T. Pease. Wednesday Lillian Rich _ and Creighton Hale in Producers release, “Seven Days.” a love drama, supple- mented by Billy Dooley in “The Aisfit Sailor”: Thursday. Thanksgiving day, and Friday, Rin-Tin-Tin, police dog actor, in “Tracked in the Snow Coun- try”; an Aesop Fable and “Topics of the Day"; Saturday. Larry Semon in his feature-length production of the musical comedy hit, “The Wizard of Oz supported by Dorothy Dwan, Mary Carr, Charlie Murray and Bryant Washburn, together with a short comedy and ‘serial. AMBASSADOR—*"Classifled.” | Corinne Griffith. in “Classified,” First National's version of Edna Fer- ber's novel. will be the attraction the riln;lr u‘;ree; days of this week at Cran- | dall's Ambassador Theater, beginning | : today, together with a short come. |, P12 Nesri dy. Lloyd Hamilton's “Movies*; other short reels and pipe organ music. Wednesday, Thursday (Thanksgiv- ing day) and Friday. Harold Lloyd in “The Freshman,” the story of a voungster who went to college intent upon becoming the most popular man enrolled, only to: find himself played upon as the college “goat.” Lloyd Is not only excruclatingly funny, but he also is enough the actor to sound a deep vein of pathos, and the combi- nation is fine entertainment. A news reel and the Pathe Review also will be shown. Saturday Rin-Tin-Tin, trained po- lice dog actor, will be seen in “Tracked in the Snow Country,” sup- | plemented by an Aesop Fable, Sport- light and chapter play. CENTRAL—“American Pluck. George Walsh will be seen at Cran- dall'y’ Central Theater the first two days of this week, beginning today, in “American Pluck,” an adaptation of Eugene P. Lyle, jr.'s, story, ‘Blaze Derringer,” a theme allve with ac- tion and unexpected climaxes and typifying the outlook of the present | getters.” Tom Wilson, Mason. will Tuesday ture that thrill ing been made will be day romantic which she O'Brien, Marc and a Podge™; appear in | Two.” of this | noon, in |into Calife tually |and Mexicans. | Oland, . Eulalie Beginning continuing to film version American MeDermott, n left = holy increase interest the magazines has now crept into beinz A metropolitan and Phoebus. | second largest film companie many. are negotiating with American | concerns for the sale of all their prop- exhibitors an picture distribution cc French CLINTON W is a normal nor horrible, said, ““but busy, prosperous and a fine preacher” because his amount by His church has jus pleted a 14-story combined church and office building in the heart of Roches Having spent the Summer i wood, he is going b with material for a “The Truth About His last few days in the film city were interviewing rs and plavers studio, discussions was ed hy Bebe Daniels, Wallace Beery, HE Short Feature whose California to the cause of news MUSEMENTS CORINNE. GRIPTITH- Met ropol itan_ "DER. “the nat H no cause for combat church and ‘On the contrary. service the movi they to one Amer! “the $100 life his congregat financed and c H rack lecture to be Holl wo stars Fan the One ion $100.000 con olly. he s, can another ican he ‘Wunder is minister of the new Baptist Temple of Roches and is called is insured ion. om olly Rochester en od di his end “Hollywood a Normal City™ Willlam K. Howard, director, and" Ticardo Cortez, who were engaged filming *“Volcano.” I find Hollywood like every othef American city.” said Rev. Wunder. “If any difference exists, it that Hollywood is quieter than the aver age and goes to sleep earlier at night It lovely and beautiful communi- ty fine citizens and fine homes n _the motion picture industry one’s first impression is that here we e a business filled with detail, em ploving armies of players, directors, technical workers, writers, painters, carpenters and electricians of many kinds. There are all kinds of folks here as elsewhere. but the vast bulk of the people I have met are earnest- minded. hard workers in an interest ing_vocation. The inefficient and the urfit are rapidly being eliminated Setter pictures have actually ar: rived. as indicated by the recent trend toward the historical and educational woven into such themes as “The Van- ishing_American.’ “The Pony Express” nd “The Wanderer . It is about time a certain alement the public stopped talking about what wrong with Hollywood and recognizing what is right about Hoelst Fi]_rgqg’ram; Advertising purpose is short public, exhibit and report s the first in ¢ film war number por have Miserables’ a of Zola's Carmen affect nd a recently “Les story, and and Mic mavyor of Seattle, openin; ture theaters within Wash., motion feet of of 300 ha People.’ ture still one of clouded identity. Lt of life at val Academy operation of the with Secretary W' an important role on graduation day Harriet Hammond and Wesley Barry appear in the supp “Dog Daze. and Friday, Wwill be seen in First National's screen version of George Barr McCutcheon's novel, is supported by McDermott, Hawley, Frank Currier, Albert G and Lilllan Lawrence; also O. Henr Central American comedy, * Lyman Saturday, Bessie Love and Greta Monta comedy, “The King on M supplemented by w destroyed | brought to that land by the Spanish von Koczian, who The supporting | cludes Wanda Hawley eo The comedy John {n “Fair Warning," be completed reels and pipe orzan music. and Wednesday. Novarro in “The Midshipman, reflects t which was ca been chanzec making the cast Frank Le: White and will be Al and the by added a he romance the United S at wit Annapolis, the active avy Departm h bur appearing As features on news- and ien ting of are hael has pic ny 1lled The title of the picturization of the | story “His People,” d 1o worked in- igh. Dan St. bill short Ramon pic- and ates hav- co- ent, in The comedy Thanksgiving Norma Talmadge H. Lincoln Theater the first week, beginning Paramount’s production of |"Flower of Night,” a romance of early | California, by Joseph Hergesheimer. The story abounds in adventurous ac | tion and depicts the manner in which | the early pioneers by their incursions | nia disturbed and even- the Sennett's “Graustark w Howe Adolphe Men ssen Bell's in S Tee be seen at this aff tranquil in gene nda an hoes Hodz: e jou, will LINCOLN—"Flower of Night.” the four days te life The supporting cast Cesare ng day of the National's w Barr succeeded Grann, p includes Joseph J. Dowling, Warner | Jensen, vina and Helen Lee Worthing. comedy will be “Horace Greely, starring Harry Langdon. Thanksgi: the end will be shown First duction starring Norma Talmadge, a of George Cutcheon’s story, “Graustark.” shows the manner in which “go-getter” Gra- The and eek Me- | Happy Ending, diverting | treet,” | which | ,ungalows a YOUng | ygjand, for in | winning theé hand of the princess of | a little foreign principality. The sup- porting cast is led by Eugene O'Brien and includes Wanda Hawle Albert J Marc | for his work at the French Lillian | of Decorative with Ernst Lubitsch when the latte was producing in Germany, has de clared that not only are American pictures finer than those produced elsewhere, but that the presentation= of pictures in New York easily excels presentation in any large city in Eu- rope Some idea of the growth of the mo- tion picture business may be gleaned from the fact that during the current vear, from January 1 to November 1, 1,448 picture corporations were char- tered with a joint capital of $431.- 350.661, and that 438 others were chars tered whose capital was not given at all. Florence Mills, cabaret entertainer, - says she will build a picture house seating 3.200 people “in the negro dis- trict in Harlem.” Our colored picture, houses in Washington vie with the best Emory Johnson is to make a new picture, “The Non-Stop Flight,” which will center around the recent al airplane flight to Hawali. Harry Langdon, who Is now finish ing up with Mack Sennett. will start with First National December 3 They say that one of the problems in titling motion pictures arises from the fact that a title that appeals to men will not draw the patronage ot women. The Valentinos, whether intention ally or not. seem to be staging some g00d publicity just about this time. ay Compton, who has heen appear- in English-made pictures, “The “The Eleventh Com mandment” and “Settled Out of Court,” is reported in our midst again. ing Carl French which Laemmle has bought the new version of “Les Miserables.” features Gabriel Gabrio, the brilliant continental actor, as Jean Valjean, and Sandra Milovanoff, the, Russian star, as Fantine. . Among the submitted to Universal recently was one bearing the royal insignia, from Prince Wilhelm, one of the versatile members of Sweden's talented roval family original manuscripts Pete Morrison is to Frank Morrison’s story, “The Hidden Cabin,” and Jack Hoxie In Harrison Jacob’s story, “The Tuneful Tornado.” by Universal. Both are adventure stories. be starred in Other citles are emulating the dall Tivoll in presenting Saturday, morning exhibitions of children’s pr grams, which has long heen the pet hobby of Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher of this city. “The New Commandment,” a Flrst National picture, is being advertised a choek-a-block with audience stuff,” which is not meant as adverse ariti- cism is “The Only Way.” which handled in its distribution by United Artists, was produced in England by Herbert and Charles Wilcox. . Exhibitors is exploitation is to be Associated money in the Hopkins Joyce's new picture, “Tha™ Skyrocket." Pegzy is declared to bring to the screen a publicity value unequaled in the annals of the box office, which is going some . burning of Peggy Alice Joyee's business activities part from her picture work include he erection of & colony of picturesque on the north shore, Long professional folk. ¥ Leonce Perret, the French director of Gloria Swanson’s “Madame Gene," has heen awarded first p position Arts. France g0~ (Continued ot “ourth Page.) (Continued on Fourth Pagey, "