Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1926, Page 57

Theaters ht %flflflay %i&f Part 3—12 Pages WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1926 S~ P R i RUSSELL Wardman Park. Jheater Lk afirl e 1 Romping Drama and | History in Films‘ By Philander Johnson. HEN that great controversialist, | recalls the classical voung man who, | Houdini. decided to adopt hrow- | bursting with the secret concerning heating audiences into satisfied sub- | the lengthy ears of Midas, ran to| micsion as a life carcer, the world | the river's” edge and confided it to! loct a great politician. He has a|the golden sands, where the rushes facile method nf creating an impres- | might forever whisper it and lanzh. don that a great argument is going | disturbing no man's vanity on about something and then step- | . ping forward with the assmption | o Uncle | | thar he. and he alone, is competent N RO | te <cttle it. From the outset no Dramatized "Trilby." | mar. was more defiant of the popu- e i i | = His tricks of escape from MISS JOAN MACLEAN, leading ropes, chains and boxes were height woman in “American Born.” is 2 i ened in crest by the lack of pic- a niece of the late Paul M. Potter, who treuns cmbslibnen, nhoh, B s | ORORGEM Coman and” Joan MacLeaN ~ National nearly an hour with nothing to do except to picture in its_own mind |0 (O SO ! % won a scholarship. London man-| . oI the terrific struggling of a stifling to fait. And al the while no|Herbert Jay, who teok Miss Maclean | JTN1VERSAL PICTURES CORPORA- | the cunt magician out of the school to play the lead in| TION | he nsvehological cffect of de- | s production, “The Enemy Within." | op E -~ Later he gave her the leading role in| Flaming Frontier.” based on histori . Such o Nice Young Man.” which also | cal facts leading up to and including J “‘i‘ F o badiy l.'lP.il.Lululnn T ., | that dramatic moment in American e e o o Nice Young Man." | pistory known as the Custer ma | e was apparently on | Al the Apolio Theater, that Basil Dean | DiSto Em as the tun mazsa Fet _","(“.'j.l..,‘ o n\”'\h,k Con- | SaW Miss Maclean and engaged her|Cre. has been completed and will between Houdit M AT o | 10 come to America, where she pinved shortly be released. The cast. headed nelly, the author of he isdom | 3 in Galsworthy's ““The Skin Game | by Dustin Farnum as Gen. George A. *Tooth.” as to the possibility of After the Broadway run of this play Custer and Hoot Gibson as the pony translating the supernatural into!she returned to London to play the eXpress rider, includes Anne Corn {erialistic terms: that is, such an |lead for Basil Dean in two plays pro.| wall. George Fawcett, Kathleen Kev., p 5 o ment seemed presumable during | duced at the Aldwvch Theater. Ward Crane and Harold Goodwin. i ROVA- nre A he 5w It was during this engagement that | Over a vear was spent under the di the carficr PrOGres 08 e down Miss Maclean plaved opnosite to the | rection of Edward Sedgwick in mak. K th which avoids, however, laying celebrated English star, Owen Naves, | ing this historic romantic drama of CIlds giny dogmatic assertions one way of and at Chr < time, 1921.22. <he |the Western frontier,and preparatic another. It preserves an ethereal | plaved “Peter ' in its revival at|and research work covered u period of Fasinative quality very rave in the | the St James Theater. The next vear | three vears American theate Ilhie play is in WAS devoted to the screen. on which | Among the historie characters that s for | She was featured in a series of two appear in it are President Grant. Gen. o e W v | % unexpected. | Te€ filma Custer, Gen. Reno, Chiefs Sitting Bull, mhe reason tha ) v Miss Maclean returned to America | Gall, Rain-n-the-Face and Craz INo/ amount of persuasion is likely t0liin 1955 "and: spoessols in- Homech | ose A Ot et (I et e oming Attractions @orre that ar 1 so closely akin |in “The Dancers” in which she fol | duced are Fort Havs. the headquar- lx““\e;‘ IV"':-’N‘? ; ’l- ':'rulf‘o L an ters of the Tth Cavalry. under the com- cowry, playing opposite Richard Ben- | mand of Gen. Custer, and Crane City . s : nett. o Fefige N i s NATIONAL—"The Show Off. ] GAYETY—"Lucky Sambo. il o factory e N i a_refuge for outlaws and gamblers. | fobert Milton engaged her to plav | \any scenes were taken representing Monday night, February 1. begins | Hurtiz & Seamon’s new. all-colorad ol A B in ““The Dark Angel,” one of the hits ary & > | + Columbia offering cky Sa bo It cannot be quite claimed that Mr. | of last season ke Militan¥AcsdemyiayiWest Ealnt the one-week enzagement « Imbial acing, Lucky Sao L B, in the 70s, | D 2 Q O\Y S B el will he next week's attraction at the Connelly. shose the <ame delicate | doan Niacieans sreatuncle was | P I8 it e of e JACQUE FORBLS UTH BORNE . Show Off" the George Kelly comedy. | $11l he 1ext weekis attraction at thy wand apparently ingenuous gift for | Faul Al ":‘:fi"’,.‘llh';‘e_ r;‘]“"_ A8 A|Cheyenne, Sioux and other tribes, | at the National Theater. It is de-|iun” performers recruited from the [preposteraus drolleries such as ra- | PIAYWHEhL will rest for all ‘time on | many whose ancestors participated in | Mutual Gaflehj SrTizh o2 & IITD crom septinniof |Ibisgent colieenl musical revass. end ate continually through such crea- | rea T atrer Martoan | the actual battle. were used in the re- niddle-class family life in America, (£rouned in (wo acts and ten scener. 1 ¢ offerings | is declared to he the largest and cos at Tree's Academy, in London, and at{— S Western picture, “The s sitting backstage in com danger of missin reciation, DD pnstructed battle of Little Big Horn By Unlike many notable stage The story was written by the di N I 1 i that had to be built up. it scored a rector, Edward Sedxwick. and adapt | succees from the day it opened at ed hy ward 1. Montagne and Maugham Succumbs. | [ Pihioee, New Yok, where it iliggins, noted colored funster S 11t o Wi poetic| “That's My Baby." Curre nt Attractlons o Hineana Sums impl continuel (or an uainersunien won LG, UL DI, S5 (8 LT ans 80 long ago -it was considered | . ypant was organized for Chicago, | Bot footed vouths s feature in song W IHLLEAM BEAL DINE will direct Harold Lloyd's Newest. somethi which to marvel if an | hepre it ran for o nmber of months | @0d dance gyrations. the con ouglas Mac 0 Thi - 5 . uthor of literary or dramaturgic dis- | s, aipiifol o Saesinas s cteantiniiae o) ey e or et cavien af S/ il hinsf At the Theaters This Week. tinction pérmitted his work to be | \While our local theatergoers - huve MUTUAL—"Glggles.” Haby for Paramount, Marold Liovd for SRS 7 e v ; translated into silent drama.” The [had to walt & bit longer for the| ‘The Mutual Theater anmounces as Beaudine, who sted Mary Pick-|sakes the gav and colorful atmos NATIONAL—"American Born.” farce. Opens tomorrow evening “HIGUER) werelIooKeqiuNON AR ANDASRAL I Siriels: Keelly | Gamaas . \Washingrin | nest wes ko bl e G oo nceN 88 ford in “Annie Roonex” and “Scraps, Phere of college life for the somber | | BELASCO—"Stolen Fruit,” drama. Opens this evening. g phase of (he cheaper publIc | ow T promised the disincion of | Lew Kelv. who bt recontn el environment of the sl of >OL1'S_ T Lo dl e et e for novelty a e cost, and few | entertaining the original New York | from London, where et Teaad ty. This change in Toeale, howevar | | POLI'S-="The Big Parade.” motion picture. Shown this afternoon | | ured to risk the scorn of their fellow | cust. - inclnding. Lonis John Bartels i in esal veemes o hepred hax not robbed the picture of the | and evening. craftsmen of the literati by aiding |4nd Helen Lowell heading the cast human note so dominant in All of | | WARDMAN PARK —“Shooting Shadows.” mystery play. Opens to- | |2nd abetiing this flickering. soundless | " “The Show Off" was staged by the . theatrical interloper. coduCors. peb : x B ot too ready to surrender | af CThats My Babs” has heen oat, | the star's pictures, according to off morrow evening. heatrical interlop producers. Stewart French. The ¢ o f s clals of the Llovd e 0! - % & = e | Now, of course, all that is changed st includes not only Louis Jol hy = S Sl onality of his own. |poned ‘a week in order to permit| “/2lg of the Tlovd corporation. KEITH'S—Olga Petrova. vaudeville. Opens this afternoon | And"nowcomes the distinguished | Furiele. the show-off himeelt, whe Marshall Neilan's Impulse. * % Beaudine to finish “Leave It to Me." 5 = . Sl = - a2 W. S . Sk s e ‘ of a rich boy who finds. afier a life :ARLE—George Choos’ “Step Along,” vaudeville. Opens this after- author and dramatist, Somerset | created the role of Aubrey Piper. but | TF the curres otopliy. eas 3 That's My Baby” will mark the re. |0f Juxury and eace. that the real noon o b e Wige | S > ! y Baby™ will ; B & D - : ; fatuation.” hased on “Caesar's Wife.”" | \Vinitred Wellineton wha Btobtr 1o Bis Stroet seeqes SaR IS POESE Nl a4 ";“'"“‘ifi"’: S e sealtuiens it hf"“,‘}:‘ STRAND—"Spanish Follies.” vaudevill. Opens this afternoon. which had a vers successful run on | miones in 1he nonirica) yrope o s strec er screen stories ehicle was | . shims to Anerts T i P 7 A P oW i 5 ’ ithout <o much affront to the ear. | written especially for him by Joseph |2 hard-working. down-trodden mit.| | GAYETY-—"Best Show in Town.” hurlesque. Opens. this afternoon. "-"\'af:“;;i\-m St H"K“Fhmm‘ OF aintelligent and spirited por- | new feminine luminaries it has intro While it is sometimes broad and! Polan, George Crone, Wade Boteler -‘irnlr,\. Around these experiences | | MUTUAL—"Round the Town,” burlesque. Opens this afternoon. ‘!v‘rank into prominence as a man of g duced to the American public. Vilma | | tic 18 or “Kiss for [hut he changed it upon coming to Winderella.” ' < there, ) Amerign. where he died four years jor [axe. liest show of its kind on tour. Julis | Moody, famous “blues” singer, and tortions nee, in fErsater ¢ veryfa has been signed for the Maclean comedy by arrangement with Warner ¢ rothers, who hold a long-term con- My Mitchell. who plays the part tract on his services. The starting day guage spoken in the world, is easily warricd by the excellent young actor, je's plays give him an advan " 1 allowing him to nse the dia- Py 1 remarkahle f of elee it hode con r nothing else i rical hall of fame | Would still be noted for the numher of FHunny, it is st I'nglich-speaking and other members of his staff. It | Lloyd has woven one of the most : s 3 . 2 y = : b | S e o : s aehl “,",,".»l‘]?k;‘\‘.‘,‘ differs widely from preceding Mac. | humorous stories of hic career. Lioyd's| | HOWARD (Colored)—"Charleston Sambo.” revue. Opens tomor- | |letters with the publication of his| KEITH'S—0dette Myrtil. ST Them ey s one y i § mices oo vapidly Lean stories. and will he finished in | seemingly | fnexhaustible _suppiv of row evening. O one of the best hathe of the Tagt | Odette Myrtil, famous French revue | GTe1a Garbo. a new Spanish beauty wonglomeration of noises so rapidly | 12 e 2 e el = S haen AT i 3 e G St crar, v op il a *. Keith's | schedy or an appe Colen sencity in the United Statess Me el oot bl i NATIONAL—"American Born. WASHINGTON AUDITORIUNM— He foilowed up this triumph with | Theater next week e Masconi | new Ibanes story. is another, and Sal :w lis : | George M. Cohan will hegin a “Samson and Deli | numerous ‘short_staries (and plave. | i "E0 e wnnes. and Willle, |1ie O'Nelll, & new Marshall Neflan ok % ox | week's engagement at the National| The Washington Opera Company.|[8st ¥ear one of he short storles|ppecire heralded as America's fore. | “find." makes her first how to the Ihere are pretty reminiscences Theater tomorrow. Monday, evening | General Director Edouard Albion. will |into (he play “Rain," which ta stil |MOst dancer 2 | Washington public today in *“Mike.” ;' "\""L"”‘;"y'l T:a _‘;“"”‘”\““"fl‘y‘” Sunibe in his latest farcical offering, entitled |Kive Washington it first all-:American |running in many cities here and | EoREK_Ned Washurn' fiere with Maeterlinek’s “Blue Bird. “Tm-;m-: are certain events in an|son and before Chief Justice Taft dialect . Neilan is a temperamental risi s “Demi- | . Hiahmat c: : i | all-Washington opera production of | #broad { . and generally, it is sald, he acts on his American Born. ) e R R e Tasse Revue. ptecnes aid, he acts on hi _ A e Sl .|&rand opera tomorrow night at the Ploat s Nation ¥ T s attraction a 4 i bor there, with tlie “Returs of Petor Sienibe was Piesidenr This announcement should be in et 815 orctock | P1ay. Firat Natlonal saw that the .The headline attraction at the | Sallie O'Nefll picked out a Los An ore e o Mr Lucy and Dan Leno, then prinei. | teresting news o local fans who have & ditorfum t 8:15 o'clock. | atory of the wife who ia forced inte a | Barle Theater next week will be Ned | geles restaurant one night to dance wesiul author should compel himself | {hémskives more vividly than otfiers | pal comedian of the-“Orlanda Dando” |nilssed the particular brand of isiigh. | Choosing the dramatic “Samson and | fiirtatlon _in order to counteract the| Wayburn's “DemiTasso Revve.” fea |and Neilan happened to be there. ! 0 [ n e fuming yand ynake: containliper | compasy Ol VIME o Wtk Cani ¢ g | Deliah™ for his third opera, Mr. Albion | "®Klect of her husband, and who re. | turfng Ilelen Fables, Rita Howard | Sumething in the girl's aspect und per- o write now and then for the sake - ing nourishment Uncle Sam's s to him wh 5 & . L : l B G | tormanc and out in contrast to the | several miles from Birmingham, Eng-| o has obtained for the title roles two| L "s (0 him when she realizes thatjand Caroline Nolte. The photoplay |sonality aroused his screen sense and ©f the appreciative patron who may (o 'of his work." says Mr. Arnold |land, almost missed the omy trkin (o | nephew” was wont to supply, all be- | has o 41 oles (W0 | her love for him ls greater than her | will be Puramount's production, “The | he promptly introduced hinjeelt diwve grown a little weary of the|jucy, a distinguished member of the [the evening performance while a|cause the one and only George M. SiNgers noted for their interpretations | love for her sweetheart, was desirable | Splendid Crime,’ starring Bebe ‘I don’t know how you will screen.” Siugle of coin in the box office orcast supporting (ieorge M. Cohan In |crowded audience was waiting admis- | gacided to take a day off, which has |0f these characters — Mme. Louise |film material and Mr. Maugham final- | Danfels. Neilan told her, “but I wish vou would ‘ odor of paste on the billboards. [ “American Born.” #mong these are|sion and caught the train only hy i i Homer, contralto, and Paul Althouse, | !V parted with the rights. 3 b ’ come out to the Metro-Goldwyn studiv ok ko events not, directly connected with | hailing a brewer's dray, the driver of |lasted for two years. tenor. Delilah has been declared by | e | STRAND—Welder Sisters and Co. |at Culver City and let us give you a performances themselves. which gave them a lift to the railway| ‘‘American Born" is announced as|many critics the finest role that Mme. To head the bill at the Strand |test.” SRl Mr. Lucy remembers vividly playing | station. ” | i pically Cohanesque—sood fun with | Homer sings. Fiotaea b i e conductor | Mhekterimextameelnt Ale “Gerbar 7Tl | 11 Diss: O!NeMhwaited £0 0 sechnd Tontiniies o be protest against the | yafore the late King Edward at the | Mr. Lucy had to play. the part of | Lricaly Conanesue xood min Witk With the Washington Opera Com. | 5f e sompmn wiil e (oMo | ent the Welder Sisters and Com. | Invitation «nd the test showed (e Vondage attempted by commercial | Gajety, London, as the Earl of St. gie Slingsby in “The Dancing |tP¢ 8ccent on wholesome—an pany reaching a turning point in its|" Siage settings for the opera will be {PANY in a Iivly musi-dance revue |the camera had nothing against her soutine. in so far as it may tend "?U"“ ||\‘ (:m; M «Kmr'.hs_ He zln:{: " ::e_evenddr he received news of [ the most d.ellxh!(\ll romantic com- ;:d:e:.“d[;r"‘etpn!:ng ‘_m :n:'x‘;o Ill(\'r“:ar('(_ from the settings of the old Manhattan | Staged by Francis Weldon. Others in| “I'm going to cast you in a story of crash out ideals and indwiduality ;| appeared hefore King George and | his father's sudden death—because the | edies that Cohan has ever written—{independent of any outside ald. it is|Opera Company as were those of “La | the cast are Murray Lublt. Billy Cree-| my own—a comedy—that has been . s apciog e of De k in cor on 3 . 19111 S 3 an i s s rites | o, - son. ur Valton, the cvnic. will take | sa o . = gdroitly in “Beggar on Horseback- |s joseph Knox. in Bernard Shaw's |Irish part. Sir Lucius O'Trigger (al. |and punctuated with many laughs. | as thess two singers. e e orianibian | sccora Rm ot i o TaTal | it | Sive: vou Al tis e s o ol Its @malc 1 ”‘ e | Fanny's First Play and before Llovd | though he is English) before a Dublin Mr. Cohan's assoclate pla_\er§ in- Fred Patton, who has long been a | comuany at Thirteenth and G strests | “Yowll Do the Same Thing to Some | rest is up to vou.” hat “cannot be said may often be | Gaorge, Lord Oxford (then Mr. As.|audlence, and he got away with ftt clude Bobby Watson, Lawrence |popular baritone. especially well liked |and tickets may he secured also af | One Else’” and other numbers will in.| Miss O'Neill, it is claimed, has fully &nn While Mr. Connelly does not | quith) and Lieut. Col. Baden-Powell| He was asleep in his dressing room | D'Orsay, H. Cooper Cliffe, Arnold|in his concert and oratorio work, will | Woedward & Lothrop |¢lnde Walsh, Daley and Walsh, song | justified Neflan's impulse. She ere ¢ <o far as to adiust his social re-|on anather accasion. and missed his entrance on one ocea. |Lucy, Harry ~McNaughton, Ralph | iake the role of the High Priest, a role |imitators, in “Harmony Funsters” and |ated such a sensation in “Mike" that o oments 1o metrical form. he cov-| In America he is generally cast for sion—and suffered “actor's nightmare' | Locke, Leonard Booker. Charles Car- | well fitted t ohis voice. Charles Trow- | \WARDMAN PARK—“Shooting |EReck and Rector, mid-air equilibrists, | the Metro.Goldwyn | studio officias 5 % arily with smiling ex- | Clergymen, doctors. lawyers and even |in consequence, but, as it was in a [don, Hamilton Cummins, Allan Ram-|bridge Tittmann, Washington opera ‘Shadows."” in_“Soclety Entertainers.” | oty cast e tn one of threaiton ‘o e N on through | hutlers’ parts. musical comedy, some dancer went on |say. John - M. ‘Troughton, Joan hasso, will take the -ole of the Old o v 2 hotoplay will _he “Bright | tured roles, “Sally, Irene and Mar travagance and goes on. He plaved Rishop Deran with |and saved the situation. Maclean. ~Aline - McDermott, Claire Hebrew and also sing Abimelech. he Thomas Herbert Stock Com: |y a romance of Broadway and | but, as Kipling says, that is another cheer inability to restrain himselfl\winiam Collier in “Nothing but the | “But,” says Mr. Lucy. “please don’t | Mersereau, Daisy Belmore and Eileen! Two or three smal'er parts will be will_open its in street, with Charler Ray and |storv for “Sally, Irene and Mary” ia Jrom confding <o great 2 joke. He Truih™ hefore the late President Wil- let Mr. Cohan hear of this.” Carey. filled by Washingten opera singers. ued on S Pauline Starke co-starred. release sheeta ctor’s career which impress Under his seeming fantasies there |