Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 71

SHIRLLY MASON CLAIRE Ambagrador WINDSOR_ Colurbia News and Comment By W. H. Landvoigt. ILL H. HAYS, former Postmaster General and now one of the great forces that lead rather than drive in the motion picture industry, should be able to speak with authority of his present profession. Mr. Hays is reported to have said recently that the reason the 600 motion pictures produced within the past year are not all of the quality of the 200 outstanding pictures is the same that we do not have 600 great novels, or 600 great plays, within a twelvemonth. “The Mr. Hays is quoted as saying. “It is cessary manpower docs not exist merely a question of finding m, women who have the talent to make always the very best. Motic ture producers are trying to employ only the directors and writers who have that ability. They are doing their ut- most to develop I 1d scenario writing are two great pro- fessions that are a part of this and no other enterprise. * * * Producing companies are taking experienced writers into the studios and teaching them the technique of motion picture composit Many of them have learned and have prospered. Actors, newspaper men, dramatists, stage directors, artists, photosraphers—men whose training would best make m. on. them adaptable tunity to learn this new art. Schools for these purposes have been estab- lished by producers. These efforts are succeeding. * * * It is the de- velopment of men and women with the ability to tell a story well on the creen, with a scenario written by one of whom they have never heard, and great pictures by those they know are doing finer things than ever before. And this has been the year's most important progress—this the growing appreciation and support of the public of the truly good. * K K X ERE are few who will gainsay this, few, indeed, who will not admit the great progress in quality and in character of the motion picture output for the past year as compared with that of but a few years back. This progress has been achieved because the men who made it possible have been sincere, intelligent and zealous in the effort to uplift the Movie. And it is, indeed, an important work. It is a tremendous thing to be able to properly entertain mi.lions oi people. And this the Movie has been doing. No one pretends to believe for an instant that the entertainment cannot be improved. No one pretends to assume that mistakes have not been made. But the work of building up the Movie to what it should be, what its sharpest critics want it to be, 1s very much like building up the character of a community to the standard of the highest ideals. _And this suggests the thought that possibly the Movie builder has achieved an even greater success than his confreres in human uplift. It is so easy for some good brethren to see the mote in the other fellow’s eye; so difficult to accustom themselves to let reform, like charity, begin at home. It was he without sin who was commissioned by the Master to cast the first stone at her who was accused of sin. And who of our most per- .istent reformers will claim his commission on that ground? . * % % % HE distinguished actress Jane Cow!l, who recently spoke at Ha d. is quoted by a prominent New York daily with having predicted that n another dozen vears there would be no more spoken drama. Assuming, Jut only for the sake of consideration, this may be possible, does not the onclusion at once follow that the harassed Movie will take its place, for the world of illusion will never fade out as long as there are a half dozen human- to keep it in existence. Miss Cowl's prediction appears to hay been based on the fact that Broadway producers are “losing the road, vhich, in other language, means simply that they are catering to New York abandoning the remainder of the country, especially the less populo crritory, including what are known as onc-night to one-week stands, cities and towns where their productions have, heretofore, been presented for those periods. Time s when the big money in the theatri- al business came from these stands. Since the world became prosperous, however, or at lcast the American world, the cost of transportation of road shows, with their incidentals. has grown so great that only the cour- ageous producer, with an unquestioned success, dares to brave the tall timbers and when he does, he usually hedges on his production by em- ploying . chicaper cast and scnding out less costly settings. The produc- tion, when seen in is a tar different thing to what the great metropolis saw w esented there. Besides the actors now hesi- rate to cn s of the road,” the inconvenience of chang- ng base nightl; , and, above all, they hate to leave the “bright lights ot his, if anything, is what is likely to bring the Movie mnto the | as the people’s only theatrical entertainment. Of course, there will always be the “Little Theater.” Like the poor, the dramatic student and the amateur always will be with us. But when the spoken drama has lapsed into innocuous desuetude there will be no rheater but the Movic. And then what? * %k Kk K T therefore belooves the common people to keep an eye on the Movie and its welfare; to indorse d support those who are working con- structively to build it up and against those who for vague and mistaken reasons are trying fo pull it down. This watchfulness is called for inside as well as outside the picture-imaking world. There are many who be- lieve that the decline of the theater began when producers and the money power behind them began to devote more attention to the acquisition of theater property than to the making of theatrical productions. The play producer quickly changed to the property manipulator, and prices of admission went up, because he demanded more for the use of his theaters than he was justly entitled to. What did he care? He was out for the mone; Is not the Mov threatened with this same dange: Movie trade papers show an er nous investment in theater property and a r motion picture directing—are being given every oppor- | | The Moving Picture By Robert E. Sherwood {E mammoth $50,000 scenarfo con- test, promoted by Liberty maga- zine in conjunction with Famous Play- ers, has not turned out quite so well as its sponsors had hoped. When it was announced that the first prize had been won by Miss Fannle Hurst, with a story called “Mannequin,” a serles of loud and cous squawks was raised by thou- sands of mute, inglorfous Miltons who had submitted scenarios of their own. They felt that the award of this sub- stantlal sum of money to a writer of Miss Hurst's reputation indicated that the contest had not been strictly on the level. This dark and (I hope) utterly un warranted suspiclon has Increased ma- terially since “Mannequin® has appear- ed, both as a serlal and as a motlon picture. Viewed from almost every conceivable angle, it is a terribly bad story—illogical, improbable and orly synthetically dramatic—and all the mateur writers who engaged in the contest feel that unfalr discrimination was shown. They believe—and there is no little justification for the belief —that thelr stories could not possibly have been worse than “Mannequin.” * % % % The title role in “Mannequin" played by Dolores Costello, who re- celved favorable mention in this col- umn last week as a result of her work in “The Sea Beast.” Miss Costello gives great promise, and there is small doubt that she wili develop shortly into a star. She is exceedingly beautitul; more than that, she is graceful, she possesses genuine | poise, and she can exercise a restraint which is Invaluable on the screen. * ok ox ok It is interesting to cbserve the & pearance of new stars in Hollywood, end the disappearance of old ones. They come and go with amazing rapid- fty. On the stage a star who establishes himself firmly may maintain his po- sition until he is carried out of the theater feet first. Behold, as ex amples, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jeffer- son, Richard Mansfleld, Sarah Bern- hardt, Eleanora Duse, Rejane and Luclen Guitry. The three Barrymores, Jane Cowl. Laurette Taylor, Mrs. Fiske, Cyril | Maude and many others have all heen the top of the heap for many and will remain there as lc <hoose. It is not so in the movies. Of the stars who flourished 10 years ago, how many are visible in the electric signs today? There is Mary Plckford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Lilliun Gish—and who else? Such former favorites as Anita Stewart, Charles Ray, Viola Dana, ‘William Farnum, Shirley Mason, Mae Marsh, Mary Miles Minter, Henry B Walthall and Maurice Costello have faded into the background. Some have retired, some make inconspicu- ous and intermittent appearances and others are content to play in small parts. During the past year new names and new faces have appeared on the creen. John Gilbert, Raymond Griffith, Norma Shearer, Ben Lyon, Lois Moran, Dolores Costello, Harry Lang- don and Betty Bronson are the most preminent. It is for them to make the most of their brief moment of slory. The film fan i{s a fickle individual, and one to whom youth, glamour and romantic attraction are of paramount importance. When a star, however popular, loses those qualities his day is done. cears, they * ¥ ¥ ¥ James Cruze, who directed “Manne-,| quin” (greatly, T understand, against his will), has lately returned to Holly- wood from foreign parts and is about to embark on a production entitled *0ld Ironsides.” This, of course, will be the story of the frigate Constitution, which was immortalized by Ollver Wendell Holmes in the poem that every tremu- lous schoolboy has been called upon to recite. “Aye, tear her tattered en- sign down, long has it waved on high, mad scramble by producing intercsts to acquire new theaters. “After a|and many an eye has danced to see while will not these property owners sit back and let George do it in |that emblem in the sky" the matter of maki pictures, knowing that George must have some- where to show his pictures and that they have e ouly available exhibi- tion places? Will not their demands for theater rental scon become a burden to George, sap his resources and leave him but little for his own pot-boiling, unless the public can be gouged? And when the gouging process starts, how long will the Movie last? The trouble with the gouger is that he can never be satisfied, his demands for more become an insatiable, persistent, unthinking, illimitable suction. And the people can stop patronizing the Movie, if they have to. So there you are. R T also is a sort of public duty to see that the ox that treadeth the corn is not muzzled, and up with the ox for a runaway. relying upon something or somebody to stop the team in its mad break. The men who make the Movie are in the business for the moncy they get out of it. Some of them are sincere in the endeavor to mprove pictures generally. These are entitled to at least a measure of the public confidence, and it is believed they will generally do the right thing. They should not be hampered by the overscrupulous, whose commission to regulate the conduct of people in eneral 1s at least doubtful, however sincere the reformer may.be. And it is equally true that the man who is out to make money quickly or in great abundance needs watchful supervision to see that he doesn’t over- step the proprieties, whether he thinks he wants it or not. Men have a habit of foretelling the probabilitics of the future by the happenings of the past. It hasn't been a good thing for the American theater to have all the theater properties corralled | greedy few, and it isn't going 10 be a good thing for the Movie, cither. * ok Kk ok HE “road-showing” of photoplays is not a healthy sign. To a man in the habit of seeing things it looks like a trend toward higher admis- sion prices. Valentino in “The Sheik™ is s. to hold the local box office wecord with reccipts of $50,000 approximately for a two-week exhibition on the other hand, to guard against yoking ! | | nd so Collaborating with Mr. Cruze is Laurence Stallings, who wrote the story of “The Big Parade.” * Ok ok ok The plan te co-star Thomas Mei- ghan and Norma Talmadge in *“His Woman" has beén abandoned, and Mr. Meighan will go ahead with his new Famous Players contract, which calls for four pictures. At least two of forth. i them, he tells me, will be written by Jooth Tarkipgton and George Ade. Miss Talmadge is to be involved, ext Fall, in a colossal production of The Garden of Allah,” which Is to be sponsored jointly by Joseph M. Shenck and Samuel Goldwyn. Henry King will direct the picture and the leading man will be no less than Ronald Colman. (Copyright. 1926.) Levis S STONE Metropolitar Palace jphotopla::s COLUMBIA—"Dance Madness.” ning. METROPOLIT? evening. PALACE—"Hands Up." TIVOLI—“That Royle Gir AMBASSADOR—"What F evenmng CENTRAL—"The Sca LINCOLN (Colored)—"/ noon and evening. N—“What Fo ools M et We Woman )lF.’l‘ROI'OLITA“' “What Fools Me Crandall's Metropolitan Theater this week will offer First National's cam- era version of Henry Kitchell Web- ster's story “Joseph Greer and His Daughter,” under the title of “What Fools Men,” with Lewis S. Stone and Shirley Mason in the leading roles. Bobby Vernon in Christie's two-reel laughmaker, “Yes, Yes, Babette" and the Metropolitan World Survey also will be shown. The musical program will embody a concert overture by the Metropolitan Symphony, Daniel Brees- kin conducting, with a vocal interval. “What Fools Men" is a drama based upon the idea that men who cannot distinguish between the true and the alse are, in the familiar vernacular, “riding for & fall.” Joseph Greer was an Inventor with a fine chance to make a fortune, save for his almost idolatrous worship of “soclety.” Every one in whom he confided turned out to be a master of duplicity and evers in his domestic relationships he was unable to percelve merit where it ac- tually existed and this emphastzed his penchant for misinterpreting motives and actions. The daughter, played by Shirley Mason, is blinded by no such peculiar oblivion to facts and In the end it is she who salvages her dad from physical, mental and moral ruin. In addition to Mr. Stone and Miss Ma- son, Barbara Bedford, Ethel Grey Ter- ry, Hugh Allen, John Patrick, David Torrence, Joyce Compton and Tom Wilson are cast in important roles. George Archainbaud directed the pic- ture. COLUMBIA—"Dance Madness."” An ultra-modern story of the jazz age and of honeymoon life in Parls, teaturing Claire Windsor and Conrad Nagel, will be shown this week at Loew's Columbia_Theater. It is the Metro-Goldwyn Robert Z. Leonard production, “Dance Madness,” based on a story by S. Jay Kaufman, New York columnist and playwright. In “Dance Madness,"” Conrad Nagel has the role of a young American in Paris who meets under unconventional circumstances and later marries a young teacher of dancing, only to find himself, a few months later, com- pletely = captivated by a Russlan dancer, the sensation of Paris. Des- perate at the turn of events, the young wife conspires with the hus- band of the Russian charmer to bring the young philander to ‘his senses by of the picture. This, it is humbly submitted, is an adequate return for the money invested in the makin picture of substantial worth will ring an ade and distributors, as well as to its exhibitors, if pr degree of attention and embellishment in the picture houses. and distribution of the picture. Any uate return to its makers presented with the same Let the regular theaters care for the spoken drama, and let the Movie, like the shocmaker, stick to its last and remain where it properly belongs. There is no good reason for showing it in save the desire to grab big profits mean increased admission charges P chisf - the theater set apart for the drama, quickly. If the habit grows, it will at_all moving picture honses. The ublic is too busy with the coal situation to bear a further drain for its Shown this aft s 1 DORIS' KENYON RAYMOND GRIFIITR POLA NEGRI | TLincoln This Week At the Photoplay HOL\SCS Thls \Veek. Shown this afternoon and evening. RIALTO—"Lorraine of the Lions.” Shown this afternoon and eve- Men.” Shown this afternoon and Shown this afterncon and evening. Shown ti afternoon and evening en.” Shown this a and ruoon noon and eve of the World.” Shown this aft impersonating the dancer herself, The denouement provides the picture with a climax of romantic appeal. An Al St. John comedy, “Live Ci ards”; the International newsreel and Leon Brusilof's musical embellish- ment will complete the program. Norman Kerry, with Patsy Ruth Mil- ler opposite, is the picture attraction at the Rialto this week. The story, which was written by Isa- dore Berstein, concerns Lorraine, a feminine Tarzan, with 1 the wild- ness of the jungle injected into her character. While in the jungle she Is the companton of lions, tigers, mon- keys and alligators, and when she s rescued and returns to civilization her reactlons to the conventions of society provide many an amusing bit. At the age of 7 the girl is ship- wrecked on a South 1 Island, where she and a number clrcus animals on the same bhoat ure the only sur- vivors. A favorite pet is a gorilla, which protects her from the dangers of the jungle. When the girl is re: cued by her grandfather, who was shown the location of the isle by a young Englishman with alleged occult powers, the big gorilla was taken with them. ‘The climax of the story is reached when the goriila, becoming insanely Jealous of the girl's human compan- lons, breaks from his cage and at- tempts to leap from the roof of the house with the girl in his arms. ‘The presentations will consist of vo- cal and instrumental numbers arrang- ed by Mischa Gutérson. The overture by the Rialto orchestra is “Guarany” (Gomez). which, together with _Our Gang comedy, entitled, “The Love Bug,” and the International News, completes the program. PALACE—“Hands U Raymond Griffith, “high-hat come- dian,” as they llke to call him, will be pictured at Loew’s Palace tl week beginning this afternoon in “Hands Up!"” Paramount Western comedy of Civil War days. “Hands_Up!" is a picturization by Clarence Badger of an original story written for Raymond Griffith by Regi- nald Morris. Its cast includes Marion Nixon and Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, the former Keystone comedy star; Montagu Love and George Bil- lings. Griffith appears as a Confederate spy who, at the orders of Gen. Lee, undertakes to divert a wagon-train of gold from the Comstock Lode in the Far West to the cause of the Con- federacy. His adventures are said to be countless and hilarious, even to teaching the noble redman the game of African golf, but in the end, he finds that the war is over and that his attempt to carry out orders have nearly brought about his hanging as a highwayman. Nalter Hiers' comedy. “Weak But MWilling”; the Pathe newsreel, the Pal- Tivoli Echildren‘s Program at Tivoli. | THE feature picture selected for | turday morning, February | cram for children at ater, at 1015 mond Griffith in story of a prince “He's ¢ " th who is kept so busy attending baby !shows, luying corner stones, and launching battleships that he has no | time to live his own life, so he runs from 1t all in pursuit of a pretty of the picture » usual short subjects belicved to insure a happy morn tor the children. ace r ment | 1. Gan TIVOLI—"That Royle Gi David Wark Griftith's That Rovle Girl” will be play attraction at Crand Theater the first two days of this beginnii The cast is 1 and W. C. apd includes James Kirkwood, | Ford, Ida Waterman, Dore nd Bobby Watson. The story concerns tha exciting ramifica tions of a lovemelodrama enacted in Chicago's underworld. The program I be completed by an Aesop Fable, led short reels and pipe organ Tuesday and Wednesday Milton ! nd Doris Kenyon will be seen in agnzine the will b direction of Thomas added features. produetion, he photo- ‘s Tivoli | | | i : . supported by Lorma Duveen, Claude King, Dolores Cassi- nelli, Jad Prouty and Charles Beyer, Iso’ Lupino Lane in “Maid in Mo- Pathe Review: Thurs- Norma Shearer and .ew Cody in “His Secretary,” a Metro- wyn production with Willard s'in the supporting cast, also a | “Sweet Mari the Day"; Sa - Brothers' production upplemented by _Glenn | Cuckeo Love a Lyman Hodge Podge™ and the fifth of “The Scarlet Streak.” the Tryon in H. Howe installment AMBASSADOR—“What Fools Men.” Lew tone, Shirley Mason, Bar- bara Bedford, Ethel Grey Terry, Hugh Allan, John Patrick, David rrence, Tom Wilson and Jovce Compton are in the cast of First a- tional's pre ion, “What Fools Men to he shown at Crandall’s Am. lassador Theater the first three days of this W K. beginning today A m Henry Kitchell Web- ster’s novel of “Joseph Greer and His Daughter,” the story relates the ex- periences’ of a man with a colossa) capacity for misjudging people and | motives. Auxiliary offerings will in- clude a comedy, “Be Careful, Dearie," added short reels and pipe organ music. Wednesday and Thursday il be seen “The Golden Cocoon,” a Warner Brothers production featuring Helene Chadwick, Huntley Gordon, Frank Campeau, Richard Tucker, Margaret Seddon and little Violet 'Kane, to- gether with Harry Langdon In “Horace Greeley, jr”; Friday, Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields in David Wark _Griffith's production, *That Royle Girl,” a story of love and thrills in the underworld of Chicago, also a Paul Terry Aesop Fable; Saturday, Jackie Coogan in “Old Clothes,” Wiil ard Mack’s sequel to “The Rag Man,” supported by Max Davidson, Alan Forrest and Stanton Heck, also Earle Foxe in “The Sky Jumper,” a Booth Tarkington “Van Bibber” story: a new Grantland Rice “Sportlight” and the fourth ~Installment of “The Green Archer.” PATSY RUTH e M}LLERJ; Risto Seeking’ Inspiration. ELL me his eccentricity and 1'll tell you the title writer” popular pastime in that se the movie colony wher: v abil ity counts, according to a screed from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offices. “There they may not be able tell vou how Shakespeare behaved while he was writig ‘Romeo and Juliet’ or what Milton did when he wrote ‘Paradise Lost,' but they can tell you what the best titl when in the throes of compe “Creation of screen subtitle naturally shonuld of mental e as many eccer writers, ‘An ob: arfed title write; wyn-Mayer studios Culif,, reveals the foilc Joseph W. Farn writer, breaks matelies whil In fact, he breaks so many whi ting in the prc n film cutters s itting in with on 10 rweight, pie doll. ‘apt. H. H. Cald Inborated with her in ‘Ben Hur,' chews on which of lighted is a|betr: of | ma ¢ g + wo Some say i er, but no 1l not write a r firmly teeth ) make off with i, broken-down E in nd and . or insist that he - ser to write gn on the 4 newspaper re and can't get ‘writing like { bl or of Waldemi Unho Young leaded 1 very pencils much in i “What is it that makes them ds it? Filmograms Metro-Goldwyn ? will spend fifteen million announces it dollars this vear on its production program, | an increase of 30 pgr cent ove vear. Brian has been borrowed ninine lead in wn in_which Jack Pickford is - for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. to Hobart Henley will direct Ramon Novarroin “Bellamy the Magnificent.” Both Buster Keaton and Har Langdon are announced in picture be called “Tramp, Tramp, Tram Louis “over port. T con Amer inet the showing of an Vi in New York. Laura La Plante's next, “Th Night,” formerly “Doubling for 1 has gome into production. 3 Brown directing. The Milwaukee censor nated 100 feet from “The mandment,” it is reported. Although they got off to a bad start, due to late train and church servites at Crandall Metropolitan last Sunday ‘Whitey Kaufman's melody makers scored a great hit last week with Washlngton lovers of syncopating orchestras. Delayed building material is holding back a bit the completion of the new Stanley-Crandall Colony theater at Georgia avenue and Farragut street, which, by the way, is to be well heated, when necessary, but not by coal. With the Farle it will be the oal)‘ theater in Washington heated by oil. A Florida judge has decided that CENTRAL—"“The Scarlet West “The Scarlet West,” a drama of the rugged country of the ploneers, in which, among other exciting scenes, the last stand of Custer is depicted, will be the photoplay attraction at Crandall's Central Theater the first two days of this week, beginning to- with_Robert Frazer, Clara Bow, Edeson, Johnny Walker, alter McGrail, Gaston Glass, Helen “erguson and Ruth Stonehouse in the cast. This plcture, it is said, was actually filmed in the Western country and utilizes the services of thousands of Indians and wild horses in the sup- porting cast. An Aesop Fable and l‘n);i]x‘led short reels will complete the Tuesday and Wednesday, “The An- clent Highway,” filmed from the story by James Oliver Curwood, will be shown, with Jack Holt, Billie Dove, Montagu Love, Lloyd Whitlock and Marjorie Bonner in the cast, also a comedy. “On the Go," and the Pathe Re- view; Thursday and_Friday, Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi in “Cobra,’ in which also appear Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead, Hector V. Sarno, Eileen Percy and Lillian Langdon, also a Hal Roach comedy, *“Laughing Ladies”; Saturday, “The Golden Co- coon,” a Warner Brothers production teaturing Helene Chadwick and Hunt- ley Gordon, also Ligé Conley in “On Edge,” and other short reels. LINCOLN—*“A Woman of the World.” Pola Negri will be seen at the Lin- coln Theater the first three days of this week in Paramount's production, “A Woman of the World.” together v:llh comedy, Al St. John in “Fire Away.” ‘Wednesday and Thursday, Richard Barthelmess, supported by Dorothy Gish, Willlam Powell, Frank Puglia and Florence Auer, will be seen in First National's “The Beautiful City,” a_romance of New York's Lower E: " (Continued on Fourth Page.) movies may be shown after sunset: that the law which defines that thea- ter operation for profit s illegal applies only between sunrise and sunset. Judge John U. Bird, at Clearwater, gave the decision In the case of J. K. Gilhooley. A film depicting the life of Musso- lini, the Itallan premlier, and the his- tory of the Fascist movement is to he produced by a group of New Yorkers next Summer. The present censorship of films in Birmingham, Ala., is to be gated by the soclal service committee of the Pastors' Union at Birmingham, who claim it does not accomplish results. Film Daily last week devoted edi- torial space to a tribute to Carl Laemmle, whose anniversary is near at hand. It says: *“Carl Laemmle has devoted 24 hours of every day i to help bulld this industry—few have done as much—no one has more." done Robert Bell, former director of the Ram's Head Players, now a New York drama. critic, has become associ- ated with the John Murray Anderson- Robert Milton School of the Drama and the Dance, whose council reads like a list from who's who in the theater. Isadore Bernstein has nearly com- pleted for Universal “The Ghetto Slhamrock" a follow-up of “His Peo- ple. George Fitzmaurice will go to Pa- lermo to film scenes for “Beauty and the Beast,” with Vilma Banky fea- tured, for Samuel Goldwyn. Little Bebe Daniels, while making a picture recently, was injured by a fall and it was at first feared she had suffered concussion of the brain. Film Dally says about the time Co- Inmbus was preparing to discover America Leonardo da Vinci invented | .| Rod La T to | : investi- | the de kno from which t day mov as “camera oh has grown the 1 i n {of the | exploit | hal | Julanne J recti k. Jack Mul Hedda Hopper ind Marcine Asher tocque is to be the star of Bride film ver: adway play, and n.”* ‘Eina Ferbe c is said Cha by the t in one of The Ove: mous Players and Metro-Goldwyi Mayer are both reported negotiating with Mue Murray. Mar: led Pickford's nex has been ret Robert Wilder Stringer. : in the Sa hor of Kane has purchased “The Woman,” by Arthu just conclude Post. By t} d W ory woman from the North Woods unacquainted with the world ilization. The ¢ ma arises from or contact with modern soclety, fo! lowing an almost unbelievable rise t: affiuence Hines, Fi an’ ic demons his recently by offering 13 gold meda | for the championship amateur team = the new Madison Square Garden, Newn York. Johnny edy National c¢ key fan, z of the ‘spo ¥ It is claimed tat the scenario “The Big Parade” was written by ¢ young Washingtonian, Harry Behr who made a big hit i e last year and has gone over to United Artists to make a seript of a forthcoming | Harold Bell Wright story Mary Alden and Henry B. Walthai than whom there are no more skill ful “troupers” in the picture business are seen together again for the first time in many vears in “The Pl 4 Age. Miss Alden and Walthall ap peared often together when they both were playing under the old Blograph banner with D. W. Griffith years ago. Fanchon, the popular West Coast dancer, who headed “The Fanchon and Marco Revue” during a theatrical invasion of the East a few seasons back, personally staged the spectacu lar dance numbers in “Dance Mad ness,” Robert Z. Leonard's lates Metro-Goldwyn production. A group of historical characters, in cluding Abraham Lincoln and Ge; Robert E. Lee, appear as serious ba ground in Raymond Griffith’s new Paramount comedy, “Hands Up” They do not, however, appear in any of the comedy episodes. The overture this week at Crandall's Metropolitan will be comprised of melody hits from Strauss’ operetta, “The ~Chocolute Soldler,” the pot pourri_of selections concluding with the “My Hero” song, which will be sung-on the stage by Miss bet Thornberry, well known Washingto oprano, featured with the “Cranc Saturday Nighters." The recurrent theme of the orchestral accompani ment will be “The Afterglow,” by Huerte. and the exit march, My Baby