Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1926, Page 58

3 AMUSEMENTS.' photoplays Tl’us Week Aulnl and the Soft Pedal” G Ac Third ho! No. (Continued from ‘Tony, the Page.) 3 Maizie, The Adventures of and topics and fables. 8, Make The Soft en In Sweet Marle' ) h A Kiss for Cinderella®, jitan an e Reginald Denny in “Where | domea ning (hs Cotnt, and -~ Johnny Arthur in nd 3 { day, Estelle Taylor in “Playthings o Up” and he Green| Degire’ and comedy, “Horse Laugh”; 6 Wednesduy, Patsy Ruth Miller in kick o Life” and Kruzy Katin * > Thursda the Pirate’ >edal” rthes EMPIRE. nd tomorrow, Kenneth Har- ’Alhe Calhoun und | AVE. “n hy UE GRAND. rrow, L in “Clothes Make Hal Roach’s “The lay and Wednesday, and W. C. Fields in hat Royle Girl” and Thursd Miiton Sills von in - Unguarded Today Dor Pirate tom: Errol Gish wd - nd International News; faleolm McG The " Warrior” and “Adventures of ' No. 3, entitled “What Have aturday, Tom Tyler in * Cowboy Musketeer, tion Hunters” and N Kiddies' surprise matinee. HIPPODROM lay and tomorrow. ' with Norma Shearer Cody, Our dy rol Demp: ifith's sop Fuble Ko party, Sat- nd Lew topies and THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, “The Cub Reporter” The Moving Picture By Robert E. Sherwood LAST week Judge Albert L. Reaves 1% 0t Kansas City, Kans., threw out of courf the million-doliar suit for damages brought by Mrs. Virginia Bridger Hahn against the Famous Players-Lasky _Corporation. This concludes one of the most ridiculous cases in_the history of jurisprudence. Mrs. Hahn is a daughter of Jim Bridger, the famous frontiersman whose camp, Fort Bridger, provided the background for many of the scenes in “The Covered Wagon." It will be remembered by those who saw this memorable picture that the wagon train, having crossed the plains, arrived at Fort Bridger and there received word that gold had been discovered in California: Jim Bridger himself had accompanied the caravan on its travels, and when his own diggings had been reached he and Juckson, another frontiersman, en- gaged in an unforgettable drinking bout. Following this, they tested their marksmanship, shooting bottles off each other's heads In the approved a glow of admiration for this fine fig- ure, who drank his lquor raw, shot straight and did more than his share to drag the sun of empire westward. Men like Bridger founded this coun- try and supplied it with a backbone that it has never quite lost. We are not ashamed of them. Mrs. Hahn, however, felt that her father's memory had been insulted when it was intimated, on the screen, that he drank. So she instigated her million-dollar libel suit against Fa- mous Players, who produced *“The Covered Wagon,” with the result as described. There are many people today who knew Jim Bridger and respect his memory and who regarded Tully Marshall's portrait a true one. o ‘When a play called “Brown of Har- vard” was presented in Boston some 20 years ago it was attended by a large delegation of Harvard stu- dents, who proceeded to decorate the stage with over-ripe fruit and vege- tables. A terrific scandal ensued and the offending students were com- pelled by the college authorities to apologize to the players who had been injured by their missiles. This demonstration was staged be- FEBRUARY 17, the picture could fail to experience [ dormitories, the clubs and the lec- ture halls 1926—PART 3. A determined attempt will be_made to stick to the facts. evertheless, the chances for true picture of college life are ex- ceedingly slim. It has never been done in the movies and the age of miracles has not yet dawned. * ok ok % Plays, novels or movies are all very well when they don’t come too close to home. The average person Is al- ways Interested in the existence of the other half of the world. and he doesn’t care how much this is ex- azgerated. The farmer likes to see pictures of metrovnolitan life, in which all the city dwellers are de- seribed as crooks, hypocrites or licentiates; the city dweller wants to see pictures in which farmes e represented as whiskered hicks. The laborer who works in a steel mill wants to see movies of high societ and the tired hookkeeper prefy wild west melodramas. The fageination of the unfamiliar is universal. That is why stories of romance and adventure are always more popt That is why Sinclair Lewls’ novel “Main Street,” achieved a great success in the big cities in foreign countries, and was reject- ed itsel Alask: pictures shown on the screen actual movies many lains. suffer for The) go all over seen by people. they b th tile_eriticism. them very to the prote the plctures that make the most money, vear in and 3 come closest to the truth. nd [for Fox “upid.” AMUSE f. I have had many letters . protesting against the of Alaskan life that In Mexic against instituted boycott was That’ their that their products the world and wi all varieties It s essential, then, correct in_all details, 11ay themselves open to know o This, however, little. seems to This policy long run, may but I be profitab doubt 1t ar out, are those (Copyrigh first screen culled 1926.) Peter B. Kyne will be utter drivel in Gopher Prairie Americen because melodramas had Mexican vil- where the movie producers widespread appeal. and degrees of worry They go ahead, mak- ing mistakes and paving no attention that they provoke. “Rustling for TMENTS Next Week's Photoplays COLUMBIA — Fannie Hurst's prize story, “Mannequir with Alice joyce and Warner Baxter. METROPOLITAN - Blanche Sweet in “Bluebeard’s Seven Wives.” PALACE—George Cohan's “The Song and Dance Mar with Tom Moore and Bessie Love RIALTO — Betty ( “The Palace of Pleasure, TIVOLI—“D O Masked Bride,” Stagé Struck” and “Hands Up.' AMBASSADOR—“Blucbeard’s Seven Wives,”" Q. “The n Sinners” His Sec- retary from false are 0 an 40 witl 11 be that else hos le ‘Do Sev a that d The Fighting The Vanishing Amer- “The Splendid Crime” Stage Struck.” story ause the Harvard boys felt that their alma mater had been pictured in false colors, and because they oh- Jected when various Broadway actors Jim Bridger was impersonated in|8Ppeared on the stage wearing The Covered Wagon” by Tully |SWeaters marked with the sacred Marshall, who contributed a rich,| "H." The students evidently e rugged, heroic characterization of the | Perlenced the same sentiments that grand old ploneer. No one who saw | Were felt by Mrs. Virginia Bridger Hahn when she saw her father drink- ing red in “The Covered Wagor Now “Brown of Harvard” is to be made a movie, with William Haines in the title role, and the Harvard student body has served notice that the film producers must watch their step. Anv false representations of Harvard life will be vigorously re- sented. Many camera men been sent to Cambridg; tures of the Harvard Wedn Rich, nnett ¢ ning of . Jetta Goudal and also comedy: Friday, “A the World." with Pola day, Matt medy Amos, fables; T and ‘Lost L Tre Moore. ? hursda 3| with Rod ¢ | Noah Bee e | Woman of “East ¥l with Negri, also comedy turday, Alma Rul E uline e Priday 36 and the Bad Man,’ with urday, 1y with Mack Willlam Tell manner. As Bridger said to Jackson, It took him back to “the old days, when a man could trust his friend.” Iy wnd MARY (O | A star of the St. Aloysius Club Play- ers’ comedy to be presented this week. Selwyn and company in “Making the Movies” and Babe Selwyn in “A Cycle of Songs"; Tues ‘Alma Rubens, Frank Mayo and Il . Warner in * Love Everything Walter Hiers in “Off His Beat,” Pathe Colored Review and Gift Shoppe; Wednesday, Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry in “Fifth Avenue Models,” Billy Dooley in “A ailor” and Park News Events; . Baby Peggy in “The Dar. {ling of New York,” Our Gang in “Com- ncement 1 and Park News Events (benefit performance for the Parent-Teacher Association of Bright- lwood Park School, Thursday at 3 p.m.); | Friday, Gerteude Astor, J. Farrel M and Henry B. Walthall in ky Pride” and Monte Blue, | Patsy Ruth Miller and Willard Louis in “Hogan's Alley"; Saturday, Alleen ngle_and Conway le in “The stic. ibes in the Woods” with | Virginic orbin and chapter b, Wild West.” (Shows continuous Sat- v from 2 pan., Sunday from 3 Sun Up rad Nage with il with Sat Monte ¥ Mabel Ballin and Forrest Stanley, “Red Hot T Week Days, 11 to 11 comedy and news. Blue and Patsy Ruth Do Luxe Shows, 3. 7.9 STARTING TODAY 3100 a Doors Open at WILL!AM FO Presents heMotion Picture FRBSHE liquor neth Harlan in “The Fighting Edge" and Gump comedy, “Andy in Holly- wood."” HOME. oday rol Dempster and W Fields in Grifith’s “That Royle Girl’ tomorrow, Bebe Banfels in “Lov Quaran ind Johnny Arthur in “Cleaning ay, Norma in “His Secre- | jastside, West- | ne Chadwick " and Roach's Thursday, Glorfa | Struck’ and Clff Iryin Friday “Where \! L Moonshine and "kie Coogan in Iph in and CHEVY CHASE Todey and tomorrow Demp in “That ind news TAKOMA. nd tomorrow, Corinne Grif- “Classified,” Pathe News and Semon comedy, Sunday from 3 p.m., Monday from 3:30; Tuesday, Norma Shearer and Lon Chaney in The Tower of Li and Billy West comedy, “The Stranger”; Wednesday and Thursday, Rudolph Valentino in “Cobra” and Al St. John comedy; Friday, Bessie Love and Warner Bax- ter in ew Brooms," Aesop's Fable and Harry Langdon comedy; Batur- day, “The Last Edition,” Aesop's Fa- ble and sixth episode of “'Adventures of Mazie.” Matinee, 2:15, evening from |’ 5 p.m. Ty T huve alrendy (o take Thursday Lellamy day right he Wild The o Cednesday, He Golden Coco Pedal™; St “Keep O'Brier 1 denny i Ahead,” Sportli AL Fast chapt Saturduy eake Kick Me Aga Adven I Maizie.” | H nson in Lowes in Lteginald Denny in ind Clyde Cooke in Noses™: Saturd 4 Clothe ‘Hurry D Archer,” No. 'WARDMAN THEATER Mossman Do Mot tot 4. LEADER—"E the vith its erring wi ond be shown o 1 MTHA NEWLY MARRIEOD COUPLE e W s MATT MOORE KATHRYN PERRY Thomas Herbert Stock Company Presents “The Lady Next Door” A Comedy in 3 Acts Week of Feb. 8th world > sripping story of an mother love will row. iAIRe MRy ader. The play has " Charley Chase lived more than half ntury in the |ji oo SRR e NGve { hearts of theatergoers, It is a Wil Meighan in liam Fox production and its cast in-| wpid aan Who X ound Himself" and ludes Edmund Lowe, Alma Rubens. | painh Graves in “Bashful Jim 7 Lou Tellegen, Frank Keenan, Jorie | pesday and Thursduy, Ben Lyon in | Daw, Relle Bennett, Lydia Knott,| “The Pace That Thrills” and C: Leslie Fenton and Martha Mattox. De Haven in “Hot Sheiks,” also Short film subjects, including a mm»’ How Moving Plctures Are Made Lynne PRINCESS, YORK. THE AMUNDSEN POLAR FLIGHT The Authentic Motion Picture of the Amundsen - Ellsworth Expedition to -Reach the North Pole by Airplane Today and tomorrow, in “Old Clothes” “My Swedic day, Carol De Juckie Coogan und Neal Burns in Tuesday and Wednes npster and W “lelds in Griffith’s “That Royle Girl" and Aesop bl Thursday, Milton Stlls and Dorls Kenyon in “The Unguarded Hour” and Our Gang"” in “Ask Grandma'; Friday, Reginald Denny in “Wher: and Hal Roach's ‘The Soft Pedal”; Suturday, Willard Louls in “How Baxter Butted In,” Harry Lunxdon in “The White Wing's B‘rlde" and “The carlet Streak,’ ~ON THE STAGF— MARIE MACQUARRIE HARP ENSEMBLE en American Girl Harpists, With STELLA HYMSON, Seprano RIALTO CONCEBT ORCHESTEA MISCHA GUTERSON, Conductor Overture, “William Tell” (Rossini) Evenings, 8:30 Katurday Matiner. Prices, $1.00 und §1 Matinee, ' 75c Box Ofce Phone Columbia 2000 edy, will round out the bill Friday, Monte Blue in “Red Hot Tires,”” episode No. 2 of “The Green Archer” and comedy; Saturday, Jackie 3 pisode No. 4 of and Billy West OLYMPIC. Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish in “The Reautiful Cit news: tomorrow, “The Anclent with Jack Holt and Billie | clyn Bren Wed pm., with | dy; ast | Lowe and aturday, “The Limited,” with Malcolm Alice ' Lake and Ralph John comedy, “Ace of 9, matinee only. d Edmund 1. Today Wednes: rs SAVOY atrice Joy in Edna Squabbles’; ’\1 wrion Davies fn “Lights Broadway” and Mack Sennett’s “Over Thereabouts”; Tuesday Conway Tearle in “The Mystic,” Walter Hiers in ““Hot Doggie” and Hope Hampton ’aris_Creations in Color”; Wed- g Eleanor Boardman in nge of Wives,” comedy, “Love and Lions,” and “With Pencil, Brush and Chisel”; Thursday, Buster Keaton in Vest,” “Our Gang" in “Boys Will review; Friday, Helene jolden Cocoon' at tarvation Bl Ruth Miller and Ken “The Wed- Marfan in tomorrow, of Old IHIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlHIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIlIIIllllIIlIIllIIIlIIlIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIlI||Il||l||l||lIllIIlIlIIIIIIIIHIIIllIIIIIIIllIIIIlI!lIIIIIllllIlIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE STANLEY COMPANY OF AMERICA = ULz 110 T A ~——CKANDALL’ OIRECTION TANLEY COMPANY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN EA] &z F ST. AT TENTH AMERICAS P[RFEQ m:nnz ance at 3 Sunday—Doors Open 2 P. M. Daily, 10:30 A. M. to 11 P. M. D@ WEEK OF FEB. 7TH 91 ' SYNCOPATION WEEK WE Take Is One Offering a One Hundred Per Cent Program of Enlivening Divertisse- ments Representing Huge Entertainment Value and Headlining an ict of Exzceptional Diversity and Melodio Appeal GLADYS DARLING AND HER CHARLESTON SYNCOPATORS Featuring George Raft in a Zipsy Carmival of Song. Melody end Dances EXTEA THE NOVELIETTES With FRIVAL & MASLEN Gifted Women Song Moore foneymoon Mulhall, You St. Bet. 14th 215th | OLYMPIC nu('nl( lL'_I i CEMPDY wn con comedy; I i Overland MacGregor, s; Al St Vit | soarD M 'rm P r casenting Keith Popular Priced Vaude. ville of Su- perior Merit and Photo- piays of the First Grade. 13th St Be- low F N. W. nd news ‘Bridge of Mackail rsday, with P e rformances C o ntinuous Daily From 1 to 11 p. m. Doors Open Sunday at 5 p. m I mpmg o H Street ) tince at 3 KE:! ETH HARX N i 'nu: BIG PINES RiNGER or g ' THE COtNT " CROFs OF CTHY] PARI v and !mnorrm\ Marion Davies a 1 in “Lights of Ol Broadway,” Adventures of Ma: comedy and Park News events, als with | added ~attraction (on the stage), A. H. with [and comed. erlasting Whisper aturday Tom Mi ST T [ wpster ANDOWIT S THAT noYL’Eu‘fxm A FABLES TAND N —EVENTS I NEW smrou SthaC Sta. N, { v AR R X X (1o Yolvermts Bodk | THE PHANTOM OF || }:M.“___ TAKOMA O oo | PATIE S and LARRY 0N CO. Continuous today S g soCusntodRy —eeeee CRANDALL THEATERS Direction Stanley Co. of Amerlea lICRANDALL’S METROPOLIT! Street at WEEK—CECIL B, Do ity SUPER - PROBUGEION SENSATIONAL S THE ROAD TO RA 'S TIVOLI C NDAU‘S 14th & Park Rd. N.W. 2 pm, daily I Pride in of the Presenting What Finest You Photodramas will Ever Agree Made ADOLPH ZUKOR AND JESSE L. LASKY PRESENT JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT JETTA GOUDAL ‘VERA REYNOLDS WILLIAM BOYD and JULIA FAYE JEANIE m;finsou ot Beulah Marie Dix from the etage play by MM»&D-NLCS\M\:M 4 The magnificent, eye-dazzling beauty special, glorifying the loveliest girls in America. A fascinating romance centering about the search for a modern Venus de Milo. Filled with nov- elty, color, gasps, thrills and won- derful, beautiful girls! The year’s most unusual picture! CAST INCLUDES “MISS AMERICA™--1925 Miss Fay Lamphier) "ESTHER RALSTON-—FORD STERLING LAWRENCE GRAY---ERNEST TORRENCE AND ATLANTIC CITY BATHING GIRLS by Townsend Martin TR b{ 'S AMB! CRANDALL'S im Mats. Sat 2 paerSune ToDAY, “TowoRRow Ak DAY CECIL, B Dest i ROAD 10 VESTERDA I, . and Three Ciever ADDED NICK LUCAS---‘THE CROONING TROUBADOUR” Exclusive Brumswick Recording Artist, MEEHAN'S CANINES--MENNETTI & JUNE--OTHERS ON THE SCREEN MARGUERITE DELAMOTTE = With Alan Forrest and a “FIFTH AVENUE” T e i rite o Ewrermmment ~—— CRANDALL'S. DOR |AMBASSA 18th and Col. Rd. SUN.-MON.-TUES 10S. SCHILDKRAUT VERA REYNOLDS With Jetta Goudal, William Boyd, Julia Faye and Trizie Friganza in Cecil B. De Milles Stupendous Picturization of THE ROAD T0 YESTERDAY WED.-THURS. PATSY RUTH MILLER Alan Forrest, Pauline Garon, Rockcliffe Fellowes and Alec Francis in Kathleen Norris’ ROSE OF THE WORLD Cliff Bowes in ““Brotherly Love” FRIDAY RIN-TIN-TIN Famous Canine Star im As- sociation With June Marlowe And Fine Cast in BELOW THE LINE Johnny Arthur in “Cleoning Up”—Review SATURDA MARY PICKFORD Supported by William Haines in a Comedy-Drama Based omn- The Old Song Comedy, “Sweet Marie” LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY o 0000 0000000 NS Four Men—+The Human Tops” ILLER in - THE R ORLD pind BO R AN]DA' L’S SAvoy THEA suth and Columbla Mat. Sunday 3 \TRICE JO SSARo" DAV TS OF LD BROADWAY " ENNETT'S “OVER THERE CRANDALL'S AVENUE GRA¥D 645 Pa, A Mats. Daily 2 pm. S Sund; m TODAY AND TOMO; LEON HY GISH in ERROL_ ‘and DORO’ WGLOTHES MAKE THE PIRATE " 'H_COMEDY. And HAL ROA! Peaturing Herlin's “Alcays” "in A Mammoth and Romantic Melodrama, Linking the Present with Pioturcsiur Medieval England at the Peas: of TIts Glory—Staged with Sumptuous Prodigality and Acted with Supreme On the Screen Today at 5:10, 7:15 ond 9:20 Magnificen’ ||l|||||lm|fllllllll|l|lllllllllIlI T Sterling Cast in » TUXEDO COMEDY--NEWS—-OTHER HITS WEEK STARTING TODAY--SUNDAY, FEB. 7 LOEW’S COLUMBIA THEATER T T f C. R f B C_FIELD in GRIFFITH S f = ROYAL GIRL." | TOMORROW-—BEB] LOVERS And " JOH CLEANTG MBROIDERY SPECIAL METROPOLITAN WORLD SURVEY Overture—Selections from ‘“Maytime” (Romberg With Elizabeth Thornberry, Soprano DANIEL BREESKIN CONDUCTING WASHINGTON'S FINEST ORCHESTRA THEEEA AR Ty CRANDALL'’S. L—_llffl ST. AND PARK RDA—( Sunday, 3 to 11 P. M. Daily 1:30 te 11 P. M. SUNDAY-MONDAY MARY PICKFORD Supported by William Haines and a Lively Cast in am Original Comedy-Drama Suggested by the Song LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY Pathe Review—Topics of the Day—Otto F. Beck T CRANDALL’S. CENTRAL SUN PATSY RUTH MILLER Supported by Rockcliffe Fel- lowes, Pauline Garon and Others in ROSE OF THE WORLD Bobby Vernon “Slippery Feet T R R T CRAN’DALL'S Home Theater 1230 © Bt Nk s _MON THE_TEMPLE OF THE ARTS JAC] HF S um 11th & N.C. COLLE in his thnl/mg successor to “THE UNHOLY THREE" n TUES.-WED D. W. GRIFFITH Presents Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields in o Drama of Chicago Nioht Life THAT ROYLE GIRL Aesop Fable—Added Hits 1119 l'l St. VAE ‘"b%y' in AMERICAN m st and BT Ave. Py Loy cHA SESUH THE OP' SRY f ll t. and R L el e “IRISH LUCK. | FTPPODROME *he~ ¥ 45 N-w- RATNG “HIS SECRET. ARV" | 9XB.g4xe coMEDY. ToPics axp ICIRCLE 2105 Pa. Ave. Ph. w. llzaxe srEVS %‘mx;ns fi);flnx; THURS.-FR BEBE DANIELS And Brilliant Supporting Com- pany in a Sprightly Film Ver- siom of the Lively Broadway Stage Success LOVERS w QUARANTINE Chas. Chase in “The Unessy Three”- view Not since his memorable role in “Th Miracle Man” has Lon Chaney offer- ed a characterization so remarkable, so fascinating or so thrilling as this Against the sinister background of the London underworld, stalks the mysterious figure of “The Blackbird,” posing before the world as a kindly, benevolent mission worker but really sensational melodrama, written and a desperate, cruel criminal! directed by Tod Browning! FEATURING RENEE ADOREE OF “BIG PARADE” FAME —ADDED PROGRAM HITS— GLENN TRYON COMEDY---MASKED PLAYERS CONTEST---PATHE NEWS--GANNON'S MUSIC I.OEW’S I’AI.AGE THEATER WEEK STARTING TODIV—II.IHDIV FEIRIM“ 7 Tues.-Wed.--EDMUND LOWE in “ THE FOOL" Aesop Fable—Wurlitzer Grand Organ—Extras SATURDAY REGINALD DENNY Marion Niron and an En- sembdle of Beauties in His New Laughter Special WHERE WAS 17 CAN, cast o MM ILEADER 9th Near E &¢. 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