Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1926, Page 75

THE LEWIS S.STONE.~ Metropolitar N WS and Cqmment By W. H. Landvorgt. HE elory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome” may be realized cven in these days that rattle with jazz, while they their julep, but what of the soulful beauty of yore that now almost has faded into a mere memory? Strange how our flocting fancies will erect new idols, while so casily we forget the art that But first fet us remove the sandal of the profane, + whercon we tread is holy ground. Never before, perhaps. in the world has the term beauty become se commonpla as today. Nor is there any place where the resembles the song of a cracked bell and so o those of another generation beauty had a once touched the soul! tor Fistory of the in use and =0 trite stggestion the as in in nd of word more stridentl Filmland. meaning, rt has done its darnedest to glorify that face today. 10 have covered a charm that once was and now live ever watched the face of little Mary Philbin on the Lsther Ralston as it many The Big Parade” Jut s chow it scems re. 17 you have f Norma Peter no m screen, or o Shearer, or of ave caught a glimpse of i ¢ Pan, you mmnst c There was a time Qakhed it and pretiy Eleanor Boardman brings back power in “Memory Lane” 1t is the look spirituelle of the old- fashioned gir It shone in thé face of the old-fashioned mother. And there is no mistaking it. Bubbling, buoyant, brazen youth of today (on the screen, of course) has never yet quite caught its indescribable beauty. It is like to Galatea with a soul. But do Galateas have souls any more— lateas? that s vhen Rene Ad at least, many HE modern creator of picture beauty, in the form feminine, seems to seek the lost charm in the figure rather than in the face. It is she of the willowy curve who has crept up on the pedestal once reserved for the girl of other ¢ She it is who now dots the film firmanent with twinkling stars of broken glass that never knew the brilliant rays of the real diamond. of other days. lias lost something. Perhaps rs could but return to the f 1 \woman, even woman, has a soul. we might hop i other davs, and with her the graceful charm, th creeps into the irom the holy depths, even without the poet. ; D Bring it back 1o us again in the movie, which has been damned her shortcomings. Or is the passing T cvolution to exadus for its ot 3 passity glimpse now. flashed far too inirequently to be just a pleasant reminder of what might have been, but isn't AYBE in the * 1smutation ¢ M serve as shadow entertainment f for may be rediscovered and return, that its <cught after as the youth-painting cosmeti o ot less intellectual than those of other days. but do they possess the hidden gentleness that might stamp itseli upon the countenance if given theschance? s the fau't, if it do not, to be found in the ideals of today, or is it that the girls have not been told what heauty meant in the past? 2 e one should uncover the problem. And who is so well cquipped as the modern movie depths heretofore unknowa to the the % ¥ E CEPT “The Devil's Circus™ and worth remembering of last veek’ : : little on their face to creatc the belici that they will show much in the way of improvement. It isn’t fair to judge in advance of seeing, and so the hopeful must simply wait. remembering always that “he also serves who only stands and waits.” Giorious Gloria in the oflmg once again, but somehow Gloria doesn’t start the thrill that the mention of her name once brought to our expectant youth. Has she lost her grip, or is she simply sharing the common fate of all who seck temporal fame and live? Fame and life do niot linger long in the mystic bonds of matrimony. Fame makes a wonderful weeping widow, but a most uncertain wiie. The fervid Pola seems to be tempting Fate at this very moment. Rudolph Valentino, who has almost passed to the film Valhalla, is being summoned back b\" her from the halls of departed herocs 1o pose now as the man supreme. Can Po'a turn the trick? Four months of separation will tell, perhaps. Pola has long been compelled to play second fiddle to Gloria, and now when her chance might seem to lic ahead <he shifts her gears and strikes out for a new way to reach her destination. What a few short months it takes to grow new heroes, new heroines, There may be ordained wisdom in it all, but the world this wild, young twentieth century of of our fathers and believe thiat, after all ¢ for the return of the g the exquisite beauty that * for today the beauty that we long ittainment may be as caggrly now so in demand. Our girls trical explorer? Memory Lane,” there is but li creen. The current offerings bear sit back and wait for a story to be handed to great picture.” So says Edwin And so Edwin and Lois Leeson of a story originally writ- All the world knows . DIRECTOR canr him and then expect to makc Carewe, the well known movie director. Au re “writing the adaptation and the continuity ten by . and cailed “Pals First. that a director’s business ake photoplays. knows that many director photopl of what d i But when a director undertakes to translate to the s worn popular approval, and in its 1 right 1 > best sellers of the day, just how r is it really ctor to twist and turn the story to < own notions what it should be? There is @ growing belief that of the tr tawdry cfforts photoplay making that arc today mak- adicnces twist and tura and yawn are stories that have been retold i scemario and continuity writers and photoplay directors. gray matter department of the fourth industry of the United States of America take this into consideration and endeavor to remedy it? There is reason to believe that these studio authors and playwrights need over- hauling to get them out of a wicked rut that is injuring the movie, because the great mass of photoplays shown to the public plainly are afflicted with too much taint of the studio. Even the best people get stale in their jobs sometimes. s great s wol cgitimate fu Claims to Attention. HE CAT'S PAJAMAS" is a pic- ture o 1t is the fi and Ri ! co-starred. It i the first picture William Well- wan has directed on the Paramount {101, It is the first screen Thepdore Roberts has vear and a half. It is the first picture made in America in which the French beauty Mlle. Arlette Marchal appears. It is the first personally supervised duction on the Paramount lot by P. now assoclate Par- unt producer Tt is the first picture in which a cat is actually one of the principal setof 1t is divectly " Modern Girl. SAN. ] known orous de- . in protest w me azainst the statewents of man Fisk, president ciension Institute, -ently that the present- ving with shortened li edom.” authorities t time that Betty Bron- ardo Cortez have heen son have 1 her predecess dppearance star declares. “Docto made in that the majority of the \ve women.who were girls in the day when it was considered wrong to en- sage in atbletics or to be robust wnd healthy, and I am contident that when the girls of to with their various athletic activi ch that age they will not be in ill health as these wom- - are. “Fhere is no disputing the fact that sung women mnow do_things that vould be looked vpon with borror by thelr an vet such ov ire Inv Tt he hy girl.” 30 years s admit & patients ey vritten mest Lo Tl uchi na” and fors. vin! vithy b a e “Grounds for Divorce.” “nd it once sat with regal glory on the feminine | shone as the! But the old-fashioned girl has disappeared with the poct} Is the, i the favoritc classic of other times to | which dares’anything and.climbs to_heights or searches | And most of the world | ays according to their own notions | Does the | | The Moving Picture By Robert E. Sherwood | "THAT celebruted hostelry the Ritz | ¥ Cariton, in New York City, as | sumed an academic aspect last week | | when the graduating exercises of the | Paramount Pictures School were held {in its grand ballroom. Mr. Jesse | | Lasky. ~ representing the facult wwarded diplomas to the 16 young ladies and gentlemen of the class of | 1926, and there were hearty expre: sions of good fellowship and collegiate ! =pirit on all sides. ‘The Paramount Pictures Wwill be remembered, was s July at the Famous Players Long Island City. The 16 students had been selected (largely on the | strength of -~ physical appearance) | from some 15,000 applicants in all | { pafits of the United States, | ! " They were put through a thorough course of training. in pantomime, | etiquette, dancing (with particular at- tention to the Charleston), swimming. | make-up, costuming, fencing and gym nastics maste such as Richare Tee, Thomas Melghan, ¢ Adolphe Menjou—and le: damentals of their art. Having completed the assigned | course, they were turned loose in the studio to make a picture of their own, under the directioh of Sam Wood. A story with 16 star parts was written for them by Byron Morgan. * % ok X After Mr. Lasky had awarded the diplomas, Charles Brokaw (president of the class of '26) delivered a_ vale- dictory address, and presentéd Mr. Lasky wigh-a handsome cigarette case | 15 a token of esteem from hifbself and his_classmates. Then the lghts were dimmed, cur- tains were drawn at one end of the Ritz ballroom, revealing a silver | screen, and the projection machines shot forth the high-lights and shad. | | of “F nuting Youth,” the stu- | | dents’ first picture. ! It proved to be pretty bad. As a result of the attempt to give all the klddies equal prominence, the story assumed a quality of extreme vague- | ness, and the spectator experfenced great difficulty in deciding who was who. None of the future stars was glven a chance to get started on a { scene of his or her own, and it was | therefore impossible to decide whether | {any of them showed promise. | It was also extremely hard to de- termine what, if anything, was the | plot of “Fascinating Youth.” That | seemed to have been lost in the col- | Ieglate shuffie. chool, it rted last | | 1dio in | | | Andrews (age 2i) of New | v Blackton (25) of | Charles Broka: 6) Claud Buchanan ; Josephine Dunn (24) of New York City: Iris Gray (19) of Wichita, Kans.; Ivy Harris (19) of | Atlanta, Ga.; Irving Hartley (24) of | New York City; Thelda Kenvin (20) | of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jack Luden (23) | of Reading, Pa.: Jeanne Morgan (15) of Medford, Mass.: Dorothy Nourse (1) of Roxbury, Mass.; Mona Palma (23) of New York City; Charles Rogers (21) of Olathe, Kans., and Thelma Todd (9 of Lawrence; Mass. Tt will be noticed that seven of the 16 come from New York, four from Boston and vielnity, «two from Kan- | sas. one from Pennsylvania, one from Ohio and one from Georgla. Eight of | the students have had previous experi- ence on the stage or screen: three were newspaper men; four were art- ists’ models, and one was a school teacher. The majority, then, are not exactly neophytes in the world of the theater. The commencement exercises in- cluded o banquet, to which all the New York movie crities were invited. | Among those also present- were | Adolphe Menjou, Lois Wilson, Richard | Dix, Will Hays and a short, blond, smooth-shaven and slightly bald man vho turned out to be Chester Conklin. Myr. Lasky announced that the clas: of 1926 of the Paramount Pictures School will be featured {n three more film productions. Evidently he, at least, feels that “Fascinating Youth” 1s a hit. * ook % The International Film Arts Guild has engaged the Cameo Theater in New York for three weeks, which will be devoted exclusively to revivals of the pictures that have been directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The following vroductions are scheduled: “Passion, h Pola Negri and Emil Jannings: “The Marriage Circle,” with Adolphe Menjou, Marie Prevost Monte Blue and Florence Vidor; “For- bidden Paradise,” with Pola_Negri, Iphe Menjou and Rod La Rocque; ss Me Again,” with Monte Blue and Marie Prevost; “Three Women,” with Pauline Frederick, May McAvoy, Marie Prevost and Lew Cody; “Loves , of Pharaoh,” with Emil Jannings and Werner Kraus, and “Rosita,” with | Mary Pickford, Irene Rich and' Hol- brook Blinn. A fourth week may be iadded, to include ‘“Deception,” with { Emil Jannings; “One Arablan Night™ jand “Gypsy Blood,” with Pola Negrl, and “Ledy Windermere's Fan,” with {Trene Rich, Ronald Celman, Bert { Liytell and May McAvoy. Here, then, are 11 Lubitsch pictures | in a row, all of which are exceptional- |1y fine, none of which is in any re- spect discreditable. Tt is a marvelous | record for one man to have achieved. 1 know of no ofber director who can ! nel, Griflith “The Birih of a| SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MARCH 14, OTORLA 1926—PART : N\ O] BEN LyoNn Central evening. PALACE RIALTO. evening. COLUMBIA—"The TIVOLI—"The Gold K AMBASSADOR 1 cvening. CENTRAL —"The Love Gamble.” LINCOLX (Colored) Sea Horwes.” Shown The Cohens "and Ko Shie Shov M Barrier.” o Much “Irene.” METROPOLITAN—"Too Toney. Crandall's Metropolitan for this week, beginning noon, announces First creen version of Isrucl “Too Much M . Stone and Anna stellar roles, togeth dded attraction. the Loumis two remarkable youngst the Met ropolitan World ~ Survey and a mu sical program Dy the Metropolitan Symphony. “Too Much Monex domestic drama that clal chasin between wealth ment penury in New Yor permits Lewis S. Stone his opportunity as comedian. story concerns a_rich voung Much The; this a ter er- newill with Nilsson with an Twins is an amusing ind tene- and it tirst real The hus- | band, who pretends to have lost all; | his money in order to reclaim his|a wife from a butterfly society life. After the fortune ostensibly is gone and the Broadleys have moved into 1 downtown walk-up flat, it behooves the husband to find himself a job to make the deception complete. The best he can do, first, is a clerkship in Mr. Rabinowitz's delicatessen, where he encounters vast difficulties Natlon,” “Intolerance,” “Hearts of World,” “Broken Blossom: ) phans of the Storm” and “lsn’t Life Wonderful?”—but interspersed with these are a-number of celluloid atroc- itles that need not he mentioned. James Cruze hus ‘The Covered Wagon,” “One Glorfous Day.,” “Holly- wood” and “The Pony Express” to his credit. King Vidor has “Wil Oranges” and “The Big Pa jenry King has “Tol'able David. The White Mister” “Stella D las.” Mal St. Clair has */ rents People?” “The Trouble with Wives." A Woman of the World” and “The srand Duchess and the Waiter” (and St. Clair will unquestionably have many more before he gets through). Monta Bell has “Broadway After Dark,” “The King.on Main Street” and “The Torrent.” Erich Von Stro- heim has “The Devil's Passkey,” “Blind Husbands,” “Foolish Wives,” «Merry Go Round,” “Greed” and “The Merry Widow.” g Of all the American directors, it seems to me that Rex Ingram comes closest to Lubitsch's record in_ point of consistency, with *“The Four IHorse- men of the Apocalypse,” “The Con- quering. Power,” “Trifling Women,” “The Prisoner of Zenda,” “Where the Pavement End: “‘Scaramduche,” “The Arab” and “Mare Nostrum.” Aside from Lubitsch, however, there 18 no one who could produce a string of pictures that would justify a four- week revival meeting. (Did T hear some one mention the name of Charles Spencer Chaplin?) Another musical comedy libretto, “Lady, Be Good,” has been purchased by First National, probably for Col- leen Moore. . . . Tom Mix has been resting as a result of swollen ligaments, not -occasioned (be it ex- pressly understood) by a fall from his horse. . Constance Talmadge, upon returning from her hone: will produce a_picture entitled * Duchess of Buffalo. Anne Nichols has sued Universal, ~harging that its film, *The Cohens nd Kellys.” is a plagiarism of “Abie’s 1 i s though she needed wiie ui (Cov: f the “Or [ Shown this afternoon and evening. bridges the so- | 1- 1 on both officers : ‘photoplayé This Week , At the Photoplay Houses This Week. METROPOLITAN—"Too Miich Money.” Shown this afternoon and this afternoon and evening. Shown this afternoon ~stid 1y swn this afternoon and evening ternoon and cvening. fternoon and win this " Shown thi Shown i afternoon and evening. with a Larrel or two of herring. Fired | from thix splendid position. he tak | the job of junitor of the buflding in | which he " live Remember it is ! Lewis Stone w serves in these { mendal posts of duty. and Miss Nils- son is the wife who proves her mettle vy sticking to her husband in spite of Robert Cain, the falthless friend. Loomis Twins, mere tots, arve ihine the talents of 4 phie T and_ Gild with distinetly individ; of their own, in voice and played vari-| pations and | Charleston, exccuted | hes Iy in ba elaborated little Virgtn | PALACE—“Sea Horse: Romantic melodrama, backgrounded inst panoramas of tropic beauty, | prommised Loew's Palace this| starting this - afternoon, in | | Paramiount’s production of the Fran- | |cis Brett Young magazine setial, “Sea | Hor featuring Florence Vidor, |Jack Holt, W Powell, George | Bancroft, . Mack Swain and Frank Campeau. Allan Dwan, producer, is widely | { know: the man who made “Robin ! | Hood,” “Manhandled” and “Zaza.” ! i James Shelley Hamilton adapted t to screen form, while James Howe, {the only Chinese cameraman in movieland, photographed it. The story centers about a charming nglish who, with her little aughter, et sail on an ocean | treighter an obscure port on the st cons a, to join her hus- {band, who had deserted her a year lafter’ their marriage. Her {on shipboard has an electrifying effect | nd crew, and a burly youthful third officer {come to blows over her. She finds, lat her end, that her hus- band has degenerated into a drunken beach-comber, and her subsequent romance provides a thrilling climax. ennett comedy, “Isn’t Love Coocoo?”, the Pathe news reel, the Palace Magazine and orchestral em- bellishment will be added features. lmate and th RIALTO—"The Cohens and Kellys.” “The Cohens and Kellys,” this week’s attraction at the Rialto, is a good-natured comedy with the laughs arlsing out of the playing up of the racial antagonism between an Irish and Hebrew family who are neigh- bors. % The hers, the mothers, the kid- dies and even the dogs are continually scrapping, and this is further ag- gravated by the fact that Tim Kelly and Nannie Cohen are sweethearts. Tim marries Nannie secretly, fearing parental opposition. The Cohens fall heir to a fortune and Nannie, the young wife, is cast out by them: when her baby is born.t It transpires that the Kellys are really the owners of the fortune, how- ever, but they share it with the Co: hens and all ends happil. ¥ The cast is headed by Charlie Mur- | iray, George Sidney and Vera Gordon.{ The picture was directed by Harry Pollard and is based on Aaron Hoff- man's play, “Two Blocks Away. | The stage presentation is pring | fashion festival,” with the latest crea- tions in feminine finery displayed by a group of charming model: will he the wppe Igline MacGoizan in an o mance with the Duo-Art piant last of these ppog | Henr presence | CorLeey Moore Lincolw Tivoli Program for Children. NOTHER library print has been brought from New York for a special showing Saturday morning at 10:15 in the selected program children az Crandall's Tivoli Theater. It picture rgubrite Clark “Come Out of the Kitchen. Mary. This, with the addition of the usual comedies, makes up a program that will be entertaining for adults as well s children. Also it Is next to the ams for this sea- son. The mahagement is ttendance will voice the public ire for their continuance son. s de- s = nd Josef Turin, concert tenor, as the eatured vocalist. The overture by the Rialto Concert Orchestra {s “Salute to Erin” (La motte), which together with the Inter- ional News and other divertisse- ments will complete the program. COLUMBIA—"The_Barrier."” A cast headed by Lionel Barrymore, Norman Kerry, Marceline Day and B. Walthall apps in George Hili's production for Metro-Goldwyn of Rex Beac of the Alaskan gold rush, which is announced by Loew’s Columbia The- ater for this week, starting this after- noon. The picture contains all the in- gredients of a virile drama, though happily lacking in overdrawn heroics usually found in pictures dealing with primitive types. It is, nevertheless, thrilling with several hair-raising fights, the spectacle of a great ship crushed in icefloes and wonderful photographic panoramas of Alaska. “The Barrier” centers about the romance of a_young Virginian Army officer and a half-caste Indian girl, who' believes herself white because he has been raised by a kindly old white “trader, and the conflict in the officer’'s mind over questions of caste and family pride is suddenly and dramatically crystallized when the girl falls into the clutches of a brutal whaling captain. A short length comedy. the In- ternational News reel and orchestral embellishment will complete the pro- gram. TIVOLI—“The Gold Rush.” Charlie Chaplin is announced for the first two days of this week at Crandall’'s Tivoli Theater in his lat- est production, “The Gold Rush,” in which the star assumes the role of a pathetic little vagabond who at- tempts to negotiate the Chilkoot Pass and otherwise keep pace with the rug- ged frontiersmen who battle the ice and snow in the hope of finding riches. The supplementary attrac- tions will include an Aesop Fable and the Pathe Review. Tuesday and Wednesday will be shown Fannie Hurst's $50,000 prize story, “Mannequin,” with Alice Joyce, ‘Warner Baxter, Dolores Costello and Zasu Pitts, also Lloyd Hamilton in Tramed” and “Topics of the Da: Thursday and Triday, Ben Lyon, Blanche Sweet, Lois Wilson, Dorothy ebastian m Hardy and Diana Kane in. First = Natienal's ‘“Blue- beard’s Seven Wives,” together with ‘A Salty Sap,” starring Billy Dooley; Saturday, Paramount’s -version of Joseph Conrad’s story, “Lord Jim,” with Perey Marmont, Shirley .Mason, Noah Beery and Raymond Hatton, also a comedy and the-first install- ment of “Casey of the Coast Guard.” AMBASSADOR—“Too Much Money. Lewis S. Stone and Anna Q. Nils- son, supported by Robert- Cain, Ann Brody and Edward Elkas, will be seen in the leading roles of First Nation- al's version of Israel Zangwill's com- edy, “Too Much Money,” at Crandall's Ambu.ssndo‘l; Theater. the first three days of this ‘week, ‘beginning this afternoon. The story -is .,‘}"B:‘“]ul. rich young. man . who sings. away i entire fortune in order to. win' his hoek ivony the foolist soclal ex- Continded “on - Fourth~ Page) for | in! hoping the | next sea- | | Fi‘lmograms. MERICAN photoplays are a power- ful advertising medium for every .thing American, according to Pro- | ducer Clarence Brown, who states b {authority is the United States Depart- {ment of Commer In Germany, England, France and Ttaly, it I3 said, a strong national splrit is asserting itself against Amer- ican photoplays, which the censor ad- | vocate is injuring also in this country | Cargline Andrews, the Toxie radio prima donna. is singing the prima | donna role in “The Student Prince” at {the Centurt Theater. New York. Stlence,” which is being filmed by Cecll B. De Mllle, is the screen version of Beulah Marie Dix's mystery melo- drama. “The Volga Boutman.” which Ithe Russian revolution for its back rround of romance, melodrama an humor, is said to be fairly startling in its realism. | | ! FEddie Gribbon und Julia e, who ised to play In the old Keystone omedies, appear together once again in “Bachelors’ Brides.” Both the famous Schildkrauts, Ru- dolph and Joseph, father and son, will Le seen in “Young April.” Cecil B. De Mille's canvass for ideas for his next big production is said to have brought forth 40,000 letters re- questing a_historical or a religlous subject, with enough romance to make it entertaining. Defenders of th odes of fashions {of today in the movies claim they ! make for stmplicity and eomfort, pro- ducing healthier bodfes than the corset and hoopskirt era of days gone by. A claim to greater beauty alsv is advanced. Lya de Putti, the newly fmported Hungarian film star, faced the sur- geon for appendicitis hefore she f. the screen. She been selec by Griffith for an importunt role “The Sorrows of Satan.” a in | Fox, it is said, plans to spend §10 000,000 for his 1926-27 program, in cluding 49 festures and § besides novelties and news reels. Pola Negri is to leave for Europe the end of April to start work in | Berlin on the first German-made pie- tures ~under the deal of Ufa with Fumous -Players-Lasky and under a | German director. Harold - Lioyd's first picture for Paramount, “For Heaven's Sake,” is veported finished, United Artists. duction and distribution. is to have its headquarters.at Hollywood instead of in the -great metropolis. It will finance fronl Los Angeles. “The Greater Glory” has been se- lected as the release title of “The Viennese Medley.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has secured Walter De Leon, a vaudeville per- former, to write a story bused on life in the vaudeville world for screen production. Film Daily, in its issue of March 7, states that Queen Marle of Rumania is to'write an origintl story: for screen production by~ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. George Redman announced production g"‘?r story: “The Vaice on the Moun- in" some time ago, but nothing has been heard of it since. . Pola Negri's latest picture, directed by Mal-St. ‘Good and Naughty boxoffice title. Hobart Bosworth. Pat O'Malley and Marion Nivon will: play important roles in “Spangles,” which was adapt- ed from the story of Nellie Revell, one of the cleverest of woman theatrical press writers. manifestly Laura La Plante is to be starred in “Butterflies in the Rain.” a story by Andrew Souter, under the direction of | Edward Sloman, for Universal. Christie is to feature Marie Prevost in a screen version of “Up in Mabel's Room.” The screen version of “La Boheme, which according to Film Daily’s re- view is a great picture despite the knocks of critics, makes jealous Rudolph drive Mimi away from ‘him to suffer while he triumphs as an :lut‘:!’or, but she returns to him finally o dle. Monta Bell has done great wark in Ibanez's ““Torrent,” according to the reviewer for Filmi Dally, but the story is not considered one of universal ap- peal, although stfll a fine picture. Larry Semon, the Pathe comedian, it Is said, used to be a cartoonist on a metropolitan dafly and still cartoons his ideas in making his productions. ‘Walter Goss, one of the Paramount Jundor stars, appears as Gloria Swa son’s brother in “The Untamed Lady."” He was. formerly a reporter on the New York Herald-Tribune. A recent order .placed by James Cruze for material to be used in the production of “Old Ironsides” was for two million square feet of eanvas to equip 50 or more old schooners ana | sloops that are.to be rif‘ed up for |sea’ engagements. - Would such an order get by the Budget Bureau for our own United States Navy? “Ireland.” " the first of a series of overtu ased by the famuus Dr. liugo Keisenfeld, will be featurcd i bas ! 2 comedies, | n the matter of pro- | ir, is now to be called | by the orches Iskin at Cr under Daniel Bree ndall’s Metropolitun thi® | week. Dur its rendition may | familiar 1r rs will be sung 1 {Charles Raymond Washington tenor. Romberg's “Come Bac Sweet Dream* yill be the basle theme of the orchestril ccompanimen 1 n Gonde will | Charie Rush.” t |is the pictur [ 541 be wishes author. an ! by which Chaplin has to be judged as 3 actor and a director. Daniel Breeskin, conductor of Jlitan Symphony, last w scompaniment 10 the sduced the volume 1 sound almost to i pian; aperiment. 1t is sald t My successful in securinz tention to the action of the If. th ok of or ssin ey e it | Les Maeck Swain and ester Conklin. famous old pie-throwers of the days of Keystone comedy, are making « great comeback this season. Both have appeared in several more less dramatic productions. and Swain makes his latest apeparance in Allan Dwan's production, “Sea Horses.” Wiiltam Powell, the drunken beach- |comber husband in Francis Brett | Young's “Sea Horses,” will be re- lcalled as the husband of Eileen Wil {son, a former Washington stock fu | vorite with the Garrick Players. { Rin-Tin-Tin, the {now making personal | throughout the country. | for Baltimore March 22 ition is made of Washington itinerary reen dog star. i appearances He is booked but no men in hi: " described s a power- ful histe pectacle, laid in rom: | tie old Ne ans during the Creole | days. from the novel by Polen Banks |is to be made into picture for | Warner | “Black Tve 1 Eliza crossing the ice was to filmed at Franklin. Pa., for Harr | Pollard’s production of “Uncle Tom': ‘abin,” but the sclentists broke up th nd now the scene is to be made : jAu Sable Chasm. | | Dorothy Gulliver, Salt Lake City’a entrant in A recent heauty contest, | |said to have proven so adaptable i« sereen work that she has been give: {the leading feminine role in {Hoxie's fortheoming pleture, Fighing Three.” George Orliss says when 1 tehing 1o see if a player i cting watch his or her eyes. ! Screen players are said to be pr testing the studio habit of shootin.: | Winter pictures in Summer and vice i versa. v established in Holiy actors flle films o id to now enable di- players they mnee’ . giving A film lib wood, in which | themselves, is | rectors to select without the necessity of firs them screen tests. Collecting and the Charleston ar | said to be the two things liked in cou | mon by Norma and Constance “Tal ! madge. The collecting is said to refe to readable books and the Charlesto: to—oh, well, unybody can guess tha Flora Finch, who used to make ‘e augh in the days of John Bunny, ne 1ys she is going back in the movies {to make two-reel comedies. Will . Hays, the Judge Landis Filmdom, according to Danny of Fii Dally. “the Bradstreet of Filmdom after four years on the job, can sit back and cheerfully contemplate the wonderful things he has accomplishg. |in making the movie respectable afi its makers harmonlous. The activities of the Sennett studiv in Hollywood received a two-weel vacation as the result of generous vi cination activities. . King Baggott will direct Bess! Love in “Lovey Mary” for Metiu Goldwyn-Mayer. Carl Laemmle was 80 overwhelme with letters and telegrams of cor gratulation and with floral tributes commemoration of his twentieth anni- versary in the movies that he had t. express his gratitude in a full page ud in Film Daily to save his office force from being submerged. ° Representatives of the Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer Co. are in the gold regio: of the Klondike making arrangement for the filming there of a fotion pi ture epic of the famous-gold rusi dayw. it is to be directed by Clarenc: Brown and will be a screen versio: of Robert W. Service's story “The Trail of '98.” The adaptation Is bels:: { done by Benjamin Glazer. i TR Movie Patronage. HE average weekly attendance u: motion pictures in this country alon. {1s estimated at 130,000,000.persons. Approximately 700 feature picture and twice as many short-reel subjects are produced each year to supply thi |demand for picture entertainment | Hardly a week goes by that some out standing production is nct released while there are on the market literall hundreds of pictures which have beei: hailed Car and wide as tremendously tentertaining photoplays,