Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 30

AMUSEMENTS Introducing a Newcomer. 1SS RHEA DIVELY, new second leading woman for the National Players, will make her stock debut here Monday night in *“The Song and Dance Man."” Miss Dively is a Colorado Springs =il and had her first acting experi ence in the high school senifor class presentation of ‘“The Taming of the Shrew.” Later she appeared in class productions at Kansas State Univer- sity and carried the feminine lead in tho commencement play. She fur- thered her histrionic ambitions at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts. Following this she turned profes- sional and after entertaining at sev- cral soldier camps during the war, ~hie came east to New York to accept . #¥tock engagement. She has played The Moving Picture By Robert E. Sherwood NEW, lustrous, shimmering star was revealed in the movie heavens when Gilda Gray made her debut at the Rialto Theater, in New York, in Aloma of the South Seas.” Miss Gray, in person, had not been yrecisely an unknown quantity up to this time, Since her first Broadway appearance in the ‘“‘Galeties,” seven vears ago, the gilded Gflda has been xoing on with the dance from Santa Barbara to Blarritz, from Denver to auville, and has managed to earn ndsome dividends in fame and for- tune alike. Her amazing sense of rhythm and her well controlled muscular eguip- nt have exerted a profound influ- ence on the modern dances of Amer- ica—first in that vibrant adaptation, which was called the shimmy, and subsequently in a variation of the Polynesian Hula-Hula. After several seasons in the IFollies ind other revues, in cabaret and vaudeville shows, Miss Gray started to nioke personal appearances in the film parlors—and with startling success. Working on some sort of percentage tasls, she managed to collect unto tierself approximately $10,000 & week. The officers of Famous Players- l.asky saw that Gilda Gray constituted «n enormous popular attraction, and decided to sign her up for a movie contract. They didn’t know whether she could act on the screen (she had only appeared once, briefly, in a movie), but they did know that her name in electric lights would attract tiie crowds. Accordingly, they purchased the fihn rights to “Aloma of the South Seas,” a rather sensational emotional drama then current on Broadway, and assigned the title role to Miss Gray. ‘They realized that in such a part she would at least look well, and that at ~tated intervals she could go into her dance and save the situation. To make up for the star's possible de- ficiencies as a dramatic artist, they surrounded her with a talented cast that included Percy Marmont, Warner Baxter, Julanne Johnston and Harry T Morey. ilda Gray has surprised her em- ployers and her public as well by an oxhibition of genuine talent as an ac- tress. Indeed, the entire value of Aloma of the South Seas” is depend- ent on her. She makes the veteran movie actors who *‘support” her ap- pear like so many wooden images. She Jdisplays, besides obvious physical heauty, an appreciable amount of | nerve, naturalness and restraint. Aside from Miss Gray's perform- ance, “Aloma of the South Seas” is heautiful but dumb. It has only spas- modic dramatic interest; its attempts At thrills are patently artifictal and =enerally ineffective. Its photography is gorgeous beyond words, and Miss Gray must share some of her numerous honors with the director, Maurice Tourneur, who «elected the backgrounds, and with the camera man, Harry Fishbeck, who recorded them. ok * % “Aloma of the South Seas” was first shown at a special midnight per- formance at the Rialto Theater. This was followed by & gigantic party at Gllda Gray's studio on Sixtieth street 1hat started at 3 o'clock in the morn- ing and began to get good about 6. It may’ still be going, like the cele- hrated debut of Lorelel Lee, ad Jdescribed in “Gentlemen Prefer Rlondes.” In connection with the showing of Ler picture, Miss Gray is making personal appearances, doing her outh Sea dance, assisted by a troupe ¢ royal Samoans. It provides an appropriate prologue for the flim. Incidentally, the Rialto is now at- iracting crowds the like of which that theater has never known before. X ok ow % ‘'he current vogue for college wit, college jazz music and college clothes hus epread to the movies. and there probably will be a swarm of college pictures next season. i Harold Lloyd Iiready has touched this subject n | The Freshman,’ and Metro-Gold- - wyn in “Brown of Harvard.” Both productions were enormously popular. On schedule just at present are Richard Dix in “The Quarterbacl Ized Grange in ‘The Halfback," e <ollege Widow,” a “collegiate” series i two-reelers produced by Universal, nd “Forevere After” (which com- bines college life and the great war). There will be a great many others, heyond all question. Possibly onc of them will be a really realistic picture of college life; there has been none 1hat answered that description as vet. 1t _is rumored here that Irving Thulberg, brilllant young Metro-Gold- wyn executive, will marry Rosabelle l.aemmle, daughter of Carl. Thal- herg was originally Carl Laemmle's secretary and appointed by him to be | general manager of Universal City. ‘There is also said 10 he & romance 1mdding between Willlam Haines and Mary Brian, and another between Ben Turpin and an anonymous ste nographer. 1iven Hollywood doesn't seem to Le iminune to the insidlous influence of ing. Following “The Volzga Boatman,” which has closed at the Times Square “Theater, New York City, Cecil B. De Mille has started a bargain bill at that playhouse, composed of “*Silence’ and “The Prince of Pilsen.” “Silence,” with H. B. Warner in the featured rale. is a hit. (Copyright. 1926.) ——— Amry Blair will head the cast of *Teyond Evil,” a play by David 'horne, which went into rehearsal iast week. New York is scheduled 1o see the production in about two 3 ‘J0SEPHINE JACKSON. PRIVATE DANGING o G 8 dotetp S8 St nfiors L] MARIE B Premier Danseuze 1213 PROF. . Ktrict) hour, o) u' MR (‘l-l; . ‘Baturday ST, ¥iv. ain 1732, ening _with orchestra. Cnarleston, Foxtrot. Tango. Walte, conssgm iva { Mr. Carroll is now considering the | 1 9 - AVISON'S Teach (ot i Stags,cos stock throughout the East and South and several seasons ago was with the Richmond Players at Richmond, Va., which company also boasted the talents of Adelaide Hibbard, now with the National Players, and Lilllan Dean, character woman last year with the National Players. She also played in Atlanta with John Litel, who will be remembered as leading man here at the President Theater some sea- sons ago. Miss Dively is strictly an outdoors’ girl when she can get away from the theater. Four the major part of this last Winter she took part in profes- sional swimming competitions and has several cups and medals to show for her prowess. Miss Dively succeeds Kathryn Giv- ney, who is leaving for Europe for her first vacation in four years. Elusive Success. STRA.\'GE how fame and fortune Juggle with human life, with failure always near at hand! Georgla Hale was elected queen of the Chicago “Pageant of Progress” in 1922, and with $1,600 in prize money she went to New York to start a motion-picture career. Months of fruitless searching for a part badly depleted the $1,500, and with the re- mainder Georgia went to Hollywood. Fortune was kind and cruel by turns, for while she got work almost imme- diately as an extra, she broke her ankle and lay eight mbnths a cripple without funds. The first day she ventured out she met Sternberg, who was preparing to make “The Salvation Hunters” with $4,000, all he could beg and borrow. He offered her the leading role on the chance of getting pald later, and Georgia accepted. “The Salvation Hunters” created a film sensation, and as its leading woman Georgia Hale's name became known. Then Chaplin made her leading woman, and by the time “The Gold Rush” reached the screen her career lay ready made before her. She will be seen here in “The Rainmaker’ this weel Screen and Stage Acting. ARGARET ETTINGER of the Marshall Neilan studios speak- ing: * ‘Screen acting differs from stage acting in that in the former one has to actually live the part they are portraying, while the latter merely calls for acting ability,’ according to Blanche Sweet, at present starring in Marshall Neilan's ‘Diplomacy.” “ “When a screen actor is playing an intense role he must work himself up to a pitch where he is so realistically portraying it that even the scrutiny of a close-up only makes him the more convincing,” Miss Sweet con- tinues, ‘I defy any one to give a satisfactory close-up to the canny camera unless they are actually feel- Ing that which is recorded. “Stage acting has many illusions. Though you are not feeling the role you are portraying, you can put the quality into your voice that is con- vincing, you can gesture as you should, but the audience is not near enough to know whether your heart s actually throbbing or not or whether your eyes are sincere. One only has to be a good actor to put a role over on the speaking stage.” ** ‘Reading lines belongs wholly to the stage, while the depth of great emo- tion is part of the perfect screen por- trayal,’ concludes the star.” The role of Dora in “Diplomacy” is one of the most emotional parts ever screened, adds Miss Ettinger. Hiram Abrams Will Retire. IRAM ABRAMS, president of United Artists Corporation, will retire permanently from business within two vears, it is rumored, and g0 back to Maine to lv Incidentally, this native son of Port- lund.'lleu is returning to his birth- place’ a millionaire, and in prepar: tion for his return has already pur- chased a cre farm, where he plans to make his home. It was as a young man in Portland that Mr. Abrams first came into con- tact with theaters years ago. These contacts led to the establishment of a film exchange in Boston, which Mr. Abrams left to join the Paramount company in New York, of which he became presidept. Mr. Abrams found that under the then avallable distribu- tion systems such stars as Mary Pick- ford, Douglas Fairbanks -and Charlie Chaplin were far-from realizing their box-office value on hundreds of po- tential bookings of their productions. Thus, with these three celebrities and D. W. Griffith as owners and pro- ducing members, Mr, Abrams’ theory crystallized seven years ago with the foundation of United Artists Corpora- tlon, the producing membership of which has since grown to a point where it includes, In addition to its founders, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, John Barrymore, Buster lS‘(‘fifigl. Snrgu:; G?ldwyn, Joseph M. k and Morris Gest - ing members. g e Roosevelt's Do\;ble. h';:\nfrom Qvt:’y walk of life have on suggested as “living doubles’ of Theg¢dore Roosevelt to pln‘y the role of the ‘l_nla President in “The Rough Riders.” which Paramount s to pro- duce. The following list includes some who have volunteered or who have been suggested for the trying role: J. A. Nicholas of Los Angeles, a car- penter, who was actually a member of the Rough Riders’ regiment; Frank Hopper of Los Angeles, a book agent; Peter de Jesu, a saflor at the naval training station at Newport, R, I.; Dr. Judson Moshelle, a physictan of In- dianapolis; Rev. L. Wiiliam Hones of Roscoe, N. Y.; O. B. Olson, a sea. cap- tain; Prof. A. S. Eve, a college pro- fessor of McGill University, Montreal; Mayor Davis of Woburn, Mass; Ed- ward Gabori, customs inspector at Christobal, Panama Canal Zone; Re- fugio Pacheco of El Paso, Tex., and Dr. P. Montague of Mercer Uni- ersity, Macon, Ga. . An award of $500 has heen offered by Paramount, through Hermann Hagedorn, Roosevelt’s biographer, Wwho is writing the screen story of ‘The Rough Riders,” for the first per- son who sends in the name and pho- tograph of the man finally selected. Hagedorn {s now at the Paramount studio in Hollywood. Earl Carroll Announces. “wflll the season of 1925-26 draw- z ing to 4 close and no presenta- tion of the Earl Carroll Vanities out- side of New York, Earl Carroll is be- ginning to receive letters of protest from all over the country against withdrawing his annual revue from the road. “When the censorship in Philadel- phia and Boston mutliated his Vani- ties to the extent that he could not recognize the production himself, Mr. Carroll arbitrarily canceled the entire route of the offering for this season and announced he would not en- deavor to combat further prudish cen- sorship. At that time letters from Western cities not dominated by church-bound politicians began to pour into his office, but he paid no heed to them. “Requests for the Vanities and pro- tests against being classed with blue- law towns have had their effect, and possibility of sending out next sea- son the present and best edition of the Vanities of his entire career. This, the fourth edition, has broken all revue records in New York for length of run and for the monetary returns.” Mr. Carroll's press representative is here quoted. - In the Spotlight 'LARE KUMMER, author of| 7 “Pomeroy’s Past,” is planning a . play in which her cousin, Willlam | Glllette, will appear, next season. A. H. Woods announces the pur- chase of a mystery comedy, “Mr. X," written by Joseph Szebenvel, a Hun- garian author. It will be produced in the Fall. o Russell Mack has pul entitled “Lonely Wives, York production late in August, with himseit in the leading role. “The Star Gazer,” by Howard Irving Young, has been purchased by the Stagers for production next sea- son. Lynn Overman will play the roll created by Willlam Collier in the musical version of “Nothing But the Truth,” which H. I Frazee will pro- duce in the Fall as a successor to “No, No, Nanet Because of the splendid reception accorded George Arliss in “Old Eng- lish” on tour last season, he is being routed to the Pacific Coast. “The Good Fellow,” a comedy by George 8. Kaufman and Herman J. Mankiewicz, will be tried out by Crosby Gaige at Asbury Park June 21i Sidney Toler will play the leading role, The mnew play in whiche Bertha Kalich will be seen in New York next season {s announced as ‘‘The Diver- sions of an Empress,” by Louls N. Parker. . “I Can’t Bear It,” by Norma Mitchell and Russell Medcraft, was presented last week in Newark, prior to a New York engagement. Miss Mitchell is & membe# of the cast. ‘The New Yi nounced that by Goldsmith Riley, has won the 51,000 prize,and David Belsaco Cup offered by the paper some time ago. ~ FEthel Strickland, Richard Nichols and Jackie Gratten are additions the cast of “The Half-Naked Truth.” Booth, Gleason and True have oh tained an option on Clare Kummer's new play, “Spick and Spanish.” Brock Pemberton next month will try out a play by J. Frank Davis called "The Ladder.” Mr. Davis is a writer of fiction, living In San Antonio, Tex,, and was formerly a Boston newspaper man. Rita Gould, vaudeville headliner, is to appear on the stage {g the Fall in a comedy drama with songs en- titled “Arabella,” which was writ- ten for her by Howard McKent Barnes. Lew Fields has postponed re- hearsals of his Summer revue, and it will not be presented probably until the middle of July. In the meantime, he is casting a second company of “The Girl Friend.” Fay Bainter hegins the rehearsal next month of u comedy by Vincent Lawrence called “Sour Grapes.” Mr. Lawrence has written, among oth & Girl Willlam Harris, jr., is making the production. Crosby Gaige has signed contracts for the production of “They Had to Seo Parls,” a_ humorous novel by Homer Crov. The dramatization will be made by Owen Duvis. The story concerns a family in Oklahoma who suddenly strike oil, become millfon- | sires and go to Parls to buy their daughter a French title, Louise Brown, whom Bernard Sobel considers one of the most gifted of young American musical comedy principals, has been placed under a five-year contract by Florenz Ziegfeld and will make her first ap- pearance in his new musical produc- tion. George M. Cohan, one of the best known actor-writer-producers in the American theater, and author of “The Song and Dance Man,” opened his rew Chicago theater, “The Four Cohans,” two weeks ago. It is a shrine, essentially, to his mother and father. Himself and daughter make up the other two Forced to retire and close his show, playing to S. R. O. signs, because of illness, George M. Cohan; author of “The Song and Dance Man,” can- celled all appearances of his play until his complete recovery. He has only recently released it for stock produc- tion. Winthrop Ames announces that George Arliss will continue for an- other season in John Galsworthy's “0ld English.” The Choir I_nv.i;fie. in “Visi- ble” Program. 'HE Choir Invisible will give a con- cert Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in St. | Margaret’s Parish Hall, Joseph Pache conducting. This is one of the few opportunities which the public has had to hear this organization “face to face,” as it was organized for the speclal purpose of singing over the afr, in which work it has become known in many cities and has had substantial contributions of money from people who enjoyed its music. ‘The program for this concert ig as follows: “Adonamus Te Christe (G. Corsi): aria Ve from ‘‘Don Giovanni” ozart) | Requiem" & ): two g8 ane) B 0_S Handel from the “Manzon| Th sk Gop it (o ang Brahms): aria from “Egther” ‘Waft Her th i b ivindsn o Irieh s 0 The soloists are Mabel Colde! stroth Boyd, Carolyn Boardman Mc- Donnell, sopranos; Mabel Dyer, con- tralto; Roy Willlams, tenor; Richard McCarteney, baritone: Marion Kiess, basso, and Sam Feldman, viola player. Katharine Seely Wallace is accom- panist. y e Another New Movie Trick. | ILMING scenes in and about the new Ziegfeld Theater, which is yet to be erected on Fifty-fourth street, New York, at least six months before the theater is actually bullt, is the seeming imposibility to accom- plished in the making of the new Paramount production, “Glorifying the American Girl,” which is now in preparation at the company’'s Long Island studio. 'his feat of motion picture wizardry will be achieved by the use of atudio sets constructed from -the _original plans of the architect, Josef Urban, and representing in actual size the en: tire stage, lobby, orchestra (with 850 seats) and exterion of the new theater. The sets, now ng completed, are exact reproductions in every detail of design and decorative beauty. They will require a studio stage space 150 i v;llh & celling backstage life of the chorus girl, its hardships, temptations and glittering success. It will be directed by Edward Suther. land, under the personal supervision of Florenz Ziexfeld, jr. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Capital Side Shows GLEN ECHO PARK. Glen Echo is continuing a three. day celebration today with all the amusement devices running on_holi- day schedule, including the new Hum- ming Bird coaster, the caterpillar, the carrousel, the midway, the skooter, the whip and the many others, total- ing 50 in all, “turned on" promptl at 1 o'clock and continuing throu untfl midnight. Additional facilities have been pro- vided for basket parties in the large picnic groves, and *“‘Happy” Walker’s new orchestra plays for the dancers In the new ballroom, CHEVY CHASE LAKE. The syncopation that . emanates from both upper and lower dance pavilions at Chevy Chase Lake is guaranteed to be’ true blue jazz. ‘The Meyer Davis Orchestra, led by Ben Levine, holds forth on the upper pavilion. *“White hot jazz,” right out of the furnace is promised by the Peck Mills Orchestra. on the lower pavilion. The’natural beauty of Chevy Chase ‘lAke in the moonlight is always allur- ng. v ARLINGTON BEACH. With the arrival of the new water toboggan, the history of W gt parks, it is claimed, Arlington Beach iy prepared for its midseason stride. Besides the large dance pavilion and the bathing beach in particular, the innovation of installing at the park at the south end of the Highway Bridge of a system of amplifiers, strung along the bathing beach and concessions, which will carry music from the Arlington Beach Orchestra throughout the park, are relied upon to win the patronage of those in search of outdoor amusements. CHATEAU LE PARADIS. All the trimmings are promised for the “Night in Hades” at the Chateau le Paradis Tuesday evening, when each member of the band will appear a costume representing his indi- idual conception of the Prince of Evil. Walter Kolk, premier enter- tainer, will appear in a series of jazz dance numbers and will also warble several ballads. “Surprise night” {s announced for Thursday, with a roster of impromptu entertainers. MARSHALL HALL. The steamer Charles Macalaster will begin its regular trips today to Marshall Hall, long favorite pleasure resort on the Potomac, leaving the Seventh street wharf at 10:30 a.m., again at 2:30 p.m. and at 6:30 p.m. On week days the morning .trip is made at 10 a.m. Today's feature at Marshall Hall will be free dancing in the large pavilion to music by McWilllams’ Orchestra. There are also a score of other attractions; large picnic groves, carrousel, kissing bug, roller coaster, bowling alleys, aeroplane swings, and playgrounds for children. On the 10 a/m. and 2:30 trips week days the steamer Mount Verno: On Sundays Mount Vernon is closed. CHESAPEAKE BEACH. Chesapeake Beach, which opened for the season yesterday, today will continue in gale. three-day celebra- tion which will reach its climax to- morrow, Speclal trains will be operated to.accommodate the holiday crowds. X The boardwalk yesterday was thronged with merrymakers, the mermalds were disporting the salty surf, the amusement fairyland was churning out merriment, and the dancers were Charlestoning to the rhythm of Ralph Garren's Carolin- ians. The bathing beach, under management this year of the Beach Railway, has cut rates one-third Dancing pavillion congestion has been eliminated by rearrangement of entrances and exits, and Garren's Jazz boys play continuously, begin- ning at 4 p.m. LE PARADIS. Dancing under the stars to the compelling syncopations of thHe Le Paradis Band on the Le Paradis roof is suggested as the ideal way of end- I:{ the busy day, Jack Golden will take over the leadership .of the Le Paradis Band next week, and Bert Bernath, the talented violinist of the Club Chantecler, will be the new Le Paradis violinist. A Summer program of amusement specialties, it is expected, will begin early in June. SWANEE-IN-THE-AIR. Swanee-in-the-Air the big dance re- sort on the Earle Theater roof, an- nounces dance music by: the §wanee Synéopators, under Al Kamons, as the featured attraction. Thursday night, is “Radio night,” for which Director Kamons always prepares a feature program. It 18 expected that a regular pro- gram of speclally booked entertain- ment will be fnaugurated in June to continue throughout the Summer. COLONIAL BEACH. Colonial Beach opened its season yesterday, and the steamer St. Johns carried a large crowd to the resort on the first trip at 2:30 p.m. The steamer St. Johns will make another trip to the Beach today, leaving the Seventh street whart at 9 a.m., and again tomorrow at 9 a.m. Colonial Beach offers varied enter- tainment and amusement, including salt-water bathing with a long, sandy :.veuh. fishing, crabbing and danc- ng. Throughout the season the steamer will make regular trips to Colonial Beach Saturday at 2:30 pm. and Sunday at 9 a.m., as well ag 40-mile moonlight trips, beginning Tuesday of this week at 7:15 p.m. every week day except Saturday, with free dancing on the deck. The Bowers‘ Invention. F there is any modern innovation in which the legendary magic of our fairy tales lives, breathes and has scientific being, it is the motion pic- ture camera, says a writer in-the Film Booking Offices. And the newest and perhaps the most amazing master of camera magic, he continues, and that includes the manipulation of the film after the amera has done its work, is Char- ley Bowers, invent of the new “Bowers' process,” which will be one of the biggest surprises in the coming motion picture season. In his own studlo in Long Island (& which he built for himself with his own funds, this young inventor and his assistant, larold Mueller, do impossible things. They have mas- tered secrets of space and time and evolved something distinctly different —not Ly animated ¢ through superimposition, but simply by unusual photography and the sub- sequent use of the new process in the dark room, which gives startling ef- fects in whinsical deflance of all laws of nature, and in flat contradiction of that bromide statement that the camera, like figures, cannot le. Not long ago Mr. Bowers received permission to photograph the Capitol in Washington, provided he used no actors in the scen A little later, miles and miles he “shot” a few teet of film of an elephant and also of a donkey. his process and presently there came «a political picture that showed a pro- cession of elephants in stately prog- ress through pillared portico and into the halls of the Government, while u troop of donkeys beat a hur- ried retreat down the sacred white marble steps. It was perfectly real— 8o realistic, in fact, that it actuall; provoked senatorial protest and in- quiry! A member of Congress who saw the film, which was not shown publicly for political reasons, asked who had permitted a showman to use his ani- mals in such a nianner, and demanded an investigation, that there might be no repetition of the desecration of the Capitol steps. Charley Bowers can photograph any one and then show him doing anything imaginable—walking a tight rope, sitting atop the dome of the Capitol or St. Peter's in Rome or fly- ing blithely from the top of the Wool- worth Building in New York to a jum | tower of the new bridge at Philadel- phia, even if he had never done any of these fascinating things. He can show a cat dancing the Charleston—not an animated-carteon cat, but our own fireside tabby—and a lion in the jungle powdering- his nose. He can make the BStatue of Liberty bow to the Leviathan as she steams into the New York Harbor, or he can tie the Washington Monument Mass Meeting of mediums of all Spiritual Churches SUNDAY, 3 P.M. To Mfigfi 61m(onl of L'Aiglon Salon—18th and Col. Rd. Public Invited No Admission 400 Seats — TODAY - MON - TUES-WED The Comedy Sensation MONEY TALKS WITH CLAIRE WINDSOR, OWEN MOORE and BERT ROACH THRILLS are what ths re has _nothing else dut. ghs tumbdle over_one onother. Coming Thureday-— “The Exquisite Sinner”. with Conrad N & Vauderille First Week in August Then he got busy with | 1 would | i i into a double bowknot. These are in- teresting and surprising stunts, but Bowers' achievements are bigger than merely playing with time, space and the law of gravitation. Should his| process be put in universal use, it he possible to eliminate the building of expensive acts. The idea is not a wild dream, but a perféct reality, supported by the con- crete fact that Mr. Bowers has re- fused a seven-figure price from one of the largest motion picture corpora- tions for the exclusive rights to his process, and that Film Booking Offices has him under contract to make a series of 12 two-reel comedies. e ek Seek New Faces. HE Pathfinder Film Company the California, Studios, Holly- wood, has started a search to obtain new faces and personalities for the screen, influenced by the fact that there are at present in Hollywood 8 stars and approximately 15 fea- tured players who obtained their en- trance into motion pictures by means of movie and beauty contests, Instead of conducting a movie con test, however, the Pathfinder officials | will select the supporting players by | means of their photographs, on the re verse side of which the applicants must give a complete description of themselves, what parts they believe they are qualified to play and what experience, if any. they have had. Mary Philbin, Clara Bow, Gertrude Olmstead, Mary Astor, Fay Lamphier, Virginia Brown Faire and Alyce Mills entered motion pictures and reached stardom through contests, although some of them had mno experience before, CHFSAPEA;EI-:Y BEACH s—8£1m . . Sundaga: 318t: 9730, o7 il Coming Attractions NATIONAL—"Little Miss Bluebeard.” Following the current production at | N/ the Natlonal of “The 8ong and Dance Man,” the National Players will offer, beginning June 7, Irene Bordonl's successful comedy-drama, “Little Miss Bluebeard,” adapted by Avery Hop- wood from the Hungarian. For twc: s plece served Miss Bordon m::g‘dh l;‘" and in the bigger road citle l‘!l‘ story of “Little Miss Blue beard” concerns the experience: one Colette of Paris, who, through no fault of her own, is apparently twice married; that is, she seems to be mar. ried to two men, one of the pair hav- ing given his friend’s name at the ceremony. An embarrassing situa- tion, and Hopwood has slyly compli- cated it beyond the original Hunga- rian version. Colette's first entrance finds confronting her two ‘hus- bands,” and the livellest of do!ngs ensue. These are emphasized when feminine admirers of her one husband appear on the scene and throw hys- terics as developments dawn on them. Hopwood's genius for smothering his characters in complicated situa- tions and then extricating them when all hope Beems lost is given thorough practice in this laughable farce. KEITH'S—Belle Baker. Belle Baker will headline the bill at B. F, Keith's Theater next week. The featurs will be Mr. and M Jimmy Barry, who will present M Barry’s act, “The Scandals of Hen: foot Corners. EARLE—Bobby Heath & Co. Bobby Heath & Co., will headline next week’s b.ll at the Earle Theater. The screen offering will be Producers’ Sve's Leaves," starring Leatrice | SOROROTY BENEFIT. The young ladies of Phi Sigma Epsilon, one of the local high school sororities, have announced u_ benefit at the National Theater Tuesd evening, June §, when “Little Miss; Bluebeard” will be presented by the National Theater Players. The pur- pose of the benefit is to furnish and equip the new studio recently acquir- ed by the Phi Sigma Epsilon. Tickets may be obtained at the theater box officec or of any member of the sorority. 1 Romance in Gay Livery. IDNEY OLCOTT, who declares that the day of the costume motion pic- ture drama is here to stay, sums up the reasons in the following terse apothegm: “The dreamer in every man and woman has ever clothed his romances in gay and colorful livery."” It is Olcott’s theory that such stories as “‘Ranson’s Folly,” which he recently completed with Barthelme: Jeffery Farnol's romance of the Regency Period, “The Amateur Gen- tleman,” now in course of production, ; and “The Four Feathers,” which is| the next story scheduled, lose some- thing in romantic and theatric values when interpreted in terms of the mod. ern day. Olcott adds: “Even the actor feels the influence of this. When he dons ! the uniform of a dashing soldler, he unconsciously feels the role; when he wears the period costumes, he finds himself emulating the manners of that | HE Famous Players-Lasky Cor- poration has been advised, from several sections of the country, that men are going around soliciting new pupils for the second Paramount School. ~ All such individuals are frauds, it is announced. No individual has been n such authority. i The only legitimate solicitation is | connection with the showing of Fascinating Youth," th i which now is touring the l: the country. And all screen tests, are made through recognized Publix | theaters, or theaters playing “‘Fusci- | nating Youth.” i MARSHALL HALL Located on the Beautiful Petomac FREE DANCING McWilliams' Orehestra. All Amusements STEAMER CHAS. MACALESTER Leaves Tth Street Wharf VERNON A X. and 3:00 P. M. MOUNT Weok-days Oaly—10 -;—_EGINN"{G SUNDAY MATINEE, MAY 30 A GALA HOLIDAY SHOW Speciall gk l'T'lu Sensation of Lo Offering 8 Routine of BSlasling 9 Likting Songe Special Do Luxe Feature The Aristoorats of Dence TREVOR & HARRIS Asswsted by Fred Hall’s Recording Orchestra — N Esztra Added Amu‘lon. MODENA'’S FANTABTIC REVUE ong and Dance Soloists. A Nov- elty Supreme B ed as a Super-Attraction ngag per-. Super-Acts Su; JACK Q) CLIFFORD lemera Bye” Carter e e O NAYNES & BECK {Olivette & Fred) Traoms, Return of this of dets e AMUSEMENT New York's Air Attack. BW YORK was attacked from the alr recently—and a typical unit of the defense which the United States Army maintains to guard the Nation’s metropolis from destruction actually went {nto action. That (the attacking plane was not sent crashing down into Long Island Sound was due probably to the fact that the anti-aircraft guns were firing blank shells—for the contest was only in mimic warfare in conjunc- tion with the production of a photo- play now in the making in New Yeork City. This latést movie “stunt” was staged at Fort Totten on the North Shore of Long Island, one of the sev- eral Army ts which are maintained to guard New York City and New York harbor from attack from the Atlantic Ocean or from the air. Fort Totten, on Long 1Island, is practically on the main shore line of the United States and commands & logical appreach to the heart of New York City from the Atlantic by way of Long Island Sound, passing Mon- tauk Point on the extreme easterly end of Long Island—a point, by the way—which is roughly twenty-four hours nearer by ocean-going steamship than New York City proper. The United States Army, through consent of Brig. Gen. Parker, acting commander of the 2d Corps Area, at Governors Island, and Robert Kane, the motion picture producer, were partners in the demonstration. Mr. Kane i{s making a picture called “The Great Deception,” from George Gibbs' war novel, “The Yellow Dove,” in which aerial warfare plays a dramatic part. What the Kane company wanted to photograph for the picture happened to be just about the same sequence of events that would trans- Ideals in RICHA.RD BARTHELMESS, more than any other star of filmdom, has consistently lived his artistic life in a world of chivalry and romance. He has never played an ignoble part throughout his film career, but has remained steadfastly in pursuit of his ideal, “Tol'able David,”” of immortal fame, which planted him firmly in the public mind as a dreamer of high dreams who was ready to give his life { to make them come true. In “The Seventh Day,” “Sonny” 1 and “The Bondboy,” which followed “Tol'able David,” Barthelmess por- trayed roles instinct with unsullied youth and high endeavor. In “Fury” and “The Bright Shawl" he rose to rare heights of realistic | == alism. Tlis next picture, Fighting Blade,” was somewhat simi lar in theme although there is not so much the impulsive youth as the grim young soldier of fortune, arrived from Holland and espousing the struggles of stalwart Oliver Cromwell and his army for liberty all Englishmen. was totally different in atmosphere, but still the central theme was of the youth standing up for right nd honor against the forces of selfishness and greed. “The Enchanted C(ottage” is de- iclared the most spiritual medium for | the display In it he gives a representation of the noble truth that beauty is not a mat- ter of the senses but of the soul. The leritics acclaimed this creation as one of the finest achievements of screen, It is only necessa: remaining starring mates,” “New Toy “Shore Leuve,” and “Just Suppos the to mention his —to make it evi- P ———mr———r— COLONIAL BEACH “Washingten's Atlastio Olty" Saltwater Bathing, Fishing, Crabbing, Dancing, Attractions Palatial Steamer, ST. JOHNS Leaves Seventh St. Wharf Today and Tomorrow, 9 A. M. 40 Mile MOONLIGHT TRIP Tuesday, Juse 1, 7:16 9. m. FREE DANCING ATIONA » 1 of the art of Richard | Barthelmess which he has vet chosen. | pire if New York were actually a tacked from the air. Here's what happened: Shortly after 9 o'clock, by meana of what the Army people call a “later ing device,” the hum of an airplane motor was heard while the plane was about five miles away from Fort Tot ten and at an elevation of 5,000 fee: or more. Troops to repel an aircraf' attack were led to their posts. A battery of five powerful searchlighte each with reflectors 60 inches i diameter and with 600,000,000 candle wer electric light supplied by in dividual portable generators, wer« spotted around the fort. Field tele phonic communication between the commanding officer's station and th: several lights and anti-aircraft gune were quickly established. On quicl command, one after another, the Li: searchlights were flashed iInto the sk as the hum of the airplane motor be came audible to the naked ear. Buddenly into one of the powerfu beams there flashed a tiny obje which looked llke a silver firefly Then, at sharp command, every bean of light on the fleld was focused o the plane and for 15 minutes or moi« it circled the fort as clearly visible to the troops below as if it had bee: in a brilliantly lighted' show window on Fifth avenue. Its elevation and speed were quickly figured by the in tricate mechanical device the Arm: uses. An antlaircraft gun crew sprung to position. There was a bark which split the quiet night, a flash o! flame—and had a real projectile an not a blank been fired the chan are considerably more than even tha! the plane would have crashed int Long Island Sound, for the raider wa- then within easy range of the gu:n which, in official tests, has shot dow many a towed aerial target. Pictures dent that they fully carry out the Barthelmess tradition of idealism. *“Ranson’s ¥oll his latest picture in Washington, from_ the celebrate: story by Richard Harding Davis, c tinues the Barthelmess tradition. 1: the story he exhibits his accustome: spirit of self-sacrifice and sweet de votion to the one and only cheice « his heart. —_— From the role of the Prodigal Son i “The Wanderer" to the role of a mo« ern American jockey is bridging vac: tlons with a vengeance but Willfan Collier, jr., did it in Clarence Badger - Paramount production of “The Rair maker."” I — TAKE THE DELIGHTFUL TEOL- LEY TRIP | FOLLOWING = THE BANKS OF THE FOTOMAC BIVER VIA COMMODIOUS CARS OF THE WASHINGTON RAILWAY __AND ELECTRIC ' COMPANY MARKED GLEN ECHO OR. CABIN JORN, DIKECT T0 THE GREAT, BI FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK | GLEN ECHO WHERE WILL BE FOUND ALL THE STANDARD ATTRACTIONS SUCH AS ARE_ONLY FOUND I THE EST OF AMERICA'S FAMOUS PLEASURE PARKS OF HIGH STANDING, AND THE NEW THRILLING $65,000.00 “HUMMING BIRD" ROLLER COASTER ADDED TO THE OTHER AND 41 OTHER AMUSEMENTS TODAY NIGHT | ALL SEATS 50c $1.10, 75¢ & 50¢ [sar. mar., 75¢,50¢ NATIONAL THEATER PLAYERS, DIRECTION CLIFF! Olzb BROOKE GEO. M. COHAN'S GREATEST SUCCESS “George M. Cohan's mew play is probably his greatest success. Will appeal to every man, woman and child in the country.” Y. Daily News. N. “In this comedy-drama, Mr. Cohan's skilled playwriting holds you before.” N. Y. Tridune. as perhaps he has never held you “The best play George M. Cohan has written since Baldpate!’” BNy Boria, “Generously studded with laughs, and it also has moments that bring the heart up under the chin.” . Next | AVERY HOPWOOD'S Week LITTLE MISS BLUEBEARD " N. Y. Times. SPARKLNG COMEDY | geqto Selling THE, LINCOLN THEATER STREET AT 12th' 'SUN.~MON ~TUES. FIRST NATIONAL PRESENTS LEWIS S. STONE AND BARBARA LA MARR IN A ROMANTIC DRAMA OF SPANISH NIGHTS—THE GIRL FROM MONTMARTRE AESOP - WED., THURS. AND FRI MARIE MONTE PREVOST BLUE Huntley M’: ”"vaml Haver Other Women's Husbands ALICE DAY IN A SENNETT COMEDY ' FABLE SATURDAY RAYMOND GRIFFITE HeR b e aoSTer e Weare WET . PAINT LIGE CONLEY IN “LIGHT HOUSE KEEPING” Sat. Only—“The Bar-O Mystery”