Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 62

2 AMUS EMENTS. An Artist Sel REQU years as the curtain arose on plays by the National Players, dis cloging an unusnal scene, even for the theater, the audience has heen heard to give a audible “Ah™ fol lowed by more or less handelapping to Indicate that the play was away 1o a good start Some will immediat ble with their pro; cause of it all, and x incident pass merely more or less pleasure ing why Oceasions clude the year, “The Cause was atmosphere view. It Deautit ence. appla NTLY during the past two presented ¥ hegin to fum ams o see any will let the 1 incident of without inquir- red in en last and the mountatn brought o looked nstonishingly natural. and the audi- | sp and perfunctory | as a matter of wien this ocey wonderful seenery the nd all ' nd weepted mother incident of the Cyril Maude's famous play Al was given thing oceurred Old New York.” Dance Man,” “The “Other Side SOHORUS C “0h aire,” hundreds of Kind wher Aren’t e And the sume with “Lit n Girl Shouts Broker,” | ine pes With Million- | “Dancer Asks Heart Balm™ and er headlines present by the Broad led of lite nities side the v publicized Iy wav's musical shows | Only recently a girl who appeared in wwmerous productions during the past few years snddenly hecame insane An investigation disclosed she was the | #ole support of an invalid mother and | a young sister Rut those in the theater audience ! who had watched her dancing and lis taned to her singing and the managers who had pail her $50 a week about 30 times a year never would have guessed the trouble she was having head of a family Then t 1 rus mother kind-hem going regulations, just one the story of a you She had o work A manager of L company tour overlooked rules and o the buby sccompanied ! fts dancing mother from coast 1o coust and back awain | It is nothing unusual fu A chorus | girl to have dependents, sald Mrs. Torothy Bryant, tary of the| Chorus Equity Association, and the | tasks rtake in efforts to earn | money ar as the charac- | ters they per i | With the ave ary and period | of emplovment at $50 and 30 weeks a | vear, respectively, the girle arescom- | pelled to do other work. June to Sep- | tember is the casting season and their ©odd jobs must leavé them free to zearch for places during this time. Some act as models for artists Many make good money posing for sect getting | the | | neck dom Named. Warning.” and only last week with “Little Miss Bluebeard.” [even one of the stage hands, would at | once divine the cause of these mao | mentary gasps of pleasure, very brief and sometimes hardly realized to the full by those who give them Back stage, never in sight of the | audience, but high up among the flies every week Charles Squires may be seen, garbed in purple and’ fine linen, not resplendent with the orna- [ ments thut set off the plavers helow, but often in overalls. He Ix paint ing and prepuring the rure scenlc ef- | tocts that cause the zasps and “ahs” |and “ohs” & weelc ahead. And when | the curtain tises on the production in which they are used, the gasps and “ahs” und “ohs” ure his reward for work well done. Mr. Squires i3 fapous for his scenic art. 1s has painted the offects fo ome of the largest productions ever staged, and his experience ranges from vaudeville sketches, through revues and extravaganzas to the high- est scente art of the theater. He has been at it many vears and everyhody worth while fn the theater knows him | and values his wonderful talents, w not O — commerclnl photographers. Rubber b iy much ax §2 weelt for girls and men to sit in their muchines while cash cust < zathered in. \When one bus the girls move on to another. Night clubs attract many. either entertainers or hostesses. They < movie extras. A few are pari-time tenographers and secretaries. Cafes nd ten shops employ many as wait- resses. Some of Mrs. ve these Few of the musical revue girls save their monev. do not have much to save. The mod ern chorus givl must he well dressed as a part of her business require ments, The burlesque shaw girls are better suvers. They are more accus tomed o hard times and know how to prepare ¢ tie lean inonths. Chorus girls usually pay buck funds saned them by the association. Hundreds come here frow other cities expecting to find employment on the xt A surprisingly large num. b ther are beautiful nor equipped in_uny way for the chorus. Between 2500 and 3,000 paid-up members now are on the Eauity's roll, which con- tains a total of 7,000 names. Many chorus girls marry. Those who marry outside their profession usually remain happ married. Those who marry within seldom es- cape the divorce court Few college girls are in the chorus. College boys seldom make good chorus men Morally the chorus girls' profession is just as good as any other woman's profession.—Associated Prese. comedy _and Bhey Necd Wane Mones. PHAT motlon picture exhibitors in | the future will tuke & leaf from the Look of legimate theater owners and have motion picture houses class- ified according to types of pictuves, is the bellet of Ray Rockett, one of National's proucers. On every side,” says Rocket, “you hear people asking why there are not more ‘highbrow’ pictures. Why this and that is not put on the screen Why Shakespeare and Shaw and Plato and Aristotle and a lot of other peo- ple's works are not screened. Why there are not more fantasies, allegori cal pictures. “The reasen fs very {s because the general public not want such pictures, will support them and a company makes them finds itself footing bhills and, in the language of street, ‘holding the bag.’ “However, 1 believe that there is| a distinct demand for such pictures | among certain types of people | throughout not only America but the world in_general. There are many | people who are not uttending picture | Tt does not who | the | the evident, theaters now who would go if they had such pictures to see. ““The solution to this problem, in my opinion, i coming with the placing of ‘spectal’ pictures in legiti- mate theuters at u price far above the charge of a regular motion picture theater. People are beginning to realize that motlon picture producers are making pictures which are worth two dollars to any one Of conrse, there are many who will not attend uch theaters. For them will e the regular movie houses. “This movement. 1 think, is going to spread throughout the country within the next few vears. There will be at least one theater in every ig city where the ‘highbrow' and the unusual will be seen and in which a2 real clientele will be built up: a clientele large enough so motion picture producers will he able to go ahead and screen storfes which by reasons purely economical now keep them from the screen. With the coming of these theaters motion pic tures will have taken a tremendous forward step and nothing will be impossible. Stars Hard tp Get. S*T'HE "man who finds a method of | discovering the hidden Mary | Pickfords, Charlie Chaplins and others iike them, has a fortune with- in his grasp, says Al Rackett, pro- ducer of the famous picture “Abraham Tdncoln These future stars will not he recruited from the spoken stage. A few, perhaps, will | find thefr wav In through the ‘extra’ ranks, but the stars of the future will have to be discovered from the great Amerfcan public that thusx far is not thinking of going inte pictures ““I'he question 1s, ‘How are we going to find these people” The man who Afscovers the way is a millionalre the day he does it There is & crying need for women who can play leading feminine roles, but the greater need at present is for women who are beautiful, sweet, zraceful, and have poise and brains to play what we call the second leads. Constantly, we. here in New York, have to send to Hollywood for such players. There are only a few there, so when they reach New York the producers in_ Hollywood are waiting eagerly for their return to play simi- lar parts there. “There are enough not of in fact, there ure muny of them going ubout thet ily dutiex throughout the country But to find them and get them before the cumera is one uf the biggest tasks thut faces the motion picture industry today. “This is & condition that has always been with us, but as the industry has developed so has the magnitude of the problem of play “The question of plaver supply promises to be the higgest problem we of the motion pleture industry will have to solve, Vetsin ‘The Fig’i‘nting’ I\’Ia.ljine~ N “The Fighting Marine,” the new Pathe serial starring Gene Tun ney, the challenger of Jack Dempsey, Tunney has in his support 12 over- seas veterans, who will help to insure the accuracy of the scenes. Tunney Corps in France, reticent on his war record, and luath to use it for public:| ity purposes, but nevertheless very | proud of his adventures. It was the training cumps and the bowts in| France that gave him his training and ambition to be the heavywelight | champlon. Spencer Bennet member of the Wwas i member of the Marine director, was a| Division, serving in the headquarters company of the| 164th Rri ie, nd rode motor evele bearing dispatches throughont the zone of combat, One of the incidents of his| life has been written into the secript by Frank Leon Smith. Joseph H. Roach, who helped Frank Leon Smith write the fighting sto was In the medical service and most of the time at the front. He was badly wounded in action near St. Mihiel, Walter Miller, who plays Larry the Plumber, was u member of the real daredevils serving in the Tank Corps, and Sherman Ross, the leading hea was an Army aviator. In making the picture, Tunney had a veteran of overseas service at every ungle. Some of the others in the picture arve Roy Heinze, 2d Field Artillery; O. L. McPherson, 91st Division, 364th Infantry Machine Gun Company: Bud in the Navy on a torpedo boat Wally Oettel, in camouflage . and Ted Pierce of Artillery. There were destroyer unit of the Nav: the 161st lea others, A Comedy "Find." IVIEN OAKLAND is the “find” of the vear for comedies—in the opinion of F. Richard Jones, vice president and director-general of the Hal Roach Studios, where Pathe comedies are made Miss Oakland has been on the stage gince she was 11, first as a dancer and then principally in vaudeville. although her training has been varied has played comedy roles from ne ick to the height of subtlety She has played with C| and Glenn Tryon, also with i dter Lionel Ba rley Chase Claude more. MR BY YOUNG LADY PROF. AND MRS, 1. 11 100 st 1 with' orely Priv. leasons by ppontiment. | Fr. & Est. 1000, 16 DAVISON’S Teach sou o dance cor- rectly in A few lessons. PROF STUDIO, n., Fri., 8 0 D Heaven and Hell Pictured. HE pearly gates of the Elysian Fields wera opened recently at Astoria, Long Island, and a thousand lost souls marched into the Kingdom of Heaven. This astonishing event took place at the Paramount studio, and the scene, one of the most difficult, technically, ever filmed, it Is sald, will appear in the new D. W. Griffith production, “Sorrows of Satun. Soon, as a sequence in the same picture, Hell in all fts traditional and tiery ugliness will be created by the same magicians of the camera. The original designs for these su- pernatural sets were made by Nor- man-Bel Geddes, stage and screen artist, who was responsible for the settings of ““The Miracle” and other large-scale presentations. . The Shamrock Handicap,” Films adaption of Peter B. Kyne's story of horse racing in Kildare, Tre- land. and this country, is said to be as near a counferpart to the English B Y n “1733. " evening Charleston. Foxtrot, Tango. Waltz. Coll ey Grand Natlonal Steeplechase as was ever screened. An experfenced theater manager, or | Bryant's observations | They | these | | women to go around. There must he THE SUNDAY In the Spotlight **QUNNY" reached its 300th per- formance the New Amster. dam Theater, New York, Monday | night and is stin drawing crowds, at A. H. ment that Russell Mack: has pu the rights to nely Wives, ~hased ML 1 Icholas “Black will =opn Velvet,” a play by obertso author of ““The Woman" and “Big Gan Is to produe lission Mary” in New York in the 1ail. ““I'he Phantom Ship,” an adaptation m the German of Rudolph Lot and Osear Retter by Owen Davis, will be tried out in Asbury Park next week, with Ruth Gordon in the lead- tng role. Sea A Small Town Girl,” # musiesl medy with bhook and lyrics by srge . Stoddard and music by T + will e presented at Atlanti by Clark 1oss Clara Kummer leaves (his week for Narragansett, where she will write a play for William Gilletté and put the fnishing touches 1o “Spick and Spanish.” & comedy written for her daughter, The first play o be pury of the Yale dramatic workshop of Prof. Buker ix “Chicigo,” by Maurine Watkins, The piece will be dy Sam L Harvvis wnd Laura D, Wilek Miss Watking formerly did newspaper | work in Chi iased out and Gregory Ko with Lyceum Playe 1y for a Night, 11 G. Mederaft from an original Ruth Gordon L will ey ont Rochester, “A 1 finished by R Norma Mitche! Hutcheson Royd in ve and by next year member of the hoard of of the Theater Guild. in Ibelng an active member of repertory company. Miss | cently returned from K with her husband, Stdney who brought a play which the guild hopes { to produce next xeason Clare Eames will he a managers addition to he guild mes re- k Pemberton has con cust for J. Frank Dey der,” now in rehear playvers will Le Vernon Purcell, Aulta Dumre lone, leted his The Lad: Among the Steele ira Edward 1. Wever has been eng for “Ariene Adair,” in-which G George will appear late this mo Mr. Wever was recently keen in “The Great Gatshy.” Michael Kallesser. anthor and pro ducer of “One Man's Woman to present in the Fall S Wells,” a comedy drama of his own authorship. and a comedy in which he collaborated with Barbara Chambers. Richard Herndon will produce J. P. McEvoy's intimate revue, ‘“‘Ameri cana,” which was announced by the Greenwich Village Theater group be- fore its merger with the Actors’ The. ater. Willlam Collfer will be the s und the opening is scheduled for June 21 at the Belmout Theater, New York. George White's “Scandals” hud i< premiere fu Atluntic City last Monday night and goes into New York tomor row night. Victor Morley has been granted s week's leave of absence from the cust of “Is Zat So”" to supervise the pro. duction_of “Sunshine,” & comedy by Llenry White. Frank Keenan has been engaged to Py the lead in “Black Velvet” late i thix month. * Mr. Keenan has heen identified chiefly ‘with movies in re cent seasons, although he did desert them long enough to play a piece called “Peter Weston” a couple of years ago. H ot is now to =ea “Ahje's Anne Nichols, apparent v fearful of the comedy's reception there. engaged her company, which sailed from San Francisco last Tues- day, for only two years. Il fnvade Philadel- a in the early Fall ax an wdjunct the Sesquicentennial Exposition | Ldy Diana Manners will have her accustomed role of the Mudonnu, Four out-oftown publications within the last three weeks have said com- plimentary things about the National Theater Players, all of them impressed by the steady and consistent business the troupe has done in the first elght weeks of the present season. Rhea Dively, now with the National Theater Players, i& a cousin to Dick Jervis, President Coolldge's personal | secret service aid. Dick was the first person in the theater on the opening night of “The Song and Dance Man.” {Only the ushers were there ahead of { i, Oddx around the National Theater ure growing on the propesition that the 60,000 funs, purchused at the beginning of the seaxon, for distribn tion to patrons, will not be ysed. Pre. dictions here and sbroud that 1926 would see i cold Summer have thus far been borne out. Clifford Brooke, director of the Na- tlonal Players, 15 under contract to rehearse the new Anne Nichols pro- duction, “Howdy, King!" early in Sep- tember. His last task for the Anne Nichols office was to direct “Puppy Love.” Incldentally, Minor Watson has heen cast for the new show. Beginning with the new week's pres. entation of “Seventh Heaven” the National Theater management lines up three of the most emphatic stage successes in years for the balance of this month, ~ following *'Seventh Heaven” with “The Show Off” and “Lightnin’." Does Perilous Stunts. M\UEJL CODY, a niece of the fa- mous “Buffalo Bill,” Is said to be the first woman to climb from & speedboat 1o & racing plane. Miss Cody performed this feat when the boat was going 52 miles an hour, and Pathe News caught the thrilling action. The aviatrix took up flylng about elght years ago, and went into stunt work a short time after. Her first stunt was a parachute jump at Memphis, Tenn.. The man scheduled for the jump falled to show up and Miss Cody 100k his place. Miss Cody is reported to have said: *'1 had rather change from an automobile to a plane 10 times than from a boat to a plane once. The hoat bumps about on the water and the automobile runs on the level ground."” It is sald that Miss Cody's next sgtunt will be to change from a surf board to a plane. The thrilling stunt scenes are now being shown through- out the country in the Pathe New fillm. Uplifting Comedy. ONTY BANKS has signed to make | | 12 feuture-length comedies for Pathe. The first, “Atta Boy,” now in production at the Hal Roach studio in Culver City, being a comedy without a custard ple. “I was delighted to start the new series of comedies With this story.” said the comedian, “for it is clean comedy, wholesome in every line, without a dubfous glance of gesture.” “Atta Boy” shows the humorous side of newspaper life, the trials of apprenticeship in that exacting pro- fesslon—but love, pure, wholesome love—as clean as a newspaper just off a roaring press—is the end and object of the story, Woods denfes the announce. ! present | Willavd | He alxo | by | STAR, WASHINGTON D. ¢, JUNE 13, TERPSICHOREAN BEAUTY Flizabeth Yoder, who will appear with Chase Lake T the Pemberton Dancers at Chevy hursday. Outside Commendation. a ha | th | ab LIZAN competent < the plays, well ‘acted by st Th on tion that's win do « than three publications de voted to theater news within the lust three weeks have printed comj mentary observations on the success of this pany. They were the Billboard, Variety and the Morn ing Telegmph. all of New York City. | Tast Monday rman Clark. | dramatic editor of the Baltimore New devoted his entire column to obsery- ing and analyzing the success of the National troupe. He said. in part “In this space last week T nated the fact that Baltimore Ing a city of more than £00.000 ar th Ju W rum!- | (R be. in- | 1at me the great s by for seven weaks. figurea,) bitants, catergoer e for a hould eastly hold enough to make it very profit- first-rate stock company 1o be with us during the Spring and | Sum er. It should, 1 sald, esiL ur words to that effect. hese thoughts again occurred to when 1 read an interesting ticle in Variety which recounted cexs now the stock company operating at e National Theater in Washington, &t 40 miles away. lHere he quotes but it the article in ariety and goes on with his com ment “A weeklv average intake of $2.000 Just think of that eferring to the National's box office And Washington has a popu fon of 500.000 in round numhers, Economy in the Movies. UNINITIATED visitors picture studios their inactivity. Comn “Any job fn the movies is “Do they get pald for sitting this way?” fly thick and faste It Is quite evident tu the @utsider who knows little or nothin® about it. that the existing methods of pie ture production are sinfully wasteful | and inefficient, In times gone Ly many men have sold thelr factorfes und come to Holly- wood to revolutio he and many more will do likewise in the future, The records of the bank- | cs ruptey eourts are cluttered with their petitions There i remarkahly little avoidable waste In picture making. A company may seem to be deliberately idlinz but there is always a reason jen For instance, take an incident that | occurred during the fiiming of “Oh' What a Nursel” starring Sld Chaplin. There wera perhaps 50 extra pe ple working on the set. Directors always anxious to get such scees | successfully taken because the wages | of all these le raise the produc tlon cost a great deal. lvervthing was all ready. Contributions in pe. haps 50 different depurtments had | been made by the workers to bring | '!f this scene to the point it had reack e “All ready!” called “Chuck” Reisner, | the director. “Lights, ciumera, action | & —cutl” He got up, made several desperate grabs in the air and return- ed to hig chair. This performance was repeated. My gosh!" he groaned. “How long is that fly going to buzz | around in front of camera? Tt loo like & buzzard on the screen. Props, destroy that ir Props fina ecded in destroy- | ing it. but in the meantime, 10 min utes of very precious time had es | caped. | perfenced and able workers and | executives fill the positions of trust but because of its peculiar character that of a commercialized art. the pic ture business often seemns wasteful to the unsophisticated. | | | | moving S | Ay th wh as suap aroud b in |a Sp at th of | gir | e il ‘A | ed \ e ex dey Crandall M anager promoted. OHN J. PAYEITE, formerly as- sistant general manager of the Crandall Theaters, last week was put in complete charge of all the houses operated in and about the Nation Chapital by the Stanlev-Crandall Co. hington and given the new title of “supertisor of theaters.” : Mr. Payette will continue to be in charge of bookings and presentations in all Crandall xhoalcrs‘s\nvl \‘:'1‘:"]‘:\'::‘; ditional duties in supervis L‘:)?ls:dconrluol. He has been with the Crandall company for the past seven years, Glory W ED" GRANGE, the gridiron, e runks stir fn'e?flf'”é‘usn., acr ie chalkmarks in “Glory or Dollars?”, a Grantland Rice Sportlight, distributed by Pathe. In this number Grantland Rice has contrasted two phases of sport, in which all participants belong, the amateur and professional. ~Where “Red” once plunged on for the glory of Tllinols University he now shakes off runners and heaves forward passes for big money. in to ta th Ru o fais or Dollars the phantom of whose desertion ed up wide com- MARSHALL HALL Located on the Beautiful Potomac Steamer Chas. Macalester res 7th St. Whart AR 71 SUNDAY 10:30 a.m.. m._2:30 and 6:30 p.m. D TRIP, 50c 10 am 2:30 and 631 RO ' FO e BRUNSWICK - BALK COLLENDER . POCKE BIL- LIARD TABLE 1 BRUNS- WICK - BALKE - COLLENDER BILLTARD TABLE, WITH COMPLETE EQUIPMENT FOR 12-TABLE BILLIARD PARLOR. EQUIPMENT WILL B OLD AS A WHOLE OR IN PART. CALL BETWEEN 7 AND 9 P.M., TEMPLE BOWLING AL- LEYS, 111921 H ST. N.E. MR. J. C. “TAD” HOWARD. | Young industry | Fra entourage Sweden, will become representative of 'D The face belongs to Kenneth Thom- | [ long-term contr: used medium, keeping But exhaustive camera tests didn't have any objectionable He was thus e De Mille gave him h his subsequent success in man ing role in Metropolitan production. Sports in Europe. PORT scenes front France, Switzer- land. Germ: nd England will m make the! ppearance on the nerican motlon picture screens in e Grantuand Rice Sportlights, Producer Johin L. Hawkinson has st returned from a two-month tour urope, during which he installed system of forelgn camera corre ondence for his Pathe subfec 18 now Sportlight represent ingland and will also cover fve in | Ireland, Scotland, Wales and possibly ance. Mr ners noted Swedish member of the Crown Prince of Fernstrom, man, now of the a e Scandinavian countries. The in- ternationalization of Sportlights should creatly increase the popularity of this tertaining film. . 2N Has Camera-Proof Face. OVERED, face! the camera-proof Il known voung leading man who is now acting his opposite Vers Ite Business.” attention nd was persuaded to take that_resulted in his It had been Cecil Da Mille's intentfon to apprentice m in small roles until he became to the limitations of the new such as the necessity of one’s objectionable faclal turned away. W the sta screen o Risky tracted s in onison ne aso camera t ngles’ reveal- Thomson ngles! the startling fact that abled to disreg the most harassing bits of screen | technique Sta;- of "Volga Boatman."” JILLIAM BOYD'S contract with Cecil B. De Mille expired re- Iv, but the option held on hix rvices for another long period was ercised automntically. De Mille clared that he wouldn't trade s contract for that of any player bictures Boyd was doing extr when , and The Road Yesterday,” “Steel Preferred ‘s Leaves” and “The Volga Boa has made him one of the most voung players in Holly- wor con ked-of wood. At present he is plaving the lead- “The Tast Frontier. a and upon e completion of that he will start work in “The Yankee Clipper,” which | upert Jullan will direct. being enjoyed | Hal some | i one | | mauled in true slapstick fashion by | 1926—PART 3. TIONAL—“The Show Off." “The Show Off,”" listed by Mantle as one of the ten hest on Broadway in 1924, is the tion hooked by the National Th management for next week, commenc- ing June 21. This piece brought fame to its au- thor, George Kelley though it was nominated in v by most of the New York critics for the Pulitzer prize, that plum went to another play. Mr. Kelley retrieved the honor this last r, however, with his latest play, “Craig's Wie, “The Show Off” depicts & character pitiful in_his inadequacy to approach the standard of ordinarily well-hred people. He is a braggart and a victim to the empty philosophy that every- thing “will turn out all right by and by.” He is convinced that every one else on earth iy a boob. The audlence laughs at him, not with him, and the inclination to squelch him s alive throughout. Despite the acute delineation of the author, Aubrey Piper, the show-off, is not really an unpleasant character. Iie has a heart. All he needs is some- thing to back it up with. e is a magnanimous beggar, though his mag- nanimity i% not th cashed at the store on the corner. Romaine Callender is slated for the title role, done here last Winter by Loufs John Bartels. Leneta Lane wiil do the unalert sweetheart, whose eyes are opened by the hard and bitter ex perlence of marriage Violet Heming, Kddy Brown. A double headliner will be presented at B. F. Keith's Theater next week, when top honors will be shared by Violet Heming and company in “The Snob” and Eddy Brown, the famous violinist. Ruth Budd, “the girl with the smile,” will be featured. FEARLE—Vaudeville and Pictures. The vaudeville attractions at the Earle Theater next week will include the Beaucafre Sextet in “An Idyll at Trianon,” Dixie Norton and Coral Melnot in 'he Meal Hounds” and James Burke and Eleanor Durkin in “If T Conld Only Think.” The photoplay will he wrecked,” a roducers’ relea | turing Seena Owen and Joseph | kraut. | “Ship- e, fea Schild. Finest Fighting Men. ¢ A RABS are the finest fighting men in the world.” McLaglen, who #s & member of the British forces during the World War fought against them four and a half vears, and who is again fighting against them, this tima for screen | purposes —in" Paramount's “Beau Geste.” | “Arabs mve without fear of death land, n addition. are strong. shrewd and resourceful,” save McLaglen Because of his giant stature, execu tive ahility and knowledge of Arahic, Victor was appointed chief of police of Bagdad following that city's cap- ture by the Rritish. At the close of the war he was given his discharg with the rank of major. McLaglen portrays the role of a big xan in the French Forelgn Legion in “Bean Geste,” which Herbert | Brenon_produced Noah Bee Bonald Colman, 1o Mary Briand, Neil Hamilton Williwm Powell, Ralph Forbes and Norman Trevor Elinor Fair Rising. El.l.\'ult FAIR, who shares honurs with William Boyd. the new and brilltant star of “The Volga Boatman,” Cecil R de Mille's latest masterpiece first attracted attention in ““The Mir- acla Man,” in part of the crippled girl when she was hardly more than a child Parte {n “Kismet,” “Driven" “Through the Back Door" increased 3 . | Commg Attractions Burns | JIBLE renders will recall the in- kind that can be [ 31 So says Victor | AMUSEMENTS.’ cident that gave rise to the popu- lar phrasa “entertaining angels un- aware. In these days of extravagant &- ploftation and superlative criticiam, a danger long apprehended by the more conser Ive in thought and s el has at last appeared. Happily it been quickly discovered and unfortu- nate results have been avolded. Against all precedent, the manage- ment of Crandall's Metropolitan, to use a stock theatrical phrase, an- nounces “the return engagement” of “The Volga Boatman<' Cecil B De Mille’s great photoplay, within less than a month after its first showing in that house, and the announcement states that this is due to frresistible public demand. This shows first of all that the pub- lic may always be trusted o let theat- rical and acreen producers and exhib- ftors know what it wants, and, when it wants it very much, just how to get it. In the dramatic sirength of its atory an well as in its excellent delineation upon the ecreen “The Volga Be probably has never heen sur an American photoplay. Compared the mythical kingdom trash which has heen unloaded with super- abundance in recent montha,by pic- ture producers, it stands like a moun- tain beside a mole hill. is the realism of might order of things, and nons who has seen the picture as a work of scraen art would think for a_moment of be- littling it with the suggestion of prop- aganda. drama. haracterizatic the boatman, trom known to the pinnacle of fame as a screen star with but few equals, with Elinor Fair, who has shared more or less perfunctory praise for her soreen work in the past, close beside him. This is not the enthusiasm of an explofter ducergbut the cool, calm judgment of one who believes he for ing posibilities of the screen, even in the face of the mass of mediocrity with which it has heen long bhurdened by back hecauss of individual opinion and {anxiety over financial results. truth, what easonably expect in the natural It 1s wonderfully fine screen More—it presents a superb screen by which lifte Mr. Boyd the depths of the almost un- of the picture or ita pro- s the amar those who have heen holding it For once in an age of commonplace the public has asserted ftself in behalf of sterling worth. that with or without technique, asx well as ‘boxoffice supervisors,” and heed the lesson. It is to he hoped screen writers and scenaris's, will percei« Fourth Dimension Caught. HE mysterious “fourth dimension’ was d *d out of the realm of abstraction, hog-tied and put to work recently, it i« claimed, at the Para mount Long Island studio during the filming of a scene in D. rrows of Satan."” k camera expert, responsible for ‘the event. He raph the figure of Satan falling as a tiny figure out of Para dise, down through space, increasing to enormous proportions as he falls, and splashing plumb into Hades. The camera was placed on 7 that moved forward on a long trac create the effect of the figure's in- | crease in s The figure ftself drop- | ped In a slanting line across a large | white drop. Waller had to make ex- act mathematical caleulations, co-ordi- nating the movement of the camera with the motion of thie falliug figure tup to the point of its fullest propor tons and allowing for its three dimen slons of height, width and thickness. | Also, here {s where the fourth di-| mension comes in—he had to allow for the retarded speed of the falliug body as it increased in size. This made necessary what appears to he a fourth dlmensional calculation. At any rate Waller did it Waller used to be a professor of dif | was had to pho! eatured also are | which she played the | and | ferentinl and integral caleulus and molecular physics, it _is claimed. an {anybody famillar with these ubjects | {can figure out for themselves and ses | just how simple it ali is. . Train Realism. RAIN STUFF.” of which there is a lot in “Burning Bridges.” a forthcoming Harry Carey Western « smald to be a regular railroud service in south Hfurnta The division alwuys willing tilm producers superintendents are o co-uperate with | Spur tracks ure used wreck scenes with old or dis- cquipment, which is sold (o he picture companies. For routine scenes such equipment as s need:d | is rented by the movie people and frun as regular train under dis- { patcher’s orders along the main line. 1 Where only a few scenes in a moving traln are needed. the com- panies arrange for a private car in a regular train. load their lights camaras and properties aboard and make their scenes s the irain travels on its regular schedule. | her ability and reputation. and then a | | series of pictures for Fox gave her her chance. De Mille saw her in a Western pro- | duction. and promptly eent After exhaustive screen tests she was | signed for “The Volga Boatman.' ! Boatman” for De Mille's purpose, and Lenore Coffee prepared it for ing. The cast features also Victor Varcont, Julia Faye, Theodore Kosloff, Fdeson and Arthur e scenes of the picture are laid fn | revolutionary Russia and are intensely dramatic and thrilling. B Christie Summer Comedies. GROUP of new two-reel comedies { £} from Christle has been finished | and will be showing during the Sum- mer months. They include: “Shore Shy” with Rilly Doley, “Gimma trength.” in which Jimmie Adams is Jimmie Adams in Bobby Vernon in Neal e P and Y two domes- Kalla Pasha: ‘Chase Yourself | “Till We Kat Again”: |and Vera Steadman | Pest” and Neal Burns D'Avril in “Mister Wife,” farces with babie: ubles and things s 40-MIL| MOONLIGHT Trip Tomorrow Night 7:15—Ste ARLINGTON BEACH PARK 100 AMUSENENTS DANCING—BATHING Arlington Beach Orchestra FREE ADKISSION 7 KEM-ALBee VAUDEVILLE ‘ : . THE GREAT ARTISTS i OF THE WoRLD BEGINNING SUNDAY MATINEE, JUNE 13 EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION Joe-MORRIS & BALDWIN-Wireie Presenting “Gall it What You Like" 4 Hodge Podge of Excruciating- ly _Funny Nonsense TWO OF THE BRIGHTEST STARS OF THE STAGE CO-HEADLINE FOR A BIG BARGAIN BILL AT THE NEW REDUCED PRICES Special Feature Extraordinary ANN SUTER The Girl With the Personality Singing Her Own Songs in a Distinctive Becentric Way Southern The Albertina Rasch Girls With fLoeo and Kiki Terpaichore's Beat Frod-GALETTI & KOKIN-ola Present “Umtala” The Only Dancing_Monkey The Brasilian Wonder RUBINI & ROSA Tunes and Trimminge FAOP'S FABLES, TOPICS OF THE DAY, PATHE WEFPKLY ABSIESRS MAIN 4484, 4485, 6823 for her. ! Konrad Borcovicl wrote “The Volga | shoot- | Rankin. | Burns | (' i nd dogs and | Wardman Park Theater LAST DAY A New Gigantie “QUO VADIS” With EMIL JANNINGS CHESAPEAKE BEACH ON-THE-BAY | 4 G AND ALL AMUSE- MENTS—MILE BOARDWALK Round Trip—Adults. 30c: Children. 25¢ (Sung., Holidays—Aulis. % da 3 pnday—10 Frequent_train. ATIONA NATIONAL THEATER PLAYERS, 7222207 NEXT WESK SRS _1he Home of Perf THE v WITH_JOBYNA RALSTON .. THURS. AND FRI. ADOLPHE MENJOU In the Romance of a Smail-Town Barber Who Became A SOCIAL CELEBRITY LIGE CONLEY: IN BAP SKATES” WE A Hal Roach-Pathe feature | Horse,” in the title role W. Griffith’s | | fight. dians restored tribal ceremony old rank in a great wedding celebra tion. The wedding was purely for screen purpo said to he &0 1 shiver white campfire g frenzied 1 | her Wolf, an_Indian 5 [after June 11, GEORGE KELLY’S “THE SHOW-OFF”’ BEST OF ALL AMERICAN COMEDIE! Crow Wedding Dance. L “wedding Indians fs perfol dance” of ed in t The De Crow with Rex, the wild The scenes were made an the Crom rvatfon in Montana. everal hundred real Crow In 1o although the scenes in sympathetic fear as heroine is surrounded are hy a danel aves who thus expected e 1o character. ma Shubert Belasco Theater Presents CoraB. Shreve Dancers {Butterfly and the Rose Monday Night, June 14, 1926 Curtain Rises Tromptis—8 F.M Tickets for sale at hox office on and 1926, THE BIG FUN PLACE GLENECHG AMUSEMENT PARK 49 ATTRACTIONS TODAY FROM NOON 'TILL MIDNIGNT S0 ON WEEK DAYS WHI DANCING TO THE GREAT MUSIC BY “HAPPY” WALKER AND HIS GREAT ORCHESTRA IS CONDUCTED IN THE FINE BALLROOM FROM 8:30 TO 11:30 P. M. WASH. RY. & ELEC. CARS | MARKED GLEN ECHO OR CABIN JOHN RUN EVERY FEW MINUTES DIRECT TO THE PARK ENTRANOE. MOTOR VIA CONDUIT ROAD AMPLE FREE PARKING SPACE Uiz NIGNT | ALL SEATS 50¢ $1.10,75c¢ & 50¢|st. mat., 75¢, 50¢ DIRECYION CLIFFORD BROOKE OFFERR For ®he First Time st Popular Frises. ears of e A8 Thews Botord-broaking JONN GOLDEN'S PERFECT COMEDY DRAMM T¢‘Heaven By AUSTIN STRONG The Theatrical Event of the Summer Season SEATS sELMING LINCOLN THEATER U STREET AT 12th MON.—TU PARAMOUNT PRESE! HAROLD LLOYD IN THE ROMANCE OF MILLIONAIRE WHO STARTED A MISS FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE CHRISTIE COMEDY, “DANCING DADDY" TS A 10N SATURDAY DOUGLAS MACLEAN With Strong Supgort in Puramount's Production THAT’S MY BABY LY DOOLEY IN SHORE SHY Sat. Only—*“The Bar.C Mratery” Ll Tts “realism™ one Willlam Boyd, as the near Lodge r the scene of Custer's last are dlistic that spectators the the efrele of ebrate Prowling