Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 49

Dese DANIELS, @olumbia, de POTTL Palace News gd ‘Comment ByW.H. Landuoigt. criminately unloaded by the photoplay industry. It is accompanied D, Keith's. LON CHANEY, Rialto. | ‘Photoplays. This Week ,At the photophy Houses This Week. TH]S unmistakably is the season when junk and jewels are indis- with wordy documents from the press agent about the beginning of ; . 3 MARIE “the greater movie season.” Possibly later on the great productions B P -E that ‘have long been in the making will be unloaded ard the film fan : R VOST. who loves to criticize the review of the film critic will be happy. This business of “criticizing” is mot what it is cracked up to be. Some- times you guess 'em and sometimes you don’t. If you do, your mail falls off; if you don't, the ipiquitous postal card gets in its deadly work. One of them - did during the week just closed. ~The reason given was the review of “Fascinating Youth,” the first effort, under Paramount direction and sponsorship, of ambitious young people who were selected & year ago for training n the Paramount School. N ESE young people, earnest and apt, afler/exacting screen tests and talent dissection, were put through their course of sprouts by sages of the film industry, who will themselves admit they know all about the 8 ETHEL BLA Fatrle I&" requirements of perfect photoplay production. They are wise as to the |* kind' of story the public. wants. They know precisely how that story should be prepared for filming. ' They are -wizards in screen technique. And what they don’t know they don't let you know.. There is every reasdn to believe that their young pupils were intelligent, diligent and worthwhile, because when they gave them their diplomas they also gave them contracts whickcarried. aseflary;of $75 a sweek for.each. i Sp, far as is known, these yourig eoffié. or at least a majority of them, are seeing the ghost walk weekly in‘lhe ancestral halls of Paramount. % % . EY were furnished a play called “Fascinating Youth,” which was designed, not so much to thrill the chap that wantéd a masterpiécé of sensation for his two_bits as to bring out the capabilities of the sev- eral players and then to let“the world pass judgment on. them. ‘In other schools first. efforts, even though imperfect, are dealt with kindly, some- times extravagantly, -in the way of praise, not so much because they merit all that is said of them as to encourage and buck up the youngsters who otherwise might throw up their hands m despair. The one-cent fulmination of wrath which anonygnousli found its way mm“l'h_c Star office during the week, directed against the kindly review of “Fascinating Youth,” is proof positive that in this mighty world of ‘ours there is one disgruntlement, one individual'who doesn’t believe in encouraging youthful screen ambition. 2 i * xE ¥ §0 be it! Let us henceforth crush ambition. Let us bawl it out as “rotten.” And then let us bottle our ‘wrath and begin to howl for new faces on the screen, new actors and actresses to take the place of the shopworn thespians: and ‘the faded beauties of othet days. Let us also baw] out the junk in which they are served to.us and have been, lo, these 15 years. Let us be dissatisfied with eyerything. Let us find nothing new under the sun, nothing worth while, nothing to rouse our bored. and blased souls to even the semblance of interest. And then let us ask ourselves if, after all, we are not simply a highly developed and very tiresome specimen of that gruesome thing folks call “the grouch.” It will make everybody happy, and the Constitution still confers the right to all to seek happineu‘. \:{he'r.h:r they find it or not. RHEADIVELEY, National. DANA, mbassador. PALACE—“Variety.” This afternoon and evening. RIALTO—“The Trap.” This afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA—“Volcano.” This afternoon and evening. N METROPOLITAN=“Up in Mabel's Room”—“The Vision." This afternoon and evening. TIVOLI—“Say It Again.” This afternoon and evening. AMBASSADOR—"More . Pay, Less Work.” This afternoon and evening. CENTRAL—"Silken Shackles.” This afternoon and evening. WARDMAN PARK—“Salome.” This evening. LINCOLN (Colored)—“The Wilderness Woman.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—“Variety.”® Hailed as the greatest of modern Ger- man film productions, and one which has inspired critical .praise in Copen- hagen, Rotterdam, London and Broad- way, ariety,” an-intensely dramatic ica by ance this week, beginning this after- noon, at Loew’'s Palace Theater. 1. ‘Neéver before in screen history, it is ‘claimed by some, has the motion pic- .| ture been brought to such a high point of perfection, photography,-di- rection, acting and ensemble power being united with unmatched artistry by E. A. Dupont, who wrote and Much has been said of Laugh,” as well as of Lya De Putti, ‘who enacts the role of the dark-eyed passion flower, coveted by two trapeze performers, ’ “Variety” is backgrounded by a pic- turesque acrobatic world, where death often hangs by a thread and danger is a plaything to be treated with scorn. Boss and Artinelli, aerialists, the world’s greatest acrobatic duo on the trapeze, have -become deadly enemies over a young dancing goddess, Ber- tha, who has turned her favor from Boss to Artinelli. Boss, knowing she has made a fool of him, plans on get- ting even, and comes to hate Artinelll. Suddenly, one night while the men are Heming played the convent daughter in the play. A juvenile comedy, “Excess Bag- gage”; the International Newsreel and orchestral music under the direc- tion of Leon Brusilof will be added ° |attractions. " | METROPOLITAN—“Up in Mabel's Room” and “The Vision.” Today will mark the final presenta- tion of “Up in Mabel's Room” and ““The Vision” at Crandall's Metropoli tan Theater, the house closing for two weeks of improvements after tonight's last performance. Al Christie's amusing picturization of “Up in Mabel's Room,” by Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach; a_superb natural color subject, 'he Vision,” with a new and interesting issue of the Metropolitan World Survey and & distinguished musical setting, will provide the bill. P in Mabel's Room,” in its screen £ is devised purely for purposes n, romping through a succession of breezy scenes to a climax that is as enlivening as it is amusing. The role of Mabel Ainsworth is charmingly played by Marie Prevost, and other important parts are played by Harri- son Ford as the harrassed young hus- band, Phyllis Haver, Harry Myers, Paul Nicholson, Maud Truax, Sylvia Breamer, Carl Gerard, Willlam Orla- mond and Arthur Hoyt. “The Vision” is an exquisitely exe- , cuted romance of medieval days, based AT another local theater during the week there was show_n a pictgre called “The Vision,” one of six romance productions, which was in- [ ] spired by the world-famous 1>aintingl of Sir fohn Millais and is .known wherever art_is admired as “Speak! Speakl" It is a product of the | . -EEN .M—OOR’E' Y z > o 2 e Bt Gy of ol fotsnt, St | COLLEEN MDORE, ©oa RICHARD DIX, facing the dangers of the trapeze, m:n idea derived from Sir John Mil- i s 3 t the Winter Gar. celebrated nting, “Speak! M. N A.STORJ R e e T | Brsakr with Tulin Sehiacs” ), L. 'y ‘himsel John Roche in stellar roles. i iy i, i o et o T win-a | Ahe Sonct Sy it compried Lt,u;COlqu i 3 oOperetta, “Sarl,” and an added mu : ] ot cal attraction i3 contributed by W. L. peze. Into nd comes & Marsden, who makes his debut as a What it Artinelli should fall! | 8olo saxophonist with renditions of i iti R 7 ¥ ¢ n 3 ? ¥ F e, T, 3 3 % 3 : oy uld be his once more. Rudy Wiedoeft’s “Valse Vanite” and lightfil film” One of our own critics commended it for “unusual . el 5 N TR ¥ % he BEANaY | wo z Ay e beauty. # * * In its costumes and _bacwds, its composition and its Strand to Reopen. 3 o i| -Ambassador Bookings. Our, Gung comedy, “Thundering | Bthelbert Nevin's “Mighty z‘:u; Tonalvanes it 1wt ovdly 3 sayihing Ut Buve sccn'n the movies” |\ racuomm apannow nes vl | AJATTENT ALLTACLIONS | porne ine peis e crananrs| Be0nd oot mue wh | mont estern newspaper critic pronounced * : 7 % b A - J - d o : Metropolitan st e comi e 4 SR From a color stal;lgpoidnlt itis superb, but from the more impor:&i; g | o i - e 8 g P Sty naTTVOLI—Say Tt Again.® of dramatic worth still more excellent, ' No director has contributec pervy ratiol 13 s ex - 3 v & . ; the St lovelier thing to the screen.” And $o on. Scores of similar opinions | tensive decorations -being made in ,.At.thE Theaters This Week.. = | fa boakings tor Am Lon Chaney, in “The Trap,” which |for the first two days of this week, might be quoted. But with it all, the postal card writer who fired the | the Strand Theater by painters, caf-| | NATIONAL-—“Fait and Warmer,” comedy. ‘ Tomorrow evening. i ,quu! paired 3 mm"nm afternoon, at Crandall's hot shot at “Fascinating Youth” if he or she saw it hadu’t the tine iot | penters and Wechanics generally to| | KEITH'S—Fred Ardath, vaudeville,. Fhis afternoon. B B v ’ Tivolio ‘Theater, in his Paramount P ?si:‘:-?a:;ufeo‘; S i BE AL ,p‘rhus the great things pass unnoticed | N8ure more enjoynient and comfort | | EARLE—Charles: O'Contior and Violet McKee, vaudeville, * This® haetonibyy neves: : is cast as & young American who re- while the mites that displease are magnified, except by thecritics. . |10, e Wany pabiomt L ()| @ afternoon. 2 kit o This begin this week when, owing ; :|in Burope ‘after the Great War and ici f p Ik > gy : | oneday holdover of - there finds that his f truth is that all critics are not compefent to criticize. Like eggs, | marvelous " ¢ooling and ° ventilating | A ; | BT S—<Fred 's Room” at the Metropolitan, taing, m’:mn S ol e e is some are good and some are bad, and generally the older they are|system -in use in one of the modern e W 5 T B Y i y A,T:—dnr wll} uga‘:r th’t.wm.x_.; £ dom. The the worse they are. ‘It is doubtful if any of them are infallible. And | theaters of New York—a system ltm . 3 & icturization L3 L‘yvtxrne, e s path mgh s when critics are fike that, what can be expected of the more modest re- | Shanges & dflgg’l s'ihe lll'l:“:l{_‘ o 3 s e Less viewer, who simply seeks to give the public his honest opinion of a given h':v:m . la:mn'"mm"“ 8 1o % n picture, not with the idea of misleading, nor to boost the theatricat man-{ oo Ui inices also & beautiful play- |4 i e J e 8 m“_ atory, “Mare Bay, e nfl"_Km-l S ’s game, nor even “to please the advertisers,” but in the hope that|pouse, handsomely decorated with, . g w calis 'flm purpose ing ‘u”hh- S b ey honestly conveyed inférmation that will. guide those who ‘are|new scenery, and last, but not least, commencing tomorrow ‘nidll iy vy ;m“" i A damned, Lane in ‘“His Private Life,” and seeking film entertainment. New' York pays what it calls her critics | a marvelous array of new feature tainly he was prolific %flh z ol Lailie - Baliinting, salaries that run ‘up”into many thousands of dollars a year. What fan | pictures, presenting the world's most | it necessary to use four ch to o, who spends even .a half dollar to see-a gl.cluu would demand ‘this for | famons stars,* including. the big |use all the laughs he had on hand 3:- every picture that ‘is shown on ;Ihe-Wu ington scree:;lt? dB sides, ‘re- U"":;g"w' : 5 ember how tastes differ, and with some every picture that does not suit D rwnicqlu fancy, no matter how much of art, or beauty, or genius it miay f,:““w“m"‘“z'm the bedt of Toew's Reisenfeld gold medal for 1926 as the most artistic phot roduc- tion of the year. One of the critics said of “The Vision”: “Certainly one By’ of the most beautiful things 1 have ever seen.” A magazine critic called ; it “charming, * * * a'very pretty and touching romance, * * : i ng girl, display, is ‘bound to be “rotten,” which i rather an ugly word for even a| ‘Next week, beginning Sunday, dramatic critic. T day, J 25, Father Hurney will| \ LJOE A 5. G, RS pmaaogt.?stflckl’hmlnu CARL LAEMMLE, a very wonderful man of the screen, has been ‘?“’.‘flm“ St P‘:: m.-nm "".’."fi 4 to the borderland of death in a far-off land, Brief notices of his ail- | taycq th'mvfiu of the mmhru'nm? ment and of his general condition have appeared from time to time. And 311. for that week and will include yet Carl me'mml? whether youdlike him r:;mnflot'.‘l:::fy o }g’ne w:ikni,: ‘the. company of more than 30 ter builders of screen art, and a.comj i y of phyg % ':::d’ f;r the motion picnl::e ind\ll‘s!r‘);.ww& fill r.t :i’fitm‘;‘ 'o;i: will: be most interesting to those who lrave any sort of mt t in photop! , - roduc‘tion. Pm;:‘a nniless boy hengev into a multi-millionaire mainly e Loring and xfln Ligh y his work in the. R oloph( field. He has made magnificent p;odmigm ‘wm :‘l:lflo eam, Who hav and he has made what our iocal critic is pleased to call “rotten” pictures. oo /Mflmv o M imm 0 But there would be a mighty hole in.the pages of screen history if what MWW’ begin he has done of goodgvere leit ou: R ¢ Hiide “““"fi."‘"fi?“ ot FEW yedrs ago the floundering movie industry T a life presérver teached into the cabinet of & United States and landed Will H. Hays, former Postmaster haphazard_critic.of things and events laug ~wondered tician could ‘do_to save and improve the art of the sc his original cfinm: “has expired we find the who a of the photoplay industry acclaiming. Mr. } and giving him 2 new ¢contract fog 10 are_not of his organization commendin his advice and suggestions as tending i a ifig into an industry whose previous res might ure, to.the tuneful romatice of the Kilkenny cats. more to cleanse photeplay art than othe has g::de “lm“(i-l “ha work e-;zzn_i ;] estly. e ‘mad 'when he has. discovered. the 'u‘redh!d