Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 58

AMUS Judith An nc]erson. UDITII ANDERSON, Belasco star, though rather a newcomer among dramatic Aactresses, is playing her first vaudeville engagement this sea- son. An arrangement was made through the courtesy of Mr. Belasco, with whom she is wunder contract for two more vears, by which Miss Ands on will continue to traverse the Kelth circuit until a play is found for her. She is an Australian girl, of Scotch and English descent. Her father was at one time known as Australia's Silver King,” a millionaire several times over. He was, according to his | attractive daughter, “‘a_charming and delightful villain, and he squandered his fortune with a careless, prodigal hand.” At last there was nothing left, and Judith found herself confronted With the matter of supporting herself and her mother. Judith, then only in her 'teens, had been brought up to be a social but- terfly. Her mother, charming ‘gentle- woman that she was, had neither EMENTS. only asset was a naturally beauiiful apeaking and singing voice. She xecured various soclal engage- ments as a singer and finally be. thought herself of the stage and man- aged to get an opening with a stock company. 1t developed that In back of her low, thrilling volce, there was emo- tional power, personality, intelligence. She grew Into ingenue roles, and in (hat capacity won wide recognition in her own country. She decided sud- ! denly that she had reached the end of her possibilities In Australia, packed herseif and her mother off to New York, and, after considerable | struggle, landed a job with a Four- teenth Street stock company in New York City She plaved with that concern for veral months. Then came recog: in “Dear Brutus," %" “Peter Weaton," 'he Crooked Square.” *“The (‘obr and “The Dove.” She {5 now con- ceded to be among the foremost emo. tional actresses on the ‘American stage, and her advent to vaudeville Is | n knowledge of nor ability for the trades. It was up to Judith. Her considered an event of particular im portance. “Stylish Stouts,” a comedy by Fred | Thomson and Maurice Marks, will be | produced in October by the Dramatic | Theater Corporation in assocfation | with Hugh Ford. | “The Little Spitfire.” Myron C. Fa- | gan’s comedy, which B. F. Witbeck | is sponsoring, is to have fts firkt | showing in New York August 16. i P will new edy, will Ose: G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton | collaborate on the book of the | George -Gershwin musical com. | in which Aarons and Freedley present Gertrude Lawrence and | r Shaw. Jack Donohue has signed a contract i with Charles Dillingham by the terms of which he will continue in “Sunny” | and afterward be starred in a musical comedy written by himself, with Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern. The title of “Cowboy Crazy,” the | new farce-comedy soon to be produced | in New York, has been changed to | “Love 'Em, Cowbo | announced | a musieal | Stoddard, with | Gorney, is scheduled to | August 9. “Cynthia.” as A Small comedy by ( music by Jay open in Philadelphia & R next tarce Kave. R. Riskin will place in week “She Couldn't comedy by Ben- Jamin M. Patterson McNutt, in association with Mare Connolly and Thomas Mitchell, has acquired the road rights to “The Wisdom Tooth” from John Golden. The tour begins in October. Ralph Kellard replaced William | Shelley as leading man of “One Man’s Woman" last Monday night. He will be the third actor to play the role, Curtis Cooksey being the first. A Youth's Companion.” Chamber- Iain Brown's first produgtion, opened | in Asbury Park last Monday night, | with Minnie Dupree in the leading role. i Emily Stevens in Ben Hecht's “The Scoundrel,”” promised last season, is | now on the list for the coming sea- | son. Hassard Short will produce the | play \ When the Earl Carroll Vanities goes | on tour in September, plaving this| eity, it will open identically as it | closed, July 24, at the Earl Carroll Theater in New York. Most revues on the road are wholly different from | the show that appeared in the: me- | tropolis. Tarl Carroll discovered the fallacy of this, and made run-of-the- | play contracts’ with all the players, | including Joe Cook and Frank Tin -, featured comediuns: Frances | hant, Ethel Dale, Muriel Greer and the largest beauty chorus even | sent out of New York. | “Laff. That Off"" opens Labor day in | Philadelphla. This Dou Mullally com- | edy had the queerest rise to popular ity of any show ever exploited on | Broadway. The critics practically ignored it in the rush for sensations; Earl Carroll was too busy to oust it | from his Wallack’s Theater. Then by the time he wanted to use his playhouse “Laff That Off” was doing a capacity business. Half a dozen | times the play was on the verge of being sidetracked when capacity houses killed the idea. It has now | run in excess of 300 performances in New York. | Gertrude Lawrence sailed for Bu- rope last week for a fortnight's vaca- tlon. On returning she will hegin | rehearsal in the George Gershwin | musical eomedy in which she will be seen this Fall. The Mutual Burlesque Association next season will have a circult of 44 theatera throughout the United States and Canada, over which 36 straight burlesque attractions will tour, The Playshop, a New York organ ization, refusing to be discouraged by recent financial dificulties, announces the opening of its second season with| “Henry’s Iarem,” by Arthur Stern. | rganization lust season offered | ring productions, “Not ller- | bert” belug the most successtul. A new play, scape,” by John Galsworthy, announced for the com- tug London season, to be produced by Teon M. Lion. This disposes of the rumor several months ago that quoted Mr. Gulsworthy as declaring he would never write or couse o be produced another play. Charles K. Gordon says Jack Hazzard will be the principal comedian in a new musical show entitled, “A Regular | Girl.” William Cary Duncan, Irving Caesar, Stephen Jones and Harold Orlob contributed the hook, lyries and music. “The Song RBird.” a new musical comedy, was announced last week. | with Jack Wilson in the lead. Will B. Johnstone, of the New York World. and Wil Anderson wrote the hook and music. _They were responsible for MARSHALL HALL Located on the Beautiful Potomac Steamer Chas. Macalester Leaves 7th St. Whar! DAILY 10'am 2:30 and 6:4 CHESAPEAKE BEACH| ON THE BAY, BATHING. DANCING AND AMURRME T MALE BOARDWALE, Round trip: Adults, clildren. ” d8c. Sundgys. hol adult children, B¢ Tuins I Other days—10, 11:40, quent_traine_re(urning. 10:30 a.m. n.m. 2:30 and 6:45 pam. 45 1131 3 5 4130, 6:40, PROF. AND MR 1127 10th st. n. 11 p.m., with _orchestra. appointiment. ¥r. 836 SSONS_B' Pr Est. “CATHE] Charleston, Fox Trot, In the Spo | The | 22 weeks. | tures thight. “Take It from Me.” The producer is Frank L. Telle: Herman Gantvoort last week an. nounced seven productions for the coming season. “They All Want Some- | thing” by Courtney Savage: a musical comedy by Alonzo Price and Jean De Leon, “Black Eyed Susan,” to be pro- duced in Octol with Nonette, a vaudeville violinist, in the lead; a re- ligious play set in Turkey, called by ita author, Willlam Jourdon Rapp. “Osman Pasha,” for the following month and four plays by Max Mohr, which have been produced in Europe. Nichols sister ‘of Anne noted playwright and pro- ducer, has been especlally engaged by the National Players management for an important part in this week's offering, “Puppy Love.” The average full Winter season in Washington covers about 30 weeks. National Theater Players will have nearly approached that record when th close early in September, with a stock season behind them of This, the public needn't be told, is an extreme in Summer stock runs. The four world extended engagements order named, * Chin Chow | | ! 1 record plays for are, in the ) Aunt,” “Chua bie's Irish Rose” and | Kathryn Givney and Minor Watson, both former members of the Natlonal will be in the new Anne; play, “Howdy King," which | Brooke will direct. Rehears: als will begin the middle of September. | Edward Arnold. popular member of | 1ast season’s National Players, opened two weeks ago in a new play, “The | Phantom Ship.” at Atlantic City. Prior to going into rehearsal for this play, Arnold was all season long_with Ott Kruger in “Easy Come, Fasy G which is to go on tour the coming seazon. i ‘ Rugged Melodrama VWriteu FEW years ago Emerson Hough and James Oliver Curwood were prime favorites in the delineation of rifgged outdoor melodrama. Hough, of course, wrote of the American West, with which he was most fa- miliar, and he attained his high-wate: mark ‘in_public favor with the stor: of “The Covered Wagon." Curwood's stories were mostly of the Canadian Northwest type, and at the top of his game Curwood’s thrillers were pie- to conjure with at the box office, Now, curiously enough, Zane Grey is exploited as the people’s choice, his lutest story to reach the screen being “Desert Gold.” Only & few week ago his story, “Born to the Wes was one of the curtent first-run at- tractions of F street. Possibly Grey's biggest hit of the past was ‘“The Thundering Herd,” & rip-roaring drama of the plains and the great herds of buffalo which once darkened them. Other Grey favor- ltes include “The Vanishing Ameri- can,” which made a character actor out of Richard Dix, and the all-color | film, “Wanderer of the Wasteland,” | which was regarded at the time of its | production as a milestone in the evo- iution of the color film. The Paramount “birthday group™ of attractions for the Fall and Win- ter of 1926-27 Includes two new Zane Grey stories—'"The Mysterious Rider" |ana “Riders of the Daw Crandall's New Metropolitan ANDALL'S Metropolitan Thea- ter since last Sunday night has undergone a pleasing metamorphosis. The new carpet, about a half-foot | deep. was tentaiively laid and meas- ured the first night: scaffolding was | thrown up to facilitate the work of dolng over the proscenium: “Doc” Souder was on his toes, with the new electrical equipment piled up ready for fustallation: the lobby was ripped to ribbons, and handsome new Cir- ssion walnut panels “parked” ready to be put in place of the plaster friezex, formerly embelllshing the entrance to the auditorium, and seats were torn out, and new chairs made ready for placing on orchestra, loge and balcony levels, Work was launched also on the novelty that will make the Metro- politan stage distinctive among Washington theaters “for its facili- ties the coming season. ‘When the Met Is thrown open to the public again next Saturday, the patrons will be in for one of the | surprises of their lives! - ik A Teaching Filme, THE experiment in teaching fiima for classroom use will be started this Fall in ten cities throughout the country. These cities are Rochester, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, Den- {ver, Atlanta, Los Angeles. New York, Springfield, Mass.; and Winston- Salem. The Eastman Kodak Company, a member of the Motion Plcture Pro- ducers and Distributors of America, which is spending two years on the | experiment which may revolutionize | teaching has had the best avallable educators to assist in the work. It was decided by these ed cators to confine the experimental pic- tures to five subjects taught in .the methods, | catty THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO ’ Outdoor Amusements GLEN ECHO PARK. The big outdoor amusement park at Glen Echo has come into its own and. now s at the helght of its popularity. Every day and night the street cars that skirt the upper Potomac are well filled. At the park much fun is sup- plied by the varieties of amuse- ment devices, such as the “Humming Bird,” with its 4,000 feet of thriils and frequent 80-foot drop; the "‘Cater- pillar,” “Whip,” Old Mill, ete. During week nights throngs of young couples dance io the magic mu- o1 “Huppy Walker's Jazz Orches. tra from $:30 until closing time, in the big ballroon:, which boasts of a per- *§9290.4q [000 Aq 1S 100y 199F N CHEVY CHASE LAKE. A team of star jazz dancers, sup- plemented an attractive singer and dancer, will add to the enter- tainment features at Chevy Chase Lake “spacialty night” next Wed- nesday. Columbus and Becker, the er danciog duo, and Miss Alice Tupman, well known for her work in vaudeville, will present a succession of dance and song numbers of the Jazziest type. . . Tuesday evening will be another big night, with the special dance to be given by the Robert Le Bruce Chapter, Order of De Molay, drawing a heavy crowd. Director Ben Levine of the upper pavilion band specializex on vaude- ville interludes between clever dance music, with Ray Kendrick, drummer of this band, as speclal entertainer. The eight-piece lower pavilion band led by Tommy Thompson and con- centrates on sizzling jazz. CHESA KE BEACH. P As the Summer season progresses the number of commuters to and from Chesapeake Beach steadily is increas- ing. Excellent train service and the proximity of the resort to the eity make it possihle for persons to spend thelr days in Washington and the late afternoons, evenings and nights at the bayside. in the daytime there is no end to the attractions, including swimming, fishing, boating, dancing and music. Four organizations will give outings to the beach this week: Tuesday, La- dies’ Auxiliary apd Knights St John; Wednesd: ‘Women's Union of the Bureau of Engraving and Print. ing; *Thursday, Government Printing Office Cafeterla and Recreation Asso- ciation, and Saturday, Loyalty Chap- ter, No. 32, Order of the Eastern Star. MARSHALL HALL. Murshall 1all, reached by the steamer Charies Macalester from the 7th street whart daily at 10 a.m., 2:30 and 5 p.an., and on Sundays at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 and 6:45 p.m., is one of Washington's popular down-the-river resorts, with Its score or more of amusement features und thrilling rid. Ing devices. I'ree dancing s featured in the large open pavilion as one of the most pop- ular attragtions of Marshall Hall. COLONIAL BEACH. Colonial Beach, 70 miles from Wash- idgton, on the Potomac, offers practl all that folks expect at a sea- shore resort. % Reached by a delightful daylight ride on the steamer St. Johns, with free dancing both going and returning a featura of every trip, Colonial Beach also affords salt-water bathing, fishing. crabbing, dancing and other popular attractions. Hotels and cottages pro. vide for those who wish to spend the day or the week end. The steamer St. Johns leaves the Seventhgstreet wharf every Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and every Sunday at 9 am. @ Every evening at 7:15 except Satur: days and Sundays the St. Johns car- ries pleasure seekers on ita 40-mile moonlight rides on the Potomac, re- turning to the city about 11 p.m., with free dancing a feature. Mon’ta— Bell \.Vrheru Story. SOMETHING unique in the istory of picture making fs about {0 be started at the Paramount Long Island | studio—a pleture to be produced by one popular young director from an original_story by another popular young director, The story is ‘The Popular Sin." Tt was written by Monta Bell and is to be directed by Malcolm St. Clair, with Florence Vidor in the stellar role, and is to be begun August 23. Mr., Bell convinced Jesse 1. Lasky some time ago that the story would make a good picture. Following the preseptation of “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter,” which was produced by Mr. St. Clair, Mr. Bell wired Mr. Tasky: “St. Clair would be the ideal man to produce my story."” The two directors are great friends. Following the completion of “The Show-Off,” Mr. St. Clair broached the idea of .doing- ‘“The Popular Sin" to Associate Producer William Le Baron. He was enthusiastie about it, but an- nouncement of the plan was post- poned until it was learned definitely that Miss Vidor would be able to finish her role In the Frank Lloyd preduc- tion, “The Kagle of the Rea,” soon enough to he able to Teach New York next month. Will See All. New Films. and Mrs. Coolidge are said to be motion pleture funs of long standing. They are not to be deprived of screen entertainment while at the Summer White House in the Adiron- dacks. The newest pictures, news reels and short subjects will be shown the President and his party three times a week, through the efforts of Jack Connolly, Washington represent- ative of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. The chief electrician from the Mayflower, the President’s yacht, will operate the machine, and a screen has been set up in one of the camp’s cottages. {0 the Sea in Ships” and that. judg- Pictures are shown regularly twice a week throughout the vear at the White House in Washington. on the Mayflower . when the President ' i cruising and even on trains on which he rides. While on the way to his va- cation camp the President saw pic- tures in the observation car. Anna May Walthall. NE of the members of the cast of a new Pathe serial is a woman who might have had great screen fame had she so desired it.. She ix Anna May Walthall, sister of the famous screen actor, Henry B, Wal- thall, who, like him, has been In een work for some year Untike my brother, 1 have never sought for fame” she suvs, “Or. rather, I let fame pass me by and have been content with a steady con- fourth, fifth, and sixth grades and the Junior High Schools. These sub- jects, are geography, health and hy- glene, civies, fine and practical arts, and general science. — A Hobo and Farm Epic. FIVE months aso an shecure assist- ant director on the Paramount lot in Hollywood, John Waters has been assigned to direct “Passing Stran- gorn.” the epic of tramp life written v Jim Tully. The story in based on varied experiences of Tully during the days whan he was a hobo, many of which ‘are included In his auto: biographical volume, *‘Beggars of Lt and “Outside Leoking In.” iy Tuen.: orchestra DAVISON'S R . U 1o gance urd itk v o 1 & ly%fl.\'u;" v hour- Many of the scenes will he taken in the Kansas wheat fields, where diring August and September 40,000 migra. tory laborers and tramps work in the nection in many studios and playing many parts, To me the screen offers & vast opportunity to any girl who js content to accept small parts and steady employment, In such work she makes a much more attractive income than a stenographer or book- keeper, has her own hours, plenty of leisure, besides the satisfaction of ap- pearing hefore the public, which' is, after all, the most pleasing and at- tractive part of any work™ 40-MILE MOONLIGHT TRIP Comin NATIONAL PLAYERS—“Lightiin r htnin' " will be the offering of the National Theater Players next week, beginning Monday, August 2. This tragi-comedy which elevated Frank Bacon, its author, from ob- scurity to national prominence, ran for 1,291 performances on Broadway, topping “The Bat” by 400 perform- ances. Its Chicago and road runs Justifad its label as one of the most popular American plays. The Natlonal Players are partic ularly fortunate in numbering in their ranks Pe Winter, who played the central role, Lightnin' Bill Jones, the affable old liar, for close to a thou- sand performances on the road. Mr. Winter understudied Mr. Bacon dur- ing the Broadway run of the play and, follawing Mr. Bacon's fatal fl)- ness. ln Chicago, took over the part in the original company. “Lightnin'" Is a story to most playgoers. It revolves about a lovable old fellow, a Civil War vet, who has a penchant for gentle fibs—mot fibs that harm any one, but small imaginative concos tions that get him into trouble also . extricate him fi it locale of the play {s the bounda between evada and Califo = Lightnin’s wife runs a hotel and the center of the hotel is on the boundary line so that one side of it Is in Cali- fornia and the other in Nevada, mak ing it a paradise for easy-divorce seekers. Though Tightnin' Bill Jones Is a ne’er-do-well, fond of his liquor and of his storfes, he is also very fond of his family, and though measured by fairly familiar | mkit, C., JULY - 25, g Attraction weak, he Is lovable, sympathetic and. in the end. triumphant., EARLE—James J. Jeffries and Tom Sharkey. Two valorous gladiators, James J. Jeftries and Tom Sharkey, will be the headline attraction at the Earle Theater next week, according to present bookings. The bill will be completed by a quartet of vaudeville acts, g photoplay and the usual house offerings. ¢ STRAND—"Primrose Four. Next week (he Strand Theater will have a gala opening of its regular vaudeville and picture season. BIg things are promised Strand patrons for this season, both on the speaking | stage and on the scr Manager Sparrow he has secured ““The Primrose Four” for next week's headliners. This quartet of boys, Gibner, Drury, Sadler and Stanley, will offer “1,000 Pounds of Harmony,” heralded as a wow of a singing number. lolding second place will be an elaborate revi of singing, dancing and comedy enlitled “Speak, 1% Revue,” featuring the Sidell Sisters. Other numbers will fuclude Wil I Ward and company in an amusing t the Stage Door'; the Beasley Twins, In a Ilnlln and, piano act, “Music, Symphobny and Charm.” en- hanced with song and dance, and Louis Leo, In thrilling “Equilibristie Diversions.” ‘As was the custom last vear, a teature photoplay will be shown in connection with the vaudeville pro- orthodox standards, worthless and gram. Biog’ré._phy of Clara Bow. LARA BOW was born in Brookiyn | July 29, early in the twentleth cen- tury, and attendéd Public School No. 9 and the Girls' Bay Ridge High School. In her junior year she won a maga- zine beauty contest. The judges were Harrison .Fisher, Neysa McMein and Howard Chandler "The con- test closed in Noi 1922, and shortly afterward Clara was called to the contest headquarters and given three screen tests. Kventually she received for her efforts an evening gown, a_screen contract which guar- anteed she would play In one picture | and a silver trophy. | At that tipe the studios were be- | ing besieged with contest winners, und | with production alko slack there wus | small chance for Clara Bow. Willlam Christy Cabanne gave her a small part in “Beyond the Rainbow.” She did not know how to put on make-up. When her cha to act | came she was told to cry. The tears made & complete mefs of the make- up and when- the action was viewed | on the screen Cabanne cut it out of the picture wultogether, This declded Clara to forsake tlon pictures and she entered bus school. Three months later K Clifton telephoned her; said he was aboeut to make a picture called “Down ing from the pictures of her he haa seen in magazines, she might he the | girl for it. Following a test, he | offerad her the role at $50 a week, | with Clara paying her own expenses | during the picture. Most of the scenes were made in Boston and New Bedford. During the 22 weeks the picture was in production the little film new- comer was beaten, thrown around and subjected to ‘other realistic bits of - Film Fans Like Lewi HE Famous Players-Lasky Cor- poration has enjoyed an excention- profitable relationship with Sin- | clair Lewis, the famous author of | “Main Street” and “Babbitt. Not' only did it ob n the screen rights to | Vis' novels at & time when his fame | was at its apogee but it has persuaded | him to grace its program with no less | than two pictures in the same season. Mauntrap,” curiously enough, rep: resents lewis’ liter: reflex to a camping trip in the Canadian wilds, Which first appeared as & magazine | serfal. Like “Main Street” and “Bab- bitt,” it fllumines a familiar type of humanity. Where “Main Street” told | the story of a city girl immu | & small town, and “Babbitt” pricked ‘swimming and horsehack riding. acting. She fitted into the part so well,-however, that Clifton bullt it up until it became one of the outstand- ing performances of the picture. On the strength of this work she was given the leading feminine role oppo- site Glenn Hunter in “Gril for the Film Guild, with Frank Tuttle direct- ing. B. P. Schulberg, associate Para- mount producer, saw “Down to the " signed Miss Bow to a Coast, since when she has played tn more than a score of pic- tures, including “Maytime,” “Black Oxen,” “Kiss Me Again, “Poisoned Paradise, he lawful Cheuter, ‘vee to Love” “My Lady's Lip: e's Laove he Prim Jaughters of Pleasure,” an Play,” “The Two Gates,” “Ihe Adventurous Sex “My lady of Whims," The Keeper of the Bees,” “The Scarlet West,” “Duncing Mothers,” “The Ancient Mariner, “Black Ligh "he Plastic y Heart “Helen's 'he Great Sensation. Since late 1925 Clara has played in »ancing Mothers,” “The Runawa fan Trap” and “Kid Boots." Clara Bow is a good athlete, but not an expert. She likes hiking. She handles any make of automobile and never has so much as scratched a fender, She dances well. She is 5 feet 21; inches tall, weighs 103 pounds and has auburn hair and brown eves. Her father is Robert W. Bow, of Eng- lish and Scotch extraction. Her mother, who died three years ago, was Sarah Frances Gerdon, of Scotch And that's Leading Men Scarce. ARSHALL NEILAN is said to be spending a great portion of | tests and inter- He his time looking at viewing leading men of promise. has gone through the category of prominent m: line screen players, but e of them exactly fits the role he has creuted in’ his newest produc- tion—a story written around Betty Bronson, in wh al character and the boy a char wholesome American lad. “Leading men are growing scarcer each year, says Neilan. “As soon as they become the vogue the: are put inte the star there isn't & chance to secure them to suppert any of our feminine stars. t is about time to make a new ing, the pretensions of the so-called * inent business man,” “Mantr re- | yeals the effect of the silent "woods | and open spaces on this psychology | of a Minneapolis flapper, to. whom the hright lights and the adulation of | the male were almost food and drinl 8o far, little i= known about “New | York," the forthcoming Iewis story | which Paramount «will realease this Fall, though it ix expected to deal with that amazing phenomenon of modern America—the evolution of an immigrant_boy from rags and pov- erty to affluence and power in the ferce melting pot of Manhattan. | e First Star of the Movies. HE more seasoned moviegoers | will recall that when the cinema first took its hold on the public fancy a bushy-haired young man, tall and straight of limb, with the fire of old Spain in his brown swept | everything before him. e name, Maurice Costello, n the Wps of every woman from 8 to 80 an actor of the first magnitude he was popular with the men. Costello, whose numerous claims to fame in- clude the fact that he s the father of Dolores and Helene Costello, at this moment among the most promis- ing star material in Hollywood, I8 playing an important role in Jackie Coogan's new production, ‘“Johnny et Your Halr Cut.” This is Costello’s first appearance with the screen’s youngest stai B F Keith's Takes Great Pride in | crop. of leading men, for the business of casting a picture these days is be- coming more and more difficult on account of the lack of them.' 22 FGLENECH e e s M. FIFTY FEATURES EQUAL TO ANY FOUND oTHER PARK ELSE- Take Cars Marked Cal ohn or Glem Keb ADMISSION IS FREE KEMH-ALBex VAUDEVILLE THE GREAT ARTISTS d K WORLD T. AT 3118 Annou the Engagement Extraordinary of AND CO. (By Special Arrangement with David Belasco) The Distinguished Star of “THE D\ “THIEVES” OVE” Will Offer A One-Ast Masterpleco By Vinsant Lawrsnse Ex Added Attraction THE WILLARD ROOF GARDEN ORCHESTRA Nathan Brusiloff, Direotor Meyer Davis' Pet Combination of Super-Soloiats in ‘@ Gens of a_Program JACK JOYGE The_Hoy With_the Smile = MONDAY, 7:15 En-ESMOND & GRANT-Pat | The Flapper and the Jelly Bean e R bNea: MAIN ALICE ZEPPILLI The Famous Prims Donna of the Chicago O Co., and Opera_Comique, Paris Those Care-Free Comios HANDERS & MILLISS . ¢ In “This and That” FRANK ‘RECKLESS & CO. A l/u(!uc N n! WILL MORRIS, “JusT WheeLs”™ ATHE Wi X Orehontra, Mate., S0e; Eves, $1.00. 4484, 4488, 0913 S i the girl is a whimsi. | wss, and then | 1926—PART- | of Cads. Capital Side Shows SWANEE-IN-THE-AIR. Swanee-in-the-Alr features jazz of the Swanee Syncopators led by Al Kamons at the big roof resort atop the Rarle Theater, where Martin Reuben, special entertainer, offers a song repertoire of the newest Broad- way hits, with the favorite older songs. In case of showers, the Swanee activities are transferred to the Swanee ballroom under the Earle Theater. LE PARADIS ROOF. The Le Paradis roof garden, more beautiful than ever, offers dance music that 18 brilllant with “high lights of melody by the famous l.e Paradis Band under the leadership of Jack Golden, who is noted for smart orchestrations of the newest dance numbers. CHATEAU LE PARADIS. “Out where the breezes blow through the trees,” pleasure seekers are finding entertainment nightly at the Chateau lLe Paradis. Dance | music of the gay sort, teeming with shimmering rhythms and amusing tricks of melody, is suppliad by the Chateau Le Paradis Band, under the leadership of Phil de Willilams, and Waltar Kolk, the “ukulele’s sweet- heart,” is a nightly feature as well a3 a clever dancer and singer. Not '"flxe WVVo.lgn Boatman™ Film. ‘T should be .definitely understood by the public that the featured attraction at the Earle Theater this week, “The Volga Boatmen" is not in any way related to the Ceeil B. De Mille photoplay. The “boatmen” presented by the Farle are a double quartet of male singers, who offer an act clossly modeled after the delightful ensemble singing of the famous Russian Ca- thedral Choir. The volces all are sald to be of solo quality, and the interval of song presented will enlist the active interest of every lover of the best in music. B Homes of ‘Societ);rin Films. OCTAL register homes are furnish- Adolphe Men- ture, “The Ace . house of Mr. and Mss, Schieflelin, 55 Gramerey Jorth wus used as one of the homes 1u Michael Arlen's Ou the screen it will Le the home of _Alice Joyce. Director Luther Reed will take his company to Lloyd's Neck, L. L, for scenes in the gardens of the j00-ucre estate of Wil Tinam J. Matheson. Later in the pic- ture acenes will be made at the home of Otto Kahn, 1100 Fifth avenue. Per mission for use of the houses was granted after their selection by Karl Wingart, location manager. as most nearly approximating the London originals of the Arlen story. Fxterlor scenes for Herbert FRre- non's “The Gireat Gatshy,” were re- cently made on the estate of H. H Will—formerly the Henderson estate— at Roslyn, L. I. The beautiful Olymplan pool, noted for its artistic was used to show the scenes iry that take place at Jay Gatsby's party and for the final clo ups depicting the latter's tragic ing locations fo Jou's Paramount p story. ATIONAL" " AMUSEMENTS. RUN of 500 performances on Broadway, seemingly s a feat only withi the reach of a welsh-rarebit | dream of a struggling author. Tt is a goal of success so far away that when a play achleves it there is figurative | dancing in the streets, laudatory publicity and fetes for the author, the producer and the cast. Yet, there are nineteen plays in re- cent*Broadway history that have sur- passed this run record. Of these 19 champlons of entertainment, the N: tlonal Players have produced, or will produce this season, five. Iiere are the record breakers as liat- ed in Burns Mantle's “Best Plays of 1924-25," an annual publication re- garded generally as the authentic la- bel on What's What on Broadway. These figures go only to June, 1925, i columns of | ¢ and only “Able’s Irish Re is still running: “Abie's Trish Rose,” 1,313 perform. ces: “Lightnin’," 1 “The Tirst Year. Heaven,” 704 “White Cargo, ; “Irene, 657; Kiki” 600; The Show Off." fe Music Maste Boomerang” and “Shuffle 504, That the National Flayers are con- cerned with the preferences of audi- ences rather than the exploftation of individual players has been demon- strated by the determination to pra- duce plays that have pleased the greatest number of people the greatest number of times elsewhere. East Is West,'" Trip to China- 648; “Adonts, Along,™ LOUI‘SC a OUISE FAZENDA admits that her little playmate, fate, has played | some peculiar pranks with her career. She told of one of them. For her second appearance on the screen she was cast in a Southern pic- ture. She was all dolled up with | a rose in her hair. The director came to the dressing room, where ten South- ern beauties were waiting to go on, and asked if one of them was willing to black up, as his “Topsy” had failed him. Nine of them were unin- | terested. ] Louise smirked a bit and touiched | the rose with her hand apprehen- | sively. Then the director offered $5 | to the girl who would do the act, and | as none-of the others made a move | to accept, Louise blackened up and received the money. It wasetwice as | nd Fate. much as a Southern beauty would get. She also made a hit and was known to filmland as “Mandy, a comer. That was her first start, she says As to the nine other girls, Louise nor any one else knows what became of them. But the start Loulse had was also incumbered with a drawback. Lonise became known as & character actress, nd for many vears nobody could see appealing charm in her, ner could they even imagine the actress’ face in the ludicrous comedy make-ups she ultimately effected. Her day of triumph was to come, however. 1t reached full bloom fin “Footloose Widows,” in which she has dropped slapstick and pigtail for comedy of the higher class. Touise, the persimmon, has de- veloped into Louise, the peach. Stage Great Football Game. X order that Richard Dix's screen play, “The Quarterback.” shall pic- ture the greatest foot hall game on record, Fielding “Hurry-Up” Yost, fa- | mous coach of the University of | Michigan, has been engaged to super- vise the foot ball sequences of the | picture. | Yost is conceded to be one of the | foot ball authorities in the | In addition to planning the the game, he will assist in squads of players, At difficult vens will be | up of the best former college players | available. | As a nucleus for the two teams, leral former plgskin celebrities have already been secured, including K arvey, all-American tackle of Notre | Dame, and William Duryea, a former | Fordham star, for tackle positions op- posite the Morey brothers, Donald and Harold, who held those positions for | two vea on the Brown LUniversity Jeven. David Butler, formerly of Le- mnd Stanford. will play in the bacl field. Dix will be quarterhack on one | | of the teams. He played at St. Paul | Central High School, and was out for he team at Minnesota University hé | fore ‘leaving college to go into busi | ness The game itself will he a real con | test, not made from stock news reel 1:‘\(( ins of college gridiron contests. | Yost will probably appear as a referce | in the finished picture. - | greatest ountry. wo WED. MAT. | ALL SEATS 50¢ $1.10, 75¢ & SO0¢ sar. mar., 15¢,50¢ National Theater Players, Direction of Clifford Brooke Offer Another Comedy From the Anne Nichals Mirth Factory Originally Staged by Clifford Brooke NEAT Nears Jomy ING GOLDEN With PERCY WINTER as Father Solid Year at _the Forty-eighth St. THREE MATINEES, WED., FRI. AND SAT. “LIGHTNIN'” By Frank Bacon “LIGHTNIN’ BILL JONES" (- TQDAY ALWEEK P et e DR~ THREE SHOWS DAILY-DOORS OPER TODAY 1P. M. 98 Hurney Prosents HIS FAMOUS ST. PATRIGK LAYERS In a New . ENSEMBLE OF 35 UE” VERSATILE ARTISTS PHOTOPLAY—FIRST TIME SHOWN A Thrilling Screen Drama “MEN OF THE NIGHT” WANDA HAWLEY, QARETH HUGHES HEBERT RAWLINSON —Qe5- NEXT SUNDAY, AUG. 1s1—GALLA OPENING -8 STRAND VAUDEVILLE SEASON I German Influence in Films. MTHE German influence” which is hecoming perceptible in latter day films is distinguishable in subtle suggestion rather than in stark realism: in lighting effects that are felt rather than seen by the average picture patron, and in the naturalness of character im personation and makeup. It is a closer approximation of real life than of the semblance of it. There ix, too, an unmistakable stamp of art that was made manifest most impressivel in “Passion” by the burning candles, which one Dby one became extin- ished as the story progressed The Old World is strong in art, but Awmerica s learning. gy ARDMAN PA THEATER Film Features DUMBARTON "y mms v WILLIAM HAINES in LOVEY NEW STANTO in LARR ‘EMPIRE PETER TH TICE. Y SEMO! 911 H Street N.| Matinee at 3 p. E_GREAT in *'WILD And COMEDY h Cap. and P Sts. Ni LIBERTY Nerth |3 i"%avn THF_VOLGA BOATMAN AMERICAN 1st St. and R. 1. Ave. TODAY AND TOMO) JACK HOLT in “THE BLIN' GODDESS " ukouNA 11th & N. (. Ave. S.E. =0 PVES FOR NEW." with LEWIS STONE and BAR- BARA BEDFORD. Sin 1 Park, D. C. TAKOMA Takoma Parl in “BRIDE OF THE NEWS and COMEDY day” i 3 . CIRCLE *'%% Ample Packing & TODAY AND ~TOMORROW—HELE CHADWICK and WILLIAM RUSSE! in “THE STILL ALARM." DOUGLAS MACLEAN in “THAT'S MY RAR' OLYMPIC You St. Bet. 14th & 15th Showing 3.5. 7.9 SWEET DADDIES. - featurt fflx_lmlil MURRAY. GEORGE SIDNEV, VERA GORDOX. JACK MULHALL_ and JOBYNA “ RALSTON COMEDY. NEWS REEL. m Tos- ONLY—SPECIAL - CAST. “SALOME" SHORT _SUBJECTS. P() K St. Near 8th HIPPODROME .5, 3 TOMORROW POUGLAS MACLEAN “THAT'S MY BABY” VAN BIBBER COMEDY, EuTE 1th St. and R. 1. 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