Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1926, Page 20

' season in NATIONAL PLAYERS—"Lightnin’ " “Lightnin’,” which holds the long- run record on Broadway for dramatic comedies of all time, will be the com- ing week's offering at the National Theater, with Perey Winter in the rame role. Percy Winter, who is a son of the late William Winter, probably Ameri- ca's foremost dramatic critic of the older and less fiippant school, will have his only outstanding chance of the “Lightning' "; that the best in performance can be expected. needs only the reminder that Mr. Winter played this role for two years on the road. also as understudy to the late Frank Bacon, its creator. and_during the Chicago run following Mr. Racon's death. ‘Lightnin’ " is reputed to have made more money for producer John Gold- en than any other play. It ran far above 1,200 performances on Broad- way, broke run records in Chicago, Philadelphia and othen big centers and regaled playgoers of one and two night stands, from Coast to Coast for three vears, repeating in every week- stand it played in. Frank Bacon wrote the play and originated the role of Lightnin' Bill Jones, a lovable ne'er-do-well who is overly fond of fibhing and drinking. hut whose heart never flutters when the test for charity and sacrifice comes. . Joseph Jefferson, Milton Nobles and Percy Winter are among the foremost successors to the role— a role played by more than a dozen actors in the various road companies. There will e three matinees for “Lightnt Wednerday, Friday and saturda KEITH'S—"London, Paris and New York.” The first of a series of Joseph Bantley productions will be seen at B. F. Kelth’s Theater next week, wren a revut called “London, Parix and New York” will top the bill The hook and lyries are by CIiff Hess and Kenneth Webh, with the music by the former. Helen T who with her sistyr Mattle, “songs at the pfino.” John Miller and James Mack, “the Ring boys.” will offer comedy singing and dancing, and others will include Stuart Casey and Mildred Warren and company in “The Frog.” by Paul Ge. rard Smith, the singing comics, Bud and Jack Pearson, in “Don’t Tell the Doctor’”; La Fleur and Portia. the human top, and other acts which will be announced later. FEARLE—Jeflries and Sharkey. James J. Jeffries and Tom Sharkey, the former heavyweight prize fighters, will appear in person and in action at the Earle Theater next week, he- ginning Sunday. While not in any way infringing upon the District's rigid code with regarg to the matter of ring houts, the former heavyvweight shampion and the ex#hilor who gave him a few of his toughest battles wilt display the blows and the form of strategy that comprised their respec- tive qualities of superiorlty in the squared circle Verna Haworth, with Fred Martin, assisted by Frederick Wobett and Mickey O'Connor, will he seen in “That's All_There Is." Others olude Roy Rogers and compan: “Show Me the Way Home': and Layland, two charming vocalsts. and Billy Abbott and Elmore White in “A Peppy Arranzement of Tunes and laughs.” The photoplay Iatest production “The Love Thief,” and short reels, and an organ recital hy Alexander Arons will be other attractions. will be featured will offer will_be Universa Norman Kerry, STRAND—"Primrose Four." The regular 1926-27 vaudeville sea- son at the Strand Theater will open Sunday and bigger and hetter things are promised than ever hefo Heading the vaudeville program will ba the Primrose Four, a quartet of male voices in “1,000 Pounds of Har- The quartet is made up of Norman ' Stanley, Bill Sadler, Fddie Drury and Bob Gibner, all well known on_the vaudeville stage. Holding second place on tha pro- gram is a large and elaborate song and dance number entitled the “Speak B-Z Revue" presented by a cast of eight, including the famous Sidell Sinters. Others will Include Wilk H. Ward with his company of comedians and songsters in “At the Stage Door'; .the Beasley Twins in a violin and piano number, “Music Symphony and Charm”: and the thrills will he fur- nished by the daring midair feats of Louis Leo in “Equilibristic Diver- xione.” A featurs photoplay, and educational short round out the bill with amusing pletures will METROPOLITAN — “Flla Cinders” and Bernardo De Pace. The Metropolitan Theater will be thrown open to the public Saturda. of this week with First National's release of Colleen Moore's latest star ring vehiole, “Ella Cinders,” as the feature and the added attraction, Barnardo De Pace, “wizard of the violin,” in a special musical offering, hesides the elaborate program to be » furnished by the Metropolitan Sym- phony, under Daniel Breeskin. “Ella. Cinders” is, of course, inverted spelling of “Cinderella” velates in amusing fashion the ex- periences of a, household drudze who atrangely wins a heauty contest and is inducted into the mysteries of the studlos and lotg in Hollywood. Tloyd Hughes plays opposite the star. The short-resl comedy will he a new Fox sareen version of one of the domestic tales by Mabel Herbert Urner con- the marital experiences of “Helen and Warren” under the title of “The Family Picnic.” The Matro- politan World Survey also will he shown. COLUMBIA~Dorothy Gish in “Nell Gwyn. Dorothy Gish, the gay. whimsical little comedienne of “Hearts of the World,” is said to present a character- ization that is the outstanding hit her whola career in Her! British-made production, the romance of the little Drury Lane orange 'girl who captured the fickle fancy of Charles 11 of England, which is being presented for the first time in Washington at Loew’s Co- lumbia next week, starting’ Sunday afternoon. Marjorie Bowen wrote the story, which was scenarized and directed by Herbert Wileox, with a cast of nota- ble British players. 4 Miss Gish is id to daringly por- the role of the roguish. flirta whose generous dis. harms outside the tray tious orange girl, play of her personal the Drury Lane Theder caught the roving eve of Charles 11 and lifted Nell Gwyn from obscurity to be t King's favorite and brought her into rivalry with Mrs. Castlemaine, the King's other favorite, The picturesque background of Lon- don and coyrt life in the reign of Charles II is visualized. Particularly. nteresting also are sald to be the sharacterizations of Charles II con- 'i::;ted by Randle’ Ayrton -and of Castlemaine by Juliette Comp- ton, a new British beauty. PALACE—"The Show-Off.” ‘With Ford Sterling*in the title role, Jaupported by Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks, Gregory Kelly, Claire McDow- iell and Joseph Smiley, “The Show: Off,”" George Kelly's American com- edy which ran for two solid vears on | Broadway and was recently played Jhere in stock, will be given its first photeplay presentation at Loew’s Ral. pee next waall, starting Sunday after- and" | The screen version of "The' directed by Malcolm from an adaptation of by Plerre Col- noon. Show-Oft" St. Clair, George Kelly's pla: lings. 1t is the sto ‘the kid from Phill Pensylvania Rallroad axscullve though earning $82.50 a week, mar- ries into the Fisher family to the dis- | gust of all except the bride, wins a Ford, knocks a traffic policemman up against the City Hall, is forced to call on his wife's people for a $1,000 fine and when finally brought face to face with the consequences of his bluster. | actually fares forth' and sells his| brother-in-law's new paint invention | for $100,000 and makes the whole fam- ily rich. RIALTO—"80 This Is Paris.” “So This Is Parls,” which comes to | the Rialto next week, was directed by | Ernst Lubitsch, the German director who made “The Marriage Circle,” star- ring Monte Blue, who again plays the lead with Patsy Ruth Miller in “So This Is Paris.” Lubitsch excels in the field of lizht | comedy. He is able to catch fleeting | moods, whims and subtleties. All un- | necessary thinga are eliminated. Sim- plicity and directness mark his crea- tions. The current production is a | French farce—whimsical, delicate, frothy, and yet tenderly human. It is based on the famous French farce, “Reveillon.” or “The Midnight Revel." the work of the celebrated literary col- laborators, Henri Meilhac and Ludovie Halevy. An added attraction will be the fea- turing of “Miss Washington,” who will be chosen this week, in a revue ar- ranged by Mischa Guterson. & TIV Ou-—“l’ldlm'l(fll 4 Lois Moran, Douglas Fajirbanks. | jr. Noah Beery and Louise Dresser | will be seem the first two days of | next week at Crandall's Tivoli Thea ter in the Paramount’s screen version | of Rex Beach's “Padlocked,” which concerns the Broadway experiences | of the daughter of a bigoted reformer, who runs away after her father's narrowness has resulted in the death r mother. Allan Dwan directed The comedy will present “Our | Gang” in Hal Roach’s “Baby Clothes™ and the Pathe Review and pipe or- by Qtto F. Beck and Ida will be added features. Tuesday and Wednesday the at traction will be'Lon Chaney in “The | Road to Mandalay,” with Henry B. Walthall, Lois Moran and Owen | Moore. also Al St. John iIn “Sky| Bound” and ‘“Topics of the Day’;| Thursday and Friday Zane Grey's “Born to the West,” with Jack Holt, and . “Mum's _the Word." a new laughmaker: Saturday the Fox pro- duction “The Shamrock Handicap.” a romance of old Treland, the juvEnile comedv, “Raisin’ Cain” and a “&port- light.” G AMBASSADOR—“Ella Cinders." Colleen Moore, Wupported by Llovd | Hughes, will be seen at Crandall's Ambassador Theater the first three days of next week, beginning Sunday afternoon, in “Elia_Cinders, a mew Helen and Warren domestic comedy, ““The Family Picnic;” short re pipe organ music: Wednesday, “The Unknown Soldier,” supplemented by Clift Bowes in “Squirrel Food"; Thurs- da e Boob,” with the comedy “Creeps,”” Pathe Review and “Screen Snapshots”; Friday, Norman Kerry, in “Under Western Skies,” Lupino Lane in ““Fool's Luck" and a new Grantland Rice “Sporjlight”; Saturday, W. C. Fields in “It's the Old Army Game." Buster's Mix-up,” & new Lyman H. Howe “Hodge Pedge” and the tenth Installment of the "Radio Detective.” CENTRAL—"The Fate of a Flirt. “The Fate of a Flirt” will be shown at Crandall's Central Theater the first ltwo days of next week, beginning Sunday afternoon, with a new O Gang” comedy, ‘“‘Monk Busine: Tufndm and Wednesday, W. C. Fields “It's the Old Army Game' and O. H»nr\ s "Elsie In New York,” with pipe organ music: Thursday and Fri- day, “Shipwrecked,” screen version of the play by Langdon McCormick. whh' Joseph Schildkraut a d Seena Owen, and Lige Conley in “The Tin Ghost” and “Screen Snapshots”; Saturday, Trene Rich and Clive Brooke in the Warner = Brothers' “The Pleasure Buyers,” CHff Bowes in “Squirrel lddcd short reels and pipe ““Thief of gdad. “The Thief of Bagdad.," Douglas Fairbanks' great fantasy. and D. W. ‘great picture. “The Birth of will be shown at the Ward- man Park Theater next week by the Moving Picture Guild. ,The Fairbanks picture, which was/ the costliest of all the star’s great specials. will_be shown on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It brings the Arlblan Nights to the screen. “The Birth of a Nation” will shown on Wednesday, Thursday, day and Saturday. APOLLO. | Sunday and Monday, Svd Chaplin | in “Oh, What a Nurse, and Snapshots: Tuesday and Wednes- day, W. C. F‘hldl in “It's the Old he | ¥Fri- A “Wandering Wil cilla Dean in “Forbldden Waters. “Helen_and Warren” comed “Too Many Relations”; ¥Friday, Viola Dana_and Robert Agnew in “Wild | Oats Lane.” and Lupino Lane in “His | Private Life": S8aturday, William Col- | lier, jr.. and Ernest Torrence.in ““The and Charles Chase in AVENUE GRAND. Sunday and Monday, W. C. Fields in | “It's the Old Army Game,"” and Sen nett comedy. “Circus Today"; Tue day, Anna Q. Nilsson in “Her Second Chance.” and Johnny Arthur in “Mr. Cinderella ‘Wednesday, B.| Kyne's "‘More Pay, Less Work,” and | Gleen Tryon in “Say It With Babies’ Thursday, Seena Owen and Joseph Schildkraut in “Shipwrecked,” and O. Henry's “Elsie in New York™'; Friday, Priscilla Dean in “Forbidden w !ers." | “Phantom of the Forest, | Christie comedy, Aesop Fable | , ; Y, EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 'D. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 “The Prince of Pilsen.” Stewart in and Our Gang in “Monkey Business,” “The Radlo Detectiv No. 10, CAROLINA. Sunday and Monday, dies,” with Jack Mulhall, orge 8id- ney, Charles Murray and Vera Gordon; Tuesday, Bebe Daniels, “The Palm Btar'h Girl"; Wednesda “The Hotten- clLean: Thurs- “The Ancient Highway, ! Jlu"k Holt and Rillle Dove: Saturday, featuring Thunder and White Fawn, dog stars. COLONY. ! Bebe Daniels in “The Palm Beac " and Cliff Bowes in “Don’t Miss”": Monday, Owen loore and Claire Windsor in “Money Talks" ;lmll Dancing Daddies"; Tuesday, Robert Flaher Moana'" and Sennett comedy. ‘‘Whispering Whiskers'; Wednesday, Richard Dix | in “Say in” and Aesop Fable; Thursday, . rise Bonner in “The Earf Jimmle Adams in v, Monte Blue in ‘and 0. Sund anun £ AL Henry's “Cupid a la ; Saturday, Rin-Tin-Tin in “The of the Wolves” and Charles King in ‘“Motor Troubles.” DUMBARTON, Sunday, Behe Daniels, in “The Palm Donald Keith. in Tuesday, Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller, in “Red Hot Tires": Wednes- day, Corrinne ‘Griffith, in ‘“Mademoi- sellé Modiste™: Thursday, Ma i in “Mdre Pay, Less Work ¥, | Matt Moore, /A'Isn Pitts and Kathry Perry, inM Jar) o Wed"; Saturday Richard Talmadge, in “The Bett Man." i ELIT Sunday and Monday, Jack Holt, in he Blind Goddess,” comedy ahd | news; Tuesday, Corinne Griffith, * Modiste,” BRI nesday, M Hughes, In Helen and Warren comedy: 'Hmu day, Douglas Fairbanks, in "“His Majesty the American,” comedy nml news; Frida Lewis Stone, “0ld Loves and News." and com NI\ Saturday, Hoot Gibson, in “The Phantom Bullet,” “Fighting Hearts" | |and Buster Brown comedy. blaiidiss HIPPODROME. 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SAVOY. Sunday, (‘Jtll B. DeMille's “The Volga Boatman'; Monday, Ruth Ro- land in “A Dollar Down” and Andy Gump Comedy, . “The Shady Rest’; Tuesday, Virginia Valli in ‘“Watch Your Wife' and Cliff Bowes in “Meet My Dog'; Wednesday, Anna Q. Nils- son in “Her Second Chance’ and Hal flnm h's “Never Too Thurst Prircilla Dean in “Forbidden and Fox Comedy “Hurri ¥Friday, RinTin-Tin in “The Cry"” and Lige Conley in Skates”; Saturday, Charles eet. Adeline” and Aesop HOME. Trene Rich and Clive “The Pleasure Buvers" and Monday, Peter B. -Less Work" and O. Henry's “Else in New York'": Tuesday, Pola Negri in “Good and \aughty"” and Clyde Cooke in “Wan- dering Papas’; Wednesday, Priscilla Dean in *Forbi maid comedy Sunday, Brook in Felix Cartoon: Kyne's “Mo: Silence” and Aesop | F2Pl®: Fable; Friday, Chaplin in _*Oh, What a Nurse" and Charles Puffy in “The Optimist”; Saturda Jack Holt in “Born to the West." Ruster Brown eomedy and “The Radio De- tective,” No, 9. LEADER. Saturday and Sunday, Lon Chane In “The Road to Mandalay'’: ber comedy and chapter piay: ) Richard Dix, in “Womanhandled comedy and news; Tuesday and Wed- Douglas McLean, in “That's Gump comedy and news; and Friday, Adolphe Men- A Social Celebrity”; comedy TAKOMA. Monday and Tuesday. For Heaven's Sake," Maud Sunday, Harold Lloyd in * Pathe News, and Whittier's Muller” with Marjorie Daw; Wedn dny and Thursday, William Colller, Jr. comedy and Richard "Dix in Married.” Aesop’'s Fable | “Fighting Hearts" No. 10; Satur- Peter the Great in “Wild Jus. * Fables and Mack Sennett come- and YORK. Richard Dix in Felix Cartoon: Monday, d Clive Brook in “The and Cliff Bowes in | Tuesday, Mary Asto “High Steppere” v It With Sunday, “Say It Again” and Trene Rich # Pleasure Buye: | “Don’t Miss"; nd Llovd Hughes iy e Tryon in Wednesday, H, B. Warner | lence” and Aesop Fable; Thurs. | aire Windsor and Owen Moore | Iks'" and Buster Brown | and Monday. Dick Rarthel- “Rangom’s Folly,” Our Gang | comedy and news: Tuesday, Be Daniels, in “The Palm Reach Girl," and Sennett comedy; Wednesda Lewis Stone and Bark Lamar, “Girl From Montmartre” and comed Thursday and Friday, Harold Llc in “For Heaven's Sake” and comed Saturday, Lillian- Rich and Robe Fraser, in. “Isle of Retribution,” “Fighting Hearts"” and Pathe Review. | PARK. - Sunday and Monday, William Rus- | sell and Helene Chadwick in * Alarm.” Alberta Vaughn in Hearts” and Park News: Laura La Plante, Har Alexander Carr in “The Beautiful Cheat,” Glenn Tryon in “Cuckqo Love': Wednesday and Thursday, Lan Chaney and Priscilla Dean in “Outside the Law” and Dinky Doodle c Friday, e Sidney in W, Lefty Flynn Sunday mess, in in #oot Gibson and Eileen Percy The Phantom Bullet” and Liege | Conley in “Cheap Skates"; Saturda Priscilla Dean in “Forbidden' Waters Alice Day in Sennett's “Hot Cak For Two" and “The Radio Detec! No. 10. —e 300 to Attend Meeting. 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