Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1926, Page 56

AMUS EMENTS. Suggestions Invite&. THOUGH the National Players ap- parently have demonstrated an intuitive knowledge of what the! public wants, ballot blanks are being | distributed with the programs at the theater upon which patrons are | asked to name the play preferred for | the last week of the stock season. The plan was inaugurated a week | ago and 9 per cent of the blanks | distributed have been returned to! the hox office. | is strong for farce| romance. That much is | ted by the first week’s returns. | sccurate, the ballots thus far re overwhelmingly in , favor ',r[ comedy romance | ever written. | sifal.” | weeks of Summer stock, There have been, of course, Sug- gestions covering every type of play Mystery, farce, romance and even the latter in a suggestion of “Par- Tragic poetry, too, came in for a slight nod in the form of “Romeo and Juliet.” Some of the! | scattering preferences are for “Way Down FEast” “The Belle of New | Yotk and “Zaza." ! The final week of the National; Players seasof occurs next month | after a record season that, so far as known, no other stock company has touched. There will have been 24 the equiva- of the regular Winter in Washington. ‘melodrama, | lent almost road season Literary Fo S the motion picture scenario des. | tined to become a literary form of avt” Wil the manuseript from which . film is dramatized take its place llongside great dramatic contributions | that are handed down through the centuries Edwin Carewe, the movie director of als First has some interesting ideas un the subject. Yight now.,” says Ca lieve we are in the same position as | the predecessors of Shakespeare, Mar- lowe, Gireen and Peele. who forged blank verse and the technique of the | Shakespearean drama. We are forz. | ing a medinm for some man of genius who will succeed us. 1 believe it possihle “We who work in the silent drama | have artistic ideals and aspirations We have an enthusiasm for beauty’ and for the production of fine things that can be made W the screen, | belicve the time is cominz when the | niotion picture scenario will be classic. | Rernard Shaw has de ed that the scenario can lLecome I am zlad he has declar T he. lieve that in tin io will | bhecome zenuin rm of | art “The plays pr ave really notes for actor fng dramatists have elat notes until their plays are e. 1 be- ie literary fo Shakespeare Suceeed- ated the | intricate | shall hava a genuine art of motion i—ms of Art. and complete works of art. And so he motion Picture scenario, which is now a working outline of notes for the director and the actors, can be made into a definite literary form, full of charm and beauty and poetry. | | And when this-time comes the motior | picture will be interpreted not only | |once. but by successive wenerations of actors, just as Hamlet and Camille are interpreted and reinterpreted. “I hope the time will come when we will have a heautiful art of the screen. 1 do not mean by that an art that is materially instructive or intellectual. “‘Personally. T believe that the great mas and storles of the world are mas and stories that for themselves alone. The great art stor- ies of the worid have been the stories at have siood for themselves alone. and the “Odyssey.” the poems of India and Persia, s legends, “Niehelungenlied,” rabian Nights"—these are art stand for themselves narrative the No the *. stories alone. “When scenario writers do these beautifully and with a technique which 1 hope we will have then, we picture—an art we shall be proud of. An art that will b> handed down as a contribution from America’s cinema world.” Pictures and the Stag‘e. BY EDDIE CANTOR. COURTING the motion picture camera is new and novel to me. | 1 like it and. while at times I feel al- most like s veteran motion pieture | actor, T still retain the novice's in- terest and feel the fascination of the | newcomer to the screen he motion picture camera itself | does a lot of things 1 didn't know it | was capable of doing. It's deceitful | and it can’t be fooled. When one feels “tup of the world” the camera is | his friend: but when he doesn’t—look ont. Its searching eve defies you to hide from it the fact that last night's | sleep was unrestful. One of the first things T learned was to get to sleep ns early as and to get all the rest the day’s work allowed. Most people, T think. sha mvy late helief that the camera is capable of hiding about everything undesirable and improving on all the good things After working in my first picture I've heen disillusioned. On the stage 1 jearned that later hours left gnarks, bhut that they could he effaced with makeup. The close-up shot of the | screen doesn’t vield to this treatment, | however. | One of the things which surprised | nd impressed me very much was the | time it takes to make a4 motion picture. | “Kid Boots” was actually in the mak- | ing about days in_addition to months of preparation and cutting and | cditing. When shown on the screen 1t will run a little over one hour. That | means our company actually produced | | on the screen in two minutes took us | o {don't like it, { chance in the world to change any- | thing from one performance to the | siderable rushing about in the labora- | productions only two minutes of entertainment during the average day. Or in_other words, what you sce of “Kid Boots™ 8 to 10 and maybe 15 hours of work produce. And once it's on the screen, if you it can’t be changed. It s hard for me to get used to this faet, for having played on the stage for years I had learned to take sug- gestions in changes. But on the screen it's different. There isn't a next formance. rving true, luck. In case you don't know any more about what “rushes” are than 1 did three months ago, 1 will explain that after each day’s work, the film ex- posed the day before ix shown in the projection room of the studio. These “rushes”—a name derived, no doubt, from the fact that it takes con- for there ien’t any next per- I wrong, or fafls to well, you're just out of tories to get them: developed in time. Now that I've finished my first ple- ture, I still hold to my conviction that pictures offer greater possibilities for portraying comedy than the stage. And I intend to continue making| clean pictures, as 1 dld clean stage I never sald a line on the stage that T was ashamed to have my wife and children hear, and I'll never do anything on the screen that I wouldn't want them to see. the Spotlight COMPTON is withdrawing “Americana™ to appear in iertrude Lawrence musical produced Aarons & ‘In ETTY from the new comedy, Freedley by week for stav last production, Men.” started Woods Among Rehearsals the A, 0T Woman Disputed ving Lowell Shern “Another Dav, J Perl will Atlantic by Wiliam author of My Countr its first showing late in September. Richard ~ Herndon TRough™ is to be put in Chicago ahead New York. Its cast is headed by Genevieve Tobin and George Gaul. | Georgia O'Ramey. Ruth Tester and | William Sully have been engaged for the Philip Goodman musical show. The Rambler in which Clark and | McCullough will eppear. A. E R. R. Riskin announce a new dy called “'Helen Com Through.” by Gladys Monroe. The | piece will open late in the Faill an con { s been engaged by | for the principal | Twinkle. Twinkle.” was in “Cap- Brown Werh role 1 ppearance Toe Lonis T° comedy His latest tain Ji French play last week als of his ' starring Jacques Deval. the wright. arrived in New Y and will direct the rehear play. “The Cardboard Love Laurette Taylor. “The Adorable Liar, wyn's first reproduction mon. will have its premiere hence in New York., with Dorothy urgess in the title role. Henry Ste- phenson will replace John Miltern in which rema unchanged Edgar Sel of the sea- a week ast ins i Arthur Ryron with Fr which York hear: has engaged | ired player The Sheif.” in New will begin re- also of “The a drama of four- | ce. by John Hun producer week teenth-cen ter Booth Winthrop Ames will produce *The Fscape.” the latest play by John Gals- worthy. The piece made a big hit in London recen: Fred and Dorothy Stone and their company started rehearsals last week in New York of the new musical comedy. “'Criss Cross,” to be. presented hy Charles Dillingham the first week in October Tts music is by Jerome Kern. and the book ivries by | Anne Caldwell and Otto Harbach “Pay to Bearer, originally called “1 Can't Bear It.” is in rehearsal In New York. It is a farce comedy by Russell Medcraft, and Norma. Mitchell, T.aura Hope Crews, Alison Skipworth, Reginald Owen, Thurston Hall, Veree Teasdale and Shirley Booth are in the cast. Gertrude Vanderbilt has been en- zaged for the leading feminine role DANCT ARD MRS, L. A_ th Rt T ——Classes Mor., with_orchestra.” Priv Appointment you 1q Te DAVISON S A 10 a " few eamonn. PKI‘V MR2 ‘" 1ly private any heur. BN < N W, Class dance Satu “Mai cveming with orchesi ! ACHER STUDI Fri, Nt lessons | pal | Birds,” | week | hopes to obtain American revues for | from | preference for comedy. i heard of. in “I. 0. U. One Woman," which will open in Philadelphia the latter part of this month under the management of Dr. Louis Sunshine, who, with Will A. Page, made the American adapta- tion. Juck Hazzard will have the princi- part in_“The Good Fellow,” a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Herman J. Mankiewicz, which Crosby Gaige will produce. The role was first tried out by Sidney Toler, who has since emerged as the negro prize fighter in “Lulu Relle.”” of “Wild on the pri. Dan Totheroh. author is writing a play vate life of Salome of .ludea. whicn ix to be presented this sea N third ‘piece by this young author, “The Fruit of the Tree” Sam H. Har. has for early production. Pauline Tord's name has been suggested for the principal role. Herbert Fields, author of “The Girl Friend,” arrived in New York last from London with the manu- script of ““Peggy.” the musical come- dy which Lew Fields. his father, ana Lyle D. Andrews will produce this season. Edmond Syak, the Parisian theatri- cal manager with whom Arch Selwyn is affiliated. will make his first visit to America in October. While here he presentation in houses. left the is to appear “Parakeets.” a play adapted the F'rench by Zoe Adkins. Bruce McRae will be featured. The gxe(e opens in Philadelphia Septem- er 6. his Parisian Fay Bainter, our Grapes who recently company, in been engaged by Benavente t will be the opening attraction of the Civic Repertory Theater Company of New York October 18. turday Night, Joseph Sloane and Clyde Dilson are adapting “The Awkward Age.” a vaudeville sketch by the latter, for a musical comedy. he” Timid Soul,” cartoons that been running in The Evening s to be made into a play, which W is being written by H. T. Webster nd Will B. Johnstone. The author calls this a comedy, yvet there is as much of genuine pathos as of humor in this wistful, irresolute little figure that wanders through the Webster cartoons, dodging countless terrors in the jungles of Manhattan life. Another new comedy, “None Other Need Apply by a Nl\\lTlght not named. is to be presented by Joseph B. Verdi as a special reward for his interpretation of the Ttalian in “My Country,” that medley of national concord. In one sense |I|e production of “Quinneys” at the Natlonal Monday night is a_semi-premiere in this coun- try. Imported several years ago from a long run at the Haymarket in London. the plece was forced out of its New York engagement after several weeks' run, due to a prior lease on the house. A new York re- vival is contemplated. National Theater patrons are get- ting ballot slips in theilr programs, asking them to select the play for the finel week 0{ the season. One auditor suggestad ““Romeo and Jullet,” but most of the votes thus far indicate a Some of the plavs mentioned have seldom been R 11 Fillmore, who. w be - ported for “The Fall Guy” at the Na- toinul the week of August 30, is now a prominent Broadway juvenile lead. He got a little impetus toward that goal by piaying stock at Poli's some years ago, = | . allegory, | .. THE SUNDAY Outdoor Amusements GLEN ECHO PARK. Glen Echo Park, the big free-adm sion outdoor amusement resort, of- fers something for evervbody. o the pay-your-money-and-take-your-choice” plan. The attractions include the Hum ming Bird, with 4,000 feet of thrills; the Whip, Old Mill, Caterpillar, Mid way, etc., all MHkewise thrilling and amusing. Week nights Happy Walker and his orchestra will be found in the large ballroom catering to the dancers from 8:30 until clositg time. CHEVY CHASE LAKE. “The Capital’s cutest pickaninni Robert Wheeler and his little sister Hilda, are announced at Chevy Chase Jake for “Speciaity night” next Wed- nesday evening. These tiny chocolate colored dancers are ranked among the most popular in the Capiuu bert is 7 years old. while little sister Hilda is a kindergartner. ! Meyer Davis dance music is fea- tured on both upper and wwer dance pavilions, led by Ben Levine in the upper pavilion and by Tommy Thomp- son in the tower pavilion. Vaudeville specialties are provided by Ben Le vine and Ray Kendrick. CHESAPEAKE BEACH. Chesapeake Iloach, the Mavyland bay resort, reports excellent bathing snappy dancing. brisk fishing and a good time being had by all. Several thousand vacationists are enjoying the bayside attractions. . The Beach 1s unigue, in that all its amusements are built over the water— the derby racer, the merry-go-round, | the bowiing aileys, the billiard par- lors, the paddle booths, etc. A mile boardwalk also skirts the water paral- lel to the shore. Ralph Garren and | his Carolinlans furnish music on the dancing pavinon. The picnic groves | are cool and shady ard command an excellent view of the bey. CHATEAU LE PARADIS High-speed funmaking by Freddy Slazor and Cy Adelman provide an ef- teciive part of the evening of enjoy- ment at the Chateau Le Paradis. They erve the newest tricks in vaude and harmony. The sentimental stictly banned and the frivolous | stressed. The Chateau Ie Paradis Band. led by Phil de Williams, - plays dance music of the highest standard in| color, harmony and 2 with f.»xl trot numbers and graceful waltz num- bers prominent foature COLONIAL BEACH. Salt-water bathis i bing, boating, canoel other populur attract avail- able at Colonial Beac! 0 miles from Washington and reached b daylight ride aboard the steamer \l Jehns, with free dancing on the dance | deck to music by Sokolov's Band. The ! steamer makes two trips evel ek to Colonial Beach, leaving the Street Whart Saturday at 2:30 and Sunday at % a.n. 5 evening, except Saturday nnr\\ Sunday, the St. Johns leaves at 7:15 | o'clock for a pleasant 40-mile moon- light trip, returning to the city about il pm. | MARSHALL HALL. The steamer Charles mukes three da to Marshall Haii, leav Street Wharf datly at 19 am., p.m. and Sundar at 19 2:30 and 6:45 ) Marshall Hml offers an idea} ¢ and evening family picnic groves, tables, benches and playgrounds for the kid- dies and a score or more fun ures, | including thrilling rides on the aero- plane swings, roller coaste Kiss- ing Lug, Other attract caroussel, Venetlan house, bowling alleys. shoeoting gallery and free dancing in a large pavilion to music by McWil- liams’ B.um ‘ MOVIG HOPQS Mflkfi Varmsh THE movies now come forward with | the accusation that nearly every other automobile is covered with a broken heart’ The statement is commercial rather than sentimental, and has to do with one of the various processes through which motion picture S At the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City, Calif., where more film Is said to be consumed than at any other place in the movie colony, it was disclosed that tons of old celluloid— mostly tests of unsuccessful screen of actors and e deleted from pho- tovlays, and scenes that didn't get into | the finished picture because they weie too long or mot good enough—are | baled and sold to a manuiaciur auto varnish The celluloid is dissolved in a pr ration of acetone and forms the basic of modern celluloid enamels use automobiles. A large propo the enamel used on cars today is made | from old film. 'In the process the sil-{ ver iIn the film is first removed by | acid; _the remaining celluloid is dis-| solved and reappears under fanciful| names as autd varnish. | | | i i crab- dancing and | p.m. Macalester | 1 Sunday | i% the Seventh 0 and | 0 aam., Sang at Samoa. ALBERTINT, the Italian Broadway Brev- tties,” who is making her debut in burlesque this season, says she once | sang to a mixed audience in Pago- | Pago, in the Samoan Islands, where the ship on which she was a passen- | ger stopped en route from the Far | East to Australia, to the strangest audience of her career. It comprised white officials, planters and traders, and a large number of the Polynesian grandees of the islands. Songs were what the natives en- joved most, she says, and It was not the topical songs that seemed to de- light them most, but those from the opera and the classics. ‘ Mlle. Albertini sings in three lan guages beside English—Iialian, Span- ish and French. She is an Itaifan by birth, and this is her first season in Columbia burlesque. CHESAPEAKE BEACH OV TUE BY G Yaxp avt, BOARDWALK - ehildren, 3c enildren. Sue. | THAEL prima donna of Round trp Aduite, Sundars, holidass. adul ains leave 19, 1 THE THEATRE PETITE P VS Y GRAND § SATURDAY NIGHT wone | AUG. 28th —WITH— MICKEY -ror MARKWOOD AND Glorious Girls Galpre | brought {of a ru | finitety (W STAR, WASHINGTON, D. NEW WINTER C. J. HARRIS, Who will manage the President Theater Players this season. C.. AUGUST 22, 1926—PART 3. STOCK Capital Side Shows SWANEE-IN-THE-AIR. A surprise program of vaudeville will be presented at Swanee-in-the-Air every evening of next week. names of performers are not forthcom- Ing, Manager Campbell announces that they will include some of Washing- ton’s most popular entertainers in both dance and song numbers, with | comedy and jazz strongly stressed. The vaudevilla stunts will be supple- mented by the doings of Martin Reu- ben, special Summer entertainer. ! And jazz of the Swanee Syncopators will be there for dance lovers. In case of suaden showers the Swanee frivolities will be transferred to the big Swanee baliroom under the Earl Theater. LE PARADIS The forel, ouch is beins imparted to I Paradis Roof Garden gayeties by Bert Bermath. star violinist. who has conceived the idea of transmit- ting the newest songs into French and German. The innovation has regis- tered a hit. The Le Paradis Singing Trio, consisting of Bert Bernath, Jack Powers and Anthony Morella, pre- sents a string of clever numbers every evening, and Director Jack Golden of the Le Paradis Band provides a group of new archuuuums and new ‘dance com ons. le for the formal Fall opening of Le Paradis are now in progress. - From Overuens. By the Associsted Pre ACHA GUITRY, the French actor- dramatist, who won great success in London with his musical play, “Mo- zart,” performed in French, says he has decided that he will never permit another of his plays to be transiated into any foreign language. “T have learned to my sorrow what transiators do to one's work.” de- clared Guitry. “I have seen my work butchered, and have finally decided that my plays must be acted in French or not at all.” Premier Stanley Baldwin's eldest Con'lingr Attractions National Players—"“The Fall Guy.” “The Fall Guy,” a piece whose title suggests its motif and one which |served Ernest Truex for a season’s New York run, will be the National Players’ offering next week, beginning | August 30 OF special interest is the announce ment that Russell Fillmore, once 2 stock faverite here and long a popu- lar juvenfle in_ productions, will be from New York to interpret | the name role. “The Fall Guy” pecked voung husband who loses his job, falls in with shady companjons and final'y accepts an easy job, a well paying job, about which he is suspi- fous and which develops to bhe that aner for bootleggers. His first consignment of contraband finds its way to his own flat, where, ironically, a frequent r at the house turns out to be a revenue agent. ally the suit case of illegal stuff is Qiscoverad, opened and found to con tain not liquor, bui something more. serious, the fall guy gets out of his is presentad in alternat- and thrills of How predicament Ing gusts of laughter Accident- | in-§ } | deals with a hen-| Theater next week are Harry 1 Ann Temeau and Elsie Young son, Oliver, has written a play, enti- tled “The One Talent,” which is to be produced this Fall by Sir Frank Ben- son, the veteran actor-manager, wWho arranged 26 of the annual Shakespeare festivals at Stratford-on-Avon. The play is said to be controversial, but it has no sex interest. Oliver Baldwin is in his early thirties. Ruth Draper's great success in Lon- don as a ‘“one-man show’ has pro- voked wide comment among dramatic writers to how many entertainers there ai vho can hold single-handed an aydience spellbound for an entire afternoon or evening. Will Rogers, Sir Harry Lauder and Miss Draper have been rather generally selected as those who could hold the undivided attention of afy English-speaking au- dience for two hours. Actors with established London rep- utations used to refuse to play in the provinces. But that was in the days when London theaters were more prosperous. Nowadays many famous actors are delighted to t engage- ments with companies touring the larger provinclal cities, for there is more money for actors in the prov- inces than in the capital. Tn the early Autumn a single Lon- don producer will send out 15 road companies, headed by well known atars. Oscar Asche, Violet Vanbrugh, Eva Moore, Ethel Irving and many others are now on tour, and Autumn excitement. Throughout a heav of humor runs and, not to forget, a love interest, that sort of thing which makes successful comedies. KEITH'S—MIle. Odali Careno. Mile. Odali Careno, a grand opera matic soprano of international fame, will head the bill at Keith's next week. STRAND—Harry Rose. Scheduled to appear at the Strand Rose. popular songster and comedian, in “The Broadway Jester'; Cafe Madrid, offering tango and Apache dancing, with appropriate music, billed as *“The Spanish Singing and Danéing Revue'; in a unique skit by and the King in “The Act Dif- Xossiping GGabfe Carl McCullough, Brotl gymnasts ferent EARLE—Vaudeville and Pictures. The Earle Theater next week will |offer as the photoplay attraction First production, starring Anna Q. Ni | Has Passed Through the Stages. AY back in the early days of the movies George Siegmann was villaining as earnestly as he is today. Today he is seen in one of the fea- ture roles in “Poker Faces,” a Uni- {versal Jewel production. Fifteen yenrs ago he was plaving a featured ole in “Mutascopes,” one of the early aph productions. as progressed from the green- est melodrama_to the most intense vellow of comedy. In shooting “Poker Faceg" a high- power, electrically driven camera noiselessly exposed the film as it sped past_ the lens. The machine was small and easily carried by one man. Bui in his first picture Siegmann d before an immense camera that ground machine. nt perfor ind cast them ont In The camera weighing As tha film was used ting device ent hole a vegular bli wi icenes bits and but the weren't shot in ingether then as now 40-MILE MOONLIGHT TRIP Monday, 7:15 And every evening except Sat. and Sun. ST. JOHNS Mrs. Wllson-firee;l: s Conterts Season 1926-27 Artists’ Course FRITZ KREISLER Violinist CLAUDIA MUZIO Soprano of the Chicago Opera SIGRID ONEGIN Contralto of the Metropolitan Opera BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERGE KOUSSEVITZRY, Conductor CHALIAPIN With His Own Opera Company Philharmonic Course MME. JERITZA Soprana, Metropolitan Opera RACHMANINOFF Pinnist MARION TALLEY Sensational Coloratura Soprano, Metro- politan_Opera BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor ELIZABETH RETHBERG Soprano, Metropolitan Opera LAWRENCE TIBBETTS Baritone, Metropolitan Opera Wilson- Greene | Evening Series MME. GALLI-CURCI Soprano JOHN McCORMACK Tenor CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ¥RITZ REINER, Conductor TITO SCHIPA Tenor GABRILOWITSCH Pianist, and THE ENGLISH SINGERS DUSOLINA GIANNINI 2-‘!)1 for .A""?l ursun M'C being o s e and whirred like a threshing ! an will find Matheson Lang, Marfe Lohr, Arthur Bourchier, Fred Terry, Julla Neilson, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Viola Tree, Sybil Thorndike, Sir John Mar- tin Harvey and Henry Alnley in the provinces with recent London suc- cesses. players acted the whole pl of the camera just as they would on the s Arc lights, kleig lights, mercuries and spot lights were yet to be utilized for motion picture ‘work. Even interiors were filmed \by sun: light brought onto the set by an in- genious arrangement of mirrors. Siegmann naturally prefers the modern method. It is more rigid in its requirements, but the entertain ment result is nearer perfect, he says. Lo Wi et K | wfl"fi"‘i‘fi'i"&'fli‘h» “THE LAST LAUGH” The Pleture Witheut Sub-Yitles O R O EI O RS i The return to the screen of Sylvia Ashton, pomular fllm mother, as . fea- tured player in “Dancing Days.” is a recant announcement. Miss Ashton’s last appearance was in Von Stroheim's “Greed,” after which she announced her retirement. BEG. MON. ATIONA $1.10, 750 & 506|s im0 National Theaier Players, Direction Clifford Breoke, Offer medy of Charm and Distinction Quinueys B8y HORACE ANNESLY VACHELL With Clifford Brooke as “Joe Quinney.” Originally produced at the Haymarket Theater, London. Recently Revived There for 15-Week Rum First Time In Washington A Diverting anfl Exciting Comedy “THE FALL GUY” ““Combines the best features of ‘The First Year’ and ‘Within the Law.’” Huwud lroun. WED. MAT. 7 7 R Z 7, 7 7 % NEXT WEEK SELLING N SEATS N S 7 72, Extra Added Attraction Spain's Noted Dancer LA TORRICELLA With Ivan Naproy, Jamis Delval and Nadelles Gypsy Harmonists JOE ROSIE KENO and GREEN “4 Hilarious Hodge-Podge” CLAUDIA COLEMAN BABY HENDERSON “Feminine Types” I Deinty enéd Diminutive §$GT. FRANKLIN & RUBY ROYCE -wvier wis miner- eee— - AESOP'S FABLES, TOPICS OF YHE DAY, PAYNE NEWS WEEKLY __—-———_———i SHOWS DAILY. 2:13 AND ORCNESTRA STATS—NATS. 8e: NITES. 91.00 Special Featurs De Luze Ezeeptions! Artists h‘- NAT D. AYER Am WILSOI Famouas Buitish Favewite u-m Comedian Comed MEL KLEE In “The Prince of Wolls” While | | AMUSEMENTS. Winter Stock Announced. UMOR took to its heels the past | the hous: « ? 1o week before the definite announce. | el ment that Washington this Fall and | ‘Winter will harbor a stock company at the newly rebuilt President Thea- ter. on Pennsylvania avenue enth street. Close to $60.000 has bren spent on this house within the last 10 months provoking all sorts of zuesses as to the reason. The Fresident will open Monday, September 20, presenting ““What Price Glory?"” with a cast recruited from the best stock and production talent ob- tatnable, it is annourced. Clarence J. Harris, lonz identified | with the theater in Washington and best remembered as manager for sev- eral years of Poli's Theater here. will manage the house. Charles 1. Scho- fleld, for nine Summers director of the Albee Players in I'rovidence, R. I., will direct. In passing it might be mentioned that the Albee I’layers have enjoyed an uninterrupted residence in Providence for 26 years, and its male and femindne leads are considered among the best in the busines: Popular prices will prevail—S$1 top at night, 50 cents for Wednesday matinees and 50 and 75 cents for the Saturday matinees. Plays that have | seen production on Broadway as re- cent as last season will predominate in_the play schedule. The President Theater was prac tically rebullt following the Harvey Restaurant fire. Stock and transient plays and local productions followed there in turn from time to time. Then Comedy Costlier, Etc. AKE them laugh' is the order that has gone out through the v from Hollywood, where he big studios,” says Buster Keaton, “and Kid * for Paramount, and 1 look for a banner season this year [ walked up the rse of the Gramd for photoplay comedy of all kinds. | Central ) - wk, leading “Ot course, the public complains | Mrs itle ¢ that screen comedy isJiot always up | tors, to par, and In many instances it Land. On the isn't. 'There is no harder task in|was present screen prodiction than that of mounted golf ing a laug:-satiated public hold its | Dunn, one « sides. We pour thousands of dollars | Stars, and into comedy-making now where we|from the formerly poured hundreds, and still Mr. Cantor the public demands funnier pictures. | last him for two years. Enough flasl “The average feature comedy of a | lights flared to remind an ex-sold few years ago was really nothing |ot Man's Land more than a bit of slapstick and |[= ‘gags.’ The studio sets cost little, | and any street or park was good | enough location for exteriors. Those | days, however, are gone forever. ‘The public now demands a. really funny_story, lavish a big and frequently famo t. and, | above all else, laugl lot of waste footage will Le endured in a dramatic picture, but if a comedy lets | down for two minutes, they turn | thumbs down on it. “A few vears back we could turn out a comedy for a few hundred dol- lars and make it in a week. Now- adays. it takes us six months, and the ‘story alone costs more than the entire picture used to cost. That is certainly true of my own production of ‘Battling Butler, antl T know it's true of many others.” GAYETY : ED E. DALEY’S Gorgeous Spectacalar Broadway Brevities WITH MIKE SACKS Great Cast, Including Ethael Albertini, the Heautiful Italian Prima Donna. Typlcal Daley Cloras 26—Marvelous Scenes—:25 Extro—Eddle Rector and Ralph Cooper SPECIAL—World’s Greatest Colored Dancers Entire New Show—First Time Ladies’ Matinee Daily Next Week—“Wine, further improve nter. A new o theater complute lobby h has been at El lighting facilities a seven carded intimat hut off from t velour drapes. other tails have heen per to a where a visit to the P r by it last Winter will row n rium by heavy Ao the Albee Plavers season, is convinced that Schofitld he has the Winter company stitutional Spring he been combing New York merous 1 | were made were made, It is said th prospect, nui s the flower «f interviewed nished for Season r permitting pa seats weekly These resc by applyit ) € President A Royal Return. EIJI‘H AN in Directo Stock eenters for taient applieants vejectic 00 player will be fuy tion, later fions will be allowed, retain the same thout extra charge, in be made now Harris pul ons te vatio we OR returned last Tues Cantor 1 Can of gold Joseph mount Junior of 1 it pri with enough golf balls upn AMUSEMENTS AT THIS BIG FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK /74 Main 4300 Club Theater Daily Ninth Near F Ladles’ 2:15 Twica Smoking permitred oot the v Here 25¢ 25¢ Woman and Sonz" WE PLAY LOEW’S VAUDEVILLE STRAND A PROGRAM OF ENTERTAINMENT DELIGHTS The High Priestess of Mysticism EVA FAY In Her Weirdly Wonderful Offering “Thaumaturgy" MURRAY BEN GORDON & PIERCE | In “I Don’t Care” By Willlam K. Wells BURNS & McINTYRE “Golden Voices” Bert—BEDFORD & WALLACE—Joe “Versatile Moments” & PHOTOPLAY &2 A Thrilling, Romantic Drama “DAME CHANCE” With Gertrude Astor, Mary Carr, Robert Frazer, Lincoln Stedman \LWAVS I'I'IE "ST FO? L"SS Dasls & Newhoff Present ‘SECRETS OF 1926° A Sizzling, DI | with otto Walk Ko LINCOLN THEATER \ U STREET AT 12tk SUN.=MON.—TUES. EMIL JANNINGS WITH LYA DE PUTTI, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN EUROPE, IN A STRONG, ABSOR DRAMA OF THE SHOW WORLD VARIETY NETT COMEDY WED. AND THURS. ZANE GREY’S Latest Tale of the Great Outdoors. DESERT GOLD Comedy—Snap Shots. FRI. AND sAT. LON CHANEY In o Reissue of the Vehicle Which Made Him a Star. THE TRAP Sennett Comedy.