Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1926, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1926. 13 AMUSEMENTS KEITH'S—Ethel Barrymore. | The regular Fall and Winter season opened last night at Keith's and in celebration of the event Manager Rob- bins has gathered an exceptionally strong array of entertainers. Ethel Barrymore, looking radiant. | although but recentiy an occupant of a hospital, heads the bill in the well- worn but entertaining oneact play »f Barrie's, “The Twelve Pound Look.” again scoring a most emphatic | hit. Miss Barrvmore's part of Rat-’ has almost become a classic with wmany imitators. Her supporting com- pAny is all that could be desired, and many curtain calls followed the play- let. Dora Maughan has heen seen and heard too seldom around in these parts. She is an artistic entertainer of the first rank. working along origi- | nal lines. fler songs are new and | filled with humorous satire, the male portion of the audience apparently en joving the finer points to the fullest. Miss Maughan had to acknowledge a halt dozen demands for encores and the lights finally were lowered to get her away. Another strong act is Harriet Yioctor and William Holbrook, both fine dancers. Miss Hoctor presents the mosf difficult steps and postures with an ease that is pleasing. and her costumes are in excellent taste. Mr. Holbrook alse is very zraceful and lands effective aid to his partner in two of the numbers. Other bright features include Noel Lester & Co. in sleight-of hand and magicians’ tricks: Gus Muleay. who playe he harmonica with skill and Aances sensationally: Racine and Ray in a sidewalk conversation with sev- | 1 good songs; Eddie Cole and George Snyder are x riot with the formera in German dialect, directing an eld Charlie Chapin movie. something | an the order of Fid Wynne in the “Follies” of long ago. It provides a continuous laugh for the audience. The “Bugs.” LaSalle, Hassan and Pat Maran ara good tumblers and re- their share of applause, and | % the Pathe News and attractions complete the entertainment. EARLE—Roye and Maye Revue. The headline attraction at the Earle this week is supplied by Harry Roye and Billle Maye in a miniature revue that can he classed among the best | of the vear. The act Is handsomely ' siaged and mounted. with beautiful costumes and pretty girls. The dancing of the principals is good, both in duets and solos, and the four voung Iadies of the ensemble do themselves Proud Memories for the oldtimers are re. vived by the funny skit, “Al's Here,' a traversity on bygone days. Every 1hing is complete, the har and foot- rail. and the old crowd singing “‘Sweet | Adeline” with real harmony. Harr Rates, Bert Melville, James Dempsey Felix Rush and E. G. Corbin make up the company and each does his bit in singing and with a banjo solo and | buck dancing. Ivers and Sills In| “Musicalitles” with an accordion and | violin area not so much at the be- | ginning but get warmed up toward | the end of their act. Gene and Myrtle | Moore have an entertaining act, “Hits and Bits of Broadway,” sInging clever songs in A pleasing way. Jean McCoy and Ralph Walton have one of those rough-andtumble acts entitled A Few Moments With the Spirits.” with an abundance of wise cracks and | Aancing. The photoplay {8 “Tha Clinging | Vine,” with Leatrice Joy and a cast | including Tom Moore, Robert Edeson | and Snitz Edwards. The story con- | cerns a voung lady known as A. B. ! (Leatrice Jov), who directs the busi ness of a large paint manufacturing concern, even to firing the boss’ grandson (Tom Moore), who comes to | ‘he home of his grandfather to find the reason for his discharge. The grandmother plans to have him fall in love with A. B, first putting her | through a process of creams, lotions | and clothes. Of course, every thing | €omes out happily for all concerned. | STRAND—"“Love As Is." | The powers that be In vaudeville have provided a pleasing bill at ‘the Strand for this week | Harry Coleman and the lovely | ladys Hart, whose hair is ‘of the | chade sald to be that preferred by zentlemen, provide the clever kit iliam K. Weils wrote, “Love As Is.’ is fairly filled out with downright ny twists and verbal boomerangs at keep the laughs rolling Mavers and Hanford, in a solemnly delicious “hick™ turn, reinforce the | headliner with laugh material, and the | Rubini sisters give delightful contrast | to the performance with an artistic 1 with cellos. piano and a flute, the Wyoming Four still corrals Hrmony vl_mr makes one dream of Western night skies and cow punchers koftly ‘singing as thev ride. and Florence and Arnold toss the theater out of the bag with a turn of witty dnings and precarious balancing on 3 high stack of tables and things Monta Bell's “Boy Friend™” is the picture. in which &mall town people r o learn charm from a book to keep the chic Merceline Day from go- | ing to the city. St With music and all iy all, it is a good METROPOLITA len of Steel." “Men of Steel.” starring the movies' | best known pos v of a Ph. D. de gree. Milton Sills. and one of o charming Jeading women. Do von. which openad vesterday after. | nean at Crandall's Metropolitan. | ranks high in entertainment value There are several reasons for the worth of this picture. two being Mr < and Miss Kenyon and a third the fact that the interesting story of | primitive emotions has been excel. | lently adapted to the screen | The story opens in a locale of fron | ore pits in the West. with Jan. a high- I¥ strung workman. headstrong and | temperamantal. in love with the sister | of two feliow workmen il prets the role of Jan. while i= plaved hy Mise Kenvon Unlike a great many films. the mar. | riage in this takes place in the first | fer hundred feat. It turns out to he an unhappy one when the husband | breaks his pledge to the wife and turna again to drink This is followed | br the murder of the girl's older brother by the bhootlegger. who has supplied Jan with his fire-water. But when the authorfties are about to fastan the crime on the vounger brother. who is mentally deficient Jan steps in and assumes responsihil He flees to the East, however, ters work in one of the great steel plants. and under an assumed name renounced by his wife. he begins a come-back that leads eventually to ownership of the mills in which he be gan to work, and to love for the daughter of the former owner, a girl | whose life he has saved The pair become engaged and just when the hour of the wedding is near. | ing. the wife from the West enters upon the scene and Jan discovers his old love burning as richly as r The real murderer of her brother has confessed and Jan !s made a free man | again, The photography of “Men of Steel” | {e excellent from beginning to emd. an evidence cf a very significant note | in moviedom. The picture is spien didly directed. and minor characters are portrayed with real skill | A news resl and a chorus of 20 vriees from ‘“The Student Prince supplementa! attractions The are excellent in both old and rew faverites. | sought by | gedian. ! mense ! pared for RIALTO—"The Bells.” Lionel Barrymore gives a soul- stirring_interpretation of a most pa- thetic figure as Mathias, the debt- tortured. consclence-ridden miller, in Erickmann-Chatrian's great play. “The Bells,”” the film version of which is featured at the Rialto this week The story centers around the am- bitlon of a miller to become burgo- master, which leads him to extend credit to his patrons in exchange for their political support, thereby run- ning himself into debt which he can- not pay. His daughter, in love with the captain of the gendarmes, is the man who holds the mortgage on the miller's estate, but her father refuses to listen to his offers of cancellation in return for favoring his suit. Mathias is loyal to his family even in his extremity. And he is generous, going shabby himself that his wife and daughter may have pretty ribbons and bonnets. But in the hour of his greatest temptation. coming in the form of a rich traveler with much gold in his belt, the ha- rassed miller creeps out into the night with an ax after the wealthy one had departed—and a cap and some bells are all that are found of the traveler in the morning. But the payment of his debt and the knowledge that his family will he comfortable for the rest of their davs brings no peace to Mathias. whose ears are constantly ringing with the discordant notes of hells—bells jan- gling through a stormy white night made red with spilled blood. Barrymore rises to exceptional dramatic heights in his final scene of repentance and retribution. The Henry Irving version of the masterpiece, which is followed on the screen, gives plenty of opportunity for dramatic intensity, that the fa- mous star does not neglect. Excellent photography combined with an adequate cast in a strong play give Barrymore a vehicle worthy of his tremendous powers as a tra- In ““The Bells,” he is im- In the somewhat incongruous sup- plemental program, is offered a rather charming innovation in a musical pro- logue featuring Mise Milia Domin- 2uez, soprano, and Nicholas Vasilieff. tenor, in the characters of the voung lovers in the play. who sing a group of delightful songs. describing the | first meeting of the sweethearts, with American beautles from twelve cities, en route to Atlantic City to participate in the annual beauty pageant. These are introduced by Miss Marjorle Joesting, ““Miss Washington,” who is| entertaining them here for three day prior to their departure for the ses. shore. The beauties will appear to- day and tomorrow at 3, 7 and 9 o'clock. The program includes also a Uni- sal film comedy, “George the Win- ner,” and news events, and Mischa Guterson has arranged an appropriate orchestral overture. WARDMAN PARK — “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.” When “The Cabinet of Dr. Cali-| gari.” now being shown at Wardman | Park Theater, and the first UFA | production ever sent to this country, | was originally presented in America the tastes of film -audiences in the Western Hemlsphere were not pre- ither the shock, or the art. | For the production is artistic, despite | its lack of reallsm. That it was not | popular is a self-imposed shadow -on | the general run of audiences The picture is infused with an emo- | tion—it seems like a heterogeneous | mass of emotions at times—that Is transferred directly to the audience. | It is one of those films which one | sees and then, as the house is re.| lighted. returns to the reality of the | evening with a jerk, having been totally oblivious of his survoundinge. | wholly forgetting that he was in a theater and not dozing off in a brain- bathing day dream. | Every means, fair and foul, is taken | by the director to gain the effect. lD: impart the impression he is seeking. Dr. Caligari throughout his part an | mountebank does not wear the same make-up. In some scenes, through | | the way the lights are thrown on his | face and by the absence of grease paint, he has a suavity that makes | the audience ready to enter his tent at the fair to see ‘‘Cesare, the Som- | nambnlist.” At other times there is| |a darkling mien about him that in- spires fear and the belief that as a hypnotist he must be in league with the devil Rohert Weine, the director, | achieved an effect in pictures which | Wagner made prominent in opera: | the presence of each character, or his | absence, is felt in everv scene before | he is visible or distinguishable from the crowd. In the fair scene the im- pression of a big and cosmopolitan | erowd is obtained hy the usa of three persons in grot i by an o McCormick Medical — Glasses Fitted - Eves Examined Before Your Folks Return —trom their vacation, § let us see that every. thing about the Plumb- § ing is O.K. 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Ave. a gayety | leaves with a better understanding of cublsm and of the purposes of art | and the drama._ Above all, it accom- plishes Guild. which brought it back to Amer- ica. wishes to achieve: It inspires an int ph | back. |tures all along the idea of the un- e, th el hu It engineer carousals are all that is needed for |build bridges in order to stay at are the picture stars at Crandall's Tivoll Theater the first two days of this week in the Warner Bros.’ pro- duction of “So This Is Par} gaging comedy of the new the big picture. An announcement was made that hereafter the Palace will present “de luxe presentations.” home and be the husband of an am- bitious woman, with high political aspirations. Janet Stone, the wife, gives him a son and then, considering complete atmosphere of carnival The picture is both terrifying and COLUMBIA—"Fine Manners.” e it o Nt s | Eec duts 10 h a _ef i n." The co-stars are sup. Caligari” woul frightful. It s | her duty done turns her eyes and ef- movie season. - : | audacious and magnificient and one | forts to the ladder of fame, An end is| An eleventh-hour switch carried | jorteq by a cast that lends many un- brought to this matrimonial venture, [ “Fine Manners,” Gloria Swanson’s usual touches to a vivacious and en- livening screen play. Charlle Chase in “Mighty Like a Moose™ and a new is_suedn( 't'he :"nhe v 3loria | Reveiw are supplemented attrac ons. ;‘n?‘:!‘:o‘;::‘\,'l:é‘n “‘:r ?&:’?:: g;:‘r’wr- }“nh excellent pipe organ music by iy amiliar to her now, of doing |Otto F. Beck. and 1da V. Clarke. a slangy, tough girl part with her usual finesse. however, when little Billy Drake, through _his mother's neglect, falls !from a second-story window and dies lin the arms of his father. Roger Drake then packs up his things and {turns to South America to accept the contract for the construction of bridge. He takes to drink. how- latest picture, over into another week at Loew's Columbia Theater. The picture presents a veritable | what the Moving Picture tellectual undetstanding of motion ctures. AMBASSADOR—"Men of Steel.” PALACE—"Tin Gods." s rhnfirtml“!; :&Lll"‘l‘ckn?."cghr:ulo': . Its o is thg co‘mh{ne;l“;\");'l;:l{ Milton Sills, who wrote the story. , | ) shmore Creelman : i ! Thomas Melghan has really comie | 200 CURGU QUIE O e un- | qomee A*me was directed by Rich. |supported.by Doris Kenyon, Mae Al lison, Victor McLaglen, George Faw | cett and Frank Currier, is the attrac- {tion also at Crandall's Ambaseador After numerous program pic- expected arrival of Mrs. Drake, leaps | from the bridge that became a me- morial to her name. ard Rosson for Paramount, with Eu- gene O'Brien as leading man and rtunate, unselfish man who goes ! Walter Goss, one of the Paramount SR oo tout M m"‘:.”d‘ vow | Mr. Metghan 1 llent the | junfor’ st 1 e of the principal Anally wins, out, Mr. Meighan now ' Mr. Melghan is excellent as the | junior' stars. in on st : i has made a, real picture.’ A good voung engineer and Renee Adoree, |roles. It is the romance of the teap | Theater ".'Q fl.s} three‘ days of this deal of the cr¥dit Roes t llan Dwan, | who won fame In “The Big Parade.” of a burlesque chorus girl into high week in First .\lf!onnlsnnv!(‘lal pro- with all sorts of happenings | duction of “Men of Steel.” one of the society i« glorious as Carita, giving another to ma nt attraction-at Loew’s Palace. characterization that thrille. Aileen The story seems rather patched up.: Pringle nicelv plays the part of t 1t the picture grips and holds vou. political wife. concerns Roger Drake, a young A very funny i“harlie Chase com gives up his dream to adv and the Pathe News supplement S tace. " unugual camera dramas of the season taining. 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