Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1926, Page 22

Attractions in Washington Theaters Next . NATIONAL—"Ben-Hur.” “Ben-Hur" begins its third week at the - National -Theater next Sunday. matinee at 3 p.m. This Wnely filmed spectacle and drama can be strongly recommended te those who have not meen it. Its big scemes, the chariot race and the sea fight, so vividly described by Gen. Lew Wallace in_ the original story, are equally stitring on the screen and surpass anything of their kind seen in the movies. The picture i% no less engrossing in recording the humiliation and triumph of its young hero, who is sent in slavery to the Roman galleys and.later returns to victory over hls arrogant foe, Mes sala. S Ramon Novarro impersonates Ben- Hur, Francis X. Bushman is seen as Meswmala. Others in the cast, who give admirable performances v Me- Avoy, Betty Bromson, C'la rmel Myers, Kathleen Key Nigel de Brulier. A large symphony oxchestra under the leadership of A. Balendouck enhances the beauty of the screen presentation in®no small degree, sl PRESIDENT—"The: They Wanted. The Pulitzer prize play for 1924 “They Knew What They Wanted will be seen at the .President Theater for the first time in Wash ington. Sidney Howard i the author and auline Lord sta 1 in it for an entire season in New York. The piece 18 unfolded against the hot soil and dusty vineyvards of the Napa Valley, in It ix a comedy which uneasily on the edge of tragedy something of “Desire Under Imx,” but lacking the gaunt s of the O'Neill opus. > smiles in the Howard es- may and the types are more huma forlorn waitress, starv i, accepts the pe Italian’ farmer in the wine country. Journeying to hix place shesfinds he tricked her by sending a photo bh of his son. Then begins a cra croxs-weave of passion and fear. new What KE 'S—Anna Fitziu. Anna Fitziu, Am; n prima donna, formerly of the Metropolita d Chi cago Opera Co.. will make her vaude. ville debut at B. F. Keith's Theater next week, where she will headline the May Chadwick. international star and tap dancer, will be featured | and Jans and Whalen, | with her six dizzy blondes,” others wil) include will follow with their nut act » Three Kemmys, in an artistic dis: play of strength: Lew fced and Paul Levere, “two gentlemen where.” who entertain with music and dancing, Harry Holman, with his latest version of “iard Boiled Hamp- ton.” assisted by Miss Edith Manson; the juvenile mimic, Jerome Mann, in impersonations,” ‘and an original novelty by Sylvia Loyal and company. ARLE—"Sunny Spain. Next week's bill at the Karle The- ater will offer as it headline attrac- tion “Sunny Spain.” a musical revye, with a large cast of principals, en- semble and settings reflective of the colorful land from which it derives its name. Others_on_the vaudeville bill are Kody and Wilson, Kay and Olive, re- &pectively, in “Moments of Song and Music”; Emma Earle Marvey in “Past and Present” and David Ferguson and company in_“#he Lucky i sketch Panl Gerard Smith, in which the star ix supported by George L. Spaulding, Geraldine Wood and John Leister® The photoplay ny lines in in addition usual house comedy, news re tributions hy the Earle Orchestra, un der Floyd . Wheeler, and pipe organ music by Alexander Arons feature will be John "he Brown Derby.” and the bill will include the ons. short recl hestral con- STRAND—"Modern Review." “The Son of the Sheix™ will be the screen offering at the Strand Theater next week. For those who were un- able to see Rudolph Valentino in his last screen appearance during its re cent run’here this presentation offers the opportunity. Tt is a sparkling, colorful romance full of action and with a glowing climax. The vaudeville will be headed by the Review,” fefturing Anna ¢ and_Al Newman, with Dorothy oane, Desmond and Raymond and Gordon and White ina cycle of com- edv. songs and danc Others’ will be Joe McGrath and Jack in “'High and Low of Any Show “omedy Vaude- villia Furman and Ofive Evans, * Touchdowns on_the Gridiron of Song.” and the Weisx Trio in a “sensatlonal novelty.” AYETY—"The Merry Whirl." The Columbia sque atiractiog, “The Merry Whirl.” will ba next week s offering at the Gayety-Theater. The show iz said to be new in every particular, with a capahle cast, which includes Hal Rathburn, Art Harris, Dolly Vaughan and Dippy Diers, and A chorus of 18 girls selected for their abllity to sing and dance. “The Merry Whirl” is equipped with a number of vaudeville speclal- tes and novelties—Duval's living art models, Emmett O'Toole, Okeah record maker and Irish tenor; the Hightower Trio, colored lads who are dancers of speed, and Dippy Diers, New York Hippodrome clown, assisted by Flo Rennett. MUTUAL~"Vamps of 1927." ““Vamps of 1927" will be the attrac- tion at the Mutual Theater next week with a cast headed by Johnnie Weber, German comedian, aided by Rose Ber- nard. vivacious dancer. An added feature will bs a skit entitled, “The Night of the Fight,” Billy Inman and company Doris Stone, Leone Reed. Dolling Barringer and George Mack are other members of the organization. LA JAVA—Dancing. La Java, one of Washington's night clubs, is to start its third season with a gala opening on the coming Saturday night. The club manage- ment is planning a Winter's series of tainment headed by well known vaudeville and cabaret artists. For the opening., Columbus and Beeker, from no- { Week dancers, will be assisted by Mids Blanche Lehman. ‘¥n addition to this headline offering severai_ other en- tertainers have been secured, 3 Tommy Thompson will again b _ih charge of the dance orchestra. Hé directs and handles the drums at the same time. This is a_development of the new_syncopation idea in American music which has done away with the idea that to direct a musician must be either a violinist or pianist. ARCADPIA—Dancing. | Griffith, supported by a new leading amusement of Washingtonians. T new auditorium has space for more than 400 dancing couples. The in- terior effect in this room is made to represent a starlit sky with hundreds of blue and amber lights used throughout the whole auditorium. The orchestra for dancing is espe- cially selected by Daniel Breeskin, un- der the leadership of Daniel Davis. Dancing begins at 8:30 each evening,| and continues to 1 a.m. A new billiard room has been added and Is now one of the largest in this section of the country. The third floor will be made into a night club and this will be ready for occupancy in a very short time. RIALTO—"Take It From Me.” “Take It From Me" is the title of Reginald Denny’s new picture, which comes to the Rialto next week, start- ing Sunday. Denny, star of many comedies. is sald to have a rollicking role as the manager of a depaftment store in a big city. He doesn’t know anything [ about rumning one, but he is excru- clatingly funny in trying to do the job. He must show a profit or lose the store, and, of coirse, the comedy viliain is trying to thwart him at every turn. : Denny's countless blunders and in- ™ | stances” of bad business judgment, | however, all turn out for the best, and | he wins the store, the girl and hearty laughter from the audience. The story is based on the musical comedy of the same title, and the sup- porting cast includes Blanche Mehaf- | fey, Lee Moran, Ben Hendrickes, jr.; Ethel Wales, Jean Tolley and Lucian ! Littlefleld, PALACE—"The Campus Flirt.” Hebe Daniels in her new Paramount “The Campus Flirt,” and Al | Herman, “the black laugh,” and his | minstrel men are announced as the screen and stage attractions at Loew's, Palace next week, starting | Sunday’ afternoon, supplemented by | Dick Liebert’s “organlogues,” the Palace Magazine, Topics of the Day and a musical program by the Palace Orchestra. In “The Campus Flirt,” a Clarence Badger production, Bebe is supported by Charles Paddock, “the world's fastest human”: James Hall, a new leading man; El Brendel and Joan Standing. ‘It is the story of a snob- bish soclety girl who rubs elbows with campus life and becomes “a reg- ular fellow.” Al Herman, who leads his cohortsy| of minstrelsy to the Palace stage in a hilarious offering. has with him in this number Jack Mulroe and Billy Kuelhing, Washington dancers; Tex Hendrix, Al Roth and 25 other mon- larchs of mirth and melod Four performances are & with continuous performances from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. | | | METROPOLITAN—"Don Juan’s | | ven dally, Three Nights.” At Crandall's Metropolitan Theater | next week the film feature wili be | First National's_production of ‘‘Don Juan's Three Nights.” The stellar | ole is played by Lewis S. Stone, sup- ported by Shirley Mason, Malcolm McGregor, Myrtle Stedman, Betty Francisco, Kalla Pasha, Alma Ben- nett, Natalle Kingston, Jed Prouty, Madeline Hurlock and Gertrude Astor. The stage attraction will be supplied by Rita Owin, formerly eccentric dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies; Ar- thur Hammerstein’s production of “Jimmy" and Ned Weyburn's “Town Gossip,” and the bill will be embel- lished by the customary short reels and special musical contributions by the Metropolitan Symphony, under TDaniel Breskin, and the Metropolitan Ramblers, led by Milton Davis, the Ramblers occupying the pit from 10:50 1o 1:30 and from 5 to 7:30 daily, and the symphony during the other hours of the program’s run. | “Don Juan's Threc Nights” relates the romantic adventures of & pianist who hecomes involved with a group of idol worshipers, who finally lead him to a point of indiscretion where he is challenged to a duel, and is so wounded that his hands become of no further use and the kevboard must necessarily be abandoned. Lewis S. Stone is cast in the role of Don Juan and Malcolm MacGregor is the youth who vies with him for the hand of Shirley Mason. COLUMBIA—“La Boheme.” Mary Pickford in her new produc- tion for United Artists,” “Sparrows,”. is announced as the photoplay attrao- tion at Loew's Columbia Theater: fol- lowing the current engagement of “La Boheme,” featuring Lilllan Gish and John Gllbert. “La Boheme” {s giving every evi. dence this week of duplicating its New York success, capacity audiences fill- ing the theater ever since its opening last Sunday. Directed by King Vidor and. based on the immortal opera by Henrl Mur- ger, “La Boheme" has a distinguished supporting cast_that includes Renee Adoree, Karl Dane, Roy D'Arcy, George Hassell, Edward Everett Hor- ton and others. The production.reveals in flashing. colorful scenes the story of Mimi, the little waif of the Paris Latin quarter, and her sweetheart, Rodolphe, the playwright, for whom she gladly sac- rificed her health and finally her life in one of the sweetest stories ever told in any medium. TIVOLI—"Fine Manners.” Gloria Swanson will be the star at Crandall's Tivoli Theater the first two days of next week, in Paramount's production of .“Fine Manners,” and in which she is supported by Eugene ‘Be Sure You Get the. Original and Genuine For Constipation bocder. Beware of substitutes. this delicious nlll-ll;r:::: :cwll. :— tablet Feen-a-mint The Chewing LAXATIVE Chew It Like Gum - PHE - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, O’Brien, Helen Dunbar, Walter Goss and John Miltern. The auxiliary fea- tures will be Mack Sennett's two- reeler, “Spanking Breezes” and the Pathe review. Tuesday and Wednesday, Corinne man, Einar Hansen, in First Natiol al’'s production, “Into Her Kingdom, the story of a Russian princess, who marries a serf and comes to America, together with a Helen and Warren comedy, ‘Easy Payments''; Thursday and Friday, William Boyd in a West- WHHMMHIIMHMIIHHIIHRHIIIIIIIIIHMIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIII!IIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIHIIIIHH!IIIHIIIIIIIC— The Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., 909 F St. )1Illlllll|||IIIIIIIHI||||||I|II|III|H||||||||IIIIII!|||||IllllllllIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIlllllll!llll!I|I|l|l||||l|l‘" ern production, “The Last Frnl\tier”]fle Steadman, Betty Francisco, Kalla supplemented by an Aesop fable; Sat- urday, Clara Bow in “Don to the Sea in Ships,” augmented by a Cameo comedy entitled, “Kiss Me, Kate.” Each daily bill will be established, as usual, with special pipe organ num- bers by Otto F. Beck and lda V. Clarke, » AMBASSADOR. A cast led by Lewis ley Mason, Malcolm Ma D. . WEDNESDAY, OCTOEER 6. 1328. ’ supplemented by an Aesop Fable by WARDMAN PARK—"Forever.” Paul Terry; Thursday, First “Forever” (“Peter Ibbetson"), the tional's gnew production of ure Wallace Reid believed to be Vadisg’ @ith Emil Jannings, foremost | his greatest work, will be the first of star of the European stage and screen. | his productions to be shown by the in the role of Nero. supplemented by | Motion Picture Guild at the Wardman a new Alice reel; Friday, Gloria Swan- | park Theater next week, beginning son in “Fine Manners.” supplemented [ sunday. 2 by a new comedy, “A Merry Wid-| ‘This picture was selected almost ower”; Saturday, Willlam Boyd in |ynanimously by patrons during the “The Last Frontier,” supplemented |jasi two weeks. when the guild con- by a comedy, “The Radio Bug.” ducted a poll to determine which of Fach daily bill will be augmented | the Wallace Reid pictures were de- by briet pipe organ recitals. sired most to be shown. Pasha, Alma Bennett, Mario Carillo; Jed Prouty, Madeline Hurlock and Gertrude Aster will be seen in the principal roles of First National's pro- duction of “Don Juan's Three Nights" at Crandall's Ambassador Theater the first three days of next week, begin- ning - Sunday afternoon, the supple- mentary features -including a News reel, added short reels and pipe organ accompaniments and solo intervals. Wednesday, Thomas Meighan in Paramount’s productien, “Tin Gods," “Don - Juan’s Three Nights. 3 Stone, Shir- regor, Myr- Elsie Ferguson was co.starred in this production with Wallace Reid, and others in the cast were Elli Dexter, George Fawcett, Montagt Love, Barbara Dean. Dolores assi nelli and Paul MeAllister. *Forever is the screen adaptation from (eor; Du Mayrier’s novel “Peter Ibhetson.” The sets for this photoplay were pro. duced at much expense. 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