Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1926, Page 65

(X BY C. E. T now shows upon the surface. ‘There were whisperings a few weeks ago. Every day or so came that “sure tip” that all was not well, and that we were to expect something when the first Autumn days came around. Many of these rumors were cast aside, like tips on the stock market or sure- thing ways of beating the world series. But events of the past few weeks bring out the fact that the ~Mmovies and the vaudeville stage are rlreparing for hostilities. They have ! ken the armor from the moth balls, polished up the typewriters and are making moves toward turn- ing a long, cold Winter into a very interesting six months, as viewed from the vantage point of the the- atergoer and the photoplay fan. During the last two or three easons the movie exhibitors have ooked” a number of vaudeville's bill-toppers. Last Winter, if you re- member, one of the big “movie” at- tractions of Washington was Gilda Grey “in person.” She packed her theater from orchestra pit to the electric sign, and since that time au- diences seem to have taken kindly to the combination bills. Word ar- rives that the giant old Hippodrome of New York—once the scene of great pageants and circus spectacles —is changing from straight vaude- ville to vaudeville and pictures. And again, the_vaudeville houses are presenting stars of the movies. Betty Blythe, Theodore Roberts Sessue Hayakawa, Clara Kimball Young and others are showing that they may forsake their screen work for a time and reap the iruits of their popu'arity by appcaring in person. This is one way in which the vaudeville houses may be pre- aring for the Winter battle. The Im intelligentsia has a certain weakness for viewing, in person, the hero or heroine of the photoplay. ‘The movie star makes a much better appearance upon the vaudeville stage than he does when stepping between the curtains just before one of his pictures is exhibited. The outcome of the whole affair cannot be discerned in the dim and distant future. It is the theatergoer and the photoplay fan who will set- tle the matter. It may be that the “presentation” schemes of the ex- hibitors will pa!l and fade away by the time Kriss Kringle prepares for his annual pilgrimage to good little children. And, on the other hand, the doom of “straight vaudeville” may be sounding, and when the blue- birds sing again we may have only the combination houses. i At This Emil Jannings, extraordinary star of the silver sheet, is classed as a German product, but "tis said that he was born in Little O'd New York | in 1886. However, not long after this interesting event, his parents took him to Germany. At the age of 10 he was given his choice of three occupations—sailor, actor or forester. Young Emil had a special liking for | brass buttons and natty uniforms, so ! he decided to become a sailor. But | the stiff drills resulted in a dislike of | the sailorman’s roving life. Emil took sudden leave of his shipmates, ! thusiasm aroused to a great degree. Flashes From the Screén l NELSON. Raymond Hitchcock feels as though he “would do something | worth while,” so he is going into the movies—seriously, this time. Ac- cording to reports, he is to abandon the stage, and he steps before the footlights with a monologue : “Pictures interested me when I ap- peared in them more than five years ago, but I felt extremely self-con- scious and never gave what I thought was even a passable per- formance. Now, I have had my en- I feel that I want to do something worth while in pictures. I want to work on the screen until I know camera angle and unti! I have ¢ ame freedom that I have always felt when playing back of the foot- lights.” 1 * ok ok X Many, many weeks before the! Dempscy-Tunney affair, sometimes | known as the Sesqui-scuffle, Pathe started work on_a 10-reel serial known as “The Fighting Marine.” Looking around for a suitable star for the opus, a director’s eye fell upon young Gene Tunney, and it was not long before the aspiring voung heavyweight signed his name on the dotted line. Various and sundry "“sport ex- when consulted about the , gave their loud-voiced opin- jon that the picture was certain to become a “flop.” Mr. Tunney would have the everlasting daylights punched out of him by Mr. Dempsey, the “Tiger Man of the Fistic Arena.” However, Pathe went ahead with the picture, Now the serial is ready for re- lease. A special corps of income tax auditors will proceed to figure up the profits from the venture, and the “sport experts” agree that Dempsey must have been poisoned. EEE Miracles do happen out in Holly- wood—once in a while. Dorothy Dunbar six months ago was an ex- tra girl, spending a large part of her time in search of work around the various studios. Now she has played the leading feminine role in “The Amateur Gentleman,” and her rise in fi'mdom has caused no end of talk where motion picture folk gather. Dorothy hails from Colorado Springs, Colo., and her first few months on the Pacific Coast were spent in pro- viding “atmosphere” in various pic- tures. PR “America’s Sweetheart of the Screen” will not go in for thrillers. Her success with the “sweet and simple drama” has been enormous, so why ‘mix new ingredients into the scenario story? he “sweet and <imple” pulls the crowds; fashions in movies may come and go, but Mary Pickford will probably screen for- ever. Which brings to mind that Mary’s ‘atest venture, “Sparrows,” is just about what one would expect. There is a troup of little, ragged urchins and a pathetic, half-starved young- ster to lead them. Current sophisti- cations find no place in Mary’s pic- tures. EE Notes from Movieland: “You'd Be Surprised,” a Paramount picture, starts off with two murders at a wandered about the streets of Lon- don and was then returned to his| parents by a German friend of the} family. The stage was given a trial, and at the age of 16 Emil reccived hisj first engagement at the Gorlitz City | Theater. He served 12 years as a! stock actor. Attracting the attention | of Max Reinhardt and Felix Hollan der, he was given a contract in Berlin at the Small Theater. Soon after| this came his first trial in the movies, | and special attention was paid him| after his appearance in the gloomy | Russian picture, “Brothers Karama-} sov.” | * % % K | The title of John Barrymore's| first United Artists’ picture will be “The Beloved Rogue,” the story hav- ing as a foundation incidents in the tife of Fraucois Vilon. Marceline Day is to play opposite the star. Conrad Veidt, the German character actor, has arrived in this country to join the cast. | house party, and only the legs of the guests are visible to the audience. Walter Long is again at his villainy in “Jewels of Desire” star- ring Priscilla Dean. . . . Pauline Frederick is to be starred in “Josse- lyn's Wife,” from the novel by Kath- leen Norris. . . . Blanche ~ Sweet, after much deliberation, has put her name to a Fox contract. Her story has not been selected. . . . Accord- ing to the press agenh. Mary Pick- ford has presented a beautiful new Spanish home, in Beverly Hills, to her mother, Charlotte Pickford. Buster Keaton's new picture, The General,” required six months in the making: It is a Civil War comedy. . . . For obvious reasons, Ivan Mosjoukine, Russian”actor, in this country, will hereafter be known as Moskine. . . . Colleen Moore is spending a vacation in New York. . . . Eric von Stroheim has resumed work on “The Wed- dinlg March,” a big Paramount spe- cial. Difficulties Encountered n Filming *‘Ben-Hur"" Story al A‘\IO.\'(; the striking and un features of making “Ben-Hu into & picture has heen the three | years of cooperation between AL ham L. Erlanger avho, with his par ners, Dillingham and Ziegfeld, owns | the rights to tne spectacle) and Mar-| cus Loew, president of the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, the com- pany producing it. This teamwork | has had the twofcld object of main taining histerical accuracy and em bodying worthily the characters and | 1th of materials | Hur™ situations. The we of the old stage e cas fully | availed of. Out of the 5 scenes | of the six-act stage play a _continuity of 1,000 scenes was evolved by bridg- ing in the gaps in the action from the | book. These 1,000 scenes were ex-| panded into 2§00 picture scenes in| the actual filming. Strangely enough, the motion pic- ture is required to be more accurate than text or drama. In detail the camera is an instrument demanding absolute truth. So, while Gen. Lew Wallace could glve but a vague and | general description of the great circus at Antioch, Fred Niblo and his art| directors were obliged tu reproduce the actual circus from no better gutdes than broken shafts and ruins of the master circus in Rome. The same requirements of profound re- search characterized preparations for the making of the Joppa gate, the market place and streee of Jerusalem. Among the new modes of technique that “Ben-Hur'' has eiolved are, first, the progression of filming in the se- quence of the story; the direction of immense crowds, amid noise and clat- ter of scenes like the chariot race, by the modulated thunders of a myriad- horned magnavox: the continuous grinding of gyroscopic cameras, mov- ing in a circle to include every pos-, sible arc of action: a new automobile | photography: photography through | gauze and glass, disguising the 1in-| etrument, though located centrally in | the heart of the scene; sea photogra- | phy from the top of a floating plat- | form; aerial photography, so that by | the combination of all these multi-| tudinous vistas afforded by the camera | not one salient thing was lost; the importation to America of all cos- tumes, weapons, armor and properties , after they had been made abroad under the supervision of Signor An- gell of the Rome Museum and Della Hortl of the at Naples; the reinvention of the! Roman chariot race; the making of ! junct the naval battle in which at ene stage | larging the stage. 100 antique ships participated, and the picturing for the first time of the fent fighting devices, such ling of fire balls, ballistics and ! the Roman invention of the clamp or which caught and held two shiploc | fighting craft together; the acourate costuming @#nd whiskering of 20 na- tionalitles of the Eastern Mediter- ranean; the ceaseless experimentation whereby 1,900,000 feet of film were cut and recut Into an evening's en- | tertainment. The mass of exigencles surrounding the making of “Ben-Hur” were of a nature to exhaust half a dozen ordl- nary directors. The choice of Fred Niblo as director in chief was brought about not only by reason of his techni- 1 skill and acting and stage experi- ence, but also because Mr. Loew was conversant with his diplomatic and business qualities and his wide experi- ence as a world traveler. Arriving in Rome in June, 1924, after the new work had already been in progress un- der another director for some time, Mr. Niblo moved the players about Italy and sent detachments of them and of the technical staff to Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. The company returned to America in February, 1925, and took up the work at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 47- acre studio lot near Los Angeles. It is worthy of note that all the cos- tumes, wigs, armor, weapons and props were brought over in bond, so that nothing was lost of the materials used overseas. That work was contin- uous until December 15 of last year, when the picture was finally com- pleted. Mr. Niblo states that Italy and its surrounding countries gave some things that could never have been re- produced here. For example, while its architecture may be copied, thereare trees, gardens and bushes of the Old ‘World, particularly those they filmed around Rome, that could not have been matched here. Nor could they have gotten the Mediterranean atmos- phere of the sea battle on the shores of the Atlantic or Pacific. Manager Sheild of the Rialto an- nounces that the stage presentations will be discontinued for the next few weeks, due to the fact that a large force of men are mow at work en- When it is com- pleted the Rialto will be able to go in for special features in con- photoplay on & lavi THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, WALLACE REID = Wardman Park. MILTON SILLS - Lincolun Movie Sidelights By the Associated Press. COTT MATTRAW, who once had James Cruze on his pay roll at $18 a week as a member of a stock company, has played in more than 100 motion pleture comedies since going to Hollywood three years ago. The 290- pound comedian, who several years ago ran a string of 15 theaters in New York, clalms the distinction of having eliminated the ‘“Just a Moment, Please,” slide in playhouses by using two projectors. Norma Shearer is an enthusiastic advocate of the new ‘“‘cocktail” gowns. It is an ensemble gown, capable of being changed quickly, bv means of an overjacket, into a dress suitable for either tea or dinner wear. For vears Lois Wilson refused to have her hair bobbed. Two months ago a role necessitated bobbed hair and she finally bowed. Since then there have hcen twice as many re- quests for her photograph. T Jhe -| B ard SHiRLEY MAson & A villain, to be convincing, must be true to life, believes John Roche, who plays the heavy roles for Fox. “He should be consistent. Even a bad egg 1s consistent. A good villain is a plausible one.” Richard Dix, in his foot ball picture, discarded the make-up of grease pai and powder in favor of mud baths. The game which provides the climax is played ostensibly on a rain-deluged field, although the actual filming was done on sunny days. The studio crew: reduced the gridiron to the proper state of oozing mud by the use of fire hose. As fast as the sun dried and the mud caked, Dix and the other players acquired new coatings by throwing themselves down into the slippery mess and rolling over and over, Manufacturers of piano wire are now putting out a special brand for use in motion picture studios. It has a million uses, mostly in comedy scenes where articles of furniture or actors are hoisted about the stage, Prof. | boast of one of the largest and best | mice are made to run across the floor, Pompeiian Museum | equipped stages in the city and will | windows must bang open, lamps fall off tables, etc. The wire, painted absolutely invisible on the screen. LEWIS STONE Metropolits & Next Week's Photoplays COLUMBIA — Mary Pickford in “Sparrows. RIALTO —“Red” Grange in “One Minute to Play.” METROPOLITAN — Dorothy) Mackaill in “Subway Sadie.” PALACE — Raymond Griffith in “You'd Be Surprised.” TIVOLI — “The Marriage Clause,” “The Amateur Gen- tleman,” “The Savage” and “Hold That Lion.” AMBASSADOR — “Subway Sadie,” “The Marriage Clause,” “Down to the Sea in Ships” and “The Savage.” CENTRAL—“The Sea Wolf,” “The Last Frontier,” “Into Her Kingdom” and “Tin Gods.” Real Fighting Men. HE men now appearing in Para- mount’s pictorial drama, “The Rough Riders,” would have been a credit to Theodore Roosevelt's origi- nal regiment, according to Army of- ficers who fought in the Spanish- American War. Part of the new Rough Riders are made up of season- ed Regular Army cavalrymen. Others are real cowpunchers from Texas and Arizona. Still others are players from Hollywood, expert riders. ‘When Roosevelt was planning the formation of his regiment with Leonard Wood, he said, according to Hermann Hagedorn, his biographer: “East, West, North and South, we'll get the damndest fighting men in the country, whether they are milllonaires or hoboes.” Aid for Actors’ Fund. 'NDER thé direction of business and professional men of the coun- try, a campaign to raise a $1,000,000 endowment fund for the Actors’ Fund of America will be launched with a dinner to Daniel Frohman, president of the fund, in New York December 19. Frohman has served for thg past 24 years as an officer and director of the charity. The dinner will cost $1,000.44 per plate, of which $1,000 will £0 to the fund and 44 cents for pay- ment for the meal. The money thus raised will go toward insuring the permanency of the fund, which aids needy and distressed actors and actresses throughout the country. The fund also maintains a home for infirm jon with the showing of its |black, becomes through this move- | members of the profession at Sm iahiacais, ment Tslank % DANIELS- D. 0. OCTOBER 10 1926—PART 3. Palace *LaBotEME” Columbia ANAGER C. J. HARRIS of the President, just back from New York, says there is a new term float- ing around Broadway that can be added to Washington's vocabulary. It is “minty,” and means, when ap- plied to a woman, that she appears dowdy or suburbanish. If used with a man, he is wearing inappropriate clothing for the occasion. Ballyhooing has become quite the rage with many of the local plav- houses. When Buster Keaton was recently here with “Battling Butler"” the Palace had a regular prize ring elevated in the lobby, with chairs, buckets and sponges in two corners, and it attracted a great deal of at- tention. Recently at the Mutual stuff- ed figures riding wooden horses were outside the entrance, and a clown played the saxophone, drawing crowds like a regular sideshow. Last week Manager Robbins had George Bunce's Orchestra playing away for dear life Just inside the lobby, and the cus- tomers appeared to enjoy the inno- vation as they crowded in through the entrance. Conductor Guterson of the Rialto is slowly but surely eradicating the look of worry that has been on his brow for several months. He said last week, “I have had great diffi- culty in putting on revues at the Rialto on account of the absence of a sounding board on the stage, the voices of the artists failing to reach the rear of the house in a satisfac- tory manner. This will be entirely changed when our new stage is fin- ished. The leader's work will be easier and the enjoyment' of the audi ence as well as the artists added to in & marked degres.” In the Local Playhouses. EMIL JANNINGS - Ambassador GLORIA SWANSON- Tivoli Comedy and tragedy were closely entwined on Ninth street near the stage entrance to the Strand last Tuesday. The city's dog catcher's wagon was standing close to the curb in that vicinity, while the catcher went prowling around for stray canines. As luck would have it, one of those little fuzzy lap dogs, treas- ured by one of the Kismet sisters, playing last week at the Strand, dash- ed out of the stage door and ran plumb into the dog catcher man. Quick as a flash the little pet was gathered up and tossed into the wagon, but not before its owner caught a glimpse of the act as she came chasing after. “How do you get that way,” shout- Miss Kismet. “I've got a license for that dog and I want him right ,”" replied the “I know my business. There was no tag on the pup.” The situation looked serious, and Miss Kismet changed her tactics, and said, “You know you have no right to take in that dog, but I'll give you a dollar if you give it back to me.” The man was all smiles as he pick- ed the little pet out of the wagon and handed it to the lady. Wrapping her arms around the little prize, Miss Kismet started for the stage door. “Where's my dollar, lady? the man. “Try and get it! back the scornful remark as Miss Kismet disappeared through the door. The National Theater has been a house of gloom tne past week. The loss of two popular men, a manager and doorkeeper, at the same time is enough to cast a dark shadow over the brightest spot. It will be a long time before “Willle” Fowler and Jim” Evans are forgotten, Photoplays METROPOLITAN— evening. evening. evening. CENTRAL—"“The Taxi Mystery.” LINCOLN (Colored)- PALACE—“The Campus Flirt.” Comedy will relgn over the stage and screen program at Loew’s Palace this week, starting this afternoon, with Bebe Danizls in her latest Para- mount comedy, “The Campus Flirt,” as the photoplay feature, and Al Her- man, “the black laugh,” with his 25 minstrel monarchs in “The Evolution of Minstrelsy” as the principal stage offering. Supplemental features on the pro- gram will include Dick Liebert’s pop- ular “Organlogues”; the Palace Maga- zine, Topics of the Day, the organ recessional and an overture and atmospheric score by the Palace Or- chestra. “The Campus Flirt,” which was di- rected by Clarence Badger, with Charles Paddock, “the world's fastest human”; James Hall, El Brendel and Joan Standing in supporting roles, 1s a hilarious romance of college life in which Miss Danfels, seen first as an incorrigible snob, is eventually turned into a regular fellow through the in- fluence of collegiate socfal life and going out for the college track team, she actually outruns Paddock himself when a mouse makes a sudden ap- pearance. There is a romantic angle to the story and James Hall, a “find” from the musical comedy stage, 1s Bebe’s new leading man. Al Hernan and his Minstrels have as additional features “The Broadway Four,” Jack Mulroe and Billy Kueh- ling, former Washington dancers; Tex Hendrix, the female impersonator, in an “Eltinge number”; Harry Namba and Al Roth. The music is by L. ‘Wolfe Gilbert. Sunday performances are continu- ous from 3 to 11 p.m., with four de luxe performances at 3, 6, 7 and 9 o'clock, while daily performances are continuous from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., with four de luxe performances at 1:80, 3:30, 7 and 9 p.m. RIALTO—"Take It ‘From Me.” «Take It From Me,” with Reginald Denny, the feature picture at the Rialto this week, is another light and breezy comedy of the kind that has made Denny one of the screen’s most popular comedians. Adapted from the musical comedy of the same title, the picture is said to retain all the ingredients that made it a hit on the stage. = it concerns the ventures and mis- haps of Denny, as an extravalglll‘nl dollar young heir who sinks his last on a horse that just can't win first place. When he is broke and penni- less he is informed that his uncle, in a codictl in the will, has provided that his nephew shall inherit the huge Eggett Department Store, provided that he operates it for three months and shows a profit at the end of the period. In case the store loses money during the year, title to it reverts to Cyrus Crabb, present manager of the store, and an old business assoclate of the uncle. The efforts of Tom Eggett, Regi- nald Denny, and two of his pals to operate the huge business, about Which they know nothing, are said to be ludicrous in the exertme. Blanche Mehaffey plays opposite the star, and others in the cast are Ben Hendricks, jr.. Lee Moran, Ethel Wales, Lucien Littlefield, Joan Tolley and Vera Lewls. The Rialto Concert Orchestra, Mis- cha Guterson, conducting, will play ‘for an overture “Mignon" by Thomas. Henri Sokolov will play “Zigeunerweisen,” by Sarasate, as a violin solo. International News, comedies and other short film novelties will com- lete the program. Pl e o the fact that the work is in progress enlarging the stage, there will be no stage presentation. METROPOLITAN—"Don Juan’s Three Nights.” First National's production of “Don Juan's Three Nights” is the feature announced for the current week at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater, be- ginning this afternoon. The stage at- traction will be supplied by Rita Owin, eccentric dancer, formerly featured in the Ziegfeld follies, Arthur H:}lvmmpr- stetn’s production of “Jimmy" with Frances White and in Ned Weyburn's “Town Gossip.” Auxiliary features will include the usual short reels and musical contri- butlons by the Metropolitan Sym- phony, under Daniel Breeskin, and on week days on}l\gflby Blglr?mumn Ram- lers, led ton Davis. s "li')‘on J:lyn‘s Three Nights” depicts the romantic adventures of & distin- guished pianist, whose love affairs in- volve him in difficulties that finally result in a duel with swords in which he s worsted and his hand incapaci- tated. Don Juan was a gentleman, and suffered his defeat and subse- quent incapacity as an artist and a gentleman would. The principal role is played by Lewis S. Stone, as Johann Aridi, the concert artist, and he is supported by Shirley Mason, Malcolm MacGregor, Myrtle Steadman, Betty Francisco, Kalla Pasha, Alma Bennett, Mario Carillo, Jed Prouty, Madeline Hurlock and Gertrude Astor. Direction was by John Francis Dillon. Rita Owin is a dancer whose art encompasses many phases of terpsich- orean endeavor. Comic as an eccen- tric, she also is charming as a de- lineator of the more conventional forms of the dance. The Metropolitan Symphony will offer as the concert overture a sym- posium of numbers from George White's “‘Scandal including “Lucky Day,” “The Birth of the Blue: “Black Bottom" and “The Girl Is You and the Boy Is Me.” As theme num bers for the interpretative score there will be utilized Rudolf Friml's “Amour Coquet” and “Mike,” by Benny Davis. The exit march wiil be “All Alone Monday” for “Ramblers.” ' Week days from 10:50 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7:30 pm. the Metro- politan Ramblers. conducted by Mil ton Davis,” will offer additional or chestral numbers. COLUMBIA—“La Boheme.” “La_Boheme,” Metro-Goldwyn-May- er's photoplay romance, with Lillian Gish and John Gilbert in the feature roles, which played to capacity audi- ences all last week, is being held over by popular demand for a second week, starting today. Based on the famous opera by Henri Murger and directed by King Vidor, with a supporting cast that includes Renee Adoree, Roy D'Arcy, Karl Dane, George Hassell, Edward Ev- erett Horton and Frank Currier, the screen version of “La Boheme,” al- though produced on a scale that was never. possible on the stage, has faith. fully adhered to the romance of Mimi, the waif of the Paris Latin quarter, and Rodolphe, her sweetheart, for whom her love, sacrifice and devotion have few parallels in dramatic his- tory. All the gayety and color of the Paris COLUMBIA—“La Boheme” (second week). “Men of Steel.” This Week At the Photoplay Houses This Week. PALACE—“The Campus Flirt.” This afternoon and evening. RIALTO—“Take It From Me.” This afternoon and evening. Don Juan's Three Nights.” This afternoon and This afternoon and TIVOLI—“Fine Manners.” This afternoon and evening. AMBASSADOR—"Don Juan’s Three Nights.” This afternoon and WARDMAN PARK—“Forever.” This afternoon and evening. This afternoon and evening. This afternoon and eve reel and an overture by t under Leon i features of the prog TIVOLI—“Fine Manners, Gloria Swanson will be the star at randall’s Tivoli Theater the first two 1 Paramount's atmosy « production of in which she is suppo: ugens O'Brien, Helen Dunbar, Walter G and John Miltern. The auxillary fea- tures will be Mack Sennett's two. reeler, “Spanking Breezes” and the Pathe review. Tuesday and Wednesday, Corinna Griffith, supported by a new leading man, Einar Hansen, in First al's production, “Into Her Kingdom,” the story of a Russian princess, who marries a serf and comes to America, th a He togethel comedy, ‘F and Friday, ern production, * Frontier supplemented by an Aesop fubie, Sat ure Clara Bow in “Don to the Sea in Ships,” augmented by a Cameo comedy entitled, “Kiss Me, Kate." Each dally bill will be established, as usual, with speeial pipe organ num- bers by Otto F. Beck and Ida V. Clarke. AMBASSADOR—"Don Juan’s Three Nights.” A cast led by Lewis S. Stone, Shir ley Mason, Malcolm MacGregor, Myr tle Steadman, Betiy Francisco, Kalla sha, Alma’ Bennett, M illo, Prouty, Madeline nd 1 be scen in the principal roles of First National's pro duction of “Don Juan's Three Nights” at Crandall's Amb: first three days of this we ning this afternoon, the mentary features reel, added short r accompaniments and Wednesday, Thomas Paramount’s production, supplemented by an Aesop Fable supple- a News Tin Gods,” a1 Terry; Thursday, First Nit- ional's new production of “Quo Vadis,” with Emil Jannings, foremost star of the E in the role i Alic 1y, Gloria Swan- supplemented . “A Merry Wid 7 Bovd in “The 'Last lemented by a comed: Ench daily bill will be augmented by brief pipe organ recitals. WARDMA “Forever.” “Forever” (“Peter Ibbetson™), the pleture Wallace Reid believed to ba his greatest work, will be the first of his productions to he shown by the Motion Plcture Guild at the Wardman Park Theater this we beginning s pleture was selected almost unanimously by patrons during the last two weeks, when the guild con- ducted a poll_to the Wallace Reld pi sired most to be sho: Elsie Ferguson wi this ‘production with Wallac the cast were Dexter, Geo Fawcett, Montagu Love, Barb: Dean, Dolores ( nelll and Paul McAllister. is the screen ad: ion from Ge Du Maurier's nove Ihbets and others in Peter The sets for this photoplay wer duced at much expense. in the dre scene FElsie e n Walla nd Reid are re > Venetian canal, Russia, at the Circ Rome, on the desert and at va how land and Fi places in Eng ance. CENTRAL—"Th Mystery.” This week, U this after- noon. the sci Il at Crandall’s be featured by * an ensrossing Edith Robes which will be supj | Vernon in “Till We | Tuesday, “Hell Ben by Hal Roach's Wednesday, Honeymoon by O. Hen: % Failure”; Thursday and Fri Grey's “Forlorn ~Rliver,” Jack Holt, together with N nett’s “Yankee Doodle Dulk atur- day, Leatrice Joy, supported by Tom Moore and Robert Edeson, in “The Clinging Vine,” and a Booth ‘Tarking- featuring Kk Sen ton-Van Bibber comedy, entitled “A Parisian Knight.” LINCOLN—“Men of Steel.” Milton Sills, supported by Doris Kenyon, Mae Alllson, Victor Me- Laglen, Frank Currie and George Faweett, will be the star at the Lin- coln Th er the first five ys of this week, beginning this ternoon, in_ First s production of “Men of § ," a drama of the steel industry, tn which the star the role of a hobo who be« ler of men and the hushand of an helress. The story was adapted from a_ sl story by R entitled States vor. Supplementing the bill will be an Aesop Fable Friday and Saturday, Leatrice Joy, supported by Tom Moore and Robert Edeson, will be seen in “The Cling- ing Vine,” supplemented by Neal Burns in “Mr. Wife,” and added short reels. Throughout the week special musical accompaniments will be pro- vided. APOLL Today and tomorrow, Thomas Meig- han in “Tin Gods Aesop Fable; Tuesday and Gloria Swanson in * and Lon hursday, and Im Friday Irene Rich in * moon Ex- press” and Clyde Cooke in “He Forgot to Remembe: Plante in “I toon and the third chapter play, “S AVENU Today and tomorrow, Gloria § son In “Fine Manners” and Mack Sen- : Saturday, nett comedy, “Ice-Cold _Cocoas™; Tuesday and Wedne Ben Lyon in “The Savage Aesop Fable and Pathe Review; Thursday, Mare Prevost in “Almost a Lady” . Henry comedy, “The day, Jack Holt in “Forl and’ Mack Sennett come Girl”; Saturday, Pri “The Dice Woman" and Lige Conley in “Solid Gold. CAROLIN ‘Today and tomorrow. Milton Sills in B “Puppets”; Tuesda: uck Jones in “The Fighting Bu rov”: Wedi day and Thurs Waltz nd Patsy Ruth Mil- rday, Tom Mix In “M Dream”; Friday, with Monte Blue ler; & | Own Pal Latin quarter forms a background for this tender romance, which gives Miss Gish one of her finest roles. Screen Snapshots, showing the stars ot work and play; the Pathe news. VY O Cx Today, Milton Sills yon in “Men of P (Continued on Fourth Page.