Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 67

Flashes From the Screen BY C. E. HE other Saturday afternoon, time hanging heavy, we stopped off at one of the neighboring movie houses— and for an afternoon, a single after- noon, we were boys again. The theater was packed to the gun‘ales, simply packed with a pre- cious load of humanity—boys and girls—and we discovered who consti- tuted a real movie audience, who en- joyed the movies most and who the movie fan really is. ‘We had wondered, time and again, about the why and wherefore of movie serials; why they were writ- ten, why they were produced and who enjoyed them. Now we know. They are written and produced for the greatest movie audience in the world, the boys and girls who have not yet reached their teens. The serials are the thrillers that answer a special purpose; they are put to- gether with one idea in view, and they are the “Ben-Hurs” and “The Four Horsemen” of the Kingdom of Childhood. “Hoot” Gibson, Harry Carey and Tom Mix are really heroes; sharpshooting, hard-riding, strong men, who make special ap- peal to young imagination. And the Saturday afternoon per- formance is a worth-while release. For an hour or two those boys and girls who sat around us were in a land of dreams—camp fires, moun- tains, cowboys, swift vengeance. They rode over vast plains, their ponies keeping stride with that of the movie hero; they shot down buf- faloes in swarms; they rescued blonde maidens from almost inde- scribable perils, and when dusk came they seated themselves about blow- ing camp fires or watched the out- posts for skulking Redmen. It is the “blowing off of steam” such as every normal American schoolboy gathers after a week of school books. | He is allowed by the theater manage- | ment to hiss the viliain to his little | heart’s content. He can applaud and stamp his feet when the hero jumps from a nine-story precipice. He can even shoot his popgun when the bul- | lets are flying thick and fast in the screen action. So it is that we know who the serials are produced for. They are good movies for the purpose. They | are superb movies. And for a single afternoon we were boys again. * k% x “What Price Glory?"” which had a late revival at the President Thea- ter, is having trouble in the movies. Cuss words are holding it up. The rinting of subtitles presents a prob- em. On the stage the words came out, they shocked for an instant, and they were gone. The printed word i1s_considered somewhat differently. When expletives appear in type they appear just about twice as bold as the spoken or pantomimic word. That is the trouble. Those who have lived with the production since work started on the film last Febru- ary find themselves too inured to be able to give unbiased opinion. As a consequence the print is being ex- hibited to others, who are to act as impartial censors of the explosive language. The use of the cuss word was a large part of the stage produc- tion, and it is hardly to be expected that the Stallings-Anderson script as a photoplay will be robbed of the picturesque language From the Fox studio comes word that all reports now circulating re- garding the opening of the picture in New York are premature. No opening date has been decided upon, as the production requires much final “polishing” before it is ready for the photoplay audiences. >k k% The American farmer is not a “hick,” never was a “hick.” and he strenuously objects to being termed a “hick.” Therefore, the New Hamp- <hire Farmers' Association has pre- pared a protest which is to be mailed to Will H. czar” of the photo- play. The “hick farmer” depicted in the movies, with hayseed in his hair and his trousers stuffed into cowhide hoots, must be succeeded by the modern type of farmer—a real coun- try business man |ican photoplays in Europe, yet she started work on the production say | NELSON. We are to lose another charaéter of the pictures if the protest finally reaches Mr. Hays and receives proper attention. * X * ¥ The photoplay has entered the present campaign, and a voice-syn- chronized moving picture showing President Coolidge delivering an ad- dress will be sent over the State of Massachusetts during the next cou- | ple of weeks. The “talking cinema” was demonstrated in the headquar- ters of the Republican State com- mittee imBoston a few days ago, and the President makes his economy speech on the White House lawn. * X X X 1 Many of the larger producing com- panies have given up the making of pictures on the East coast, and their | :fforts will be turned to the foreign| countries, particularly the continent. | Announcement was made a few days ago that Colleen Moore, First N tional star, will make several tures abroad next year, and this 1s a forerunner of a series of such state- ments from other photoplay pro- ducers. At the present time the foreign market is having a big influence on the picture industry of this country. A large part of the profit of Amer- ican pictures is garnered abroad, and for this reason the products must| have an international appeal. { Other stars who will probably | make European pictures in the near ! future include Richard Barthelmess, Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis Stone and Harry Langdon. _Pola Negri is said to be one of the biggest drawing cards of the Amer- has never appeared.particularly to please American audiences in the pictures made in this country. Her st work, in the European studios. is her best. If Pola can take her| place as a drawing card in this coun- | try, she will become the leading in- ternational star. | * K K K | The success of such films as “Ben- Hur” and “The Big Parade” has| caused much thought among the | producers, and now the Warner| rothers have turned to the Bible for a spectacle. ‘It is to be called Noah's Ark,” and those who have | it is to be “the greatest spectacle ! ever seen on the screen.” | Such statements remind one of | the greatest show on earth,” which | arrived with each one-ring circus in the Springtime. The hotoplay press agents have used alY the pet adjectives, following their circus brethren, and new photoplay produc- tions will hereafter be advertised as “most gigantic spectacle.” Michael | Curtiz will direct “Noah’s Ark.” * ok ok Concerning stars and near-stars: Buster Keaton is completing his Civil War comedy spectacle, “The General.” One scene of the picture, with a locomotive plunging off a trestle, is said to have cost $40,000. 5 Lew Cody will play opposite Norma Shearer in “After All,” which Robert Leonard will direct. . . . Wallace Beery and Roymand Hatton have been engaged for “Casey at the Bat” after the completion of “We're in the Navy Now.” According to all signs, “The Four Horsemen” may become the greatest money maker of American film production. The demand for the picture is grow- ing each weck. Dolores Cas- sinelli, former screen star, who re-| cently developed a voice of grand opera caliber, is now with the Man- hattan Opera Co. Her first concert appearance was made at the Town Hall, New York, last March. . . . Richard Barthelmess, sailing for Eu- rope a few days ago, stated that he did not intend to apply for a divorce in_ Pari Dick has just finished “The lack White Sheep.” . . . From the West Coast comes the news_that Elinor Glyn is to have a part in the filming of her story, “It.”* However, Clara Bow_will have the part of “I¢” ., Charles Previn, one of the well known younger Americans in the musical world, has been engaged as musical director of the new “Roxy” theater in New York. Charlie Chaplin, in a special dispatch, denies the report that he will retire from the screen. Washington Willing. SVTHIS Little Theater we hear so much about—how is Washing- ton taking to the id | The i came from a well groomed youngster, with just a faint suspicion of a chopped-off mustache, | but with a real theatrical cut to his | hair, which denoted him an actor in | the mold or in the making. The reason for the query is found in the dire prediction of Willlam A. Brady that the speaking stage is to | vanish In five yvears. Not at all down- | cast by the prediction, the amateur | sees in it his chance and he is eager | ‘or the fray. On all sides he is| <pringing up in organized effort pre- | pared to take up the battle where the | professional leaves off. And he calls | his ambition and his effort “The | Little Theater.” i “The Little Theater,” like its pred- | ecessor in hope, “the National The- What is | It doesn't ether the subsidy ate or the public But there must art without a s matter much w comes from the be a subsidy. And so budding genius is arming for the fray. It is organizing and equipping for the combat. It is | thinking of leading men and leading | women, of comedians and comedi- ennes, of heavies and juveniles, and | even of tragedies for its personnel. It isn't bothered about plays, like the New York managers, but it js bothered about costume designers, scene painters, stage hands and the mechanical equipment necessary to start out and conquer the world. Those things are indispensable to the theater, be it “Little” or “National.” Miss Estelle Allen, formerly of the professional stage and still young, attractive and accomplished, who lately has been marshaling the assets for a Washington Little Theater, is quite optimistic. “I have had a startling number of applicants for every one of the Eroups except costume designers and cene painters. I am equipped with everything from dancers to trick dogs, but I need costume designers and scene painters—and, of course, we are hoping to interest the play- loving public Any who may be interested are in- vited to call Miss Allen at her studio, 924 Seventeenth street. Phone Frank- lin 7731, Try-outs are to be held this week, she savs, on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and Friday between 3 and 6 p.m. Classics for the Masses. OU can have this season for a dollar for the best seat on the main floor of a first- class theater. That fact is broadcast from the ‘Washington Auditorium. where Rob- ert B. Mantell and Genevieve Hamper, with a distinguished supporting cast, will appear in a two-week engagement. It long had been Mr. Mantell's wish to be able to put the classic within the reach of the many. Last season Le had an opportunity to experiment with the “‘dollar top” price, which is said to have proved tremendously successful in the majority of cities tried. It is pointed out also that the plan is being accomplished without lower- ing the quality of the company or the productions; in fact, other cities this vear report that the Mantell-Hamper organization is better than ever. The added volume in patronage (sold-out houses being the rule), at the popular price of a dollar made the scheme| feasible, Shakespeare long has been consid- ered the joy of the rich and the in. spiration of the poor. your Shakespeare of modest means. It is a recognized fact that the great middle class and the so-called proletariat form the vast public, which, for one reason or an- other, accord the Bard a most cordial welcome when their purse will permit. In the Mantell-Hamper experiment last season pretty close tab was kept on the class of people attending the plays at a dollar, and some interest. ing facts were revealed. Of one main floor audience it was discovered there were 118 persons sitting in that part of the theater who had never sat downstairs at a show before. At an- other performance there were two elderly maiden sisters who had not been to the theater in fourteen years. In another instance one schpol was able to buy the entire house for a per- formance, a precedent they could never establish before. Mr. Mantell and Miss Hamper were highly gratified to find that while at the popular price of a dollar their revenue was scarcely increased, yet a greater number of people who love the theater and the classics were able to attend their performances than formerly. The new departure created Unfortunately El speare in the theater too aften|quite a stir in theatrical managerial has been priced and sold beyond THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. JOBYNA RALSTONand RoD LAROCQUE - Me‘f‘ropoli*an Next Week's Photoplays COLUMBIA—John Gilbert in “Bardelys, the Magnificent.” METROPOLITAN — Corrinne Griffith in “Syncopating Sue.” RIALTO—"“The Flaming Fron- tier,” featuring Dustin Far- num, Anne Cornwall and Hoot Gibson. PALA CE—Peter B. Kyne's story, “War Paint,” featuring Tim McCoy and Pauline Starke. TIVOLI—“Her Man O'War,” “Three Bad Men,” “It Must Be Love” and “Going the Limit.” AMBASSADOR — “Syncopat- ing Sue,” “Her Man O'War,” “Almost a Lady” and “Miss Nobody.” CENTRAL—“Whispering Canyon,” “The Marriage Clause,” “Almost a Lady” and “Hold That Lion.” New Pictures in the Cautting 'HIS is “cutting month” at First National studios in Burbank. Film cutters, editors, title-writers and others are busy, and the projec- tion rooms are daily engaged by di- rectors, production managers and others looking at the films in which they are interested. In the cutting rooms at the present time are Colleen Moore's picture, “Twinkletoes"; Corinne Griffith’s ncopating Sue”; Milton Sills’ “The stlent Lover”; “Ladies at Play” with | Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes fea- tured; Sam ‘Rork’s production of “The Blonde Saint,” featuring Doris Ken- yon and Lewis Stone; and “Midnight Lovers,” headed by Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson, o, “THE MIDNIGHT SUN" MAY Central LEWIS S.STONE- Lincoln HOW Genius Worked. T is not every leading woman of real prominence and with stellar honors .close at hand who can look back over her career and find Liberty Loan bonds as one of the stepping ones to stage success. Miss Helen Gahagan, the talented leading woman for Glen Hunter in “Young Woodley,” can df this, and the bonds were not just sordid back- ing, but rather a golden opportunity. Always eager to act, always moved by the urge to use her gifts of art and voice in acting, this young player found the gateway of opportunity open when she first gave public ex- pression to her emotions speaking and selling Liberty Loan bonds from the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library. Miss Gahagan showed a prefer- ence for the high places in all her beginnings, for as a child she was ‘wont to speak right out in_elocution- ary ways and acting in Delsartian postures; she used a billiard table as her stage, doing bits before an audi- ence of wondering tots. Banned from this table by an austere parent who preferred billiards, before the art of cting, little Miss @ next made her bow before family victrola, Whese she Interproted with pantomimes of her own imag- inative making. Even at school her stage aspirations were discouraged. Despite this she organized the Drama League of the school and within 10 days she had written, cast, rehearsed and produced her first play in one of the dormitory rooms. Two years after Miss Gahagan's debut as a public speaker, her name was shining in those coveted elec- tric lights over the entrance of a professional theater. She had been an overnight success in the play, “Dreams for Sale,” and when this closed many ways were open to her. So He Did It Himself. ILLIAM WELLMAN, who, as a director, usually tells others how to act, turned actor recently. Action in “Wings,” John Monk Saunders’ story of the American ace, of which Wellman is the director, called for a bit that actually happened to him while in France with the United States Flying Corps. Not sat- isfied with the way it was interpreted by a member of the cast, Wellman suddenly turned and called for a uni- i a0 1 “I'il do it myselt,” he sald. And be die, S B “ OCTOBER 24, 1926—PART 8. HOTOPLAY- - Rialto Scerne fiom WILLIAM TELL” Wardman Park. Says She Doesn't Like Crowds Photoplays This Week At the Photoplay Houses This Week. PALACE—“The Temptress.” Thi METROPOLITAN—“Gigolo.” Thi RIALTO—“The Midnight Sun.” T! evening. AMBASSADOR—“Gigolo.” This CENTRAL—“The Passionate Que: and evening. PALACE—“The Temptress.” A threefeature stage and screen program de luxe is announced for Loew's Palace this week, starting this afternoon, when “The Temptre: the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picturiza tion of the novel by V. Blasco Ibanez, will be shown as the highlight of the bill, with “Wee Willie"” Robyn, tenor, from the Capitol Theater, N. Y., and Rubinoff, violin soloist, as the princi- pal stage offerings. “The Temptress” is a romance of Parls and South America, directed by Fred Niblo, director of “Ben-Hur,” with Antonio Moreno and Greta Garbo, the Scandinavian beauty, as its stars, and a supporting cast including Lionel Barrymore, Roy D'Arcy, Marc Mac- Dermott and Virginia Brown Faire. Miss Garbo, in what is said to be her finest role to date, is seen as a Russian enchantress, pet of the idle rich, whose sinister fascination bMghts the lives of her lovers, but who becomes a veritable tigress when a virile Spanish engineer from South America—played by Antonio Moreno— wins her love and breaks her spell over men. A spectacular bullwhip duel, the wreck of a great dam, the stark fastnesses of the Andes and the glitter of Parisian stage life are outstanding elements of the picture. “Wee Willie" Robyn, tenor from the Capltol Theater, New York. and Cameo_record _star, “Wee Willle” who is admired by a who have heard him with “Roxy Gang.” His appearance at Loew's Palace is being made in connection with a novel and beautiful musical nov- elty called “A Bouquet of Roses,” in ing system is blended with a musical setting contributed by the Palace Or- chestra under Thomas J. Gannon. Rubinoff, the us_violinist, who has played at Loew's Palace recently for three consecutive weeks, is r turning with a group of new sele tions, including some of his own com- position. The program vill include also Dick Lefbert's “Organlogue,” the Palace Magazine, Topics of the Day and em- bel! ment by the Palace Orchestra. on Sunday from 3 to 11 p.m., with de luxe shows Sunday at 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m., and daily at 1:30, 3:30, 7 and 9 pm. METROPOLITAN—"Gigolo.” At Crandall's Metropolitan Theater | this week, beginning this afternoon, the screen attraction will be Producer: film version of Edna Ferber's story, “Gigolo,” in which Rod La Rocque plays the stellar role supported by Jobyna Ralston, Louise Dresser, Cyril Chadwick and George Nichols. Art Landry and his Victor Record- ing Orchestra of 12 skilled instrument- allsts will provide modern American | music as a stage presentation. In ad | dition, there will be supplement: {films and contributions by the Metro- politan Symphony, under Daniel Bre skin, and on week days by the Metro- politan Ramblers, under Milton Davis. “Gigolo” is described as a romantic drama none too rich in comedy, but intensely human and consistently en- grossing. The story concerns the love affalr of a smalil-town youth and his childhood sweetheart, who are sep- arated through the whim of a mother intrigued by the gay life of Paris and trapped by the wiles of a crook. De- gerting the small Wisconsin town for the gayeties of Paris, the mother brings disaster not only upon herself, but upon her son, who joins the French forces in the war and return a physi- cal wreck. During the interval of the boy’s service at the front the mother has been tricked out of her fortuue and become a drug addict, dying finally on the youth’s return. It is then that the action develops the episodes which lead to the title of the play, “Gigolo,” the term applied to the Parisian counterpart of the Ameri- can “lounge lizard,” who in Paris is an habitue of the cabaret dance floors, where for a price he may be hired to squire lonely ladies. Into this shady profession the American youth enters as a means of gaining a livelthood. Art Landry and his band, who ap- pear here for the first time, will offer varied programs of high quality. The Metropolitan Symphony, under Daniel Breeskin, will offer as a pre- lude to the screening of “Gigolo” Ivan Caryl's “Jack O' Lantern. love theme of the interpretative sc will be “Sweethearts,” by Victor Her- bert, and the exit march “Baby,” from “Castles in the Air. i The program for the Metropolitan Ramblers on week days, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 5 to 7:30 p.m., will be “The Swan Shuffle,” a new rhythmodic classic, and “The Girl Is You and the idea of crowds following her about as crowds go everywhere, except in Los Angeles. Although Mary and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, make a trip to New York about once a year, Mary does. most of her shopping in Los Angeles, because there she can shop in peace. She has tried to shop in New York, but her tours always turn out to be processions, and shopping with the eyes of hundreds of curious people riveted on one’s person at the time, is not conducive to comfort and certainly not to good bargains. Out in Los Angeles Mary frequent- Iy meets people who stop and bow to her in the stores, but she says she is never really annoyed. She has her favorite stores where the employes know her and drop everything to at- tend to her wants, but they have seen her so often before that their chief in- terest is not in devouring her with their eyes, Boy Is Me,” from George White's “Seandals,’ sung by Bert Bernath, concert master of the Ramblers. RIALTO—"The Midnight Sun.” Dramatic situations and colorful and luxurious settings are promised in “The Midnight Sun,” the feature pic- ture at the Rialto this week. It is a thrilling story of Russia just before the World War, and has a cast, headed by Laura La Plante, Pat 0'Malley, Raymond Keane and George Siegmann, with an ensemble of over 500 players. The plot centers areund a dancing girl, who, through the influence of a grand duke and of Russia’s financial king, lifts herself from thé ranks of the imperial ballet to the position of its premiere ballerina. Playing one against the other, the girl loses her heart to a young officer of the duke's household. Out of this, with the aid of Nihilist plotting, comes intrigue, ro- mance and stirring drama. s,” shown in the picture, is a reproduction of the fa- mous Imperial Ballet, and is said to be one of the most magnificent dance spectacles ever filmed. Seventy-five of Hollywood's most talented dancers and hundreds of models are shown in bi- ARY PICKFORD has never been | zarre costumes, representing gold, sil- able to accustom herself to the | ver, diamonds, pearls, emeralds. In “The Midnight Sun” Laura La Plante steps out of her customary comedienne roles to one of dramatic tenseness. Raymond Keane, as the young officer who wins her, is sald to be destined for high honors in film- dom. The Rialto Orchestra will play “Rus- sian airs” as a special overture. The International News, a comedy and other short reels will complete the program. COLUMBIA—"‘Sparrows.” Mary Pickford’s production, “Spar- rows,” which was shown last week at Loew's Columbia Theater, is said to be proving an Autumn photoplay sensation and is being held over for a second week’s run, starting this aft- ernoon at 3 o'clock. Based on a story by Winifred Dunn and scenarized by C. Gardner Sulli- van, “Sparrows” was directed by W liam Beaudine, who directed Miss Pickford’s “Little Annie Rooney. “Sparrows” is a typical Mary Pick- ford production, with a touch of ro- mance, marked throughout by tender- pess and pweetness and mingling COLUMBIA (second week)—“Sparrows.” ‘WARDMAN PARK—“William Tell is_the famous| which the beauty of the Palace light- | Continuous performances are given | dally from 10:30 am. to 11 p.m. and | is afternoon and evening. is afternoon and evening. his afternoon and evening. This afternoon and TIVOLI—"“Bigger Than Barnum’s.” This afternoon and evening. afternoon and evening. This afternoon and evening. st.” This afternoon and evening. LINCOLN (colored)—“Don Juan's Three Nights.” This afternoon laughter and tears with real adven ture. Miss Pickford appears as “Mama Mollle,” girl protector of a group of little youngsters on a baby farm in the South. She never gives up hope of an eventual escape from the cruel bondage of their failer in the swamplands of the South, and the eventual escape through the perilous amp beset with croco and quicksands gives “Spar s” a marked dramatic note. Added attractions include an Our Gang comedy he Fourth Alarm’: the Pathe newsreel, Topics of the Day and musical embellishment by the Co. lumbia Orchestra, under Leon Bruslloff. TIVOLI—“Bigger Than Barnum's.” “Bigger Than Barnum's,” a film play that embodies all the glamour, glitter and gloss of the circus, will be shown at Crandall's Tivoll Theater the first two days of this week, beginning this afternoon, with the principal roles played by Viola Dana Ralph Lewis, George O'Hara and Ralph_Ince. Added attractions will be “Excess Bagszage,” featuring a cast of juveniles; the Pathe Review and orzan numbers by Otto F. Beck and Ida V. Clarke. Tuesday and Wednesday, Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Dresser, Douglas Fairbanks, jr.. Stuart Holmes, Bar tara Worth, Dick Sutherland, George | Nichols. Sam De Grasse and Anders i Randolph in the Warner Brothers' production of “‘Broken Hearts of Hol Iywood,” a plcture purporting to re late the inside story of the tempta- tions of filmland, new Aesop Fable, and Topies of the Day; Laura La Plante in “Her Big supported by Einar Hansen e Moran, Tully Marshall, Mack | Swain and Zasu Pitts; also a_Cameo | comedy entitled “Plumb Goofy” and aturday, Ralph Ince, Clajre * Adams and Mr. Ince’s new London's “Sea Alaskan whaling Buster supported b Mitchell Lewis, in production of Jack Wolf,” a story of s, supplemented by a comedy, “Buster's Girl a Grantland Rlce “Sport and the sixth installment of the chapter play “‘Snowed In.” AMBASSADOR—“Gigolo.” Rod La Rocque, supported by Jobyna Ralston, Louise Dresser Cyril Chadwick and George Nichols, will be seen the first three days of this week at Crandall's Ambassador Theater in Producers’ ilm version of dna Ferher's story, “Gigolo,” a tale of pastoral America and the cabarets of Pa The bill will be augmented by short recls and pipe organ music ¢ Mirabel J. Lindsay and Gertrude Kreiselman. Wednesday and Thursday, “The ate Quest,” featuring_ May Willard Louis and Louise zenda. a Warner Brothers produc tion which treats of the quest for fame, money and love through the night life of London and Paris, sup plemented by Mack Sennett’ kee Doodle Duke” and a news ree Friday, Douglas MacLean in “Hold That Lion,” supplemented by the Pathe Review. Topics of the Day and a_ “Snookums” comedy, entitled “Snookum’s Tooth™; Saturday, Viola Dana, Ralph Lewis, George O'Hara and Ralph Ince in “Bigger Than Bar- an adventure drama of the also a juvenile comedy, “Ex- cess Baggage"; Screen Snapshots and the fifth installment of “Snowed In,” mystery chapter play. WARDMAN PARK—“Willlam Tell.” “William Tell,” the first motion pic- ture made in Switzerland which is said to have natural settings, will be shown by the Motion Picture Guild this week, beginning this afternoon. at the Wardman Park Theater. The wiss Minister, who has praised the picture as a great drama, is expected to be present at the premier Sunday night. The photoplay s made from Schiller's drama and Rossini’s opera. The titles are taken mainly from Schiller’s work, and it is claimed by the producers that this is the only photoplay in which the titles have been worked out in meter. Every scene was taken on the exact spot where history records the inci- dent as having occurred. Emil Har der, a Swiss-horn American, spent two vears abroad making this pieture. The Swiss government co-operated in the making of the production, and be- cause of its historical significance, | many prominent Swiss officlals par- ticipated in the mob scenes. CENTRAL—"“The Passionate Quest.” “The Passionate Quest” Warner Brothers' screen adaptation of the novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, di- rected by J. Stuart Blackton, brings to the screen of Crandall's Central Theater the first two days of this week, beginning this afterncon, a cast led by May McAvoy, Willard Louls, Louise Fazenda, Gardiner James, Holmes Herbert, De Witt Jen- nings, Vera Lewis and Charles Stevenson. The story is one of a mad fight for fame, money and love mad swirl of Lon- he comedy will be spanking Breezes," and added short reels, together with pipe organ numbers, will complete the bill. Tuesday and Wednesday, Gloria Swanson in Paramount’s production of “Fine Manners,” which relates the experiences of a chorus girl who tried to attain social distizction, supple- mented by Andy Gump in “Tow Service”; Thursday and Friday, Fir National’s release of “Men of Steel featuring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Mae Allison, Frank CurMer and George Fawcett, the action of the drama being filmed against the back- ground of the mammoth steel in- dustry in Birmingham, Ala., suppl:- mented by an Aesop Fable; Saturday, Priscilla Dean in “The Dice Woman,” mented by Glen Tryon in “The Kimona” and a news reel. LINCOLN — “Don Juan’s Three Nights.” W. C. Handy, creator of eth “blues,” and his orchestra of 12 syn- copationlsts continue at the Linrcelin Theater this week as one of the foremost attractions. Handy, in ad- dition to conducting his orchestra, is director of presentations, and embellishes each change of bill, or which there will be three this week, with specially interpolated numbers and acts of appropriate character. For the first three days of the week, beginning this afternocon at 3, the screen feature will be First National's production of “Don Juan's Three Nights,” in which Lewis Stone is cast as a distinguished planist who has a peculiar appeal to the ladies. Stone is support- ed by Shirley Mason, Malcolm McGregor, and Myrtle Steadman; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Ben Lyon and May McAvoy will be seen in First National's production, “The Savage,” and Saturday Douglas MacLean in Paramount’s “Hold (Gontinued on Fourth Page)