Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 47

r The Sundiny Shae WASHING SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST Little “Thester | LEx CODY and Columbia AILEEN PRINGLE - = Attractions n MUSIC AND DRAMA. NATIONAL—"The Sign on the Door evening. KEITH'S—Lenore Ulrich, vaudevil EARLE—"The Passing Parade,” evening. NATIONAL—"Sign on the Door.” Marjorie Rambeau’s successful play “The Sign on the Door,” written for her by Channing Pollock, will contrib- ute its thrills at the® National this week, beginning tomorrow evening, through the National Players. Despite its claim as a romantic melodrama, “The Sign on the Door” has much in the way of comedy relief. An innocent indiscretion in her youth invoives a lady of unimpeach- able character in a series of events that tumble on top of one another. culminating in a mysterious murde that baffles those who would attempt to unravel it before the author sup- plies the last act solution. The central male figure retire: his rooms, leaving on the door a cautioning people not to disturb him. When the police arrive to inspect his slain body, there are already people in the room, who disclaim any knowl- edge of such a placard as was obvi- ously placed on the door by the victim, How this mystery is unraveled and the name of an innocent woman cleared constitutes the main action. to KEITH'S—Lenore . Ulrich. anager Rohbins of B. F. Keith's heater proudly announces Miss Le rore Ulrich as the headline artist for the current week. Miss Ulrich makes her vaudeville debut by special ar- rangement with David Belas: She is the artiste who has given th American theater riger Rose, ki” and “Lulu Belle,” and she ap- pears this week in a specially written playlet from the pen of Willard Mack. He calls it “The Wolf's Cub.’ The musical comedy star, Marion hine, will be featured in “A Rroadway Bouquet.” with Peter L: Washington mystery play. Tomorrow le. This afternoon and evening. vaudeville. This afternoon and kin. Others will rison and Sylvia Jerry Moore will be at the piano. include Charles Har- Dakin in i | “An| Operetta for Two,” a satire by M Harrison; Fleurette Jeoffrie, coloratura | soprano, with a new program; Kola | and Sylvia company in “Happy Mo- | | ments of Dancing and Piano”; Foster, | Fegan and Cox, “Harmoniacs,” with | fun and song; “The Great Johnson | silent entertainer, and Mary Gautier's | pony “Boy.” The screen features, Aesop's Fable, Topics of the Day and the Pathe | News Pictorial will complete the bill. | | | EARLE—“The Passing Parad The Iarle Theater this week, be- | ginning this afternoon, will present | “The Passing Parade,” a unique | vaudevilie offering, handsomely mount- ed and picturesquely costumed, and | | entertainment, headed and Helen Moretti. unbeam Girls provide There are 22 per- by McManus and | The the former: Knowl | Twelve | ensemble. An added attraction will be Pietro, Le famous and popular piano-ac cordionist, Pre girls by the dozen and a cast of principals in which youth. predom {inates are outstanding features of the comedy Rich, But Honest,” which is ' Coming Attractions NATIONAL—“The Swan.” Tryipg to humanize royalty is some thing of a task, for no matter ho human these dwellers in another world the photoplay for this week. It is|are intrinsically, they are hedged based on a magazine story by Arthur | with formality and convention that Somers Roche and deals with the love | defies translation to the public mind airs of a pretty working girl, Nancy Ferenc Molnar, the Hungarian play | Nash, and her two admirers, Clifford |wright, has struck as near the mark as | Holland and Charles Morton. Many | possible in “The Swan’ which the unusual twists lead to a situation of | National Players will offer next week, {fine suspense and much laughter. J.|beginning August 15. This, | Farrell MacDonald also is in the cast. | remembered, was one of E | Added screen features include a new | enne's outstanding succes { tworeel laugh-maker and the Kino- The members of a central European grams. | monarchy are shown therein, stri 2 Le Galli Will Rt)gers fm_Asset ‘ the announcement that Will America’s quaint humor in the films i SINCE Rogers, ist, would again appe: Ror & i | Texas cations of | “In the tion,” Rork p <t must be except hold his pos as maintaine ars. The Vi iies, the films, the he newspapers and books 1l been bri / the wit day nts out humor 1to n and Will Rogers snce through ge. the Fol- lecture m, “even ed im isive ana nimitable enaracteristic | of some’ of their pompous spangl {and portrayed something else b sides puppets dangling from a_throne. The author has contrived a clash be. tween blue blood and red blood, the | former represented by the beauteous 2 ., |Princess Alexandra and the latter by comedian from the Western ranges. | “The Texas Steer,” which will be | directed by Richard Wallace, is adapt |ed from the famous stage farce by | Charles Hoyt. Rogers w ppear in | the role of Maverick Brander, the | attleman elected to Congress | in spite of himself, through the schem- g of his ambitious wife and daugh- Louise zenda_and Ann Rork will be featured in his support Will Rogers has made himself international figure, probably greatest American humorist {Mark Twain, and a character stands alone. Work on the picture begins in a few weeks and much of the action will be “shot” in Washington, D. C. | impulse and station. Surrounding this pair are the Princess Beatrice and the { languid Prince Albert, a perfunctory suitor for Alexandra’s hand. Enters scheming dowager to confirm the royal alliance, and upon her entry Dr. Agi exits respectfully formal | s he was before he won the favor of |a princess. This latter young person discovers that, after all, she was only in love with love, anyway. KEITH'S—Odette Myrtil. Odette Myrtil, the French revue will top the B. F. Keith bill week. an the since who star, next Screen Star Test. ARBARA KENT, " of 1927, a former High School girl, ch Drop Kick,” after prominent young actresses were made is one of a cast that is said to include many pretty girls, among them Doro thy Revier and Alberta Vaughn Previous to her entry into p she won two personality contests, onz in Santa Cruz and one in Los Angeles without attracting any notice at all of picture producers. Later an ex ecutive of one of the large producing companies saw her enter a store = struck w her charm and manner and sent ¢ test They do that i Since that 4 acreen personz hus made her ¢ v iring of the 1 screen pla Miss Kent just Beight, has blue eyes and -~el 8, UEUEERR . Wampas baby Hollywood n for The nerous tests of t reen lity to act st prom is a bru RLE—"Gossips of 19 “Gossips of 1927, a new vaudeville ich will -head the bill at the rle next week, is composed of sev A eral well known vaudevillists, who of |offer their own specialties and also the 10 college youths recently chosen | Unite in presenting a revue. Among for a fling in motion pictures. l\l\”fi: Mu\lr!;\'“ “«5”}[“‘”’ Mz“lnn 2 BT e .. | Wilkins, Hibbitt an artman, Mar- The 10 boys, known asithe Ten Na j;u: ie Moore and Her Ten June Buds So Soon 'Tis Done. 1 T hometown hoys make good. | his is the word from Ffrst ) tional Studios at Burbank, Calif ; 1;1""_‘ L'“f'u‘if Ri i 1""’“_‘]‘{;‘,}",“‘_’;"’1‘ and Emerson and Baldwin. tarring Richard Barthelmess and | High ”;‘X‘" 1}"""” X ”"l";‘ “l"““d-"; , s, 5 = 2 eaturing en Lyon, Sam ardy and every one bf the ten is showing abil | yjary Brian, which will be the screen ity as an actor,” according to Millard | Webb, who is directing the picture “These boys all show possibilit great advancement in pictures. They are alert, anxious to learn, take di- rection easily fundmentals of motion picture actin. The 10 Lovs are: Richard Clendenin, | ented German actre California: John Westward, Princetor; [ ring in American pic res, gained her Stuart C. Knox. Yale; Thomas Dentor, | Introduction to America through her and Leland 8. Wilcox, Michigan: John | work in “Variety” and “Manon Les- Stambaugh, Chicago; Edward Karges |caut,” two UFA productions. When and Warner Smoot orthwestern: D. | she atfracted the attention of the mo- C. Cassidv, Georgia Tech, and John ' tion picture makers she was a famous ' Morris. Purdue. 2 danetuy s Z | feature, is a satire on studio life and . I burlesques all phases of movie life temperaments of stars and directors. o SOPHRPURS. A it will be | uw‘ 2 ‘mne o from the romance of the extras to the | Lda de Putti, the beautiful and tal- | intended to provide an entire evenflnz'ai MADY bQIAN - Mc"'ropo“‘l"afl - \JFAR | | IN (43 | Paul “Sunny and King Arthur in the forthcoming mu s sion vankee,” Proud | show, Woolsey and cast, went in rehearsal last week. ‘ Ramsey Wallace's first production f the season, ‘‘Secret Service Smith,” | Dr. Agi, her tutor, but a commoner in | 3" N ™ Stamford, Conn., next | week. George M. C “The Merry Malones Cyclone.” will September 5. The Basil play is theater | to this Aline seen in in a which stanley Padre | son stav The musical brand,” | Isabel | herg The Leight are 1 | “rhe Golden K | duced by H | brought eut the original version. by | Edwin Justus Ruth Chatterton is playing in “The | Third Day,” by John Van Druten, in San_Francisco. ed by A. i tend Claudette | ot vdney. manner. \ Nance O'Neil stars in “House of Women,” by Louls blanks may be had at the theater. 00D NEW, Mandel's latest piece, got away to a good start last week in Atlantic Cit Everton, with Hope Hampton, Deane- finished, owners | flirting with the cl country. | moment is “Come With Me.” MacM pread called Logan, for Leo Carillo has the princip which agger and th Originally I Czech, Milin Bevogie, it is sald to be who is now Star- | ;orpid and mystic in a Strindbergian Elsie Ferguson returned to York from Europe last week fully re- covered in health, it is said. She and |-would like revived for the final weel GARBER_ (Stage) = — Palace — Stere 7490/;1, PIETRO - Earle . (Stage) \\c)?:erze 748»2 . The SIGN ONTHE DOOR" — National Outdoor Attractions| Glen Echo Park. | Glen Echo Park, Washington's free admission resort of fun, upon the Potomae, is delightful locale for all- day and evening outings. Both week | days and Sundays many enjoy the | shady picnic groves for luncheon and supper in the open air, while the | fifty or more diversified attractions of Glen Echo provide thrills and pleasure for voung and old. Every week night a popular feature is dancing fn the beautiful ballroom to music by David McWilliams and his ten-piece orchestra, featuring the Vibraphone. Glen Echo Park is| accessible via cars of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., or to motor- ists via the Conduit road. | Chesapeake Beach. Bathing has attained a popularity this_season naver before approached at Chesapeake Beach. It is believed due to the absence of swimming fa ties in the city, the accessibility of the bayside resort, and the many new | bathing attractions at the beach, | where the entire bathing area is in. | | closed by a fine mesh net that keeps | the water free from all things objec- tionable. The bottom is sandy, with a gradual slope and no step-offs into deep water. Free water slides are a great attraction. Vari-colored umbrellas are provided for the free use of patrons. There is also a free playground for childrer, equipped with swings, slides, see-saws |and other paraphernall | MacDONALD- Earle Screen) RELL ¢ THE SPOTLIGHT Notes of the Stage and Its People. | Columnist Predi | | THAT 1927 will witness more genuine ‘discoveries” than any other year in the history of motion pictures is predicted by Harry Carr, columnist |and film critic, now at the DeMille | studio in an editorial and supervisory capacity. Already, points out Carr, 1927 h: chalked up several noteworthy “di coveries.” ~He cites Janet Gaynor, | leading lady of “Seventh Heaven. | perhaps the most outstanding of the year's “finds.” Charles Farrell, the comedy “team"” of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur and Dolores del Rio | are others mentioned by Carr. Two “team” finds predicted by Carr will be introduced to the film public in "“The Wreck of the Hesperus,” which Elmer Clifton is directing. The first of these i3 the Frank Marion-Vir- ginia Bradford «ombination, who first commanded attention in “The Country Doctor.” The other is Alan Hale and Slim Summerville. . Is This a Hint to Dempsey? **THE Main Event,” a De Mille pic- ture, in which Vera Reynolds to be the star, was rewritten for the screen by Rochus Gliese, formerly a | | writer and director with UFA, and is | | from the original by Paul Allison. It | concerns a cafe dancer and a con- tender for the prize fight champion- | ship. | Director Howard Is said to be earnestly seeking a man to portray the role of the fighter, but he must cts, Bromfield, the American novelist. Mr. Bromfield won the Pulitzer prize this year with “Possession.” Schwab and | “Bloody Money,” in which Mrs. Heury B. Harris is featuring Phyllis Povah and Thomas Mitchell, will open Great Neck next Thursday | night. in both will play who acted “Kid Boot in of “A Connecticut The cast of Arthur Hammerstein's production of “Golden Dawn” was an- nounced last week. It is headed by | Louise Hunter of the Metropolitan Opera. “Golden Dawn” is the work of Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammer- tein, 2d, with score by Emmerich ‘Kfllman and Herbert Stothart. Princes: a musical | Robert | in the Donald Meek Charles L. Wagner has leased the Mansfield Theater, New York, for his .| first production of the season, Alice Duer Miller Tt will | be renamed “The Springboard.” and | Madge Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer | head the cast. | ohan's vo production: and ““The Baby both open in Boston iy largaret Kennedy o and at least two| Richard Herndon's first productios reported to be [of the season will be “Creole, ance of luring it | Samuel Shipman and Kenneth Peri Its title at the|ins, with Alan Dinehart in the princi- pal s presented on the coast ar ago by Richard Bénnett. a role a who was last s z *is rehearsing | Vincent Tawrence’s play, “Amonz First Affair,” | the Married,” is not to be presented is producing. | in New York for the present. Aft:r adapted “The |its tryout at Atlantic Mr. Law- ‘ly last sea. | rence decided to rewrite the third act. male part, | Instead of this piece, Sam Harris will {open his season with “The Man- Eating _Tiger,” by Ben Hecht and Rose iott Lester in will follow. “He| Blum who wielder of boxing gloves. version of “The Fir Oscar Hammerstein and Sigmund Rom ing, will be known as : Rose,” instead of It is to be pro- Liveright, who Kathryn Givney is unconcerned Lenore Ulriec. about the beginning of the Fall sea- son. She is already under contract for_a September opening on Broad- way in a mew play, “The Confiict,” written by Vingent Lawrence. The piece was tried out at Atlantic City and Asbury Park, N. J., during Miss This is the play in- *Givney’s three-week leave from the National Players. Now she's - back until the Summer season here ends. ‘The last week of the Summer sea- son, beginning September 5, will find ‘Washingtonians casting votes. Denied a political franchise, they can exercise their choices by telling the National Theater management what play. the; 1SS LENORE ULRIC, the artist who has given the American the- ater such roles as “Tiger Rose,” “Kiki” and “Lula Belle,” is headlining here in vaudeville this week, and she appears, according to announcement, orace Mayer. Belasco. It is interesting to note that Miss Ulric’s appearance in vaudeville is made with a playlet written by ‘Wil- lard Mack. It is hardly possible to visualize a more interesting combina- tion than Ulric and Mack. ‘Willard Mack calls this playlet “The ‘Wolt's Cub,” and advance notices say it takes in the northwest of H. Woods for the use Colbert and Sylvia written by a New - | week, beginning this afternoon. Palace Theater, Garber's Vi and a Colby Harriman creation en- titled “Moon Magic,” describeg, as an | Ms American Indian idyl, which | cal orchestral overture, News, and pipe organ music by Dick Leibert, will round out the f |that of a serious, as be able to be as ardent a lover as a | of companies of Broadway successss on the road, the annual plaint from theatrical managers and dramat tors about net Broadway casts when the show their cities press agent for Lawrence Schwa Frank Mandel. York producers as bloated and super- cilious magnates, about the 115,000,000 people living out- side of their Eastern metropolis. They | for instance, who will send on tour by special arrangement with David | see them deliberately cheapening casts | this coming and scenery, and using second-hand clothes and chorus people. cent more than the same show in New | gles York. road fares, traveling crev bills and extra stage hands, many hun- | dreds, many thousands, of dollars must will appear as jolnt of the- Detalls” and ‘voting Alberta, ngo it 12 mile ul Biche. added to the original weekly expense \*Serzwczfir LADIES (Sc “ LUNATIC AT LARGE: Rialto SCe’Le "‘O/r(, ’photoplays This Week SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS METROPOLITAN—"“Man Power.” * This afternoon and evening. PALACE—"Service for Ladies.” This afternoon and evening. RIALTO—“The Lunatic at Large.” This afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA—“Adam and Evil.” This aftefnoon and evening. LITTLE THEATER—“Manon Lescaut.” This afternoon and eve- PARK—“A Woman of Paris.” This evening. METROPOLITAN—“Man Power. waiter, who loves an American Automobiles, airplanes, motor boats | heiress. An exclusive Paris hotel and and even bicycles provide background | Winter sports in the Swiss Alps con- for “Man Power,” the photoplay at |stitute the settings. Crandall's Metropolitan Theater this | Plaving opposite the sta Even |leading woman, Kathryn tractor is known to the American glorified in it. Richard Dix s its star. | Harrison Fisher's “Ideal Amoric Other film features will include the |Girl,” with Lawrence Grant, Char Metropolitan World Survey and a new | Lane, Sally Blane, Marion Ivy Har comedy, with music by the Metro- land Lotus Thompson. politan Orchestra, under Daniel Bree-| Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast skin, |his debut as a Paramount direct “Man Power” is not a war picture, | with this production, which is based although there is a flash of the battle- [on an original screen story by Ernest front to indicate that Dix had been | Vajda. an officer before reaching the low state of a box car hobo, hopefulls looking for work of any sort. Saving Mary Brian from what he imagines to be a terrible death, he decides to settle down in her home town. Enter- ing the leading industrial plant, he is told to put a group of run-down tractors into working condition. It doesn’t take him long to discover that Mary’s father is the president of the factory, nor does it take any more time to discover why the manager of the plant doesn’t enjoy his company. T‘h;tfln:l climax comes on a stormy night when a dam far above *he little | {nx the oicl 1o sk b valley town is about to overflow. It | the girl to warn her, but before Nerir |he’ can convince her of the truth, two attendants appear and take him | back to the sanatorium, while the girl : ¢ | departs with' the nut to be married Garber's Orchestra. |and honeymoon on a_dirigible Adolphe Menjou's latest Paramount | The climax is reached when rol, picture, “Service for Ladies,” opens | following, climbs aboard the dirigible today a week’s engagement at Loew’s | in time to stop _the wedding and the together with Jan|“nut.” jumps off with the girl in his ctor Recording Orchestra is a new rver the Iumbering caterpillar public ma RIALTO—"The Luna Leon Errol the comedian, in his second s “The Lunatic at Larg traction at the Rialto th Errol has the role of a tramp wh is persuaded to change places with a_millionaire and finds himself in a private insane asylum. Among the inmates is one who i ne, his crazy { twin brother having chloroformed him and escaped to wed his flancee. Errol, onvinced of the sanity of the in- erated brother, succeeds in reach- ic at I popular sen vel the PALACE—“Service For Ladies”"—Jan tarred with Errol is Dorothy . supported by Kenneth Mac- Jack Raymond, Warren and Cl The stage p { noft and ¥ | terpsichor also appe The ov ure by the Rialto Orches- features Rox Rommel ue of popular mele vius | Yeatures Dorothy Wilson Halbach, with musi- setting by Charles \Wakefield Cadman, as stage attractions. An the International “Dance Realty,” novelty. Valky ogram Menjou roles to character ted head tr pianole together with an Oe 3 (Continued on Third Page.) for Ladies,” philandering earnest celebr In “Service departs from which, Europe's Road Sbows Not Bopular. once were. They do mast **WWITH the coming of the Fall and| bonds they not the sending out of hundreds|live trunks and make homes where they their h Many of them have families, hor . edi.| and automobiles in New York a 4 will not leave Broadwa riginal | help it. Chorus girls are now of a reach | different ty from those of former the | days. Many of them come from good b and | homes, and while their parents do “They see the l\‘ewin-n object to their appearance on the thef hang es getting the 1s about due,” stage in New York, th re reluctant | to permit them to leave home. In the case of Schwab and Mandel, who care nothing on “Queen High" and “The Desert Song.” It required months of persuasion and the addition of 25 per cent to their already consid- able salaries to induce Charles Rug- and Frank Mclntyre to leave New York in their original roles. . The same is true of Helen Currington, Gaile Beverly and other members of the original cast. Even the chorus girls must be paid an increased sal- d 1 ary, as their expenses are naturally “The players todafare not the vaga. higher on the road than 2t home, show on tour to 40 pe “It is a fact that a 8 the producer from What with higher salaries, rail. | , transfer of and show be in case a big