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OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS KEITH'S—Odette Myrtil. That charming violinist-comedienne, | Odette Myrtil, headlining a good | bill at Keith's this week. Her ing fs confined to French ditties, w she puts over most effectively, e trough the adroit use of her wonderful eves, for be their color) \\ln[ it m srve to help ¢ or over sweet With the violin Odette is superb, a In-‘r\l making th instrument talk as a pantomime 1cher with I assisted by a talented | il is overlooked | camp for German prisoners, and Pola and her film father are forced to care for the enemy in this way. The one particular German prisoner who becomes the hero and there are sev cral others among the prison groun | who prove so wholesomely human and likeable that they give : the picture that nothing possibly provide. Of course, the otier French peasants harbor resentment 1 even suspicion of the herolne's at e toward these prisoners, and the comes when she must fight | judge and jury in a_crov om for her lover's lif nd of the picture cleverly su the futility of hate and bitterness among buman bein: Miss Negri carrfes remarkabl viction in her acting and overs the time usual given to the entire vaudeville bill. “Gossips of 1 s a junior musical comedy of seven scenes, with Rilly Dale, who, “the merry rounder,” furnishes the comedy, assisted by | Marie Hartman, Eddie Emerson and v Raldwin, the last named with a | of comedy’ juggling. Most of the dancing falls to Al But and Marion | Wilke: and the Six Californ Feaches, all of whom are good danc Butts especially, in acrobatic danc Another feature is N and her “10 June Buds, vaudeville that Moore has a pleasing vo 50 a dancer of no mean ability he entire nact i3 attractively staged and costumed and seemed to ght’s audience. The picture is a sort of disjointed affair, described as a burlesque on the makimg of the movies, and proves to be but mildly interesting. music by ¥ rchestra and Alexander Arons, pipe organist, com- | plete the bill PALACE—"Barbed Wire.” The beautiful Pola Negri, who es-| hed herself high in the regard Americans for her marvelous por- trayal of the title role in the foreigh Mm, “Du Barry,” seems to have at last come into her own in a role in an American film that gives her par- ticular talents full This pic- ture is “Barbed Wi the feature film at Loew’'s Palace Theater this | wee | Tt is a story of international bitter- | ne: pointing out the only way of | eliminating such feelings after such a | great catastrophe as the World War, | There are few scenes of the actual battle front, but the feeling of the l ench people against the “boche” | the Germans’ hitterness against | the French provide the underlying | theme. The story introduces Pola as a| French peasant girl living peacefully | on the little farm with her father and | brother when war is proclaimed. | Later this particular farm is chosen by the government as the site for a HOURS: 8:45 TO 5:30 | offering issisted by Sinar Hansc Brook and Claude Gilli An unusually gay i y and cailed Vi play everything from i's “Overture 1812 to the ! ht A dancer < special men “The Voice of 1 partict wlarly well rounded and inter esting bill that also includes a news reel and an overture by the house orchestra. METROPOLITAN Beauty aves of shown at Metropolitan vesterday. offers resting version, under erns A wife who t passive husband and seeks fame eld of her own. The drama the unhappy couple and a chter iving in th The wife. w N s sceming inattention and | lack of ambition, ventures forth into the heauty parlor fleld to win fortune, | seasoned by an intriguing love affair with her manager. Meanwhile hev daughter comes home from college and | reaks up her mother’s love affair by | ensnaring her paramour. Father, | meantime, has ventured into business of the same nature for himself, win- ning wealth without the benefit of | women, whom he is successful in | shunning. The story concludes with having the | family happily reunited, after many incidents that are amusing as well as | variety of play on the emotions. Olive Tell is the dissatisfie Holmes Herbert, the husband, le Foxe has a difficult role. - ard Walling and Sue Carroll are the | lovers, while Margaret Livingston pr vides amusing situations as the mani- D RY CLEANIN {6 Highent Gumits'sna G it costs von less Unlined Wool Cloaks, $1.50 For Fatimatoa. Main 1100.1101.7113 Lactobacillus Acidophilus Call our nroduct “L. A" Milk Tnde Mark) For intestinal disorders Ask yvour physician about it NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE Phone North 80 1515 U 8t. N.W. 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SILX SHADES—suitable for floor bridge and boudoir lamps; in a variety of col- "HALF PRICE CLOSED all day Saturday during August First Flame," ing Col. Lindberg completes the enter- tainment. elusive sphere, Ruth, the “Yankees,” hs | nith as much Babe has proved himself a natural actor in_ his first screen “Rabe Comes Home. red at the Rialto The | were sonality The entes « g the gry rld has known another whie tween one ind acertai hitter for Annie ! s uni forms and is sh | no hesitaney in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. other things besides. exchange of notes. and a news reel featur- RIALTO—"Babe Comes Home.” king his initial swing at that | admiration. rling of the New York up the affair. knocked off a “homer” | for the ball, 2 apparent ease as he|in things genei s the familiar pill at the ball park appearance. which fs fea ter this week. course, the picture is which but for cidedly Babe's amusing per- | o hef ‘ne by all that would be it not for nge “hack-hand complim Lpretty laundre zan, home run U havd hoiled tions from Soldier” e ball outfit plete the program. abitual | the pig ha veach her | doesn’t see why ball | ot of the dirt like and feeis rforming Annie of \Srante=and S faw “Quiney sented on tl bla this week. Tt is colossal i Chaney makes Babe and and everybody is unhappy until ancther turn of the | It is rather wheel of fate makes Annie for; tieal moment to save the se famous 4 = of nll ITLE THEATER—“Shattered.” other noted culptured art statue Keeping U Pathe News | by the Rialto orchestra com Adams s sereen at Loew's Colum v bucolic drama of the old sehool. in which Lon | be denied, and the relentles i MONDAY, All of this in an | without the aid of make-up, and Bar- bara La Marr and Blanche Sweet ap- An unexpected meeting between the pear in the leading feminine roles. two follows which leads from further exchange of pleasantries to mutual | convincingly, and there is plenty of Annie finally ry become engaged, but on the eve of the [ horo and his movie stardom, Babe | \¢oqqing a difference of opinion breaks ‘The rural atmosphere is portrayed comedy relief from the perils of the sweetheart. _John Bowers plays Adams Sawyer. One of the scenes depicts a rescue from the rushing waters of the falls. unconvincing, and the ot her | general make-up of the picture is bet- nd sends Babe into the game | ter suited to the screen of a decade ago than to the motion picture the | ter of today. Still, Lon Chaney makes it go. A comedy and the usual news reel vound out the bill. The house orchestra plays an attractive number. » patrons of the L whose memories do not range 1 t deal this week harlie Chaplin, for his performance in the burlesque “Carmen,” day. The feature picture, “Shattered,” is similar to the series that has been running at the Little Theater for some | time. Tt was all right at first, but now it is beginning to weaken. Few peo | ple like to see morbid tragedy, tragedy without the light of hope melo: “Shattered™ irtistie, that cannot acting of the two male characters is very fine. The 10 years owe a g Chocalate saves the villain AUGUST 15, the part of Quincy g to | Store 1927, maybe the rest of us would if we looked at things that way. It is more depressing than “Crime and Punish- ment,” While it is intellectual, it is based on the Teutonic standard of so- phisticated entertainment. The pro- sram compares It with “The Last Laugh.” “The Last Laugh was beau- tiful in spots. The high points of attered” are pre-eminently ugly. he Ballet Mecanique™ is an inter esting piece of work, thoroughl sophisticated and unusual. It has been lone hefore on smaller scale in other pictures There is also a better class travel film, which is interesting, and a news reel. However, Charlie Chaplin in “Carmen’” prov the entertain. ment of the evening. women in the cast overdo, but !h(-n“ BANDITS ROB TWENTY. Porch Crowd Relieved of 83,000 and Gems by 9 Men. PHILADELPHIA, August 15 (#).— e men operating In two automo- raided a group of 20 persons seated on a store porch, at Edge Hill, near here, early yosterday, robbed them at pistol point of £3,000 in mone: and jewelry and escaped after dis- abling two automobiles in which their victims might have followed them. Studebaker “Commander,” and delivered, JOSEPH McREYNOLDS, Inc. 1636 CONN AVE What Studebaker “Commander” will_do —will out-speed —uwill out-climb —will out-live any other Automobile made, selling under $3,000! MAKE US 'PROVE IT! fully equipped new Reduced Price, $1,695 STUDFBAKER BUILDING d R—Potomac 1631 T IIIII!IIIIIIHNIIIIll||Hl|||IIII|IIIllllIIIIllllllllllllll[l!l!lllIllllil!llllllllllflllIINIIIIVIIHIi'IIIlIIIIIIIHIMIHIIIIII!IM I Woodward & Lothrop Down Stairs Store Tomorrow—The Semi-Annual Selling of Rugs Brings Savings From LAMPS At Semi-Annual Savings Junior and Floor Bases Artistic, sturdily made Lamp Bases in the newer styles, with straight or twisted stems. Metal and hrom marble bases, complete with double sockets and silk cord. Values of the most extraordinary char- acter. Group No: 2 Gold-Plated Junior and Bridge Lamps Marble and Metal-base Lamps, heavy gold plated, in straight stems or _ artistically twisted shapes. These lamp bases are of an exccpuonally Early American Lamps, wllh xhnde, complete with electric connections. Sale price, 95¢. Silk and Parchment Table Lamp Shades, 14- inch size, $2.95. Gray fine grade. The savings are really m o s t extraordinary. Semi-annual price Table Lamp Bases S $4.99 75 of these double-socket, double-lighted attachment lamp bases, with bases in marbleized and metal ef- fects. In colors of blue, black and gold. Substan- tially lower than regularly, Junior and Floor Portables Feature group. Gold plated with Elbrom marble or metal bases. Double sockets, plain or twisted stems. DOWN STAIRS STORE Lamp Shades Attractively Low Priced Plain Silk Fringed Silk Pleated Parchment and Plain Parchment Junior and Bridge Lamps, and a wic of colors that guarantees you a sat and shape for the lamp bases you will 1y or already have. We are featuring: Silk Shades for Junior and Floor Lamps, at exactly half the regular price, $3.75 to $6.75. DOWN STAIRS STORE Sizes fc 159 to 33139 PLEASE NOTE We've conveniently listed the Rugs in the selling according to sizes, the famous makes being listed below. been done to make it ea —what tremendots This has er for you to see—just at a glance savings are here, and just the price the size rugs you want, are marked. Seamless Axminster, Tapestry and Velvet Rugs ROOM SIZES 152—95x12 size, $1995, $29.75, $35, $39-75, $52.50 138—8.3x10.6 size, $17-95, 94—6x9 size, $9-75, $17-45, $27-715, $33, $3575, $45 $20, 52475, $30 56—4.6x6.6 size, $945, $11-50, $15 25—4x7 size, $1625 4—17.6x9 size, $1325 SCATTER SIZES 50—36x72 size, $8-50 25—36x70 size, $6-75 144—36x63 size, $4.25, $5-45, %675 50—30x60 size, $5-75 25—26x54 size, $475 225—27x54 size, $295, $345, $375, 5450 75—21x45 size, $2:95 75—21x36 size, $2-45 Never hefore in our history have we assembled such a wonderiul assort- ment of floor coverings. We will show you rugs that represent the greatest Rug values we have ever had the good fortune to offer. Rugs —soft, deep, and seamless in weave. In rarest of designs. depth and richness of fabric, to know that it is pliant, You will find patterns for the living room, dining room, atterns for the bedroom. terned and shaded into the dependable. library and graceful berry, plum, blue, rose and green are rich, lustrous colorings pat- You have but to feel their sturdy and Taupe, tan, gray, mul- a few of the colors. These Famous Rugs At Semi-Annual Savings Seamless Wool Velvet Rugs Fringed ends, Wilton designs, new Fall-Winter patterns Sanford’s Clifton Axminsters Seamless, new designs, all colors Vermont Velvet Rugs Seamless, plain ends, new designs Masland Argonne Wool Rugs Seamless, fringed, new designs Reversible Chenille Rugs 5 colors, 9 sizes Franklin Axminster Rugs Seamless, mothproofed with Larvex National Tapestry Rugs Seamless, Fall designs, all colors Sagamore Velvet Rugs Chinese and Persian designs 418 Rugs in the Sale are “Seconds” of grades that regularly would be about twice the Semi-Annual price. so termed, we cannot detect i DOWN STAIRS STORE. RUG Although perfections in most of them. CTION Felt-Base Floor Covering 3,200 yards—at SEMI-ANNUAL SELLING SAVINGS 1,200 yards Felt-Base Floor Covering, in nine different designs and coloring: in Dutch tile and block pat- terns. Gray-and-blue, blue-and- white and wood effects. \quare 40c yard! .. T S 5 2,000 vards Neponset Felt-Base Floor Covering, a splendid grade, 2 yards wide, in twelve patterns. Par- quet, tile, Dutch tile, marble- 65c ized effects in all colors. Sq. yd. 100 Bird’s Neponset Felt-Base Rugs - 7.6x8. $5.45 You select from ten distinctively and every one is sure to meet your different” proval. $6.75 9x12. . $9.75 " designs when you purchase these rugs Designs are shown in colors of rose, taupe, blue, gray and Dutch tile effects. DOWN STAIRS STORE. RUG SECTION DRAPERIES At Semi-Annual Savings In New Autumn Colors Rayon and Damask Draperies In Two Popular Widths ' 98¢, 75c, 515 50-inch width $1 - When such splendid quality Drapery is offered at these low prices it will sell quickly, so come carly to avoid is- appointment. Choose from the newly- in-vogue striped patterns or the rich- looking all-over effects. New Fall-Winter patterns, in Dlack gold, deep blue-and-gold, ¢ and green-and-gold, orange orange- and-black, and solid gold, orange, green and dark Dlue Drapery Sets 1 Of Damask and Damask-and-Velour Drapery Sets of colors with very damask or damask velour valance. The saving is really remarkable. The sets consist of 2 side strips, 214 yards long, and a 54-inch valance cut in 14-inch scallops, three deep. Complete with tie-backs of self color, and finished with silk fringe. In blue, rose, gold and mulberry. Valances Damask or Velour 88cto*1 10-inch and 16-inch widths. With scal- loped or straight hems. Finished with silkk fringe Al colors. DOWN STAIRS STORE Fringed Lace Panels 85(’. to $1.95 Scalloped Hems—deep silk fringe 2V to 21/, yards—36 to 40-inch widths Airy cream lace panels that lend such a refined air to any room in the Scmi-annual Selling at very much less than regularly. all-over designs or new border effects ttractively finished with scalloped hems » silk iringe. 36 to 40 inches wide and 214 $1.65 only) vards long, they range in price— '85c, 1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $1.95 DOWN STAIRS STORE