Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1927, Page 52

2 AAMUSEMENTSH, Work of Movie Eng’lneers. ary of the adoption of a pro ¢ the Society of Motion Pic gineers which has ohanges of & far-reaching type 1o one of America’s greatest Indus The founder of that organization was C. Francis Penkins, Washington scient- ist, air pilot, radio engineer amd in ventor of many motion picture and other devices. The society’s contributions came ahont through t doption of a pro- gram of standardization which has re. sulted in a vast improvement in standards of operation in the pict appearing on the ration of the film, remedied to a de. Early de alaimed. has been grea which enable subject to be shown in more theaters, expensive eakage has been lessened, and appa- us of every sort ha been made erchangeable to a degree probably not equaled by any other industr This pro has been brought about through voluntary co-operation, th the result, it is claimed, that the society speaks with authority con- | corning the indusiry to A | Probably millions of persons can re. call—perhaps with a wince—days when the motion picture was a flick- | ering thing: when frequently the pic ture jumped so that the bottom part | of the scene appearcd at the top of the screen; when projection booths were so high up in a theater as to cause the images on the screen to be | distorted: when the end of the reel was marked by a wait while the oper- | ator slipped on the next reel and “threaded it up” through the ma chine, and when the p tion was much faster than normal that mem of the cast seemed to fairly run, | even t e m ual actions. | The ¢ in these conditions said 1o be due primarily to the S of Motion Picture Engineers and the adoption of a long-range policy better the industr Sporadic_efforts had been made to form such an organization before, but these had failed hecausa of the suspi- | ofon existing between variou in the industr | In 1916, at ) i 21 motien picture cers : vs | met in Washington, and one of the| first jobs was to " the engineers | the truth of the old adage, “United we | stand: divided we fall.” and the value of submerging individual considers tions for the greater good of the in dustry. This was done, it is explained, by Henry D. Hubbard. executive off ocer of the United States Bureau of Standards, who drew a vivid picture | of what standardization could accom- plish. After forming an organization, i work was begun. was recognized that the evils mentioned were some of the probiems to be solved, also that some of these | arose from the many variations in| types of apparatus then in use. For instance, movie film was per forated along the edges, so that it in brought | it is | | for | of warning the oper: | ment was the . | standard | one | velopments s ta s might be held in place in the camera and in the projector. These perfora- tions varied. One ¢ might be using one size and shape of pe tioa. The next might be entirely ferent, Th for the pr |one cause | picture. The <peeding up of pictures, it was found, was due to the desive of some ‘xmmlu show proprietors to change audiences as fast possible. Mor crowds, more mon Distortion of the pictures in some cases resulted from the fact that an old “legitimate” theater had heen remodeled for | movies, and that to brins the jectin cut into the certain block of | hese and other tackled by the society ssion hefore in 1917 and_ were of the jecting operator of the jumping pro venue by making & (s useless, problems were It took a lot there were pro certain standards society adopted to govern In some cases it pe- alteration of machinery the equipment manu of dise | mulzate which *he | its operations. | cossitated the by e of facturers, Standard. tion defined between the pictures should come in relation tions; what the shape and position of these perfors should be; and the size of the aperture in the projecting machine using standard film. Definitions were set up and practices outlined for the size of the standard film, size of the reel on which the film was wound, the method tor that the film on one reel was nearly run out, and the tension at which the film was to be wound. | The society also tackled problems dealing with projection len theix ht, and other matte And out these there came standard lens meters that might be used on any | standard projector. Another achieve | wopiton of a glossary | of terms and definitions applying tc the indus | When the question of the angle in | picture projection came up, some | theater owners protested that the were impossible because of architectural design of their | Idings. In one case, at least, this Jlved by the use of double miv rs, somew on the idea of the et D In all the organiza- dividing line on the film to the per- | wlopted by where t the w of this struggle better | methods, equipment and practices of | picture-making, Mr. Jenkins was very active, and he made a number of in- | ventions to further help the industr. one of them the double lens came) for the “fade-in” and “fade-out” of scene or_subject into another, Mr. Jenkins gave to the to which industr During the entire decade the ganization has worked unceasingly to keep standards abreast of new de- d to improve standards, pmittee carrying on this emi-innual_meetings. nding cc wor bn.l\\wn When IS a Blonde ‘OST of the blondes that gentlemen i prefer are not blondes at all—at {least photographically. This is the discovery of Anita Loos. About 60 per cent of blondes, as far as the black and white photography of the motion picture camera is con- | cerned, a brunettes. And now the author of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes™ | looks at the fair-haired girls skeptical- Iy and scientifically. Her disillusionment came as a re- sult of search for a girl to the role of Lorelei Lee, the blonde, gold- digging heroine in the stor: More than 20,000 photographs of girls have been submitted to her, and. since her arrival in Hollywood recently veral hundred girls have been interviewed personally by her. One of the most likely M candidates | and white photog: was given a screen test. She lovely, wavy golden-blonde hair. Miss Loos was enthusiastic until the cam- era test was screened, when, lo—the girl was a_brunette! Inquiry into the apparent mystery disclosed that golden-blonde hair often photographs dark, because of the red in it, since red equals black in black raphy. So. photographic experts at the Paramount Studio worked out for Miss Loos a color card which reveals at a glance the true actinic value of the blondes’ hair. On it are 10 grad- uated shades of blonde hair, translated into black and white color equalities, the first five of which are blonde on the screen in contrast to the second five, which are blonde to the eve, but brunette to the camera. Nmiper_arne WENTY important pictures were in_ course of production ina \\'nrkml' program that all resources of the huge 2 with_its working personnel of 1.200 people. Foremost of the specials is “Beau Shbreur,” a _companion picture to “Beau Geste,” which is being made under the direction of John Waters. Another is “Now We're in the Alr,” a nonsense epic co-starring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. Others include “A Gentleman of Taris,” starring Adolphe Menjou ne Woman to Another.” a Florence Vidor picture; “Beggars of Love,” the Pola Negri picture, first titled * Kissed”; “Figures Don't Lie Esther 'Ralston picture directed by Edward Sutherland; and “The Street of Sin,” the second American-made Emil Jannings picture, whose title will be changed. Three pictures are being cut and edited for immediate release: “Shang- hai Bound,” a Richard Dix picture; “Swim, Girl, Swim,” the Bebe Danicls { on the life of Joaquin M unt pictures: L action-comedy with Gertrude Ederle; and_ “Tell It to Sweeney,” a Chester Conklin-George Bancroft comedy of railroad life. Eleven pictures scheduled for imme- diate camera work include: “Open Range,” a Zane Grey western; Hair,” the Clara Bow picture; “She A Sheik,” with Bebe Daniels in a “Senorita” role; “The Gay Defender," a Richard Dix picture, which is based rietta, early bandit leader; “Honeymoon | Florence V Pola Negri s tory,” orge Bancroft which like “['nderworld,” will h rected by Joseph Von Sternberg: Show,” the Chester Conklin-W Fields comedy of circus life; and “The Glory Girl,” Esther Ralston picture- story of the stage. Two others are being made ready for production within' a month: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” and one by Ernest Vajda, which will star Adolphe Menjou. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” is awaiting selection of a Lorelei. aliforni Hate.” “Rachel, L a “We Are Klddlng Now."” KEN and Geor:e Ber- the iconoclasts and Beery and Ray- stick motion satirists-——Wallace mond Hatton, the sl picture comedians. Can it be that these two oddly as- sorted pairs have anything in com- | mon—that is, kas their artistry, their medium of expression, anything in hief of they a Sheldon, editor-in- mount studios, says 4, according to Sheldon, the v of Mencken and Shaw and the ry and Hatton spring from a common fountainhead. Menc ken and Shaw are essentially jcono- clasts. They hurl their caustic jibes at the idols of the populace. They ridicule the figures the public revere: They laugh at presidents and kings, probe heneath the glitter of war and rattle the fraudulent contracts of the $l.ayear men. Beery and Hatton work the same psychology. have become a great comedy by reversing the established tions regarding the veneration popular heroes. To the American public, soldiers, sailors, firemen and aviators are un doubtedly the greatest heroes of fact and fs ““The Hatton, thing, the pun; < Beery doy crest wors are thought to They team comedy heldon, * daring ng_as any of f Mencken or ront,” in which a couple of at the very soldeir-hero first ‘Behind the F and Jlatton were boys, was made of a wave of ip. films, pulpit and press, and molder of public opinion ited on idolization of the every otl was concent soldier hero, ‘Behind the Front.' while lacking tradi- | St of | cesses at the box office. ATl of them’ interested intelligent people us well as those who move their lips while ow ‘Beery and Hatton’ are peating the formula in ‘Now Wi in the Alr.’ The aviator is at the ve : of mational adulation. To use the language of the day, the aviator is ripe for kidding. Beery and Hatton have been given the material to kid him. Their efforts won't make the chievements of our aviators any the less heroic or exalting. And maybe the aviators themselves will enjoy it as much as the public. G Jesse James Data. ANY men come forward of anecdotes and facts about the life of Jesse James since Fred Thomson announced his intention to film the life of the out- law as a_Paramount picture. The Iatest is Frank M. Lovejoy of Brush, “olo., who arrested Robert Ford in . Joseph, Mo., after Ford had shot Jesse James in the back of the head on April 3, 1882, Lovejoy w a policeman in S8t. Joseph at the time. In the years ¢ he has been a guard at the ouri State Penitentiary and deputy warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary. Several years ago he went to Brush, Colo., for his health and has made it his home, Once An Orange plcker. WHEN William Boyd, now a ple- ture star, originally arrived in California, he picked oranges for a living. e w. pungster then, and his money ran out 50 miles from his gon have in barhed ridicule, suddenly presented as as ludicrous characters hit the public fancy like a nd overnight people refused the war seriously as far as their drama was concerned and a flood of war comedies followed Behind the Front’ appealed to low brow and high brow alike because in its peychology were the es elements of the Menckenian school of | criticism, while its broad farcical tre: ment appealed to those ui prehend the deeper ps: neath. ‘We're In The 3 was of the same school of comedy and so was ‘Firemen, Save My Child.’ “All of them were tremeadous suc- ential | Now, | the w follg however, he can pick plums in of screen roles and s: : his phenomenal success of the past year. | In “Two Arabian Knights,” he Is seen as a doughboy in a roaring post | war comedy, in which M Astor ix his leading lady. Louis Wolheim, the noted stage star, plays a highly humorous part as a hard-boiled sergeant. The film Productions was produced by Caddo for United Artists re- — “The Rat and the Kettle,” a play by Barry Conners, which Leon Gordon will preduce, will have its initial pres entation in New York October 10, the | machine to a lower level might | or- | § se varfations led to grief | Ge I in VIN‘ n in ')\1 De Comm This incredib second, ferent eve for such mal n factur Bl nd There in the p explained present e cation w experime ver yond th film ph investigs such hi raphy. trie appa speed high-s chines, ing of machine, Firs FXRST “rn Moore's “The t ‘o T ¢ Yoo "he play, wi “Gun starring old Bell “The B. Kyn Sills, Harry edy. Picturs “The lege mess, “The “The comedy Charlie “Rose George early Ca Gilbert “The Atherton kaill and A\ un mou N Motion Movies™ by the embrace The f includin ete. shown. artistic tion dev theaters, th his hou Ira J. 1 tin, tre sistant 1 manag Albin Vay annie ixon, DEVICE vented | which Motion Picture artment of Commerce from Trade | invention , special apparat ichine, costing $350 to manu- However, actual demand for Among mentioned the investigation discharg atus, peed machinery vibrations on almost every tures, about to be started, Astor “Home Made,” Johnny “Louisiana, south, starring Billie Dove. life, starring Richard Barthel- “American Beauty poor girl who played rich, starring Billie Dove, Maynard Western. 'TMarch of the Moviea.‘ v York will be given friends of the afternoon, when Wardman Park Theater. history of the motion pictur many angles and sides of tha screen. development The first real movies are then the educational, M,\NAGER IRA J. LA MOTTE of THE SUNDAY. STAR,. WASHINGTON, D. € 0 Con- rman Slow Motion Device. Next Week's Photoplays RIALTO — Dorothy Gish in “Madame Pompadour.” ROPOLITAN —Milton Sills in “Hard-boiled Hag- . Eerty.” (.()l UMBIA }\m,; Vidor's “The Big Parade.” | PALACE—Clara Bow in “Hula.” | | LITTLE THEATER — “Stark } Love.” Paramount's drama of | | the North Carolina moun- tains. has recently been in- and patented in Germany ermits an enormous increase | umber of exposures made per 1ecording to advices received | ction of the Lo | the e oy, | make ltate in Sep This will appearance edy, of the public debut in a most recent Mossop, the | Telter's 1o Jof the wel Mrs, Whi . I8 one the Am and nt of in de ioner George R. Canty, Paris. | permits taking an | e number of pictures per going as high as 48,000 dif-| xposures per second. How- must be used but_ with a nor- since high speeds, N PARK — Wallace | i Isie Ferguson in “Forever. 8,000 ined. w to an he ol ix mo demand for this device roduction of play films, it is 1. Ior sporting events, 0o, devices are fast enough. L tremendous field of appli ill be found for ental work. T t operations a o human eye and ordinary stography where a scientifl ation of the happenings at gh speeds have created an high-speed phtog- pictures every on long impor Aims to Please. THATCHER, g of Poli's theatri wes, at one time manage | Theater, ix also a producer lesque entertainment, one efforts being an attraction nt week. Thatcher vs he is doing two (hings: Offering genuine noyelty and first-class entertairment that will appeal to the majority. e does not claim to have produced a burle show, or a musical comed smashing drama; but ke does claim to have whipped together an evening's entertainment that embraces all thesc elements and that is different from anything ever offered in Columbin | Wheel Theaters. He makes no pretense of sponsoring a production hung around spotlighted | stars, hut merely aims at “something different,” a unique presentation that of itself will be good enough, snappy enough, distinctive enough to be popular with the big army of patrons whose taste runs to the best burlesque entertainment. “I have tried to assemble what T/ think the average man likes," says | Mr. Thatcher, “namely, variety with plenty of laughter; comedian. who can do good hokum comedy: tou of farce and a little honest-to-goodn s who know how nd with it all the most | attractive girls T could find among hundreds of applicant ieral man enter | at Polis | of bur of his of the ising “Th ane, Our t revival For by rred may be of elec- switching determination of the bullets, the operation of looms and sewing ma- investigations of metal-work- and_oscillations and kind of these operations s, electrical the f n in rehe; daught ) ete. t National Pictures. National's West Coast pic- either in production or includs Tell the World," next picture. Private Life of Helen of he pre-Grecian satire, with Tda wnd Tewis Stone, lace. to Go,” jazzy story of vk and the South Seas, with | and Lloyd Hughes Gorllla,” the mystery stage th Charlie Murray and IFred \/I.\\ ROT screen has been ca the past Mille studio in uls ot an i hoom |came the juvenation Lobson whose ilis physical; whicn owner, in Colleen 1S 18 she | ind in w York night ¢ Leona Powers Ponders. EONA POWERS, the pretty talented leading woman of National Theater Players, who quickl established herself in high popu favor this season, is dividing her time between rehe intensive study of resort c and time tables. Miss Powers is planning to give her- | self a well earned vacation after he engagements in “Turn to the Right and “Seventh Heaven,” which will conclude the 1927 season for the popu- lar Washington troupe. Whether Miss Powers will spend her vacation beforé starting in new and fmportant Autumn work In this coun- try or whether she will go abroad is not known at present: in fact, that's just what perplexes Miss Powers. Lady of Revivals. HBLEN HAYES, whom Jed I and Crosby Gaige will star “Coquette” this Fall, has just turned from a Summer vacation Ttaly. Miss Jayes Is the young woma who revived the faith of produ in revival; With Qliss Hayes fea- tured in the role df Maggie Wylie, “What Every Woman Knows,” the Barrio play which William A. Brady reanimated two seasons ago, proved one of the most successful revivals of the past decade, e ik Hines' pic hoste: and the Gospel,” a breezy Western, Ken M nlmnl CrirroN one of th the Winter made the C1 ing place imony the enterta They put chestra and in New Harry Ric entertainel mob, and of xas Steer,” the famous old v, starring Will Rogers. Wright's mastetpiece Valley of the Giants e's classic, starring Milton Llngdon in an untitled com- a story of the early es completed include: Drop Kick,” a story of col- Among and Colum! former hoofe) oK sons they productions, " the story of a Red Ralders,” another Ken Rriin in re- in Life of Riley,” a_small-town with George Sidney and Murray. of the Golden Weat,” the Fitzmaurice production ot litornia, with Mary Astor and Roland, Crystal Cup.” from Gertrude 1's novel, with Dorothy Mac- A Jack M\llhflll in both produetior usual opportunlty to see a fa- s film not yet shown outside of Mrs. Wlllnn-Greene s Concerts on 1027-28 POLI’S THEATER, 4:30 Artists’ Course Dec. 9. MARION TALLEY rano Metropolitan ers Jun. 25'FEODOR CHALTAPIN Feb. 7. JASCHA HEIFETZ World's Greatest o Violintst an absence of two vears (Atteg wes. "5 BOSTON ‘SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA eh. 16, GIOVANNI MARTINELLI Tenor Metropelitan Opers Boason tickets, $16, $13.50, $11, $8 plus tax. Philharmonic Course Nov. 11. EDWARD JOHNSON Tenor Metropolitan Opers Jan. 11. GERALDINE FARRAR Prior to her operatlc appearances in Lerlin ob. 21. FRITZ KREISLER Mch. 2. RACHMANINOFF Mch. 7 MME. JERITZA Benson tickets, $16, $13.50, $11, $8 plus tax. Wilson-Greene Series POPULAR PRICE Oct. 21. “The BEGGARS’ OPERA™ Picture Guild next Tuesday The March of the presented at the This is the e compiled ional Board of Review, and 8 the entire gamut of the will be irst pictures show the early of the movie machine, & the experiments of Edison, Later the picture describes entertainment, and development, including a sec- oted to pictures of little film Gayety Staff. e Gavety Theater announces se staft for 1927-28 as follows: @ Motte, manager; Eddie Mar suter: Kenneth Hosmer, as. | reasurer; Hiram Ritchie, stage atts, property man; €, musical director; advertising agent; 1. el, lithographer; Miss { chief usher; George tender; A, Moore, watch- ngton, janitor, b Soller T Wall, door TRARDEAU Dlm:t trom the Lyric Theater, London Nov. REZIA BORI Nor. n""ifil'z'iiii"c"fi"hh"i'én B e e Nov. 29' JO EF H FMA Feb. 17 SIGRID' ONEGIN Contralto, Metropoll DANC GARE—| ingle, $1.50. Cliisn Wed, 115 Drivate Tes Fox-trot, Walt K pm. you_to dance cor. in a few ion L wit imenf MW, STAFFORD PEMBE] mw— Ex-Pariner to Mae Yessons In All Stsies of Dancing; th Y D L. K _ACHER § fivnm Rt Clasand Manr FrT. 8 16 1 h orchestra. Private lessons by ap- 1. Franklin 8507, Established 1000. o ‘Fiiod Buiess, Droop's, 13tb and rs now filing for “The King’s Henchman,” Deems Taylor's American Opera $5.30, §4.40, $3.30, §8. Murray, Gertrude Hoffman, THOMAS WHIE although stagy Whiffen HH be in the | May Robson Evsr Versatxlc“ then for iment York man and his Club Richman popular have been Miss O'Denisha the Follies \’///////// GALA OPENING Continuous Daily, 12:30 to 11 P. M. Sundays, 3 to 11 P. M. A MUSICAL PRESENTATION COMIQUE “SNAPSHOTS OF 1927” A Company of 25 Entertainers, Headed by FUNNY HARRY STRATTON With an Ensemble of 16---DANCING GIRLS---16 N THE SCREEN LON CHANEY in “THE UNKNOWN” SUNDAY—MONDAY—TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY A First-Run Feature—‘Heaven On Earth”—Thur AND THE STRAND SYNCOPATING ORCHESTRA GAYETY Mrs., Whiffen in "Just Fancy. { has been Joseph Santley Stafford in Mr. Santley an actor-producer 1 by Mrs, whi shut eml he in Whiffen's musical nd old lady e” has heen before the 1865, when she made her London pantomime. Ter | a nee was a8 A Lindlady in Mr. and M ing house in elawny first mode com- this ffen, who is 82 year of the hest-le an st active c paris in " “The Wife i srother Kirke,” “Lovd “Diplomacy nture,” ¢* ofti- and “The uppose of Kate,” “The e CGoose Hangs High Stranger,” and in the r of “The Two Orphans ief season Mrs, Whiffen in a ¥ “Gran- ha Virg vsa s or, Peggy Whiffen, cast. 3SON, as versatile on the | as she was on the stage, st in more different roles few months at the De- than she essayed on the as the tin pediler in town in the West. Then reen version of he Re- of Aunt Mary™ with wealthy ol woman more” mental than “Harp in Hock,” in hard-boiled tenement "he Angel of Broad she appears as the hty popular New were s a in ¢ hich mi club, —e ] Club Dancers n Vaudevl”e WEBRB and Mary Hay, he cleverest dancing teams produced, whose antics ub Ciro a popular gathe Manhattanites first to put their into vaudeville. their enti at the Pali with such success that clul on all, °t, or Texas Guinan and her her night club artists ap- peared shortly upon the circuif the is that of Florence O'Denishawn, Snow recent attractive acts bus. The latter were as “vaudeville it for the past few s in Music Bo: 'n made a hig hit and Music Box N CLUB THEATER 4004404} Miss | were | heater | 4 ‘\vnuun; back the old mi AUGUST 28, 1927=PART 3.: A Picture Unique. VERY known theory of motion pic ture making, every technical trick of setting, even facial make-up, are said to have been disregarded in the Paramount production, “'Stark Love.” None of the players had cver seen a ‘motion picture camera_before the start of the production. In all prob- ability some will never see the finished product. It is the story of the lives of the mountaineers of the South who have practically no contact with modern civilization and who are as primitive as were their ancestors years ago when they pushed westward from the soast in search of new home sites The picture was made in t moky Mountains of North Ca by the people who live there. This is the’ first time this_has been to Karl Brown, reat olina ng like attempted, according who did_it. Mr, Brown, who former s chief cam- era man for James Cruze, became in- terested in the Southern mountainee He convinced Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president in charge of production of the Paramount Famous Lasky Cor- poration, that an interesting picture of these people could be made. After four months of hardship, dur- : which he covered five Southern States, Mr. Brown came back with a clear idea of their lives and with the aid of Walter Woods wrote a story embodying the conflict between father and son seeking the same girl. Due to the intense hostility to strangers and a complete lack of knowledge as to what motion pictures might be, Mr. Brown had difm- culty securing actor inally he icked a 16-vear-old girl, Helen Mun- and a young man, Forrest James, for his principal characters and went to work. It took four months to com- plete the photography. Revives Old Minstrelsy TX‘”A. over famous was when everybody enthused the hlackface minstrelsy made by such inimitable artists as George Primrose, Lew Dockstader, ‘Honey Boy” Eva others quite as s forgotten. | most unknown in the entertainme today. Does any one know why If, perchance, there are any who re gret the f. l\m.1n~4 fa | mous radio aggrexation, rent At traction of the week. will help to offer consolation, for it brin < Mr. In | terlocutor, Mr. Bones, Tambo, [even a minstrel band and the nimble- vannah Steppers and with { A noted comedian; ovoted them Nate Busby. ; Dave Irwin, “operatic blackface man k Rico, George Zorn, the present- day “Honey Boy” Evans: Allan Reeves, “silver-voiced tenor’; William Sweeney, zolden-toned baritone,” and the Joy joys in the olden days—“the udded guartet” in “barber shop mond harmon! Paskman has proved a genius in 1nlh|lu|nm»n( in other ways, for he brought the theater to the radio. eve putting “The Miracie” on the air after everybody said it could not be do iy rate, in this instance. he is trelsy, its its wheezes, its comedy mono. its songs and its nces and ues, to be worth while. that ought certainly Vajda's Story. RNEST VAJDA'S brightness oviginality are said to have cost Adolphe Menjou a vac: abroad. Finished with “A of the suave star was preparing to take a trip to Europe when Vi new yarn which so int that he dropped all pre] I\ |his trip and_ will soon s pEE nade,” the Hungarian playw latest stor, under the direction of 1. D’Abbadie D'Arrast. The story gives him the role of a young composer who marrice the in- spiration of his greatest succe: Jove sympheny. Fame, comfor: ion turn the poc young |Joser’s head and lead him_to slight |h0 woman who had suffered his | carlier trials with him. erenade” will show ‘and shabby hevo and tion ntleman amount brief Tonjou as & poor for the time. iz GRAND GLORIOUS GAIETY NOW AT ITS HEIGHT AT GLEN ECHO ONE OF THE FINEST PARKS IN AMERICA OCEANS OF FUN FROM ALL AMUSEMENTS FREE ADMISSION TO PARK WASH. RY. CARS TO THE ENTRANCE W YD " Theater—9th and D Home of Munul Revues Comnqvu "OF FALL SEASON TODAY—3 P. M. Fri., Sat. NINTH NEAR F—Main 4360 Ladles’ Matinee Dally, 25e. 2:115—Twice Daily—8:15 Twice 'l'oa-y and All 'rhu wulu nd customs | | book. | trons of thi ¢, Neil O'Brien and | nous but now quite | And yet blackface minstrelsy is al- | tof 45404)404)404)')")W)")")") YEXT WEEK: FRED CLARK'S LET'S GO AMUSEMENT HOW Bell VICWS Ll{e. BY MONTA BELL. THE primary object of pictures, of | course, is entertainment. But back | of that entertainment is something | that makes for improvement lives. Without some sincere message a picture is mere froth, with e value than a child’s “Mother cund of hilarity he least. It was Ruhy MeC: hat gave me the ‘After’ Midnight.” T that a_woman maintain her di under most circumstances, much as the ures in the pictu are not taken froi nothing to do with “If this little gitl can we it el rs every night in surrounc Xt s welt] op e Kind ‘and malntain her 5 then ne girl has anything to fear from a physical villain,”” was my thought, Be thing kept revolving in my ind_until 1 came to the decision that the of yvoung girls always he. in danger of unscrupulous men nothing but hosh. The greatest v lain of Life itself. That is the affects her not in e demzanoi inspiration for was convinced vlike and If-respect That is as girl fig- er events in our s real | soose’ | her actior Out in Hollywood there known as the Montmartre, known, well patronized. serve food and 1s entertainmen sort usually sought by the generation—dancing, music and the lille. The place is known the world over because it has figured in many stories and is one of the show places | of the town—a place where film people gather and also where other notab are seen nightly. A tourist who easually droj tell you that the most inte thing seen there Miss S, famous movie star, who happer he entertaining friends, th s cafe, if they think deeply, | will tell you that the outstanding fea- | ture of the piace is the little cigarette sirl. Everybody knows her knows her dignified walk, her graciousness to patrons, like aloofness. The get fresh never tries it but once. The | cigarette girl's refined demeanor enough of a rebuff. She is priggish nor vk for is a s diznity of the vounger familiarit 11 eds at usually just That's 'm e tends to prove it quite Life's greatest bit of villainy to be in the fact it oiten ereates th impre that the saint who s pa never geis anywhere . despite shattering . has all the luck and by i sight— poise, | hut t her ladv- | of man who tries to | time inced end of life inz bor A decent that the ct there's anc hecomes s the best k be- is | ¢ Lives Hls Part. EMH JANNINGS is |nlh ps an out- stand nple o 1ctor nd chara National's Regular Season. A BRILL tions ix announc ing Fall d Wintér at the Theater following: the engugemeit, be ginning Sunday, September 11, of “Old Tronsides aramount superfilm. The 1927-192" - 1 at the National will hegin September 26 with Charles Wagner's new play Board.” com- tional One said to which Janniy during the tin ticularly sordid ¢ to play that Mrs home 1t Vs visit e in.” result of be the epara wife * has brutal charaet the dio. T nnings returned iollywood. after Del Monte. thankf effect 1 par- vi attractions scheduied for st “The Jazz Sing eat N Pauline Lord, in Tyler production: pping play of circus life Fred Stone and 1 sthy, in S-Cre Anglin, Mrs. Fiske and Oti in_a brilliant_vevival; John wo Girls nted”: Earl anities'; Dowling's maon 1 dals™; Tyler nedy was hey mont thi of | he | When for an evi nir “he house and with meanne; w slum Jann ¢ b ever-pop. that says Mrs used to moy call Jar ound the himself all fumed up and no matter how ‘nnlu-h 1 love him. it is just impossible to live with him So 1 go away Ken- | until he is out of character aulu | Emil W Consiant N production of Mar novel; Lenore U Belle'; the Four Marx “The (ocoant in Shake: The B be given for fi heginning wn travel talk and just of ind in the making “The Last rmany }\ of shooting resorted e is hop- star's next “artistic sep: that the INNING SUNDAY AT ANOTHER GREAT BILL T 0) REN ELSON SNOW CHARLES COLUMBUS PANCING 2 RAnS The Dir m?l!/ SPECIAL FEATUR W Geneyleve Suily & Houghton In “Arms and the Girl" PECIAL ’. 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