Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1928, Page 71

FROM THE SCREEN |may not be necessary for candl-I | dates to take the stump, make prolonged tours to the voters, come of Erich von Stro-|gejjver addresses every few min- | BY C. E. NELSON. heim’s efforts with the new | utes. Of course, they may lose Gloria Swanson picture, “Queen|the personal touch with the! Kelly.” Although the director- | ¥Oters, but new inventions will 5¢ play a large part in the campaign. | actor worked for years on “The | ™"gor several weeks the Vitaphone | Wedding March” and spent hun- has been used as a vote-getter in | dreds of thousands of dollars, the fi:w a(ork CityB, Ox;l the mgent%vue}ea;; n sland on Broadway ! ¥icture did not strike the p“buc‘Forcy-slxth Sireet and SHart rom the box office. standpoint. | seventh and Times Square a large It will go down in motion pic-|screen has been erected. About ture history as a “flop.” But this 50 yards distanft isla nrt;jecttil?n n . |room on top of tall steel stilts, seems to have made little differ- ;¢ speeches are “heard and ence with United Artists, Who seen” every night. It is estimated | employed von Stroheim and gave | that 50,000 persons hear the Vita- him a very important job. phone every evening. m The Motion Picture World, a| When 1332 comes around. in 2 3 all probability television will be trade magazine, does not consider | the “means by which campaign von Stroheim a great HERE is considerable spec- ulation regarding the out- | | | Bi Once Acted by Maude Adams. ONE of Maude Adams' plays, James M. Barrie'’s “Half an Hour” will | enter production as an all-dialogue pic- | ture at the Paramount West Coast Studios. | Ruth Chatterton, H. B. Warner. Robert Edeson, Ethel Wales. Wilfrid | Noy and Joyce Marie Coad will portrav Barrie's characters on the screen. | ‘Half an Hour" will be directed by William C. de Mille, who is preparing the continuity. “The Terror™ a Thriller. 'HE TERROR,” as a play on the stage, has held the imagination of Londoners for over three vears. Warner ros. have made it into a screen play. “a Vitaphone 100 per cent all-talking picture.” in which gruesomeness, shives thrills and laughter are said to far ex- ceed the original. The celebrated =scenarist, Harvey Gates, did the adaptation of the Edgar Wallace play, and Roy Del Ruth di- rected the screen production. An apparently century-old English manor house is locale for the story. The “ancient” mansion has sliding | pancls, vast, smoky, glimmering fires and an underground torture chamber | 4 director, speeches are broadcast. The and the writer is quoting from an editorial in this week’'s issue: “He may be @ great artist, when left to his own particular ways of working, with unlimited time and unlimited finance—but a| careful study of his record since he produced “The Pin- nacle” for Universal reveals something lacking on the point earning the reward of being| = great director. If von Stroheim <hould live to a sufficiently ripe | old age, retainir.g his full mentall and physical vigor, and if the supply of producers and the supply of finance should con- tinue sufficiently abundant, it would seem that eventually he wculd be able to leave behind him 3 considerable number of extraor- dinary pictures. But under exactly similar conditions there are doubtless a large number of assistant directors in Hollywocd who could do the same thing. “We heard it expressed recentl; by a man in the trade, who is as competen! as any one else to speak about von Stroheim and his | work, that it would be most ex traordinary indeed if any man of the average intelligence and ability would not get at least some fine results if he spent as much time and moncy as von Stro- heim. ! The severe financial exactions {nvolved in producing motion pic- tures demand of a diractor a con- scientious effort to keep expendi- tures in time and money—which | in this case are practically the same thing—within reasonable | limits. Von Stroheim is notori- | ously painstaking in his work. Whether he is working on an in- dividual close-up or a great mob scene, he is inclined to retake scenes almost innumerably.” But all this sums itself down to the fact that the director has been spending tco much money. Little is said regarding the qual; ity of the von Stroheim products. “Greed,” the picture version of | the Frank Norris novel, “Mc- ‘Teague,” which was directed by | von Stroheim, was a good picture, although it may not have been a big box office attraction. A good pictLre, natuially, from the producers’ viewpoint, is a good picture for only one reason: j It draws biz money at the bo: office. A Hoot Gibson Western, if it gathered as great a part of the | public as “What Price Glory?”| would be considered just as good | a picture. And, of course, it is fitting that the manufacturer| look at the matter from that| angle. Von Stroheim’s pictures| have not been big box office at- tractions. Therefore, von Stro- heim and his work come in for a! generous share of slaps. How ever, it is safe to say that a big| part of the picture-loving public —those interested in sincere | suggestive of the dark ages where the) characters take part in spooky seances, | |sitting with joined hands about the | |great table in the cobwebby voter, sitting in his home in Kansas or Montana, maykheali a presidential candidate making his Hainitedih o oty ot iRelt. speech in New England. And he| “yay &k},, g;}‘s],:s Ef,fldaughm of will be able to see it all, too—the | the aged doctor who keeps the house as crowds n'everything. 1a “rest cure,” and is the especial ob- | * * | ject of the attacks of “The Terror." . | Edward Everett Horton plays the part "[HOMAS MEIGHAN is mot of a tippling and terrifed Jover, and through with the movies. i the cast includes Louise Fazenda. Alec Warner Brothers have signed him | B. Francls, Holmes Herbert, Mathew to a contract for a Vitaphone pic- Jgfz-h ‘g{‘“ dM“Jfl“- 2"“ R | ture. The star, in the days gone |0SePh Girard and Frank Austin. was considered cne of the big| T R 3 drawing cards of the screen, but Loew Anniversary. his picture has not been so well| received recently. At one time it | TfiRTmG]-‘:“:_"d“Y;(U‘f“m P“mle AN - | egan _celebrating its tenth anni- | was reported that he would drop, versary with gala program prepared | { under " the personal direction of Colby from the spotlight. | Harriman, managing director, and in- * % ok | troducing both to the screen and the sty Ll | stage_many novelties. THE Department of Justice is re- | Marcus Loew, the grest pioneer in the T motion picture world. it is claimed, real- ported to he making a study | iy garted his mammoth chain of Loew of several recent film mergers,| Theaters, with his first venture out- o i ing | Side of New York, in Loews Colum- with a view cf determining|yi” 2\ weshington. So successful was vhether proposed amalgamation ’ this house and so well pleased was Mr. vi i i j- | Loew with the result that he decided :;‘ll}:t ‘i:":}:m with Federal anti-| ;0 ool oton deserved a more pre- | tentious house. Ten years ago he open- e kbeG?t;arred e we aiwars ipdeniisipes n “The Five 'Cloc] 1l a : e Yors | sonal supervision. and when he died picture version of the New York pic associates continued his work as a stage success. Metro-Goldwyn- | tribute io “the man who built a theater Mayer is the producer and Alfred | that would be worthy of the people of | E. Green will direct. | Washington.” | The scene of the new Ernst| Lubitsch picture, “King of the| Mountains,” is laid in the Swissi Alps. The huge set of the Ho_lly—g\ JHY do many fsmale spiders, after weod studio has been turned into| having found a mate, turn abcut a dazzling Winter scene by a five- | and eat their consorts? And why is il day synthetic snowfall. Tech- | that certain kinds of fish, when tropical nicians have covered the set with | streams dry up in the arld season, can tons of paper “snow.” | live in the remaining mud without any Paramount's ~ first all-talkie, | *2ter? For answer to these questions & S one would naturally think of consulting Interference.” is scheduled 10|a scientific work, but that is no longer | open in Los Angeles November 5. necessary. at least. not while the new | The feature players and talkers| UFA production. “Nature and Love.” is are Evelyn Brent, Doris Kcnynnlatllj y[v}aving in }A/ai*mvlst'or}j fn; "}?a‘lu" i | and Love, " a scientific study of the fas- a"&ifé"{fid'g:“gkhaking “Hallely. | CIN31INE story o the evolution of human jah” in the meighborhood of a;:'nnlmal life, is not a book, but a Memphis, Tenn. A large cOm-| This is said to be the first time in pany of negro players has been|screen history that an entire featurs assembled for the cast. Movie-| picture, prepared for public exhibition, tone will be used for the sound ! has rot contained a regulation plot and parts. | love story. For actors, “Nature and | Love” uses such creatures as bats, snails, | Anita Page and Bessie LOVe deer, fishes and alligators. Intsead of a have the leading feminine roles in | plot, it unfolds a true tale, whose inter- “The Broadway Melody.” Charles| esting aspects are claimed to be much Kingz, well known to the musical | more fascinating than any fiction, comedy stage, has been sizned to |, Instead of burying dry facts in a play the leading male role. that ook as in the case of “scientific_re- | search, the makers of this picture have %fm apg?xfii:;‘d.dame artist of | made a pictorisl study that all the world | my see and understand. The film is said Esther Ralston and James Hall | to contain many marvelous scenes of | have the leading parts in “The natural li Case of Lena Smith,” a culorfuli Austrian story. Josef von Stern-| berg is handling the megaphone. | Florence Vidor and llace Beery are featured in ong e n = ional the weel nnin, onday, aies Myallace Beid, ol Lhie iMel- | ovember 19, This willibe Miss Miliers ropolitan studio, in Hollywood, is| g appearance in Washington sinct directing a production called “gaiy." the lottery of bookings having Linda.” Helen Foster and War- | left out Washington during the tour of | ner Baxter have the leading roles. | “Sunny. Reginald Denny’s new picture| Another George C. Tyler all-star cast will be called “His Lucky Day.” Will reach Washington in the near fu- Pictorial Nature Study. . e Coming Soon. ARILYN MILLER and Jack Dono. hue in Ziegfeld’s mammoth mu- ture in this impresario’s production of | the three witches: |and 33 others besides pipers. singer: efforts—will -stand behind the e ig just completing “Clear the | director-actor in his attempts to| [ ree i produce something really worth } gf:,fi‘cu;,},“ ich is almost ready for} while. Harry Langdon has signed a CCORDING to reports from | contract to make a _full-length | A talking picture for Hal Roach.| New York, Roxy is planning | another theater—“the biggest | Heretofore, the comedian has ap- thing in the amusement world"— peared only in two-reel comedies. | Mary Nolan has completed the but there is no verification. When interviewed concerning the proj- part in “Thirst,” john Gilbert's one at a later date. * k% % ¥ cast. * ok ok % | feminine lead opposite Lon Chaney in “West of Zanzibar,” b Ro)éy stmatedkthnt he wa:nréré\t and she takes the chief feminine vet ready to make an anno - ment, but that he might make new starring vehicle. Ernesli Torrence, the character actor,| e e k‘has been selected for the Gilbert | years ago the book | | A “Uncle Tom’'s Cabin” first Nils Asther, who played with * created talk throughout these|John Gilbert in “The Cossacks,”| United States, and it is claimed to|with Lon Chaney in “Laugh,| have had considerable to do with | Clown, Laugh,” and with Marion | Sfl;sing fsttrifetgew«'ce_eryX tlw States. | gawesbén "Horl Cargboard lLo:'lsi'r,"‘ Then after the Civi ar was| has been selected as leading| over, the stage version of the book | :nan iri Grcl& Garbo’s next pi(‘g‘ o troupes acatiored hore and | male lead, hut the titla of the there over the country for many |story has not been decided upon. years; Great Danes and ordinary | Soundproof sidewalks are the| rabbit hounds masqueraded as|latest innovations to reach the h}l]oodl;ounds. and Eliza : wlgag\motldon “{)lcture stgdlnz ofJ l»Iollyl-l chase across the ice-choked wood. new paving deadens a riv;r]:wlcle teac‘h day]in gversyi city | suundd %ndh ehmiy:atf(;ls vibrations an amlet of the land. mon | cause y heavy traffic. Legree wore the “cracker” off his| “Dawn,” the Edith Cavell pic- black-snake whip, and I‘.m.letEw; | ture éfitm'y. wgi bT trelea;ecl in this died to the accompaniment of | country on ‘mistice day. “Hearts and Flowers” and the| sobs of heart-touched audiences. ‘Those were the days’ It is most surprising that “Uncle | Tom” and his cabin are having a real box office revival. Uni-| versal, manufacturer of the film, | announces that he picture is| enjoying a prestige which is not possible to any other work| adapted to the motion picture| screen. It has been equally en- yed by the crowned heads of Europe and by the peasants 01“l every country in Europe and South Africa. Last week ‘Uncle Tom’'s Cabin’ added premieres in Vienna and in Stockholm.” | The story has not been brought up to date, except for the fact that it has a synchronized score. | Flivvers and airplanes have no, place in the production, but there gre dplemy of bloodhounds on and. Younger Edition i | | | | | | | 1 * o ox % | ITH the formation of the Photophone Co., Inc., the Radio Corporation of America enters the sound picture field. David Sarnoff, president of the; new concern, announces that his, company is “entertainment-mind- | ed” and that its business will be | to install and service sound- reproducing apparatus in the’ motion picture theaters of the: country, together with developing reproducing facilities of the the- aters. Thus, another of the Na-| tion's great corporations shows a belief in the “talkies.” e | | Buffale Bill, jr., whe is taking prom- | inent parts in Weetern films. His new est thriller is “A Final Reckoning,” & serial, HEN the next presidential campaign rolls around, it - | bring to this city David Belasco's “The | Circle “The Beaux Strategem, recent Players’ Club revival. Among the notables will be James T. Powers. Henry E. Dixey, Frances Starr, Fritzi Schefl and Raymond Hitchcock. The first week in December will which was a “Batchelor Father.” another succe: from the “Old Master’s” workshop Geoffrey Kerr, June Walker and C. Au brey Smith, with the original Belasco Theater, N. Y., company, will be seen in this pla; NOVESRER 1 Sunday | nitely confining. room |+ A new photograph of Billie Pove, hicle is called “Adoration.” Antonio Moreno plays the leading masculine role. whose new First National starring ve- | | Com‘i_»l}gfiAttractions NATIONAL—“Macbe(h.” George C. Tyler’s notable production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” with Gor- don Craig settings, is announced as next wecr's atfraction at the National Tnea- | er opening Monday evening. | This play, which is generally cred- | ited with possessing more brilllant im- | aginative gems of thought than any other dramatic masterpiece of litera- with the possible exceotions n!‘ “King Leal and “Hzmlet."ls inter-| preted by the following c: Misr | Margaret Anglin as Lady Macbeth, | Lyn Harding as Macbeth, William Farnum as Banquo, Basil Gill as Mac- duff. Douglas Ross, who staged the play, as King 'Duncan; William P. Carleon as Ress, Buford Hampden as the boy Malcolm, George Macreadv as the adult Malcolm, Leonard Mudie as the bleeding sergeant, Percival Vivian | as the porter. Miss Olive Oliver as gentlewoman, Gloria Kelly as Fleance, | Harold Hartsell as Seaton, Douglas | Ross as Siward; Thomas F. Trac: Gerald Lindgard and Arthur Barry as Miss Evelyn Ros: Miss Mary Rose and Cloytan Fieldin as the apparitions: Bernard Savage and Harold Thomas as the two murderers, messengers, _troubadours, trumpeter: tumblers and dancers. Heralded as a theatrical event of un- usual distinction among its artistic | aspects are the stage setfings designed | | not want to get married. | Rubin, ‘George' Stone, Natalie Happy Marriage and ! hvorce. I 'HAT there are more happy dlvorv:esi in America than happy marriages | |18 a contention attributed to Judge' | Ben B. Lindsey, author of “The Com- panionate Marriage,” and an advocate | of that kind of marital union. Is it true? A recent estimate of the number of divorces granted annually by our courts | ‘was 200,000 Of course, there are many more marriages than that, but are| there more happy marriages? | We must take it for granted that the divorces are happy—at least to one of | the parties—or they would not be | sought. But how about happy marriages? Surely the great percentage must be appy or so many young couples would | It may be argued that young people | do not know what qualities they want | in a matrimonial partner, and that| consequently marriage is always a haz- ard as apt to lead to disaster as to happine: Thus we come back to the question, Are there more happy divorces than happy marriages in America? The answer is attempted in “Com- panionate Marriage,” the Pirst Na- tional picture based upon Judge Lind- sey's book and now at the Metropolitan ‘Theater. It presents Judge Lindsey's theory, at any rate, and tells a thrill- | ing and dramatic story. o . o Ritz in th:y Rosie. NE of the world's famous hotels, the Ritz of New York, has been reproduced in Los Angeles. But it will | not be open to the public. It figures in First National's picture, “Ritzy Rosie,” in which Alice White | and Jack Mulhall are featured. An| entire stage was filled by exact replicas | of the familiar lobby, two banquet halls, several private dining rooms and vari- | ous halls and corridors of the famous | edian; Burnoff and Josephine, Spanish | ) " also has one of the most | extensive casts yet assembled in a First National picture, Sixteen well known players appear in the principal roles alone, including three of the organi- zation’s regular leading ladies, two lead- ing men and an eminent stage come- a n. Heading the cast are Thelma Todd. | Doris Dawson, James Ford, Ben Joyce. | Frances Hamilton, Fred Kelsey, And | Harriman, managing director. | vive. Photoplays ~ ) This Week IN PHOTOPLAY THEATERS THIS WEEK. PALACE—“Wind.” This afternoon and evening. EARLE—“The Terror.” This af! FOX—“Dry Martini.” This afte: KEITH'S—“The Street of Illusiol METROPOLITAN—“Companion: and evening. RIALTO—“Man, Woman and Wife.” ning. COLUMBIA—"Two Lovers.” LITTLE THEATER—“Nature a evening. TIVOLI—“State Street Sadie.” PALACE—"Wind."” A tenth anniversary program is being presented at Loew’s Palace this week under the personal supervision of Colby On the screen Lillian Gish is seen in her latest Metro-Goldwyn-Maver “Wind.” male role and Montague Love has an important part. ¢ The story is one of elemental emo- tions in a primitive land, a land where the cyclone and the dreaded sand | storms continually lash and sear the souls of those within it, where primi- | tive passions rule and only the fit sur- Into this land is thrus under the lash of the ele- ments, becomes more and more like the rest. And then comes love. It comes | on the wings of a tornado while she | is facing the gravest problem a woman | | can face. On ‘the stage Wesley Eddy and his | Palace Syncopators are presented in a cruise round the world, “Siep On It.” produced by Frank Cambria. In the cast are Paul Mall, black-face com- adagio team; Bud and Jack Pearson, comedy dance team; Helen Wright, so- prano, and the Felicia Sorel Girls. The added attractions include the M-G-M News, the Fox Movietone News, several novelties arranged by Colby Harriman and the Palace Orchestra, under Harry Borjes. EARLE—"The Terror.” “The Terror,” the Warner Bros.’ Vita- phone special and all-talking picture sound picture, | Lars Hanson has the leading | reared Southern girl—and | ternoon and evening. rnoon and evening. n.” This afternoon and evening. ate Marriage.” This afternoon This afternoon and eve- This afternoon and evening. nd Love.” This afternoon and This afternoon and evening. A midnight performance will be given on election night, presenting an all- vaudeville show and screen features The returns will be received over the air. Loud speakers are being placed in the theater for this event. METROPOLITAN—"Companionate Marriage.” First National's “Companionate Mar- riage,” which is the major screen offer- ing at the Metropolitan Theater this week, is an attempt to set Judge Ben B. Lindsey's theory of marraige before the public in true light through a dramatic and entertaining film story. The film is said to be entertainment of a high order, offering a straight- forward explanation of what “com- panionate marriage” is. Judge Lindsey not only adapted the story in collabora- tion with Wainwright Evans, from inci- dents in his book, “The Companionate Marriage,” but he was on the set, super- vising, during the filming of the picture, The cast includes Betty Bronson, Richard Walling, Sarah Padden, Juns Nash, Hedda Hopper, Arthur Rankin and Edward Martindell. Added attractions will include three Vitraphone short reel subjects, Jess Stafford and his orchestra, Redmond and Wells in a Vitaphone playlet, “The | Gyp and Solomon’'s Children,” and a ‘twn-reel Vitaphone comedy, featuring | Hlllgh Herbert, portrayer of Jewish | roles. | “ RIALTO—"Man, Woman and Wife."” | “Man, Woman and Wife,” which is | the screen feature at the Rialto ‘this week, is a dramatic picture, which is said to treat the eternal triangle from Devine and Jay Eaton. The locale of | As the supernatural element is pre- | the picture is New York City and a cdominant in “Macbeth,” this celebrated | fashionable, nearby beach resort, but Eurorsan scenographer has made his| within this limit its settings are very | designs as suggestive as nossible of the | comprehensive, covering typical New occult_power symbolized in the witches. | York atmosphere from the Ritz to the | His effects are obtained through clever | tenements. The story was written by lighting, as well as physical forms and | Charles Beeban and Garrett Fort. architectural treatment, and the inci- - dental music employed is traditional of the eleventh century, the days of Ed- ward the Confessor. Fucther, the production is said to have all the dignity of ths old school as represented by Sir Herbert Beer-| hm Tree and Sir Henry Irving. com- | bined with the human interest rnd | rhythm of the theater of today. STRAND—"Kuddling Kuties.” Next week's attraction at the Strand | Theater is called “Kuddling Kuties,” | featuring Max (Look Out ~There) | e e e Fields. . The sound stages are active, with | The show is new from start to fin- |, - § s ish_and promises diverting entertain- | t%0 productions being recorded with ment. May Leona is one of the femi- | il dislogue_one, "Iniefelornes.” ard | nine stars and there is a large com- |IN¢ Of "Qmad’;,“'" ,.v"“:-“cccs; it pany. including the chorus of Kuddling | f}C7 & Broadyay Py success od Kuties, from which the show takes its | (16 810 S o name. | Others in course of ming are “Sins . lightiny 'fl?cu‘“( the Fathers,” with Emil Jannings e Ty R ia s |0 3 finely drawn characterization; the | of the fastest moving shows on the‘cm“""'s‘ih"";f“k opus, zhe cF""[‘ Mutual circuit. | Feathers”; “The Canary Murder Case,” | | from S. S. Van Dine’s mystery thriller; for the production by Gordon Craig. | | | | In Production. THE latest four productions launched | | in Hollywood are “The Case of | Lena Smith,” the Josef von Sternberg effort, with Esther Ralston and James | Hall in the chief roles; “Tong War."” directed by Willlam Wellman, with Florence Vidor as a concert star and Wallace Beery, the white boss of Chinatown: “Marquis Preferred,” star- ;lng Adolphe Menjou, and “Sunset A Metropolitan Star. T is granted that when her sailor boy lover implants a series of warm kisses upon the fair cheek of the shy and piquant heroine of “Hit the Deck' it is quite enough to make any one cry out in envy, “Can you imagine get- ting paid for a job like that?” ‘Well, Queenie Smith, who plays the leading role of Looloo and is one of the chief reasons for the success of this noted nautical musical comedy, admits that while she is not yet a love scene specialist she nevertheless likes her job with this Vincent Youmans outfit. Miss Smith comes from a family of ‘Texans and went upon the stage orig- inally for the fun of the experience, which took. San Antonio, down in the center of the Texas country, may be the wide open spaces to a man's man, but to a young woman with stage aspi- rations its limits are somewhat too defi- As a child prodigy, Queenie Smith | was a big attraction at communit; functions. Vaudeville and the “movies had already eradicated the spoken drama_from the theater of the Lone Star State, so Mother Smith decided that if her offspring must cast her rays to the far reaches of the theatrical Monday Tuesday | Clara Bow in “Three Week Ends,” by Elinor Glyn: George Bancroft's est, “The Wolf of Wall Streef Song,” adapted from the Harv gusson story and featuring Lupe Ve- lez, dynamic Latin beauty; Gary Cooper and Louis Wolheim, Victor | Fleming directing; “Some One to | Love,” in which Nancy Carroll has a featured part, and the new Bebe Dan- fels’ picture of newspaper life. A Television el VILMA BANKY, co-starring with Ronald Colman in “Two Lovers” at | Loew's Columbia, it is claimed, was selected by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for the first successful transmission of motion pictures by tele- photograph. | Pictures of Miss Banky taken in Chi- | | cago at noon were shown a few hours | g?te; at the Embassy Theater in New | ork. horizon, Broadway was the true object of her ambitious lariat. When Queenie was 14 she and her mother found themselves in New York and lost no time in visiting the Metro- politan Opera House, where the girl was apprenticed to the ballet ranks. There she so developed her talent for danc- ing that at the end of three years she was given an opportunity to appear in “Aida" and carried off her assignment with honors. Later she creditably re- placed the beautiful Rosina Galli, im- ported premier danseuse. But the spirit of fun that causes the comedienne to love her job with “Hit the Deck” would not be downed, and it was then that Queenie Smith started in reverse, which is this week's attraction at the |3 new angle. Norman Kerry, Pauli Earle Theater, is based on a play which | Starke and Marion are featured in t] has been keeping London agog ior over | leading roles, three years. | The story concerns Ralph Brandon, It is a crook picture, but all from the |a young social lion, who, through fear English point of view. The locale is an | and cowardice in a crucial moment, ancient manor house, inhabited by an |becomes a drifter in New York's Ten- ancient doctor and his young daughter, | derloin district. His wife and former and advertised as a rest cure. Rumor | friends believe that he was killed in has it that somewhere in the cavernous a thrilling catastrophe. While trying heights or depths of the mansion a|to keep his identity from the world in king’s ransom of stolen gold is secreted. | order to save his wife. from humilia- and even that the purloiner of the spoils | tion, he is recognized by a womar who is himself hidden thereabouts. |at one time had been in love with 1t is this rumor which calls more him, but who has since become no- guests to Dr. Redmayne's cure than | torious in the Tenderloin. tne quest of health. Among them is a | They are both happy in their lives hysterical spiritualistic widow, who | together, but Brandon still loves his holds seances; a spectacled, wide- | wife and wages a bitter battle with mouthed gentleman: an aged couple, | himself to overcoms his craven in- detectives, cops and lastly a wierd, stincts in a tragic situation. cloaked, cowled creature whose pleasure | The picture has a complete movie- it is to whisk unsuspecting victims up tone accompaniment. flues or down trap-doors, or through | Johnny Slaughter and his Rialto subterranean passages to his special Revelers furnish a snappy stage presen- torture chamber. tation of music and specialties. Other Many curious and interesting camera ' features include Vitaphone novelties stunts have been utilized in bringing and International Newsreel. about_uncanny effects, and it is said that Director Del Ruth has been alert for every clue of humor, suspense or terror in carrying out the spirit of the story. May McAvoy is cast as the daughter of the ancient doctor, who is played by Alec Francis. Louise Fazenda ao- pears as the widow with spiritualistic | | vearnings. and Ed Horton is seen as the tippling detective. Vilma Banky and Ronald Colemin tare seen for the second week at Loew's Columbia in tiweir latest co-starring pic- ture “Two Lovers,” adapted from the story “Leatherface” by Baroness Orczy. Miss Banky plays the part of Lenora, the flower of Spain, niece of the Duke of Azar, oppressor of the Flemish an f A f the Flemish and | commandant of the Spanish. Her royal | kinsman_weds her to Mark, played by | Ronaid Colman, in a gorgeous ceremo rich in the medieval ceremony of Flan ders, as a bride of state. Loathing him as her enemy and forced mate, she gradually comes to respect | him. Just when she begins to love him, | however, Lenora makes a discovery | about Mark that causes her to hate him. | How she betrays and delivers him into | the hands of the Spaniards, and then, | discovering her mistake, je the he- | roic efforts of Mark and his country- e e | e e ] el g e 3 swal for lom, en: n the TLabeled a “Carnival of Jazz" the | aison one eoom, j ey sault on the impregnable Kasteel stage show again will feature the origi- o I RAL 16 THller Girls, held for 8 second | “xme mte b taonion (e a6 al Added attractions include the M-G-M week and offering an entire new set | News ths Fox Movietone News, a of dance routines. | Metro-Movietone _presentation! Walt Featured also is N. E. Wong, & Reesner, “the aristocrat of jazs,” and Chinese singing artist, and others in-| his Capitolians, a_Metro-Movietone act FOX—"Dry Martini. ' A carnival of pep and joy the screen and stage, will constitute the | new program of the Fox Theater for | the current week. A Willlam Fox comedy, “Dry Martini,” with a cast headed by Mary Astor, Matt Moore and Albert Grant, is the film attraction. The story concerns a demure and pretty American girl who pays a_ visit to her father in Paris, where he has lived for several years, and she shows “papa” his Paris as he are clude Maxine and Lee, two peppy She acceped an offer to appear in “Roly Boly Eyes” and the verdict was a repetition of that of the diamond horseshoe patrons of the Metropolitan Opera. Came then another musical comedy, “Just Because,” after “Which e tripped her lightest fantastic in range Blossoms,” Edward Royce discovered her real comedy value. Next came “Helen of Troy, N. Y.” in which she was a veritable riot, after which followed “Tip Toes" and now “Hit the Deck,” in which she twinkles and sparkles as never before. Thursday | 5 sisters and 3 brothers. The whole tribe | | e peghiel ke | A Movig Novelty THE Quillan family is probably | America’s largest in one profession. There are 11—Dad and Mother Quil- & lan, Eddie himself, the irrepressible; his | appears in Pathe’s “Noisy Neighbors.” This makes one think of the want ad | that appeared in Topics of the Day- “Widow with 5 sons desires to meet r with 6. Object, a foot ball | Friday Saturday Betty Bronson in “Companionate Mar- riage Comedy. News. Ambassad’r Betty Bronson in “Companionate Mar- riage.’ Betty Bronson in “Companionate Mar- riage.”” Comedy. News. News. n 0 News. Mary Philbin ii The Man Wh Laughs. Cameo_comedy rson. Christie Chorus Girl comedy. Fred Thomson in Charles Murray in_ ‘it Carson. “Flying Romeos.” Variety 1 Von Stroheim's *The Wedding March " Apollo “The Von Stroheim's Comedy Emil Jannings in “The Patriot.” Krazy Kat cartoon. Wedding March.” Leatrice Jov in “Man Made Women." Al 8t. John comedy Variety_reel. Jack Holt in “The_Vanishing neer."” Sport ‘r!!l. Charles Murray in “Flying Romeos." ~Emil Jannings n “The_Patriot.” News Ave. Grand in “The_Patriot.” News. Four Sons.’ zy Kat Kra carioon. o Rocai n: “Capt. Swagger " v Kat cartoon. Christie’ Chorus Girl comedy Jack Duffy-Neal Burns Pio comed: Comedy. _ Serial. Phyllis Haver and Victor Varconi in “Tenth Avenue. kHolt in, “Water Hole.” News Dark. “ou Cameo Mt Rainier. Md. Richard Barthelmess in Cor Topics of the Day. Gerfrude Astor in “Hit of ke Show." Comeds. Pathe News. t of the Ru medy. News. 1ns.” Cameo comeds. Comedy. _Serial Jacqueline Logan in “'Stocks and Blondes." Comeds. Scenic. _Buzz Barton in “Young Whirlwind.” Comeds. Pathe Review. Fob_Steele in Barrymore in John ““The Tempest.” oy Carolina ‘The Tempest.” n Barrymore in Barrymor he Tempes! Dolores Costello in, “Old San Francisco.” GT!Il’ Garbo n “The_Mysterious Lady." John_Gilbert in “Shame."" Jack Holt in ““The. Vanishine Pioneer.” Vani News. Variety reel. New: Central Jack Holt in “The Myina Loy and Conrad Nagel in “State Street Sadle Curiosity. g ishine Pioneer.” 5. Variely reel. Comedy. 8t Comedy. Conrad Nagel in Curiosity. Myrna Loy and Victor McLaglen in “The River Pirate.” ate Street Sadie. Sportlight. Comedy. Juvenile comedy. “The_Rive Victor Mq Phyllis Haver and | Victor Varconi. in ‘“Tenth Avenue." News. Comedy. cLaglen in, T Pirate.” é»m‘-l cast n “Four Sons."" Aesop_Fabie May McAvoy in “The Lion and the Moy Chevy Cha. Aesop_Fable. May McAvoy n “The Lion and the Mouse.” a Gray in vil Dancer.” Gil “The D ews Arthur Lake comedy. Bpecial in “Four Sons." Fable. Emil Jannings in “The_Patriot." zy Kat_cartoon Leatrice Joy in “Man Made Women." evs. Dufty-Burns_comed. Johnny Hines in “The Wrizht Idea.” in “Excess Baggag: Mermaid comedy. Cameo_come: ertal. Monte Blue in “Across the Atlantic.” “Four Sons.” “Four Sons." Nita_Naldi i n “The Model From Montmartre.” Rin-Tin-Tin in “A Dok of the Regiment.” Colony Dumbarton in “Happiness Ahead.” Comedy. __ Os Al c Victor_McLaglen in in River Pirate.” “Four Sons. oW wall Comedy. Madge IHeIlAmy a “Sof! 2 C “Phyllis Haver and Victor Varcont Charles Farrell and Janet_ Gaynor Joe E._Brown in “The Hit of the Jack Holt in “Water Hole.” Our Gang comedy. Serial Willlam Haines n “Excess Baggage." News. Charles Farrell and Janet Gasnor “Street Angel. omeds. in “Street Angel.” Comed: n “Pay as You Enter.” News. Milton Sills n “The Hawk's Nest.” Comedy. Lotise Fazenda Ramon Nova, B8 Color _reel Comedy n, rbidden Hours." News. Elite Ramon Novarro in “Forhidden Color_reel cis and Lols Moran in “The Music Mas e Comedy. _Sce n Hours." News. Comeis 5 Madge Bellam ‘Soft_ Living Sport reel. Comedy. House." News. y. John Gilbert in St Elmo.” Comedy, Serial. Clara Bow in “Ladies_of the Mob." Comeg Metro_oddity. Corinne_Grifith in “The Garden 'of Eden.” News. Wallace Beery and mond Hatton in The Bi c Empire ig Killing Great.event Yip’odrome Corinne “The Garden of den.” Juck Mulhall in “Ladies” Night in & Turkish Bath.” Comedy. TiMth in Cii Lawrence Grav in “Domestic Meddlers.” Juvenile_comed: aire Windsor atd nolds in | e Sinner. Vera R ““The Divin ews. Snookums comedy. Reed Howes in “The Kentucky Handicap." ews. Serial. 5h, 8. in “Shadows of the eht Felix_cartoon. _Serfal. Willlam Bovd n “Dress Parade.” Comedy. “The Road to Ruin.” “The Road to Ruin.” “The Road to Ruin.” “The Road to Ruin. Home Charles Chaplin in “The Circus News. varie. Von Stroheim's “The Wedding March.” Clara_Bow Emil_Jannings in n ‘The Fleet's In." News atriot.” . “The Aesop Fable. Victor McLaglen in “The River Pirate.” _Tuxedo_comeds Jack Holt in ““Water Hole." Our Gang_comedy. Serial es Del R R Gatenay 1 the Moon.” Comedy, Serial. Leader Anna Q_Nilssen n “The Mcllked Woman." Dane and Arthur in “Baby Mine." “Why Women Love.” Comedy. Irene Rich in “Powder My Back." Comedies Beery and Hatto Sport reel varro in “*Across to Singapore.” Great event. Comedy. _Serial. in__ Ramon Nov ““The Big Killing. Comed: aramount_News. on_Davies in MiHe? "cardnoard leerty cnm’dyl.'ovg;mn reel. Pa Belle Bennett in *The Devil's Trad Mark."” Comedy. Variety reel. Comedy. ramount News. ““The Fortune Hunter.” Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill in * “The_Poor Nut.” Comedy. Syd Chaplin in Novelty reel. m McCoy in rs of the Dark.” Comedy. Serial. Ti Ride “The Road to Ruin." Comedy. Gilda Gray in “The Dev'l Dancer. News. Aesop Fable. Y Gi ilda Gray in e Devil Dancer.” ews Aesop_Fable. Viola a_in i “That Certain Thing.” “B Let Georte Do It comedy. tsy Ruth Miller in autiful But Dumb.” ews. Cameo_comedy. Richard ?fithelmess n “Wheel of Chance." Mermaid_comedy. Mrs_Wallace Reid and ery in “Hellship_Bronson." Serial. Hoot Gibson in “The Flyinz Cowboy." News. Serial Famon Novarro in Ramon “ACtoss to Sinsapore.” “Across to News N Noy Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton in “The Big Killing.” Come: rro in Singapore.” ews. Wallace Beery and_ aymond Hatton in . Sue Carrol in The Biz Killing."” Comedy. 1, The crimson Cits Ken Maynard in John Milian in “The Upland Rider." dancers; Ormonde Singers; Smith and Hadley, acrobatic dancers, and Mamie Rollins, a singer of “blue” songs. Leon Brusiloffl has made a special arrangement for the overture of the melodies identified with our greater elty. Fox Movietone News will offer world events, while Lawrence Downey will continue to act as the invisible master of ceremonies and on Tuesday night will announce the elections re- turns. KEITH'S—“The Street of Illusion.” Virginia Valli in the role of a strug- gling actress in Columbia's production, “The Street of Illusion is the screen feature at B. F. Keith's Theater this week. Kenneth Thomson plays opposite the star and in the supporting' cast are Dan Keith and Harry Myers. Direc- | tion was by Erle C. Kenton. The Joy Boys, Ole Olsen and Chic {Johnson, with their playmates, furnish e stage bill in an offering called “Merry Mad Minutes of Monkey Busi- ness.” These minutes are reminiscent of the Ziegfeld “Follies. Olsen and Johnson, kings of travesty, | have just finished a successful engage- ment In far-off Australia. They have brought home with them some of Aus- tralia's clever players. Their travesty is A series of comedy bits and scenes reminiscent_ of Ziegfeld “Follies,” “Charlot’s Revue” ete. A comedy picture and supplementary screen feature will complete the bill. From High School Our Gang comedy. upino_Lane comeds Serial. Ha Harry Lansdon in “Heart Trouble. Bruce scenic Devore_comedy Thomas Meizhan n “The Racket. Aesop Fable. TTy Langdon o in eart “Sweet Sixteen. Foster in Gilda Gray in e B ‘ul “The Devil Dancer.” Chaplin reissue Mickey McGuire comedy. comedy. Francis X. Bushman i~ “The Chinrge of the uchos. News. _Comedy. _ Phyllis Haver and Vietor Varconi in “Tenth Avenue.” Serial. “Douslas Fairbanks, ir., S Silver Dark. Md. n “Modern M Comedy. Lois Wilson_ in “Ransom." Comeds. News others.” News. Trene Rich in Wil Rogers in, ' " “The Perfect Crime." ‘Comedy. Net ‘A Texas Steer. Comedy. Teta_Garbo in “The_ Mysterious Lady. Comedy. News. Richard Barthelmess in ““The Patent Leather Kid" News. Comedy. H Takoma Sally Phipps in “Nene but tne Brave. ‘Sennett comeds. News. Sally” Phipps in “None but the Brave." ennett comedy, Norman Kerry in “'The Foreign gion." Gang _comeds. Norman Kerry in Norman Kerry in "The Foreign “The Forelgn 1 Legion.” gion 3 Gang_comedy. Gang_comedr. Dolores Del Rio in | “‘Resurrection."” Sennett comedy. News. Bilster Keaton in “‘The Ge: = in, neral. Jacqueline Logan “The Leovard Lad York s Mitehell Lewis 1o A Thief in the Dark."” Oddity_reel Chas. Bowers comedy. - he_ Cir riety reel, ortlight, M Leatrice Joy in an Made ‘Women.” ews. Roach comeds, William Haines in “Excess Baggage.” Cameo come: Johnny Hines Muihall in The winner of a contest, Elsie Allen has been tendered a motion picture con- Jack Wright 1d: .éhfle l‘l’:otre:o‘{tl . “The wrid g 5. Hietmaid" caghed Berial, tract by Universal. She ps from high school to the m&;flflm world. Presidents, which promises to be a nov- | |by the Locust Sisters. singing senti- mental songs, and a thematic prelude, “Lenora,” by the Columbia Orchestra under Claude Burrows. LITTLE THEATER: Love.” ‘Nature and. | Last week's program at the Little Theater. headed by the UFA produc- tion, “Nature and Love,” announces Motion Picture Guild, will be held over for a second week, beginning today. Few pictures have aroused the dis- | cussion * that has followed the first showings here of this production, the | subject of which is the evolution of | life on earth. “Nature and Love,"” however, is not concerned with “evolution” in the | sense that man descended from apes. It is rather a pictorial presentation of the entire story of the development of | human and animal life. From the be- | ginning of time, when the only living | things were simple single cells, the | progress of life is traced to the present | day. All sorts of animals and races of | men make up the cast and it is claimed to have more rare scenes of animal life | than anything yet done in the way of films. The intimate life of such crea- tures as snails, bats, deer, fish and snakes 1s said to be graphically depicted, while a g}l;eat deal of the film is taken up with the story of man’s development. Accompanying the feature there is an amusing Charlie Chaplin comedy, “Sunnyside,” and a novelty in the form | of a news reel from Soviet Russia. The music of Fritz Hauer and the regular house attractions complete the bill. TIVOLI—"State Street Sadie.” ‘This week the Tivoli Theater will of- | fer today and tomorrow the Warner Bros." Vitaphone special, “State Street Sadie,” with musical accompaniment and sound effects. Clyde Cooke also will | be featured in a one-reel Vitaphone | comedy. Tuesday and Wednesday Charles Far- rel and Greta Nissen will be seen in a Fox Movietone production, “Fazil.” Val and Ernie Dtanton, international vaudeville favorites, will be the short reel Vitaphone stars. Thursday and Friday “The Wedding March,” the film which took Erich Von Stroheim two years to make, will be the attraction. Fay Wray, Erich Von Stro- heim, Mathew Betz, George Fawcett and Maude George are the featured players. It is a Paramount sound pro- duction with parts in technicolor. Fred Thomson will be the featured screen star for Saturday in Paramount’s | production “Kit Carson.” = PRI Wily English Producers. JOSEPH STRIKER, who was a fea- tured player in Pathe’s“The King of Kings,” “The Wise Wife” and “A Harp in Hock,” has just returned from England, where he spent six months in film work in British studios. He says the English studios are work- |ing at top speed. At the time of his | departure “seventeen features were be- ing filmed in London. A recent working agreement with the German studios has brought about an exchange between the two countries of stars, directers and cameramen, so that some of the lead- ing German directors are now directing pictures in England. Camera work, which had previously been bad in Enz- lish production, he ‘says, today is ex- cellent. English producers, says Striker, are well advanced in the " production of sound pictures, but so far have not dialogue. warmed to the introduction of ¢