Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1929, Page 61

| 'THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTOX, ) D. €, JANUARY 27, 1929—PART 4 3 Famous Cherry Sisters, Hit of the 90s, BY ARTHUR STRAWN. HE Cherry Sisters are coming back. The famous theatrical | team which in the late '90s| gained feme. wealth and an | | unprecedented .collection of an- |Photoplays This Week IN PHOTOPLAY THEATERS THIS WEEK FOX—“In Old Arizona.” This afternoon and evening. EARLE—"“Naughty Boy.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—"“A Lady of Chance.” This afternoon and evening. Flashes From the Screen . Reappear. | Proctor’s, for which they received $400 a week. They then made a long tour | which included Canada. At Toronto the |flood of vegetables that assailed them | almost broke up: the performance. It wasn't long before the throwing of vegetables had become something of a 1 O less an authority than | and death takes place in a rarified By C. E. Nelson. photoplay will be a silent picture is as dead as a do ail,” says the man who directe he Birth of a Nation,” “ talking picture has caused it. the motion must depend upon dialogue. we cannot find the right way U within 30 years the silent | n antique. “The | concentrated on the faces the or- | whole action of this sacred drama. d | Human faces now appear to us for | he |the first time 5 e tx( | either flat or uneven; under the! use dialogue in motion pictures,, then motion pictures as enter- tainment must die. “Right now many of my friend: conservative ‘people not connecte they have seen. When they tell me this, I ask them if they have seen a good silent picture recently. They invariably answer that they have not. The present condition means this to me: The talking picture has ruined the silent pic ture for the patron It offers so much more than the silent picture that the patron can no longer be satisfied with the silent picture. We have not yet found the true medium for dialogue, and this is| the reason why the patron is not satisfied with the present talking picture. Some people say the dialogue is too slow. They are right. The pictures already made are entirely too slow. Imitation of stage technique will kill the talking picture if it is continued. A new medium for dialogue must be found. I believe I know how to do it, and in another year I| believe I will be able to demon- strate it. We must continue to ase motion picture technique, the technique which has made motion pictures what they are today, and add the dialogue. The talking picture can only succeed, I believe, when the dialogue picture is essentially a silent picture with | the addition of dialogue. Whe this is accomplished successfully, you will see the greatest entertain- ment the world has ever witnessed. “We must preserve all the speed, action, swirl, life and tempo of the motion picture of tods When_dialogue is added to this, we will have the people standing in their seats and cheering.” Mr. Grifith was then asked what sort of a story was most | suitable for such a picture of the future. “It will take a story with action,” replied the director. “Could you work such plans into such a picture as ‘The Birth of a Nation’?” “I'm afraid I could never do that again. There is no one today who could ?lay the part of the Little Colonel as-Henry Walthall did. But what a picture it would have made with dialogue! How the ple would have cheered to hear me old-time warriors! I know what I want to do. It will be a story revolving around one of his- tory's most famous battles. No, I have no story yet, but I will find it. Then I will put the dialogue into it, with all the tempo of the silent picture, and I feel sure that this will become & stupendous'enter- tainment.” This interview with a writer for the Exhibitors Herald-World pic- tures Mr. Griffith for the showman that he is. But his talk seems to be lacking in the usual press- agentry. He is a man with ideals, a maker of great pictures, and a director from whom we are to ex- pect big things in the days to come. . He has a wonderful faith in the motion picture as an art and a means of entertainment, and he is one of the pioneer work- ers in a field which is only 30 years old. g * * X X "THERE has always been more or . less discussion as to just what makes.a motion picture star of the weaker sex, and along this line the comment of Fred Niblo, director of Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and others, is intereést- ing. According to Fred, the mouth is the all important feature of the beautiful motion picture star. He says: “If a woman has a beauti- ful, expressive mouth, the rest of her features can be quite out of proportion, and still people will call her ‘marvelous.’ Pretty hands and pretty feet, if one woman has both, generally guarantee real beauty. The face and the figure will, usually, be satisfactory.” “Beauty is all in the eyes,” says Cecil De Mille. “A woman’s hands may be too large, her nose several degrees apart from perfection. She may walk ungracefully—and you will forget all these things if she has beauty in her eyes. Certainly in picking screen beauty T look at a girl’s eyes first, and her other physical qualifications are entirely secondary. So much of beauty, of personality, of soul, shines through the eyes that they, to me, are always the final stand- ard with which to judge a woman's charm.” And now you know what makes a movie star. He has David Wark Griffith comes | out with a statement that | picture is to live, Iigjc o |rapid that to call them torrents d |as new as a | atmosphere which does not require | gestures. This is understood by Carl Dreyer, the director, who has | like landscape: astigation of the judge’s words, Joan’s tears are so full and so !is not a fiction. The nightmare of stone-cardboard towns of Carcas- sonne is now ended; the scenery of | Joan of Arc is that of Rouen, but clinic.” | | pictures, as the name will be changed to Radio-Keith-Orpheum | Corporation, Inc. The action fol- lows closely upon the announce- | ment of the merger of the film| producing and distributing com- | |pany: and the Keith-Albee-Or- | pheum, controlled by the Radio| | Corporation of America. And this | affiliation, at one stroke, forms one | of the largest organizations in the | | theatrical field. Broadcasting, | | vaudeville and picture production | | are joined into one company, and | |the new organization has sched-| uled 30 new productions.for the 1929-1930 program. The directors are lining up an array of acting, i writing and directorial talent fo the production of sound and dia logue motion pictures. Naturally, | the headquarters of the big com-| pany will be in Hollywood, where the studios will be located. * ok k¥ FM.IL JANNINGS is about the, “ only star who has not “fliv-! ered” in a single picture. His| The Sins of the Fathers,” while considered not quite up to his‘ best work, is nevertheless a good picture—the sort of entertainment | desired by the motion picture fans. i \ f | | | pictures in which Jannings has appeared: “Variety,” “The Last| |Laugh,” “Faust,” “Green,” “The| | Last Command,” “The Way of All| Flesh,” and, last, “The Sins of the[ Fathers.” Jannings should go on | forever. * ¥ * Short Flashes. 'VEN stages are being used for the filming of sound pictures at the First National studios in| Hollywood and elsewhere. Paul Leni, who recently com- pleted “The Last Warning” for| Universal, will direct “The Bar-| gain in the Kremlin,” a story by Sir Philip Gibbs. Joseph Schild- kraut will be starred. Lois Moran has been selected to | play with Nick Stuart in “Joy, Street.” Raymond Cannon will direct. Gus Edwards’ newest talking | and singing Technicolor produc- | tion, “Mexicano,” will be started | on the Pucific Coast this week. Xavier Cugat, well known as a vio- linist and orchestra leader, has been signegd Jor a part, and Amida, | Spanish dancer, is featured. | “The Gob” will be the next star- | ring vehicle of William Haines. It is described as a comedy-drama on | the order of “Slide, Kelly, Slide” and “West Point.” Raymond Hackett, who was| taken from the Broadway cast for | the film version of “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” has been given the role of the son in “Madame X,” a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talk- ing picture which Lionel Barry- more will direct. Ruth Chatter- ton, whose first photoplay work came with Emil Jannings in “The | Sins of the Fathers,” will have the | leading role. ; Marceline Day and Donald Crisp | have been cast to play important roles in a mystery drama tenta-! tively titled, “Murder Will Out.” | Howard Hawks will direct. i “The Betrayal” is announced by | Paramount as the definite title of | the Emil Jannings picture which | has been referred to as “An Alpine Tale.” Lewis Milestone is direct- ing and Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper have important parts. Colleen Moore’s next picture for| First National will be called “Early | to Bed,” a story of college and so- rority life. Production starts at Hollywood this month. After a week’s run in a Los An- ! geles theater, “Noah's Ark,” the big production of Warner Broth- ers, was cut 5,000 feet. That is, the picture was too long, being about 14,000 feet of film. However, 9,000 | feet remain, and it is said to be a better picture than ever. The new Wampas baby stars, selected at this time each year, are Jean Arthur, Paramount; Betty Boyd, 'Educational; Sally Bline, F. B. O.; Ethlyne Clair, Pathe; Doris Dawson, First National; Jo- sephine Dunn, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer; Helen Foster, a free lance; | Doris Hill, Paramount; Caryl Lin- coln, a free lance; . Anita Page, Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer; Mona | Rico, United Artists; Helen Twelvetrees, Fox, and Loretta Young, First National. All these baby stars will be introduced for- mally at the Wampas Frolic in Los Angeles, February 12. S® i | have the industry, tell me they do | i A e | :géhllkee the fev} talking pictures | J'HERE will be no more F. O. B. Ambassad’r tique egegs is coming out of retjrement. | Recently the gifted sisters broke a long silence by n convention of Legionnaires in Municipal Coliseum of their own Cedar Rapids. This was followed by other performances. Soon the pathos of their 4 v's Warning” will melt the hearts nd exercise the arms of audiences in ar apearing before an Iowa the 20 and points East, and a younger | tion will witness he good old d: offices with cash and thea- with sounds of convulsed laughter and flying food To the present generation of play- goers their name has no mirth-provok- ing charm, but few of the old-time: none has forgiven. For the Cherry sters are the only company of trage- dians who grew to fame because the critics and the public were unanimously agreed that their acting was atrociou There was nothing in the early yea of the Cherry Sisters to make any one | suspect that they were destined to rock | a sober world with fi amid laughter. They he bluffs of Indian Creek, ti | miles east of Cedar Rapids, Tows were four of them—Jessie, Addie and Effic—and they shared the labors of their small farm because their father as an_ invalid. But for the Chicago World Fair of 1893 the sisters might have continued their Arcadian cxistence indefinitely ries of the marvelous expo- s of their sters with gue longing to see the great world ru; the surplus and gone to Chicago. But the crop that year was unusually short, | and although the sisters bewailed the fact, that accident was really the means of starting them on the road to fame. For it was then that the Cherry Sis- ters decided to become actresses and to mal their - art provide them with means for a visit to the fair. The fact | that they had never seen the inside of a playhouse didn’t daunt them in the least. They had at various times taken part in exercises and exhibitions at the schoolhouse, and their recitations and And, just glance over this list of | songs had been hailed with enthusiasm. The sisters agreed that it would be Charming Foilswoman JOSEPHINE DUNN, One of the younger group of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer players. forgotten them, and practically | saw the light of day on a farm | performance | never failed | | | beyond. ¥ the crop of '92 had been | | abundant, the girls would have used | Recent picture of Cherry Sisters, Coliseum, just prior to performance bef Effie, Lizie and Addie. , taken in_ dressing room at Municipal fore Iowa Legionnaires. Left to right— almost sinful not to make use of such evident talent. So they began to memorize declamations and to practice songs, and when the material at hand didn't please them they gave their crea- tive faculties a loose rein and rear- ranged the words and tunes to suit themselves. They created several tab leaux and composed a soul-stirring | known from coast to coast as “Tne | Gypsy's Warning.” Equipped with this highly diversified repertoire and a set | of homemade costumes, the Cherry | Sisters made their debut in the village of Marion. They engaged a small hall, | charged a modest admission fee and |offered their entertainment to the | public. | For two nights the good townspeople | filled the hall and vociferously aj | plauded the great art that had grown up unobserved in their midst. | audience on the third and last night of the scheduled appearance somehow didn’t seem to be as appreciative as its | predecessors. When the most touching | point in one of the recitations was | reached some one in the house was rude enough to whistle. This the sis- | ters were quite willing to ignore as an | accident. But when, at the most pa- | thetic passage in “The Gypsy's Warn- {ing” a plump, soft tomato found its | way to the stage and this in turn was | followed, of all things! by a good-sized | hunk of liver, the sisters concluded | their performance in anger and vowed | never to waste their art on such an audience again. Had they been gifted | with the clairvoyant powers of the old | Roman augurs ‘they would have seen |iIn this piece of liver a clear prophecy | of future events. After their first season on the stage the Cherry Sisters had no trouble | financing themselves through a pleasant | visit of ‘several weeks at the Chicago Exposition.. After that they returned to their farm, tended the crops, added to their repertoire and again went forth to appease an art-hungry public. For three years they played-to full, if fr quently boisterous, houses in Iowa, Illi- nois and Kansas. In some towns it seems that the theater managers, possibly to protect the sisters, but more probably to protect the scenery, stretched a fine wire screen across the stage to intercept the flight of vegetables, which occasionally greeted their offerings. Although cotemporary newspaper accounts dwell on the subject | | at length, the sisters today indignantl; | deny that they were ever forced 1o p1a§ behind a protective screen. | . Such malicious reports notwithstand- | ing, the Cherry Sisters were in great demand and flourished mightily. They | matic sketch which was later to be | made a lot of money, paid off a mort- gage on their farm and were able to buy another piece of land to add to it. Accounts of their unusual talents began to travel over the country. A lengthy article describing the act of the four Cherry Sister finally found its way into the New York Sun. It caught the cye of the great impresario, Oscar Ham- merstein, who forthwith dispatched an agent to look the sisters over. ‘When the agent first saw the sisters amble onto the stage at Peoria, I, he almost collapsed in his seat. But he quickly recovered from the shock and, being a gentleman of some perspicacity, promptly came to the cunclusion that they ‘were so bad they were good. He offered them a salary that made their eyes bulge and signed them to an eight- week contract calling for nightly ap- pearances at Hammerstein's Olympia fourth street. Hammerstin was appalled when he saw the sisters in rehearsal. “This is awful!” he groaned, and promptly an- nounced the agent. man was able to convince Hammerstein that in the very awfulness of the act was its precise excellence, and he as- amount of press-agenting the act would be a great sucecess. Their New York debut was set for November 16, 1896, At this time, Jessie, the youngest of the® sisters, was 17, and Effie, the oldest, 22. The sisters were fully prepared for the triumph which was soon to be theirs, but, strange as it may seem, the critics were unani- mous in describing the show as terrible. “It was awful,” wrote Nym Crinkle. dra- matic editor of the World. Under the heading “Four Freaks From Iowa.” the Times said: New* York see on the stage anything in the least like the four Cherry Sis- |ters from Cedar Rapids, Towa. It is |to be sincerely hoped that nothing lik= |them will ever be seen again.” The | Evening World called the show “a pitiable exhjbition” and devoted almost |two columns to details. Ali the papers | condemmed Hammerstein for profaning | the stage with such a performance and for “butchering four innocent women to_make a Roman holiday.” But the sisters resented the unkind | newspaper criticisms of their act much |more than they did Mr. Hammerstein's |alleged cruelty and they went on play- | ing to full houses. The long and color- | ful newspaper reviews provided just the | publicity to make the act 2 tremendous success. After packing them in for eight weeks at the Olympla, the Cherry Sisters, now famous, concluded their New York ap- pearance with a two-week stand at | Theater, then at Broadway and Forty- | But the | intention of firing his | But that far-sighted young | sured his boss that with the proper | “Never before did | |tradition and soon there was scarcely | a young blade of the late nineties but |boasted he had heaved a cabbage or two at the Cherry Sisters—a boast | which the sisters today insist had only rare justification in fact. ‘The sisters traveled about the country | and enjoyed wide popularity until Jessie | and Effie contracted typhoid_fever dur- : iing a tour of the South in 1903. Jessie | died and the three remaining sisters re- | tired to their farm, venturing forth lcnly for an occasional performance in [ nearby towns. Later the sisters opened | a bakery in Cedar Rapids, specializing | in cherry pies, and the bread they baked | became famous for its excellence during | the war. 1In 1923, Effic came out of re- |tirement to run for mayor of Cedar | Rapids. She came within‘a few hun- |dred votes of getting the nomination, |although she was soundly defeated when she ran again in 1925. Although the farm and the bakery and an occasional venture into politics | take most of the sisters’ time, Effie has | contrived to write three novels and a |play. She has offered none of them | for publication, although she is seriously | considerjng ‘submitting her latest. It is | called “The Blacksmith's Daughter” and will include an autobiographical sketch |of the author. But she will probably jdelay its publication, for wich the re- turn of the Cherry Sisters to the stage | the biographical sketch may require |an additional chapter. | = s Plty the Prop Man. FERIE mystery ean be most cerie in ~ an antique shop, according to Ben~ | jamin Christensen, Swedish director, so | something on the order of “The Old | Curlosity Shop™ is being filmed in the latest mystery thriller Christensen s directing for First National, “Thz House of Horrors.” Louise Fazenda, who, with Chester Conklih and Thelma Todd, heads the cast, calls this shop, in which so much of the film's action takes place, “the prop man’s nightmare.” The term holds good in more ways than one. Not {one, but many, studio property men must have had nightmares over the dif- ficulty of assembling so many grisly, grotesque, picturesque and bizarre ar- ticles in a short period of time. And when assembled the collection was truly a nightmare. skulls of various kinds figure promi- nently, of course. In addition, there are mummies and prehistoric animals, relics of black mass, demonism and other medieval horrors, torture apparatus from the Spanish Inquisition, “taxi- dermized” poisonous .serpents and bot- tles supposed to contain deadly potions, used by the Medicis and other adept poisoners of the Middle Ages. “The House of Horrors” is being filmed with full sound effects. Favorite With Fans A new photograph of Davey Lee, who jumped into screen prominence with his work in Al Jolson’s “Singing Fool.” The young man is signed up for a num- ber of new photoplays. Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week OF JANUARY 27 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Alice Whits in “Naughty Laby."” News. Con Alice White in, ‘Naughty Baby.” ws, Comedy. Alice White in “Naughty Baby.” News. ews. Variety reel. Tew Cndy in “A Single Man." News. ' Topics. Variety reel. _Comedy. Lew Cody in “A Single Man.” Topics. Comiedy. Ton Chaney in “West of Zanzibar.” Jack Duffy comedy. Ken Maynard in “The "Canyon, of Adventure.” Serial. _ Norma Talmdge No “The Wi Apollo Bleosiee” Krazy Ket cartocn. Joan Crawford Tha Taimadee I Milton Sils 77d “The Woman Do}'%thy 'Mntkklrlrll in e Barker. Laurel-Hardy comedy. Dorothy Mackai “The Barker. Laurel-Hardy comedy. Milton Sills_an: d Pola Negri in ill in “The Woman from Moscow." Jack Duffy comedy. Review. Radiograms. Flash. the dog, in ““Honevmoon. News. Variety reel. Comedy. yon_in Glenn Tr; “How to Handle Worien.” Charles Chase comedy. Ave. Grand .. 5 i “Dream of Love." .., Cameo conedy. Joan Crawford ) dream of Love. Cameo_comedy. .Lon Chaney in “West of Zanzibar.” Laurel-Hardy omedy. Lon Chaney in “West of Zanzibar.” Laurel-Hardy Oddity reel. comedy. “Collegians.” No. 5. Glenn Tryon in “How to Handle ‘Women. Collar, Variety reel. Comedy. _ Comedy." Serial Cameo Dark. Mt. Rainier, Md, “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” om’s_Cabin.” Comedy. _Topics. Pathe News. ‘omedy. _ Topics, Pathe News. Marceline Day “'Stolen Love." Sennett comedy." Fox News. Special cast in Hodge Podge. ¥ m Chester Conklin in “The Haunted House.” Serial. Comedy. Buzz Barton in an of the Sage.” ight. F. McDonald in ‘Riley _the Cop.” Mat. ton i1 “or Charlie Muray 1 1 “The Head Man.” Carolina [ iy Doris Kenyon and Richard Bennett . n “The Home Towners.” Tay in harlie Mur, 'he Head Man.’ n “The Cowboy Kid." Jeannett Toff and Rod La Rocaue n vernight."” Rex Bell i Pathe Review. Douglas Fairbanks Mary Pickford in n i “His Majesty the American.” “Pollyanna. Conrad Na June Coll “Red Wi gel and Iver | in ‘ d” Wine.” . News. Vernon comedy. New Conrad Nagel and June Collyer in Mary Astor in Romance of the Underworld.” eview. Comedy. ine. Vernon comedy. Sportlight Snapshots. Bebe Daniels in. “What a Night.” reel. in ail." Novelty reel. ams Richard Arlen “Manhattan Cockt; Comedy Central tilton Sills in ‘he Barker. c Chevy Cha. comedy, Conrad Nagel and l\{)’Yn‘fl Loy State Street Sadic Bebe Duniils in Bob . Ant Circle k Helene, Costello ““The_Midn Marion N'xon and Georse Tewls ln 827 Ma by Vernon comedsy. METROPOLITAN—“Abie’s Irish Rose.” This afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA—“Wings" evening. evening. FOX—“In Old Arizona.” ‘The first outdoor talking picture, “In Old Arizona,” a Fox Movietone pro- duction, will have its premier at the Fox this week. The cast has more than a score of leading players in film- land to present a romantic story of the Old Southwest, and is headed by | Dorothy Burgess, Edmund Lowe and | Warner Baxter. “The Cisco Kid" is a notgrious ban- a1t who roamed the Southwest, a killer of men and a breaker of hearts of women. In the progress of the story a young Irish sergeant, ordered to cap- ture the bandit, falls in love with the bandit’s sweetheart, plots with the girl to capture the Cisco Kid and is over- heard by the object of the search. What happens should thrill the most blaze picture lover. “In Old Arizona” is from a story by O. Henry. Its di- rection was the joint effort of Raoul and Irving Cummings. ‘The stage production of the program will be an old-time jamboree, in the atmosphere of the picture, titled “Frontier Jubilee.” The gorgeous Fox Muchachitas will be featured along with a group of Cowboy clowns, the seven Candreza Brothers, Dolores Cordova, the Arizona Quartet and other novel fea- tures. The Fox orchestra, under Leon Bru- siloff, will offer as the overture “Sere- nade in Blue,” and the Fox Movietone News will present world events in sound and motion. EARLE—“Naughty Baby.” Alice White and Jack Mulhall are featured in “Naughty Baby,” the first National Vitaphone production now at the Earle Theater. Miss White, the sensational flapper discovery of the past year in moviedom, made her screen starring debut i “Show Girl.” “Naughty Baby” is described as a typical story of life in New York City and its surroundings. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy, who also mega- phoned “Harold Teen” and Colleen Moore’s “Oh Kay.” Miss White 'is a check girl at the Ritzy Hotel, a girl of flapper face and figure, who has champagne ideas on a home-brew income. Mulhall is the youthful heir to a fortune, and he pro- | vides the champagne ibilities. He is out gilding along the Great White Way with a broad brush, and Alice relps him. She doesn’t stop at all at tWo-timing. She has three other boys on the string, an Irishman, a Jew and an Italian, amusingly played by Andy Devine, Benny Rubin and Georgie Stone. What she doesn’'t promote from them for her conquest is nobody’s busi- ness, for Andy works in a garage, and can get swell cars; Benny works in his uncle’s pawn shop and can borrow jewels, and Stone is assistant to a mo- | diste, and gets her the “loan” of her ' most gorgeous gowns. The supplementary program will in- clude a Vitaphone presentation, “The Alibi,” in which the title role is played by Keénneth Harlan, supported by John | St. Polis and Robert Elliott; “Small | Town Rambles,” a Vitaphone short | number, a beautiful color reel, “Color- ing the Stars” and an overture, “The Three Musketeers,” by the Earle Or- chestra, Daniel Breeskin, conducting. PALACE—“A Lady of Chance.” Norma Shearer in the role of a little gold-digger in the Metro-Goldwyn- ! Mayer sound picture, “A Lady | Chance,” is the screen attraction at | Loew’s Palace this week. Lowell Sher- . man, Gwen Lee and John Mack Brown appear in the supporting cast. The Elcmre shows how a witty young miss takes the hearts and bank rolls of lonesome men, in an innocent manner, by employing the old badger game tac- tics. All goes well until the girl meets a young fellow who looks like easy money. She marries him for his bank | roll and then finds out he hasn’t any- | thing except a none too promising cement business. When he sells 2 for- mula for making cement and receives a sum of respectable proportions, her crook friends, not averse to sharing her good luck, appear on the scene for blackmail purposes. They threaten to “tell all” to the young husband of Dolly. Dolly forestalls them, however, and the two newlyweds are brought nearer together. On the stage Wesley Eddy and the Palace Syncopators are presented in C. A. Niggemeyer's colorful revue, “Beauty Shop Blues.” The Gibson Sisters in acrobatic dances; Stanley House, in a bit of nonsense: Karavaeff, the dancing Russian bellhop; Helen Lynd, in imi- tation, and the Foster Girls are feat- ured in the unit. The Palace Orchestra will present a fantasy, “Farandole,” by Bizet, con- ducted by Harry Borjes. The Fox Movietone News, the M. G. M. News, a musical confession by Charles Gaige at the organ, called “The Awakening,” and a thematic prelude employing Ivy Stevens as a dancer, will be other at. tractions. METM)POLI-'I'AN ‘Abie’s Irish Rose.” “Abie’s Irish Rose,” Anne Nichols’ famous stage play which has been made into a Paramount sound production, (synchronized) . LITTLE THEATER—“Peter the Great.” ‘Walsh, who made “What Price Glory,” | of | sian This afternoon and This afternoon and now being shown to packed houses at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater, will remain until Friday of this week. ‘This Paramount sound picture catches the spirit that enabled the original stage production to delight audiences during a five-year run on Broadway, for “Abie’s Irish Rose” is nothing more than a very human story, a story replete with rol- licking good humor, into which & se- riousness of purpose is carefully inter- woven. And it is this combination of | comedy and tragedy that gives the con- vincing quality to “Abie’s Irish Rose.” The story concerns the love of Abic Levy and Rosemary Murphy, which s bitterly opposed by Abie's father and Rosemary’s father. Old Solomon Levy wants his son to marry a Jewish girl and Patrick Murphy wants his daughter to marry some one with a good old Irish name. But Abie and Rosemary are in love. Prejudices and intolerance mean nothing to them. And so, they brave the wrath of their parents and marry. As time passes, both fathers finally come to the realization that per- haps they have been hasty in their Jjudgment and that after ail love is a sufficient basis for happiness. Charles “Buddy” Rogers has the role of Abie and Nancy Carroll, the role of Rosemary. Jean Hersholt, famous character actor, is seen as Abie's fa- ther. Others in the cast are Farrell MacDonald, Bernard Gorcey, Ida Kra- mer, Nick Cogley, Camillius Pretal and Rosa Rosana. COLUMBIA—"“Wings.” “Wings," playing at Loew’s Columbia, is duplicating its success in Washington as in the other cities as a production synchronized with music and sound ef- fects and at popular prices for the first time in Washington. For that reason the picture is being held over for the second week. With the synchronization one is able to hear the planes in action, the bark of the machine guns, the tramping of feet, the music of the band, the fall of the doomed plane and a thousand other sound sensations. Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper and othcr well known actors comprise the cast. The story is about two boys who leave their girls behind to join the aviation forces of the Army. It shows them at the training camp, and depicts their struggles in the period preceding their first flight. Gradually you see their transformation from care-free boys .o grim, relentless men. The picture is presented with realism, inasmuch as the director, William Wellman, and the au- thor, John Monk Saunders, were both aviators in the war. Critics have been lavish in their praise of the gigantic spectacle. LITTLE THEATER—"Peter the Great.” Emil Jannings will be pictured at the Little Theater today and for a week in one of his most interesting characteri- zations, the title role in “Peter the Great,” the UFA production which the Motion Picture Guild has brought back at the request of many patrons of the Little Theater. “Peter the Great” reveals Jannings as the mightiest ruler in Russian his- tory. Czar Peter was the man who com- bined debauchery and patriotism, for while he lived a gay and far from blameless life among the satellites of his court he also welded the various Rus- tribes and factions into a great empire. “Peter the Great,” the picture, depicts the famous Czar in both his military and domestic career and con- tains the romantic story of his love for Catherine, the peasant girl who after- ward became Empress of Russia. Appearing in support of Mr. Jannings are Dagny Servaes, Bernhard Goetzke and Walter Janssen. ‘The program will include also a Harry Langdon comedy, a beautiful techni- color subject depicting life under the sea and other unusual subjects. “CYRANO DE BERGERAC"—Friday. Under the auspices of the Community Institute of Washington the film ver- sion of “Cyrano de Bergerac” will be presented as an extra attraction to the 10 outstanding evening events on the institute's regular program, the after- noon of Friday, February 1, at 3 o'clock, in the auditorium at Western High School, the performance being especially arranged in the interest of students. with 2n admission fee of 35 cents, and the same evening at Central High Com- munity Center at 8:15 o'clock, the ad- miss'.i:n being 50 cents and balcony 35 cents. There is plenty of physical action to make the picture version of Rostand’s drama “Cyrano” most interesting and it Is not only authentic in historic back- ground but is beautifully filmed in colors. It is an excellent production and has aroused great admiration wherever it has been presented. In assuming the difficult part of Cyrano, Plerre Magnier presents the glorious triumphs and deep tragedy of the Gascoigne cadet in such a way as to make the character very real and his portrayal of the role, in which Mans- field and Hampden triumphed, most impressive, Billie Dove in Affairs.” Krazy Kat_cartoon. Hoot Gibson in “Riding for Fame.” - tonio Moreno and Bedford and ert Ellis n “Marry_the_Girl."” Barbara Roby n ght_Taxi.” “A Woman of Affairs.” John Gilbert and Greta’ Garbo in e .., Greta’ Garbo'in ‘A Woman of Affairs.” Gang_comedy Gang_comeds. “What ‘u Night. Oddity recl Colony Mary Bran in “Some Op2 to Love. RudolphSehildkraut Conrad Nagel and Norma T June Coliyer ‘in T Talmades “Red Wine." J; Farrell MacDol in “Riley the Cop. (Continued From First Page.) ter room. It is declared to be similar to Max Reinhardt’s famous play, “The Miracle.” Two other plays also will be given, “Saved,” a comedy drama by John W. Current Attractions. February 5 at Carroll Hall, when they stage Father Hurney's Players' Guild in the three-act musical comedy, “The Jonah."” This presentation also marks the season’s final appearance of the popular G street troupe. The proceeds of the performance will Bobby Vernon comed; Trene Rieh and, wrClive Brooke in “The Periect Crime.” _Comedy. Clara Bow “The Fleet's Fox Ne Jerry Drew_comedy. Tearle in Forgotten oen.” Comedy. Clara Bow i “The Fleet's In." Fox News. Snanshots. June Collyer and Conrad Nagel in “Red Wine." “A Woman Disputed.” Nevs Inkwell_eartoon Jack_Duffy_comeds. James B Love and . Margarita Fisher n Uncle Tom's Cabin." Comedy. Rogers, and “A Leap Year Bride,” a comedy by Leslie Hickson. CURRENT HISTORY—Friday. Miss Clara W. McQuown will give her weekly review of important public ques- tions Friday morning at 11 o'clock in the ballroom of the Washington Club, 1010 Seventeenth street. 80 to veterans' relief work—for the needy veterans, their widows and orphans. Variety reel. Coedy. Seni Rin Tin Tin “Land of the Silver Fox." Comdy. Mary Astor in “Romance of the Underworld.” Comedy. News._Comedy James B Love and arits Tisher in * ¥ ¥ X JOHN GILBERT note: just completed “Thirst,” an African adventure story, and he| will be starred in “Way for a| Sailor,” a rousing story from the pen of Albert Richard Wetjen. This will be Gilbert's first picture under the banner of Metro-Gold- | Johnny Hines and Marjory Daw in “‘Home ade."" Eomeds. Ricardo Cortez in “Ladies of the Night Charlie Chase comeds. Willilam Russell in “The Head of the ney Oldfield and in Gonway “Tales_of Dumbarton Elite What Price Beauty? ALTHOUGH his face is his fortune on the stage and screen, Louis Wol- heim. who plays the father of Junior Coming Attractions BELASCO—"0h, B “Oh, Boy,” another famous musical . n - Sue Carroll in I “Win That Girl.” Comady. v Harry Langdon in “Three's a Crowd.” Variaty Paramount ~ News. Margaret Livingston in “Through the Tom Mix in “Silver Valley." Snansho Hodze Pods June Collyer and Serial. Conrad Nagel in ) Wine."” i | Empire comedy hit, will Jorial be offered by Mr. _Serial Cook's Savoy stars and beauty chorus Bill Cody in “The Price of Fear." wyn-Mayer. * K ¥ X ! at the Belasco Theater, beginning Sun- day evening, February 3. Comedy. News. _Comedy. Review. Gomedsy. News: reakers. Cameo_comedy. Variety reel. _Comedy. Aviation series. comedy. Laurel-Hardy_comedy. Serial. Beile Bennett In “Mother Machree.” Belle Bennett in “Mother_Machree " Gertrude Gimstead o | 'HERE has been a rush of stage | people to the studios during the past few months, and the| ] newest recruit is Raymond Hitch- cock, long a favorite comedian with American audiences. He has signed to do a series of short Movietone sketches for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, and the record- ing will be done in New York, be- ginning this week. The pictures G. Wodehouse, ‘Oh, Boy” is an outstanding Com- stock & Gest success from the pen of that trio of musical comedy favorites— Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern. The book and lyrics are extremely humorous and witty and pos- sess a light-hearted sophistication and verve, with youthful dash that Belasco should find delightful. fame as a composer is well| ™~ established, the music of “Oh, Bo needs no indorsement save his name. M (Hip’odrome Home Bcreen Snapshots. —___Comedy. Green Grass Screen Snapshots. idows. Comedy. _Curiosity. Comedy. Mary Astor in Florence Vidor in “Dry Martini." - Comedy. " piggincent Fox_News. Comedy. Emil Jaunings in “Tartufle, the Hypo- e Tom Mix_in “Horsemen of the Plais.” erl Comedy. Metro News. Bebe Daniels in “What s Night.” Variety reel Laurel-Hardy com 5. Barbara Bedford and Special cast Dorothy Mackaill and A Lowell Skerman in “Napoleon. “Convoy." i edy. onvoy. Jack _Duft Cameo comeds. Conrad Nagel and June Collyer 'in “Red Wine." Snookums_comiedy. Joan Crawford n “A Dream of Love.” News. Frankie Darro in “The Circus Kid." News_ Comedy. Serial Al Wilson_in “Won in the Clouds.” Sennett_ comeds. Oddity reel. _Cartoon. | Leader N % ‘ Liberty Malcolm McGregor in “The Port of Missing Girls."_Comedies. Moore in “Husbands for Rent." “For the Love of Cartoon in “Ladies of the Mob.” Comedies. Clara Bow “Why Sailors Go rong. “The Blind Saint.” __Comedy. George O'Hara in “Tunid_Terror.” Not Two_comedi scheduled. Pa e Arthur_Lake and Sue Carroll in “The Alr Circus Scenic._Comedy. rthur Lake al Ricardo Cortez in, Sue Carroll in “The Gun Runner.” “The Air Circus. dy. Scenic. _Comedy will be of two-reel length. * ¥ Kk % O vival of the cinema art of France. NE picture may mean the re-| For some time, screen - Renee Hamilton will appear in the | famous role of Jackie, Thelma Parker | will be the little wife, Robert Capron | and Lee Deley will appear in comedy | roles, while Rosa Snowden, Jack Clos son, Edward Metcalfe and the gorgeous garden of girls and the male octet will f Mary Astor in ‘Romance of the Underworld. medy. Vi ar cast 1n “San Francisco gL Comedy. _Snapshots. n “Cowboy Kl Gang comedy. Conrad Nagel and June Collyer in New “Red Wine.'" ‘Conrad Na and ne Collyer in Red Wine. News. _ Comedy. Jui v Victor l;llcfnklen n “River Pirate.” Laurel-Hardy_comedy. renkers.” ariety reel. _Comedy. Serlal. Willlam Russell in Harry Carey in, “The_Head of the Family.” urning Bridges Juvenile comedy. ____Serial. y. Buster Brown comedy. Princess Coileen” Moore in “Oh. Kay." Emil i The Patriot. Comedy, ews. Comedy. News! Emil Jannings in “The Patriot.” Comedy. News. Ken Mavnard in I Gospel.” William Boyd in “Power." un Our Gang comedy. Serial. Comedy. N matters in France have been in a bad w?yi; "hfi stli’uggle a%ai{lst competition has been a losing| m fight from many standpoints; and; Will follow “Oh, Bo now all Europe is hailing a new STRAND—' French picture, “The Passion of, singing and dancin icture is changing the entire out- ook for French producing artists. The film has been purchased by UFA for German release, by Pit-| tagula for Italy and by Gaumont for England. In speaking of ithe new picture, Paul Morand, French author, say: he war-like life or! Joan of Arc heroic movements—but her trial|( costume creations. talent. . have special opportunity in ensemble | Dillingham’s “Good Morning, Dearie,” time Revue.” Next week’s attraction at the Strand Joan of Arc.” It is said that the| Theater will be “Jazztime Revue” a fast-moving, colorful presentation that brings Kitty Madison and Harry Evan- son, as featured players, together wita the most talented chorus the popular “Kitty” has ever had to accentuate her “Jazztime Revue” is described as o show full of surprises and delights, not : the least of which are the unfolding of | scenes, lighting effects and jazz-like Q the spirited Savoy in “A Dream of Love.” Aesop_ Fable George 1 and Dorothy Gulliver in ““Honeymoon Flats. Bowers_comedy. Billie Dove In ‘Adoration. y. News._Comedy. Conrad Nagel and June Collyer in ine. Snookums comedy. All-;l.r cast n “Napolean.” Sitver Seco sprins. Park, ret Tivingston “Through, = the Breakers.” “Varsity " Comedy. _News. Comedy. News. n D W. Grifith “Baitle of the Sexes.” Comedy. News. Sennett_ccmedy. John Gilbert_in “Masks of the Devil."” Comedy, News. David Rollins and Bue. Carroll in “The ‘Alr Circus. ' Tivoli Tois Wilson and Bert Lytell in On Trial." Variety reel. News Lois Wilson and Bert Lytell in “On Trial Variety_reel. News. Lois Wilson and Bert Lytell in n Trial. Variety reel. News. B Clara_Bow 1n “Three Week Ends.” News. Topics. obby Vernon comedy. —Clara Bow in “Three Week Ends.” News. ‘opics. Bobby Vernon comedy. Comedy. News. Al Jolson in Karl Dane and “The Singing Fool.” George K. Arthur in (synchronized). ““Brother'y Love.” Takoma Jack Holt in ‘Avalanche.” News. Oddity. Comedy. Jack Holt in “Avalanche ' News. Oddity. Comedy. _.Jack London's Stormy Waters.” Patsy Ruth Miller in “Beautiful, But Ricardo Cortez and Claire Windsor in Dumb “The Grain of Dust.” Pathe Review. Mary Astor in “Romance of the Underworld." News. Comedy. Serial. Johnny Hines in “Chinatown Charlie.” Hoot. son in “Riding_for_Fas Truxton Dolores Dsl Rio in “No Other Woman.” “The Docks New York. Comedy. xcess sage.” ews. _Comeay. me.” “Just “Out of the Married.” Ruirs."” Yori‘ Norma Talmadee in “The Wo: Norma Talmadge in “The Woman Disputed.” ews. Milton_Sills i n “The Barker.” Laurel-Hardy comedy, t “The . Barker." Laurel-Hardy comedy. Milton sills Ll Damita in in “Forbidden Lov Christie comedy. Rudolphschild A Ship_C: Kra Flash, the do, in . Comedy " Cadiy reel Topics. ~ Serial, ut in m* News. Cameo comedy, A | public. Her principal subject will be dictator- ship in Europe, but she will also discuss legislation before Congress and other matters of public interest, both national and international. ‘These talks are non-partisan interpre- tative summaries and are open to the SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY, February 4. Shakespeare’s play, “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” which has never before been produced in Washington, and which has been produced only twice in America— in New York shortly after 1841 by Charles Kean and in 1895 by Agustin Daly with Ada Rehan as Julia and John Craig as Valentine—will be presented in condensed form by the Shakespeare Society of Washington in the Auditorium of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Monday, February 4, at 8:15 p.m. This is the latest addition to a large repertoire of Shakespearean plays pro- duced by the soclety and the cast will include players of fessional experi- ence and amateurs trained in the rendition’ of Shakespeare. ‘The first part of the evening’s program will be an address by Dr. Earle Wilfley on “Compensation and Retribution in Shakespeare.” ‘Those who are interested in Shake- | speare are invited to attend. FATHER HURNEY'S GUILD IN “THE JONAH." The Veterans of Foreign Wars (Front Coghlan in Pathe's “Square Shoulders,” has decided on several occasions to change it. On one of these occasions the attempt received first-page atten- l.slglucl the press throughout the United s, Wolheim, who is under contract to Howard Hughes, consulted a plastic surgeon and arranged to have his facs altered. Hughes wanted the face lei» as it was, in all its picturesque rough- ness. The issue was taken to court and Wolheim was restrained legally from making himself handsome. The formidable-looking nose was first broken when Wolheim was playing foot ball on the Cornell University foot ball téeam. The “busted k" has been I;:flh many thousands of dollars to him since. — Up—Then Down! COM!NO down from the sky, where she has been ae; for hes prel:m lctura"rh; Man the Mo- ve is now spending ner hours at the other extreme—beneath the “waves" at an underwater party. The stage is fitted up to represent floor of the ocean, with beautiful mer- maids swimming about in the back- ground, and with portions of wrecked ships, sea shells, anchor chains and starfish on the sanded floor. “The Man and ‘the Moment” is adapted from Elinor Glyn's modern ro- Line Post, No. 1401) will make their bow in the local theatrical field mance of the same title. George Fitze maurice is directing and Rod La Rocque p_llyioppowe the star,