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“Solitaire,” a play about Coney Island, by Frederick Rath and Koby Kohn, is announced for New York production early next month. In the cast will be Master Gabriel, a midget; Carl Eck- strom, Dorothy Libaire and Barton Mc- Lane. Edward Chodorov is to be the wroducer. Murray Phillips is to produce im- mediately “The Suicide Club,” a play dramatized from a Robert Louis Steven- son story by Hugh A. Anderson and George Bamman. When he ends his engagement in the “Vanities” W. C. Fields will take a vacation until June. He will then go to California to make talking pictures and will return to the New York stage | late next Fall. Dorothy and D Heyward ar- rived in New York I week en route from Charleston, S. C.. to London to witness the opening of “Porgy” there. Lew Cantor has decided to change the name of the Fulton Oursler comedy, in which Grant Mitchell is to star. Known in the rehearsal and tryout stage as be called “Love Laughs” when it opens in New York tomorrow night. Charles Hopkins makes the announce- ment that he has obtained the right rom Benn W. Levy to produce in New York Mr. Levy's current London play, “Mrs. Moonlight." This play is now being produced by W. Grahame Browne in London with a cast headed by Leon Quartermaine, Joan Barry and Mary Barton. The name of A. A. Milne's forthcom- ing play, in _which Basil Sydney and Mary Eilis will appear, is announced by Lodewick Vroom as “Meet the Prince.” Frank Mc@&lynn, instead of Ian Mac- Laren, will play the leading role in AMUSEMENTS. IN THE SPOTLIGHT Notes of the Stage and Its People. “All the King's Men,” it is to | “The Broken Chain,” due in New York the week of February 11. Mr. Mac- Laren is ill. In spite of the favorable mention iven the musical comedy called “Well, ell, Well,” in Philadelphia last week, { it has been decided to add several new names to the cast, change its name to | “Pleasure Bound,” and take it into New | York a week from tomorrow night as a revue and not as a musical comedy. Helen Lowell will be seen in the Chi- cago company of “Skidding,” which will |open in that city February 17. An- nouncement is also made that another company of “Poppa,” designed for Chi- cago, will open in Detroit February 25. | Catherine Calhoun Doucet has been | released by Charles Hopkins to the | Theater Guild so that she may play a part in namo.” Teresa Maxwell re- | places her in “The Perfect Alibi.” Arthur Byron has been engaged for “The Game of Love and Death,” which the Theater Guild will produce the lat- | ter part of this month. A musical Flec(‘ called “Marietta,” with book, lyrics and music by Ernest Arnold, will be placed in rehearsal this Week in New York by Ned Jakobs, pro- ducer of “The Houseboat on the Styx.” Henry Hull and A. E. Thomas are re- ported ready to go into rehearsal shortly in a new play named “The Bar- barian,” by Harwick Nevin. John D. williams is sponsoring this piece, which, although known to have been written before “The Road to Rome” vas turned out by Robert Sherwood, is id to treat Alexander the Great in the same manner that “The Road to Rome” treated Hannibal. Lewis Beach, author of “Merry An- drew,” now running in New York, has finished a new play entitled “Cocktails,” which will have an early showing. " Women’s Independence SINCE the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution—and that is not the one pertaining to prohibition—was sdopted, woman—and that means the big and the little, the young and the old—have registered one very important verdict. ‘Woman declines, positively, persistent- Iy and emphatically, to be standard- ized. And how has she donme so? It makes a neat little story. From the time that memory runneth not to the contrary, woman has accepted as her standard of styles the pronunciamento of the man milliners and man gown-makers of Paris. Indeed there are some who still do so, not only in the matter of hats and gowns, but in almost everything that pertains to adornment and the art of beautify- ing. But the overwhelming ‘majority of the women and girls who have never seen Parls, and also many of those who have, in this day and generation, have completely thrown off the Parisian yoke and _are making their own standards. In nothing is this more apparent than in the length of their skirts and of woman's “crowning glory,” her hair. Edicts have gone forth that fashion demands the lengthening of the skirt, and all sorts of tempting and alluring styles of gowns have issued forth from the hands of the most distinguished coutouriers of La Belle France, cre- tions designed utterly to overwhelm the feminine of any and of all countries. ‘But the girls of America, while con- ceding perhaps an inc¢h or two, now and then, still wear the short skirt, now, indeed, shorter than ever before. The French ipse- dixit has lost its power; the French creation its charm, if it be shaped counter to this general proposition. Mere man has sneered, satirized, scorned and emitted his most terrible insinuations inst the girl that dares to wear her frock at a length suited to her taste. Ladies of the Victorian era have declaimed against the shock- ing fashion. But the girls still go on wearing short skirts, and from present appearances they are likely to con- tinue doing so for how long no one dare say, but certainly as long as they make the help to destroy the ravages of the years in the elder. Bobbed ‘hair appeared upon the feminine head and no longer was “the crowning glory of woman” the glory she sought for. As if to set her seal of decision more deeply into the male mind, she actually reached out and appropriated the male barber as her minion to an end. It was not alone that she might have bobbed hair. Any woman might cut a girl's hair. But the cutting of the hair was not all she sought. She proposed to have that cutting done in such manner as would best befit her own features. The result has been so fruitful in bobs that only a woman thoroughly up to date might give to each its proper name. The man barber dooesn’t know them. young girl attractive and | P istic of womankind that the female of the species absolutely refuses to stay put, for woman's ancient and in- alienable privilege has been the right to change her mind when she chose, regardless of reasons. Some of her, after a season or so of bobbed hair, conceived the idea of “letting it grow 2gain,”_and some of her did let it grow. But did that mean the passing of the bob? Not by 40 rows of green apple trees. The girls who knew they looked prettier with their bob posi- tively declined to let it grow. And those who knew that longer hair made an older looking girl would not hear of letting it grow. Burlesque, . which has done much more for the world than make comedians and brilliant stars for the big revues, has been taking a census of its own. Of course, burlesque has no interest in lengthening a woman’s skirts, but it was interested in her hair, especially as the audacious movie seemed to be meddling with the matter, by giving preference in certain in- stances to the girls with “the crown- ing glory.” Certain directors would have none other, and as the movie is said to have a strong influence which is exerted ruthlessly upon the rising generation, some of the girls began to “let it grow.” Burlesque wanted to know, then, just how much influence the movie really haid, and he‘re is what- it ascertained: “The Mutual Burlesquer.” official organ of the Mutual Circuit, has this to say of the result of its recent con- fidential questionnaire on the subject, xx‘l: to all the managers on its cir- “Five hundred and forty wouldn't think of such a thing as letting their hair grow, 85 are returning to the old style, 60 started, but changed their minds in favor of the bob, and 90 are undecided in the matter. And this is the way the matter stands among about 800 as stylish, up-to-date, recherche, modish girls as ever came down the pike. And so, 'fencle readers (nonprofessional), trail along with the Mutual - beauties, and you cant go wrong as to correct coiffure.” o Bedtime Story. ITY the poor director who is com- pelled to keep 50 or more active youngsters in their beds registering sleep when they are perfectly wide awake. Such was the task of Alfred L. Werker, who directed “Nobody's Children,” Fox film. The youngsters, all clad in their homely nighties, are used in several dormitory scenes in an orphanage. Little Freddie Frederick and Carmen- cita Johnson and another screen child creep from their cots to plot with each other, but the other orphans are forced to spend their time in bed. It required more than ordinary patience by the di- rector and his harassed assistants to keep the little extras tucked in during But it has always been a character- the picturization. [ [\ ‘Waterloo! JAMES MURRAY Doris Dawson of and His CHAZ CHASE ELRAY & COOP FOX DANCIN “The Sex Life THIS MODERN FLAPPER (((_go” : WHEN OUT TO GET HER MAN! now playing LATEST VITAPHONE TALKING PICTURE LITTLE WILDCAT” She was as flerce as could be . . . sweethearts just like that . . . A DARING COMEDY ROBERT EDESON ON THE STAGE OX VANITIES A Fox Studios Production With ihese Stars of S‘ars SUNSHINE SAMMY KITTY O'DAIR WITH FRANCKEL & DAVIS Added Attraction IR FOX MOVIETONE o SMOVIE! NE QRCE'}\‘;;‘TRA Presents ! ’;\'lEF‘gg\r Susiop ROBERT BENCHLEY s 5::{,:‘" "of the Polys” WAS 993 % WILD changed her till she met her GEORGE FAWCETT Audrey Ferris “Our Gang” Two Kid Brothers HINES & LEONARD ER LATHROP BROS. G ENSEMBLE Movie Popularity. ON! hundred million people attend American movie theaters every week and authorities estimate that the at- tendance is growing 15 per cent yearly. The daily intake at these theaters is $2,000,000, approximately $800,000,000 a year. The industry in the United States employs 235,000 people. Hollywood's annual pay roll is $50,000,000. Of 57,341 theaters in the wojld, 20,500 are in the United States. All of Europe has 27,338. The remaining approximate 10,000 are scattered about the world in every conceivable quarter from Mada- gascar to French Indo-China. The sum of $161,930,000 was spent on new thea- ters in the United States in 1928 alone. Thirteen hundred theaters were equipped, as of January 1, to show sound pictures, and 200 sound features are estimated as a minimum on the 1928-1929 production schedule. ‘The world output of features for 1928~ 1929 is 1,350. Of these the United States supplied 750, Germany 200, Great Britain 140, Russia 130, France 60, all other countries 70. The above facts were culled from sta- tistics just issued by the Film Daily of New York. They are said to illustrate clearly the factors of movie production and consumption in this, country which make us the predominant universal figure in the fleld, as well as making the industry itself one of the foremost domestic activities. For An Appetite. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS offers a new formula for the cultivation of agility: Climb a tree to a’height of 40 feet. Crouch on the swaying support of an overhanging branch. Leap through space from the branch to a 6-inch window ledge 20 feet distant. That is the newest Fairbanks stunt, a test of muscular fitness and flexibility passed by Doug in his latest picture, “The Iron Mask.” Bui don’t stop there. Pick yourself up and use the whisk broom industri- ously, ‘then follow Doug's next move- ment: “Having gained the precarious safety of the window ledge, his hold upc.:_the iron bars is loosened by the treacherous Milady de Winter. He climaxes the jump by a fall of 40 feet into the outstretched arms of Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the Three Mus- keteers themselves, anxiously waiting on_the ground below.” Try it, but not on the piano. Vi A R A R Revealed at Last. WHAT and why is a mule skinner? Ask Jack Pennick, playing the role of a harvester hand in F. W. Mur- {nau's epic of the wheat flelds, “Our Dally Bread.” He can tell you now and qualify as a member of the Ancient Order of the Mule Skinners, if there is such a thing. Pennick was sent to Pendleton, Oreg., by Murnau to famil- iarize himself with the handling of the 32-mule teams used on the combination harvester-thresher outfits, and thus ap- Eew as an expert when the cameras gan to grind. Pennick informs the world that he has at last discovered what the words “mule skinner” mean. According to him, in the old days mule drivers were so named because they helped the mules to overcome their nat- ural lethargy by using a long whip that lifted the skin off the mule when it was wielded by the hands of an expert. Something New. AN innovation in library circulation for motion picture fans has been supplied by the Fox Corporation. There was dispatched westward from the headquarters in New York a neatly bound volume of mimeographed biogra- phies relating to all the principal players of this company, with photographs of each. It was sent to the St. Paul Public Library in Minnesota at the request of Webster Wheelock, librarian there, and will be loaned out to patrons of the li- brary like other regular volumes. This unusual donation to the library was brought about through readers who constantly asked the librarians for articles dealing with their favorite stars. It is the first time that such official bi- ographies have been furnished by a film company in this manner. . Holt's Varied Characters. IN his long and varied screen career Jack Holt has played everything from rip-roaring cowboys to correct drawing-room heroes. Now Columbia’s “The Donovan Affair” will present him for the first time in the role of a de- tective in this all-talkie, based on Owen Davis' famous mystery play. ‘This is not the first innovation that Columbia has made in the star’s screen life. Jack’s marvelous horsemanship got him into pictures via the “stunt- man” route in 1914. But it nearly stamped him as a Western actor years later, because of his Paramount ve- hicles. Then Columbia stepped in and signed him for a series of varied char- acterizations. “Submarine,” which marked his greatest performance to date, brought him back to the zenith of his popularity. L WITH IN A PASSIONATE, p, DRAMA OF LOVE. OF £ 2 ULsar, MUSIC AND THE S,NGISNZNCHR(;DO NVENTIVE genius is pushing at high speed to meet the demands of the new sound and dialogue pictures, and predictions are con- fidently being made that the re- sult, before long, will find sound pro- Jection equipment within the reach of all but the smallest movie houses. Thus and thus only will the pictures “gross more.” Intermixed with the problem of pro- jection equipment is the question of “interchangeability,” meaning thereby the right of the exhibitor to present any sound picture over the equipment he has rather than over that special equip. :ner;'.dror which it was originally in- ended. ‘The new French picture, “The Pas- sion of Joan of Arc,” had its preview ;I:oud the Ile de France last Wednes- y. First National has bought the pic- ture rights to “Lillies of the Field” and “An Immoral Lady,” which it pro- poses to use as starring vehicles for Corinne Griffith. Hoot Gibson's new picture, in which Ruth Elder, “the wayward aviatress,” plays opposite the star, is to be called “The Winged Horseman.” It is a Uni- versal production. THE LITTLE THEATRE BETWEEN F AND G ON NINTH STREET Continuous Daily Today, 3 to 11 From 1 to 11 Frank. 8356 Now Playing! MYSTERIOUS . . . STRANGE . . . THRILLING CONRAD VEIDT In a unique drama Mystery Stories from World-Famous _ Authors as RT _ LOI ON, Four Darin ROBE VIS 8§ S EDGAR ALLEN POE, Ete. Nothing like this mystic drama has ever been seen fore! *PALAWE Or PALACE CONCERT ORCHESTRA . HARRY BORJES conducting THEMATIC PROLOGUE- ELIZABETH GORMAN, | Who will appear in the Players' Guild musical comedy, “The Jonah,” at Carroll | Hall, Tuesday night. FILMOGRAMS Bits From the Studios and Theaters. | | | 1t is reported that Renee Adoree, who has made peace with and signed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer a three-year contract, may appear opposite John Gilbert in “Redemption.” Norman Kerry is back in Hollywood telling of, the wonderful time he had abroad with Sir Hall Caine, while mak- ing in Sicily and the Isle of Man a film version of the novelist's famous book, “The Bondman.” Sir Hall, Her- bert Wilcox, the director and Kerry, with a company of principals, went to the sul- phur mines of Sicily and to the Manx island in the Irish Sea to produce the photoplay. World Wide Pictures has brought the picture to America. “Tommy Atkins,” described as a “Beau Geste” of the English army, was the last photoplay made in Europe by Walter Byron before he came to the United_States to be leadinz man for Vilma Banky. World Wide Pictures will release the picture in America. It was made in rural England and Egypt with the aid of the English war offices and the commissioner of the Sudan dis- trict. Four regiments of English scl- diers and a rtible of Sudanese take part in the production. Al a greater hea "ALI JIM LIONEL BARRYMORE LEILA HYAMS TU GRAF ZE Lady Grace Drummond Hay NOW PLAYING A METRO-GOLOWYN-MAYER SOUND & DIALOGUE PICTURE - WILLIAM As “Jimmy Valentine” in the famous stage success. A great safe-cracker—but VALENTIN SYNCHRONIZED with Sound Effects & Talking Sequences ADDED ATTRACTIONS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC via The Talking Motion Picture of the most shrilling flight of the world’s history. HEAR & SEE FOX MOVIET! M-.G-M NEWS LOEW'S OLUMBE *THE HOUSE OF SOUND HITS” Mystery Anthology. 'OR the first time in screen history there has recently been produced a film that boasts not only of one plot, but several of them. The film is “For- bidden Tales,” a eompilation of four of the greatest mystery stories of such au- thors as Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louls Stevenson, etc., all bound together by a central theme. This device, says the Motlon Picture Guild, is comparable to the anthologies of the literary world, but it is the first time it has been used in the movies. The guild has imported the production from Germany, where it was made by Richard Oswald, and is being given its American premiere here. The main_theme of “Porbidden Tales" is a story about a haunted bookshop in Berlin, where three paintings, repre- senting the devil, death and tempta- tion, come to life and proceed to read several of the books. The volumes that they select are then played on the screen. The tales include Stevenson's és?\clde Club” and Poe's “The Black at.” New Theme Songs. IVE new motion picture theme songs, dedicated ta Mary Pickford, Dolores del Rio, Lupe Velez, Camilla Horn and | Eleanor Boardman, were recently an- nounced by United Artists. Irving Berlin has composed “Coquette” for the Mary Pickford picture of that name. Al Jolson has composed “Evangeline” for the Dolores del Rio film version of Longfellow's poem. Berlin’s “Where Is the Song and Songs for Me?” recurs through the reels of “Lady of the Pavements,” in which Lupe Velez sings. This is the new D. W. Griffith picture. “Eternal Love” is the name of the theme song for the John Barrymore- Ernst Lubitsch production in which Camilla Horn is leading lady. It was ccmposed by Peter de Rose, Dave Dreyer and Ballard MacDonald; the Berlin company publishes it. “Joan,” dedicated to the character portrayed by Eleanor Boardman in “She Go;s Yto War,"dwfis composed by Lewis and Young and Harry Akst, com of “Laugh, Clown, mlgh.“ vy 1343 Wiseonsin MAY McAVOY and in “CAUGHT IN DUMBARTON CONRPACI),G Ag __SIDNEY LUSTS HIPPODROME %, "%5tt%ow, BEBE DANIELS, ELITE g “TAKE ME HOME.” 4th and R. 1. Today-Tomior: E WEDDING MARCH.” 1319 N. Casito) St. JOHN' GILBERT, THE DEVIL." 1ih & N. C. Ave. S8 “OH EAY." with COLLEEN MOORE. LAWRENCE GRAY. NEW STANTON 28,2 %- & One Day Only— MONTE BLUE. RAQUEL TORRES in “WHITE SHAL THE_SOUTH_SEAS. Tl TRUXTON MGiie*idSovs W™ “POWER.” __TOMORROW—'"TAKE ME HOME." PRINCESS ron UiaNes s ~Vidine 'S.” BEN TURPIN Uh and Butter Sis. No Parking Troubles Continuous today from 3 o'clock. Tomorrow evening at 7 and 9. Richard Dix and RUTH ELDER in “Moran of the Marines” PATHE NEWS and HARRY LANGDON STICK: - Sts. N.E. DEL RIO in “‘RE . %FDY. “COLI.IG!AN! KICKING THROUGH" ._and_other added_attractions. CAMEO THEATER *- %™ TOMORROW—COLLEEN HOOR!‘ 'SYNTHETIC CIRCLE 358 v it LINE LOGAN, ALAN HALE. “POWER." NES rt-breaker. AS MY IKARL DANE- LLY MARSHALL PPELIN and Dr. Hugo von Eckner 'ONE NEWS AMUSEME NTS." Lest You Forget. RXCHARD BARTHELMESS, who makes his “talking cinema debut” in the new First National-Vitaphone picture, “Weary River,” has compiled a list of “don’ts” for film actors who are called upon to face the microphone in the soundproof studio for the first time. Here are the “don’ts”: Don't worry about being nervous when you first enter the soundproof studio. You're going to be that way, anyway. Hire a double to be nervous for you. Don't forget yourself while talking and clink any coins or keys you might happen to have in your pocket. Such nonsense is apt to sound like a regi- | ment of King Arthur’s knights in full armor crossing a drawbridge. Don't wear shoes that squeak when you walk. Leave that to the comedy relief in the picture. Don't slap a fellow actor’s back too | enthusiastically if called upon to do so. It is apt to sound like a one-gun salute from the U. 8. S. Pennsylvania. Don't ever affect a nervous snapping of the fingers. Leave it to the trap| drummer in the sound-effect booth. Don't dunk your doughnut in your coffee carelessly. It will give the effect | of Annette Kellermann performing a high dive. | Don't_rustle your silk lounging robe | if you happen to be wearing one, be-| cause it will sound like a hallstorm. Don't cuugh and don't sneeze. The directors will tell you why in no uncer- tain terms, as it may cost the produc- tion up to a thousand dollars. dry hair, as it forms static. Directcr and producers hate audible hair. Don't take a deep breath between speeches or between lines when you are singing a song number. It will sound like a Buick making a hill on high. HELD OVER By Popular Demand ‘The Vibrant Story of a Delinquent Girl An Astounding Revelation of the Moral Decay of Modern Youth PRESIDENT THEATRE 11TH AND PA. AVE. Continuous 1 to 11 Don't enter a soundproof studio with THE STAR WITHOUT THE SUPREME BILL OF THE WEEK WITH Supporting Cast in Patent Leather Kid” SEAS A First National Favorite Mal In Cat Includes PATHE SoU AMBASSADOR _col*84"'w TODAY and TOMORROW—RICHARD BARTHELMESS in ~ “SCAl W TODAY and TOMORROW—GRETA GARBO_ and JOHN GILBERT in “A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS.” TODAY and TOMORROW—OLARA BOW in “THREE WEEK ENDS." W TODAY and TOMORROW-—RIN TIN TIN in “THE MILLION DOLLAR LLAR." Conn. Ave. and "CHEVY CHASE S35 3% TODAY and_TOMORROW—CLARA BOW in “THREE WEEK ENDS." COLONY Ga. Ave. & Farragut lt.— TODAY—LON CHANEY “WEST OF ZANZIBAR." - SunpAy 27011 PM. DAiLy iive i Everybody’s Favorite ‘Berty COMPSON LORETTA YOUNG And an Excellently Cho;le.n is Greatest Picture Since “The ‘SCARLET Warner- Bros. w sunJBCT JACK NORWORTH “Songs and Things” EARLE TOYICAL REVIEW CONCERT OVERTURE—“FAVORITE CLASSICS” EARLE CONCERT ORCHESTRA DANIEL BREESKIN, Conducting DoLoRes Worner By E REDE,EMIIIG A Su; GE! ift, U, VARNER micHMOND | Pl Up vy WIble Drems 1y, LIONEL BELMORE :’;’: ith Trug £ore JFrisien Undep, NINA QUANTERO edremed—Triumy g L Emergi "y Fields of F:‘leo Flow. COMPLEMENTARY FEATURES JOHNNY ARTHUR—EDWARD EVERETT HORTON In “THE ELIGIBLE MR. BANGS” Talking and Natursl Sound Effects From Start to Finish A FAILURE IN tinee Idol in Clan'p.,' Adorably COSTELLo Subported 4, RAL NAGEL g Achieye, the Cro S rment of en Careery Their 5, Liveliesy TALKING p,c'w RE SIN oy H St. NE. EMPIRE W —SNOOKUMS .COj - 1230 © St NE TODAY—_MILTON ° DOROTHY ACRAnE i PRE 535 8ih ‘St S.E. and TODAY TOM STAR_CAST in “NA SAVQY 142 & Col Ba. N.W. 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