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Flashes From the Screen By C. E. Nelson. HAT the movie magnates term “the race of a cen- tury” is on, and the race itself will play no little part in the future of the motion picture. Therefore, it is naturally considered that the patron of the picture palaces is interested, although a great deal of the matter pertains to business —just business. The Warner Brothers, who are considered the = pioneers of the talkie industry, are making no secret of the fact that they are angling for new theaters. Paramount, through the Publix organization, seems to have awakened from a heavy sleep and today is moving forward in a manner to attract attention from competitors, The William Fox company is buying up ‘“cathe- drals” here, there and every- where, besides making itself a large factor in the production end of the game. R-K-O is busy with all sorts of theater plans and within the next few days a large sized merger may be announced from the New York headquarters. R-K-O announces that Richard Dix, Bebe Daniels, Rudy Valee, Rod LaRocque and Betty Comp- son are to be starred in an elabo- rate program calling for 30 pic- during 1929 and 1930. Dix will contribute three pictures and Miss Daniels will be starred in the same number, in addition to her appearance in “Rio Rita.” La- Rocque will have the leading part in two pictures, the first of which will be called “The De- lightful Rogue.” The first picture of Richard Dix will be “I Love You.” “The Vagabond Lover” will serve as Valee's feature introduc- tion to the screen. Among the radio musical offerings will be “The Radio Revels,” a revue, an original comedy by Harry Tier- ney and the screen version of the ge success, “Hit the Deck.” With the same organization, Herbert Brenon, borrowed from United Artists, will direct “High River,” while Malcolm 8t. Clair is directing “Night Parade.” The latter directpr is now completing “Side Street,” a picture which fea- tures the three Moore brothers, Matt, Tom and Owen. Betty Compson is to be featured in “Street Girl,” but she will be star- red in her future pictures. Olive Borden, Sally Blane and Hugh Trevor are among the featured layers. Miss Borden's first pic- ure will be called “Half Mar- riage.” aen T has remained for an Ameri- can film to shock Paris. And an American film, too, which broke box-office records through- out these United States. About the only complaint registered in this country against the photo- alsny was in regard to the adver- ing of the feature. The picture which shocked Paris was “Dancing Daughters,” exhib- ited in France under the title of *“Les Nouvelles Vierges” (The New Virgins), by Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer. According to & is dis- rlwh, the flcmrn was “an aston- shing spectacle. At the opening performance at the Madeleine- Cinema it was received by the Parisian public with a few hisses, evidently evoked by the shock to French sensibilities rroduced by the representation of such loose- mannered young girls. Is this film a moral protest against con- ditions prevailing in certain Amer- {can social circles? In view of the reputation of a country which prides itself on its virtue and is gcandalized by our ‘modern Baby- lor}'.‘ we would prefer to believe Then the French critic goes on at some length and the writer is quoting only a bit: “For the her- oines of this picture are young ladies of respectable, well-to-do families; the daughters of parents who, either through blindness or because of the competition in the marriage market, permit their ehildren to lead the most extraor- dinary lives. In spite of the ex- , cellent acting, especially that of Joan Crawford, the film, cinema- tographically speaking, is a litt] monotonous in the constant rep- itition of the same sort of scenes. As a study of customs, it is de- eidedly significant. It is curious that the Americans who criticize the immorality of our literature, should present themselves in such eolors. “Marcel Prevost wrote a novel, ‘Demi-Vierges,’ which created a scandal, but this was compara- tively innocent when placed alongside ‘Nouvelles Vierges’ Let us beware, however, of making the same mistake as those who judge the French family by our romantic and dramatic literature. The cinema, too, is a work of the imagination and we certainly hope we would be wronging the voung American girl by accepting as true to life these scenes in which she appears to us.” How many . weeks did “Our Dancing Daughters” draw the crowds in Washington? intends to B EDWXN CAREWE romote himself from direc- tor to supervisor—and then add another star to his list. So that now the list contains two names, AMUSEMENTS. | made with native leads, directors and so on, working on each. * ok ¥ K TRIP around the Hollywood studios reveals the fact that the producing companies are now | turning out 36 pictures. Of this | number only six are silent. First National is completing “Her Pri- vate Life,” starring Billie Dove | and Alexander Korda directing. | Norma Talmadge is starting work in her first all-talking picture, “Tin Pan Alley.” Gilbert Roland will have the male lead, and others in the cast are Lilyan Tashman, Fay Wray, Mary Do- ran and Roscoe Karns. Constance | Bennett is starting work in “The | Racketeer,” an_all-dialogue at- | traction which Robert’Armstrong | will direct. * ok ok X A PRE-VIEW at the Fox Theater | last Tuesday night reveals| the fact that this Paul Muni, sta) of “The Valiant,” will possibly be- come one of the really great mo- | | tlon picture actors. And yet he is| | | not the motion picture idea of a | | handsome man. Up to the advent | of the sound films there was little | | use for the actor of the Muni type. | |His type lacked the saccharine | pictorialness which the industry | considered indispensable. But the young_actor travels to success in “The Valiant,” whatever else you may say regarding the picture. | Muni is not a newcemer to the |sock and buskin profession. His | first stage appearance took place {when he was 4 years old: he| | knows his audience, and he is not | | at all interested in loiting his | {own personality; he lives the| | character of the moment, the part he is playing in the picture. For !a man who is still in his 20s, | this may seem little short nfl | genius. He has no easy role in | “The Valiant,” and yet he plays | it in a fashion which never per- mits grimness to become mo- | notonous. The audience can for- | | get many shortcomings of a pic- ture when Muni plays the prin- | cipal role. . ) Short Flashes. OHN GILBERT, Norma Shearer and Marion Davies have been added to the cast of “The Holly- wood Revue of 1920.” The musi- cal extravaganza is to be “pat- terned after the more ambitious of the New York revues.” Others in the cast are Buster Keaton, Nils Aster, Bessie Love, Charles King, Anita Page, Joan Crawford, Willlam Haines, Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, the Brox Sisters, Cliff Edwards, the Albertina Rach ballet, the Biltmore Trio and Natacha Natova. “The Broadway Melody” is re- gnrted to have scored a decided it in London, drawing 115,000 patrons to the New Empire Theater during the first week of its run. Ernest Torrence plays the part of the mysterious Dr. Ballou in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, “The Green Ghost.” Crane Wilbur, who was one of the first matinee idols of the screen, is now writing plays, his latest effort being a talking pic- ture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Did you know that Charles Brabin, director of “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” is the husband of Theda Bara, who at one time was considered the screen's leading actress? Or that Joan Crawford’s real name, that is, before she married Douglas Fairbanks, jr., was Lucille LeSeure? It is said that one of the danc- ing Dooley family doubles for Glenn Tryon in “Broadway.” Glenn has the part of a “hoofer,” but when he starts to step the |Hippodr'me THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday JUNE 16, 1929—PART 4 Friday Saturday Rickard Aflen and i Mars, Brian “The Man T Lore “The Man I Love.' chard “Aflen and — Richard Arlen end Mary, Brian Mars Brian f “The Man'I Love Dougias ‘The Fairbanks Iron Mask " Vitaphone short subinct itaphone short subjcet Tn Dougias Fairbanks in | Laura La oiante 18 “The Iron Mask” “The g at sApite Marri Yitaphone sul Militery reel Last Werning. Vitaphone eel” omedy. 1as_Fairbanks in e el Dougias_Fairbanks 1n The Tron Mask' * Jeanne Earels m “The Letter.™ Jack Duffy comeds. ~Jeanne Fawels “The Latter comedsy. Ken_Maynard 10 Betty Bronson in ~ “rne Cods of “One Etolen Night.” Bearist ' Comedy. Oddity reel. Vitaphons reel 5 Apolle | ;ve. Grand s Milton 8ills and ia Corda in Good carteon oy Stres Vitabhone subject. Oddity_ree n “One Stolen Night." Betty Bronson n M i Code of Scar! Comedy. _Vita M 1 Rosch romedy. ry recl. Seriai “Th | Cnrol;nl Garinne Griffith in ie Divine Lady. irien Lois Moran n “Blindfeld." and Louise Dresler in “Mother Knows Best." Barry Norton and Victor cLaglen and Cglman and Lily Damita in “The Res Leatrice Joy n “Strong_Bov." Cameo Mt. Rainier. Md. ““The Fiving Fleet." “Hearts in Dixle.” “Hot Stuff.” Comeds. Comeds. “Seven Footprints to Batan.”’ Mat., Law. Night. “Marauis Preferred.” Bessie Love and Charles King in “Broadway Melody." Krazy Kat cartoon Central Tove and John Barrym “Eternal ore in Py Gearee_Bancroft “The Wolf of Wall rest.” Comedy. stre Vita. & military resls. Vits. George_Bancroft 1 ST R Cr-"e-r‘s Moore “The Wolf of Wal in ‘set.” Comedy. sy Be Good. ‘& milifary resls. Vitaphone Douslas Fairbanks in ‘The Tron Mask." Snookums_comeds Chevy Cha. 8, “"The Tron Mask ookums_co: Tois Moran in ““True Heaven." short subjeet. Chase comedy. “Why Be Good?" “One_Stolen Nig) Oddity reel Laurel-Hardy comedy. subjec Beity_Bronson 1 Ken Maynard in nt.” *"The Code of Scarlet Arthur Lake comedy Vitaphone. _Seris Wiillard Mack and Wi 8ylvia Fleld in “The Volice of the City." Circle R “The Voice of City.” JTard M d in the Clyde “Strong Boy.” John Mack Brown an Jeanette Loff in © id Rod La_Rocque and Tom Kennedy in, “Love Over Night. omedy. Review. in “Making_the Grade." und Lowe and Lois Moran lenn Trson in Gl “It Can Be Done.” Colleen Moore in v Be Good?" Vitaphone short s ubject. cfi_ken Moore in “Wwhy Be Geod?" Vitaphene short Subject Georee Bancroft 1n “The Wolf of Wall treet Sennett_comedy Tars Hansen in “Homecoming.” Vitaphone short subiect. ancroft in 1 3 “The Bir Vita Divy Les and Rin Tin T in “Frozen R en_Maynard in e Code of Scarlet.” Boy comeds. hort subfect Colony Cntmrld 5;:!51. l:lnd o Dumbarton i némfim’.. id.” medy Jack Holt and Betty Compeon in “Court-Martial.” Frandle Darro and Helene_Costello 1n “The Circus Kid." Comedy. James Murray in “The Little Wildcat.” meds. Audrey Ferris and Edmond lows and Lots Wilson_in “Making the Grade.” Rex _Bell n “Cowboy Kid." Comed Monte_Blue and Lols Wilson in “'Conauest.” News. Dopglas Fairbanks 18 2 “His Majerst: h M1 Elite American " News. Co: Adolphe enjou_in Tonts Freterred Comeds. oddity. Dorls Kengon “The Hi qfl'l' o “Burn, ot Gibson_in ing the Trail.” Comedy. Seria! Tim Collesians._Comedy. Colleen Moore in “Bynthetie Sin." Comedy. Golleen Moore in “Aynthetic Bin." Comedy. and Bessi aill in Gally < the. Wom- eds Mu “The Captive Scandy ap'”_Com Comed: n 4 d the Slerras.” e e Tim McCoy 7 “Homecoming.” Comedy. Home R Geo! ki oft i wall v Tee Bancr: e Wolf of ireet Ton Oha in v WWhere East Arth s Tolleen_Moore in ihy Be Good.? g 4 East ks Somedy Tois Mor “Joy M Inkwell ear Vitaphone r Milton_ 8ills and “Ma l.:uler Adolphe Meniou in rquis Preferred.’ Comediel tion_ Kid." New. ¥ reels. N ry mance of it Artor In e t the YR = Liberty Seven Foolprints to sat Comed. helma Todd in Ressle Love and Charles King in 8port. 3ie Love and arles King “Broadway_ Melody. Bt a Onder Rin- T T on “The Millisn-Dollar Collar.” Serial._Comeds. “Dorothy Mack: “Children Ritz. Comedy. il Tn of the News. o5 Hoot Gitson n “Smilin’ Guns.” C diec. “Modern O Daughter omedy. Bpert. TRAh, at Crockett il of the Di the Alamo. Comedy. Serial “Vanishine Hoofs,” Comedy. Princess Richard DIx i Ship Comes In* ille.” Comedy. “olores Costelle in +Ten derloin.” Mat, “The Rid's’ Olever.” omedy. _Serial Bello Bennett n “Molly and Me." Inkwall cartoon Savoy Silver Dark. Seco &orine. s Toria in d Woman " Comed. A ac n nd, Texas Guinan it “Queen_of the Night ik Tu Comeds. Rillie Do “Night Comeds. “The Beliamy T Comedr. Teairice Joy_in Tial" News. Rin-Tin-Tin _in “Land of fhe Siver Takoma %o News. Comedy. Ronald Golman in “The Rescue.” “Taxi 13" Comed. Fox Movietane News. “Tax) 13." Fox Movietone News. Ghester_Conklin Karl Dan- in | CAU at Sea.” Vietor MclLagle: ‘Btrons Bo: ra La Flante in Last _Warning.” rtoo B News. n Vitaphone _subject Tivoli Ne Vit John Bt ws. Cartoon Topics. G aphone _sublect Vitaphone _subject Topics Vitaphone Barrymore, in ernal Love " Comedy Wn:-rhlh or_in rou e, s " Gamed subject. ite. By and military reels Warner Baxter fn T, Douglas Fairbanks in Doy i ron ‘Vitaphone subject. vit York las _Fairbanks in Ton Chaney in ron Ma “Where East Is East.” aphone subject Choruis_Girl comeds. Moy “Bells Benneti Fegimald Deony f n ear the Decks. and Me."" Comeds. Serial at_cartoon. el. Current Attractions. (Continued from First_Page.) exquisite blending of vigorous, poetic acting, with alluring musie and "“i plcturesque life of the twelfth century | England. | Subtitled as “Robin Hood, and the Three Kings,” these four characters | will be played by Frederick E. Oechsner | as Robin, Earl of Huntingdon; Francls | McGarraghy as King Richard, Coeur de | Lion; Aaron M. Rosenthal as Prince | John, and Clark Beach as Oberon, King of the Fairles. Outlaws and followers of Robin Hood—Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and Alan-a-Dale—will be played by Milton D. Korman, H. R. Baukage, Lucten Kerns and Robert Davidson, while the never-to-be for- getten Sheriff of Nottingham will be done by James Otis Porter, Maurice Jaryis will play Fitzwalter, father of Mafd Marian; Maid Marian herself will be played by Lahuna Clinton, and Grace Peters Johnson will be the wicked Queen Elinor. The fairies will be im- personated by Caroline McKinley as Titanla; Clark Beach as Oberon; Anne Ives as Shadow of a Leaf, and Cricket Caukin as Puck. The public is invited to attend the presentation. Chair tickets also are on sale at Willard Hotel Newsstand, T. Arthur Smith's ticket bureau; Amer- jcan Automobile Association and Franklin School Building. Boxes may be had from Mrs. Cary H. Brown. LOU LANGLOTZ RECITAL— ‘Toms ‘The Lou Langlotz annual dance re- cital will be staged at the Hotel Roose- velt tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock. The program will feaure baby groups and solo dances in numbers arranged for children from 2% to 5 years old and will include “The Gypsy Carnival” camera is taken afar off, and that you really would not know | Dooley was the real dancer. | Tryon, by the way, will next ap- pear in the Universal production, ! “Barnum Was Right.” ‘The name of the Eddie Leonard picture has been changed from “Harmony Lane” to “Melody Lane.” Josephine Dunn is the featured _lg}ayer. “The ird Party,” which was announced as the Reginald Den- ny picture for next year, has been replaced by “No, No, Napoleon.” Morton Downey’s next picture will be “Lucky in Love,” and he | has llreadf' started work in the| Pathe studio. Betty Lawford has | the leading feminine role and | Kenneth Webb is directing. Theodore Von Eitz has been added to the cast of Ina Claire's first talking picture. Henry | Daniel is the leading man and | Marshall Neilan is directing. “Dancing Flapper Dolls,” “Baby Nymphs | Dance,” “Sea Shore Babies.” introduc- ing Jeane Rubin, Paige Waite, Alberta Briggs, Barbara McCarty, Toby Salontz, Janet Sehwartz, Jerry Lust, Edna. Of- fenberg, Hilda May Case, Marion Schu- man, Barbara Briggs, Angela Selig, Helen Turner and Anna Fagelson. Older groups will be seen in March of the Wooden Soldiers,” batic Rhythm,” “The Prancers” “A Spanish Suite,” “Musical Comedy,” “Tea for Two,” ‘“Adago Tango,” “Halloween Party,” “Classic Waltz." Victoria toe groups, presenting Elizabeth Briggs, Sarah Lipman, Anita Rosenberg, Naomi Turpver, Irene Sacks, Jerry Cohn, Eliza- beth Cockerille, Olive Scopi, Olga Rosen- berg, Bernice Rosenberg, Eunice Rice, Ocie Rickman, William Nugent, Pat | Catem, Audrey Shepherd, Mary Jane Leach and Gladys Caw. Arch Selwyn anticipates bringing Tina Meller, sister of Raquel, to New York next season for a part in “Wake Up and Dream.” Tina is a dancer who has had considerable success in Span- ish repertoire in Paris. It is understood that Eddie Cantor will make “Whoopee” for | | Paramount, but the contract has | not yet been signed. | William Powell has been select- | ed by Paramount to replace Sam | Hardy for the leading role in | “Behind the Makeup.” Hal Skel- | ly and. Esther Ralston have im- | portant roles. | } Bessie Love is the star of “Eva | the Fifth,” and Raymond Hackett has been signed to play the lead- | ing ‘'male role. " Edgar Selwyn is | directing. : } Joseph Schildkraut will appear | {in three pictures during the next | In “Sherwood” |{such thi “Evt GEORGE BANCROFT In & scene from his new picture, “Thunderbolt,” scheduled for early exhibition, Two haunted men are werking at the Paramount studios. It is not immaterial, strange, fright- ening things that haunt them, but the familiar shape of themselves. The haunted are Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows. Ever since they made a certain phon- ograph record about early birds and ngs they have been haunted. ery place we go we hear those records,” Mack moans. “It's llke meeting your own ghost wherever you turn,” Moran comments. “Worse " than thi Mack puts in. “It's like looking at your own em- you get up." The Two Black Crows go out to din- | ner and some one puts on one of their | records. They attend a bridge party, and it is the same. Charles Chaplin entertained them in Hollywood with some of their records. Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts did the same thing. | | | The sales of their records have gone past. the 7.000,000° mark, and are still gelling rapidly, so there seems little hope of a rest. Piled one on top of the other, or placed end to end, all the records of | theirs being played today would drive an adding machine to the trash heap. Two Haunted Men. balmed mummy every morning when | | joined Moran's when they found that |each one's talents fitted perfectly with the other. Both comedians are of Irish descent, with one-quarter German admixture. Thelr vernacular, like Topsy, just “growed." It is a 'familiar tired feeiing translated into words. You grease your vocal chords with molasses, breathe | gently, and there you are. They love the taste of burnt cork, but | |long to live down their record ghosts. “We thought at one time we'd play | ‘Othello’ to break the spell, but we couldn’t decide which one would wash Up and play Iago,” Moran explafs. “And we were going to have a new ending,” Mack says. “In our version | Desdemona was always putting Othello’s speech to the senate on the phonogpaph, | |50 he killed her, That's perfectly logi- | cal, isn't 1t? New R: ian Films, '}/ YESOLOD PUDOVKIN, one of the leading Russian directors and es- pecially noted for his recent production | of “Storm Over Asia,” is reported in | Moscow newspapers to have gone o the health resort of Kislovodsk, in the Cau casus, to take gome scenes there for a | new picture to be ealled “Life Is Worth | v”lllvhl’h' Te Photoplays This Week (Continued from _First_Page.) Myma Loy, Willlam V. Mong, Malcolm Waite, Noble Johnson, Otto Hoffman and Joe Bonomo. Vast and thickly peopled are the scenes and situations of “Neah's Ark.” The love story that runs through it is glamorous. Characters wrecked on a continental train find themseives in Paris at the opening of the World War, Passing through the soul-stirring time, they find themselves wafted back 50 centurles to the days preceding the flood—actors in scenes of heathen wor- ship, revelry, slavery—and in the idyllic life of the family of the “one just man,” Noah. Mirlam, handmaiden in the household of the patriarch, is captured by the heathen soldiers. Her lover, Japheth, son of Noah, in trying to res- cue her. is tortured and sent to exlle. Then the flood! LITTLE THEATER—"Gthello.” Under the auspices of the Film Arts OCulld, the Little Theater this week will esent Shakespeare's tragedy, “Othello,” with the distinguished actor, Emil Jannings, in the title role, a part in which he had signal success on the European stage. No great, actor of his has created more notable and lasting character creations, both for the stage and the screen, than has Emil Jannings. America knows him best for his screen work and his work in “Peter the Great,” “The Street of Sin" and “The Last Command,” with many other pictures, and domestic, will attest the and impressiveness of his ‘The supporting cast in “Othello” will include Werner Kraus,” another noted foreign actor, as Iago; Ica Lenekefly as Desdemona, in her initial work before and Lya de Putti, who is more widely known in this eoun The “Othello” production was mads in the Ernest Lubitsch Studios in Bcr- lin, and under the personal direction of Mr. Lubitsch himself. Indeed, it is said | to be one of his really great works. The lighter supplementary entertain- ment of the bill will be provided by a Visugraphie scenic, the weekly news- reel and a Stan Laurel-Oliver Hordy comedy, with the music of the Zittle Theater's famous trio. Coming Attraction_s. NATIONAL P'LA\"EBS—"IIln » Jeanne Eagels’ successful play, “Rain,” which served that young actress for nearly three seasons, will be the Na- tional Theater Playe: offering next week, beaginning June 24, No stranger to the role of S8adie Thompson, having played it twice, Edith King may be expected to lct}u\t herself as hand- somely as she did in “The Girl of the Golden West.” “Rain,” as the whole world must know by this time, has a_twin theme of love and of deceit. John Colton adapted the story to the stage, seeing dramatic possibilities in the Somerset Maugham fiction which Maugham himself did not see. Working with Clemence Randolph as eollaborator, Colton turned ovt a dramatic result which brought wealth to himself, the roducer and fame and money to Jeanne agels, It won New York and before the original company moved off Broad- way 741 performances had been given, So avid were fllm people for the sereen rights, it 1s said, that Mary Pickford offered $400,000 for them and was | turned down, The story deals with an impish-mind- ed ecoquette, driven from San Franeisco perhaps, | 1 1 l I AMUSE MENTS. First Love Affairs. LO\'E'S young dream flourishes in, the hearts of our foremost screen | players, and neither time, motion pic- ture contracts nor Rolls-Royces can dim the memory of their first dewy-eved sweethearts. Carol Lombard, Pathe feautred play-| er, agrees to the extent of admitting | that she remembers her first love affair | vividly, since it ended in a bitter trag-| edy. | When 8 years old, Carol found herself | deeply enamored of a 9-year-old boy in her class at school. Her affection was | returned. All should have been well, | and was, Carol confides, until a certain | day when the youthful swain gave the | future picture actress a candy heart on | which ?‘m red letters proclaimed “I| love you.” Long before she loved her first sweet- heart, Carol had loved candy. Torn between two loves, little Carol could not decide whether to eat the candy heart or keep it as a token of love, Love lost the day. Unfortunately, Carol's young admirer was peeking sbout the corner when his lady devoured the offering. For the re- mainder of the vear he forebore speak- ing to her unless it was to hurl jibes and taunts for the benefit of those of his classmates who had observed his former affection. Nothing remained of Carel's first love affair—not even the candy heart. That insidious factor in so many love affairs—the opinion of others—was the rock on which Jeanette Loff's first ro-| mance floundered. At 10 the present film favorite played | her first role as a leading Jady—in school play. For a leading man there was selected a youth on whom Jeanette had long been gazing with adoring eves. He had carried her books home from school, too, more than once, and had | given other evidence of the fact that he thought his golden-haired playmate was quite the nicest girl in school. Jeanette was a princess in distress in the school play, and the leading man the prince who rescued her. In o scene she had to faint, and he held h in his arms while trying to bring her back to- consciousness. Miss Loff ad- mits quite frankly that rehearsals of this particular scene could not come too | often for her. But the other “kids” in school began to tease the poor leading man. One| day when he was going through the| scene with Jeanette, cat- began | coming through the window, and the| jeers and jesting of the other school- boys became too loud to be ignored. Suddenly stricken with the ignominy of his situation, Jeanette’s prince threw his princess to the floor with all possible | dispatch, dashed from the stage and appeared at rehearsals no more. A girl was substituted in the role and Jean- ette bravely stified the pangs of her first heartbreak. - Diane Ellis met her first sweetheart hen she was sailing under false colors. At 12 Diane and a school chum plaved “hookey” from the school in Los Angeles which they were attending, and tried to get extra work at a nearby film studio, retending to be quite “elderly” young fes of 17 or 18. The disguise seems to have been suc- cessful in the case of Diane, who was rather tall for her years. She got sev- eral days’ work, in the course of which she attracted the attention of a fellow yllyer in his early 20s, who decided hat the pseudo yo lady was one of the prettiest girls he ever seen. He invited her to the theater. Thrilled as could be, Diane ting, however, that he must not for her at home, but meet her at & ated rendesvous nearby. To she uoted the contents of & ‘which e had just read, putting herself in the place of the heroine whose cruel par- ents refused her the ip_of other young people. This noticeably added sympathy and gentleness to the young man’s fration for Diane. for Diane's roman to get in with Mr. respecting the t:nun;.)r'm- pensities of his daughter. When Diane arrived home it was to find an un- looked-for situation. Instead of being permitted to leave for “a movie with a school chum” she was set down before her books and sternly ordered to study 2s many of the missed lessons as she could, in preparation for returning to school next day. She never saw her Lothario again. Willlam Boyd confesses that the first object of his affections knew nothing whatever about it. When in grammar school he was greatly fascinated by a blue-eyed, gold- en-haired sylph who sat just in t of him. Lest any nne might suspect it, however, he teased and bullied her on all possible occasions. Only once did he permit himself to indulge in his real feeling for the young lady in question and then he did it anonymously. There was to be a Val- entine box in school and Bill saved his nickles and dimes for weeks ahead and bought the lovellest valentine the tow: could provide, This he carefully seale: and addressed, uignlng no name. There was much speculation in school as to who had sent the beautiful val- entine, but no one suspected that Bill was its donor. = Film of Gallantry. 'HANCES that “The Four Feathers, are the most recent film ef- | fort of Messrs. Cooper and Schoedsack, will cause a large number of people to say “it reminds me.” nevitably, those who know their Rudyard Kipling will declare that “The | Four Feathers” reminds them of his stories of the fighting of British soldiers against the flerce tribesmen of the Sudan during the closing years of the last century, and especially of his mem- orable poem immortalizing the Puzzy Wuzzys, “who broke the British square.” As a matter of fact, Cooper and Schoed- sack spent months among the Fuzzy- ‘Wuzzys in the Red Sea hills region pho- vfic;nlnmnt important scenes for the m Many others will detect a similarity between “The Four Feathers” and Per- cival Christopher Wren's adventure tale of the Forelgn Leglon, “Beau Geste,” principally because Africa and England constitute the background and because the valiant defense of a beleaguered fortress plays a leading dramatic motif in both pictures. Moreover, both films have the same underlying theme of a disgraced voung Briton'seeking to atone for his failings by gallant deeds in the face of insuperable hardships and hazards. Admirers of Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” will also recognize that young Lieut. Harry Feversham, the hero of “The Four Feathers,” played by Rich- ard Arlen, is really a brother under the skin of Conrad’s Lord Jim, for both were branded with the stigma of cow- ardice (or, to split hairs, the fear of proving yellow in a erisis) and both reinstated themselves in the regard of their fellow men by deeds of supreme | self-sacrifice. Naturally, too, because Messrs. Schoed- sack and Cooper were responsible for those much discussed films “‘Chang” and “Grass,” a great many are going to say that “The Four Feathers” re- minds them of the above films. And, as a matter of fact, all of these geuplo will have right on their side. ut the whole thing just happened to urn out that way, and not tarough any wily showmanship design on the part | of Schoedsack, the 6-foot-4 Iow: Coopey, the ex-wartime aviator, brought the primitive struggles and dangers of the mountain tribesmen of | Persia (in “Grass”) and the jungle natives of Siam (in “Chang”) fore people alarmed over such trifles as traffic regulations and income taxes. *The Four Peathers” in a sense marks an innovation in such productions as “Grass” and “Chang” with a dramatic story enacted by a cast of noted film players. Following the success of "Chang,” Jesse L. Lasky, first vice pres- tdent in charge of production of Para- mount, told Cooper and Schoedsack that they might choose any subject they wished for their next film effort, to be produced with the baeking of the com- plete resources of Paramount. 3 decided to make “The Four Feathers’™ * That was about two years ago and four months. Ever since that time they | have been hard at work. They spent more than a year and a half in Africa making location scenes and also photo- graphing several exciting elimaxes wherein wild heasts figure. Then they returned to the Paramount studies | Hollywood, bringing with them 60,000 feet, of negative, and went to work with | Croy's story, which will be Will been prepared in the form of a dra- matic continuity by Hope Loring ani Howard Estabrook. Some of the ltttll.n'!‘uunu contained in the picture are the attack of the Fuzzy-Wuazzys, the camel cavaliy charge, the valor of the faméus “British Hollow Square,” the flerce hand-to- hand fighting, the skirling bagpipes of the Highlanders; the mutiny -in Fert Khor-Gwab; the horrible stone death house at Omdurman on the Nile, whero an Arab trader sells men for ivorv: the burning jungle and the fleeing army »f baboons and other animals; the attack on two men in a canoe by a herd of hippopotamuses; the street and cafe scenes of Suakin, the Red Sea port, never before pictured in the films, and the military ball, with hundreds of uni- formed officers and handsomely gowned women. Printer to Actor. BIPOR! he embarked on a stage career, Joseph W. Girard, well- known actor of both the spoken and silent drama, was a printer in Phila- delphia. He learned his trade in the composing rooms of various nemrn‘ and finally went intc the job printing business with a partner who knew noth- ing of the business and who never showed a disposition fo learn it. Girard, who had appeared in pri- vate theatricals, and who had a good singing voice, was tiring of t; and presses, so when he was offered a chance to play a small part in & musi- cal comedy, he sold his interest in the glrlming business and went on the 3 e made an immediate hit and has been behind the footlights and before the camera ever since. Will Rogers' First Noisy. SONYA LEVIEN, whose adaptation of the Earl Derr ’ story “Be- hind That Curtain,” for Fox-Mevietone, was considered a flawless script, has been assigned to make the adaptation of “They Had to See Paris” Homer Rogers’ first starring production for Fox-Movie- | tone, Owen Davis, American dramatist, au- | thor of 283 stage plays, has written the dialogue for the production a: Frank Borzage of “Seventh Heaven' fame will TLeaves Seventh St Whart 10 AMa. FREE DANCING-ALL AMUS: NCING-ALL AMUSEMENTS BUS EXCURSIONS TO CHAPEL POINT Saturdays and Sundays R e 0 lan ch Co. s ton, Virginta, b e S Prankiin® 6643 it a carefully chosen cast to work cut the detals of the famous story, whirh hi NATIONAL Only The NATIONAL THEATRE $1.00, 75¢c and 50¢ r in Washington Presenting the Legitimate Spoken Drama Prom Washi d Co Bathing—Sports—Dancing—Dinners MAT. WED. ALL SEATS 50 Sut. Mat. 75¢, 50e PLAYERS for habits law and order frown upo: of her contacts in th> Isle of Pago- Pago and of her brutal persecution by | a hypoeritical missionary. Splendid | parts are avallable for the National Players company. Edward Arnold will but both are big enough to draw | year—"The Mississippi Gambler,” | 4 \ more box-office cash :hln many | “The Man About Town” and “The % ' Is ?nldy c-r’\;r;d-nd Cu'l'.l:—‘l'nc".m ‘mehm entire producing organizations. | Bachelor Husband.” | % X, 3 u?,.".,’nx"ui'r.n ul\,;Der y approaching Lillian Gish is joining the Carewe | Of course, you have heard that | i his popularity haa not heen al- Living.” The film, advance notices | state, is caleulated to “rehablilitate the | |love theme submerged in & morass of hokum by Holln'ml' Material is ing gathered by Go- | organization and the other name i Doug Fairbanks and his wife, ways thus. Both men have experienced | | Mary Pickford, are to appear in | | their own screen production of | “The Taming of the Shrew.” And others already selected for the | cast are Edwin Maxwell, Dorothy | Jordan, Geoffrey Wardwell, Jo- | seph Cawthorne and Clyde Cook. | Sam Taylor will direct. Warner Brothers announce that there will be no silent version of | “The Desert Song.” But how on | earth could this particular pic- | ture have a silent version? | Belle Baker, vaudeville star when there was a vaudeville. has | signed to star in “The Cradle of | Jazz,” a singing-dancing-talking picture. is Dolores Del Rio. * % CAMI‘LLA HORN, upon comple- tion of the picture, “The Royal Box,” will leave for Ger- many, where she will be featured in several silent made by Warner Brothers. Her last picture was “Eternal Love" in which she played opposite John Barrymore. 3 PR THE most ambitious production plan has originated in Eng- 3and and steps have already been 4aken to carry it out. J. D. Wil- liams of London is at the head of a $5,000,000 organization which plans to construct a huge sound studio containing not less than 20 stages, at or near Elstree, Hertfordshire, for the production of international sound and dia- logue pictures. The dialogue films will'be made in English, German, French, Spanish ‘and Italian. For this purpose, sets, when once erected, will be Jeft standing until semarate caples have been ictures, to be | | | Jacinto Bsnavente's is “Vidas Cruzadas.” offered at the Teatrn | de ]a Reina Victoria in Madrid. In l'; the playwright has directed his lance | against certain social traditions and marriage etiquette which still prevail in Spain today. The central characters are a woman of ancient family and a nouveau riehe who desires to marry her. Though she really loves the man, bring herself to an newly made. latest play ANNE IVES, Washington player who will have the leading feminine role in “Sherwood,” to be ed at the 8 m'(':“amm unl‘y BMW I'l |a hard struggle to attain the heights at | which they now find themselves. Born | in Kansas, they tried a long list of voca | tions before they came to blackface. It has been 25 years since they indi- | vidually started smearing their ’ICEI‘ | with burnt cork. | Each has had other partnerships. For a time it was Moran and Garver and | then Moran and Christy. Mack’s career Next Week's photopllya. COLUMBIA—“Cocoanuts.” FOX — “Father and Son,” featuring Jack Holt and Mick McBan. METROPOLITAN — “The Gamblers,” a Vitaphone production, featuring H. B. Warner, Lols Wilson and others. PALACE — “Fashions of Love,” a Paramount pro- duction. 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