Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1929, Page 50

AMUSEMENTS. Flashes From the Screen By C. E.Nelson. HERE is a new team in the talking pictures from which one mY expect big results, especially when _consider- ing past work of the B. T. (be- fore talkie) days. James Cruze, who manufactured such silent pictures as “The Covered Wagon,” “Old Ironsides,” ‘“Beggar on Horseback” and others, has now become a talkie director, and his first picture will be “The Great Gabbo,” suggested by a story from the pen of Hecht. Cruze will be assisted in the production by Erich von Stroheim, who will have the 1 role in the picture. This will be the first time Von Stroheim has worked for another director siince he took up direc- tion himself, about 15 years ago. Cruze announces that he has made his last silent film, and that his work hereafter will be confined exclusively to the sound pictures. Von Stroheim, it cannot be denied, is-an excellent screen actor; work- ing with Cruze, he should reach stardom without much trouble. Pauline Starke, little heard of during the past year or so, has been re-discovered and will have the lea feminine role in “The Great Gabbo.” Others in the cast Bougias, '+ lent opera ‘haritone. , & light opera baritone. There will be a chorus of 300 and an orchestra of 125. * X % X 'ASIDE from Equity troubles, the announcement of annual pro- grams and talk about the talkies, there seems to be little doing in the production studios this week, S0 a large part of this writer’s col- umn or so can be devoted to “short flashes.” * k ¥ ¥ THE talking pictures have devel- oped a new style of extra girl out Hollywood way. In the old days all the extra girl had to do to earn her daily wage was to look pretty. Now, the directors are de- manding talent. The extra girl must be able to sing and dance. Some of the new pictures are using hundreds of girls in the en- sembles. * % k% ALSO the talkies have brought new work for the 'directors. Before a picture is are numerous rehearsals—some- thing that was unknown in the old “silent” days. Fannie Hurst story, 3 Herbert Brenon all his play- ers line-perfect before they were finally taken before the camera ed upon and given performance be. fore a single scene for the picture was made, ve plac theater { PUFEa - \AKING IT TOUGH” is not the title of one of the new pictures in vogue today. 1t composers, to give their exclusive services to Vitaphone and singing pictures. Romberg is one of the most successful composers.of light opera, his work including “The Student Prince,” “The Desett “My ‘Maryland,” “May “The New Moon” and “Rosalie.” Hammerstein has been connected with opera in New York for many seasons. * ¥ kX ON CHANEY is to have good support in his next picture, “Bugle Sounds,” as Wallace Beery and Earnest Torrence are to play with him. According to present plans, the picture will be a silent | one, although Chaney may change | his mind and put in some noise. George Hill will direct for Metro- | Goldwyn-Mayer. ¢ R “DIALOGUE WRITER” is the | new Hollywood title, and Eu- | gene Walter, who does dialogue | writing, has® returned to Holly- wood from New York for the premiere of his new play, “Jeal- ousy.” Fay Bainter and Robert | Halliday have the leading roles. * % X X EVERAL years ago the Univer- sal organization made a pic- ture called “Storm,” the leading parts being played by House Pet- ers, Virginia Valli and Matt Moore. The picture broke all box office | records for Universal until the production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Now “Storm” is to be remade with sound, the dia- logue and synchronization rights having been purchased from Langdon McCormick, the play- wright. Helen MacKellar played the leading role in “Storm” when it was a stage success. * ok k% RAQUEL TORRES has been added to the cast of “Under a Texas Moon.” She will appear in the role Raquella, a Mexican girl. The picture is being pro- duced by Warner Brothers, who | “borrowed” Senorita Torres from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. * ¥ % x AROLD LLOYD, the comedian, says: “I have always consid- ered that the biggest step forward for the photoplay would be stero- scopic pictures, and I cannot get that thought from my mind. Sound and dialogue have opened up new bags of tricks for the mo- tion picture producers, but more especially the comedians. From the public point of view, one of our greatest triumphs will be recording, when we can give real life to our characters on the screen through steroscopic pic- tures. Another great advance- ment will be television—when we can turn on the radio at home and see any of our favorite stars on our own home screen. A few years ago we would have laughed at any one who predicted that a picture of an educational film by the Bureau ?t ly the manufacture and uses of alloy . There is not a tough boot- g T in the entire no music. x X% x "JO‘JRN!Y'S END,” the war play {* which made such a hit on the iway stagé, is reported to ve been purchased by a London icture producer for a record talking picture would soon be the vogue. No one can see the progress to be made in the years to come. Such strange things are happening in this day and age that no one can foretell what will happen next.” . * * ¥ MONG the stdrs of the silent pictures who seem to be hold- ing their own in the talkies are Conrad_ Nagel, William Powell, Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, Clive rice. Photophone will be used in e munduvert;mn. Gainsborough Eauru e purchaser, an &0&0 were paid for the screen t ik Do you remember that stage gt‘.""m will'mo doubt see’ some. thing extraordinary when the version comes gon- fract Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will have the featured role of the Bayard Valley play. H * % % % ;YN BRENT has replaced Mary Eaton in the cast of Fast Oo;n . thi.f:nnmo;mt of the er play, ‘m the Great? Jack Oakie and “Skeets” Gallagher are in- gluded in the cast. t * % X X sorm TUCKER, who has been called “the last of the red-hot mommas,” is reported to have red a success in her musical play, “Honky Tonk,” but the same bi the infor- mation that the picture brims over with the “old-time hokum,” mlt has to do with the Pag- theme of a laughing clown with a breaking heart. From this one would gain the information that the plot of “Honky Tonk” is not new, although Mme. Tucker draws much applause with her songs. . * ¥ ¥ X HOLLYWOOD reports that Alice ‘White may leave First Na- tional Pictures because her salary Ilmn::d‘ cannot be met. Officials & point in offering her the t.houE sand. * % % % '‘HE Western picture, long a thriller, but silent except for the hoof-beats of the trap-drum- er, is to be noisy. Hoot Gibson as signed a contract with Uni- versal to make Westerns in sound. Now we shall hear the pistol shots, the sound of the chase and the mating call of the coyote. { * % ¥ x . stage must develop new i talent or succumb to the pound pictures,” says William A. fi theatrical producer, who Brook, George Bancroft, Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Richard Dix, Charles Rogers, Lewis Stone, Gary Cooper and Esther Ralston. esse L. Lasky of Paramount states that a surprising number of the old favorites have passed all the tests of the talkies and are able to meet the competition of the stage ltn:m‘ R ( ;.ARY COOPER and Walter Hus- ton are to be co-featured in | “The Virginian,” which Para- mount will make as a talkie. Richard Arlen and Mary. Brian ‘will be in the supporting cast. The Owen Wister story was made into a silent picture several years ago. * ¥ X * “IT'B A PLEASURE” is the new title selected for the next- Fannie Brice singing-talking pic- ture. The old title, “Sex Appeal,” did not appeal to the United Ar- tists’ officials. * k % X JEDMUND LOWE, Lily Damita and Victor McLaglen are fea- tured in “The Cock-Eyed World,” recently completed by Director Raoul Walsh at the Fox West Coast studio. It is the first film of the 1929-30 schedule. * * X kx X AFTER a week or more to think the matter over, the writer is convinced that the outstanding bit of screen acting gf the season is exhibited in the work of Paul Muni, the star of “The Valiant.” This chap has established himself with a single picture; his work in the future will be watched with a great deal of interest. “The Valiant” could have been a maud- lin, sordid story, but Muni turned it into one of the best pictures of the year. The star is scheduled, according to Fox announcements, to appear again “The Mad Musician,” with Lois Moran, a story of Samoa; in “The Holy Devil,” a story of Rasputin, and in “Lover Come Back,” in which the star will be called upon to imper- sonate six widely contrasting in- dividuals. Talkie M;rionettes. THI marionnette show, one of the most ancient of amusements, has found & new presentation medium, after centuries, in one of the most modern inventions—the talking motion picture, Pathe Audio Review presents an amus- ing subject in one of its latest issues, in which these wooden manikin act and talk before the camera. The illusion which the camera adds and the ease with which the ventriloquial speech of the marionettes can be heard presages a revival of this ancient art in talking pictures of this sort, many believe. conf duction, Miss Welty is the author of “Secret River,” which iced by the vincetown Pla) Tast, Y of her other “Ji " are expected to be try-outs this with & New York THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 23, 1929 PART 4. Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week WEEK OF JUNE 23 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Satwrday Richard Tucker and Myrns_Loy in “The Squall.” Comeay. Ambassad’r Richard Tucker and Richard Tucker and s Loy in Myrna_Loy in “The John and Carlotta King . o ““The Desrt Sons John Boles and Carlotia King 1t Song.” 7 John Boles and Carlotta King n Apollo Jeanne ' ‘-';xs’ in Ave. Grand o ki torieas. Vi re reel. John Boles and Carlotta King in ““The Desart Sons.” Jeanne Eagels in Chorus Girl comeds. Vitaphore reel Ramon Yiovarro in “The Puga Vitaphore reel George Baneroft in “The Wolt of Wall Street.” tter.” Elmnn’ MNovarro n *The Pagan." _Vitaphone reel. orge_Bancroft in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” ~Corinne Griff in “Saturday’s Children. Cemeo_comedy. John Barrymore in “Eternal Love. Camen comedv. Comed. v el Richard Bartheimess Carolina Rerinald Denny and Vil ‘Alice Day n “Hed Hol Speed.” Banky and Ronald Colman “Two_Lovers." Davey Lee and Rin-Tin-Tin in i Prozen River.’ Central Vita. reel. Comeds. “Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell in s nc “Show Folks." he Red Vita) Miiton Sills_in Joan Crawford and “Love and the Devil.” i medy. hon~_subjects. Lois Moran in “Joy Street.” Arthir Lake comeds. Vitaphore reel. John Barrymort Vita. reel. Tom Mix in Ruth Chatierton in “Eterns] Love ““The Dumm." omed. Comedy. Serial __Vitaphone teel. ____Vitaphone subjects. George O'Rrien and Lols Moran Rin-Tin-Tir n “Frozen Riv “True Heaven " Doug! s'|r-|rnfiks' n The Tron Mask " Vitaphone subject. Chievy! Chs. George. roft in The Woll of Wall Lon Chaney Vitaohore su Douglas Fairby in “The Iron Mask. " ect Jeanne Eagels in “The Letter.” Comeds. Jeanne Eagels " Reginald Denny in in “Clear the Decks.” Krazy Kal cartoon. __ Vitanhone subjects. Lon Chaney Corfim: Griffith in "Satnrday’s Children.” Cameo_comenr. eorge Sidney in “Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic Cily.” Rerial. Cin “Joy Street.” 'Vitaphone reels Vitaphore reel . Falia gn g Circle Ve She Colony Douglas Fairbanks in “The Iron Mask.” Douslas 3 “The Iron Mask." Song cartoon Vita. shoj b Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman in “The White Miiton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill n “The Barker." John Mack Brown nd 1 Dorothy Dwan “Sauate_Ciook: Tom Mix and Tony in ing Cowboy.” Ton Chaney in “Where East Is Fast.” Roach comedy. Vita. short_subieet Fairbt n ubject Dumbarton Semmy Cohen ai Lola Salvi in “Plastered in_Paris. Comed: Madge Bellamy and Artbur Stone in “Pugitives.” Comedy. nd “Where East Is East.” vit: George Lo Lon Chaney in ton 8ills_in “Love and the Devil.” Vitaphone short __ subjects. _ annie Brice and Guinn Williams in “My Man.” Comed. RoRch comed: rinne “GriMth in, turdsy's Children.” hur Take comedy. Betty. Bronson and Wm. Colller, ir.. in 'One Stolen’ Night.” v, Militars reel. June Collver and Stella_Adams 1 “Me_Ganaster.” Comeay. “Tom Mix n “Kinz Cowboy." Comedy. George Bancroft in Ged “The Wolf of Wall ¥ ree Elite orge_Bancre The Wolf of Wall Street Mary _Astor n “New Year's Eve.” Comeds. Short_subjects. Al Jolson in “The Sineine Pool.” Bachelors.” i Short_siblects. Bhort. subiects. in-Tin-Tin in illlor-Dollar ollar: Short_subjects. Tom Mix i “Deadwood Conch.” Short_subjects. I:lippndr'me Woman. _Short__subiects. Bessie Love Charles n “Broadway_Melod and King Bessie Love and Charles King n *__“Broadway Melody." n “Broadway' Melot Bensie Love and Douglas MacLean Charles King in “The Carnation Kid." ort_subects Ronald_Colman in “White Sister.” Short _subjects. Jack Holt in “Sunset Pass.’ Short,_sublects. Serial Douglas Fai in Home “The Iron Mas “Bunset Pass. Comedy. B Powell in nary Murder o Ruth Chatterton 1n “The Dummy." Jack Duffy comedy. Vita._short_subject. Vera Gordon and George Sidney in ‘“The Cohens and Kel. Betty Bronson and Wm. Colller, jr.. in “One Stolen Night.” Comedv. _Vitaphone. Audrey Perris In “‘Fancy Buggage.” Norma,_ Talmadse in “Homecomin Ney." Short subjects. Comedy. Thomas Meighan n in “The Mating Call.” “Don Q. Short _sublects. Short_subjects. Libarty George_jessel “George Washi Cohen.” in Douglas MacLean ington n “The Carnation Kid."” Short_subjects. arl Dane and Arthur in 1 at m.‘ Lee n “Man in Tobbles." Bhort _sublects. Jim Molloy Thomas Meighan in in ‘Bevond the Sler “The Mating Call.” 8hort _subje Short- subjects. n “Scarlet Seas.” Short _subjects Colleen Moore in, “Why_Be Good.” New Princess in “Matinee Tdol " Short_subiects. Golleen Moore in “Why Be G Douglas anks, ir., in “Freedom of the Prens.” Short_subjects. in “The Little Wild Girl." Short_subjects. Al Hoxle 7 n “Outiawed." Shors_subjects. Ted ‘\V?H‘s Sidriey Lush n “Over There." n ‘Beauty and Bullets.” Short Short_subleris. sublects. 3 Clara_Bow_in 00d.” “Three Week Ends.” 5 Comedy. ews. ) ““Three Week Ends." Clara_Bow _in Lillian Dimitri in, “Forbldden _Love.” Comedy. News. Napoleon, dog “The 13th star, in ‘Hour."” Comedy. News. Tim_McCoy in “The Bushrei Se: Savoy “Corinne Griffith n “Saturday'sChilren.” 'Cameo_comeay. n “Saturday'sChildren." C: comedy. Leatrice Joy and Edward Nugent in “The Bellamy Trial " Arthur Lake comedy. e Olive Borden and Be Krazy Kat_cartoon. Buster Keaton in “Spite Marriage.” U. 8. Military Teel n-nan‘ “the dof, n “One-man_ Do B Lo Seco ¢ e Ranger, “Fury of the Comedy. the dog. in + Buster fia.” © “Spite News. New: “Tne Eternal Woman.” Olive Borden in Tois Wilson in “Object. Alimony.” omeds. ews. Cartoon. Comedy. Gaston Glass in “Behind Glosed Doors.’ Comedy. News. Victor McLagien, i~ “StronkBoy." Comedy. News. Paul Page and a Tane Takoma Lote, } Paul Pate and Lols, Lane Spet William Flaines in B e “The Duke Steps Out.” William Haines in ““The Duke Steps Out.” ‘Willard Mack's “Voice of the City.” Antonio Moreno in “The Midnight Taxi." Charles Eaton in “Blue Skies. Willard Mack's “Voice of the City." John Boies and Carlotta King in “The Desert Sons. Movietone News. . “Speakeasy."” Tivoli John Boles and Carlotta King in “The Movietone News. Remon Novar “The Pagan. Song _cartoon. Vita. short subject. m Desert Song."” Ramon Novarro in Vita Jack Holt and Dorothy Revier in “The Donovan Affair. Vitaphone. _Come: ““The Pagan.” Song_cartoon. short_subfect. “The Donovan Affair.” Jack Holt and Wallace Beery and Dorothy Revier in “'Stairs of Sand."” Vitaphone. Cumedy. _Cémedy. Vita. Serial. William Powell and uise Brooks in “The Canary Murder Case.” Cartoon. York William Powell and Louise “The Canary Murder “Saturday’s Children." Case.” Cartoon. AL Corinne Griffith Brooks in C itaphone reel. “Sature Corinne_Griffith in Children."” Vitaphone_reel. Bancroft in TR Wolt of Wall T Paris in Hollywood TRENE BORDONI, Broadway star, who has gone fo Holly- wood to appear in her first movie. Photoplays This Week (Continued From First Page.) wife torn between the romance of the past and the sense of loyalty to the present, and Johnny Arthur is the weakling clerk, who betrays the Emer- sons, who have befriended , Vitaphone short subjects and the latest issue of the Pathe Sound News will be shown also. RIALTO—"Seandal.” “Scandal,” described as “a sophisti- ted talking picture of high society Santa Barbara, co-starr John Boles and Laura La Plante, is fea- ture for the week at the Rialto. p Adapted for the screen from “The Haunted Lady,” a magazine story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, “Scandal” is said to be one of the most unusual dramas of society that have been filmed. As a story :‘;WM‘ "vidd{ “A’:l‘& mented upon, and the picture is to adhere closely to the original script. The love of a former suitor for a happily married woman in Santa Bar- bara's exclusive social circles is the foundation of the plot. He reappears to haunt, taunt and tempt her. She fears scandal worse than death. So does the man she has married. Finally she is faced with a choice between the Wrecking of her home and seeing a man go to prison unjustly. Laura La Plante has the role of the young matron. Huntley Gordon plays the husband, and John Boles, former musical comedy favorite, the suitor. The last named is afforded opportunity to sing in one of the sequences. The picture was photographed in Santa Barbara, Calif. A fashionable country club and a polo game provide pic- turesque backgrounds for the story. Jane Winton, Nancy Dover, Julia Swayne Gordon and Eddie Phillips are in the supporting cast. LITTLE THEATER—"Simba.” old melodrama, yet not the manufac- tured thrills, “Simba,” the photographic record of Mr. and Mrs. Martin John- son’s expedition into the heart of dark- est, Africa, will be presented under aus- pices of the Film Arts Guild at the Little Theater this week. “Simba” was photographed in its en- tirety by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, whose numerous hunting exploits are well known. Thelr party, with the ex- ception of two American Boy Scouts, was composed of native blacks, re- Lumbwa. Four years were required to complete this saga of the jungle and its inhabitants, many of whom are fast becoming extinct. The spectator is in- troduced in “Siba” to many new and strange animals, in addition to the more familiar ones which may be seen in any zoo. Some remarkable camera “ghots” were obtained, among them & scene showing the stampede of a herd of wild elephants, terrorized by a jun- gle fire and charging blindly upon_ the Johnsons, who also were entrapped by the flames. Another unusual scene shows a tiger that had been frigh off from ?.':e“:cene of its returning prey stand him, A picture with all the thrills of the |y, cruited from the African village of | A Dorothy Gulliver, featured in the “fan letter,” written on a fan by a little icture “College Love,” holding a real apanese girl in Yokohama. Long Apprenticeship OPHIE TUCKER, “last of the red- hot mammas,” as she is billed, has entered talking pictures and stars in “Honky Tonk.” She is recognized as one of the world’s most_effective singers of popu- lar songs. The story of her theatrical career takes one from a long appren- ticeship in cheap New York motion picture theaters, where, in blackface and nondescript clothes, she ‘“coon shouted” 20 times a day to a position as the leading headliner of American vaudeville. In her younger days Sophie's parents conducted a hotel and restaurant in Hartford, Conn, and she served as dish washer, waitress and entertainer. Often she regaled the customers with a lusty song between the soup and the wiener schnitzel, eliciting the praise of the delighted patrons and inquiries as to why she did not go on the stage. Eventually she did, though the proc- ess was not without its difficulties. Un- able to overcome the objections of her parents, Sophie ran away from home in the dead of night and proceeded to New York, where she accepted a posi- tion as entertainer in a German cafe in the heart of the then Tenderloin dis- o <y It was many months before she se- cured a job singing in an unpretentious picture show, and thus introduced for the first time the idea of combining motion pictures ‘and vaudeville, theater was a dilapidated “store show' ‘The | such fitted with 126 kitchen chairs and & wheezy plano, At last, in December of 1907, she se- cured her first engagement in a vaude- ville theater, playing for an entire week for the princely salary of $12.50, less 5 per cent for the agent’s commission. It so happened that one day, when agpelrin( in the olio of a burlesque show, her trunk, containing her darky make-up, failed to arrive and she was forced to appear in whiteface. ‘This proved the turning point in her career. She was not again to appear in blackface. Unfettered by the con- cealing coat of burnt cork, she was able to “get over” her comedy points to bet- ter advantage. Thus, beginning in 1909, she ascend- ed to the topmost heights in her pro- fession, headlining vaudeville bills in every important vaudeville theater in America and appearing as well in the principal theaters of the British Isles. Sandwiched between her vaudeville appearances, she appeared in & number of musical comedies and acted as star entertainer and mistress of ceremonies at various important night clubs, such as Reisenweber’s, in New York, ‘where the Sophie Tucker room was named after her; at the Playground, which she owned; at the Rendezvous, in Chicago, and finally at the famous Kit Kat Club, in London, where she attained & posi- tion in the affections of English society 85 has never before been attained by any American performer. To the Manner Born. STORY which had its inception during the making of “Paris Bound"” is causing considerable amuse- | ment in Hollywood. Some exterior sequences of the pic- ture were made on the beautiful estate of & wealthy Californian, en the several days' work had been completed & neighbor of the owner of the estate, who had been an interested spectator during the fiiming, commented on one of her most pronounced impressions to | Edward H. Griffith, who directed the picture, “The thin; which amszed me was the restraint and good - taste with which your players imbued their roles of high ,” she said. Director ““The only th icture, a 1 in the of the United Sl e e DANCING. | as much &R blooa” a member of a family which has been prominent in Army circles for many years. Frederic March, the leading man, is the son of a university profes- sor. ' Juliette Crosby, who plays an im- portant role, is the daughter of Oscar ‘T. Crosby, international banker and George_Bancroft in Btreet Ken Maynard “Code of Scarlet. dy. Serial “The Wolf of Wall e Come Vitaphone sublects. Vita. reel. Military reel. HENRIETTE STANLEY Of the Estelle Allen Players, who has a prominent part in “The Mandarin Coat,” to be produced Wednesday, June 26, at the studio of the players. Moissi's Talkie Debut. WITH the first full-length, all-talking picturg to be produced in a !m'eli:l language, Alexander Moissi, mid-Europe’s &ruw actor, will make his debut ig the talking pictures. The dialogue is entirely in German, and the film, now in production at Warner Bros.' Eastern Studios, is titled in English “The Royal Box.” The drama, a comedy of manners based on the life of Edmund Kean, the famous English actor of 1800, is from the pen of Alex- ander Dumas and was originally en- titled “Kean,” In 1897 Charles Cogh- lan, the actor-author and brother of Rose Coghlan, actress, translated and adapted the.play for America, pre- senting it at Miner's Fifth Avenue The- ading :ovle:' appearing himself in the les Real Devotee. “FATH!’R AND SON” is Jack Holt's sixty-ninth starring screen ve- hicle. Recalling Holt's early life of ad- venture and his frequent and varied changes in occupation, it seems that he must be very enthusiastic about his present work to remain at it so long. His first job was with the Pennsyl- vania Railroad as a civil engineer. En- gineering bored him, so he left to go to Alaska to represent an exploration com- pany. Eventually he drifted back to the United States and became in turn pack- er, freighter, Government mail carrier, legitimate actor, movie stunt man and, finally, screen star. A chance stunt performance for & Western picture was the beginning of & spectacular film ca- reer for Holt. For over 10 years Holt was the lead- ing delineator of Western roles. Only recently has he deserted his famous outdoor roles for a variety of dramatic characterizations. ARG R African ¢6QIMBA,” the official photographic record of the big e’ hunt conducted by Mr. and M‘l"‘s Martin Johnson, under the sponsorship of the Museum of tural History, required four years to make. During this time Mr. and Mrs. Johnson gwere forced io endure hardships and innumerable dan- gers on the African Veldt. Some of the remarkable shots in the film, which take only & few moments to show, ne- cessitated hours and sometimes days of patient waiting on the part of the John- son_group. ‘The expedition, in addition to the Johnsons, was composed of native blacks recruited from the village of Lumbwa. kg s diplomat, who headed the Treasury De- | partment forces in Europe during the | World War. Ilka Chase is the daughter of Edna Woolman Chase, magazine | editor and one of the best known | . women in the lierary world of New York. Miss Chase, herself was edu- cated in Paris and London.. Charlotte Walker is the scion of a wealthy family | which was one of the most inent | part of them all as flesh | DAMWI ON'S Bt corredlly n 3 fow CHARLES 'MACALESTER e s, B, S 10 A Good breeding is & herit- | Dunbar ‘The Peter Pan Troubadours, N. F. M. C.; R. B, Chopin Keith, councilor, presented their nineteenth annual re- cital at the Woman's City Club June 13. ‘Those taking part were Margaret va Lewis, Morgan Jerome Quinn, Jackson Raymond Lynn, Janet Matilda Prandstedt, Donald = Mason Lynn, Amelia Edith Desimone, Margaret Wholihan, Enid Victoria Julthn, Frank Taylor Mitchell, 4{‘-: Forrest, Rebecca Powell ary Frances ‘Mario Desimone, Eleanor Frances Mitchell, Jennie May Desimone and John Abel A " Take B‘uc Trip CHAPLE“L POINT a from Wash.-Va.-Md. Coach Co. Station “"12th and Penn. Ave. N.We Local Stage and Screen Notes Gathered Around Washington Playhouses F proof is needed that the “vacation months” are_uj this sweltering globe—or at’ least this particular section of it—the Little Theater offers as evidence the fact that it has removed 1,000 names from its mail- ing list of 6,000 entries. One in every six, then, may be credited with the good fortune to have fled to mountain, sea- shore or forest. The usual assurance, however, is that “we’ll be back in the Fall, and please send us your announce- ments then.” Meanwhile the theater saves money on stamps. June 29 brings “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” to the Palace. Is there any one who doesn’t know that Thornton Wilder wrote a book by that name, became quite famous thereby, and so took & walking trip through France with Gene Tunney? At all events, the motion picture version of the work has been well reviewed in New York. One critic characterized the film as “an amazingly faithful screen transcription of its illustrious original.” For those who demand their talk there are dia- logue sequences at the beginning and at the end of the picture. ‘The presence of Lily Damita in the cast of “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” moved an executive member of the Palace staff to reminiscences the other day. He was a member of the entour- age which accompanied the French actress in January on a circuit of per- sonal appearances in connection with the showing of an earlier picture of hers. It was her first real glimpse of interior America. Most of it was seen from hotel and Pullman windows. They made nine cities in 12 days—a perfect pandemonium of taxi rides, luncheons, theater appearances, interviews and catching trains. And, to top it all, the French girl was ill most of the time. ‘Two nurses were in attendance in some places. But she finished the tour, kept going on sheer nerve, and then went back to work on the West Coast. Don Barclay, chief comic in the stage unit just finished at the Palace, is an enthusiastic airman. Not a day passed but what he was banking and zooming and gliding, and whatever else fiyers do in gay mood, above the city during his stay here. ‘The fact that the Metropolitan has put new carpets on the balcony aisles and stairways has a significance aside from the purely esthetic. It is as much to deaden extraneous sound and aid the acoustics in the auditorium as anything else. Side-wall drapes have already been hung for the same purpose. Few persons realize the extent to which the coming of audible pictures has necessitated changes in movie theaters. New houses will, of course, be built along architectural lines calcu- lated to achieve the best acoustical effects, but hundreds of the meccas of the silent screen found themselves faced with a real problem when it be- came essential that the voices of the players be heard in every corner of the auditorfum, The problem was an old one to legitimate theaters; it was very mew to the movies. While the sound - reproducing machinery had plenty of power to hurl the tiniesi whispered word into the next county if need be, theater managers had to remember to keep the voices natural and within a reasonable volume, ‘The Metropolitan, along with thou- sands of other houses in the country has experimented considerably in the past few months with different phase: of acoustics. For one thing, the type of screen used had to be entirely changed. Whereas the old screen for silent fllmg was a semi-solid affair, the new type must be porous to permit the issuance of sound from the back-stagc apparatus. The Metropolitan has tried several different kinds. The placement of the sound horns is another important matter. A _great difference is made by throwing the voices and musical accompaniments from different angles of projection. Put them low down behind the screen and the voices seem to come from the actors’ feet: too high, and the words appear to spring from above their heads. To find the exact and logical point of projection is not an easy thing. A considerable difference exists be- tween the volume of sound needed when the house is full as compared with an empty auditorium. Such is, of course, the case with legitimate theaters, too, ‘To control the intensity of the sound as dictated by the degree of acoustics pro- vided by the presence of the spectators themselves the reproducing mechanism is equipped with a “fader,” which grad- uates volume from & whisper to a roar. George Fawcett, who has a part in “The Gamblers,” current this week, was ‘born in Alexandria, Va., educated at V. | M. I, and played stock in Washington. | The Columbia 15 functioning these: days under the management of Roscoe Drissel, who for nearly scven years was | assistant to Orangelo Rato at the Pal- ace. Mr. Ratto, by the way, has been vacationiug in the North and through | Canada for a while, and returns to ac- tive office work today. ‘The Fox has proud posters in the | lobby heralding the forthcoming presen- tation in the next several weeks of “The Black Watch,” starring Victor McLaglen, with Myrna Loy, Roy D'Arcy and others in support. The posters are not unusual, perhaps, according to the Fox's customary publicity program, but the picture itself has been reviewed as one in the forefront of dramatic talkies A New York critic said “The Black ‘Watch” represented “the first actual manifestation of a complete and refined capture by the sound camera of dra- matic action in panorama,” The locale of the work is India, with skulking na- tives and British soldiers bothered by the heat. Every effort, it is said, has been expended to make the atmosphere authentic. Prefer Talkie Chorus SALLY OCHERS, chorine .in First National's stock company of chorus girls, recently summed up the ?gmmm:etmn“m: “rf'oouuhl m Qcn has been both varie- les. Back in New York she did a season “Paris,” the Irene Bordoni hit. “Breakfasts have ‘taken the place of midnight suppers,” said Miss Ochers. “I have to get up at 7:30 am. in order to make my 9 o'clock call. In the old days, before I came to Hpllywood, noon- time was rising time. “I am in bed before 12 every night » | time. except Saturday, as the ‘hours of rehearsals require x|ne W}&n::‘up my tting plenty of sleep. No more midnight suppers for me. 3 “The songs and steps for one tion were all I had to the stage. At Hollywood I am prepar- ing for as many as four pictures at one used to wish for a seat on the sub- | way. Now I own a second-hand coupe. | T miss the good times I used to have after the show; but I enjoy the health- ful, regular hours I now keep.” Miss Ochers is one of many girls in the stock chorus who has come from the stagé. She likes Hollywood better, she admitted. 1 Overlooked at the Source. - I.IOLLYWOOD. with all its exclusive knowledge of the movie, from the very hour of its first flicker, sometimes overlooks a bet, to use the parlance of the street. And the fact that it has done so and even now contihues the practice is an outstanding basis of hope that when its monarchs and its millions learn everything, the movie will yet spring greater surprises upon a patron- izing public. drift on and on down the ages, unless some ly, who maybe know as much, chocks the wheels. Doris McMahon, who has just been “discovered” to be ideally fitted for the talking screen by George Le Maire, who! e ed her for the Pathe picture; “The Plumbers Are Coming.” and was so pleased with her work that he gave her a hole in “Hard Boiled Hampton,” although a native of the land where the good pictures grow, was not “dis- covered” really until she had reached New York }!::‘ a ln&. and needless career as a fer,” present popu- ];:aew for a dancer,in a Publix stage ond now lorens Ziegfeld is goln now 02 el take her away from the talking la'ee'g and exploit the beauties of her face, figure and voice in a Ziegfeld show next season. This, too, in spite of the fact that Doris had made quite & hit in vaudeville with Lupino Lane Some time ’go. & “For Two Cents.” WBAT is the purchasing power of 2 cents? Robert Armstrong brought up the in- teresting question on a set between scenes of “For 2 Cents,” the newspaper picture in which he plays the leading role. . Here is the list of possibilities young Armstrong jotted down for the person whose resources had dwindled down to 2 “red men”: A newspaper—to look in the “help wanted” columns. A stamp—to write home for money. One apple. Two sticks of chewing gum. Borrow 5 cents and go for a street car ride. Two all-day suckers. ‘Two Government postcards—to make two requests for money. Get weighed twice—finding how much | you are losing on the latest diet. was on the border of the “2-cent dilem- ma” when, after the close of the World ‘War, he returned to New York broke. “I had just about enough money to get to Brooklyn,” laughed the young actor. “There I joined a stock com- pany and later cast my lot with Jimmy Gleason in his comedy ‘Is Zat 802" " Now! ' NIGHT BATHING CHAPE.I: POINT Open 9 A.M. to. Midnight Made Possible by Electric Lights. These hot evenings take a dip in the cool Potoma According to Armstrong, he himself | | Next Week's Photoplays. PALACE—"“The Bridge of San Luis ,” Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer talking production. FOX—“The_Black Watch,” featuring Victor len in what is announced his first talking role. COLUMBIA—“She Goes to War,” featuring - Eleanor Boardman, unless “The Co- coanuts” should be held over. ELEVATED JEANNE EAGELS TO STARDOM FOUNDED ON W. ATIONAL |BEG. $1.00, 75¢ and 50c [MON Only Theater in Washington Presenting the L NATIONAL TNEAJ'.EI}E- PLAYERYS SAMHARRIS' FAMOUS SUCCESS THE DLAY THAT ALL THE BIG AMUSEMENTS FOR _YOUR FUN IN THIS GREAT 40 ACRES OF RECREATION FROM NOON 'TIL MIDNITE ' W. B. & E. CARS MARKED JOHN OE GLEN ECHO DIRECT TO_ENTRANCE FREE PICNIC GROVES—PLAYLAND MAT. WED. ALL SEATS 50¢ Sat. Mat. 75¢, 50c imate Spoken Drama o 7/ 7’ MAUGHAM'S. :W'm%:’m