The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 13

Dearie THE SBATTL TAR ‘ nl ati hy) ahead MOTION PICTURE BEING “FOOLISH 'NO CHORUS GIRLS OH RGTURE E d Wynn Gives Songste Y 8 | Player i# almost 2,000 yearn old, | arts in Comedy Motion pletures were bound to | | captivate the popular fancy Be » they were simply an vlabo Can Rudolph Valentine Revive Old Sheik Game?) BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON = {because it only pald him « paltry 108 ANGELA, Dec, Whether | $1,200 a week, expiring at that times Rudolph Valentino can revive shetk-|'Phe injunction restraining hinw fragt A musical comedy company with ration of a form of entertainment ing in w question which Hollywood | working for anyone elxe expires, 106. | out a chorus? which mankind had patronized is debating at length Rudy, who recently sailed 2064 | Surely, if you'll take the advance |] for more than 1900 years,” says Vor Rudy will be permitted to go| Europe, taking his latest bride, ‘Wini- notices of Ed Wynn'n “The Perfect|| Pola Nogri, who recently com hack to work in the movies in Mebru-| fred Hudnut, along for company, Fool" as testimony to the assert | Wynn, with tho original New ¥ pleted her fourth American-made rk |] picture, “Shadows of Paris,” a t will present this famous laugh: |} Herbert Brenon production. fow |producer at the Metropolitan the: |] paramount Jater here for the week beginning | Sunday ary, Dis contract with Famous Play: | ers Lasky, which he refused to fulfill|D. Wiliams and to produce piet for Ritz-Carlton filme, MONGREL NEW Meanwhile, Hollywood, a i) ps its fingers on the MOVIE “FIND” lint iste nas phage to duled to go back to work for Jy 7 “The drama was the tnvention December 40, with matinees |] of the Greeks and had held sway New Yeir's day (Tuesday) and Sat form than 600 years before the | urday, first pantomime was added to the Richard Walton Tully has again|and that shelk films or “great | Of course a music show without }a chorus wouldn't be a music show, ; “Twenty-two years before the ut thls Erlanger & Whitney pro: | ) lau ay ae naa ree it || birth of Christ two Roman actors |mado all of its chorus girls prin. |] B¥e cs firnt performance of the Jeipals. That is they form a chorus, || Kid. Like so many movements {but they all have separate parts ta | which have had world-wide influ- | the cast of characters too, once, its origin wan noccidental. Numbering stagehands, 16-pleco || A” aredionoe nasomibied fo witness | pany ANG Svse CHAR, (tHE COC) 1 tise Cine of the players discov. | which seized opportunity by the! nix continental airs and his pei ing company totals about 80 per || lime One of the ws | forelock and is now headed straight! hold the fi spellbound by. |wons, 65 of whom appear on the || red his throat was too sore to 0: Consta: Tal- 0) ie flappers spelibo stage, That'n quite an assemblage || Permit him speaking his lines, In ]} One 0, onstance 1 Gs-| for fame. four-minute kiss are still “hot for a road show but it’s only one|| “desperation, he and his compan: || madge’s very best roles was| Exterior scenes were being taken|and that his following, which of the features of this—one of tho || !on attempted to convey the sense || that of little Ming Toy Fig (oa po rnc Png “monee |e out to some extent, will be Fe biggoat numbers which tho Met has || of their drama by sheer panto |/“Paet Tg West.’ She's back) g vived. i T “ Gold,” the Rex Beach novel which| pane ee Hy ) ti billed this season, mime. The effort wan a great nuc- || 5 ‘ Ge a ° Valentino bimself is thoroly U ‘The new production will bo dia-|| cess and pantomime haa never | in Seattle in that big picture|‘Tuny ts now filming for First N of “xhelking,”* and, lke Gillet Bitga tinctively Ed Wynn from boginning || been allowed to die, but it waited || now at the Market theater, tonal. The scene reprenented the| (ca, who selabine os heaxcane : A farm yard of a Texas squatter, and| “* é + to ond, for the star not only wroto |} nearly 2000 years for the inven. to make % more reallatic, Joseph|DCver, Written the “purple 4 at of human entertainments," made @ discovery, Almost every-| films are not a success. one knows of his peculiar ability] ut whether Valentino, who Is along this line. He is forever lift-| great ‘sheik artist,”* can revive |{ng some performer from obscurity| part is another question. His jand creating of them popular stars! friends believe he can. They do almost overnight. believe it will be done under And this time it {5 a dog—not! tanel of “‘sheik,.’* however, oF any: ® Rin-tin-tin, or @ Teddy, but just| thing tke it, They believe that Vi |@ poor, flea-bitten, mangy mutt! entino’s beautiful eyes, bis sidebu |tho lyrica and music, but he also |] tion of the instrument whereby tt 1] OQNATE WILL STAR | De Grasse, the director, remarked|‘¥m¢—he has told many Ithought up the jokes, picked out | },misht reach its gredtest popular || that it needed but an ordinary dog that he curses the day he ever plaj |the performers and arranged the | | favor.” IN NEW FILM PLAY | the shelk part. ; + At the psychological moment, as|‘° order of the scenes, of which there | \--e——————————————— |_ After a threo weeks* visit in New |if awaiting his cue, a cadaverous| Valentino, like so many othet will be 19, divided into two acts. York Constance Talmadge has re-| mongrel appeared at the heels of/ Who have ‘arrived’ in the fil And then, by way of fair meas: |turned to Hollywood and started|some workmen in a nearby field.|¥¢@rns to do “better things.” | ure, Wran himselg will contribute G Baby Peggy Feature | work on “The Goldfish,” an adapta- | Negotiations were at once entered tino and a = a a }lot of new stunts entirely feren . | rf to, t. | vinced that he a grea! {from those he has done in the Is Devoid of Sugar aes Wein adartieta Rischene: Had Neyo Rha eerie hora und he is known to desires chang a past and, in addition, for the first | \eennpmemennennnennt | He arres on the speaking stage, The|era all his life, his technique could|*°m¢ classic emotional part. ee time in his histrionle career he will) No lovers bill and coo in “The | ycreen adaptation of “The Gold-|not have been improved upon. With| A recent voting contest among fiiat sing and exhibit his skill as aD cr | Darting of New, York," despite its | fish” has been made by G. Gardner | tail between his legs, he followed| fans in the, East produced an ovens batic dancer. ‘This latter stunt, IM) it waccharine title. It's Baby | Sullivan, and Joseph M. Schenck | at the heels of Bert Woodruff, look-| whelming demand that he play the. cldentally, Is a side line which the} ) 0 % has engaged Jerome Storm to direct | ing fully as forlorn and dejected as|part of Romeo in “Romeo and — comedian long has been holding out, | Peggy's first feature-length screen | | i picture, Bert himself, upon realization that/Jullet.* If he does it would only for it is a talent that very few | production and is bjlled for an in-| ‘sac Mulhall, who will be remem-|the mortgage on the old homestcad| make tliree productions of that iad of his intimate friends even have | derinitely long stay at the Colum | bared as Constance’s leading man in| {s about to be foreclosed. for the coming season. Hi it suspected he possessed. Wynn did |i ining Saturday “Duley,” will-play the lead in “The} It was discovered that the dog] is considered more likely that he not paint the scenery exactly, but)" = ' = | dois Miss Unger’s play, like} was nameless. She answered to|be cast in some other classic part ho did tell the artists just what he Phacesecee Lewis, graduated from | img Dangerous Maid,” which is|the call of “Pup.” But, when all is said and done, wanted and he turnéd over the di- he ranks of arch-villains, soon to have tts tultial showing ta} Impressive ceremonies then at-|men who are going to pay bim th dance numbers to | Gladys Brockwell a 4 the adult | ‘ew York, will afford Miss Tal-| tended the christening. Anna Q.|big salary expect him to make Jutlan Mite Antonjo Batunno/and it js advance dope that madge an’ opportunity for more} Nilsson, who plays “Allegheny|hearts of the flappers beat will again wield the baton for “The |Pegsy, while featured, tn't the| rol, aramatic work than in mont|Briskow” in “Flowing Gold,"{and it's a’cinch Rudy will have go” Perfect Fool” and an augmented or: | whole show, There ts enough drama | ye” Srevious straight comedy'| grasped the canine Thespian by the| live up to expectations if he stages Rasta: 4nd Interest in the well-plotted story | ation | seruft of the neck, and tapping her} s _ Benides FA Wynn, the principals |to lift it from tho re of solely |" Constance does not wish to break | gently on the prow with a bottle Include Flo Newton, Nydia d'Arnell, al to a clas of enter-| voy altogether from the delight-jof Coca Cola, dubbed her “Alleg- True Rice, Johnny Dale, Arthur ’.|tainment for all classes and ages, | 0 Crcaiennee roles which have} heny,” while the orchestra played Burckly, Cass Burt and “That '| Baby Peggy, in this story, laid in| have placed her in a class by her-|feelingly, “In the Blue Ridge Quartet," which comprises Har-jthe Ghetto of modern Gotham, is nelf, but she wishes to combine | Mountains of Virgini that being rietto Keyes, Loretta Ferrat!, Ivey surrounded by a cast including |this comedy sense with more emo-|the nearest geographically correct! Kirkwood and Jeanette Fielding.) Giadys Brockwell an an underworld | tional roles and more varied inter-} mountainous song in their reper- The Meyakos—clever Japanese trio | character, “Light-Fingered Kitt | pretations than heretofore. toire. Then “Allegheny” nonchal- seen with Ed Wynn raival | Sheldon Lewis an nni, Frank} siden antly ambled home to feed her four duced effectiv in new] lor ax Grandfather, Carl Stock-| pup curprisen, 20d the principal dancers | Gain as Soultul 813, x + Davidson RENEE TO SUSTAIN ae s elie Penning and Anita | A poor Hebrew. | NO PERMANENT HURT INDIANA IN FILMS ~ CONSTANCE Indjlanans are having their day. TALMADGE /EDNA boa thaey as Lovina Furman, with Edna Hamel, Grace | po, In her greatest picture plays the character of Sa EAST IS WEST and | rection of 10¢ THEATRE Ite Ist Ret. Pike and Union Russell, Betty Barclay, Olive Bir |tissa a tittle walt Renee Adoree, popular film star, TER RY mingham, Arvia Smith, Edna Terry, | 41" aaded teatu | will not bear any facial scars 48 &) «11 yfissourl, ‘In Arizona, . Jere Fitzgerald and “Wynn's WYDM | Ooumbia pill is M result of her recent automobile accl-) Kentucky" and dozens of others, but |some Wynn-ing” ensemble of charm |. gan prancisco | dent, according to a statement issued} +on the Banks of the Wabash,” the vorite sons of other states of the gurrent Zaye Vervair, ly . and distinction, including the “SIX lite tots from Mrx Pes {by her attending physician. J. Stuart Blackton super-feature, is 8 wonderful reels jteen Dancing Daisies.” Torsery in a fashio Suffering from five lesjgcer' _ laid in the Hoosier state. Here are five of the beauties in the cast of “The Perfect Fool,” starring Ed Wynn, at| sonar cys 2 SPR PS nan's orchestra, pl ag bs sonia ere bersllarad batat eee - the Metropolitan theater, opening for a week Sunday night, December 30. The company| FILM PLAYS 500 WEEKS): in concert. | 0" her neck ¢ eysdee Director’ Gasnier will take “Babes si fy plea} . news reo} |, mash-up while en route to the) some of the cast of “Poisoned : studio in her car nearly two! Paradise’ ‘to Monte Carlo to 0, Miss Adoree hax been 12) shoot exteriors for this Preferred s state until the last few) dicture from Robert W. Service's is, without exception, according to advance notic the same which made a sensation in| the New York and other Eastern engagements. | ouvessas Wall Here, Still Gaining Favor ram the com * Recent Sensation | | n 2 “| ‘Theater records continue to be} # : underwent) Novel, ’ a broken by the James Cruze Para-} Charles Jones, the “wil Fox). decided change towards improve-| on ro eim re ic s Human Cast Supports || Point production, “The Covered film star, will have a chance to ap | iment | Dog in London Story || Wexon." which showed here nome |Pear at his best in his next picture,! white complete recovery is still a| the Metropolitan. It re-|“Not a Drum Was Heard," 2 Western adapt-|jittlo way off, the doctors believe | cently passed tts 00th showing at) 20 trort tory by Ben|that she will shortly be able to re-| log easy work? Posl-| 149 Critorion theater, New York, and |Ames Williams, ta Drum Waal new work in. Reginald Barker's few | Hal Roach, and he | win continue there indefinitely. Heart tas. heen balled as one|nitare “Cape Ced'Fetka” in which scam we sf spent | Last woek it closed an engagement |of the best stories of the West ever|she was playing one of the leads “pau laden Boies ¢ 34 weeks at Grauman's Egyptian | written. when the catastrophe occurred. ce bapphsoectey heater in Hollywood by brea curred. lenat theater’s record for weekly r¢ Jeeipta with $25,133, The total re ceipts for the 34 weeks were $712, and the total attendance was The picture closed only to 1 cl do Mille’s : 4 : pre ni Siren Cormmantanenta’ Madison Street, Between First and Second Avenues Recently the picture closed a six na ; ee } eoks’ at the Auditorium thea Ter Melbourne, Anstralia, and is now Starting ‘Today running the Crystal sydney, It is soon to be sent on JACK KA FFRIAN ad show tours of Australia and 'e aland. po AERA 2 Presents hooling’* waa tak de. of your mind. - ee _ (aeeaarinss ate aa mn he nai | UNITED IN “SECRETS” Dick Hyland & Go, time ago | 20-Reel Picturizations * Goldwyn Director sr Submits Possibility of |: oust wo 3 Extended Screen Showings St he day of the 20-reel picture fs} “Rea exhibitors shou! € rapidly approaching,” Erich von) come idea, for the foregolng Stroheim, the famous Goldwyn (dl-jreason if for no other, They have rector, predicted In a recent Inter-|double drawing power nm they view. “It will be within a shorter/had but one admission ticket to| wild" » time than you now realize when feat-| hope for. In the case of exh ims are twice the presentishowing two performances cai length. aiternoon or even! “You may think this absurd, but | could call for admissi consider what has happened within | time, say the 7:30 he past few years. If you had said, | ing nigh not long ago, that motion picture| “The serial idea {s by no means theatergoers would not only sit thru|dead. At least the m and enjoy, but practically demand| magazines do not th! pictures of 10 to 14 reels In pst pores siduously carry out their | o¢ METROPOLITAN 2. MATINEES DECEMBER 2 EVENINGS 26-27 K hristmas Without Music Is Like a River Without Water” The Most Popular Musical Organization In the World— Thirty-two Visits to Seattle Under the Auspices of Nile Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine | EET clares Pr bought Bu Jucer Ite K for th se of trainin 10,000 feet, and many of ‘them exce jand Eugene O'Brien, wearing side. Mati Entertaining that {oot Former Griffith Star Returns to| ‘The actual “shooting” was thus | burns, are sane bare Roker a a Pa rgd Comedy . q Von Stroheim continued MD. W." Yor Part in ““Ameriea” | reduced to a minimum, declares the | poreen sweethearts, This tino it is ae Licut-Coumanver Joun Puitip Sousa, Conouctor “Why shouldn't a picture be long-| Lionel Barrymore, in additi prod locations for the pleture [1m a film version of the stage suc- Monday ‘ 3 se fe erent an earn near ee Pan cr naa, ec haga AAATIONAL INSTITUTION course? 1 do not think it will always | Dayid Bel: ged tolout before a definite date for the | to production in Callfornia ny x eee a 4 be necessary for a director or scen-| play the But! ra work had been set | the direction of ig: poet —POPULAR PRICES— Four Paqpular Sousa Programs a arist to limit the telling of a tal the f ftith pro-| | Buck ts the central character, tho | | Bueene and sap agetirgitee nile Including “ON WITH THE DANCE” j nea. easurement, as ia dump, but he isn’t the whe cast, | Pearec ogethe D i x case, espectally with. adaptatior comes back to Mr:| The’ hum: leme London's | year, thelr Inst appes “The Merrie Merrie Chorus"; Ernest Schelling’s “THE VIG. | 9) a pe . ’ at cant, |samo film being in fORY BALL,” the sensational hit of the leading orchestras this | [ two new Sousa Marche: "and “NOBLES © Sousa Humoresque entitled “MR. ¢ and the ever popular Sousa Marches as most famous band. LITERATURE SUFFERS FROM AMPUTATION ducers are soundly scol¢ the time for the mut of ture, notably classics. Of course th are mutilated in a great many c us John ig as the From fhe Minaret y hgo they } y productions wero at that time known as “the | screen's perfect Ic : “secrets” 1s Miss Talmadge’s fourth and last First Ni IER! MR SHE. layed by the world’s With the Following Soloists How ont shy weimen Deity take ; STAR RE-ENGAGED ehicle for 1923. In each of COMING Miss Nora Fauchald joprano Mr. George J. Carey—Xylophol thing big, make {t smaller and , when he returned to the! Jsjjeen O’Mall ring vel ; “ he has Rae 6 Miss Rachel Senior......Violin Mr. P. Meredith Wilson. Flute " " > t book ‘ noted s these produc uh ei Miss Winnifred Bambrick, ,Harp Mr. Wm. M. Kunke C retain its Ager] ary mal : different leading man, Jack Mul-| Mr. John Dolan fornet Mr. Joseph De Luca. Euphonium would ret when t A pot be a eer hall played with her in “Within I H T WEEK OF brides “euaneite Epes Bethel sep emia [ the Law;” Conway Tearle headed bons e JAN, 7th to 12th sflsacr dy coped ss D ‘ av | words —n si rei “A « the malo cast in “Ashes of Ver > ne ening, $1.10, stipe: 20, 82.7 j the imp Rd cos geance” and Joseph Schildkraut re ANNUAL ENGAGEMENT — MAKE YOUR SEAT RESERVATIONS NOW — hs ata a selected 4 1 cently finished work with Norma| Bee Sree Ser oAMe he Oe girl liked lin “Phe Song of Love.” FORTUNE GALLO’S PEM SEE st , motives, p TOR % imme aged for a Players having important roles in| ALL Begin- ing is not ANNOL NC ZADS in “C Firet | Shia peseabuett Heide me 5, Rab. NEXT 2 screen, calling it olin J. Car melodrama, | being made at the I Hollywood | cliffe, Emily Fitzroy, | ree with ft, only 1 zona Express,” has Pauiine | jo Dowell and Patters WEEK Ming call {t downright n nd I I what can be done ¢ SPECIAL NEW YEAR’S~ DAY AND SATU RDAY cept lengthen the film to meet the Pus tthe: weaey;, eattier| slawyn’ and Prank rf i fii i fi WGN Nii AN tl We 3 ak | The Metropolitan Theater Management Announces ted? Opa Tad r he cas Hd ia i The Greatest Laughing-Musical Show on Earth wi be Goctmensury Fi w aul a ih h i AMERICA’S GREATEST TOURING ORGANIZATION it ) A Wir Ai ti i CRF ONE: HUNDRED PEOPLE. DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN § I RA, BRILLIANT CHORUS, SUPERB STAGE 7 Te all iii: —— In the Following’ Oper: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday MONDA with Tommasi Taylor, F Manuel Salazar, Baslol: DAY MAT. INEE: LUCIA, with Consuelo Ese sini, Inter tipulatior interest ‘ rante, Cervii WEDNESDAY EVE: BUTTERFLY, with Hara ¢ retained, at least, if not built up, v Onuki, Klinova, Onofrei, Valle, de Biasi, Peroni. THURSDAY: PROPOSES TWO 7 & CAVALLERIA, with Saroya, de. Mette,’ Tommasini, Tnterrantes PERFORMANCES , tm \' f PAGLIACCH, Salazar, Taylor, Basiola RADAY: FAUST, with r 1 not i WW i Saroya, Klinova, Onofrei, Valle, de Biasi, i T > CARMEN, roni, conductor. Mice Gentle, TUESDAY: AIDA, with Saroy de Blasi, Peroni. WEDNE bar, Morosini, Tomi ¢ Biasi, de Mette, Peroni. SATURDAY MATINEE: MARTHA, with Escobar, Kili rva, Onofrel, Interrante, Peron, SATURDAY EVE. (closing): TROVATORE, with Taylor, Mette, ae Salazar, Basiola, de Bi THEATER BOX OFFICE , HIS NEW MUSICAL FANTAS” a a tleket good for the cut eT Bates RRGIAS MOND ae Zacts- I9 SCENES OF SURPRISES ; ‘THRER Wit Ks” i pny dea STAGED BY JULIAN MITCHELL oat bond iar aati Cees, t i with Aw PRICES NICHTS 1228322 MAT5O%o : mae GN Katies 106 qM ETROPOLI T A N The New Year’s Week Attraetion pouen fallowing the first one,