The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1919, Page 4

Carl Hyson and Dorothy Dick- Marie Nordstrom, and James a d The Association will give a ball at : Hotel Astor on Thursday night. Thurston, the magician, comes to Globe Theatre on Monday night. tures of his programme are, & Do the Spirits Retarat” Vampire,” “Gravitation De- “ “Every Woman's Wish,” “The ” “Spirit Painting” end im the Air." ee Greenwich Village Folliew move on Monday night to the Bayes Theatre in 44th Street. * ee Stippodrome opens to-ni; an esis, Dayar ft apteischs ty with music by Ray-' 8 Bast Lavy nur torey, ls eS Ss Parsons, Claudius and egy the the a the anvant Fam, May ia and Ines and tho Abdaltad ‘Troupe, — ‘RAND’ S SCREEN PLAY A ‘K PICKFORD FEATURE pol! SIGHTSEERS WITH GUS FAY On oF EQU . ASSOCIATION ‘it iitts weer INGTON THEATRE SUE BILLS AT NEW YORK AND AMERICAN THEATRES ‘The film attractions at Loew's New York and American Theatres will be Constance Talmadge tn “Happiness a la Mode,” Monday; William 8. Hert, “Wagon Tracks,” Tuesday; Bthel ‘Clayton, in “A Gporting Chance,” Wednesday; Wari Metcalf in “The ‘Bettiora,” Thureday; Louis Bennison (2 ‘High Pookets and Mabel Nor- mand in “Upstairs,” Friday; Lile Lee im “Hearts of Youth,” Saturday, and Bryant Washburn in “Love Insur- ance” Gunday. Among others on the vaudeville bin t Loew's American Theatre and Roof the first half of the woek will be Minnie Burke, Ethel Mae Hall and Barnes apd Freeman. feature in the thoatre will be Con- stano Talmadge in “Happiness a la eode’ With the chan, ureday will be the Girl, Garrow, Poarl Abbott and ethers, together with W. & Hart in the flim play “Wagon Tracks.” [BEHIND THE SCREEN ‘Close-Up” News and Views of Film land and Its People, you're # ta not an intended impertinance, I'm trying to find out if your dramati reoolleation goes back to rhe period when te mo “costume flourished on our stage, That was, to be gure, before the days of the jon, ‘There were the stories of M. Marion Crawford, more purely American ike “Richard Carvel” and “Alice of Old Vincennes,” the small-clothes- -mnut-box comedies and dramas of the English playwrights, and an Punetuation of such classica as “The School for Scandal.” Very im this century B. H. Sothern produced Justin Huntley MoCarthy’a “It 4 o.10 arses verve followed it with “The Proud Prinos.” ington's “Monsieur Beavoaire.” ‘There was Manafeld's ¥ ly out of favor, The movies came he costume play haa never had an inning. ‘The pur- Hon: ‘The cowtume play is coming back, AR arene i u te Spontaneously in @ conversa’ fon, we had the other day. Nellan has built up his by roag) reputation by realism, by hu- t his On & script dealing with that lod Sarat a as taste le brightest part at that, “The trouble with the old costume titers, the ones that absolutely, pro- ted period plays right at the sturt tt the movies, was that they were a by queer binds who believed that a hundred or two hundred or thrée hundred years ago people live in blank verse, to speaking it. According to these, had to speaiee sonnet to get a glass of water, and if re sald the Seavaent ed us | chance to put novelty on voreen, and beauty. Certainly a man im our conventional attire and woman in a skirt too caged mod- soty, too tight to walk @ not suc ae Aet , ase mratiocnan and a lady of the carly Georges, 7 would go further"—Mr, Goldwyn iq atl doing the “and may that films must become more real, not only ip the acting, characterizations and placing of the story, but fm the development of the story Itself.” Mr, Goldwyn predicts generously when he predicts at all, and a further visien of his unites the theatres with the productions, He says chat on the stage there is @ union of theatre and uetion which has always worked for good, and that the motion pictury can never fully express the thoughts and desires of the people as long as there is an entirely impersonal go-~ between. At present, to te the case actly, there is no more connection between the public and the production end than there is between the Cuban sugar ‘ter and the man who puts three Cuban lumps in his coffee in Fort 2, lef in a return of the cos you of ‘Hello, kid, how goes it? with six-ayllable Words pa by @ elx-cylinder set of gestures, Rats} 1 beliove our great-great-great-grand- thers were as snappy much fun out of life as ind and we just about as natural and un- conventional as we are, even if they did wear fussy collars and ribbons en thelr pants. I want @ chance to put fome real folks into an ancient wetting, And I'm ‘going to find that chance,” we ana, we do A Chinese exhibitor recently wrote im from the Orient cancelling his Chaplin, The distributor, in some amazement, asked the reason, “Too many people coma,” languidly If this replied John, tume play—the true ‘pictorial epoch of ————————— Metro Studio in Hollywood is ma; be golng to change its name Groenwich Village Annex, Xo All the Metropolitans are bobbing |thelr hair, Nagimova cut her hair | off Tat March, just before she wade her big Chinese picture, Now eyery- tn company brief coiffure out straight. ie janaae Ma’ aa Dane and her ister, Shirl Mason, | thelr bair off ena’ alen Tans hei threatening t Pay ey me think, os hreatening to same thing, ia Mae Allison, ies If you wore a follower of the flicker drama when It was young, you remem. | ber the days of the Wi: Rimage, haa’ n, the litte . vivian CIR ta will 4 owas is not the question of & gensus taker; tf the in combing the | f, 1 | aotivit ; |mance Hall. ‘lbs! LLY ARS. WHO WILL BE SEEN N aA hirey are Toit oa, the latest ews from her is not about of her dramatic ao- tivities, but the announcement of the berth married and re- ot oe She Jed tred—ene Mrs, Ralph Jesson. —— Alice Lake, saat from comedy, is ha written ally for her. Finis Fox le the au Fie aie tate Rca tte td Mu tk Os ae ( pclae — Selanick has extended its activities acroge the river, Besides the Bio- graph Studio in the Bronx, the con- cern has on ever the Universal plant in Port Loo, N. J, where Blaine Hammerstein is working in “The Country Cousin." Olive Themas— renurne from Saratoge, went, ah to spend money an earned from her Selznick filma, will begin work there, probably in “The Girl From Qut Yonder,” jeomely graduate @ soreen story ignature to @ new contract. By the terms of this agreement Houdini will remain with the Zukor organisation for an indefinite pertod, aa been chosen “The ince ae Hilote Dextere taitiel meltar vente ele, Dexter ip convalescing and ex- to reaume hia interrupted dra- Bist oro oe nak he ts mont Opposite her first Flaine merstetn in Selanick, “The Country Cousin,” will appear Walter MoGrail, lat leading man for Pearl Whit tee mene wen also mn} in_ the cast 0} tagraph's fvithin the Law," Universal bas purebased sevoral in- torosting stories Zor early Among them are “The " by Henry C, Rowland, in which Monroe Salisbury w H fe Peer I ence requil by which will be a Paul Powell produc- tion; “The Strange of Cavend. ial,” by Randall Parish, to be made Into an elghteen-part Beach Comber," which Elmo Wallace McCuteheon will enter tho competition for gereen honors, Joseph Schenck has ¢1 bim_to support Constance Talmadge-in "The Bache- Fein by John Eimer. Anita Loos, of the Clyde Paul Scardon, for @ long time Vitagraph director, principally Harry Morey'a dramatic conductor, has obtained a transfer. That is, he has left Vitagraph and gone to Cresc ere he will direct Rdith iss Day the prima donna ing Up,” the musical oamedy of Cary She goacnens be Fay ® picture ° the Air,” with, Llaut Bar} Catherine Van Buren wilt support Mitehell Lewis in “The Last of His People,” « forthenmlays production, If you think that Mise Van Buren bears & resemplance te Mabel Van Buren we. A stock | M dey and other companies, you ye] ‘wrong. therine is te TURDAY, AU 45 fre.) es) b ACHE.CKI nt it —— SHERING SS, STEP piven SIRLS* nf AO EAN EATRE Cf was Jack Warren Kerrigan's leading Woman for @ long time, taking part in a serial at Universal City. Jacques TJacoard is directing. Tf you see a familiar face tn Alan Dawn's luction of “Luck of the Irish"'—the boarding house proprie- treas—you will know it's Loulse Les- ——— PHOTOPLAYS, E Gust +, EXT WEEK ter, and you may Identify her by re- membering, the “Calamity Arg” of American Flying A days, ovnt Jackie Saunders is one of the three new stars to be annexed by the World company. Ste will be “Did's Girl lately Completed a featured part in an Abramson picture. The other two signees with World are Raymond Mec- Kee, late sergeant for Uncle Sam, just back from overseas, who has con- tracted to do 4 series of light come- dies, and Creigtt Hale, who will star fe “The Rie Vinita UEhe ths by the way, by nia Valli, the brunette ¢x-Kasanayite from Ohjcago. “The Litrking Peril” is the name of another new one, gerial. Anne Luther and George ticipate. ‘The gympany je “Wistaria Productions,” and has also bought the rights to five of Harold McGrath's tales tten Edwin August, who was one of the first ho- roes of the celluloid, Edwin is com- Old-timers haven't . “OND SY his First toe atin © see bas Toul BROADWAY, SYMPHON RIVOLI HUGO RIESEN: Screenc: WAY ot 40th St, DOROTHY GISH ‘n@ Paramount picture ‘NOBODY HOME’ RIVOLI PICTORIAL MUTT AND JEFF CARTOON MRS. SIDNEY DREW ‘A Staterly Sche me" am RIVOLI ORCHESTRA Hungarian Comedy Overture Las Times To-day—KIIE FERGUSON tn “A Sag Halle.” T has been the custom annually for Mr. William Fox to present important screen creations on Broadway prior to their gene- ral showing throughout the world. " In previous years/A Daughter of the Gods Cleopatra’ The Honor System, WILLLAM NUM in ‘Les Miserables; “Jack and the Beanstalh"and “Salome” were the offerings. This year marks a distinct advance in the entertainment value of the productions: The third presentation of 1919 is the greatest melodrama of all tim MUN. ESCADES HOUDINI THE GRIM GAME The Most Sensational and Haln; raising, ESCAPE IM THE OU ORCHESTRA BEGINNING SUNDAY 1 Ing bac! actor, but as the author ku ty) olnted Pon which he bas sold to Wor! Commodore 4. tua) release his fature pro Pathe, t Blackton will uctions through + mor more than the forthcoming pe ee “THE MIRACLE MAN” . AND OTHER FILM PLAYS A film version of “The Miracle Man” Will be seen at the George M, Cohan Theatre, The Broadway Theatre will have .. | Houdini in “The Gum Game." On the soreen at tho Plaza Theatre will be Anita Stewart in “Mary Regan,” to-morrow, Monday and Tues- day; Pauline Frederick in “The Peace of Roaring River," Wednesday and Thursday; Jack Pickford ip “Bill An- person's Boy,” Friday and Saturday. PHOTOPLAYS. TRIE Pom jote- HOU DINI Wil Appear PERSONALLY rected ty Urvin What RIALTO! FELD, Director, BYWAY at 424 6t. TOM MOORE “HEARTSEASE” RIALTO MAGAZINE SUNSHINE COMEDY “Her Firat Kise” RIALTO ORCHESTRA “Sitctlan Vespers,” Overture Lam Times Te-day—CHARLES BAY in “BILL Henry.” 1 A story + PLAYHOUSE fe su, "i “AT 9.45” i DRAMA 818. Rot affected hy Act ‘ Sent Lived Ausical’ Revie ‘on eos sean es BEOINS With CLARK & mecULLouan, ” ‘The Theatre Guild of New York, anak Nl REE «Ba HIN FER s 0 CASINO faut ta 5 & f WE Are Positively Open ist nit tive LEW FIELDS FIELDS oid ty A LONELY ROMEO Greenwich Village | Follies senate occ Bre, 6.45, Matinee to-day 2 GREENWICH VILLAGE Serus,tt a iw dy B'WAY, at 47th oT. Burtete at pete Pickford Jack ! Coney. elders, Bea ‘Ckida— ‘Berely. EAST TIMES Pec DAr (QRMAND—Comedty “THE RIGHT PPINE SS" BRAY || Bol EALSE WILLIAM FOX prerente henry Weep vont toserenead EVANGELINE 2s KATHLEEN M1 EEN fie Aa? ST THEATRE Vis 25% FCO RETR, Seay. 0, W. 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