The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1919, Page 5

ep Yum-Yum; Gladys the Broo! game character will be Thomashefeky Theatre, nue and Houston street. At the Manhattan part in@ benefit performance to Barney Fagan, veteran dancer and minstrel, who ‘completes hig fiftieth year behind the footlighta, % —_>- — FILMS AT RIALTO, , RIVOLI AND STRAND Rugel, instréls, Adele Rowland, igodand, Mag ee Vanderbilt, Raym ‘ laide and A Tages and the Sisters. Most of the performers now ‘atethe Lexington will go to Academy of Music on Monday night. Another show of the ven at the Ave- ‘atson Opera House to- morrow night Willie Céilier, Marie Dressler, Raymond Hitchoock, Eva Tanguay, Nora Bayes, Blanohe Ring and others will take Houdini, Bitte Burke wilt be seen at the Rialto, in “The Misleading Widow,” & screen version of the English com- ody “Billeted.” The heroine, who has been deserted by her husband because of her extravagance, announces his ‘ will have its Happy Days | New York | lew Yo after all , ; Monday thereafter “THE MILLION DOLLAR SHOW! MARRY (OLD G) NELSH & ¢ “AG TORS’ EQUITY ASS'N, PROGRAMME. i Arn LEXINGTON? PRICES—S00 hours,” Ste. from ‘Castle House, Terrace Garden 58th 4 at AMUSEMENTS. Re-opening (Labor Day) Matinee and ' twice daily Street, Neag Lasington Ay, EC ASE FOR FU CONEY ISLAND. at the house. wilt be “Baby Mari the Rialtg Magazine, a “Happy Hooli- \" cartoom and concert numbers. ‘The chiet prey, at the Rivoli will be “The Valley of with Wallac Reid plays who Bae p the Giants,” Reid as the star. M this . Sut tinds snimsclt property, inds Jhimself no Custodian, “A comedy Nan Acarem= match for ii called and.vocal music will com- plete the p rogramme. The Strand Theatre will have Mary” Pickford in “The Hoodtum,” a film adaftation of “Burkes’ Amy,” |b: Julia M. Lippman. is that poverty-stricken ings with serio-comic results. There will also be an Outing-Chester picture of liv- tog conditions in Japan, » cartoon of the Inkwell,” the nd ‘Topical Review, and music. The aew Strand Theatre in Brook- lyn opens this-aftérnoon with Geral- dine Farrar in “The World and Its Woman" as the leading screen fe: ture. There will be other pictures and a varied musical programms, —_—s— BILLS AT NEW YORK ‘rhe film attractions at Loew's New York Theatre and Root will be Cath- erine Calvert in sThe Career of Kath- erine Bush,” Monday; Bessie Bar- rigcale in “Her Purchase Price, Tuesday; Tayler Holmes in “Three Black’ Eyes,” Wednesday; Mitchell Lewis in “The Faith of the Strong,” ‘White Man's Chance” and June El- vidge in “His Father's Wife,” Ffida: Harry Morey in ‘The Gamblors,” Sat- urday, and Mabel Normand in “1 tairs,” Sunday, At Loow's American Theatre and Burton Brown, Nina Gardiner and Jack Barneft in songs and dances, Les Morgan and Beryl Gray in a Willard Mack comedy called “Every Day in the Year,” Clifford in‘a musical skit. The pic- ture attraétion in the theatre will be Charles Ray in “Bill” Henry." ‘The Grace Carlisle and Jules Romer in Meets Greek,” William Siste others, together with Catherine Cal- vert in “The Bush” on the screen. Sone ole ¢ |“ FOLLIES OF THE DAY” Barney Gerard's & Seamon's Theatre. _|Georse Hayes. AMUSEMENTS. Mui Morgan, cle Chor! Pr Twlee Daily. Thy Aristocrs Burlesque | mm sy i De Lux Always ‘Lively, Pee Meio Commencing Monday Aftarn. eclaliat Burns and Geos’ (Rawes retty, Vivacious ‘Two Veude ‘ite Bp phy. ‘Te death @o that she can collect his life insurance, but he returns as the mil- itary aide of a Colonel who is dilleted Additional features und-Up,” @ role of a young man ised his ar to bade Miss Pickford's of a wealthy girl who, by @ chance of fortune, is swept into surround! AND AMERICAN THEATRES Thursday: J. Warren Kerrigan in “A Roof the first half of the week will be and Swars and change of bill on Thursday will bring sones, Sam Howard in “When Gteek nd Career of Katherine AT HURTIG & SEAMON’S “Follies of the Day” will be the attraction at Hurtig The company is headed by Harry Welsh and WE price of moving picture exh Bacon aviated a long time roundings, a standard price for “first ‘These elevations will, of course, local conditions, The great picture houges in New York City are con- templating lifts in theif tariff which | has not yet been made public. I do not imagine that these accelerations will cause any diminutionsin the in- flux of the great wandering crowds that go by theirs doors. They have deen really stung too many times to object to a modgat hoist in the price of @ continually large entertainment. Any one who has pald the king’s ran- som necessary to get good seats to & Broadway theatrical entertainment im recent years—and has then com- pared the, doleful fare often found therein to the generous melange of fine music and varied optic enter- tainment ins the picture palaces— would not consider a seventy or sev- enty-five cent stipend exorbitant, jut these houses, despite their pub- lity and their crowds, are only a local interest when compared to the vast bulk of the picture theatres— Many thousands—which will be lift- ing their prices soon in all parts of the country, The average of this raise will not be more than a nickel—perhaps leas —but that means @ great deal of money, 48 some Chicago wheat mer- chants, who have gone from millions to nothing, and vice-versa, on the shift of a quarter of a cent in the market, could tell yoO, It is also well to remember that a nickel was once the standard movie admission, There are three ‘prime causes of the coming raise in prices: Labor con- ditions; the general upward move- ment of all prices, and consequent increase in all sorts of material ex- pense; ceaseless propaganda for higher prices by the leading motion picture manufacturers. Of labor conditions there are a va- riety, and, subjected to analysis, they are all bewildering. We may con- sider the actor situation as a ‘labor dition now, As I write these line ‘THE MIRACLE “MAN” STAYS AT COHAN THEATRE “The Miracle Man" enters upon the second week of an indefinite engage- ment at the George M. Cohan Theatre, ‘This production is said by all who have seen it to be one of the accomplish- ments of the pictorial stage. A pro- logue and an epilogue accompany tne |sereen story. The direction is by George Loane Tucker and the featured players are Thomas Meighan and Betty Compson, A symphony oi tra is directed by Enrico Laide» “The Miracle lan” is presented twice daily, with all scats reserved, \ affect’ different sections according to! BEHIND THE: SCREEN .|IClose-Up” News and Views of * Film land and Its People. By Julian Johnson. . {ditions concerns the American, people about as intimately as the price of street-car rides, bacon and shoes. ago, and shdes jumped over the moon soon after. But pictures, barring war-tax and thelr uplift from the mere nickelodeon stage, have remained pretty much on a level. That iw to say, there has been a standard price for the “b show im ultra-luxurious str- runs,""and a standard price for second runs in the smaller and neighborhood theatres, But at last the movie has joined the national procession, Prices are sping to rise, everywhere, in about thirty days, (i there is no embroilment of the screen in the stage muddle, but the situa- |tion is delicate. Two eminen: ducers were so distinctly part and parcel of the, theattical ‘managers jalliance that their concerns were nearly dragged into the vortex; and if they had gone in they would prol ably bave embroiled all the other picture-making people. Then there’ | was the imminent danger of pictures | becoming — strike-breakers — another peril only ‘barely averted. The mo- lion picture operators in the theatresy like the stagehands in the .studlos, ure long since solidly union, and this week the “ushers, boxoffice people ana gencral attaches of the bigger picture theatres began organizing. Secondly, a8 all prices go up, it has cost contin make photoplays. A only made money, but a great deal of money. And yet the picture business, as a whole, has not been profitable ‘or ita stockholders, One great con- cern 1g solidly listed on ‘Change and others are thoroughly reputable, though not in the current shares mar- ket. Yet very few of them have made any real money. The picture million- aires of popular fancy, men to whom money did indeed come easy after the stream started, formed the small, ox+ clusive oircle of early screen days. The propaganda of the manufac- turers to raise prices has not been mere avarice, It has been an effort to raise’ the class of presengation, to compel intelligent surrounding and diversified programmes, as much as anything elsé. You May or may not remember that one of the radical early moves of Famous Players was to ingist on an admission price of 10 instead of 5 cents. In the opinion of film .cOntributérs who ought to know, neighborhood houses all over the country now charging 20 cents as an admission price will increase to 25 cents by Oct 1, “And other prices, at other hous in proportion, ‘ It Is with a good deal of relief that I can say, with some definiteness, that Harold Lloyd's screen career is not at an end. Last Mondgy's Bvening World carried the story of his injury in a Los Angeles studio by the ex- plosién of @ supposedly harmless pic- ture bomb, whereo;',according to the first account, his eyeball Were punce tured, his face badly lacterated and his right hand ‘torn completely off. ‘The surgeons say now that they will be able to save all but a portion of his thumb and index finger on the injured band; that his eyes are not harmed at all, and that his face, while scarred, is scarred in such a small way that the frougings will not show under make-up. Lieyd is a clean, fine young actor, with a real sense of drama and a geduine talent for laugh- ter. To remove him while the brain- less pests Bf the profession flourish and endure would be real tragedy. He will probably not resume work before the first of next year, Imitation is the sincerest flattery, self. Haviig done “Uncle Tom’ Cabin,” with Ben Turpin, Sennett's tudio is now Stoweing away a farce: let entitled “Uncle Tom Without the Cabin.” Edith Storey has laid aside her uniform and put her ambulance into Storage. She's coming back to pic- iy’ Haworth Pictures Cor- tion—the oar which handles the Sessue Hayakawa productions— has signed Miss @torey for the com- ing year, It nas Deen. almost two years now since she cast her shadow on the silver sheet for Metro. War |aotivity claimed her in this period, and it was only when she was sure | there was nothing else for her to do | that she would consider resuming her screén work, * » Milton E. Hoftman, who has been manager of the Lasky studios in Hol- lywood for the past few years, has gone to London, where he will take over the London plant of the same concern, Succeeding him in Holly- wood will be Charles Eyton, formerl> general manager of the Morosco studio, Fred Niblo, ‘under the supervision of Thomas Ince, is shooting the open- ing scenes of “American vs. Bolshe- vism," the C. Gardner Sullivan sce- |norio. Included in the large cast | are, Barbara Castleton, Lloyd Hughes, Claire DuBrey, Jack Richardson anu | | Walt Whitman, A new company has been formed in Los Angeles to present two Jap- | anese players of considerabe note in their own country, Sojin Kamiyama and Uraaji Yanahawa, id to be the “Sothern and Marlowe” of Nip- pcg—altbough as to whieh is Romeo and which Juliet we would hesitate to say. Crane Wilbur is one of the officers in the new concern, and so is Edwatd Coxen, who was a (lm player for American, ‘ Alice Lake has Won one of the big- gest plums that her picture company had td offer, She will be featured in Metro's version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles,” by ‘Thomas Hardy. Mrs, Fiske, you may remember, did a Famous Players production of this great novel some years ago, Jesse D, Hampton has secured the services of Henry King to digect fujure "Hampton. productions. King used to act for the films, but It Is a @ director that he has achieved most recognition, The Tatmadge family seems to have a corner on pernosally dedi-g¥ cated popular songs, Now some one thas written one to Constance, after Norma has been the subject of three ‘or four, Joseph Henaberry will guide little Mildred Harris-Chaplin through her first Louis B, Mayer production. ‘Henaberry directed Douglas Falr- banks’s first United Artists picture, “His Majesty the American,” now coming to releas Another Peter B. Kyne story ha deen bought for filmization, It ‘s “The Gift of the Desert,” and Uni- versal will present Harry Carey in it, Frances White is to ba Jack Nor- worth’s opposite in the serial tho vaudeville actor 1s making for Whar- ton, The little comedienne hasn't done anything in a picture way be- fore. Production will be in the The- odore’ Wharton *pfint in Ithaca, | 0 ae | ‘RIGHT TO HAPPINESS” | AND OTHER FILM PLAYS) Opening to-day, “The Right to Hap- | pindss'? will remain at the Park The- atre for several weeks. Dorothy*Phil- lips, the star of this screen production, appears in two roles. A burning city is one of the scenes, and thousands of people figure in the spectacle, The Bronx Opera House’ opens tts | even though you baye to flatter your-? season to-morrow afternoon with | ‘ eA Plays for the ‘TSome Scénes From Screen Attractions and Stars of the Stage © ‘Coming Week Tis Eebranain. at the the Gallo Eng- Mish Opera Company will open a ~ twe weeks’ engagement at the j@eubert Theatre -on Momday night. (“Phe Miicado”* ‘Will be given, with Jef- freon De Angelis as Ko-Ko, a Japa- ), meee prima donna, Hana Shimosuml, Warren Proctor as Wanki-Poo, William Danforth as the ‘Mikado, Louls Caisavant as -Poob- Bah, Greta Risley as Katisha, Hbsa- mend Whiteside as PittiSing, Ger- rudé Shannon as Pecp-Bo and James as Pish-Tush. Max Bendix. is CT? eee » To Be Seen in Leading Theatres in New York City. Next’ Week' He HerEagaons of M Pl Snes ¥ vis ' Se a * ARAL | |} Yours | Fite °-o0F IORDER YOUR RF SWAY om 8“ HUGO RIESENFELD, Director, BBGINNING SUNDAY, WALLACE REID |BILLIE BURKE. in a Paramount-Arteraft Picture in @ Paramount-Arteraft “THE'VALLEY OF /|“THE MISLEADING THE GIANTS.” WIDOW.” , RIVOLI PICTORIAL RIALTO MAGAZINE * Paul Rainey’s Jungle Pictures Paramount-Post Nature Picture BABY MARIE OSBORN CHRISTIE COMEDY {m “Baby Marie’s Rownd Up” “Dangerous Naw MoGrew." RIVOLI ORCHESTRA RIALTO ORCHESTRA “Ideala,” Symphonie. Poem, ie Nant Times To-day—DOROTUY GUSH te B.S.M0SS' Bisadwa THEATRE. BWAY at 415 ‘Cont Noon to Hi BM: Direction JO3 t. Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties and the spreen comedy, “Yankee Doodle in Berlin.” The film offerings at the Plaza The- atre will be Irene Castle tn “The Fir- ing Line” to-morrow, Tuesday; Billie Burke In “Good Gra- cious, Annabelle!" Thursday, and Dorothy Gish in “Out of Luck,” Friday and Saturday. “The Grim’ Game,” dini performs thrilling feats, will con~ tinue to be the film. spectacle at in which How: Moss's Broadway Theatre. CONCERTS AND MUSIC. EWISORN TADIUM #35).°0.2%5, 83 187th St. and Amsterdam Ave. ,TO-NIGHT, 5.00 O'CLOOK—OPEN ALR LTO! DIRECTION COMMENCING TO-DAY 1 Same Management as N. Y, ‘CANTOR WOLFF, STADIUM MAX ROSEN, VIOUENIST: TENOR. Btctuwar Flase Used. MPHONY 0 EST ARNOLD VOLPE. Conductors rt at Conductor All Keats 25¢, Bocas dural ¢ recede N SY, AND BOCKWELI. PLACE. se dOHIN COVENTDO ® BOHEME.” ony Orchestra, News Magasi +. Car \pne Solo, “GERALDINE FARRAR “The World ad Its Weman” Fano nlo--Robert Bruce omedy—#ilk Hat Harry, Organ Bolo, ¥, trent TAR dx rag é way ts aie | * | Sh. GikLS. FROM JOYLAND, fonay BILLY GILBERT, Monday. and Wednesday and ‘THE ANSWER: * if ite ® PICKFORD.” wr Beane! Review Last PLAYHOUSE i ¢ 4 “AT 9.45 “ai POSITIVELY OPEN. JouN FERGUSON af'9¥, Fulton {4,2 hae Mit TINEE MONGAY, CA HELEN KELLER ™ DELIVERANCE cyie ang, Direct by Foster Piatt. YE Retin ||| “The Miracle Mant Be to ind. A Paramount-Arteraft Pleture EXTRA ranuign MAT, MONDAY, 2.0 GREENWICH VILLAGE sa James Watts, ‘The Tremendous Drama of the a ee BURLESQUE. | Cy ERMC | sanond aoe aroun || syne | othe Orgies adv ne can, be left at any of The Worlds Advertising Agencies, or can telephoned directly to, The. World. Call 4000 Book w York, OF Brookiye Office, i NOW