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Xos angetelJOaity Games. MAT 19, 1919. FART MONDAY MORNING. singer and ths mistress of an lm- ff.SSS THE SPIRIT OF GIRLHOOD. presaarlo.

Enter once INIMITABLE JAZZ QUEEN. STAGE. voumz clergyman, who rLUNE'S AUDITORIUM Playing Opposite "Doug" at Grauman's. "EYES OF YOUTH. At Orpheum in Zippy Specialty Act.

NEW MOROSCO PLAY YIELDS VARIED ENTEIlTAIXMIiSfT. 1 1Y HE'S A WORD fil' FDHNY. JEJKyi LiIMJ continuous Wmfh ALL SEATS daily i to ft 3: acter, since he persuades nimseir is her soul he is after, and not her body. Returning to the village on his challenge, she sings a swan's song to th? soldiers, losing her voice thereafter. The influences of the strictly religious community brought to bear on her bring her to her knees in repentance for having wandered into paths of sin, and she gives up ths old life and her lover.

Bo far, so grood. But the Fox people or Mr. Kenyon. or somebody, found It impossible to finish without the happy ending -wherefore back comes the lover, whether a wedding ring in. his pocket or not.

we're not told. She faJIs into his anna, thereby destroying tho whole exalted atmosphere of tho renunciation scenes but no doubt sending the fans home happy. Mlas Bara is at home In her role, Al Itosco1 is entirely engaging as the lover, and Al Fremont plays a convincingly' hard-hearted, narrow-minded dad. Halo Hamilton Hoaourd. The next time Director Harry L.

Franklin conducts a South American revolution, be promises to have the camera set where the yokelry cannot overlook it. Here's the reason. i On tho road near Los Angeles an army of swarthy peons In soiled and eaudv uniforms clustered at the BY SOIJAIiIiEHT. Oettln over a play Ilka 'Th Kyeii ot Vouth," which had Us first looal performance yesterday afternoon at the Woronoo Theater, vary much reiomblei llrliig a cuinon full of oonfnttl at a herd of wild deer. So much of the i-Jiarge la KoIn to hit, and no little la going to stick, and the deer are going to have ao much excitement out of it that everybody enjoys the fun of a Fourth of July explosion without remembering; a great deal about It the day after.

There la go small a plot tn this New York success, and ao much plav that anything that happens will make a hit. The audimico ypslorduy afternoon was In a rare mood by the middle of the third ant, anil ninth rhangs of setting They luughr-d and applauded hen, during ili darkness of a shift of apenp, somebody In their midst let loos loud and resounding sneeze, that had othing to do with the or aught else. Anything with a spook in It now iu.ii litis, ji Ml Mil l-Uf ill 1 I 'Jt f' '-AS-. hp "I gateway of an estate, waviurf their snr wrv rifles recklessly, and uttering narsn cries. Hale Hamilton, In white flannels and his usual smile, appealed and exhorted the soldiery with elo mm.

adays seems to he a success. Xe" quent appeal. Tho unheeding mob breaks through and swarms toward York hHS half a dozen Oulja board romances running. a mystery and an uncanny the mansion, leaving the Metro star in the dust. Just then a cautious abb ont, and almost anybody will feel IU whistle was heard and a man POSITIVELY crawled along the wall towards Hamilton.

On his left suspender was a star of pollBhed nickel plate, In his right hand a sawed-off shot- magic. There la something about a superstition that will turn the grayest-headed mortal In the world into a tulleless child. In "Eyes of Youth" a Hindoo stumbles by accident Into a house where a girl la being pulled hither and yon by the call of a dozen du 6 Bays Only Start TODAY gun. "It's all rlsht, young fellow," he tvhisuered assuringly- "My men have tho place surrounded. Auy Marjorie Daw.

women or children Inside?" ties and demands. Knowing her distress, lie gives her a crystal. Pho ll illll Before Hamilton could open his STUDIO CLUB IS TO gazes Into its depths, seeking a way mouth in reply, a man leaped from out, and sees liersolr successively as WalanMWsiiiiUalil PLAY "HINDLE WAKES." the bushes across the road with a wild cry and a megaphone in his following blind duty, fame and be preceded by "Tho Great Noontide," a satire by Patrick Kearney, first production on any stage. Julius Seppoe gave a lecture on "Russian Literature and the Drama" under the auspices of the Studio Theater Club last Monday evening. hand.

wealth to disaster. Each of these Ideas lias an episode fully acted out MATTNBK AT lH.ll BRF.AKFAST EVEltlf MonNINU Get back there!" he shouted, CALIFORNIA The Studio Theater Club of Los via an "On Trial" method of stag Angeles, formed for the purpose of with pTrotechnian in his voice. The rural peace office, stared at him giving private performances of the ing. Only instead of being a cutback it la a cut-ahead Into the future for short periods of years. blankly, while Hamilton arose irom rnoM business trip.

the dust. Trixie Friganza. A. J. Ogden, 843 South Fedora, modern drama, will present "Hindis Wakes," by Stanley Houghton, to Pome of the vlsioned episodos In "Yes.

Mr. Officer, why didn't you Fives of Youth are really pathetic eet back?" he asked sadly. "Now street, returned home yesterday from an extended business trip In we have to do It all over again. night at Gamut Club Auditorium. This Is the first production of this notable drama in this city.

It will also melodramatic. But It was difficult for the audience at times to FLASHES. We're making a temperance movie the Northwest. take them seriously. They were Film Company, next February, it will be to go to New York and form her own company, according to present plans.

She has received an offer of backing from friunds there, and Is very anxious to do things in her own way. She in entitled 'Full of tn nve reels and no hangover. This South feelina: so delightfully entertained Ii fie Gorgeous Spectacle American mob is revolting against WONDERFUL MARY. The fn nit is with the play itself and also with the acting which at times a dry iuvernmeni. xno camera is over there." THE BEST OF VAUDEVILLE 99 (fRPHEUM- was tuned up too much and then not properly toned down.

A few more, performances will remove the Oh!" said the sturdy arm ot the 66 MISS PTCKI'ORD SCORES HIT IN "DADDY law and walked away. tends working for at least a year In New York, but wants ultimately to return here, as she says she is a western girl, and is sure tihe Tic Red Unite blotches of unnecessary burlesquerie .1101 tn her portrayal of the termagant onera singer of the second episode Miss Eleanor Woodruff was In the high clouds of brilliance. As the divorced wife and the dope fiend of wouldn't be happy anywhera elre. Madge In "Bloomin' Angel." MUSICAL. ZOELLNER CONCERT.

A new shuffle and deal of plays is Inspiring. as Grand Music and as Vibrant with Life as a AiffiJ; Thunerstorm. the final episodes she did equally By Grace Kingsley. Having fallen- on days of piping Jazz, we're making musical comedy of everything! They've done it with most of the comediea In the world, and now they are starting In on the serious plays, it rumored that reported in filmland, with the good acting. Her fault In this play suit, according to these reports, that ia a tendency to overact.

She waa not convincing as the schoolmarm Wallace Irwin's delightful CESAR FRANCK QCTTETTE IS In the episode of Duty, principally BRILLIANTLY RECEIVED. "The Bloomin' Angel." isn't gidng to be used as a vehicle for Charles Ray, but is to be made Into picture on account of contradictory make' PRICES MATINEES, LXCK.PT KUNDAT. look's, air. form by Madge Kennedy, of Golcl- 'TIXIERSAfzA jpify "At a Block Party" A THE GREAT LESTER 4 Ventrlloqulau. ff By Jeanne Rodman.

NO ADVANCE IN aifcs The Zoellner Quartette, which wyn, who ought to play the character delightfully. Didn't Miss Oasis. played last Saturday evening at Blanchard Hall, again exemplified EVMNINHH. ISo, JSC. LOGKH.

f.0:. Contlnunua Shnws 10 a.m. lo p.m. The Bird of Paradise" is to be made into "a play with music." Of course, it won't be exactly a musical comedy but what would "The Bird of Paradise" be without a hula chorus and a ukulele band? Even "The Better 'tile" from grim war has some wonderful musical features. Mercy, in the mad whirl, we certainly do need ever and anon a refreshing Blp from the fountain of eternal youth! And talking of the MILLER'S NEW THEATER their determination to give of the Main at Eighth.

MISSES FLORENCE MERRITT and GABY BRIDEWELL Bright nits of Mirth and Melody best of the moderns, as well as the The approaching arid era was kept strickly in mind the othr night, by Hector Sarno, one of the classics, for the Interpretation of whose music the Zoellners have won rising young leading men of film- dorn, who has so many film engase- GRAND AT SEVENTH renown." They played the F-minor JINEmA THEATER ments n.ow-a-days he has to work quintette of Cesar Franck, the only double shift some davs. when he Lester Helen CRAWFORD and BRODERICK A Llttla of Tlil. and a Little of, Tbat I 'r''f tfp JfWffTfffW1 'fltMtl. 'iLSU'tftli'Ji. work in that form of the "father of gave a dinner party at his Hollywood apartment 1n honor of K.jgl- the moderns." Franck was so up.

The role of Glna Ashling Is taxing on versatl'ity. Warjorle Ram-beau accomplished It In New York, and with minor Improvements gifted Miss Woodruff Should make it entirely acceptable here. It Is the woman in th's play that really matters, but mention ehould be made of the silendld tempo of Kdwin Wallack aa the Impresario and Forrest Seabury as the manager of the Paris opera In their sparkling sepne in the second ant. Charles Meredith, Harland Tucker, Knscoe Karns, James Corrigan. all had suitable roleH.

There Is no leading man In this kind of play I nnd Meredith had little or no op-; piirtunlty. Tho stage craftsmanship was excellent in the management of the frequent scene shifts, but needs a little apeedlng up. "Kyes of Youth" provides entertaining sensation, thrills and. novelty i and is funny. We do not say that It is a great play.

KOLB AND DILL FUNNY AS EVER. nald Barker and Clara Williams, 1 trf greatly under the influence of Wag i III ffb 1 tier for much of the period of his SAM MANN CO. "Tha Que.tlon" and never missed an oasis' Mlws Mlnter's Plans. writing that his themes are more operatic than thematic in the pure Mary Miles Mintrr. former Amer IM Hfl rK pa lEp 'M music sense.

NETA JOHNSON A Different Comedienne There are exquisite changes and ican star. it. Is reported, will come back from New York with a new contract in her pocket, it is not it tl 1 developments in the work, and the orchestrating is rich and It known what firm she will sign with, is a piece of immense difficulties HARRIET REMPEL CO. "Tarry town" but it is known that both First Na and was played by Joseph Zoellner, tional and Famous Players-Lasky at the piano; Amandus, An tolnette and Joseph Zoellner, Sr, have had an eye on her. and Robert Alter, 'cellist.

Of the MoroRro Has Mitchell. three movements the first is most i hit MB ht iiJ. initii iiiii I ORCHESTRA CONCERTS HEARST NEWS M7jRoiLWG1 i' in a New Dance Creation 'I CORINNB RAB and MARJORIE HA MBit 5 Interesting, although there are beau Oliver Morosco has signed up the Hi liM tiful and original sections in the famous stage director. Julian Mitch tento. The audience.

was extremely lively In approbation, demanding ell, to stage two musical comedies for him this summer. Mitchell will fountain of eternal youth "Daddy LongJLegs," at the Klnema is it, with Mary Plckford more delightful than ever. As a matter of fact, you've never known Mary Plckford or "Daddy either, until you've seen them in the marvelous picture brew which that amusingly clever young star has given us. "Daddy Long-begs" was delicious as a story; delightful as a play, and is entrancing as a picture. A crowded house went fairly into raptures yesterday, and applause, even at that cold 12:45 performance, punctuated the picture.

The first part of the story has leen turned into rollicking, hilarious comedy that Is, after the moment when the baby playing the Infant Mary appears in the asli can you remember Judy says afterward, "Well, what can you expect of a person whose mamma was an ash can?" It's ft prankish, whimsical, mischievous Judy to be sure, rather than the drab little drudge of the book; there Is even a scene in which Mary and a small freckled-face boy, having declared a hunger strike against prunes, get possession of a jug of ap-plejaialt otherwise hard cldei- and become so funnily tipsy you don't In the least mind that liberty being taken with ths book, though I guess nobody but Mary could get away with it. And yet. the life of Judy is as hard as the most eagerly tearful soul could wish so that there's a lump in your throat mighty often two encores, which is unusual for a ill Btring ensemble. ALLY'S BROADWAY 833 S. Bdwy.

come West In a few weeks. Says Just Like Tatting. The "Lark" quartette of Haydn was most beautifully played, delicate and precise, and the last move May Allison is getting so many Japanese letters, she says her cor ment had much of ecstacy in Its respondence looks like a pattern for night. A modern work of the Rua, sian, ivanow, Jn two movements. IT'S TUB MOST WONDERFUL FLAT TTTB tatting! Kicked Query.

was well received, and for enoore Prtcaa, 16, 50. eante. Rhowa. II, 1, 7:11., SECOND WEEK of the Season's Greatest Screen Drama OF MEN" STARRING FLORENCE REED AJso bonciand'. Buprem Har- tne quartette played a Polish folk The Latm Prlcma NaturaJ air.

Max Dill wrote the book and the lyrics and music were done by Harry Williams and Flanders, respectively. But that doesn't make a great deal of difference In the (show, because Kolb and Dill are putting It on at the Majestic this week, and although It may be called "As You Were" it doesn't leave the audience in quite the same frame of mind as when they went. Before going they merely intended to laugh: afterward they weren't quite sure that they had got through laughlnf. It nowise Important whether "As You Were" ig intended to be a patriotic revue, or a girl and music show for tho consumption of the tired business man. Aa either it might be a success of a kind, and both II Is a success of the real 'J.

he Ivanow is of the type and "What will all the chorus boys do now that the war photoplays are TTinny Quartet. ORPHEUS FOUR Color Kllm. MODEL GIRLS caliber of tha most ot modern Rus sian music, exotio and only recently passe Ditto. MATINEES: Orchestra 6ho-a -579. laminar to western ears.

The sec ond movement. In dance form, was And for the matter of that, what most enlivening and suggestive of me uussian at his happiest. will the news weeklies do? Just fall back on the Knights of Pythias UPERBA- 520 Bdwy. The Screens Most Accomplished Emotional Actress parades ana the high school gradua After the lengthy and arduous Franck work the Zoellners were obliged to play a second encore, which was "In Hiehest tions? Palace. NOW 1HBST TIMB OV BRfAlWAT.

DOROTHY PHILLIPS stock Company a slnTaHyUirim- MOROSCO- WCllS Great 1" thme, which is IVlV MATINEE THURSDAY Worlds Greatest While ths ordinary war picture OLIVFR MOROSCO sometimes even while you're laugh presslon, noble IJ piay is jusi a die passe, tne extraordi dedicated to the Zoellners by Its THB BTARTLTNO DRAMATIC SENSATION nary onaa still hold our fascinated composer, carl Theme. kind. It is good because Kolb has a chance to call Dill names, and 1)111 has a chance to echo his senti ing. In short, Mary does as she pleases with us In this and rroves herself, incidentally, a surprisingly versatile actress. Mary Pickford i it if I ana Dreamless interest, such a one is J.

btuart Blackton "The Com- f--im atnte aemm PtiT sT her own little. ratherM. .1," imon Canse," at the Palace this week. to RUTH HUTCHINSON r.t iri trinu. Sh-.

ln which the pepful Herbert Kawlln- It? WOULD YOU? Prtcn, IB, SO. 0o Other Attractive Vatura 1 4i mmm WINS IN CONTEST. i nrfr on and appealingly lovely Syl lumtuiii, mil, yei juoi um Mill or IBl- I torn llttl. The State nublicity chairman MATINEE ul appeal. a her little Irish skin can ton children, either, chir of the old for the California Federation of Musio Clubs, has received DAILY 2:15 blocks for cleverness.

hold. In fact, as Judy, ahe's the duintessence ot Mary, and even to those of us who expected good The story starts out with the idea word from the Pacific Contest Com With All tha Moroaco Favorltea Mate. 10c to toe. Evea. 10a to 7Sc.

EVEKIKGS 7, 9 of Rawllnson and Miss Breamer as mittee at Chicago announcing that Mats. Wedneeday things of her, she a revelation. married nero ana neroine. propos- jhiss jtutn Hutchinson of Los An TONTOHT. 1:15 And All Weak and Saturday -mIS: majestic ino screen lenos iiseir aamiraoiy jng iu set mvorce, witn a.

nana- Boies, pupu or Mrs, r.mma WILLIAM ELMER, 0nral Mner. Edwin II. Klasg PrMiiti THE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCESS ments. IT Kolb says Dill is nothing hut a big bullfrog everybody roars: and If Dili says that Kolb Is only a capering kangaroo, the audience has hysterics. All that happens In "As You Were" is not history but some of It is.

And the audience hag so much fun dividing its Interest between the patter about Gen. Pickett who fought In "de-fence" of something or other, and what are downright knockouts for enemy sentiment, that they don't worry about how much of history they hear and how much they don't. Kolb claims Gen. Johnson surrendered to Sherman at Durham station, and Dill claims that It Is all bull. You see Kolb waa a German who came over to America and enlisted In the Union army in the to host of amusing incidents, which some young man the other corner lnson, was the successful vocs Bram bar Prtcw J0-60a Satardaya, Sundays, 10 and (ft oanta.

can only be stiggeaicd in the play. or tnB triangle, ijotn young men testant in the Pacific Coast district end of these Mts Pickford and her an ln" neroine go to war, however, contest or the National Federation KOLB and-UlLL director. Marshal Nellan. and her na. some exciting ana or musio neid May 1.

Miss Hutch scenario writer, Agnes Johnson, Vy Vvf enter the contest at Pe- VAUDEVILLE NOW EMMY WEEiLEN have made the most. Mahlon Ham- Hampshire, In June, In tha Military Mualeal Farce n.uuam ti.iKicpiii v. m. iur mo xiaiionat prize. ilton is entirely In character in the IPPODROME HIP 99 name part, and all the characters are 66 AS YOU 'WE of realism and breath-taking inter- TTFPfYFC VAT rtv TP 1 tat est, which make it different of itsHLEJ1-''3 U1 UiN itiAlIN.

IN TUB COMEDY PICTURE. Amateur Adventuress" veil-played, some of the kid actors being especially effective. kind. And it has some moments of Mary Plckford's "Daddy Long- Civil War and so was Dill. Their delightfully relieving comedy.

The Hpadcraarter Comnanv nf A Attraction. NIGHTS 80o to tl.M. 5 L0 GET THE HIP HABIT natal Legs" Is "Daddy Long-Legs" plus. battle scenes are only those intimate dialect might be called hyphenated. first Falls to ArriTC Broadway at 8th glimpses which bear directly on the! it that term were still allowed to Miss Oakley at Majestic, story.

HrARRICK Has This Week's Best exlf.t. In the course of the play. SS2 BKGINNINB TOD AT Mr. Rawllnson Is ideally cast as I The headquarters company of the however, they, as true and loyal Florence Oakley Is to be the new nssT i.i- o. tw.i- I the young soldier husband, nd en- Americans win out against the Ninety-first Division did not pass LOS ANOELKii TIE COMMON CAUSE hyphenated American.

when that theater opens with stock, Wm to staHoi Miss ft through Lo. Angeles yesterday, as bkowino or I "THE LITTLE SISTER THE NIGHT" IN 5 The "Eternal Magdalene" all thle week It may be aenaattonal, bnt III. lacked animation and something of was expected hy the welcome com Incidentally they tight the war out with the alien enemy with a set of china that coat "five dollars The Stcry With a Lah, a TtrlU acl a Tbrci With H.rbrt Hawllnaon. Fylrla Bramnar and an All-star Caai. ber old Are.

but Was effective in a mittee. The telegram received here and Lewis Stone heading it, next month, aocording to report received from New York yesterday. Frank Cant will be second man. Lewis Stone Is in New York at present. quiet sort of way.

and lovely as th(J day befor9 rtated th(j company a plate." Kolb says he'd been to banquets that cost a plate, but A Christie comedy and news week-1 was on Its way to Camp Kearny he never knew what it really meant ly complete an excellent bill. I from Camp Lewis, and would ar- VANTAGES VAUDEVILLE TEE $1,000,000 DOLLS Featuring DAVS SEED and a ZtetfleMian Beauty Chorna. AUTWTTW BABHETT -teett and- Marts I'" ARTHUR BARRETT Je and- Marls This doesn't Interfere, however, with WASHINGTON PARK- PACIFIC COAST BASEBALL LEAGUE the smashing up of China, In addi I rive at the Southern Pacific station Alliamnra. I at 7:25 a.m. and leave for San laTOB FOUR.

tion to Germany. Tbetr own original "NovelUa. Dialectician and Whlatler. Kolb and Dill are always Kolb ivenyon. wno wro Diego on the Santa Fe at Vernon ys0 San Francisco "Broaiwar'a lataat Btepe and Sonfs" Ilka Marie P1 Co.

1. "TliRl." and Dill, no niatter who writes their I Is tne eutnor or ineas Tne committee was on hand to Bara piay. ine wren oong. ai Kreet the nehter( but thB men wero THB AEROPLANE OtRLS "Bill" Duncan tn 1 Two Dainty Malda I "Tb Man of Mlfht" tng Exhibition of Paring Feaia In Mid -air. Nlghta at and ma Tumi not on the train.

No Information nhotonlav comes so near being ex TOMORROW AT 2:45 P. Aiimlaatoa, Grand Stand, le; Inciudini War Tax. Matinee. Dally at had been received tip to late last Miss Oakley is remembered ns leading woman of the old Belasco Theater, who, thereafter achieved distinction In New York leading woman with Richard Bennett in "The Very Idea." and with Arnold Daly in 'The Master." Fty Arbuckle not Umpire. After all.

Fatty Arbuckle says he will not take the Job of umpiring his baseball team, but will stick to the peace and quiet of slap-stick comedy. cellent drama, it seems a profound night indicating when they will ar- nitv that it should mlas. ALVA A DO BET. TM 7TH STS. OPPOSITE WESTLAKB TARK.

TPHEATER de luxe The flowers brought by the However, the story carries yon RUPERT JULIAN plays. They are Just as good aa they always were, and maybe a little better. Their chorus isn't large, but It doesn't need to be. Their people are good, particularly dainty Marie Rich, aa Henry's daughter: handsome George W. Hanta, as the son (this makes the love interest:) May Cloy as Freda the maid, who Is also secret service agent: Max Kteinle, Kthet Martelle.

Jack committee to greet the heroes were Jl A 71 OVA In OF TriE FGO" along in absorbing fashion. It is SYMPHONY-614-16 S. Eroaiway taken to the County Hospital. laid In a little French fishing vil MS CONTINI'OVS PHOW. To P.M.

Evenlngje-PJwtmrasnd Orian. One hundred and sixty men, con 'THE FIRE lage st the openlne. and shows with a beautiful voice, beloved stituting a casual company from rrt tl IT-'a 1T ff II IRfl A FIVE Al't OLIVE THOMAS TTP.At'T'.ONS. Jefferson barracks, near St. Louis, will arrive here at 1 p.m..

today, on rtRT RUN of a young clergyman. But the girl Is poor and the young clerryman turns from her at the behest of his Hollin, Frsnk A. Bonner all deserve IV FEATLR6S their war to Camp Kearny, They Margarita Fisher'; Own. alhambra: niS.K!ll Street i THEDA BAR A In "THE SIREN'S SONG mention. Cont.

13 'I II. "TOTSm, TEE APACEE" will be met the train by a wtl- Broadvar III father. hen Margarita Fisher fln'sh-s If you want to laugh and fo rget 1 Jher coming committee. bdbeequen'iy Deeomes great contract with the American your trouble see "As Tou Wsrs.

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