Daily News from New York, New York • 23

DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1924. 23 THEATRE NOTES FOREIGN DIRECTOR DOES FINE THINGS WITH HOME. TALENT MARION DAVIES HOSTESS AT TEA Marion Davies, star of Cosmopolitan Productions, who will be presented in her'newest photoplay, "Yolanda," was MOVIE MAGNATES AND ACTORS PLAN NEW AGREEMENT, A contract between motion pi-ture actors and producers, similar to that which now exists between the Actor Kenneth Maegowan, Eugene O'Neill and Robert Edmond Jones, directors ot the Provincetown Play hostess yester By McELLIOTT. Title, "THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE." Type, TRIANGLE DRAMA. Directed by ERNST LUBITSCH.

Produced by WARNER BROTHERS. Presented in the STRAND THEATRE. What the director really" means in making a picture is heavily stressed at the Strand this week. Ernst Lubitseh has done in "The day at a studio tea at Biograph Studios, X07 East 175th street. Among those entertained were: Mrs.

E. H. Harriman, Anne Morgan, Mrs. Henry W. Taft, Mrs.

Lin-sey Williams, r.iiuity associa--t i and the. Producing Managers' association, maj, I negotiated Will H. Hays, czar of filmdi arrives here early next week, it was yester-dav. Frank Gill- house and producers of "Fashion," will present on Broadway next month, i association with the Sel-wyns, Eugene O'Neill's new play, "Welded." Doris Keane and Jacob Ben-Ami will play the leading George Abbott of the east "Hell-Bent fer Heaven" has Marriage Circle" a subtle and delightful thing and in the case of Marie Prevost, at least, almost a miraculous one. Remember Marie, don't you She was that bathing beauty girl abruptly promoted to the drama.

The drama and Marie seemed not to be kindred spirits. But enter Mr. Lubitseh. He teaches her 1 1 i i i. 1 i 1: -I Marion Davies Mrs.

G. A. Pea- Frank Gillmore iiuw iu isik iier urvws, nu turn ner neau, aim mi i r. her hand. Very quietly Marie makes you know what i S1 James- FU! out.

ery(i t- sdoul. erv r- i ine utile vampire, iuizzi, is minKing 2.ti tit- .11 Corbin, Mrs. Edward Fales Coward Lubitseh i i i Mrs. H. Hamilton Lyle.

Others Doris Keane Florence Vidor in a film less subtly turned. "The Marriage Circle" is just another one of who attended were members of the Film Mutual Benefit Bureau, which is holding a carnival in the Hotel those best-friend-vamping-my husband stories. It seems to me about time that these best friends were placed under general suspicion, from their prevalence a. in fiction and the more, executive secretary of the Equity, and Hays plan to "hold conferences here next week to lay the groundwork for the signing of the contract. The eventual signing was assured recently, it was stated, when Gillmore conferred with producers in Los Angeles.

Special provisions regarding working conditions in some of the studios are to be included in the contract, according to those in close touch with the film situation. Film actors are jubilant over the reported agreement, it is said, and they expect stabilization of the industry to result from the forthcoming conferences. completed, in collaboration with James Gleason, a new play called "Hot Snow," which has been submitted to John Golden. Ted Stevens has been appointed assistant stage manager of "Artists and Models." A benefit performance will be given at the Casino next Sunday evening under the auspiees of the Catholic Actors Guild of America. William Farnum will he seen at the Lambs Gambol at the Earl Carroll theatre Sunday night in Plaza Feb.

13; Mrs. Edward McVicker, Elizabeth Perkins, Virginia QuackenbUsh, Dora Hodgk'ss, Virginia Watson, Rosalie Blood-good, Mrs. Alfred Bossom, Stephen Pell, Major Lorillard Spencer, William A. Murphy, Sophie K. Smith, Herbert Adams', Mrs, Herbert Childs, Mrs.

Samuel Riker. BUY CAPACITY The Sisterhood Gates of Prayer took over the seating capacity last night of "Mary Jane McKane" at the Imperial theatre. movies. Wife (Florence Vidor) is stupid enough not to see that Husband (Monte Blue) is under fire of Best Friend's (Marie Prevost) eyes, to say nothing of lips, wriggling shoulders and a battery of pouting charms." Husband, being slightly goofy, hasn't the wit to get away from the determined little siren, so "The I.at Hunt. hy l.uf it.

BL. a tor that- m- play let by a Richard Mad- MO TION PICTURES den, it tn Ad- amr? THE TEN Ir Xll.l K'S MOTION PICTURES fti- Rotf) irrrii riniii THE 47lh W--lc COVERED WAGON Criterion VV'Vi: COMMANDMENTS seo. i st "Six Characters in Search of an Author" will be revived at the Forty-fourth Street theatre this afternoon for a Both Paramount Frodnrtioiu raniiu riarrra-l ankr ornnrm lr.nl complications Florence Vidor is delightful, and Adolphe Men jou and Marie Prevost married- 1 ii S3 i but not KiUCij i i to each rik VlV I aionte uiue ex- cellent. Adolphe Meniou has a smile more eloquent than polysyllables. series of special Wednesday and Saturday matinees.

"My tie" is A STATEMENT Sir Hall CainVs "NAME THE MAN!" is one of i the biggest successes the 1 Capitol Theatre has ever shown. It is now playing and I recommend it whole which makes him eminently eligible for the silent drama, as it's called. The film's one blot is a distracting use of German names and places, when the locale is rather obviously a post-war At least, the ladies gowns are post-war, and so are the heavily laden dinner tables. Relief committees might almost consider this a propaganda film. But see "The Marriage Circle" and enjoy yourself.

MERIT THE THING; CASH SECONDARY heartedly to every picture patron. (Signed) S. R0THAFEL. The New York Stage society, an AToca THEATRE SEEN HERE SOON AS WORKSHOP FOR MAX REINHARDT Broadway in the next few years will see a Max Reinhardt theatre erected by "a wealthy syndicate, headed by the organization which announces as Triin irp slated for early William Farnum withdrawal from the Fifty-second tha-tre. "Across the Street," a play by Richard A.

Purdy, which under the title of "Crossed Wires" won a $3,000 Chautauqua prize, will succeed. It is a Morosco production. -Henrietta Crosman will be featured in "Sweet Peggy Clive" on Lincoln's birthday festival bill at the Palace this week. CRIME MARK SLIPS BENEATH PRE-WAR NOTCH ENRIGHT Crime in New York is decreasing, Police Commissioner Enright raid at the midwinter dinner of III r-w wuuxiu ill LILLIAN GISH HKNKV rradurthia at lasts tk- its purpose the production of "plays of merit, not for profit," was formed at a meeting at the Lyric theatre. Ludwig Lewisohn is president, William A.

Drake executive secretary and Jack Charash secretary. Alice Wade Robinson and Helen Ingersoll will direct the membership campaign. AnfcKN5T LUoiTSCn haJucfion 1 P8 -irh gsTLiDRLNCE VIDOR MAfuE PSrj i XHom BUTE ADOLPH KHUOOZS end others I KHS M1II16 kllCI LYRIC THEATRE TtVKK DAILY. SI N. MAT.

5. THE WORLDS ETrT MOTION PICT US ABR4HAM LI nltimillionaire banker Otto H. Kahn, patron of opera, according to a well founded report current along the Rial to yesterday. The new theatre, it was said, will be in the heart of the AMUSEMENTS It'waj St. GAIETY I'Rll Kt t.i:.

BRHKI.VN. 9TRANI1 The Eternal City anaUaa. 8oloiMa Ballrl Urrhnln Life with ita Loves, its Passions, its Jealousies, its Intriffties vividly por trayed by the master creator of screen drama, Ernst Lubitsck. Personally Directed by ERNST LUBITSCH ALL. THIS WEB I dancing: Group 7 (Brooklyn) of the New York State Bankers' association in the Hotel St George, Brooklyn, last night.

Enright. said that crime figures were now 45 per cent, below those of pre-war years, which in view theatrical dis-Otto Kahn ttkA and permit Reinhardt, who plans to establish residence in New York, to produce the spectacles which made him dean of European producers. Reinhardt, whose interpretation of "The Miracle" is now running at the Century theatre, refused to confirm the report when he sailed for a European trip recently. rs 6tatfWtfATA7-5J IT'S T1IE LITE! Commissioner Enright Fulton Flathush-BUjm. I 1 THE GREAT WHITE WAY of the city's population having increased by 800,000 since then Cosmoooli tan's Surprisa Picture I COSMOPOLITANS.

Dsilr. and 8:30. Sundj Mat. st 3. VICTOR HEKBEBT aa Bis OrrhfMra amounted to an actual decrease of 50 per cent.

He appealed for Tonltht HHimdir Tra. tK WALTZ NIGHT Rrrrrona ot ta waits TtVs rumaorr In rrrf aots af In -liftil walurs olaTA by ORIGINAL JULES BERKINS MEMPHIS FlVEl ORCHESTRA A Male Aaatra rrm. Virtnr Records. Caol Coamt. DDIfTS Kts.

at- It Pua. Mjta. 9c II St iuviw UmtM. nDt SL a w.H, ALMA RUBfcNS "COBRA" SOON L. Lawrence Weber's production of "Cobra" will go into rehearsal within a fortnight.

Wanda Lyon will have the leading role. DRESS REHEARSAL A dress rehearsal of "The New Englander" takes place at the Forty-eighth Street theatre TWO HKt.KS. iZd St. S. CAMEO NOW -and ROSCOE AILS JkCO GORDON iSHU8E.RT "IT IS AS I ROTE IX Maroid Scil Wriokt.

Harold Bell Wright's M7ivr. pnornnr a A MACK BREEN TONIGHT oVher B.F ACTS at the WHEN A MAN'S A MAN" AMUSEMENTS further restriction on sale of firearms. i Those at the dinner approved Secretary Mellon's, tax reduction plan in a resolution. UNTREATED BURNS COST HIM HIS LIFE Angelo Poarta's relief in Science cost him his life, doctors said early this morning when he died from burns in North Hudson hospital in Weehawken. Poarta lived at 516 Monastery street, West Hoboken.

Early yesterday he lighted a candle and his clothing caught fire. Poarta was a Christian Scientist, according to police, and therefore did not ask for medical aid. Later he was found suffering from the burns. IVOU "THE STRANGER" ePalace Wane di.i nl. Party R1VOU CO.NCKKT OHCUESTKA BRONX OPERA HOUSE babhey BERNARD CARR in "PARTNERS AGAIN" PnMDKWII FtClUrtM lTOM rtwerw, B.

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