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Just OneMan'j Opinion By C. J. K. EVERT now and then some modern prophet makes prophesies for movies. Now a fellow in London says that in a few hundred years movies will take the place of newspapers.

He figures that motion pictures, sent 'by radio and flashed in public places will provide the world with news. Maybe. Certainly none of lis would care to argue with a London college rrofessor. But it doesn't seem likely. When the telephone come into common use the same prophecies were made.

When radio came into general use phonofrraph people were alarmed. They thought they saw the finish of their industry. Vaudeville theatres actuaJly fought the radio. Some still do. But they needn't.

The history of the world shows that new inventions seldom take the place of institutions which properly perform an important work. Sometimes that work la modified by inventions, but it is seldom supplanted. Actually the radio helps newspapers. Telegraph companies who were afraid of the telephone find that their business actually increased as a result. Recently plays that threatened to "flop" on Broadway, succeeded when the radio had told its hidden audience some of their lines.

So It poes. The movies will change are changing but the biggest field of the movie is in the field of entertainment and in that field they will longest endure. IT is good to welcome back the Colonial to this column. The Colonial, architecturally one of the prettiest of Reading's theatres, has a bright, newly painted face. Carr Pehad are to be complimented on the excellent taste used in the decoration of the house.

"The French Doll, at the Colonial, should please, if advance notices may be trusted. AS Mark Twain said of the weather, so with matrimony. "Everybody complains about It, but r.obody seems to do anything about It." Every week we hear of a movie which will answer the problems of matrimony once and for all. Xow Bebe Daniels essays the answer in 'Daring Youth." The picture deals with the Fannie Hurst marry' and Jive apart idea. It has its advantages, this critic will admit, but standpatters who still believe the home is the unit of society probably won't agree with Fannie and Bebe.

DO wc treat the immigrant as we should? The honest American has to admit that his country doesn't. There is a lot of this hlah biah about this land of opportunity and the melting pot, but when we come down to brass tacks we give most immigrants a raw deal in more ways than one. Much of tte "raw deal' has crept into the plot of "Tho Lullaby." and it won't do the man who really wants to know how his country treats immigrants a bit of harm to see the picture. VOST every one knows the story 1V1 of a "Lady of Quality." Nowadays the problem of the beautiful Countess of Dunstonwolde wouldn't bother the modern woman much, but with the curtains of time rolled back to the time of the good Queen Anne, on can imagine the feelings of the poor little aristocrat whose lock of hair the handsome villain has. It Is a good costume picture.

BROADCLOTH Coats of supple, satiny broacloth may have double or even triple ehoulder capes but they must he very traight and plain about the feet. 4 i rW rL 'K 3 FROM WORKMAN TO ACTOR. HIS JUMP An Interesting variation of the old story, "From Office Boy to President," is the rise of George Hacka thorne from studio worker to the position of leading mian. Hackathorne went on the stage at 11 years of age, appearing in many famous old stock plays and musical shows. As a matter of fact, Oeorse'a career started on the night when his mother took him to see his first Shakespearean play.

From that night nothing could swerve him from his determination to be a successful actor. As a boy he spent his time poring over books on the drama and reading plays. When he was but fifteen he had written and produced two successful one act plays, and has ever since regarded writing with an interest second only to acting. In addition to this, Hackathorne has a splendid baritone voice. Before appearing on the screen, George Hackathorne was employed in various angles of studio work, such as film cutting, laboratory developing, lig hting and other mechanical processes.

And then his ohance came. That was six years ago, and since then he has rapidly shown the fii. ni world his rare versatility and ability to portray roles from 15 to 50 with equal ease. He firsO focused the attention of photoplay lovers upon himself by hia clever impersonation of Sid Sawyer, Tom's brother, in "Tom Sawyer" and "Huck Finn." Then followed his overwhelming success opposite Betty Compson in "The Little Minister." George Hackathorne's most recent screen appearance was in "When a Alan's a Man." NARROW BELTS Very narrow belts of red leather are worn with white sport frocks, and frequently the same sort of a bajnd Id warn about the hat crown. THEREADlNG TIMES, READING, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 3 0, 1924 Mil Top row, left to right Bebe Daniels and Norman Kerry in "Daring Youth," at the Capitol.

Milton Sills and Virginia Valli, in "A lady of Quality," at the Arcadia. Mae Murray in "The French Doll," at the Colonial. 'Second row, left to right Miss Marvel Shackle ton, with "Buizin' Around," at the Rajah. Jane Novak in "The Lullaby," al the Hippodrome. WIFEHOOD IS WOMAN'S GREATEST ROLE, SAYS MARGUERITE CLARK, FORMER LUMINARY OF SCREEN By MARGUERITE CLARK Famous Stage and Screen Star, Now Mrs.

Harry P. Williams JPATTEKSON, June 29. My advico to girls who imagine they should go on the stage or into the movies is Don't. Not if you can get a good husband. Girls seeking a career on the stage and screen are such a problem.

I love them for their youth, their hopes and ambitions, and their naive beliefs. And I try hard to advise them out of my own experience. Here is what I tell them: If you have beauty, and above all, personality, and some training and money, if you believe the stage or screen Is the place for you, and you are willing to work harder than you ever dreamed of working try it. Has Seen 'Em Rebuffed. It breaks my heart to see girls heading for Hollywood with only a few dollars and their youth, and beauty, and hopes.

They do not realize what can happen to a girl when, she meets rebuff after rebuff, when the world begins to topple about her, It Is then she falls for temptations. I've seen it so many, many times. There are thousands of girls mad to enter the movies or go on the stage, Who have not the faintest chance of mediocre success. Of those girls, so many could find happiness if they realized, as I realize, that being a wife is the greatest role any woman can play. I don't mean for girls to rush into early marriage.

I think 25 to 30 Is early enough to marry. Every girl should be trained for wifehood and motherhood. Just as babies ought to have years of sleeping and eating and playing, so a girl ought to have he? playtime, free ftvin responsibilities. She should learn how to keep 'a home and to entertain men, for she will make one of them her husband. A Course in Wifehood.

I think every mother should see that her daughter takes the course in wifehood. Responsibilities even in the happiest and wealthiest marriages are great. A woman should know how to cook and sew and how to attend to all the duties of her home, including the rearing of children. A girl should know how to wait for the best man. Every girl and every boy growing up normally have what I call love flashes.

They see somebody by whom they are attracted, and it is so easy to mistake such a temporary attraction for real love, the love that lasts. I think every girl, before marriage, should wait six months after she becomes engaged. This will give her time to study the man or her choice and to study herself. A girl should fitudy and work for the role of wifehood as she would study and work to fill successfully a role on the stage or any other calling. Above everything else there should be love.

And next should come tol eranoe and common sense. So many marriages are needlessly shredded into failure, a. tiny shred at a time. "Where were you Tuesday night, my dear?" "Oh, I was at the Smith's." "No, you weren't. You were at the Joneses." That's the way so many of tlTose silly, stupid needless quarrels start.

If not exactly that way, you know what I mean, Needless trivial contradictions and stupid stands taken on points that really don't matter in the least. To Please Husband. Any wife, to be a successful wife, must study her husband and herself, as a good actress must study the character she would portray. FAMOUS FUNNY GALS HAVE GYM WORK These Christie comedy girls have a new movement on foot to keep in trim for the strenuous life of the screen. They have donned their new and nifty club uniforms and have had their first practice on an improvised track at the studio under the supervision and direction of Boyd Com8tock, former athletic coach for Yale and at the University of Southern California, and author of several books on track and field sports.

Vera Pteadman does the Jumps, puts the shot and throws the discus like a veteran; Duane Thompson i having a fling at hurling the Javelin; Ethel 'Miller, Dorothy Case, Cecelia Joyce and Andree Bayley have been leading the others in the sprints, while Lucille King, Hazel and Doris Rowland and others are trying to trim their companions in the hurdles. The girls now declare that the cinder path has the beach beaten a mile for around sport and exercise, because It brings every muscle into play and stirs up a regular harvest hand's appetite and wards off all tendency to extra weight the dread horror of every screen girl's life. So many women slump into marriage. If you've got to Blump or relax, the thing to do Is to have your personal, private slump room, go into it, shut the door and get your Blump over with. If women could only remember that it's the husband they must please, thero wouldn't be any failure to marriage.

The returns from a happy marriage compensate for everything a woman gives up. That is why I have no desire to return to my former profession. I have found real love In this home. Nothing in the world could lure me back to the pictures or the stage, if In return I had to (rive up my home and my work in it. (Copyright, 1824, NKA.

Service, Inc.) ITA EL" heh and KBssf GREEN MwMX Pf fMr A Wrm' jdmmm OSaJ AMUSEMENTS FOR THE WEEK i ALL WEEK BILLS COLONIAL "The French Doll." with Mae Murray, "Rainstorm," Fox comedy; Special Community Event Edition, showing recent public school field day and recent baby parade. NEXT WEEK Cecil deMille's "Triumph," with Leatrice Joy. ARCADIA "A Lady, of Quality," with Virginia Valli and Milton Sills; "Sailor Maid," comedy, and International News. NEXT WEEK Cosmopolitan's "Rendezvous." CAPITOL "Daring Youth," with Bebe Daniels and Norman Kerry; Will Roger's "The Cake Eater;" Kinograms. NEXT WEEK Belasco's "Daddies," with Mae Marsh and Harry Myers.

HIPPODROME "The Lullaby," with Jane Novak; Juvenile comedy, with "Fat" Alexander, and Pathe News. CHANGES DURING THE WEEK STRAND Monday, "Does It Pay?" Tuesday and Wednesday, "The Song of Love;" Thursday, "Reno;" Friday, "Through the Dark;" Saturday, "For You My Boy." PICTURELAND Daily change of program. SAN TOY Monday, "The Dancer of the Nile Tuesday, "Does It Pay?" Wednesday, "Reno;" Thursday and Friday, "The Song of Love;" Saturday, "Boston Blackie." SCHUYLKILL AVENUE Monday, "The Dancer of the Nile;" Tuesday, "Does It Pay?" Wednesday, "Reno;" Thursday and Friday, "The Song of Love;" Saturday, "Through the Dark." PRINCESS Monday, "The Stranger;" Wednesday and Thursday, "The Dancing Cheat;" Friday and Saturday, "Riding Fool." BEHIND FOOTLIGHTS RAJAH Golden Long musical comedy company presenting "Buzzin' Around." Pictures. Change Thursday. LYRIC Independent Vaudeville, head with Schictl's "Royal Wonderettes." Pictures.

Change Thursday. MOVIE ACTORS GET ROUGHING Many Outfits Filming Scenes in Great Out of Doors By JACK JUNGMEYER Hollywood. June 29. Now is the time for all good actors to(suffer for their art. "Location" time the saddest of the movie year.

For going on location, far from the studio, in mountain and desert, means a minimum of accustomed comforts and in some cases sheer roughing. For the sturdier folk, however, those who like the open spaces, these trips garnish work with brusque delights riding, fishing, mountain climbing, boating, the exploration of strange places. Most directors like remote locations because it removes them from the constant pressure of studio executives; gives them more leeway. It is a relief, too, from the monot onv of production lot routino. Probably the most distant location from Hollywood at this time is the region in which Herbert Brenon's Paramount unit is filming "The Alaskan," from Curwood's recent novel.

It lies 3000 miles away In a section of the north which remains to dav almost as much wilderness as it was in the gold rush of '98. A land of imposing grandeur, where Nature's glitter pales the effulgence of Hollywood's stars into firefly glow. Thomas Meighan is starring in this picture. In the company now in Alaska are Estelle Taylor, feminine lead' John fcainpolls, Prank Campeau and Anna May Wonff. Sweltering Hollywood envies them their contact with glaciers and the spray of icy streams.

At the opposite thermometrlc pole is the location for 'The Great Divide," film version of William Vaughn Moodv's stage classic, soon to be started in the original Arizona setting bv Director Heglnald Harker for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The temperature where the desert scenes are to be taken often soars to 120 degrees. This imposes careful preparation to insure good health and good spirits in the company scheduled for a lengthy sojourn. TTntisiml fnreaiffhf must ver cised for both the sustained morale of players and to prevent serlou de CAMERA CAN HEAR DE MILLE FINDS OUT Cameras have no ears! In one of the most gripping moments of William de Mille's production of Clara Beranger's mystery drama. "The Bedroom Window," at the Paramount West Coast studios, he stopped the rehearsal and asked the players to lower their voices.

The scene was one in which loud talking seemed to create the spirit of conflictMay McAvoy, Ethel Wales, Robert Edeson, Malcolm McGregor, George Pawcett, Guy Oliver and Charles Ogle appeared in a situation in which a murderer was being trapped under most dramatic circumstances. It is a rule with William deMille that no player shall shout in any of the scenes, and especially not in highly dramatic episodes. In shouting, the energy is misdirected; the players impress themselves and each other with the tumult and are thus led to believe that they have enacted a terrific situation, when, as a matter of fact, they have given the camera very little action. lay and financiaj loss due to possiblo illness of the principals. For that reason the expedition will be placed on a partially military regimen.

Unless the weather is unexpectedly cool, members of the cast will not bet permitted to eat meat or greasy meats of any kind. Diet regulations will be similar to those successfully employed by Ehrich von Stroheim during his recent filming of scenes for "Greed" in Death Valley. Another company to be taken out where the "hundclasp's a little warmer" and the weather considerably more so is Principal Pictures' "Mine with the Iron Door" cast. They also go to Arizona, to the region sketched by Harold Bell Wright into his story of that title. A dozen other organizations are in the open, throughput California and adjacent states several in camps more or less primitive, where the morning shower and the Iced grape fruit are only tantalizing mirages.

For the pampered darlings of city comforts, these are Irksome times. For he men and she women, on the other hand, they offer welcome escape from the constricting superficial town conventions. LOU TELLEGEN GIVES SOME IDEASON LOYE Famous Ex Husband of Farrar Says Friendship Best After All Lou Tellegen, who is known on the screen and stage as "the great lover," will be seen in this city soon in "Between Friends," a picturization of Robert W. Chambers' famous novel. Mr, Tellegen has written for The Times his definition of friendship as contrasted with love.

It is interesting to note that Mr. Tellegen places a higher estimate on friendship between two men than on love between man and woman. By LOU TELLEGEN Friendship Is the highest affection the soul can attain. Between love and friendship there Is a vast difference in emotional reactions. Friendship implies all that one man may do for another.

It has no acquaintance with those minor attributes which poets give to love. Friends are beyond the mere demonstration of affection. It is an emotion which stands steady through every crisis. Selfishness which raises its head even In the most idyllis love affairs has no place in the relations between friend and friend. The demands of love are selfish.

The gifts of friendship are unselfish. To love is the parent of the wish to be loved. To be a friend is the wish to serve. No finer thought was ever written than that of John: "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down hia life for his friends." The unselfishness of Damon and Pythias is a story which may be found vibrant and alive wherever man associates with man. The intimate histories of i are filled with stories of men who made the supreme sacrifice to save their buddies.

Gangsters In the lower East Side of New York apply this rule to their nefarious careers. It is the very heart of gang loyalty. It If the creed by which they maintain the truth of the adage "there is honor among thieves." Pioneers who do the forward work in adventures into strange and unknown lands are living actors in friendship. Two American aviators recently crashed into the iselands of the far north; for seven days they tolled through an unchartered wilderness of fog blanketed snow fields. Those two men were friends.

There is always the (rtronger and the weaker between two associates. In friendship the strong man help3 the weaker to help himself, In love the weaker clings to the stronger and like one drowning in the sea, oft times carries the stronger to his death. Love between man and woman rarely if ever approaches the glory of friendship between man and man. The demands of love upon love are too filled with the munitia of selfishness to permit full freedom of personal devotion. Love is undoubtedly the most thrilling emotion man can experience and for Jove to approach the heights of perfection in Itself it must burn fiercely, ruthlessly and oftimes disastrously, else love does not reach the pinnacle of its emotional potentiality.

These fires consume and what remains is ashes of glorious desire. I have spoken only of friendship and love in the abstract. It is the good fortune of mankind that love between man and woman Is after all friendship. Were it not a truth that man and wife become friends in marriage the social fabric of our clvilita tion would rot. Lasting love must predicate its future on the rules of friendship.

It is only this degree of affection which lives. I am glad that the world so construes love. It guarantees a moral civilization. Among my friends. In houses which are gay with the laughter of children, I have found that true friendship is the foundation upon which those homes are built.

I have known among my artistic associates love that runs a gamut of every possible sensory thrill, that leaped quickly into flame and which, to the observer, appeared to be the ideal demonstration of love between man and woman, but the very demands that love exercised brought It to dust because it hampered the free gifts of devotion inspired by their Individual personalities. Lou Tellegen has come over tft First National for at least oa picture. "Single Wives.".