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2 Flashes From the Screen By C. E. Nelson. WHAT the movie magnates term race of a is on. and the race itself will play no little part in the future of the motion picture.

Therefore, it is naturally considered that the patron of the picture palaces is interested, although a great deal of the matter pertains to business business. The Warner Brothers, who are considered the pioneers of the talkie industry, are making no secret of the fact that they are angling for new theaters. Paramount, through the Publix organization, seems to have awakened from a heavy sleep and today is moving forward in a manner to attract attention from competitors. The William Fox company is buying up here, there and everywhere. besides making itself a large factor in the production end of the game.

R-K-O is busy with all sorts of theater plans and within the next few days a large sized merger may be announced from the New York headquarters. R-K-O announces that Richard Dix. Bebe Daniels, Rudy Valee, Rod and Betty Compson are to be starred in an elaborate program calling for 30 picriuring 1929 and 1930. Dix will contribute three pictures and Miss Daniels will be starred in the same number, in addition to her appearance in La- Rocque will have the leading part in two pictures, the first of i which will be called De- lightful The first picture of Richard Dix will be Love Vagabond will serve as feature lntroduc- tion to the screen. Among the radio musical offerings will be "The Radio a revue, an 1 original comedy by Harry Tier- ney and the screen version of the atage success, the With the same organization, Herbert Brenon, borrowed from United Artists, will direct River," while Malcolm St.

Clair is directing The latter director is now completing "Side Streetr a picture which features the three Moore brothers, Matt, Tom and Owen. Betty Compson is to be featured in "Street but she will be starred in her future pictures. Olive Borden, Sally Blane and Hugh Trevor are among the featured players. Miss first picture will be called IT has remained for an Amerix can film to shock Paris. And an American film, too, which broke box-office records throughout these United States.

About the only complaint registered in this country against the photoplay was in regard to the advertising of the feature. The picture which shocked Paris was exhibited in France under the title of "Les Nouvelles (The New Virgins), by Metro Goldwyn- Mayer. According to a. Paris disfjatch, the picture was "an astonshing spectacle. At the opening performance at the Madeleine- Cinema it was received by the Parisian public with a few hisses, evidently evoked by the shock to French sensibilities produced by the representation of such loosemannered young girls.

Is this film a moral protest against conditions prevailing in certain American social circles? In view of the reputation of a country which prides itself on its virtue and is scandalized by our we would prefer to believe Then the French critic goes on at some length and the writer is quoting only a bit: the heroines of this picture are young ladies of respectable, well-to-do families; the daughters of parents who, either through blindness or because of the competition in the marriage market, permit their children to lead the most extraordinary lives. In spite of the excellent acting, especially that of Crawford, the film, cinematographically speaking, is a little monotonous in the constant repltition of the same sort of scenes. As a study of customs, it is decidedly significant. It is curious that the Americans who criticize the immorality of our literature, should present themselves in such eolors. Prevost wrote a novel, which created a scandal, but this was comparatively innocent when placed alongside Let us beware, however, of making the same mistake as those who Judge the French familv by our romantic and dramatic literature.

I The cinema, too. is a work of the imagination and we certainly hope we would be wronging the young American girl by accepting as true to life these scenes in which she appears to How many weeks did Dancing draw the crowds in Washington? pDWIN CAREWE intends to promote himself from director Co then add another star to his list. So that now the list contains two names, but both are big enough to draw more box-office cash than many entire producing organizations. Lillian Gish is joining the Carewe organization and the other name is Dolores Del Rio. CAMILLA HORN, upon comple- Vi tion of the picture, Royal will leave for Germany.

where she will be featured in several silent pictures, to be made by Warner Brothers. Her last picture was in which she played opposite John Barrymore. nrHE most ambitious production A plsn has originated in England and steps have already been taken to carry it out. J. D.

Williams of London is at the head of a $5,000,000 organization which plans to construct a huge sound studio containing not less than 20 stages, at or near Elstree, Hertfordshire, for the production of international sound and dialogue pictures. The dialogue films will be made in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. For this purpose, sets, when once erected, will be left standing until seaarate copies have been AMUSEMENTS made with native leads, directors and so on, working on each. 1 A TRIP around the Hollywood studios reveals the fact that the producing companies are now turning out 36 pictures. Os this number only six are silent.

First National is completing Pri- vate starring Billie. Dove and Alexander Korda directing. Norma Talmadgc is starting work in her first all-talking picture. Pan Gilbert Roland will have the male lead, and others in the cast are Lilyan Tashman. Fay Wray, Mary Doran and Roscoe Karns.

Constance Bennett is starting work in an all-dialogue attraction which will direct. A PRE-VIEW at the Fox Theater last Tuesday night reveals the fact that this Paul Muni, star of will possibly bei come one of the really great moj tion picture actors. And yet he is not the motion picture idea of a I handsome man. Up to the advent of the sound films there was little use for the actor of the Muni type. His type lacked the saccharine pictorialness which the industry considered indispensable.

But the young actor travels to success in whatever else you may say regarding the picture. Muni is not a newcomer to the sock and buskin profession. His first stage appearance took place when he was 4 years old: he knows his audience, and he is not at all interested in exploiting his own personality; he lives the! 1 character of the moment, the part is playing in the picture. For a man who is still in his 295. this may seem little short of genius.

He has no easy role in I and yet he plays it in a fashion which never per! mits grimness to become monotonous. The audience can forget many shortcomings of a picture when Muni plays the principal role. Short Flashes. JOHN GILBERT, Norma Shearer and Marion Davies have been added to the cast of Hollywood Revue of The musical extravaganza is to be "patterned after the more ambitious of the New York Others in the cast are Buster Keaton, Nils Aster. Bessie Love, Charles King, Anita Page, Joan Crawford, William Haines, Marie Dressier, Polly Moran, the Brox Sisters, Cliff Edwards, the Albertina Rach ballet, the Biltmore Trio and Natacha Natova.

Broadway is reported to have scored a decided hit in London, drawing 115,000 patrons to the New Empire Theater during the first week of its run. Ernest Torrence plays the part of the mysterious Dr. Ballou in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, Green Crane Wilbur, who was one of the first matinee idols of the screen, is now writing plays, his latest effort being a talking picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Did you know that Charles Brabin, director of Bridge of San Luis is the husband of Theda Bara, who at one time was considered the leading actress? Or that Joan real name, that is, before she married Douglas Fairbanks, was Lucille LeSeure? It is said that one of the dancing Dooley family doubles for Glenn Tryon in Glenn has the part of a but when he starts to step the camera is taken afar off. and that you really would not know Dooley was the real dancer.

Tryon, by the way, will next ap- i pear in the Universal production, Was The name of the Eddie Leonard picture has been changed from to Josephine Dunn is the featured player. Third which was announced as the Reginald Denny picture for next year, has been replaced by No, Morton Downey's next picture will be in and he has already started work in the Pathe studio. Betty Lawford has the leading feminine role ancl Kenneth Webb is directing. Theodore Von Eltz has been added to the cast of Ina first talking picture. Henry Daniel is the leading man and i Marshall Neilan is directing.

It is understood that Eddie Cantor will make for I Paramount, but the contract has not yet been signed. William Powell has been select; ed bv Paramount to replace Sam Hardy for the leading role in the Hal Skelly and Esther Ralston have imj portant roles. Bessie Love is the star of the and Raymond Harkett has been signed to play the lng male role. Edgar Selwyn is directing. Joseph Schildkraut will appear in three pictures during the next The Mississippi I Man About and Bachelor Os course, you have heard that Doug Fairbanks and his wife, Mary Pickford.

are to appear in their own screen production of Taming of the And others already selected for the cast, are Edwin Maxwell, Dorothy Jordan, Geoffrey Wardwell, Joseph Cawthorne and Clyde Cook. Sam Taylor will direct. Warner Brothers announce that, there will be no silent version of Desert But how on earth could this particular picture have a silent version? 1 Belle Baker, vaudeville star when there was a vaudeville, has signed to star In Cradle of a singing-dancing-talking picture. Jacinto latest play la "Vidas offered at the Teatro de la Relna Victoria in Madrid. In it the playwrlaht has directed his lance against certain social traditions and 5 marriage etiquette which still prevail in Spain today.

The central 1 are a woman of ancient family and a nouveau rlehe who desires to marry her. Though she really loves the man. 1 the woman cannot bring herself to an alliance with newly THE STTNDAT STAB, WASHINGTON, D. JUNE 16, 1929-PART 4. i i i Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week "vne Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Richard Arlen and Richard Arien and Richard Arlan end Douslss Fairbanks In Douelas Fairbanks In Laura La In Bus er Keaton in Mary Bilan Mary Brian Mary Brian "The Iron Mask." Iron "The Last Warning.

AUlbaSSad in in in Vitaphone short Vitaphone short reel. "The Man I "The Man I Love "The Man I Love subt'et subject. Comedy Military reel. Ser.al. Douglas Fairbanks in Easels Bagels Sally NellT in Ken Maynard in a The Iron Mask.

The Iron Mask." 5 In In "The Girl on the "The Code of on £jL 2 ht ApOuO Vitaphona subject. Vitaphone subject. "The letter Letter" Barge" Bearlet Comedy. Oddity reel. Military reel.

Military reel Jaek Puffy eomedy. Jack Puffy remedy. Comedy vita, reel Vitaphone reel comedy Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Milton Bills and Milton Sills and Lois Moran In Betty Bronson Ken Maynard In "The in in Marla Corda tn Maria Cards In "Joy St reef' In Code of Scarlet. Ave. brand -why Be Oood." "Why Be Good" "Love and the Devil." "Love and the Vitaphone subject.

"One Btolen Comedy. Vita, reel Krazy Kat cartoon. Krasy cartoon. Jack Puff" comedy Jack Duffy comedy Oddity reel Roach eomedy Military red Serial. Dorothv Meekail! and Buster Heaton and George O'Brien and Barry Noiton anil Victor McLaglen ant! Ronald Col man and Milton Bills in Oorlnne Griffith in Dorothy Bebastlan Lois Moran Louise Dresler Leatrlce Joy Lily pamita I Carolina "His captive Divine in In in In Hi Woman." "Spite Marriage." "Blindfold Knows "Strong Boy.

The Rescue. Oun Law." 1 f. Dark. "The Flying Flying Fleet." "Hearts In "Hot "Seven Footprints to Cameo Comedy. comedy.

Satan. Martinis Preferred." MLBatn Bessie Love and Bessie Love and Bessie Love and John Barrymore tn George Bancroft In George Bancroft In Colleen Moore Charles Kins In Charles Kina In Charles in Eternal "The Wolf of Wall The Wolf of Wall Central "Broadway Melody. "Broadway Melody" "Broadway Melody Comedy. Comedy Comedy. rt Krazy Kat cartoon Kraty Kat cartoon Krasy Kat cartoon.

Vitaphone reel. Vita, ft military reals. Vita. Ar military reels. Vitaphone subjects.

Douglas Fairbanks Douelas Fairbanks Sally O'Neill in Lola Moran in Betty Bronson In Kan Maynard In in In "The Girl on the Colleen Moore In "True Heayen." "One Stolen Nitht. The Code of Scarlet. Chew Cha. "The Iron Mask "The Iron Mask "Why Be Good?" Vita, short subleet. Oddity reel Arthur Lake comedy.

Snookums comedy Snookums comedy. Comedy. Vitaphone. Charles Chase comedy. Laurel-Hardy comedy Vitaphone Serial Willard Mack and Willard Mack and Victor MoLatlen.

John Mack Brown and Rod La Roeque and lidmund I owe and Sylvia Field In Sylvia Field In Leatrlce Joy and Jeanette Loss In Tom Kennedy In Lois Moran Glenn Tryon In Circle "The Volte of the "The Voice of the Clyde Cook In "Annapolis Over tn "It Be City." City," "Strong Boy." "Navy on Parade." Comedy. Review, "Making the Colleen Moore In Colleen in Qeorre Bancroft in George Bancroft In Lars Hansen in Ken Maynard In Otvy Lee nd "Whv Be Good? "Why Be "The Wolf of Wall "The Wolf of Wall Homecoming." "The Code of Scarlet. Rln Tin Tin In Colony Vitaphone short Vltaphene short Street," Vitaphone short Big Boy comedy. Frozen River. subject.

subject Bennett comedy. Sennett comedy. subject. Vita, short subject. Comedy.

Serial, Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt and FranlAe Darro and Audrey Ferris and Edmond Lows and Monte Blue and Rex Bell 1 Renee Adoree In Betty Compson In Helene Costello James Murray in Lots Wilson in Lois Wilson in in Dumbarton "The Michigan Kid." "Court-Martial." "The Circus Kid." "The Little Wildcat." the Cowboy Kid. Comedy. Comedy Comedy. Comedy. Comedy Douelas Fairbanks in Adolphe Meniou In "The Great White Audrey Ferris in Doris Kenyon In Hoot Gibson In Monte Blue in Majesty the "Marquis North." "Fancy Baggage." Home "Burning the Trail.

The Greyhound Elite Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. News. Comedy.

Limit'll New? Comedy. Oddity Spot Oddity. Sport Serial. Collegians Comedy. Solleen Moore In Colleen Moore in Milton Sills and Milton Sills and Bessie! Lova" In Tim McCoy Byp.thetle "Synthetic Sin." Dorothv MnckatU tn Dorothy Mackaill in "Sally es tha In Homecoming.

HICiDOOr me Comedv. Comedy. "The Captive Worn- Captive Worn- "Beyond the Sierras. Comedy. RfVs.

News. Comedy. Comedv. Comedy. Comediemt Georsa Bancroft in Oeorce Bancroft In Colleen Moore In Colleen Moore In Lon Chaner Lois Moran In Tom Mix in tt -The wolf of Wall The Wolf of Wall "Why Be Gout" "Why Be In "Joy "Outlawed." Home street." Military reel.

Military reel "Where East Is Inkwell cartoon. Comedy Serial. Chorus Girl comedy. Chorus Girl comedv, Vitaphone Vitaphone sub ect. Arthur Lake comedy.

reel. Vitaphone subject. MUton Sills' and MenJou In Douglas MacXean "Donald Gloria Swsr.son In Mary Artor in I Betty Cempson in In "Diamond Hand- "Stats Street of tha "Submarine. Leader Barker." comedies. 'The Carnation cuffj." Comely.

Semi Serial. Comedy. Kens. Subsidiary reels- Comedy. News Comedies.

Comedy. Milton and Thelma Todd In Bessie Love and Bessie Lcve and Bessie Love anti Siiv-Tln-Tln in Dorothy Mackaill In I Dorothy" Mackaill In "Seven Footprints to Charles Charles King Charles King Mltllon-Dollar Children of the His "Broadway" "Broadwey" Serial. Comedy. Comedy. News.

Hoot Glhson In Matt Moore In Bob Custer In Davy Crockett i Ouns." "Modern "Beware es Blondes." Law cf the "The College at Fall of the "Vanishlnr New Comedler ComSdy. Sport. Comedv. Mounted." Comedy. Alisa." Comedy.

Snapshots Comedy. Serial. Comedy. Richard Dix Monte Blue Monte Blue Dolores Costello in Dolores Costello nicnarn cix )n "A Ship Comes in Pnncets "RediV.ln Redskin Vaudeville. Comedy.

"The Kid Clever. Tenderlojn. Sennett comedy. Sennett. comedy.

Comedv Comedy. Comedy Serial. I Bello Bennett Phyllis Hiver in May MeAvoy in Lia in Louise Fazenda and Ovrtnsniv William Haines and Beno nenneir Tn shady Lady." "The Lion and the "The Veiled Woman H. B. Warner In "Queen of the Nlaht Crawford In Savov and Me" Sonnett.

comedy. Mouse. Variety reel Comedy. Stark Mad. Clubs.

Duke Steps OuL inkwell cartoon M-G-M r-mind act. Jack Duffr comedy M-G-M sound act. Chorus Ctrl comedF Corredr. Bills Poole i comedv. co Rtn-Tio-Tin in Rin-Tin-Tm tn Ronald Colman Chester Conklin Cheater Conklin Karl Dane In Takoma "Land of the Silver oMhe Silver Th scue -The IS." "Tex'l" I aKOuIB news Comedy.

News Comedy. Comedy. Comedv. Fox Movietone News. Fox Movietone News.

La PlanteTn Laura La Plante in John Barrymore, in John Barrymore Tri ISjTrnar Baxter In a xterln RMlnald Dimny In "The Last Warnint "The Last Warning." Eternal Love." Eternal Love "Through Different Through Different Clear tne pecks. TlVOll News News Cartoon Topics Comedv. Topics Comedy Eyes" Comedy, Vita. Eyes X' 1 leGaf 1 uu subject. Vitaphone subject.

Vitaphone subject. Vitaphone subject. and military reels and military reels Cog--Ti 3 "Where S'" York Vitaphone subject. Vltsphon. subject, Ch rl Vlt.p°h?re "rael.

Viuphor.Aecl.' Current Attractions. (Continued from First Page.) exquisite blending of vigorous, poettc acting, with alluring musle and the picturesque life of the twelfth century England. Subtitled as Hood, and the Three these lour characters will be played by Frederick E. Oechsner as Robin, Earl of Huntingdon; Francis McGarraghy as King Richard. Coeur de Lion; Aaron M.

Rosenthal as Prince John, and Clark Beach aa Oberon. King of the Fairies. Outlaws and followers of Robin John. Friar Tuck. Will Scarlet and be played by Milton D.

Korman, H. R. Baukage, Luclen Kerns and Robert Davidson, while the never-to-be forgotten Sheriff of Nottingham will be done by James Otis Porter. Maurice Jarvis will play Fitzwalter, father el Maid Marian; Maid Marian herself will be played by Lahuna Clinton, and Grace Peters Johnson will be the wicked Queen Elinor. The fairies will be imperaonated by Carolina McKinley as i Tltanla; Clark Beaeh aa Oberon; Anne Ives as Shadow of a Leaf, and Cricket Caukin as Puck.

The public is invited to attend the presentation. Chair tickets also are on sale at Willard Hotel Newsstand. T. Arthur ticket bureau; American Automobile Association and Franklin School Building. Boxes may be had from Mrs.

Cary H. Brown. LOU LANGLOTZ Tomorrow. The Lou Langlota annual dance recital will be staged at the Hotel Roosevelt tomorrow evening at The program will feaure baby groups and solo dances In numbers arranged for children from 3Vs to 5 years old and will include Gypsy Flapper Dolls," Nymphs Shore lng Jeane Rubin, Paige Waite, Alberta Briggs, Barbara McCarty, Toby Saiontz, Janet Schwartz, Jerry Lust, Edna Ofi fcnberg. Hilda May Case, Marion Schuman.

Barbara Briggs, Angela Selig, Helen Turner and Anna Fagelson. Older will be seen in March of the Wooden "Acrobatie "The Spanish for "Adago Victoria toe groups, presenting Elizabeth Briggs, Sarah Lipman, Anita Rosenberg, Naomi Turover. Irene Sacks, Jerry Cohn. Elizabeth Cockerille, Olive Scopi, Olga Rosenberg, Bernice Rosenberg, Eunice Rice. Ocie Rickman.

William Nugent, Pat Audrey Shepherd, Mary Jane Leach and Gladys Caw. Arch Selwyn anticipates bringing Tina Meller, sister of Raquel, to New York next season for a part in Up and Dream Tina Is a dancer who has had considerable success in Spanish repertoire in Paris. In ANNE IVES, Washington player who will hare the lee ding feminine rale in to I bo produced at the Sylvan Theater by the Community Drama Guild, 10. GEORGE IS IN AGAIN Wm Wmm i 1 mm I oi imw3.li i i wBIEBBiMmCTwB GEORGE BANCROFT In grene front hla now picture, vheduled for early exhibition. Two Haunted Men.

I 'T'WO haunted men are working at the Paramount studios. It is not immaterial, strange, frightening things that haunt them, but the familiar shape of themselves. The haunted are Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows. Ever since they made a certain phonograph record about early birds and such things they have been haunted. "Every place we go we hear those records," Mack moans.

like meeting your own ghost wherever you turn," Moran comments. "Worse than that," Mack puts In. like looking at your own embalmed mummy every morning when you get The Two Black Crows go out to riinj ner and some one puts on one of their 1 records. They attend a bridge party, and it is the same. Charles Chaplin entertained them In Hollywood with some of their records.

Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts did the same thing. I The sales of therir records have gone past, the 7.000,000' mark, aod are still i selling rapidly, so there seems little hope of a rest. Plied one on top of the other, or placed end to end, all the records of theirs being played today would drive an adding machine to the trash heap. Only Caruso and Galll-Curcl have attained a record popularity approaching that of Moran and Mark, All this popularity has not been al- I ways thus.

Both men have experienced a hard struggle to attain the heights at. which they now find themselves. Born in Kansas, they tried a long list of voca! tlons before they came to blackface. It has been 25 years since they indl! vldually started smearing their faces with burnt cork. Each has had other partnerships.

For a time it, was Moran and Garvyr and then Moran and Christy. Mack's career Next Week Photoplays. FOX and Son," featuring Jack Holt and Mick METROPOLITAN a Vltaphonc production, featuring H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and others.

PALACE of I a Paramount production. EARLE Squall," a First National Vitaphone picture, featuring Alice Joyce and ethtri. joined when they found that I each one's talents fitted perfectly with the other. Both comedians are of Irish descent, with one-quarter German admixture. Their vernacular, like Topsy, just It is a familiar tired feeling translated Into words.

You grease your vocal chords with molasses, breathe gently, and there you are. They love the taste of burnt cork, but long to live down their record ghosts. "We thought at one time we'd play to break the spell, but we couldn't decide which one would wash up and play lago," Moran explains. "And we were going to have a new ending," Mack says. our version Desdemona was always putting Othello's speech to the senate on the phonograph, iso he killed her.

That's perfectlyuogij cal, isn't It?" New Russian Films. i PUDOVKIN. one of the leading Russian directors and especially noted for his recent production of "Storm Over Asta," is reported In Moscow newspapers to have gone to the health resort of Kislovodsk, in the Caucasus, to take some scenes there for a new picture to be called Is Worth Living." The Aim, advance notices state, is calculated to. "rehabilitate the love theme submerged in morass ot hokum by Hollywood." Material Is being gathered by Golovnya, whose photographic work is held largely responsible for the success of the above-mentioned "Storm Over for an educational picture en- I titled depicting the life of the fisher folk of the Soviet Union. "The New Babylon," a Russian Aim based upon the Paris Commune, directed by Kosinsof and Trauberg, drew caustic comment from some Viennese reviewers at Its premiere In the Austrian capital recently.

The Russians were said to "completely eliminate the role of the Prussians In the the only reason for this appearing to be that "the Russian Aim industry Is doing big business with Germany and want to affront its best DANCING. MISS sang At? Five private leasona. 13: finale. It IS. Bex Trot.

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hour. Class Iv'naa. National 3341 tnstr'n at 8 Dancing, f- II Class Tuerrtav evening Lsteel steps MAE DAVISON All forms of State end Ballroom Dancing. Acrobatic. Limbering Tap Routines.

or private. Ballroom class Tuesday evenings Latest steps end tangoes National 8341. Studio n.w at Thomas Circle. Photoplays This Week (Continued from First Myma Loy, William V. Mong, Malcolm Waite, Noble Johnson, Otto Hoffman and Joe Bonomo.

Vaat and thickly peopled are the scenes and situations of "Noah's The love story that runs through it is glamorous. Characters wrecked on a continental train find themseives In Paris at the opening of the World War. Passing through the soul-stirring time, they find themselves wafted back 50 centuries to the days preceding the in scenes of heathen worship, revelry, in the idyllic life of the family of the "one Just Noah. Miriam, handmaiden in the household of the patriarch, is captured bv the heathen soldiers. Her lover, i Japheth, son of Noah, in trying to res- I rue her is tortured and sent to exile.

Then the flood! LITTLE Under the auspices of the Film Arts Ouild, the Little Theater this week will present Shakespeare's tragedy. with the distinguished actor, Emil Jannings, in the title role, a part in which he had signal success on the I European stage. No great actor of his day. perhaps, has created more notable and lasting i character creations, both lor the stage and the screen, than has Emil Jannings. America knows him best for nis screen work and his work in the "The Btreet of and Last I Command," with many other pictures, foreign and domestic, will attest the quality and impressiveness of his i talents.

The supporting cast in will include Werner another noted foreign actor, as lago; lea Lenektffy as Desdemona, in her initial work before the camera, and Lya de Putti. who is more widely known in this country. The production was made in the Ernest Lubitsch Btudios Berlin. and under the personal direci-ton of Mr. Lubitsch himself.

Indeed, it Is said to be one of his really great works. The lighter supplementary entertainment. of the bill will be provided by a Vtsugraphle acenic, the weekly newsreel and a Stan Laurel-Oliver Hardy comedy, with the music of the -ittie famous trio. Coming Attractions. NATIONAL Jeanne successful play.

which served that young actress for nearly three seasons, will be the tlonal Theater Players' offering next i week, beginning June 24, No stranger i to the role of Sadie Thompson, having I played it twice, Edith King may be expected to acquit herself as handsomely as she did in Girl of the Golden aa the whole world must know by this time, has a twin theme of love and of deceit. John Colton adapted the story to the stage, seeing dramatic possibilities in the Somerset Maugham flption which Maugham i himself did not see. Working with Clemence Randolph as collaborator, Colton turned out a dramatic result which brought wealth to himself, the producer and fame and money to Jeanne Eagels. It won New York and before the original company moved off Broadway 741 performances had been given. So avid were film people for the screen 1 rights.

It is said, that Mary Pickford offered $400,000 for them and was turned down. The story deals with an impish-mtnd! cd coquette, driven from San Francisco for habits law and order frown upon: of her contacts In Isle of Pago- Pago and of her brutal persecution by a hypocritical missionary. Splendid parts are available for the National i Players company. Edward Arnold will be seen as the somnolent innkeeper, Brister as the doctor. Mrs.

Hibbard as a native and Helen Wallace as the wlfp. FOR REAL REST, RELAXATION AND RECREATION A RECOMMENDATION IS GLEN ECHO FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK MORE THAN FIFTY AMUSEMENTS FOR YOUR PLEASURE TAKE mmrcT to gNfftaNce First Love Affairs. young dream flourishes In the of our foremoat screen players, and neither time, motion picture contracts nor Rolls-Royces dim the memory of their first dewy-eyed sweethearts. Carol Lombard. Pat he feautred player, agrees to the extent of admitting that she remembers her first love affair vividly, since it ended In a bitter tragedv.

When 8 years old. Carol found herself deeply enamored of a 9-year-old boy in her class at school. Her affection was returned. All should have been well, and was. Carol confides, until a certain dav when the youthful swain gave the future picture actress a candy heart on which large red letters proclaimed "I love Long before she loved her first sweetheart, Carol had loved candy.

Torn between two loves, little Carol could not decide whether to eat the candy heart or keep It as a token of love. Love lost the day. Unfortunately. Carol's young admirer was peeking about the corner when his ladv devoured the offering. For the remainder of the year he forebore speaking to her unless It was to hurl jibes and taunts for the benefit of those of his classmates who had observed his former affection.

Nothing remained of Carol's first love even the candy heart. That, insidious factor In so msny love opinion of the rock on which Jeanette Loff's first romance floundered. At 10 the present film favorite played her first role as a leading a school play. For a leading man Ihere was selected a youth on whom Jeanette had long been gaaing with adoring eyes. He had carried her books home from school, too.

more than once, and had given other evidence of the fact that he thought his golden-haired playmate was quite the nicest girl in school. Jeanette was a princess in distress in the school play, and the leading man the prince who rescued her. In one scene she had to faint, and he held her In his arms while trying to bring her back to consciousness. Miss LofT admits quite frankly that rehearsals of this particular scene could not come too often for her. But the other in school began to tease the poor leading man.

One day when he was going through the scene with Jeanette, cat-calls began coming through the window, and the jeers and jesting of the other schoolboys became too loud to be Ignored. Suddenly stricken with the ignominy of his situation, prince threw his princess to the floor with all possible Film of Gallantry. are that "The Four Feathers, the most recent film effort of Messrs. Cooper and Schoedsack. will cause a large number of people to say "It reminds Inevitably, those who know their Rudyard Kipling will declare that "The Four reminds them of his stories of the fighting of British soldiers against the fierce tribesmen of the Sudan during the closing years of the last century, and especially of his mem- orable poem immortalising the Fuzzy- Wuzzys.

broke the British As a matter of fact, Cooper and Schoedsack spent months among the Fuzzy- Wuzzys in the Red Sea hills region photographing important scenes for the film. Many others will detect a similarity between "The Four and Percival Christopher Wren's adventure tale of the Foreign Legion, "Beau principally because Africa and England constitute the background and because the valiant defense of a beleaguered fortress plays a leading dramatic motif in both pictures. Moreover, both films have the same underlying theme of a disgraced young Briton seeking to atone for his failings by gallant deeds in the face of insuperable hardships and hazards. Admirers of Joseph Conrad's "Lord will also recognize that young Lieut. Harry Feversham.

the hero of "The Four played by Richard Arlen, is really a brother under the skin of Lord Jim. for both were branded with the stigma of cow; ardice (or. to split hairs, the fear of proving yellow' in a crisis) and both reinstated themselves in the regard of their fellow' men by deeds of supreme I self-sacrifice. Naturally, too, because Messrs. Schoed, sack and Cooper were responsible for those much discussed films and a great many are going to say that "The Four reminds them of the above films, And, as a matter of fact, all of these people will have right on their side.

But the whole thing just happened to turn out that way. and not through any I wily showmanship design on the part i of Schoedsack, the 6-foot-4 lowan, and Cooper, the ex-wartime aviator, who brought the primitive struggles and i dangers of the mountain tribesmen of I Persia (in and the jungle; natives of Siam (in before! people alarmed over such trifles as I traffic regulations and income taxes. Four in a sense marks an innovation in such productions as and with a dramatic story enacted by a cast of noted film players. Following the success of Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president.

in charge of production of Paramount, told Cooper and Bchoedsack that they might choose any subject they wished for their next film effort, to be produced wdth the backing of the complete resources of Paramount. They decided to make Four 1 That was about tw'o years ago and four months. Ever since that time they I have been hard at work. They spent I more than a year and a half in Africa making location scenes and also photo- i graphing several exciting climaxes wherein wild beasts figure. Then they i i returned to the Paramount studios in I Hollywood, bringing with them 60.00 feet of negative, and went to work with a carefully chosen cast to work cut the details of the famous story, whtoh has 1 NATIONAL uS, SI.OO, 75c and 50c wOn.

Mat. 75c, 50c Only Theater in Waihington Pretenting the Legitimate Spoken Drama NATIONAL TVEATPE PIAYIRI afof. Hie Biltmore Theatre NY i I I FINAL NEXT WEEK BAM H. HARRIS' WORLD-FAMOCS 81'CCESS. THE FLAT THAT ILBVATED JEANNE EAGELS TO STARDOM 1 Found'd on W.

Somorirt Mantbam'o Story. Sadlo IS A DRAMA OF DIGNITY AND TREMENDOUS N. Y. Evening Clebt. 1 NOT THE CANNED VERSION.

BUT THIS GREAT PLAY IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD. WITH ALL ITS STARK REALISM AMUSEMENTS. dispatch, dashed from the stage and appeared at rehearsals no more. A girl was substituted in the role and Jeanette bravely stifled the pangs of her first heartbreak. Diane Ellis met her first sweetheart when she was sailing under false colors.

At 12 Diane and a school chum played from the school In Los Angeles which they were attending, and tried to get extra work at a nearby film studio, pretending to be quite young ladies of 17 or 18. The disguise seems to have been successful In the case of Diane, who was rather tall for her years. She got several work. In t.he course of which she attracted the attention of a fellow player in his early SOs. who decided that the pseudo young lady was one of the prettiest girls ha had aver seen.

He Invited her to the theater. Thrilled as could be, Diane accepted, emulating, however, that he must not call for her at home, but meet her at a designated rendesvous nearby. To explain this she Suoted the contents of a story which he had lust read, putting herself in the place of the heroine whose eniel refused her the companionship of other young people. This noticeably added sympathy and gentleness to the young admiration for Diana. Unfortunately for romance, the principal of the school had selected that very afternoon to get In touch with Mr.

Ellis respecting the truant propensities of his daughter. When Diane arrived home it was to find an unlooked-for situation. Instead of being permitted to leave for movie with a school she was set down before her books and sternly ordered to study as many of the missed lessons as she could, in preparation for returning to school next day. She never saw her Lothario again. William Boyd confesses that the first object of his afTectlons knew nothing whatever about it.

When in grammar school he was i 1 greatlv fascinated by a blue-eyed, gold-11 en-hatred svlph who sat Just. In front of him. Lest any one might suspect it, however, he teased and bullied her on all possible occasions. Onlv once did he permit himself to indulge in his real feeling for the young lady in question and then he did it i anonymously. There was to be a Vali entinc box in school and Bill saved his I nickles and dimes for weeks ahead and i bought the loveliest valentine the town could provide.

This he carefully sealed I and addressed, signing no name, i There was much speculation in school as to who had sent the beautiful val; i entine, but no one suspected that Bill i was its donor. been prepared in the form of a dramatic continuity by Hope Loring an'i Howard Estabrook. Some of the itriking scenes contained in the picture are the attack of the Fuzzv-Wuzzys, the camel cavalry charge, the valor of the famous "British Hollow Square," the fierce hand-tohand fighting, the skirling bagpipes of the Highlanders; the mutiny in Fcrt Khor-Owab; the horrible stone death house at Omdurman on the Nile, where an Arab trader sells men for ivony the burning jungle and the fleeing army baboons and other animals; the attack on tw men in a canoe by a herd oi hippopotamuses: the street and case scenes of Buakin, the Red Sea port, never before pictured in the films, and the military ball, with hundreds of uniformed officers and handsomely gowned women. Printer to Actor. I3EFORE he embarked on a stage career, Joseph W.

Girard, wellknown actor of both the spoken and silent drama, was a printer in Philadelphia. He learned his trade in the composing rooms of various newspapers and finally went into the Job printing business with a partner who knew nothing of the business and who never showed a disposition to learn it. Girard, who had appeared in private theatricals, and who had a good singing voice, was tiring of type and presses, so when he was offered a chance to play a small part in a nautical comedy, he aoid hia interest in the printing business and went on the stage. He made an Immediate hit and has been behind the footlights and before the camera ever since. Will First Noisy.

CONY A LEVIEN, whose adaptation of the Earl Derr story "Behind That for Fox-Movietone, was considered a flawless script, has been assigned to make the adaptation of Had to Bee Homer Croy's story, which will be Will first starring production for tone. Owen Davis, American dramatist, thor of 283 stage plays, has written the dialogue for the production and i Frank Borzage of Seventh I fame will direct. I MARSHALL HALL Steamer CHARLES MACALESTER Leaves Seventh St. Wharf 10 A.M.< 2 30 and 6 45 P.M. FREE AMUSEMENTS ROUND TRIP.

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