Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
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LoeW's Columbia.

Geraldine Farrar Will arrive IN WASH
ington tomorrow. not in the flesh, but
in the shadow, on the screen of Loew's
Columbia Theater, where she will en-
terrain audiences throughout the en-
tire week in photo production of
Carmen
The Carmen familiar to all in BIZ
zet's opera is the central figure. but
many of the scenes from Prosper Merl-
mee's romance are introduced in the
picture play that are not in the opera.
Miss Farrar acts with such intense
realism that some of the pictures We're
regarded as too fervid for conservative
sisted on modifying several scenes. The
management announces that the entire
play will be presented here just as it
was filmed.
most beautiful women on the stage,
and her makeup as a gypsy is unusu-
ally picturesque and impressive. Her
company includes several notable play
ers, among them Pedro de Cordoba,
William Elmer, Wallace Reid and Hor-
ace Carpenter.
The management of the Columbia
Theater has arranged to open the house
at 1890 each morning during the ex-
hibition of Carmen" The regular scale
of prices will prevail.
Crandalls.
Beginning today and continuing until
Wednesday, Robert B. Mantell, the emf
nent dramatic star, will be pictured in
his screen debut at CrandaIls Theater
in the photo production entitled The
Blindness of Devotion" powerful
drama. which deals with the sins of
modern society. 1t is noted for mag
nificent settings and the photography is
said to be faultless. Genevieve Ham
per is pictured as co-star with Mr..
Mantell Others in the cast are Claire
Whitney, Stuart Holmes, Henry Leone
and Walter Burton. Thursday a Shu-
bert feature will picture Frederick
Lewis and Ethel Gray Terry in
Bought" with cast including Helen
Tracey. formerly with the Poll Play
ers. Friday and Saturday THE Hearts
of Men will be the photoplay feature,
with Beulah Poynter and Arthur Dom
aldson in the principal roles. A pro-
gram of specially selected music is fur
nished by Heitmuller's orchestra and
the Crandan pipe organ daily. Next
weeks photoplay program will present
Nance O'Neil in "a Woman's Past and
"A Butterfly on the Wheel" in six
parts.
Where Carmen Was Mude-South-
ern California is the center of the mo-
ton picture manufacturing business
declared by those who know to be the
fifth biggest industry in the United
States). and the weekly output of film
from Los Angeles and Hollywood is
something like 100000 feet of finished
negative, according to census reports.
Also there are 10000 persons en-
ployed in various capacities in the
large studios near Los Angeles, where
the work, owing to the balmy weather
of winter and summer, is unceasing
throughout the mountain foothills
wonderful stretches of ocean shores at
Catalina and Long Beach and the
metropolitan settings in Los Angeles.
within easy reach of the camera stats.
Every one in Los Angeles rides in the
jitney. Los Angeles is the home of that
strange conception and invention. There
it was reared and raised and there it
has met it's highest efficiency. 1t is
the iitney. therefore. which one en-
rloys for a trip to the studios of the
big motion picture establishments at
Hollywood.
The modern motion picture plant is
something of a city, or several cities
in itself. There is usually one large
building, glass rooted and portabl
sided. with a big floor space of so by
100 feet or more on which four to eight
different companies are constantly at
work under separate directors Outside
the main building are open-air set