Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
The Rothapfel Unit Pro<ram-1t

claimed that long step forward was
made in the art of photopiay produc-
ton when Samuel l. Rothapfel con-
lutionary idea of compiling and mar
keting as unit a complete photoplay
entertainment, including every con-
tributory element from overture to
final exit march.
Heretofore it has been necessary
for an exhibitor operating a suffi-
GENTLY important theater to Justify
the presentation of a program of an
hour and half or two hours dura-
ton 30 book his entertainment from
several different sources, trusting to
his own judgment and such luck as
his feature might bring him to CO.
ordinate pictured subjects made with
out any idea of harmonious combina-
ton.
Under the new plan. it is claimed,
this uncertainty is eliminated. Mr.
Rothapfel saw to that. Not only did
the genius of the Strand, Rialto and
Rivoli theaters in New York discern
the value of a carefully dovetailed
program of camera features, but ts
also carried his idealism to the point
of making all of the individual COM
ponents of his entertainment bear
upon single theme-"the pursuit of
happiness"
BY this means the entire bill, yarie-
gated and replete with unusual fea-
lures and original touches, is put in
the same key.
Mr. Moore Announces-Plans for
Moore's new Parkway Theater. to be
erected at 14th street and Park road.
it Is announced, are now sufficiently
advanced to permit of the announce
ment of details.
John j. Zinke, architect, Is certain
construction of the new house will be-
gin WITHIN thirty days, and that the
opening will occur by November i.
and the details for identification of
the theater alone remain.
II Is claimed the new house will
have the largest stage of any theater
In the city. being equipped not alone
Tor the projection of motion pictures.
but for the staging, in every detail,
OF standard theatrical productions,
feet wide by fifty feet in depth, and
appliance.
The audience capacity. according to
on single floor and the parkway"
like the Rialto. will have no balcony.
and an patrons will have clear and
perfect rr view of the stage and screen,
square feet of ground and the theater
portion alone will cover 46, 900 square
feet There will be an entrance on
18th street, larger and more ornate
Rialo"
Incorporated in the foyer and the
lobby will be features which Mr..
Moore claims will make the house
model for future construction
symphony orchestra" under the
direction of Daniel Breeskin, is prom
ised with the cream of the worlds
best photoplay attractions and all the
effects that modern art in the motion
picture world has evolved"
Animals As They Are.-Nowhere
are the limitations of literature so
sharply defined as in depicting animal
life and animal emotions.
IL is in the recreation Of the living
animal that the motion picture rises as
an art triumphant. and as a method for
scientific observation it Is unsurpassed
In its honesty and sureness.
There have been many writer's OF ami
NAL life. including Ernest Thompson
Seton, who have given US an unequaled
gathering Of animals. which he has en-
dowed almost with humanity; Sewall
Ford. the immortal author of BLACK
Beauty" who has changed mans atti-
tude toward things equinine, and mum
berless other writers of animal life, ap-
preaching more or less to the animal
point OF view.
But what is the animal point Of view:
An author can describe accurately 5
movement or a sequence of actions q
an animal under observation. But the
author must give his own interpreta-
tons to the animals actions and the
causes which motivate those actions.
What Paul ]. Rainey has given in his
Heart Of the Jungle" no mere writer
could do.
He has given the animal minus Pau
j Rainey.
The pictures brought back from Africa
show the animals exactly as they are
not as some one says he has seen them
Motion pictures tell infinitely more Of
wild animals than even the best of the
writer stories.
There is real romance In the instinct
i've power and the natural beauty ir
action Of untamed beasts. And it i.
this beauty and this romance of the un.
fettered that Paul Rainey has brought
back in films from the jungle of Africa
II Is picture Tor every child ~ vel
- for sVeEy 1rown-up to see