Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-01

4 Columbia Novelty.-The latest
acquisition of Manager Klein of
Loew's Columbia as an exceptional
program feature is William Van De
Wall, a Dutch harpist of particular
brilliance.
Mr.. Van De Wall is offering series
OF harp selections which are expected
to furnish one of the chief attractions
at the Columbia He is a master of his
instrument and is a distinct novelty
as a motion picture theater feature.
Mr.. Van De Wall was a student at
The Conservatory of Music at The
Hague, Holland, and completed his
musical education under noted mas
tiers of the harp in Paris. For num-
Der of seasons he toured England and
the continent in concert. When he
came to the United States he joined
the orchestra of the Metropolitan
season he played with the New York
Symphony under DR.. Walter Damrosch.
Screen Characterixation-Su in
the motion picture has been attained
in a majority of instances apparently
by strict adherence on thu. apart of the
actor to that particular type of char
acterization that experience has
taught ne can best portray.
Examples might be cited ad infini-
tum. Douglas Fairbanks does not en-
compass wide range of types, nor
does William S. Hart. Mary Pickford
and Marguerite Clark have confined
their activities almost entirely to in
Aaged by variations Of costume, but
seldom by real diferentiations of
character. The Farnums stay in the
open for their best effects and others
h. f.N ~R l.
been content to leave we'll enough
alone so long as their appeal to popu-
lar taste was satisfactorily reflected
ut the box office. $50 ~ ~
Scrubbed for Arts .sake-Bessie
Barriscale, in Hearts Asleep" has
the role of scrubmaid. At the out
set she hailed it with delight as a
role affording excellent opportunities
for character work, for Miss Barris-'
Gale Is said to be ambitious in the
extreme. She felt differently, however.
later on.
Il never worked so hard in my life
as in this picture. I had to get down
on my hands and knees to scrub
fioors-and 1 had to do it often. Di-
rector Hickman seemed to take a
special delight in making me repeat
the scrubbing scenes where 1 was
simply laboring for arts sweet sake"
Not without Honor. Etc-Hugh
Ford. the director who filmed Hall
Gaines story. The Woman Thou
Gavest Me-" was born in Washington,
but he had to go elsewhere to become
famous.
While Ford was still young his
parents moved to San Francisco.
where he was given a course in
mine engineering. Engineering, how
ever, had little attraction for this
now famous Washingtonian, SO he
winding up in New York as a char
acter actor.
Ford early recognized that his
talents lay in directoral paths. and
1t was not long until he was dis
covered as stage director of the Cen
fury Theater. New York. For a time
after that he was general stage di-
rector for Liebler & Co. and for
while later associate director for the
and Paris.
Not many years passed until Hugh
Ford ranked as one of Americas most
brilliant stage directors. and among
his triumphs of stagecraft were The
Garden of Allah" Joseph and His
Brethren THE Yellow Ticket" THE
Melting Pot" and THE Bird of Para
disc
At the present time Ford is super
wishing director of the eastern studios
of the Famous Players-Lasky Corpor-
alton. He is described as a gentleman
of the old school, a scholar, a traveller
and an intimate friend of Hall Game
the novelist, whose novel he has just
made into photoplay classic.