The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-05
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON
isis Hopkins''- Mabel Normandl
From now on admirers Of Goldwyn's
unique comedienne win never disasso-
ciate one from tho other. Mabel Nor.
mand bids fair to score the greatest
hit Of her lively career.
Completely sinking her own person
ality into that Of the Hoosier hoyden,
she achieves feat Of acting like moth
ing she has ever done. Mabel Nor
mand is the character already known
In every city, town and hamlet OF
America through the success Of the
stage play in which Rose Melville
made millions laugh score OF years
ago. Miss Melville, who assisted Miss
Normand In costuming tho part, de-
clared that the screen isis Hopkins"
promises to be even funnier than 1t
was as q nationally successful stage
play.
There is touch Of histrionic genius
in Mabel Normand's portrayal Of isis
Hopkins" and this, together with an
absorbing story. dramatic and con-
vulsively funny by turns, causes Gold
wyn toA predict q success which will
sweep the nation. Mabel Normand
will justify every belief in her right
to occupy place in her profession
that she has never held before. Com
ing to the Washington theatre for two
days beginning Wednesday.
Alice Brady's latest Select Picture,
"In the Hollow Of Her Hand" which
Select will offer to the Washington
theatre on Friday and Saturday, is the
story Of q young English girl, Hetty
Castleton, who, left penniless in the
world. is forced to earn her own liv-
ing. After trying several different po-
sitions in England she decides to come
to America and accept a position Of
fered her. On the steamer she meets
and falls in love with Challis Wran-
dali. q wealthy young American.
Wrandall Is a rake and libertine and
has O wife In New York. Hetty knows
nothing OF all this. When, therefor,
her position does not materialize in
New York, she accepts without Ques
ton his offers Of help.
Hetty Is suddenly awakened to
Wrandall's real self when he takes
her to a regulation roadhouse where
he orders supper served in private
rooms. A scene follows in which Hetty
is forced to kill him IN se!f-defense.
His wife. Sara, is informed Of his
death. On her way home from the
inn, she meets Hetty, who escaped
unnoticed from the inn and has been
living in the woods for the past day.
Sara decides to protect Hetty because
Hetty has done what she never dared
to do.
II you saw your wife hugging to
her bosom a bundle of old love let
ters, and she refused to show them
to you. what would you think? And
Mrs. Young Wife, If you saw your
husband doing the same thing, what
would be your condition Of mind?
An answer, which led to q remarkable
complication Of events, Is given in
wives and Other Wives" of which
Mary Miles Minter is the star, to be
shown at the Washington theatre on
Sunday only.
The heroine starts the story as a
happy bride-a child woman, to whom
the whole world promises to be
paradise Of love and kisses To this
character Miss Minter, though young
in years. brings a remarkable under
standing OF the feminine psychology
and 1t is probable that no comedienne
OF established reputation on the speak
dng stage could have interpreted It
with finer serious feeling and a surer
appreciation of the comedy possibili-
ties
Hist Ware t4e villain, protect the
fair maidi THIS will occur to you
when you see Ben Turpin in EAST
Lynne With Variations" the new Par.
amount-Mack Sennett comedy which
1s on view at the Washington theatre
Wednesday and Thursday. It satir-
lies the old melodrama Of thirty or
more years ago In decidedly refresh
ing manner and there is a laugh every
minute. Mr.. Turpin's assistant mirth-
provokers are Charles Lynn and Marie
Provost and that they are fully up
TO the requirements of their respective
roles, Is attested by the laughter that
greets each presentation Of this COM
edy.
MURRETTE
It is estimated that Common Clay"
the Harvard prize play by Cleves Kink-
cad, In which Jane Cowl achieved one
OF her most notable successes, has
been witnessed by more than FIVE mil
lion persons. Under the direction Of
A. H. Woods, 1t ran for a full year
as q Broadway attraction, playing to
the capacity Of the house. During