The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-10
WASHINGTON

Motion picture directors are human.
They don't like people who are for
ever giving them extra work to do
F'rail feminine stars who demand
doubles every time the smallest
stunt" is to be attempted aren't ex-
actly fayorites with the megaphone
men. On the other hand, they'll tell
you that regular" girl like Dorothy
Dalton is pleasure to make pictures
with.
When the script requires the hero
inc to swim from a yacht in distress
10 shore, Miss Dalton dives off the
stern like a Kellerman and makes the
Journey before the clicking cameras
with perfect ease. In "L'Apache" she
played Partisan dancer Of the under
world. and you didn't blame the lex
tras" for applauding when she danced
on the screen. The sub-titles called
her the Carmen Of the Apaches."
She was exactly that.
Dorothy Dalton rides horseback like
a cavalryman, can beat most Of the
men on the Ince lot at tennis. and Is
the leading golfer of the screen col
ony. In addition. she Is thoroughly
woman's woman. In BLACK Is
White" her new Thomas H. Ince pro-
duction, coming to the Washington
theatre next Wednesday and Thurs
day, she shows her versatility by en-
acting three distinct roles. The story
is from George Barr McCutcheon's
novel of the same name. 1t is a Para
mount Aircraft picture.
MURRAY VAUDEVILLE.
"Mammy's Birthday" with one man
and ak girls in an original revue Of
Southern days before tho war, is to
headline the new bill which will open
at The Murray next Monday, matinee
for the first half The stage is set to
represent an old colonial Southern
home, where the young folks have
gathered to celebrate 'Mammy's" 5Oth
birthday. The act is replete with
songs, dances. limitations and intro
duces a typical old-time Southern
Nanny" Characteristic stage setting
with electrical effects are carried
while elaborate colonial and modern
costumes are shown. The following is
taken from a recent New York review
Of the act:
"Mammy's Birthday" is the title of
a musical girl act that caught on from
the very start. There are six girls
and one man in the act, and almost
all Of them, especially the girl that
initiated Francis White, rendered some
individual bits, that helped put over
the act To say that this act, which is
meritorious, won out beyond any of the
others on the bill would be putting the
fact mildly 1t just about cleaned up.
Amedio, THE Wizard Of The Piano
ACCORDION, and The Thornton Sisters
in Bits of Harmony" conclude the
vaudeville bill. while June Caprice in
a fve-reel Pathe feature I'm Walked
Mary" will be the screen attraction.
MURRETTE.
The Best Of Luck" is the feature
photoplay attraction at the Murrette
Theater. Saturday night.
The action Of the play revolves
about chest Of jewels, once the prop
erty of Spanish Queen, which lies at
the bottom of the sea in wrecked
ship. The efforts Of Leslie Macleod,
a courageous Scottish girl. and Gen
eral Lanzana, an INSCRIPTIONS Span
lard. to regain possession Of the rich
treasure result in vivid action.
LanZana cOntrives to get Leslie In
his apartment, where he attempts to
take advantage Of her. By a clever
ruse she escapes with chart of the
ocean bed where the Spanish wreck,
the Santa Ginevra," dies five faith
oms deep. With her sweetheart. Lord
Glenayr, Leslie boards a submarine IN
quest of the jewels. They find Ian
zana ahead of them and two men in
diving apparel wage a fight to the
death in the deep.
Enid Solari was bound for life to a
man whose jealousy was so great that
il amounted to an infirmity. His bru-
tality turned her love to hate and she
was driven to another man for
protection. The other man was Major
Robert Trevor. whom she has known
all her life and who was an executor
OF her fathers estate.
Major Trevor had served valiantly
in the war and had obtained certain
dye formulas that had been the ex-
elusive property of the German Gov
.trnment. These Germany wanted to
recover. When q fabulous sum was