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The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Romance and Drama
Dominate the Weeks
Photoplay Offerings
All-Comedy Bill at Palace Offers JUS
tine tombstone Viola Dana in New
Film at Metropolitan.

passing something the
fascinating and spectacular than the last
and while the seveny interval largely devoted the
number of
that offer unusual values the seeker for
motion picture diversion and entertainment
The Palace anxious offerings the
ol of the holiday has the serious form of
the winds and offers nothing but comedy
headned Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton.
Viola Dana, the Meopolfans featured will be
obviously dainty romantic charm Cnderella Twin
of Harold Lloyd haty appended under the title of Mum
Der, Pease?
Rao Justine tombstone, of the beautiful
sivershee be of the
by Harry Smith, "Blackbds production suitably
supplemented by long Of added hits.
Meord adaptation of Opie Reads will
be Columbia offering will with second
and the Kickebocker and Crandas will offer
bills OF like merit
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Audiences Prefer
Acute Situations"
De Mile Asserts

Not melodrama itself. nor its
acute dramatic situations. is respon-
sible for the disrepute into which
IL has fallen, declares William De
Mile. playwright and motion. pic
ture director. but the artificial
methods employed to bring about
the acute situation. And an audi
ence, he adds. would rather see an
acute situation. even IL brought
somewhat unnaturally. than see a
perfectly natural situation that is
not acute. Mr.. De Mile has just
completed Midsummer Badness. {"
from the latest novel OF Cosmo Ham
ilton. entitled His Friend and His
Wife"
"Melodrama has as its basis a
human character in an acute sit
uation." explained Mr.. De Mile. "A
human character in such a situa-
tion is always interesting. This. in
brief. accounts for the popularity
OF melodrsma.
The reason We call it melodrama
and to some extent look down upon
II is that the average writer Of
melodrama gets h is characters into
an acute situation by forced and
unnatural means
play should depend quite as much
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26

CLAYTON Hamilton. who went 70
the sGoidwyn studio at Culver City
some months ago and has recently
signed q long-term contract to stay
there and write for the screen,
thinks that money and realism are
the two greatest dangers to the
screen at the present moment." He
10 optimistic, however, and believes
that the screen, by following the
type of drama" and
learning to depend as much on the
pictorial appeal to the eye as on
dramatic logic. can become truly
great. In Q summary OF his obser-
vations Mr.. Hamilton says:
Photo-playwrights. directors and
producers are for the present util-
ifing with exceptional force the
shakespearean type OF drama. That
mode, with its practically limitIess
neld. It's wide stretches of locale and
Its great passages OF time lends IT.
self better to screen use than does
the Ibsen type, with its more COM
pressed scenes, fewer characters and
brief time allotment.
Pictures should not attempt 10
compete with the modern dramatic
FORM Their field is essentially pic
torfal and the development Of tn.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Laskys Bo0tbLack
Made Stars Shine
He helped the Stars shine,

ne heipeo tne Stars SHINE.
Hundreds of motion picture
celebrities had their shoes shined
by him. Now the sinner of
stars" is no more!
The bootblsck who has "shined
EN- up" for more motion picture
celebrities had their shoes shined
the world was not at his post
yesterday. Nor will he ever be
there again. For Lee Campbell,
the aged colored bootblack who
for nve years has reigned at the
little bootbiack stand in the Las
Ky studio, Hollywood, passed
away recently OF heart failure.
He left the studio at the regular
closing time, ate his dinner and
went to church. Arriving home,
he was stricken and death fol-
lowed shortly.
In addition TO his duties as
studio bootblack. Campbell often
played minor bits in Paramount
Pictures, and whenever a crowd
OF colored extras were used in a
picture IL was his duty to take
charge OF them. His last appear
ance was in some OF the scenes
of George Melford's forthcoming
production of The Faith Heal
er. He was sixty-seven years
OF age.
In the hve years he was oricial
bootblack at the Lasky studio he
"shined 'em up" for many Of the
screens greatest stars. past and
present.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
The Movie Calendar.

December 25-WaIlaee Reid re-
ceives congratulations On being
voted the most popular screen
actor by readers Of New York
and Chicago newspapers. 1920.
December 24-Thomas Meighan
arrives from New York to Al-
ish s'The Quarry In California,
1920.
December 25-Llttie Ruth Ma
gel and little Gloria Swanson
have their hrst Christnas party,
1920.
December 26-ssThe TestlnE
Block" released, showing Bill
Hart in his own photopisy. 1920.
December IT Christmas In
Cnlifornis compares favorably
with Christmas in England, de-
ciares Sir Gilbert Parker, 1890.
December 2S-Dorothy Gisk
slips out of wig and walks down
Fifth avenue incognits, 1918,
1919, 1920.
December 2s-Ethel Clarion
arrives in Los Angeles after an
ishing .SThe Price of Redeav-
tion- I'm the East, 1890,
December 80 - Elmer GIyB
grows fearful leap year will not
produce her ideal man, 1920.
December 81 - Producers of
motion pictures predict new year
will be greatest In the history Of
the screen. 1910, 1915, 1913, 1890,
1925.
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Next Weeks ShOlps

PoLTs-"Loys Birds" , ne. musical
and Marion Bent.
BELAsco-"Pitter Patter," Manhattan
musical comedy success, starring Er.
NATIoNAL-Ths neIt attraction at the
National will Be The Storm"
B. F. KEITEs-v.udsviIl..
o'Meara in William Brenders musical
comedy; william Faversham In The
Sin That Was His" Christie comedy.
"A Tray Full Of Trouble;" Haig and
Leven, aceordionists; Phil Davis, and
four other special attractions.
sTRAND-Brown, Gardner and Barnett
in The Passing Revue;" Billy and
Dot zeitler in "oriEinal Bits Of Non
sense" William z. Morris in did
smith in "a Mission Of Joy;" Gold.
wyn's latest super-special, Dude.
featuring Tom Moore, and other acts.
eAYETY-Ros. sydsn's Famous London
Bellies with Joe Marks, Benny How
ard. Mildred Campbell and others.
COLUMBIA - "Earthbound," Goldwyn
jcturization Of Basil Kings story.
PALACE-Douglas Fairbanks in The
Mark of Zorro" adapted by Fred
Eiblo from Johnston Mcculley's story.
METROPOLITAN - Marshall Neilan's
"Dinty," featuring Wesley Barry.
ERBocKER-sunday and Non
day. Marshall Geilan's "Dinty." star
ring Wesley Barry; Tuesday and We'd
nesday. The Furnace" Thursday,
Charming Pollock's Clothes" starring
Alma Tell.
CRANDALL'S Sunday. Monday and
Tuesday, Norma Talmadge in The
Probation Wife," Wednesday and
Thursday. Wallace Reid in Always
Audacious;" Friday and Saturday,
Charles Ray in "Forty-fve Minutes
from Broadway"
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
PHOTOPLAY GOSSIP

| principal dish of the occasion. and
then he has to scour the country
/ for another Sam or another Bob
to take the place Of the one which
has been roasted"
II Rachmaninoff knew for what
purposes his Prelude was being
| played these days, he might turn
TO jazz.
1t was during the filming Of
"Blackbirds," Justine Johnstone's
first starring picture for Rcalurt.
The studio. a blaze of lights and
almost unbearably hot as a result,
was swarming with people.
All ready" shouted Director
Dillon. Listlessly they ambled on
to the Set. Listlessly they took their
places. Suddenly the strains of an
organ We're heard-then a cello
then a first violin-all blending into
Inc magnificent strains of Rachman-
inohs Prelude. The wild leaping.
lrresistibly appealing strains of the
music hoated through the great
studlo and seemed to carry new life
ana animation. The air became cleo
trified. Everybody was up on tip
music.
Fight. shouted Director Dillon
as William Boyd and Charles Gerard
came tearing down the stairs And
10 the strains of Rachman nOff's
Prelude they fought--a fight so
real SO vivid. so thrilling that only
When Mr.. Dillon yelled Camera"
did one realize that there was
camera present
This thrilling fight is but one
scene in "Blackbirds," as presented
At Moore's Rialto Theater all this
week. beginning today.
Fat men are natural-bo tenors
ana Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, the
famous screen comedian, is no ex-
ception to the rule. In fact, Ro-
tuna Roscoe secured his first start
IN Things dramatic as a singer on a
Cantorhla vaudeville circuit. 1t was
ms Job to furnish the melody that
Illustrated sentimental and highly
colored slides as they were thrown
upon the screen. The Fatal Rose of
Red, The Curse of an Aching
Heart and It'll the Sands of the
Desert Grow Cold" were some of
the classics he rendered for the
munlncent sum of seventeen dollars
week-one simoleon for each year
of his life.
Roscoe rolled up such a reputa-
tloh as an illustrated songster that
ne soon had boosted his hunorarium
to hfty per. But being an ambitious
young fellow, he couldn't see much
OF future in his job and he sacrI-
Heed Just half that stipend to be
come rough-house comedian for
buresque show. That was "Fatty's"
INTRODUCTION to slapstick, and he
specialized in rapid-fire comedy
until his recent contract with Fa-
nous Players-Lssky. by arrange
ment with Joseph NJ. Schenck. made
him Paramount star in full-length
feature pictures.
The first of these is THE Life OF
the Party" adapted from Irwin S.
Coob's Saturday Evening Post story
OF the same name. 1t will be shown
at Loew's Palace today.
The seven Crandall Theaters in
washington have been specially
decorated with holiday greens and
blossoming plants for the Yuletide
season and the spirit of Christmas
thus Will be found to extend from
the curb to the proscenium Of each
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Metropolitan.

Beginning this afternoon and con-
tinuing the major attractions at the
Metropolitan through New Year
Day, will be shown for the hrst
time in this city a double-feature
bill of unusual merit. The princi-
pal offering in point of length Will
be Viola Dana's latest starring ve~
hicle. a film version of Luther Reeds
-Cinderella's Twin" AS compan-
ion star. Harold Lloyd will divert
lovers of the best in screen comedy
in his latest 100000 release. Num-
her, Please in which he is sup
ported by Mildred Davis and others
of familiar expertness in silent farce.
Abbreviated A camera subjects and
special musical features will COM
plete the bill.
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Barrymore to Quit
Stage for a Year,
WO0LLcOtt Hears

They say that the convalescent
John Barrymore will not act again
until fall, although in the interval
he will toss off one or two motion
pictures, says Alexander Woollcott
in the New York Times. 1t is to be
hoped that his temperance here
will not be billed as a return to the
speaking stage" There has been a
preposterous disposition to hail
every engagement of a player who
has been near Los Angeles as a re
turn to the speaking stage-usually
in glad tones that should really be
reserved for some such greater and
rarer occasion as a return from the
dead.
Writing recently in Life of his
reactions to the romantic charm of
William Faversham in THE Prince
and the Pauper," the jocose Mr..
Benchley was moved to say:
The jangle of his spurs, the rich
resonance of his voice. the soldierly
sweep of his hand as he salutes his
imperious boy-sovereign, all unite to
make you wonder why there has not
been a great popular uprising dur
ing the last few seasons demand
ing the return Of Mr.. Faversham to
the speaking stage"
Among the many plausible ex-
plantations of this seeming neglect
on the part of the phlegmatic pub
lie, the best one is something to the
effect that, after all, Mr. Faversham
has played every year since he first
came to America and that he has
never been absent from the stage
enough months at time for folks
in this city to know he was not
just OF playing somewhere in Bos-
ton or Philadelphia.
Annette Kellerman has again
shifted from the picture studio to
the vaudeville stage and is now on
tour.
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house on the circuit. This is par
ticularly appropriate since the sa-
voy. York and Apollo will present
daily Yuletide matinees through
January for the first time in their
history.
The Christmas spirit at Loew's
Palace Theater was charmingly en-
hanced during the past week and
particularly on the holiday itself
by the Palace Symphony Orchestrs's
rendition of Brooks Christmas
Fantasies" a delightfully."- fantastic
selection, directed by Mr.. Thomas
Joseph Cannon.
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Fairbanks Coming.

Manager Beatus, OF Loew's PAT
ace Theater, anticipates one of the
greatest weeks in the history or
that playhouse beginning one week
from today, when Douglas Fair
banks will appear as the featured
star of the program in his newest
production, The Mark of Zorro" an
eight-reel sensation that has proved
one of the most popular photoplay
successes ever shown in New York.
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Palace.

>Loew's Palace Theater will pre-
sent for the holiday week, begin
ming this afternoon. a double-fea-
ture comedy bill that includes Ros-
eoe ("Fatty'D Arbuckle in the pic
,turization of THE Life of the Par
ty," the now famous Saturday Even
ing Post story by Irwin S. Cobb, the
Kentucky raconteur. In this produc-
ton, Fatty" Is assisted by a COM
edy cast of hilarious distinction, in
including Vic Daniel, Julia Faye,
winifred Greenwood. Roscoe Karns,
Frank Campeau, Allen Connor. Fred
erick Starr. Ben Lewis and others.
As the added feature of the pro-
gram, Buster Keaton will present
his latest comedy starring produc-
ton, The Scarecrow," a comedy
effort that Is said to set a new rec
ord even for this brilliant and sue
cessful screen jester.
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Zelda Qualities as
A Real yOkesn,ith

Zelda Sears, known to New
York as n capable actress, in two
of the December plays reveals
herself now ns n writer OF lines
and jingles that get laughs. In
s3Cornered," the melodrama in
which Madge Kennedy is appear
ing, these are some of the lines
at which the audience laughst
That roof Is ns cold as n step
mothers kiss.
These are deceitful days. You
can't even believe the label on n
whisky bottle any more.
was up against the cushion
with no way to bounce.
It's wonderful to be able to
wear good clothes without look
ing ms IL you wore a disguise.
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BruSilof's New Hit.

Director Leon Brusilof,' of the Co
lumbia symphony Orchestra, scored
one of his most popular orchestral
successes on Christmas Eve and
Christmas Night, when he and his
brothen Nicolat Brusilof. contrisu-
ted a duet. Holy Night" For the
week at hand the Columbia Orches-
ira will contribute Morning. Noon
and Night" (Von Suppe) as an over
ture selection.
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METROPOLITAN Is Ornate.

Crandalls Metropolitan Theater as
a part of its Yuletide observance this
week presents an especially ornate
picture, beautined by
new decorative drops at each side
of the screen aperture. These high
ly artistic additions to the charm OF
one OF the Capitals most attractive
theaters were made upon special or
der of John J. Payette, assistant
general manager Of the CrAndall
theaters, for the Metropolitan,
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New Lawrence PLAY.

George M. Cohan's latest produc-
tion, Love and Learn" by Vincent
Lawrence and Edgar Selwyn, will be
presented for the first time at the
Academy Of Music, Baltimore, to-
morrow evening. Wallace Eddinger
heads the cast, and Ruth Shepley
has the leading feminine role. Enid
Markey, James Gleason. Margery
Booth. Frazer Coulter and Edwin
Barry are among the others in the
cast -
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Extra Gayety Show.

Manager Harry Jarboe, of the
Gayety Theater. is already making
reservations for an extra midnight
performance Friday night, Decem-
ber 81, at 1880 p. m. Several new
features will be added that will be
appropriate in witnessing the old
year out and new year in
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Foremost PhOtOpLdy
Writers COIOnized
In California Citg

Just outside of Los Angeles is the
city of Hollywood. until a few years
ago not much different from thou
sands of other suburban cities in
all corners of the United States. The
funsters on Pacific Coast newspa-
pers got just as much material
from Hollywood commuters as do
their brethren on Eastern papers
from the package-laden husbands
of Long island, New Jersey. and
Westchester County. But Holly
wood is transformed, and the cause
of the transformation is the for
ward strides which are being made
in the motion picture industry.
Hollywood, the Mecca of motion
picture writer's, or. rather, of writ
ers who are turning their thoughts
to. writing for the screen, that is
what it has become. Avery Hop
wood, playwright. with four sue
cesses playing at the present time
in Broadway theaters, calls the
California city the Cambridge OF
the Pictures" Consider the follow
ing list of fictionists. dramatists
and short story writer's and then
try to find a community which can
show so many well-known members
of the writing profession living in
its midst:
Gertrude Atherton. Elinor Glyn.
Sir Gilbert Parker, Edward Knob
lock, Clayton Hamilton. Mary Rob-
erts Rinehart, Rupert Hughes, Gou-
verneur Morris, Louis Sherwip, Rex
Beach. Thompson Buchanan and
Cosmo Hamilton. 1t is reported
that Sir James NJ. Barrie and Henry
Arthur Jones also will go to Holly
wood
The financial stringency, usually
so affecting at the Yuletide season,
numbered E. ]. Stutz, manager of
Loew's Columbia Theater, as one of
it's victims this year, and accord
ingly Stutz declared pay day for
the Columbia ,house stan one day in
advance of the regular pay day in
order TO relieve his own embarrass-
ment.
One of the strongest lines Of pho
toplay attractions ever scheduled for
consecutive presentation in the Ma
tional Capital will be shown for the
first times in this city beginning
with the week of January 2. at Gran
oaAA Ing
pictured stars will include Con-
stance and Norma Talmadge. Charles
Pay, Pola Negri. Nazimova and Wes-
ley Barry.
The week at hand promises to be
mome1tou- IL the social annals of
Orangelo RATIO, the temperamental
assistant manager of Loew's CO.
lumbla Theater, whose skill with
the accordion Is proverbial in local
photoplay circles. Mr.. Ratio and
his music box already have' four
after-theater engagements of
thoroughly damp variety booked for
the week.
Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber,
who made The Branded Four" for
Select Pictures. are making a new
serial in California.
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RialtO.

Beginning today, this week brings
10 Moore's Rialto Theater Justine
tombstone. widely heralded as one
of the most beautiful women in
America and one who has already
proven her right to stellar honors.
Realart Pictures make the pres
entation, Miss Johnstone's first
vehicle being Black birds" an adap-
tation from the stage play of the
same name by the late Henry
James Smith Advance criticisms
state the production is an absorbing
drama of thievery in high life and
that 1t is sumptuously staged and
costumed. William Boyd. Charles
Gerard. Marie Shotwell. Grace Par
ker and others OF note appear in
support of the star.
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The Goldwyn picture, The Great
Lover" which comes to Moore's
Garden today. is of unusual interest
to the public because it is one OF
the few pictures filmed in which
there is a play within a play. This
type of picture is not often made.
Director Frank Lloyd took this ex-
acting task upon himself when he
made The Great Lover" and he
achieved more than satisfactory re-
suits.
The story centers about Jean
Paurel. the great lover" played by
John Sainpolis. and the principal
characters of the play are operate
singers. The plot is woven around
the life of these people in their
work. and the crisis occurs during
the first and second acts of the
opera Don Giovanni" between the
three who form the eternal tri-
angle.
To complicate the directing of this
picture, the attitude of the audience
hearing Don Giovanni has direct
bearing on the story. Therefore.
Director Lloyd not only had his cast
and nearly 1000 extras to direct
the main thread of the picture, but
he had at the same time to direct
his principals in the histrionic man
nerisms of the operate stage and
the action of the opera according
to custom.
Another complication in making
these scenes was that the action Of
the opera had to conform. of course.
to the tempo of the music, and the
actors were compelled to memorize
the vocal score of Don Giovanni
to do this.
This is the role of my life" said
Charles Ogle, the noted character
actor, who had just finished referee
ing a game rooster fight for scenes
in the new George Melford produc-
ton of Opie Reads novel. The Juck-
lins," at Loew's Columbia today.
I'm playing the role of old Linn
Jucklin, and he certainly is a peach.
There never was "A more picturesque
or likeable old man in fiction than
old Linn Jucklin and It is just doing
me good to bring him to life as
they say. on the screen.
II have known several like him
in real life. ] was born in a small
town in Ohio and l knew an old
man back there when was a boy
that was his very double. Old Lim's
weakness is CHICKEN fights, you
know. He has couple of game
roosters named Sam and Bob. and
whenever he feels in the mood, he
goes down to the coop and starts
them to fighting. He let's them fight
for while and then separates them,
because IL he let them keep on they
would kill each other and then he
would be without his sport. He had
found this from experience.
He's a good church member, is
old Lin; he believes the good Book
from 'kiver to kiver,' believes that
the whale swallowed Jonah, believes
that the vine grew up'in one night
and withered at morning: believes
that Samson killed all them fellers
with the jaw-bone-but he can't
keep from lighting chickens to save
his life. The only time he is at all
inclined to get out Of patience with
religion is when he comes hnme.
finds the minister for dinner and
discovers that his good wife, Susan.
has picked one of his fighters, out
OF an entire yard OF fowls. as the
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Columbia.

Opie Reeds celebrated novel. The
Juhklins," starring Monte Blue and
Mabel Julienne Scott, will be seen
as the featured offering Of the ninth
super-program of the season at
Loew's Columbia Theater for one
week only, beginning this afternoon.
The story. which is colorful in its
characterizations and backgrounds,
has been interpreted by cast of ex-
ceptional players that includes Ruth
Renick. Charles Ogle, Fannie Midge-
ley. Zell Covington. Winter Hall. J.
NJ Dumont, Clarence Burton and
others. The picturization was made
from Augustus Thomas stage YER
sion OF the Opie Reed story, and
Frank Condor wrote the continuity.
George Melford, producer of long
ist Of Paramount hits, is the man
who directed it. A notable array of
extra added screen attractions will
complete the program.
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Garden.

The Great Lover" Frank Lloyd's
production. adapted from the sue
cessful stage play of the same name
and depicted by selected all-star
cast. will be presented by Goldwyn
at Moore's Garden Theater all this
week. beginning today. In The
Great Lover" the leading figure is
Jean Paurel, idol of the gentler sex.
man women could not resist.
whose conquests ranged from the
humblest shopgirl to the rich and
fashionable society woman. John
Sainpolis plays the chief part, sup
ported by Claire Adams, Alice Hol-
lister, John Davidson, Lionel Bel
more and others. Special orchestral
numbers and selected short sub
jects will round out a real holiday
-1in