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The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
Marc Klaw Obtains
Jerome K. Jeromes
I Comedy Hit, Cook

Marc Klay has been seeking plays
in London. and the word from there
is to the effect that he has obtained
Jerome X Jerome's comedy, Cook,
presented in England with fair sue
.ress something less than a season
ago. Mr.. Klaw has also obtained
the newest Emmerich Kalman Ope-
retta, to be done under the title of
The Little Dutch Girl" and, fur
rher, he mas acquired play entitled
"SouIa." which he describes as "a
Russian old Heidelberg All of
these works. it is expected, Mr..
Klaw will produce in association
with his sons. and it is partly to
that end thas he is erecting new
theater opposite the Plymouth in
New York.
y year age Mr.. Brady and Mr..
Woods raced each other into New
York with their murder mysteries
AT 9:45" and The Voice in the
Dark"-and this year a similar con-
test has threatened to develop in the
matter of Wall Street plays. A week
ago rumOr had Mr.. Brady rushing
his Opportunity" post haste into
the Forty-eighth street and it was
apparently in anticipation of this
that Mr.. Woods announced "TOmor-
rows Price" With Mr.. Brady's
change of heart. however, Mr.. Woods
has also changed his plans, and
.'TOmOrrOw'S Price" has been set
back TO his original date-some-
where about the 10th of August. As
for Opportunity there is as yet
no official word of it.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
: 4 New Broadway Romance

Enter Madame at the Gsrrick
Theater, New York, is the first ef-
fort of a new producer who brought
70 her proper plane an actress much
admired but much neglected and
who made for himself place in the
front rank of producers-veterans
OF many years.
As for Gilda Yaresi, the actress,
she had fallen under the curse of
the American system which keeps a
type" playing one sort OF part and
though every one recognized her eX-
treme artistry no manager had been
found who was willing to gamble on
her ability as a box-Office asset. In
Children Of Earth" as a drunken
Portuguese woman; in Salvation
Nell" in The Little Journey" and
later in The Jest" Varesi had made
brilliant small and thankless parts.
In vain she argued with the man
ayers that sue could play light COM
edy but they only shrugged their
shoulders. So Gilda Varesi wrote
herself a play. But still the man
ayers were Obdurate. She offered
herself and the play and she offered
the play without herself. Several of
the leading Broadway managers had
ar opportunity to make the gamble.
Then came Brock PcmDerton. For
two years he had been associated
with Arthur Hopkins and during
that time had had oppo rtunity to
notice the keen artIstry of Miss
Varesi in The Jest" and 'GOrky's
Night Lodging. He read Miss Va
rests play and decided to produce il.
Pemberton previously had been
dramatic writer for the New ! Ork
Mail. World and Times and for eight
years had watched the passing
shows. He felt he knew some OF
the secrets Of the craft and he be-
lieved in Naresi. He took the
pledge. The three weeks that
Enter Madame" has been at the
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
Harrington Talks Film

Booth Harrington, as has been
in earnest by writing several long
photoplays. 1t will be his first ef-
fort of the kind, and there is 4 nat
ural interest in what ideas he is
bringing to his work. So he was
asked to make a Statement" He
did not have one to make, how
ever, but instead. of following the
custom of telling the press agent to
"go ahead and say anything, you
like and I'll stand for it," he sent
the following in a letter.
II don't know at all how to make
a statement about the work I'm
going to do for the GOldwyn Com
pany. It's difficult for me to make
statements after work, and it's inn
possible before.
About my interest in moving pic
lures in general Gas you suggest i)
I have only commonplace. I've
felt, with so many others. that the
pictures are the possible means OF
a new art-that's great and
startling thing to see in ones own
generation, under our very eyes.
Those who work in pictures so far
rapid as advance has been are the
pre-primitives. Mechanically the
great day of the new art will be
very different from this day, o..
course Color and stronger form
will come; the flatness and gray
ness will be gone. But the more
important difference, naturally, will
be in quality-the quality of the
thought expressed.
81 think that nowadays we are
pretty crudely struggling to get a
little upward in the new express
sion. In the nature of the busi-
ness, the quality is still kept under;
the necessity of entertaining the
stupidest parts of audiences tends
toward timidity.
"People hate to think it is said.
But that isn't true. They do hate
anything they catch trying to make
them think"
So, apparently, Mr.. Harrington rs
not going to join those energeti-
cally engaged in putting the
movies over as they are" by the
well-knOwn method of employing
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

Garrick no seat has been vacant and
the comedy is looked upon as the
leader of the new seasons output.
The theatrical trade paper, Variety,
termed IL a smash" and Indications
are that it is all of that.
When young Pemberton a dozen
years ago covered way Down East"
for the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette
he may have had dreams of these
days; surely he did not let his fancy
get so far away from him that he
conceived it possible to make the
ten-strike at the first throw. But
it came to pass, adding another chap
ter to the romance that is Broad
ways. The program gives Pember-
ton credit as producer, stage man
ager and director, so he has cause
for qualification at his success.
Paul Iribo, the man who first used
platinum as the setting for jewels
and who also originated the short
vamp shoe. is bringing his new ideas
to the motion picture. This fore
most French designer of gowns,
furniture and interior decorations
has been engaged by Jesse L.
Lasky, first vice president of the
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation,
to design settings and costumes for
Paramount pictures. Mr.. Iribo has
arrived in New York from Paris
and will Immediately take up his
new work, in cooperation with
George Fitzmaurice, the director.
As first designer for Paul Poirot,
and later for Paguin, Mr. lribo
created many of the most popular
modes. 1t is his ambition to create
an art center in America which wilt
be THE rival of that in Paris. and he
hopes to attain this end through
work in that typically American
medium, the motion picture.
Trumpet Island" which has been
several months in the making at a
cost of more than S25O,0O0, has re-
ceived its final editing by Mr.. and
Mrs. George Randolph Chester and
prints will be delivered to the vari-
ous Vitagraph exchanges within the
next three weeks. The phOtoplay is
based on the story by Gouverneur
Morris and is one of the most pre-
tentious ever attempted. wallace
Macdonald and Marguerite De La
Motto have the principal roles.
Walter Reid, location SearchCr
for the West Coast studio of the
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation,
was prowling around Il faahicnablC
home recently when rae lady Hf the
house came upon I'5l as lie was ad-
justing his CAM 4.
Pardon me-" ne -aid, "do YOU
mind if I take a still ar0Ind here ,"
"Sh-h," the woman put her fing
ers to her lips warningly as size
glanced about quickly. How did
you know We had one?"
When Dorothy Dalton went out
on location to get eXteriOrs for her
new picture. I'm Mems Eyes" the
search for rugged coast line led to
Maine and to Portland, where she
first made her appearance in stock.
There she again appeared on the
stage in response to the demand of
her admirers. Her last previous
appearance in Portland was in
Keith vaudeville.
Roscoe ArbuCkle. having COmplet-
ed The Travelling Salesman" will
soon begin work on "Brewster's 5
Millions" which Walter Woods is
adapting to the screen. Aside from
the comedy element in this drama by
George Barr McCutcheOn, there are
a number of exciting spectacular
features such as the big race.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

"the psychological imperative Z"
''ceaseless repetition" the atmos-
phere of authority" and other de-
Vices of the salesman.
George V. Hobart. no longer able
to accelerate a pulse with the mere
announcement of a new play from
his pen, has taken to announcing
hfteen at once. At all events, woru
is to the effect that MIR. Hobart will
be represented next season by ten
or fifteen different attractions" This
includes two companies of "Experi-
ence," and four or five of "Buddies -
a musical piece called "Auntie's
Portrait" and a comedyScalled Able
the Agent" a morality play for Mr..
Erlanger and a musical comedy
called kissing Time" a comedy
called sonny" and musical YER
sion of "Come-On Charley" In
another season. at this rate, the
number will probably be thirty or
eighty.
Greater Love" in which Henry
Hull has been appearing as a star
is the work of Leighton Graves
Osmun, remembered as the author
of THE Fortune Teller" which
Marjorie Rambeau acted a season
ago. The play is concerned with
an easy-going youth who is called
away to war, and of the change
which is worked in his nature by
his war experiences. His return
home as a different man. and the
various circumstances which attend
his refinding himself-these consti-
tuta the hOdN of the
There are but three characters in
when the Clouds Roll BY" recently
played by Irene Fcnwick and others.
Miss Fenwick's role is that of an
actress, and the remaining charac-
ters are theatrical manager and a
dramatic critic-a combination
which leaves one high and dry in
so far as the complications are con-
cerned. The author. william ].
McNally, is a Minneapolis newspaper
man. Mr.. Woods is the canny pro-
ducer.
An impostor representing himself
to be d. w. Grifith the motion
picture producer. has made his ap-
pearanCe at a number of summer
resorts in New York State and after
trimming" the guests at poker
has disappeared without the for
mality OF paying his hotel bill. At
the RoCkv'l II Hotel, Luzerne, n. Y.
the impers"nator. who is said to
be a dead ringer" for Griffith.
fieeced his victims to the tune OF
$500 in one afternoon and bowed
himself away before the dinner
bell rang. Mr.. Grfith. who is con-
sIderably aGitated over the incl
dent. has employed 4 detective
agency to round up his double.
Fatty" ArbuCklc has begun max
ing scenes for "Brewster's Millions"
his Paramount picture of George
Barr MCCutCheon's famous play
Walter Woods wrote the scenario,
and Joseph HOnaberv is directing
Betty Ross Clark is Leading woman.
Although disguised with a heavy
growth of natural beard as required
by his characterization, Wallace
Reid had to be rescued by police
men from the mob that sO'.ght tc
shake hands with MIN IN h.. al
peared recently in san FRA 7CIsCo to
make scenes for Always Au-
dacious."
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
More Chambers Novels
Ready for Production
As Cinema Offerings

Plans of the Messmore Kendall
Robert Chambers Productions, an
nounced recently, include five pro-
ductions, based upon the present
works of Robert w. Chambers, the
novelist, and upon original seem
arios written by him. The first OF
these Cardigan" directed by John
w. Noble, is already in process of
production.
After the above-named feature is
produced, THE Younger Set" The
Conspirators," THE Maker of
Moons" and others selected from
thirty-six of Mr.. Chambers novels
will follow.
Cardigan" scenes are being
taken in their original atmosphere
at Johnson Hall, the home of Sir
William Johnston at Johnston, N. Y.
The building is of unusual historical
interest. The battle Of Cresaps
Fort is being staged on the scenes
of the original battle near Pitts
burg, where it was fought during
the Revolution Betty Carpenter,
who has been selected for the part
of Silverheels in Cardigan" was
formerly a lead in the Sunshine
Comedies. With her is William
Collier, jr., who plays Cardigan.
Associated with Mr.. Kendall and
Mr. Chambers will be Frank Hitch
cock, Postmaster General in former
President Tafts Cabinet. Head
quarters will be at the Capitol
Theater, where the entire second
floor has been reserved for its ac-
tivities.
Frances Starr, who will be seen
at the Belasco Theater this week un-
der the management of David Be-
lasco, in her new play, "One." by
Edward Knoblock, Immediately pre-
ceding her engagement at the Be
lasco Theater, New York, is a great
lover of music and at one time Sc
riously considered taking up sing
ing as a profession
Less than a year ago she was an
extra; today Beatrice Burnham has
the distinction of winning out over
eighty other girls who were inter-
viewed and given film tests to play
opposite Douglas MacLean in when
Johnny Comes Marching Home" :"
which is being filmed at Hollywood.
william de Mile has begun work
on MS next paramount production,
an adaptation by Olga Printzlau OF
COsmo Hamilton's recently published
novel, His Friend and His Wife"
Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson and Jack
Holt will be among the players.
Theodore Roberts, veteran charac-
ter actor, is to be a member of the
next Cecil B. DeMille production fol-
lowing Something to Think About" ="
which has just been completed. His
Characterization of the black smith
in this October release is said to be
his greatest screen work.
John and Anita Loos Emerson have
sailed from Europe and are on their
sway home. They are due when the
Imperator docks and if they are
still of the same mind as they were
when they wrote. they will be glad
to get home. John has been max
ing an investigation of various &C
tors societies, addressing them and
learning first-hand how their af-
fairs are conducted. The picture
interests have shared honors with
the Equity in Johns effort to OBJ
tain data and working knowledge
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
sully Comes Back.

Sack from three-months' stay In
California, Richard WaIten TulIy
returned to New York recently.
Dragging about his golf score and
the much Wanted California eli
mate. He declares he found the
theatrical conditions on the Coast
rather in the doldrums, due to a
general business depression, but
believes they will return to normal
with the start of the new season.
Rehearsals of The Bird of Para
disc" are due to start next week.
and Tully will have three compa-
nies in this production, now in its
tenth season, out on tour here this
season. He will also shortly start
Guy Bates Post in his fifth season
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
Her Pajjamas Guarded!

The exquisite satin pajamas
worn by beautiful Julie Ring in
the second act of Up in MabeTs
Room" the famous New York
farce which A II. Woods will
present at Polls Theatcr, week
commencing next Sunday. have
created something of a sensation
since they were first seen.
Miss Ring has received many
requests for permission to copy
the pajamas. but this. Of course,
is not possible. They are as
much a part of the production as
the dialogue itself, and while it
is not possible to copyright or
patent them, they are carefully
guarded. and are seen only for
the briefest moment in all their
detail and that is just before
the actress kicks off her boudoir
slippers and jumps into bed
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
The Drama in BuHesque

the various episodes are located.
Pauline Curley is MOrenO's leading
woman.
Mae Murray. having Finished The
Right to Love" sailed last week
with her husband, Robert Z. Leon
ard. director of Cosmopolitan pro-
ductiOns, for vacation in Europe.
Mrs. William Vaughn Moody,
widow of the author of The Faith
Healer" has arrived At Hollywood
to assist IN the production Of her
husbands play on the screen. Mil
ton Sills and Mabel Julienne Scott
will have two of the leading roles.
Jean de Briac, Sarah Bernhardt's
leading man in Franco before the
V ar, has an, important part in Clyde
Fitch's The Frisky Mrs. Johnson"
which Billie Burke is.dOing in New
York. .
Filming has begun at Hollywood
of the new ParamOunt-Ince COM
edy starring Douglas MacLean. 1t
IS based on Charles edmon Da-
Wis story, when Johnny Comes
ham will play opposite Mr.. MacLean
In order to get under water
scenes for Deep Waters" Maurice
TOurneur built and sunk a concrete
ship. and then went down with his
camera man in a diving bell to get
pictures of the rescue of a fireman
from a compartment in the sunken
vessel.
double parachute jump from a
flying airplane will be one of the
novel scenes in Forthcoming
Larry Semon comedy which is now
nearing completion at Vitagraphs
West Coast studio. Although the
stunt is thriller. Larry has man
aged to make it HUMOROUS as well.
Papers from Peking-printed in
England, to be ssre-bring the first
news Of Marie Tempest in many
months. Miss Tempest is still play
ing in China and other parts of the
East, acting a variety of old come
dies. Among these are 'The Duke
of killicrankie." Mrs. Dot" ana
The Marriage Of Kitty"
So successful did last seasons
policy regarding smoking at the
Gayety Theater prove, that the priv
ilege will again be restricted to the
upper floors and boxes.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
Big Maigne Contract.

Charles Maigne, who directed The
Coperhead" and The Fighting
Chance" has been signed by Famous
for long term to
produce Paramount pictures to be
called Charles Maigne Productions"
Eight years ago Maigne was a re-
porter on a Washington newspaper,
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

"a Little Journey" company, head
ed by Cyril Keightley. has left New
York for Chicago, where it opens
at the Princess Theater
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
Ez=z:z COLUMBIA
BEGINNING TODAY AT SPIN
ANNOUNCEMENT:

B'SiH";Hg Sith the mosquc' the Of
LocaS Columbia Ihcdtcr bCgS the during the
o.
exhibited for indefinite bofar fc bamf Columbia
Voacd throughout aiN be
elaborate setting for these scrabc jpcLs the loy sEc.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05
Return From Vacations.

Joseph =. Morgan, general mans
ager of the CrandalI enterprises. and
John J. Payette. assistant general
manager. two of the most invet-
crate vacationists in any way con-
nected with the motion picture In
dustry in the Washington territory,
returned last Thursday from two
weeks outing at Lake Hopstcong,
n. J., which both declare 80 be a
fine recreational spot but which
neither can pronounce.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

Lois Wilson has returned 10 the
Laskey studio in Hollywood from
Birmingham. Ala. where she spent
her vacation visiting home folks
Miss Wilson lost ten pounds and
recovered her Southern accent.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

Thomas J. Cannon has been re-
quested TO furnish an autobiography
OF his musical activities 60 the edi-
tor of a musical publication, and,
although Tom knows his sha,rps and
flats as well as the best of them,
the publicity STAFF of the Palace
Theater, where Yom is the orchestra
director. spent a feverish afternoon
last week beating the document into
shape.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

in The Mssauerader." and then set
sail for England to start out three
more companies of The Bird" on
the road in that country.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

Roscoe ArbuCkle, having COmplet-
ed The Travelling Salesman" will
soon begin work on "Brewster's 5
Millions" which Walter Woods is
adapting to the screen. Aside from
the comedy element in this drama by
George Barr McCutcheOn, there are
a number of exciting spectacular
features such as the big race.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

Antonio Moreno is making rapid
progress on his forthcoming Vita
graph serial, The Yelled Mystery"
which was written especially for
him by Albert 2. Smith and Cleve-
land Moffet. More than two-thirds
of the chapters already have been
completed, Notwithstanding the
widely divergent points at which
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

So successful did last seasons
policy regarding smoking at the
Gayety Theater prove, that the priv
ilege will again be restricted to the
upper floors and boxes.
The Washington herald., 1920-09-05

mo more privacy than a gold
fish" has a rival in the phrase. mo
more privacy than a movie star at
Coney Island" Thomas Meighan
and Faire Binney had to go to Luna
Park last week to make some scenes
for The Frontier of the Stars" and
their official love making was view
ed by at least 1000 eyes besides
the inexorable eye Of the camera.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-08-13
After Ten Years
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-08-13
STRIPED BEETLE
QUITE HARMFUL
Insect Transmits Bacterial Wilt
to Cucumbers, Squashes and
Other Plants.
SPRAYING IS RECOMMENDED
Insects Prefer Unsprayed Plants as
Food and Efficiency of Control
Would Be Enhanced by Use of
Early Trap Crop.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Infection with the bacterial wilt OF
cucurbits does not occur through soil
or seed. The striped cucumber beetle
and the 12-spotted cucumber beetle are
both summer carriers. and probably
the only means Of summer transmits
sion of the disease in the localities
that have been studied. Introduction
of virulent bacteria into the interior
plant tissues is necessary for infection.
These points are given in a recent
United States department of agricul-
ture publication detailing the results
Of studies on the disease, which occurs
in 81 states, including the territory
from Vermont and Canada TO Florida
and west 10 Minnesota, Nebraska, Col
OradO and Texas. The disease also
probably occurs in parts of California.
OF the common domestic cucurbits the
disease affects cucumbers, cantaloupeS,
summer and winter squashes and
pumpkins. but not watermelons.
Use Bordeaux Mixture.
Spraying with strong bordeaux mix
ture and lead arSenate paste (4-0-50
plus y is recommended where the dis
ease is likely TO be severe. Treatments
should begin Us soon as the cucumber
plants develop their first true leaves
and Shou continue at intervals of
about a week until the cucumber bee
ties practically disappear from the
field. In localities where dOwny mil
dew is also prevalent the treatments
should be continued later as a partial
insurance against this disease. The
beetles prefer unsprayed plants as
food, and undoubtedly the efficiency of
wilt control would be enhanced if a
slightly earlier trap crop. such as
squash. were planted along the edges
Of the cucumber field. The beetles
could be easily poisoned there with
strong insecticide.
Pulling of wilted vines during the
first part of the season, or as long as
it can be done without mechanically
injuring the healthy plants, will great
~ assist in controlling bacterial wilt
if consistently done in all neighboring
fields. The diseased vines should be
buried, or otherwise removed from ac-
cess by the beetles.
Where q few plants only are grown
in garden plats screening the hills
with fine mosquito netting will prevent
the appearance of the disease.
Control in Greenhouses.
For control in greenhouses the bee
ties, in the first place, should be kept
out. Do not grow cucurbitS nor pile
cucurbt refuse in the immediate vicin-
ity of greenhouses, as this attracts the
beetles and many will later find their
way into the houses. If the beetles
once gain entrance 10 a house filled