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New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
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Ghetto the Center
Of Action i'm s'Colem0 Film

Jews searched in cabalistic lore and
found one ray of hope. If human flesh
and blood could not oppose the power
of the armored knights could not the
Jews create super or sub human being
whom the lance of the knights could
not injure and whose strength could
destroy all those who prosecuted the
Jews?
Dreaming and despairing and hoping
brought the legend to the mind of the
people as a reality. So much so that
to this day there lies in the ancient
synagogue of Prague, the Oldest syn
agogue in Europe, remnant Of stone
and clay which tradition says belonged
to the golem created by Rabbi Lowe
and which saved the Jewish people
from destruction in that city.
1t is in this spirit that Wegener has
staged and acted his picture, except
that he chose the most romantic of the
legends, one that carries love affair
between the kings courtier and the
rabbits daughter, with the golem as the
third figure.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Vaudeville Producer
Has a Variety of Problems

The path of the vaudeville producer
is no bed of roses, according to Menlo
Moore. In commenting upon the differ
ence between staging for vaudeville and
for regular shows, Mr.. Moore said that
he considered that vaudeville presented
greater obstacles. He continued:
"The vaudeville audience demands
the best in costumes and scenery-and
usually gets it. But fine fabrics and
yards of canvas are not all. There
must be real talent among the princi-
pals, and beauties in the chorus. I'M
agine the trouble in convincing some of
this talent that they must work twice
each day for seven days on our acts
that travel from coast to Goa st, when we
are competing with Broadway produc-
tions that have only two matinees
week. Money is the only attraction
that will compensate. And the vaude-
vile producer cannot figure on the in
creased box Office receipts of popular
play. The vaudeville turn receives a
fixed salary, and even though the turn
may be as pretentious as Broadway
show, that salary must be kept within
the limit that will permit the presenta-
tion of the usual eight acts constitut-
ing big time bill.
THE Santos+and Hayes Revue, for in
stance, is an expensive proposition for
US. To begin with, there are Santos
and Hayes. Then there are Will IIiggie
and Bobbie Tremaine, the speciality
dancers, not to mention the others. Be-
sides the cast, there are the book and
the lyrics by Cliff Hess, and the music
by Milton Schwarzwald. Schwarzwald
travels with the company to conduct
the orchestra in each house."
Mr.. Moore, with Macklin Megley, will
present the Santos and Hayes Revue at
the New Brighton Theater this week.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Brooklyn 'Theaters

BOROUGH PARK-Ralph Bevan and
Beatrice Flint, in ga Slight Inter
ruption," head the bill for the first
half of the week. "Gypsy Blood" is
the picture. Beginning Thursday
Lydia Barry will be the vaudeville
topliner and Bob Hampton of
Placer" the screen feature.
BUSHWICK-Jane and Katherine Lee
have the top-line honors. Lydell and
Macy, Lillian Shaw, Horace WRIGHT
and Renee Dietrich, Palo and Pallet.
Frawley and Louise, Fraser and
bunce, Walthour and Princeton and
James and Bessie Aiken complete
the bill.
ORPHEUM-Florence Moore heads the
bill, which includes Doc Baker, Polly
Ward and company, Cameron Sisters
Val and Ernie Stanton, Paul Nolan,
Charles Forsythe Adams and the Two
Vanderbilts.
IOEW'S METROPOLITAN - Harry
Steppe, assisted by Dick Lancaster,
heads the vaudeville, with Thomas
Meighan in white and Unmarried"
on the screen for the first of the
week. The Crescent Comedy Four
and William De Miles "The Lost
Romance" are the attractions for the
latter part.
STRAND-"The Woman God Changed"
with Sena Owen, is the film feature.
with "Outwitting the Timber Wolf"
and "Tooneryille Trolley" comedy
also on the program.
NEW BlLIGHTON AL Herman and
William Seabury in his "Frivolics"
share Htellar honors. Buzzell and
Parker, Mary Haynes and Russell and
Dewitt are also on the bill.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Burlesque
COLUMBIA-Jean Bedini's. "peek.a-
Boo" begins the sixth week of its
all-summer engagement.
Miss Battisfa on the Stage

Miriam Battista is appearing at the
Winter Garden in "The Whirl of New
York"
On the opening night Miriam shared
honors and applause with such noted
players as Louis Mann, Adelaide and
Hughes, John 7. Murray, Dorothy
Ward, Kitty Kelly and the host of other
stars who make up the cast in this
latest of Winter Garden extravaganzas.
Her appearance at the end of the first
act in a burlesque of the old familiar
song, "She is the Belle of New York"
evoked applause that must have warmed
the cookies of her heart. But to the
movie fans it must be explained that
Miriam is not going to forsake the
screen for the stage.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

ing or 81 seat st theater, hut
he has not lost the desire for enter
tsinment. and the cinema palaces whicl
show American made pictures to
large extent are always full. On =
recent bank holiday a West End thea
ter where an excellent play was being
produced was almost empty, while u
new cinema at Acton was jammed with
5000 people. More and more London
theaters may have to follow Oscar
Hammerstein's London Opera House in
kingsway, which is now the Stoll Nov
ing Picture Theater.
Few Offerings VIII Be Found
By American Tourists
Americans visiting London this sum
mr. will find that the theaters have
but little TO offer them. Several of the
musical comedies already have been
produced in New York, and there are
few notable plays among the English
productions. "a Bill of Divorcements
continues at st. Martins Theater, Som
erset Maugham's "The Circle" has been
successful at the Haymarket. Miss
Peggy 0'Neill is in the second year of
Paddy the Next Best Thing" at the
Savoy. Musical plays include "The
Naughty Princess" at the Adelphi, "a
Little Dutch Girl" at the Lyric and the
American plays. "Love Amcng the
Paint Potts." a comedy in an English
setting, is at the Aldwych, where, due
to the coal strike and transportation
cuts, the curtain falls at 10:15 D. m.
Don O." Spanish romance, is at the
Apollo. The Scottish Players are at
the Kingsway in Scotch comedy with
an American title, "Hunky Dory."
Emma" new comedy, is at st.
James's, and Gerald Du Maurier's
thrilling Bulldog Drummond" at
Wyndham's Theater. "The Savage and
the Woman" is an American melodrama
at the Lyceum; jose Collins is in
"Sibyl" at Daly's. Count x" is at
Garrick's; "a Night Out" at the Win
ter Garden; Ethel NJ. Delrs "The
Knave of Diamonds" at the Globe.
The Duke of York's has "The Tartan
PERIL" and the Strand comedy, "The
Safety Match" These plays, with
few revues, two revivals- -Mathesoa
Lang's production OF "The Wandering
Jew" and Cyril Maud in Grumpy
"Othello" at the Court, London's Grand
Guignol horror plays, the Shaw theater
at Hampstead and the music halls, COM
plete the program of London's sum
mer theatrical offerings.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
PROCTOR
Famous Revives Star Svsten,

When Arthur S. Kane came back last
Monday from his trip West it was an
nounced that Famous Players Lasky
Corporation would return to the star
system in pictures.
Mr.. Kane has for long time held
ground against the belief that the coun-
try favored the new trend of non-star
pictures. His conviction is sustained
this week by the announcement of a
return to it's older policy of the largest
producing company in the counrry.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

h's wife, Tsuri Aoki, Hayakawa is re.
cuperating from an operation for ap.
pendicitis, and is making the journey
by easy stages. His first stop will bs
at Colorado Springs, where he will play
around in the mountains for week o,
ten days. They will then go to Chicago
for two or three days and thence to
Buffalo, where they will see Niagara
Falls. Albany is the next stop on the
schedule, and they will journey to New
York by boat on the Hudson. Arriving
in New York on June 25, Mr.. and Ms
Hayakawa will rest until July 2, when
Hayakawa will see the Dempsey-Car-
pentier fight. He will remain in NeR
York over the Fourth to observe how
independence Day is celebrated in the
metropolis, and will leave for the
West on July 8, planning to resume
production on July IL.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Find the Woman
Eileen Huhan

Eileen Huban will be seen in Find
the Woman" the Arthur somers Roche
story now being filmed by Cosmopoli
tan. IAoty Hobart, who wrote the see
mario for the successful "The Woman
God Changed, has done the continuity
for "Find. the Woman" Others in the
cast are Norman Kerry and George
MacQuarrie. Tom Tarriss is the di-
ssctor.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Eva Novak Engaged

kumor hath it that Eva Novak is en-
gagged to William S. Hart. This may
or may not be true, But it is true that
she has been engaged by William Fox
her contract with Universal having ex-
pired. Miss Novak will play the femi-
nine lead in "The Last Trail" Zane
Grey story that Emmett j. Flynn is d.
recting as a special at Hollywood.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Girl of Golden West, Screen

The famous stage play "The Girl of
the Golden West" will be Ethel Clay
tons next production. This is the first
time since she has been a Lasky lumi-
nary that she has played an out-of-
doors part Miss Clayton will play the
part originated by Blanche Bates in the
Belasco production.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
I'm / icture fTNlleaters

ASTOR--"The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse" enters the last week of
its engagement.
CAPITOI4-"Withou Benefit of Cler-
gy," the first Rudyard Kipling story
produced by Pathe, is the feature
film. Virginia Brown Faire as
Ameera is supported by Thomas
Holding and Evelyn Selbie. Sascha
Jacobson, the violinist, returns as
the chief attraction of the music pro-
gram, and Joseph Sheehan, of the
Savage and Boston English Opera
companies, has been added to the
soloists. Rimsky -Korsakoff's Eastern
Romance" will be played as pro-
logue to the Kipling picture.
CENTRAL<--"A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court" the Fox pro-
duction, continues.
CRITERlON--"The. Golcm," written
and directed by Paul Wegener, who
also plays the title role, begins an
based on an ancient Jewish legend and
the scenes are laid in the ghetto of
Prague, Bohemia. Atmosphere is
added by the music, which ranges
from religious chants of the thir
teenth century to modern Jewish
compositions A Benda mask dance
by May Kitchen Cory, the third of
the series of Tony Sarg's cartoons
and Prizma scenic complete the
program.
FORTY Y-FOURTH-"Way Down East"
the d. w. Griffith production, con-
TIMES.
FRAzEE-"H eedless Moths the Cos
mopolitan film with Audrey Munson,
begins summer rum
HIPPODROME "The Twice Born
Woman" Malcolm Strauss feature
picture, begins a summer engage
ment next Wednesday.
LYRIC-"The Queen of sheba," the
Fox feature, continues.
PARK-"over the Hill," feature, con-
tinues.
RIALTO - appearances" Donald
Crisp production for Famous Players
Lasky- British Producers, is the fea-
ture David Powell, an American
actor, and Mary Glynne, English
screen star, head the cast in this
Knoblock play. A Buster Keaton
comedy, "The Haunted House," is
also on the bill. The music program
has "Faust" selections as overture
for the organ solo. Joseph 'Littau
assumes his new honor Of conductor
of the Rialto orchestra.
RIyOLI--William A. Brady's film pro-
duction of his own play Life" with
Jack Mower, Airline Pretty, Rod la
Rocque and Nita Naldi in the leading
roles, is the feature. Society Dogs"
Universal comedy, is on the pro-
gram also, and Benda mask dance,
with Desha, Paul Oscard and Vera
Myers. The overture is Liszt's Thir-
teenth Hungarian Rhapsody and the
organ solo the Intermezzo from "Ca-
valieria Rustieana'
STRAND Sowing the Wind" with
Anita Stewart as star, is the feature
film. "The skipper's Narrow Es-
cape" new bonneville Trolley"
eonis, and Skipping the Pen" are
other attractions. "Andromeda and
the Storm King" special overture
arranged by Ross Jungnickel, is the
feature of the music nroprsYo
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

Nououy ever llVeQ IN ghetUO ike
the one pictured in "The Golem," the
European picture which Hugo Riesen-
field has prepared for presentation at
the Criterion Theater. If the Jews had
possessed place so rich in art as that
produced by Paul Wegener some king
probably would have seized it for his
palace. Yet the ghetto built as a. stage
setting for "The Golem" does give the
impression of homo for the Jews in
the Middle or Dark Ages-does present
a picture of their existence in those
days.
1t is bizarre creation, this ghetto
that WeGener had constructed. Two
things stand out--a wall of tremendous
size, with a gate so huge that cour-
tier on horseback looks like a pygmy
as he rides through it to tell the Jews
OF their coming doom. The other is a
tower--a leaning, tottering thing that
! stands out in it's impressionistic way
| as symbol of the life of the Jew in
that period, always on the verge of
destruction. This tower, commanding
the only road that leads into the re-
| strlcted section, served double pur-
pose. 1t enabled the Jewish watchman
to keep track Of those who left the
walled town and slso to see that the
gates were closed when menacinp mob
| appeared, not an unusual condition.
! both watches were necessary, for Jews
1
were not allowed to stay in the non
Jewish part of the city after sundown,
and failure to observe that rule re-
suited in punishment not only for the
offender, but for all his co-religionists.
Arabic Design
In Houses of Ghetto
The houses in that ghetto Of "The
Golem" are Arabic and Moorish in
original design, variegated in their
colors and Observation-Disclosures and
yet bearing an appearance of majesty.
Walls, gates, towers and houses all tell
the story of the time.
Paul Wegener, one of Europe's we'll
known screen actors, directed the MIC
ture and took the part of the clay fig
ure brought to life by cabalistic rites.
Many inquiries have come regarding
not only the meaning but the purpose
OF the golem. Its definition is simple.
IL means an inanimate creation in the
likeness of human being, q statue.
In Jewish slang it means stupid per-
son, dummy" The latter word prob
| ably is the most nearly correct defini-
ton,
As q story "The Golem" is photo
graph of Jewish hopes and Jewish de-
spalr in the darkest period of the ex-
lstence of that race.
! In the fourteenth century the lew
was chattel. He lived in ghetto on
the sufferance of king, or duke. or
robber baron. He could not leave the
ghetto without permission, and he
could not engage in any occupation ex-
cept that of lending money or buying
and selling old clothes. He could not
attend school.
Met Reality
With Lore of Dreams
The Jew could do nothing to fight
against this condition. Open revolt
was impossible, He was unarmed and
unarmored in day when one armored
knight could destroy aswhole town of
plain civilians.
The drear,ara re a~na. . AZ,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Vaudeville

makes his vaudeville debut as head
of the bill. William and Gordon
Dooley, with the NORM Sisters, in
"Dooley's Nonsense; Harland Dixon
and the London Palace Girls from
"Tip Top; Margaret Young, come
d.enne; Hymack, in "At Bogey VIII
La; Signor Friscoe, Mel Klee, Ade-
aide Bell, Bartram and Saxton and
the Three Fantons are others on the
program.
oseph Santley and Ivy
Sawyer in "Klick- -Klick," are the
headlincrs, with Frank Van Hoven,
Vine DAILY, Hall and Coburn, and
Nine. Rialta also appearing.
EIGHTY-FIRST sTREET-Harry Mas
ters and Jack Kraft head the vaude-
vile bill. The screen feature is Owen
Moore in "a Divorce of Conven-
ience"
FORDHAM-George MacFarlane, bari
tone, is the topliner for the first of
the week "The Woman God
Changed" is the film feature. Be-
ginning Thursday, "a Hungarian
Rhapsody" will head the vaudeville
bill, with "The Wild Goose" for the
screen attraction.
HAMILTON-"A Creole Cocktail" is
the headline act for the first of the
week and ''The Woman God
Changed the screen feature. Be-
ginning Thursday, Moran and Mack,
"The Two Black Crows" top the bill.
and "The Wild Goose" will be the
picture.
JEFFERSON-Geor Whiting and
Sadie Burt, Martha Pryor, Bob and
Tip, George and Ma La Fevre, Bern
ard and Ferris and Schichtls Manni-
kns are the bill for the first half of
the week. Beginning Thursday, the
Seven Bracks, Stan Stanley, Ben
Smith, Kokin and Galletti, Roberts
and Bayne and others are on the
program.
MOSS'S BROADWAY-Frank Terry,
"The African Duke" heads the bill,
which includes Elizabeth Kennedy
and Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor, Dun
ham and Williams, Gold and Edwards
and others.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-"Dance Orig
nalities," featuring Ethel Gilmore,
is the vaudeville attraction for the
first of TIE week, with "The Lost
Romance" for the screen feature.
Harry Steppe, and Chappelle and
Stinnett are the headliners for the
last half and Thomas Meighan IN
"White and Unmarried" is to lie the
picture.
PROCTOR'S FIFTH AYENUE-Frank
Dobson and his "Sirens," Peggy Car
hart, Bernard and Garry, Jones and
Merrill, Claremont and Hughes and
others are on the bill for the first of
the week. Beginning Thursday,
Charles Maddock's Musical Revuette,
Briscoe and Rauh, Casey and
O'Mara, Henderson and Jerry, Car
SON and Smith and others form the
program.
r r ROC TOR TWENTY THIRD
STREET-Marie Hartmann and Ray.
mond Wylie, AL. H. Wilson, and
others, with Eugene O'Brien in "The
Last Door" form the bill for the first
of the week. The latter part will
have "Gypsy Blood" on the screen,
and Oracle Emmett on the stage a,
chief attractions.
PROCTOR's F1FTY-EIGHTH STREET
--Mscart and Bradford in "Take
My Tip" and "The Woman God
Changed" are the features for the
first of the week. Beginning Thurs
day, Gypsy Blood" will be the pic
ture, with the usual number of acts
on the vaudeville bill.
PRoCTOR's 125TH STREET-Jac)s
Kennedy in "a Golf Proposal" and
The Woman God Changed are on
the bill for the first half of the
week. Thursday to Sunday, "The
Wild Goose" will be the film, with
six acts of vaudeville.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Second Offering of
"Esop's Fables" Modernized

Barbara Dean, who makes her screen
debut as Nine. Pasquier in "Peter
Ibbetson," is Montana girl whose
first dramatic experience was in anna
teur theatricals in Pittsburgh where
she was student at the Pittsburgh
Technology Institute. Before coming
to Paramount she appeared in Sally"
the ziegfeld musical comedy.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
From, rhs Tribums's European Bureau

From THIS Tribune's Enropeon Bureau
LONDON, May 3t.-Two pleasant
fantasy plays that turn time backward
in it's fight delighted London audi
ences at their openings last evening.
One was new play by Lord Dunsany,
the rather mystical but amusing "If,"
which was produced at the Ambsssa-
doris Theater The other was William
Fox's screen version of Mark Twain's
"a Yankee at the Court Of King
Arthur" which kept the audience Of
the packed Alhambra Music Hall in
roars of laughter.
The hushed Orient spirit Of "Gods
of the Mountain" broods over some
portions Of "If," but it would seem
that Lord Dunsany's mysticism has
been turned more to the uses Of bur-
lesque than the tragic heavy, moving
tenor of his earlier plays. John Beai,
the hero Of the story, is a common
place and everyday business man, who
after his days work in the city regu-
larly returns to placid domesticity with
his wife and two children in suburban
villa. Johns life is calm and placid,
until one day he is visited by Ali, an
Oriental, who offers him magic stone
which, If he desires to use it, gives him
the power 10 secure the life that he
would have been his had he taken some
different turning in life years before.
1t is o. Henry's story Of ''The Four
Roads of Destiny" again, and John is
anxious to know what would have hap
pened If he hadn't missed a certain
railway train ten years before. He
rubs the crystal and the life he never
lived opens out before him.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

"Mice in Council" is the second offer
ing of the animated cartoon series of
"Asop's Fables Modernized," created
by the cartoonist Paul Terry and pro-
duced by Fables Pictures. 1t has been
set for release by Pathe June 26. The
marvellous skill of the artist in ami
mating his subjects is further en-
HANGED by his sense of humor, giving
the animals human attributes, and hav-
ing them perform antics of a highly
imaginative sort.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Play Has No Acts, but
Is Broken by Eleven Scenes

John caught the train. Adventure
started with chance acquaintance in
the railway carriage with the beautiful
and charming Miralda Clement, whom
ne protects from a brutal stranger who
wanted to shut the window. Miralda
Clement intrusts John with her secret
she is trying to regain from an ORR
entail potentate vast sum due her
from her fathers estate. John at once
starts for the Far East-or, rather, one
of the nameless unknown countries
whose geography Lord Dunsany alone
has charted - and Miralda follows.
John kills Hassein, the Orient despot,
and becomes ruler of the people in his
place, with Miralda as his consort.
Seven long years thus pass, but when
Miralda suggests that John marry her
he refuses, and she plots with Hafiz.
her lover, to kill him. John discovers
the plot but has to feet for his life, and
returns in rags to England. He is just
about to again meet the woman he
might otherwise have married when
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese star
in Robertson-Cole pictures, has left Los
Angeles for New York, accompanied by
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Pearl White Has Leased
House to Norma TaImadye

f1ouse TO NORMA aImadge
Pearl White, the Fox star, has sew
eral places of residence, but her real
home is at Bayside, L. T., in mansion
formerly belonging to Clay Greene, the
playwright. Before leaving for her
vacation in Paris Miss White leased
the house to Norma Talmadge.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

A screen story may be expected soon
from the pen of Samuel Hopkins
Adams, the magazine writer. To OBJ
tain atmosphere for this, which is a
tale of film folk, the author went on
location with Charles J. Brabn, one of
the William Fox directors, and spent
day at Throg's Neck, where the re-
teriors for "Footfalls" are being made.
Yale University will confer upon Rex
Ingram at the commencement exer-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
1t Seemed Heresy, but
He Just Had to Laugh

Mark Twain's story of the Connect.
cut Yankee who one day found hi,nse,s
transplanted to medieval days and. Nv
inventing a machine gun, wiped on.
battalions of King Arthur's knights IN
amor, has been distinctly modernized
The old familiar California hills, bars
and hard under a glaring sun, rise
above the property mans towers Of
Camelot. Through California glens
charge the gallant knights, mounted on
II riotor cycles and headed by Ford car
Slang is banded across the sub-titles
and the lords and ladies of the Legends
appear, on the whole, as a most mirth.
fui and undignified crew.
But the Londoners, many of whom
have visited the ruins of King Ar.
thurs castle in Cornwall, took to ths
absurd and delightful travesty on the
age of chivalry and laughed from be,
ginning to end. AS the hero, dressed
as a Western cowboy, lassoed his ar.
mor-clad rival in the tournament lists,
ono man in the audience, giggling hys.
terically, turned to his neighbor IN
apology.
Il can't help it," he said, 'I've ro:
TO laugh--the fool things so darnet
s;lly!'
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
5taDolng on
Tbe 5creen

"The Laurels and the Lady," that
most delightful short ssosy by
Leonard Merrick, is now Cecil de
Mile picture, and Is called Fools
Paradise" In the cast are Dorothy
Dalton, Mildred Harris, Conrad Nagel
and Theodore Kosloff.
The third Of the series Of photo
plays starring Gail Kane will be re-
leased next month by Pioneer Films.
The production will be known as "Wise
Husbands" J. Herbert Frank and
GLADDEN. James support Miss Kane in
this picture.
Only few close-ups remain to be
registered and "Foolish Wives" Vor
Stroheim's million dollar Universal
photodrama, will be finished. 1t has
been under production for over q
year at Universal City.
Will Rogers is working on the titles
OF IA Poor Relation" his most recent
Goldwyn publication, made under the
direction OF Clarence Badger 1t il
not generally known that Rogers is
responsible for the titles Of the photo
plays in which he stars, although IL
Doubling for Romeo" he enjoyed as
collaboration William Shakespeare.