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The Washington times., 1922-03-20
Norma Tells Why
PLAYS Make Good
"YHEREIN lies photo.
" plays greatest popular ap-
peal?

Continuously since the estab-
lishment of the cinema as one Of
the most potent factors in Amer
ica's amusement life there has
been discussion as to the exact
dramatic or structural quality
that insures a film plays appeal.
Norma Talmadge is the most
recent star of the screen to COM
nit herself on this diverting sub
ject. Miss Talmadge has just re-
vealed the fact that her nature is
a serious one, and the revelation
of this latent intensity and keen
zest for study came during the
making of her latest picture,
Loves Redemption" to be seen
for the first time in Washington
at Crandall's Metropolitan The
ater this week.
A visiting writer happened to
mention that the story carried an
unusual appeal for sympathy, due
to the situations involved in a
very unique plot, and Miss Tai
madge took issue with him at
once.
"Oh, no." she retorted. THE
situations give you the speed and
action; but you derive sympathy
from your characters. That is
the reason so many pictures fall
flat. They have adhered to the
recognized formulas Of arousing
heart interest. bringing in pathos
and tragedy. You know-the
smile behind the tear and a con-
venient handkerchief.
Where they have failed IL is
due to the fact that their charac-
ters haven't come up to the mark
They may have appeared artifi-
cial. They may have aroused feel
ing of hostility rather than sym.
pathy. A character does not have
to be endowed with all the Wis.
tues in the world to receive or
create sympathy.
I'VE know today that Robin
Hood was an outlaw; and still his
rollicking joviality has been pop.
ularized so that his defects have
been forgotten. Alexander the
Great was a cruel, brutal soldier,
and still his achievements have
served to immortalize his charac-
ter.
THAT Is why I contend that
while your situations and story
arouse interest, the amount of
sympathy the picture arouses, de-
pends entirely upon the charac-
ters."
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
BRIDES PLAY" AT RIALTO PICTURE OF COMPELLING SPLE
English Sense
OF HumOr Fails
To Tickle Here
| LBERT DE COURvILLE's

A L B E r T DE COURVILLE'S
much battered and dissected
revue Pins and Needles" all
the way from London with Edith
Kelly Gould and much accent.
created much laughter at the Be-
lasco last night. The laughter
was In the lobby-on the way out.
Couples grown weary with en-
deavors to learn what 1t was all
about, reacted from the tense
search for the evenings comedy
when they faced the night air.
When an audience sits through a
full eighteen scenes of such stuff
and fails to respond with even q
ripple of approval there is some
thing wrong with the material.
Despite its pointlessness. Pins
and Needles" pleased the eye in
spots. There was nothing so ex-
travagant as to make heads swim,
but, nevertheless, Edith Kelly
Gould's apparel was not to be con-
sistently overlooked.
Teddy Knox and Jim Nervo
bucked an uphill proposition as
the comedians and their efforts to
redeem the mess were valiant.
Maisie Gay, recalling the wares Of
other English comedians, was the
hot spot Of the show. She had a
face which reminded Of Old Bill in
"The Better 'Ole"-without the
mustache-andb by combining that
with a song of fortune-telling,
which in some manner brought in
mention of a bathtub, managed to
score.
Altogether "Pins and Needles"
has been badly amputated or never
was very much. A few acts OF
vaudeville sandwiched in with the
main entertainment provided COM
paratively good amusement, but
the authors Of these independent
efforts were not credited on the
bill Of fare.
You may get laughter at the Be
lasco If you can boast Of an Eng
lish sense of humor. Last night
1t was pretty much of an Amer
ican audience and obviously not
well pleased.-C. L. M.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
Bebe Relieves
Mind of Visitor

in Nancy From Nowhere"
which will be the photo
dramatic attraction Of the vaude-
vile and picture program at the
Strand Theater all week. beginning
today, will appreciate this story.
In one scene in the picture the
star is seen stealing a ride on the
back of an automobile. In the next
scene she appears looking more
like a little feminine coal miner
than her own fair self.
When the picture was first
shown in the Hollywood studio
Miss Daniels got many laughs for
her dusty makeup. At the close
of the showing a visitor rushed up
to the star and gushinSly said:
"Oh, Miss Daniels, you were per-
fectly wonderful! But how in the
world did you ever make your face
so dusty?"
with dust" replied Miss Bebe
demurely.
But how could you get it on?"
"Oh. l just slapped 1t on with
a powder puff, the same way
you've seen girls slapping powder
at their noses"
The visitor expressed he- admi-
ration of Miss Daniels resource
fulness, and presently tool: herself
and her inane questions off. Miss
Daniels darted after her and over
took her at the studio door.
But not with my regular pow
der puff. you know" she confided
earnestly.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
NeW Film for ArliSS.

GEORGE ARLISS is now having
~ scenarist at work on a new
photoplay to follow his The Rul-
ing Passion 1t is planned to
have 1t comedy-drama also. This
picture will be his third for United
Artists, but he will not begin on
it before completing an extended
stage engagement in Boston and
resting from a rather arduous
season that combined theater and
studio work.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
"Pie" for Riddles.

SSTNHE BACHELOR DADDY"
Thomas Meighan's new Para
mount picture is the kiddies' idea
of a good time. Take for example
the DeBriac twins, who with three
others play the roles of the adopt
ed family OF the star-they had
the interesting job of taking a fine
Jsulo sul seosId ol FooIo Isluetu
day before the camera. They could
hardly wait for the order to pro-
coed. so innate 10 the small boys
love OF seeing whats inside" of
anything.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
Faces Their Fortunes.

NpINS AND NEEDLES" at the
Belasco this week offers the
first group of chorus girls seen
in Washington who are not ex-
pected to sing. 1t is the Eng
lish custom. These Gaiety girls
are chosen for their looks. ability
to walk and of course, dance.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
Buys English Rights.

CHARLES b. COCHRAN, the
London producer. has pur-
chased from Cecil Lean. star of
"The Blushing Bride" at the Astor
Theater, the English rights TO the
latter's. song, Different Days"
which contains a satire upon the
old-fashioned restaurant and the
modern cabaret and which Mr..
Lean sings in the second act of
the plaY.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
Woman Succeeding.

MRS. ANNA SESSIONS, be-
lieved to be the only woman
film executive in the industry.
has been appointed manager Of
the w. w. Hodkinson branch Of
flee in New Orleans. Mrs. Ses-
sions was formerly manager of the
World and Republic offices in At
lanta, and more recently was
sales manager Of the Goldwyn
branch in Atlanta.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
"Trouble" for Coogan.

JACKIE COOGAN has made an
other film. Now it's one thing
to make a motion picture and an
other to give 1t a title. 1t took
all of the staff of the Coogan pro-
auctions to find suitable title
for the new Coogan offering. And
when at last the name was decided
upon. it was in one short word
Trouble"
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
PITY Poor Moths.

TWO hundred pounds Of moth
balls were purchased by the
Norma Talmadge costuming de-
partment for packing up OF the
1,100 costumes used in the scenes
of Norma's brilliant photodrama.
"The Duchess of Langeais.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
a Wanderer.

DAPHNE POLLARD, the Eng
~ lish singing comedienne, COM
ing to Keith's. was born in Aus
tralia, came to America early IN
life, went to London later. and won
fame; then married an American
from the Blue Grass State.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
4 Baseball Fan.

MANAGER IRA J. LaMOTTE,
AVA of the Belasco who is
thirty-third degree baseball fan.
has been appointed chairman of
the committee which will provide
the entertainment for the ban
quet to Manager Clyde Milan of
the Griffmen.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
TOins ShOen1akerS.

WALTER HERS, Paramount
w comedy favorite. has just teen
elected en- honorary member of
the Shoe Travellers Club, of Los
Angeles, composed OF leading shoe
men of the city.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
An Old-Tin1er.

EMEMBER the old vaudeville
~ team of Fields and Lewis
who made you laugh years ago?
Well, Dave Lewis has quit the
footlights to manage, and Is the
American director of Alfred De-
Courville's activities in America,
chief among them being Pins
and Needles at the Belasco this
week.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
With Shubert.


playwright who wrote a "A
Question of Time" and later pro-
duced and acted in THE Actors
Wife" will have one of the new
Shubert vaudeville units next
season. In addition to designing
the sets and costumes for her
production. she superintends their
manufacture.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20

RGES BENOIT. cinema
~ tographer for THE Masquera-
der" LAYS claim to the title Of
king OF Double Exposures" Re-
Gently Benoit made 49 exposures
on one strip of film. In The
Masquerader," where Mr.. Post
plays two leading roles that share
many scenes, Benoit promises to
reveal a new method of double ex-
posure photography.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20

WITH Doc Baker in Flashes
at Keith's next week are
Polly Walker and Bud ard Jack
Pearson. There are four acts and
numerous lightning changes by
Baker.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
Goes to Stage.

RELLE BENNETT, who plays
a prominent part in the Vera
Gordon picture, Your Best
Friend" has forsaken the films
for the legitimate stage. Miss Ben
nett was an honest to goodness
movie star in the earlier days of
the film industry.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20
DANCING.

GLOVER. SIS a1d-Privsts lessons any tine
TSc class Tuea and Fn. W. ll2e.
The Washington times., 1922-03-20

DUDLEY DIGGES, who appears
as George Marden in "Mr. PIN
Passes By" at the National
The Washington times., 1922-03-20

n EOPLE who see Bebc Daniels
in Nancy From Nowhere"
which will be the nhotO-
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

| from. OF course, the founder of thu
theater was Charles Frohman.
Frohman and Miller were then young
sters trying to carve out their careers
one as manager, the other as an actor
In California, in the late SOS, they
were transforming UP and down the
coast with results so disastrous, so per-
sistently disastrous, that 1t was forced
upon Mr.. Miller that their next stand
would be, not another "opery' house
but the poorhouse.
On particular Tuesday morning. one
of those awful Tuesdays following a
calamitous Monday opening, II seemed
to Mr. Miller that irony was added TO
his injured feelings when Frohman, SIT
ting on the edge of the bed--there was
but one chair in the roommate no
comment on the failure OF the night be-
fore and the bad newspaper reviews or
the morning after but blithely prophesied
that--'One of these days, Henry, shaiI
have theater on Broadway ana you
will be my star In that theater.
eyes" answered MIR. Miller. put
where DO we eat this morning?" Yet
somehow, they did manage to "conee
and sinker themselves that morning !;
somehow they managed to get through
the season, and eventually the miracle
The New York herald., 1922-10-01
Miss Anderson Began
Her Career in Australia

MisY Frances Anderson as the new
leading woman of the Arnold DAILY COM
pany playing in William Hurlbut's ION
the Stairs" at the Playhouse, is slen-
der, blond actress from overseas, who
established her reputation In playing
leads in successful American plays re-
Gently produced by English capital in
Australia.
When Joseph Shea started to cast the
supporting company for Mr.. DAILY he
had the names of some of New York s
best known actresses. but he decided to
give Miss Anderson a thorough trial be-
cause of the good report on her In
australia.
Her success in Pittsburgh on the
opening night convinced both Mr.. Shea
and the author that Miss Anderson
would do for the principal feminine role.
On the first night at the Playhouse
Miss Anderson was perhaps the most
collected of all tine company New York
audiences have acclaimed ner as
worthwhile leading woman.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01
Appalachian Club
Ends Canadian Tour

Special Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
ST.. JovITE. Quebec. Sept. 30.---The 130
members of the Appalachian Mountain
Club of Boston have ended their ten
day stay at the Gray Rocks Inn here
In the Laurentiau Mountains OF Canada
and are spending the rest of their time
sightseeing through Montreal, a two day
tour to Quebec and a trip on the Can
ada Steamship Company's liner up the
Saugenay
During the stay at the inn the weather
was ideal, and no time was lost In TAX
ing advantage of the opportunities for
hiking. canoeing and motoring.
The ringer golf tournament ended
Saturday and the winner. Mr. A. A.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01
Empire in Historic Setting
for Henry Miller's Return

When the Empire was reopened last
Monday night first nighters noticed that
the famous old theater had a new suit
of clothes Four months had been
consumed in the construction and erec-
tion of new curtain. new flooring, a
modern electrical equipment, new car
pets, hangings. and the restoration of the
original Empire style of decoration
throughout.
But the novel feature of the new
equipment is the last word in stage and
auditorium. The chief virtues of the
new system are is range and fleXibil-
ity; portable footlights, concert border
lights and flood-light combination dis
place the old type. An entire new
switchboard and DINNER boxes have also
been installed to conform with the new
footlights and border lights. 1t is the
first time in twenty years that the En-
pire has been dressed up like this.
Charles Frohman was its manager;
David Belasco was its stage manager
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

and co-author of it's first play; Edna
Wallace. Katherine Florence, Cyril Scott
and Master" Wallace Eddinger were
some of the actors when. on January 23.
1893, the Empire. New York's first mod
ernly equipped theater opened its doors,
Offering the playgoing public the then
sensational melodrama, "The Girl / Left
Behind Me-" 1t was play, or rather a
melodramatic concoction of Indians,
cowboys and cavalry men. written by
Franklyn Files and David Belasco. The
play was a success and ran until the
following June.
Nearly everybody knows the history
of the house from that time on. But
what everybody does not know is that
Henry Miller, who reopened 1t last week
in Bataille's LA Tendresse," sat in a
dingy little hotel in San Francisco.
nearly forty years ago. side by side with
the founder of the Empire. when neither
knew where the next meal was to come
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Harrison of Fall River. received q sfi-
YER cup from G. B. Wheeler. proprietor
of the inn.
The ladies' putting competition was
won by Mrs. Chester L. Foster. Nor
wood. Mass. tho runner up being Miss
Ethel Il. Gammons OF Newtonvillo.
Mass.
MIR. II. NJ. Bell, Guaro Oriente, Cuba,
won the tennis tournament, defeating
Miss Frances Wheeler In tho finals.
The Hon. l.. A. Tascherau, Prime
Minister OF the Province, sent a tele-
gram welcoming the Appalachian Noun
tain Club to Quebec, in which he men
toned the close relations between the
United States and Canada
The thirty members of the club. who
took advantage of seeing this 100 lake
region by airplane. were delighted with
the scenic effect over forty mile radius.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01
NewSOfHOtels andRestaurants

w TITH the closing of the Hotel
A/ Astor roof garden last Mon
day the dinner and supper
dances were resumed in the Indian
grill. which opened for the season that
evening.
The supper dance rooms of the Wal
dorf-Astoria and McAlpin, already
very busy spots during the early au-
tumn nights, promise TO be taxed to
capacity. With the hotels we'll filed
with out of town bankers and their
families, here for the bankers conven-
ton, and many hundreds of baseball
fans" assembling for the world
series. the reservations for after the
ater space in the Bradley Martin BALL
room of the waldorf-Astoria and the
terra Gotta grill Of the McAlpin are
numerous.
The Knlckerbocker Old English Grill
has reopened at Broadway and Forty
second street. The main dining room Is
open each evening for dining and dane
ing.
several hundred reservations for
tables have been made by the Palais
Royal management during the worlds
series and the Bankers convention.
Paul whiteman and his symphonic or
chestra play for dancing there.
After many weeks of preparation, the
strand Roof at Broadway and Forty
eighth street. has been changed and Is
now known as the Strand Roof Cas-
cades. taking it's name from the water
falls down It's new artificial mountains.
There Is new floor. revue and good
dance music. Ellis Meyerowltz Is in
charge.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Miss Gllda Gray re-opened her Rem
devious midnight dance club last Mon
day with "A new entertainment which
she calls GLORIOUS Girls" Joseph
Smith. who produced the dances in
/ Madame Sherry" THE Queen of the
Moulin Rouge" and the present Weber
& F'lelds's show. devised and personally
taught the many new dances to Miss
Gray's chorus.
After busy summer the Cafe Boule-
ward is again open. A new orchestra
has been engaged to play during dinner
and for the dancing later.
The Town House restaurant OF the
hotel of the same name has been re-
opened under the direction of Edward
Booth. A table d'hote dinner is featured
there.
The new restaurant, Palais de Danse
or Forty-nnth street, east of Broadway
speciallzes In Chinese cuisine. A revue
Is presented nightly. and the patrons
may dance from till closing with music
by Jack La Pines orchestra.
Billy Arnold is producer of the ex-
travaganza 80 This Is Paris" at che
new Moulin Rouge, which Is the feature
OF that restaurant
The La Vic restaurant, at Broadway
and Forty-eighth street, is the only caba-
ret in New York under the management
Of woman. She is Evelyn Stewart,
who is making a success In her new ven
ture.
TIE final preliminary IN the Eastern
States championship ballroom waltz con-
test at the Terrace Garden Dance Pal
ace will he held Tuesday evening The
finals. when gold medals viii be awarded
thc winning couple and silver medals the
team finishing second will be danced ON
October 10
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

happened. Frohman did achieve his
theater on Broadway. Henry Miller
was for years his chief star. Last Mon
day night for the first time in many
years Mr.. Miller again entered the stage
door and stepped upon the newly,
snartly equipped stage of what years
ago. he could not but regard as "Froh-
mans Phantom Theater."
The New York herald., 1922-10-01
"ANDERsH" ron BROADWAY.

II. Leivicks new play. "Andersh.'
which Is now considered a hit at the
Yiddish Art Theater. has been trans
lated into English and will be seen
later In the season on Broadway.
Maurice Swartz. who produced the play
and has the leading part in Yiddish, is
now negotiating for an uptown house.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Miss Mollie Croucher will present the
Miniature symphony Orchestra of New
York this season under the direction
of Joseph Knecht. formerly assistant
concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera
and now conductor Of the Waldorf Sun
day night symphony concerts. The
Miniature Symphony Orchestra will in
troduce several soloists. The first con-
cert at Aeoiian Hall will be announced
soon
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

One of the special features of the
orchestral season will be the series Of
Pop" concerts to be offered at the
Manhattan Opera House by the new
City Symphony Orchestra, OF which
Senator Coleman du Pont is the presi-
dent. They will be given on Sunday
afternoon. beginning November 10. and
in all thirteen programs will be played.
This series will be entirely separate
from the two series announced for Car
negie and Town Halls.
The purpose of these concerts. as out
lined by Senator du Pont. Is to develop
musical appreciation by leading up
from light programs to the more
serious symphonies of Brahms and
Beethoven.
Special interest will be shown In
American works of real merit and new
works by native composers will be
carefully read with a view to presenta-
ton.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Miss Edith Mason of the Chicago
Opera Company will arrive this week
on the steamship Aquitania, and VIII
sing a number of concert engagements
opening in Grand Rapids, Mich, on oc-
tober A., prior to commecins her sea,
son Wit; the Chicako Opera. She will
be accompanied by Sig. Polacco. first
conductor of the Chicago company.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Another Metropolitan artist due to ar
rive at an early date Is George Meader,
tenor. who will make short concert
tour before joining the Metropolitan
Opera Company.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Kurt SCHNEIDER, conductor of the
Schola Cantorum, returned from Europe
last week, bringing with him much
new music, which probably will be
heard during the winter.
The first rehearsal will be held on
Wednesday evening, October II. The
chorus will give the usual two public
concerts at Carnegie Hall, on December
20 and March "a. and will also assist at
two concerts by the New York SYM
phony Orchestra in the Young People s
Series.
Applications for membership in the
chorus open to any one who has a
good, trained voice and can read music
a, sight. are being received now. and
should be MAGE in writing. addressed
10 the secretary at 333 Fourth avenue.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Miss Carmela Ponselle. the American
mezzo soprano. made her first appear
ance of the season before an audience
of about 1000 returning delegates of the
Order of the Eastern Star at Hopewell
Masonic Temple. Williamsburg. last
night. Her appearance created con-
siderable interest in her forthcoming
appearance in Verdfs Aida" which
will be given with complete cast and
full Metropolitan orchestra under Bam-
boshek at the Kingsbridge Armory
Armistics night. Miss Ponselle will go
on brief concert tour before her initial
appearance.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Miss Gladys Axmsr. who for the last
three season has been a member of the
Metropolitan Opera Company. is to
sing Santussd in "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana at the Century Tneater with the
San Carlo Opera Company next Friday
evening. Miss Amman among her other
parts at the Metropolitan created the
jon OF Understanding in Albert Wolff's
I'Oiseau Bleu." and later succeeded
Miss Florence Easton as the Mother In
the same play.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Benno Moiseiwitsch, the Russian. pi-
anist, will open his third American
tour in Boston on October % and 2S
as solcist with the Boston symphony
Orchestra. He will remain here until
March.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01
Concert Singers Returning
for Seasons Engagement

or Friday of the coming week. lie is
accompanied by Mrs. Spalding Ills
first New York appearance for the season
will be in Carnegie Hall on SATURDAY
afternoon, October 2l.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

One of the early recitals will be that
OF Colin O'More. tenor. in Carnegie Hall
on Wednesday evening. october 20. with
Walter Gode at the piano. A feature
will be n Brahms group. Mr.. OMore
will sing modern songs in English and
French. old Italian melodies and the
Recitative and Air from Gluck's "Al-
ceste."
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

The vending Quartet of Stuttgart
which has come to this country en-
pressly to appear in the Berkshire Fes-
tival performances, Will remain In
America to fulfill ten concert en-
gagements, one to be given In Town
Hall here Monday evening. October 16.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Jean Gerardy, the Belgian Nioiinist'
returning after several years ao-
scence. will make his temperance In
New York with the Philadelphia Orcnes-
ira November 81. He will make tour
of Poland before leaving for America.
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Another returning violinist due here
about October is Toscha Seidei. the
fiery young eIiussian. He spent last
year concertizing through Europe. Last
summer he gave fifty concerts In Aus
tralia and New Zealand
The New York herald., 1922-10-01

Prior to her season at the Metro
politan Opera House. Nine. Margaret
Metzenauer will make a five weeks
concert tour. beginning early in Oc-
tober. Nine. Metzenauer's itinerary
will take her to the Pacific coast.