The Washington times., 1923-01-25
ROBIN HOOD IS
HELDOVERAT
COLUMBIA
Palace, Metropolitan and Rialto
All Book New Film
Offerings.

GOlQWyn PICTURES Will open q
weeks engagement at Moore's
Rialto Theater beginning Sunday
next. It is a screen version of
Dom Byrne's novel, 1.-THE Stran-
gers Banquet" and is said by
the director himself, together
with many who have seen it at
private screenings, to be the
finest production he has yet
made. 1t is made on a bigger
scale and with greater resources
to call upon, than any other of
his numerous successes.
The cast is a most notable one,
twenty-three well-known stars ap-
pearing, including Claire Windsor,
Hobart Bosworth, Rockliffe Eel
lows, Nigel Barrie, Claude Gill
lingwater, Eleanor Boardman,
Ford Sterling, Thomas Holding,
Eugenia Besserer, Stuart Holmes,
Margaret Loomis, Edward Nc
Wade, James Marcus, Jack Cur
tbs, Brinley Shaw, Arthur Hoyt,
Cyril Chadwick, Jean Hersholt,
Lucille Ricksen and Dagmar
Godowsky.
METROPOLITAN A colorful
and swiftly motivated screen
romance will be presented for
the first time in Washington
at Crandall's Metropolitan, be-
ginning Sunday afternoon, when
the chief feature of the bill will
be Selz1iick's super-special pro-
duction of Zone Week of Love"
starring Conway Tearle and
Elaine Hammerstein, with bril-
liant company in support. The
added comedy attraction will be
Christie's two-reel vehicle for the
ebullient talents of Bobby Vernon,
in Dutch" The customary alb
breviated camera subjects and.
special musical offerings, under
the conductorship of n. .1irskey,
will complete the program.
Zone Week of Love" has a Sc
ries of picturesque scenes. Betty
Wynn is giving a ''petting party"
to which her guests were hidden
with the request that they wear
their most formal bathing suits
and leave their brains at home.
1t was that kind of a party
gorgeous swimming pool, dancing
on the terrace, much bizarre en-
tertainment, eliminating in the
challenge to an airplane race to
San Diego and back. Then Betty
loses herself in fog bank, en-
CINE out of control, crash into
'dobe shack in the purple noun
tains of Mexico and week of
servitude to a renegade American
whose only companions were
Greasers, outlaws and men utter
" beyond the pale of civilization.
PALACE-Dorothy Dalton whose
successes are numbered by the
score and who has heretofore APP
peared in a long succession OF
outdoor stories, comes to Loew's
Palace for the week beginning
next Sunday afternoon in the
role of a spoiled darling Of So
ciety who is suddenly brought
low by adversely and who learns,
I'm her trial, the real meaning of
love and sacrifice. 1t is a role
that gives Miss Dalton one OF
the greatest opportunities for the
display of her rare mimetic gifts
against a background of color,
luxury and magnificence.
Edmund Gouldipg, who is re-
sponsible for some of the great
est photoplay masterpieces that
Mae Murray has ever brought to
the silversheet, is the author OF
Ozark Secrets" this latest star
ring production for Dorothy Dali
ton. Mr.. GouIding has scenarized
his own story while the direction
is that of Victor Fleming, who
has surrounded Miss Dalton with
a brilliant cast, including Robert
Ellis, Jose Ruben. Ellen Cassidy,
Pat Hartigan, Warren Cook and
others.
COLUMBIA-Owing to the popu-
larity of Douglas Fairbanks
latest and greatest attraction at
Loew's Columbia Theater, the
management of that theater has
under consideration the matter OF
extending this picture, robin
Hood" for third week, begin
ming next Sunday afternoon,
though the definite announcement
will not be made until later. In
the meantime, robin Hood"
presenting what is unquestionably
the most colossal, dramatic and
magnificent production of this ia
NOUS stars career, continues to
play to solid capacity at every
performance.
In robin Hood" Mr.. Fair
banks has made vital, human and
intensely alive that most fascina-
ting page of all English history
the story Of Robin Hood, the ro-
mantle outlaw figure who. with
his merry men, lived deep in the
Businesses of Sherwood forest,
robbed the rich and gave their
plumber to the poor. In Mr.. Fair
banks production of robin
Hood" we have that famous his
torical figure presented as a
nobIeman in disguise who loves
a princess and secretly plots
against the enemies of his king.
CRANDALL'S CENTRAL-Two
unusually interesting camera
dramas will be shown for the first
time in Washington at Crandalps
Central Theater next week. Be-
ginning Sunday and continuing
the major attraction through
"Wednesday, will be shown 1.-THE
Woman in Chains" a dangerous
romance of the French West In
dies, in which the foremost roles
are played by f. X. Lincoln, Mar.
tina Mansfield. Mrs. Rudolph Val
entino and William Tooker. The
scene of the play is Martinique.
and all of the picturesqueness of
life in the tropics adds it's charm.
ENoI. Thursday Friday and Sat