The Washington times., 1923-10-25
IwV Big FI1msHeld OOer
For NeNt Week

RIALTO-Spectacle scenes, love
theme, psychology and the at
mosphere Of days gone by. staged
in q manner lavish and beauti-
full, are all in "a Lady Of Quail
ity," the. Universal production
starring Virginia Valli and Milton
Stills and directed by Hobart
Henley, which opens a weeks
engagement at Moore's Rialto
Theater beginning Sunday next.
This presentation is the world
premier.
All the romantic flavor of the
classic, ,portraying English life in
the early seventeen hundreds, is
said to have been retained. Other
than the stars mentioned, Earl
Foxe, Lionel BelmoRe, Margaret
Seldom, Florence Gibson, DorDrhea
Wolbert, Bert Roach, Leo White,
George B. Williams, Patterson
Dial and Willard Louis appear in
the cast.
Subsidiary features will include
the first Of Will Rogers new
series OF comedies entitled. "Jus'
Passin' Thru" an exclusive show
ing of recent world events as
caught by the Fox News camera
man; and an orchestral prelude.
COLUMBIA-Although the man
agement Of Loew's Columbia
Theater is reluctant to announce a
second weeks engagement of
Gloria Swanson in "Zaza" at this
time, it is more than probable that
this engagement will extend for a
second week.
"Zaza' will be recalled as the
stage play in which Mrs. Leslie
Carter achieved the outstanding
hit of her sensational career under
the management Of David Belasco
while Geraldine Farrar also enact
ed the title role in an operate yer,
sion of the same great story, Its
acquisition by the screen, paved
the way for the most sumptuOus
and splendid role of all GlOrt:l's
career. A great supporting cast In
cludes H. b. Warner, Ferdinand
Gottschalk, Lucille La Verne, Mary
Thurman and many others.
"Zaza" is the story Of the
clandestine love affair Of Zaza,
reigning queen Of the Partisan
theater, and young French diplo-
mat who finds love impeded by his
previous marriage to woman he
no longer loves.
A new Christie comedy, the In
ternational News Pictures and
Leon Brusilof's overture viii be
added features of the bill.
METROPOLITAN-The attrac-
ton at Crandalrs Metropolitan
Theater following the engage
ment Of Norma Talmadge in
Ashes of vaAgeance." will be
Thomas H. Ince's initial individual
starring vehicle for May McAvoy,
Her Reputation" in which Lloyd
Hughes and Winter Hall play the
foremost male characters. The
story is of young woman whose
good name is all but destroyed by
publicity, based on circumstantial
evidence.
Many unusual effects are
achieved during the action of this
spirited subject, the. most sensa-
tional being q Mississippi river
flood scene that is intensely
realistic.
So great has been the popular
demand for seats to see Ashes of
Vengeance" in which Norma Tai
madge, Conway Tearle, Wallace
Berry, Courtenay F'oote and an
ensemble OF thousands are scoring,
that 1t is highly probable the
engagement will be forced into a
second week beginning Sunday
afternoon at 8.
PALACE-Another starring pro-
duction for Viola Dana will be pre-
scented at Loew's Palace, beginning
next Sunday afternoon, when
Metro presents the demure and
dainty Viola in ':The Social Code"
a perturbation OF Rita Weiman's
Cosmopolitan Magazine story, ITO
Whom 1t May Concern"
Miss Dana has been directed in
this production. by. Oscar APPEL,
who has surrounded her with a
supporting cast which includes
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